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The title card that is featured in the opening credits.

The title card of "The DVD," the first episode of the series aired.

The Amazing World of Gumball (sometimes referred to simply as Gumball) is a British-American animated television series created by Ben Bocquelet for Cartoon Network. It is produced primarily by Cartoon Network Studios Europe (formerly Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe) and Studio Soi.

On May 3rd, 2011, a sneak preview of the episode "The DVD" was shown after the premiere of The Looney Tunes Show. It officially premiered on May 9th, 2011, with the episodes "The DVD" and "The Responsible," and ended on June 24th, 2019, with "The BFFs" and "The Inquisition." According to the Cartoon Network website, The Amazing World of Gumball is one of the most popular shows on the channel, along with Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Steven Universe.

The series revolves around the life of Gumball Watterson, a twelve-year-old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved in various shenanigans around the city, during which he interacts with various family members—Anais, Richard, and Nicole—and other various citizens.

A television movie based on the series was announced on February 17th, 2021. It is unknown when the movie will be released.

Early concept

Early visual development.

There were some posters made from January to March 2011 during the plans, hinting the vast changes between the pilot and these posters, to the finished concept on air today.

Miscellaneous changes

• The show's logo had a different design.

Gumball and Darwin with most of their classmates.

Changes to Elmore Junior High

• Tina had a more realistic and low-quality appearance.
• Idaho had a lighter color.
• Teri was a lot wider and was not crumpled.
• Tobias had no lips.
• Miss Simian's classroom looked different.
• Penny's antlers were darker, along with having green arm bands instead of orange.
• Carrie's outline was black rather than red and cyan.
• Juke originally had gray boots and pants.
• Jamie's skin was a more pea-green color, and her hair was brown instead of orange.
  
  The Wattersons and their neighborhood.

Changes to the Watterson family and neighborhood

• Anais had whiskers.
• The Wattersons' house had a sun cover, eyes, and blue steps on the porch.
• Gumball had bigger eyes.
• Darwin's shadow was lighter (this appears again in Season 2).
• The Sun had freckles.

Episodes

There have been six seasons. The complete list of episodes can be seen here.

Every single episode's title begins with "The" and then the name of a supporting object or matter. The only episodes not to do this are "Christmas" and "Halloween."

Intro

Main article: Opening theme

The first ten episodes or so were animated slightly differently from the later episodes. All the episodes have mixed media, with CGI dinosaurs, mixed in with claymation balls of clay, and 2D flowers and ghosts. However, the animations of the 2D characters became slightly more jerky and generally cartoony than the first episodes' more lifelike motions. Gumball's body also changes in form slightly, with his fangs rounded and his eyes slightly smaller than before, All of which changed by the first season finale, as the animations in the last two episodes seemed less jerky and more lifelike, along with Gumball's fangs being sharp again and his eyes being bigger. Also, unlike most cartoons, it uses backgrounds from the real world, due to the reason that the creator worked on commercials for the UK before creating the show, learning how to give a realistic feeling to the background.

International

Censorship

Main article: Censorship of The Amazing World of Gumball

Broadcast

Cast

Season 1

• Logan Grove as Gumball
• Kwesi Boakye as Darwin
• Kyla Kowalewski as Anais and Rosie
• Teresa Gallagher as Nicole, Penny, Margaret Robinson, Teri, and Carmen
• Dan Russell as Richard, Tina, and Marvin Finklehimer, Dr. Butt, Patrick, and the Ripley 2000 manager
• Jessica McDonald as Masami, Carrie, Jamie, Rachel, Molly, and Daisy the Donkey
• Sandra Searles Dickinson as Granny Jojo, Karen, and Martha
• Lewis MacLeod as Rocky, Principal Brown, Miss Simian, Mr. Small, and the Donut Cop
• Kerry Shale as Larry, Bobert, Leslie, Idaho, Alan, Hector, and Sal Left Thumb
• Rupert Degas as Tobias, Clayton, Mr. Robinson, Bean, and Paperball

