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"I think I've been out of line my whole life."
In a show where everybody's weird just like you and me, there’s bound to be one or two moments that make even its most die-hard fans tear up in agony and grief.

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    Season 1 
The Third
  • Near the end, Darwin is looking out a window crying, knowing he's seemingly lost his best friend because he was being too focused on Tobias.
The Dress
  • Gumball after he imagines himself and Darwin having children if he doesn't take off the dress.
  • Darwin's reaction when he sees his "girlfriend" die right in front of him. The fact that his crying sounds very realistic doesn't help much. Neither does the face he makes afterwards.
The Pressure
  • This exchange, even if it is Played for Laughs.
    Gumball: You've had girlfriends before, right?
    Rocky: Oh yeah, thousands of 'em.
    Gumball: And how do you get rid of them?
    Rocky: Well, usually, I just close my eyes and open my heart! And when I open my eyes again... (sadly) they're gone.
The Laziest The Mystery
  • When Gumball tearfully announces that Darwin was the one who stuffed Principal Brown in his locker, Darwin tears up and buries his face to the floor, which looks painful to watch. His dialogue does not help:
    Darwin: Yes, yes! I did it! I'm a monster! A monster! Just lock me up. I'm a menace to society. [...] Take me away!
    • Not long after that, it's discovered that Darwin was not the culprit, but still...
The Gi
  • Nicole imagines a future in which her sons are like Richard, overweight and still playing video games.
    Darwin: Gumball? I think we wasted our lives.
    • The song Gumball and Darwin sing is surprisingly heartwrenching.
    Life's about abandoning, dream after dream.
    Hopes and expectations, float away downstream.
    It's time to kiss our childish ways goodbye.
    Grow up? Give mediocrity a try?
    The games — they have to stop.
    (No more hi-yah...)
    Not even a karate chop.
    Face up to what maturity means...
    And forget about our martial arts...
    Dreams...
    • After realizing that everyone's been making fun of him and Darwin all this time, how does he react? By crying.
The Kiss The Party
  • Rachel is crying outside because NONE of her friends showed up. This can be attributed to not wanting to go to a "kids" party because she doesn't really have any friends.
The Robot
  • Gumball forced to sleep in his backyard and crying after Bobert, who assumes his identity, has won over his family.
The Picnic
  • Gumball and Darwin's sad expressions as they huddle in the rain, hungry, cold and lost. Poor kids.
    • After being stuck in the Forest of Doom, Gumball eventually loses his patience with Darwin, accusing his best friend for holding him back, and selfishly leaves him for himself. As if the tearful look on Darwin's face wasn't enough, all he can say are these seven heartbreaking words:
    Darwin: (shattered) But... I thought we were a team...
The Mustache
  • Richard is insecure about who he is, which is why he was tempted via advertisements on his emails to buy the supplements that turned the kids to men. The dialogue that follows is just heartrending.
    Advertisement: Are you too fat?
    Richard: Yes.
    Advertisement: Are you too bald?
    Richard: Maybe.
    Advertisement: Are you really the man she deserves?
    Richard: NO! (angrily throws computer out the window) [...] It was a moment of weakness..and I crumbled, Nicole! I crumbled! (starts crying)
The Ape
  • Miss Simian discovering that nobody likes her.
    Rocky: Seriously, though: no one likes you, Miss Simian. Not even me! And I like everybody!
    • Later in the episode, when Nicole gets upset at Miss Simian for being at her house, the latter takes a hint that Nicole doesn't want her there and decides to leave. The following dialogue in which the Wattersons express pity for Miss Simian is just as depressing, all while some sad music plays.
    Darwin: (all choked up) It's so sad.
    Miss Simian: (arriving at the front door to leave) This is me. On my way. I'm at the door.
    Anais: (tearing up) This is kind of harsh.
    Miss Simian: (opens the door) I'm turning the doorknob. I'm opening the door.
    Richard: I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT I'M CRYING!
