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Chowder

"I GOT A NEED TO FEED! What's looking good today?"

Voiced by: Nicky Jones, C.H. Greenblatt (adult)

Chowder is an excitable, young cat...bear...rabbit...thingy and apprentice of legendary chef Mung Daal. Chowder loves food and dreams of becoming a great chef one day.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Panini calls him "Num-nums".
• The Apprentice: To Mung.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: If there's anything involving a tasty snack, he'll become distracted.
• Ax-Crazy: In the beginning of the episode "The Poltergeist".
• Berserk Button: Don't you dare suggest he has something going on with Panini.
• Big Eater: He is presumably the biggest eater ever conceived, due to his constant hunger & willingness to eat nearly anything. There was this episode where he ate during midnight & somehow got a werewolf-style curse. He then has to hide all the food in the catering facility from this alternate personality before sunrise. After sunrise, he eats the entire ball of the food that is about as big as the building in one gulp. As Mung puts it in "The Flibber Flabber Diet":
  Mung: This kid is a bottomless pit.
• Break the Cutie: Episodes such as "Sniffleball", "Creme Puff Hands", and "Brain Grub" will really make you feel sorry for the little guy.
• Brutal Honesty: Sometimes he will show absolutely no restraint in his opinion.
• Celibate Hero: Chowder is always insistent on rejecting Panini's love for him, and whenever he catches her flirting with him, he always stops what he's doing to yell four words.
  Chowder: I'M NOT YOUR BOYFRIEND!
• Character Aged with the Actor: According to Word of God, he aged with his voice actor, Nicky Jones.
• Chaste Hero: He shows little to no comprehension of Panini's advances. Averted in the finale, where he marries her.
• Cheerful Child: He's almost always happy and upbeat.
• Childhood Friend Romance: In the last episode, it's shown that he marries Panini when they grow up.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Later seasons will have this trope putting it a bit too mildly.
• Creator Cameo: Only in the series finale, where he is voiced by C. H. Greenblatt after adulthood.
• Cute Little Fang: Most of the time. He's sometimes shown with flat teeth when he's speaking.
• Determinator: He's a complete and utter screw-up, but what keeps him going is his desire to be as good a chef as Mung, and he rarely, if ever, quits what he's passionate over.
• Disguised in Drag: Invokes this trope in the episode "The Broken Part", where after being chased by a guy after stealing the last Feetza 5000 replacement set from him, finds a store called "Ladies B Us", and disguises himself as a women and points the guy chasing him away in a different direction.
• The Ditz: He's pretty dim; in one episode, he went up to use the bathroom, and forgot why he went up there in the first place. He only gets dumber from there.
• Does Not Like Spam: Of all the things he has eaten, the only dish Chowder has not been able to enjoy are Meviled Eggs.
• Everyone Has Standards: He won't eat food off the ground.
• Extreme Omnivore: Besides meviled eggs, bird vomit that is claimed to be bacon, and food from a toilet or off the ground, he'll eat anything.
• Fat Idiot: Especially in the later seasons.
• Fatal Flaw: Gluttony. Gluttony. GLUTTONY! When it comes to food Chowder wants it and he wants it right now. Warnings about dangerous foods that need special preparation to make safe will be ignored in favor of just shoving it in his mouth right then. He's so impatient that when told he can have something he desires if he's patient will lead to him angering others by constantly asking for it now. He'll destroy edible property. Try to eat customers' food and generally make everything harder because he never thinks before he puts anything he merely even thinks is food in his mouth without a second thought.
• Flanderization: Chowder was more simply naïve than a complete idiot when the show started out, but over time, he literally ventures into the Too Dumb to Live territory. "Brain Grub" emphasizes this a lot.
• Gasshole: He can be quite flatulent, though this is usually the result of certain foods that he consumes (such as Mayonnaise).
• Girls Have Cooties: He believes in this, until he found out Panini loved him.
• Goal in Life: To be a great chef.
• Happily Married: To Panini.
• Hates Being Touched: When it comes to Panini, that is.
  Panini: Oh, num-nums! Are you...(begins stroking Chowder's cheek affectionately) Ookaaay?"
  Chowder: Please don't touch me.
  • In "The Bruised Bluenana," Panini touched him caused Chowder to shriek like a little girl and swat at her with a bunch of purple, red and yellow grapes.
  • In "Banned from the Stand", Panini holding Chowder's hand burned him.
• I Got Bigger: He's taller than Shnitzel as an adult. Then again he is supposed to be part bear.
• The Illegible: He can read, but boy can he not write. And no, these aren't one-off gags:
  • When writing out Gazpacho's jokes in a book, half the writing wasn't even considered language, and the other half was strawberry jelly (because Chowder ran out of ink). Then when he decide it to re-write it all, he somehow made it worse than before and used grape jelly instead (because Chowder ran out of strawberry).
  • Other episodes, such as "Chowder Loses His Hat", has Chowder trying to prove ownership of his hat to Chestnut with his name written in mustard inside, but it is of course, illegible. Chowder even says that Mung calls his writing "tragic". And in the episode "The Fire Breather", when Chowder runs away due to the damage of his uncontrollable fire breathing, he leaves a note for Mung. Mung reads it with Chowder narrating it, looking increasingly concerned and saddened, before he states that this was terrible; because the handwriting was completely illiterate and nothing but scribbles, and Mung only got the message due to the voice-over.
• Innocently Insensitive: At times he can be insulting without meaning to be.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Gazpacho, Mung and Schnitzel.
• Keet: He has an enthusiastic approach to almost everything.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: He's far from the sharpest knife in the drawer, but is a very sweet kid most of the time.
• Lethal Chef: Downplayed. His cooking isn't very good most of the time, but it won't kill you. Played straight in "Burple Nurples", where Chowder unknowingly poisons a batch of the titular dish, and tries to sell them. Good thing he set the price so high that no one would buy them.
• Lethally Stupid: He's incredibly ditzy, with most of their problems happening because he constantly ignores Mung's warnings and teachings about the potentially dangerous foods they deal with. It's gotten to the point that Mung has started to blame himself for the trouble that Chowder causes because he should know better than to expect Chowder to listen.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: According to Word of God, Chowder is a cat-bear-rabbit thingie.
• Meaningful Name: His name is a kind of fish soup.
• Manchild: In the final episode he became one when he was older until he learned to take responsibility.
• The Millstone: Whenever he tries to help someone out, it's almost a guarantee that he'll either screw it up or do something stupid to make the current situation even worse.
• Nice Guy: He's a real sweetheart and cares about everyone around him, even if his attempts at helping often unintentionally makes things worse.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: In "Endive's Dirty Secret", Panini dresses up to look really pretty to manipulate him into giving her the photograph which Mung captured of Endive caught in the act of her secret. Chowder's response? He simply doesn't understand what she's trying to accomplish due to his stupidity.
  Panini: It's so hot today... you know what I'm saying?
  Chowder: What.
  • He later gives her the photograph for the opposite, that she's "making him lose his appetite".
• Oblivious to Love: In "Chowder Grows Up", he says he had no idea that Panini loved him. Despite her overt and unabashed crush on him.
• Obsessed with Food: It's amazing that he didn't become a giant from all the food that he eats.
• Only Friend: It's said that he's Gazpacho's only friend.
• Only One Who Likes Spam: Not surprisingly, he's the only one who can stomach Flibber-Flabber.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The blue boy to Panini's pink girl; he has bluish-purple fur while Panini has pink fur.
• Properly Paranoid: When faced with a choice of going down a river path leading to a happy sun and one going down a waterfall, he goes down the latter because he doesn't trust the look of the sun. He ends up being correct in his hunch, as the sun was prepared to hit him, Gorgonzola, and Panini with a club.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Uses them in "Burple Nurples" when trying to persuade Mung to let him cook something on his own, combined with "Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." It eventually works, especially when he brings up the fact that Endive let Panini cook on her own, but Chowder can't stop saying "...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..."
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: He has a very round, appealing design.
• Signature Headgear: The oddly-shaped purple hat he wears most of the time. He's so attached to it, an entire episode revolved around its loss and his frantic quest to get it back.
• Stomach of Holding: Not unlike Rico, he can hold various things in his stomach and disgorge them later.
  • To put that into perspective, he can store things such as an entire fair booth in that stomach.
• Supreme Chef: Overcomes his incompetence and succeeds in getting his own apprentice in the finale.
• Too Dumb to Live: Not only does he usually drive the plot along by either destroying something in stupidity or just by being incredibly stupid, but, well, apparently he's literally Too Dumb to Live without someone directing him. This is a guy who once thought the proper way to put away a spoon was to shove it in an electrical outlet after all (and judging from the marks it happened more than once).
• Took a Level in Dumbass: In the first season, he used to be a naïve little boy, but by the second season, he became much stupider, to the point of becoming completely Too Dumb to Live.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Chowder can, and will, eat almost anything, but the food he likes the most is Thrice Cream.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Panini before they get married. A lot of his interactions with Panini are rife with disgust, though this is because of her unwanted romantic advances toward him. This is true on Panini's end, too, as even with her crush on Chowder, it doesn't stop her from being demanding and volatile with him if she feels the need to. That said, Chowder has acknowledged her as his friend, he just doesn't like her advances toward him.
• Vocal Dissonance: In the finale, he still has his young voice as an adult. It eventually changes into his creator's voice by the end of the episode.
• Vocal Evolution: He sounds a bit older in later episodes, as his voice actor, Nicky Jones, hit puberty.
• Walking Disaster Area: Chowder just can't stay out of trouble. Whether by accident or simple cluelessness, Mung Daal's kitchen has been damaged and destroyed too many times to count. Most of the time, it's by something Chowder related.

