i wouldn't be surprised if chowder ate a chair

Chowder: "You're not in this episode." Truffles: _fucking dies_

The greatest CN quote ever: “Now the animators are gonna have to draw all this fire!”

While no show will ever defeat Chowder’s fourth wall breaks, the fact that Gumball learning he is in a tv show as a part of the plot is pretty genius

My favorite fourth wall joke in the entire series is when something happened that relaxed everybody in the kitchen. They're just vibin and Schnitzel says "Oh! I'm so calm, the audience can finally understand me! What's up? I'm Schnitzel!" And Mung and Chowder were uncomfortable and made him go back to "radda radda" and he was pissed

Humor peaked when they didn’t have enough money for the show.

"Why is she mad at you?" "Well, women have these in their bodies called 'expectations' " "Are expectations bad?" "There bad for us, for we can never live up to them" I have never laughed so hard at a show from Cartoon Network then I have with chowder, it truly was ahead of It's time and I'm glad that its getting the praise it deserves

Fun fact! One the teachers at my highschool is actually friends with the creator C. H. Greenblatt. One day after school, I was in a club until one of my friends told me the teacher was gonna set up a Skype QnA with Greenblatt for the students to ask questions about his work and experience with the cartoon industry. Me and a couple other classmates ran down stairs to the classroom we were told to go, I remember being so excited when we saw in for the first time. The whole QnA was a super fun experience, overall Greenblatt is a down to earth and super creative guy! It was the best after school experience I ever had!

*“WOMAN! YOU ARE ONE GIANT LUMP OF COAL!!!”* My favourite line from Mung, followed by “And you, *Sir,* are a mad cow!”

Chowder's style is like you sprayed disinfectant on Flapjack. It's still weird and bizzare with strange faces and unsettling things, just a bit less grimy and sickly looking.

The Amazing world of Gumball is right up there with Chowder in terms of writing, characters, jokes, and fourth wall breaks. Seriously, how could Schaffrillas not include it in his list of favorite CN shows? (I know he showed some clips of it but still, it should have been in his honorable mentions.) (EDIT: I'm not saying this condescendingly, but rather out of surprise, since TAWOG is often considered on of CN's best shows ever, and Schaff has consumed most of their great works, so it was kind of unexpected that he wouldn't mention it.)

"I'm so relaxed, the audience can understand me!" -Schnitzel

Random guy: Isn’t she pretty? Chowder: Yeah shes pretty........ Pretty ugly Biggest roast on the show

"The Spongebob episode with the real gorilla except it's the whole show" is an amazing and perfect way to describe Chowder and I will steal it

My absolute favorite joke in the show is when Mung yells at Schitzel to do something when they're all in trouble and he just puts on his hat, grabs his briefcase, gives them a thumbs up, slams the door behind him, and peels away in his car. I get hypoxic replaying that scene

"Have you seen Mung?" "Huh? Oh yeah, I...think he went to go pee." "Really? He's been gone for ten days, and usually it only takes Mung seven or eight days to pee."

I found it really funny how in Chowder, everything in the world is named after food, except for the food. Like the main characters are named stuff like Chowder, Schnitzel, and Truffles, while the food is always some nonsense word.

The fact that this show only got 2 seasons and Teen Titans Go! got 7 seasons still amazes to this day.

The amount of jokes within the details is amazing, gazpacho in this show is a wooly mammoth a fluffy super WARM creature, while irl gazpacho is a soup served COLD, endive is always angry, similarly irl endive is incredibly bitter, and panini, just like her real life counterpart food, wants to be smashed and I wouldn't be surprised if they brought back the show with a circumsission specialist called parsnip

"Women have these things called, expectations" Gold.

the "didn’t have enough money for the show" was not only a 4th wall break, it was a destruction, annihilation, violation of that poor wall lmao

I remember this one scene where Mung was reading Chowder's letter and he couldn't read it but he could understand it because there was narration. It was hella funny

What I love about the 4th wall breaks in chowder is how they never insult the audience or the creators of the show. They Just poke fun at the concept of Cartoons. Its not about being edgy to them, but legitimately having fun with the concept of 4th wall breaks.

Chowder: "You're not in this episode." Chowder is more powerful than Thanos

Chowder: "I AM NOT YOUR BOYFRIEND!" This has been stuck in my mind for over a decade.

