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American blithe television series

ChalkZone
ChalkZone Title.png
Genre
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
  • Activity-adventure
Created by
  • Bill Burnett
  • Larry Huber
Voices of
  • Due east. G. Daily
  • Candi Milo
  • Hynden Walch
  • Robert Cait
  • Jess Harnell
  • Miriam Flynn
  • Nika Futterman
  • Grey DeLisle
  • Rodger Bumpass
  • Jim Cummings
  • Rosslynn Taylor
  • Rob Paulsen
  • Jeff Bennett
Theme music composer Bill Burnett
Opening theme "Rudy's Got the Chalk"
Catastrophe theme "Rudy's Got the Chalk"
Composers
  • Guy Moon (seasons 1-3)
  • Thomas Chase (flavour 1)
  • Steve Rucker (season 1)
  • Geoff Levin (seasons iii-4)
Country of origin United States
Original language English
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 40 (list of episodes)
Product
Executive producers
  • Bill Burnett
  • Larry Huber
  • Fred Seibert
Producer Larry Leichliter (supervising)
Running time 22 minutes
Product companies
  • Nickelodeon Animation Studio
  • Frederator Studios
Distributor MTV Networks
Nelvana International (Canada)
Release
Original network Nickelodeon
Original release March 22, 2002 (2002-03-22) –
Baronial 23, 2008 (2008-08-23)
Chronology
Preceded past Oh Yeah! Cartoons

ChalkZone is an American animated television series created by Neb Burnett and Larry Huber for Nickelodeon.[1] The series follows Rudy Tabootie, an elementary school student who discovers a box of magic chalk that allows him to draw portals into the ChalkZone, an alternating dimension where everything ever drawn on a blackboard and erased turns to life.[2] Rudy is joined in his adventures past Snap, a wisecracking superhero Rudy in one case drew with chalk, and Penny Sanchez, Rudy'south academically intellectual classmate and personal friend.

ChalkZone originally premiered as a airplane pilot short on Fred Seibert'south Oh Yep! Cartoons animated shorts showcase in 1998. The serial ran on Nickelodeon from March 22, 2002, to August 23, 2008, with 40 episodes in total. It was produced by Frederator Studios and Nickelodeon Animation Studio.

Premise [edit]

Rudy Tabootie (voiced by E. K. Daily) is a 10-year-old, fifth-grade male child who loves to draw. Reggie Bullnerd (Candi Milo), the school not bad, constantly teases him or gets him into trouble with Mr. Wilter (Robert Cait), Rudy's grumpy school teacher who strongly dislikes cartoons, especially Rudy'due south passion for art. One mean solar day while in detention, Rudy discovers a piece of "White Lightnin'" chalk, which allows access to the ChalkZone, a identify where everything and anybody that has ever been drawn and erased by chalk takes grade equally living or is tangible. He soon makes friends with Snap (Candi Milo), a short, blue, humanoid drawing made by Rudy when he was only 8. Snap wears a superhero outfit and is very adventurous and funny. Rudy only lets i other person know near ChalkZone, his best friend Penny Sanchez (speaking vocalization, Hynden Walch; singing voice, Robbyn Kirmssè), who acts as the genius of the grouping.

While in ChalkZone, the three are introduced to Cyclops (Rodger Bumpass), the kilt-wearing guardian of the magic chalk mines where Rudy obtains his magic chalk (Rudy later draws a second eye for him and renames him "Biclops"); Queen Rapsheeba (Rosslynn Taylor), ChalkZone's musical artist whom Snap has a crush on; and Blocky (Candi Milo; Robert Cait), a lite green block friend of Snap's and Rudy's first-always drawing. They also face villains such equally Skrawl (Jim Cummings), a drawing who blames Rudy for beingness ugly and wants to destroy him, and the Craniacs (Rob Paulsen), a serial of robot drawings obsessed with collecting futuristic devices.

Episodes [edit]

Characters [edit]

Chief [edit]

  • Rudolph Bartholomew "Rudy" Tabootie (voiced by East.Thou. Daily): Rudy is the chief protagonist. He is in 5th grade. He travels to ChalkZone with his all-time friends Penny and Snap. He has magic chalk that he tin use to draw portals into ChalkZone and describe things out of thin air. He is x (viii in Oh Aye! Cartoons) years old.
  • Snap (voiced by Candi Milo): is a short blueish, humanoid drawing made by Rudy, and his all-time friend. Created by Rudy when he was 8 years old, Snap speaks with a New Jersey emphasis, and is adventurous and funny. Snap wears a superhero costume.
  • Penelope Victoria "Penny" Sanchez (voiced past Hynden Walch): Penny is Rudy's Latina best friend and vanquish, a genius who helps him, and is the only other human as well Rudy who knows well-nigh ChalkZone. She is also in fifth grade just like Rudy. Information technology has been revealed that she has a vanquish on Rudy. She is the same age as Rudy.

