ChalkZone
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ChalkZone is an animated television series, produced by Frederator Studios for the Nickelodeon cable channel. The series is very reminiscent of the 1974 cartoon Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings. It was originally featured on Oh Yeah! Cartoons, just like The Fairly OddParents and My Life as a Teenage Robot.
The main character, an elementary school student named Rudy Tabootie (Elizabeth Daily, Tommy Pickles on Rugrats), has been gifted with a magically endowed piece of chalk that allows access to the ChalkZone, an alternate dimension where everything and everyone that's ever been drawn in chalk and erased takes form as the living and/or tangible (compare Philip José Farmer's Riverworld). The show concentrates on the adventures of Rudy, sidekick Snap (Candi Milo), and classmate Penny Sanchez (Hynden Walch) within the zone. A soundtrack album, titled In The Zone (not to be confused with Britney Spears' 2003 album), has also been released.
Characters
- Rudy Tabootie (E.G. Daily) - The shy artist whom the show stars.
- Snap (Candi Milo) - Rudy's ChalkZone pal, based on a comic strip character he's created.
- Penny Sanchez (Hynden Walch) - Rudy's geeky classmate whom he has an obvious crush on.
- Reggie Bullnerd (Candi Milo) - The school bully.
- Joe Tabootie (Jess Harnell) - Rudy's father, who runs a meat shop.
- Mildred Tabootie (Miriam Flynn) - Rudy's mother.
- Horace T. Wilter (Robert Cait) - Rudy's cartoon-hating school teacher.
- Biclops (Rodger Bumpass) - The guardian of the Magic Chalk Mines; has one eye on top of the other.
- Blocky (Candi Milo) - A childlike drawing Rudy drew early on.
- Queen Rapsheeba (Russi Taylor) - ChalkZone's hot rap artist whom Snap has a crush on.
- Spy Fly - A chalk-fly with a camera attached to her head.
- Skrawl (Jim Cummings) - A villainous (and strange-looking) chalk-being who is constantly out to "get" Rudy.
- The Beanie Boys - Skrawl's flying, singing henchmen.
- The Craniacs - A group of robots looking for futuristic inventions, each one smarter than the last. They, like Skrawl, want Rudy's magic chalk. Whenever a new one is drawn, the last is deemed "obsolite", shut down, and put in storage. The Craniac currently funtioning is Craniac #4 (it was origanally #3, but Rudy drew a #4 to get rid of #3 and now #3 is dead).
Episodes
- Rudy's First Adventure / Rudy's Story / Bushel Full of Yum
- French Fry Falls / Amazin River / Gift Adrift / Escucha Mi Corazon
- The Skwarl / Pie Day / Secret Passages / We're in the Zone
- Snapmobile / Rudy's Date / Future Zone / Mumbo Jumbo Jump
- Snap out of Water / Two Left Feet / Rudus Tabootus / All Day Jam
- The Wiggies / Rapunzel / Hair to Stay / Coming to Life
- Hole In The Wall / The Terrible Two-and-a-Halfs / Superhero Snap / I'm Back and Bluer Then Ever
- Disappearing Act / Portable Portal / Snap on Tour / Making Faces
- Waste Mountain / Madcap Snap / What's My Line? / Putting on the Dog
- Pop Goes The Balloon / Snap Builds His Dream House / Fireplug Ballet / There You Are
- The Heist / Battle of the Hands / Chocolate Brunch / Oh My My
- The Smooch / Power Play / All The Way To The Top
- Pumpkin Love / Snap's Nightmare / Irresistable / Please Let Me In
- Chalk Queen / Cleo's Secret / Snap's Wishy Washout / Chunky
- Draw and Let Draw / The Towering Wilter / Snapsheebah / Flashlight
- Taffy / Follow the Bouncing Bag / Nighty Note / Dream a Lotta
- Lost In Chalk / Asleep at the Chalk / If You Can't Beat 'Em, Eat Em / Scat
- Water, Water Everywhere / RV Having Fun Yet? / The Doofi / Lollypoppian Rhapsody
- That Thing You Drew / That Sinking Feeling / Insect Aside
- Let's Twister Again / Legend of the Golden Worms / Beanie Boys to Men / Good to Go
- Double Trouble / Midnight Train
- Indecent Exposure / My Big Fat Chalk Wedding / Rap-A-Present / Greetings From Greenland
- Skrawl's Brain / Big Loo / Duck Snap Duck / The Happiest Song in the World
- Mother Tongue / Going Eyeballistic / The Ballad Of Toe Fu / Golden Thumb
- The Smudges / Tiny Pirate Problem / Curse of the Werefrog / Magic Carpet Ride.
- The Big Blow Up (television special)
- Howdy Rudy / Attack of the Rudisaurus / The Really Big Talent Search / Livin' It Up
- When Santas Collide (christmas television special)
External links
- ChalkZone area on nick.com (http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/display_show.jhtml?show_id=cha)
- ChalkZone (http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_Studios/N/Nickelodeon/Nicktoons_Productions/ChalkZone/index.html) at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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