The Downer "The Scrapped Ending"

== My story ==
I'm pretty sure some of y’all know the tv animated series “The Amazing World of Gumball” but if you don't, let me explain. The show follows a 12 year old cat named Gumball who attends a junior high school with his adoptive brother Darwin who is a gold fish with legs. I know there's more to the series, but it's a long story. But there's one episode that's important for this story, which is The Downer. To make a long story short, the episode was about Gumball wishing that everybody was gone, but slowly starting to regret it. Luckily for him, it all ended up turning out to be all in his head. But there is a rumor that there was an early version of this episode, but ended up getting scrapped due to how dark it was. The whole “scrapped ending” was a mystery and considered lost media to the fandom. Nobody knows what happened during the early production or how the episode played out, but it was never released to the public. There were mentions of it during some conversations with Ben Bocquelet, though it was never revealed. 
However, there exists some website that had a link to a video that was supposed to be the transcript of the early version, but the video was sadly taken down. I'll post the link here if any of y’all are curious, but like I said, it just leads you to a deleted video.
https://www.sbmania.net/forums/threads/the-amazing-world-of-gumball-the-downer-leaked-script.44341/
There was a thread on reddit talking about some “car park scene” stating how gumball killed himself by jumping off of a car park. I'll post a screenshot of the thread here.
Anyways you might be asking “Why is this so important to you”, well it's because... I think I might have some of the info. I know some of you guys won't believe me and I'll understand if you don't, but anyways here’s my story. 
=== How i got the scrapped ending ===
So around last year, I was taken to the Cartoon Network studio building before it shut down months later. As we went to many areas, I got to meet Ben Bocquelet. As he greeted us, he talked about upcoming projects he was planning to do with The Amazing World of Gumball. We then asked him many questions, as it was my turn to ask him something. I was thinking about the infamous scrapped ending of “The Downer” and as I asked him, he didn't know what to say. He then just moved on without answering my question. Hours went by and it was time for us to leave. As I was about to leave the building, I heard a whisper from Ben. As I turned to him and talked to him, he stated, “Hey, I know it was rude for me to skip your question, I just don't want anyone to know this, but I felt really bad after skipping your question, so I’m telling you what you wanted. The episode was dark like I said online, but never released the old script nor the storyboard. But I want to be really nice and give you a copy of an unfinished version of the downer, but promise me you won’t show this or release this to anyone.” He gave me a usb drive that contained a mp4 file and he walked away. As I got back from home, I kept the usb drive to myself as I watched it. Now I'm going to feel bad for breaking our deal, but I know that people really want to know this so badly. So without further ado, here’s the early version.
Btw the file is downloaded on my files. Here’s the file btw (i won’t release it).
==== The Episode ====
The episode started usually with Gumball wishing that everyone was gone, but it wasn't fully animated. Instead, it was drawn on a storyboard like Ben stated how everything was going to be normal at first until the part where the black fog comes in. Instead of the black fog trying to consume Gumball, he went into a horrible mental breakdown. The scene was too disturbing. It sounded like Jacob Hopkins was literally screaming and yelling violently. But the next scene was even worse. Now, I know that this might be some cliche or something, but the next scene depicted Gumball on top of a parking lot building. I knew where this was going and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like it. Gumball took deep breaths before doing it and as he jumped off, he had the face of nothing but terror. As he collided with the ground, a horrible splatter could be heard as I extremely cringed. The screen then quickly went black for a moment, but I could tell what the horrible result would have looked like, so I won't explain. The next scene for some reason was fully animated and finished, it depicts Gumball waking up in some dark area as he looks around in fear. He then starts to walk and look around. “What is this place?” Gumball said, as if he was in terror. No one responded though. As Gumball stays still for a moment, he then hears what seems to be his family calling out to him. As he turned around, it was nothing. As he saw that it was nothing, he started to get worried. The next scene depicted Gumball sitting down as he felt like he had so many questions. As he sits there for about 5 minutes, he said in a yelling tone, Why God why!?!”. As he panicked, some silhouette that seemed to be a human was walking towards Gumball. “WHAT THE WHAT IS THAT,” Gumball shouted as it got closer. Then the silhouette got closer and closer. As it got closer, the more faster it was. Gumball then ran for his life as if there was no tomorrow. After about 6 minutes of chasing, Gumball tripped and fell on the ground. As he looked up, he saw the silhouette looking at him. After about 9 seconds, Gumball spoke, “Who are you?!”, as the entity was just staring at him for 3 seconds. It then spoke, “You don't have to know about that you little prick…”, in a raspy sickening voice. Then the entity grabbed Gumball from his neck, “You really think you would see them again, don't you? Hah, pathetic. You wanted them gone, and so that wish was granted, yet you seem to act so spoiled and ungrateful. You wanted this and now you don't want it anymore?!, MAKE UP YOUR GOSH DARN MIND. YOU WANTED EVERYONE GONE, AND NOW YOU WANT EVERYONE BACK, WELL IT’S TOO LATE FOR THAT.” Gumball was shaking violently, as he was about to tear up and cry. “I didn't mean it literally”, as he said in a tone that seemed to be a mixture of a lot of emotions. “Where’s my family, wheres everyone!?!” Gumball spoke. “You don't need to know that”, the entity said as it slammed Gumball to the ground. Gumball then slowly sat in sorrow as he looked up at this thing. “Listen, I’m sorry for being rough towards to you, but I’m trying to tell you the hard truth. You wanted this and now it’s too late. There’s nothing that me and you can do. This is pretty much your new life now I guess.” Gumball then starts to cry uncontrollably. While he was crying, the entity slowly faded away. The last few scenes show Gumball crying. As the scene played out, The "souls" of the Watterson family faded behind him. It seemed like they had no faces, symbolizing that they were erased from existence and how they are nothing
This went on for about 4 minutes until the final image appeared. The image depicted a dark image of a sloppy and poorly made drawing of the Watterson family, but with Gumball’s face crossed out.Then the screen went black, ending the episode as the mp4 video ended. I didn't know what to say. This was really dark for an actual Gumball episode. The ending was pretty fucked up as I thought that it would end with Gumball waking up to his family or something, but this episode was something far from the final version.
==== The Conclusion ====
This was a fucked up episode that would make the viewers shocked and maybe disturbed. I don’t know why the team thought this was a good idea or why they thought about this idea, but I'm really glad they scrapped it and gave it a realistic and happy ending. I’ll let you all know that I won’t release the full mp4 file or anything. I just know that if Ben sees this, then he would be pretty mad at me for breaking our deal, and yes, I do feel bad for breaking our promise towards the official creator of Gumball. Well everyone, that was the story. I know it's not that believable and I'll understand that. I just wanted to get this out of my chest. Thank you for reading or listening though. I know that the early version was just Gumball killing himself and ended up in a black void or something and nothing much really. All I know is that this is what you all wanted.
Category:The Amazing World of Gumball
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