I remember liking this show a lot when I was little, but I only have faint memories from the few times I caught it on tv. It had so much potential for pulling in audiences 😞
Chalkzone was one of those gems of a show that could’ve become a timeless classic if more care was put into it. It was fun, didn’t take itself seriously, and I absolutely wanted to have some of that magic chalk for myself. Even after all these years, it has a special place in my heart.
I remember this show when i was a child and was hoping for more episodes to happen but then out of nowhere there wasnt no new episodes and life move on and forgot this show. Thankfully i stumbled upon this channel and im thankful that we got a full answer of what happen to this show.
“There’s not a kid on the planet who didn’t want to find rudy’s chalk” Man, when i was a kid i was obsessed with this show. I imagined how i would just leave this world and create whatever tf i wanted in the chalkzone. Gosh, those are the good old days.
I am surprised entirely by this vid and its reaction. I never talked about Chalk Zone with anybody, but man, did I _hate_ it as a kid. Rudy "Tibooti" or whatever his name was and all the other characters were _so_ annoying. That supposedly "cool" hero he made that actually was the opposite of cool... but the worst were the voices. I couldn't watch the show because the voices (and the terrible theme song) completely repulsed me when I was younger. I just hated the characters, mostly. It felt like an inferior Fairly Odd Parents, both of which emerged from an Oh Yeah! Cartoons short
Bio Booster Armor Guyver. Akira. Invader Zim. Ed Edd & Eddy, Chalkzone, Courage the Cowardly Dog, DBZ, Samurai Jack, K.N.D, Avatar:TLA. & Then cartoons died until Adventure Time & Gravity Falls happened & Samurai Jack got rebooted. Now they're back to being dead, but at least Anime is still pretty good. Even if we will never get another Black Lagoon Season & Berserk is never going to get better until they make a Movie again. Devilman Crybaby & Mob Psycho 100 was great!
@@inkshermit9055 Hey, Jimmy Neutron was an honestly good show! If you mind the graphics. It had quality writing, interesting characters, and interesting stories. Both cartoons were obviously good. At least, they are, if you ask me. I enjoyed both of them as a kid, and I enjoyed Jimmy Neutron last time I binge watched it when I was 16
@@liljuice2357 Unless you dreamed it up. Then again, for many years I thought I "dreamed up" that episode of The Proud Family where Oscar Proud got stuck in a smoking TV, Suga Mama asked the little boy messing with Oscar "What are you doing watching this scary show?" and then when Oscar was on a channel he liked, Trudy changed it to a channel where Oscar was being chased by a bull (I think) and he was speaking Spanish. December 20, 2020, 3:33pm
Chalkzone, CatDog, Rugrats, My Life As A Teenage Robot, Fairly Oddparents, Jimmy Neutron, Danny Phantom, Hey Arnold, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some other classics they destroyed.
Thanks man. As co-Creator of ChalkZone I feel you've gotten the essence of Nick's strange Dislike/Hate relationship with ChalkZone essentially correct, although I would quibble with a couple of specifics. We were canceled at 40 epps while Fairly Oddparents went on to 120. (For example.) ChalkZone was far and away the most conceptually adventurous and fully realized series in Nick's stable at the time, even including the juggernaut SpongeBob. Why we are persona non grata at Nick can possibly be explained by why Nick itself is networka non grata to the entire planet now. Who drops a ball as big as Nickelodeon? Only Nickelodeon itself.
@@Fleurlean4 Yes. The company where I was Creative Director (Fred/Alan Inc.) had the HA! account, one of the two rival comedy networks. (The other was Comedy Channel.) When they merged it fell to us to Position (an older term for Brand) the new resulting comedy network. I worked with Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman to create the concept of THE place on TV where hot new comedy talent would want to bring their best stuff. I dubbed it Comedy Central, and wrote the original branding document.
Bill Burnett I can’t imagine seeing something you had so much influence on airing some of the greatest comedy shows known to man. Thank you for your contributions sir!
Fun fact about Chalk Zone: it seems to be a spiritual successor to the 1970s British children's show "Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings". The basic premise of the show is virtually the same. Check it out!
Okay, but a finally young Rudy episode where he says bye to snap and the chalk zone to “grow up” flash into him in college (where most of the viewers are in or around that point in their lives currently) and in college Rudy finds snap again and snap helps him navigate adulthood rather than childhood. Is something I can very much get behind.
I LOVED this show as a kid, but never understood until now why I barely ever got to see it on TV. Even in the limited times I managed to get to watch this I still have such fond memories and feelings towards it
Same here. I used to draw on clipboards sitting around my house and draw portals and tried sticking my head into them in hopes of opening portals to ChalkZone. ...Too bad I did it with marker since we didn’t have chalk around the house. But hey, I could’ve opened a portal to a dry erase world. : P
Back before the only show they would air was spongebob I would always get up at 6 am and watch any cartoon that was on. Invader Zim, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Mighty B, Danny Phantom. You name it, I've probably seen it
And that people who don't know much of anything (not even if chalk still exists) are the perfect candidates for video essays on old cartoons from their youth. Just regurgitate what you know about the show that has already been said on Wikipedia and TVTropes, make suppositions about why the big, bad network screwed it over, and you'll be on Easy Street in no time.
Even to this day, Nickelodeon has remained off the rails. They're still squeezing the last good thing they produced for money to keep the lights on. Poor Spongebob.