Supporting [edit]

  • Reginald "Reggie" Bullnerd (voiced by Candi Milo): Reggie is the school dandy. Gets stuck in a agglomeration of things and his full name, Reginald Brunicky Tracey Aloysius Socrates Yauney Sunshine Bullnerd, was revealed by Rudy in the episode "Teachers' Lounge". He gets into trouble all the time and even has a schoolhouse record with its ain file drawer.
  • Joseph Walter "Joe" Tabootie (voiced by Jess Harnell): Joe is Rudy's father, who runs a meat shop. His vox resembles that of Ned Flanders from The Simpsons, but in a loftier-distorted pitch.
  • Mildred Trish "Millie" Tabootie (voiced by Miriam Flynn): Millie is Rudy's mother, who calls Rudy downward in an opera singing-esque phonation.
  • Horace T. Wilter (voiced by Robert Cait): Horace is Rudy'southward cartoon-antisocial school teacher, despite that he once enjoyed cartoons when he was younger. Wilter is also bellyaching by Rudy's dearest of art, telling him that information technology will get him nowhere in life, despite Rudy proving him wrong. He comes shut to learning nearly ChalkZone in the episode "Secret Passages."
  • Veronica Sanchez (voiced by Nika Futterman): Veronica is Penny's mother, who is a doctor and scientist.
  • Tilly McNally (voiced by Grey DeLisle): Tilly is Rudy's aunt and Millie's sister.
  • Sophie McNally (voiced by Grey DeLisle): Sophie is Rudy's two-year old cousin, Joe and Millie'south niece and Tilly's only girl.
  • Biclops (voiced by Rodger Bumpass): Rodger is the guardian of the Magic Chalk Mines. He was originally named "Cyclops" until Rudy gave him a second eye. He wears a Scottish attire, including a kilt around his legs. His two eyes are fatigued on top of each other. He speaks in a slight Scottish accent.
  • Queen Rapsheeba (voiced past Rosslynn Taylor): Rapsheeba is ChalkZone'due south musical artist. Snap has had a beat on her forever and Rapsheeba is very addicted of him equally well.
  • Blocky (voiced by Robert Cait and Candi Milo in his before appearances): Blocky is ane of Snap's closest friends. He is a calorie-free light-green block and is claimed to be Rudy's kickoff-e'er drawing.
  • Skrawl (voiced past Jim Cummings): Skrawl was a drawing that was messed upwardly by a bunch of kids at a birthday party Rudy had gone to. Skrawl blames Rudy for beingness ugly and wants to destroy him. As well Reggie, Skrawl is one of the villains in the show. His near recent appearances are in "The Skrawl" and "Double Problem."
  • Granny in the Bathtub (voiced by Miriam Flynn): A drawing that Rudy made, intended for humor.
  • Chalk Dad (voiced by Jess Harnell): A cartoon Rudy made, who resembles and sounds like to Rudy's father and his voice as well resembles that of Ned Flanders from The Simpsons, but in a loftier-distorted pitch.
  • The Craniacs (voiced by Rob Paulsen): The Craniacs are a series of robot drawings obsessed with collecting futuristic devices. The electric current version is Craniac 4, drawn by Rudy to go rid of Craniac three. The Craniacs are based on Brainiac from the Superman comics.[ citation needed ]
  • Bruno Bullnerd (voiced past Jeff Bennett) Bruno is Reggie'southward father who works equally a sanitation engineer.
  • Vinnie Raton (voiced by Rob Paulsen) Vinnie is a Greaser who offset appears in "Hole In the Wall" where he destroys Joe and Millie's onetime schoolhouse they attended when they were Rudy and Penny's age. He afterwards finds out nigh the truth of ChalkZone
  • Terry Bouffant (voiced past Greyness DeLisle) Terry is the news reporter for Plansville. In the episode "Indecent Exposure" she finally discovers the truth most ChalkZone

Production [edit]

ChalkZone was the cosmos of Bill Burnett and Larry Huber, with Huber'southward idea of a boy with magic chalk and Burnett's thought of a world behind the chalkboard. The concept'southward origin dated dorsum during the production of Hanna Barbera's What a Cartoon! where Seibert originally wanted Huber to develop a cartoon for the showcase and assigned him with Burnett, who was writing for Cow and Chicken at the time, to develop a pilot for a potential series.[3] Development savage through at the terminal minute from the effect of Warner Bros. Animation acquiring Hanna Barbera Cartoons. The concept came back when Seibert developed Frederator Studios and was pitched as a brusque on Nickelodeon's Oh Yep! Cartoons earlier getting the greenlight in 1998.[4] In 1999, ChalkZone became the first spin-off of Oh Yeah! Cartoons to enter product and exist greenlit.[5] Despite this, ChalkZone did not make it to the air until 2002, as the initial thirteen green-light episodes were shortened to 6 due to executive reasons, all which were completed by 2000.[6] The show's air-date was up for debate until the lack of new programming and America'due south critical situation at the fourth dimension led the conclusion to air the series in 2002. Frederator Studios announced in 2005 that the series had been cancelled at 40 episodes.

