Tofu Town Showdown is the second segment of the last episode of Season 2 of Chowder and is episode 20b overall.
Plot[]
Shnitzel and Chowder go to make a delivery to a place called Tofu Town. It is apparently where Shnitzel used to live, work, and where he fought crime with his bologna sword. He was given the job to protect the leader of the town, Shabu Shabu. But one day the Teriyaki Triads and their master Peking Duck came and captured him, and froze him in fortune cookie batter. Where he now decorates the walls of their hideout. Shnitzel could not fight back as Peking Duck bit his sword in half. He was so ashamed he left Tofu Town. The followers of Shabu Shabu let Shnitzel help them get their master by giving him back his bologna sword. Chowder and Schnitzel (in 'cool' disguises) go there, but Chowder gets distracted and starts singing karaoke about the rock in his shoe. Schnitzel fights Peking Duck, getting past all the deathly foods prepared for him. He knocks Peking Duck into the fortune cookie batter, before the Teriyaki Triads give Shnitzel back Chowder (because his singing is so bad) and they go home. The story ends with Chowder narrating the story to Mung, after which Mung asks him if he ate the delivery again and Chowder apologizes, which makes Shnitzel facepalm.
Trivia[]
- The outfit Shnitzel wears is similar to the brides outfit in the movie Kill Bill, which was inspired by an iconic outfit worn by martial artist Bruce Lee.
- This episode was scheduled to premiere on October 1, but due to a Star Wars special, it was pushed a week later, October 8, 2009.
- When Shnitzel gets awakened, he retrieved his sword using the Force, which is also a reference to Star Wars
- His hair shines golden and strikes a blue aura which is similar when Saiyans go Super Saiyan in Dragon Ball Z.
- The song Chowder sings during the battle is a parody of the song Eye of the Tiger by Survivor, theme song of Rocky III.
- Additionally, the song about the pebbles in his shoe seems to parody the English theme song for Sailor Moon.
- Gazpacho is seen on a billboard as the magic fruit man, although in some sort of anime style.
- The Triads sing the Chowder theme song, thus breaking the fourth wall.
- Shnitzel says "RA-DOUKEN!" a reference to Street Fighter's Hadouken.
- Peking Duck's mouth is out of sync with his dialogue. It is unknown if it is intentional or an animation error. It probably was intentional, as old Asian films used to be out of sync with their English dubbing.
- Tofu Town is a spoof of China Town, a district found in many major cities and countries.
- The episode name is a parody of classic martial arts film, Sudden Showdown in Chinatown.
- Another Star Wars parody is the fact that the Shogun was frozen in fortune cookie batter, a reference to Han Solo's carbonite freezing
- This is the first Chowder episode to premiere in HD.
- This is the second episode where Kevin Michael Richardson voices an antagonist who opposes Shnitzel, the first being Shnitzel and the Lead Farfel.
- Oddly enough Richardson originally voiced Shnitzel in the pilot.