Board Thread:Gumball Talk/@comment-25624223-20141105024308/@comment-4060139-20141105090329

38 seems like a believable age for them. IMO, if the creator says something about the show, I'd take it as canon, unless he's very clearly not serious. We've based lots of things on what the creators have said (Darwin's age, for example).

In this case, though, his last tweet is what makes me uncertain ("Maybe they're a little younger then.") He didn't seem certain that that's what he wants the canon age to be, just that he was mentally using that age for them as he wrote the episodes and developed their characters. Which, to me, deserves a trivia bullet at the very least. I'd even say putting that as their ages in the infobox would be reasonable.

As for this being too dark a topic for a kids' show, I actually disagree lol. They've already done the whole "dad walks on out family" thing with Richard (could also mean a legal divorce, but I took "went to go get milk and never came back" as abandonment, and even then, divorce is a pretty big thing). A shotgun wedding scenario wouldn't be too far off. And it can be done in a sorta light-hearted, feel good way. Like, the parents refused to let their children marry, but changed their mind when they saw Nicole was pregnant.

That's just how I feel, though.