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.

## 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.

### Main

- Chowder (voiced by Nicky Jones): A chubby lavender  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|
|34|Endive's Dirty Secret/Big Food|July 30, 2009|
|35|Paint the Town/The Blackout|August 6, 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|
|39|Apprentice Appreciation Day/The Grape Worm|September 3, 2009|
|40|A Faire to Remember/Tofu-Town Showdown|September 10, 2009|

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

## Infobox (television)

- **creator**: C.H. Greenblatt
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English
- **num seasons**: 3
- **num episodes**: 49 (93 segments)
- **list episodes**: List of Chowder episodes
- **network**: Cartoon Network