The show is remembered for featuring i-infinitesimal music videos sung by Rudy and his friends at the terminate of each episode. Several songs Bill Burnett composed before ChalkZone's production, i.e. Insect Aside and Dream Alotta Dreams, were implanted into the series. A well-liked rumor near the prove is that it was based on Simon in the Country of Chalk Drawings. Bill Burnett denied this in a 2013 interview, claiming that he wasn't fifty-fifty aware of the series' beingness until after ChalkZone entered production, although Burnett did mention that Harold and the Purple Crayon was an influence on Larry's thought for the "boy with magic chalk" concept.[7] A one-hr special, "The Big Blow Up", premiered on Baronial 6, 2004. The final season featured new character designs with a slimmer line quality and a zooming chalk transition equally new artists and overseas studios were used for the remainder of the series.

The show had four dissimilar variations of the theme song released to the public, one from the 2001 Nickelodeon album, "The Newest Nicktoons", which used a synthesizer instead of a guitar and had an before version of Penny'southward voice which was a demo Bill Burnett created in order for the vocal to get the light-green-light, an earlier version of the concluding version from the album "ChalkZone: In The Zone", where the guitar was used and Penny's earlier vocalization was however used, and the final version which was shown on regular episodes. Another variation was shown in the 1999 pilot, which not only featured a slightly different opening sequence and logo from the terminal serial but also features a preparatory track mix of the terminal version and the second demo admitting with some modified vocals, also with Penny's final voice used.[8] Bill Burnett'due south original idea for the concepts' score was something in akin to simplistic children's toy instrument melodies to fit the prove's children's "chalk-cartoon" theme, but the Nickelodeon crew suggested a more techno stone-based score to requite the bear witness a huge dissimilarity from the premise. Steve Rucker was brought into the music composition squad and some of his compositions were later re-written upon asking by Burnett and Moon to fit the series better, much to his discourage.[3]

Broadcast [edit]

The airplane pilot for the series first aired on December 31, 1999, as function of Nickelodeon's annual New year's Eve cake,[9] simply due to being delayed by Nickelodeon for executive reasons, the series made its official premiere on March 22, 2002, equally the highest-rated premiere in Nickelodeon's history upwards to that bespeak.[10] [11]

The show aired in reruns on "Nick on CBS" for more than than a year from Feb 1, 2003, to September 11, 2004. In June 2005, following the proclamation that the series had been cancelled, the fourth season of the series premiered. Of the season's eleven episodes, only v would be aired that year before Nickelodeon abruptly halted the circulate of new episodes. The remaining half dozen episodes would not air until three years later in June and August 2008. The final episode aired on August 23, 2008.

Since the series' cancellation, reruns aired on Nicktoons until Oct 28, 2013. ChalkZone reruns aired on NickSplat (and so known equally "The Splat") for ii nights only on Nov 12 and xiii, 2016, every bit role of a block that ran every weekend from Baronial until December commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Nicktoons franchise. NickSplat –including ChalkZone– was a subscription channel based on VRV from 2018 to 2020.

The show is now streaming on Paramount+.

Home media [edit]

During the bear witness'southward original run, there were no DVD releases specifically for ChalkZone. The episode "Future Zone" was released on the Nickstravaganza! VHS. Iii episodes ("Gift Adrift", "French Fry Falls", and "Eschucha Mi Corazon") were released for the Nickstravaganza! 2 DVD (merely "French Fry Falls" was included on the VHS). The Christmas episode, "When Santas Collide", was featured on the 2006 DVD Nick Picks Holiday. A Complete Serial DVD set up was released through Amazon.com's CreateSpace manufacture-on-demand program on October 13, 2014; the release is missing the episode "The Smooch" due to music licensing problems. A soundtrack album In the Zone has also been released.[12] The unabridged series is available on Amazon Video and the PlayStation Shop.

