Gumball and the Big Tower

**Gumball and the Big Tower!** is the 9th episode of HappyTales. It tells the story of Gumball Wattersonand The Big Fortress, Happytales style! Released in October 2013, this is an instant HappyTales classic. It's lesson is obedience.

## Plotedit | edit source

The opening counter-top finds Bubbles filling in for Clarence (Because Clarence got super sick after watching [./https://veggietales.fandom.com/wiki/Lazlo-Man!\_and\_Bowser\_from\_Super\_Mario! Larry-Boy! and the Fib from Outer Space!].) Bubbles and Bob the Lazlo get a letter from this random kid by the name of Victor Bartholomew of Sausalito, California about obedience and, using their imaginations, are transported to the Holy Land.

Lazlo acts as narrator and provides Bubbles with some background information. The Israelites, having been held as slaves in Egypt, are liberated by Moses and led to the Promised Land. However, they flee after seeing [./https://veggietales.fandom.com/wiki/Goliath Goliath] and his family in it and are banished from The Promised Land for forty years. Upon the completion of their exile, Moses has died, and Gumball (played here by Joshua) has become leader of the Israelites. Gumball Watterson leads them back to the Promised Land, but one thing stands in their way — Jericho.

The story is interrupted here by Bubbles's Bubbly Songs with Bubbles. "Song of the Cebu," introduced as a "sequential image, stereophonic, multimedia event," finds Bubbles on the counter-top with a slide projector and a captive audience comprising Mario and Luigi and Numbuh 3. The song, about a boy and three cebu (and a hippo) frequently goes off track and is interrupted several times by Eddy.

When the story resumes, the Israelites are met by the defenders of Jericho (Greg and flapjack) who taunt them from atop the city's great wall. Gumball Watterson explains that God has given this land to the Israelites and that therefore the defenders will have to step aside. They are met by more insults and jeering. When a slushy falls and hits Mario, they fall back and regroup.

That night Bubbles meets the Commander of the Army of the Lord who tells him how the Israelites are to take Gumball: they must march around the city once a day for six days; on the seventh day they are to march around it seven times, blow their horns, and all yell at the same time. At this point, the messenger states, the walls of Jericho will fall. Naturally this plan leads to some skepticism. Gumball must deal with dissent among his people, some of whom want to return to Egypt and some of whom want to attack the wall with might.

But they agree to try it God's way and proceed to Jericho the next day. The city's defenders insult them all the more, turning their taunts into a choreographed musical number while bombing them constantly with slushies. The end of the day finds the Israelites on the verge of rebellion. At this point, Bubbles, the co-narrator, intervenes and convinces them to continue with the plan God laid out. He explains that God's way doesn't always make sense, but provides examples of how it always works out in the end.

The Israelites agree to stick with the plan and, in spite of renewed counter-attacks, march around the city for seven days as specified. On the seventh day they blow their horns and scream; at first nothing happens. But then cracks appear and the walls crashes down, just as God said it would, and Gumball claims the land for his people.

Lazlo and Bubbles wrap up on the closing counter-top, reiterating the lesson in the film, and saying that God made them special and he loves the kids very much. Lazlo and Bubbles then say farewell to all of the children watching at home and then they leave. Clarence appears in his pajamas at the end asking if it's time for the show. Seconds later, the lights go out as [./https://veggietales.fandom.com/wiki/QWERTY QWERTY]'s screen turns off. Clarence then says "Aw nuts!".

## Triviaedit | edit source

* In Song of the Cebu, one of the slides that appears shows Kirby (well, sort of). There is a code on the margin that cuts Kirby off. It stands for "Aunt Ruth Lives!".
	+ The mentioning of Aunt Ruth's beard is brought over from Love My Eyes.
* Also in Song of the Cebu, is a picture of Bubbles at the airport. Look at the suitcase behind him. Sticking out of the case is his Lazlo-Man helmet!
* Those sheep are the same ones from Bubbles and the Giant Koopa.
* In the intro counter-top, Lazlo mentions that Clarence was a bit tired from the last show. So they decided to let him sleep in. (That being *Lazlo-man! and Bowser from Super Mario!*.)
* This was the last episode to feature the original Veggie-tales logo with the opening theme using scenes from *Where's Heaven When I'm A-Afraid?* and Heaven *Wants Me to Accept Them!?!*