Preparation time!
[Darwin is inspecting himself in the mirror in his, Gumball's and Anais' bedroom. He strokes his head, concerned about something.]
Darwin: Hmm...
[Darwin fumbles in his "Back pockets" then pulls out a pepper shaker. It has a note labeled "Hair flakes" on it.]
[Darwin seasons his head with some of the "Hair flakes" and suddenly, a large amount of hair grows out on his head, leaving him with long, wavy brunette hair.]
Darwin: Hmm...
[Darwin then grabs a can of hair spray and sprays a load of it on his hair. When the spray clouds goes away, he reveals to now have a ponytail.]
Darwin: Hmm...
[Darwin sprays again. He now gets a Mohawk haircut.]
Darwin: Hmm...
[Darwin sprays again. He now gets a curly Afro haircut.]
Darwin: Aha! (Thinks again) Nah, still not good enough...
[Darwin sprays one last time and gets a shiny slick back haircut.]
Darwin: Perfect!
[Gumball suddenly walks into the room, which is now covered in hair spray fumes.]
Gumball: (Breaks into a fit of coughs) Dude, are you INSANE!?! (Coughs again, then covers his nose) This room smells like a nuclear bunker!! Why on Mother Earth would you need that much hair spray for!?!
Darwin: I'm preparing for my date with Carrie! Mrs. Jötunheim sent me this magic spice stuff that helps you with baldness!
[Darwin pours some hair flakes with the pepper shaker over his mouth, and he suddenly grows a goatee.]
Darwin: (Smirks) How do I look?
[Gumball stops covering his nose.]
Gumball: (Flatly) Dude, you look like an Italian chimney sweeper. Get rid of that!
Darwin: Mmm...
[Darwin whimpers sadly and hangs his head. It makes his hair and goatee melt off completely from his face.]
Gumball: (Strokes Darwin) Awh, dude. You don't need to change a thing about yourself... There are Plenty of people who are bald!
Darwin: (Raises an eyebrow) Really? Have you ever seen a kid like me being bald before?
Gumball: (Stutters) N-no... but that does not m-mean you're uh... not perfect... Because e-everyone is different in their own ways...? (Smiles awkwardly)
[Beat.]
Darwin: (Folds arms) You're terrible at consoling people.
Gumball: (Sighs) Yeah, I know...
[Gumball walks over to his bunk bed and jump up on the mattress.]
Gumball: (Continuing) Anyways, how have you planned the date to go, then?
Darwin: (Shrugs) Meh, not much to it. I'm just going to her place to pick her up. Then we're going back here to watch a scary movie!
[Gumball notices some unlit red candles next to Darwin's fish bowl. He makes a cheeky face.]
Gumball: (Sing-song voice) I can see from these candles that you're planning something romanticaaal!
Darwin: (Makes a goofy face) Why yes I do, my one and only Watterson!
Gumball and Darwin: (Cheekily) Heheheheheeeeeh...
Darwin: (Normally) Oh, that reminds me!
[He grabs a box of matches from the desk.]
Darwin: (Continuing) I should probably lit up these candles before I go get her!
Gumball: NO, NO, NO!! DON'T–!!
[Cuts to showing the exterior of the house outside, and Darwin is heard lighting up a match. Suddenly, the entire house explodes.]
[Cuts back to the children's room again, showing everything on fire. Gumball and Darwin are now covered in ashes.]
Gumball: (To Darwin, annoyed) Have you seriously never learnt that hair spray is extremely flammable?
At Carrie's house
[Scene starts at daytime outside Carrie's mansion. Darwin is walking up to the porch holding a bouquet of roses.]
Darwin: (Worriedly) Hope I'm not too late...
[Darwin rings the doorbell to the front door, but no one answers.]
Darwin: Uh... hello?
[Darwin knocks on the door.]
Darwin: Carrie?
[Darwin starts ringing on the doorbell repeatedly.]
Darwin: Carrie!
[Darwin grows frustrated and now bangs on the door furiously.]
Darwin: (Angered) CARRIE!!!
[No answer.]
Darwin: (Annoyed) Fine! Guess I'll just leave then!
[Darwin walks off the porch, and goes out of frame.]
Darwin: aaaaaaAAAAAAA–
[Then he suddenly comes back, charging at the door to break it open...]
Darwin: –OUF!!!
[...but all that happens is that he plants right into the door face-first and shatters into small pieces.]
[Darwin reassembles himself again and ponders.]
Darwin: That's odd... Carrie usually doesn't forget about our dates. Hmm...
