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Shnitzel Quits is the 33rd episode of the first season. It is the first double feature (22-minute episode) of the show.

Plot[]

At the beginning of the episode, Shnitzel is forced to unclog the toilet by Mung Daal. It turns out that Chowder was stuck in the toilet. The episode continues with three floating rats singing about Shnitzel's hardships in a montage of Shnitzel doing ridiculous chores referring to him as "Shnitzel-Fella". After Shnitzel is denied a raise by Truffles, he quits Mung Daal's catering.

He finds work by answering a want ad from Ms. Endive. Shnitzel is welcomed with open arms by Ms. Endive, who drops many sexual innuendos, and a clingy Panini who wants to know more about Chowder, and even breaks down the fourth wall by asking the question, "What's Chowder's favorite cartoon, I bet it's Chowder!" Shnitzel is given a new "uniform", which consists of pants, a bow tie and no shirt. Ms. Endive, who continues to drop innuendos, pretends to drown, in order to receive CPR from Shnitzel. Meanwhile back at Mung Daal's catering, Chowder and Mung feel lost without Shnitzel and even hire Tofu, a giant, angry block of Tofu, to help out at one point. They decide to steal Shnitzel back.

Mung, Chowder, and Truffles attempt to sneak into Endive's catering by distracting her with a false love letter. However, Endive is a "speed reader" and catches the gang sneaking Shnitzel out in a garbage bag. Mung Daal battles Endive by using Shnitzel as a weapon. Ironically, as he does this, Mung Daal states that they are taking Shnitzel back to where they care and love him. The gang makes it out when Chowder distracts Endive. However, Shnitzel confronts Mung in front of Endive's catering, saying how Mung never treated him right and she treats him much better than then. Endive is particularly amused to hear this and gloats. After Mung fails to get Shnitzel to return, since he attempted to use a comb until realizing Shnitzel doesn't have hair, the latter stays with Endive who gloats on her victory.

As the gang leave, Endive is happy Shnitzel chose her and calms him of his anger over the past. She then sets up a marriage ceremony to wed herself and Shnitzel. Shnitzel points out that he just came back for the job, to Endive's grief. Shnitzel then explains he already has a girlfriend and shows her a photo of himself with a rock wearing a pink bow. Endive, steaming mad, that she was led on then knocks Shintzel out with a rolling pin. Upon awakening, he finds himself tied up in a pot above a fire with Endive watching him. She states it can still work between them, as he asks if she'll eat him but she explains she is only "Stewing him up to the thought of marriage." He escapes her clutches, and escapes upstairs with her in hot pursuit.

Shnitzel is eventually trapped on a very high balcony by Endive and a Chowder obsessed Panini. Sighting a large bird with a target flying by, he decides to leap to safety. Panini and Endive aren't surprised, with Endive sadly remarking to Panini "they always do, my dear, they always do" and goes back inside. Shnitzel unfortunately misses the bird by an inch. He stops falling right as he is about to hit the ground and is pulled up by a large puppet hand and is placed on a cloud. Shnitzel's savior turns out to be a large puppet of Chowder creator C.H. Greenblatt. Greenblatt encourages Shnitzel to return to Mung Daal's catering because they always doing nice things for him like taking care of him when he was sick, and gave him money for his gradutation. He then rhetorically asks who drove 5 hours to come get him when he entered the bad side of Lasagna Town, but Shnitzel reveals that they never knew he needed help. Anyway, Greenblatt also convinces him that he needs Chowder and Mung more than they need Shinitzel. He show them how miserable they are without him and  Greenblatt drops a giant stick of blutter on Mung and Chowder when Mung ask for it. Shnitzel returns and free the two. In exchange for his services, Mung will give Shnitzel a big raise, a massage and every other Friday off. Chowder offers Shnitzel an old pudding cup covered in mold which holds special value to Chowder, being the first dish he and Shnitzel ever made together.

