| “ | I am a good father! | „ |
| ~ Richard in "The Return." |
Richard Buckley Watterson is one of the three tritagonists (alongside Anais and Nicole) in the animated series The Amazing World of Gumball.
He is a large, pink rabbit and the well-meaning but incredibly lazy and incompetent father of Gumball, Darwin, and Anais, and husband to Nicole Watterson. He is quite childlike and generally avoids most adult responsibilities, but despite being unemployed and often causing problems, he deeply loves his family and tries to do the right thing.
He is voiced by Dan Russell.
His Good Ranking[]
His Heroic Deeds[]
In General[]
- Despite being very clumsy about it, he genuinely loves and cares about all of his family members and usually tries to do the right thing by them.
Season 1[]
- In "The End," he tries to help Gumball and Darwin stock up on food and resources to prepare for the "end of the world," and then tries to save the whole family by seeking shelter in a porta potty. His effort was genuine despite the apocalypse being a false alarm.
- In "The Painting," he tries to get a job, believing that doing so will make Anais feel better about her family.
- In "The Club," he and his family rush to the school library to prevent the Eggheads from leaking an embarrassing video of Gumball online.
Season 2[]
- In "Christmas," he rides Santa's sleigh back down to Elmore to save himself, Gumball, and Christmas itself, succeeding by the end.
- In "The Authority," he saves himself, his children, along with Nicole and Granny Jojo by regaining his intelligence and remembering to stop the incoming car with the brake.
- In "The Hero," he rescues Gumball and Darwin from falling into a car crusher and makes up with them.
- In "The Game," he helps his family complete the Dodj or Daar board game to end its curse and save all of them.
- In "The Limit," he and his children help stop their mother's rampage in the supermarket.
- In "The Castle," he asserts himself and insists that all of the Elmore citizens leave his house and stop trashing everything.
Season 3[]
- In "The Joy," he cheers up a grumpy, Monday-morning Gumball and Darwin with a "WonderHug" that contains "all the love and happiness in the world."
- In "The Puppy," he attempts to buy a "puppy" for his children to make them happy.
- In "The Gripes," he buys Gumball and Darwin jet skis to cheer them up.
- In "The Man," he makes up with his stepfather Louie by admitting he was only upset because he was afraid to lose Granny Jojo.
- In "The Pizza," he tries to help his family survive the apocalypse after Larry quits all of his jobs. Later, they all visit Larry and convince him to maintain Elmore's economy again by apologizing for mistreating him.
- In "The Safety," he helps his family stop Darwin's tyrannical rule over Elmore as the safety dictator, and also knocks out Tony, who was guarding the offices.
- In "The Egg," he helps his family and Felicity find Anais and Billy after believing they were lost.
- In "The Money," he rushes to Joyful Burger with his family to sign the job application and gain money, doing so to ensure Elmore's production budget is regained and the universe's animation doesn't collapse into nothingness.
Season 4[]
- In "The Return," he rescues Gumball, Darwin and Anais from a ball pit in a shipping container that was being sent to another country.
- In "The Signature," he tries to stop his father Frankie from signing away the deed to the Watterson household. Later, when Frankie changes his mind, Richard forgives him and gives him adoption papers to make him his dad again.
- In "The Routine," he goes on a treacherous quest and fights Mr. Rex to retrieve a jar of mayo for Nicole.
- In "The Signal," he takes Gumball and Darwin out to get ice cream and jokes with them so the two brothers will make up and stop being angry at each other.
- In "The Nest," he helps his family stop the rampage of the Evil Turtle's babies around Elmore by driving their mother towards the shore.
- In "The Bus," though it backfires, he tries to teach the children a lesson about the dangers of skipping school.
Season 5[]
- In "The Choices," it is revealed in a flashback that he encouraged Nicole to start "living" her life instead of pressuring herself. The same episode shows that, despite his antics, Richard was the best choice for her as a husband and that she wouldn't change anything about him and her family.
