Plot 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
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.
Production The second season began filming on February 7, 2012, and ended filming on June 4, 2013. Before the series premiered on
Cartoon Network, a second season was announced in March 2011, consisting of 40 11-minute episodes. Production for the season started in June of the same year. The episode's script was later (apparently) rewritten for the
show's fourth season's episode "The Routine", although some fans recommended Bocquelet make the episode as part of the
next season. The season marks a visual change from the prior season; Bocquelet states that he and his production staff had to adapt the art style from the
first season in order for more complex animations to work within the
2D and
3D environments. In a subsequent interview with
World Screen, he retrospectively described the workflow of the season which proved just as difficult as the first for him and his team; he jokingly stated that he and his staff "went into the second series thinking that we were seasoned animation warriors. The second series proved to be quite hard." ==Reception and release==