The Amazing World Of Gumball Full Episodes Season 1

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Thefirst season premiered in the US on May 3, 2011 and ended March 13, 2012 almost a year later. The world premier of the show was on May 2, 2011 in the UK with the episode "The Mystery". Unlike the following four seasons, this season only had 36 episodes due to 4 being scrapped for various reasons, Season 6 was later given 4 extra episodes to make up for this.

A sixth season was green-lit on June 22, 2016[6]. It premiered on January 5, 2018 and wrapped up on June 24, 2019. Unlike Seasons 2-5 it had 44 episodes. [7] This was to make up for Season 1 only having 36.

Darwin's Yearbook is a spinoff mini-series based on The Amazing World of Gumball. It contains six episodes, each focusing on a different character related to Elmore Junior High. The mini-series primarily consists of excerpts from already existing episodes of Gumball. The series takes place sometime after the events of "The Inquisition."

The Gumball Chronicles is an eight episode spinoff mini-series based on The Amazing World of Gumball, written and directed by voice director and picture editor Richard Overall. The series predominantly consists of clips recycled from previous episodes but features some new content. It premiered on October 5th, 2020 in US, and finished just over half a year later on June 20, 2021.

The Amazing World of Gumball: The Movie! is the working title for a British animated television film based on the Cartoon Network animated television series The Amazing World of Gumball. It was officially announced to be in development on February 17th, 2021. The movie will act as a conclusion to the original series, as well as establishing its continuation in Season 7.

A new Gumball series was officially announced alongside a movie on September 21, 2021[8]. It was later clarified to be Season 7 rather than a reboot by series producer Emma Fernando on her Linkedin account[9]

The Amazing World of Gumball is coming back for a new series, and it will be sharing the first look inside its production later this Summer! The Amazing World of Gumball is likely the standout animated series for Cartoon Network of the 2010s as it ran for six seasons and 240 episodes before it came to an end back in 2019. It was then announced that the franchise would be returning for a new series, but there have been many questions from fans of the original as to whether or not this would be a full reboot or a potential Season 7 of the series as many fans had wished.

While plans for the also previously announced The Amazing World of Gumball movie have since unfortunately fallen through in the last few years, work on the new Gumball series has been continuing without a hitch. Now it's been reported by Variety that the first look at the new The Amazing World of Gumball will be revealed as part of Warner Bros. Discover and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe's slate of panels for the upcoming Annecy International Animation Film Festival taking place over June 9-15 in Annecy, France.

While it's still unclear as of this publication what to expect from the new series, Variety teases the upcoming The Amazing World of Gumball as a reboot touting the first look as such, "One of Cartoon Network Studios' most popular series of the 2010s, 'The Amazing World of Gumball,' is being rebooted by Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe. Executive producers Ben Bocquelet and Matthew Layzell, series producer Emma Fernando, composer Xav Clarke, and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe senior vp of series Sarah Fell will team up to provide an inside look at the production of the show's long-awaited return."

Unfortunately it's not clear if this first look will be revealed later this June, but there's still plenty of time to go back and watch the original cartoon. If you wanted to check out the original animated series for yourself, you can find all six seasons of The Amazing World of Gumball now streaming with Max and Hulu. As for what to expect, the animated series is teased as such:

"Gumball's world is pretty run-of-the-mill. He's chased around school by a T-Rex. He has a friend named Anton who's a piece of toast. He's got a crush on Penny, a peanut with antlers. His dad is a 6'4" bunny. His mom works at a Rainbow Factory. And his brother is a goldfish named Darwin. Yup, everything looks perfectly normal here."

Created by Ben Bocquelet, The Amazing World of Gumball is the first commission from Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe, before it was renamed Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe. An Animated Sitcom combining a mixture of several animation techniques with live-action backgrounds, the series follows the misadventures of a hapless twelve-year-old cat named Gumball Watterson, who lives in the weird and wacky world of Elmore. Joining him is his best friend and adopted brother Darwin, the one-time pet fish who grew legs and joined the family. The two of them go to Elmore Junior High where all sorts of strange characters roam the halls.

