ChalkZone
| ChalkZone | |
|---|---|
| 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 | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 32 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including music videos) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nickelodeon ABC 5 |
| Original run | March 22 2002 – December 9 2004 |
ChalkZone was an American animated television series that aired from March 22, 2002 until 2006 on Nickelodeon.
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 (compare Philip José Farmer's Riverworld). The show concentrated on the adventures of Rudy, sidekick Snap (Candi Milo), and classmate Penny Sanchez (Hynden Walch) within the zone.
Production
ChalkZone was produced by Frederator Studios for the Nickelodeon cable channel. The series can be seen as homage to the delightful 1974 cartoon Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings. But ChalkZone went deeper, 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. A soundtrack album, titled In The Zone (not to be confused with Britney Spears' 2003 album), has also been released. The show aired on Nick on CBS on February 1, 2003 and ended on September 9, 2004.
Characters
Voiced by E.G. Daily, the shy artist whom the show stars.
Voiced by Candi Milo, Rudy's ChalkZone pal, based on a comic strip character he's created.
Voiced by Hynden Walch, Rudy's best friend, a genius whom he also has an obvious crush on.
Voiced by Candi Milo, the school bully.
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.
Voiced by Rodger Bumpass, the guardian of the Magic Chalk Mines; has one eye on top of the other.
Voiced by Robert Cait, Rudy's first drawing.
Voiced by Russi Taylor, ChalkZone's hot rap artist whom Snap has a crush on. Her name is a pun on the rapper Queen Latifah and possibly the Queen of Sheba.
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.
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.
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
Current Status
In 2006, ChalkZone was taken off of Nickelodeon. It then aired on the Nicktoons Network. It is currently running on Nickoloden every so often in the early morning.
Episodes
External links
- ChalkZone area on nick.com (leads to TV Show list)
- ChalkZone at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- ChalkZone at the Internet Movie Database
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