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.

Characters
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

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