who's got the chalk if you said rudy you'd be wrong you see i have the chalk and today
i'm making us a portal into our lookout one of my favorite nickelodeon shows
a show in which i still quote to this day chalk zone so for today i really wanted to
just have a nice little sit down with you discuss my personal enjoyment of the show
what happened to it and why chalk zone deserved better so join me for a talk
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thankful chuck zone was an american animated tv series that aired officially on nickelodeon
from march 22 2002 to august 23rd 2008 for a total of four seasons the show followed around 10 year
old 5th grader rudy tabooti and his friends after rudy accidentally stumbles across a piece of white
lightning chalk while in detention rudy quickly discovers that this not so ordinary piece of chalk
allows him to enter an alternate dimension called the chalk zone where everything ever drawn on a
chalkboard becomes a real thing after it's erased and that's all that i needed to know to get hooked
magic chalk that makes your erased creations come to life in their own world basically loki stole
that concept just with reality instead of chalk weird references aside it gave the kid version
of me hope that my artistic masterpieces were somewhere out there on greener fields running
free once the teacher would erase them off the board jesus does someone have the heart to tell
them that seems like a lot of work right now i got things to do when rudy first enters the chalk zone
he quickly meets snap a blue humanoid drawing made by rudy when he was eight as shown in a flashback
snap would go on to be rudy's adventurous funny best friend and guide to the chalk
zone throughout their many adventures together chalk zone will be right back here on nickelodeon
now back to more chokzo right here on nickelodeon rudy and snap are often joined in these adventures
by penny sanchez the only other person rudy has told about chalk's own penny is smart and kind
and rudy's secret crush throughout the series and it's also heavily implied that she likes him back
so it's mutual the rest of the cast of chalk zone is a combination of people who interact with rudy
and penny in the real world including reggie bullnerd the school bully who picks on rudy
for his passion and drawing he's all like hey rudy i want the chalk and then there is horus t
wilter rudy's cartoon hating school teacher who is annoyed by rudy's love of art and he's all like mr
tabootie i said no cartoons but by and large the cast is made by the assorted and strange creatures
and people of the chalk zone some of these creatures have been drawn by rudy over the years
but many more of them just being the creations of people from long before rudy ever got his magic
chalk if you had magic chalk what would you draw first i can't say my answer here on youtube but it
involves two macbook sour patch kids and a skippet now these creatures can range from anything like a
cyclops who is later renamed by klopse after rudy draws him a second eye it's also a celt wearing
guardian of the magic chalk mines rudy's chalk is originally from 2 queen raphsheba a chalk's
own musical artist's snap has a crush on to blocky a light green block friend of snap who is rudy's
first ever drawing adorable while characters like school bullies and art-hating teachers exist only
in the real world the chalk zone has its own set of villains and antagonists lurking in the fringes
of chok's own society is skrull a villain drawn by rudy who blames him as his creator for being ugly
think frankenstein's monster and thus seeks to destroy him while taking over chalk's own taboo or
should i say to booty oh okay all right all right calm down it was just a stinking joke he serves as
the series main antagonist often forcing the trio into potentially dangerous situations through his
evil schemes littered throughout the series is also lesser known villains who will pop up for
an episode or two cause some trouble just make their presence overall known one example being
the craniacs no that's the jainiacs the craniacs are a series of robot drawings obsessed with
collecting futuristic devices who later turn on rudy after he shut down prototype 3 angering the
current version of the prototype 4. and you don't want to see prototype 5. a version of chalk's own
originally aired as part of fred seibert's oh yeah cartoons an animation showcase that ran as
a part of nicktoons lineup from 1998 to 2002. the showcase allowed filmmakers the chance to create
7-minute cartoons for the network that the network in turn could try out as potential new shows
without committing to making a full pilot oh yeah cartoons ended up with 96 of these seven minute
cartoon episodes by its rap in 2002 with several of those cartoons being picked up and developed
into full-length series including the fairly odd parents my life as a teenage robot and of course
chalk zone while a version of chokzone didn't air to the public until its debuted on oh yeah
