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Chowder Season 1 Episode 18

The Broken Part / The Meach Harvest

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AIRED: 7/10/08

The Broken Part: When Chowder breaks a part of a machine, Mung Daal sends him out to fetch a new one, but Chowder has trouble remembering what he has to get.

The Meach Harvest: Mung has to make a dish that requires a fruit that he fears, so he sends Chowder and Shnitzel to get the fruit.moreless

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"The Broken Part" definitely makes my day

9.5

By tigerdude22, Feb 05, 2012

The Broken Part: When Chowder breaks a part of a machine, Mung Daal sends him out to fetch a new one, but Chowder has trouble remembering what he has to get. I love this episode of "Chowder" and it's definitely one of my favorites even though it has one nit-pick. My only nit-pick about this episode was that Chowder repeatedly forgetting what to buy for Mung Daal was getting annoying but I didn't take away points but I will admit that it's very funny at the same time. Chowder throughout this episode trying to buy the legs for Mung Daal was funny. That man full of gold was also very funny. Oh my gosh, I also had to crack up when Chowder was in the legs and dressed up as a woman and said "Hey pretty boy". The very ending of the episode was hilarious as well. Overall, with only one nit-pick... this is easily one of my favorite "Chowder" episodes and it was good to watch again since it has been like two years since I've watched it. 10/10

The Meach Harvest: Mung has to make a dish that requires a fruit that he fears, so he sends Chowder and Shnitzel to get the fruit. This episode was enjoyable but it wasn't as good as "The Broken Part" though. My score is a little low because the storyline to this episode does scare me especially the flashback with Mung Daal getting attacked for 25 years by those meaches until his spirits were lost. I just find it to be scary and I feel so bad for Mung Daal. Usually in cartoons, a character being attacked is hilarious but the flashback with Mung getting attacked by the meaches just was NOT funny at all and it just scared me plus Mung's face expressions thinking about the meach scares me as well. This episode also didn't have a lot of funny parts so I only laughed like three times out of the whole episode. The funniest part of the episode is probably the very ending. Overall, despite the fact that the storyline actually scared me, this episode was overall enjoyable but not my favorite. 9/10moreless
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"The Meach Harvest" gets my vote as the scariest episode of Chowder.

6.5

By SweetClover, Apr 09, 2009

"The Broken Part" - This one was not very good, in my opinion. All Chowder has to is pick up a new set of feet for Mung's Feetza 3000 machine, but whenever he goes out to get it, he can not remember what to get! After many tries, Mung tells CHowder that if he does not have the feet the next time he comes to the catering company, his head will explode! Chowder, actually believeing that, wouldn't want that to happen! Will he be able to remember what he needs long enough to buy it? This episode had a pretty good song in it and good character, but most of the episode was pretty boring.

"The Meach Harvest" - A customer wants Mung to make him a Minced-Meach pie, a dish that brings back some horrible memories for Mung. He does not want to go near the Meaches, so he sends CHowder and Shnitzel out to get them. Will they suceed? Again, they draw Mung in a very grotesque-looking way. There are some funny things in this episode, but overall this is one of my least favorite episodes.

I don't recommend them.moreless
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What? Are they even trying anymore?

6.5

By Momoke, Jul 26, 2008

I mean seriously, This episode was so stupid! they barely are even a part of the plot, i mean they both are needed to make a dish but still, completly off topic, it even had bad jokes and not many at all. the only thing i really liked about this episode was grits, who is now my favorite charecter, this is the only thing that brought light to these two episodes, i almost regret watching this and wasting my time that thursday night, don't get me wrong i am a big chowder fan, but really, C.H greenblatt, you can do better then this, COME ON! is your mind already running out of idea's? please, make more episodes that are as good as the others.moreless
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Still in shock watching Chowder in woman's clothing

6.0

By Mungdaal99, Jul 21, 2008

The Broken Part

Now, I like this. Chowder must get a part to replace a broken one. Soon, he meets Fritz, A golden statue. He helps Chowder get more money for the Broken part. So, at the end, Chowder and his friends help him make the pizzas.

Final Grade: C+

The Meach harvest

This was a Mung Daal episode. And, it was pretty bad. Mung must concure his fear of Meaches. Cause he made a miss meaches pie. And, got mauled by the Meaches for his hole life. That is the reason he has a mohawk. So, he concures his fears and, Shnezal loses his body. And, gets tomarrow off. Final Grade: D+

Final grade: C, 6moreless
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Chowder must find some legs for the pizza machine.

