‘The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball’ creator talks show’s comeback

The Amazing World of Gumball is now set to come back to viewers with a brand new spinoff titled The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball.

With 40 episodes, it will stream on Hulu in the US, and Cartoon Network plus HBO Max for international locations.

Series creator Ben Bocquelet and executive producers/series directors Matt Layzell and Erik Fountain sat down for an interview to discuss the highly anticipated return.

Layzell told Animation Magazine, “We really wanted this to be kind of a continuation of where the show left off. So we wanted more of the same great Gumball stories, like returning to some of our favorite characters. Really doing more of the same and trying to elevate things and tell new stories with the characters we already had. That was the mission, to do as good and even better than what fans were already familiar with.”

Bocquelet remarked, “With Erik and Matt working it over, it was a new process that was involved. It was a little tricky because we had a Gumball movie planned in between, so we had to reinsert ourselves into the continuity of the show without that big special story to kind of bridge things. But we’re entering all that stuff about the overarching plot in the new season itself. I’m just excited to be doing more stupid things with these characters and friends right here.”

Fountain observed, “I’m a longtime Gumball fan, and this is my first season working on the show. TV has a very limited pipeline and everything is written, designed and planned out in Burbank, and then it’s packaged up and sent off somewhere overseas, and you cross your fingers and you hope you get back something good. So I was so curious how a show like Gumball got made on the same budget and it looked so diverse and crazy. Just from a production standpoint, it blows my hair back. Because it’s an international show; it’s written in one country and made in another.”

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