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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The pilot episode had noticably different designs for the characters, Shnitzel in particular. Mung's voice was different, and Shnitzel was voiced by KevinMichaelRichardson instead.
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* DubNameChange: The Japanese dub changes Kimchi's name to Natto, a Japanese bean dish known for its foul smell.
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* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Mung. It's actually explained; the Meach bit in the CrossesTheLineTwice point above was responsible.
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* ShellShockedSenior: Mung goes into flashbacks when commissioned to ''bake a pie''. See CrossesTheLineTwice, above.
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* BookEnds: Grumble Gum begins with Chowder eating a sample of grumble gum, hearing screams as he did so. The episode ends with Chowder eating another grumble gum like he did in the beginning... [[spoiler: the difference that it's a MindScrew of him eating everyone, including himself, after the Kamatari scene.]]
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* BookEnds: Grumble Gum begins with Chowder eating a sample of grumble gum, hearing screams as he did so. The episode ends with Chowder eating another grumble gum like he did in the beginning... [[spoiler: the difference that it's a MindScrew of him eating everyone, including himself, after the Kamatari scene.]]
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* SequentialSymptomSyndrome: Chowder experiences the effects of eating a raw Puckerberry as Mung lists them.
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From C.H. Greenblatt, formerly a writer and storyboard artist on both ''SpongebobSquarepants'' and ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', comes this little crazy series inspired by food and Dr. Seuss.
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From C.H. Greenblatt, formerly a writer and storyboard artist on both ''SpongebobSquarepants'' ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' and ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', comes this little crazy series inspired by food and Dr. Seuss.
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* EarWorm: The theme song, the Veggie Guru's song, and the sing beans' song. There's also an in universe example: after Paté performs "I'm Not Your Boyfriend" (a song written by Chowder to Panini), everybody is singing it to themselves. Sort of like a ThemeTuneCameo, except "I'm Not Your Boyfriend" isn't the theme song.
** "Blow your beans... on Route 17!"
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfyo8ZYWnW8 "Hey there, hey there you, hey there!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6AM7YaPKNg "How do I say that I loooooooooove you!? L'amour l'amour, l'amour!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhPFOqmo5z8 "This and that and that for this and these for those and those for these...]]
** "Blow your beans... on Route 17!"
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfyo8ZYWnW8 "Hey there, hey there you, hey there!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6AM7YaPKNg "How do I say that I loooooooooove you!? L'amour l'amour, l'amour!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhPFOqmo5z8 "This and that and that for this and these for those and those for these...]]
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* EarWorm: The theme song, the Veggie Guru's song, and the sing beans' song. There's also an An in universe example: after Paté performs "I'm Not Your Boyfriend" (a song written by Chowder to Panini), everybody is singing it to themselves. Sort of like a ThemeTuneCameo, except "I'm Not Your Boyfriend" isn't the theme song.
** "Blow your beans... on Route 17!"
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfyo8ZYWnW8 "Hey there, hey there you, hey there!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6AM7YaPKNg "How do I say that I loooooooooove you!? L'amour l'amour, l'amour!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhPFOqmo5z8 "This* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The pilot episode had noticably different designs for the characters, Shnitzel in particular. Mung's voice was different, and that and that for this and these for those and those for these...]]Shnitzel was voiced by KevinMichaelRichardson instead.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfyo8ZYWnW8 "Hey there, hey there you, hey there!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6AM7YaPKNg "How do I say that I loooooooooove you!? L'amour l'amour, l'amour!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhPFOqmo5z8 "This
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** Parodied in one episode when Truffles pops up out of nowhere asking if she can help solve a problem and Chowder responds:
'''Chowder''' No. You're not in this episode.
'''Chowder''' No. You're not in this episode.
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* ComicBookAdaptation: {{DC Comics}} managed to put out three ''Chowder'' comics in ''Cartoon Network Block Party'' before it was discontinued in 2009.
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* SeriousBusiness: Truffles treats board games and mahjongg as this. One episode involved her [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome battling it out against another character complete with music in the background.]]
** And while we're here, cooking.
** And while we're here, cooking.
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* SeriousBusiness: SeriousBusiness:
** Truffles treats board games and mahjongg as this. One episode involved her[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome [[MundaneMadeAwesome battling it out against another character complete with music in the background.]]
**And while we're here, cooking.Cooking.
** Truffles treats board games and mahjongg as this. One episode involved her
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* MultipleChoicePast: Inverted in the finale. [[spoiler:After Adult Chowder marries Panini, Young Chowder suddenly shows up and, in utter rage and disgust, informs his future self that he rejects this future before being chased off by young Panini. True to this show's grasp of reality, the only reaction the adult versions of Chowder and Panini have toward this is to look longingly after their younger selves and remark how cute the two of them were as kids.]]
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* AWorldwidePunomenon: [[HurricaneOfPuns Tons of puns.]] They're occasionally [[IncrediblyLamePun recognized as bad]].
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** "They beat each other mercilessly with their bologna swords". This might be an AccidentalInnuendo, but it seemed on purpose to me, especially later in the episode when Pe King held his bologna sword near his crotch.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Shnitzel was played by KevinMichaelRichardson in the pilot episode.
** Chestnut was originally voiced by Tone Lōc in his first three appearances. In subsequent appearances John [=DiMaggio=] took over.
** Chestnut was originally voiced by Tone Lōc in his first three appearances. In subsequent appearances John [=DiMaggio=] took over.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Chowder is actually a [[http://nerdarmada.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-is-chowder.html cat-bear-rabbit composite animal]].
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: No matter how many horrible freak accidents he gets into, Mung refuses to believe that there's a real curse on the ChainLetter recipe he received.
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* DeathGlare: Schnitzel in ''Schnitzel Makes a Deposit''
* DemotedToExtra: Kimchi, Chowder's pet [[strike: fart cloud]] swamp gas. Last had a major role in "My Big Fat Stinky Wedding." After that, he was only seen in his cage in Chowder's room.
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* DemotedToExtra: Kimchi, Chowder's pet [[strike: fart cloud]] swamp gas. Last had a major role in "My Big Fat Stinky Wedding." After that, he was only seen in his cage in Chowder's room.
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*** For some, both of those are FetishFuel. * shudder*
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* GeniusBruiser: Shnitzel is the most competent and the strongest of the main crew.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: See the [[{{Radar/Chowder}} Radar Page]]. There is a '''TON''' of them.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Chowder goes to live with them in an episode after he gains fire breath from eating a bunch of jalapenos.
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** And, depending on the time of day and your native country, how the CN logo often didn't actually show up in the correct corner during the "Don't write there!" gag until a permanent one was drawn into the episode.
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** By far, the greatest collection of {{ShoutOut}}s in one episode is the episode "Tofu Town Showdown". For example, Shnitzel's samurai outfit is the yellow-black striped outfit from [[strike: ''KillBill'']] {{Bruce Lee}}'s ''Game of Death'', Chowder sings a pastiche of [[RockyIII "Eye of the Tiger"]], Shnitzel wins the final battle by going ''[[DragonBall SUPER SAIYAN]]'', and finally, '''''[[StreetFighter "RAHDOKEN!!"]]'''''
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* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: Adding to the general [[NoFourthWall feel of the show]]. In one episode, Endive tells Margarine to "cut the music". Cue boombox being cut in half with a ridiculously-sized pair of scissors.
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* TokenMinority: Chestnut... and his dining room table, living room sofa, and vacation home, just to name a few.
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* {{Blackmail}}: One episode featured ''everyone'' in town blackmailing Miss Endive with an embarrassing picture of [[spoiler: her eating toe jam with a ''fork'' which is disgusting because everyone else uses a spoon]].
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** I doubt many young kids would recognize the {{Psycho}} or TheExorcist [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]].
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** By far, the greatest collection of {{ShoutOut}}s in one episode is the episode "Tofu Town Showdown". For example, Shnitzel's samurai outfit is the yellow-black striped outfit from [[strike: ''KillBill'']] {{Bruce Lee}}'s ''Game of Death'', Chowder sings a pastiche of [[{{Rocky}} "Eye of the Tiger"]], Shnitzel wins the final battle by going ''[[DragonBall SUPER SAIYAN]]'', and finally, '''''[[StreetFighter "RAHDOKEN!!"]]'''''
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* HurricaneOfPuns: Chowder if full of these, mostly based on foods. It's even lampshaded in this exchange:
--> '''Chowder''': It's even hotter in here! Why doesn't someone turn on the air-conditioner?
--> '''Truffles''': Because we don't have air-conditioner, we have [[IncrediblyLamePun air-cornditioner]]! Cockamamie food puns!
--> '''Chowder''': It's even hotter in here! Why doesn't someone turn on the air-conditioner?
--> '''Truffles''': Because we don't have air-conditioner, we have [[IncrediblyLamePun air-cornditioner]]! Cockamamie food puns!
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* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Endive is the Baker/Technician and Mung Daal is the Cook/Performer. Many episodes, however, show that they're both equally competent, just different in their style and temperaments.
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* BlindDriving: One episode had a MrMagoo-esque character driving across the city, with police giving chase, and crashing into Mung Daal's kitchen, mistaking it for his home.
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[[caption-width-right:329:''Radda radda radda!'']]
-->''You take the moon and you take the sun,''
-->''You take everything that seems like fun!''
-->''You stir it all up when you're done;''
-->''Radda Radda Radda Rad-Radda Radda!''
From C.H. Greenblatt, formerly a writer and storyboard artist on both ''SpongebobSquarepants'' and ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', comes this little crazy series inspired by food and Dr. Seuss.
Set in Marzipan City, a odd place full of weird and wonderful creatures, and even weirder and more wonderful ''foods'', the show tells the story of Chowder, a little fat lavender bear-cat-rabbit boy who is the apprentice of Mung Daal, chef and owner of his namesake catering company. Along with Shnitzel, the gigantic rock monster who works as a cleaner and [[TheUnintelligible can only say "Radda"]] (though everyone still understands him), and Truffles, Daal's fairy wife, they spend many crazy and wacky adventures together in the realm of cooking, while Chowder dreams of one day becoming a chef himself, though his eating habits might prove a problem...
The series finale aired August 7, 2010.
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!!''{{Chowder}}'' provides examples of:
* AbsenteeActor: "The Apprentice Scouts" has the distinction of being the only episode Mung doesn't appear in.
** Mung's absence is lampshaded in "A Faire to Remember", then subverted as he does appear just before the episode ends.
* AbusiveParents: It's usually implied and/or outright stated that Gazpacho is emotionally and socially abused by his mother.
** And it was revealed that Gazpacho is [[spoiler: [[{{Psycho}} his own mother]]]].
*** [[spoiler: But that wasn't real...OR WAS IT?!?!?!?]]
** Such is also true with Gorgonzola. His mentor Stilton is known to emotionally abuse him.
* TheAllegedCar: Escargot in "The Snail Car". But in the other episodes, she seems to run fine.
* AllJustADream [[spoiler:The finale, Chowder Grows Up, according to Chowder during the ending puppet segment]]
* AlternativeCalendar: Shnitzel apparently gets his check on Fivesday.
