Cartoon Network Cooking Up Something Funny in Chowder

TX: Weekdays at 5.30pm and weekends at 4pm on Cartoon Network

              New Cartoon Network Original animated comedy series Chowder premieres on 20th April on Cartoon Network. Following the misadventures of a young apprentice called Chowder to a magical head chef, Mung Daal (voiced by Dwight Schultz famous for his role as Captain Murdoch in the A Team). Chowder’s days are filled with running errands, helping around the kitchen, and learning how to turn some of the weirdest ingredients you've ever heard of into some of the best dishes you've ever tasted.

              In Marzipan City, where Snail Cars crowd the streets, the Mung Daal Catering Company cooks up the most oddly delicious food.  And that is exactly where Chowder, an aspiring young chef in training, likes to be.  Under the watchful eye of the eccentric and much older Mung Daal, it is Chowder’s job to assist with the usual kitchen duties, like cooking Sing Beans until they warble on key, nursing a bruised Bluenana back to health, or delivering a thousand-pound cake to a man who lives on the head of a giant. 

              Chowder is perfect for the job, because no one loves cooking or trying new foods as much as he does.  He’s a sweet, impetuous and a thoroughly gullible little kid, and wherever he goes, chaos usually ensues.  He may not be ready to be a chef on his own, but he’ll get there one day (if he doesn’t destroy the whole town trying).  If Chowder could just spend every single second cooking in the kitchen with Mung Daal and Shnitzel, he would be pleased as punch.

              Chowder was nominated in 2008 for two Emmy awards and is created by C. H. Greenblatt, a veteran story board artist at Cartoon Network Studios and the creator and voice of Fred Fredburger on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.          

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Notes To Editors:

Transmission

Weekdays at 8am and 5.30pm on Cartoon Network

Weekends at 11am and 4pm on Cartoon Network

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