Review: The Amazing World of Gumball ‘The Tape’

Spoilers Below

I love when Darwin gets mad. This week the guys are filming ‘The Story of My Life’ starring pretty much everyone. Everyone gets the video treatment from the parents, faculty and students at school, and Gumball providing launch codes.  Masami provides a short to get girls, and the girls are just silly. Eventually, the Watterson bros exhaust all stereotypes and try to make somewhat more serious efforts including a ninja influenced story, but the kids end up trashing the tape.

Pretty funny episode of Gumball, and definitely a funny take on the whole ‘found footage’ genre of movies that were popping up all over the place probably back when this one was being produced. The different styles of animation for this show was really on display here. Examples like Ocho the 8-bit spider going nuts and the cardboard cutout sequence near the end truly shows off the vision while watching Mr. Watterson slink on over to the groceries like Jaws showed off the stellar writing. This tape is definitely worth the watch.