The Picnic

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Season:

1

Broadcast number:

20

Production code:

GB123

Premiere dates

U.S. air date:

August 29, 2011

U.K. air date:

November 20, 2011

International premieres:

Hungary: December 27, 2011

Credits

Written by:

Ben Bocquelet
Mic Graves
James Lamont

Storyboarded by:

Amandine Pécharman
Phillip Warner

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"The Picnic" is the twentieth episode of Season 1 of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis

After not listening properly to instructions given to them by Miss Simian, Gumball and Darwin must survive in the Forest of Doom.

Plot

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The class has taken a school bus to a rural area, planning to walk the rest of the way to an unnamed picnic area to have a picnic. Miss Simian outlines the route they will take, specifically stating three times to avoid the Forest of Doom. The camera zooms in to Gumball and Darwin, who were sitting in the back having trouble hearing Miss Simian. Gumball mistakenly believes that they are supposed to go through The Forest of Doom. Miss Simian and the rest of the class leave before he can confirm this with her. Gumball and Darwin are left to travel through The Forest of Doom by themselves. Gumball, being a self-proclaimed survival expert, feels confident.

After three warnings that they are going somewhere dangerous (first an evil laughing tree, next squirrels who deviously smile at the plan of eating their deceased carcasses and say that Gumball & Darwin will never get out alive, lastly the wind telling them twice that they are going the wrong way), they end up at a cliff, lost.

Gumball then attempts to follow Miss Simian's smell, the way a dog would. Using their senses of smell, they pick up a scent similar to Miss Simian's, so they follow it. It turns out to be a stinky outhouse.

Next, they decide to find their way using the stars. Darwin remarks that there are no stars, only the sun. Gumball reminds him that the sun is a star. And so they stare at it for a while to try to find their way. Obviously, it ends up burning their eyes. Their eyes burning from the staring at the sun, the duo starts running and screaming, coincidentally right past Miss Simian and the rest of the class. Miss Simian leads them on as Gumball and Darwin run by. They run into a tree and fall to the floor. Gumball finally admits that they are lost.

Gumball and Darwin sit by the tree. Gumball feels sad at how he isn't as good a survivalist as he thought he was, while Darwin remains optimistic, trying to cheer Gumball up. Darwin then suggests lunch, bringing out his lunchbox full of fish flakes and diet fish flakes, but Gumball throws it away and tells Darwin that they can get much better food out in "nature's supermarket". He explains the structure of food in a silly way:

"Everything is made from little bits. The bits themselves are made from the smallest bits of all: Circles! Circles with other little circles going around them. So, since everything is made from circles, then so is food!"

He demonstrates this concept by attempting to eat a rock. He and Darwin both bite the rock at the same time. Both of their teeth shatter. They decide to try eating something else. Darwin points out a deer, and they plot to kill and eat it. Gumball says that he is a predator, and he has claws. He then attempts to roar (but only ends up meowing).

The two of them sneak up to the deer. When they finally reach it, Gumball hesitates, stopped by either his conscience or the creature's smelly behind. He tells Darwin to attack it first. So Darwin "fish slaps" it with his fin. It does nothing but anger the creature, which wasn't a deer, but some hideous, green, quadrupedal chicken. Gumball and Darwin shy away, pretending the slap was a mistake.

They retreat to a tree, where they find a smaller, more manageable animal to feast on: a one-eyed, colorful caterpillar. As Gumball brings the creature to his mouth, Darwin begs him to spare its life because it's cute. After looking at the worm's crying face and taking the same feeling, Gumball agrees and lets the caterpillar go. As it slithers away, they yell out encouragement to it. Suddenly, a fish-bird thing swoops down and grabs the worm. The bird gets eaten by a tentacled koala. The tentacled koala gets eaten by some gryphon thing. The gryphon thing gets eaten by a huge moose-like creature. All of this happens in the span of 20 seconds, and Gumball and Darwin stare in silent horror as it goes on. As if the mere horror of watching this unfold wasn't enough, the moose-like predator starts chasing them.

Immediately they run up a tree, thinking they lost the creature. Suddenly, they hear a growl, but find out it was just Darwin's stomach expressing it's hunger. After a few complaints from Darwin about hunger and cold, Gumball decides to make a fire to warm them.

Back on the ground, Gumball tries making a fire using a bow drill. He spins the stick as fast as he can, but only manages to ignite his hands, causing him to run around in a panic. As he runs around, the fire starts where he intended it to. The two exchange a quick high five, after which rain starts pouring down on them, dousing the fire. Now cold and even hungrier, the two huddle up around the tree.

Meanwhile, at the picnic area, the kids that followed Miss Simian are stuffed, having had three servings of quintuple-decker sandwiches and getting ready for a fourth.