    Miss Simian: Gosh, it sure looks lonely out there... (She leaves and shuts the door behind her all while everyone else except Nicole are fueled with waterworks.)
The Meddler
  • Gumball feeling neglected by his parents. But the cherry on top is this line:
    Gumball: WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET NOTICED IN THIS HOUSE?!
    • Penny's heartbroken reaction to Gumball's outburst that he doesn't like her.
      Penny: (tearfully) Well... thanks for being honest with me...
      • Angered, Gumball chews Nicole out for upsetting Penny and constantly meddling him the entire day, even going as far telling her to leave, saying, "Just get out of my life."
The Helmet
  • The ending has Gumball's Disney Death when he attempts to get his helmet that is about to fall into the "dumpster's crusher". Anais screams his name in the most heartrending way possible, followed by her and Darwin weeping under the assumption that their big brother is dead.

    Season 2 
The Fridge The Virus
  • Teri's seeming death is a combination of this and Nightmare Fuel. What's especially saddening is the characters' (Gumball and Darwin) completely heartbroken reactions. It makes it sadder that she's a pretty friendly and sympathetic character, and almost dying in such a horrible way (being decapitated) is quite uncomfortable, even for a kids' show.
The Phone
  • Gumball's reaction upon witnessing Darwin dying in front of him—he screams a Big "NO!", which then dissolves into helpless sobbing. Darwin gets better, but still.
The Treasure
  • Richard's backstory of why the Watterson family aren't able to afford whatever they want was emotional. Richard explains that he lost $24,000 to an internet scam that sells stars and he was too late to get the money back due to Stellar Corporation going out of business. The flashback ends as Richard cried on knees and told his kids that he buried the evidence.
The Words
  • The fight scene, especially in what is considered one of the saddest scenes of the entire show.
    Gumball: You are not my brother! You are just a pet, who grew legs!
    • The two make up, but it's still extremely saddening to see. It reduces the two to tears and it's sad to see two friends who stick by each other through so much cry together.
The Bumpkin
  • Gumball thinking he murdered Idaho and crying over it once Idaho's family buries him.
The Hero
  • Richard's song.
    • At one point, Richard seems to have fallen to his death, much to the brothers' despair, with Gumball, in particular, genuinely remorseful for treating his own father horribly.
      Gumball: He's gone... and I was laughing at him. Why didn't I tell him that in spite of everything I was proud, Darwin? I was proud of him! If he were still here, I would tell him...
    • Speaking of which, Gumball was a snarky dick the whole episode, even in peril. But when he's on a ladder in danger of being crushed, he's terrified. The show then quickly flashes between him and Richard during the present, and him as a baby getting encouragement from his dad.
The Pony
  • Anais wants to spend time watching a movie with her brothers, but a series of events continually delays Gumball and Darwin from returning home from the DVD store. Anais is at first unamused, no doubt thinking that they've messed up somehow, as per usual, but she eventually begins to consider that they just genuinely don't want to hang out with her and it drives her to tears. She clearly loves her brothers, so seeing her crying because she thinks they don't care about her is heartbreaking.
    Darwin: Is it okay if we hang out on another day?
    Anais: (sadly) Sure. No problem.
    Darwin: (looks guilty) ...Are you doing the sad face with the big wide eyes?
    (Cut to Anais doing just that.)
    Anais: No. (sniffs) Everything's cool.
The Voice
  • The episode sheds some light on William. All the poor guy wanted to do was hang out with Gumball and Darwin.
The Internet
  • Gumball reads a book called The Little Platypus Who Took The Wrong Bus. The book's cover is saddening, even more so when Gumball cries about the fact that a platypus needs its mother.
The Limit
  • It's pretty sad that both the Watterson siblings and Richard himself are so terrified of Nicole. Sure, they have perfectly valid reasons and we know they all love each other very much. But that doesn't diminish how sad it is as the episode illustrates all of this quite nicely.

