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▲'''''ChalkZone''''' (2002-2004) is a [[Nickelodeon]] cartoon that, like fellow Nicktoon ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', began as a series of shorts on ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons''. It apparently finds its roots in an older cartoon with the same premise, ''Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings'', which coincidentally had also come on Nickelodeon at one time (as part of the network's earliest program, ''[[Pinwheel]]''). Whether or not ''ChalkZone'' is <s>plagiarized from</s> an intentionally modernized version of ''Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings'', however, is unknown.
The show centers on a shy, daydreaming kid by the name of Rudy Tabootie, who one day discovers a world hidden beyond his teacher's chalkboard. In this world, ChalkZone, chalk drawings that have been erased from all chalkboards are now sentient beings; among them is a creation of Rudy's, a [[Kid Hero]] named Snap. Most episodes revolve around Rudy and Snap adventuring around ChalkZone, often accompanied by Rudy's best friend / love interest, Penny Sanchez; in some cases, Rudy, being the only person to know about ChalkZone and wield the [[MacGuffin|Magic Chalk]] (with Penny being [[Secret Keeper|the only person he trusts with this information]]), has to keep the place safe from [[The Masquerade|being found out by anyone else]].
It's stated to be the sweetest and cutest non-Jr. Nick show ever made, however it receives a lot of criticism due to its [[Tastes Like Diabetes|sugary nature]] and over-the-top cuteness. Despite this, it has somewhat of a [[Cult Classic|cult following]] ([[The Angry Beavers
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Vincent Van NoGo (voiced by a [[Codename: Kids Next Door
* [[Adult Child]]: All the adults in Water Water, Everywhere. Justified in that Rudy accidentally drew a portal into the Wait N' See and the water somehow made the adults child-like.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Evey single one.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Reggie Bullnerd
* [[Create Your Own Villain]]: ''Literally'' with Skrawl, who is a drawing that Rudy ''tried'' drawing for someone's birthday party only for it to be hijacked by a room full of kids and made into the mismatched creature he ultimately became.
* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: E.G. Daily as Rudy. And since she also voices Tommy on [[Rugrats]] and [[All Grown Up!]], Rudy's voice falls also under the [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] trope.
** And Snap is done by [[Candi Milo]].
* [[Cuteness Overload]]: Snap of all people often falls victim to this. Sometimes complete with [[Baby Talk]].
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* [[Deranged Animation]]: DUH.
* [[The Ditz]]: Joe Tabootie
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: In "Skrawl's Brain", Rudy invokes this in his battle with Skrawl (and his [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: [[All There in the Manual|According to a collectible e-card on Nick.com]], Rudy's first name is short for Rudolph.
** It has been noted that some people think Rudolph is significantly less embarrassing than Rudy, to say nothing of rhyming with your last name.. or the last name itself.
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* [[G-Rated Drug]]: Water Water, Everywhere
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Biclops
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Not as much as [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|some]] [[Rocko's Modern Life|other]] [[
** In one episode, Rudy had to prevent his dad from getting seen nude in public.
** There's also the episode "The Smooch". In the episode, Snap gets kissed by a bird. As the bird kisses him, its head goes out of camera and we see its tail feathers straighten suddenly. It then gets up with a smile on its face and takes off.
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* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Besides the aforementioned [[Cross-Dressing Voices]], [[Hynden Walch]] is Penny, [[Candi Milo]] is Snap, and [[Jim Cummings]] is Skrawl.
** Rapsheeba is [[Classic Disney Shorts|Minnie Mouse]]
** Rudy's mother is the secretary from ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off
** Vincent Van NoGo is voiced by [[Codename: Kids Next Door
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Rudy.
** Complete with [[Idiot Hair]]!
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* [[Kid Hero]]: Snap, who's supposed to look like a tough superhero... and ended up looking like [[Hello Kitty]]. Rudy also counts seeing as he's in 5th grade.
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Reggie
* [[Kill It
** A [[Nightmare Fuel|horrifying]] example comes from "Howdy Rudy": the titual character (a sentient chalk dummy) was '''licked to death by a dog'''.
*** Not really to ''death'' as the end reveals this sent him back to Chalkzone.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Reggie Bullnerd
* [[Let's Meet the Meat]]: In one episode Snap comes across a talking burger than begs to be eaten. Snap is understandably freaked out about it. Especially when it has lines like this:
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** Throughout the episode Snap runs into a lot of other foods that also ''really'' want him to eat them.
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* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: How Snap receives his "last name": after Penny quickly notices a box of "White Lightning Chalk" in the school, she gives Snap's full name as "Snap White".
* [[Long Runner]]: The show actually lasted seven years, though a lot of people think it was a [[Short Runner]].
