Demographically Inappropriate Humour / The Amazing World of Gumball

"Thanks, Gumball!" "Whatever, man."

In the grand tradition of a lot of original Cartoon Network programming from the late-1990s into the 21st century, this show freely pushes its TV-Y7 rating to its limit, despite CN now allowing the TV-PG rating on some of their daytime shows.

General

• Gumball ending up naked in public, with his "boy parts" pixelated out is a Running Gag. Ironically the thing that makes this come across as unusually "mature" is the censorship, without it, it would just be a straightforward example of Barbie Doll Anatomy.
• There's a shocking amount of Body Horror for a Y7 show, some of which may be rather disturbing for younger viewers.

Season 1

The Responsible

• The "baby sitter" Richard found online and almost hired is depicted as a literal slimeball^note Which is a slight improvement from an alternate concept where he was a pair of underwear who wants to sit on children. His name on the concept art is even "Albert the Pervert"◊.

The Dress

• Gumball receives a letter from Darwin for date in the roller coaster and at the end there are three "X"s. For Gumball this "shows how extreme it will be".
• Gumball has an Imagine Spot that he and Darwin are married... and he's surrounded by cat/fish babies while Darwin comes home and yells, "I WANT MORE KIDS!" What really crosses the line with that scene is not only are they both children, but they're also both siblings through adoption.

The Pressure

• When Gumball falls in the swimming pool and ends with his body fully red, steals two ice creams and put them on his chest, looking like he has pointed breasts or a cone bra.
  Rocky: Hey, dude! Nice bikini!
  Gumball: [alleviated] Thanks.
• Gumball and Darwin kiss off-screen accidentally and both are after so surprised, and Gumball describes it as "being run over by a unicorn". (On the season three episode, "The Name," it's revealed that they know who kissed who in that scene and don't mind that Gumball's Zach personality erased it.)

The Party

• While the party is being busted wide open by Principal Brown and Miss Simian, Alan motorboats two balloons.
• Miss Simian and Principal Brown are making out in the closet when Jackie and Harold come home.

The Meddler

• As Gumball prepares for a cheerleader tryout to win Penny back, he ends up having to lift the skirt he's wearing up to his mother. A little later at the actual tryout, his skirt flops down on him as he flips, displaying his lower body, much to everyone's shock.

The Fight

• Gumball runs through the girls' shower room to escape Tina.

Season 2

The Flower

• During one of Gumball's tirades about Leslie, a long list of insults includes "self-pollinating." If you know anything about reproduction in flowers and plants, he basically just called Leslie a jack-off.

The Banana

• Mr. Small's "herbal tea" gives him some adverse effects; most notably towards the end of the episode, where after taking a sip his eyes begin to get weird and his face gets all loose.◊ After Gumball and Darwin leave, Mr. Small proceeds to let out a "WOO-HOO!", like that "herbal tea" is more enjoyable than it should be...
• When Darwin is raiding Joe's locker, he pulls out a jockstrap and tells Gumball to chew on it. Neither addresses what it actually is, but Gumball looks at it with absolute disgust, and then he pretends to chew on it when he obviously is not and does not want to.
• Darwin chews up Joe's pen from the locker. Later in the episode Joe says it's an heirloom his ancestor used and "I'm not even gonna tell you where he had to hide it to keep it safe", then Darwin starts wiping his tongue in disgust.

The Phone

• Gumball silences a firecracker by sitting on it. Then he coughs up smoke, making clear that even if the thing itself didn't go up there, the explosion did.

The Job

• Gumball and Darwin deliver a pizza to a couple of pizza-headed people, which they apparently consider to be their new child. As Quattro is paying Gumball, he accidentally drops the box while reaching for the money he gives them, which completely horrifies the couple◊. Even worse, Darwin slips on the "dead" pizza baby as they run away, further smearing its tomato sauce, or, as Quattro and Siciliana see it, blood, on the concrete.

Halloween

• A male ghost character phases his head through the girls' bathroom. A feminine scream is heard after.

The Bet

• Gumball abuses his power over Bobert by sending him to the nurse's office with fire coming out of his butt, telling Joan it's been happening ever since, “I fell in love with Your Mom," and making out with the wall defibrillator.
• Bobert's picture equation written on the school football field: "Glasses + horse's ass = Principal Brown."
• Miss Simian trying to warm up in the walk-in freezer by hugging a shirtless Gumball. Lampshaded when she says, "I'm sorry, Watterson. I know this is inappropriate, but I just need to warm up."

