Chowder

[Mr. Big]

So, let's talk about Chowder.

I consider season 1 of "Chowder" to be among the best to come out of Cartoon Network. Nice cartoon antics, good characters, and the art direction's nice, too.

In retrospect, it went downhill in seasons 2 and 3. There were a few I liked ("The Hot Date", "Big Food", and "The Blast Raz" were on-par with season 1 in my opinion), but there were also tons of annoying ones, too.

[Avaitor]

When season 1 premiered, I considered Chowder to be on the level of the Cartoon Cartoons and a step in the right direction for CN. I loved all the characters, watched new episodes on a consistent basis, and kept an eye out for repeats. I even got a keychain of Chowder from Hot Topic, and only retired it when it started getting rusty.

Even the first few episodes of season 2 weren't too bad. I loved the premiere, "Panini for President" (I'd even consider it my personal favorite episode), and there was still good stuff after that. But before long, the character deterioration really started to sink in, and the jokes became consistently dumber.

Even rewatching the older episodes make me care for it a little less. I find Chowder and Panini a little more annoying than I used to. When it was good, it was good, but I don't care for it like I did when it started out.

[Spark Of Spirit]

IMO, the definition of wasted potential.

What went from a charming and imaginative show eventually became little more than a sub-Fairly Oddparent scream fest of character beatdowns. I thought the show was pretty good at one point (It was even on the very first incarnation of our list, IIRC, which should tell you how long this has been in the works, but went down the drain fast when it ditched the charm and fun to be loud and obnoxious.

[chdr]

In retrospect, it's really quite depressing watching how abruptly everything went to shit 

I really hate to say it, but this show turned me off of C.H. Greenblatt completely, if just for the way he handled the show's mercy kill like a total baby.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I remember hearing it had been canceled before we saw little, if not anything, of season 2 and everyone was outraged at the time. Then as season 2 went on... almost everyone seemed to agree that the cancellation was a mercy killing.

[Daxdiv]

I pretty much remember it like that as well. I would have cared for Chowder's cancellation if the show didn't suck. That and I didn't care for how butthurt Greeblat got over CN Real taking over Chowder. I would rather watch CN Real over Chowder season 2 and beyond. HATE COMMENTS COMMENCE, MOFO.

[Kiddington]

Chowder sucks.

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I would rather watch CN Real over Chowder season 2 and beyond. HATE COMMENTS COMMENCE, MOFO.

Well, since we're being brutally honest here... 

No, I wouldn't go that far... although, I can't say it'd really be that much of a drop in quality, to be honest. Chowder really fell apart FAST. Those last two seasons were easily one of the worst thing's that CN's ever done. Heck, I'd even go as far as saying that Season 2 Chowder was worse than Lazlo. Season 3 slightly redeemed itself with a couple of sub-par efforts (as opposed to pure, ungodly shit efforts), but on an overall scale, it was still downright awful.

You know, now that I think about, I really cannot I even sat through that show as long as I did. Ugh, what a waste.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Did we ever find out what happened to this show to make it take such a nosedive in quality?

[Daikun]

Chowder is back in Lil Nas X's latest music video.