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The Amazing World of Gumball is one of those shows I looked at and said, "How can anyone like that?" But like other shows on Cartoon Network it surprised me to see it was actually a well written show.

The show takes place in the fictional city of Elmore inhabited by talking animals, animate objects, tyrannosaur, talking peanuts, and other weird things you wouldn't even expect to live together. The show follows the Watterson family, mainly Gumball and his adopted brother Darwin, and their misadventures.

You got Richard, a lazy stay at home dad with good intentions but small intellect. Nicole who is a typical workaholic mom with a short fuse but deeply loves her family. Gumball and Darwin are your average pre-teen boys who have all sorts of weird interests and misconceptions on girls, adults and life in general. And their sister Anais who is a child prodigy at four years old. Together they get into all sorts of unbelievable situations around their house, school, or city in general.

What I find really appealing about this show are the characters. Each character has a different animation style. One character can be traditionally animated but another can be done in CGI. And another could be a puppet. And another could be an 8-bit video game character. They all have individual character traits and it's really interesting to see all these animation styles really blend together.

The family is pretty close to real life too. I can remember as a kid actually getting into some of the fads Gumball and Darwin do.

This show is still pretty new and obviously has a lot more to offer, but from what I've seen it's worth watching a few episodes. I don't really see anything that bad for younger kids like I do in shows like Regular Show and the adult humor is subtle enough for kids to not know what they're missing. I'm looking forward to seeing more of this unique style in the future.

So far I give The Amazing World of Gumball an 8.5

I've watched some episodes of The Amazing World of Gumball and it's absolutely brilliant. This is one of the best cartoons I've ever watched. It's also very funny and bizarre.

My favourite character is Richard Walterson because he is the funniest character I've ever met. He's an absolute gas.

I'm nearly 27 years old and I'm still watching this cartoon.

This show is hilarious in many ways. It's a children's show that somehow reaches older ages as well.

Characters are created in many ways, such as traditional animation, Claymation, stop-motion, CGI, pixilation, and even puppets. They're inspired from everyday thing, too. As an example, the burglar is a walking fingerprint. Then you have a variety of personalities, such as Mr. Small, the school counselor that's a hippy; Mrs. Simian, the ancient, ill-tempered monkey that is a teacher; a CGI tyrannosaurus rex named Tina; a peanut with antlers named Penny. The list is endless and new things are being discovered in every episode, whether they are costars or hidden in the background. Everything about the setting is lovable.

The family is quite cliché, however, but they manage to be cliché in a new way. Richard, the father, is a gluttonous, pink rabbit that does nothing but sleep, unless his wife Nicole says otherwise. Speaking of Nicole, the blue cat, she's a workaholic that will blow up on someone at any given moment. She's a freakishly amazing mother. Her ways of doing things for her kids is something that's not seen very often in the real world, so although she's fantastical, her views are good. Gumball, the protagonist, is always getting into trouble with his walking-fish-adopted-brother named Darwin(an ongoing mystery to the series: Where did Darwin come from?). Their troubles are usually accidental and good-natured. Think of the Apple Dumpling Gang. Darwin is the one that usually has moral views and wants to do what's right, whereas Gumball wants the same result but reaches it in a more troublesome way. He often talks Darwin into helping him achieve his goals. Finally, you have Anise, the youngest of the family and for some reason, the smartest. She has a scientific explanation for everything that her "dumb" brothers can't understand.

The show has a lot of slapstick humor. As an example, Gumball was calling someone, and the screen split into two to show the ends of the line. The camera zoomed in on the one Gumball was calling, but as it did this, his side of the screen got bigger and bigger until Gumball was crushed on his end, morphing his face into a goofy-looking thing.

But you have to listen to the dialogue, for jokes are hidden in almost every sentence, whether they be hilarious or simple tings that make you smile. Dialogue helped make this show as funny as it is.

The show ha made several references to other things as well. There was a scene where Gumball is fighting his brother, Darwin, but they've become pixelated and are jumping into the air with robotic moves. It was spoof off Mortal Kombat. Again, the dialogue related to it. One episode, called The Sweaters, brought new characters in, dressed like teenagers from the eighties. They sported big, colorful glasses, leg warmers, and sweaters. And their hair... Eighties-style music can be heard at the end.

The show is unbelievably cute at times as well as so funny that my parents have even laughed at it. One scene showed Gumball losing his clothes, and in place to cover the special spots, was that pixelated box that shifts and changes color with movement. It's not raunchy or anything. Nothing that should scar kids or offend parents. But sometimes scenes are cute wonderful and heart-touching.