Mung Daal

"You see, there is an ugly lady inside us all, and sometimes, that ugly lady makes us do things we're not proud of."

Voiced by: Dwight Schultz

He can be a bit scatterbrained, but when it comes to cooking, Mung Daal knows more than almost anyone. He pours his heart into every dish. Mung thinks he's a ladies man and frequently offers Chowder advice about finding love.

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• Abandoned Catchphrase: Mung used to say "Sweet beans in a basket!" in the first trailer and pilot, but it wasn't kept past that point.
• Ambiguously Bi: He's been married to Truffles for hundreds of years and flirts with the ladies, but there's a surprisingly high number of Ho Yay moments between him and Shnitzel.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: For all their bickering and arguing, “Mung On The Rocks” shows that Mung truly does love Truffles and is a miserable wreck without her in his life.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Truffles, which is odd, since they've been married for over 400 years and would have no reason to hide it.
• Berserk Button: Endive brings out the worst in him.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He may seem a bit weird, but he's one of the most skilled chefs in the series.
• Butt-Monkey: Mentoring someone like Chowder will land you into this.
• Casanova Wannabe: Fancies himself a ladies man, but most ladies are repulsed by him.
• The Chessmaster: Downplayed. It's shown that Mung is capable of being pretty clever, such as turning Endives prank against her in The Prank, and knowing that Chowder had broken his dice cycle, yet pretending to believe Chowder's lie about Ceviche so that he can bet on Ceviche winning the duel and get a new dice cycle in The Dice Cycle.
• Complexity Addiction: "Certifrycation Class" demonstrates that Mung will simply refuse to follow a recipe to the letter because he has his own personal taste and pizazz on cooking. He can't even make a sandwich without trying to spruce it up because he disagreed with the recipe ingredients, resulting in him failing his exams and just stealing Endive's instead. It's stark Hypocritical Humor, because he'll get onto Chowder about not following a recipe, yet odds are half of the crazy stuff that happens in his cooking orders probably didn't have to happen if Mung wasn't so crazy.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: In The Deadly Maze, Gumbo gives up on his quest for revenge on Mung, but settles for a parting gift instead to screw with him - an 3D-animated obese pig-centaur-thing dancing in his kitchen. Mung can only point and scream in pure terror while the episode ends.
• Deuteragonist: It’s Chowder’s story and since he’s teaching Chowder, he’s effectively this in addition to being outright absent in only one episode.
• Edible Theme Naming: Moong dal is a type of Indian bean soup.
• Fatal Flaw: Mung's biggest problem is his pride; he takes great satisfaction as a good chef, and he is when nothing goes wrong. The problem is that Mung doesn't take it well when someone challenges his cooking skills, whether it's Endive or a customer, which causes him to make hasty decisions and make things worse. One example was in the Hey, Hey It's Knishmas! Christmas episode, where he refuses to buy a shmingerbread house from Endive after the ones he makes keep collapsing and blames Shnitzel for them. That said, what stops Mung from going into It's All About Me territory is that, above all else, he cares more about his friends than his ego. In the same episode, he does suck up his pride and buys a house from Endive so that he wouldn't break Chowder's heart; he also admits that he's also to blame for his failed shmingerbread houses instead of just Schnitzel.
  Truffles: Why don't you swallow your pride and just go buy a shmingerbread house?
  Mung: No! Never! My pride is too BIG to swallow!
  Truffles: Do you really wanna be the one to disappoint Chowder on Knishmas morning?
• Gag Nose: One of his most identifiable features is his massive honker.
• Happily Married: Despite his constant flirting with women, his heart truly belongs to Truffles.
• Henpecked Husband: Is subject to psychological, verbal and physical abuse from Truffles.
• Ignored Expert: Half of their problems happen because Chowder will quite blatantly ignore Mung's teachings and warnings about handling the potentially dangerous foods they deal with. This happened so frequently that Mung starts blaming himself for the situations because he should know better than to expect Chowder to listen to him.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Chowder; Mung is 450+ years old.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While Mung can be very prideful and a bit conceited, he genuinely does care for Truffles, Chowder, and Schnitzel.
• KidAnova: In his childhood.
• Large Ham: He doesn’t waste time screaming when frustrated or excited.
• Like an Old Married Couple: A really old couple with Truffles, seeing how they've been married for over 450 years.
• Manly Facial Hair: He claims his mustache helps him with the ladies.
• Meaningful Name: His name is a portmanteau of "mung beans" and a dish made from them, "moong daal" . In fact, Greenblatt intended the character to have an Indian accent, but ditched it in the end.
• The Mentor: To Chowder.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: He doesn't die, he's just usually on the receiving end of the Slapstick. In the episode "The Deadly Maze," Gumbo, his apprentice before Chowder, gave up on a revenge scheme against Mung after spending time with Chowder, stating that nothing he could do could be worse than the grief Chowder puts Mung through every day. In "Chowder Grows Up," Mung even lampshades it, remarking that one day, he'll either retire or be killed by Chowder.
• No Accounting for Taste: Downplayed. He argues a lot with Truffles, but the two are definitely Happily Married.
• Not So Above It All: Almost four hundred years of cooking doesn't mean he isn't quirky, and sometimes he can be worse than Chowder about some of his eccentricities.
• Papa Wolf: While he isn’t Chowder’s biological father, he’s the closest thing the boy has to one, and he will go all out on you if you dare harm him.
• Parental Substitute: Not only is Chowder Mung's apprentice in cooking, but Mung also gives Chowder advice in a seemingly parental sort of way and Chowder lives with Mung and Truffles. There are times where Mung genuinely forgets Chowder isn't his son, such as in "Paint The Town" and gets distraught when he's reminded of this.
  Mung: Sheesh, what is wrong with that boy?! I'm telling you, he gets it from your side of the family!
  Truffles: What are you talking about? Chowder isn't even our son!
  Mung: (crying) I know.
• Perpetual Poverty: Apparently Mung is either insanely greedy, or he literally cannot afford to give Shnitzel a paycheck raise. Despite all the crazy things Mung can do for his house and the ingredients he pulls out of nowhere for his orders. Maybe he's just that greedy. Or maybe he's constantly in debt from having to rebuild his kitchen on a regular basis.
