The Amazing World of Gumball

The Amazing World of Gumball (sometimes referred to simply as Gumball) is a British-American animated television series that airs on Cartoon Network. It was created by Ben Bocquelet. On May 3, 2011, a sneak preview of the episode The DVD was shown after the premiere of The Looney Tunes Show. It officially premiered on May 9, 2011, with the episodes The Responsible and The DVD. According to the Cartoon Network website, The Amazing World of Gumball is the one of the most popular shows on the channel, along with Adventure Time and Regular Show.

International Debuts

 * The show aired on November 12, 2011 in the Japanese Cartoon Network.
 * The show aired unofficially on May 3rd in the US Cartoon Network. It aired officially on May 9th. It's also the front runner for the show, meaning that it will air first. And has the most episodes released, probably due to finished post production in the USA.
 * The show also aired on May 2nd in the UK Cartoon Network.
 * The show also premiered in Australia on the 1st of October 2011 along with their new logo and the it's a fun thing era
 * The show also aired September 4th in Latin Cartoon Network.
 * The show aired officially on September 2nd, 2011 in the Italian Cartoon Network. It also aired as trailer on June 7th, 2011.

Original Concept
There were some posters made in early 2011 (January-March) during the plans, hinting there was a pilot.
 * When people opened there mouths, they turn to a triangle shape.
 * Anais had whiskers.EarlyGumball.jpgAmazing-world-of-gumball-characters.jpg
 * Tina was in bad quality.
 * Darwin's shading on his legs were brown.
 * Idaho had a lighter color.
 * The logo was in a different color.
 * Miss Simian's classroom looked different.
 * Penny's antlers were brown.
 * The Wattersons' house could talk.
 * Bushes were 2D.
 * Animation looked different.

Episodes
There are currently two seasons planned. You can view the first season here.

Intro
Main Article: Opening Theme

Animation of The Amazing World of Gumball
The first ten episodes or so were animated slightly differently from the later episodes. All the episodes have mixed media, with CG dinosaurs mixed in with claymation balls of clay and 2D flowers and ghosts. However, the animations of the 2D characters became slightly more jerky (Gumball's arm was in the air one frame ago! What's it doing by his side?!) and generally cartoony than the first episode's more lifelike motions. Gumball's body also changes in form slightly, with his fangs rounded and his eyes slightly smaller than before. Also, unlike most cartoon, it uses real-looking backgrounds from the real world, due to the reason the the creator worked on commercials for the UK before creating the show, learning how to give a realistic feeling to the background.

Trivia

 * The Amazing World of Gumball was originally titled Gumball only, even before Gumball Watterson was the main character or made.
 * The show took two years to make.
 * The Amazing World of Gumball is named 'Cartoon Network United Kingdom's' first original series, despite it being produced by Dandelion Studios and it's world premiere being in America.
 * The show has been renewed for a second season before it even premiered.
 * It was originally supposed to be an Adult Swim show about reject cartoon characters attending a remedial school.

International Edits

 * In India, the show has a different intro theme song and outro theme song that resembles comic-strips. It can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwvkSwW4APo
 * Though its a British American show, the American version doesn't play the intro, but sells the show with it on iTunes and plays the theme during commercials. According to a rumor, the reasoning was due to a screening audiance disapproving of the song.
 * In Japan, when it will be released, they plan to replace the Outro song with a song called 'Yes/No continue.' for the reason that Japanese audiences wouldn't find the outro song enjoyable. Ironically, their only promo of the show plays the outro song anyways. It can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZsbhRcLK7g&list=LLt6lGmEgi_zZJYhuk6cBxPA&feature=mh_lolz
 * In Australia, they censors have decided to remove scenes warranted for violence. Thus so, they have removed certain scenes already, The list goes:

-The Painting: Mr. Small attacking and lighting a picture on fire was removed from the AU version. Due to violent action and usage of fire in a irresponsible way.

-The Secret: Gumball beating up Darwin's fighter in the video game was removed due to Gumball's somewhat graphic attacks in the game. - The Pressure: Tobias's bloodpact attempt was cut. Any scenes where people jumped out windows were cut. And Gumball and Darwin mentioning how great their kiss was.
 * CN Asia often cencors violence and suggestive material as well (Most Australian cencorship applied here so it wont be mentioned twice):

-The Prank: Richard's scene is cut before we get sight of his butt.

-The Sock: Again the jumping out the window scenes were missing, assuming the teachers just ran off.

-The Mystery: Rocky putting Acid on his hand was cut.

-The Party: Principal Brown and Ms. Simain's kissing was cut.