** There's also Sixaday.
*** [[DontExplainTheJoke This is possibly a play on how Tuesday is pronounced Two-sday.]]
*** This is also how the days of the week are in Hebrew: First Day, Second Day, Third Day, Fourth Day, Fifth Day, Sixth Day and Rest (Sabbath).
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation
* AmbiguouslyGay: Ambiguously Bi, actually. Reuben, the pig that evaluates Mung and Endive for their "Certifrycate" re-certification, seems interested in Endive. In another episode, when he meets Shnitzel, he goes "You're tall." Not to mention all the swimsuit clad men on his boat.
** Don't forget Mung Daal, who occasionally has HoYay moments with Shnitzel and crossdresses on multiple occasions.
--->'''Truffles:''' Why am I always catching you in tights?
** Jeff the Tapeworm, who seems awfully attached to Chowder. No pun intended.
** There was also the police officer Snow Leopard. ''Rawr''.
* AnAesop: The Veggie Guru's song contains one that is surprisingly not {{green|Aesop}}, and also surprisingly powerful. It's intended for both children and adults. It says that in order for a child to be raised correctly, it needs to be both nurtured and disciplined, and uses the way plants grow as a metaphor. Mung Daal is the "gentle touch" and Truffles is the "firm hand". Unfortunately, it's [[BrokenAesop broken]] at the end of the episode where Chowder ignores both Truffles and Mung Daal to fawn over Shnitzel, who "saved them". [[LostAesop This was probably on purpose.]]
* {{Angrish}}: It is heavily implied that Shnitzel's entire language is this.
** Sorta confirmed, when Truffles got her voice changed, everyone was stress free and Schnitzel could talk. No one liked it, so he started speaking "Radda" again after about five seconds.
* AnthropomorphicFood: About half of what they cook comes to life, and a lot of the ingredients are mobile fruit.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: No matter how many horrible freak accidents he gets into, Mung refuses to believe that there's a real curse on the ChainLetter recipe he received.
* ArtMajorBiology: Played for laughs in one episode. [[spoiler:After Schnitzel [[ItMakesSenseInContext gets his backside run over by a giant cheese grater]] he appears to be about to let out a piercing wail when he successfully holds it back. It promptly escapes through his bowels.]]
* ArtShift: Occurs during the climax of "Burple Nurples" where we see Chowder's face (still animated) with slightly greater detail, including being able to discern his fur (which otherwise appears undefined and uniformly solid over his body).
** About OnceAnEpisode, a scene will be done in claymation, and the (increasingly rarely seen) [[TheTag credit tag scenes]] are done with puppets.
* AsYouKnow: Lampshaded. After Chowder asks Mung several questions pertaining to the plot of the episode, Chowder asks him why he asks so many questions. Mung replies that it's the easiest way for [[BreakingTheFourthWall their loyal fanbase]] to learn what's happening.
-->'''Chowder''': (waving to the screen) Hi, loyal fanbase!
* AscendedExtra: Gazpacho, who started out on the same level with Gorgonzola and Endive to appearing in virtually every episode, even for just a minute.
* AuthorAvatar: Greenblatt appears in puppet form in "Shnitzel Quits" and "Endive's Dirty Secret".
** Not to mention "Old Man Thyme", where he's dogpiled by a WaveOfBabies.
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Chowder and Panini have 50 babies.]] Yes, [[spoiler:'''50'''.]]
** Even better: [[spoiler: '''[[ExplosiveBreeder Panini has 20 babies]] ''[[UpToEleven in one day]].''''']]
*** [[FridgeBrilliance Well, they are rabbits...]]
**** You sure? They seem to be an odd mix of a cat, a bear, and a rabbit.
* BananaPeel: Shnitzel slips on one while trying to carry the lead farfel.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Subverted with Todd from "Sheboodles!". Everyone (sans Endive) likes him and say that he's [[JustTheWayYouAre beautiful the way he is]]. [[spoiler: Then Endive sticks him under a heat lamp to finish cooking and transforms him into a stud, which is his true form.]]
* BeleagueredAssistant: Shnitzel.
* BetterThanABareBulb: Has lots and lots of LampshadeHanging.
* BigEater: Chowder, who is obviously an exemption to the 'anything but fat' rule.
** And Mr. Fugu.
* BigNo: From Chowder, more than once:
** When he is [[spoiler:banned from Gazpacho's fruit stand]]. As we mention on this page, in Marzipan City, food is SeriousBusiness.
** When [[spoiler:Kevin the fuzz ball is thrown in the trash]] on "Chowder's Catering Company."
** A SlowMotion one in "Burple Nurples" when [[spoiler:Mung throws the nurples into Mount Fondoom]].
* {{Bishonen}}: Ceviche.
* {{Blackmail}}: One episode featured ''everyone'' in town blackmailing Miss Endive with an embarrassing picture of [[spoiler: her eating toe jam with a ''fork'' which is disgusting because everyone else uses a spoon]].
* BlahBlahBlah: Mung does this quite a bit.
* BlindDriving: One episode had a MrMagoo-esque character driving across the city, with police giving chase, and crashing into Mung Daal's kitchen, mistaking it for his home.
* BrandX: Floss-Berries
* BrickJoke: In ''"The Puckerberry Overlords"'' episode, Chowder ends up being sucked into his own mouth. After "Frank" captures him and takes him to Souron, Chowder eats a cherry and comments on how sour it is. A few moments later, it falls on Frank's head and knocks him to the floor.
* ButtMonkey: Shnitzel.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: They actually do this with ''food''. Strangely enough, everything but their food is named after our foods. They seem to enjoy zig-zagging this trope...
** At one point regular Bananas are mentioned, though this may have been a [[StealthPun slip]], or just an excuse to have a BananaPeel...
** "These aren't even real foods. They're just [[LampshadeHanging dumb made-up names]]."
** We're making... [[{{Subversion}} bread!]]
* {{Calvinball}}: Apparently, if the rules 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 made sense, the whole game would literally be trashed.
** Actually scoring a goal 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 will literally [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin trash the game]].
*** Wait...Field Tournament Style Up and Down On the Ground Manja [[OverlyLongName WHAT?!?!]]
**** [[InsistentTerminology 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!!!]] What are you, deaf!?
* TheCameo: [[PowerpuffGirls Ms. Bellum]] again, who even lampshades her own show by mentioning a large monster attacking the city.
* CampGay: Snow Leopard Cop. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC4VW50bwpU Rawr.]]
* CampStraight: Ceviche, and his master Paté
* CanonDiscontinuity: Gazpacho [[spoiler:is NOT his own mother, they denied that in the same episode they revealed it.]]
* CardCarryingVillain: '''Florentine'''[[ColonCancer :]] "Now bear witness to me doing evil! And.. stuff. Time for evil! [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Pchoo! Whoosh!]]"
* CatchPhrase: "A great chef needs a great mustache!" Also, there's an entire half-episode titled "The Catch Phrase", where Chowder adopts the slogan "WAZAM!" from the [[IronChef "Aluminum Chef"]].
** ''Radda, radda!''
** "Hi, Chowder..." "'''I'm not your boyfriend!'''"
** "Laaaadies~"
** "Deekaloo, deekalee..."
*** And it was all parodied perfectly during "The Catch Phrase" when Gazpacho's is said to be "Come, sit, BUY MY BEANS!", something he has never said before.
**** He did say it in Panini for President, but without the "come, sit" part.
** Mung has the tendency to shout "My kitchen! My beautiful kitchen!" whenever said kitchen is damaged and/or destroyed.
* ChainOfDeals: Chowder starts one in an effort to get his hat back. It doesn't work.
* CheerfulChild: Panini.
* ChildrenRaiseYou: [[spoiler:Chowder's new apprentice in "Chowder Grows Up" plays a big role in Chowder finally growing up.]]
* CityOfAdventure
* CloudCuckooLand: Oh, big time.
* CloudCuckoolander: Chowder, and various minor characters.
** Marmalade is also one. No wonder she and Chowder got along so well.
--->'''Marmalade:''' Before I met Chowder all I thought about was makeup! Now I think about giraffes and makeup!
--->'''Panini:''' Why giraffes?
--->(Marmalade shrugs)
* ClusterFBomb: Not actually used, but if [[TheSwearJar Shnitzel's swear jar]] is any indication, he drops these ''a lot!''
* ContinuityNod: When being interrogated by the police, Chowder breaks down and starts confessing to ''everything''. After a brief time skip, he continues "-and the time my brain got big and I changed the show-"
* CookingDuel: Sometimes literally.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When someone filled Endive's pool with chocolate pudding, she demanded the culprits be "tickled mercilessly." In front of their children. Or burned at the stake. As long as it's in front of their children.
* CouchGag: There is always a different food in the oven during the theme song.
* CovertPervert: Surprisingly, Ceviche at some points.
-->'''Ceviche:''' On a scale of 1 to 10, how desperate would you say you are right now?
-->'''Panini:''' (crying) Eleven!
-->'''Ceviche:''' ([[AnticipatoryBreathSpray sprays breath spray in his mouth]]) Ohhh yeeeah...
* CreepyMonotone: "[[AC:'''We Must Avenge Panini's Death.''']]"
* CrossDressingVoices: Exception.
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* CryptidEpisode: In one episode, Chowder searches for [[{{Pun}} Bigfood]].
* CuteLittleFangs: Chowder and Panini.
* TheDanza: Paul Reubens as Reuben.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Gazpacho got his own episode. Both Chowder and Mung only appear briefly in the beginning.
* DeathGlare: Schnitzel in ''Schnitzel Makes a Deposit''
* DemotedToExtra: Kimchi, Chowder's pet [[strike: fart cloud]] swamp gas. Last had a major role in "My Big Fat Stinky Wedding." After that, he was only seen in his cage in Chowder's room.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Gumbo, Mung's old apprentice, wanted revenge on him for saying his dish needed more of an ingredient. Seriously.
* TheDitz: Chowder.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Endive, whose hatred stems from being left behind at the altar by her then-boyfriend. (Though this doesn't stop her from smooching Shnitzel or forming a crush on him later ...)
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A large part of "The Thrice Cream Man". "Scoop-in-mouth time!"
** Gazpacho's [[NoSmoking lollistop patch]] in ''The Lollistops''.
** "They beat each other mercilessly with their bologna swords". This might be an AccidentalInnuendo, but it seemed on purpose to me, especially later in the episode when Pe King held his bologna sword near his crotch.
** "Flibber Flabber Diet" will leave you feeling... quite unclean... once you take a while to realize what the Flibbius Flabbius plant looks like.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Chowder's Wisdom Tooth, in ''The Puckerberry Overlords'':
-->And so Chowder and the tastebuds were led to what they believed to be certain doom. Well, maybe not ''certain'' doom; more like, doom with a strong possibility. [[InherentlyFunnyWords Possibilidoom.]]
* DullSurprise: Played for laughs with Ceviche.
