Gumball and Darwin right before attempting the plan.
Gumball and Darwin build a Rube Goldberg machine in an attempt to escape from school.
Tropes:
- Age Lift: It's implied that Rocky was a student in this episode.
- Banana Peel: Hector slips on Banana Joe.
- Bottle Episode: The entire Early Reel takes place in the playground.
- Butt Sticker: The reel ends with Gumball and Darwin stuck to Hector's butt.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Many characters look very different from their final design. For example, Darwin is animated in CGI rather than 2D animation. Masami and Carmen only had thick lines (which were removed), and Leslie's petals are blue instead of pink.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The school looked very different, as did the characters.
- Epic Fail: Gumball and Darwin's plan to escape school didn't go as planned when they got stuck to Hector's butt.
- Establishing Shot: Shows a wide view of the playground, with the first appearance of many characters.
- Gender Flip: Teri('s unnamed equivalent) is a boy.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Gumball and Darwin's plan.
- Furry Reminder: Used largely by Gumball as part of his plan.
- Tina running after a steak.
- Carmen popping Alan.
- Leslie blooming after Masami's water falls in him.
- Boy Teri getting through the girls bathroom by a hole, because he's made of paper.
- Ocho hanging in a tree for being a spider.
- Hector slipping on Banana Joe, and being planned to send Gumball and Darwin flying to the street when stepping on the seesaw.
- Nameless Narrative: The sparse dialogue doesn't use any name, and the drawing of the plan only refers to Rocky by name— the rest of the characters are referred only by their species. It's possible this was before they even decided "Gumball" would be the name of the main character and not just the series.
- Pilot: The episode was created to pitch the idea of the show to Cartoon Network.
- Seesaw Catapult: Gumball and Darwin use one to try to escape school.
- Tempting Fate: After Darwin and Gumball's plan fails, smacking them each into one of Hector's buttocks, Gumball states "it could be worse". Then Hector clenches, squeezing the two together.