It's rare that an awful moment has appeared in the show, but they have happened. However, any show can have those. This show easily outweighs the bad with all it's humor and goodness.

I think the shows Uncle Grandpa and Steven Universe have tried to embrace the hilarity that Gumball wields, but those shows are too weird to understand and the humor is minimal or uncreative. Gumball also doesn't feature creepiness like Adventure Time and Regular Show, although those are popular, for what I don't know. But I understand that some parents don't allow their young kids to watch those. Gumball is much milder and nicer, more pleasant, even in its ridiculousness.

I am a 42 year old man and this show makes me lol consistently. This show is clearly written for me. There are a lot of jokes that will fly directly above the heads of its target audience and at least make me crack a smile, usually laugh, and sometimes raise an eyebrow. If you haven't you owe it to yourself to at least check it out.

The Amazing World of Gumball is you know...AMAZING! That's why they put "Amazing" in the show's title so that it can make sense, am I right? I love the characters, a blue cat, a walking fish, a talking banana, a talking balloon, a walking coconut (I think that's what Penny is), and a bunch more cool and crazy stuff. Every time Gumball and Darwin scream, I always have to laugh because they scream like little girls. It was really funny in one episode when Gumball was crossdressing with his momma's wedding dress. I cracked up when I saw Gumball crossdress. Every time I'm bored, I always have to watch this show. If you're asking me what I wanna give this funny show, I give it a perfect 10/10.

This show is one of the apples of our time. I mean, so far, it has some sophisticated humor that makes us laugh, and it is on Cartoon Network. And it's current.

I'd say, it's Adventure Time and Phineas and Ferb combined with Flapjack. I mean, T-Rexes in 2011? That's not on all of the TV shows today.

So far, on Cartoon Network, not many shows are good. The Problem Solverz and Johnny Test are two of the things killing it's rating overall. But this show is something new, something fresh. Check it out! Protecting a store from robbers, wearing a dress to school...it's fun.

Not only is the animation an amazing blend of everything (CG, flash, stop-motion, traditional and some live-action) But this show is really damn funny. Gumball humor can go all over the place and still be really funny. Gumball and Darwin are a great duo and work off each other pretty well. The rest of the family are pretty good to but the one who takes the cake (and eats it to)is the dad, I know the dumb dad cliché is way too common But Richard is really a cut above the rest. The side characters are nothing to sneeze at to, Principal Brown gets some good quips in, Mr.Small is a hippie guidance counselor, The robot is a fan favorite, The ghost girl is cute, and Penny gumball's crush is more than just some token love interest. Anyways I'm just gonna recommend so episodes to give you an idea what kinda show Gumball is. The Fraud, The Law, The Check, The Shell, The Bus, The question and The origins part 1&2.

Out of all the cartoons and TV shows I can find, this is my #1 favorite. There's no way I could find a better show than this one. There's just no other show I like. Here's why. This show is adorable, hilarious and simply awesome. The animation is really good, and I can't believe this show has both hand-drawn animation and CGI. They did a really great job designing the characters, too. I can't pick one best part of the show, because it's perfect in every way. This show should have been rated TV-Y or TV-G instead of TV-Y7-FV. If you're looking for a recent animated show, you'll want to watch this one. Overall, I give this a great big 10/10. My favorite episodes are "The Responsible" and "The Pressure."

This show is very entertaining, even for an adult. The innuendos are the funny part. The humour is directed at children below the ages of 13, but it makes the show a great timepassing tool nonetheless. The art style progressively gets brighter and less "eye candy" than it was in the first and second seasons. It aged like SpongeBob. I'm a fan of this show. Each episode really has no ongoing theme except for some minor problems that can later show up randomly. That's what makes this show so entertaining to watch. Instead of clinging onto one episode, waiting for the next to see what happens, each episode begins something new. You don't have to keep up with one plot, and issues having to be fixed and have to be drawn out into two or three episodes. You can watch an episode and still get the main plot and idea of it.

I give the show a seven through it's entire run due to some of the worse episodes, and season 1 nearly entirely. Otherwise, this show is beautiful with all the animation styles meshing well with the live-action backgrounds. It also has quality in it's scripts, characters, character arcs, and voice acting especially. My favorite character is Richard Watterson.

It's good. It's funny, with lovable characters, fun plots... Just not particularly compelling anyway. However, it's one of the very few cartoons that have a justified high rating here.

Whenever this show is on in my house it makes me long for a lobotomy. It's so loud; so loud in fact that I can't even hear the jokes. I'm now jealous of my parents who got to watch Rugrats and Doug instead of this stuff. I always look for moral or ethical lessons in my kid shows and this has none.

