Frank and Howdy

Frank and Howdy are the secondary antagonists in The Amazing World Of Gumball episode, The Puppets. They used to be Darwin’s childhood toys, until they turned evil and wanted to play with him.

Role in the episode
While Gumball and Darwin were putting their old toys in a sack for the yard sale, Darwin is delighted to discover his old childhood puppet toys, Frank, Howdy, and Grady, but Gumball tells him they’re too old to play with toys and tells Darwin it’s time to grow up. Despite this, Darwin plays with Frank and Howdy anyway.

After Gumball caugh Darwin playing with his old toys, he tosses them in the garbage can. Later that night, Frank and Howdy pop out of the garbage can and crawl back in the house with Grady. They destroy Gumball’s gaming console and reveals that now Frank and Howdy are controlling Darwin. They tell Gumball that if he wants to see Darwin again, he will have to go to their world to play. Leaving no choice, Gumball puts on Grady, and transports him to a bizarre puppet world.

At a house, Frank and Howdy continuosly play with Darwin while they sing, “The Fun Will Never End”. They then torture Darwin by slapping a cake off of his hand, and making him dance uncontrollably. Gumball intervenes and rescues Darwin, but Grady traps them.

Darwin and Gumball, now as puppets, continue to get tortured, until Darwin defeats all the three puppets by pulling Grady’s left arm off, ripping Howdy’s left eye off, and tore apart Frank’s stomach, and the whole puppet world explodes.