Season 2

• Logan Grove as Gumball
• Kwesi Boakye as Darwin
• Kyla Kowalewski as Anais
• Teresa Gallagher as Nicole, Penny, Teri, Ms. Markham, Siciliana Pepperoni, and Margaret Robinson
• Dan Russell as Richard, Jealousy, Marvin Finklehimer, Patrick, the bandage doctor, the Donut Cop, "Porky" Cassidy, and the French fries
• Jessica McDonald as Masami, Carrie, Jamie, and Daisy the Donkey
• Kerry Shale as Larry, Bobert, Leslie, and Hector
• Hugo Harold-Harrison as Tobias, Idaho, Alan and Miss Simian
• Maxwell Cazier as Clayton and Ocho
• Adam Long as Mr. Small
• Mic Graves as Banana Joe and William
• Sandra Searles Dickinson as Granny Jojo, Mrs. Jotunheim, and Cupcake Woman
• Brian Blessed as Santa Claus

Season 3

• Logan Grove (one episode only), Jacob Hopkins as Gumball, Zach
• Kwesi Boakye (one episode only), Terrell Ransom Jr. as Darwin
• Kyla Kowalewski as Anais
• Teresa Gallagher as Nicole, Penny, and Margaret Robinson
• Dan Russell as Richard, Coach, Patrick, the scary old man, Mr. Chanax, Chicken Bucket, and Marvin Finklehimer
• Sandra Searles Dickinson as Granny Jojo, and Felicity Parham
• Shane Rimmer as Louie
• Maria Teresa Creasey as Jamie
• Simon Lipkin as Rocky
• Clive Russell as the manly warrior
• Sir Derek Jacobi as the narrator in "The Lie"

Season 4

• Jacob Hopkins as Gumball
• Terrell Ransom, Jr. as Darwin
• Kyla Kowalewski as Anais
• Teresa Gallagher as Nicole, Penny and Margaret Robinson
• Dan Russell as Richard and Marvin Finklehimer
• Gillian Hanna as Betty
• Naomi McDonald as Clare
• Rich Fulcher as Frankie
• Sir Derek Jacobi as the Moon in "The Night"
• David Warner as Rob

Season 5

• Jacob Hopkins (from "The Rerun" to "The Copycats"), Nicolas Cantu as Gumball
• Terrell Ransom, Jr. (from "The Rerun" to "The Copycats"), Donielle T. Hansley Jr. as Darwin
• Kyla Kowalewski as Anais
• Teresa Gallagher as Nicole
• Dan Russell as Richard
• Richard Overall as Josh
• J.G. Quintel as Hi-Five Ghost in "The Boredom"
• Pete Browngardt as Uncle Grandpa in "The Boredom"

Season 6

• Nicolas Cantu as Gumball
• Donielle T. Hansley Jr. (from "The Rival" to "The Anybody"), Christian J. Simon as Darwin
• Kyla Kowalewski as Anais
• Teresa Gallagher as Nicole
• Dan Russell as Richard

References in popular culture

Television series

Show	Episode	Characters	Description	Image
Teen Titans Go!	"Squash & Stretch"	GumballDarwin	Gumball and Darwin appear in a Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner styled cartoon on the Titans' television. Darwin's appearance has purple skin with red shoes and Gumball's appearance has green fur and a red sweater.
Uncle Grandpa	"The Grampies" (a short from "Pizza Eve")	Gumball	Gumball appears as an audience member watching the Grampies awards. Gumball's appearance is animated in hand-drawn animation with the oval eyes used in Season 2; his eyelids are different than in the current series' design.
Uncle Grandpa	"Cartoon Factory"	Darwin	In a scene with Uncle Grandpa in the factory's office cubicles, a blue Darwin can be seen in a poster on the wall.
South Park	"The End of Serialization as We Know It"	N/A	Sheila uses TrollTrace to look up Ike's internet history; the Google search title "amazing world of Gumball streaming" appears in the list.
Jimmy Kimmel Live!	N/A	GumballDarwinBobertCody	The segment Unnecessary Censorship features a clip from "The Upgrade" showing Gumball touching Cody's ponytail. The word "Ponytail" was bleeped to make it sound like a profane word was censored.
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes	"Crossover Nexus"	Gumball (formed by Ben Tennyson)	Ben uses his Omnitrix, reconfigured by K.O., to transform into various Cartoon Network characters to defeat Red Strike. One of his forms includes Gumball Watterson.
Ollie & Scoops	"Warm Cream"	GumballTina	In one scene Scoops enters a hallway, which features posters on the walls of various different cartoon cat characters, Gumball being one of the first in sight. The poster features both him and Tina.

