ChalkZone

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ChalkZone

ChalkZone logo
Format Animated series
Created by Bill Burnett
Larry Huber
Starring E.G. Daily
Hynden Walch
Candi Milo
Miriam Flynn
Jess Harnell
Robert Cait
Rodger Bumpass
Buck Owens
Russi Taylor
Tress MacNeille
Jim Cummings
Rob Paulsen
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 37 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time 30 minutes (including music videos)
Broadcast
Original channel Nickelodeon
Original run March 22, 2002 – January 6, 2006

ChalkZone is an Emmy-nominated American animated television series that aired from March 22, 2002 until June 22, 2005 on Nickelodeon. It was created by Bill Burnett and Larry Huber, and produced by Frederator Studios for the Nickelodeon TV channel. It is distributed outside the United States by a Canadian animation company, Nelvana.

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[edit] Premise

The main character, an elementary school student named Rudy Tabootie (E.G. 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. The show concentrated on the adventures of Rudy, sidekick Snap (Candi Milo), and classmate Penny Sanchez (Hynden Walch) within the zone.

[edit] Production

ChalkZone was produced by Frederator Studios for the Nickelodeon cable channel. The series can be seen as homage to the 1974 cartoon Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings. But ChalkZone went much farther, positing a world where everything that had ever been drawn in chalk by anyone came to life in the alternative chalk universe, endowed with the soul and personality its creator had intended for it. Thus ChalkZone took such alternate universe stories as Through the Looking Glass and The Wizard of Oz one step further. Where Alice and Dorothy were merely confronted by creatures and situations they had no control over, ChalkZone's hero Rudy Tabootie had to confront the fact that there were consequences for what he brought into the world and how they interacted with the creations of others. The show was originally featured on Oh Yeah! Cartoons, just like The Fairly OddParents and My Life as a Teenage Robot. It premiered on March 22nd, 2002, as the highest rated new show premiere in Nickelodeon's history up to that time.[citation needed] A soundtrack album, titled In The Zone (not to be confused with Britney Spears's 2003 album), has also been released. The show aired on Nick on CBS on February 1, 2003 and ended on September 9, 2004. One previously unaired episode aired on Nick in December 2007 and two more are scheduled for June 4 and June 6, 2008, according to their online schedule.

[edit] Awards

ChalkZone has been nominated for numerous Awards including two Annie Awards a Humantas, and the Imagen award.

[edit] Characters

See also: List of chalk characters from ChalkZone

Voiced by E.G. Daily, the shy artist whom the show stars. Rudy is the main character.

Voiced by Candi Milo, Rudy's ChalkZone pal, based on a comic strip character he's created. Snap is Rudy's favorite chalk creation. He hates it when he is called a comical sidekick.

  • Angel

Voiced by Hayley Collyer. She is a real-life talking dog who was going to be introduced in season 5. She is Snap's former girlfriend and has a bad attitude towards Queen Rapsheeba.

Voiced by Hynden Walch, Rudy's best friend, a genius who has an obvious crush on him. Penny is Rudy's best friend.

Voiced by Candi Milo, the school bully. Gets stuck in a lot of things.

Voiced by Jess Harnell, Rudy's father, who runs a meat shop.

Voiced by Miriam Flynn, Rudy's mother.

Voiced by Robert Cait, Rudy's cartoon-hating school teacher.

  • Biclops

Voiced by Rodger Bumpass, the guardian of the Magic Chalk Mines; has one eye on top of the other.

Voiced by Roslyn Taylor, ChalkZone's song artist. Her name is a pun on the rapper Queen Latifah and possibly the Queen of Sheba. She is not only a rapper but she is a good friend.

  • Spy Fly

Voiced by Tress MacNeille, a chalk-fly with a camera attached to her head, she has a Russian accent.

Voiced by Jim Cummings, a villainous (and strange-looking) chalk-being who is constantly out to "get" Rudy. He was mistakenly drawn character at a birthday party that Rudy went to.

  • The Beanie Boys

Skrawl's flying, singing henchmen.

Voiced by Rob Paulsen, 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 "obsolete", shut down, and put in storage. The Craniac currently functioning is Craniac #4 (it was originally #3, but Rudy drew a #4 to get rid of #3 and now #3 is shut down). They are primarily based on the numerous Brainiacs from Superman fame.

[edit] DVD Release

While there have not been any DVD releases specifically for Chalkzone, the Christmas episode was featured on the 2006 DVD Nick Picks Holiday. Three episodes(Gift Adrift, French French Fry Falls, and Eschucha Mi Carazon) were released for the Nickstravaganza! 2 DVD.

[edit] Current Status

On June 22, 2005, ChalkZone was taken off of Nickelodeon. It then aired on the Nicktoons Network. It is currently running on Nickelodeon on Wednesdays and Fridays at 6:00 AM EST/PST and Nicktoons Network at 4:00 AM EST/PST on weekdays.

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of ChalkZone episodes

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