• Pretentious Pronunciation: Whenever he is talking about his mustache, he normally pronounces it as "moo-stache".
• Really 700 Years Old: Given that it's revealed in "Mung On The Rocks" he's been married to Truffles for 450 years, he must be unnaturally old.
• Say My Name: How he usually greets his rival, Endive.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: A pretty bad case when it comes to Mince-Meach pie. Fifty years ago, when he first made the dish, he was under constant attack by the other Meaches for 25 years, permanently scarring him with an extreme fear of anything having to do with the dish.
• Shipper on Deck: In the season finale of Chowder Grows Up, he mentions that Chowder is destined to marry Panini and have a family with her. However, it could be more of a…
  • Shipper with an Agenda: Tries to get Chowder to reciprocate Panini’s feelings and submit to her advances to access essential ingredients such as flossberries and mood fruit.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Does this twice, barely within a minute of each other in The Puckerberry Overlords- the first when Chowder startles him, causing him to drop the super-unstable puckerberry Mung was plucking, and the second when he realizes Chowder's whole body is puckering in on itself from eating it.
• Supporting Leader: Despite being the head of the Catering Company, he’s only the deuteragonist.
• Supreme Chef: He's widely considered to be the world's best chef. Although Depending on the Writer, some characters claim that he is the exact opposite.
• Suppressed Rage: Though his memetic reaction to Chowder costing the blufferfish in "The Party Cruise" is the most notable example, this is a very common reaction to Chowder's brand of stupidity.
  Mung: (on the verge of a breakdown) Chowder, sweetheart, dear boy! The blufferfish got awayyyyyy! Because you and your friend Shnitzel wanted to be a couple of good-time charlies!!!
  Mung: (punches himself in the face three times before plastering on an obviously fake smile) Don't you remember, silly? The new part for the Feetza 5000? Good boy.
• Trrrilling Rrrs: Does this sometimes.
  Mung: Frrraple juice! Someone get me some ice-cold frrraple juice! Frrraple!
• Younger Than They Look: While it's apparent he is really old, he looks pretty fresh and flexible for being over 400 years to count.

Shnitzel

"Radda, radda!"

Voiced by: John DiMaggio, Kevin Michael Richardson (in "The Froggy Apple Crumple Thumpkin")

Shnitzel is a big, heavy rock monster (and yes, "rock monster" is the exact term used in-universe) who works in Mung Daal's kitchen. He's a serious fellow who tends to end up cleaning up his co-workers' messes.

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• Angrish: According to one episode, he talks exclusively in this and, when he's able to be relaxed, he actually speaks more clearly but he reverts back to this.
• The Big Guy: He's the biggest member in Mung Daal's kitchen and usually does the heavy lifting.
• Butt-Monkey: Nothing ever seems to go right for him. Any work in the kitchen usually involves him getting hurt or doing something he doesn't particularly enjoy.
• The Comically Serious: His reaction to most of Chowder's antics involves his usually annoyed expression.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: Shnitzel isn't creepy, but he noticeably has these, as well as thicker outlines around his eyes compared to other characters.
• A Day in the Limelight: The special "Shnitzel Quits" focuses entirely on him and how he quit Mung's catering company due to feeling he doesn't get the respect he deserves.
• Deadpan Snarker: Even though the audience cannot understand him, he's quite the snarker, based on tone and body language. Actually lampshaded in this exchange between Chowder and Mung:
  Mung: Just think about dry.
  Chowder: Oh, like Shnitzel's sense of humour?
  Mung: No that's too dry.
• Gasshole: Next to Chowder, Shnitzel has the worst gastric problems of the cast. He even admits in his Imagine Spot from "The Wrong Customer" that he likes to fart when no one else is around through his imaginary interpretation of Mung.
• Genius Bruiser: He's a massive powerhouse who does the heavy lifting and the most grounded of the four.
• Happily Married: ...to ENDIVE of all characters.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: All he ever says is "radda", aside for occasionally saying words like "the" or "over" leaving the entire cast to interpret what he's saying and is usually played for laughs.
  Chowder: I think something’s wrong with Mung.
  Shnitzel: Radda radda radda ra-radda.
  Chowder: Why would he be upset about Truffles? She's stopped yelling at us and she never comes in here now. It's perfect!
  Shnitzel: Aw, radda radda...
  Chowder: What do you mean I wouldn't understand?
  Shnitzel: Radda radda ra-radda radda!
  Chowder: What do you mean stop repeating everything you say?
  Shnitzel: *grumbles*
• Jerkass Has a Point: While he can be a bit rough around the edges, it's easy to understand why given the fact he constantly has to put up with his egocentric boss and dimwitted protege...
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: ...but despite it all, especially in "Shnitzel Quits", it's been proven that Shnitzel really does care about Chowder and the rest of the gang, and they care about him.
• The Lancer: To Mung.
• Meaningful Name: His name is some sort of fried pig meat.
• No-Respect Guy: He does much of the heavy lifting, cleaning up, and, more often than not, goes to bat for the rest of catering. However, this goes unnoticed.
• One-Word Vocabulary: The only thing he says is "radda". Except when Truffles spoke quietly for once... and then was told to go back to saying "radda". It is implied to be a language in and of itself, given the fact that Truffles was able to shock him into offended silence by insulting him in his own tongue during an argument.
• Only Sane Man: To his chagrin.
• Perpetual Frowner: Schnitznel rarely ever smiles, with his default expression being a grumpy frown.
• The Reliable One: He works directly under Mung and does a LOT of work in the kitchen. He does the heavy lifting, assists with preparing dishes, and does the cleaning up. Lots and LOTS of cleaning up. Episodes like Schnitzel Quits highlight just how much the Chowder, Mung, and Truffles need him around.
• Retired Badass: See Samurai below.
• Rock Monster: However, it's not clear what he's made of.
• Samurai: Was this in his past. Though, he still knows how to fight like one. Except not really.
• Silent Snarker: "Dry sense of humor" anyone?
• Super-Strength: It varies from episode to episode, but chances are that Shnitzel will be capable of lifting tons at a time.
• Walk, Don't Swim: He can't swim, due to being made out of rock. So he has to stand in more shallow areas if he wants to go to a pool or beach, otherwise he's walking along the bottom holding his breath.

