Richard Watterson

Richard Watterson is the father of Gumball and Anais, adoptive father of Darwin, and husband to Nicole. He is an overweight Cottontail Rabbit who has no job, despite always wearing work clothes. His daughter Anais mainly inherits facial features from him, but not his personality. He doesn't seem to possess any degree of responsibility or common sense.

Personality
Richard is the kind of person who is very lazy and unwilling to do anything, even the simplest of tasks. He stays at home and spends most of his time playing video games or watching television. He has a large appetite and is a very voracious eater.

Richard, like his son Gumball, occasionally does not wear any pants. He would have to be told to or be forced to wear pants by Nicole. An example of that would be in The Responsible when Nicole had to put his pants on him and had to make it tight enough to keep the pants on him, until the button on his pants flew right off.

He is very childish and somewhat stubborn, a fact that Nicole and Anais point out frequently. He has a similar sort of stupidity to his sons, and sometimes, all three use their silly antics to create foolish ideas. Despite all of this, he may have a little bit of responsibility lying in him somewhere as he loves his wife, his sons, and his daughter, and even got a job so he could please his daughter, Anais.

Most of the time, he chooses to be very irresponsible. An example of him being irresponsible would be in The Spoon, when he sent Gumball and Darwin by themselves downtown to a gas station at night to get his wife a birthday present.

In The Dress, it is shown that he does not listen to instructions/directions well, as he did the laundry when Nicole told him not to, causing the laundry to shrink.

When he was a child, he used to run around at school pretending to be his alter-ego, "The Cottontail Cavalier". Many of the other classmates laughed at him, but Nicole liked him for who he truly was. Nicole had to confiscate his cape and say that the President needed it, the fact that Richard still resents in adulthood.

Richard, despite being gullible, is shown in The Laziest to be somewhat clever. He tricks the boys into thinking he gave up when Nicole showed up and tricked her into thinking he was hard at work while the boys were lazily sitting on the couch, simply to avoid doing his chores.

In The Prank, it is shown that Richard is not very good at pulling pranks on Gumball and Darwin, although his salt prank did work. Through out the rest of the episode, he seems to be a gullible victim because of his own stupidity and he also panics if he is seen as a failure due to his inability to prank people. It is also revealed that his psychotic insanity is what happens when everyone elses' pranks go too far, but the insanity-filled warpath against Gumball and Darwin was all part of his prank.

Appearances

 * "The Responsible" (debut)
 * "The Third"
 * "The End"
 * "The Dress"
 * "The Spoon"
 * "The Painting"
 * "The Laziest"
 * "The Ghost"
 * "The Prank"
 * "The GI"
 * "The Kiss"
 * "The Party"
 * "The Refund"
 * "The Robot"

Trivia

 * He seems to be trying to lay golden eggs, as revealed in The End.
 * He has no job whatsoever, but in The Painting, he tried to get a job. He failed due to being nearly 8 hours late.
 * Richard has a spot in his right side of his waist that Gumball likes to poke while he's asleep.
 * He can grow a moustache through sheer force of will, as revealed in The Refund.
 * He is a pacifist, as revealed in The Refund, when he was talking to the store manager.
 * He is very lazy to the point he got his sons in trouble by making it look like he was working in The Laziest.
 * He very good at doing things while not getting up to do it, like in The Laziest, he gets himself a slice of pizza without getting up.
 * Richard amitted that he liked Darwin more than his other childern.

Quotes
Gumball: "It's me, Dad!" Richard: "Hello, It's-Me-Dad!" (whispers in Anais' ears) "Is she foreign?"
 * Richard: "Who's your pretty friend, Anais?"


 * Richard: "I gotta admit, I broke 5 ribs, but it was all worth it, just to see your faces!"


 * Richard: "Come on, think outside the box! It's got everything we need -- a toilet, a...toilet..."


 * Richard: (race walking) "It's an Olympic event, you know!"

Richard: "Yep, that's exactly what happened last time!"
 * Richard: "Don't worry, girls! I've been in this situation before -- I'm going to kick the door open! (kicks door, Port-A-Potty tips over, dirty toilet water spills all over the three. Door remains closed.)


 * Richard: "Apocalypse, Apocla-tips -- it's all the same, smarty pants!"


 * Richard: "I'll do it for you, my little girl! Plus, I need that key to the executive washroom!"


 * Richard: "It's only funny when it's someone else!"


 * Richard: "Oh, yeah, I have no idea how that happened. The cement was wet when I put it in there."

Nicole: "Um, who are you blaming?" Richard': (whimpering)'' "The internet...?"
 * Richard: "Well, none of this would have happened if it wasn't for you!" (points at broken computer)

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 * Richard: (purposely making an excuse) "Oh, no! It seems I can't put them on! I'm afraid we can't go to the parents' evening."
 * Richard: "What? So you mean the president really didn't need my cape?"
 * Nicole: "I'm sorry honey."
 * Richard: "It's because of you I'm mortal! *runs off and cries*