Honestly SpongeBob died a long time ago, hell I'd Argue SpongeBob died early in its lifespan, but hey what's a little necromancy to kids? Now that most of us are adults now we can see the production value hasn't been the same in at least a decade. How it's still running I don't get.
Nickelodeon Philippines always aired this show at awkward timeslots too. 3pm was bad for its target market (rich kids with cable tv) because its was school dismissal time and students are still in school waiting for the schoolbus to pick them up or going home.
I remember "Chalkzone" was aired in a certain local TV channel in the Philippines back in 2000s. It was originally aired in English but later dubbed in Tagalog. It was such a good show and I found out that one of its special episodes "The Big Blow Up" was aired there earlier before the US.
This show reminded me to enjoy art. I was bullied a lot as a kid and this show encouraged me to keep doing art in the childish hope that my world would come alive one day.
TheCoyoteOutlaw back in elementary and even middle school i used to befriend jocks and the smart kids,if i was there at that moment in time I defended kids that got picked on or bullied by other kids or jocks, i never liked that shit happening to other people that werent doing anything wrong to other people. Hell,i even picked up drawing as well cause i thought it was cool and before the iphones or smartphones were all the rage
Chalk Zone was the f*cking awesome... and that theme is not going anywhere. I haven't watched an episode in like ten years and it came right back when you played the first measure.
i used to watch this show with my sister before she passed away when we were kids. strange yet nice feeling to remember it today. definitely one of our favorite cartoons then :)
This was the show that made me love chalk. My favorite character from this show was, and still is, Snap. I wished we could have seen that character arc for Snap. It would be so heartbreaking. It would have been a good lesson for kids though; its okay to outgrow your old friends and make new ones. Or like, it would have been even more heart breaking if Rudy had drawn a chalk version of himself to stay with Snap.
That definitely would have been interesting to see in the show. It’s heartbreaking, but it fits. Your second idea of having Rudy draw a version of himself to stay with Snap is definitely heartbreaking and interesting, and I like it. It’s a good arc to have and explore
@@celty5858 Stephen Hillenburg was very against the idea of Spongbob getting spinoffs. So the fact they are doing it after his death knowing very well that he would be very against it is disrespectful.
I see chalk at walmarts, grocery stores, dollar stores and every art shop ive ever been to in Canada... kids on my street made an elaborate chalk hop scotch just the other week
Yeah, no. Almost all educators use whiteboards and markers instead of chalk these days, and that's assuming their school doesn't have the budget for display screens. Where chalk does get used heavily is sidewalk drawings. They are all over the place in any urban neighborhood with kids, and a fair number of suburban ones.
I remember watching Chalk Zone all the time when I was little. We have this glass wall in our shower, and I always drew things on it whenever I was taking a shower or bath in hopes of it coming to life like in the show. I remember drawing little people and making them houses and stuff and tried giving them things to make them happy so that once the picture faded, they would still have a good life. It really gave me a huge creativity boost.
Danielle van der Hoeven , ik had precies hetzelfde! Haha. Wanneer ik in groep drie zat ging ik stiekem naar binnen en tekende ik met een krijtje een rondje op het krijtbord met de verwachting dat er een magisch portaal open zou gaan! Hahah
i literally LOVED ChalkZone growing up and whenever i mention it to anyone, they're always like "?? what's that?" ..makes me a little sad that a gem like this one didn't last long.
This is literally nostalgic. When you pointed out how late Chalkzone used to come on, it brought me back. I used to remember staying up watching through those nick sitcoms just to watch Chalkzone then go right to sleep as that would be my last toon for the day.
How lucky. I barely managed through it so I didn't see most of the episodes but I did see some episodes before it got cancelled completely. Still really loved it though and I didn't know they cancelled it up till now.
I didnt even know there was a 3rd or 4th season, though I prob caught some season 3 without knowing. Besides Avatar, I havent really watched many new nick cartoons since like 2007... I feel old now.
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I remember when Chalkzone first came out I felt like I had seen it years before, but I could never point to when I saw it before. Now that I know it had a pilot that aired in 1999... It all makes sense!
I remember having to wait around 1-2 pm to watch avatar the last Airbender live. It sucks it was on late but it makes sense now nobody will be up so early
Oh Yeah! Cartoons is one of the most underrated programs ever made for kids. To this day, there is a sincere affection I have for it. I never knew Chalk Zone lasted 4 seasons, I never saw it on the schedule. It was one of those shows I wanted to be good because of the premise, but I've might have been a bit too old for it when it was airing its 2nd season. I'm really hoping Oh Yeah! and other pilot-like compilation shows return for the viewing public in decent quality.
I use to think drawing a circle on a board would let me into the chalk world . Let’s just say I was disappointed as a young impressionable five year old
I remember watching this as a kid!!!! I was always like “Why don’t I watch it enough?” But nickelodeon ALWAYS put it in ungodly hours when us kids are asleep, ughhhh glad you made this video Chalk Zone needs to come back!
I loved Chalkzone soooooo much, I just rewatched a VHS we had recorded of the double-length special The Big Blow Up (which had yet another catchy musical sequence) and it reminded me how desperately I wanted to have my own imaginary world to escape to as a kid. Hearing about how much this show got shafted, it’s very likely that I never saw every episode.
this show is one of my childhood. elementary days, watching this at 4 or 5 ij the morning. not really sure. but im in philippines. where school starts at 7am. so i gotta wake up early. lol. me and my mom would argue because she wanted to watch morning news and we siblings want to watch cartoons. oh life was simple back then.
