--- title: "The Amazing World of Gumball" year: 2011 kind: "series" canonical: "https://film.one/tv/the-amazing-world-of-gumball" fi1m_id: "the-amazing-world-of-gumball" imdb_id: "tt1942683" tmdb_id: 37606 wikidata_id: "Q906186" fi1m_score: 82 critics_reviews: 2 published: "2026-09-24T02:20:10.832397+00:00" updated: "2026-09-24T02:20:30.709298+00:00" region: "KR" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # The Amazing World of Gumball (2011) Created by Ben Bocquelet · KMRB ALL · Animation, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy ## Identity The Amazing World of Gumball - **Canonical:** https://film.one/tv/the-amazing-world-of-gumball - **Type:** Series - **Fi1m ID:** the-amazing-world-of-gumball - **IMDb ID:** tt1942683 - **TMDB ID:** 37606 - **Wikidata ID:** Q906186 - **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942683/, https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/37606, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906186 **Fi1m score: 82** · Critics: 2 of 6 reviews so far *In a sentence:* A cat, a goldfish with legs and a town drawn by a dozen hands, and the little sister is the only adult in it > Ben Bocquelet’s series drops a blue cat and his goldfish brother into a suburb where every character is drawn in a different style, and gets six seasons of fast, unusually clever comedy out of it. The first season is the roughest; stay past it. ## Synopsis Elmore is an American suburb of photographed houses and pavements in which every resident is drawn differently. Gumball Watterson (Logan Grove), a blue cat, lives there with his adopted brother Darwin (Kwesi Boakye), a goldfish who grew legs, and his younger sister Anais (Kyla Kowalewski), a pink rabbit and the cleverest person in the house. Their mother Nicole (Teresa Gallagher) works and worries; their father Richard (Dan Russell) stays home. Each episode follows Gumball through one bad idea: a scheme to impress Penny Fitzgerald (Teresa Gallagher), a quarrel with the puppet next door, Mr. Robinson (Rupert Degas), or an attempt to get through a school day shared with a robot called Bobert (Kerry Shale) and a paper bear called Teri. The ideas go wrong quickly and Elmore usually pays for it. ## Review Elmore looks like any American suburb, and it is mostly photographs: real houses, real pavements, real sky. The people do not match. Gumball Watterson is a blue cartoon cat. His brother Darwin is a goldfish who grew legs and was adopted into the family. At school there is a paper bear called Teri, a robot called Bobert and a flower called Leslie, and next door lives a puppet, Mr. Robinson. Ben Bocquelet’s idea is that nobody in town finds any of this odd. *The Amazing World of Gumball* ran to 240 episodes over six seasons, and at its best it is as clever as any comedy made for children. We recommend it, with one caveat: the first season is the loudest and the least sure of itself, and some of the audience will have given up before it improves. The look is the joke, and the series keeps finding new ways to tell it. Mic Graves and Antoine Perez direct, and each episode puts hand-drawn characters, three-dimensional models, puppets and cut-outs on the same photographed streets and treats the clash as ordinary. Most animated series pick a world and stay inside it. This one picks six, and after an episode or two the eye stops complaining. The family is the reason to stay. Teresa Gallagher voices Nicole, the mother, a cat who holds the household together by force of will, and whose temper arrives like weather. Dan Russell’s Richard, the father, is a pink rabbit built like a settee who has never held a job and treats this as a settled position. Kyla Kowalewski’s Anais, the youngest, is the only person in the house who reads. Gumball has been voiced by three boys, Logan Grove, Jacob Hopkins and Nicolas Cantu, and Darwin by four, Kwesi Boakye, Terrell Ransom Jr., Donielle T. Hansley Jr. and Christian J. Simon, because children have the bad manners to grow up. The characters survive the recasting without visible damage. Bocquelet’s writing room runs to dozens of names, among them Jon Brittain, Cariad Lloyd, Sophie Duker and Kieran Hodgson, and the scripts move at the pace of a room with too many jokes and not enough minutes. The programme parodies advertising, soap opera, horror and video games, and it has a habit of turning on itself that most shows would find too risky for a Tuesday afternoon. The episode “The Money” does it best. The Wattersons run out of cash and the picture starts to come apart around them: the colour thins, the drawing gets rougher, until the family is arguing in something close to pencil. We went quiet. We had been laughing for ten minutes and then found ourselves moved by a cartoon cat noticing he was made of lines. What does not work is mostly early. Season 1 leans on Gumball being an idiot and Darwin agreeing with him, and the plots repeat: a scheme, a disaster, a lesson half learned. The school is full of characters who are shapes with one trait each, and it takes the writers a while to give them a second. By the last two seasons the jokes are more often about the show than about the town, which is a pleasure for the faithful and a wall for anyone arriving late. A run of 240 short episodes is not built to be watched in bulk. Three at a sitting is about right. Against the animated comedies it grew up alongside, *Adventure Time* and *Regular Show*, it is the fastest and the least sentimental, and it has aged better than we expected, because the design keeps the eye busy whenever the jokes flag. It carries a PG and earns it only in the sense that a good many of the jokes are aimed over the children’s heads. Most critics liked it a little less than we do, chiefly on the thinness of the supporting cast, and they have a point about the first season. Start with the second season, go back to the first only if you become fond of the family, and watch it with a child if there is one to hand. Do not pretend that is why. *Fi1m score 82, published 24 September 2026.