Shnitzel accepts the job and eats the pudding cup, getting sick (although he was shown to be very touched by the fact that Chowder had saved it after all that time and that the pudding cup meant that much to Chowder).


1st Appearence: C.H. Greenblatt (in puppet form)

Quotes[]

  • Mung Daal: Initiate plan bravo delta niner. Agent Chowder, you keep a lookout. Truffles, prepare to descend.

  • C.H. Greenblatt (in puppet form): There. all better. Hey, Shnitzel, it's me, your creator. Listen, dude, I'm telling ya. You got to go back to Mung's.
  • Shnitzel: Radda!
  • C.H. Greenblatt (in puppet form): Don't you get it? Without you there, nothing's right! It's like the cosmos is out of whack!

Note/Trivia[]

  • When Shnitzel rips his apron off, he has a spare.
  • The song the mice sang is a parody of "Cinderella Work Song", from the 1950 Walt Disney's Cinderella. Even so, they say "Shnitzel-Fella", which rhymes with "Cinderella".
  • The way the broccoli food monster drags Shnitzel with his vines to his mouth so that he can eat Shnitzel is a reference to the film Little Shop of Horrors.
  • This is one of two episodes in which Chowder is shown breathing fire.
  • This is the first two-parted episode.
    • It is also Schnitzel's first speaking role in a puppet credit sequence.
  • Truffles' move The pain of a thousand flushes was parodied of Naruto's A thousand years of death since both were in the rear end of their victims.
  • When Shnitzel kissed Endive, when she wakes, in the first scene there isn't any lipstick but on the second scene there is.
  • The scene where Endive pretends to drown so she can kiss Shnitzel is a reference to The Sandlot, where one of the boys pretends to drown so he can kiss the pretty lifeguard, Wendy Peffercorn.
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Season 1 The Froggy Apple Crumple ThumpkinChowder's GirlfriendBurple NurplesShnitzel Makes a DepositGrubble GumThe Cinnamini MonsterCertifrycation ClassThe Sing BeansThe Wrong AddressThe Wrong CustomerMahjongg NightStinky LoveThe Thrice Cream ManThe Flibber Flabber DietGazpacho Stands UpA Taste of MarzipanThe Puckerberry OverlordsThe ElemelonsAt Your ServiceChowder and Mr. FuguThe VacationThe Sleep EaterSniffleballMung on the RocksThe Heavy SleeperThe Moldy TouchThe Bruised BluenanaShnitzel and the Lead FarfelThe Thousand Pound CakeThe Rat SandwichChowder Loses His HatBrain GrubShnitzel QuitsThe Broken PartThe Meach HarvestBanned from the StandCréme Puff HandsThe Apprentice Games
Season 2 The ArboriansThe Garage SalePanini for PresidentChowder's BabysitterThe Fire BreatherThe Flying Flinger LingonsHey, Hey It's Knishmas!Chowder's Catering CompanyThe Catch PhraseThe Hot DateShopping SpreeThe Party CruiseWon Ton BombsThe Big Hat BiddiesThe Deadly MazeKid ShnitzelGazpacho Fights BackThe BLT'sThe Trouble with TrufflesThe Dinner TheaterBig BallThe Brain FreezeThe Snail CarThe LollistopsEndive's Dirty SecretBig FoodPaint the TownThe BlackoutThe Dice CycleThe Chain RecipeThe GardenSheboodlesGazpacho Moves InMy Big Fat Stinky WeddingApprentice Appreciation DayThe Grape WormA Faire to RememberTofu Town Showdown
Season 3 Hands on a Big MixerThe Blast RazThe Spookiest House in MarzipanThe Poultry GeistThe Apprentice ScoutsThe Belgian Waffle Slobber-BarkerA Little Bit of Pizzazz!The Birthday SuitsThe HeistThe PrankOld Man ThymeChowder's MagazineWeekend at Shnitzel'sTaste BudsGazpacho!The TootsChowder Grows Up
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