They should end this series like they did Invader Zim: A huge TV movie to finish off the series. Like they could use the series ending thing you mentioned for the plot
I *loved* chalkzone. It was such an inspiration, and made me want to get into drawing and animation. That perfect circle, that's what I tried to achieve to enter a _"chalkzone"_ of my own.
When I heard that Nick was bringing back a lot of their older shows like Invader Zim, Rocko's Modern Life and Hey Arnold, it gave me slight hope they would at least revive ChalkZone, which has always been my absolute favorite NickToon. Then again if they DID revive the show who's to say they're gonna forget it like they did the show all those years ago
@@tedmonson the show's mentioned above. Although, it's worth noting that they're not getting "rebooted" per say, but getting a made for television movie. I silently hope that if they get popular enough they'll get actual reboots
My memory of this show JUST got unlocked lol. It was sooo good. It’s crazy seeing all this characters and I instantly recognize them again. Weird how we can just forget something we liked so much
I remember when this show aired me and my classmates would draw on the chalkboard and erase our drawings so they could be free and happy in chalkzone, what a great show
Oh my goodness..you're digging up deep memories of these shows. I completely forgot about this show until I saw this video and suddenly remembered a flood of memories of watching this with my brother. Thank you!
“Nickelodeon treated it like their high school girlfriend right as they’re about to leave for college” OOF that hit a little too close to home but made me realize that I love and appreciate this show even more
Honestly, for the dud of a show it was, "Wayside" had one of the best theme songs ever. Too bad the show sucked (I really wanted it to be great too as I loved the books). Also, "My Life As A Teenage Robot" and "Danny Phantom" had great theme songs.
This show was pretty big dubbed in Indonesia, and was one of the Nickelodeon cartoon favorites in here.... I remember during my days in a public elementary school everyone would attempt to draw a circle and try to go to the Chalkzone. Man, I missed this show...
Netflix better be watching they would make so much money if they brought this show back from the dead and got the og creators/writer's to make the true ending they wanted to make Its like printing money you just gotta put the love and support on it
I have a limited memory of this particular toon and hearing that they held this particular show hostage for years before the first season even released might explain why I can only remember the theme song instantly but nothing else.
They, along with another show about the same general premise (kid draws world, has friends he created there) which I can't even remember the name of all aired around the same time period (if not the same slot) on YTV here in Canada, and as a kid I assumed they were related, or at least had a lot of difficulty distinguishing between them.
Hey, i want to honestly thank you for making this video. This show, like many of the cartoons from the 90's and early 2000's was a fabric of my life growing up and to see it again, after ALL these years is amazing. I probably only saw the first season, and maybe some of the second, but i never knew it ran 4 seasons and that the writers had a finished arch in their back pocket. It's all quite fascinating, so thank you again!
6:48 Holy cow! I had no idea ChalkZone was going to end like that. If it happened, it would have made ChalkZone way more interesting. Whenever I watch this program, I realize it did not have the same wide appeal as Spongebob Squarepants and The Fairly OddParents at the time, and it is a little understandable why Nickelodeon thought we would not watch it. If Nickelodeon could give us The Jungle Movie, Static Cling and Enter the Florpus, it could give us another revival film (or limited 10-episode season) about Rudy and Penny going to college and saying good-bye to Snap. June 25, 2020, 1:41am
For your opening question, chalk is used in the navy to check the operability of water-tight doors. Not a good basis to bring this show back though 😂😂😂
Yes, chalk does, indeed, still exist. I currently work in a shop that sells sidewalk chalk and some specifically for the chalkboard. I don't know why, but I find my creativity is sparked when drawing with chalk or a quill and pen in a way that regular pens and pencils don't cut it.
What Nicktoon did you watch the MOST growing up?!
Invader Zim! That show was a fever dream in cartoon form.
Rocket Power. I still like it a lot.
Catdog was the best.
SpongeBob, ChalkZone, The Fairly OddParents
Edgar and Ellen
"Chalk Zone is the best show that Nickelodeon screwed over"
It sucks how many candidates there are for that award
Harvey Beaks
Invader Zim
Legend of Korra
Am I missing any?
@@dariusmcclain5584 Making Fiends My life as a Teenage Robot
@@dariusmcclain5584
Angry Beavers
Danny Phantom
Constant Payne
Modifyers
@Shaman Xeed honestly though it was for the best in the end. Adventure Time lasted way longer than what it would have on Nickelodeon
Gets even longer if you add in shows they tried to screw over, but failed at doing so.
Looking at ATLA here
Today I learned there were more than 2 seasons of Chalk Zone. Nickelodeon did a really good job at hiding that fact.
I remember liking this show a lot when I was little, but I only have faint memories from the few times I caught it on tv. It had so much potential for pulling in audiences 😞
Seriously same. I sometimes wonder what happened to it. Now I know.
I'd happily sacrifice all of Chalk Zone, minute for minute, for Invader Zim
Same here I thought it was only 2 seasons
Matthew Murray bruh same
Chalkzone was one of those gems of a show that could’ve become a timeless classic if more care was put into it. It was fun, didn’t take itself seriously, and I absolutely wanted to have some of that magic chalk for myself. Even after all these years, it has a special place in my heart.
