

The way Richard's button destroyed one floor of a tower is a reference to the popular puzzle game Tetris, when the blocks complete a line and it disappears.Larry describes Burgie as "a friend to all the children." This could be a reference to Gamera, who shares a similar title.The mascot Burgie the Clown is a reference to Ronald McDonald, the clown mascot for McDonald's.Yet another one of Gumball's guesses is the "Bilderburger," a reference to the Bilderberg conference which is known to be extremely secretive.Another one of Gumball's guesses is the "Area Beefty-One," a reference to the highly classified government facility Area 51 in Nevada.One of Gumball's guesses to the secret burger is the "Illumi-patty," a reference to the Illuminati.Richard likens his dream of ordering the burger to finding Atlantis, Montezuma's Gold, or Moby Dick.Like Joyful Burger, many restaurant chains have well-known sets of special orders that come to be known as secret menus.The Joyful Burger location in the mall features the exact same interior and external decals as Dinner in " The Misunderstandings.".The Joyful Burger location featured in " The Traitor" reappears.When Richard is taking photos of Burgie, he is using the same account on his phone as in " The Diet.".Richard reuses his excuse from " The Laziest," when he states he has a "medical condition.When Richard said he cannot get a job, it is a possible callback to " The Job.".When trying to order the secret burger, Richard contorts his face like he did in " The Signal.".This episode reveals that Larry has thirty-eight jobs in Elmore.This episode reveals that Joyful Burger's mascot is a clown named Burgie.

Richard happily tries to eat it, but it cannot fit in his mouth due to his increased weight and having already eaten too many burgers prior, ending the episode. Ultimately, he succeeds, and as a reward, Larry gives Richard the special burger: the M'Guffin. Richard and the kids set out to go to every Joyful Burger location, but in the process of doing so, Richard becomes morbidly obese from eating too many burgers, and as a result, he is unable to fit in the car, so they are forced to walk back to Larry's Joyful Burger location. Larry tells Richard that to receive the secret burger, he has to eat something from every Joyful Burger location in an hour. After posing the statue to be eating their competitor's food, attacking Darwin, blending a chicken's leg, and Richard deep-frying and eats the statue's fingers, Larry caves and finally tells them about the secret menu for the mysterious burger. When Larry refuses to abide, they threaten to vandalize the Joyful Burger mascot, Burgie. In it, they are interviewed by a news reporter, but it is only once asked how they got into the industry in the first place that they remembered what they initially set out to do.Īt nighttime, Richard, Gumball, and Darwin kidnap Larry, and strapped him in a chair, forcing him to tell them about the secret Joyful Burger menu. What follows is a montage showing Gumball and Darwin climbing the corporate ladder and coming to dominate the Joyful Burger franchise, eventually selling shares of the company for $4.6 billion, with which they buy a mansion. When all else fails, Richard suggests that Gumball and Darwin get jobs at Joyful Burger in hopes of infiltrating the business and finding out the secret burger's name. Richard, Gumball, and Darwin go to the drive-thru at Joyful Burger and attempt to trick Larry into ordering the special burger, with Richard trying to imitate a poor connection through the drive-thru intercom system, but Larry does not seem to play along.

Gumball states that the only way to eat this special is to find out its name. Richard asks Gumball what the secret menu of Joyful Burger is. The episode begins with Richard sleeping on the couch, when suddenly his ear perks up and he rushes out of the house with lightning speed, crashing through neighborhood walls, on the freeway, and into the Elmore Mall, where Gumball and Darwin were waiting. Important details about the plot or story are up ahead
