The Amazing World of Gumball (season 1)
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Cover art for The Party, the most recent home video release containing episodes of the first season
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
| No. of episodes | 36 |
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| Original network | Cartoon Network |
| Original release | May 3, 2011 – March 13, 2012 |
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The first season of the British-American animated comedy children's television series The Amazing World of Gumball originally aired from May 3, 2011 to March 13, 2012 on Cartoon Network. Consisting of 36 episodes, the season premiered with the episode "The DVD" and concluded with the episode "The Fight". The season premiere was watched by 2.120 million viewers in the United States.
The season focuses on the misadventures of Gumball Watterson, a blue 12-year-old cat, along with his adopted brother, Darwin, a goldfish. Together, they cause mischief among their family, as well as with the wide array of students at Elmore Junior High, where they attend middle school. In a video documenting the production of the second season, creator Ben Bocquelet expanded on the development of some of the characters, and how they are based on interactions from his childhood.
The first season began filming on November 2, 2010 and ended filming on September 13, 2011. The first season premiered in the US on May 3, 2011 with the episode "The DVD" and ended March 12, 2012 with the episode "The Fight" almost a year later. The world premier of the show was on May 11, 2011 in Cartoon Network with the episode "The Mystery".
Two episodes, entitled "The Mom" and "The Pizza", were written for this season, but never produced. However, the concept of the former was reused in the show's third season's episode "The Mothers"; and the concept of the latter was reused in the show's second season's episode "The Job" but then, it became an episode of the show's third season with the same name "The Pizza" and the second was later produced (but with some changes) in the show's third season. Two episodes more never produced like the aforementioned, but their plots and titles are still unknown.
The season premiere "The DVD" was watched by 2.120 million viewers in the United States, and received a 0.4 rating in the 18–49 demographic Nielsen household rating. Nielsen ratings are audience measurement systems that determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States, which means that the episode was seen by 0.8 percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds at the time of the broadcast.
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