Gumball teaches Darwin to be a skateboarder.
Tropes:
- Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: Gumball's story about the origin of the stakeboard starts out with a British street urchin fleeing from some high class gentlemen, finding a board and wheels when he's cornered. It looks like he's about to come with the idea for the skateboard and use it to get away, except the gentlemen reach him and start beating him. One of the gentlemen ends up creating the stakeboard instead.
- Art Shift:
- Gumball's Imagine Spot of skateboard's invention looks like animated 19th century illustrations. Much like Wondermark, in fact.
- When Gumball skateboards his way to Darwin, the world shifts to a guest-animated hand-drawn sequence.
- Blatant Lies:
- Richard claims to have been using Gumball's skateboard to skate. This comes right after a montage showing Richard misusing the board in various ways.
- Gumball calling himself a skater earns derisive laughter from everyone in earshot because it's obvious to them all he's a poser.
- Brick Joke: Richard faces a nail gun the wrong way while retiling the roof and accidentally shoots down a hot air balloon. At the end of the scene they all come down and the battering of nail heads knocks him out.
- Centipede's Dilemma: Turns out Gumball is actually a total skateboarding savant...when no one is looking. When they do, he's incapable of the most basic trick.
- Cheated Angle: Darwin lampshades how Gumball is always at a slight angle to avoid how weird he looks completely from the side. We're given a shot of him from profile and he looks as weird as stated.
- Fantasy Helmet Enforcement: Gumball tells Darwin that real skaters only bring around safety gear to show they chose not to wear it. Yet when they actually start riding their boards, both are in full gear, which neither comments on.
- Had the Silly Thing in Reverse: Richard has his nail gun on backwards, shooting the nails up into the air.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Darwin takes Gumball's meaning of "Let's split" too literally, and thus splits himself in half.
- Homage: Darwin buying his skateboard plays out like Harry buying his wand from Ollivander. The store's name is even "Ollie Vendor".
- Hypocritical Humor: After buying a skater outfit, Gumball calls the soulless office worker a conformist... followed by 4 guys dressed just like him doing exactly the same.
- Felicity screams at Richard being naked at the store though technically, she's not wearing any clothes either.
- Lampshade Hanging: The opening scene points out that Gumball never uses the skateboard that's been sitting in his room since the show began. Though despite what Darwin says, Gumball has used a skateboard before several times while Darwin watched—he just never used that skateboard.
- Literal-Minded: Darwin takes all of Gumball's skating metaphors too literally, such as riding goofy ("I do feel kind of goofy right now."), falling forward (he thought that it was a skater trust exercise), as well as "let's roll" (Darwin literally rolls across the ground curled up into a ball) and "let's split" (Darwin rips himself in half).
- Overly Long Gag: Gumball spends over 20 seconds to scoff at Darwin's claim that he doesn't know how to skate.
- Pun: Darwin commenting on how Gumball is a poser by standing at a slight angle.
- Shout-Out: The salesman at the skate shop resembles an Ed Roth
character. - Smash Cut: Before Ollie Vandor can finish stating the price of Darwin's new skateboard, we immediately see Gumball and Darwin walking out of a dollar store having settled for a cheaper one.
- Two Decades Behind: The episode aired in 2017, but its portrayal of skateboard culture is largely reminiscent of the late nineties and early aughts—the clothes Gumball buys are even flannel. Granted, skateboarding's massive loss in popularity after that time period means it's inexorably tied to that era in public conscious.
