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Nicole wakes up to find the showerhead (who strangely looks and is animated like Olaf the snowman from the Disney movie
Frozen) singing, so Nicole unscrews it and drives to the dump to throw it out. Meanwhile, everyone in Elmore breaks out into song for reasons unknown and viewers get to see and hear parodies of different musical genres as done by the
Gumball crew.
Tropes:
- Animation Bump: The animation for the Wattersons' shower head is much smoother than the other characters.
- Auto-Tune: Teri's Jpop singing is processed to make her sound like Miku Hatsune.
- Bookends: The episode begins and ends with the Watterson's showerhead singing.
- Bowdlerization: Cartoon Network MENA (Middle East/North Africa) cut out the following scenes:
- The part after Billy Parham's rap where the 8-bit yellow dog laments, "Sad when a kid lets himself go like that" was cut.
- Teri's J-Pop hallucination (the song "Filth, Filth All Round") was cut to remove the line "All the disease" and the part where Teri farts out rainbows, along with the part where she's being carried to an ambulance and the bandage paramedics comment on how infectious J-Pop is (with the paramedics and the ambulance itself slowly being decorated in a cutesy Japanese esthetic before driving away).
- The first part of Richard ordering at the drive-in, with Larry telling him he can't serve him that much food due to the high caloric intake, was cut.
- Principal Brown's song to Miss Simian was completely cut for being too sexually suggestive.
- Even the Rats Won't Touch It: A pair of rats recoil at smelling the grease from Richard's Joyful Burger meal that burned through the pavement into the sewer. They then mention they're starving, but also pass over a fancy restaurant because it got bad online reviews.
- Faint in Shock: Teri, who is Terrified of Germs, passes out when she sees the rat spreading music around. She then has a dream about germs that pastiche J-pop.
- Homage:
- The shower head's song is based on "In Summer" from Frozen.
- Teri's dream extensively parodies
the music video for Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's PONPONPON. - Richard's song about fast food is a loose parody of "Always On My Mind".
- Pluto riffs on the hit Adele single "Hello".
- During the commercial for Mr. Small's album, the song "Mother" is a parody of the video for Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy".
- Furthermore, his music video for "This Boy is Not My Son" brings to mind Kraftwerk's "The Robots".
- Lower-Deck Episode: Nicole and Richard both have parts, but most of the episode is about the supporting and background characters. This is actually the first episode where Gumball is entirely absent, even during the background of the school scenes.
- Musical Episode: A Vignette Episode of many different characters spontaneously breaking out into song.
- Musicalis Interruptus: All of the songs besides the theme sung throughout the episode and Richard's are cut off suddenly:
- Teri and Billy's songs are a hallucination and an Imagine Spot, respectively, that the camera exits to show them still singing to themselves.
- The 8-bit dog attempts to sing, but the camera moves away from him just as he's starting.
- Principal Brown is still in the middle of his song about how much he loves body hair when Ms. Simian crushes his hand for publicly humiliating her.
- Pluto's song is cut off when Earth asks her to quiet down.
- While Banana Joe is in the middle of his song, his mother opens the door, causing him to slip and be flung up into the ceiling fan, spreading him all over the room.
- Since we only see a commercial for Mr. Small's album, all the the songs are just snippets.
- Non-Singing Voice: In "You're A Hairy Lady", Principal Brown's voice is provided by Ben Champion rather than Steve Furst.
- Oblivious Transformation: Teri is taken off by an ambulance for what the bandage doctor call "the worst case of J-pop [he has] ever seen". When Joan asks if it's contagious, he replies "Absolutely not." as the camera pulls back to show he already looks like the brightly-colored characters in Teri's dream. The ambulance immediately follows.
- Pluto Is Expendable: Pluto is ostracized by the planets after being declassified, and sings a song about it. Then she starts hanging out with some meteors.
- Random Events Plot: Similar to "The Butterfly", the episode is technically a chain of events (the singing appears to be contagious), but they aren't really related to each other.
- Singing Voice Dissonance: Mr. Robinson and Principal Brown are both older men with deep voices, and the former sounds quite gruff, but they sound high, clear, and young when singing.
- Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Larry is too tired to rhyme properly.
My fifth
all-night shift
my mind is starting to (twitches)
bamboo
but I'm singing! - Take That!: The cover for Mr. Small's album, The Small Hours, recreates Tino's Por Primera Vez, because it showed up in an animator's Google search for "worst covers of all time".
- Too Much Information: Principal Brown's song about Miss Simian's hair.
- A Wild Rapper Appears!: Larry is shanghaied into doing a short rap number during Principal Brown's song.
- Younger Than They Look: Mrs. Jötunheim, who looks like an old hag, claims to only be 28.