* ## Straight answers **Is The Amazing World of Gumball worth watching?** *The Amazing World of Gumball* is worth watching, and we scored it 82. It is one of the fastest and cleverest comedies made for children, built on a suburb of photographed streets where every resident is drawn in a different style, though the first season is loud and repetitive and the last two lean on in-jokes. Start with the second season, and watch three episodes at a sitting rather than a bulk run. **How long is The Amazing World of Gumball, and what is it rated?** *The Amazing World of Gumball* is rated ALL by the KMRB in South Korea. It is an animation and family series. **Where can I watch The Amazing World of Gumball in South Korea?** *The Amazing World of Gumball* is streaming on Netflix in South Korea. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service. **How does The Amazing World of Gumball compare to Gravity Falls?** *The Amazing World of Gumball* is the faster and less sentimental of the two, and [*Gravity Falls*](https://film.one/tv/gravity-falls) is the better built. Gumball runs on a family of mismatched cartoons in a photographed suburb and on jokes about the show itself, with no plot carrying over from week to week. Gravity Falls follows two twins through a summer in a strange Oregon town, and its story goes somewhere. Choose Gumball for gags, Gravity Falls for a mystery with an end. **What should I watch after The Amazing World of Gumball?** After *The Amazing World of Gumball*, try [*Gravity Falls*](https://film.one/tv/gravity-falls) (2012, Fi1m 84): Two siblings, one weird American town, and a plot that actually goes somewhere. Then [*Over the Garden Wall*](https://film.one/tv/over-the-garden-wall) (2014, Fi1m 86): Ten short episodes of autumnal American folklore; the animation is the point, as here. ### Reviews we read (2) - **The AV Club**, Kevin Johnson (80/100, inferred): The critic finds the two episodes showcase what makes the series special, though “The Nemesis” is not among its strongest. They single out “The Money” for its striking sequence where the animation breaks down, tying the medium to the episode’s themes. [Read](https://www.avclub.com/the-amazing-world-of-gumball-the-money-the-nemesi-1798184305) - **Den of Geek**, Matt Edwards (75/100, inferred): Edwards finds the series a fun, worthwhile watch, especially for viewers who enjoy animated shows. He praises its inventive mixed-animation style but criticizes some supporting-character writing and the DVD release’s lack of episodes and extras. [Read](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-rather-good-amazing-world-of-gumball/) ## Details - **Created by:** Ben Bocquelet - **Creator:** Ben Bocquelet - **Director:** Mic Graves, Antoine Perez - **Writer:** Ben Bocquelet, Tobi Wilson, Mic Graves, Joe Parham, Joe Markham, Jon Foster, James Lamont, James Hamilton, Jess Ransom, Guillaume Cassuto, Nathan Auerbach, Daniel Berg, Louise Coats, Andrew Barnett Jones, Ciaran Murtagh, James Huntrods, Jack Bernhardt, Jon Brittain, Tom Crowley, Tom Neenan, Jon Purkis, Tony Hull, Timothy Mills, Richard Overall, Lucien Young, Gemma Arrowsmith, John Sheerman, Natasha Hodgson, Tim Allsop, Stewart Williams, Sam Ward, Brydie Lee-Kennedy, Paul Rice, Ben Cottam, Chris Garbutt, Tom Meltzer, Sophie Duker, Richard Preddy, Kieran Hodgson, Tommy Panays, Oliver Kindeberg, Cariad Lloyd, Becky Sloan, David Cadji-Newby, Jonathan Leigh Wright, Yann Benedi, Mark Evans, Antoine Perez, Bec Hill, Matt Zeqiri, Eddie Robson, Rikke Asbjoern, Andy Wolton, Joseph Pelling, Paul McKenna, Andrew Brenner, Phil Whelans, Simon Landrein, Howard Read - **Producer:** Joanna Beresford - **Cast:** Logan Grove as Gumball Watterson (voice); Nicolas Cantu as Gumball Watterson (voice); Kwesi Boakye as Darwin Watterson (voice); Jacob Hopkins as Gumball Watterson (voice); Kyla Kowalewski as Anais Watterson (voice); Donielle T. Hansley Jr. as Darwin Watterson (voice); Christian J. Simon as Darwin Watterson (voice); Teresa Gallagher as Nicole Watterson / Penny Fitzgerald / Teri / Mrs. Robinson (voice) - **Certificate (KMRB):** ALL - **Release (South Korea):** 3 May 2011 - **Genres:** Animation, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy ## Where to watch in South Korea - Netflix: streaming *Checked 2026-09-24.* Also available in: AE, AR, AT, AU, BE, BG, BR, CA, CH, CL, CO, CZ, DE, DK, EC, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HK, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IS, IT, JP, KR, LT, MX, MY, NL, NO, NZ, PA, PE, PH, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SG, SI, TH, TR, US, VN, ZA. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country. ## Awards - BAFTA Film Awards 2022: BAFTA's Children & Young People Award - Director (nominated); BAFTA's Children & Young People Award - Writer (won) ## If you liked this - *Adventure Time* (2010): The other great children’s cartoon of its decade, stranger and softer-hearted than this one. - *Bluey* (2018): Australian, seven minutes an episode, and the best portrait of family life currently on television. - *Gravity Falls* (2012), Fi1m 84: Two siblings, one weird American town, and a plot that actually goes somewhere. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/tv/gravity-falls.md) - *Shaun the Sheep* (2007): Aardman clay, no dialogue at all, and jokes that land just as fast. - *Over the Garden Wall* (2014), Fi1m 86: Ten short episodes of autumnal American folklore; the animation is the point, as here. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/tv/over-the-garden-wall.md) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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