In the money box episode, when mung tries to convince truffles that she is still dreaming, but then she relies with “no, you are never in any of my dreams” still to this day makes me laugh

This show was so unbelievably iconic that my father still says "radda radda" like at least once a week

"Mung Daal, why is Truffles always mad at you?" "You see, Chowder.... women have these things in their bodies called.... expectations." I knew that was funny when I was 13 and it still makes me laugh until I cry as an adult.

Chowder is an eternal classic in my eyes.

Schnitzel’s adult joke about giving the whole fist is why this is true comedy gold

This show is the only time I’ve seen marital problems be ACTUALLY FUNNY.

_"NO MONEY MEANS... NO ANIMATION!"_ *~ Mung* This has to be the most funniest and unique fourth wall breaks I've ever seen.

It’s cool to see people actually starting to appreciate the majesty that is Chowder

1:40 "Thanks to streaming services like HBO Max I've been able to revisit a lot of shows from my childhood." this aged like milk

I think my favorite joke from Chowder is that one where Chowder has accidentally put poison into his snacks that he is gonna sell of the street and Mung has to prevent anyone from eating them, so he dresses up as a lady and walks up to chowder's booth and ask "How about a sample for a really beautiful lady" and Chowder excitedly response with "Sure! where is she?" Then Mung just stays there, silent for a moment before then asking "How about a free sample for a really ugly lady" and Chowder is like "Nahhh, ugly ladies have to pay." There is just something so damn fun about this exchange of lines and the way they deliver them. It gets me every time. And then there's that one where Chowder asks Mung about what he would do if he theoretically wasn't married, and Mungs eyes just light up like a Christmas tree before his wife slams him out of his 2-second long daydream, followed by him saying "Love ya' honey" xD And of course there was the whole Katamari scene that even included the music from the game. Brilliant. This show was just so great. And I also have to agree with that little Boom Chaka-Chaka abomination. There is just something about it that rubs me in all the wrong ways. Strangely enough, in the Danish version, for whatever reason, Mung's name was changed to "Tandori"

M: “Care to give a free sample to a pretty lady” C: “Sure! You know one?” M:… M: “Care to give a free sample to an ugly lady” C: “no ugly ladies have to pay.”

Mung: “Da fence, da fence!” Chowder: “Defense?” M: “No, the fence, LOOK OUT” I will have that quote on my headstone.

7:22 “But where are we gonna get the money to pay for it?” *Cue KZfaq ads* I’m not even joking. Flawless timing.

I love their clothes, or even just Shnitzel himself, their designs/textures stay still as the characters move around

Lil Nas wrote his song “Panini” about this show and the character. He’s said that this is his favorite show.

*Mungdal in a dress* "Do you give a free sample to pretty women?" *Chowder* "Sure do you know any?" "...... Do you give free samples to ugly women?" "No. Ugly women have to pay."

“🎵And the roof goes on the wall, and nothing can go wrong!” “OH NO, it all went wrong!”

"Yeah..., Phineas and Ferb was the only show I watched on Disney as a kid." Can relate

"Please?" "No, Chowder!" "𝔓𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔶 𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢~" "WHAT THE-"

“You see chowder, women have these things in their bodies called expectations.” -mungdahl

It's nice to see someone give this show the praise it deserves

"I became a consumer of children" - Schaffrillis Productions

Just looked up C.H. Greenblatt on IMDB and he basically wrote the best episodes of the series including: - Squidville - Survival of the Idiots - Band Geeks - Doing Time - As Seen on TV - Krusty Krab Training Video - Mid-Life Crustacean - I Had an Accident

Chowder is gold because it's stupid, funny, has iconic lines, and great animation.

Okay, so I’m pretty certain the “Boom Chaka” baby is a reference to a nineties show called Allie McBeal in which the titular character is hallucinating and sees a CGI baby dancing to Hooked on a Feeling, and that baby later became the first GIF! I may be wrong, but I’m pretty certain that’s what it references.

The one thing I remember the most about Chowder was the one time a young me and my sister were sitting down to watch a newly-premiering episode. We had the closed captions on, and for the first (and only time we ever witnessed it) ever, it showed a translation of what Schnitzel says during the theme song: "You share a big piece with everyone." Pretty innocuous by itself, but looking back on it I like to think that they probably did with his lines what they did for Groot, where the actor knows the line and is thus able to put proper emphasis and emotional context behind every word.

