Nicole likewise tries to perform her job, working in construction, though she quickly gets injured and trapped under a metal bar, but as a man, she is physically unable to ask for help, nor instructions to get to the hospital.Īll the Wattersons return home after the day's activities none the happier, though glad to be back to their old selves. Gumball and Darwin enter an elevator to get to the top floor of their work building- where all the executives hang out- but the "glass ceiling" preventing anyone but old, rich men from getting to the top crushes them through the elevator floor. Meanwhile, Nicole takes a jog with her appearance terrifying everybody in the park, and Richard endures the cycle of endless schoolwork at Elmore Junior High.Īnais, sitting at an office cubicle, laments the dullness of adult life and tries to use her imagination to make the situation more exciting, but the best she can conjure up is a hat, causing her to throw her dreams in the trash. Gumball and Darwin walk to work dressed as women, but quickly find themselves fought over and underestimated in their ability to perform basic human functions. On a bus ride to work, Anais eats a donut, but swells up with body fat from her middle-aged metabolism, even to the point of air causing her to pick up weight. Nicole, however, does not put any make-up on at all, recognizing how little care men put into their appearance disdainfully. In the bathroom, Gumball is waxing himself while Darwin applies make-up to conform to the unrealistic beauty expectations placed on women. Richard, on the other hand, happily cartwheels into the car, but being unable to technically drive as a kid, immediately crashes it. They then decide, fed up with others thinking that they have it worse, to swap lives for a day: Nicole will be a man, Gumball and Darwin will be women, Anais will be a grown up, and Richard will be a kid.Īnais wakes up the next day in Nicole and Richard's bed, immediately messing up her back. Larry refuses to entertain him with the usual routine - using a fish as a puppet for Richard's amusement - and tells him he needs to grow up. Richard then tells an account of his own day: at the grocery store. Anais interjects and complains about how adults have set up future generations to fail, though she is met with condescension once more.
Yoshida has never chosen a female "Employee of the Month," but he fails to take her cue, instead promoting a plant on her desk, getting Nicole's male co-worker his own office (despite her doing his work), and telling her she should smile more. Meanwhile, at the Rainbow Factory, Nicole is frustrated that Mr. When they walk in, Tobias smells their shower gel, "Roses of the Meadow," and declares them weak for not conforming to conventional masculinity, with Ocho and Banana Joe joining in to mock them. Gumball and Darwin go on to recall events earlier in the school showering stalls.
Meanwhile, Anais complains about being a kid and how she is constantly talked to with condescension, and Richard complains about the difficulties of avoiding his adult responsibilities. Gumball then broods over how difficult it is to be a guy, but Nicole quickly refutes their claim, saying that being a woman is worse. They eventually storm inside their house and to the dinner table, brooding, where Richard, who is also angry, prepares dinner, smashing several plates, slamming utensils on the table, and covering their faces with spaghetti in the process. Anais plows through Banana Joe, the melted cheese guy, and a school bus Gumball and Darwin cause Idaho to rot by giving him a menacing stare, and spoil the milk guy and Nicole, furiously comes home from work, breaks her steering wheel and the car itself. The episode starts with Anais, Gumball, and Darwin angrily storming home from school. Important details about the plot or story are up ahead