- In "The Fuss," he tries hard to remember what the day's date is, as it is supposedly important to Nicole. To make up for it, he gets a tattoo of the date on his butt to remember it forever. When it turns out Nicole mistakenly thought the date was their anniversary, Richard says it's not a big deal and distorts the tattoo to say "love" instead.
- In "The Cycle," he puts an end to Harold's bullying and abuse by telling him to stack his dynamite closer together to achieve a more intensive blast.
- In "The Deal," it is revealed that Richard serves an important household function, as in his absence, his children turn into feral, gremlin-like creatures. He also reverts them back to normal by having them tire themselves out.
Season 6[]
- In "The Father," he makes up with his dad and convinces him not to give up on being a good father and person because "the future starts now."
- In "The Slip," he outsmarts the petty delivery man Mr. Gruber rather than playing his game of cat-and-mouse by just ordering the same product again.
- In "The Possession," he retrieves his beloved fridge back from the possession cage-fighters. Later, he returns it to the Van Shopkeeper after his family convinces him it is unhealthy.
- In "The Master," he has all of his family members make up with each other by being the dungeon master in a parodic game of Dungeons and Dragons.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- He fails the admirable standards of the franchise to all of his immediate family members, along with Alan, Carrie, and Rob.
- While not as heinous as Gumball, he is still On & Off and performs villainous deeds in some episodes:
- In "The Wand," he abuses what he believes to be a magic wand to torture Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, as well as Gumball and Darwin, purely to feel powerful.
- In "The Password," he gets into a petty competition with his wife and races her to buy a computer for their sons, resulting in reckless driving and carelessly blowing up a gas station.
- In both "The Finale" and "The Nuisance," he and his family help cause mayhem and destroy all of Elmore. In the former, they avoid consequences by making everything worse until it solves itself (a play on the show's episodic format), and in the latter, they turn Elmore into a disaster area to make it undesirable for rich buyers.
- In "The Copycats," he and his family try to get their doppelgangers to kill themselves by performing dangerous stunts and eventually driving them off a bridge, all because they were being copied on TV.
- He is extremely incompetent, and it frequently results in chaos around Elmore. He crosses into Unintentionally Heinous territory multiple times:
- In "The Job," he nearly destroys the entire universe because he doesn't realize his employment is causing it.
- In "The Joy," he gives Gumball and Darwin the WonderHug, which is the origin of the joy virus that infects everyone by the episode's end and is never cured.
- In "The Stars," he refuses to admit to Larry that he is bald, even as Larry threatens to give the all-powerful review site 5 stars, which would freeze everyone in Elmore over fear of bad reviews.
- In "The Bus," he falls for Rob's scheme, believing it to be an educational lesson, which endangers everyone on the school bus and highway. Richard unknowingly brings a bomb on the bus.
- He is responsible for releasing the Evil Turtle onto Elmore, resulting in the chaos of both "The Puppy" and "The Nest," and giving Gumball the Game Child in "The Console," which traps everyone inside a video game. In "The Puppy," he also causes Nicole to crash her car into the Awesome Store van out of excitement, nearly blowing up their children and not showing remorse.
- Despite caring about his family, he can be extremely neglectful. In "The Return," he carelessly leaves all three children in the mall's ball pit overnight, nearly resulting in them being shipped to another country (though he later rescues them). In "The Meddler," he completely ignores both Gumball and Nicole trying to get his attention (the former wanting to feel noticed and the latter wanting to discuss their son's issues) while he watches TV.
- He can be a jerk relatively frequently, such as starting a petty rivalry and fight with Mr. Robinson in "The Tag" over using his garbage can, or frequently abusing Larry in episodes like "The Pizza."
- Even with good intentions, he is usually an extremist, shown by the hazards he causes on the highway and destroying the school's wall with a shipping container to return his children in "The Return," or blowing up Harold mostly out of spite despite being the "good guy" in the rivalry.
- A lot of his heroic actions are self-serving rather than altruistic.
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