The human Watterson family.
The Mayor of Elmore (a not-so-subtle caricature of Donald Trump) invites the Wattersons to the town meeting to announce that they're being kicked out of town...and the only way to stay is if they become model citizens.
Tropes:
- Bowdlerise: During the sequence of the Wattersons trying to destroy the town, Gumball mentions that he put bath salts in the town's drinking water (which is why Mr. Small is acting crazy). On the American reruns (barring the version shown on Hulu), "bath salts" was redubbed with "soapsuds" (most likely because "bath salts" is slang for an actual illegal drug).
- The Cartoon Network MENA (Middle East/North Africa) version shortens the scene of the Wattersons transforming into a human family and cuts the entire part where Gumball instructs Sal Left Thumb to beat up and mug people to show how bad a neighborhood Elmore is (with Sal beating and mugging Gumball).
- The Russian and Bulgarian dubs also redub "bath salts" with "soapsuds", shortens the Wattersons transforming into humans, and cuts the part where Sal Left Thumb beats and mugs Gumball.
- The Polish, French, Hungarian, European Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and German dub only cut the part with Sal Left Thumb beating and mugging Gumball.
- Fantastic Legal Weirdness: When the family receives their summons to Town Hall, Darwin brings up the potential issues of a being an adopted Uplifted Animal.Darwin: Maybe they cleared up that legal gray area about whether I'm a feral animal or your child.
Nicole: Oh honey, you're the same as all my kids: a combination of both. - Miming the Cues: As a part of her model citizen routine, Anais helps Jared answer Mr. Corneille's question on the chalkboard by miming letters with her body. Unfortunately, he draws the letters as her miming them, leading to Mr. Corneille quickly figuring out the ruse.
- Produce Pelting: The episode ends with the Wattersons being put into pillories while the townspeople throw tomatoes at them. Richard takes the opportunity to catch the food in his mouth and eats it.
- Place Worse Than Death: The Wattersons are told that they are to be relocated to Ohio, the state that Anais mentions is so terrible that eight people became President of the United States just so they could get out of there.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Gumball mentions putting bath salts into the water supply (later changed to soapsuds for most broadcasts), which is why Mr. Small starts acting crazy. This is a reference to a person in Florida who started going crazy after an overexposure to bath salts left him attacking and biting the face off another person. It became a topical joke for comedians and social media for some time afterward.
- Transformation Horror: Played for laughs; after successfully pretending to be model citizens, the Wattersons grotesquely, and apparently painfully, mutate into humans (except for Darwin, who becomes a dog) who resemble a WASP-ish nuclear family. Their screams and changing morphology are set to wholesome sounding singing. The song in question? Kumbaya.
- Trumplica: The mayor of Elmore, who is portrayed as being a corrupt official with Scary Teeth no less, has a less-than-uncanny resemblance to Donald Trump (minus the New York accent, however).
- Ungrateful Bastard: The town of Elmore at the end of the episode. Even though the Wattersons saved the town from the Mayor's plan, they simply put the family in stocks and pelt them with produce.
- Villain Has a Point: While he's largely saying it to get the Wattersons to help with his Villainous Gentrification plan, the mayor is entirely right when he says the people of Elmore didn't have any issue with throwing them out, so why should they have a problem with what should be Laser-Guided Karma? Lo and behold, even though the Wattersons stopped the mayors plan, they just get put in stocks and get pelted with rotten produce.
- Villainous Gentrification: Once the Wattersons become model citizens, they discover the mayor actually wanted them to behave so Elmore's property value would rise. But the bank owns all the land, so the current residents won't benefit from this—they're going to be evicted to make way for a gated community. So the Wattersons trash the entire town to keep rent affordable, not that the results were that much better.
