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The Gumball Chronicles: Ancestor Act

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"The Gumball Chronicles: Ancestor Act" is the sixth episode of The Gumball Chronicles[1].

Synopsis[]

When Gumball's sister Anais researches the Watterson family tree, she uncovers a long history of nonsense. Featuring hilarious clips from the first six seasons of 'The Amazing World of Gumball'.[1]

Plot[]


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The episode begins with a few commercials, including the jingle for Elmore Wrecking Yard, the advertisement the Wattersons did for Joyful Burger from "The Money," and a commercial of a cowboy eating a hamburger. Then the commercial for an ancestry lookup company called Ancestriololology comes on, with different characters of Elmore sharing their experience with the company.

After the commercial, the scene cuts to the Wattersons' living room with Anais and Richard on the couch. Anais is on the laptop working on a family tree of the Wattersons. She starts from the bottom of the tree with youngest member, Anais herself. Richard reminds her of her middle name, Errrrrr. This makes Anais believe that Richard forgot her middle name, when actually the woman at the city hall wrote it on her birth certificate when she asked Richard if she has a middle name and he responded with "Errrrrr." Richard gets a chuckle out of that saying that she is the one with all the brains. This prompts a flashback from "The Brain" where the doctor is diagnosing Anais.

She then moves to the next member, Darwin. Richard suggests adding his birth parents, but he does not know who they are and just says that they are a couple of fish. This prompts another flashback, this time from "The Origins," where Richard is buying Darwin from the Awesome Store. He says the only thing he learned from the shopkeeper was his middle name. The scene then cuts to "The Party," where Darwin says his rather lengthy full name.

After doing Darwin, she does Gumball. She comments about how his name is the most normal, but Richard reminds her of his real name by flashing back to "The Name," revealing his name to be Zach. He also reminds her of his middle name, Tristopher.

Afterwards, the doorbell rings. Nicole answers the door and hands a letter to Anais. She gets excited because the letter is the DNA test results from Ancestriololology, but her excitement is short-lived due to the DNA test resulting in an error. Richard then wonders why as well, explaining the different animals that make the Watterson family, such as cats, rabbits, rats, and a cockatoo which is Frankie's mother.

After hearing about Richard's grandmother being a cockatoo, Anais pulls up a video from Elmore Stream-It showing a dancing cockatoo. Richard then says that the Watterson family inherited their dance moves from the cockatoo, flashing back to various episodes of different Watterson family members dancing to the Elmore Wrecking Yard jingle.

After adding the cockatoo to the tree, she then asks Richard about his grandfather. After saying that he left when Frankie was still a kid, Anais comments on how Frankie did the same to Richard, with Richard saying how they remind Frankie of it every year. This prompts a flashback to "The Father," where the Watterson family sings "The Vermin Man."

After the flashback, Anais says that she is glad that Richard only inherited Frankie's body shape, with Richard saying that Anais inherited her grandmother's looks. This prompts a flashback to "The Man" where the Watterson kids help their grandmother prepare for a date with Louie.

Anais now start to do Nicole's side of the family. This prompts another flashback to "The Parents" where Nicole argues with her mom and dad for the extremely high expectations they had of her.

Lastly, she does Richard. After asking him about any special gifts he inherited, Richard starts having flashbacks to "The Hero" where Gumball and Darwin say bad things about him. After the flashback, he simply says that he did not inherit any gifts. But Anais said that he inherited the best gift, he makes his family laugh. This prompts another flashback to "The Fury" where Richard tries to cheer up Nicole in the grocery store.

She then finishes up with a family crest. Richard says that they already have one. This flashes back again to "The Brain" where Richard shows the family the crest that has a man sawing a tree branch while he is sitting on it. Engraved on the crest is Latin text that says, when translated, "Insert family motto here." Anais questions why their family would celebrate dumbness and says that they can do a lot better. So she remakes the crest with the same man sawing the tree branch and rewrites the motto in Latin that translates to "When you fall, you fly."

Before Anais can explain what the motto means, Richard goes offscreen and attempts to imitate the motto by sawing a tree branch while he sits on it. After his attempt to imitate the motto fails, Anais redesigns the crest by adding a crash helmet to the man in the tree, ending the episode.

