The Amazing World of Gumball



The Amazing World of Gumball (sometimes referred to simply as Gumball) is a British 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 DVD" and "The Responsible". According to the Cartoon Network website, The Amazing World of Gumball was one of the most popular shows on the channel, along with Adventure Time and Regular Show.

Early Concept


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

Changes to Elmore Junior High

 * The show's logo had a different design.
 * Tina had a more realistic and low-quality appearance.
 * Idaho had a lighter colour.
 * Teri was a lot wider and wasn't crumpled.
 * Tobias had no lips.
 * Miss Simian's classroom looked different.
 * Penny's antlers were darker.Cartoon-Network-loves-The-Amazing-Adventures-of-Gumball.jpg
 * Carrie's outline was black rather than red and cyan.
 * Clayton didn't have eyebrows.
 * Masami didn't have eyelashes.
 * Juke originally had gray boots and pants.

Changes to Watterson family/neighborhood

 * Anais has whiskers.
 * The Wattersons' house has a sun cover, and has eyes.
 * Gumball has bigger eyes.
 * Darwin's shadow is lighter (this appears again in season 2).
 * The Wattersons' house has blue steps on the porch.
 * The Wattersons' all have their season 2 shadows.

Episodes
There are currently two seasons and one in production. You can view the complete list of episodes here.

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 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, All of which changed by the first season finale as the animations in the last 2 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.

Trivia

 * The Amazing World of Gumball was originally titled Gumball only, even before Gumball Watterson was the main character or made.
 * The show took 4 years to make since the show started in 2007.
 * The Amazing World of Gumball was named "Cartoon Network UK's first original series", despite it being produced by Dandelion Studios and its world premiere being in US and first sneak peek in the UK.
 * The show was 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.
 * The series changed air dates from Monday to Tuesday to accompany Level Up in America & Europe. Then the show moved to Wednesdays since all the time slots were taken on Tuesdays. However it currently went back to Tuesdays.
 * Every episode to date has had the word "the" in its name except for 2 episodes, "Halloween" & "Christmas". Both are holiday specials.
 * All episodes are 10 to 11 minutes long. There have been no 2 part or 30 minute episodes as of yet.
 * However, there was originally going to be an episode about Darwin's origins in season 3 that was going to be 30 minutes, but was removed from the third season.
 * The 26th episode in Season 3 will be the 100th episode of the show.
 * In Season 2, the Wattersons' eyelids are darker when they close their eyes.
 * The show is rated TV-Y7-FV.

Season One

 * Logan Grove as Gumball
 * Kwesi Boakye as Darwin
 * Jessica McDonald as Teri, Masami, Carrie, Carmen, Jamie, Rachel, Molly, and Daisy the Donkey
 * Dan Russell as Richard and Tina
 * Teresa Gallagher as Nicole, Penny and Margaret Robinson
 * Kyla Rae Kowalewski as Anais
 * Sandra Searles Dickinson as Miss Simian
 * Lewis MacLeod as Rocky and Principal Brown
 * Kerry Shale as Larry, Bobert, Leslie and Hector
 * Rupert Degas as Tobias, Banana Joe, Idaho, Mr. Small, Alan, and Mr. Robinson

Season Two

 * Logan Grove as Gumball
 * Kwesi Boakye as Darwin
 * Jessica McDonald as Teri, Masami, Carrie, Jamie, and Daisy the Donkey
 * Dan Russell as Richard
 * Teresa Gallagher as Nicole, Penny and Margaret Robinson
 * Kyla Rae Kowalewski as Anais
 * Kerry Shale as Larry, Bobert, Leslie, and Hector
 * Hugo Harold-Harrison as Tobias, Idaho, Alan and Miss Simian
 * Max Cazier as Clayton and Ocho
 * Adam Long as Mr. Small and Hot Dog Guy

Season Three

 * Logan Grove (one episode only), Jacob Hopkins as Gumball
 * Kwesi Boakye (one episode only), Terrell Ransom Jr. as Darwin
 * Dan Russell as Richard
 * Teresa Gallagher as Nicole
 * Kyla Rae Kowalewski as Anais