The End (Gumball's episode)

**"I don’t think I’ve seen The End (Gumball's episode) before!"**
*This page is about the Gumball's fifth season 1. For the Alphablocks episode, see The End.*

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**"The End"** is the fifth episode of season 1 of *The Amazing World of Gumball*.

## Synopsis

Gumball and Darwin are convinced that the world will end in 24 hours.

## Plot

Template:SpoilerstartThe episode starts with Gumball and Darwin flipping through TV channels while eating junk food. After a moment, Gumball asks Darwin if his heart is still beating. Darwin checks his heart, and when it does not beat, they start to worry. After Gumball's heart beats (which of course they are relieved to find out), they flip through the TV again.

As they flip through channels, lines of the shows make a message, "Listen, Gumball, the world will end in twenty-four hours, so look for the signs!" They suspect something is up but then ignore it. Later, the boys are on the school bus, and they notice Gary screaming "The end is near! The end is near! The end is near! The end is near! For our discount sale, so hurry up!" Gumball and Darwin do not notice the last part, so they are a bit spooked. Afterward, lunch starts and birds fly quickly together in the same direction, to eat Anton and his sandwich. However, they do not know the purpose of the birds' actions, so the boys suspect something is going on. Suddenly, Bobert walks up and asks them if they want to watch a solar eclipse in exactly twenty-four hours.

They nervously ask what a solar eclipse is, so Bobert explains what happens in one, and adds that the Mayans believed that they signified the end of the world. Upon hearing this, the boys believe that the solar eclipse could mark the end of the world, ignoring Bobert who tries to tell them this is not true.

23:59:58 - Gumball panics. Then they remind themselves that twenty-four hours is a lot of time, so Gumball asks Darwin what he what he wants to do with his life. Gumball loses interest after Darwin stats talking about charity, so he thinks they should do something he wants to do.

22:42:50 - Gumball and Darwin are sitting in class, and Gumball is bored out of his mind, so he tells Penny to kiss him. Then with absolutely no warning, Miss Simian gives out a test, but Gumball rips it up and chucks water at Miss Simian, declaring that the world will end in twenty-four hours, and that the other students should throw a party. Darwin yells "Wooo!" but everyone else stares at him and Gumball, puzzled.

22:10:10 - Due to chucking water, Gumball and Darwin get after school detention. Gumball realizes he is late for his "wedding" with Penny. Penny believes she should not marry Gumball, because they are both underage, their "wedding" is in the school hall, and her wedding ring is a bagel, so she tells him that it should not stop him from asking her again in twenty years and kisses him on the cheek and walks away. Then out of the blue, Gumball proposes to Carmen.

13:02:58— The Wattersons are eating dinner and Anais notices Gumball has a blonde perm. Gumball then asks Nicole if he can have a pony as his final birthday present, which she assumes he will get bored of in a day, but Gumball complains. So, Nicole agrees to get Gumball a pony when Richard starts laying golden eggs, which he has apparently tried to do for a while. Without wasting time, Gumball explains what is going on, but Nicole and Anais just laugh. Richard believes them, however, and tells them they should prepare for their survival.

05:03:54— Richard tries to go to the store, after three failed attempts to drive the car, they decide to run. A security guard tells them no running in the supermarket, so they race-walk and get as much food as possible.

04:16:12— When they see the long line at the check out counter, Richard panics, and they go to the self-service aisle instead.

03:57:20— Richard fails to check out a can of corn over, and over, and over, and over, and over again until he gets very frustrated about rescanning the can again with "insufficient speed."

03:57:20— They all race-walk out of the store without paying, the security guard tells them they did not pay for all that stuff and Richard throws money at the guard.

00:57:22— Richard gets a porta-potty for the family to hide in, but they can hardly fit in it. After a while, Gumball and Darwin decide to sacrifice themselves for their family's safety.

00:00:33— Gumball and Darwin spend their supposed last few seconds with each other. The eclipse is upon them, a huge shadow covers the city, but the moon only passes the sun, literally "mooning" it at the same time. Realizing the world is not ending, the boys learn an important lesson: one should live their life to the fullest, because it can be very long (or very short). Gumball suggests they watch some TV, but forgets that Anais, Nicole, Richard, and the TV are still in the porta-potty. After a few attempts to kick the porta-potty door open, they all fall over and toilet water splashes on them, and the episode ends.

