At Elmore Shopping
- [The episode starts at Elmore Shopping, where Nicole is shown leaving the cart as Anais nervously waits behind a shelf breathing heavily. She then tries to slam dunk a box of strawberry ice creams into the cart, just as Nicole returns back and launches herself to kick it off her hands]
- Anais: Now!
- Nicole: Huh?
- [Gumball and Darwin summon out of the shelves, and Richard crashes through a box of cans, accidentally splitting his legs. They are all each carrying a box of treats]
- Richard: Ow.
- [The trio runs up to Nicole. Gumball tries to combat her and fails as she grabs his arms and pulls up his sleeves, as Darwin tries to reach into the cart, Nicole tangles Gumball's sleeves around them and chokes them, and Richard comes up to the battle, ending up with his arms also getting tangled. The trio gets thrown off. Anais, from behind, tries to sneak her box into the cart. Nicole notices and kicks the cart, catapulting the product away into Darwin's arms. She then slams the fridge door into Darwin's face, stuffs Richard into the fridge, and kicks the flying product, launched by Gumball and caught by Anais, into a mess of marshmallows. She roars]
- Gumball: Why can't we just have one treat?
- Nicole: Because it's the end of the month, and I work a dead-end job where I get paid peanuts.
- [All except Nicole sigh]
- Nicole: That's not a figure of speech, by the way. [Shows wallet full of peanuts]
- Gumball: Then why are we even here?
- Nicole: Because I asked for an advance on my next quarter, and they said "Yes." [Shows a quarter]
- Anais: [Sarcastically] Great! I know a place where we can get a full shopping cart for twenty-five cents. It's called the eighteen-sixties. [Frowns]
- Nicole: But not if you're shopping for a good deal. [Sniffs around]
- Darwin: What's she doing?
- Richard: Sniffing out a bargain. Your mom's family always had this super ability to save money. I mean, she had a bowl haircut until she was six, but her parents didn't want to wear down a good bowl, so technically, she had a "doing a handstand in a pothole" haircut.
- Nicole: [Sniffs, notices] Aisle thirteen. [Reaches behind shelf] Ha-ha-ha! [Drags out box of corned beef] Corned beef!
- Anais: [Reads can] "This can can be opened by women of reasonable intelligence with limited male supervision"?
- Nicole: Well, they're from the sixties, but look, only twenty cents for the whole pallet. I guess times were easier then if you were a man and not a minority and were comfortable with the constant threat of nuclear annihilation. Ha, how things have changed, huh?
- Richard, Gumball, Darwin, and Anais: [Inhales] Mm…
- Nicole: [Dejectedly] Yeah.
- [The box of corned beef is being dragged by a man at the other side]
- Nicole: Hey. Hey! [Pulls back] This is our food for the next month.
- Old man: [Off-screen] Back off, lady! We saw it first!
- Nicole: I grabbed it first!
- Old man: [Off-screen] Just leave it already. It's ours!
- [Nicole generates muscles and pulls the box with all her might, cleaning the shelves off of items. Nicole gasps, as the scene reveals her parents, looking shocked]
- Nicole: Dad? Mom?
Inviting the Senicourts
- [Scene switches to the Wattersons in the car. Richard is shown eating corned beef off a can]
- Nicole: Oh, I can't believe it!
- Richard: Yeah. You'd think that finding a tooth in this can would've put me off, and yet—
- Nicole: [Slaps can of corned beef off] I meant how could you kids invite them to the house?
- [Scene switches to Nicole's parents driving their car and following the Wattersons]
- Gumball: Because we deserve it, Mom. Think of it as a gift to us.
- Nicole: [Sighs] True. I can't deny you the right to know your grandparents just because of a grudge.
- Gumball: What? No! I meant that they owe us hundreds of Christmas presents.
- Nicole: I really thought I raised my children better.
- Gumball: Yeah, you're right. I'm sorry. We'd profit much more if they bought one awesome, huge, lump present instead of a bunch of crummy ones.
- [Nicole sighs]
- Richard: [Talking to his can] Come on. Let's give this another chance.
- Nicole: Okay.
- Richard: Just promise me you'll be good this time.
- Nicole: I can't just promise that.
- Richard: Why won't you open up?
- Nicole: There's so much bad history between us. I mean, we stopped talking over twenty years ago.