The series' most striking feature is the invocation of Medium Blending to the extreme; every single character in Elmore is animated in a different style and borrows design elements from a variety of different media. Some characters are animated in 2D flash animation while others are animated in 3D, and animation techniques like stop motion animation, papercraft animation, and even realistic CGI rendering are all liberally borrowed from and implemented into the character design.

With all that in mind, Gumball has become somewhat of a powerhouse for Cartoon Network, with the show winning several awards for both its writing and animation as well as eventually coming to rival a certain pants-wearing sentient sponge in ratings.

The series received a twenty-episode second season before the eighteen-episode first season even premiered, another twenty-episode third season shortly after the second season premiere, and two more twenty-episode seasons right before the third season premiere, with the sixth season being extended by two episodes on top of all of this, bringing its total to 50 hours (a little over two days) worth of episodes. It got a "sneak peek" (i.e. the first of two episodes) in the UK on May 2, 2011, and in the US on May 3. On June 22, 2016, it was announced that the show was renewed for a sixth season, with series creator Ben Bocquelet confirming it will be his last season, but that it would not necessarily be the end of the show. This led to rumors that Gumball would have a seventh season without Bocquelet's involvement that were eventually debunked.

The apparent series finale, "The Inquisition", aired on June 24, 2019, ending the series on a Sequel Hook. On November 4 of that year, a spinoff mini-series called Darwin's Yearbook (a collection of remixed clips with a narrative frame centered on Darwin trying to preserve the memories of the students and staff at Elmore Junior High) was announced and set to premiere on December 2. It consisted of six episodes. As of 2023, no new episodes have aired.

On February 17, 2021, The Amazing World of Gumball: The Movie! was confirmed to be in production. On September 21, of that year, Bocquelet was confirmed to be on board to executive produce and direct. The film will serve as both the Grand Finale to the original series and a Pilot Movie to a brand new one. Unfortunately, the project has ended up in Development Hell due to the Discovery merger with Warner Bros. which caused a long string of cancellations of streaming shows and upcoming projects, and led to the movie being pulled from HBO Max and having to be put up for sale for other streaming services.

On June 13, 2024 the Annecy Festival had a Q&A session about Season 7. Ben Bocquelet was there to not only confirm that The Movie was not canceled dispelling prevalent rumors among the animation community (with the film possibly being remade with a new script) but that should it ever release an official TAWOG artbook will be released alongside it.

"The Amazing World of Gumball" is one bizarre crossbreed on the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned Cartoon Network. When I compiled The 10 Best Children's Animated Series Of The [Last] Decade, I had zero hesitation deciding on "The Amazing World of Gumball," which ran from 2011 to 2019 on Cartoon Network for six seasons, for its visual eclecticism and comedic minefield. The brainchild of creator Ben Bocquelet, the cartoon revolves around the exploits of the 12-year-old anthropomorphic cat Gumball Watterson and his brother Darwin Watterson (an adopted sibling who originated as a pet goldfish who grew legs). Their environment of Elmore is a wonderland of different mediums. Living in real-life photo-based environments, the 2D Watterson family interact and clash with a medium-blended world: characters comprised of CGI, flash animation, puppetry, or stop-motion. It brandished an out-there aesthetic that made it a companion to its zany contemporaries like "Adventure Time" and "Regular Show."

Armed with a witty script, the cartoon encapsulated a range of meta humor. The team also infamously crafted a biting response to the China-animated "Miracle Star" knock-off in the form of an episode where the Wattersons outwit a "copycat" family.

A handful of episodes waved a funhouse mirror to topical events in U.S. and global politics. It really sunk its cartoon fangs into whatever subject matter it tackled. Its memorable lampoons happened toward and during the Trump administration: the generational gap between media illiterate adults and media literate kids (they bitterly sing "stupidity is hashtag trending" in this song), a school election that's an unsubtle satire of the 2016 election (Gumball standing in for Donald Trump and his sister for Hillary Clinton), the existential gloom around climate change, reactionary parents banning video games and books, a Donald Trump-expy mayor scheming to gentrify Elmore to move in rich white human families. Although Elmore is not set in a fictionalized United States, it is a contender for "TV-Y7 South Park" or "The Simpsons for Kids!"

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