cartoons in 1998 and the full length series didn't come out until 2002 the initial concept for the
show was actually formed even years earlier than that the concept came about when fred
seibert mtv co-founder and at the time president of hanna-barbera productions assigned bill burnett
and larry huber to develop a cartoon for what a cartoon what is what a cartoon well what a cartoon
was much like its spiritual successor oh yeah cartoons an animation showcase of seven minute
cartoon episodes that aired on cartoon network from 1995 to 1997. what a cartoon is notable as
the origin of several animated shorts that spawn treasured classic shows like dexter's laboratory
johnny bravo the powerpuff girls encourage the cowardly dog without what a cartoon would we
even really have had a childhood think about that tonight unfortunately for the first 1995 iteration
of chalk zone development fell through when warner brothers animation acquired hanna-barbera cartoons
it wasn't until cyborg created frederator studios and pitched the concept to nick as a
short for oh yeah cartoons three years later the development on the series began again
eight episodes of chokzone were created for oh yeah cartoons before the series was greenlit in
1999 to be created into a full-length show due to executive reasons it would then be
three years not until 2002 when the first episode of chalk zone's new series finally aired chalk
zone's creators bill and larry had an odd and multi-varied combination of credits between the
two of them by the time cybert assigned them to develop chalk zone bill for example has worked as
not just a writer but also as a producer composer actor and singer songwriter for cybert both in
the entertainment industry and also at cybert's advertising agency marketing think tank years
prior to cyber moving to hollywood stay right there more chalk zone is coming up on nick on cbs
we now return to talk zone on nick on cbs bill has written theme songs and music for many cartoons
including the cave kids theme song the flintstones pebbles and bam bam spin-off series and several of
the one-minute songs rudy and his friends sing at the end of each chokzone episode which don't worry
i'll get to that shortly larry's career has been more let's say exclusively cartoon focused more
so than burnett's with him having worked as a producer writer and animator at hanna-barbera
productions ruby spears productions and at nickelodeon over his career he's also been
involved with many iconic shows in his life from working as a young assistant on the perils of
penelope pitstop to helping fred on his various animation think tanks like what a cartoon and oh
yeah cartoons to helping spawn and consult on shows like adventure time and bravest warriors
when chalk zone was re-debuted in 2002 as a full series nickelodeon decided to create a new pilot
for it nickelodeon actually took the first of the eight seven minute chalk zone shorts that aired as
a part of oh yeah cartoons an episode just called choczone and edited into the new pilot rudy's
first adventure as a flashback the flashback nature of this clip is used as an explanation for
the change in animation style between the original short series and the full length production which
is not only smart but cost efficient and this original first episode eight-year-old rudy draws
snap in class before the bully reggie bullner mocks rudy for his love of art when rudy gets in
trouble by drawing an offensive drawing of reggie on the chalkboard as a bull calling the character
bully nerd their teacher mr wilter forces rudy to stay after school and write cartoons are not funny
over and over and over again on the chalkboard much like bart in the simpsons it is after
rudy's chalk breaks during this punishment that he finds the white lightning chalk and accidentally
discovers the chalk zone so really anyone could have just stumbled upon this chalk whenever this
piece of chalk was out there he meets snap and together they explore the chalk zone
intermittently fighting the bully nerd drawing rudy made earlier and interacting with rudy's
old drawings eventually rudy returns to the real world with his new chalk where he draws an anvil
and then erases it sending it to the chalk zone for snap to use against bully nerd that's not the
only episode from chalk zone's oh yeah cartoons days that got used in an official run of the
series season 1 episode 2 of the main show rudy's date first aired as the third chokzone short back
in 1999. in this episode the audience is first introduced to penny sanchez penny is shown at
the start of the episode working on a scientific formula on the chalkboard she explains that it's a
formula for perpetual motion that scientists have been working on for generations before she gets a
chance to write it down and test it regi erases it to play a game of hangman moved by how heartbroken
penny is over her hard work being gone rudy takes penny into the chalk zone to retrieve the formula
there penny and snap meet and are initially culled to each other due to their different approaches to