[Darwin checks his digital watch on his wrist, which says 8:01 PM. He taps on the screen, and suddenly the watch glitches out and ends up showing 8:01 AM.]
Darwin: 8 AM!?! (Angrily) Gosh darn it!! I'm not supposed to be here for another 12 hours!!!
[Darwin grabs the bouquet of flowers, which has now been completely flattened from his fall.]
Darwin: (Grumpily) I'll just set these flowers here so Carrie knows that I've been here...
[Darwin puts down the damaged bouquet next to the front door. Darwin notices the damage.]
Darwin: (Clicks tongue) Maybe some candles will do the trick!
[Darwin takes out a black block candle from behind his back and places it next to the bouquet. He then lits up a match.]
Darwin: (Focused) Now I just need to geeeently light the candle so I not accidentally put the flowers on fi– WOAH!!
[Suddenly, he walks right into a broken plank on the porch and slips over it, falling right into the flowers. He drops the match and it lights the flowers on fire.]
Darwin: (Panic) AAAAAHHHHH!!! (Looks around) Uh... uh!!
[Darwin looks around him to find something to extinguish the fire with, but to no avail. He then uses his "Suckerfish" abilities to inhale all he can, filling up his lungs. He then blows all he can on the fire, but it just ends up making it grow bigger.]
Darwin: (Panic) AHHH!!
[Darwin then runs off the porch. He then runs back into frame, now carrying a garden gnome.]
Darwin: HAYAAA!!
[He throws the garden gnome on the fire to suffocate it, but it ends up breaking into pieces and the fire grows even larger, now covering almost the entire porch.]
Darwin: AAAAHHH!!
[Darwin looks around himself again.]
Darwin: (Shrugs) Meh...
[Darwin puts a note next to the fire, with "Sorry about the porch xoxo" written on it. Darwin then runs off the porch.]
Darwin: (Terrified) I gotta get out of here!!
[He takes a turn on the sidewalk and proceeds to run away...]
Carrie: (Distant) Are you really sure about this, dad...?
[...but then Darwin freezes mid-run as he hears Carrie's voice from the house.]
Darwin: Huh!?
[Darwin walks to where Carrie's voice was heard, which was from an open window to their basement. He checks inside and sees the shadows of Carrie and Vladus (Carrie's father) from behind a corner.]
Vladus: (His shadow puts its hand on Carrie's shoulder) Carrie, my dear daughter... You have done enough, alright? Don't put so much pressure on yourself over this...
[Carrie tears up.]
Carrie: (Sadly) Yeah, but... (Sighs) I just don't think it's gonna work out anymore... I think I'm gonna have to break it up...
Vladus: (Consoles) You choose whatever makes you feel better, sweetheart. I think you should do it!
Carrie: (Sniffs) Thanks, dad... I will break it up! For my own good...
[Camera cuts back to Darwin and it zooms in on his face dramatically. Upon hearing this, his pupils contract and he has his mouth ajar.]
[Meanwhile in the background, the fire has spread over to the sidewalk and a nearby car explodes. Scene ends.]
The Five Stages of Grief
[Scene starts in the Children's room. The shot shows a boombox sitting on the desk. Darwin's fin then comes into the picture as he presses the "Play" button, and the boombox plays an instrumental of "Without you" from the episode "The Matchmaker".]
[Camera then fades over to Darwin, who is now sitting in his fish bowl with tired eyes. Depressed, he listens to the song and does a sad sigh.]
[It cuts to Gumball with pyjamas on, trying to sleep in his bed. He covers his ears with his pillows trying to drown the music out.]
Gumball: MMMM... ARGHHH!!!
[Frustrated, Gumball walks over to the desk and slams his fist into the boombox. It shuts off.]
Gumball: (To Darwin, angrily) Are you completely NUTS!?! It's 6 AM in the morning on a SUNDAY!!
Darwin: (Gloomy) Sorry... I'm just thinking of the breakup and... I just felt really sad...
Gumball: (Deadpan) Dude, Carrie hasn't even broken up with you. Why are you upset over something that hasn't happened, yet!?
Darwin: Well, she clearly talked about breaking up with me when I eavesdropped on her at her house! Who else would she be talking about!?
Gumball: (Annoyed) She didn't even mention your name! She could've been talking about (Air quotes) "Breaking up a monolith" or "Breaking up the Empire of Germany" for example!
[Darwin stands up in his fish bowl.]