Truffles Daal

"What's going on in here?!"

Voiced by: Tara Strong

Mung's wife, Truffles likes to be the boss and has a very competitive streak. While Mung handles the cooking, Truffles takes care of everything else.

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• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite their arguments, she and Mung clearly show love to each other, with Truffles defending her husband's cooking despite insulting it at times herself.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Mung, which is odd, considering they've already been married for centuries and thus would have no reason to hide it.
• Berserk Button: There are rules to follow in order to avoid her wrath.
  • If you bring gum home, you must share with her, or ELSE.
  • Never interrupt her mahjong game.
  • Leave her money box alone.
  • Only Truffles can pick on Mung Daal and his cooking; she severs ties with the Big Hat Biddies when the leader insults Mung, his cooking, and Chowder.
• Big Eater:
  • Not to Chowder's extent, but she's still a fat woman who also enjoys stuffing her face with foods like peanut butter which she dips a whole stick of butter in and then eats it.
  • In the online game "Bookin' Cook," she can show up as a customer at Mung Daal's catering that the player has to serve, and will be extremely impatient, making you have to serve her quickly. Sometimes she'll appear several times in a row with different, increasingly complicated orders.
• Deadpan Snarker: She shows her sarcastic side quite often, particularly when it comes to the everyday antics that happen around the kitchen.
• Demoted to Extra: She doesn’t have a big role in later episodes and is usually just there for the most part.
• The Dreaded: EVERYBODY is terrified of Truffles when she's angry.
• The Fair Folk: She's a mushroom pixie.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Has a very short fuse and terrifying wrath. In the online game "Bookin' Cook," she can appear as a customer at Mung's eatery, and her patience meter goes down way faster than everyone else's, forcing you to make her order quickly.
• Happily Married: To Mung. She was genuinely upset when he forgot their anniversary but despite their constant bickering, they clearly love each other.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Ever notice how her hair is not grey, but lavender?
• Hidden Depths: She can apparently speak Schnitzels's "language"(whereas everyone else only understands what he's saying) or at the very least knows enough to insult him in it.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: Only she can pick on Mung, no one else.
• I Was Quite a Looker: She was very cute and curvy when she was younger. She can apparently revert to this at will, as shown in "Dinner Theater" when she attracts some customers.
  Truffles: Guess I'll have to get out the legs.
  • That said, the unmade episode, "The Mushroom Ball" would have retconned this, suggesting the image of her as "cute and curvy" was just an imagine spot.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bossy, condescending, and greedy she may be, she really does love her husband, Mung and is actually a motherly figure for Chowder.
• Like an Old Married Couple: They've been married for over 300 years and very old.
• Mama Bear: Chowder’s pretty much her son and if you harm him, there will be hell to pay.
• Meaningful Appearance: Not only does her mushroom hat tie into her name, it also relates to her species as a "mushroom pixie".
• Meaningful Name: Her name is a type of mushroom, hence her hat.
• The Napoleon: The shortest worker at Mung Daal's Catering Company and also the one with the shortest temper.
• Never Mess with Granny: She's easily the most short-tempered member of Mung Daal's kitchen, as well as the most intimidating, and is hinted at being even older than Mung himself. There's a reason she's considered The Dreaded of the show.
• Never My Fault: In "The Flibber-Flabber Diet", she holds Mung responsible for her weight gain, even though it's revealed she has a big appetite herself.
• No Indoor Voice: "The Trouble with Truffles" focuses on this, leading her to change her voice to a softer one. As we find out, this trope is justified, as with a softer voice, Mung, Chowder, and Schnitzel couldn't get any work done.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Truffles normally explodes into utter rage at the slightest provocation and has no problem screaming at the top of her lungs at anything that annoys her but when Mung forgets their 450th Anniversary, after initially giving him an earful for it, Truffles spends the remainder of the time coldly ignoring Mung no matter how much he tries to entreat her.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Series creator C.H. Greenblatt has mentioned in an interview that Truffles is based on his own mother.
• Really 700 Years Old: Given that it's revealed in "Mung On The Rocks" she's been married to Mung for 450 years, she must be unnaturally old (or possibly perfectly naturally).
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: Her relationship with Mung in a nutshell. "Big Ball" even lampshades this.
  Truffles: You're going down, old man!
  Mung: No, you're goind down, older woman!
  Truffles: No, you!
  Mung: No, you!
  Truffles: No, you!
  Truffles and Mung: *Cue Mung and Truffles immediately making out before pulling away abruptly.* Get away!

• The Smurfette Principle: The only female within the kitchen, not counting customers.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In later seasons, she has become more hostile and disrespectful towards her employees.
• Your Mom: Initially, it seems like Truffles takes offense to this statement, but as it turns out, she agrees with it, claiming that her mother has a, "huge tushy."

Kimchi

Voiced by: C. H. Greenblatt

Chowder's pet, who lives in a cage next to his bed. Kimchi is a brown-colored cloud (an anthropomorphized flatus). He likes things that smell bad, and he "talks" by making flatulent sounds.

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• Creator Cameo: He is "voiced" by C. H. Greenblatt.
• Demoted to Extra: By the time season 2 rolled around, he barely shows up.
• Dub Name Change: In Japan, he is renamed "Natto" (fermented soy beans), possibly to avoid having a character with a Korean name.
• Meaningful Name: Kimchi is a Korean dish made with fermented vegetables, which has a rather strong smell.
• No Mouth: He only has a pair of eyes.
• The Unintelligible: He only speaks through fart sounds.

