
I used to like Gumball season 1 and got early 00s vibes watching it! But now…..
It doesn’t really hold up very well, that is mostly due to the characters acting like idiots to appeal to the latest 2010s cartoons like Fanboy and Chum Chum, Planet Sheen, and Breadwinners. Gumball especially, while he is supposed to be stupid but in episodes like “The Genius” where he doesn’t know how to turn the computer on or how to read really like emphasizing the fact that they were trying to make him as stupid as possible and don’t even get me started on episodes like “The Picnic” and “The Goons”. At the very best, all the characters are just to bland and don’t have much of personalities like Anais, she was just the smart girl, Richard was just “the fat lazy husband who acts like a child” (i hate this version of Richard by the way. Go watch “The Laziest” to see why I hated this version of him)
The jokes were also pretty unfunny and didn’t make me laugh as much as the later seasons and the tone all felt like it was playing it all too safe with very little adult humor.
While the animation is the one thing I like about Season 1 due to it being more expressive, but they can get a little too over the top and can get pretty weird.
I’ll admit there are a few episodes I like from that season like “The DVD”, “The Responsible”, “The Spoon (despite the stupidity of Gumball and Darwin)”, “The Painting”, “The Helmet”, “The Ape” and “The Sock”