Line #2 YMMV/ChalkZone


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The art style of the real world looks good, if a bit standard, but the aesthetic of [=ChalkZone=] itself does a ''stellar'' job at replicating the look of chalk art, and overall makes a vibrant, creative, and unpredictable setting.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
3	** You wouldn't expect a show as cute as this to have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJs4e2lbMmA such a badass opening theme.]]
4	*** [[BigDamnMovie "The Big Blow Up"]] has an epic version that takes this up to eleven.
5	** The absolutely ''rocking'' cover of Music/HarryNilsson's "Coconut" in the episode "The Smooch".
6	** A number of the ending music video segments, such as "I'm Back (And Bluer Than Ever)", "All The Way To The Top", "Comin' To Life", and "All Day Jam".
7	** Guy Moon's electronic score for all the scenes taking place in the titular [=ChalkZone=].
8	* BizarroEpisode: "The White Board". It has a plot [[MindScrew too screwed-up]] to explain but all we know is that in the end [[spoiler:it was all just a dream]].
9	* BrokenBase:
10	** The music video segments. Fans either love them, hate them, are indifferent, love some but hate others, or liked them more when they were in the target audience. And then there are some fans who just skip the videos altogether.
11	** The fourth season's ArtEvolution. Some fans loved [=ChalkZone=]'s more detailed look, the new outfits on Rudy and Penny, the outlines in the real world becoming colored rather than black, and the real world becoming more colorful. Other fans didn't like it as much, thinking that the art change was either too much or just unnecessary and preferred the original look.
12	** The fact that the complete series DVD is missing "The Smooch" due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers music rights]]. Some fans are very upset about it, as it makes the set incomplete despite what the cover says, while other fans casually accept that it's missing (and realize Nickelodeon's most likely not going to reinstate the episode anytime soon), and are happy that the rest of the half-hour ("Power Play" and "All The Way To The Top") are at least included on the DVD (as the [=iTunes=], Amazon Instant Video, and Playstation Store collections don't include any part of the episode).
13	* CultClassic: Despite it being one of Nickelodeon's lesser-known shows, it's developed a decent cult following especially among older fans who watched the show as children.
14	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
15	** Skrawl. It helps that he's voiced by Creator/{{Jim Cummings\|1952}}.
16	** The two vampire bridesmaids from "Pumpkin Love" have ''quite'' the following for obvious [[CreepyCute reasons]]. (Notably, they were designed by future ''[[WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera El Tigre]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' creator Creator/JorgeGutierrez.)
17	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The show is popular in Japan thanks to its cute and sometimes bizarre nature.
18	* HilariousInHindsight:
19	** Here, we have a property involving a person creating whatever he wants using a special writing utensil... No, wait, I'm [[BaitAndSwitchComparison thinking of]] [[VideoGame/DrawnToLife something]] [[VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}} else]], never mind.
20	** [[WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends This wouldn't be the only show featuring a little boy and his blue best friend who he made up]] that Candi Milo (Snap) would star on (she was not the voice of Bloo, but she did voice Coco, Madame Foster, and [[FountainOfMemes Cheese]])
21	*** This is taken even further in the Japanese dubs of both shows- Makoto Tsumura voices both Rudy and Mac.
22	** When Snap masquerades as a foreign exchange student in "Snap Out of Water", he claims to be from Greenland. Reggie responds with, "[[Film/MeanGirls If you're from Greenland, why are you blue?]]" Since this was one of the original shorts on ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'', it would be five more years until ''Mean Girls'' was released.
23	** Meta example: in the episode "Future Zone", one of the torture devices Craniac 3 uses on Rudy is "the grandmother lips of the future", which is a robotic old woman with huge lips [[ItMakesSenseInContext used to kiss the victim's entire face]]. When the episode was released on the Nicktoon compilation VHS ''Nickstravaganza!'', it was played right after the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E6GrandmasKissesSquidville Grandma's Kisses]]".
24	** The show got a soundtrack in February 2003 entitled ''In The Zone'', and was released under Creator/JiveRecords (which Nickelodeon was releasing its' soundtracks under at the time). Jive would release another album [[Music/BritneySpears of the same name]] later that year in November.
25	** In the episode Snap Vs Boorat, the titular villain identifies Snap and Rudy not by sight, but by smell. Vinnie is also gifted with a good sense of smell as seen in Follow The Bouncing Bag. It is likely Boorat gets this ability from him. Which leads to the conlusion that Vinnie had apparently took the time to sniff Rudy and Snap, and passed on that information to Boorat during his creation.
26	** The first episode initially premiered on New Years' Eve in 1999 during the (final) annual Nick New Years' block before it's delay to 2002. The [[TwoShorts first story]] of the final episode (in airing order), "The Day [=ChalkZone=] Stood Still", took place on New Years' Eve.
27	* LadyMondegreen: The theme song is actually saying "Rudy's got the chalk", not asking "Who's got the chalk?"