    Season 3 
The Kids
  • Near the end, where Gumball and Darwin sing, opera-style, about how they are growing up. They get better in the end... though they're not sure if that's better or worse.
    Maybe it's for the better
    No one wants to stay a child forever
    Remember the wonderful times we've had
    Those happy thoughts now make me sad
    They say it's not bad
    It's just a new start,
    So why do I have this pain in my heart?
    Our childhood memories are getting hazy...
The Fan
  • Though Sarah exhibited eccentric and creepy behaviors throughout the episode, she really just wanted to fit in, and after being chased down the hallway by Gumball and Darwin, she explains that she feels lonely, but Gumball points out that it doesn't excuse her behavior and tells her to leave them alone, causing her to walk away, crying.
The Allergy
  • Darwin trying to exile himself out of fear that his powerful sneezing might hurt anybody else.
The Shell
  • Penny freaking out and running away, despite Gumball trying to tell her that he likes her true form. Patrick's reaction doesn't help much as he didn't even bother to tone down his comments to the point of calling his own daughter a monster despite Gumball's best effort to calm Penny down. It's satisfying that Gumball delivered a Calling the Old Man Out speech at him in behalf of Penny, but still.
    • Penny's reaction doesn't help make this scene better.
      Penny: Gumball, please tell my father that the monster is going to live in the forest, with all the other beasts. (flies away)
    • Gumball's risking himself to protect Penny from harm's way even if it means having to break her heart by telling her she's nothing to him... just to prevent her from being hit by a truck by getting her small enough for them to duck under it. Seeing Penny's small form in Gumball's paws after being called nothing to him is saddening to see, even more so that Gumball only did it just to protect her as you can see from his injuries. She eventually knew but that doesn't make it less saddening. As if her father calling her a monster wasn't enough...
    • Even earlier after Gumball was kicked out by Patrick when he found out what happened and got Penny grounded as well when she wants to break out of her shell, Gumball didn't have dinner and goes to his bedroom depressed while Nicole is very concerned about him not eating because of it. When Gumball insists he's fine, he then ends up crying his eyes out in his pillow as he thinks he won't see Penny again because he accidentally cracked her shell. To see Gumball defeated like that shows how much he loves her and that he may not see her again because he can't convey his feelings to Penny very well that he ended up headbutting her when he was presented the chance. Thankfully, it all paid off in the end for him and Penny when she arrived.
The Burden
  • Darwin experiences jealousy for the first time and his fears that Gumball's attention went into Penny instead of him. Ho Yay or not, being a goldfish who grew up legs and still naive to the world, Darwin might not know how to deal with such feelings of abandonment and jealousy.
    • The reason why Chris Morris helps Gumball and Darwin avoid getting caught by the police: he doesn't want anyone to experience being caged like he did his whole life.
The Man
  • Richard reveals about his father that the last time he saw him was that he went out for milk 42 years ago. Richard thought he would come back eventually and even all these years, but even his mother, wife, and kids know that's not the case. In the end, he finally knows the truth and he let his tears out while Jojo comforted him. He actually grew up without a father which explains why Granny Jojo was so overprotective of him, as seen in "The Authority".
    • And if their ages are to be put into consideration, it's heavily implied that Granny Jojo gave birth to Richard when she's very young, and she didn't know what to do and thus went into extremes in protecting her son.
The Butterfly
  • Alison tells Rocky that she's been saving herself for marriage for so long that she became depressed, couldn't find a job, had to live in a van under the freeway with her cats, and ate nothing but squirrels and rust.
The Question The Friend
  • The harmless shark-headed monster was "The Friend" left alone to wander the streets in search of friends after his creator died (or, in his words, "didn't wake up") so Gumball, Darwin, and Anais try to protect him from the police, only for the shark-headed monster to kill himself with cola and mints. (Fortunately, he gets better, but still has to leave town because of what happened).
    • The revelation that Anais has no friends and she threw a party just so someone — anyone — could come. Her sadness in the second season's "The Pony" is justified, after all.