What makes the dancing CGI minotaur baby stand out as particularly both creepy and funny is that he is the only time they used 3D CGI in the entire show. They used every other animation method under the sun except for 3D CGI until this one moment. And they intentionally made the CGI look poorly-rendered to make him look creepier and funnier. They do use some 2D CGI like pixel art but that was the only time they ever used 3D CGI.

Truffles: “Hello, What About Me?!” Chowder: “NO - Your NOT In This’ Episode’.” Classic Fourth Wall Breaking!!

Fun Fact: The whole "background on the characters staying still while the character themselves moved around" thing is called Unmoving Plaid. And if I remember right, it was generally viewed as lazy and cheap back in the day because it was more of a mistake than a visual choice. With older animation technology, keeping a pattern moving consistently and naturally on a character was difficult and so it had this sort of "Why bother?" stigma attached when animators didn't put forth the extra effort to make the characters look better. But now that we've invented computers and animate on those, it's much easier to keep a consistent pattern. So now it requires more effort instead of less to achieve this effect that started off as a visual flaw. And now it's done a 180 and became a cool novelty when it's coincidentally no longer indicitave of lack of effort. Edit: The way I originally tried to explain the "mistake turned artistic choice" situation was a crime against linguistics and confusing as hell. I've made it much easier to understand now

This show is so funny that you simply explaining most of this stuff still has me dying

And to think a show like Chowder managed to get a canonical ending where Chowder grows up and takes on the mantle of head chef with his own apprentice. Yet other cartoon shows at that time didn’t really have an “end”.

"YOU'RE BANNED!" *I'm just looking for the bathroom.* "YOU'RE BANNED FROM THAT TOO!" *I am banned from the bathroom?* "Every bathroom" *NOOOOOOOOOOO!* **Edit** (Wow, ok, thanks for the likes and all, but all I did was quote one of the best memes from the show)

I think Chowder is one of the main reasons why I laugh at the most random things that can happen 😭 I practically grew up with this show and would die laughing at the constant jokes in the show, and I still do to this day

When I was a kid I had an uncle who was an artist, and he would watch shows with us, but Chowder was the one he was so fascinated with. In retrospect I see why, it's a mixture of a lot of art

Fun fact: Chowder has enough fourth wall breaks to fill an entire episode

"It peels the skin off your eyeballs, doesn't it!" "Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between good cheese and bad feet" Two quotes that me and my brother would quote all the time

From the future 13:31 Schaffrillas after watching the Dear Evan Hansen: The Movie.

Okay but seeing the "no money no animation" joke play on TV on a random Tuesday after school was so surreal. I remember sitting there stunned for a while during commercial break, just trying to process that this hella awesome random thing just happened to me out of nowhere, and yet I saw it by myself so I couldn't talk about it with anyone lol. It was equal parts confusing and hilarious.

"That SpongeBob episode with the real gorilla, but its the whole series" is the best sentence to describe chowder, I love this guy

The best part about Chowder is it still has one of the most unique animation styles in cartoon history, at least in my opinion. The way certain clothing or skins on characters will have a sort of separate, static background to them with their own special pattern/color that makes the characters stand out even more in return as well as mixing in the familiarity of most cartoons with its color, locations, and characters designs is absolutely genius and I'm surprised no other cartoon or maybe even anime has done this style yet (or at least if there is one of those styles out there it's probably from a cartoon/anime that has that style overshadowed by Chowder's).

I unfortunately never got to watch much Cartoon Network as a kid, my parents thought it was too weird and dark at times, but I did get to see a few Chowder episodes. I'd forgotten about it since then, but this video just whipped me back to that small part of my childhood and I love it.

That’s my show!

The "Would you?" "Would I?" segment is something me and my husband quote on just about a weekly basis. There's honestly so much good quotable content in this show, it never ceases to make me smile.

This is Chowder Chowder: but I'm Chowder Mung: Exactly Chowder: *confused*

6:02 BRUH I DIDN'T REALIZE HE WAS POINTING AT THAT CUZ THE LOGO WASN'T THERE WHEN I FIRST WATCHED THAT!!!

“Mung Daal, perhaps the greatest character created for anything, ever.” You’re goddamn right, he is.

Chowder was definitely the master of fourth wall breaks

My favorite joke from the show was: "Oh no! The sun is rising!" Cut to the sun rising from a crevice to attack people

My favorite bit is when Mung says "If I wasn't a master chef could I do this?" And immediately proceeds to balance a wooden spoon on the palm of his hand.