** [[Screwed
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Skrawl's name comes from the fact that he was "scrawled" onto a chalkboard.
* [[Mind Screw]]: Ms. Tweezer, when Rudy releases the inhabitants of Chalkzone against her, experiences one.
** "The White Board", which can be considered to be Chalkzone's answer to [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|"One Plus One Equals Ed"]].
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: The weapon of choice of Skrawl's giant robotic brain. Not only does it brainwash all citizens of Chalkzone so they could go to a quarry to be [[It Makes Sense in Context|covered in sugar free rice pudding (with rasins)]], but in order to get Rudy to draw it a body, it makes the citizens [[It Makes Sense in Context|think they are chickens]].
* [[Mineral MacGuffin]]: An entire mine of it. Guarded by a 'biclops'.
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** "[[The Howdy Doody Show|Howdy Rudy]]", anyone?
** "Power Play" manages to work in a Robert Palmer reference with this line (directed to one Dr. Von Dockter):
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* Chalk [[Pirate|Pirates]], naturally.
* [[Plot Hole]]: Where ''did'' the magic chalk come from?
** [[Atop the Fourth Wall
** It grows in a cave in Chalkzone. The question is, where did that come from? Someone couldn't have drawn it. It's implied to be irreplaceable.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Snap, [[Berserk Button|but do not tell him that.]]
* [[Portal Picture]]
* [[Punny Name]]: Most are combined with [[Visual Pun]], but one other example is Queen Rapsheeba, whose name is a pun on the [[The Bible
* [[Puppy Love]]: Rudy and Penny, though this is actually a [[Justified Trope]] because Rudy has a rather obvious crush on Penny.
* [[Real Is Brown]]: Rudy and Penny's world consists mostly of brown and olive colors.
* [[Running Gag]]: Every time someone asked where a citizen of Chalkzone came from? The answer was from Greenland.
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Mr. Wilter, who hates..."CARTOONS!!".
** A season two episode shows that he apparently got it from his father.
** And Ms. Tweezer, who hates ''anything'' "unreal".
* [[Save the Villain]]: Rudy has had to bail out Reggie Bullnerd several times when he got the blame for something Rudy did.
* [[Screwed
* [[Screwy Squirrel]]: Reggie Bullnerd.
* [[Secret Keeper]]: Penny
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: A major factor of the plot for "Disarmed Rudy" (a season 4 episode) was that the arm Rudy draws with is broken, so he has to use his non-dominant arm (which draws poorly). However, a brief scene in "Skrawl's Brain" (a season ''3'' episode) showed that Rudy was ambidextrous (see [[Dual-Wielding]]).
** The rate chalk creations dissolve in water varies WILDLY, ranging from instantaneous (Snap's hand in "Snap Out Of Water") to moderate (the bobble head machine in "Power Play") to ''very slow'' (the chalk version of Odin's helmet in "the Heist").
*** To drive the point home, both Snap's hand and the helmet were erased under the same conditions: ''rain''.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Rapsheeba is more or less this to Snap.
** In one episode, Rudy had {{spoiler|Trina, the person who had originally drawn Rapsheeba}}.
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* [[Summon Bigger Fish]]: When being kidnapped and harassed by Craniac 3, Rudy draws Craniac 4, making #3 obsolete and put into frozen suspension along with Craniacs 1 and 2. It seems to work well... until ''Craniac 4'' starts chasing Rudy intending to get Rudy's "instant matter materializer"
* [[Title Theme Tune]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Reggie Bullnerd {{spoiler|gets Fs all the time.}}
** Now honestly... who thought creating Craniac 4 would solve Rudy's problems?
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* [[Vocal Evolution]]: The ''[[Oh Yeah Cartoons]]'' shorts gave Rudy a higher pitched voice (justified, he was younger than he was in the actual show), and Snap's accent got heavier (he also had a higher voice in early episodes).
* [[Verbal Tic|Voibal Tic]]: Right, bucko?
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Penny calls Rudy out when he uses Chalk Zone to get a passing grade in science fair, and in turn making it seem like he achieved perpetual motion ([[Idiot Hero|since he forgot to draw a power source]]).
* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]]: The first two shorts from ''[[Oh Yeah Cartoons]]'' were turned into flashbacks in episodes of the series.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Joe Tabootie, Mr. Wilter & Both Bullnerds in "Water, Water Everywhere"
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Rudy looks ''a lot'' like [[The Fairly
* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: The [[Christmas Episode]] contains a song where the characters mash the names of all the winter holidays into one big name.
** If I remember right, the lyrics included "Merry Chris-hanukkah-mas and a Happy Rama-Kwanzaa-dan."
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