It could have been a classic but Nick was too busy putting all their time and effort into SpongeBob
That shit was so good man no one else from my friend group remembers it but me
I remember this show when i was a child and was hoping for more episodes to happen but then out of nowhere there wasnt no new episodes and life move on and forgot this show. Thankfully i stumbled upon this channel and im thankful that we got a full answer of what happen to this show.
There’s this amazing chalk zone fan fictions called sinful behavior check it out it’s great 🎉
It’s the first in a trilogy
“There’s not a kid on the planet who didn’t want to find rudy’s chalk”
Man, when i was a kid i was obsessed with this show. I imagined how i would just leave this world and create whatever tf i wanted in the chalkzone. Gosh, those are the good old days.
A friend and I loved this show and would draw stuff in chalk and immediately erasing it hoping it made it to ChalkZone.
Oh god I thought I was alone in liking this show
Me tooooo!!!!
This show was kinda dark tho
I am surprised entirely by this vid and its reaction. I never talked about Chalk Zone with anybody, but man, did I _hate_ it as a kid. Rudy "Tibooti" or whatever his name was and all the other characters were _so_ annoying. That supposedly "cool" hero he made that actually was the opposite of cool... but the worst were the voices. I couldn't watch the show because the voices (and the terrible theme song) completely repulsed me when I was younger.
I just hated the characters, mostly. It felt like an inferior Fairly Odd Parents, both of which emerged from an Oh Yeah! Cartoons short
The show is a gray area of my memory. I grew up with the show, saw it all the time. I just cant recall anything other than snaps voice.
There are an unsettlingly high number of other shows like this rattling around in my head. It's weird.
@@lordodysseus is Ka-blam! one of them?
Lmao why was snaps voice also the only thing i remembered about the show xD
Bio Booster Armor Guyver. Akira. Invader Zim. Ed Edd & Eddy, Chalkzone, Courage the Cowardly Dog, DBZ, Samurai Jack, K.N.D, Avatar:TLA. & Then cartoons died until Adventure Time & Gravity Falls happened & Samurai Jack got rebooted. Now they're back to being dead, but at least Anime is still pretty good. Even if we will never get another Black Lagoon Season & Berserk is never going to get better until they make a Movie again. Devilman Crybaby & Mob Psycho 100 was great!
SAAAAAME
One problem was probably that Chalkzone encouraged drawing and creativity, not buying SpongeBob and Nickelodeon merchandise.
That is way the reason I ended up doing Act
Nah they were too busy trying to get people to like the monstrous amalgamation call Jimmy Neutron...
@@inkshermit9055 they didn't need to try Jimmy Neutron was a good show.
Amazing Autist you take that back!
It was trite, derivative, they hardly even changed the script between Chicken Little and the Jimmy movies...
@@inkshermit9055 Hey, Jimmy Neutron was an honestly good show! If you mind the graphics. It had quality writing, interesting characters, and interesting stories.
Both cartoons were obviously good. At least, they are, if you ask me. I enjoyed both of them as a kid, and I enjoyed Jimmy Neutron last time I binge watched it when I was 16
god I would "KILL" to see that series arc with Rudy Growing Up and moving on from Chalk Zone it would of been a sad/happy end to the Series.
Fuck that
I’d use Chalkzone as an adult lol
_alternate title, an_ All Grown Up _done right_
They showed it in germany...atleast I think so because I think I got a little memory of this ending...
@@liljuice2357 Unless you dreamed it up. Then again, for many years I thought I "dreamed up" that episode of The Proud Family where Oscar Proud got stuck in a smoking TV, Suga Mama asked the little boy messing with Oscar "What are you doing watching this scary show?" and then when Oscar was on a channel he liked, Trudy changed it to a channel where Oscar was being chased by a bull (I think) and he was speaking Spanish. December 20, 2020, 3:33pm
a movie probably
Chalkzone, CatDog, Rugrats, My Life As A Teenage Robot, Fairly Oddparents, Jimmy Neutron, Danny Phantom, Hey Arnold, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some other classics they destroyed.
@Παναγιώτης Γεωργίου Catdog was meanspirited...? Snowflake
@Παναγιώτης Γεωργίου bro you'd lose it if you saw Tom & Jerry..
@Παναγιώτης Γεωργίου its a joke about you being sensitive
@Παναγιώτης Γεωργίου smooth brain
you just named 3 off my ex special interests my guy
Thanks man. As co-Creator of ChalkZone I feel you've gotten the essence of Nick's strange Dislike/Hate relationship with ChalkZone essentially correct, although I would quibble with a couple of specifics. We were canceled at 40 epps while Fairly Oddparents went on to 120. (For example.) ChalkZone was far and away the most conceptually adventurous and fully realized series in Nick's stable at the time, even including the juggernaut SpongeBob. Why we are persona non grata at Nick can possibly be explained by why Nick itself is networka non grata to the entire planet now. Who drops a ball as big as Nickelodeon? Only Nickelodeon itself.
Bill Burnett wow cool. Did you really come up with Comedy Central’s name?
@@Fleurlean4 Yes. The company where I was Creative Director (Fred/Alan Inc.) had the HA! account, one of the two rival comedy networks. (The other was Comedy Channel.) When they merged it fell to us to Position (an older term for Brand) the new resulting comedy network. I worked with Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman to create the concept of THE place on TV where hot new comedy talent would want to bring their best stuff. I dubbed it Comedy Central, and wrote the original branding document.
Bill Burnett I can’t imagine seeing something you had so much influence on airing some of the greatest comedy shows known to man. Thank you for your contributions sir!