The Amazing World of Gumball. Reading the name of the show might make it sound utterly absurd, but that's only because you haven't seen it. When you get the whole feel of the show, you can see why they called it that. Everything about TAWOG is unique, harmless, entertaining, and like nothing you've ever seen before-- with funny characters (albeit stereotyped), harmless humor that is almost never crass yet still hilarious (for those who hate Teen Titans Go!) and inventive stories that are a mix of surrealism, drama and over-the-top hilarity. With all that in only one show, how could anyone possibly resist?

The premise of the show is simple; it's how the set-up is taken to crazy measures that makes everything entertaining. TAWOG takes place in a fictional town called Elmore where everything is just WACKO. The main characters are a family called the Wattersons, who are unintentionally a nuisance to almost everyone around them at some time or another. Nicole is the mother, a blue cat who is the cliche hard-working mother who strives to support her family. Richard is the father, a huge pink bunny (how can two different animals have offspring that are NOT mixed breeds?) who does nothing but sit around all day and eat--a rather insulting but admittedly necessary character. There is no way the family could have been as funny without his stupidity thrown in. Gumball, for whom the show is named, is a cat like his mom--a rather self-centered yet likable character who is the main protagonist. Darwin is his adopted brother--a fish with feet that can live out of water, his constant companion. Lastly, Anais--the genius sister, at four years old, a little pink bunny a grade above her two brothers.

That's just the beginning of all the weird creatures in this show. The city of Elmore is truly an amazing place--the title does not rob the credit it deserves. The town is all realistically photographed backgrounds, which is already unique in a cartoon show. And the inhabitants are anything but normal--you have a CGI family of bananas, a 3-d monkey teacher who's been around since the beginning of time, a cut-out figure with a drawn face and clothes, two neighbors who oddly resemble muppets, a family of peanuts who happen to have antlers...I could go on. All these different techniques--CGI, live action, and various styles of cartoon animation, are all morphed into one crazy world, seamlessly done and with amazing results.

And the stories--they vary in many ways also. You have episodes like "The Fury" and "The Nobody", which are overly dramatic yet entertaining in a weird sort of way. You also have episodes like "The World", "The Downer", and "The Signal" which are surrealistic and creative while staying fun. And then there's stuff that's just plain over-the-top funny, like "The Heist" and "The Tape". While I can think of some episodes I'm not particularly too fond of, I can say I haven't seen anything that was annoying, not containing any humor, and disappointing. That's saying a lot--after all, most shows have poor episodes at one time or another.

TAWOG would be a great show for families to see. After all, I said there's really nothing crass or insulting here, everything's just a heap of good, clean humor to be had. Overall, "The Amazing World of Gumball" gets my vote of 10/10--and probably also as being the best show on the Cartoon Network.

EDIT: As of June 24, 2019, this show has met its sad end. Although having seen a few episodes of it in 2017, I really only became a fan at the end of 2018 to present. This is a wonderful show and Ben Bocquelet clearly lost his marbles when he decided to give up on it. (At least we have an upcoming movie, still in its early stages, to look forward to). Thankfully, bless their souls, Cartoon Network has not stopped airing it and continues to replay old episodes as though the thing was still going strong. It's my hope that plenty of reruns of Gumball are in CN's future.

I saw the commercial for this show, and was hoping it wasn't going to turn out like Secret Mountain Fort Awesome or Problem Solverz. Although, I don't think anything can be as bad as those. But, surprisingly, it was quite good. I was like, "Here We Go...huh, this is good!" It has laughs, weird, yet entertaining, stories, and funny characters. I'll review the characters first. GUMBALL: A fun-loving, detention-getting blue cat, who could care less about school, grades, and hygiene. Gotta love 'im! DARWIN: A more-hygienic-than-Gumball, orange fish, he cares a tiny bit more about school, doesn't wear clothes (Although you can't see anything), and his legs are 3 times as long as his head. He is playful, considerate, and doesn't make sense sometimes, he is Gumball's brother. ANAIS: A pink bunny, about 1 foot tall, and wears the same baby sun-dress every episode, and is smarter than the whole family combined. RICHARD: Sleep loving, un-hygienic, sausage-eating, fat pink bunny, he's the dumbest and most irresponsible person in the whole family, yet one of the funniest people on the show. NICOLE: The blue cat mom who is always a buzzkill, represents the usual overprotective mom who doesn't stop worrying. I am gonna stop right there for the character reviews because that's really all you need to know, because it is Gumball's family. The voice acting, I thought, was great and hilarious. No complaints about that. I would like to say that I heavily disagree with all of the people who said this show was horrible. Don't listen to them, readers! You would probably like this show as much as I did. You will probably think the parodies of movies and real life are funny and random. Ben Bocquelet did a good job creating this show and probably won't be able to pull off a show like this again in his career (Sorry, Ben). I give it a 9/10 because it is funny random, and not trash like Problem Solverz. Thanks for reading!

