Chowder's not only cooking up food,
but also laughter.
- Everything involving the Marzipan PD. In particular, Sergeant Hoagie is the funniest of the bunch, and their golden episode is, without question, "The Wrong Customer".
- Every single thing Chestnut says or does, but one of the best is him fighting Shnitzel in his debut episode.
- Chowder's many attempts to ward off Panini in "Chowder's Girlfriend". Especially the one where he dons a moustache as a disguise.
Chowder (wearing a fake moustache): Why hello Panini. I have a message for you from Chowder.
Who I am not.
Panini: Uh huh.
Chowder: Chowder has moved far away and can not be your boyfriend.
Panini: Where did he move to?
Chowder: Uh, down the street to the next city.
Panini: Yes?
Chowder (deadpan): He's dead. Chowder's dead.
Panini: Want a cookie Chowder?
Chowder: Would I!- Aw man!
- The "please" scene from "Burple Nurples":
Chowder: (making puppy dog eyes) Please? Please?
Mung Daal: Chowder, I just don't think you're ready yet.
Chowder: Please?
Mung Daal: No, Chowder.
Chowder: Puh-lease?
Mung Daal: NO.
Chowder: Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
Mung Daal: Chowder!
Chowder: ...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
Mung Daal: Really now, you can't keep that up forever.
Chowder: ...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - yesIcan - eeeeeeeeeee...
Mung Daal: You're not going to change my mind.
Chowder: ...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - butmissEndiveletPaninidoit - eeeeeeeeeeee...
Mung Daal: (under his breath) Endive. (normal voice) If that battle-axe thinks her apprentice is ready, I'm sure my apprentice is more than ready. Chowder, get ready to cook!
Chowder: ...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - Woohoo! - eeeeeeeeeeeee...
Mung Daal: (exasperated) You can stop now.
Chowder: (still making the puppy dog face) ...eeeeeeee - I-wish-I-could-but-I'm-stuck - eeeee...
- "Shnitzel Makes a Deposit":
- When Shnitzel receives his first check, he makes out with it.
- Shnitzel tries to get Chowder to stay by giving him a cookie, but Mung quickly proved you shouldn't try to outdo a cooking master in offering Food as Bribe:
- Chowder meets a lady handing out candy.
Old Lady: Would you care for a free lollipop?
Chowder: Would I?!
Old Lady: Would you? Chowder: Would I?! Old Lady: Would you?
Chowder: Would I?!
Old Lady: Would you?
Chowder: ...Would I what?
Old Lady: Care for a free lollipop?
Chowder: Would I?!
Shniztel: Radda radda! Chowder: Yes I would, thank you.
- The ending, where Chowder points out to Shnitzel he forgot to put his own money in his account, meaning they have to go through the line again. Shnitzel's head shatters.
- "Sing Beans" has Shnitzel tell a joke... but since he's The Unintelligible, he says it in raddas. Whatever he said, it was not kid-friendly and left even Mung blushing and sweating. Then, when Chowder asks about the joke:
Mung: AH! We'll talk about it later, when you're older!
Chowder: But..
Mung: (still flustered) WHEN YOU'RE OLDER!
- Even better, Shnitzel knew his joke wasn't appropriate for Chowder to hear, and Mung didn't mind listening to it until it was too late.
- In quite possibly the smartest joke ever made on a children's show, and Mung adds a huge gold clock on a chain, 'For Flava'.
- "Grubble Gum":
- Kiwi's solution to the Grubble Gum situation:
- Gazpacho, normally a Large Ham Nervous Wreck, has an almost stoic reaction to being crushed by the giant Grubble Gum ball.
Gazpacho: You thinking about becoming a ninja?
Pig: Uh-huh.
Gazpacho: You got the moves?
Pig: Uh-huh.
Gazpacho: The charisma?
Pig: Uh-huh.
Gazpacho: You with me?
Chowder: HI GAZPACHO!
Gazpacho: (beat)
I Regret Nothing.
(the grubble gum ball lands on him) - Mung's reaction when the Grubble Gum Katamari rolls over Endive and her house.
- The entire pepper spray scene from "The Wrong Address":
Mung: AUUUUGH! PEPPER SPRAY!!!
Chowder: Pepper spray? That sounds delicious!
(gets sprayed in the face) I WAS WRONG! I WAS HORRIBLY WRONG!
- In "The Thrice Cream Man", Mung Daal's moment of Metaphorgotten:
Mung: You see, Chowder, food is like life. And sometimes, we bite off more life than we can chew. next thing you know, you're barfing life all over the place: the beds, the walls, the priceless carpet. And who do you think has to clean up all that life?
