The Party (Gumball)

Additional Material:

Jon Foster

Moray Hunter

James Lamont

**"The Party"** is the seventeenth episode of Season 1 of *The Amazing World of Gumball*.

## Synopsis

Rachel throws a party and after blackmail from her brother, lets him and his friends attend on one condition: each of them must bring a date.

## Plot

Rachel is throwing a party for her friends, and Tobias blackmails her into allowing all of his friends to come as well, though she tells them they each have to bring a date. The gang rushes off to find dates, leaving Darwin looking confused and asking what a date is. Miss Simian overhears all of this and decides to tell Principal Brown.
At lunch, Gumball suggests he and Darwin make a list of dates so they can get into the party. Darwin still doesn't know what a date is, so he asks. Bobert appears and defines it for him and quickly leaves. Darwin suggests Penny, but Gumball, being too shy, sheepishly says no. With that out of the way, the two of them begin listing girls. First is Carrie, who tries to eat a sandwich, but fails when it falls through her body. Gumball lists her as "maybe." Next is Teri, who is laughing with a few other girls. Gumball lists her as "possibly." Third is Carmen, who is reading a book. Gumball comments that she is "interesting", and moves on to Sussie, who is grossly chewing food. Gumball flatly says "no" and crosses her off the list. Suddenly, a paper airplane lands in Gumball's food. Gumball unfolds the paper and finds a note that reads "Would you be the jelly in my peanut butter sandwich?" Taking this literally instead of figuratively, he declines, crumpling the note and tossing it away. Gumball then rushes off to ask some girls out.

The scene transitions to the lockers, where Masami and Teri are chatting. Gumball goes to Masami first but angers her by calling her unattractive and doubting her femininity. She turns gray (like a rain cloud), zaps him, then storms off. Gumball asks Teri next, but Gumball messes it up by telling her she looks desperate. Teri slaps him, but since she is made of paper, it doesn't do much. Then Sussie walks by, so Gumball asks her. She responds with a stinky burp, which leaves Gumball petrified as she walks away. Banana Joe, along with his date Carmen, walks past and jokes at his failure to get a date, leaving Gumball looking hurt. Gumball is persuaded to ask Tina by Anais, and at the doorstep of Rachel's house he meets Penny, who is upset that Gumball didn't ask her as his date.

The four go inside the house, and it ends up being pretty boring for Gumball while Darwin has the time of his life. Tina asks Gumball for a dance, which he rejects. Suddenly, Miss Simian bursts through the door, spooking the party-goers, and "busts them wide open." It is discovered that her intent was not to rat the party-goers out, but to join the party. She presses a button on Juke, causing dance music to come on. The party instantly becomes exciting.

Everybody goes insane, with the TV throwing itself out the window and Banana Joe flying through a different window. Rachel is horrified, thinking that her party is ruined since only underclassmen came (trashing the house) and her friends did not. Darwin tells her that the party is not ruined since the underclassmen are her friends and he will personally clean up the entire house. Rachel doubts him for a moment, but when Darwin reassures her, she feels better about the party.

The next scene is after the crazy part of the party when most of them are tired but Sussie (in which still eating as usual). Meanwhile, Gumball had been dancing with Tina awkwardly. Penny comes up to him, dancing with Hector just as awkwardly. Penny tells Gumball that she had been the one who sent the note, which Gumball is confused about, as he states that he was not hungry and did not wish to be in a sandwich. Penny laughs, as she is amazed that Gumball did not understand the note. Then Hector offered Tina the next dance, but Tina said he can have the current dance and "drops" Gumball.

Darwin had been cleaning up the house as promised. Rachel is very grateful and asks Darwin why he doesn't have a girlfriend. When Darwin states that he does not see the point of one, Rachel shows him and kisses him on the cheek, causing him to faint. Gumball and Penny forgive each other, and Gumball asks Penny out to the next party there is (nervously). She accepts, and are about to kiss when Richard loudly honks his car multiple times, interrupting them once more. Gumball has to drag him to the car while Penny and Rachel discuss the boys that they have met (Rachel being slightly disappointed, Penny being proud).

In the car, Richard asks the boys about the party, which the boys are both very happy about; Also Richard says that he likes Penny better than Tina, making Gumball blush in embarrassment.

Darwin deciding to yodel to describe how his night went. The three drive home after a long night, just as Rachel and Tobias' parents get home and pass by Miss Simian and Principal Brown in a closet. They had been about to kiss before they had been interrupted by the parents walking by.