The Bumpkin

• When a wasp appears, Gumball hides from it in Nicole's skirt.
• During the party montage, Gumball funnels Idaho with a soda bong and Idaho gets baked in an oven with some fries.

The Virus

• "What the pox?!" which serves as a stand-in for another, more commonly said phrase.
• Gumball claims that the virus is "making rude gestures at me with those little tentacles!"

The Storm

• Alan the balloon explains to Gumball that his knot, the only orifice his body has, is used to breathe, eat, and excrete. In a later scene, Gumball has to "inflate" Alan in the school bathroom. Alan's knot deflates slightly, causing it to move upward in a very questionable manner just before the scene skips to them than leaving the bathroom. Gumball has a traumatized look on his face while Alan has an incredibly happy look on his.

The Lesson

• Principal Brown is shown to have a rather suggestive calendar he planned on giving Miss Simian. One picture has him laying on a bearskin rug, invoking the cliche of someone laying on such a rug naked.
• Mowdown literally pops the rotten cupcake's cherry during a detention riot, prompting this dialog.
  Gumball: Did you see what that bear did to that guy's cherry?

The Voice

• Gumball and Darwin offer Tobias a hug in the locker, but they're both wearing nothing but towels, so he refuses. The two then tackle him to try and force him, and eventually, Darwin takes Tobias's towel and spanks him with it in the middle of the school corridor.

The Castle

• Harold gets thrown out the Watterson house for touching everything, with someone yelling, "Hey, go poke yourself!".
• Gumball, Darwin, and Anais disguise themselves as a pizza delivery man to get back into their house full of party animals. Being at the bottom of the disguise, the way Anais hands over the receipt makes her hand look like... something else.
  Hot Dog Guy: Uh... you can keep it.

The Sweaters

• Gumball's butt is injured by a lightning-fast tennis ball, but he hurriedly claims it feels better the moment Mr. Small tries to massage it.

The Internet

• Gumball tries to enter the Internet by scanning himself without his clothes on. It doesn't work, but it does give Darwin a nice (high definition!) close up photo of Gumball's privates. Afterwards, Darwin tries to wash his eyes out with the showerhead.
• The Internet tells Gumball and Darwin to "get bent", a phrase that's usually considered at least moderately profane (it's generally considered short for "get bent over and take it up the ass").

Season 3

The Fan

• Sarah makes a video and song about her stalking Darwin and Gumball. A lot of it portrays her attraction toward them as less like a child's crush and more like open sexual lust:
  • Staring at Gumball through the window while he was undressing (and recording the whole thing); he saw this and closed the blinds while covering his chest with his arm.
  • Watching them while hiding inside their closet.
  • Looking at them, trying to nuzzle Gumball's hair, and taking pictures of them while they're unconscious
  • Standing around in the bathroom while Darwin takes a shower.
  • Wearing some of Gumball's clothing and enthusiastically smelling others.
• Mr. Small seems to be high when staring at the painting that Sarah hides in. It doesn't help that he's carrying a mug (which may or may not have that herbal tea he drank on "The Banana") which is steaming (giving off an appearance similar to smoke) and laughing in a way similar to a stoner laugh after everyone is done screaming.

The Joy

• When Ms. Simian zips up Banana Joe's peel, some of his "banana" gets stuck in the zipper, prompting a very painful looking reaction◊, reminiscent of the "penis stuck in a zipper" scene in There's Something About Mary.
• When the Joy virus begins spreading, Rocky is in the locker room, spraying an Axe-like male body spray deodorant on himself. Joan (who has been infected with the Joy Virus) tackles him and Rocky says (before he's brainwashed as well), "Hey, it really works!", thinking that Joan is sexually attracted to him because of the spray.

The Extras

• One of the cardboard cutout people from "The Sweaters" tries to get his change out from another one's back pockets. However, they both have their arms frozen in place above their head, so the one going for said change ends up suggestively poking his face around the other one's butt.

The Allergy

• When he thinks that Darwin's ailment is worms, Gumball delivers this throwaway line:
  Gumball: Just squat over a bowl of milk and whistle till they come out.
• Joan prescribes herself a dose of heavy sedatives so she doesn't have to listen to Teri the bear's latest worries over having an illness.