Have you thought about talking with Nick on doing a revival like Rugrats or did they say no?
@@AJ-xc4qe I think of little else. Nick...well, don't get me started.
How do I recognize almost every scene but have no real memories of it??
Same lol YOU FELT THAT TOO
The vampire with the corked fangs blew my mind. I remember that so sharply, but I don't remember ever watching this show lol
Allen Ashley that’s exactly how I feel lol 😂
It's a really weird feeling.
Lol our memories got erased when the world ended in 2012. 😂
It’s incredible how memorable these scenes are. I haven’t watched this show in probably 15 years but I remember almost every scene you showed so well.
Fun fact about Chalk Zone: it seems to be a spiritual successor to the 1970s British children's show "Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings". The basic premise of the show is virtually the same. Check it out!
I was up at 6am as a kid.
No one in my grade school believed me when I said new Chalkzone episodes were coming out at 6am
😂😂
For me it was between 3am and 4am on nicktoons
I watched Camp Lazlo in that time slot
For me it was 5 am, before Spongebob and after Dora the explorer lol
Lmao! This shit was mythical 🤣
Nickelodeon passed up Adventure Time for Fanboy and Chum Chum; their judgment holds no value
It seems they also passed on Regular Show.
@@nehehehgraylois Still better than anything that spawns from Fanboy and Chum Chum
🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
I don't blame them as good as adventure time is the pilot ep was God awful
Well thank goodness they did given what I’m learning of their track record 😅
Okay, but a finally young Rudy episode where he says bye to snap and the chalk zone to “grow up” flash into him in college (where most of the viewers are in or around that point in their lives currently) and in college Rudy finds snap again and snap helps him navigate adulthood rather than childhood.
Is something I can very much get behind.
The show is dark
@@user-tu6lj3ue3q Everything is dark if you choose to see it that way.
I LOVED this show as a kid, but never understood until now why I barely ever got to see it on TV. Even in the limited times I managed to get to watch this I still have such fond memories and feelings towards it
The best episode when Rudy "fixed" a bunch of chalk drawings and it blew up in his face. Dont fix other people's art. Great lesson.
Lol, is that the surrealist artist episode??
@@ShatteredGlass916
"Draw and let Draw"
Season 3
This show is the reason why I draw
The penguins with the ear muffs has forever stuck with me.
I think that episode was not about minding your own business and not trying to fix other people's problems.
Whenever I played with chalk as a kid, I would always draw a giant circle, hoping the offchance that I happened to have the one real magic chalk.
Same here. I used to draw on clipboards sitting around my house and draw portals and tried sticking my head into them in hopes of opening portals to ChalkZone.
...Too bad I did it with marker since we didn’t have chalk around the house. But hey, I could’ve opened a portal to a dry erase world. : P
Zack WithaK maaan when I first saw the sea bear episode of spongebob, all I did with chalk was make anti sea bear circles.
Don’t give up!
Back before the only show they would air was spongebob I would always get up at 6 am and watch any cartoon that was on. Invader Zim, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Mighty B, Danny Phantom. You name it, I've probably seen it
OMG THE WHITE EYED DUDE. SO HE WASNT A SLEEP-DEPRIVED FEVER DREAM I HAD WHEN I WAS A BABY. HOLY SHIT ITS REAL
He is Jenny. He is.
All Ive learned from these videos is Nick has no idea how to handle good shows
To be fair, this was the first time anything like this was happening.
I don’t like pretty much anything that’s on there anymore. The icarly Generation was the last good nick did
That’s what they did with teenage robot too
Bureaucracy
And that people who don't know much of anything (not even if chalk still exists) are the perfect candidates for video essays on old cartoons from their youth. Just regurgitate what you know about the show that has already been said on Wikipedia and TVTropes, make suppositions about why the big, bad network screwed it over, and you'll be on Easy Street in no time.
Even to this day, Nickelodeon has remained off the rails. They're still squeezing the last good thing they produced for money to keep the lights on. Poor Spongebob.
:'(
Most of the original people have passed on 😭
Honestly SpongeBob died a long time ago, hell I'd Argue SpongeBob died early in its lifespan, but hey what's a little necromancy to kids?
Now that most of us are adults now we can see the production value hasn't been the same in at least a decade. How it's still running I don't get.
SPONGEBOI ME BOB! WE ARE BEING MILKED TO DEATH BY NICKOLODEON! ARG ARG ARG ARG ARG
@@eveescastle5866 its still popular with kids because people who grew up with the show, show it to their kids
“Best theme song”
Danny Phantom wants to know your location.
nahhh its chalk zone or jimmy neutron
Nope, thats Fanboy & Chum Chum
🎵 *Rudy got the chalk* 🎵
Chalk Zone is better
Hey Arnold wants to know your location.
Nickelodeon Philippines always aired this show at awkward timeslots too. 3pm was bad for its target market (rich kids with cable tv) because its was school dismissal time and students are still in school waiting for the schoolbus to pick them up or going home.
Yeah, at midnight. lol
For me If I wanted to watch the show I had to wake up at five in the frickin mornin😤
I remember "Chalkzone" was aired in a certain local TV channel in the Philippines back in 2000s. It was originally aired in English but later dubbed in Tagalog. It was such a good show and I found out that one of its special episodes "The Big Blow Up" was aired there earlier before the US.
This show reminded me to enjoy art. I was bullied a lot as a kid and this show encouraged me to keep doing art in the childish hope that my world would come alive one day.
