It’s weird, it’s new, but isn’t that wonderful? Recently on July 28, we got a brand new series continuing the Cartoon Network animated seriesThe Amazing World of Gumball on Hulu. Called The Wonderful Weird World of Gumball (TWWWOG) While the series is virtually the same on a visual level as the 2011-2019 version, it failed to give off the same feeling as the original show for the story in the episodes.
Some differences between the original and the new series is that the first one had two stories per episode. Each episode would be about 24 minutes long with 12 minutes going towards both stories, but now there is only one long storyline per episode, like seasons 4-6 of the first series. The Wonderful Weird World of Gumball also gained new voice actors for Gumball and Darwin. Their voices in the TWWWOG sound pretty much the same as they did before.
The plots of the shows are different as well, and not really in a good way, as there are some episodes in the new series that are trying to get a message across about the real world. This wasn’t really the case in the Amazing World of Gumball from 2011-19. The most popular episode from the series is season 5 episode 5 “The Choices.” according to IMDb. In this episode, Nicole, (Gumball’s mom) is thinking about how her life got to where it is and thinks back to where she met Richard and what would have happened if she had done something different that day. Also according to IMDb the most popular The Wonderful Weird World of Gumball episode is season 1 episode 18 “The Portrait” where Nicole is trying to get a nice family portrait when more family shows up, and even the police. The episode “The choices” doesn’t really have a real world message as the “The Portrait.” I feel like does with all the stuff with the police.
It was fun seeing the characters from the original The Amazing World of Gumball series in the new series, like Gumball’s whole class which I’m happy that didn’t change. But overall, I didn’t enjoy the series The Wonderful Weird World of Gumball. I would rate this a 5.5/10