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Characters[]

Main characters[]

Supporting characters[]

Minor characters[]

Trivia[]

  • Several details about characters' names were revealed in this episode:
    • Anais' middle name is Errrrrr.
    • Mr. Small's and Frankie's first names are, respectively, Steven and Francis.
    • Joanna's maiden name is Beresford, Mary's maiden name is Ross, and Louie's maiden name is Carter.
    • Bobert's "surname" is 6B.
    • Mr. Kreese's first name is Frank.
    • Mike the Microphone Guy's real name is Michael Hills.
    • The hot dog man's full name is "Porky" Cassidy.
      • It is also revealed that he actually contains no pork despite being a hot dog.
  • It is revealed that Frankie's mother was a cockatoo and his father also abandoned him as a child.

Continuity[]

  • Most of the episode uses the same background as the beginning of "The Factory."
  • This is the second The Gumball Chronicles episode to not feature a text-based conversation; the first was "The Curse of Elmore."

Cultural References[]

  • The title is a reference to the 1992 American comedy film Sister Act.

Goofs/errors[]

  • Richard claims to Anais that Gumball's real name is Zach, but as of the ending of "The Name," this is no longer the case.

Other titles[]

  • Français (French): Les chroniques de Gumball : Arbre génialogique (The Gumball Chronicles: Family Tree)
    • "Arbre génialogique" is a portmanteau between "génial," which means "awesome," and "arbre généalogique," which means "family tree."
  • Italiano (Italian): La Cronache di Gumball: L'albero genealogico (The Gumball Chronicles: Family Tree)
  • Polski (Polish): Kroniki Gumballa: Przodkowie (The Gumball Chronicles: Ancestors)
  • Türkçe (Turkish): Gumball Günlükleri: Soy Ağacı (The Gumball Chronicles: Family Tree)

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://tvlistings.zap2it.com/overview.html?programSeriesId=SH01412293&tmsId=SH014122930000&from=TVGrid&aid=gapzap
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Ancestoriololology[]

[The episode begins with a flash of static]
George: Trucks!
Voice: We wreck the--
[Another flash of static]
Wattersons: [Laughing]
[A third flash of static]
Voice: ...for just 99 cen--
[A final flash of static leads into an Ancestriololology commerical]
Commercial Voiceover Woman: At ancestriololology, we can help you discover your family tree.
Mister Small: Turns out, my family history is anything but small.
Nigel Brown: Whereas mine is entirely brown.
Ian Toilet: A lot of stuff has gone down in my family over the years.
Mr. Kreese: My grandmother was a unicorn, and my uncle was stacked.
Mike: And my great grandfather was a cup on a string.
Tobias: My ancestors had a very colorful past.
Bobert: Mine only had 16 colors.
Porky: And with a free DNA test it turns out I contain no pork at all.
Commercial Voiceover Woman: Ancestoriololology, who the who, are you?

Making the Family Tree[]

[At the Watterson's house, Richard and Anais sit together on the sofa. Richard is in his underwear and slippers for the entire episode. Anais sits, working away on a laptop]
Richard: Hey, Anais could you pass me a cheesy puff?
Anais: Yeah, in a sec.
Richard: What’s that you’re looking at?
Anais: It's a...genealogy website.
Richard: What?
Anais: Genealogy! I’m making our family tree.
Richard: Oh, okay.

Anais Errrrrr Watterson[]