The late 2000s was a generally experimental time for media. We had stuff like the Wii’s MadWorld, with its own unique art style inspired by comic books, and then we have Chowder. Chowder speaks for itself.

I think the egg creature was a reference to the “oogachaka baby”, a 3D render of a baby dancing to hooked on a feeling. I believe it was a popular meme in the early internet.

shnitzel: "Radda radda radda" mung: "that puts us ahead of the monster" one of the funniest joke in chowder Imo

Fun Fact. C.H. Greenblatt wrote “I Had an Accident” which pretty much explains why there’s a Gorilla 😂

I'm surprised Schaffrillas didn't mention the episode when Chowder referenced Katamari Damacy

My favorite chowder quote: Women have these big things on their chests called expectations

Chowder: "mung why wont truffles give me a mevilled egg?" Mung: "because that's what women do, they keep you from having what you want"

one scene I will always remember is when the gang tries to break into Endive's place for some reason I can't remember, and Mung gives them all codenames Mung: Big Mustache Chowder: The Lookout Schnitzel: Rocky Road Truffles: The Mouth (to which she immediately complains about) and then there's Gazpacho, who wants a cool codename - but gets Mama's Boy - which he then concedes as being accurate ooh, I also remember how Chowder was forced to play in that game of sniffle ball, and once her gets a home run, he runs home

the boom chaka chaka baby thing actually traumatized me as a child because of a weird nightmare i had that included it, to the point i wouldnt sleep without covers or with my family, didnt go to the bathroom alone, and steered me clear from a specific spot in the house for half a year..hell im gonna hit 20 soon and i still get ptsd flashbacks and that nightmare is still vivid for me, i remember every single moment that happened in that nightmare...

Fun fact: the voice actor for Mung Daal voiced a surprisingly disturbing villain in Batman: Arkham Knight named Professor Pyg, and I think about this often.

chowder is also one of the only male child characters actually voiced by an actual male which is really rare usually woman do the better voices for children but nicky jones killed it 💯

Fun fact! here in Canada, Ned’s Declassified didn’t air on the same channel as Icarly or Drake and Josh but instead it, along with a few other shows like Zoe 101 and All That, were acquired by the channel that usually aired the Disney sitcoms. I thought it was a Disney show for YEARS!

The late 90s to 2010 was the golden age of Cartoon Network.

“Darlin’ I’d never though I’d say this but wigga wigga Wagga Wagga wugga” “What” “Oh that’s just something that I’d never thought I’d have to say”

Cartoon Network: So how many Fourth Wall Breakers are you gonna put on Chowder? CH Greenblatt: *_yes_*

Schaff: “Whereas in a show where they take this kind of crush seriously it would be the worst part of the show.” Owl House: Hold my appleblood

That ending frame is... uh... a new one for me. I watched chowder whenever I got the chance growing up, which wasn't a lot, but I always remembered the show.

Chowder: *sings a dumb song despite being asked not to* Mung (annoyed): Schnitzel! Bring in the next scene!

“Now the ANIMATORS are gonna have to draw all this FIRE!”

Regular Show, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Bee and Puppycat, Steven Universe, Infinity Train, Amphibia, Owl House, Over the Garden Wall. What do they all have in common? Their creators all had a start in the Adventures of Flapjack, and I think that explains a LOT

As a kid, I loved Chowder for his cute design and childlike wonder. As an adult, I love Mung Daal for literally everything he does.

"And nothing can go wrong :D" **shmingerbread house falls down** *OH NO IT ALL WENT WRONG*

“Mung Daal, perhaps the greatest character ever created for anything ever” Truer words were never spoken.

Chowders what happens when you give your writers/animators LSD

One of my favorite Chowder episodes is when he eats a pepper that is so spicy that it makes fire come out of his mouth. He can't help but blast things with fire whenever he talks. He packs his bags crying and runs away. Then he finds a family of dragons and feels like he's finally found a home after the horribly tragedy of eating that pepper. But after he digests the pepper, he once again has to pack his bags crying and run away. It's so dang funny.

My favorite moment is when Schnitzel is training and beats a boulder, until it crumbles to rubble. After he triumphantly charges off, a boulder next to the rubble grows a mouth and goes "HOLY MOLY!!! Did you see what that guy did to Steve!?" to another boulder.