8.5

By furwars, Jul 17, 2008

Chowder was dressed up as a girl, Went through a montage, and met Gritz. Chowder though a fish cloud was a chicken. Old man lollipop freaked me out. I also liked the depressed hot dog guy. In all, It was a prety good episode. One of my favorites. The meach harvest was okay. The mairachi costumes were unique. We got to see a flashback of mung's past. Mung also Goes crazy, as seen in Mung on the rocks. There was a lot of violence, because of the Meaches. Not as good as the broken part, but was okay. Panini wasn't in either episode.moreless
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Nicky Jones	Chowder
Dwight Schultz	Mung Daal
John DiMaggio	Shnitzel
Tara Strong	Truffles

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Dwight Schultz	Hot Dog Person / Guy / Meach #2	Guest Star
Tara Strong	Lady #1 / Lady #2 / Queen Meach / Alien Meach	Guest Star
John DiMaggio	Meach #1 / Gritz / Jerky / Wishing Well / Hunk	Guest Star
C.H. Greenblatt	Kiwi	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (5)
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- Running Gag(s):
  1) Chowder keeps forgetting to get the feet for the Feetza Machine. (The Broken Part)
  2) The Meaches keep attacking various characters such as Mung Daal, Chowder, Shnitzel and the Customer. (The Meach Harvest)
  3) Chowder and Shnitzel keeps coming back in different disguises after getting attacked by meaches. (The Meach Harvest)
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- Chowder is afraid of exercising in The Apprentice Games, but he didn't seem to be in The Broken Part.
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- We learn that Mung is now afraid of "meaches".
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- In Gazpacho Stands up, we know that Chowder can't write, but in Broken Part, Chowder had written neatly.
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- Feetzas were once said in the Chowder TFK Magazine.
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QUOTES (6)
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- (Chowder walks outside Mung Daal's Catering Company, and looks up at a cloud shaped like a fish).
  Chowder: That cloud looks like a chicken!(begins to laugh) A chicken...looks like a chicken.
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- Mung: Yeah, asking nicely worked!!
  Chowder: I know!! They totally fell for it!!
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- (Chowder sees different creatures doing tricks and making a lot of money)
  Chowder: Wow! How are those people making so much money?
  Kiwi: It's because they got talent, Chowder.
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- Chowder: Mung's the bomb! He can do anything!
  Mung: Oh, that's not true, Chowder. You know I can't raise the dead.
  Chowder: You just haven't tried hard enough.
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- Mung: I want you Meaches to know that all your collective mamas are dumb and ugly!
  Meach #1: Hey, you can't talk that way about my dumb, ugly mama!
  Meach #2: Uh, get him, son!
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- Chowder: Mung, have you ever tried asking nicely?
  Mung: I never thought of that. I was too busy screaming as they chewed my entrails to think about my manners.
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NOTES (8)
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- This is the first time Chowder dresses as a girl.
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- Panini and Gazpacho don't appear in this episode.
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- In both of these episodes, there is a fourth wall break. In The Broken Part, when Mung is looking for Chowder in the beginning, he knocks on the glass of the TV. In The Meach Harvest, Mung runs to his car and turns on the radio singing the Chowder theme song.
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- This is the second appearance of the man holding Marzipan City from Burple Nurples.
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- The first appearance of puppet version of Gazpacho.
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- Credits: Gazpacho and Chowder dancing in the kitchen until Gazpacho breaks his back and falls down.
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- This marks the second appearance of younger version of Mung Daal since Mung on the Rocks.
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- Introduced Foods and/or Recipes:
  
  Feetza Pies
  Mince-Meach Pie
  Meaches
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- Episode Title: The Meach Harvest
  
  It could be a parody of the movie, "The Ice Harvest."
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- Feet Locker
  The store Chowder goes to get Feet from is named Feet Locker. This may be an allusion to the chain of shoe stores named Foot Locker.
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- Looney Tunes: When Chowder dresses up as a woman, or crossdresses, and tricks his pursuer into going the wrong way, it's similar to what Bugs Bunny sometimes does to Elmer Fudd in order to lure the hunter off of his trail.
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- Ladies B' Us
  This clothing store is a parody of the national store company of Toys R' Us and Kid's 'R' Us.
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- Banjo-Kazooie:
  The red bird who appears in The Broken Part looks a lot like Kazooie from a video game series, and is similar in the fact that they both lay eggs.
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- Rocky III:
  The training montage and song Chowder works out to in The Broken Part is similar to the 1982 hit Survivor song called Eye of the Tiger.
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- Name: Feetzas
  
  They are a reference to pizzas and feet.
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- Meaches may also be a reference to the Oddworld creature of the same name. These creatures were also used as food.
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- Name: Meaches:
  
  They are a reference to Peaches.
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