Anais: The most logical place is to start at the bottom, so that’s me. Anais Watterson.
[Anais puts her name on family tree]
Richard: Don’t forget your middle name!
Anais: What? I-I have a middle name? What is it?
Richard: Errrrrr.
Anais: [Disappointed] You can’t remember?
Richard: No, that’s it.
[Flashback to 4 years ago]
Paper Woman: And does she have a middle name?
Richard: Errrrrr... It’s-
[She writes down Anais' middle name and stamps the certificate]
Paper Woman: Too late.
[Cut back to the present time]
Anais: E-r-r-r-r
Richard: Six r’s.
Anais: R-r. Anais "Errrrrr” Watterson.
[She puts her picture on the family tree]
Anais: ...Thanks.
Richard: It’s funny, 'cause you’re the one with all the brains.
[Flashback to "The Brain"]
Bandage Doctor: Now, follow my finger.
[The doctor moves one of his fingers, and only Anais' right eye follows his finger; he moves his other finger and both of her eyes follow the finger nearest to her eye]
Bandage Doctor: Interesting. How about...
[The doctor hits his fists together and makes it appear that both of the fingers are on his right hand; both of Anais' pupils appear on her left eye; the same thing happens when the doctor does this with his other hand. he then puts both fingers on their separate hands and Anais' eyes return to normal]
Nicole: [Interrupting the doctor] Can you tell us what's wrong with her?
Bandage Doctor: Yes, allow me to demonstrate. Could one of you do something stupid?
[A phone starts ringing]
Richard: I got it! [Grabs a defibrillator paddle and brings it to his ear, electrocuting himself]
[Anais groans and raises her hand to facepalm, but the doctor swiftly grabs it to stop her]
Bandage Doctor: Just as I suspected. Take a look at this X-ray.
[The Doctor shows an X-ray of Anais' brain, revealing a hand imprint on her brain; the other Wattersons gasp and the doctor pulls down a chart. Five brains with different sizes can be seen on it]
Bandage Doctor: [Takes a telescopic presentation pointer and extends it by pulling on it, using it to point at the brain at the very top- the biggest brain on the chart] Let's assume this is a standard Watterson brain. If the facepalming continues, in six months, she'll go from a [Points to the largest brain on the chart again] Nicole to a Gumball. [Points to a brain smaller to the one above] In nine months, she'll be a Darwin. [Points to the next smallest brain] By twelve months, she'll have the intelligence of an amoeba. [Points to a smaller brain]. And at eighteen months, she'll have gone full Richard. [Skips the other smaller brains and points to the smallest brain that could not be seen earlier that is on the wall below the chart]
Richard: [Places hands on the sides of his face] Oh no! Richard am sad!
[Cut back to the present day. Richard is pulling the exact same pose]
Richard: Richard were sad...

Darwin Raglan Caspian Ahab Poseidon Nicodemus Watterson III[]

Anais: [Sighs] Next, Darwin.
Richard: Aren't you gonna put his birth parents in?
Anais: You know who they are?
Richard: [Blows] Couple of fish...?
Anais: [Sighs] The guy you bought him from gave you no clues?
Richard: [Thinking] Uhm..
[Flashback to "The Origins"]
Van shopkeeper: What do you seek? Please choose from the many wondrous items in my store...
[Richard nervously walks past several items, before finally stopping in front of a pedestal with a small fish bowl perched atop a pillow]
Richard: What about this?
Van shopkeeper: No, no... That's not for sale...
Richard: [Confused] Then why is it on a pillow under a spotlight?
Van shopkeeper: Oh, wh- oh, it's part of the game, you insist, I say- oh, whatever, it's a hundred dollars.
Richard: Ten.
Van shopkeeper: Fifty.
Richard: Ten.
Van shopkeeper: Okay, ten.
Richard: Fifty
Van shopkeeper: What?
Richard: Okay, a hundred! But you're twisting my arm!
[Richard tosses some money towards the Shopkeeper and picks up the bowl. Inside the castle within the bowl, a small Darwin peeks out but quickly hides. He then peeks at Richard again. Richard makes an awkward face, and Darwin imitates it]
Van shopkeeper: There's just one thing... [Richard turns around] Whatever you do, don't get it wet...
Richard: [Confused] Uh... it's a fish.
Van shopkeeper: Wait, no, there was something else, uhh... don't feed it after midnight...
Richard: [Still confused] But it's... kinda always after midnight.
Van shopkeeper: No, no, no, that wasn't it, there was something... Well anyway, [Richard steps out of the van] be careful. That fish is more special than it seems...
[The flashback pauses as Anais interrupts]
Anais: I cannot believe you didn't go back for some clarification.
Richard: Oh, I did.
Anais: And when did you learn?
Richard: His middle names.
[Flashback to "The Party"]
Darwin: Darwin Raglan Caspian Ahab Poseidon...
[The scene cuts to present day, where Anais finishes stating Darwin's name as she types it out]
Anais: ...Nicodemus Watterson III.

