# The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball (2025)

> A cartoon cat named Gumball and his family drag the town of Elmore through escalating, reality-bending misadventures.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/197244

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 40
- Episode runtime: 12 min
- Status: Returning Series
- Genres: animation, family, comedy
- Created by: Ben Bocquelet
- Network: Cartoon Network
- Cast: Alkaio Thiele, Hero Hunter, Kinza Khan, Teresa Gallagher, Dan Russell, Rich Fulcher, Simon Lipkin, Naomi McDonald
- TMDB rating: 8.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36985473/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: breakneck
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: zany, surreal, playful, irreverent, breezy, joyful

## What critics say

Audiences broadly acclaim the show for its absurdist humor, surreal storytelling and chaotic family dynamics.

## Synopsis

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball (2025-present) is a British animated family comedy created by Ben Bocquelet for Cartoon Network. Gumball Watterson (voiced by Alkaio Thiele), a blue cartoon cat, leads his brother Darwin (Hero Hunter), sister Anais (Kinza Khan), and parents Nicole (Teresa Gallagher) and Richard (Dan Russell) through the town of Elmore, where the laws of reality are treated as a punchline. Each twelve-minute episode is a self-contained burst of escalating mischief, from battling an evil fast-food empire to facing off against a sentient artificial intelligence and trying to stop a rival from wearing pants. The engine is simple: Gumball's schemes spiral into ever stranger situations while the family tries to keep up. The show is currently in its second season, with forty episodes to date, and it moves at a breakneck pace with surreal, playful, sincere warmth underneath the chaos. Its anarchic, cartoon-logic approach suggests fans of Adventure Time, The Simpsons and Regular Show will find resonance in its blend of family bonds and absurdist humor.

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