Darwin: (Irritated) I know my girlfriend VERY well to know when she is talking about me!! Gosh!!
[Darwin proceeds to throw his fish bowl out and through the window. He walks out of the room, then comes back again now carrying a large fish tank. He puts it on the spot that his fish bowl was before.]
Darwin: (Glares) I feel like I need some more space...
[Darwin steps into his new fish tank and sits down with his head in the corner, facing away from Gumball.]
Gumball: (Flatly) Wow. In the span of like 30 seconds, you've already gone through two stages of grief – Denial and Anger...
[Darwin stands up in his fish tank.]
Darwin: (Furiously) I AM NOT IN DENIAL!!!
Stage 1: Denial
[Scene starts next day in the school hallway. Gumball and Darwin are looking out, trying to find Carrie.]
Gumball: (Sighs) What are we doing now??
Darwin: I thought about what you said yesterday, and you're right! Carrie hasn't broken up with me yet! I'll just go about my day and pretend like everything's normal so far!
[Beat.]
Gumball: (Annoyed) That's literally the opposite of what I wanted you to do!
Darwin: (Gasps) Here she comes!!
[Carrie is floating down the corridor carrying some books.]
Darwin: Quick!! Give me the hair flakes!
Gumball: Uh... okay...?
[Gumball hands over the hair flakes to Darwin and he pours it over his face.]
[Cuts to only Gumball in the picture as Darwin's hair is heard growing out with a thump.]
Gumball: (Gags) HAOURGH– (Covers mouth) Dude!? If you were planning to become homeless, you could've at least warned me!!
[Darwin comes into frame again. He is now revealed to have a long, brown hair and a bushy beard that goes down to his legs.]
Darwin: (Shrugs) What?? Carrie likes this type of fashion!
Gumball: (Flatly) Yeah, if she worked at the mental institution that is. (Reluctant) Anyways, go get your girl, I guess...
Darwin: (Smiles) Thank you!
[Darwin walks down the corridor.]
[Cuts to Carrie by her locker, putting her books away by using her powers to levitate them into her shelf. She closes the locker and gets frightened by Darwin standing behind the door.]
Carrie: AAAAAHHHH!!!
Darwin: Hi, Carrie!
Carrie: (Relieved) Oh, thank goodness! It's just you, Darwin! Uh... you look...
[Carrie inspects Darwin's new attire.]
Carrie: ...Different.
Darwin: Awh, thanks for noticing! I changed up myself just for you, my dear! (He poses as a model and smirks) How do I look?
[Beat.]
Carrie: (Straight-faced) You look like you shaved a roadkill and smeared the fur all over your face with Elmer's glue. I'm just saying that respectfully as your–
Darwin: –Girlfriend!? (Nervously) HAHAHAHA–!! I am SO glad that we're in such a good relationship that we can finish eachother's sentences!!
[Darwin punches Carrie in the shoulder.]
Carrie: (Awkward) Riiiiight... Anyways, so since you didn't show up to our date last saturday, I was thinking if you and I could to go to the pond after school and talk about what I have accom–...
[Upon hearing this, Darwin gasps exaggeratedly and all his hair falls off from his face again. We then hear his inner dialogue.]
Darwin: (Thinks) Oh no!! The pond was the place that we shared our first kiss!! She's probably gonna take me there to DUMP me!! (Ponders) Wait, was it the first kiss or the second kiss...?
[We get a quick flashback from the episodes "Halloween" and "The Matchmaker" showing Darwin and Carrie kissing. It then cuts back to Darwin again.]
Darwin: (Shrugs) Meh... It was probably the sixteenth one...
[Darwin talks again.]
Darwin: (Nervously) Ehehehe... Funny, because I was actually gonna go get a haircut after school!
Carrie: You don't have any hair. I just saw it literally melt off from your face.
Darwin: (Sweating) Oh, uh... d-did I say cut my hair!? I meant how the cut of my Love for you would make the... (Mumbles)...
...
...
[Without forewarning, Darwin runs away down the hallway away from Carrie. He bumps into Leslie finding no way out, but eventually cuts a corner and disappears.]
Carrie: (Confused) Okay... see you at lunch, I guess?
[Cuts back to Gumball and he facepalms. Scene ends.]
Stage 2: Anger
[Anais is sitting in the living room with a pompous expression by the table playing "tea party" with Daisy the Donkey.]
Anais: (Politely) And how would you like your tea, my good madame?
[Anais moves Daisy's head and mimics her talking.]
Anais: (As Daisy) With some extra sugar and delightfulness, please!
