Chowder Debuts on Cartoon Network

Friday, November 02, 2007
By: Ryan Ball

Cartoon fans looking for something with a unique look and voice can check out
Chowder, a fantasy food comedy series that premieres tonight (Nov. 2) at 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT).The special one-hour episode will air during Cartoon Network’s Fried Dynamite block.

Chowder takes young viewers to the magical city of Marzipan, where a young chef’s apprenticeship deals with surreal situations and potential disasters on the road to becoming a great chef himself. In Marzipan City, everything revolves around food. Snail Cars crowd the streets and colorful citizens hustle about as the Mung Daal Catering Company cooks up deliciously odd edibles. It’s here that young Chowder (voiced by 11-year-old Nicky Jones) toils under the watchful eye of the eccentric and much older Mung Daal (Dwight Schultz), assisting with such kitchen duties as cooking Sing Beans until they warble on key, nursing a bruised Bluenana back to health, or delivering a thousand-pound cake to a man who lives on the head of a giant. But what he really wants to do is cook, and is willing to try the most outlandish dishes in a bid to get noticed for his skills.

Heavily nfluenced by the art of famed cartoonist Sergio Aragonés, the show’s animation is mostly hand drawn by Hong Ying in China, which was recently selected as the official animation studio by the Beijing Olympics. The show also features watercolor-and-ink backgrounds and stop-motion inserts animated by Screen Novelties in Hollywood.

An original production of Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, Calif., Chowder is created by Carl H. Greenblatt, a self-taught veteran storyboard artist at Cartoon Network Studios who is also credited with creating and voicing the character Fred Fredburger on Maxwell Atom’s The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Learn more about Chowder from Greenblatt and creative director Bill Reis in the November issue of Animation Magazine.

Reader Comments

• Dru Shaw : story board artist : Cartoon Network

  Monday, November 05, 2007

  This show is great, unique and original Cartoon Network would have to be retarted to cancell this show.
  
  (please don\'t fire me)

• Alvenesia Sims : Police Dispatcher : UTPD MD ANDERSON CANCER CTR

  Thursday, November 22, 2007

  This is a really funny cartoon I absolutely love when Chowder sings!!! He sounds like my son when he was about four listening to the radio singing wayyyyy off key.
  Love it Love Love it..

• Lena Aragon : Chef :

  Sunday, December 02, 2007

  I like when chowder sings too. I am looking for the episode where they\'re trying to get the certificate, and Chowder sings \"you are the best chef in the world, and everything I\'ve learned from you...

• Brittany : don\'t have one : can\'t yet

  Friday, December 21, 2007

  I love Chowder he\'s absolutly adorable, I am wondering mainly on what he is like Shnitzl is a rock monster. What\'s Chowder I think he\'s a cat because he has a tail. I looked all over Google and I can\'t find it.

• Kailynn : none : my house

  Monday, December 31, 2007

  According to wikipedia ,chowder is a composite of a cat, bear, and a rabbit. Panini is also the same species.

• Cynthia Pierce : Nurse : Blood Bank of Hawaii

  Monday, January 28, 2008

  This is my favorite show on Cartoon Network. I love the conversations between the characters and the play on words. I look forward to the next installments.Bring it on!

• Cherie :

  Wednesday, February 06, 2008

  My kids and I love this show. It\'s unique and absurd -- It\'s a great show all around. A lot of cartoons bore me to tears, but this one I can sit and watch with my boys. Cartoon Network hit paydirt with this one!

• lawton miles : drawing/ cartoons :

  Wednesday, April 02, 2008

  chowder is one of the coolest cartoons i have seen in ages
  
  ps Dru dosent have a job or anything hes only 15!

• Melanie : none {im in middle school} : none

  Sunday, April 20, 2008

  i luv this show chowder. its halarious. chowder is just so funny. i luv it!

• kenny the cave man : none i live in a cave :

  Wednesday, April 23, 2008

  wow i put on my television after 13 years of living in a cave and this badley scripted cartoon is on possibly worst show i have ever seen i cant belive you people enjoy that rubish

• chowder : none of your buisness : purple dragon sing a long friends

  Monday, May 12, 2008

  chowder is aaaawwwwweeeeeeeessssssssoooooooommmmmmmeeeee!!!! and i like shnitzel a little too! i agree that foods good chowder!

• werty : apple : boogers

  Monday, May 12, 2008

  i like pannini!