Zach "Gumball" Tristopher Watterson[]

Anais: Okay, Gumball...
[Anais adds Gumball's name onto the family tree]
Anais: Who'd have thought that would be the most normal name?
Richard: Oh, that's not his name.
[Flashback to "The Name"]
Gumball: Aw, man. it's only three letters in the top score.
Darwin: Why don't you use your real name instead of your nickname?
Gumball: Great idea! ...Wait, what is it?
Darwin: What do you mean, "what is it"? What kind of guy doesn't know his own name?
Gumball: You don't know it either, do you?
Darwin: Nah.
Gumball: Then this shall be my quest. I will find out that name. I will stop at nothing! I will leave no stone unturned! I will climb the highest mountain, explore every island, search every cave!
[Gumball and Darwin walk out of the arcade]
Gumball: I will question every man, woman and animal!
Gumball: [On the bus] Fight a bear if I have to!
Gumball: [Walking down the sidewalk] I'll wear jorts! I'll milk a fish! I'll shave a baby!
Darwin: Climb a rainbow!
Gumball: No, that would be ridiculous. But I will lick an owl! I will wrestle a senior citizen in Jell-O!
[Watterson house, the family is sitting at the table while Gumball is still speaking]
Gumball: I'll kick a crab in the face! And I'll steal a watch from a ghost! I'll eat a beard! I'll marinate a plumber! And when they write about me in history books, they will say, "He did what had to be done to find out his real name."
Nicole: Your real name? It's Zach.
Gumball: [Gives a confused facial expression] Ugh...!
[The scene cuts to present day, where Anais drags a photo of this exact confused expression, using it as Gumball's photo]
Anais: And what's his middle name again? Uhm.. Barbethon? Sebastible?
Richard: [Chuckles] Don't be silly! It's Tristopher.
[She adds Gumball's middle name as the doorbell rings]
Anais: ...Tristopher. M 'kay.

DNA Results[]

[The doorbell continues to ring, and for several seconds neither Anais nor Richard get up to answer it. Eventually, footsteps are heard and Nicole walks down the stairs to answer the door. Richard partially stands up, as if he were about to answer it himself]
Richard: Oh, you just beat me to it. [Chuckles]
[Nicole opens the door and receives a letter. She closes the door and places the letter beside Anais before going to head back upstairs]
Richard: Oh, honey. Can you pass me the bowl of—
[Nicole growls before walking back upstairs]
Richard: [Intimidated] Never mind.
[Anais picks up and opens the letter]
Anais: [Gasps excitedly] It's from Ancestriololology! The DNA test results!
Richard: What does it say?
Anais: [Reads the letter confused] "Error"?
Richard: What? Why? [He begins to count with his fingers as he lists each of the following out] I'm a rabbit, your mom's a cat, you're a rabbit, Gumball's a cat, your grandfather's a cat, my dad's a rat, and his mom was a cockatoo. Simple.
Anais: Uh, your grandma was a...cockatoo? Like this?
[Anais pulls up a video on Elmore Stream-It called "Wrecking Bird" of a cockatoo dancing]
Richard: Exactly! What do you think the Wattersons got their dance genes from?
[A montage plays showing different clips of the Wattersons dancing throughout the series, playing We Wreck 'Em in the background]

Francis "Frankie" Watterson[]