Ms. Endive

"I knew the day would come when you'd finally realize, that I... am... the better chef!"

Voiced by: Mindy Sterling

A female chef who teaches cooking to Panini with strict discipline. She regularly berates Mung Daal, whom she considers a rival. In the episode "Chowder's Girlfriend", it is revealed she despises boys and boyfriends because her fiance did not show up on their wedding day. The creator describes her as Martha Stewart with Oompa-Loompa colors.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: To Shnitzel in for most of the series. He really isn't very fond of her advances towards him. She sometimes shows some of this to Mung if they're alone together, to an equal amount of disgust.
• Acrofatic: Despite her size, she can move quite quickly if she wanted to.
• Berserk Button: Never try to peek on her in the shower, willingly or not. "Chowder's Babysitter" had her catch Chowder and Gazpacho in her bathroom and chase them down furiously for revenge. Her massive size increase during this point didn't help.
• Big Eater: While unmatched by Chowder's gluttony, she's definitely prone to stuffing her face in a disgusting fashion.
• Didn't Think This Through: In one episode, Endive locks Chowder and Mung Daal in a dungeon with a sack of growtatoes — potatoes that grow as large as her house until they're fully peeled — in a fit of rage. Only after she hears their terrified screams cut off by an ominous squishing sound does she realize that trapping two people in a room with those things isn't the best of ideas if you just want to give them a scare. Thankfully, the squish turned out to be the growtatoes being turned into growtato salad, much to her relief.
• Does Not Like Men: She has a habit of advising Panini to stay away from boys with a surprising amount of venom. Given her words, it's very likely she was stood up at the altar, so it's at least understandable.
  Endive: Stay away from boys! They are dirty. They are smelly. They tell you they love you so you wait by the telephone 'til they finally work up the nerve to propose! And then, they have the gall to not show up to the wedding!
• Embarrassing Hobby: She has an embarrassing secret that she loves to do when nobody's looking, and the sight of it is gross enough to make anyone vomit on sight, to the point that it's pixellated to the audience to keep it a secret. It's revealed to be her eating her own toe jam with a fork, which is considered disgusting not because it's toe jam (it's a delicacy in Marzipan), but because she does it with a fork and not a spoon.
• Everyone Has Standards: She's willing to humiliate, embarrass, and torture Mung to flaunt her superiority and prove she is the better chef, but episodes like "At Your Service" and "The Prank" show that she is uncomfortable of the idea of actually killing her rival.
• Fat Bitch: She's huge, and not just in height.
• Foil: To Mung. Both are the main chefs of their respective house/bakery of sorts and have a young apprentice. While Mung has his faults, he does love Chowder as if he was his own son while Endive regularly treats Panini as a servant than a daughter.
• Gonk: The sight of her puckering up to Shnitzel is enough to make the flowers in his bouquet vomit. The sight of her naked caused Gazpacho to faint.
• Happily Married: To Shnitzel.
• The Heavy: No pun intended given her girth. Though she’s not outright evil enough to be the Big Bad, she’s the most malicious regular antagonist of the series.
• Jerkass: Her personality is caustic, condescending, and just flat-out rude. An example of this is that one time she locked Mung and Chowder in a room with growtatoes and still wouldn't give them her moodfruit necklace.
• Large and in Charge: She dwarfs over Panini and any other person who works in her kitchen and is in charge of said kitchen.
• Leitmotif: She has her own classy theme music.
• Meaningful Name: A type of vegetable known for its bitter taste. Greenblatt had chosen it as it suited her personality.
• Pet the Dog: For as obnoxious as Ms. Endive can be to virtually everyone, she does tend to treat Panini fairly. Most of the time.
• Redhead In Green: Inverted. She is green-haired and wears a red dress.
• The Rival: To Mung Daal. She likes to flaunt her skills and sense of superiority to him, and the two are frequently at each other's throats trying to outdo the other.
• Ship Tease: A lot of this with Shnitzel (although unwanted), but, oddly enough, some with Mung. In "The Apprentice Games", she flirtatiously states that they are alone at one point. Panini herself has hypothesized that she picks on Mung so much because she likes him. And in "The Prank", when she believes she had killed Mung and Panini abandons her, she falls into despair and questions if she bullies Mung because she's afraid of her feelings for him, that she might like or even love him.
• Sore Loser: If she doesn't get her way, she doesn't take it well. One example of this is when Chowder and Mung successfully do all of the ridiculous things she asks of them for mood fruit that she ended up buying first. Including peeling her sack of growtatoes and turning them into salad as mentioned above. Out of ammo to throw at them, she instead throws the necklace of mood fruit to the ground and stomps it into paste, making their endeavors throughout the episode both metaphorically and literally fruitless.
• Supreme Chef: As Mung's rival, she's another highly skilled chef in the city. Her catering prides itself more on its classiness and proper etiquette compared to Mung's more relaxed aesthetics.
• Villainous Glutton: A quite unpleasant antagonist with an appetite to match.
• Yandere: To Shnitzel in "Shnitzel Quits". Once Shnitzel revaeals he's already taken^note  by a female rock, no less, Endive goes off the deep end.
• Your Size May Vary: Goes from being maybe two feet taller than most characters to being large enough to initiate a Colossus Climb, depending on the need of the plot.

Panini

"Oh, hiiii, Chowder..."

Voiced by: Liliana Mumy, Grey DeLisle (adult)

Panini is the apprentice to Ms. Endive. She's convinced that Chowder is her boyfriend and takes every opportunity to let him know this.