28	* MemeticMutation:
29	** "Rudy's got the chalk!"
30	** Various [=GIFs=] of Rudy drawing the portal with the text "Fuck this shit, I'm going to [=ChalkZone=]" have appeared often on Tumblr.
31	** As are "why friendzone when you can [=ChalkZone=]?" jokes.
32	** "Rudy, YOU GOTTA DRAW SOMETHING!"
33	* MisBlamed:
34	** Fans of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' complained that this show replaced their favorite show. While in reality, [=ChalkZone=] was delayed for two years. Not to mention that ''Zim'' was still running during the first season of the show. Furthermore, ''[=ChalkZone=]'' received equally shoddy treatment from Nickelodeon.
35	** It's also been mis-blamed for being a rip-off of the 1970s British cartoon ''Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings'' (which later aired on Nickelodeon in 1979 and throughout the '80s as part of ''Pinwheel''). Co-creator Bill Burnett stated that ''[=ChalkZone=]'' was ''never'' meant to be a rip-off of the show- in fact, he had never even heard of it until after ''[=ChalkZone=]'' finished production.
36	* {{Moe}}:
37	** The main trio. Actually, the entire show is moe.
38	** Rudy's already a cute kid, but he's even cuter as an eight-year-old in the first two ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts.
39	** Rudy's two-year-old cousin, Sophie, who appeared in "The Terrible 2 1/2s", "Pop Goes the Balloon", and "When Santas Collide".
40	* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: Rudy singing. While all three of the main trio's voice actresses can sing very well, E.G. Daily (Rudy) is the only one who made a career out of it. Doubles as TheCastShowOff.
41	* NarmCharm:
42	** A lot of the music video segments could qualify. One example would have to be "Chunky", a rock song that features lyrics about...painting your room and going to the moon with chunky peanut butter. The lyrics in a lot of the songs are very goofy and cheesy, but their pleasant quality, mixed with Rudy, Penny, and Snap's voice actresses all being really good singers, make them enjoyable for a number of fans.
43	** The opening theme could also be seen as this- it's so unnecessarily epic that it ends up being '''awesome'''.
44	* SeasonalRot: A number of fans felt as if season four was the weakest of the series, due to the plots generally feeling weaker, more generic, and less like the earlier seasons, the re-vamped art style, the songs being less memorable (Geoff Levin replacing Guy Moon as composer full-time- as he had already replaced him mid-season three for the background music although Guy Moon stuck around to work on the songs- and most of the songs being rehashes of earlier songs didn't do anything to help), and [[EnsembleDarkhorse Skrawl]] barely appearing and falling under VillainDecay.
45	* ShallowParody: WordOfGod states that "Chunky" was meant to be an AffectionateParody of Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}' style. The result sounds more like an ArenaRock anthem similar to Music/{{Aerosmith}} or Music/{{Foreigner\|Band}}.
46	* SweetnessAversion: The show had some detractors on the basis that it was too cutesy when compared to other Nicktoons at the time.
47	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Nobody likely noticed this, but the song Bushel Full O'Yum has a motif of [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Chemical Plant]]
48	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Some fans felt this way about the ArtEvolution in the fourth season, finding the more detailed to be "too much" and looking more like crayon than chalk, and the more colorful and vibrant real world unnecessary.
49	* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: As stated in MisBlamed, a few viewers complained that the show was a rip-off of ''Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings'' despite the fact that WordOfGod states they didn't even know ''Simon'' existed until after ''[=ChalkZone=]'''s production.
50	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Terri Bouffant after she became an antagonist in "Indecent Exposure", wanting to expose [=ChalkZone=]. Her only other appearance as an antagonist was in "Snap vs. Boorat". The show ended one episode later.
51	* ToyShip: Rudy and Penny. Rudy's been shown to have a crush on Penny in numerous episodes, and some episodes [[ShipTease hint that]] Penny may return his feelings.
52	* UglyCute: Some fans feel this way about Skrawl
53	* ViewerGenderConfusion: Snap. The character is male, but the voice sounds fairly ambiguous to some people (being voiced by Creator/CandiMilo and all). His shorts can also easily be mistaken for a skirt, especially in the pilots.
54	** This has caused several people on tumblr and deviantart to believe he might be Transgender.
55	* VindicatedByHistory: When it was still running, ''[=ChalkZone=]'' was despised by a lot of older Nickelodeon fans. The reasons varied, but most of them boiled down to the above misblaming of the show being accused of getting ''Zim'' canceled, the show overall being too "tame" compared to the more "edgier" Nicktoons at the time (which were, and still are, rife with NightmareFuel and [[GrossOutShow gross-out humor]]- not that ''[=ChalkZone=]'' didn't have moments like these, but they weren't a big part of the show) like ''[=SpongeBob=]'' for a relatively lesser example, and (inevitably) the original target audience for Nick in the early '90s growing out of the network and claiming that [[NostalgiaFilter it just wasn't as good as the old shows]]. These days, you will find much more fans than haters.

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