* EarWorm: The theme song, the Veggie Guru's song, and the sing beans' song. There's also an in universe example: after Paté performs "I'm Not Your Boyfriend" (a song written by Chowder to Panini), everybody is singing it to themselves. Sort of like a ThemeTuneCameo, except "I'm Not Your Boyfriend" isn't the theme song.
** "Blow your beans... on Route 17!"
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfyo8ZYWnW8 "Hey there, hey there you, hey there!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6AM7YaPKNg "How do I say that I loooooooooove you!? L'amour l'amour, l'amour!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhPFOqmo5z8 "This and that and that for this and these for those and those for these...]]
* EldritchAbomination: Endive. She [[YourSizeMayVary spontaneously changes size]] quite often. It makes sense, because [[AlienGeometries she doesn't make sense]].
* TheEighties: The party in "Sheboodles!", complete with everyone dressing up as famous stars of that time. (Ex, Madonna, MichaelJackson, Boy George, etc)
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: In 'Grubble Gum', Mung's suggestion for removing gum is to [[TooDumbToLive ''poke a sleeping bear with a stick and having it slash the gum off''.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: Chowder, after being [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by the poultrygeist Florentine. Strangely, the voice of Florentine by himself was not deep, nor was his voice after he possessed the newly cooked flurkey.
* FakeCrossOver: [[PowerpuffGirls Ms. Bellum]] shows up near the end of "The Hot Date".
* FanDisservice: Endive. She appears in bathing suits and skimpy outfits frequently, many with [[GrossUpCloseUp detailed shots]].
** And anytime Chowder's shirtless.
*** For some, both of those are FetishFuel. * shudder*
* FanNickname: Gorgonzola has a handful of nicknames. "Gorgy" being the most popular.
* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables
* ForgottenAnniversary: Mung Daal does this.
* FreakyFridayFlip: The episode "A Little Bit of Pizzazz!"
* GagBoobs: Warden Frau Brotchen in ''Kid Shnitzel'', who looked like she was trying to gag Shnitzel...
** During the "Fireheart" song there's a short still of Chowder as a Conan-the-Barbarian-style pulp hero, and Panini with an ImpossibleHourglassFigure. It's, uh...somethin' else, all right.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Truffles at one point, the Warden in ''Kid Shnitzel'', and ... Reuben.
* {{Gasshole}}: Mr. Fugu, and Shnitzel in "The Blackout".
** And Chowder, in "The Toots." Oddly enough, it makes a lovely song.
** Actually, not just in "The Toots." Chowder's been a Gasshole ever since the show began airing. He belches loudly in almost every episode.
* GeniusBruiser: Shnitzel is the most competent and the strongest of the main crew.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: See the [[{{Radar/Chowder}} Radar Page]]. There is a '''TON''' of them.
* TheGhost: Gazpacho often talks about his mother, but she has yet to make an appearance.
** She...kind of appeared in Gazpacho's DayInTheLimelight episode. She appeared as a puppet once, and then a portion of her (that looked nothing like the puppet) was shown.
* GiganticGulp: In "The Vacation," Chowder is seen drinking a literal "bottomless soda."
* {{Gonk}}: Todd. Everyone (except Endive) still loved him though.
* GrandFinale: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Chowder Grows Up]]".
* GreekChorus: Kiwi.
* GroundhogDayLoop: 'Grubble Gum'.
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Mung. It's actually explained; the Meach bit in the CrossesTheLineTwice point above was responsible.
* HalloweenEpisode: The episode "The Spookiest House in Marzipan". Let's see what they'll call the holiday...
** Ironically, the holiday wasn't mentioned at all during the episode.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Chowder ''himself'', especially considering the amount of food and other random objects that he's able stuff down his gullet... and sometimes ''pull back out''...
* HappilyMarried: Believe it or not, [[spoiler:Schnitzel and Endive]] are this at the end.
** Also, [[spoiler:Chowder and Panini]] are also this.
* HeroicSociopath: Shnitzel, sort of.
* IdiosyncraticWipes
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The Cinnamini Monster
* IncomingHam: In Paté's first appearance, he sings "I'm Not Your Boyfriend" loudly and dramatically. With fireworks for added effect.
* IncrediblyLamePun: The following exchange from "The Deadly Maze".
--> '''Chowder''': That's ah... ''maze''-ing!
--> '''Gumbo''': ... Very funny.
--> '''Chowder''': That was funny?
* IngestingKnowledge: Attempted by Mung Daal on Chowder. He tries to cram a stack of books in his head instead of getting him to study!
* InnerMonologue:
--> '''Mung''': ''"It's been months since I've seen my wife and kids."''
--> '''Truffles''': "What are you talking about, we don't have any kids."
--> '''Mung''': ''"I hate it when that woman reads my thoughts."''
--> '''Truffles''': [+'''"[[LampshadeHanging THEN STOP THINKING OUT LOUD!]]"'''+]
* InsufferableGenius: Chowder in "Brain Grub". He was smart for only about 5 minutes though.
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Radda Radda. I mean, Shnitzel.
** Subverted in "Gazpacho Stands Up", during his (extremely short) comedy routine he clearly says, "Okay", albeit with a [[ScoobyDoo Scoobydooish]] lisp.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in ''The Trouble With Truffles'' when he gets so calm he ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzb2g_srYDQ starts speaking normally.]]'']]
*** Also subverted in a [[TheStinger Puppet Segment]] where Shnitzel is seen petting a cat and saying "Yes you radda! Yes you radda!"
** And Mr. Fugu's friend/pet, Foie Gras.
* [[ItsAWonderfulPlot It's A Wonderful Plot]]: "Chowder Grows Up" features a variation, when [[spoiler: Mung Daal shows Chowder what happened to the rest of the cast thanks to his refusal to grow up]].
* IWasToldThereWouldBeCake: In "My Big Fat Stinky Wedding", Chowder is excited to get cake at Kimchi's wedding. However, TheCakeIsALie.
* {{Jerkass}}: Reuben and Gorgonzola. In fairness, Gorgonzola's hostility stems from the fact that he's stuck being an apprentice for a job he hates. It's also hinted that his master emotionally abuses him.
** Endive. Especially in "The Prank".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Chestnut.
** Shnitzel at times.
* {{Keet}}: Chowder
* LampshadeHanging: In "The Toots", Mung and Chowder lampshade the formula of the show...[[GenreBlindness and then proceed to go about it anyway.]]
* LargeHam: Jokes about food aside, Paté is pretty hammy. Chowder and Mung too.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler:Chowder's apprentice, Scraps.]]
* LethalChef: Literally. In an early episode, Chowder accidentally adds rat poison to his Burple Nurple recipe. Since Mung doesn't want to crush his dreams, he's forced to try and get the Nurples away from Chowder by any means necessary. Including theft.
* LetsMeetTheMeat: Some of the dishes that Mung creates (like the giant roast), have eyes and mouths, appearing to be ''alive''. Also, the Thrice Cream Man.
** Played with in one episode had a "Queen Meach" surrounded by a squad of very aggressive soldier Meaches guarding her. Once the team explained they wanted to make her into a delicious pie, they were let through. The Meach Queen was still alive even ''after'' being made into a pie and ''eaten''.
* [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy Lions and]] [[strike: Tigers]] [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy Snow Leopards and Humans, Oh my]]: And How! Also, it's never been verified what Mung is, but he does seem to be just a blue human.
** He had a tail in one episode, though.
** He might be a type of fey, his wife's a mushroom pixie, after all.
* LongTitle: Episode "Big Ball" is actually titled "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".
* LoveTriangle: Marmalade loves Ceviché who loves Panini, who loves Chowder.
** One episode implied that Endive might have a crush on Mung...
* ManInAKilt: Mung Daal.
* MarshmallowHell: Happened to Schnitzel in "Kid Schnitzel".
* MediumAwareness: "Chowder, why does the music sound like it's gonna get all excited?" ...Then again, this show does have NoFourthWall.
* MediumBlending: The end credits feature puppet versions of the characters, which for some reason the Cartoon Network doesn't use. You can see what they look like [[http://nerdarmada.blogspot.com/2007/09/chowder-surprise.html Here]] and [[http://nerdarmada.blogspot.com/2008/02/more-puppets.html here]]. The show has also gone into puppet, claymation, and paper cutout mode, used animated sand in "The Lead Farfel", and had a CGI character in "The Deadly Maze". Not to mention stop motion ''food'' in the Idiosyncratic Wipes.
** Cartoon Network in Scandinavia uses the end credit puppets, although not consistently.
* MindScrew: Don't even bother trying to make sense of how the glasses work in their world, as shown in "My Big Fat Stinky Wedding".
* MsFanservice: Subverted by Endive. Said subversion is lampshaded frequently.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Chowder and Panini are cat/rabbit/bear mashups.
** Similarly, Gorgonzola is actually a cross between a rat and a hamster.
** Marmalade is a mix between a frog and a pig.
* MommasBoy: Gazpacho. One episode really pointed out the obvious. Though he's also a slightly different version of the trope, in that he still runs a successful business
* MyBelovedSmother: Gazpacho is very dependent of his mother.
** [[spoiler:[[SplitPersonality That's because he is.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Not quite...]]
* MyBrainIsBig: Chowder in "Brain Grub".
** Gorgonzola's head shape implies that he has a huge brain. He's also portrayed as much more intelligent. [[SurroundedByIdiots Kinda...]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Chowder in aforementioned "Brain Grub". Chowder, after gaining MediumAwareness, turns the show into something smarter via sheer brainpower. Unfortunately, it also turns the show boring, prompting one of these reactions.
* NeverSayDie: Averted, oddly. This is one of the few kids shows that cheerfully uses death for ''humor''.
** Of course, Greenblatt came from the [[TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy other one]].
** Definitely averted in "The Dinner Theater", where Chowder plotted to have Panini killed (when she was standing ''in front of him'') just so he can catch the murderer in the act. Probably one of the rare JerkAss (and downright cruel) moment from the titular character.
*** The same episode, where he spent the entire episode in a panic because he thought someone else (specifically Gazpacho, who was playing the villain, but he wasn't sure at the time) was going to kill her, so he tried to figure it out because he was playing the detective? Sounds more like a very CloudCuckoolander investigation technique to me.
** One episode had Endive's prank going so far she accidentally killed Mung Daal and had to find a way to get rid of Chowder, who was a witness... kinda.
* NiceHat: Chowder's purple hat. A secondary character named Ancho takes pride in his own hat in "Chowder Loses His Hat."
* NoAccountingForTaste: Mung Daal and Truffles seems to pretty much hate each other.
** And then there's [[spoiler:Endive and Schnitzel]] in the finale.
* NoFourthWall: It couldn't be more blatantly obvious. One {{egregious}} example of MediumAwareness is when Chowder scribbles on the screen and then erases it. He points to the CN logo at the bottom of the screen, asking if it will come off, to which Gazpacho says, "That doesn't come off, I've tried." Sadly, the third season seems to have rebuilt the fourth wall for the most part.
** One even MORE egregious example is when the gang spends all of Truffles' money. Mung says now that they've run out, they aren't scared that Truffles will find out, they're scared because now there's isn't enough money for the ''animation''. The scene then cuts to the ''voice actors'' (still voice acting) hosting a car wash to raise enough money to get the animation budget back.
