Chowder (TV series)

Chowder is an American animated television series that started on Cartoon Network on November 2, 2007. The show was created by C.H. Greenblatt, a former storyboard artist on SpongeBob SquarePants and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. The title character is a young child named Chowder. Chowder is a student to a chef named Mung Daal, who owns a baking company serving the fictional "Marzipan City". The show has animation with stop motion animation and puppetry.

Chowder
Created by	C.H. Greenblatt
Starring	Nicky Jones Dwight Schultz John DiMaggio Tara Strong C.H. Greenblatt Dana Snyder Liliana Mumy Mindy Sterling Kevin Michael Richardson Diedrich Bader
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	49
Original release
Network	Cartoon Network
Release	November 2, 2007 – August 7, 2010

Plot

The series revolves around the titular Chowder, a cat-bear-rabbit hybrid and aspiring young cook at Chef Mung Daal's catering company. Though he is lighthearted and carefree, Chowder's actions habitually land him in circumstances beyond his control, partly due to his large appetite and absent-mindedness. Mung and his wife Truffles, Mung's rock monster employee Schnitzel, and Chowder's gaseous pet Kimchi all try to aid Chowder in his ambitions to become a great chef, but frequently find themselves undermined by the calamitous antics that ensue. Chowder is also undermined by Panini, a girl who has an unrequited love for Chowder, going so far as to say that he is her boyfriend despite the pair not actually dating.

Characters

Main

• Chowder (voiced by Nicky Jones): A chubby lavender cat/bear/rabbit hybrid who serves as an apprentice under the chef Mung Daal, Chowder lives with Mung Daal and his wife, Truffles, in a room at the top of the catering business. Chowder wants to become a great chef, but he is very impulsive and scatterbrained and often gives in to his urges. He is always hungry and eats anything, even a customer's order. Chowder can also regurgitate objects, and he is used as a storage container by the other characters. According to Greenblatt, he is a composite of a cat, a bear, and a rabbit, and his species was verified in at least one episode. C.H. Greenblatt voiced his adult self in the last episode. In the final episode, "Chowder Grows Up" Chowder takes over the Catering Company, has his own apprentice, and marries Panini. He is also a father to 50 babies.

• Mung Daal (voiced by Dwight Schultz): The elderly goblin chef who runs the catering company at which Chowder works. He serves as Chowder's cooking master. Although his exact age has not been stated, he has mentioned that he has cooked for at least 386 years, and he celebrated 450 years of marriage to Truffles (see below). He likes to impress ladies, to the point where as a child apprentice, he prepared a dish incorrectly due to becoming distracted, which he and Chowder had to time travel to fix. He is a light blue-colored humanoid with an oversized nose and ears and is named after the Indian dish mung daal. Greenblatt had originally planned to give Mung an Indian accent, but later decided against it.

Episodes

Season 1

2007-2008

No.	Title	Date shown
1	The Froggy Apple Crumble Thumpkin/Chowder’s Girlfriend (New Series)	November 2, 2007
2	Burple Nurples/Shnitzel Makes a Deposit	November 2, 2007
3	Grubble Gum/The Cinamini Monster	November 9, 2007
4	Certifrycation Class/Sing Beans	November 16, 2007
5	The Wrong Address/The Wrong Customer	November 23, 2007
6	Mahjongg Night/Stinky Love	November 30, 2007
7	The Thrice Cream Man/The Flibber-Flabber Diet	December 7, 2007
8	Gispacho Stands Up/A Taste of Marzapan	December 14, 2007
9	The Puckerberry Overloads/The Elemelons	January 18, 2008
10	Sniffleball/Mung on the Rocks	March 6, 2008
11	The Moldy Touch/The Heavy Sleeper	April 3, 2008
12	At Your Service/Chowder and Mr. Fugu	May 1, 2008
13	The Vacation/The Sleep Eater	June 5, 2008
14	The Bruised Bluenana/Shnitzel and the Lead Farfel	June 12, 2008
15	The Thousand Pound Cake/The Rat Sandwich	June 19, 2008
16	Chowder Loses His Hat/Brain Grub	June 26, 2008
17	Shnitzel Quits	July 3, 2008
18	The Broken Part/The Meach Harvest	July 10, 2008
19	Banned from the Stand/Creme Puff Hands	July 17, 2008
20	The Apprentice Games	July 24, 2008

Season 2

2008-2009

No.	Title	Date shown
21	The Arborians/The Garage Sale	October 2, 2008
22	Panini for President/Chowder's Babysitter	November 6, 2008
23	The Fire Breather/The Flying Finger Lingons	November 13, 2008
24	Hey Hey It's Knishmas!	December 4, 2008
25	Chowder's Catering Company/The Catch Phrase	December 11, 2008
26	The Hot Date/Shopping Spree	February 12, 2009
27	The Party Cruise/Won-Ton Bombs	March 26, 2009
28	The Big Hat Biddies/The Deadly Maze	April 2, 2009
29	Kid Shnitzel/Gispacho Fights Back	April 9, 2009
30	The B.L.T.'s/The Trouble with Truffles	April 16, 2009
31	The Dinner Theater	April 30, 2009
32	Big Ball/The Brain Freeze	July 9, 2009
33	The Snail Car/The Lollistops	July 16, 2009/July 23, 2009
34	Endive's Dirty Secret/Big Food	July 30, 2009
35	Paint the Town/The Blackout	April 23, 2009
36	The Dice Cycle/The Chain Recipe	August 13, 2009
37	The Garden/Sheboodles	August 20, 2009
38	Gispacho Moves In/My Big Fat Stinky Wedding	August 27, 2009/September 3, 2009
39	Apprentice Appreciation Day/The Grape Worm	September 10, 2009/September 17, 2009
40	A Faire to Remember/Tofu-Town Showdown	September 24, 2009/October 8, 2009

Season 3

2009-2010

No.	Title	Date shown
41	Hands on a Big Mixer/The Spookiest House in Marzapan	October 15, 2009/October 22, 2009
42	The Poultry Geist/The Blast Raz	October 29, 2009/November 5, 2009
43	The Belgian Waffle Slobber-Barker/The Apprentice Scouts	November 12, 2009/November 19, 2009
44	A Little Bit of Pizzazz!/The Birthday Suits	December 3, 2009/December 10, 2009
45	The Heist/The Prank	January 7, 2010/January 14, 2010
46	Old Man Thyme/Chowder's Magazine	January 21, 2010/January 28, 2010
47	Weekend at Shnitzel's/Taste Buds	March 4, 2010/March 11, 2010
48	Gispacho!/The Toots	March 18, 2010/April 5, 2010
49	Chowder Grows Up (Series Finale)	August 7, 2010