Gumball and Darwin try to get out of returning a rented DVD when they accidentally destroy it.Gumball and Darwin try to get out of returning a rented DVD when they accidentally destroy it.Gumball and Darwin try to get out of returning a rented DVD when they accidentally destroy it.
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- TriviaWhen Darwin says, "You wouldn't steal a car! You wouldn't steal a woman's purse! Piracy! Is! Stealing!", he is quoting an anti-piracy ad.
- GoofsWhen Gumball is watching TV, the Laser Video letters are not on the floor. But when Darwin enters the room saying they received another letter from Laser Video, Gumball says to put them in the pile of letters that now appears on the floor. The letters then disappear again when the camera zooms out.
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Nicole Watterson: [Opening line] Gumball, don't forget to take that DVD back today, or we'll get a fine.
Gumball Watterson: Can't you do it? You're the one with the car.
Nicole Watterson: I wasn't the one who watched Alligators on a Train seventy-two times.
Gumball Watterson: Ah, but technically, *you* were the one who rented it with your money.
Nicole Watterson: The money I have to go earn to feed you kids.
Gumball Watterson: The kids *you* decided to have.
[Nicole punches a hole in the wall]
Gumball Watterson: Yep! Don't worry, mom, I'll take it back.
Nicole Watterson: Oh, very kind of you, honey, and don't forget to put on some pants. Bye-bye.
- ConnectionsSpoofs Snakes on a Plane (2006)
In "The DVD", Gumball and Darwin are up to their usual stunts, this time involving them trying to escape paying a fine for a DVD they wrecked (some film called "Alligators on a Train"). The various things they go through to either get money to pay the fine or get away from their mom are enjoyable and fun, with an interesting if not exactly original conclusion. Being from Season 1, the art style is less refined in this episode, with differing character designs from the later seasons that make it considerably standing out on its own. I myself have not seen anything else from the first season apart from this, so that's is just me talking how it is definitely a jarring contrast compared to what the show would later become.
I also might have to say that the rating on IMDb for Gumball might be a 0.1 higher if some of the initial viewers from 2011 had changed their original ratings. The show definitely got far better, but for a first episode I thought "The DVD" was a fine start, even if it is only a sample of the crazy installments that later came.
- Tornado_Sam
- Aug 28, 2020
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- Runtime11 minutes