** "I'm going as fast as I can, woman! These things take time!" "We've only got 11 minutes..."
** While in the Deadly Maze, Chowder flees a giant chicken and runs into a physical representation of his conscience.
--> Conscience: You have to go back and save Gumbo!
--> Chowder: Are you sure? 'Cause Gumbo said he wants to hurt Mung.
--> Conscience: Trust me, he'll never pull it off. The episode's not long enough.
** Mung: ''"Worst of all, '''''YOU MADE THE VIEWERS CRY!!!"'''''
** In "The Heist" after Endive demands money for all of the gems (under her estate) that was destroyed, Mung exclaims, "There won't be enough money left in the budget for the third season!" Followed by Chowder stating that he "had so many more jokes to tell".
*** If you don't get the joke, the third season isn't only the final season, but is also only 7 episodes compared to the 20 of the previous two.
** In "The Garden" the very first lines spoken was Mung telling Chowder, "So anyway this is going to be the best episode ever, because I'm gonna show you where food comes from!"
** "What's Chowder's favorite cartoon!? I bet it's ''Chowder''!"
* NoIndoorVoice: Truffles, full throttle.
* NoodleIncident: "That was the [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome craziest episode]] we've ever had!"
** What about what happened when Mung made "Tooty Pooty Beans" and it resulted in him, Chowder, Truffles, and Schnitzel being chased by an [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry mob]].
* NoseNuggets: Many of Chowder's {{Gross Up Close Up}}s feature strings of snot hanging out of his nose.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: ''(after being offscreen for eleven minutes)'' "''MAN!'' That must have been the '''CRAZIEST''' episode we've ever had!"
* OlderThanTheyLook: Mung and Truffles have been married for several hundred years.
* OnlyOneName: None of the characters seem to have last name at all (except perhaps Mung Daal).
** And judging by how other characters address her, Miss Endive's first name is never revealed.
* OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow: Done InUniverse and played for laughs in one episode where the cartoonist literally picks Shnitzel up and saves him from a deadly fall. Then he sets him down on a cloud and talks to him.
* TheOtherDarrin: Shnitzel was played by KevinMichaelRichardson in the pilot episode.
** Chestnut was originally voiced by Tone Lōc in his first three appearances. In subsequent appearances John [=DiMaggio=] took over.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Chowder goes to live with them in an episode after he gains fire breath from eating a bunch of jalapenos.
* OverlyLongGag: And often.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: Almost literally, on one occasion.
* PairTheSpares: In the series finale, [[spoiler: Shnitzel and Endive get married. Although Endive did show interest in him in 'Schnitzel Quits'.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: The whereabouts of Chowder's, Panini's, and Gorgonzola's parents are never discussed or referred.
** Chowder lives with Mung Daal and Truffles. His parents actually may have abandoned him, or they're dead, or they lost Chowder. Whatever the reason for his lack of parents, [[ParentalSubstitute Mung Daal has basically stepped in to serve as both Chowder's father and mentor]].
*** It's actually a common feature of the classic 'apprentice' system that the apprentice came to live with the master.
*** In the episode "The Deadly Maze", during Gumbo's flashback of when he quit being Mung's apprentice, Mung says "Well, we lost another one. Shintzel, get the apprentice catalog!"
* ParentalBonus: So much. "But...where did you get the mayonnaise?"
** Or this tidbit from when Panini ran for president of the student council.
--->'''Mung:''' Fireworks? She's using fireworks.\\
'''Truffles:''' I'd completely forgotten fireworks even existed! * under breath* ''In my marriage.'' Whoa, who said that?
** I doubt many young kids would recognize the {{Psycho}} or TheExorcist [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]].
** And then there's the sheer family-unfriendly bleakness of Gazpacho's one-liners...
--->'''Gazpacho''' (explaining why Chowder can't stay up past his bedtime): If there's one thing mother's taught me, it's to sleep as much as you can. That way you don't have to face the horrible reality of what your life's become.
* PerspectiveMagic: Endive looks around the same size at all times, but whenever any character climbs on her they're suddenly tiny as a joke on her size.
* PhraseCatcher: "ENDIVE!"
* PlanetOfSteves: The Arborians.
* PlayedForLaughs: Why can't anybody accept the fact that [[spoiler:Gazpacho isn't really his own mother?]]
* PottyEmergency: Nearly the whole of "The Vacation".
* PowersThatBe: Appear as a RunningGag through the series.
* TheRival: Endive to Mung Daal, Gorgonzola to Chowder.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize
* RhymesOnADime: Chestnut.
-->'''Chestnut''': Dinga-loo, dinga-lee. [[ThirdPersonPerson Chestnut]] gets this thing for free.
* [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed Evil In a Jar]]: [[TheVirus The mold creature]].
* SarcasticClapping: Ms. Endive performs this in "A Taste of Marzipan".
* ScaryBlackMan: Chestnut gives off vibes of this.
* SceneryPorn: The pan shots of Marzipan City look like they came straight out of a DrSeuss book.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: During the first season, the airing of new episodes was frequently delayed, and recent new "episodes" are just one 15-minute segment where the other is a rerun (or a previous new episode).
** And, depending on the time of day and your native country, how the CN logo often didn't actually show up in the correct corner during the "Don't write there!" gag until a permanent one was drawn into the episode.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: The Cinnimini monster's rule 87, stating that Mung and Chowder cannot leave until beating him, and he cheats constantly in all but the first game.
** [[spoiler: And of course, he then refuses to let them leave even when Truffles actually manages to win]]
--->[[spoiler: '''Mung''': "This is home now, Chowder. This is home.]]
* SeriousBusiness: Truffles treats board games and mahjongg as this. One episode involved her [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome battling it out against another character complete with music in the background.]]
** And while we're here, cooking.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: "I'm not your boyfriend!" is Chowder's way of saying hello to Panini.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrO9kjbzNRA Really]], its [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxkX7JllbD4 true]].
* ShellShockedSenior: Mung goes into flashbacks when commissioned to ''bake a pie''. See CrossesTheLineTwice, above.
* ShoutOut: Oh so much video games especially ''KatamariDamacy'' and ''SuperMarioBros''. (twice. Two [[CaptainErsatz Captain Ersatzes]] of Mario and Luigi show up in one episode and an oversized Bowser shows up in another) being two obvious examples.
** Or in a recent episode, where Chowder made the least subtle but most awesome reference to VideoGame/{{Portal}} ever, by saying "The cake was a lie!"
** One of the Halloween episodes was a parody of TheExorcist, and the other contained a shout out to ''Psycho'' at the end.
** When Mung Daal recounts the time Truffles tore off his beard, leaving only the famous mustache, Chowder whispers: ''[[VideoGame/KillerInstinct "She broke the combo?"]]''.
** By far, the greatest collection of {{ShoutOut}}s in one episode is the episode "Tofu Town Showdown". For example, Shnitzel's samurai outfit is the yellow-black striped outfit from [[strike: ''KillBill'']] {{Bruce Lee}}'s ''Game of Death'', Chowder sings a pastiche of [[{{Rocky}} "Eye of the Tiger"]], Shnitzel wins the final battle by going ''[[DragonBall SUPER SAIYAN]]'', and finally, '''''[[StreetFighter "RAHDOKEN!!"]]'''''
** Similarly, in "Weekend At Shnitzel's", there's a fight scene that takes a lot of cues from ''StreetFighter'', including a recognizable HurricaneKick, {{Shoryuken}}, [[KamehameHadoken Hadoken]], and Flash Kick. Plus a ''MortalKombat''-style demand for a FinishingMove: "Get 'er done!" as [[spoiler:Shnitzel]] is knocked down.
** Mount Fon''doom'', "YOU SHALL NOT PASS"... they really like taking on ''[[TheLordOfTheRings LOTR]]''. And Dwight Schultz does a terrifyingly good Gandalf.
** Gazpacho's surreal dream sequence in "Gazpacho!" is a subtle not to the video for "Don't Come Around Here No More" by Tom Petty (complete with Gazpacho's body made out of cake and everyone dressed as Alice in Wonderland characters).
*** Not to mention Souron.
** Back before Chowder first aired, C.H. Greenblatt expressly stated how much ''KatamariDamacy'' inspired him in the creation of this show. The King of All Clouds (Sky?) is intentionally based off The King of All Cosmos, as well as the entire Grubble Gum episode.
** In one episode, after Chowder unearths a sugar sapphire, Mung tastes it. He has a seizure, shaking his head about, before it spontaneously pops to [[PowerpuffGirls Bubbles' head]] saying "Aww, that's sweeet!"
** "I can only count as high as [[HitchhikersGuide 42]]. How high can you count?"
* ShowingOffTheNewBody: Florentine [[FanDisservice with Chowder]].
* {{Snapback}}
* SimultaneousArcs: "The Wrong Address/The Wrong Customer": During "The Wrong Address" Chowder and Mung see a seemingly insignificant police chase and go about their business. At the end they return home to find it destroyed and Truffles being arrested. In "The Wrong Customer" we find out that the police were chasing an old, blind, and (apparently) dangerous owl, who causes Mung's place to be destroyed. Truffles being arrested is a seperate but somewhat related matter.
* SingleTargetSexuality
* SingleTear: Ceviche often gives these.
* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: Adding to the general [[NoFourthWall feel of the show]]. In one episode, Endive tells Margarine to "cut the music". Cue boombox being cut in half with a ridiculously-sized pair of scissors.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There is no "C" in Shnitzel, and "radda" has two D's in it. The closed captioning alone manages to get both of these wrong quite often, but it was most {{egregious}} when Cartoon Network made a "Rada-pendence day" [sic] special of ''Chowder'' episodes for Independence Day.
* SphereEyes
* SpitTake: A ''30-second one'' in "Chowder's Girlfriend".
** That appears to span ''over six hours!''
* SpoofAesop:
-->'''Mung''': Well, Chowder, I guess you can't have your cake and eat it, too!
-->''([[EverybodyLaughsEnding everyone laughs]])''
-->'''Chowder''': HAHAHAHA-- Wait, what's so funny?
* StalkerWithACrush: Panini.
** {{Lampshaded}} in ''"A Little Bit of Pizzazz"'' where Panini goes after Chowder- really Daal in the chubby body after the FreakyFridayFlip cooking accident- and gets brushed off by [[BigEater him in an eating binge]]. She makes a comment to the effect of "I need a new obsession."
* StatusQuoIsGod: Parodied in "The Toots" when Gorgonzola's wealth vanishes instantly once Chowder retires from music.
* StealthPun: The woman [[spoiler: who is [[strike: Gazpacho's mother]] Gazpacho]] in "The Spookiest House In Marzipan" says "I could just eat you up!" to Gorgonzola when she answers the door and sees him. [[LateToThePunchline I later remembered]] that all the characters, including Gorgonzola, are named after food, which you're ''supposed'' to eat.
