History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E23TheMirror

-->''(laughing) Oh my gosh! [[LampshadeHanging You believe in things I don't believe it!]]''

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Cartoon Network's North Africa/Middle East channel cuts out the part where Penny turns into a snake-haired Medusa after Carmen tells Penny that Gumball thinks she's fat (when really he meant to say "[She's] so cool, she gives penguins brain-freeze]"). This episode didn't air ''at all'' in Turkey, for some reason.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Gumball actually says the word "damnation", and it ISN'T censored.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: This episode did not air in Turkey for reasons unknown (most likely because the scenes with the Snatcher haunting the Watterson house, Gumball's line about "...spending an eternity of damnation in limbo" rather than watching a home shopping channel, Gumball and Darwin's BodyHorror, and Carrie's father falling out the window and reuniting with his daughter in death were too scary/distressing for younger audiences [or all the scenes of demons and the occult went against Muslim beliefs, as Turkey is a country with a predominantly Muslim population]), which is odd, because Cartoon Network's North Africa/Middle East channel does air this episode, but they only cut the part where Penny turns into a snake-haired Medusa after Carmen tells Penny that Gumball thinks she's fat (when really he meant to say "[She's] so cool, she gives penguins brain-freeze]").

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Darwin is mocked by Gumball for believing in things like big foot, horoscopes, and telepathy despite Elmore having plenty of things that are weirder than those.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: This episode did not air in Turkey for reasons unknown (most likely because the scenes with the Snatcher haunting the Watterson house, Gumball's line about "...spending an eternity of damnation in limbo" rather than watching a home shopping channel, Gumball and Darwin's BodyHorror, and Carrie's father falling out the window and reuniting with his daughter in death were too scary/distressing for younger audiences [or all the scenes of demons and the occult went against Muslim beliefs, as Turkey is a country with a predominant Muslim population]), which is odd, because Cartoon Network's North Africa/Middle East channel does air this episode, but they only cut the part where Penny turns into a snake-haired Medusa after Carmen tells Penny that Gumball thinks she's fat (when really he meant to say "[She's] so cool, she gives penguins brain-freeze]").

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: ''Three.'' Gumball and Darwin frantically search through the spell book for spells that might help combat the Snatcher, only for horrible effects to come directly after, as Carrie warned. One thing leads to another, and Darwin [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatters like glass]]. Gumball immediately casts a revival spell that [[PullingThemselvesTogether reassembles Darwin's shattered remains]], but the parts are [[ScaryStitches stitched together]] and look as if they've decayed. Gumball immediately loses his body, followed by Carrie saying that the side effect to a revival spell is the loss of your own body. [[UnexplainedRecovery They both got better.]] Lastly, there's the untimely death of Carrie's father, the Snatcher. He, [[EpicFail whilst trying to lovingly embrace his ethereal daughter,]] [[DeathByFallingOver falls out a window.]]

** Darwin suggests using the spell book to defend themselves from the Snatcher.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Carrie hears about the Snatcher, she [[OhCrap gets really scared]] and teleports away. [[SubvertedTrope She actually wasn't running away]] but going to the Underworld to grab a spell book.

* YouAreFat: Gumball's passes on a message through classmates, meaning to tell Penny that she's cool, but the message turns into calling her fat by the end. Cue a NightmareFace from Penny and thrown objects from the rest of the class, including [[ProducePelting Banana Joe]] (as in [[GrievousHarmWithABody someone threw him]]).

* YouAreFat: Gumball's passes on a message through classmates, meaning to tell Penny that she's cool, but the message turns into calling her fat by the end. Cue a NightmareFace from Penny and thrown objects from the rest of the class, including [[ProducePelting Banana Joe]] (as in [[GrievousHarmWithABody someone threw him]]).