The Password

• Gumball was under the impression that Richard loves and favors Anais so much that they finish each other sentences, which Darwin incorrectly interjects with "Sandwiches". Then it cuts to Anais letting Richard finish her sandwich, which leads to Gumball to try and get Darwin to swear.
  Gumball: Sandwiches as well?! Aw man, this is total...*gestures at Darwin to finish*
  * beat*
  Gumball: *sigh*
  Darwin: SENTENCES!

The Shell

• Gumball walks in on Banana Joe watching a video of a peeled orange being spread apart, which to him is obviously supposed to be like porn. To really hammer it home, Joe has a box of tissues right next to his laptop. Because of this, this scene has been cut on Cartoon Network channels in Australia, Asia, Brazil, Latin America, and Poland.
• Tobias' mom describes Penny in her red minotaur form as being a "cow on steroids".

The Question

• Gumball and Darwin have a G-Rated Drug trip after eating cereal marshmallows through their eyes. Gumball wakes up in a ballerina tutu and Darwin wakes up handcuffed with a tattoo on his butt. Special note for how said handcuffs are covered in red fuzz, which very specifically implies they're the kind of handcuffs used for sexual bondage (or sexual roleplaying involving someone playing a police officer) and not the kind the police use to restrain criminals.

The Oracle

• Darwin spills coffee on Gumball. Darwin cools him by inhaling air while Gumball puts his butt directly in front of Darwin's face and makes a very relieved expression. Marvin passes by and comments that "I don't know what you're doing, but you should be ashamed of it!"

The Safety

• For the sake of Gumball never exposing his genitals, even to himself, Darwin apparently removed his entire crotch.
• The child filters muting words or phrases that Darwin deems unsafe make some of the things Gumball says (like "What the what?" or "Gosh darn") seem a lot worse that they actually are.
• The incredibly peaceful live action photos which cut off Darwin's venting after Gumball stomps on his foot imply that he said something especially foul. The images shown actually suggest a specific message: it's a mother with a baby, a man with a pitchfork next to bales of hay, a donkey, and a happy clown. He's cut off saying "Oh, you—". Put it all together and...
  Oh, you mother-forking^*or "farming" or "bucking" ass-clown!

The Countdown

• When time is frozen, Darwin and Gumball pull a prank on Tony who is licking an ice cream cone with his eyes closed by replacing the cone with his dog. The specific positioning◊ implies they meant to trick him into licking the dog's anus once time starts back up. They also make it so Gary the purple moose stops Sal Left Thumb from stealing the black hexagon woman's purse. Gumball decides that's too nice, so he pulls down Gary's pants and smears lipstick on his face, making it look like he's exposing himself◊.

The Triangle

• Leslie advises Darwin to picture everyone naked in order to alleviate his performance anxiety, which works when he sees Juke (the boombox-headed kid) naked, but not Mr. Small. Especially when Mr. Small bends over in front of him to pick up the peas he knocked over and talks about how he used to play the bongos in the school band.
  Mr. Small: Hours and hours of slapping those skins made me the man I am today.

The Downer

• When trapped in the darkness of his bad mood Gumball gropes what he thinks is the sofa, but when it's revealed that Gumball imagined everything that happened, it turns out it was Richard's man boobs^note this part is cut on the Cartoon Network Latin American dub and the Brazilian dub.

The Egg

• Gumball wears Pimp Duds because he misheard Nicole's order to wear something respectable as "to wear something that commands respect." He even does a pimp strut before Nicole orders him to stop.
• As Nicole and Felicity are fighting off-screen, there's a pause followed by an barely-audible exclamation of disgust. Darwin and Gumball look very confused at what Richard describes as "territorial scent marking", implying one of the mothers (more likely Nicole, as the groan sounded closer to Felicity's voice) just urinated in public.

Season 4

The Crew

• In Gumball's vision of Marvin, Betty, and Donald as gangsta-rap style thugs, Marvin is shown wearing a pimp hat surrounded by money and poodles displaying Tertiary Sexual Characteristics.^note In other words, bitches and money.