Anais: (As herself) Ohohoho! You have such elegance with your words, Daisy!
[Anais grabs the teapot and carefully fills up Daisy's cup. Darwin is heard turning on the boombox upstairs and it plays "Without you" again.
Anais: AHHH!!
[The bass is so strong it makes everything shake and Anais spills some of the tea on the floor.]
[The music then goes quiet again.]
Anais: Phew!
[Anais fills up the cup again. The music then gets louder again and it makes Anais spill the tea all over Daisy.]
Anais: AHH!! (Growls) GRRRRR!!!
[Suddenly, a mattress gets thrown up on the table and crushes Anais' entire tea set.]
Anais: (Irritated) Hey!! What is wrong with you!?!
[Gumball, only wearing pyjamas again, jumps up on the mattress and lays down.]
Gumball: (Leisurely) Sorry, lil sis! I don't think how much longer I can stand listening to that music, so I'm sleeping down here today...
Anais: (Flatly) Alright, even though you just ruined my tea set, Imma let that slide. Because you're right! Darwin's played that song so much that my wax plugs has grown their own root system. But I'm afraid we gotta live with this until he gets out of his grieving!
[Gumball takes out his phone from his pocket.]
Gumball: Dude, it's gotten so bad to the point where he's posting black pictures with attention seeking captions on Chatsnap...
[Gumball shows Anais his phone. On the screen, we see Darwin's story, which is a black picture with the caption "Literally NO ONE hmu. Only real besties know whats going on"]
Anais: I see your point now...
[Darwin then turns up the volume so much that everything downstairs begins to shake again. It makes the table legs break and Gumball falls to the ground.]
Stage 3: Bargaining
[Scene starts with Darwin and Carrie sitting down on some rocks by a pond looking at the full moon.]
Darwin: (Sighs) this is great... But why would you bring me here during a full moon, Carrie?
[Cuts to Carrie. She is facing away from Darwin.]
Carrie: Because, silly! This is the perfect time... (Turns to Darwin, with an evil face) TO BREAK UP WITH YOU!!!
[Darwin gasps in horror, and the peaceful environment around him fades into a red void.]
Carrie: I guess you won't be needing this anymore!
[Carrie puts her demonic hand on Darwin's face and sucks his soul out of his body. Darwin then turns into a blank, expressionless zombie.]
Carrie: Bon appetit, my children!!
[Gumball and Anais runs up to Carrie, both looking like gremlins.]
Gremlin Gumball: NYEHEHEHE!! Thank you, mistress!!
[Gumball takes out a fork and stabs Darwin's soul with it. He then eats Darwin's soul whole.]
Gremlin Gumball: NOM NOM NOM!! DELICIOUSSSS!!
[Darwin wakes up in his fish bowl, revealing that it was all a dream. He screams.]
Darwin: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
[Darwin's scream is so loud it breaks his fish bowl. Gumball and Anais wakes up.]
Gumball: (Startled) What!? What's going on!?
[Darwin looks at Gumball with an angry face.]
[Cuts to the upstairs corridor. Darwin pushes Gumball and Anais out of the room and shuts the door.]
Gumball: (Clicks tongue) Great...
Stage 4: Depression
[Scene starts with Nicole entering the house, carrying a bag of groceries. She walks into a pile of garbage on her way in.]
Nicole: What the– (Frowns) Gumball!! What is all this!?
[The entire living room floor is covered in piles of garbage and dirty plates. Gumball is laying down in the couch watching TV.]
Gumball: Oh, hi mom! Darwin kicked me out of the room so I'm gonna live down here for a while!
Nicole: (Raises eyebrow) Why?
Gumball: He said he needed more space... (Points to the left) ...literally...
[It pans over to the other end of the living room, showing that the bunk bed and computer desk has been placed downstairs.]
[It pans to Nicole afterwards.]
Nicole: (Pinches forehead) You kids really need to learn how to cope with breakups better...
[Darwin is then heard turning on the boombox upstairs again, and it plays "Without you" again.]
Nicole: (Irritated) Oh, come on!! Is the playing that Again!?!
[Nicole drops the groceries and stomps up the stairs. Gumball jumps off the couch and follows her curiously.]
[Cuts to upstairs. Nicole and Gumball walks up to the Children's bedroom.]
Nicole: I swear, if I have to listen to that stupid song ONE MORE TIME!! ...
[Nicole bangs on the door.]
Nicole: (Strictly) Darwin, this is your mother!! Open the door right now!!