    Gumball: Wait, where is everyone?
    Anais: I don't know! I prepared everything, and no one came!
[...]
Gumball: You know, you're really clever, but… sometimes you're kind of an awkward sausage.
Darwin: You need friends to have a party.
Anais: (near tears) But the whole point of this party was to make friends!

    Season 4 
The Nemesis
  • Rob telling Gumball and Darwin to forget about him like everyone else has. Looks like being in the void really did a number on him.
The Signature
  • Richard's long lost father, Frankie, came back to just to betray them by taking the ownership of the family's home for himself...until there's a scene where Richard has this sad, pelading look on his face. As pictured above, Frankie then remembers having to look back at a young smiling Richard who doesn't know he's actually leaving, waving goodbye to his unknowing son. Remembering this causes Frankie to have a Heel Realization and let his family pass through so Jojo and Louie can get married to claim home ownership back to the family.
    • Richard running into Frankie's arms after the Watterson kids bring him home, and the Mood Whiplash of Richard yelling at Frankie for abandoning him and not bringing home any milk and sobbing into his chest.
      • Richard probably spent decades convincing himself that his dad would eventually come back with milk. Unfortunately, Frankie coming back without a carton in hand destroyed any chance that his dad left for a good reason.
The Love
  • In the montage with Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, a lot of the scenarios are just them tormenting each other which is obviously funny. However, Margaret seems to catch a cough which is blown off the first time, but the second time has her pass out. This can hit a little too close to home if you have or had a loved one go through that same process.
The Parasite
  • While Anais's behavior can come off as creepy especially after she merges herself with Jodie, it's also a little painful to see just how socially awkward and desperate for a friend she is. The fact that she's a four-year-old in middle school probably doesn't help.
The Comic
  • Gumball has fun being a dumb superhero with Sarah and Darwin, but then they get mugged in the park. You can see him tearing up as he throws his costume away and is seen after on the porch hugging his knees to his chest. Luckily, Sarah cheers him up while Nicole beats the shit out of the mugger for trying to steal the car.
The Uploads
  • William trying to turn over his test paper. Poor thing.
The Origins
  • Darwin's journey back to Elmore. Seeing the little goldfish succumb to injuries, hunger, and thirst, all while singing an upbeat song (with a tempo that gets increasingly more downbeat as the odds get worse) is very saddening.
    • The scene in which Darwin gets locked in a cage in the pest control van is one big tearjerker. The fact that was so close getting was to his family, only to be snatched away at the last moment. Then some poor dog, speaking from experience, tells him the sooner he forgets about them, the less it'll hurt. This causes Darwin to go into a state of denial, tearfully saying, "I have to get back".
      • Then Gumball gives up on ever finding Darwin, and because of their connection, Darwin realizes this and grows distraught. Thankfully, he manages to escape, and there's a bit of levity... at least, until Darwin runs into them at the pet store and sees himself getting replaced. Heartbroken and tearful, he can only walk away.
The Advice
  • Mr. Small is depressed, feeling like there is nothing gratifying about being a teacher. The boys find him moping in the teacher's lounge and try to help him, but via their being extremely Literal-Minded, the school devolves into chaos. When Gumball tells him point-blank that his advice sucks, he is visibly Trying Not to Cry and buries himself in his computer.
The Roots
  • The episode clearly shows how much Darwin means to the Watterson family as they hate the thought of letting him go into the wild. Especially with them bawling their eyes out during their goodbye to Darwin before throwing him in the pond.
    Nicole: You all saw him at the pet store. This is what he really wanted. This is a big turning point in his life. And he'll get used to it. He just has to hold on. It's a big leap for him to go back to his natural habitat. But he gave us a very clear sign. He'll just have to hang on in there. Life isn't always a straight path, you know. And sometimes things just come to a dead end.
    • Imagine how Darwin must've felt when the Wattersons left him at a lake. The tragic misunderstanding was clearly taking a toll on him, shown most prominently when he explodes on them:
    Darwin: YOU ABANDON ME, THEN GO FOR ICE CREAM?!