• ghj : dfghj : jkl

  Monday, May 12, 2008

  werty

• Stella V Roq : Graphic Designer/Freelance Artist :

  Tuesday, May 13, 2008

  I believe Chowder is one of the most amazing cartoons i have seen in a very long time. Good cartoons only come across every now and then. And this cartoon has EVERYTHING. Word play, humor, a character no one can understand, bad singing, odd character with very distinct individualities, i mean everything. I am so glad i found this cartoon. The creator is just amazing, (i love his character Fred Fredburger as well, its meh fav--too bad its only in like 2 episodes). And i don\'t care what Chowder is--he\'s just amazing. And you can\'t truly trust Wikipedia (ha!). I don\'t see anyone questioning what Mung Daal is lol.
  
  Anyone see the bank episode with an aggrivated Shnitzel and crusty old man? Hilarious. i recommend you watch it.
  
  Bravo.

• Max Morton : Student :

  Monday, May 26, 2008

  I wish I could write a story about Chowder and have it on TV

• denden : hahaha funny : -.-

  Saturday, June 28, 2008

  Chowder rocks!! Nuff said

• matt : 5gytr : gyrty

  Saturday, July 05, 2008

  wat\'\' exit 5\'\'is marzipan city off

• Wes :

  Monday, July 28, 2008

  To \\\"kenny the caveman\\\" (April 23): Go back to your cave.
  
  To Nicky Jones: Sorry you couldn\\\'t get to come to the San Diego Comic-Con this year. I hope you get better soon. Be sure to come see it next year!

• Marty : Engineer : Qualcomm

  Tuesday, July 29, 2008

  Chowder is the worst show in the whole universe!!!
  
  I HATE THAT SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Ba\'Je-Ayn : 2nd grade :

  Wednesday, August 27, 2008

  I absolutley looooove Chowder me and Thandie love to play it! I love to draw Chowder and Panini and make up new characters in my head. CHOWDER ROOOCKS!!!

• Sorvy : n/a : n/a

  Wednesday, September 10, 2008

  I ADORE The Show Chowder, everything about it. I love it.

• jadie : student : school of course

  Monday, October 13, 2008

  This is my fav show ever! I love how it is just so ... different... ya know?

• Joe Mama : Tearing up your girl : smashing your girl

  Tuesday, October 14, 2008

  chowder is a really funny show.
  
  ps: im tearing up your girl

• Nono : Educator : A university in Oregon

  Saturday, November 08, 2008

  I am so glad to see that so many people like Chowder! As a recent college grad, I used to watch CN all the time while studying. After a few years, I have found new shows during the day to be mediocre, until I saw Chowder. It is awesome, and I now Tivo it all the time. One of my college buddies totally loves it to. Cannot wait for more Chowder!

• Dashanelle : school/6\'thgrade : none

  Wednesday, November 12, 2008

  I love Chowder because it teaches kids to have fun once in a while, but to be careful what you are doing. my mother says it is stupid. I toatally disagree! You never know what might be in store on the Cartoon Network show... Chowder of course!!!

• Tami : Fiscal : State

  Thursday, December 11, 2008

  I love Chowder .. I am 41 yo and love the show .. it\'s a cute chubby kid who loves to eat !! At the same time he truly has a desire to learn and be the best [when he can concentrate] !!

• jeremiah : paramedic : hospital

  Friday, December 12, 2008

  part of my day consists of chowder. i dont feel complete until i have seen it. i find myself whistling it in the middle of the day and either people know what im whistling or they give me a funny look. very good show. they ought to offer an interperative manual for schnitzel.

• Kerry Maxwell :

  Saturday, December 20, 2008

  Terrible infantile voice acting, terrible animation, pathetic character design, over-used fart / burp humor - what\'s to like? Animation on CN is in a truly desperate and artistically bankrupt state, and worst of all, it\'s just not funny.

• Mari :

  Saturday, March 07, 2009

  I agree with Kerry, the cartoon has a not too great sense of humor. There\'s a difference between well thought out nonsense cartoons and cartoons with slapstick, fart/burp stupidity. Why must the characters have such overly exaggerated body parts? Kind of unattractive.. CN must really be desperate.

• Annie : Hair dresser/Artist :

  Friday, May 15, 2009

  Chowder is a very cool show this reminds me of the shows i used to watch on nick, a long time ago such as rocos modern life, ahh real monsters , and the angry beavers. And the character showder reminds me of some the characters of richard scary television show...the artwork of showder not many shows are like this the city of marzzipan is great the art is great in the back ground, and the way they combine, animation and some stop motion, ohh and puppetry is amazing A+ for chowder.

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  Thursday, June 11, 2009

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