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## Characters

### Main characters

* Gumball
* Darwin

### Supporting characters

* Richard
* Nicole
* Anais

### Minor characters

* Larry
* Pantsbully
* Basketball player
* Anton
* Bobert
* Miss Simian
* Penny
* Rachel
* Carmen
* Molly
* Masami
* Teri
* Juke
* Leslie
* Librarian (debut)
* Fingathing (debut)
* Ocho
* Banana Joe
* Tina
* Alan
* Carrie
* Idaho
* Mr. Small (debut)
* Clipboard man (debut, cameo)
* Jackie
* Tobias
* Green security guard (debut)
* Mother and son (debut)
* Charlie (debut)
* Karen (debut)
* Lenny (debut)
* Paperball (debut)
* Gary
* Blue elephant
* Ed (debut)
* Black pentagon (debut)
* Black rectangle (debut)
* Colin (debut)
* Sun
* Egg man (debut)
* Donald
* Betty (debut)
* Louie
* Pigeons (debut)
* Mother and baby (debut)
* Marvin
* Daniel (mentioned)
* Moon
* Rocky
* Yellow old man
* Hobo
* Cartax

## Trivia

* When Richard attempts to drive to the grocery store, the rear wheels are spinning while the car remains stationary. Richard releases the parking brake and the vehicle moves. However, the parking brake locks the rear wheels, so the wheels should have never spun. This means that the car has an anti-lock braking system installed.
* This is Ben Bocquelet's favorite episode overall because "it never fails to make him laugh."
* For Cartoon Network's 2017 April Fools' Prank, this episode and "The Prank" were rerun with the Wattersons having googly eyes.

### Continuity

* This is the first time that Penny kisses Gumball on the cheek, if one does not count the trailer.
* Bobert's voice sounds different than it did in "The Third." This is the first of many cases where a character's voice varies depending upon the episode.
* "Fine Lady" can be heard when Darwin is flicking through the TV channels.
* This is the first episode that indicates Gumball having a crush on Penny (and that Penny reciprocates his feelings).

### Cultural references

* The entire plot of the episode is possibly a parody of many end-of-the-world movies like *The Omega Man*, *The Quiet Earth*, and *I Am Legend*.
* The timer featured in some scenes of the episode parody the timer scenes of the popular FOX action series *24*.
* When Gumball says "I'll make you an offer you can't refuse," it references the movie *The Godfather*.
* The scene where Gumball flicks through the channels makes a coherent sentence mirrors a scene from *Shaun of the Dead.*

### Goofs/errors

* Despite Gumball receiving three hours of detention, only thirty-two minutes and forty seconds elapsed between his rebellion and being released from detention. This could be because Gumball was released early.
* Nicole states that her father lived to be 102 years old, but in "The Parents," he is still alive.
* The school librarian is seen outside the store when Richard, Gumball, and Darwin enter. However, she is seen again inside the store, in the middle of the queue that delays the Wattersons.
* Looking closely at the long shopping line, Louie can be seen twice.
* The announcement up to the time of the eclipse was really about a twelve-hour period. Bobert said that the eclipse would happen in exactly twenty-four hours. That would mean that the eclipse would have to occur at the same time the following day, but it occurs at sundown.
* When Gumball and Darwin are sitting on the bench, Darwin's eyelashes are gone.
* When Gumball attempts to marry Penny, Penny's name is written as Patty in the captions.
* When Gumball closes the toilet door, his eyebrows disappear.
* There is no way that the Wattersons would be trapped in the porta-potty considering that it should be designed to lock from the inside, not the outside (let alone that Gumball and Darwin were able to escape).
* When Richard tries to get himself, Nicole, and Anais out of the porta-potty, running footsteps can be heard as he is about to run into the door from the inside, but there is not enough space to do so.

## Other titles

* **Čeština (Czech)**: Konec (The End)
* **Español (Spanish)**: El Fin (The End)
* **Français (French)**: L'apocalypse (The Apocalypse)
* **Italiano (Italian)**: La fine del mondo (The End of the World)
* **Magyar (Hungarian)**: Itt a vég! (This is The End!)
* **Polski (Polish)**: Koniec (The End)
* **Português (Portuguese)**: O Fim (The End)
* **Українська (Ukrainian)**: Кінець світу (The End of the World)
* **Русский (Russian)**: Конец света (The End of the world)
* **Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)**: Ngày Tận Thế (The Doomsday)
* **Български (Bulgarian)**: Краят (The End)
* **العربية (Arabic)**: نهاية العالم (The End of the World)
* **日本語 (Japanese)**: 世界の終わり!? (The End of the World!?)

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