ChalkZone


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ChalkZone

ChalkZone logo
Format Animated series
Created by Bill Burnett
Larry Huber
Starring Elizabeth 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
 Canada
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 40 (2 unaired) (List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s) Frederator Studios
Nickelodeon Productions
Running time 30 minutes (including music videos)
Distributor Nelvana Limited (internationally)
Broadcast
Original channel Flag of the United States Nickelodeon
Flag of Canada YTV
Original run March 22, 2002 – August 23, 2008

ChalkZone is an American animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon. It was created by Bill Burnett and Larry Huber, and produced by Frederator Studios for the Nickelodeon TV channel (executive producers: Bill Burnett, Larry Huber, Fred Seibert). It is distributed outside the United States by a Canadian animation company, Nelvana Limited. The series ended on August 23, 2008.

Contents

Premise

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

History/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. Nicktoons production on Season 1 ChalkZone was accidentally copyright 2000. time.[1] A soundtrack album, titled In The Zone (not to be confused with Britney Spears's 2003 album), has also been released. A second soundtrack album, titled ChalkZone DoubleDozen has never been released. This album can be found on Bill Burnett's website. The show aired on Nick on CBS on February 1, 2003 and ended on September 9, 2004. The show went on hiatus from June 22, 2005 to June 4, 2008. During that time, it was unknown if the unaired episodes would ever air in the US. The unaired episodes aired on Nick between June 4, 2008 to August 23, 2008. On June 28, 2008, an unaired episode did not contain a Music Video. It was one of the first ChalkZone episodes to not have a Music Video at the end.

Awards

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

Characters

Main article: List of characters from ChalkZone
See also: List of chalk characters from ChalkZone

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

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 on Sunday and Monday and Saturdays at 6:30 AM EST. The series' last episode aired on Saturday, August 23, 2008. 2 unaired episodes are remaining as of September 2008.

Episodes

Main article: List of ChalkZone episodes

References

  1. ^ "http://web.archive.org/web/20020817185332/www.viacom.com/press.tin?ixPressRelease=80003771"

External links

Sister project Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: ChalkZone


Preceded by
Invader Zim		 Nicktoons
March 22, 2002		 Succeeded by
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius






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