Anais: 'Kay, so your grandmother was a cockatoo.
[Anais writes "Cockatoo??" above Francis Watterson on the tree]
Anais: And your grandfather?
Richard: Don't know. He left when Dad was small.
Anais: Well, that's certainly ran in the family. Grandpa Frankie did the same to you, right?
Richard: Yup! And we remind him of it every year.
[Scene cuts to a clip from "The Father" of The Wattersons singing "The Vermin Man"]
Richard: All together now, for the "Vermin Man" song!
[Granny Jojo starts the song with guitar accompaniment]
Wattersons: Here he comes, the Vermin Man,
He's always ready with a trick or a scam!
[The Wattersons destroy a piñata that resembles Frankie while Granny JoJo plays a paper clip]
Wattersons: He's a no-good husband and a deadbeat dad
If he disappeared for good, then we'd all be glad
His face is gross, his manner is brash
If you split him down the middle, all you'll find is trash!
Here he comes, the Vermin Man,
He's always ready with a trick or a scam!
Frankie: [Spoken] Where's the candy?
Granny Jojo: [Spoken] There isn't any. Just garbage to symbolize how rotten the Vermin Man is on the inside. [Plays violin]
Got a hole for a soul and a heart like a knife
He let down his child and wife
Never, ever marry him, he'll ruin your life
The Vermin Man
[The Wattersons burn a statue made out of straws that resembles Frankie]
He's always ready with a trick or a lie or a con or a hustle
Or a hoax or a fraud or a racket or a sham
Or a diddle or a fiddle or a scam!
[The statue explodes]
[After their "ritual" is completed, the Wattersons go back to their house, while Frankie remains frozen, staring in shock]
Louie: Well, it wasn't about me. [Shakes Frankie's hand]
[Scene cuts back to present day as Anais adds Joanna to the family tree]

Joanna "Jojo" Watterson[]

Anais: I'm glad the main thing that you inherited from him was his body shape...
Richard: Not as much as you inherited your granny's looks. [Laughs]
[The scene cuts to "The Man" where Gumball, Darwin and Anais try to help Granny Jojo escape the house]
Darwin: We helped Granny Jojo make herself pretty for Louie. What do you think?
Anais: ...this is the best we could do short of a face transplant.
Gumball: She looks like a haunted Christmas!
Darwin: We were hoping you could help us out.
Gumball: Well how 'bout we start with a longer dress? I don't think we should see her legs, they remind me of processed ham. Actually, have you tried a bag over her head?
Darwin: Yeah, we tried that first. But she needed breathing holes and then you could see bits of her.
Gumball: Oh, I got an idea. [Switches off the lights]
[From the window, Louie's whistling can be heard. They see him with his scooter outside]
Louie: Is your grandma in?
Gumball: Yeah, she'll be right down!
[A rope made up of tied sheets is lowered. Louie struggles to reach it]
Gumball: It's not long enough. What else can we use?
Granny Jojo: Kids, close your eyes
[They do as she says. She takes something off. The rope suddenly lengthens. Granny Jojo's body is shown, saggy and almost shapeless]
Darwin: Oh man, I can't believe how big Granny's girdle is!
Gumball: I can't believe I'm touching it with my bare hands.
Anais: I can't believe I'm genetically predestined to wear one some day.
[The flashback ends]

Doctor Nicole Watterson and Mary & Daniel Senicourt[]

Richard: So what about your mom's side of the family?
[The camera pans over to show that Anais has added Mary and Daniel to the family tree]
Anais: Well, it's pretty obvious where she inherited her drive...
[The scene cuts to Nicole and her parents arguing in "The Parents"]
Nicole: You have always been disappointed in me.
Mary: Only because we loved you.
Nicole: No! Because you always had insane expectations for me. Like how you made me wear those ridiculous clothes my whole life!
Mary: In life you have to dress for the job you want.
Nicole: Don't you think you started a little early?
[Scene switches to in the hospital, when Nicole was just born. Mary lies in her bed alongside Daniel]
Bandage Doctor: Congratulations to both of you. It's a…
[Newborn Nicole is shown wearing a formal suit]
Bandage Doctor: ...CEO?
[Flashback ends]
Nicole: Maybe it all comes back to the stupid name you gave me!
Gumball: Uh, what's wrong with "Nicole"? [Shudders]
Nicole: "Nicole" is my middle name. My first name is "Doctor"!
Daniel: But we only wanted the best for you.
Nicole: What? Like the time I needed a blood transfusion and you gave me the wrong blood type?
Daniel: Why settle for B minus when you can have A plus—
Nicole: You forced me to join a gazillion after-school clubs!
Mary: We gave you every possible chance to succeed!
Nicole: Yeah! All at the same time!
[Scene shows when young Nicole was a student; she is playing the violin, hits an incoming baseball with the violin over a goalpost, runs while jumping over hurdles, leaps a huge distance to a seat with a chessboard, and kicks a costumed lady over to the ground, touching a baseball base]
Nicole: Ha!
[The referee blows his whistle and enters]
Melted Cheese Guy: That's a foul, Doctor Nicole.
Nicole: Why?
Melted Cheese Guy: It wasn't a karate match. It was a drama-club rehearsal of "Madame Butterfly."
[Nicole sighs. Yuki suddenly appears and kicks her away]
Melted Cheese Guy: That was the karate.