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• 10-Minute Retirement: Every time she "breaks up" with Chowder, it boils down to this. The first time she does this in Chowder's Girlfriend, she goes back to obsessing over Chowder in her next appearance.
• Abhorrent Admirer: To Chowder, to the point that her touch alone is enough to cause his skin to burn, however this becomes averted in the series finale.
  Chowder: Hey, Panini, guess what?
  Panini: You love me?
  Chowder: Ew. No.
• Berserk Button: Anyone and anything that gets between her and her attempts to claim Chowder, even Chowder himself, will see she's not as cute as she looks.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's cute at first glance, but she's not one to be crossed. She once violently forced Chowder to hold her hand and she almost beat Gorgonzola into a pulp after he kicked her in a misunderstanding.
• Cats Are Mean: Cat-rabbit-bear things, anyway. At the very least, she's been shown to be passive-aggressive and snarky toward other people, having rudely shooed away a customer from her food stand in "The Burple Nurples", though at worst she can be downright violent, having outright assaulted Gazpacho in "The Bruised Bluenana", and fought Marmalade in a joust for the sole crime of being a girl and Chowder's friend in "A Faire To Remember".
• Childhood Friend Romance: In the last episode, it's shown that she and Chowder get married. Mung even outright says that they were destined to marry.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She flips if she sees Chowder with another girl.
• Cute Little Fangs: Her fangs are always present, even when her mouth is closed.
• Cute Monster Girl: She’s a rabbit monster, but she’s portrayed as loving.
• The Cutie: Very little gets her down.
• Ears as Hair: She has her tied back like a ponytail or topknot.
• Egg Sitting: The plot The Bruised Bluenana, where Panini jumps at the chance to pretend she's Chowder's wife trying to nurse their bluenana child back to health. Chowder meanwhile is doing everything he can think of to get out quickly.
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite initially having no problem with the first prank, felt like Endive’s second prank was going too far, but ended up going along with it. However, she must have been coerced. She was horrified along with many other guests when Endive tried to bake Todd so he’d be better looking, despite not being bothered with his looks after getting to know him and finding his personality endearing.
• Explosive Breeder: Apparently, Panini is prone to this, given her rabbit-like species and that she has fifty babies in the series finale with Chowder, twenty of which she gave birth to in one day. Lampshaded by Chowder.
  Chowder: But seriously. No more babies, okay?
• Flanderization: She started off as a relatively nice girl with an innocent cute crush on the protagonist, and even capable of being exasperated with him at times. However, that crush gradually enveloped her personality, and she became horribly obtrusive and disrespectful to Chowder and his personal space. She gets a couple moments of being able to be near Chowder without obsessing over him and act like either a friend or a rival, but her stalkerish moments are still overwhelming.
• Genki Girl: Occasionally, especially when it comes to Chowder.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She may be a pink rabbit with a very romantic personality and girly appearance, but she has shown to be very violent and aggressive from time to time.
• Happily Married: To Chowder.
• Hypocrite: She obsesses over Chowder and ignores how much he wants to avoid her, but she does not like it when boys make a move on her. She is annoyed with Ceviche for his own affection for her, especially since it's not as deranged as hers. In addition, Chowder once has a wedding cake made for her because he was told that, since she kissed him, he has to marry her to save her reputation. However, she declines, saying that Chowder comes up to her every five seconds and that she needs her space.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's a bit crazy but can also be sweet. Despite not always being pleasant, she is shown to get along with some of the employees working for her company’s rival, willing to help Mung get the flossberries (but with an incentive) and immediately welcoming Schnitzel to Endive’s company and asking how his first day was (despite only going to him to ask about Chowder). At first, she was disgusted by Todd, but took a liking to him after getting to know him and was horrified that Ms. Endive was willing to bake Todd just because he wasn’t good-looking, showing that she’s not shallow about appearance.
• Karma Houdini: For all her intense stalking and harassment, Chowder still ends up marrying and starting a family with Panini like she always wanted.
• I Got Bigger: She's as tall as Chowder as an adult making her one of the tallest members of the main cast. Justified since she is supposed to be part bear.
• Laugh of Love:
  • She tends to occasionally giggle or laugh when she's with Chowder, who doesn't return her feelings until the series finale.
  • She invokes this in "A Faire to Remember", when she pretends to laugh as she hangs out with Ceviché in an attempt to make Chowder jealous. It doesn't work.
• Leitmotif: She has her own bubbly theme music that occasionally plays whenever she greets or flirts with Chowder.
• The Load: In one of the online games, she’ll drive customers up the wall if not taken care of quickly.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is a type of Italian sandwich.
• Morality Pet: She tries to be this to Ms. Endive on occasion with normally mixed results.
• Motor Mouth: At times. Like when she was asking Shnitzel what Chowder likes in "Shnitzel Quits".
• Mix-and-Match Critters: She's the same species as Chowder (who is a "cat-bear-rabbit thingy," according to the creator) but with rabbit ears. Most likely sexual dimorphism at work here.
• Nice Girl: Though she has an unrelenting obsession with Chowder, she's usually one of the sweetest characters on the show.
• Operation: Jealousy: In one episode, she pretended to be in love with Ceviche to make Chowder jealous when he starts hanging out with fellow Cloud Cuckoolander Marmalade.
• Personal Space Invader: Regularly in her more obsessive moments, she'll force herself onto Chowder with anything as light as a hug, to more creepily like touching his face or just flat-out stuffing herself into his clothes. Chowder usually starts screaming or trying to force her away.
• Phrase Catcher: All together now...
  Chowder: "I'm not your boyfriend!"
  • Made all the more hilarious by the fact that he'll sometimes immediately follow it up with cheerfully initiating conversation with her, or just slip it in as an afterthought.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The pink girl to Chowder's blue boy; she has pink fur while Chowder has bluish-purple fur.
• Pink Means Feminine: She has pink fur.
• Plucky Girl: That means big trouble for Chowder.
• Post-Kiss Catatonia: After Chowder gives a peck on the cheek in the Christmas episode.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: She is a hybrid of a bunny and a cat, after all.
• Satellite Love Interests: She doesn't want anything to do, but have Chowder be her boyfriend and future husband. Not much is known about her personality (besides her huge crush on Chowder).
• Selective Obliviousness: Chowder's constant shouting of "I'm not your boyfriend!" doesn't cause Panini to recognize Chowder doesn't have feelings for her, at least positive ones. That or she's ignoring it in hopes of swaying Chowder into falling for her.
• Self-Proclaimed Love Interest:
  Panini: "I am Chowder's girlfriend, and Chowder is my boyfriend, and we're totally going to be together forever and ever! And now, we're holding hands!"
  [Cue overly long Spit Take from Chowder]
• Single-Target Sexuality: She only wants Chowder and no one else. Ms. Endive once attempted to set Panini up with Carson, a realistic human character. For that reason, Panini turns him down and demands "I want Chowder!"
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: A possibility for how she fell in love with Chowder.
• Stalker with a Crush: In the early episodes, she was able to have a conversation with Chowder without coming on to him. Later? She wants to pass a law that will let her legally own Chowder.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Given her fanatical obsession with Chowder that often goes beyond simple Puppy Love, she’s up there with Helga Pataki as one of the horniest prepubescent girls in animation.
• Vocal Evolution: Like Chowder, Panini's voice deepened over time, due to her actress hitting puberty.
• Yandere: In later seasons, that is. She was way cooler about her crush in the first season.

Gazpacho

"Come. Sit. Buy my beans!"

Voiced by: Dana Snyder

An anthropomorphic woolly mammoth storekeeper who sells strange produce and ingredients. He does his best to offer advice to Chowder when needed. He lives with his overbearing mother, who never appears (and at several points is implied to not even exist). Gazpacho shows no interest in moving out and improving his own life, and his grasp on his sanity is... tenuous at best, which can lead to occasional moments of psychosis and paranoia, often with disastrious consequences to the episode's plot.