Back at the Forest of Doom, Gumball and Darwin still complain of their hunger, when Darwin suddenly attacks Gumball, apparently intending to eat him, though in actually, he successfully eats Gumball's clothes, leaving Gumball naked. Gumball's voice has an echo while the birds fly away. An argument ensues after Darwin repeatedly reminds Gumball that he threw away their only food. Gumball eventually starts berating Darwin and sets out on his own. In his anger, he didn't notice he was walking off a cliff. After a painful fall, he finds himself in an even scarier area of the forest, with predators surrounding and circling him. The three predators show themselves and start slowly and menacingly moving toward Gumball. All Gumball can do is beg for someone to save him. Suddenly, Darwin jumps down and, in a macho voice, announces his intentions to protect his teammate. When the monsters ignore his warnings, he "fish slaps" the biggest one and scolds it, causing it to run away crying. The other two follow suit after another threat from Darwin. Gumball and Darwin make up, and they continue on to the picnic (with Darwin carrying Gumball on his back because Gumball twisted his ankle during the fall).

After an unspecified amount of time, they arrive at the picnic, looking starved and disheveled. They spot a garbage can full of trash and immediately dive into it, eating all the scraps of food they can find. The kids are horrified at the sight of this, and Leslie points this out to Miss Simian, who nonchalantly dismisses it and announces that the picnic is over and they need to head back to the bus. Once again, she stresses out going around the forest of doom. Gumball and Darwin, gorging themselves on garbage, didn't hear this. As they peek out of the garbage can, satisfied with their meal, they discover everyone gone. Then the episode ends with Darwin asking whether they need to go through the Forest of Doom, or around it.

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Characters

Main Characters

Supporting Characters

Miss Simian

Minor Characters

Trivia

Throughout this episode, characters in distant shots were drawn as simple, colored rectangles. For instance while Gumball was painfully falling over the cliffside, he was only seen as a little blue rectangle rather than his usually animated self.
Leslie's voice does not match up with his previous appearances. This is another instance where a character's voice sounds inconsistent between episodes, a problem inherent to the first season.
During the picnic, less people were seen than were shown to be on the bus.
This is the first time a character dies on screen, in this case some of The Creatures.

Continuity

This episode taps a little bit into Gumball and Darwin's animal roots, such as Gumball having claws and Darwin eating food in flake form. A similar instance with Darwin happened in "The Party," when he showed he was part suckerfish.
This is the first time Gumball literally meows like an actual cat. He does it again in "The Fight."
This is the second time Gumball is seen naked, again with his intimate parts censored by pixelation as in "The Dress."

Cultural References

The wind whispering to Gumball and Darwin "You're Going The Wrong Way" mostly likely is a reference to this scene from the 1987 John Hughes film Plains, Trains and Automobiles.
The explanation of food leading to everything being connected in a "Circle of Life" refers to the song from the 1994 Disney film The Lion King.
The scene where the Forest of Doom creatures try to eat Gumball is similar to a scene in Where The Wild Things Are.

Goofs/Errors

In the beginning, the bus for some reason says "Watterson Junior High" instead of "Elmore Junior High."
Near the end of the episode, Darwin eats Gumball's clothes, rendering him naked. But when Gumball pops out of the trash can, he has his clothes back.
When everyone on the bus says, "Yes, Miss Simian," Tina Rex doesn't have any teeth.
When both Gumball and Darwin say "bye-bye" to the caterpillar, Gumball doesn't have any whiskers.
In the beginning, Darwin's shadows are missing.
When the monsters are about to attack Gumball, two of those monsters were supposely ate by the one-eyed moose (although it could be that the moose spat them out off-screen, or they may be different creatures altogether).
When the monsters began to eat Gumball, his mouth was the wrong color.
When Gumball and Darwin were shown on the bus, their outlines were animated differently.
When Gumball and Darwin were sneaking up on the creature, Gumball's left hand was black.
When Gumball and Darwin were watching the monsters eat each other, Darwin's right arm was black.

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Episode 1 The DVD	Episode 2 The Responsible	Episode 3 The Third	Episode 4 The Debt

Episode 5 The End	Episode 6 The Dress	Episode 7 The Quest	Episode 8 The Spoon

Episode 9 The Pressure	Episode 10 The Painting	Episode 11 The Laziest	Episode 12 The Ghost

Episode 13 The Mystery	Episode 14 The Prank	Episode 15 The Gi	Episode 16 The Kiss

Episode 17 The Party	Episode 18 The Refund	Episode 19 The Robot	Episode 20 The Picnic

Episode 21 The Goons	Episode 22 The Secret	Episode 23 The Sock	Episode 24 The Genius

Episode 25 The Poltergeist	Episode 26 The Mustache	Episode 27 The Date	Episode 28 The Club