[Darwin is heard turning off the boombox. He then opens up the door, showing that he now has bags under his eyes.]
Darwin: (Depressed) Yes...
Nicole: (Softens) Come downstairs, Darwin. Let's talk about what happ–
[Before Nicole can finish, Darwin slams the door shut again. He turns on the boombox one more time.]
Nicole: GRRRAAAAHHH!!!
[Nicole furiously kicks open the door again and it flies off its hinges. She then walks up to the boombox and throws it out the window. Off-screen, the boombox proceeds to crash into a car.]
Nicole: (To Darwin) As your adoptive parent in this household, I FORBID you to sit here all day and crying yourself to sleep!!
[Darwin is sitting on the floor in the spot where the computer desk used to be.]
Darwin: (Miserably) What's the point...? If I go downstairs I'm just gonna hide away my grief with a forced grin anyways...
Nicole: (Arms folded) Well, it obviously doesn't help being upset about it and rot yourself away in misery!!
[Nicole sits next to Darwin on the floor and puts her arm around him.]
Nicole: Listen... let me tell you a story of when I was your age... (Thinks) Or at least three years older than you...
[It fades into a flashback, showing Nicole as a 13-year-old standing on someone's doorstep holding a bouquet of flowers.]
Nicole: (Narrating) ...My biggest dream back then was to go out on a date with the school's most popular and attractive guy: Chad Johnson.
[Chad Johnson opens the door to Nicole. He appears to be a blonde, muscular kid with a bomber jacket. Nicole is smiling nervously at him.]
Nicole: But obviously...
[Chad Johnson slams the door on her.]
Nicole: ...It didn't work out as expected...
[We see several attempts of young Nicole trying to ask Chad Johnson out, which just ends with him slamming the door on her again and again.]
Nicole: I tried over and over again to get his attention, but to no avail. Until one day...
[Chad Johnson slams the door on her one last time.]
Nicole: ...I decided to give up.
[Disheartened, the young Nicole turns around and walks away from the house. She drops the flowers and hangs her head sadly.]
Nicole: ...And that was the moment that the true love of my life got involved...
[Nicole stops when she notices someone on a tricycle cycling up to the house. It reveals to be Richard, wearing his yellow coatee and propeller hat. He crashes into the garbage cans and drops his bouquet of flowers. He then stands up again and holds up the flowers to Nicole, smiling is embarrassment, but then his pants falls down and his underwear is shown.]
Nicole: ...And let's just say...
[Cuts back to young Nicole again, showing her sadness fade away and getting replaced with a smile, seeing Richard. The flashback ends.]
Nicole: (Unsurely) ...Well, let's just say that he was the second best option...
[Nicole stands up.]
Nicole: (Consoles) Look. What I'm trying to say here, is that life just isn't fair sometimes. I know it's hard for a kid like you to understand, but sometimes you just have to bite the sour apple and move on with your life!
[Darwin shines up.]
Darwin: (Gasps) You're right! "Move on"... That's literally all I needed to do!
[Darwin gets up on his feet.]
Darwin: Thank you, ms. Mom! All I need to do is move away from her!
[Darwin runs out of the room. Gumball then walks in, lifting an eyebrow.]
Gumball: (To Nicole) Why do I have the feeling that you should've been more specific?
Nicole: (Shrugs) Meh, it's probably fine!
Stage 5: Acceptance
[Scene starts outside in the rain. Carrie is in frame wearing a blindfold.]
Carrie: Um... Darwin, I appreciate that we're finally going on a date again, but why am I wearing a blindfold?
Darwin: (Off-screen) You can look now!
[Carrie takes off his blindfold and gets met with Darwin, as waterfalls of tears are pouring down from his eyes. To his left, there's a bus with a banner saying "Goodbye Carrie" taped to it.]
Carrie: (Confused) Umm... what is this?
[Darwin walks up to Carrie, teary-eyed.]
Darwin: Oh, nothing! I'm just bringing you here to say that I'm M– Mh! Mmmm– (Voice breaks) Darn it, I can't say it! I'll let the bus driver say it for me!
[Gary comes into frame.]
Gary: What the fish-buddy here is trying to say is that he is moving to Richwood!
Carrie: What!? Why!?
Darwin: (Sadly) It's the only way for my empty soul to recover... So I'm afraid you and I have to live further away from eachother...
Carrie: Darwin, what are you–
[Darwin covers Carrie's mouth with his fin.]
Darwin: Shhh... I'm also afraid I can't let you break my heart anymore! (Sheds a tear) Goodbye, Carrie...
