Friday, November 22, 2024

Toons After Dark: Chowder (2007)

 Viewers were first introduced to CH Greenblatt's brand of absurdist humor with Chowder, which ran for 3 seasons on Cartoon Network (2007-10). Chowder is an apprentice to a caterer, and gets into all kinds of weird misadventures. Unfortunately, he's also young enough to be in the "girls are icky" phase of his life, as "Chowder's Girlfriend" demonstrates.......


Only 9 episodes were produced in the 3rd season, which suggests that either CN saw the declining ratings, or viewers were tiring of this act. 49 episodes total were produced over 3 seasons, most of them had two shorts per show.

After the series ended, Greenblatt left for Disney, and produced Harvey Beaks there before returning to the Warner umbrella to develop Jellystone.

Rating: C.

1 comment:

MisterSig said...

Actually, he was at Disney doing his share of work on Fish Hooks (created by Noah Z. Jones), which somehow managed to get three seasons and end in victory. He made Harvey Beaks for Nickelodeon afterwards. Believe it or not, he was involved in some episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants in the early 2000s before he created Chowder.