** In "Sheboodles", the cast holds an [[TheEighties 1980s-themed]] costume party. Gazpacho (voiced by Dana Snyder) dresses as ''Dee'' Snyder.
** At first it may seem like just a minor joke that the days of the week are named after numbers (ie: Threesday, Foursday, Fivesday), but it's actually a joke based on how many people pronounce "Tuesday" as "Twosday."
* TheStinger: With puppets, no less.
* TheStoic: Ceviche?
* StomachOfHolding: Chowder
* StupidStatementDanceMix: One of the bumpers is one made of "'''I'M NOT YOUR BOYFRIEND!!!'''".
* StorybookOpening: Every episode features a ''Cookbook'' Opening. It's ''{{Chowder}}'''s version of the EpisodeTitleCard.
* {{Suck E Cheeses}}: Carlito Con Queso's.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: many a ShoutOut and {{Homage}} features one, including the memorable reference to ''KatamariDamacy''.
** The episode "Big Ball" featured a Jimmy Hart version of the FOX Sports theme.
** In "Chowder Grows Up", Chowder's song is MIGHTY familiar to those that remember [[ParentalBonus the old Toy's R Us jingle.]]
** The Exchanges Song ("This for that/And Those for these/And These for Those...") is one for the [[GilbertAndSullivan Modern Major General Song]]].
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "Oh hello, Panini. I have a message for you from Chowder, who I am not."
* SynchronousEpisodes: "Wrong Address"/"Wrong Customer".
* TakeThat: "Gazpacho? Why are you dressed like a big nerd?"
* ThemeNaming: Most of the characters and things in the show are named after food.
** Similarly, all the members of the Marzipan police are named after sandwiches.
* ThemeTuneCameo: One episode had Shnitzel being forced to confront his mysterious past. As punishment, he (literally) faced the music by having them sing the show's theme song. Chowder hummed along while Shnitzel begged them to stop.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Chestnut.
** "Mr. Tummy needs food or he gets ''cranky''!"
* ThoseTwoGuys: The police squad gets pretty close to this. They even get a LowerDeckEpisode.
* TimeSkip: It's done during the finale's musical number. As in Chowder holds a note ''for twenty years''.
* TokenMinority: Chestnut... and his dining room table, living room sofa, and vacation home, just to name a few.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Snackronomicon.
* TooDumbToLive: Chowder. We're talking about a guy who thought spoons belong in ''electrical outlets.''
** Also Mr. Fugu, who tried to eat a vine covered in spikes. Eating anything covered in spikes is normally bad, but it's especially bad for an anthropomorphized balloon like Mr. Fugu.
* TooManyBabies: shows up in the series finale.
* TwistEnding: Lampshaded, naturally.
* UncannyValley: Deliberately invoked and PlayedForLaughs with Foie Gras. Also TruthInTelevision: Foie Gras' appearance is based on the ManekiNeko, which actually is kind of creepy, with its big eyes and all.
* UnmovingPlaid: [[InvokedTrope Deliberately used]] for artistic purposes.
* TheUnreveal: "And that's why I married Truffles. Now let's never, ever speak of this again. Ever. [[LampshadeHanging Wink]]."
* VoicesAreMental: The body-swapping episode, obviously.
* VocalEvolution: An entire episode is devoted to Truffles' voice changing, to the point that nobody takes her seriously anymore because her voice is too sweet and gentle.
** Chowder and Panini sound noticeably older in the later episodes, as their voice actors were respectively 11 and 13 when the series started.
** Mung's voice became deeper around the end of the first season.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: All over Shnitzel, no less.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: "Chowder Grows Up" includes one.
* WidgetSeries
* WithCatlikeTread: "Mung will never hear us sneaking about over the noise of all these smashing plates!"
* AWorldwidePunomenon: [[HurricaneOfPuns Tons of puns.]] They're occasionally [[IncrediblyLamePun recognized as bad]].
---> '''Spooky trees''' (to Gorgonzola): Leave this place! See? [[VisualPun We're holding leaves!]]
---> '''Gorgonzola''': AAAAH!!! [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHorrific BAD JOKES!]]
* {{Wutai}}: Tofu Town.
* {{Yandere}}: Panini is ''crazy'' for Chowder. Really crazy.
-->'''Panini:''' ''And I just wanted to pass laws so I can make you my property!''
* YouMeanXmas: Or rather, Knishmas.
* YourSizeMayVary: Endive, who changes size from episode to episode and sometimes even within the same episode.
** At one point Chowder has to climb up her back to get something and she's the size of a mountain. When she realizes Chowder is there she freaks out and begins jumping around in an attempt to get him off, at which point she's a bit taller than Shnitzel. Her size is dependent on what the story needs.
[[caption-width-right:329:''Radda radda radda!'']]
-->''You take the moon and you take the sun,''
-->''You take everything that seems like fun!''
-->''You stir it all up when you're done;''
-->''Radda Radda Radda Rad-Radda Radda!''
From C.H. Greenblatt, formerly a writer and storyboard artist on both ''SpongebobSquarepants'' and ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', comes this little crazy series inspired by food and Dr. Seuss.
Set in Marzipan City, a odd place full of weird and wonderful creatures, and even weirder and more wonderful ''foods'', the show tells the story of Chowder, a little fat lavender bear-cat-rabbit boy who is the apprentice of Mung Daal, chef and owner of his namesake catering company. Along with Shnitzel, the gigantic rock monster who works as a cleaner and [[TheUnintelligible can only say "Radda"]] (though everyone still understands him), and Truffles, Daal's fairy wife, they spend many crazy and wacky adventures together in the realm of cooking, while Chowder dreams of one day becoming a chef himself, though his eating habits might prove a problem...
The series finale aired August 7, 2010.
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!!''{{Chowder}}'' provides examples of:
* AbsenteeActor: "The Apprentice Scouts" has the distinction of being the only episode Mung doesn't appear in.
** Mung's absence is lampshaded in "A Faire to Remember", then subverted as he does appear just before the episode ends.
* AbusiveParents: It's usually implied and/or outright stated that Gazpacho is emotionally and socially abused by his mother.
** And it was revealed that Gazpacho is [[spoiler: [[{{Psycho}} his own mother]]]].
*** [[spoiler: But that wasn't real...OR WAS IT?!?!?!?]]
** Such is also true with Gorgonzola. His mentor Stilton is known to emotionally abuse him.
* TheAllegedCar: Escargot in "The Snail Car". But in the other episodes, she seems to run fine.
* AllJustADream [[spoiler:The finale, Chowder Grows Up, according to Chowder during the ending puppet segment]]
* AlternativeCalendar: Shnitzel apparently gets his check on Fivesday.
** There's also Sixaday.
*** [[DontExplainTheJoke This is possibly a play on how Tuesday is pronounced Two-sday.]]
*** This is also how the days of the week are in Hebrew: First Day, Second Day, Third Day, Fourth Day, Fifth Day, Sixth Day and Rest (Sabbath).
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation
* AmbiguouslyGay: Ambiguously Bi, actually. Reuben, the pig that evaluates Mung and Endive for their "Certifrycate" re-certification, seems interested in Endive. In another episode, when he meets Shnitzel, he goes "You're tall." Not to mention all the swimsuit clad men on his boat.
** Don't forget Mung Daal, who occasionally has HoYay moments with Shnitzel and crossdresses on multiple occasions.
--->'''Truffles:''' Why am I always catching you in tights?
** Jeff the Tapeworm, who seems awfully attached to Chowder. No pun intended.
** There was also the police officer Snow Leopard. ''Rawr''.
* AnAesop: The Veggie Guru's song contains one that is surprisingly not {{green|Aesop}}, and also surprisingly powerful. It's intended for both children and adults. It says that in order for a child to be raised correctly, it needs to be both nurtured and disciplined, and uses the way plants grow as a metaphor. Mung Daal is the "gentle touch" and Truffles is the "firm hand". Unfortunately, it's [[BrokenAesop broken]] at the end of the episode where Chowder ignores both Truffles and Mung Daal to fawn over Shnitzel, who "saved them". [[LostAesop This was probably on purpose.]]
* {{Angrish}}: It is heavily implied that Shnitzel's entire language is this.
** Sorta confirmed, when Truffles got her voice changed, everyone was stress free and Schnitzel could talk. No one liked it, so he started speaking "Radda" again after about five seconds.
* AnthropomorphicFood: About half of what they cook comes to life, and a lot of the ingredients are mobile fruit.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: No matter how many horrible freak accidents he gets into, Mung refuses to believe that there's a real curse on the ChainLetter recipe he received.
* ArtMajorBiology: Played for laughs in one episode. [[spoiler:After Schnitzel [[ItMakesSenseInContext gets his backside run over by a giant cheese grater]] he appears to be about to let out a piercing wail when he successfully holds it back. It promptly escapes through his bowels.]]
* ArtShift: Occurs during the climax of "Burple Nurples" where we see Chowder's face (still animated) with slightly greater detail, including being able to discern his fur (which otherwise appears undefined and uniformly solid over his body).
** About OnceAnEpisode, a scene will be done in claymation, and the (increasingly rarely seen) [[TheTag credit tag scenes]] are done with puppets.
* AsYouKnow: Lampshaded. After Chowder asks Mung several questions pertaining to the plot of the episode, Chowder asks him why he asks so many questions. Mung replies that it's the easiest way for [[BreakingTheFourthWall their loyal fanbase]] to learn what's happening.
-->'''Chowder''': (waving to the screen) Hi, loyal fanbase!
* AscendedExtra: Gazpacho, who started out on the same level with Gorgonzola and Endive to appearing in virtually every episode, even for just a minute.
* AuthorAvatar: Greenblatt appears in puppet form in "Shnitzel Quits" and "Endive's Dirty Secret".
** Not to mention "Old Man Thyme", where he's dogpiled by a WaveOfBabies.
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Chowder and Panini have 50 babies.]] Yes, [[spoiler:'''50'''.]]
** Even better: [[spoiler: '''[[ExplosiveBreeder Panini has 20 babies]] ''[[UpToEleven in one day]].''''']]
*** [[FridgeBrilliance Well, they are rabbits...]]
**** You sure? They seem to be an odd mix of a cat, a bear, and a rabbit.
* BananaPeel: Shnitzel slips on one while trying to carry the lead farfel.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Subverted with Todd from "Sheboodles!". Everyone (sans Endive) likes him and say that he's [[JustTheWayYouAre beautiful the way he is]]. [[spoiler: Then Endive sticks him under a heat lamp to finish cooking and transforms him into a stud, which is his true form.]]
* BeleagueredAssistant: Shnitzel.
* BetterThanABareBulb: Has lots and lots of LampshadeHanging.
* BigEater: Chowder, who is obviously an exemption to the 'anything but fat' rule.
** And Mr. Fugu.
* BigNo: From Chowder, more than once:
** When he is [[spoiler:banned from Gazpacho's fruit stand]]. As we mention on this page, in Marzipan City, food is SeriousBusiness.
** When [[spoiler:Kevin the fuzz ball is thrown in the trash]] on "Chowder's Catering Company."
** A SlowMotion one in "Burple Nurples" when [[spoiler:Mung throws the nurples into Mount Fondoom]].
* {{Bishonen}}: Ceviche.