Chowder: (visibly ill) Shnitzel?
Mung: That's right.
Shnitzel: (offscreen) Aw, radda!
- Much of "The Flibber-Flabber Diet". Highlights include:
- Truffles slamming her butt on a building that causes the entire town to collapse
Random lady: MY BABY!!
- Truffles' reaction to peanut butter.
- After Truffles claims that Mung fattened her up, Mung announces that he, Chowder, and Schnitzel (all of whom are pretty chubby) are the picture of health.
- "The winner gets... um... TO WIN! AND THAT IS ENOUGH!"
- "I WILL WIN! ME! ME! ME! MEMEMEMEMEMEMEME! ME! MEMEMEMEMEME!"
- "HOORAY for crazy schemes!"
- Every time Truffles spits the flibber-flabber in Mung's face, culminating in...
Mung: THAT'S IT! I'VE HAD ENOUGH!
(Gilligan Cut to Truffles spitting flibber-flabber in Mung's face) Mung: Okay, NOW I've had enough.
- Then...
Mung: I've got an idea!
(Gilligan Cut to Truffles spitting flibber-flabber in Mung's face) Mung: I've got another idea.
- In "Gazpacho Stands Up", Chowder writes on the screen, and his marker scribblings stay on the corner of the screen for the next several scenes, obscuring much of the action.
Gazpacho: Stop, I can fix it!
(Cut to a birds-eye view shot of the market) Not from there, get closer! (medium shot of his stall and Chowder) Closer...
(medium shot of Gazpacho) Okay.
(Cleans it off.) There.
Chowder: What about that one?
(points at the Cartoon Network logo in the corner of the screen) Gazpacho: (taps on the logo) Eh,
that one doesn't come off. I tried.
- Comedy Gold! Relationship Comedy!
Chowder and Gazpacho: ...
- When Shnitzel goes up to the mic to tell his jokes, he starts, sees Mung, Chowder, and Truffles, and runs through the brick wall.
- Mung's failed attempt to save Truffles during a flood in "Mung on the Rocks".
"This isn't supposed to sink! It's MADE OUT OF FISH!"
- "Hey Mung! I'm gonna make you pee your pants!"
- The "At Your Service" episode, especially the part where Endive tells Panini to "put on some Celine" as Mung and Chowder rid Endive's pool of bugs.
- Oh, GOD, that song in the background makes the whole scene
ten times funnier. - This conversation.
Endive: Panini, silence the fat one
note Chowder!
Gazpacho: But I didn't say nothin'!
Endive: I mean the fat, purple
bunny cat kid.
Purple Bunny Cat Kid: I didn't say nothin'.
Ms. Endive: (
holding up Chowder)
This one! Silence
this one! - "The Vacation", which features Chowder, Mung and Schnitzel Locked in the Bathroom:
- Mung says that Chowder (who's starting to swell up from holding his pee) needs to find a way to use the toilet without being alone, otherwise they'll... drown.
- After Chowder's efforts at pretending to be alone fail, Mung offers a temporary solution until they can think of a way out:
Mung: You need to distract your bladder! Think of something...
dry!
Chowder: Like
Shnitzel's sense of humor?
Mung: No, that's
too dry.
- The tail end of "The Bruised Bluenana" is pretty hilarious; just as Panini is pummeling Gazpacho for trying to steal her and Chowder's "baby", the titular bluenana's mother shows up, takes her baby back, and then proceeds to call Panini and Chowder monsters and runs away crying as everyone still has a "WTF?" face on them.
Baby Bluenana: (Cough) Mother..? Is that... you? Take me away from these horrible people!
- Before that, Chowder is roped into helping Panini take care of the titular bluenana. At one point, he turns to Mung to advice, and this occurs:
Mung: Well, you know what you gotta do.
(Chowder disappears into thin air)
Mung: No, she'll still find you. Women can smell fear.
(A disappointed Chowder reappears)
- And later, when Gazpacho does the same thing:
Chowder: No, women can smell fear.
- The Brick Joke of Shnitzel stopping Chowder, and later Panini, from doing weird moves.
- "The Thousand Pound Cake", where a large bird claws Schnitzel's face for throwing Chowder's harmonica and (accidentally) hitting him on the head with it. Chowder really didn't learn his lesson from the pepper spray incident a few episodes back:
Bird: How do ya like
them apples?
