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 behind-the-scenes video documenting the production of this season, creator Ben Bocquelet expanded on the development of some of the characters, and how they are based on interactions from his childhood.

[2] Executive producer and vice president of Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe, Daniel Lennard stated his enthusiasm in the series as "one of the most exciting animation shows to launch in recent years.

"[2] Episodes for the season were written by Bocquelet, Jon Foster, James Lamont, Mic Graves, Chris Garbutt, Jon Brittain, Tom Crowley, Tobi Wilson, Yang Benedi, Guillaume Cassuto, and Antoine Perez, and were storyboarded by Aurelie Charbonnier, Chuck Klein, Sebastian Hary, William Laborie, Adrian Maganza, Ben Marsaud, Akis Dimitrakopoulos, Jean Texier, and Charles Schneck.

Richard gets a job as a pizza delivery man, which worries Nicole when, at the same time, strange things begin to occur around the neighborhood.

Gumball and Darwin are owed apologies by Miss Simian after they are falsely accused of insulting her, but she stubbornly refuses to give them and goes to great lengths to prove that they are bad kids.

A homeless man (voiced by Brian Blessed), believed to be Santa Claus, gets accidentally run over by the Wattersons during a visit to Elmore, so it is up to them to save Christmas.

Gumball and Darwin resort to cheating on their math test after procrastinating on studying for it the day before and end up receiving a detention similar to a maximum security prison over spring break from Principal Brown and meet their school's worst students.

Nicole gets upset with the family at the supermarket when they attempt to get candy, sending them to the car as punishment each time they try to rebel.

Gumball accidentally uploads a video of himself to Elmore Stream which goes viral and must personally confront the Internet to take it down.