- Richard: Why are you so hard inside?
- Nicole: I guess it's a way to protect myself, but… [Sighs] you're right. I'll try my best to be open. Thank you, Richard.
- Richard: [Throws away bolt from corned beef can] Uh… anytime?
- [The Wattersons' car and the Senicourts' car stop in front of the house]
A Tense Atmosphere
- [Scene switches to the inside of the Watterson house, where Nicole and her parents sit at the table, having no eye contact with each other. The rest of the family stands in the kitchen with a translucent wall formed in front of them]
- Gumball: [Muffled] The atmosphere is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
- Anais: [Muffled] What?
- Gumball: [Muffled] Oh, hang on. [Cuts a square hole into the translucent wall] I said, "The atmosphere is so thick you could cut it with a knife." [Sticks his head through the hole] Maybe I'll join them and try to lighten the mood.
- [Gumball slides through the hole and sits at the table]
- Gumball: Hey, how about a joke? I like my coffee the way I like jokes about the way I like my coffee. I don't. [Laughs once]
- [The scene cuts to Nicole and her parents arguing and throwing things in the background. Gumball enters the kitchen]
- Gumball: Wow, that's the second worst that joke ever went down.
- Richard: It's not you, son. They just blame each other for what happened between them, but no one really knows whose fault it is. It's like "potato," "potart-wah." [The kids stare at him confused] Who's to say which is wrong?
- Darwin: There's only one way to find out.
- Richard: Of course. A backyard royal rumble. Last one standing gets to name the vegetable.
- Darwin: I mean we ask Mrs. Mom, Grandpa Daniel, and Granny Mary to air their issues, and we'll decide who's in the wrong.
- Richard: And then we—
- Anais: It's pronounced "potato"! And no one's doing a Canadian Destroyer off a shed in the backyard!
- Richard: Oh…
Family Problems
- [Scene shows Nicole and the Senicourts standing aloof and frowning off of each other. There is a mess of smashed plates, and the couch is flipped over, as the rest of the family hides behind it]
- Nicole: Okay, I'll start. [Inhales deeply] 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]
- Mary: Well, you were hardly easy yourself. Remember that finger painting you did for Mother's Day?
- [Scene shows toddler Nicole in Kindergarten handing her mother a finger painting]
- Mary: Hmm? [Turns painting, showing five thumbs up in different colors] Aww.
- [Nicole frowns and turns the painting to show thumbs down; Mary frowns and sighs. Flashback ends]
- Nicole: Well, 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"!
- [Stifled laughter across the Wattersons behind the couch]
- Nicole: Oh, it's all very funny until someone shouts, "Is there a doctor in the house?" and your parents say, "Yes." Turns out people choking on a chicken wing rarely stay conscious long enough to enjoy the punch line!
- 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: Nothing was ever enough! 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.
- [Flashback ends]
- Nicole: What kind of childhood was that? I was only eight years old.
- Daniel: Well, at that age, I was already ten.
- [Nicole's forehead turns red as she crushes her cup]
- Mary: See? That's your problem. You always let your anger get the better of you.
- Daniel: I spent years fixing the consequences of your outbursts.
- Nicole: Oh, please! There's nothing a child can break that can't be fixed with a bit of duct tape.
- Daniel: What about the time you kicked the neighbor's car?
- [Flashback briefly shows Daniel slowly applying a piece of duct tape over a completely wrecked car. When the hood pops, he nervously runs away, and the flashback ends]
- Nicole: Come on, I wasn't that bad.
- Daniel: You kidding me? You landed a kid in the hospital!
- [Flashback shows Harold literally flying into the hospital and ends]
- Daniel: Literally. Not to mention the time you stole our car to see your boyfriend and landed in court!
- [Flashback shows teenage Nicole and Richard in the car crashing backwards into court]
- All: Guilty!
- Nicole: Oops. [Smiles awkwardly]
- [Flashback ends]
- Daniel: Again, literally.
- Nicole: What else was I supposed to do? You always disapproved of Richard! You never thought he was good enough for me!
- Mary: That's not true.
- [Nicole points at a formally dressed awkward bank employee holding flowers from behind the window. Mary signals to cut off his encounter with Nicole, and he awkwardly shuffles away]
- Nicole: Really? Still trying to set me up with some banking dweeb?