Richard Buckley Watterson[]

[The scene returns to present day where Anais has added Nicole to the family tree, and is adding Richard. She drags his photo in]
Anais: And...that just leaves you Dad! What special gifts did you inherit?
Richard: [Thinking] Ummmmmm...
[As he thinks the scene fades into Gumball and Darwin trying to think of something he's good at in "The Hero"]
Gumball: Hm... what's our dad good at? He's good at being nice.
Masami: No. More like a skill.
Darwin: Is sweating without moving a skill?
[The kids laugh]
Gumball: How about...putting on weight? He's awesome at that.
[The kids laugh again]
Darwin: He must be good at something.
Gumball: I guess he's only good at being embarrassing.
[The scene returns to present day]
Richard: [Upset] I don't have any gifts...
Anais: Awww, sure you do Dad! The best gift of all! You make us laugh!
[The scene cuts to Richard cheering up Nicole in "The Fury"]
[In the supermarket Gumball, Darwin and Anais all look at Nicole with concern as they walk down the aisle. She sighs, so Richard tries to cheer her up by putting various vegetables all over his head]
Richard: Nicole? [With carrot teeth] I think we need better toothpaste. [Nicole looks at him with an amused smile] What? [With broccoli hair] Is there something wrong with my hair? [Nicole lets out a small chuckle] [With a pumpkin hat] Do I look better with a hat? [With cucumber slice eyes] It goes really well with my eyes.
[The whole family laughs]
Richard: Come on, you. [Hugs Nicole] What's wrong?
Nicole: [Sighs] Nothing.
Richard: Good, you keep smiling, or I'll have to use my secret weapon.
Nicole: [Amused] What's that?
Richard: [Has melons on his butt and bangs them] Butt, butt, butt, butt, butt-butt! Butt, butt, butt, butt, butt-butt!

Cum Ceciderit Fugis[]

[The whole family laughs again before returning to the present day]
Richard: Butt, butt, butt, butt, butt-butt! Butt, butt, butt, butt, butt-butt!
Anais: And now the finishing touch...
[The whole family laughs again before returning to the present day]
Anais: ...the family crest!
Richard: But we already have one of those!
[The scene cuts to Richard showing Gumball the family crest]
Gumball: What does that Latin stuff mean?
Nicole: Insert family motto here...
[The flashback ends and returns to the present day]
Anais: Why are we celebrating dumbness? I think we can do a lot better than that!
[She thinks for a moment, before typing the new motto]
Anais: Cum Ceciderit Fugis!
Richard: Cum cec-say that again?
Anais: It's Latin! When you fall, you fly.
Richard: Ah, I get it...
Anais: Exactly! [She drags the crest into the center of the tree] It means you only learn when you make mistakes.
[She looks back up to see that Richard has disappeared]
Anais: Dad...?
[Suddenly, Richard is heard sawing a tree outside]
Nicole: [Offscreen] Richard? Richard, get out of that tree!
Richard: [Offscreen] Don't worry, honey!
[The sawing stops, and both the tree branch and Richard fall to the ground. Richard walks back inside with a black eye]
Richard: Stupid motto! It's a lawsuit waiting to happen...
[Anais sighs before amending the motto]
Anais: Okay, fixed. Watterson: When you fall, you fly... but wear a crash helmet.
Richard: Perfect...
[Richard collapses onto the table, sending the bowl of cheesy puffs flying into the air. It lands on his face, where he happily eats the snacks and the episode ends]
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