* {{Blackmail}}: One episode featured ''everyone'' in town blackmailing Miss Endive with an embarrassing picture of [[spoiler: her eating toe jam with a ''fork'' which is disgusting because everyone else uses a spoon]].
* BlahBlahBlah: Mung does this quite a bit.
* BlindDriving: One episode had a MrMagoo-esque character driving across the city, with police giving chase, and crashing into Mung Daal's kitchen, mistaking it for his home.
* BrandX: Floss-Berries
* BrickJoke: In ''"The Puckerberry Overlords"'' episode, Chowder ends up being sucked into his own mouth. After "Frank" captures him and takes him to Souron, Chowder eats a cherry and comments on how sour it is. A few moments later, it falls on Frank's head and knocks him to the floor.
* ButtMonkey: Shnitzel.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: They actually do this with ''food''. Strangely enough, everything but their food is named after our foods. They seem to enjoy zig-zagging this trope...
** At one point regular Bananas are mentioned, though this may have been a [[StealthPun slip]], or just an excuse to have a BananaPeel...
** "These aren't even real foods. They're just [[LampshadeHanging dumb made-up names]]."
** We're making... [[{{Subversion}} bread!]]
* {{Calvinball}}: Apparently, if the rules 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 made sense, the whole game would literally be trashed.
** Actually scoring a goal 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 will literally [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin trash the game]].
*** Wait...Field Tournament Style Up and Down On the Ground Manja [[OverlyLongName WHAT?!?!]]
**** [[InsistentTerminology 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!!!]] What are you, deaf!?
* TheCameo: [[PowerpuffGirls Ms. Bellum]] again, who even lampshades her own show by mentioning a large monster attacking the city.
* CampGay: Snow Leopard Cop. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC4VW50bwpU Rawr.]]
* CampStraight: Ceviche, and his master Paté
* CanonDiscontinuity: Gazpacho [[spoiler:is NOT his own mother, they denied that in the same episode they revealed it.]]
* CardCarryingVillain: '''Florentine'''[[ColonCancer :]] "Now bear witness to me doing evil! And.. stuff. Time for evil! [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Pchoo! Whoosh!]]"
* CatchPhrase: "A great chef needs a great mustache!" Also, there's an entire half-episode titled "The Catch Phrase", where Chowder adopts the slogan "WAZAM!" from the [[IronChef "Aluminum Chef"]].
** ''Radda, radda!''
** "Hi, Chowder..." "'''I'm not your boyfriend!'''"
** "Laaaadies~"
** "Deekaloo, deekalee..."
*** And it was all parodied perfectly during "The Catch Phrase" when Gazpacho's is said to be "Come, sit, BUY MY BEANS!", something he has never said before.
**** He did say it in Panini for President, but without the "come, sit" part.
** Mung has the tendency to shout "My kitchen! My beautiful kitchen!" whenever said kitchen is damaged and/or destroyed.
* ChainOfDeals: Chowder starts one in an effort to get his hat back. It doesn't work.
* CheerfulChild: Panini.
* ChildrenRaiseYou: [[spoiler:Chowder's new apprentice in "Chowder Grows Up" plays a big role in Chowder finally growing up.]]
* CityOfAdventure
* CloudCuckooLand: Oh, big time.
* CloudCuckoolander: Chowder, and various minor characters.
** Marmalade is also one. No wonder she and Chowder got along so well.
--->'''Marmalade:''' Before I met Chowder all I thought about was makeup! Now I think about giraffes and makeup!
--->'''Panini:''' Why giraffes?
--->(Marmalade shrugs)
* ClusterFBomb: Not actually used, but if [[TheSwearJar Shnitzel's swear jar]] is any indication, he drops these ''a lot!''
* ContinuityNod: When being interrogated by the police, Chowder breaks down and starts confessing to ''everything''. After a brief time skip, he continues "-and the time my brain got big and I changed the show-"
* CookingDuel: Sometimes literally.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When someone filled Endive's pool with chocolate pudding, she demanded the culprits be "tickled mercilessly." In front of their children. Or burned at the stake. As long as it's in front of their children.
* CouchGag: There is always a different food in the oven during the theme song.
* CovertPervert: Surprisingly, Ceviche at some points.
-->'''Ceviche:''' On a scale of 1 to 10, how desperate would you say you are right now?
-->'''Panini:''' (crying) Eleven!
-->'''Ceviche:''' ([[AnticipatoryBreathSpray sprays breath spray in his mouth]]) Ohhh yeeeah...
* CreepyMonotone: "[[AC:'''We Must Avenge Panini's Death.''']]"
* CrossDressingVoices: Exception.
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* CryptidEpisode: In one episode, Chowder searches for [[{{Pun}} Bigfood]].
* CuteLittleFangs: Chowder and Panini.
* TheDanza: Paul Reubens as Reuben.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Gazpacho got his own episode. Both Chowder and Mung only appear briefly in the beginning.
* DeathGlare: Schnitzel in ''Schnitzel Makes a Deposit''
* DemotedToExtra: Kimchi, Chowder's pet [[strike: fart cloud]] swamp gas. Last had a major role in "My Big Fat Stinky Wedding." After that, he was only seen in his cage in Chowder's room.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Gumbo, Mung's old apprentice, wanted revenge on him for saying his dish needed more of an ingredient. Seriously.
* TheDitz: Chowder.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Endive, whose hatred stems from being left behind at the altar by her then-boyfriend. (Though this doesn't stop her from smooching Shnitzel or forming a crush on him later ...)
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A large part of "The Thrice Cream Man". "Scoop-in-mouth time!"
** Gazpacho's [[NoSmoking lollistop patch]] in ''The Lollistops''.
** "They beat each other mercilessly with their bologna swords". This might be an AccidentalInnuendo, but it seemed on purpose to me, especially later in the episode when Pe King held his bologna sword near his crotch.
** "Flibber Flabber Diet" will leave you feeling... quite unclean... once you take a while to realize what the Flibbius Flabbius plant looks like.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Chowder's Wisdom Tooth, in ''The Puckerberry Overlords'':
-->And so Chowder and the tastebuds were led to what they believed to be certain doom. Well, maybe not ''certain'' doom; more like, doom with a strong possibility. [[InherentlyFunnyWords Possibilidoom.]]
* DullSurprise: Played for laughs with Ceviche.
* EarWorm: The theme song, the Veggie Guru's song, and the sing beans' song. There's also an in universe example: after Paté performs "I'm Not Your Boyfriend" (a song written by Chowder to Panini), everybody is singing it to themselves. Sort of like a ThemeTuneCameo, except "I'm Not Your Boyfriend" isn't the theme song.
** "Blow your beans... on Route 17!"
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfyo8ZYWnW8 "Hey there, hey there you, hey there!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6AM7YaPKNg "How do I say that I loooooooooove you!? L'amour l'amour, l'amour!"]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhPFOqmo5z8 "This and that and that for this and these for those and those for these...]]
* EldritchAbomination: Endive. She [[YourSizeMayVary spontaneously changes size]] quite often. It makes sense, because [[AlienGeometries she doesn't make sense]].
* TheEighties: The party in "Sheboodles!", complete with everyone dressing up as famous stars of that time. (Ex, Madonna, MichaelJackson, Boy George, etc)
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: In 'Grubble Gum', Mung's suggestion for removing gum is to [[TooDumbToLive ''poke a sleeping bear with a stick and having it slash the gum off''.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: Chowder, after being [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by the poultrygeist Florentine. Strangely, the voice of Florentine by himself was not deep, nor was his voice after he possessed the newly cooked flurkey.
* FakeCrossOver: [[PowerpuffGirls Ms. Bellum]] shows up near the end of "The Hot Date".
* FanDisservice: Endive. She appears in bathing suits and skimpy outfits frequently, many with [[GrossUpCloseUp detailed shots]].
** And anytime Chowder's shirtless.
*** For some, both of those are FetishFuel. * shudder*
* FanNickname: Gorgonzola has a handful of nicknames. "Gorgy" being the most popular.
* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables
* ForgottenAnniversary: Mung Daal does this.
* FreakyFridayFlip: The episode "A Little Bit of Pizzazz!"
* GagBoobs: Warden Frau Brotchen in ''Kid Shnitzel'', who looked like she was trying to gag Shnitzel...
** During the "Fireheart" song there's a short still of Chowder as a Conan-the-Barbarian-style pulp hero, and Panini with an ImpossibleHourglassFigure. It's, uh...somethin' else, all right.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Truffles at one point, the Warden in ''Kid Shnitzel'', and ... Reuben.
* {{Gasshole}}: Mr. Fugu, and Shnitzel in "The Blackout".
** And Chowder, in "The Toots." Oddly enough, it makes a lovely song.
** Actually, not just in "The Toots." Chowder's been a Gasshole ever since the show began airing. He belches loudly in almost every episode.
* GeniusBruiser: Shnitzel is the most competent and the strongest of the main crew.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: See the [[{{Radar/Chowder}} Radar Page]]. There is a '''TON''' of them.
* TheGhost: Gazpacho often talks about his mother, but she has yet to make an appearance.
** She...kind of appeared in Gazpacho's DayInTheLimelight episode. She appeared as a puppet once, and then a portion of her (that looked nothing like the puppet) was shown.
* GiganticGulp: In "The Vacation," Chowder is seen drinking a literal "bottomless soda."
* {{Gonk}}: Todd. Everyone (except Endive) still loved him though.
* GrandFinale: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Chowder Grows Up]]".
* GreekChorus: Kiwi.
* GroundhogDayLoop: 'Grubble Gum'.
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Mung. It's actually explained; the Meach bit in the CrossesTheLineTwice point above was responsible.
* HalloweenEpisode: The episode "The Spookiest House in Marzipan". Let's see what they'll call the holiday...
** Ironically, the holiday wasn't mentioned at all during the episode.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Chowder ''himself'', especially considering the amount of food and other random objects that he's able stuff down his gullet... and sometimes ''pull back out''...
* HappilyMarried: Believe it or not, [[spoiler:Schnitzel and Endive]] are this at the end.
** Also, [[spoiler:Chowder and Panini]] are also this.
* HeroicSociopath: Shnitzel, sort of.
* IdiosyncraticWipes
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The Cinnamini Monster
* IncomingHam: In Paté's first appearance, he sings "I'm Not Your Boyfriend" loudly and dramatically. With fireworks for added effect.
* IncrediblyLamePun: The following exchange from "The Deadly Maze".
--> '''Chowder''': That's ah... ''maze''-ing!
--> '''Gumbo''': ... Very funny.
--> '''Chowder''': That was funny?
* IngestingKnowledge: Attempted by Mung Daal on Chowder. He tries to cram a stack of books in his head instead of getting him to study!
* InnerMonologue:
--> '''Mung''': ''"It's been months since I've seen my wife and kids."''
--> '''Truffles''': "What are you talking about, we don't have any kids."
--> '''Mung''': ''"I hate it when that woman reads my thoughts."''