- Mary: [To Richard] No offense, but we always thought she could do better than a slacker with a dead-end job who got their pants at the Army surplus store… in the parachute aisle.
- Richard: How dare you! My wife's behind is so small only bats can hear her toot.
- Mary: I meant you.
- Richard: [Sing-song voice] Then the joke's on you! I don't have a job.
- Mary: [Sighs]
- Daniel: But did you really have to walk out like that?
- Nicole: I left, because [Voice-over] there was no point in trying to fix something that was beyond repair.
- [Scene fades to a flashback from "The Choices", where Nicole is seen arguing with her parents before leaving]
- Nicole: [Voice-over] I wanted to start over and create something better.
- [Flashback ends]
- Daniel: Us too, but we were too old to have another [Daniel notices Mary giving him an annoyed side-eye] CHIIIIILD— We have a dog now!
- Nicole: [Sighs] You never even came to our wedding.
- Mary: We did. We went to Rsvp.
- Nicole: What?
- Mary: On your invite, it said, "Rsvp."
- Nicole: No, Mom. It said, "R.S.V.P."
- Mary: Oh, right. Well, we went to the town of Rsvp in Moldavia.
- [Flashback shows Nicole's parents in Rsvp, Moldavia, a barren city, along with a constantly barking dog]
- Mary: [Voice-over] I was the only woman in the region. Everybody tried to marry me, even a dog!
- [Flashback ends]
- Daniel: Like I said, we have a dog now.
- Nicole: Wait, is that why you sent Richard and I divorce papers for our first anniversary?
- [Scene goes through several flashbacks]
- Mary: [Voice-over] No, that was because you sent me retirement-home leaflets for my fiftieth birthday… With glitter!
- Nicole: [Voice-over] Well, that's because you tried to ship Richard to Guatemala!
- Daniel: [Voice-over] No, that was after you took power of attorney over us and got us committed for six weeks!
- Nicole: [Voice-over] No, that was after you paid for our honeymoon, but replaced Richard with a neurosurgeon!
- [Scene cuts back to the present]
- Daniel: Well, that was after— After… Uh… Uh… Mm. I don't remember.
- Nicole: [Gasps] Me neither.
- Darwin: Then why are you still angry at each other? Why can't you just make peace?
- Nicole: We were at peace, Darwin. Separately.
"If It's Too Hard to Forgive"
- [As the Senicourts get angry in reaction, solemn music plays]
- Gumball: [Sighs] Okay. I know this is the cheapest, dirtiest kind of emotional manipulation, but there's too much on the line here, so...
- Gumball: [Sings] Ten thousand reasons to give up
- Too many words that piled up
- Mary: [Spoken] I think we should go.
- [As Mary and Daniel leave Nicole cleans up the broken mug off the floor. She turns to look at her parents before Mary closes the door]
- Gumball: But you refuse to try and mend
- Your broken past before the end
- Your heart's too hard to understand
- That sands of time slip through your hands
- [Nicole stands looking out of the window as she does the washing up]
- Gumball: And no excuses can erase
- The scars of time left on your face
- [Daniel starts his car, revealing a picture of a young Nicole on his keychain. before their car drives away]
- Gumball: If it's too hard to forgive
- Then just give
- Let go of the weight that won't let you live
- [Nicole takes a picture off the fridge and looks at it. It is of her younger self excitedly opening a present at Christmas. She unfolds it to reveal the other half, her parents watching her with a smile on their faces]
- Gumball: Why keep playing this sad game
- [As Daniel and Mary continue to drive away, Mary looks at a photo of Gumball, Darwin and Anais on her phone. The screen slowly turns off]
- Gumball: Of who should really take the blame?
- The memories will fade away
-
- [Nicole runs outside, watching her parents driving away. She holds out her hand as she calls out for them to wait]
- Gumball: They're growing further every day
- [A top down view of Mary and Daniel's car driving down the road is shown. Around the corner, unbeknownst to them, a truck is driving down the road and heading straight for them]
- Gumball: You want the stream to change its course
- Before it floods you with remorse
- [Daniel looks back at Nicole as she walks back toward the house. He and Mary look at each other, before changing their minds. Daniel presses the brakes and stops the car, and they watch as the truck drives by]
- Gumball: You only need to hit the brakes
- To free yourself of your mistakes
- If it's too hard to forgive
- Then just give
- Let go of the weight that won't let you live.