## Characters

### Main Characters

* Gumball
* Darwin
* Rachel
* Penny

### Supporting Characters

* Tobias
* Miss Simian
* Principal Brown
* Richard
* Tina
* Hector

### Minor Characters

* Anais
* Nicole
* Carrie
* Teri
* Molly
* Carmen
* Sussie
* Masami
* Banana Joe
* Leslie
* Alan
* Bobert
* Idaho
* Clayton
* Jamie
* Juke
* Ocho
* Rob (debut)
* Hot Dog Guy
* Jackie
* Harold
* The Sun
* Anton
* Beanie Bird
* Cartax

## Production Music

* What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor - Okko Bekker [Title Card]
* Honolulu March - Hans Haired (-3.66 Semitones) [Am I Invited?]
* Dramatic Impact #2 - APM Music [**NONE OF YOU ARE INVITED!!!]**
* Spongebob Closing Theme - Steve Belfer & Nicolas Carr [Rachel, Rachel, Rachel.]
* Dramatic Cue E- Ronald Hanmer [You'll All Have To Bring A DATE!]
* What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor - Okko Bekker [Finding Dates]
* Heavenly Voices - David Farnon [Why are your eyes shaped liked hearts?]
* Hello Blues - Sage Guyton & Jeremy Wakefeild [Gumball asks out Masami and Teri]
* Seaweed - Steve Belfer [Back At The Watterson's House]
* Spongebob Closing Theme - Steve Belfer & Nicolas Carr [Gumball calls Tina/ Richard driving Gumball ]
* Furtive Footsteps - Paddy Kingsland [Let's wait until it's in full swing}
* Hawaiian Train - Victor Cavini [This is a High School Party?]
* Stadium Rave A - Mark Governor & Glenn Nishida [NO, Not The TV!!]
* Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [Rachel crying]
* Aloha Oe - Hans Hader [Penny and Gumball forgive each other]
* Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer [Darwin cleans Rachel's house]
* Heavenly Voices - David Farnon [Darwin's first kiss/ EVERYTHING IS SO CLEAR NOW]
* Careless Whisper - George Michael [Penny and Gumball's failed kiss]
* Hilo March - The Hawaiian Serenaders [WHAT DID I SAY THAT FOR?!]
* Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash [Darwin's Song]

## Trivia

* Rachel speaks for the first time in this episode.
* This is Rachel's first, and so far only, major role. Considering the fact the writers dislike her, Rachel may not get another major role.
* This was the first episode to have its own promo.
* This is the first time Leslie is seen without his flower pot.
* In this episode, Darwin is revealed to be part suckerfish.
* This episode reveals Darwin's full name as "Darwin Raglan Caspian Ahab Poseidon Nicodemius Watterson III."
	+ This implies that there have been two other "Darwins" before him.
* This was the first episode Tobias' parents speak.
	+ However, they are not fully seen, appearing only as shadows.
* The characters reference the party as a "High School Party"; however, the students attend Elmore ***Junior High***.

### Continuity

* This is the second time the Sun talks. The first time was in "The End."
* This is the first time Penny has ever been mad at Gumball. Even then, she was definitely more upset with Tina.
* This is the second time Gumball and Penny have almost kissed but failed. They are also in the same outer space background, which was first seen in "The Pressure."
* The imaginary bread from Gumball’s thought resembles Anton.

### Cultural References

* When Tobias and the gang say "Rachel, Rachel, Rachel," it is a reference to *The Brady Bunch* quote "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia."
* Alan appeared to be shaking his face back and forth in between two balloons, a reference to the lewd act of motorboating (burying your face into a woman's breasts, then shaking it around while yelling).
* When the party turns up Anton's make-up is similar to the kind that Gene Simmons - leader of KISS  - has during his performances.

### Goofs/Errors

* On Elmore Stream-It, Tina was looking for a date for a party. She could be talking about this party since she had no date when Gumball called her.
* In the closed captions, Sussie's name is spelled Saucy.
* At the beginning, despite almost all of the major students being invited to the party, in scenes set at the party, not all of them are there .
* When Gumball and Penny are embracing, Penny had no arms.
* Rachel said everyone had to have a date for the party; however, Darwin was at the party even though he didn't have a date.
* In a forward shot of the Wattersons' car, Tina is not present.
* Darwin doesn't seem to know what a date was in this episode, but in "The Pressure," he does when he tells Gumball that he needed a date to get into the tree house. This episode could have taken place before then, or Darwin might have just forgotten what a date was.
* In this episode, Carmen is dating Banana Joe, but in the show's original promos, she is dating Alan. Considering this episode was written in 2009, and they were never seen dating in the show proper until Season 2, it's possible that their relationship was thought up late in production.
* When Gumball is in the school hallway Gumball tells Sussie that she is his date for the party even though he crossed her off the list in the cafeteria.
* Gumball was said to have asked every girl in his class to be his date, but he was never seen asking Molly or Jamie, even though they were at the party.