| “ | Gumball: How do you sleep at night, Miss Simian? Lucy Simian: Like a baby! |
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| ~ Gumball to Simian in "The Mystery" after she wiped Bobert's memory |
Miss Lucy Simian is the secondary antagonist of the animated series The Amazing World of Gumball.
She is Gumball and Darwin's sadistic teacher, who has been teaching eighth grade for 300 millennia. She utterly despises Gumball and Darwin and does whatever she can to foil their plans. Principal Brown is hopelessly in love with her, and she returns the feeling.
She was voiced by Lewis MacLeod in Season 1 (who also voiced her boyfriend, Nigel Brown), and currently by Hugo Harold-Harrison starting in Season 2.
Appearance[]
Miss Simian is an old baboon. She has dark gray fur, a primate face, with gray hair. She wears a pink dress and her arms are long like her body.
Personality[]
Miss Simian is a very grumpy, abusive, obnoxious, and cantankerous individual who does not seem to care about her students in the slightest, especially Gumball and Darwin, whom she hates with a passion. She is vicious, sadistic, and bad-tempered, taking great pleasure in reprimanding and abusing her students. On some occasions, she becomes so enraged, frustrated, and argumentative that she reverts to a much more feral personality, and (like a real ape) will screech and go on destructive rampages. The episode "The Joy" reveals that she "loves the smell of despair on a Monday morning," as she monitors the entire school through cameras to detect any signs of happiness. Her nasty and aggressive attitude is somewhat understandable, given that she has been a teacher for many years (numbered in the thousands), a job she apparently despises.
However, there are many times when she acts less aggressively, instead being more neutral, cranky, sarcastic, and jaded due to her contempt for her job. In these instances, she avoids her responsibilities as a teacher, dropping her friendly facade the moment she goes on break or her shift ends, though she is often begrudgingly seen teaching the students anyway. She is also quite arrogant, using a coffee mug that says "I ❤︎ MYSELF," and in episodes like "The Joy" and "The Apology," she becomes wholly bent on convincing both herself and others that her actions are justified and that she is always right. She is also extremely, and often inappropriately, flirtatious with Principal Brown, as the two frequently express intimacy in eccentric ways in front of their students, often neglecting their responsibilities as a result.
Despite her general negativity, she is not entirely bad, and can be affable or good-natured at times. In "The Apology," as the title suggests, she genuinely feels sorry for her actions and apologizes to Gumball and Darwin for trying to frame them. She also regrets spreading misery in "The Lie." There are instances when she acts anti-heroically as well, such as when she tries to stop the Joy virus in "The Joy" or when she helps Gumball study in "The Grades" to land them both back at the school.
Biography[]
In the episode "The Ape", she is shown to have many awards, except the "Favorite Teacher Award", because nobody likes her. She pretends to make friends with Gumball and the Watterson family and cozies up with them in order to win the award. It was shown that Nicole bears a hatred for Miss Simian because she kept calling her a "loser" all her life. She is soon convinced that Miss Simian has changed, but later finds out that she was faking her friendship. This ensues in a wild car chase which ends in Miss Simian falling off a bridge. Despite being seriously injured, she gets the award, saying it was worth it.
In the episode "The Apology", after finding out that her skirt was up, she blamed the boys for thinking it was funny and went out of her way to prove they were bad.
Miss Simian is determined not to apologize, and she conspires to prove that Gumball and Darwin are bad kids. First, Gumball gives her his report card, and Miss Simian takes them to Principal Brown's office on suspicion of forged signature. Richard is called in to sign the suspension card, and to their surprise, his signature exactly matches the one on the report card.
Next, Miss Simian plants a $100 bill at the library for the boys to find, thereby trying to prove they are thieves. Of course, Gumball and Darwin are overjoyed upon the discovery of money. However, they both agree that the $100 bill is corrupting them, so they throw it away.
Later, Gumball and Darwin are having their lunch when they start discussing about a rumored upcoming fight, and who's going to be in said fight. It turns out they are the ones involved in the fight. The classmates egg them on, but ultimately Gumball and Darwin resolve peacefully. Miss Simian, the one who staged the fight, is devastated.