The Blame
  • The ending. While it's played mostly for laughs, it's kind of sad to see that the parents still learned nothing from this, especially Felicity. First, she has video games banned for being too violent and harmful to children when that isn't the case, and then when the kids point out that books can be dangerous and more violent than video games, she agrees and it seems like she might change, with Richard, of all people, actually suggesting the parents should become more sensible and take better care of their children (which truly is a great lesson)...only for the next scene shows the parents burning books, much to the horror of their kids.
    • What truly stings is that this actually does happen in real life.
The Fury
  • Nicole putting up with Yuki's torment who wanted a rematch in their fight but refused because she wants to go back to being friends since Nicole already lost her as a friend following their fated match at the Tournament Finals which she won. She even gave up training because of it.
The Disaster
  • Rob uses a universal remote, a device that can warp reality to the user's whim, to make word of his promise to ruin Gumball's life. Gumball has to witness everything around him tarnished by Rob before him in suspended animation. Darwin is nowhere to be seen after his heart's broken, Nicole and Richard break up (Nicole's with another guy while Richard is eating donuts out of sadness), Anais is lost and crying, and Penny is falling to her death after Gumball is controlled to push her off the second floor after she was heartbroken from seeing Gumball accidentally bumping and kissing Sarah. Gumball didn't even know what was going on until Rob makes his appearance known and shows no regret for his actions.
    Gumball: What is this? What's going on?
    Rob: I did warn you... (takes the family photo out of Richard's wallet) I said I would destroy you and everyone you loved. (he rips the photo in half)
  • The last thing Penny sees is Gumball slamming into her and, given the tears in her eyes as she falls, her last thought was likely about how her own boyfriend just killed her.
  • Rob's monologue about how he never wanted to be the villain. The shocking revelation that he knows about the TV show just adding to the tragedy.
    Rob: You have only yourself to blame. You being the hero of all this means that I have to be the villain. But I never wanted to be the villain! I wanted to be the cute sidekick that gets his own plush toy and a spinoff show!
    Gumball: What are you talking about?
    Rob: You really don’t get it, do you? So happy to star in your "amazing" world. Can’t you see that none of this is real?!

    Season 5 
The Rerun
  • The episode continues from where "The Disaster" left off, and things somehow get worse than before.
    • Nicole and Richard are rewounded back into babies, causing Anais to cease to exist and make Gumball and Darwin forget about her, even after crying about her death. Then Darwin gets reverted back to being a normal fish to undo the events of how Richard bought him in "The Origins", and because he doesn't have lungs or legs from those events, he dies in front of his best friend. And Gumball can only cry in horror as to add salt to the wound, Rob mocks him, saying, "I warned you! EVERYONE YOU LOVE!" Enraged, Gumball goes to attack Rob... who dodges out of the way and has him fast-forward into pushing off Penny to her death again!
    • When Gumball finally defeats Rob by sending him into the Void, he seems happy about it at first...only to realize that he doesn't feel good about himself his win.
    Gumball: I got the remote back, so that's good. That means I can fix everything. That's good... (snaps his fingers) That's it! I just doomed a guy with no family or friends to an eternity in limbo and made a stupid quip about it! (gasps in horror) I've become the villain!
    • The ending of the episode has an element of tragedy to it. Rob has a change of heart because Gumball tried to save him from the void, they even become friends. But that friendship was brief, in order to undo the damage he did, Rob has to rewind time to when the episode began. In other words, Gumball won't have any memories of what happened or of their friendship while Rob will. By hitting the Reset Button, the two will go back to being enemies and Rob has clearly resigned himself to that fate because of what he had done.
The Stories
  • It's revealed that Molly hangs out in the boy's washroom because it's her "dark place", a place to be by herself because she knows her stories are boring and no one wants to hear them no matter how much she tries to engage people.