TheCoyoteOutlaw back in elementary and even middle school i used to befriend jocks and the smart kids,if i was there at that moment in time I defended kids that got picked on or bullied by other kids or jocks, i never liked that shit happening to other people that werent doing anything wrong to other people. Hell,i even picked up drawing as well cause i thought it was cool and before the iphones or smartphones were all the rage
Same honestly. I remember drawing on my little chalkboard and erasing it with a smile haha
Chalk Zone was the f*cking awesome... and that theme is not going anywhere. I haven't watched an episode in like ten years and it came right back when you played the first measure.
Rudy's got the chalk!
Vric Henrdricson on god tho I new know that theme song like the back of my hand
About 15 years for me. It all came back and put a damn smile on my face. Damn shame it got canned. It was one of my favorites.
i used to watch this show with my sister before she passed away when we were kids. strange yet nice feeling to remember it today. definitely one of our favorite cartoons then :)
This was the show that made me love chalk. My favorite character from this show was, and still is, Snap. I wished we could have seen that character arc for Snap. It would be so heartbreaking. It would have been a good lesson for kids though; its okay to outgrow your old friends and make new ones. Or like, it would have been even more heart breaking if Rudy had drawn a chalk version of himself to stay with Snap.
That definitely would have been interesting to see in the show. It’s heartbreaking, but it fits. Your second idea of having Rudy draw a version of himself to stay with Snap is definitely heartbreaking and interesting, and I like it. It’s a good arc to have and explore
Nickelodeon: *Stops airing Chalkzone*
Also Nickelodeon: *Makes Spongebob reboot which is disrespectful to Stephen Hillenburg*
Spongebob reboot?
Actually it's a spinoff
@@celty5858 Stephen Hillenburg was very against the idea of Spongbob getting spinoffs. So the fact they are doing it after his death knowing very well that he would be very against it is disrespectful.
@@celty5858 it disrespected one of his wishes
"No spinoffs for spongebob"
I'm beginning to notice a pattern, of Nickelodeon just being disrespectful in general.
Loved Chalkzone, the songs , the art style and story. I remember erasing a drawing on a chalkboard then saying bye have fun in chalkzone.
*Jeremiah would like to know ur location*
I’m an assistant English teacher in Japan and we still use chalk and chalkboards 😅
I see chalk at walmarts, grocery stores, dollar stores and every art shop ive ever been to in Canada... kids on my street made an elaborate chalk hop scotch just the other week
I STILL remember that "Making Faces" song to this day and I'm 31
My favorite song was "Come to Life" for ever, im 24 now, this show represent the best fridays of my childhood :(
How do I look to yoooouuuu
Nerdstalgic: Does chalk even exist anymore?
Math professors: *heavy breathing*
Well don’t breathe in too deeply, there’s chalk dust everywhere
Got any of that Hagoromo chalk? *crack head neck scratch*
@@BrothersByBud Lmfao is that the chalk that teachers stock piled because it was so godly and they stopped manufacturing? bc that stuff is wack asf
Japan's most important exports are cartoon porn and professional grade chalk.
Yeah, no. Almost all educators use whiteboards and markers instead of chalk these days, and that's assuming their school doesn't have the budget for display screens. Where chalk does get used heavily is sidewalk drawings. They are all over the place in any urban neighborhood with kids, and a fair number of suburban ones.
I remember watching Chalk Zone all the time when I was little. We have this glass wall in our shower, and I always drew things on it whenever I was taking a shower or bath in hopes of it coming to life like in the show. I remember drawing little people and making them houses and stuff and tried giving them things to make them happy so that once the picture faded, they would still have a good life. It really gave me a huge creativity boost.
Dawww.
John Stonik Unimaginative Asshole
Danielle van der Hoeven , ik had precies hetzelfde! Haha. Wanneer ik in groep drie zat ging ik stiekem naar binnen en tekende ik met een krijtje een rondje op het krijtbord met de verwachting dat er een magisch portaal open zou gaan! Hahah
@John Stonik Ever heard of dolls and dollhouses? I was seven or something at the time. Some people actually have a big imagination lmao
John Stonik K troll.
i literally LOVED ChalkZone growing up and whenever i mention it to anyone, they're always like "?? what's that?" ..makes me a little sad that a gem like this one didn't last long.
This is literally nostalgic. When you pointed out how late Chalkzone used to come on, it brought me back. I used to remember staying up watching through those nick sitcoms just to watch Chalkzone then go right to sleep as that would be my last toon for the day.
To this day i have never forgotten the "put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up" song they did in chalkzone.
Me too
Ah yes, the cure to the love disease
Oh shit you just made me remember that for the first time in years 😂 I had completely forgotten this show existed till now
The Muppet Show did it _long_ before they did.
Dude same
I was just old enough to see almost every episode of chalk zone I adored this show.
How lucky.
I barely managed through it so I didn't see most of the episodes but I did see some episodes before it got cancelled completely. Still really loved it though and I didn't know they cancelled it up till now.
I didnt even know there was a 3rd or 4th season, though I prob caught some season 3 without knowing. Besides Avatar, I havent really watched many new nick cartoons since like 2007... I feel old now.
I remember seeing like 2-3 episodes and wanted to watch more, but couldn't figure out when it was on. I now know why.
I remember getting up at 6 in the morning to watch Chalkzone. I appreciated the greatness even at 7 years old!