--> '''Truffles''': [+'''"[[LampshadeHanging THEN STOP THINKING OUT LOUD!]]"'''+]
* InsufferableGenius: Chowder in "Brain Grub". He was smart for only about 5 minutes though.
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Radda Radda. I mean, Shnitzel.
** Subverted in "Gazpacho Stands Up", during his (extremely short) comedy routine he clearly says, "Okay", albeit with a [[ScoobyDoo Scoobydooish]] lisp.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in ''The Trouble With Truffles'' when he gets so calm he ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzb2g_srYDQ starts speaking normally.]]'']]
*** Also subverted in a [[TheStinger Puppet Segment]] where Shnitzel is seen petting a cat and saying "Yes you radda! Yes you radda!"
** And Mr. Fugu's friend/pet, Foie Gras.
* [[ItsAWonderfulPlot It's A Wonderful Plot]]: "Chowder Grows Up" features a variation, when [[spoiler: Mung Daal shows Chowder what happened to the rest of the cast thanks to his refusal to grow up]].
* IWasToldThereWouldBeCake: In "My Big Fat Stinky Wedding", Chowder is excited to get cake at Kimchi's wedding. However, TheCakeIsALie.
* {{Jerkass}}: Reuben and Gorgonzola. In fairness, Gorgonzola's hostility stems from the fact that he's stuck being an apprentice for a job he hates. It's also hinted that his master emotionally abuses him.
** Endive. Especially in "The Prank".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Chestnut.
** Shnitzel at times.
* {{Keet}}: Chowder
* LampshadeHanging: In "The Toots", Mung and Chowder lampshade the formula of the show...[[GenreBlindness and then proceed to go about it anyway.]]
* LargeHam: Jokes about food aside, Paté is pretty hammy. Chowder and Mung too.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler:Chowder's apprentice, Scraps.]]
* LethalChef: Literally. In an early episode, Chowder accidentally adds rat poison to his Burple Nurple recipe. Since Mung doesn't want to crush his dreams, he's forced to try and get the Nurples away from Chowder by any means necessary. Including theft.
* LetsMeetTheMeat: Some of the dishes that Mung creates (like the giant roast), have eyes and mouths, appearing to be ''alive''. Also, the Thrice Cream Man.
** Played with in one episode had a "Queen Meach" surrounded by a squad of very aggressive soldier Meaches guarding her. Once the team explained they wanted to make her into a delicious pie, they were let through. The Meach Queen was still alive even ''after'' being made into a pie and ''eaten''.
* [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy Lions and]] [[strike: Tigers]] [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy Snow Leopards and Humans, Oh my]]: And How! Also, it's never been verified what Mung is, but he does seem to be just a blue human.
** He had a tail in one episode, though.
** He might be a type of fey, his wife's a mushroom pixie, after all.
* LongTitle: Episode "Big Ball" is actually titled "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".
* LoveTriangle: Marmalade loves Ceviché who loves Panini, who loves Chowder.
** One episode implied that Endive might have a crush on Mung...
* ManInAKilt: Mung Daal.
* MarshmallowHell: Happened to Schnitzel in "Kid Schnitzel".
* MediumAwareness: "Chowder, why does the music sound like it's gonna get all excited?" ...Then again, this show does have NoFourthWall.
* MediumBlending: The end credits feature puppet versions of the characters, which for some reason the Cartoon Network doesn't use. You can see what they look like [[http://nerdarmada.blogspot.com/2007/09/chowder-surprise.html Here]] and [[http://nerdarmada.blogspot.com/2008/02/more-puppets.html here]]. The show has also gone into puppet, claymation, and paper cutout mode, used animated sand in "The Lead Farfel", and had a CGI character in "The Deadly Maze". Not to mention stop motion ''food'' in the Idiosyncratic Wipes.
** Cartoon Network in Scandinavia uses the end credit puppets, although not consistently.
* MindScrew: Don't even bother trying to make sense of how the glasses work in their world, as shown in "My Big Fat Stinky Wedding".
* MsFanservice: Subverted by Endive. Said subversion is lampshaded frequently.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Chowder and Panini are cat/rabbit/bear mashups.
** Similarly, Gorgonzola is actually a cross between a rat and a hamster.
** Marmalade is a mix between a frog and a pig.
* MommasBoy: Gazpacho. One episode really pointed out the obvious. Though he's also a slightly different version of the trope, in that he still runs a successful business
* MyBelovedSmother: Gazpacho is very dependent of his mother.
** [[spoiler:[[SplitPersonality That's because he is.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Not quite...]]
* MyBrainIsBig: Chowder in "Brain Grub".
** Gorgonzola's head shape implies that he has a huge brain. He's also portrayed as much more intelligent. [[SurroundedByIdiots Kinda...]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Chowder in aforementioned "Brain Grub". Chowder, after gaining MediumAwareness, turns the show into something smarter via sheer brainpower. Unfortunately, it also turns the show boring, prompting one of these reactions.
* NeverSayDie: Averted, oddly. This is one of the few kids shows that cheerfully uses death for ''humor''.
** Of course, Greenblatt came from the [[TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy other one]].
** Definitely averted in "The Dinner Theater", where Chowder plotted to have Panini killed (when she was standing ''in front of him'') just so he can catch the murderer in the act. Probably one of the rare JerkAss (and downright cruel) moment from the titular character.
*** The same episode, where he spent the entire episode in a panic because he thought someone else (specifically Gazpacho, who was playing the villain, but he wasn't sure at the time) was going to kill her, so he tried to figure it out because he was playing the detective? Sounds more like a very CloudCuckoolander investigation technique to me.
** One episode had Endive's prank going so far she accidentally killed Mung Daal and had to find a way to get rid of Chowder, who was a witness... kinda.
* NiceHat: Chowder's purple hat. A secondary character named Ancho takes pride in his own hat in "Chowder Loses His Hat."
* NoAccountingForTaste: Mung Daal and Truffles seems to pretty much hate each other.
** And then there's [[spoiler:Endive and Schnitzel]] in the finale.
* NoFourthWall: It couldn't be more blatantly obvious. One {{egregious}} example of MediumAwareness is when Chowder scribbles on the screen and then erases it. He points to the CN logo at the bottom of the screen, asking if it will come off, to which Gazpacho says, "That doesn't come off, I've tried." Sadly, the third season seems to have rebuilt the fourth wall for the most part.
** One even MORE egregious example is when the gang spends all of Truffles' money. Mung says now that they've run out, they aren't scared that Truffles will find out, they're scared because now there's isn't enough money for the ''animation''. The scene then cuts to the ''voice actors'' (still voice acting) hosting a car wash to raise enough money to get the animation budget back.
** "I'm going as fast as I can, woman! These things take time!" "We've only got 11 minutes..."
** While in the Deadly Maze, Chowder flees a giant chicken and runs into a physical representation of his conscience.
--> Conscience: You have to go back and save Gumbo!
--> Chowder: Are you sure? 'Cause Gumbo said he wants to hurt Mung.
--> Conscience: Trust me, he'll never pull it off. The episode's not long enough.
** Mung: ''"Worst of all, '''''YOU MADE THE VIEWERS CRY!!!"'''''
** In "The Heist" after Endive demands money for all of the gems (under her estate) that was destroyed, Mung exclaims, "There won't be enough money left in the budget for the third season!" Followed by Chowder stating that he "had so many more jokes to tell".
*** If you don't get the joke, the third season isn't only the final season, but is also only 7 episodes compared to the 20 of the previous two.
** In "The Garden" the very first lines spoken was Mung telling Chowder, "So anyway this is going to be the best episode ever, because I'm gonna show you where food comes from!"
** "What's Chowder's favorite cartoon!? I bet it's ''Chowder''!"
* NoIndoorVoice: Truffles, full throttle.
* NoodleIncident: "That was the [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome craziest episode]] we've ever had!"
** What about what happened when Mung made "Tooty Pooty Beans" and it resulted in him, Chowder, Truffles, and Schnitzel being chased by an [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry mob]].
* NoseNuggets: Many of Chowder's {{Gross Up Close Up}}s feature strings of snot hanging out of his nose.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: ''(after being offscreen for eleven minutes)'' "''MAN!'' That must have been the '''CRAZIEST''' episode we've ever had!"
* OlderThanTheyLook: Mung and Truffles have been married for several hundred years.
* OnlyOneName: None of the characters seem to have last name at all (except perhaps Mung Daal).
** And judging by how other characters address her, Miss Endive's first name is never revealed.
* OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow: Done InUniverse and played for laughs in one episode where the cartoonist literally picks Shnitzel up and saves him from a deadly fall. Then he sets him down on a cloud and talks to him.
* TheOtherDarrin: Shnitzel was played by KevinMichaelRichardson in the pilot episode.
** Chestnut was originally voiced by Tone Lōc in his first three appearances. In subsequent appearances John [=DiMaggio=] took over.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Chowder goes to live with them in an episode after he gains fire breath from eating a bunch of jalapenos.
* OverlyLongGag: And often.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: Almost literally, on one occasion.
* PairTheSpares: In the series finale, [[spoiler: Shnitzel and Endive get married. Although Endive did show interest in him in 'Schnitzel Quits'.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: The whereabouts of Chowder's, Panini's, and Gorgonzola's parents are never discussed or referred.
** Chowder lives with Mung Daal and Truffles. His parents actually may have abandoned him, or they're dead, or they lost Chowder. Whatever the reason for his lack of parents, [[ParentalSubstitute Mung Daal has basically stepped in to serve as both Chowder's father and mentor]].
*** It's actually a common feature of the classic 'apprentice' system that the apprentice came to live with the master.
*** In the episode "The Deadly Maze", during Gumbo's flashback of when he quit being Mung's apprentice, Mung says "Well, we lost another one. Shintzel, get the apprentice catalog!"
* ParentalBonus: So much. "But...where did you get the mayonnaise?"
** Or this tidbit from when Panini ran for president of the student council.
--->'''Mung:''' Fireworks? She's using fireworks.\\
'''Truffles:''' I'd completely forgotten fireworks even existed! * under breath* ''In my marriage.'' Whoa, who said that?
** I doubt many young kids would recognize the {{Psycho}} or TheExorcist [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]].
** And then there's the sheer family-unfriendly bleakness of Gazpacho's one-liners...
--->'''Gazpacho''' (explaining why Chowder can't stay up past his bedtime): If there's one thing mother's taught me, it's to sleep as much as you can. That way you don't have to face the horrible reality of what your life's become.
* PerspectiveMagic: Endive looks around the same size at all times, but whenever any character climbs on her they're suddenly tiny as a joke on her size.
* PhraseCatcher: "ENDIVE!"
* PlanetOfSteves: The Arborians.
* PlayedForLaughs: Why can't anybody accept the fact that [[spoiler:Gazpacho isn't really his own mother?]]
* PottyEmergency: Nearly the whole of "The Vacation".
* PowersThatBe: Appear as a RunningGag through the series.
* TheRival: Endive to Mung Daal, Gorgonzola to Chowder.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize
* RhymesOnADime: Chestnut.