- [Nicole is about to go inside when she hears a car roll up to the driveway. She turns around and sees her parents have come back. As she walks over Mary lowers her window]
- Mary: [Spoken] Nicole, I—
- Nicole: [Spoken] Look, I don't wanna hear your excuses. [Tears up] I just want you guys back.
- [Mary and Daniel get out of the car, and the Senicourts all hug each other]
- Gumball: Mm, mm, mm-mm, mm
- Mm, mm, mm-mm, mm
- [Song ends]
- Anais: Well done, Gumball.
- Richard: You really summed up their relationship with each other and helped them reconnect.
- Gumball: [Spoken] What's that now?
- Anais: You know, "If it's too hard to forgive, then just give."
- Gumball: Pfft! That wasn't about them. That was about the Christmas presents they owe us!
- [Richard, Anais and Darwin express disappointment. Darwin smacks Gumball's head into the window, thus ending the episode]
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Episode 1 The DVD |
Episode 2 The Responsible |
Episode 3 The Third |
Episode 4 The Debt |
Episode 5 The End |
Episode 6 The Dress |
Episode 7 The Quest |
Episode 8 The Spoon |
Episode 9 The Pressure |
Episode 10 The Painting |
Episode 11 The Laziest |
Episode 12 The Ghost |
Episode 13 The Mystery |
Episode 14 The Prank |
Episode 15 The Gi |
Episode 16 The Kiss |
Episode 17 The Party |
Episode 18 The Refund |
Episode 19 The Robot |
Episode 20 The Picnic |
Episode 21 The Goons |
Episode 22 The Secret |
Episode 23 The Sock |
Episode 24 The Genius |
Episode 25 The Poltergeist |
Episode 26 The Mustache |
Episode 27 The Date |
Episode 28 The Club |
Episode 29 The Wand |
Episode 30 The Ape |
Episode 31 The Car |
Episode 32 The Curse |
Episode 33 The Microwave |
Episode 34 The Meddler |
Episode 35 The Helmet |
Episode 36 The Fight |
Episode 1 The Remote |
Episode 2 The Colossus |
Episode 3 The Knights |
Episode 4 The Fridge |
Episode 5 The Flower |
Episode 6 The Banana |
Episode 7 The Phone |
Episode 8 The Job |
Episode 9 Halloween |
Episode 10 The Treasure |
Episode 11 The Apology |
Episode 12 The Words |
Episode 13 The Skull |
Episode 14 The Bet |
Episode 15 Christmas |
Episode 16 The Watch |
Episode 17 The Bumpkin |
Episode 18 The Flakers |
Episode 19 The Authority |
Episode 20 The Virus |
Episode 21 The Pony |
Episode 22 The Hero |
Episode 23 The Dream |
Episode 24 The Sidekick |
Episode 25 The Photo |
Episode 26 The Tag |
Episode 27 The Storm |
Episode 28 The Lesson |
Episode 29 The Game |
Episode 30 The Limit |
Episode 31 The Voice |
Episode 32 The Promise |
Episode 33 The Castle |
Episode 34 The Boombox |
Episode 35 The Tape |
Episode 36 The Sweaters |
Episode 37 The Internet |
Episode 38 The Plan |
Episode 39 The World |
Episode 40 The Finale |
Episode 1 The Kids |
Episode 2 The Fan |
Episode 3 The Coach |
Episode 4 The Joy |
Episode 5 The Puppy |
Episode 6 The Recipe |
Episode 7 The Name |
Episode 8 The Extras |
Episode 9 The Gripes |
Episode 10 The Vacation |
Episode 11 The Fraud |
Episode 12 The Void |
Episode 13 The Boss |
Episode 14 The Move |
Episode 15 The Law |
Episode 16 The Allergy |
Episode 17 The Mothers |
Episode 18 The Password |
Episode 19 The Procrastinators |
Episode 20 The Shell |
Episode 21 The Burden |
Episode 22 The Bros |
Episode 23 The Mirror |
Episode 24 The Man |
Episode 25 The Pizza |
Episode 26 The Lie |
