

"The Club" is the twenty-eighth episode of Season 1 of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis

Gumball tries to be in a club after finding out the rest of his family is in their own one.

Plot



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The episode starts with the Wattersons visiting Elmore Junior High on a Saturday. Gumball asks why they are there, so Richard excitedly explains that Saturday is club day. He happily rushes off to his Fantasy Club and leaves Gumball with Nicole

Gumball asks his mother if he could join her club, but she explains that she becomes a different person when she is in her Anger Management Club. Mr. Small, who appears to run the club, greets her, but she suddenly lashes out at him for no reason and sends him flying through the door, knocking him unconscious.

Gumball then attempts to join Anais' Physics Club, but Anais denies him entry since he is not very intelligent. Darwin offers Gumball a chance to be in his Synchronized Swimming Club. However, due to the fact that Gumball cannot swim, Darwin and the others have to deny him entry for his own safety (which Gumball acknowledges is probably for the best).

Gumball tries joining the Football Club with Banana Joe and Tobias, but the club only consists of them hitting each other with wet towels, taking showers, acting sporty and high-fiving each other. Hector, who is on the actual football team, comes into the locker room and tells them that their team lost, after which he strikes them with a massive towel. Gumball then tries to start his own club, which consists of only him. It does not work out, so he disbands it.

Later in the school corridor, Gumball has completely lost hope of being accepted into a club. Suddenly, the hallway goes dark and ominous voices appear out of nowhere offering Gumball a chance to join their club. It turns out that the voices belonged to the Rejects Club, a club consisting of nerdy social rejects Colin, Felix, Bobert, and Ocho. They desperately plead Gumball to join their club, but he declines, claiming he is desperate but not that desperate. After he leaves, the club vows to get revenge against Gumball

That night, Gumball and his family are sitting down at dinner when a brick crashes through their window with a DVD attached. The family sits in fear as the DVD explains that the Rejects Club has developed a shoddily made "embarrassing" video of Gumball's school record and they are planning to send it around the school as revenge for not joining their club.

Gumball and his family then go to the school library to stop the Reject Club from uploading the video. At the door, they find that the door is locked so Nicole asks someone to make her mad and uses the resulting rage to break the door; however, she then tells everyone to proceed without her as she is still furious. As Richard and the kids rush into the library, Felix ambushes them, to which Richard retaliates by having a wizard battle. Bobert ambushes the kids soon after and transforms into his combat mode. Anais begins to generate static electricity by rapidly rubbing her feet on the ground and short-circuits Bobert with a single touch of her finger. Just before Darwin and Gumball reach the computers, they see that Colin is there, guarding the computer. Darwin proceeds to create a diversion by dancing, which eventually compels Colin to synchronize and join in the dance. Gumball approaches the computer but as he tries to stop the upload, Ocho comes and grabs his head, which prevents Gumball from canceling the upload.

As Gumball and his family drive home after the ordeal, Anais reveals that she was able to reroute all the videos before they could get to anyone, therefore saving Gumball's reputation (for now at least). It also turns out that the family managed to catch the entire Reject Club (with the group bound and gagged) and discuss how to punish them. Nicole notes that the "responsible" thing to do would be drive the Reject Club members home, explain to their parents what they did and let their parents punish them (which the club members object to). Darwin suggests coating them in honey and dropping them off in the bear cage at the zoo (which they also object to). Gumball then suggests dropping them off naked at the mall, which they agree to, ending the episode.

Characters

Main Characters

Supporting Characters

Minor Characters

Trivia

This is the first time that Tobias is seen not wearing his headband.

This is the first time Tobias and Penny are seen without their shoes.

Richard claims that he taped a wrestling match over a video of his and Nicole's wedding. However, it is unknown if this actually true, as Richard could have just made that up to make Nicole angry enough to break the door down.

This is Colin and Felix's first major role in an episode.

Continuity

Richard's Cottontail Cavalier cape from "The Gi" reappears in this episode.

This was the second appearance of Bobert's combat mode, the first being in "The Robot."

This was the second time Nicole angrily punches a hole in a door, the first being in "The DVD."

Cultural References

Goofs/Errors

Darwin's eyebrows are missing in one scene at the swimming pool.

Gumball's whisker goes through his head at one point.

When Nicole breaks a locker, her mouth is colored wrong. The same error occurred in "The Date."

When Hector swings the towel, a part of it is not colored in.

After Gumball jumps into the swimming pool, Penny appears to not have arms.

Gumball is shown and stated not to be able to swim at all, even though he was shown to swim very well in "The Responsible" and was able to get himself out of a similarly painful dive in "The Pressure."

Other titles

Español (Spanish) : El Club (The Club)

: El Club (The Club) Français (French) : Le club (The Club)

: Le club (The Club) Italiano (Italian) : Il club (The Club)

: Il club (The Club) Magyar (Hungarian) : Klubháború (Club War)

: Klubháború (Club War) Polski (Polish) : Klub (The Club)

: Klub (The Club) Português (Portuguese) : O Clube (The Club)

: O Clube (The Club) Japanese : のけものクラブの復讐/Mbales dendam klub bambu (Revenge of bamboo club)

: のけものクラブの復讐/Mbales dendam klub bambu (Revenge of bamboo club) Українська (Ukrainian) : Клуб/Klub (Club)

: Клуб/Klub (Club) Български (Bulgarian) : Клубът (The Club)

: Клубът (The Club) العربية (Arabic) : النادي (The Club)

: النادي (The Club) Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese): Câu Lạc Bộ (The Club)