Chowder: I like apples. (starts getting clawed) AHH! BUT THESE APPLES ARE TERRIBLE!!! - From "Chowder Loses His Hat", we get the universe evidently trolling the poor kid:
Chowder: *after trying to toss his hat onto Kimchi and missing, throwing it out the window* ...maybe it'll blow back?
(beat) the wind carries the hat back to the tower...
Chowder: YES!
...and then the hat gets boomeranged back out to the city
Chowder:
NOOOOOOOOO! - At the end of the episode "Brain Grub":
Mung Daal: It's a long story.
Chowder: Does it have pirates in it?
- "YOU MADE THE VIEWERS CRY!"
- Mung trying to teach Chowder some brain exercises in order to make him smarter and more attentive. But since this is Chowder we are talking about, it goes as well as one would expect. At one point, Mung tries to teach him where the wooden spoon he's holding belongs by ordering him to put it away. Except...
Mung: Now, repeat back to me what I just told you.
Chowder: Repeat back to me what I just told you.
Mung: (aggravated) No, before that!
Chowder: Before... what?
Mung: Just put the spoon back where it belongs! (Chowder heads off... without the spoon. Mung sighs in annoyance) Mung: Oh...
(Chowder returns having realized he forgot something) Chowder: Umm...
Mung: THE SPOON! Chowder: Uhh...
Mung: Put away...
Chowder: Yeah...
Mung: NOW!!!! (Chowder finally takes the spoon from an extremely disgruntled Mung and heads off looking for the appropriate place to put it. He ends up firstly sticking it in a melon and smiles at Mung, waiting for his approval) Mung: (clearly unimpressed) No, Chowder.
(notices Chowder headed for an electrical outlet with the spoon, alarmed) CHOWDER, NO!
(we next see Shnitzel, shivering in discomfort) NO! Not
THERE, Chowder!
(Chowder walks off as Shnitzel glares disapprovingly at him. He finally puts the spoon in a juicer, but the machine ends up uncontrollably spinning it around before launching it at Mung and pinning him to the wall. Mung steps away from the wall... and accidentally rips off his clothes, leaving him in his underwear. He sighs and gives Chowder a Disapproving Look) Chowder: Hey, Mung! Did you happen to see-
(notices his master) I'll... go look over there.
(Mung is annoyed) - From "Shnitzel Quits" after Shnitzel goes to work for Endive...
- "The Meach Harvest":
- Mung on the Meaches attacking for 25 years straight:
- When Chowder and Schnitzel are dressed as a mariachi band, the soldier meaches are not impressed and chase them out, and Chowder yells, "¡NO ME GUSTA!" Even funnier is that they tried the mariachi band, along with dressing as ghosts and then girl scouts. And Schnitzel went along with each and every plan as if they had a chance of working.
- And when they finally get caught, Mung tries to give some help from the car:
- During what appears to be Chowder and Shnitzel's final moments, Chowder seems about to make a Platonic Declaration of Love:
- Mung saves the day in the end and sustains many injuries as a result.
"Thank you, Chowder, for giving me to the courage to foolishly face my entirely rational fears."
- Shnitzel, on the other hand, is reduced to a head set on a footstool, much to his irritation.
Mung: Aw, quit whining. You get tomorrow off.
- When Panini makes Chowder hold her hand in "Banned from the Stand". Panini's reaction seals it:
Chowder: IT— BURRRRNS!!!
Panini: Let's go. Look everyone, we're holding hands! *~n_n~*
- Hell, everything that Gazpacho does in that episode is too funny for words.
Gazpacho: No! You have tried to gain fruit through deception! Your sentence...is BANISHMENT!
Gazpacho: (whispering) The hammer...it hurts us all.
Gazpacho: YOU'RE BANNED!!!!
Hippo: I was just looking for the bathroom!
Gazpacho:
YOU'RE BANNED FROM THAT TOO! Hippo: I am banned from the bathroom?
Gazpacho:
Every bathroom.
Hippo:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! - At one point, Gazpacho looks into the mirror, and, thanks to his newly-found habits, bans himself from the stand. Afterwards, he realizes that was a terrible idea.
- "Look Mung, I'm an Arborian!"
- From "Panini for President":
Chowder: I'm not listening to Gorgonzola. I was just hanging around with him all day because he was giving me food. He's ma' friend.
Panini: Gorgonzola is not your friend. He's, like, a villain or something.
Gorgonzola: (dressed as the Phantom of the Opera): How's it going Mr. President?
