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 second most popular show on the channel, with Adventure Time being the first.

International Debuts

 * The show aired on November 12, 2011 in the Japanese Cartoon Network.
 * The show aired unofficialy on May 3rd in the US Cartoon Network. It aired officialy 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 aired in Australia on the 1st of October 2011 along with their current logo
 * The show also aired September 4th in Latin Cartoon Network.
 * The show aired officialy on September 2nd, 2011 in the italian Cartoon Network. It also aired as trailer on June 7th, 2011.

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

Intro
The opening sequence to the show remains short. With a quick orchestrated theme followed by wind instruments as the title shows up. All in all, it's like five seconds. However, the uncut intro is not played in the US, which is where it was rumored to first premiered. Only in the first premiere of the first episode. The reasoning is unknown. Although CN US does constantly shorten intros for commercial time, it's rather awkward to do that to an intro nobody got used to seeing yet. But the intro plays in the EU, despite America being head front in premieres for the show. The intro is a montage ofthumb|right|400px random, considered; 'sugar rush' by many YouTubers. It opens with a record skip sound effect as Gumball makes funny expressions. Immediately it's blows up into outer space as the characters do random things. Noticeably Gumball, Nicole, and Darwin dancing. Then flashes to Anais air guitaring in Gumball's locker or something (which seems rather out of character), then another weird montage of random characters in a funny mirrored scope. Then the title comes out with the old CN logo (the one the US sees it also removes the old cn logo). Despite the hilarity of random activity, a stereo theme plays. The soundtrack was well received from YouTubers and was even rumored to be orchestrated, which is rare for a comedy cartoon.

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.