Me too! I was even 7 too!
I remember my dad recording the episodes for me so I can watch Chalkzone whenever I went to.
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I remember when Chalkzone first came out I felt like I had seen it years before, but I could never point to when I saw it before.
Now that I know it had a pilot that aired in 1999... It all makes sense!
I wasnt even alive lmao
Exactly I felt the same way lol
Exactly I felt the same way lol
That's What I'm Saying I Grew Up Watching This But That Theme Song Is One Of A Kind Man That Shit Slaps 💯
You’re pulling memories out of my brain I forgot I had
I remember having to wait around 1-2 pm to watch avatar the last Airbender live. It sucks it was on late but it makes sense now nobody will be up so early
I love how Rudy would use Chalkzone to travel like the Nether.
If Nickelodeon had to pick a cartoon to represent themselves, they would choose fan boy and chum chum
I bet they would love that
What’s wrong wit fan boy and chum chum
Averagebalckdude 13 it’s awful
@@averageblackdude1380 you got 5 years?
@@averageblackdude1380 its shit.
Someone F I N A L L Y talks about this!!!! I loved this show!!! Great video my guy!
Why out of all comments does he heart this one (no offense)
Oh Yeah! Cartoons is one of the most underrated programs ever made for kids. To this day, there is a sincere affection I have for it. I never knew Chalk Zone lasted 4 seasons, I never saw it on the schedule. It was one of those shows I wanted to be good because of the premise, but I've might have been a bit too old for it when it was airing its 2nd season. I'm really hoping Oh Yeah! and other pilot-like compilation shows return for the viewing public in decent quality.
Chalk zone was the SHIT MAN. I LOVED IT.
I remember this show, I thought it was so awesome. No wonder I always felt like I only saw like 10 episodes of it
I like how he sounds like he's choking every time he says chalk
To me, it just sounded pompous.
I cant stand it
Choalk
Damn, at least he isn’t a prick like all of you guys
@@Firehendrix There's just a lot of emphasis on a lot of his consonants...
I forgot about this instant classic! Rudy's got the Chalk! Chalk zone!!
50 yrs before this ,there was" Simon in the land of Chalkdrawings" ....miss that one
I use to think drawing a circle on a board would let me into the chalk world . Let’s just say I was disappointed as a young impressionable five year old
Do you still believe that kind of stuff can happen?
Maybe you just have to draw a more perfect circle?
You need a special chalk for that.
Jas I knew it wouldn’t work... but I dreamed
I remember watching this as a kid!!!! I was always like “Why don’t I watch it enough?” But nickelodeon ALWAYS put it in ungodly hours when us kids are asleep, ughhhh glad you made this video Chalk Zone needs to come back!
I loved Chalkzone soooooo much, I just rewatched a VHS we had recorded of the double-length special The Big Blow Up (which had yet another catchy musical sequence) and it reminded me how desperately I wanted to have my own imaginary world to escape to as a kid. Hearing about how much this show got shafted, it’s very likely that I never saw every episode.
"Does chalk still exist?"
My university teachers still use it...
WHAT!? We missed out on a cool and satisfying ending for Nickelodeon's tomfoolery!?
Damn shame.
I loved Chalkzone as a kid, but only the first two seasons. I didn't know it had two more seasons before its cancellation.
I watched season 3 and 4..but 4 was weird
You do an amazing job of evoking emotion when talking about these shows. It brings me back to when I was a kid and watching these shows.
this show is one of my childhood. elementary days, watching this at 4 or 5 ij the morning. not really sure. but im in philippines. where school starts at 7am. so i gotta wake up early. lol.
me and my mom would argue because she wanted to watch morning news and we siblings want to watch cartoons. oh life was simple back then.
When I'm in elementary, I always draw a big circle just to see if the chalkzone portal would open. XD
They should end this series like they did Invader Zim: A huge TV movie to finish off the series. Like they could use the series ending thing you mentioned for the plot
IMO, the original ending sounded more bittersweet than the ending to Toy Story 3.
The originality & variety of the new songs at the end every week was what did it for me!
I *loved* chalkzone. It was such an inspiration, and made me want to get into drawing and animation. That perfect circle, that's what I tried to achieve to enter a _"chalkzone"_ of my own.
A day later: "I can't believe Robotboy existed"
NO, JACKASS! *BOBOT BOI!*
When I heard that Nick was bringing back a lot of their older shows like Invader Zim, Rocko's Modern Life and Hey Arnold, it gave me slight hope they would at least revive ChalkZone, which has always been my absolute favorite NickToon.
Then again if they DID revive the show who's to say they're gonna forget it like they did the show all those years ago
Nick didn’t revive them, Netflix did.
What did Netflix revive exactly?
Nickelodeon reviewed it but then decided to distribute it through netflix
@@tedmonson the show's mentioned above. Although, it's worth noting that they're not getting "rebooted" per say, but getting a made for television movie. I silently hope that if they get popular enough they'll get actual reboots
When will we be able to watch those on Netflix?
My memory of this show JUST got unlocked lol. It was sooo good. It’s crazy seeing all this characters and I instantly recognize them again. Weird how we can just forget something we liked so much
Exactly what I was feeling
People in 2021: Among Sus memes
Me in 2011: RUDY GOT THE CHALKA CHALKA CHALK CHALKZONE
Whats the matter blue boy?
No lie, Chalkzone was my gateway to writing fanfiction.
