The Amazing World of Gumball (also known simply as Gumball or by its abbreviation TAWOG; retitled The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball beginning with its seventh season) is an animated sitcom created by Ben Bocquelet for Cartoon Network. The series follows the lives of 12-year-old Gumball Watterson, an anthropomorphic blue cat, and his adoptive goldfish brother Darwin, who attend middle school in the fictional city of Elmore.