Books

Title	Characters	Description	Image
The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked	GumballDarwin	Alfie, the main protagonist of the book, goes into an episode of the show with Gumball and Darwin.

Miscellaneous

Title	Characters	Description	Image
MAD	GumballDarwinPennyMasamiMolly	The show is mentioned in a column discussing the problems modern cartoons have caused. It claims that Gumball has caused children to become racist against the Swedish.
AT&T	Gumball	Gumball appears in the AT&T commercials with Mark Wahlberg, who calls him "kids' show thing."

Awards & Nominations

Trivia

• The Amazing World of Gumball was originally titled Gumball only, even before Gumball Watterson was the main character or created.
• While the concept for the show had been around since 2007, production on the show did not officially begin until 2009.
• The Amazing World of Gumball was named "Cartoon Network's first original series to be animated in the UK," being produced by Dandelion Studios from season 1. Its world premiere was in the United States and its first sneak peek in the United Kingdom.
• The show was renewed for a second season before it even premiered.
• It was originally supposed to be about rejected cartoon characters attending a remedial school.
• The series changed air dates from Monday to Tuesday to accompany Level Up in America and Europe. Then, the show moved to Wednesdays since all the time slots were taken on Tuesdays. However, it went back to Tuesdays towards the end of season 2, only to be moved to Thursdays starting in season 3.
• Every episode has had the word "the" in its name except for two episodes, "Halloween" and "Christmas." Both are holiday specials.
  • This is not the case in Japan, where the episode names are changed to be similar to the names of episodes from anime series in Japan.
• All episodes are ten to eleven minutes long. There have been no half-hour specials, though "The Origins" and "The Origins: Part Two" add up to almost thirty minutes, and another two-parter that forms a half-hour special in total exists, comprised of the season 4 finale, "The Disaster," and the first season 5 episode, "The Rerun."
  • Season 3 was originally supposed to have a half-hour special about how Gumball and Penny would break up because she found her true shape after "The Shell," but the episode was quickly scrapped. [1]
• "The Man" is the hundredth episode of the series.
  • "The Vegging" is the two hundredth episode.
• In Season 2, the Wattersons' eyelids are darker when they close their eyes.
  • In Season 3 and onwards, the Wattersons' eyes are permanently round, except for a few episodes where Richard and sometimes the rest of the family still have oval eyes.
• The show is rated TV-Y7 with fantasy violence in the United States.
• Several episodes featured guest animators like CRCR, Monteblanc Pictures Co. LTD., Studio•4C, and Simon Landrein.
• There is an episode featuring parodied versions of the Miracle Star cast in Season 5 known as "The Copycats."
• Contrary to rumors, Ben Bocquelet never actually pitched the show to Adult Swim.[2]
• It takes about one year to produce an episode and about 26 are worked on at the same time.
• On December 1st, 2017, writing for the series officially concluded.[3]
• The Amazing World of Gumball is featured on Code.org as a play lab.
• The Amazing World of Gumball is available for streaming on Max.

References

1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/gumball/comments/3o0rna/episode_discussion_the_romantic/
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/benbocquelet/status/557632076636499969
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/benbocquelet/status/936613418504777729