The Choices
  • We witness how Nicole has a bad childhood due to her parents, Daniel and Mary, controlling every part of her life until she met Richard. She eventually told them off in her late teens (even going as far as telling them, "I love him!" if you look closely), before storming out on them and moving in with Richard, bringing Mary to tears. At the wedding, Nicole was hoping to see her parents attend as they were invited but... they didn't show up, saddening Nicole from how her parents disowned her, until Richard assured her that she still got him around for the future.
    • Just seeing how her father usually shows little to no emotion other than anger, while her mother has her life literally planned out for her to the second. Obviously, neither of these attitudes are very healthy. Richard was probably the first person in Nicole's life who didn't care if she was a winner; he just liked her for herself and encouraged her to make her own decisions about her life.
    • Nicole's Imagine Spot of marrying Harold Wilson involves him constantly insulting her under the guise of compliments, even on their wedding day. We're then treated to a Time Skip where Nicole has clearly undergone numerous plastic surgeries (probably because of all the insults to her appearance) and finally snaps and gets arrested for setting the house on fire (and maybe killing her husband). It gets worse when you realize that this kind of situation actually happens in real life.
      • Hell, the entire sequence is this—it's completely silent, with a tear-jerking piano piece playing in the background. It's almost half the episode and is very reminiscent of the "Married Life" montage in Up, only with a happy ending. Nicole and Richard have been living together since their late teens after leaving their respective homes. The scene where Nicole is owning up to her choices and decidedly being 100% happy with her current life, as shown as the main image in the heartwarming page, "Actually, you know what? I wouldn't change a thing," is this, heartwarming, and Awesome.
    • For her part, Jojo kicks Richard out probably because she didn't want him to keep living with her as a Basement-Dweller and didn't want Nicole living with them too. While Jojo reconciled with her son by the time of his wedding, it's clear Richard had to deal with Parental Abandonment again, too.
The Slide
  • Brydie brutally rejects Rocky because of everything he did to get her.
The Outside
  • Richard loses his father for the second time when the Wattersons unintentionally drive Frankie away and get him sent to prison after reconciling with his son in the previous season.
The Matchmaker
  • Carrie has to suffer the ordeal in thinking Darwin is into Teri because of Gumball seeing Darwin's photo of her (but the picture's actually of Carrie, who isn't reflected on photos since she's a ghost) and having to help them via a love potion (even using her own tears as an ingredient since she loves Darwin enough to make it work). After Gumball realizes his mistake, they both try to snap them out of it, but the potion's effect is too strong to break the two apart, leaving Carrie in tears, giving up for not being able to be with the one she truly loves. Thankfully, true love found its way with Darwin managing to snap out of it after witnessing Carrie in her sadness.
The Cycle
  • It is revealed that Harold has been bullying Richard ever since high school, where Harold tricked him into believing that Richard was the prom king and got him publicly humiliated as a result. This issue has been weighing on Richard since then.
The Weirdo
  • The treatment of Sussie by almost everyone can be considered this. Gumball and Darwin genuinely try to help her be more "normal" (mainly so other people will stop picking on her), but fail. When Sussie asks why they are trying to change who she is, Gumball and Darwin respond with this (which, unfortunately, is a very Hard Truth Aesop that is all too common in real life):
    Gumball: People aren't always nice. The world can be harsh.
    Darwin: It can be confusing, heartless, and cruel. It can turn on anything that is different; that goes against the norm.
The List The News
  • While being among the many Funny Moments,, seeing the Watterson kids and their mother after escaping a fire from their house is just heartbreaking. Granted, the fire started all because they saw a spider, but Gumball and his siblings look genuinely terrified from the experience, which is rather hard to believe considering what occurs in their lives on a daily basis.