Episode 29 The Wand	Episode 30 The Ape	Episode 31 The Car	Episode 32 The Curse

Episode 33 The Microwave	Episode 34 The Meddler	Episode 35 The Helmet	Episode 36 The Fight



Episode 1 The Remote	Episode 2 The Colossus	Episode 3 The Knights	Episode 4 The Fridge

Episode 5 The Flower	Episode 6 The Banana	Episode 7 The Phone	Episode 8 The Job

Episode 9 Halloween	Episode 10 The Treasure	Episode 11 The Apology	Episode 12 The Words

Episode 13 The Skull	Episode 14 The Bet	Episode 15 Christmas	Episode 16 The Watch

Episode 17 The Bumpkin	Episode 18 The Flakers	Episode 19 The Authority	Episode 20 The Virus

Episode 21 The Pony	Episode 22 The Hero	Episode 23 The Dream	Episode 24 The Sidekick

Episode 25 The Photo	Episode 26 The Tag	Episode 27 The Storm	Episode 28 The Lesson

Episode 29 The Game	Episode 30 The Limit	Episode 31 The Voice	Episode 32 The Promise

Episode 33 The Castle	Episode 34 The Boombox	Episode 35 The Tape	Episode 36 The Sweaters

Episode 37 The Internet	Episode 38 The Plan	Episode 39 The World	Episode 40 The Finale



Episode 1 The Kids	Episode 2 The Fan	Episode 3 The Coach	Episode 4 The Joy

Episode 5 The Puppy	Episode 6 The Recipe	Episode 7 The Name	Episode 8 The Extras

Episode 9 The Gripes	Episode 10 The Vacation	Episode 11 The Fraud	Episode 12 The Void

Episode 13 The Boss	Episode 14 The Move	Episode 15 The Law	Episode 16 The Allergy

Episode 17 The Mothers	Episode 18 The Password	Episode 19 The Procrastinators	Episode 20 The Shell

Episode 21 The Burden	Episode 22 The Bros	Episode 23 The Mirror	Episode 24 The Man

Episode 25 The Pizza	Episode 26 The Lie	Episode 27 The Butterfly	Episode 28 The Question

Episode 29 The Saint	Episode 30 The Friend	Episode 31 The Oracle	Episode 32 The Safety

Episode 33 The Society	Episode 34 The Spoiler	Episode 35 The Countdown	Episode 36 The Nobody

Episode 37 The Downer	Episode 38 The Egg	Episode 39 The Triangle	Episode 40 The Money



Episode 1 The Return	Episode 2 The Nemesis	Episode 3 The Crew	Episode 4 The Others

Episode 5 The Signature	Episode 6 The Check	Episode 7 The Pest	Episode 8 The Sale

Episode 9 The Gift	Episode 10 The Parking	Episode 11 The Routine	Episode 12 The Upgrade

Episode 13 The Comic	Episode 14 The Romantic	Episode 15 The Uploads	Episode 16 The Apprentice

Episode 17 The Hug	Episode 18 The Wicked	Episode 19 The Traitor	Episode 20 The Origins

Episode 21 The Origins: Part Two	Episode 22 The Girlfriend	Episode 23 The Advice	Episode 24 The Signal

Episode 25 The Parasite	Episode 26 The Love	Episode 27 The Awkwardness	Episode 28 The Nest

Episode 29 The Points	Episode 30 The Bus	Episode 31 The Night	Episode 32 The Misunderstandings

Episode 33 The Roots	Episode 34 The Blame	Episode 35 The Slap	Episode 36 The Detective

Episode 37 The Fury	Episode 38 The Compilation	Episode 39 The Scam	Episode 40 The Disaster



Episode 1 The Rerun	Episode 2 The Stories	Episode 3 The Guy	Episode 4 The Boredom

Episode 5 The Vision	Episode 6 The Choices	Episode 7 The Code	Episode 8 The Test

Episode 9 The Slide	Episode 10 The Loophole	Episode 11 The Fuss	Episode 12 The Copycats

Episode 13 The Potato	Episode 14 The Outside	Episode 15 The Vase	Episode 16 The Matchmaker

Episode 17 The Box	Episode 18 The Console	Episode 19 The Ollie	Episode 20 The Catfish

Episode 21 The Cycle	Episode 22 The Stars	Episode 23 The Grades	Episode 24 The Diet

Episode 25 The Ex	Episode 26 The Sorcerer	Episode 27 The Menu	Episode 28 The Uncle

Episode 29 The Weirdo	Episode 30 The Heist	Episode 31 The Singing	Episode 32 The Best

Episode 33 The Worst	Episode 34 The Deal	Episode 35 The Petals	Episode 36 The Nuisance

Episode 37 The Line	Episode 38 The List	Episode 39 The News	Episode 40 The Puppets