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Chowder is a show that challenges topics and subjects that people can relate to. The animated cartoon was created by C.H Greenblatt and was aired on Cartoon Network. The show aired from November 2, 2007 to August 7, 2010, and had 49 episodes. The show was critically acclaimed as a fresh breath of air for Cartoon Network and is one of the many fan favorites on the network still to this day. The show is centered on Chowder a purple cat-bear-rabbit who the audience follow on his daily adventures as the apprentice chef in Mung Daal’s kitchen. The creators of the cartoon use animation to challenge topics that people can relate to. Each Episode tells a story and for the most part ends with a message for the audience to take in or learn from. The …show more content…

The buildings that are present in the city are influenced from Indian Architecture. Most of the food names in Marzipan City are parodies of foods that currently exist in the real world such as Clabbage Cobbler which is a parody of Cabbage Cobbler or Thrice Cream which is obvious parody of Ice Cream. The show just doesn’t parody food names it also parodies popular media such as in episode Ep 24 of the first season Chowder is seen getting measured by two familiar video game characters. These characters would be Mario and Luigi from the Super Mario series of video games. Another popular media that is parodied in Chowder is Sniffleball which is a parody of the well known sport Baseball. The traditional baseball is replaced with a Snotball the game is itself plays like baseball in some aspects, except the baseball bat is replaced with a Spatula, and the players have their Sniffleball Gloves on top of their heads instead of on their hands. The way the characters hit the ball of snot is by having the glove on top of their heads hold the bat. There are also 12 bases rather than 3 in the real sport. These parodies are ways the Creators can show their creative skill by creating something that is original but is based on something that already exists but adding their own creative …show more content…

This episode alone as several Satirical Subjects in it. The following episode after shows us Dramatic Irony in the first seconds of the episode. Mung and the Gang are about to go fishing while Truffles is trying to tell Mung that he is forgetting something which tells us that something is important to Truffles that Mung is forgetting. Mung forgot their 450th anniversary which causes her to become angry at Mung. This relates to many people as people forget events like birthdays and anniversaries everyday. Later on in the episode we see Chowder visiting Gazpacho’s food stand for some advice on fixing the situation at hand. Gazpacho ends up giving Chowder some Fizzy river juice fruit which he advises not to shake the can. This is another instance of Dramatic Irony seeing as how Chowder is a young child he can forget thing easily or misinterpret things which in this case he does. Chowder drops the can down a flight of stairs and thinks about what Gazpacho just told him earlier. He ends up thinking that Gazpacho told him to shake the can a lot. We also see Dramatic Irony when the can is shaking before

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