-->'''Chestnut''': Dinga-loo, dinga-lee. [[ThirdPersonPerson Chestnut]] gets this thing for free.
* [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed Evil In a Jar]]: [[TheVirus The mold creature]].
* SarcasticClapping: Ms. Endive performs this in "A Taste of Marzipan".
* ScaryBlackMan: Chestnut gives off vibes of this.
* SceneryPorn: The pan shots of Marzipan City look like they came straight out of a DrSeuss book.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: During the first season, the airing of new episodes was frequently delayed, and recent new "episodes" are just one 15-minute segment where the other is a rerun (or a previous new episode).
** And, depending on the time of day and your native country, how the CN logo often didn't actually show up in the correct corner during the "Don't write there!" gag until a permanent one was drawn into the episode.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: The Cinnimini monster's rule 87, stating that Mung and Chowder cannot leave until beating him, and he cheats constantly in all but the first game.
** [[spoiler: And of course, he then refuses to let them leave even when Truffles actually manages to win]]
--->[[spoiler: '''Mung''': "This is home now, Chowder. This is home.]]
* SeriousBusiness: Truffles treats board games and mahjongg as this. One episode involved her [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome battling it out against another character complete with music in the background.]]
** And while we're here, cooking.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: "I'm not your boyfriend!" is Chowder's way of saying hello to Panini.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrO9kjbzNRA Really]], its [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxkX7JllbD4 true]].
* ShellShockedSenior: Mung goes into flashbacks when commissioned to ''bake a pie''. See CrossesTheLineTwice, above.
* ShoutOut: Oh so much video games especially ''KatamariDamacy'' and ''SuperMarioBros''. (twice. Two [[CaptainErsatz Captain Ersatzes]] of Mario and Luigi show up in one episode and an oversized Bowser shows up in another) being two obvious examples.
** Or in a recent episode, where Chowder made the least subtle but most awesome reference to VideoGame/{{Portal}} ever, by saying "The cake was a lie!"
** One of the Halloween episodes was a parody of TheExorcist, and the other contained a shout out to ''Psycho'' at the end.
** When Mung Daal recounts the time Truffles tore off his beard, leaving only the famous mustache, Chowder whispers: ''[[VideoGame/KillerInstinct "She broke the combo?"]]''.
** By far, the greatest collection of {{ShoutOut}}s in one episode is the episode "Tofu Town Showdown". For example, Shnitzel's samurai outfit is the yellow-black striped outfit from [[strike: ''KillBill'']] {{Bruce Lee}}'s ''Game of Death'', Chowder sings a pastiche of [[{{Rocky}} "Eye of the Tiger"]], Shnitzel wins the final battle by going ''[[DragonBall SUPER SAIYAN]]'', and finally, '''''[[StreetFighter "RAHDOKEN!!"]]'''''
** Similarly, in "Weekend At Shnitzel's", there's a fight scene that takes a lot of cues from ''StreetFighter'', including a recognizable HurricaneKick, {{Shoryuken}}, [[KamehameHadoken Hadoken]], and Flash Kick. Plus a ''MortalKombat''-style demand for a FinishingMove: "Get 'er done!" as [[spoiler:Shnitzel]] is knocked down.
** Mount Fon''doom'', "YOU SHALL NOT PASS"... they really like taking on ''[[TheLordOfTheRings LOTR]]''. And Dwight Schultz does a terrifyingly good Gandalf.
** Gazpacho's surreal dream sequence in "Gazpacho!" is a subtle not to the video for "Don't Come Around Here No More" by Tom Petty (complete with Gazpacho's body made out of cake and everyone dressed as Alice in Wonderland characters).
*** Not to mention Souron.
** Back before Chowder first aired, C.H. Greenblatt expressly stated how much ''KatamariDamacy'' inspired him in the creation of this show. The King of All Clouds (Sky?) is intentionally based off The King of All Cosmos, as well as the entire Grubble Gum episode.
** In one episode, after Chowder unearths a sugar sapphire, Mung tastes it. He has a seizure, shaking his head about, before it spontaneously pops to [[PowerpuffGirls Bubbles' head]] saying "Aww, that's sweeet!"
** "I can only count as high as [[HitchhikersGuide 42]]. How high can you count?"
* ShowingOffTheNewBody: Florentine [[FanDisservice with Chowder]].
* {{Snapback}}
* SimultaneousArcs: "The Wrong Address/The Wrong Customer": During "The Wrong Address" Chowder and Mung see a seemingly insignificant police chase and go about their business. At the end they return home to find it destroyed and Truffles being arrested. In "The Wrong Customer" we find out that the police were chasing an old, blind, and (apparently) dangerous owl, who causes Mung's place to be destroyed. Truffles being arrested is a seperate but somewhat related matter.
* SingleTargetSexuality
* SingleTear: Ceviche often gives these.
* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: Adding to the general [[NoFourthWall feel of the show]]. In one episode, Endive tells Margarine to "cut the music". Cue boombox being cut in half with a ridiculously-sized pair of scissors.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There is no "C" in Shnitzel, and "radda" has two D's in it. The closed captioning alone manages to get both of these wrong quite often, but it was most {{egregious}} when Cartoon Network made a "Rada-pendence day" [sic] special of ''Chowder'' episodes for Independence Day.
* SphereEyes
* SpitTake: A ''30-second one'' in "Chowder's Girlfriend".
** That appears to span ''over six hours!''
* SpoofAesop:
-->'''Mung''': Well, Chowder, I guess you can't have your cake and eat it, too!
-->''([[EverybodyLaughsEnding everyone laughs]])''
-->'''Chowder''': HAHAHAHA-- Wait, what's so funny?
* StalkerWithACrush: Panini.
** {{Lampshaded}} in ''"A Little Bit of Pizzazz"'' where Panini goes after Chowder- really Daal in the chubby body after the FreakyFridayFlip cooking accident- and gets brushed off by [[BigEater him in an eating binge]]. She makes a comment to the effect of "I need a new obsession."
* StatusQuoIsGod: Parodied in "The Toots" when Gorgonzola's wealth vanishes instantly once Chowder retires from music.
* StealthPun: The woman [[spoiler: who is [[strike: Gazpacho's mother]] Gazpacho]] in "The Spookiest House In Marzipan" says "I could just eat you up!" to Gorgonzola when she answers the door and sees him. [[LateToThePunchline I later remembered]] that all the characters, including Gorgonzola, are named after food, which you're ''supposed'' to eat.
** In "Sheboodles", the cast holds an [[TheEighties 1980s-themed]] costume party. Gazpacho (voiced by Dana Snyder) dresses as ''Dee'' Snyder.
** At first it may seem like just a minor joke that the days of the week are named after numbers (ie: Threesday, Foursday, Fivesday), but it's actually a joke based on how many people pronounce "Tuesday" as "Twosday."
* TheStinger: With puppets, no less.
* TheStoic: Ceviche?
* StomachOfHolding: Chowder
* StupidStatementDanceMix: One of the bumpers is one made of "'''I'M NOT YOUR BOYFRIEND!!!'''".
* StorybookOpening: Every episode features a ''Cookbook'' Opening. It's ''{{Chowder}}'''s version of the EpisodeTitleCard.
* {{Suck E Cheeses}}: Carlito Con Queso's.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: many a ShoutOut and {{Homage}} features one, including the memorable reference to ''KatamariDamacy''.
** The episode "Big Ball" featured a Jimmy Hart version of the FOX Sports theme.
** In "Chowder Grows Up", Chowder's song is MIGHTY familiar to those that remember [[ParentalBonus the old Toy's R Us jingle.]]
** The Exchanges Song ("This for that/And Those for these/And These for Those...") is one for the [[GilbertAndSullivan Modern Major General Song]]].
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "Oh hello, Panini. I have a message for you from Chowder, who I am not."
* SynchronousEpisodes: "Wrong Address"/"Wrong Customer".
* TakeThat: "Gazpacho? Why are you dressed like a big nerd?"
* ThemeNaming: Most of the characters and things in the show are named after food.
** Similarly, all the members of the Marzipan police are named after sandwiches.
* ThemeTuneCameo: One episode had Shnitzel being forced to confront his mysterious past. As punishment, he (literally) faced the music by having them sing the show's theme song. Chowder hummed along while Shnitzel begged them to stop.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Chestnut.
** "Mr. Tummy needs food or he gets ''cranky''!"
* ThoseTwoGuys: The police squad gets pretty close to this. They even get a LowerDeckEpisode.
* TimeSkip: It's done during the finale's musical number. As in Chowder holds a note ''for twenty years''.
* TokenMinority: Chestnut... and his dining room table, living room sofa, and vacation home, just to name a few.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Snackronomicon.
* TooDumbToLive: Chowder. We're talking about a guy who thought spoons belong in ''electrical outlets.''
** Also Mr. Fugu, who tried to eat a vine covered in spikes. Eating anything covered in spikes is normally bad, but it's especially bad for an anthropomorphized balloon like Mr. Fugu.
* TooManyBabies: shows up in the series finale.
* TwistEnding: Lampshaded, naturally.
* UncannyValley: Deliberately invoked and PlayedForLaughs with Foie Gras. Also TruthInTelevision: Foie Gras' appearance is based on the ManekiNeko, which actually is kind of creepy, with its big eyes and all.
* UnmovingPlaid: [[InvokedTrope Deliberately used]] for artistic purposes.
* TheUnreveal: "And that's why I married Truffles. Now let's never, ever speak of this again. Ever. [[LampshadeHanging Wink]]."
* VoicesAreMental: The body-swapping episode, obviously.
* VocalEvolution: An entire episode is devoted to Truffles' voice changing, to the point that nobody takes her seriously anymore because her voice is too sweet and gentle.
** Chowder and Panini sound noticeably older in the later episodes, as their voice actors were respectively 11 and 13 when the series started.
** Mung's voice became deeper around the end of the first season.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: All over Shnitzel, no less.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: "Chowder Grows Up" includes one.
* WidgetSeries
* WithCatlikeTread: "Mung will never hear us sneaking about over the noise of all these smashing plates!"
* AWorldwidePunomenon: [[HurricaneOfPuns Tons of puns.]] They're occasionally [[IncrediblyLamePun recognized as bad]].
---> '''Spooky trees''' (to Gorgonzola): Leave this place! See? [[VisualPun We're holding leaves!]]
---> '''Gorgonzola''': AAAAH!!! [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHorrific BAD JOKES!]]
* {{Wutai}}: Tofu Town.
* {{Yandere}}: Panini is ''crazy'' for Chowder. Really crazy.
-->'''Panini:''' ''And I just wanted to pass laws so I can make you my property!''
* YouMeanXmas: Or rather, Knishmas.
* YourSizeMayVary: Endive, who changes size from episode to episode and sometimes even within the same episode.
** At one point Chowder has to climb up her back to get something and she's the size of a mountain. When she realizes Chowder is there she freaks out and begins jumping around in an attempt to get him off, at which point she's a bit taller than Shnitzel. Her size is dependent on what the story needs.