Episode 27 The Butterfly |
Episode 28 The Question |
Episode 29 The Saint |
Episode 30 The Friend |
Episode 31 The Oracle |
Episode 32 The Safety |
Episode 33 The Society |
Episode 34 The Spoiler |
Episode 35 The Countdown |
Episode 36 The Nobody |
Episode 37 The Downer |
Episode 38 The Egg |
Episode 39 The Triangle |
Episode 40 The Money |
Episode 1 The Return |
Episode 2 The Nemesis |
Episode 3 The Crew |
Episode 4 The Others |
Episode 5 The Signature |
Episode 6 The Check |
Episode 7 The Pest |
Episode 8 The Sale |
Episode 9 The Gift |
Episode 10 The Parking |
Episode 11 The Routine |
Episode 12 The Upgrade |
Episode 13 The Comic |
Episode 14 The Romantic |
Episode 15 The Uploads |
Episode 16 The Apprentice |
Episode 17 The Hug |
Episode 18 The Wicked |
Episode 19 The Traitor |
Episode 20 The Origins |
Episode 21 The Origins: Part Two |
Episode 22 The Girlfriend |
Episode 23 The Advice |
Episode 24 The Signal |
Episode 25 The Parasite |
Episode 26 The Love |
Episode 27 The Awkwardness |
Episode 28 The Nest |
Episode 29 The Points |
Episode 30 The Bus |
Episode 31 The Night |
Episode 32 The Misunderstandings |
Episode 33 The Roots |
Episode 34 The Blame |
Episode 35 The Slap |
Episode 36 The Detective |
Episode 37 The Fury |
Episode 38 The Compilation |
Episode 39 The Scam |
Episode 40 The Disaster |
Episode 1 The Rerun |
Episode 2 The Stories |
Episode 3 The Guy |
Episode 4 The Boredom |
Episode 5 The Vision |
Episode 6 The Choices |
Episode 7 The Code |
Episode 8 The Test |
Episode 9 The Slide |
Episode 10 The Loophole |
Episode 11 The Fuss |
Episode 12 The Copycats |
Episode 13 The Potato |
Episode 14 The Outside |
Episode 15 The Vase |
Episode 16 The Matchmaker |
Episode 17 The Box |
Episode 18 The Console |
Episode 19 The Ollie |
Episode 20 The Catfish |
Episode 21 The Cycle |
Episode 22 The Stars |
Episode 23 The Grades |
Episode 24 The Diet |
Episode 25 The Ex |
Episode 26 The Sorcerer |
Episode 27 The Menu |
Episode 28 The Uncle |
Episode 29 The Weirdo |
Episode 30 The Heist |
Episode 31 The Singing |
Episode 32 The Best |
Episode 33 The Worst |
Episode 34 The Deal |
Episode 35 The Petals |
Episode 36 The Nuisance |
Episode 37 The Line |
Episode 38 The List |
Episode 39 The News |
Episode 40 The Puppets |
Episode 1 The Rival |
Episode 2 The Lady |
Episode 3 The Sucker |
Episode 4 The Vegging |
Episode 5 The One |
Episode 6 The Father |
Episode 7 The Cringe |
Episode 8 The Cage |
Episode 9 The Neighbor |
Episode 10 The Anybody |
Episode 11 The Faith |
Episode 12 The Candidate |
Episode 13 The Pact |
Episode 14 The Shippening |
Episode 15 The Brain |
Episode 16 The Parents |
Episode 17 The Founder |
Episode 18 The Schooling |
Episode 19 The Intelligence |
Episode 20 The Potion |
Episode 21 The Spinoffs |
Episode 22 The Transformation |
Episode 23 The Understanding |
Episode 24 The Ad |
Episode 25 The Ghouls |
Episode 26 The Stink |
Episode 27 The Awareness |
Episode 28 The Slip |
Episode 29 The Drama |
Episode 30 The Buddy |
Episode 31 The Possession |
Episode 32 The Master |
Episode 33 The Silence |
Episode 34 The Future |
Episode 35 The Wish |
Episode 36 The Factory |
Episode 37 The Agent |
Episode 38 The Web |
Episode 39 The Mess |
Episode 40 The Heart |
Episode 41 The Revolt |
Episode 42 The Decisions |
Episode 43 The BFFS |
Episode 44 The Inquisition |