[Darwin walks to the bus.]
Carrie: Wait!! Stop!!
[Carrie tries to follow Darwin, but Darwin then suddenly points behind her.]
Darwin: (Gasps) What's that!?
[Carrie looks behind her. As she does, Darwin gets on the bus and the bus drives away, but Darwin is waving at her with the bus door open.]
Darwin: (Distant) I'm sorry, Carrie! It's better this way!!
[Camera cuts back to Carrie, with a confused, but also distressed face. Scene ends.]
Gumball's shower
[Gumball opens the door to the bathroom at the Watterson's house and walks out. He's completely naked and is drying his head with a towel after having a shower.]
Gumball: (Humming) Mm, hmm mm mmm! Laa laa laa laa laa...
[Gumball throws the towel away and walks up to his room. Suddenly, Carrie teleports in front of him.]
Gumball: LaaaAAAAHHHH!!!
[Gumball looks around with a sweat. He then rips off some wallpaper from the wall and covers his private area with it.]
Gumball: (Irritated) Could I have some PRIVACY here!?!
Carrie: (Gestures) Yeah, I know this is a bad time to talk to you... (Angrily) But could you PLEASE explain to me, WHAT IS WRONG WITH DARWIN!?!?
[Gumball folds his arms.]
Gumball: (Glares) I thought you knew why, you heartbreaker!!
Carrie: (Confused) What!?
Gumball: (Points a finger) You SOULCRUSHER!!
Carrie: I still don't get it...
Gumball: You mmmm...MMMOUTH-BABBLER!!
[Beat. Carrie fails to get the hint.]
Carrie: ...Are we on the same subject here or what??
Gumball: (Groans) Darwin is upset because you're breaking up with him, alright!?
Carrie: WHAT!?! I'm not breaking up with anyone!!
Gumball: W-wait... so what was up with you during the date incident, then?
Carrie: What do you mean "date incident"?
Gumball: You know, when Darwin came to visit you and he eavesdropped on you saying (Imitates Carrie) "Ugh! I don't think this is gonna work out. I'm gonna have to break up with him!"
Carrie: (Sharply) I never said– (Realizes) Oh... I think I know what you're talking about...
[Carrie pinches her forehead.]
Carrie: Look, I'll explain everything on the way! Darwin is on a bus on his way to Richwood right now, because he said that he needed to (Air quotes) "Move on" from me!
Gumball: (Facepalms) I knew mom should've been more specific...
[Carrie grabs Gumball's hand.]
Carrie: C'mon, let's go!
Gumball: Wait!! My clothes!
[Gumball holds out his right hand. From inside the bedroom, his sweater and jeans levitates to him like Thor's hammer and he catches them mid-air.]
Gumball: (Puts clothes on) Alright, I'm ready!
The Final Chase!
[Darwin is sitting in the middle of the empty bus with no one else traveling on it. He looks out of a window and sighs sadly to himself.]
Darwin: Goodbye, Elmore...
[Darwin puts on some headphones connected to an MP3 player. He plays "Without you" again and closes his eyes.]
[Suddenly, Gumball appears outside the window riding on a skateboard after the bus.]
Gumball: (Muffled) Darwin!! There's been a huge misunderstanding!! You need to get off the bus!!
[Gumball is left unnoticed by Darwin. He then slips off the skateboard and face-plants on the asphalt, while the bus keeps driving.]
[Gumball appears again, now riding a tricycle on the sidewalk.]
Gumball: (Muffled) Darwin!! You're making a mistake!! If you leave to Richwood you'll ruin your life–
[Gumball then crashes right into a pole. The bus continues driving.]
[Cuts over to Gumball. He has his face receded into his head from the hit. Carrie teleports next to him.]
Carrie: (Deadpan) You do realize you could've just told me to float you to it, right?
[Gumball's face pops back into place.]
Gumball: (Annoyed) Yeah, that was my third option actually, so (Raspberry noise)...
[It cuts back to Darwin listening to music as he sighs once more. The camera then pans up to the roof of the bus as Carrie is seen carrying Gumball in her arms.]
Gumball: Alright, Carrie! Drop me!
[Carrie drops Gumball on the bus roof. Gumball is close to slipping off, but he keeps himself steady. Despite the strong winds, he makes his way to the front of the bus, with Carrie right behind him.]
Carrie: Alright, here's the plan! You break into the bus to stop it, and I'll go talk to Darwin!
Gumball: (Nods) Got it!
