Canceled Cartoon Network Show Returning With 20 New Episodes on Monday

One of Cartoon Network’s most popular shows from the 2010s returned earlier today after six years off the air.

In even better news, the long wait appears to have paid off, as fans are getting 20 new episodes now and 20 more later!

On Monday, Cartoon Network brought back The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball — a revival and spinoff of the network’s 2011 series The Amazing World of Gumball — with 20 new episodes on Hulu, with 20 more to come in the future.

The series is broadcast on Hulu in the United States and on Cartoon Network and HBO Max in the rest of the world.

The original Gumball was one of Cartoon Network’s most popular series of the past decade, and ran from 2011 to 2019. It was critically acclaimed for its sarcastic and surreal sense of humor, its animation—which utilizes everything from stop-motion to puppetry—and for its handling of more mature topics like mental illness and cyberbullying.

Ahead of the premiere, series creator Ben Bocquelet confirmed to Animation Magazine that The Wonderfully Weird World is a continuation of The Amazing World — not just Season 7 of the original series.

Gumball revolves around 12-year-old Gumball Watterson, a blue cat, and his brother Darwin, a goldfish. The show focuses on their experiences growing up and how the two always find themselves getting into absurd situations. The new show’s official synopsis reads:

“The laws of reality are a joke, and family life is anything but ordinary. Whether he’s battling an evil fast-food empire, facing off against a sentient AI in love with his mom or trying to stop Banana Joe from wearing pants – Gumball Watterson drags his brother Darwin, sister Anais, and the rest of the town of Elmore along for the ride. With even wilder stories, bigger twists and surreal humor, the show is so amazing that they had to rename it!”

Executive producer Matt Layzell told Animation Magazine that it was important to “elevate” the show’s characters and storylines while staying true to the original show. “We really wanted this to be kind of a continuation of where the show left off,” he told the outlet last week. “So we wanted more of the same great Gumball stories, like returning to some of our favorite characters. Really doing more of the same and trying to elevate things and tell new stories with the characters we already had. That was the mission, to do as good and even better than what fans were already familiar with.”

New episodes of The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball are streaming on Hulu now.