The Amazing World of Gumball

The Amazing World of Gumball is an British-American animated comedy television series created by Ben Bocquelet for Cartoon Network. It was produced by Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe. It first aired on May 3, 2011.

The Amazing World of Gumball
Genre	Animated sitcom Black comedy Fantasy Satire Slapstick Surreal comedy
Created by	Ben Bocquelet
Directed by	Mic Graves Antoine Perez (S5–6)
Voices of	Logan Grove Jacob Hopkins Nicolas Cantu Duke Cutler Kwesi Boakye Terrell Ransom Jr. Donielle T. Hansley Jr. Christian J. Simon Kyla Rae Kowalewski Teresa Gallagher Dan Russell
Composer(s)	Ben Locket Neil Myers (S6) Xav Clarke (2020–)
Country of origin	United Kingdom United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	240 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Ben Bocquelet Mic Graves (S6) Daniel Lennard (S1–3) Michael Carrington (S1–2) Sarah Fell (S4–) Patricia Hidalgo (S4–6)
Producer(s)	Joanna Beresford (S1) Ellen Collins (S4) Sarah Fell (S2–6)
Editor(s)	Richard Overall Tony Hull (S2–) Lucy Benson (S5)
Running time	11 minutes
Production company(s)	Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe Boulder Media (S1) Studio Soi (S2–)
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	Cartoon Network
Original release	May 3, 2011 (2011-05-03) – June 24, 2019 (2019-06-24)
Chronology
Related shows	Elliott from Earth

The series is about the life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year-old light blue cat. Along with his adoptive goldfish brother and best friend Darwin, he almost always finds himself in trouble around Elmore. His sister Anais is a pink rabbit. His mother, Nicole, is a cat. His father is Richard, a rabbit.

The Amazing World of Gumball is the first series to be produced by Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe. It is co-produced with Studio SOI and Great Marlborough Productions.

On June 2, 2013, Cartoon Network announced a fourth and fifth season.

Main Characters

• Gumball Watterson is the main character. He is a blue cat. His early life was revealed in the episode "The Origins".
• Darwin Watterson is Gumball's best friend and adoptive brother. He is a orange goldfish. He is the revengeful resentful powerful mega ultra supra strongest lawlessness powerless super duper wonderful marvelous fish of Elmore in the episode, "The Party".
• Anais Watterson is Gumball's younger sister. She is a pink rabbit.
• Nicole Watterson is Gumball's mother. She is a blue cat. In the episode "The Choices", she meets her husband Richard. Her maiden name is Senicourt.
• Richard Watterson is Gumball's father. He is a pink rabbit.

Additional characters

• Tobias: a rainbow cloud.
• Anton: a piece of toast.
• Penny: a peanut, later a shapeshifting fairy and Gumball's girlfriend.
• Carrie: a ghost.
• Alan: a balloon.
• Carmen: a cactus.
• Masami: a cloud.
• Banana Joe: a banana.
• Bobert: a robot.
• Leslie: a flower.
• Sarah: a ice cream cone.
• Molly: a sauropod.
• Teri: a paper bear.
• Larry: a rock who does every job in Elmore..

Episodes

See the main article: List of The Amazing World of Gumball episodes

The Amazing World of Gumball series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired (U.S.)
			Season premiere	Season finale
	Pilot		2008 (2008)
	1	36	May 3, 2011 (2011-05-03)	March 13, 2012 (2012-03-13)
	2	40	August 7, 2012 (2012-08-07)	December 3, 2013 (2013-12-03)
	3	40	June 5, 2014 (2014-06-05)	August 6, 2015
	4	40	July 7, 2015	September 27, 2016
	5	40	September 30, 2016	November 10, 2017
	6	44	January 5, 2018	June 24, 2019
	Yearbook	6	December 14, 2019	December 28, 2019

Other websites

• Official website
• Official page for The Amazing World of Gumball at Cartoon Network
• The Amazing World of Gumball on IMDb