After previously watching the pilot on YouTube, I was amazed by it I thought the mix of 2d and 3d was amazing, and I have never seen any other TV show do that, to my knowledge of course.And then a couple of months later, I found out it was a Cartoon Network series and was eager to watch it. After watching my first episode(The DVD), I was speechless and desperately wanted to watch more. Sadly though, the only way to get it is in dollars on DVD, so I am still waiting for a UK DVD release. But back to the subject.This show is amazing. Acting, story, Characters. All of it. Just bonkers. I'll begin with the acting and characters. Logan Grove and Kwesi Boyoake as the unforgettable duo Gumball and Darwin Watterson. They go together like butter and toast, just those two alone could teach kids a valuable lesson about friendship. I only dread the day when Kwesi Boyoake's voice breaks.

And the storyline. P.E.R.F.E.C.T. Every episode differs in jokes and story lines, so you never get bored of an episode. Unless its a repeat.

Overall 10/10, amazing

Dis nice show all time fav wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Gumball is a fun series with an extremely intelligent style of comedy...sometimes, other times the comedy can be the most basic and base that the human brain allows.

I have seen almost all the episodes and although I can recommend many of them, many others are better avoided due to their high level of stupidity.

But being objective, it is a series that I do recommend to the general public if they know which episodes to choose so as not to end up hating the series from the beginning.

Its satire of today's society is simply delicious, it is those clips that you can find on Facebook that make you love the series in its superficiality. In short, it is good fun that you can watch as a family, but if you are somewhat demanding it is better to only watch the highest rated episodes.

It is a little cringe-worthy rarely and absolutely amazing almost always. A series you won't regret watching. You'll lever get the simple greatness of each episode. Season two feels a little different but it is still pretty good. Season one is even more different from season two but still amazing. Season three four and five are amazing. If you're an imaginative person that doesn't want to watch a mindless cartoon that makes you lose brain cells just watch this, it is something you'll never regret. It is amazing humor that will change your life forever, and lots of settings and characters and it isn't just randomness, it's creativity and amazing humor.

The current Cartoon Network line-up has a lot of good shows, and bad ones. But a lot of them are just in the middle. This one is just in the middle of average and good.

"The Amazing World of Gumball" follows the life of Gumball Watterson, 12-year-old cat who always gets into trouble. He lives his best friend/pet goldfish, Darwin; his lazy, child-like father Richard; his hard-working mother Nicole; and his genius little sister Anais.

This show may seem like a traditional animated sitcom, but at the same it's pure, concentrated, 100% insanity! While most characters look like the regular anthropomorphic animals you'd see in a cartoon, there's also a potato, a live-action face turned upside-down with eyes on the chin, a piece of toast, and even a finger print. I'm not kidding. In one episode there was an anthropomorphic FINGER PRINT! And that's just a sample of the craziness that is displayed in this show.

One of this show's biggest flaws is (as I mentioned in the summary) how unoriginal it is sometimes. For example: in one episode Gumball and Darwin decide they can't be friends anymore, so they each look for a new best friend, but it doesn't work out so they make up and they're friends again.

Now did the writers really need to use that clichéd, over-used, plot? We've already seen this with so many characters in other sitcoms. The characters are kind of cliché too. Trouble-making son, idiotic father, intelligent younger sibling.... So many other TV shows have used these kinds of characters, I can't even count them, but the main ones that come to mind are Bart, Homer, and Lisa Simpson from "The Simpsons". This show also uses some lame, already-heard-or-seen-it-a-million-times gags and jokes. For example: in one episode Darwin's stomach growls, Gumball says (in a scared voice) "What was that!?" and Darwin replies "It's my tummy...".

But aside from the unoriginality, "The Amazing World of Gumball" is a decent show. It has a good voice cast, unique animation, and sometimes it is pretty funny.

Overall, it's not as good as Cartoon Network's recent classics "Adventure Time" and "Regular Show", but it's a whole lot better than "Mad", "The Problem Solverz", and "Johnny Test". Not highly recommended, but it's okay.