    Season 6 
The Father
  • Frankie comes for a visit, being welcomed with a ceremonial song that criticizes every mistake he's made throughout his life (a tradition made up by his ex-wife, who still holds animosity towards him), which only adds to his guilt about abandoning his family and depresses Richard, who makes it clear that he is still not over his abandonment issues with his father. His kids' attempts to cheer him up only remind him of the pain of when Frankie left him, and even when they conclude that Richard and Frankie both need to make up for lost time, Frankie's old criminal habits die hard trying to bond with his son, frustrating him. In the end, Richard was about to give up on Frankie due to the latter's inability to fully change, until Frankie praises him for being a better parent than he ever was and admits to being proud of his son for not ending up like him, leading to a heartfelt reconciliation.
The Faith
  • Alan loses all hope in the world and results in him giving up his charity work and falling into serious depression. An especially heartbreaking moment is during the song where Gumball and Darwin try to get him to find the good in the little things but they just keep bringing up so much depressing stuff in the world leading to these lyrics:
    Alan: Tell me how is that supposed to make me feel better,
    my life's unraveling just like threads pulled from a sweater.
    There's no sunshine in my future, it is grey, desaturated,
    Tell me why I shouldn't feel so deflated.
    • Thankfully, the next part of the song is incredibly uplifting and finally restores Alan's faith in the world.
The Parents
  • When Nicole meets her parents again, they spend most of the episode arguing, with Nicole stating how overprotective they were, and her parents complaining about how violent she was. They reconcile after Gumball sings a heartbreaking song called "If It's Too Hard To Forgive" (which was actually about the Christmas presents they owe him and his siblings).
    • During their discussion, Nicole and her parents continue to go back and forth about all the events that caused tension between them, only for them to realize that after a certain point, they don't even remember what caused so much tension.
      Darwin: Then why are you still angry at each other? Why can't you just make peace?
      Nicole: We were at peace, Darwin. Separately.
The Potion
  • Hector realizes being small isn't as great as it seemed for him—he gets beaten up and hurt several times, can't walk because he never needed to take more than two steps before, and can't ride a bike because he never learned. He is later seen depressed sitting on a swing at the park, before the 8-bit dog tells him it's his turn, and reveals a line of depressed people.
    • The episode alone is considered a punch in the gut compared to "The Night". Who knows how long Hector has been dreaming about being small, only for it be destroyed instantly. What makes matters worse is the possibility that Hector may have developed some resentment toward normal-sized people, considering what he has been put through.
      Hector: Yeah, I don't want to be insulting, but living down amongst people is like living among gross, selfish, bacteria-riddled cockroaches.
      Darwin: Wow, glad you're not trying to be insulting.
      Hector: Sorry, I apologize.
      Darwin: Thank you.
      Hector: ...To cockroaches.
The Understanding
  • There's something sad about Peter being completely incomprehensible simply because of his parents' incompetence as home-school teachers.
The Silence
  • The very sad and heartwrenching song "Out of Sync" can easily make viewers cry.
The Heart
  • While it definitely has its funny moments, Gumball's "Reason You Suck" Speech to Mr. Robinson can definitely count as a tearjerker. Especially considering that after all of the hate he's shown the pair over the course of the seasons, Gumball and Darwin finally reached their breaking point after overhearing his true feelings about them.
    Gumball: What seemed sweet has turned out to be lethally toxic, like feeding a chocolate cake to a puppy next to the tailpipe of a 4x4 in the middle of an oil spill, while reading Elmore Plus comments. (sniffs) I'm sorry, Mr. Robinson, but you don't love us. You just love to hate us. And if you can't see the difference, then your heart is beyond saving.
The BFFs
  • It's revealed that Darwin's jealousy towards Fuzzy stems from his fear that Gumball may eventually abandon him in favor of a new best friend. Made even worse when you realize that Darwin was almost abandoned by Gumball in "The Origins" and it has made quite the effect on him.
The Inquisition
  • The final episode, "The Inquisition", has its Awesome moments and its Nightmare Fuel moments. But the fact that this episode is the final episode note  hits every single fan in the chest, especially when it ends on a cliffhanger.
    • William being forced to open a door with nothing but his eye really is gut-wrenching, especially when it's the wrong door.

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