Chaper 2: Special Guests!
"Wasn't that great? I mean, who doesn't enjoy a good marching band? Apart from that loser, Harvey Beaks, I mean." said Gumball on the TV as he threw a dart at a dart board with a picture of Harvey's face taped to it.
Harvey was watching the show with an grim look on his face. Harvey never wished bad things upon people but in this case, he wished that Gumball would get an ingrown toe nail.
"Now here's one of my favorite episodes. In this one,
I invent a made up holiday to make the town slightly less depressing and afterwards we'll have our special musical guests play us a number so stay tuned!" and they started playing the episode.
When the cameras stopped rolling, Gumball turned to Anais. "What do you mean you couldn't hire The Beatles?!?!?" he yelled.
"I tried to tell you, they've been broken up for 45 years and two of them are dead!" Anais yelled back.
"Great, now what are we gonna do? we go live in eleven minutes!"
Just then, Tobias from school walked up with good news. "I hired a new band to play. They're these guys from Brooklyn who....."
"Wait, I thought you hated us. Why are you helping us?" asked Darwin.
"I'm gonna help you win the award in the hopes of me becoming a main character."
"I never said that," said Gumball. "however if I win the award, we'll see what happens."
Harvey was angrily eating some Pizza left over from the previous night when the episode ended. When he saw Gumball live, he groaned.
"Wasn't that a great episode?" Gumball asked the audience when he went live. "Better than Harvey Beaks. And now for a special treat. Please welcome an act so special, they only agreed to do MY show! Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS!"
The curtain was opened and nobody was there. Gumball couldn't believe it. Harvey couldn't help but laugh.
"HA, They cancelled on him!"
"I wonder why they didn't show up?" Fee asked sarcastically. It turned out that she and Foo had kidnapped They Might Be Giants and were tied-up in the dinning area.
"Fee, Foo, how could you?" Harvey was shocked. (well, not that shocked).
"Hey, we're helping you." said Foo. "Yeah, Are you really gonna let that guy get away with calling us all ripoffs?" said Fee.
Harvey then had one of his rare out of character moments. "You know what? You're right." and he approached the Brooklyn Alternate Rock band. "So, what song will you be performing on MY show?" he said in a sly tone.
"You're crazy!" said John Flansburgh. "We're not doing your stupid show, YOU KIDNAPPED US!" yelled John Linnell.
"Oh really?" said Harvey, opening his DVD cabinet and pulling out a box. "Well, maybe you'd be interested in watching the collected works of PAULY SHORE!"
"Any particular song you'd like to hear, sir?" asked John Linnell.
"Not really, I'm cool with whatever." And so, Fee and Foo set up the live TV cameras.
Back in Elmore, Gumball was not happy. "Where the heck are those guys?"
Darwin was watching TV. "Uh, Gumball, you might want to see what's on Nickelodeon right now." So Gumball took a look and could not believe his eyes.
"Welcome to the Harvey Beaks marathon." said Harvey on live TV. "I would like to apologize to fans of Sanjay and Craig but this is personal. Before we play show one of my favorites, here's a very special act. Ladies and Gentlemen, They Might Be Giants!" and the band played 'Birdhouse in your Soul'.
At this point, Gumball was really mad. "TOBIAS!!!"
"But this wasn't even my fault." he responded.
"I'm aware of that, I just need you and Anais to make a quick trip to Big Bark Woods."
When the song had finished, They Might Be Giants made a run for it.
"Hey Harvey, I think they're getting away!" alerted Foo.
"I don't really care, I just don't want Gumball to win."
Later on, Harvey was going outside to hang with his friends when he saw a large box with his name on it near the front door. "What's this?"
"Oh, some rainbow cloud kid an a bunny came by and propped it against the wall real careful like." said Fee going through the DVDs.
Harvey opened the box and inside was a giant pair of wax lips.
Harvey was confused, Foo was impressed and Fee just couldn't help but laugh. Then they all noticed they were ticking.
"Oh no." said Harvey. Then the ticking got louder and faster.
"LIP BOMB!!!!" the three said in unison.
When the bomb went off, the DVD shelf was destroyed, the couch was in pieces and there was soot and chunks of wax everywhere.
The kids where unharmed but there clothes were slightly burnt and torn, their hair was messed up and they were covered in soot.
As Miriam put out the small fire where the rug once was, Harvey proclaimed, "Of course you realize, this means war."
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