Region i
Title Format Flavor(s) Episode count Release appointment Episodes
Nickstravaganza! VHS one one March 4, 2003 "Future Zone"
Nickstravaganza! 2 Both DVD and VHS one (VHS)
3 (DVD) 		September 2, 2003 "French Fry Falls" (VHS)
"French Fry Falls" / "Souvenir Adrift" / "Escucha Mi Corazon" (DVD)
Nick Picks Vacation DVD 3 1 September 26, 2006 "When Santas Collide"
The Complete Series DVD (CreateSpace release) 1–4 40 October xiii, 2014 (Amazon sectional) All episodes

Excluded: "The Smooch" (due to music licensing issues.)

Reception [edit]

Disquisitional [edit]

Joly Herman of Common Sense Media rated the series 3 out of five stars, proverb, "What makes this show interesting is that it acknowledges that worlds of imagination are available to all of u.s.. But while it'due south true that we love to get lost in a story, for a young child, getting as lost in a earth as Rudy does can be scary."[13] Lana Berkowitz from The Houston Chronicle wrote, "At that place are flashes of fun in [ChalkZone], the activity moves along, and in that location's no violence. But cartoon connoisseurs, especially those who stay tuned later on loony SpongeBob SquarePants at 7 p.m., probably will need something more than intriguing to continue their attention." Berkowitz further added, "After a clever setup, Chalkzone settles into a predictable zone with stories that could easily be erased from memory."[xiv] Allison Fass of The New York Times praised the imagination and creativity in the series, but she opined that series creator Beak Burnett's bulletin, "We have to take responsibleness for what we create", may be "a fiddling mature" for children.[15]

Awards and nominations [edit]

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2002 BMI Film & Television Awards BMI Cable Accolade[xvi] Guy Moon Won
2004 31st Annie Awards Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Production Produced for Children[17] ChalkZone Nominated
Outstanding Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production[17] "Pumpkin Dearest" Nominated

References [edit]

  1. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Blithe Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 120–121. ISBN978-1538103739.
  2. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 196–198. ISBN978-1476665993.
  3. ^ a b Cartoons VS Cancer - Ep. 17 (The One with Nib Burnett!)
  4. ^ Ellin, Harlene (July 18, 1998). "New Cartoon Show Volition Honor Blasphemy". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Company. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved 2012-12-12 .
  5. ^ Seibert, Fred. "ChalkZone. Postcards, Series 5". The Frederator Studios Web log. Archived from the original on v Oct 2016. Retrieved nineteen Baronial 2016.
  6. ^ "The Skrawl/Pie Day/Clandestine Passages/In the Zone". ChalkZone. Flavour one. Episode half dozen. Apr 5, 2002. 23:18 minutes in. Nickelodeon. ChalkZone and all related logos, titles and characters are trademarks of Viacom International, Inc. © 2000 Viacom International, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  7. ^ "Erstwhile School Lane's Nickelodeon Tribute: Interview with Neb Burnett". Sometime School Lane. 2013-01-28. Archived from the original on 5 Oct 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  8. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "ChalkZone | Pre-Series Theme Song". YouTube.
  9. ^ "The Rugrats Timeline". Rugratonline.com. Archived from the original on February ii, 2001. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  10. ^ Brawl, Ryan (May 8, 2003). "Nickelodeon Chalks Up More ChalkZone". Blitheness Magazine. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved 2012-12-12 .
  11. ^ "Nickelodeon Draws Best Kid Ratings in Iv Years, Ranks every bit Number-One Cyberspace for Showtime Quarter '02, SpongeBob SquarePants and ChalkZone Etch Out Summit-Rated Territory, Kids Notice The Adequately OddParents Fairly Fascinating". Viacom. April 2, 2002. Archived from the original on August 17, 2002. Retrieved 2012-12-12 .
  12. ^ "Rudy & ChalkZone Gang: In the Zone [EP, Soundtrack]", Amazon.com, ASIN B000084U51
  13. ^ Herman, Joly (22 March 2002). "Chalkzone Review". Common Sense Media. Archived from the original on 2019-01-30. Retrieved 2019-01-30 .
  14. ^ Berkowitz, Lana (March 22, 2002). "Review: Characters Explore a Drawing World in 'ChalkZone'". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2021-12-x. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  15. ^ Fass, Allison (April 7, 2002). "For Immature Viewers; Chalking It Up to Imagination". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-05-27. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
  16. ^ "2002 BMI Film/Goggle box Awards: Song Listing". BMI.com. Broadcast Music, Inc. May fourteen, 2002. Retrieved 2021-04-28 .
  17. ^ a b "31st Annie Awards". annieawards.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2019-05-01 .

External links [edit]

  • ChalkZone at Frederator Studios
  • ChalkZone at the Large Cartoon DataBase
  • ChalkZone at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChalkZone