"Please enjoy this amazing world! Without Gumball! Trust me, it's much better."
Rob the Cyclops holds Timmy the Internet hostage and shows a video of various takes on The Amazing World of Gumball that don't have Gumball, or any of the Wattersons, in it at all.
Tropes:
- Bait-and-Switch Credits: The opening sequence for Larry's show Barcode Cowboy makes his job seem exciting, but the actual content of the show is anything but.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: The tape Rob plays has the show's title on it, with Gumball's name scratched out.
- Camera Abuse: Tina roars at the camera, causing the lens to crack.
- False Reassurance: After Bobert uses radiation to heat up his meal.Felicity: Is that safe?
Bobert: Affirmative. It is perfectly safe... for me.(Felicity gives an Oh, Crap! look) - Homage: Barcode Cowboy is a shot-for-shot recreation of the opening sequence of Cowboy Bebop.
- Hostile Show Takeover: Rob captures Timmy the Internet and controls him to force people to watch the show without Gumball as lead... with very mixed results.
- Lethal Chef: "Bobert's Kitchen" features Bobert making "fuel for carbon-based lifeforms". As to be expected from a robot making food, Bobert's methods of cooking are not exactly the safe or sanitary. This includes dicing foods with lasers, using radiation to cook his food, using his own "locally-sourced" android oil (i.e. his own motor oil), substituting beef for the "more sustainable" rat meat, and force-feeding the concoction to Felicity through a tube. The dish is enough to cause Felicity to pass out by the end of it while on the urge of vomiting.
- Meaningless Villain Victory: Rob gets the Hostile Show Takeover he'd wanted since "The Disaster", but can't find anyone that adequately replaces Gumball as the protagonist.
- Merchandise-Driven: Spoofed with the Techno Power Teenage Warriors segment, which keeps getting interrupted for commercials about the toyline featured in the show. While the commercials get to the point of advertising a credit card so kids can get parents to keep buying, the Techno Warriors let the monster run amok because they keep pointlessly summoning more things.
- Mind Rape: Tobias gets this from William saying his "lines."
- Mundane Made Awesome: The main title sequence of Barcode Cowboy makes pricing items look exciting. Subverted with the actual show, which shows how boring and mundane it actually is.
- Shout-Out:
- When Rob asks for a relatable character, Timmy suggests a Great Dane who hangs out with kids in blazers and solve mysteries.
- The Techno Power Teenage Warriors skit is a reference to Power Rangers, including commercial break interruptions to sell the toyline.
- "William & Tobias" recreates the Seinfeld logo.
- "Reality Toddlers" is this to The Real Housewives.
- The title card for the "Tina the Dinosaur" segment is a homage to the 1995 Barney Home Video logo.
- The segment with Larry parodies the opening theme from Cowboy Bebop.
- Snap Back: The episode ends with Rob demanding Timmy find someone who could properly replace Gumball as the protagonist, and his recommendation leads to the audience watching a different show entirely. We're left to assume Rob let Gumball come back so the show could continue.
- Vignette Episode: A series of shorts about theoretical shows for various supporting and minor characters.