Chowder: Ah! A villain!
Cop: A villain you say!?
Gorgonzola: You'll never take me alive, copper! (runs away)
- After Mung gives up trying to build a schmingerbread house he says "Knishmas is ruined, and it's all Schnitzel's fault."
- When Chowder is trying to get Mung Daal to taste his "Foof 'n' Scoops" sandwich in "Chowder's Catering Company":
- From "The Hot Date":
Mung Daal: Yeah, sometimes I got to beat the ladies off with a stick! (Scene cuts to Mung
literally beating Truffles off with a stick) Back, woman! Back, I said!
- And later, an officer says that Schnitzel better talk because Chowder ("[his] little buddy") just spilled the beans:
- In "Shopping Spree", Mung, Chowder and Shnitzel go to a mall and spend all of the money in Truffle's money box while she is ill. Not only can they not afford all the stuff they bought, but they can't afford the animation and are consequently reduced to live-action footage of the four main Voice Actors: Dwight Schultz, Nicky Jones, John DiMaggio and Tara Strong in a recording studio. So what do they do to make money? They have a car wash.
- In "The Party Cruise", Mung tries to excite Chowder on a fishing trip by telling him a story:
Mung: Did I ever tell you the story of my famous one-thousand-day fishing trip?
Chowder: How many days?
Mung: A thousand.
Chowder: OH GOSH. - The normally hard-to-understand Schnitzel talking so that the audience understands him complete with Lampshade Hanging.
Shnitzel: Yeah, I'm so calm...now the audience can understand me! Yo! My name's Schnitzel! ALL RIGHT!!!
Chowder: Nah...doesn't work for us.
Shnitzel: (falls over) Radda, radda, radda...
- Frau Broten, the giant, German-accented Large Ham warden of the baby pound in "Kid Schnitzel," must be seen to be believed, especially when she tries to change Schnitzel's diaper.
- Almost all of "The Dinner Theater" counts. Every scene with Gazpacho in particular is pure gold.
- In "* Field-Tournament-Style-Up-and-Down-On-The-Ground-Manja-Flanja-Blanja-Banja-Ishka-Bibble-Babble-Flabble-Doma-Roma-Floma-Boma-Jingle-Jangle-Every-Angle-Bricka-Bracka-Flacka-Stacka-Two-Ton-Rerun-Free-for-All-Big Ball", Truffles commandeers one of the teams as coach in a bid to get the game to finally end. After a football-style huddle, she calls "Break!" and the team spontaneously shatters like pottery. "Yes, yes, very funny. I hate this show."
- In the same episode, Mung gets Chowder to not participate by pointing to a bench and saying it has a cold, asking Chowder to keep it warm. Later Chowder returns, happily and obliviously proclaiming the bench is nice and warm; cut to a brief shot of the Bench on fire. Heal It With Fire taken quite literally.
- To stack the humour, when we cut back Chowder is now shirtless—when Mung ask what happened, Chowder replies he got hungry during the Cutaway.
- When Truffles finally manages to end the game, the stadium is revealed to have been on the back of a lawyer-friendly version of Bowser, who throws the stadium in a giant trash can.
- Not to mention the Running Gag of Mung always saying the Overly Long Name of the sport every time since it's apparently bad luck to not do so. It's uncut the first and last times, and then interrupted or sped up at other points.
- "I like songs about mustard."
- This gem from "Endive's Dirty Secret", when she catches Mung taking photos:
Mung: (unaware that Endive has leaped up to the tree he, Chowder, and Shnitzel are hiding in and is angrily staring down at him) Hey, guys, I wonder what Endive'll say when she finds out we've captured her dirty secret on film!
(Mung looks up and realizes he's screwed)
- A lot of "Paint the Town".
- "Look at me, I'm Crazy Box Head Man!"
- Chowder dancing out his frustrations, complete with a puppet of Chowder doing some wacky dances to what can only be described as Arabian jazz while, at least initially, wearing Michael Jackson's outfit from the "Smooth Criminal" video.
- Turn on captions while "The Blackout" is on and pay attention to what the weirdos say.
Large Female Weirdo: I like pirates and movies and movies about pirates. Bird Man Weirdo: I suggest a firm, long-term investment in butter. Butter is...
- In "My Big Fat Stinky Wedding" Chowder has to sneak into Kimchi's wedding located inside an alligator. When you think that he would use a wrench to knock out Identical Stranger Porridge, he instead trades the wrench for Porridge's glasses. Porridge even wears the wrench in place of his glasses and plays the violin poorly as a result. Chowder then places the glasses on the gator's eyes and uses the altered perspective to somehow enter the gator's nose.