The Comic

• Sarah draws a comic called Laserheart, whose title character is based on Gumball and has a very Stripperiffic costume: very high boots with hot pants, and a tank top that barely covers his pecks, all of which are skintight. Laserheart is also shown in numerous suggestive poses, including a Boobs-and-Butt Pose and another drawn like Spider-Woman by Milo Manara◊! Either it was one of the instructions from the how-to-draw book or Sarah has been checking out Gumball's backside.

The Hug

• While sleeping in the tent, Hot Dog Guy accidentally touches Gumball, so Gumball climbs on top of him to reposition his arm. Unfortunately, this wakes Hot Dog Guy up, and they begin cuddling. While already it's questionable to cuddle with a stranger, the act is then shown from the outside of the tent, which may make it appear as if they are doing something else. This scene was edited when shown on Cartoon Network's Latin America channel, as well as the Brazilian dub and the Turkish dub.

The Wicked

• Mrs. Robinson switches the tags on the baby of the pizza couple and two shape people’s baby right before both pairs of parents pick them up. Both fathers pick up the baby the label says is theirs, notice the obvious resemblance between that baby and the other father, then start fighting each other.

The Traitor

• There's Cutaway Gag where Gumball is being held back from stabbing Alan with a pencil in class, an amazingly violent and imitable act to make it to air.
• The biological diagram of Alan's body makes it very explicit that his knot is his anus: it shows a human's lower digestive system overlapping his body and the part that leads to the knot is labelled "colon". In the scenes immediately following:
  • Another diagram shows an organ transplant simply involves shoving your hand into his body and pulling the organ out. Gumball does exactly that.
  • As in "The Storm", Alan requires re-inflation, but Darwin doing so is on-screen this time. The Band-Aid doctor bursts in, demanding an explanation, sees them in the act, then quickly exits with a disgusted look on his face.
  • A side-effect of the surgery causes Jessica to start literally talking out of her ass. The episode ends in that way:
  Alan: What the... !? Is she talking out of her backside now?
  Gumball: Oh, nothing is ever good enough for you, is it! MISTER PERFECT!! Since when did you have a surgeon's license!? Oh but please! Judge away! Looking down from your high horse, making everyone feel like—- (episode ends)

The Love

• The judge that tries Richard is based on the one in The Wall, including the ass for a face and a scrotum for a chin.^note Incidentally, this was a Visual Pun on the phrase "the law is bollocks"

The Points

• Gumball waxes Harold's car in the same manner as an aesthetician waxes someone with body hair. It's implied he finished by waxing the undercarriage, which causes the car alarm to go off as if it was in pain.

The Night

• In his dream, Hector points out that in real life, he's too big to wear clothes, so he's always "naked and just hoping nobody looks up!"

The Misunderstandings

• The hairy homeless guy makes a comment that causes Gumball to question if the man is wearing any clothes under his trenchcoat. The man responds, "I don't know, am I?!" and pulls the coat off. Gumball was clearly expecting to be flashed, as he closes his eyes and screams until he sees the man is fully clothed.
• Gumball stands up to three LEGO construction workers by giving a hand gesture they guess is "the Vulcan gang sign" and whose meaning he admits to not knowing. A freeze frame shows that he has everything but his middle finger extended, making it clear he's Flipping the Bird in reverse. See for yourself here.◊
• The LEGO construction workers seem to be giving Construction Catcalls and insults, but were really just making bad attempts at sincere compliments. The initial attempts to correct this come off as even more lecherous, including a Wolf Whistle and drawn out "Nice" ("That just went from 'uncomfortable' to 'unacceptable'.") When they try again at the mall, their tone sounds outright seductive and stalkerish, drawing a comparison to "...the last thing the victim hears in a horror movie." Gumball also narrowly averts an even worse debacle:
  Gumball: You guys really need to get out more.
  Hank: You're right. We need to hang out with some other people, but where?
  Steve: The mall?
  (other workers agree)
  Gumball: Definitely not the mall! That's where I'm going.
  Steve: Schools?
  Gumball: Ugh... alright, the mall.

The Roots

• When Gumball, Anais, and Richard see Nicole using Gumball and Darwin's computer to go through the web history, they immediately go outside and destroy all the other desktop, laptop, tablet so that Nicole won't be able to find out what they've searched before. It's best not to know what their web history is like...
• During the hurricane of fish puns, Gumball tells Darwin "Minnow you've been giving us a lot of carp about this whole fish thing..."

