The Amazing World of Gumball: The Series
is a comedy that originally aired on HBO Max
The Amazing World of Gumball is an animated sitcom created by Ben Bocquelet for Cartoon Network. The series concerns the lives of 12-year-old Gumball Watterson, an anthropomorphic blue cat, and adoptive goldfish brother Darwin, who attend middle school in the fictional city of Elmore, California. The show has received critical acclaim and developed a cult following, with particular praises for its extensive references to popular culture and internet culture, sarcasm, subtle innuendos, dark humor, and metahumor. It is noted for its intentional stylistic disunity, with characters designed, filmed, and animated using various styles and techniques.
The series revolves around the life of a 12-year-old cat named Gumball Watterson and his frequent shenanigans in the fictional American city of Elmore. Gumball attends school with his siblings at Elmore Junior High, where throughout the series he interacts with his various middle school classmates, most prominently his love interest Penny Fitzgerald. Rob is a background character from the first two seasons who became trapped in The Void after becoming "irrelevant" in season 3, after which he becomes Gumball's nemesis.