Rating: 6/10 "Decent"

Coming from Cartoon Networks European development team The Amazing World of Gumball definitely fits a particular trend amongst current animated series. The show like many others currently premiering wears its cuteness on its sleeve and couples it with energy and silliness, something that will make it no doubt appeal to fans of Adventure Time and the ADD addled youth of today. Unfortunately this series couldn't be more far removed from the greatness of Adventure Time or the greatness of other Cartoon Network shows.

Visually this series is a train-wreck. I feel that the art departments brains and hearts were in the right place but I feel that they tried way too hard to make this show look unique. This fusion of several different animation styles may be appealing to some but for me they are styles that don't quite gel together as a cohesive visual aesthetic. Our main character designs and the dominant style of animation is nothing more than middle of the road flash animation, flash animation that isn't near the standard set by the great Titmouse studios, flash animation that looks more fitting of an online game than a television ready series. The character designs rendered in flash (Gumball, Anais, Darwin, Gumball's Parents) are all incredibly simple and overly processed. These are some of the most unappealing character designs I have seen, they look like something a 7 year old would draw in their spare time not designs crafted by art school graduates. The average animation quality makes the character designs even more unappealing. The other visual elements like I stated before don't work. The Computer animation is solid with some decent designs and animation, but it contrasts too starkly with everything else on display making it a distraction not visual gold. The stop- motion on display much like the flash animation and character designs is childish and lacking. The use of photographic live-action backgrounds only makes the numerous animation styles continue to look out of place and from an animation stand-point was most likely done out of sheer laziness. I mean come on! you can't draw your backgrounds, hand drawn backgrounds might actually have saved this visually scatterbrained show but instead the art department would rather make things even more visually confusing. Bottom line this is one of the worst looking shows Cartoon Networks produced.

From a character standpoint this is where a majority of the charm in this show stems from. I find our cast of characters though slightly derivative to be quite accurate portrayals of kids and adults. Gumball is a charming character he is very self-assured, wide-eyed and is definitely a great character to centre a series around. His brother Darwin a fish shares many similar traits with Gumball but is also slightly naive leading to some great humour and a nice dynamic between the two. Anais is a little sister but does not suffer from the pitfalls of other little girl characters, she instead reminds us of our own little sister and is a fun character for it. The parents are also decent though a little unrealistic, their dynamic reminds me of the classic Simpsons dynamic between Homer and Marge. The backing cast once again slightly derivative but still filled with some interesting characters, conceptually speaking that is.

The episodes themselves vary greatly and at times can come across as scattered and unorganized as the shows visuals. Episodes that revolve around our characters and a character related dilemma are engaging. The episodes that revolve around Gumball, Darwin and Anais and their exploits at Gumballs school are also engaging enough. However many of the story lines revolve around bizarre plot-points and backgrounds characters that are lacking in some way. As a result the stories this show depicts and its general writing style has charm and quality at times but can also spiral downhill fast. Inconsistent is the word I would use to describe how the show is written.

In the end I hope Cartoon Network continues to mine Europe for more animated series, maybe over time CN will stumble upon something worth while. However as great and well- received as Gumball is, I can't help but feel that the series though not devoid of some charm, just doesn't feel deserving of the hype it has generated. The animation quality is average and visually the show is a big mess. The characters are fun and engaging but the backing cast is forgettable. The story writing inconsistent and generally hit or miss. This is a show that has some good things going for it but overall I find this show just on the cusp of a passing grade. Its a 4 out of 10 for me, stick to Adventure Time if you want wacky done right.

If you're looking for something fun, creative, and action packed to watch for your children you should watch this. This show revolves around the Watterson family who lives in the city of Elmore. The father Richard Watterson is pink rabbit who is very sedentary, and the workaholic mother Nicole Watterson have 2 children a prodigy 4 year old Anais and entertaining Gumball Watterson. They also have an adopted son Darwin Watterson (formerly a pet fish). Gumball and Darwin will always put a smile on peoples faces with their wild antics and craziness. It is very easy to find things funny in this series. For example, in the Christmas episode Richard runs over a homeless man thinking it's Santa, or in the episode "The Guy" when Gumball dresses up as a waiter and gives Anais's friend a meat shake. In the same episode Anais's friend is talking about worshipping a space frog that hatched out of a meat egg. Gumball's and Darwin's school counselor Mr. Small also paints on 6 nipples and wears a loincloth saying redheads "really are the descendants of alien race". I'm terrible at writing reviews but seriously if my review didn't help you should still give this show a try. I'm not the best at showing things in the best possible light.