Chowder

Chowder is an American animated television series created by C. H. Greenblatt for Cartoon Network. The series follows an aspiring young child named Chowder and his day-to-day adventures as an apprentice in Chef Mung Daal's catering company. Although he means well, Chowder often finds himself in predicaments due to his perpetual appetite and his nature as a scatterbrain. It is animated with both traditional animation as well as short stop motion and puppet sequences that are inter-cut into the episodes, and that run over the end credits. Stop motion sequences are produced by Screen Novelties.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Simple, yet charming animation.
 * 2) Amazing voice acting.
 * 3) Various clever and funny food names.
 * 4) Many likable characters like Chowder (most of the time), Mung and Shintzel.
 * 5) Catchy theme song.
 * 6) Very good and heartwarming finale episode.
 * 7) It is highly creative, as it uses several different styles of animation such as puppetry, stop motion, and traditional animation.
 * 8) It was one of Cartoon Network's best shows during the infamous CN Real era along with The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Total Drama.
 * 9) Decent plots, such as Chowder trying to help Gazpacho with his jokes.
 * 10) Great use of fourth wall break and idiom humor.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Chowder often caused trouble with his stupidity, which makes him sometimes unlikable.
 * 2) Some episodes get mean-spited to some characters (especially Schnitzel, who's frequently violated to this).
 * 3) Tons of gross-out graphics
 * 4) Some unlikeable characters.
 * 5) Some of the humour can feel forced.