[Carrie teleports away. Gumball crouches and looks down through the bus window, seeing Gary driving.]
Gary: (Sings) Without yoooouuu, I can't breeeeaaatheee!
[Gumball then proceeds to jump through the window. He gets up on his feet again and grabs Gary by the shirt.]
Gumball: (Gruff voice) Sorry old man, but this bus is getting HIJACKED!
[Gumball throws Gary out the bus window, who proceeds to fly into a pile of garbage off-screen. Carrie teleports next to Gumball by the driver's seat.]
Carrie: Uh... (In shock) WHAT'D YOU DO THAT FOR!?!
Gumball: (Shrugs) What!? You told me to break into the bus!!
Carrie: (Angered) Well, you could've just told him to stop the bus!! You just sent and old man to the hospital!!
Gary: (Off-screen) I'm okay...!
Gumball and Carrie: (Relieved) Phew!
Gumball: Alright, new plan! Since you're way older than me, you know how to drive this thing! I'll go get Darwin!
[Gumball grabs Carrie and puts her on the bus seat. He then runs across the bus.]
Carrie: Wait!! How am I supposed to drive this!? I don't even have any legs!!
[Gumball stops running.]
Gumball: (Sighs) Bummer...
[Gumball runs back to Carrie and goes out of frame. Carrie then comes into the shot as she floats by.]
[It cuts to Darwin, who is now vast asleep. Carrie floats up to his seat.]
Carrie: (Calls) Gumball! Stop the bus!!
[Cuts back to Gumball by the bus seat. He tries to push down the brake repeatedly, but it has been cut since the bus key has been pulled out.]
Gumball: Hngh... Grr! I can't! The brake has been jammed!!
Carrie: (Off-screen) WHAT!?!?
Gumball: We need to get off the bus somehow! Quick, go grab Darwin!!
[Carrie sits on the seat next to Darwin and caresses his head.]
Carrie: (Softly) Darwin... it's me! Your girlfriend...
[Darwin responds by snoring loudly into Carrie's face. The wind makes her hair blow backwards.]
Carrie: (Shakes Darwin) Darwin!! C'mon, wake up!! (She lets him go) He's not waking up!!
Gumball: Why not!?!
[Carrie checks Darwin's mp3 player. On the screen, it's a cover of a smiling star with the song name "10 hours of calming lullabies".]
Carrie: (Flat) Oh... he must've accidentally pressed the "Recommended" button when the playlist was over...
[Carrie throws the headphones and mp3 player away. She then lifts Darwin by the arm and carries him. (No pun intended)]
Carrie: Get back here, Gumball! We gotta go!!
[Gumball obeys and runs back to Carrie, leaving the bus to steer on its own.]
[They all run to the very back of the bus. Gumball helps Carrie lift Darwin up on the bus seat. She then grabs an emergency hammer and breaks the back window.]
Gumball: So what's the plan!?
Carrie: (Intimidating) The plan is... we JUMP!!
[Carrie lifts the asleep Darwin up again. Cuts to outside, as Gumball and Carrie stands up on the seats and prepares to jump.]
Gumball: Alright! In 3...2...1... N–!!
[Gumball looks down at the street, seeing that they're traveling at least 40 miles per hour.]
Gumball: (Hesitates) WOAHWOAH!! (Terrified) Erm... on second thoughts! M-maybe dying doesn't sound as bad as getting fleshy skidmarks over yourself...
Carrie: Don't worry! I know what to do! (Holds out her hand) Quick, grab my hand!
[Gumball holds hands with Carrie, unsurely.]
Carrie: MAXIMUM PRAESIDIUM!!!
[Carrie's spell forms a green energy shield shaped as a ball around her, Darwin and Gumball. They proceed to jump off the bus through the back window in slow-motion.]
Gumball: (Slowed down) aaaaAAAAAAHHHHHH–!!
[They hit the ground, and bounce off in normal speed. The bus keeps driving away with no one controlling it.]
[It cuts to the three bouncing off everything, including a billboard, Felicity walking down the street and a driving car. They proceed to bounce off every surface they hit like a pinball ball. Finally, they fly off into the distance.]
[Scene switches to showing a brick wall.]
Director: (Off-screen) Alright, Kool-Aid man! For this scene, you're just simply gonna crash through the wall as you say your classic "Oh yeah!" line! And try do it in one take, because we spent like five hours setting up this brick wall... Ya got it!?
Kool-Aid man: (Behind wall) Got it!