life the trio begins looking for the formula finding pieces of it all over the chalk zone
eventually they find the last piece stuck to the leather jacket of biker butch rudy draws a
hammock to trap the biker and penny completes her formula the impending cancellation of the
series was announced in june of 2005. despite the announcement five of the 11 episodes made for the
fourth season aired throughout the rest of that year the remaining six episodes though didn't air
for another three years through june and august of 2008. the reason this show was canceled has
never been formally stated whether the network was not satisfied with the show's ratings or
simply wanted to focus on other projects we may never know but what we do know is that it
lasted longer than most of the pump and dump cartoons nick would be known for throughout
the 2000s so far maybe they should get into crypto since they're really good at that nick
loved this show like we went over the journey that this show took from conception to finally
becoming a full-fledged show was nothing short of inspirational but at some point nick just
snapped see what i did there no other show in its era had its unique chalk-like art style it stood
out and made its mark as something different than the rest at the time on tv the first episode was
the highest rated premiere in nickelodeon history at the time until the jimmy neutron tv series came
around a few months later and took that crown for his big head throughout its time on tv
nick would not only switch time slots of when the show would be on making it harder for audiences to
focus their attention on and in some cases be too late in the night premiering right before
the network would switch to nick at night and we all get to see george lopez staring at us as he
jumps through the air thanks for the nightmares but for season 4 which would be announced as its
final season making a clear difference in the look and more importantly the quality
of what would make this show partially special in the first place oh and to make things worse
the network decided six am would be a great time for your choc's own adventure needs this was the
move that made la fringe cry i said earlier only five of the eleven episodes made it to air then a
three year hiatus would happen where then finally the final six episodes would see the light of day
and then be left to reruns on nicktoons for a while to bring back some positivity though
the music ah the music one of my favorite things about this show in general at the end of episodes
we would be treated to a music video by our main cast of characters with different genres always
being represented in music the best term i can use for this is fun just simply plain old fun
it evokes such joy for me and it brings me back to moments in my childhood watching this on tv
the animation is another thing i love so much as well as i've talked about the design of the humans
clashing against the rough chalk edges of well everything in chalk zone having this very coloring
book feel to the way colors are incorporated into the scenes and it just reminds me of doodling on
and in my notebooks for class from my try hard work to my cry hard work my schoolwork in general
was always littered in doodles and i just love that cozy feeling i get from watching this show
perfectly reflecting the full creativity and expressiveness a kid may have only now amplified
because of this show and that's beautiful to see also becoming its own metaphorical take on dealing
with your own troubles as an average kid that no one understands well no not that kid this kid but
really any kid heck even now as an adult me can relate to being able to create your own world
problem solve situations with how you would deal with things or just as an escape from
being in the moment the chalk on the chalkboard may sometimes be deeper than surface level
now we're back to chalk zone on nickelodeon if the show had continued on the show's creators were
interested in tying things up in a way that pulls everything together and leaves you with a powerful
and meaningful ending of rudy growing up in snap realizing this as well as that sooner or later one
of these visits to chalkzone for rudy would be his very last rudy and penny would be in their college
years and start dating but alas we will never see that we won't get to experience that finale which
is a shame as there is so much to unpack from what that could have been nick at least to me
truly dropped the ball on this one this show was so good the characters were likable the adventures
felt like a playground of imagination and of course the theme song sitting strong in my top
five favorite of all time chokzone deserved better especially by the network that diligently spent
time making this show a reality in the first place i'm glad i can look back today though
on the show and still feel that giddiness i had when i originally watched it nearly
20 years ago it genuinely is treasured and i would love to know how you feel about the show
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