User blog comment:Nacho1804/The Problematic TAWoG Timeline/@comment-25453486-20171106140508

Interesting analysis. Although I disagree with some points, given that the show has provided plenty of dates we could start to set the timeline at, for example: season five's first episodes take place around 2016 (this is assumption, given that season 4 seems to be mainly set in 2015) Its last episodes take place in 2017, provided by "The Best": so, shortly, we could assume (because the show is simply inconsistent with time, it would seem the writers simply add whatever's time they're producing the episode as the date the events are happening, which...would even make sense story wise..., but never place too much importance on it since it's simply not based on a follow-through story) that season 5 takes place from around X month in 2016, to the middle of 2017. In an episode from that same season, "The Loophole", Gumball gets knocked into the previous year, to one of the last season 3 episodes: "The Spoiler"; so...that season happens exactly a year before that, let's say, 2015. If that holds true, then season 4 would take place during 2016...though the last episodes (aka, The Points) still set the date in 2015...so, what's the real timeline?

Elmore events happen at its own schedule. The town has so many illogical things going on that if it handled its own concept of time and years, it would sound plausible to me. For me, I'm glad it's at least partially consistent with events of the same seasons happening around the same time range. And of course, some continuity. But I bet the show's very aware of it, since they are of pretty much everything they do.

Still, it was interesting to read this, as I've said. You put effort on it, and for that I applaud you ^^