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• Abusive Parents: From what we hear about his mom, she's very controlling of him; he once stated that she's "usually" mad at him, and that she "crushes hopes and dreams."
• Affectionate Parody / Deconstructive Parody: There is one episode where he dresses up as his mother and is playing it as a funny parody of Norman Bates from the Alfred Hitchcock movie Psycho. However, this may also work as a dark deconstruction of his character. A Manchild who was constantly put down by his mother to a point where it messes with his development and even his sanity could go down the same insane path as Norman Bates.
• Ascended Extra: Initially more of side character, Gazpacho started to gain more prominence as the show progressed, to the point he even had his own episode, titled Gazpacho!.
• Ax-Crazy: He's essentially a nicer and (somewhat) kid-friendlier version of Master Shake.
  • In that episode he gives an offhand comment that he is going to kill Chowder, Gorgonzola and Panini after coffee. That's right, he's going to stab three children, featuring his best friend.
  • In "Dinner Theatre", he enjoys his villainous role a little too much, pretending to be this character outside practicing and at the end this line occurs with literal axe craziness:
    Chowder: Well, at least no one got killed.
    Gazpacho: At least... (takes an axe) NOT! YET!!!
  • "Banned From The Stand" has Gazpacho going paranoid that Mung and Chowder are going to buy berries off of him by help from other people, which is at the beginning Properly Paranoid, but then he goes overboard and thinks everyone is trying to help Mung and Chowder, speaking to himself in a crazy manner and banning everyone, including from every other stand and the bathroom, and his overly paranoid behaviour ends with him babbling incoherently right before banning himself from his own stand. This all happened because Mung and Gazpacho had a disagreement on the berry's colour.
  • In "Chowder's Babysitter" he thinks Chowder is hiding in a meat grinder, and for some reason thinks the right course of action is to turn on said grinder. He realizes his mistake too late and can only react in horror as a pile of ground beef is deposited, making Gazpacho think he carelessly killed Chowder.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He doesn't provide to make a situation less complicated.
• Covert Pervert: Chowder imagines him as such in "Brain Freeze".
• A Day in the Limelight: Gazpacho! served as this for him, as the primary focus was on him for a change, instead of Chowder or the rest of Mung Daal's kitchen.
• Friend to All Children: He is really good with kids and has taken on rolls like the umpire at kids sports games or scout leaders.
• Furry Reminder: As an anthro mammoth, he occasionally trumpets and snorts just like an elephant.
• Gambit Roulette: His plan on teaching the scouts how to fold napkins involved too many variables to count.
• G-Rated Drug: Lollistops are this to him, to the point that he routinely wears Lollistops patches on his neck.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He's (technically) an adult who's close friends with Chowder, who's around 10 to 12.
• Jerkass Ball: He grabs this in "Banned From The Stand"; where he bans Mung from his fruit stand over a mere disagreement over the color of flossberries. When Mung takes his money to other stands, Gazpacho responds by banning him from all fruit stands, due to the "Fruit Vendor Code". Eventually, his paranoia gets the better of him and he begins banning anyone whom he suspects helping Mung, including himself. Luckily, a talk with Chowder^note whom he had also-albeit reluctantly-banned from his stand due to being in cahoots with Mung, combined with a My God, What Have I Done? from Gazpacho, sets him straight... only for another disagreement to erupt between him and Mung.
• Large Ham: Keyword: Dana Snyder.
• Leitmotif: Gazpacho has his own theme music that consists of soft horns, playing into his being a woolly mammoth.
• Mammoths Mean Ice Age: Subverted. He is a humanoid woolly mammoth but lives in an otherwise non-icy setting.
• Manchild: Taken to the extreme in the series finale, where he couldn't change anything to make his life better, so he ran away and made up a whole bunch of lies. Adult Chowder eventually finds him and brings him out of hiding.
• Meaningful Name: His name is a cold vegetable soup.
• Momma's Boy: This was his codename during the episode, "The Heist".
• Mr. Vice Guy: He has his Jerkass Ball moments in "Banned From The Stand" and does come across as an immature Manchild. Despite this, Gazpacho is actually a decent and friendly guy who cares for his little buddy Chowder.
• Mundane Made Awesome: When he's a Scout Master, learning to fold napkins involves hiking a mountain that moves, abandoning most of the scouts along the way, having the few remaining scouts believe he has contracted Ray-B-Cs, try to run away from him, and nearly dying. Oh, and sitting down and breathing required hazmat suits and flamethrowers.
• My Beloved Smother: If she even exists, that is.
• Noodle Incident: He states that he tried to clean the Cartoon Network logo off the screen, with no success.
  • According to "Chowder's Babysitter", he mentions that the entire episode's misadventure happens every time he volunteers to babysit^note For context, he mistook a grinded-up steak as Chowder and was convinced he killed him. So they went to Endive's place to flush the "body" to the "great beyond" only for Endive to catch them and angrily chase them down.
• Only Friend: As noted by Mung in one episode, Chowder isn't just Gazpacho's closest friend... he's Gazpacho's only friend.
• Sanity Slippage: His mental faculties are...marginal even on a good day. One of the better examples of him going off the deep end occurs in "Banned from the Stand".
• Shadow Archetype: It takes him being a dark reflection of what Chowder was becoming for Chowder to accept his destiny.
• Split Personality: Remember when Gazpacho was revealed to be his own Mother!?. But then again that wasn't real. OR WAS IT!? Just kidding it probably WASN'T!!
• Unreliable Narrator: In "The Spookiest House In Marzipan".
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Giving Chowder a literal Chick Magnet in "Apprentice Appreciation Day" sets off the events of the episode, with Mung competing with Endive over who appreciates their apprentice more.
• Was It All a Lie?: See Manchild above.

Gorgonzola

"Don't strain yourself, Pudge."

Voiced by: Will Shadley, Dwight Schultz ("The Toots"), Dave Wittenberg (adult)

A young apprentice candle holder with a surly attitude. He resents Chowder due to him having a better job.

