50 Fun Facts About Amazing World of Gumball

Who created The Amazing World of Gumball?

He built the cast out of characters that had been rejected from his earlier commercial work.

What kind of animal is Gumball?

His mother Nicole is a cat too; his father and sister are rabbits, which the show has never explained.

What is Darwin?

He arrived as Gumball's pet, then sprouted legs and was adopted into the family outright.

In which fictional city is the show set?

It is placed in California, and the school everyone attends is Elmore Junior High.

What is Gumball's animation style best known for?

Puppetry, CGI, Flash, stop motion and live action can all appear inside a single scene.

Who are Gumball's parents?

She is a workaholic cat, he is a stay-at-home rabbit, and both are 38 years old.

What kind of animal is Gumball's little sister Anais?

She is four years old, a grade above her brothers, and usually the smartest person in the room.

What martial art has Gumball's mother mastered?

She won numerous tournaments when she was young, which is why nobody in Elmore wants to annoy her.

What does Richard Watterson call himself when he dresses as a woman?

He is described in-universe as the laziest person in Elmore, which takes some doing in that town.

What was Gumball's birth first name, before it was changed?

His middle name was meant to be Christopher and ended up as Tristopher, which the show treats as a clerical accident.

Which classmate eventually becomes Gumball's girlfriend?

She began as a peanut with antlers and turned out to be a shape-shifting fairy under the shell.

What was Penny before she shed her shell?

The reveal came late in the show's run and quietly rewrote a running gag about her appearance.

Which character becomes Gumball's arch-nemesis after escaping The Void?

He started as an unnamed background extra, which is exactly the grievance that drives him.

What is The Void, introduced in the third season?

Once a character is forgotten there, they cease to matter, which is a bleak idea for a children's cartoon.

What is Carrie Krueger?

Her surname nods to a horror film franchise, and she ends up dating Darwin.

What kind of creature is Alan, Carmen's boyfriend?

He is filled with helium, which is why he speaks in that permanently high-pitched voice.

What is Carmen?

She is a cheerleader and best friends with Penny, though she used to be a notorious troublemaker.

What happens to Masami when she loses her temper?

Her father owns the Rainbow Factory, which is presumably where the weather comes from.

Why is Hector, the largest student, only ever shown from the legs down?

He is a Bigfoot-like giant, and any strong feeling from him becomes a public safety problem.

What is Bobert?

He is one of the school's best students and can switch to a much larger defence mode.

What kind of character is Teri, the class hypochondriac?

Being made of paper gives her plenty to worry about, and she spends most of her time in the nurse's office.

Which company produced the series?

Boulder Media in Ireland, Dandelion Studios and Germany's Studio Soi all worked on the first season.

Where did the creator find most of the show's characters?

He was hired in 2007 to help other people pitch, then had to pitch something himself.

Which executive green-lit the series?

He was vice president of original series and development at Turner Broadcasting at the time.

On which date did the series premiere in the United States?

A sneak peek had already gone out on Cartoon Network UK the day before.

How many viewers watched the American series premiere?

The show's highest-rated episode later pulled 2.72 million.

Which episode is the highest-viewed in the series?

Its 2.72 million viewers are more than six times the audience of the show's least-watched episode.

In how many countries were the first two seasons released?

That international reach is part of why a European-produced Cartoon Network show could run for six seasons.

Which show's characters and settings appeared in the crossover episode 'The Puppets'?

Bocquelet teased an unnamed crossover on Twitter months before the episode aired.

Which episode featured cameos from Clarence, Regular Show and Uncle Grandpa?

'The Copycats', meanwhile, took aim at Miracle Star, a Chinese clone of the show.

Which Chinese series was parodied in 'The Copycats'?

It was a near-identical clone of Gumball, which the writers dealt with by putting it on screen.

After season six ended, which six-episode miniseries arrived in November 2019?

A second set of clip shows, The Gumball Chronicles, followed in October 2020.

What were the four Gumball Chronicles episodes of November 2020 themed around?

Each was titled 'Vote Gumball... and', following his search for a running mate for school president.

In which year did the creator announce the show would end after its sixth season?

He restated it on Twitter two years later, though the network would not confirm it at the time.

How were seasons one to three originally produced?

From season four the 11-minute segments were made and aired individually worldwide.

What was announced at Annecy in June 2023 about the planned spin-off?

The related television film has been repeatedly revised and shopped around since 2021.

Which serious topics does this children's series openly address?

Reviewers have praised its metahumour and dark streak as much as its animation.

What is Banana Joe's role in his year group?

He is hyperactive, cracks a joke at every opportunity and occasionally bullies Gumball and Darwin.

What sort of creature is Tobias Wilson?

He is convinced he is a heavily built jock, and the show is equally convinced he is not.

According to the revival episode 'The Rewrite', what would end the show's universe?

That or cancellation, which is a fairly pointed thing for a show to write into its own canon.

Gumball's sadistic 2-million-year-old teacher, Lucy Simian, is what kind of animal?

She lives for pop quizzes and loathes children, Gumball above all. Principal Brown, a furry slug, is her love interest.

What is the 2025 revival series, which premiered on Hulu in the US, called?

It was first announced as a seventh season. All three Watterson kids were recast, while Teresa Gallagher and Dan Russell returned as Nicole and Richard.

Elmore Junior High's principal, Nigel Brown, is what sort of creature?

He faked his diploma and has no qualifications for the job, yet also teaches music, leads the band and judges cheerleader tryouts.

Where does the bullying Tyrannosaurus Tina Rex live?

Her gang includes Jamie and Anton. Her Cartoon Network biography hints she is angry because she cannot reach anything with her tiny arms.

Larry Needlemeyer, who works at nearly every business in Elmore, is what?

He was once 'Lazy Larry', the laziest person in town, until Richard Watterson took the title and Larry reinvented himself as a workaholic.

The talkative, widely avoided classmate Sussie is what, exactly?

Her face is performed live by Aurelie Charbonnier, and creator Ben Bocquelet supplies her screams, yells and laughs.

When Anton the toast dies in a freak accident, what do his parents use to bring him back?

He was drafted into Tina's gang in the hope that appeasing her would spare him. The new slice simply takes over his life.

Which publisher put out the Gumball comic book series that ran for eight issues from 2014?

Frank Gibson wrote it and Tyson Hesse drew it. Eight original graphic novels followed the monthly run.

In 'The Parents', what is revealed to be Nicole Watterson's actual first name?

Nicole is her middle name. The 38-year-old karate champion is a Senicourt by birth, and her own parents pushed her relentlessly to succeed.

Juke, the classmate with a boombox for a head who only beatboxes, comes from where?

A switch on the back of his head flips him to 'Voice Mode', but his arms are too short to reach it.