Director: Ready? Aaaannnd... Action!
Gumball and Carrie: (Distant) aaaaAAAAHHHH–
[Suddenly Gumball, Carrie and Darwin comes crashing through the brick wall, leaving a hole behind. They disappear off-screen shortly after.]
[Confused, the Kool-Aid man looks out from behind the wall from what just happened.]
Kool-Aid man: Uh... (Shrugs) Oh yeah...?
Director: Cut! Back to the beginning...
[The Kool-Aid man frowns.]
[Scene switches back to the street again. The kids are falling from the sky.]
Gumball and Carrie: ...AAAAAHHHH– OUF!!!
[They hit the ground, and the energy shield breaks. Gumball, Carrie and Darwin are left slightly unharmed.]
Darwin: (Wakes up) ...Huh? Wha– what happened?
[Darwin notices Carrie laying unconscious on the ground.]
Darwin: (Gasps) Carrie!!
[Darwin runs up to Carrie and kneels down to her. Carrie sits up.]
Carrie: (Rubs forehead) Did... did we make it?
Darwin: (Confused) Umm... I guess so? What did you guys even do?
[Upon seeing Darwin, Carrie throws herself over him and hugs him.]
Carrie: (Relieved) Oh, thank goodness you're okay!!
[Darwin and Carrie stands up.]
Darwin: Wait, you're Happy about my survival? (Realizes, and looks down sadly) Oh... I guess it's because you finally have a chance to break up with me, now...
Carrie: (Giggles) Darwin, you big goof! I never talking about breaking up with you that day; I was talking about breaking up my Piggy Bank!
[Darwin looks up.]
Darwin: (Raises eyebrow) Wait, what?
Carrie: (Happily) Yeah, remember that one evening when you visited my house? Well, I needed some money to pay off the loan on my house, so here's how it actually went...
[It cuts to a flashback. It shows the scene where Darwin visited Carrie's house, but shot inside the basement.]
Carrie: (Sadly) Yeah, but... (Sighs) I just don't think it's gonna work out anymore... I think I'm gonna have to break it up...
Vladus: (Consoles) You choose whatever makes you feel better, sweetheart. I think you should do it!
Carrie: (Sniffs) Thanks, dad... I will break it up! For my own good...
[In the background, Darwin is seen peeking in through the window. He sobs in sadness and leaves.]
[Right as he does, Carrie pulls out a hammer and breaks her piggy bank set on the table. It ends up making dollar bills raining everywhere.]
Vladus: (Cheering) WOO-HOO!! We're RICH!!
Carrie: Haha, yeah!! It sure does pay off being a ghost, knowing how easy it is to break into the bank!!
Vladus: (Flatly) Let's just not tell the IRS about this, alright?
[Flashback ends.]
Darwin: (Surprised) Ooohhh! So you mean it was all a misunderstanding that could have been really easily avoided if I had just stayed and listened?
[Gumball comes into frame, standing a bit further away.]
Gumball: (To Darwin) Yeah, I would do an "I told you so" dance in front of your face right now, but I don't want to ruin the moment between you two, (Shrugs) so I'm just gonna do it to myself! (Dances mockingly)
[Carrie and Darwin looks at eachother again.]
Darwin: (Rubs arm) I-I'm sorry for acting weird about this these past couple of days... I was just scared of losing you and it got out of hand quickly. (Smiles) I'm happy that it was all a misunderstanding.
Carrie: (Deadpan) Yeah, I was expecting an apology for eavesdropping on me without my permission, but that works too, I guess.
Darwin: Oh... (Rubs the back of his head, sheepishly) Right... sorry about that, too...
Carrie: (Sighs) It's fine. I'm just happy that you're actually validating this relationship like a true boyfriend would do... (Blushes) So... are we partners again...?
[Darwin takes Carrie's hands and holds both of them with her.]
Darwin: (Blushes and smiles) We always have...
[Finally, they share a quick kiss on the lips with eachother. They share eye contact for a bit after affectionately, then goes back to sharing a longer kiss.]
[Cuts to Gumball, watching them with a smile on his face as they embrace.]
Gumball: (Sweetly) Aww! That's so cute... (Realizes) Wait a minute, what happened to the bus?
[It cuts to the bus, still driving through the neighborhood with no one controlling it. When it makes itself down the street, it crashes right into a hospital and the building explodes.]
[Gumball, Darwin and Carrie are now watching the chaos in horror. Screaming civilians are heard in the background.]
Gumball: We should run...
[Episode ends.]