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• Foil: To Chowder. Chowder is a wide-eyed Cheerful Child who loves his job as Mung's apprentice, while Gorgonzola is a cynical Jerkass who hates his job as Stilton's apprentice because of his terrible home life. Going hand-in-hand with this, Chowder resembles a cat (a cat-bear-rabbit thing, anyway) while Gorgonzola is a rat.
• Friendly Enemy: In "Panini for President" and "The Blackout".
• Green and Mean: A green anthropomorphic rat who usually acts as a jerk towards Chowder.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: His sense of self-importance comes from the fact that his home life as Stilton's apprentice is extremely miserable, and when Chowder presses him for information on it, Gorgonzola ends up breaking down in tears.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's egocentric, surly, and mean to everyone around him, but he does have his amicable moments.
• Meaningful Name: He is named after gorgonzola cheese. Greenblatt commented that since cheese was his least favourite food, he felt it would fit Gorgonzola's surly attitude.
• Pyrrhic Victory: He became much more successful than Chowder, so he technically "won" in their rivalry, but Chowder doesn't seem to care, and any attempt to rub his victory in his face turns out to be very futile.
• Rags to Riches: He quite literally wore rags as a kid but in the episode, "Chowder Grows Up" he has shown to the rich and successful CEO of "Candle Corp Industries".
• The Resenter: He's primarily motivated by his resentment of Chowder having a better job than him despite Chowder not being very bright. To where in the grand finale, his reason for helping Chowder grow up is so he can have someone to brag to about his successes. Hilariously, it still fails as after he brags to Chowder, Chowder just congratulates him and Gorgonzola screams at Chowder to be jealous of him.
• The Rival: More or less self-declared to Chowder. For his part, Chowder seems not to notice or care, much to to Gorgonzola's chagrin.
• Signature Headgear: The lit candle on top of his head. Oddly enough, it's implied in some episodes that the candle is actually part of his body, since he can make it burn brighter at will. With the way he genuinely panics when he's about to be submerged in water, shouting that his candle flame will go out, it could also be a sign of the flame being either tied to his health or is just of deep value to him personally.
• The Snark Knight: Almost always a snide (and sometimes sarcastic) comment at the ready, especially when Chowder is around.
• Toxic Friend Influence: When he isn't going after Chowder's throat for no reason, he's this. Most notably in "Panini for President", where he tries to influence Chowder to win a club election unfairly so he could use him as a Puppet President. This is lampshaded by Panini at the end of the episode where she tells Chowder "He's not your friend, he's like a villain or something".
• Unknown Rival: He views his relationship with Chowder like a competition to become the most successful, but Chowder couldn't care less. This sticks in the finale where, despite Gorgonzola actually becoming the CEO of a company, Chowder still doesn't care and is just happy for him, which only further upsets him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Gorgonzola fancies himself as Chowder's enemy but the latter is too airheaded and happy-go-lucky to pick up on it, and they more often than not end up having to work together.
• Voice Changeling: In "The Toots", he is able to mimic Mung Daal's voice perfectly.
• You Dirty Rat!: He's petty and mean, and antagonizes Chowder just because he's jealous of Chowder's job. He isn't quiet evil though, as he'll sometimes do something benevolent and even help Chowder on occassion, but he's still a Jerkass and has the appearance of a rat.

Ceviché

"After I escort you home, could I weed your garden and hang some dry wall?"

Voiced by: Elan Garfias

Ceviche is a dancer and the apprentice of Pate. He is fairly easygoing and has a crush on Panini. Because of this, he follows her around and does what she says.

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• Black Bead Eyes: Has tiny black dots for eyes. However, in "The Dinner Theater", there is sclera around them in a close-up of his face.
• Camp Straight: Dresses in a leotard and has pink hair, but is madly in love with Panini.
• The Chew Toy: Ceviché has a tendency of getting beaten and battered through no fault of his own. His very last appearance has him going over a waterfall and breaking his face as a result.
• Creepy Monotone: "We must avenge Panini's death!"
• Dogged Nice Guy: To Panini.
• Hooked Up Afterwards: With Marmalade, according to Word of God.
• Hopeless Suitor: Unlike Chowder, he actually has feelings for Panini. Unfortunately, she's Chowder-sexual. Even after marrying Marmalade, Ceviché still has a torch burning for Panini.
• Love Triangle: He loves Panini who loves Chowder who doesn't accept Panini's affections until the Grand Finale. He, however, is loved by Marmalade.
• Meaningful Name: Ceviche is a seafood dish found in Latin American cuisine.
• Stalker with a Crush: Unfortunately for him, Panini has only eyes for Chowder.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: His fate is never revealed in the season finale. Greenblatt had to explain it online.

Chestnut

"Dink-a-loo, dink-a-lee, Chestnut is what I be."

Voiced by: Tone Lōc ("The Heavy Sleeper" to "Hey, Hey It's Knishmas!"), John DiMaggio ("The B.L.T.'s" onward)

A tiny, blue, gremlin-like creature who's somewhat greedy and likes making mundane objects into his personal home décor.

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• Baritone of Strength: He's got one of the deepest voices in the entire show, and he's a lot stronger than he looks.
• Greed: Whatever object he comes across, he wants it, and won't give it back unless bartered with. This includes Chowder's hat and the entirety of Mung's person.
• Hidden Villain: Not really a villain, but in "Hands on a Big Mixer", after Chowder thinks he's won the mixer, it's revealed that Chestnut was holding onto it the whole time and nobody noticed because of how tiny he is, so he wins the mixer.
  Chestnut: Dink-a-loo, dink-a-lee, Chestnut gets this thing for free.
• Insistent Terminology: He always comes up with assumptions about whatever he finds, and even when he's corrected, he insists on calling it whatever he's already decided it is. He calls Mung a dining table, and he calls Chowder's hat a vacation home.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's as small as a cookie, yet he's strong enough to grab a stop sign and bash Shnitzel in the face with it.
• Third-Person Person: Chestnut always speaks his name in the third person, besides when singing.

Mr. Fugu & Foie Gras

Mr. Fugu (left) and Foie Gras (right)

Mr. Fugu: "The valet must wait. I always eat first."

Foie Gras: "Meow meow, meow meow meow, meow."

Mr. Fugu voiced by: Bob Joles

Foie Gras voiced by: George Takei (yes, that George Takei)

A red balloon who is Mung's best customer, and his cat valet. Mr. Fugu is known to be an absolute glutton who never lets his valet have any food.

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Tropes applying to Mr. Fugu:

• Big Eater: His appetite is bigger than Chowder's. Any time he's presented with food, he orders a mountain load, and relentlessly wolfs down on it.
• Control Freak: When it comes to his birthday parties, he's very tight-laced about the themes he has for them, to the point of ruling his parties with an iron fist (as in, having the attendants punch each other with iron fists).
• Entitled Bastard: He always feels entitled to eat before his valet, and never leaves anything left for them.
• Extreme Omnivore: He'll eat anything, from tacos, to Thrice Cream, to clouds, to bird vomit.
• Fiction 500: He seems to have an endless supply of money, with him telling a taco vendor that money is no object to him. It's for this reason that Mung considers him such an important customer, as his finances go to repairing the kitchen every time it's destroyed.
• Gasshole: After he's done eating, he expels a noxious brown gas, and immediately becomes hungry again.
• Ironic Name: He's named after fugu, which is another name for pufferfish. Odd for an incredibly fragile balloon to be named after a creature known for being spiky.
• Villain Takes an Interest: Less a villain and more of an incredibly selfish Anti-Hero, but he takes an interest in Chowder because he thinks he would make for an incredibly entertaining valet.

Tropes applying to Foie Gras:

• Creepy Monotone: Whenever he speaks, he talks in a deep, monotone voice that creeps out everyone around him.
• One-Word Vocabulary: The only word he's able to muster is "meow".
• Satellite Character: There's not a lot to him besides being Mr. Fugu's means of getting around.
• The Stoic: Part of the reason why he's Mr. Fugu's designated valet is that he never complains, and always remains silent.

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