The Slap

• The premise of the episode is about Gumball obsessed over about Tobias not slapping him on his butt. Basically, Ben Bocquelet is playing sexual harassment for laughs.
  • Gumball insists that he will get Tobias to slap his butt by the end of the day, then realizes that people are usually in their bedrooms at the end of the day.^note This line was cut in Spain.
  • The episode features several suggestive lines, such as Tobias saying that he will get physical if Gumball keeps making advances toward him. Gumball is very excited to hear this.
  • There's also a LOT of focus on Gumball's behind including the first musical number.
  • When Tobias knocks himself unconscious, Gumball goes to slap his own butt with Tobias' hand himself before deciding this method is a step too far.
  • Gumball forges a note from Masami to Tobias to get him onto the roof. He draws Masami winking with the words "P.S. Clip your nails" underneath.

The Fury

• Gumball makes a catchphrase variation, "What the actual what?", which is clearly based on the phrase "What the actual fuck?"
• Yuki tries to piss off Nicole by sexually harassing Richard in front of his whole family. She hits on him despite his obvious discomfort, grabs a piece of his flab, and sticks her legs up in front of him to keep him from walking away.

The Disaster

• Gumball and Rob are literally rolling on the ground wrestling and accidentally change the music to a "romantic" jazz tune. Gumball comments "Is it me or does this music give a whole different vibe to the situation?"

Season 5

The Rerun

• When time is rewound, Nicole is seen briefly in only her panties (or diapers if you wanna be correct), using balls from the ball pit to cover her breasts.

The Stories

• When Darwin is asked about his special dark place, he slowly points at his bottom.
  Gumball: Wha?
  Darwin: Never mind.
• Principal Brown pretends to be cheating on Ms. Simian with Joan and that it resulted in an unplanned pregnancy—his.

The Guy

• Gumball encourages Josh to rag on the fat purple cowboy by saying he wears a big hat to compensate for... Josh doesn't guess right.
• One of Gumball's suggestions to force Josh to be Anais's friend again is to sneak into the locker room and blackmail him with nude pictures.

The Boredom

• After Gumball sits on the floor too long, his butt grows roots. Darwin pulls him out of the ground, and we see the roots coming right out of his crotch. This prompts a dialogue blatantly speaking of them as if they were pubic hair. It's even shot with both their mouths offscreen, as if the editors expected the lines to be redubbed or muted out on and didn't want to risk the lip sync not matching up^note coincidentally, this entire part was cut on Cartoon Network's Middle East/North Africa channel:
  Darwin: Ew... you're gonna have to wax that.
  Gumball: Nah, it's OK, I'll just prune it.
• During Gumball and Darwin's walk to find something interesting in the neighborhood, a lawn mower runs over Principal Brown's lower half, he shouts out in panic, and his entire lower half is left pixellated.

The Vision

• The episode begins with Gumball and Darwin changing clothes in a locker room. Gumball has accidentally taken Alan's bag, which contains just a string. One of Gumball's attempts to wear it involves tying up his crotch to look like a present. Darwin even refers to the look as "Really Inappropriate Birthday Gift."

The Choices

• During the flashback of Gumball's birth, Richard "breastfeeds" him by taping a milk carton to his chest and Gumball drinking it through a straw.

The Code

• "What the hashtag, dollar sign, at-sign, asterisk is going on here?!"
• Gumball drops his butt in order to represent "LMBO- Laughing My Butt Off". This is almost never used in real life, instead referencing the more common and vulgar "LMAO" acronym.

The Matchmaker

• Gumball describes the potential future he could set up for Darwin and Carrie, which includes "experimenting a little more" in college.
• When Gumball asks Carrie to make a Love Potion, his description makes her think of a different kind of potion:
  Gumball: Can kids buy potions?
  Carrie: What do you mean?
  Gumball: You know, some kind of love potion that tricks you into thinking everyone is beautiful.
  Carrie: That sounds more like a mistake potion, and we need a fake I.D. to buy one.
• Gumball convinces Darwin that girls like boys who are open about their lives. Darwin's response couldn't be more poorly worded.
  Darwin: She wants me to expose myself, then I'll expose myself!
  Gumball: What?
  Darwin: (embarrassed) V-verbally.
• One of Darwin's confessions is that he has a cloaca, but doesn't know what it is, and is afraid to look it up. Basically, he was unknowingly yelling about his genitals and anus.

