History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E34TheBlame

** During the scene depicting Billy being wowed by video games, images are featured referencing ''VideoGame/StarFox'', ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'' and ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''.

** During the scene depicting Billy being wowed by video games, images are featured referencing ''VideoGame/StarFox'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'', ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'' and ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''.

* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse:
-->'''Gumball:''' I read ''Literature/TheTortoiseAndTheHare'', a tale of torture and despair!\\
'''Darwin:''' [[LampshadeHanging You haven't actually read that one, have you?]]

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Felicity completely missed the point kids were trying to make about not blaming books or video games, and convinces everybody to just burn stuff.

* {{GIFT}}:
-->'''Felicity:''' [Richard] doesn't look very healthy at all.\\
'''Richard:''' Hey, this is the body of a world class gamer. You're lucky we're not online right now or [[NotInFrontOfTheKid I'd be saying things I'd never say to your face]]!

* EasyImpersonation: Darwin and Gumball try to impersonate Richard and Nicole, respectively. Darwin's is just terrible, as he had to paint on pink fur, pants, and a tie while sticking on a cardboard buck tooth and ears. Gumball's StrongFamilyResemblance ''would'' have made his disguise pretty good if he weren't [[PintSizedKid so much smaller than Nicole]] that he's walking over [[DisguisedInDrag her knee-length skirt]]. It's not clear how effective they are, as Nicole immediately exposes them and Richard falls for it only because [[TheDitz he thinks he's looking at himself talking]].

* MoralGuardian: Felicity was this to the T. To the point that when confronted that books can be as bad as video games but shouldn't blame them but instead focus on their parenting, she eventually leads a ''book burning''!

*** Susie screams "{{Off With Their Head}}s!" while [[Literature/AliceInWonderland wearing the Red Queen's crown]].

** This episode is a scathing commentary against {{Moral Guardian}}s against video games. Felicity ignores or warps evidence to make video games out as worse than they actually are, and it's pointed out that classical literature and history (commonly advocated alternatives) are just as bad, if not worse, than video games when they're supposedly less violent.

* CreatorCameo: The picture Mr. Small claims is what Ocho use to look like is of Jacob Hopkins, Gumball's second voice actor from "The Kids" to "The Copycats".

*** Susie screams OffWithTheirHeads while [[Literature/AliceInWonderland wearing the Red Queen's crown]].

* ShoutOut: The kids mention a plethora of books in their song
** At one point, Penny dresses herself as [[Literature/TheHungerGames Katniss Evergreen]].
** Darwin mentions that Creator/WilliamShakespeare's books are filled with vicious violence.
** Tobias sings about how ''Literature/OliverTwist'' is about kids learning how to pick pocket.
** Susie screams OffWithTheirHeads while [[Literature/AliceInWonderland wearing the Red Queen's crown]].
** The song begins referring to ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' and how the [[ItWasHisSled glasses kid doesn't survive]].

* CreatorCameo: The picture Mr. Small claims is what Ocho use to look like is of Jacob Hopkins, Gumball's current voice actor.

-->'''Gumball''': I read ''Literature/TheTortoiseAndTheHare'', a tale of torture and despair!\\
'''Darwin''': [[LampshadeHanging You haven't actually read that one, have you?]]

** This episode is a scathing commentary against {{Moral Guardian}}s.

** This episode is a HUGE one against [[MoralGuardian Moral Guardians]].

* EasyImpersonation: Darwin and Gumball try to impersonate Richard and Nicole, respectively. Darwin's is just terrible, as he had to paint on pink fur, pants, and a tie while sticking on a cardboard buck tooth and ears. Gumball's StrongFamilyResemblance ''would'' have made his disguise pretty good if he weren't [[PintSizedKid so much smaller than Nicole]] that [[DisguisedInDrag her skirt]] goes past his feet. It's not clear how effective they are, as Nicole immediately exposes them and Richard falls for it only because [[TheDitz he thinks he's looking at himself talking]].

* WasOnceAMan: Mr. Small claims that Ocho only looks like an 8-bit character because he plays a lot of video games, and he used to look like a [[MediumBlending live-action]] human. This probably isn't true.

* SelectiveObliviousness: Felicity ignores what's going on when it doesn't suit her hatred of video games like how Banana Joe can't tell from reality not due to video games but because of his father who's also as dumb and Gumball tries to show her that but to no avail.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Felicity completely missed the point kids were trying to say about not blaming books or video games and just try to prepare there children how to handle that violence and convinces everybody to just burn stuff.

** Gumball and Darwin disguised themselves as Nicole and Richard to speak in support of video games at the parent assembly. Besides the disguises being poor, they hadn't considered that [[ConfrontingYourImposter their actually parents would also be there]]. When Gumball tries to cover himself [[RefugeInAudacity by pretending the real Nicole is Gumball in disguise]], he [[DelayedReaction realizes too late]] that he's grounded ''[[EpicFail himself]]''.