History WesternAnimation / Chowder

[[caption-width-right:350:''Radda radda radda!''[[note]]Back to front: [[HairTriggerTemper Truffles]], [[BeleagueredAssistant Shnitzel]], [[ObsessedWithFood Chowder]], [[BunnyEarsLawyer Mung Daal]], and [[SpeedySnail Escargot]].[[/note]]]]

Now with a [[Recap/{{Chowder}} recap]] and [[ShoutOut/{{Chowder}} Shout Out]] page!

->'''''Mung:''' You take the moon, and you take the sun!\\
'''Chowder:''' You take everything that seems like fun!\\
'''Truffles:''' You stir it all up and when you're done,\\
'''Schnitzel:''' Radda radda radda radda radda radda![[note]]You share a big piece with everyone![[/note]]\\
'''All:'''So come on in, feel free to do some lookin'!\\

* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Apparently, [[http://nerdarmada.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-is-chowder.html Chowder and Panini are the same species]].

* ButtMonkey: Shnitzel. And that glasses-wearing pig guy.

* CheerfulChild: Chowder and Panini are this, unlike [[PerpetualFrowner Gorgonzola]].

* CityOfAdventure

* KingKoopaCopy: The show does this twice. This is likely a case of AuthorAppeal, as series creator Creator/CHGreenblatt is a video game fan:
** In the episode "Big Ball", the sports arena is thrown into a giant trash can by an an enormous Bowser-like monster.
** In another episode, there is a brief ArtShift where all the characters become pixelated. Resident {{Jerkass}} [[YouDirtyRat Gorgonzola]] turns into a similar monster, complete with spiky shell.

* LongTitle: Episode "Big Ball" and the eponymous game 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".

->''You take the moon, and you take the sun!\\
You take everything that seems like fun!\\
You stir it all up and when you're done,\\
Radda radda radda radda radda radda![[note]]You share a big piece with everyone![[/note]]\\
So come on in, feel free to do some lookin'!\\

* {{Snapback}}

* LiteralMetaphor: When Mung said that scoring would ruin Big Ball, he meant literally, as in a giant Bowser-like monster would dump the arena in the trash. It was even lampshaded when Truffles says she thought he was talking figuratively.

* FreakyFridayFlip: The episode "A Little Bit of Pizzazz!" has the titular ingredient accidentally causing the crew to switch bodies. Chowder is in Shnitzel's body, Mung is in Chowder's, Truffles is in Mung's, and Shnitzel is in Truffle's.

** {{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."

** The pepper spray saleswoman in "The Wrong Address". While her spraying Mung because she thought he was a carjacker was slightly justified, she then sprays [[WouldHurtAChild Chowder]], who's oblivious to the concept of carjacking, and then the Roast Most, who doesn't have any ill intentions. She then continuously sprays Mung and Chowder, once in Mung's ear and once in Chowder's mouth, complete with a smug smile on her face.

* ActorAllusion: Sort of - in "Paint the Town", Chowder's giving Pepperjack the fingerpaints results in Pepperjack using them to make MORE Pepperjacks, who go insane. Pepperjack is voiced by Creator/JeffBennett, who previously voiced WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck in the 2004 short "Attack of the Drones", who too had a problem when HE cloned himself.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: One of the bumpers is one made of "'''I'M NOT YOUR BOYFRIEND!!!'''".

** When Ms. Bellum appears in "The Hot Date", she is animated using Adobe while the show is animated digital ink.

* MediumBlending: The end credits feature puppet versions of the characters, which for some reason 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.
** Cartoon Network UK on the other hand used them as they were supposed to be.

** Remember in the earlier episodes when Mung Daal was simply known for his professional cooking skills and for being a good role-model for Chowder? Fast forward to more recent episodes where any mention of Mung Daal's cooking skills are almost non-existent (except for when his failures are pointed out) and he's near-constantly portrayed as something of a SmallNameBigEgo-esque pervert.

* ForbiddenFruit: In "Shopping Spree", Mung, Chowder and Shnitzel are ordered not to touch Truffles' moneybox while she's in sickbed. Guess what they do.
%% * ForgottenAnniversary: Mung Daal does this.
* FreakyFridayFlip: The episode "A Little Bit of Pizzazz!" has the titular ingredient accidentally cause the crew to switch bodies. Chowder is in Shnitzel's body, Mung is in Chowder's, Truffles is in Mung's, and Shnitzel is in Truffle's.