- Earlier, Chowder tries to think of a plan to stop the wedding. One montage later, he constructs a Trojan Horse-like thing, and it turns out to be a coin-operated horsey ride!
- After building the aforementioned horsey ride:
- From "Apprentice Appreciation Day," Endive's Volumetric Mouth when she compares slawberry cake to "MANUUUUUUUUUUUURE" (which she says twice in a row for some reason), and Chowder's reaction to that statement:
- Earlier in the episode, Mung and co literally "jet" over to the farmer's market, and when they get there, Gazpacho's gift to Chowder is a "babe magnet" (as in a literal horseshoe magnet that's supposed to attract women) that he claims he no longer needs as he "sees plenty of action." Cue a Cutaway Gag of him in a theater watching an action movie.
- When it turns out the babe magnet actually works, Gazpacho takes it back hoping to attract a supermodel with it. He gets Endive instead.
- This exchange from "A Faire To Remember", where Panini catches Chowder hanging around with Marmalade and feels jealous:
Panini: (sarcastic laughter) Chowder, you get back over here right this second.
Chowder: But I don't wanna.
Panini: Now. Get over here now.
Chowder: But...can't I have more than one friend who's a girl?
Panini: No. Don't test me, Chowder.
Chowder: (He and Marmalade look at each other in worry) ...What flavor lip gloss are you wearing?
Panini: Smackdown. Now get over here!
Chowder: Uh, I think I'd rather stay with Strawbarbleberry...
- "Tofu Town Showdown":
- The leader of the Teriyaki Triads speaks in a hysterically bad dub voice.
- The scene in "The Apprentice Scouts" when Gazpacho yells at Ceviche for throwing up.
Gazpacho: There's no time for barfing! You've got a badge to earn! What do you think, we're just gonna sit in the bushes and barf all day? Fat chance, pal! FAT CHANCE!
- Chowder really doesn't trust any sun he sees; when he, Panini and Gorgonzola are in a raft, stuck choosing between a set of white water rapids and a calm river heading towards a pleasantly smiling sun, Chowder insists upon the rapids.
Gorgonzola: ...Whhhy that way?
Chowder: [With the slight rasp of a seasoned sea captain] I don't trust the look of that sun.
Gorgonzola: But, wh-
Chowder: GO LEFT, HURRY!
The Sun: [Frowns as it removes a spiked club from behind its back] Darn! I almost had 'em...
- The entirety of "A Little Bit of Pizzazz!" , where the main four characters wind up switching bodies thanks to a magic spice. Chowder in Shnitzel's body, Mung in Chowder's body, Truffles in Mung's body, and Shnitzel in Truffles' body. Hilarity ensues...
- The scene in the episode "The Heist" where Schnitzel, in a desperate attempt to keep Endive unaware there are Sugar Sapphires under her house, kisses her. The people's Reactive Continuous Scream was gold!
- Mung licking one of the Sugar Sapphires causes his head to briefly turn into that of Bubbles.
- In "The Prank", when Endive thinks she killed Mung, she imagines herself in the West Pole. Her line truly captures what one would think if they ever went to such a place.
Ms. Endive (imagining herself in the West Pole): OH MY GOSH! IT'S COLD HERE!
- The beginning of "Weekend at Shnitzel's", where after several seconds of Chowder and Shnitzel doing nothing:
- The first minute of "The Toots" pretty much acknowledges three things: the show's need of made-up items, the show's name, and the basic formula of Chowder eating the Food of the Episode (the Tooten Fruit).
Chowder: So what are we making today?
Mung: Oh, just some
bread.
Chowder: But that doesn't sound like a fantastically whimsical Marzipanian dish at all!
Mung: Good point. Let me find something made-up to put in it.
(pulls out the Tooten Fruit) Here.
Chowder: Oooooooh, what is it?
Mung: It is a Tooten Fruit. They're full of gas and when they expand, they make the bread rise, just like yeast.
Chowder: Oh. But why don't we just use yeast?
Mung: Because this is
Chowder!
Chowder: But I'm Chowder.
Mung: Right.
(beat) Chowder: So, now what?
Mung: Well, I should tell you not to eat it.
Chowder: And I eat it anyway. Right?
Mung: Yep. Here.
(Puts the Tooten Fruit on the table, before turning around) Now I'll turn around, and
pretend to be oblivious.
