Coach Russo (voiced by Dan Russell) is a large, pink 3-dimensional cube who is Jamie's mother. Frankie Watterson (voiced by Richard "Rich" Fulcher) is a conman rat and the ex-husband of Granny Jojo and the father of Richard who abandoned them a long time ago. [50] At the end of the episode, he tells Principal Brown the truth for the first time. He is a 12-year-old[5] mischievous blue cat who lives with his family in the fictional California city of Elmore. Initially given to Gumball as a pet, Darwin later sprouted legs and subsequently became a full member of the Watterson family. [7] Penny's father Patrick, the head of a local construction company, is extremely overprotective of his daughter,[14] and does not trust Gumball until he saves her from getting run over by his own car in the episode "The Knights" and "The Shell" for helping his daughter through her emotions. [13] He thinks of himself as a heavily built jock, despite actually being rather weak, and appears to be quite wealthy. [45], Juke (voiced by Hugo Harrison, music by Beatbox Hobbit)[46] is a native of the continent of Boomboxemburg who moved to Elmore, and is, as described by Gumball, a "boombox head" who speaks entirely in beatboxing. Larry Needlemeyer (voiced by Kerry Shale) is an origami rock, who works at almost every establishment in Elmore, including the grocery store, the gas station, convenience store, several fast food restaurants and the DVD rental shop amongst other places. [62] In “The Grades” Principal Brown hints at having a shady past, where it is implied that he is on the run from the FBI and a closet furry, as well as having a face on the back of his head similar to that of Quirinus Quirell and Lord Voldemort. Gumball has a crush on his classmate Penny Fitzgerald, who in turn shares the same feelings for him. The newest member of the faculty, she works to ensure that all of the students are fit like her daughter. She hates her job because Gumball and Darwin try unconvincing excuses to get sick notes and get out of gym class, Teri comes to her office every day, Lucy is rude to her, and she does not know how to help the students because most of them have biologies she has no clue how to work with. Even is commonly seen wearing a pale brown hat, green sweater with blue slacks. The directing staff did not like the character, so Rachel made a handful of cameos in the second season before being dropped from the show. Gumball tries to tell Masami her plan didn't work when she informed him it worked perfectly cause now her and Alan were dating. Bobert (voiced by Kerry Shale) is a robot who is one of the smartest students at Elmore Junior High but constantly struggles to understand emotion and develop a social life. Competitive by nature, Nicole is a master martial artist, and is very agile and flexible. Creator Ben Bocquelet conceived The Amazing World of Gumball in 2007 while working as a development artist for Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe,[1][2] and based several of its characters on previous sketches characters he had created for commercials.[3]. As of “The Cage”, he is in a relationship with Joan Markham, the school's nurse. [34] Carmen is also one of the cheerleaders for her school. [55], William (internal monologue narrated by Mic Graves)[56] is a flying eyeball who is Miss Simian's personal spy and only talks when reporting information to her. Marvin Finkleheimer (voiced by Dan Russell) is an 80-year-old red bean who lives at a house and likes to beat kids with his cane on the skull if they help him across the street. He enjoys pulling pranks and laughing at people, but hates it when others prank or laugh at him, saying that "it's only funny when it happens to someone else.". He correctly predicted that Penny was too unstable— she ended up going on a shape-shifting rampage throughout the town, changing into a progressively more monstrous form every time someone called her a monster. She has, however, been shown to not be above manipulating her family to get what she wants. Harry[citation needed] "Ocho" Tootmorsel[citation needed] (voiced by Max Cazier) is a Space Invaders-esque 8-bit spider[52] and a generally friendly person, but often overreacts to what people say about him in a negative manner, such as to Darwin and Gumball after the latter accidentally sends him an insulting text message.