After a brief, one-sided conversation with the skeletal remains of her father at the museum, Miss Simian makes one final attempt. She enters the boys' restroom to spray graffiti in order to frame Gumball and Darwin. It backfires on her, as she has got spray paint all over herself. Principal Brown is fed up with her attempts, and warns to stop or else he will fire her. Truth be told, he's sad that it may mean the end of their relationship if Miss Simian is really this kind of person.
Gumball and Darwin see Miss Simian and Principal Brown's plight, and they plan to commit a bad deed and get themselves caught in order to preserve the faculty staff's relationship. They retrieve the spray paint can from the restroom, when they get caught by Miss Simian. She goes into a bout of primal ape rage, and chases them through the hallway. They manage to delay her by unintentionally slamming a locker door into her face. They proceed outside, where Gumball begins spraying paint onto Principal Brown's car and Darwin unsuccessfully throws rocks at his office's window. They get into an argument about Darwin's poor throwing skills when they are caught by Miss Simian. At last, she realizes she finally can take them to the principal's office, only to be surprised upon learning Gumball's intent. She quickly excuses the boys to clean up the car, and as the boys leave, she whispers an apology to them. As she goes back to cleaning, Principal Brown peeks out of his car, and asks her for an explanation on why his car has been defaced.
In "The Joy", Miss Simian attempts to stop the students from smiling and made them depressed and sad, but she is thwarted by Gumball and Darwin infecting her with joy.
In "The Lie", she, in a parody of The Grinch, attempts to stop Gumball's made-up holiday called Sluzzle Tag, but in the end, she redeems herself when Darwin gave her a Sluzzle Tag gift.
In "The Countdown", she threatens to expel Gumball and Darwin from school if they're late, and while Gumball and Darwin race to school with an on-screen timer, they find Miss Simian in her car and chases them, eager to expel them, but fortunately Gumball (who broke the fourth wall) crashed onto the screen, stopping the on-screen timer and froze time.
In "The Grades", she expels Gumball and forced Gumball to go to kindergarten after failing his test. However, if one of her students got expelled, she will get fired. Miss Simian goes back to Gumball and she helps him cheat so he will get back to class. Gumball suddenly says Miss Simian was helping her cheat and only for Miss Simian to turn into student.
In "The Pact", Miss Simian has bad breath, causing everyone to literally disintegrate. She appears at the end of the episode glaring at Principal Brown.
In "The Wish", this is Miss Simian's anti-heroic role. She feels like Principal Brown refuses to confess his feelings to Miss Simian, causing Miss Simian to leave Elmore. However, Principal Brown came back and reunited with Miss Simian.
Relationships[]
Friends:
- Nigel Brown (boyfriend)
- Steve Small
- Librarian
- Donut Cop
- Milk guy
Enemies:
- Watterson Family
- Gumball Watterson (archenemy)
- Darwin Watterson (second archenemy)
- Anais Watterson
- Nicole Watterson (childhood bullying victim)
- Richard Watterson
- Banana Joe
- Banana Barbara
- Banana Bob
- Penny Fitzgerald
- Carrie Krueger
- Tobias Wilson
- Rachel Wilson
- Masami Yoshida
- Teri
- Molly Collins
- Carmen Verde
- Leslie
- Bobert 6B
- Tina Rex
- Hector Jötunheim
- Sussie
- Juke
- Alan Keane
- Anton
- Idaho
- Clayton
- Ocho Tootmorsel
- William
- Sarah G. Lato
- Colin and Felix
- Jamie Russo
- Rob
- Rocky Robinson
- Joan Markham
- Huggers
- Harold Wilson
- George
- Abraham Lincoln goat
- Butterfly
- Gargaroth †
Trivia[]
- Miss Simian likes to give out tests as shown in "The End". She also seems to like pretty dresses, though it may just be the dress' powerful effect of beauty that causes her to like it.
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