The Ollie

• Darwin asks Gumball to show him a skateboard trick called as "dark side grind". Gumball rubs the skateboard on his own butt, bringing to mind another use of the word "grind".

The Catfish

• In a reference to American Beauty, we see Granny Jojo posing naked and moving "seductively" (with flowers covering her boobs and crotch) while Grandpa Louie describes the first time they met.
  Louie: Everything about her was magical. Her luscious lips... her flowing hair... her cutie patootie...
  Phone: I'm sorry, but I refuse to picture that last image. Goodbye, cruel world! (falls down and breaks)

The Diet

• When Darwin shows Gumball a picture of Richard with "those puppies", Gumball immediately covers his eyes only to peek, realize, and not expect that Richard is just holding two dog pups. Keep in mind that "puppies" is another slang for "boobs"!

The Weirdo

• Gumball threatens to fight the Gang of Bullies picking on Sussie and starts a Battle Strip, but keeps taking off clothing until Darwin stops him.
  Gumball: Alright, I'm-a fight these punks!
  Darwin: What, Greco-Roman style?

The Puppets

• One of the old toys is a Bop-it parody that was damaged at some point. When Darwin tries to turn it it, it plays the words "press me, hold me, squeeze me" in a slow, distorted, and vaguely suggestive manner, and Darwin admits it no longer sounded "kid-friendly".

The Nuisance

• Gumball makes Mr. Small to go crazy by pouring bath salts into the town's water supply.

Season 6

The Rival

• When Gumball and Darwin decide to play hide-and-seek with Anais, they count to ten, and when they open their eyes, they're in the highway almost getting run over by a truck. Darwin gets so scared his ghost escapes him for a brief moment, but he pulls it back. Then comes this gem from Gumball:
  Gumball: Yeah, well, at least your soul was going upwards.
• When Gumball decides he's had enough of Anais' evil tendencies, he says she's going back to where she came from, while pointing upward. Cue horrified look on Darwin's face.

The Faith

• Darwin has a questionable line after he walks into a fire hydrant, which hits him between the legs.
  Darwin: Ow! Right in the... neck.
• During the song:
  You gotta find the good that's in this great big load of (raspberry)

The Candidate

• The adults' charity gig turns into a wild party in which they all clearly get hammered and pass out, most likely to lead to a case of What Did I Do Last Night?
• The TV gets so sick of the video it's playing that it turns itself off in what is clearly a TV-Y7 imitation of blowing one's brains out.

The Shippening

• Sarah draws humanised anime versions of Gumball and Darwin getting married, and although this version of Gumball is female, no one addresses the fact that they're siblings (through adoption but still). Granted, the show itself has been at these implications since the beginning.

The Brain

• Rather than argue with a teenage cashier over how he wasted so much time that her coupon expired, Nicole asks to speak with someone higher up. Each subsequent higher up that Nicole then meets with is younger than the last the further up the chain of command they are with the supervisor being a preschooler, the store manager being a baby, and the CEO still in his mother's womb. The real kicker however is when the CEO asks his shareholders to step in. A single man then enters the scene but is accompanied with a bunch of disembodied voices, the implication of this being the shareholders are talking sperm.

The Ad

• Darwin's suggestion to make money off the family house comes out very wrong:
  Darwin: Oh, I know! We invite people who need hugs and kisses to come to our house, and we give it to them for money!
  (Beat)
  Darwin: Oh, I know! We all forget I just said that.

The Revolt

• Darwin wants to feel what it's like to be a pencil sharpener so he turns his back towards Gumball. This later becomes a Brick Joke where Darwin says it's happened to him before and is about to now.

The Decisions

• Alan teaches a group of little kids about healthy eating and demonstrates by struggling to eat a large eggplant through his balloon knot (note what the eggplant emoji tends to be used for). One of the kids points out that Alan was talking while he was eating and is about to ask where the eggplant went before Darwin interrupts, to Alan's relief. The kid then offers him a pineapple which horrifies him more.

Gumball Chronicles

• When Darwin claims Gumball has chemistry with Hot Dog Guy, he replies that they "almost had biology", in a clear callback to the infamous tent scene.

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