History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E15TheVase

** Nicole turns into [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the Grinch]] when she thinks of letting the kids break the vase.

* KitschyLocalCommercial: At a loss on how to break the vase, the kids get a CoincidentalBroadcast of a commercial for the Elmore Wrecking Yard. It has a catchy song and dance reminiscent of the memetic [[https://youtu.be/FJ3oHpup-pk Sammy Stevens Flea Market]].

** Breaking the pavement it drops on from a two-story building, which was intended to break the vase.
** Junking the junkyard the kids brought it to in order to destroy it once and for all.
** Destroying the tree which was supposed to destroy it when said vase was flung into it via giant slingshot.

** The way the mailman treats the package delivered to the Wattersons (dropping and kicking it like a soccer ball) mimics the opening scenes of ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective''.

* SpringtimeForHitler: The kids expect Richard to fail in not dropping the vase with butter all over his hands. They gave up when it took more than 10 seconds.

* EpicFail: The kids expect Richard to fail in not dropping the vase with butter all over his hands. They gave up when it took more than 10 seconds.
-->'''Gumball:''' Ugh! [[BlackComedyBurst Why couldn't you have managed that]] [[ChildhoodBrainDamage when I was a baby]]?

* EpicFail: The kids expect Richard to fail in not dropping the vase with butter all over his hands, they gave up when it took more than 10 seconds.
-->'''Gumball:''' Ugh! Why can't you manage that when I was a baby?

* TwistEnding: Granny Jojo [[UnfortunateItemSwap re-gifted the Wattersons the right vase after all]] - and the Wattersons find this out the hard way by deliberately destroying the 'right' one Granny Jojo swapped with them, getting dead-pet ashes [[BlackComedy all over them and their house]].

The Wattersons attempt to destroy an impossibly-tacky, re-gifted vase from Granny Jojo.

* BaitAndSwitch: During a phone call with Nicole, Granny Jojo mentions that the vase contains the ashes of Roosevelt. Nicole thinks she means one of the US Presidents, but Granny Jojo clarifies that Roosevelt was Louie's pet.

* MadeOfIndestructium: The main drive of the episode. The vase ''just will not'' '''''break!'''''

* PedestrianCrushesCar: The vase it run into by a semi-truck hauling a fully-loaded trailer of tires without being damage or even ''moved''.
* PreMortemOneLiner: The kids figure out one to say before they drop the vase out of Gumball and Darwin's bedroom window. The vase chooses to mock them instead by [[MadeOfIndestructium embedding itself]] in the pavement below.

* CouldSayItBut: Nicole uses both mime and verbal suggestions to tell the kids they can destroy the vase while pretending to say otherwise. [[ObliviousToHints The kids think she's just testing them.]] It takes her leaving the house and acting out what she wants them to do in front of a window for them to finally get it.

* AshesToCrashes: Right as the kids seemingly find a way to break the vase, Granny Jojo reveals she accidentally gave them the urn containing the ashes of Louie's pet snake. Nicole manages to save the vase and it exchange it for the "right" one, which she immediately smashes on the ground. It covers the floor with ashes [[SureLetsGoWithThat which they all agree is just dust]].

* UnwantedGiftPlot: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zaggs]] between being a [[DefiedTrope defied trope]] and one [[PlayedForLaughs played for laughs]]. The Wattersons receive an impossibly-tacky, re-gifted vase from Granny Jojo. Nicole's attempt to end the plot by having the kids junk it fails spectacularly when, first, the vase ''[[MadeOfIndestructium will not break]]'', then has to stop the kids when Granny Jojo calls and says she gifted the wrong vase and needs to make a swap. The Wattersons successfully junk the correct vase - only to discover the vase they had [[TwistEnding was the right one all along]].

* ImagineSpotting: When the kids think they'll be stuck with the vase forever, we see a vision of each with the vase in their future. After the third one includes Darwin with the vase as his deathbead, we zoom out and Darwin exclaims that to have been the '''[[ItCanThink vase's]]''' imagination.

* AshesToCrashes: Right as the kids seemingly find a way to break the vase, Granny Jojo reveals she accidentally gave them the urn containing the ashes of Louie's pet snake. Nicole manages to save the vase and it exchange it for the "right" one, which she immediately smashes on the ground. It covers the floor with ashes [[BlatantLies which they all agree is just dust]].

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: As she climbs the crane to keep the vase from being crushed inside a car, Nicole warns the kids not to do what she's about to do, no matter how cool it looks.

* ImagineSpotting: When the kids think they'll be stuck with the vase forever, we see a vision of each with the vase in their future. After the third one includes Darwin with the vase as his deathbead, we zoom out and Darwin exclaims that to have been the '''vase's''' imagination.

* CarFu: Performed by the vase when it collides a semi-truck hauling a fully-loaded trailer of tires.
* CouldSayItBut: Nicole attempts this in both mime and verbal form to tell the kids they can destroy the vase. The kids think she's just testing them. It takes her leaving the house and acting out what she wants them to do in front of a window for them to finally get it.

* RussianReversal: The most common demonstration of the titular vase's indestructibility. Examples include:

* TwistEnding: Granny Jojo re-gifted the Wattersons the right vase after all - and the Wattersons find this out the hard way by deliberately destroying the 'right' one Granny Jojo swapped with them, getting dead-person ashes [[BlackComedy all over them and their house]].