Gumlgum

RICHARD SHOW
== The Richarding World ==
Gumlgum is an animated show that ran on Cartoon Network from 2011 to 2019, where it had a horrible cliffhanger ending because the creator wanted to guilt trip the studio into greenlighting the movie, which worked, and now we must all wait for this movie to release. Anyways the show features a funny fish man and a funny cat man and they do wacky hijinks and THEN THERES RICHARD YEAH BEST CHARACTER HES RICHARDMAXXING
== Gumlgum (the l stands for "lore") ==
Gumlgum goes way back in the Council lore, back to the Hangout days of old. Like Spong, Gumlgum was a popular show shared amongst the Memebers, and while it was rich with meme gold to be mined, it was nothing compared to Spong in terms of memeability. It also just happened to be that the most active members liked Spong more, so Gumlgum was seldom talked about or memed. The first Gumlgum meme ever sent was on December 1, 2017 at 2:51pm, by Sly Frog Fry, in the hangouts chat. Gumball was actually never mentioned in the hangout, a surprising notion given how most memebers were watching it since middleschool.
Ironically though, the 3rd image ever sent in the Discord Council would be from Gumlgum, a cropped screenshot of Darwin, taken and sent by Meme Lord on 3/27/2018, at 7:17 PM. Besides occasional reaction memes sent by others, Gumlgum wouldn't be discussed until 5/19/2018, when Meme Lord and Mike Kachowski got into lengthy conversations about the character's voice actors strange roles in other work.
Conversation for the show did not happen often, Meme Lord often keeping it just with Mike Kachowski and Sly Frog Fry as nobody else really discussed it, and this was kept up even until its finale, where Meme Lord got to see it early thanks to a glitch with his Xfinity on-demand, and this was discussed. Meme Lord would make only a handful of Gumball videos on his channel, one of which is a bona fide Meme Lord lost episode. Released on 7/14/2019, the video was an edit of Tobias stealing Gumlgum's friends, but he is instead replaced with Disney, and Gumlgum's friends were replaced with various megacorporations and ip's. Meme Lord found this edit too simple and embarrassing and has never reuploaded it since his original channel was taken down. This remains the only video that was given this treatment. This is worth mentioning on this page because theres not really that much to talk about with gumlgum and I have a MIGHTY NEED to fill in this page with as much text as possible.
Even throughout 2019-2020, Gumlgum conversation mainly stayed between Meme Lord and Mike Kachowski, and seldom, as it was rarely memed and there wasn't much to talk about now that the show was over, except maybe the network's bizarre attempts at keeping it relevant. It wasn't until 2/14/2021 when Tactician revealed not only he watched the show quite a bit, he found it even better than Spong (a bad opinion). The Snazzmaster then also joined in during this same conversation and revealed he too was a fan but stopped watching after the newest voice actor change. This completely re-energized the conversation around Gumlgum, and throughout the remainder of 2021 as well as all the way through 2023, Gumlgum was of constant conversation, and this would be good timing; for on April 15, 2022, Richard was found by Meme Lord and Mike Kachowski in the GMOD workshop, which is, to date, the most iconic GMOD addon used in Meme Council history. Richard had a special ability where, if he was killed in-game, the game would instantly crash. It was a form of nuclear deterrent, and, to add to the tradition of ending every gmod session by crashing the game, Richard became the single most popular way of doing so. There are an infinite amount of ways to kill an NPC, and the memebers always found a more unique or comical way to do it. Richard has been used to crash gmod sessions for well over a year at the time of writing, so much so that on the 1-year anniversary of his return from Gus, Meme Lord and Mike Kachowski crashed every single map in the game with him in just one night.
As of late, Gumlgum popularity has been on the rise again in the Council, mainly due to Richard, but also Meme Lord's recent watch through, where he has been gathering many memes and clips, where he plans to make a large collection of Gumlgum videos for his channel in the future. Ah yes, you want to know why the shrek we call it "gumlgum"? To be honest its just a stroke Meme Lord had on 9/14/2023, on the first day of his Gumlgum re-watch.
== Autismal Fleem ==
Every Meme Lord 2am show classic has a running autismal fleem or two that Meme Lord will do without fail every time <event> occurs in the show. In this case, thanks to Meme Lord's secondary goal of editing together a massive Richard compilation, every first Richard appearance in each episode was screenshotted and sent in the Council.
== Legacy ==
While not as iconic and memeable as Spong, Gumlgum remains a timeless, beloved show within the Meme Council, and a very valuable source for good memes and references. 
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