For me i started writing little comics and stuff omg I loved it 😭
I remember when this show aired me and my classmates would draw on the chalkboard and erase our drawings so they could be free and happy in chalkzone, what a great show
I vividly remember sneaking into my primary classrooms at lunchtime and stealing full, unbroken chalk from boxes to play with in the schoolyard
Oh my goodness..you're digging up deep memories of these shows. I completely forgot about this show until I saw this video and suddenly remembered a flood of memories of watching this with my brother. Thank you!
Nickelodeon is the EA of television.
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They coulda made a killing just selling chalk straight up after this show aired, damn shame
King Ugly yeah seriously, I think they're idiots for not doing that
@@anthonyfox585 I think prices actually increased during the airing of this show. Too bad they went back down after.
I forgot this show completely.. thank you for the good memories and questions answered
"The best show that Niceklodeon screwed over"
Catscrath: "Hold my beer"
FINALLY SOMEONE MENTIONS IT
I was just remembering this show today.
Hold my waffles
idk why but in the Philippines school started @7AM so I would wake up to watch this show as I prepare for school.
I would watch it when I couldn't sleep most of the time because I was sick
That frog thing would haunt my nightmares as a kid, thanks for reminding me and ruining my sleep for the next few days.
Also that heart shaped lady who threatened Snap with sex
Man, the nostalgia is real.
“Nickelodeon treated it like their high school girlfriend right as they’re about to leave for college”
OOF that hit a little too close to home but made me realize that I love and appreciate this show even more
"best themesong in television history" didn't know this was a danny phantom video
Hey, Arnold! - Aw, that's cute
aahh Danny phantom
Honestly, for the dud of a show it was, "Wayside" had one of the best theme songs ever. Too bad the show sucked (I really wanted it to be great too as I loved the books). Also, "My Life As A Teenage Robot" and "Danny Phantom" had great theme songs.
Kappa Mikey, Making Fiends, Danny Phantom, My Life As A Teenage Robot, Catscratch etc had great theme song for Nicktoons.
@@100mesmerized9 Making Fiends had just about the worst music... Idk what you're talking about with that one. But the rest I agree.
This show was pretty big dubbed in Indonesia, and was one of the Nickelodeon cartoon favorites in here.... I remember during my days in a public elementary school everyone would attempt to draw a circle and try to go to the Chalkzone. Man, I missed this show...
When I was around highschool, I used to wake up at 5 am just to get to catch an episode or two
Netflix better be watching they would make so much money if they brought this show back from the dead and got the og creators/writer's to make the true ending they wanted to make
Its like printing money you just gotta put the love and support on it
Also remember how zim(another very beloved nicktoon that got screwed by the network) is getting the new movie released on netflix.
If netflix decided to bring old Nickelodeon shows back and continue them I would start paying
Thanks to Nickelodeon, I completely forgot about this show until now. Thank you for this!
This show was hidden from my memory! I’m glad you made this video‼️
i still remember waking up at 5:30am when i was 10 because i really like thw show.
I have a limited memory of this particular toon and hearing that they held this particular show hostage for years before the first season even released might explain why I can only remember the theme song instantly but nothing else.
I used to watch Chalk Zone with my kids and enjoyed it. It reminded me of Harold and the Purple Crayon from my youth
They, along with another show about the same general premise (kid draws world, has friends he created there) which I can't even remember the name of all aired around the same time period (if not the same slot) on YTV here in Canada, and as a kid I assumed they were related, or at least had a lot of difficulty distinguishing between them.
Snap is a really genius character design too, he is so memorable with the chalk world
Hey, i want to honestly thank you for making this video. This show, like many of the cartoons from the 90's and early 2000's was a fabric of my life growing up and to see it again, after ALL these years is amazing. I probably only saw the first season, and maybe some of the second, but i never knew it ran 4 seasons and that the writers had a finished arch in their back pocket. It's all quite fascinating, so thank you again!
I hope for a Chalkzone revival movie with the college plot
That would be live.
No they would have ruin it
Wait 'til I tell you kids about Harold and the Purple Crayon.
The Original Gamer omfg
I thought that was a fever dream
Dude this video made me remember that show but I couldn't remember the name! Thanks!
Please, I need that back in my life, it was so calming at night for me
*HA!* Nice.
6:48 Holy cow! I had no idea ChalkZone was going to end like that. If it happened, it would have made ChalkZone way more interesting. Whenever I watch this program, I realize it did not have the same wide appeal as Spongebob Squarepants and The Fairly OddParents at the time, and it is a little understandable why Nickelodeon thought we would not watch it. If Nickelodeon could give us The Jungle Movie, Static Cling and Enter the Florpus, it could give us another revival film (or limited 10-episode season) about Rudy and Penny going to college and saying good-bye to Snap. June 25, 2020, 1:41am
For your opening question, chalk is used in the navy to check the operability of water-tight doors. Not a good basis to bring this show back though 😂😂😂
Chalk Zone was amazing and I wish more people remembered it!!
chalk zone & bob ross are the main reasons i was into art as a child :/ (and its the career i eventually followed)
Bob Ross was coo as fuck!
The reason why I like this show is because of the theme song.
The guitar part tingles my spine everytime.
Yes, chalk does, indeed, still exist. I currently work in a shop that sells sidewalk chalk and some specifically for the chalkboard. I don't know why, but I find my creativity is sparked when drawing with chalk or a quill and pen in a way that regular pens and pencils don't cut it.