%%** Mr. Fugu, and Shnitzel in "The Blackout".

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* ProductDeliveryOrdeal: In "The Thousand Pound Cake", Schnitzel and Chowder have to deliver the cake to a guy named Capellini. There are two problems. First, they have to deliver the cake before sunset, otherwise the cake is free. Second, Capellini's house is on the head of a giant, which makes Schnitzel and Chowder's journey more difficult. They arrive on top just when the sun is about to set, but [[{{Jerkass}} Capellini]] deliberately refuses to open the door to avoid paying the fees. The giant walks to the other side of the Earth to teach him a lesson.

* 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, complete with breasts as big as her head. It's, uh...[[http://chowder.wikia.com/wiki/File:Chowder-The-Barbarian.gif somethin' else, all right]].

* {{Flanderization}}: Panini, as her crush on Chowder goes from being simply clingy in earlier episodes to downright obsessed with him in later ones.
** Chowder himself doesn't fare much better either. In earlier episodes, he was simply a very eager yet rather naive child who hoped to someday become a great chef. Now, he's a hyperactive and highly incompetent idiot who is a danger to everyone around him.
*** This is especially evident when in one episode, he's so incompetent he's considered a "scatterbrain" and is so dim-witted he thinks a SPOON belongs in an electrical socket. Compare this to an earlier episode, in which Chowder's main flaw is a moderate case of ADD and is simply very naive.

* ForgottenAnniversary: Mung Daal does this.
* FreakyFridayFlip: The episode "A Little Bit of Pizzazz!"

* {{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.
** Kimchi is an animated cloud of [[WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} poo gas]] that communicates entirely in fart noises.
* GainaxEnding: It might be easier to name episodes that ''don't'' end on these.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* {{Gonk}}: Todd. Everyone (except Endive) still loved him though.
* GrandFinale: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Chowder Grows Up]]".

* GreekChorus: Kiwi.

* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Mung. It's actually explained; the Meach bit in the CrossesTheLineTwice point in the YMMV tab 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.

* HappilyMarried: Believe it or not, [[spoiler:Shnitzel and Endive]] are this at the end.
** Also, [[spoiler:Chowder and Panini]] are also this.

* IdiosyncraticWipes
* IHaveManyNames: Florentine in "The Poultry-Geist".

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The Cinnamini Monster

* IngestingKnowledge: Attempted by Mung Daal on Chowder. He tries to cram a stack of books in his head instead of getting him to study!
** Brain Grub. Ingredients include textbooks and a calculator.

*** 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.

** In "Apprentice Appreciation Day," Mung says "let's jet on over to the farmer's market"... cue the catering company literally flying there via jet propulsion.

Set in Marzipan City, an odd place full of weird and wonderful creatures, and even weirder and more wonderful ''foods'', the show tells the story of Chowder (Nicky Jones), a little fat lavender bear-cat-rabbit boy who is the apprentice of Mung Daal (Creator/DwightSchultz), chef and owner of his namesake catering company. Along with Mung's wife, Truffles (Creator/TaraStrong), and his gigantic rock monster assistant, Shnitzel (Creator/JohnDiMaggio), 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 [[BigEater eating habits]] might prove a problem...

->''You take the moon and you take the sun,\\

Stay a while, cuz something's always cookin!!''

[[caption-width-right:350:''Radda radda radda!''[[note]] Back to front: [[HairTriggerTemper Truffles]], [[BeleagueredAssistant Shnitzel]], [[ObsessedWithFood Chowder]], [[BunnyEarsLawyer Mung Daal]], and [[SpeedySnail Escargot]].[[/note]]]]

Radda radda radda radda radda radda! [[note]]You share a big piece with everyone![[/note]]\\
So come on in, feel free to do some lookin’!\\
Stay a while, cuz something’s always cookin’!''

* {{Gainaxing}}: Truffles at one point, the Warden in ''Kid Shnitzel'', and ... Reuben.
** And ''[[FanDisservice Endive]]''.