Chop Socky Chooks

Chop Socky Chooks
Created by	Sergio Delfino
Directed by	Sergio Delfino
Country of origin	United Kingdom (production) United States/Canada (airing)
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producers	Miles Bullough, Daniel Lennard
Producers	Christine Ponzevera,Janice Walker, Jacqueline White,Ben Lock
Running time	22 minutes approx.
Production companies	Aardman Animation, DHX Media
Original release
Network	Cartoon Network Teletoon
Release	USA: March 7, 2008 UK: September 8, 2008 – Present

Chop Socky Chooks is a British animated television series produced by Aardman Animations and DHX Media that debuted on March 7, 2008. It was created by animator Sergio Delfino, a prominent animator at Aardman. It currently airs on Teletoon and Cartoon Network (US, EU & UK).

Characters

The Chop Socky Chooks

• Chuckie Chan/Sensei Chan: A stereotypical Chinese man who was trained since farm grown in a remote monastery, Chuckie Chan is a wise and learned master who follows the true path of kung-fu in pursuit of enlightenment. This path has taught him unique, mystic abilities. Always calm, centered and cautious, his martial arts expertise is second to none! According to his master, he is also over-confident. In "In Your Dreams", he has a fear of a rubber duck named "Mr.Quackers" and he is supposedly powered by the "screaming souls of the undead". He works undercover as a sensei (Japanese for Teacher), teaching kids how to do kung fu.He might have feelings for Chickp as showen in some episodes.
• KO Joe/JJ: Street-wise, smooth talking KO Joe is a two-fisted powerhouse! He has a larger than life attitude and even bigger hair (he has an afro), but bigger than anything is Joe's heart. His generous spirit and selfless sense of justice have made him a great role model for the kids of Wasabi World. In "In Your Dreams", he has a fear of jelly beans (especially the red ones), ever since he had to go to the hospital in order to get a (red) jelly bean removed from his nose during babyhood. He works undercover as a comic book salesperson.
• Chick P/Chickadee Pao: With a sharp wit and even sharper combat skills, Chick P is the team's brilliant engineer who can turn any object into a fighting tool (such as her fans and lipstick). She is the only female member of the Chooks and is either Japanese or Chinese. Holding a personal grudge against Wasabi for destroying her home to build his mall (before she found out what Deadeye did, now she holds a grudge on both of them), she works undercover as a maintenance engineer to get the drop on his organization. She appears to hate Wasabi more than the two other Chooks do.Chick p is showen to have a crush on either chuckie or joe.

Villains

• Dr. Wasabi: An evil German-accented piranha made of wasabi paste (as his name suggests) who is the main villain of the series. He's the materialistic owner of Wasabi World, the main arch-enemy of the Chop Socky Chooks and the leader of the ninja monkey army. He was responsible for bulldozing people's houses, especially Chick P's house, in order to build Wasabi World, which shows his selfishness. He plans to sell the Chooks as criminals (and rename them the Chop Socky Crooks), and by "Karaoke Zombies", he planned to sell the Chooks as punching bags (and rename them the Chop Socky Chumps). In "If Looks Can Kill", Dr. Wasabi was shown to have the ability to multiply, though that was only an illusion caused by Deadeye. In "In Your Dreams", he has a fear of knives.
  • Bubba: Dr. Wasabi's fat, strong, dimwitted, and incompetent albino gorilla servant. In Big Bad Bubba, it is revealed that he can't read and has a small brain. His childish nature may be some sort of weakness despite his inability to read but still, his intimidation and temper seem to be the source of his own orders to the Ninja Monkeys. He also seems to have a crush on Chickadee. In "In Your Dreams", he has a fear of clowns. As of "Swarm Welcome", he seemed to have learned to read a little.
  • The Ninja Monkeys: A group of ninja-like monkeys who serve as the foot soldiers of Dr. Wasabi and are presumably smarter and more competent than Bubba but still manage to get easily defeated in every episode.
  • Jurrasic Shark: A large metallic shark with extremely hard teeth and weaponry hidden through his body. Wasabi used him to destroy the Chooks while in a game world by draining Ume, one of Chuckie's students, even coming close to killing them, but while Wasabi and Bubba were trying to get a coin to power Shark-bot back to life, Ume escaped and drained all of her gaming skills back, causing Wasabi to not have the power to control Shark-bot anymore. K.O. Joe quickly disposed of Shark-bot, freeing themselves from Wasabi's game.
  • Chop Socky Chooks's Replicas: Replicas of the Chooks made to obey Wasabi. The replicas were created by Chick P's old teacher Professor Shericon to convince the public that the Chooks were evil. They are programmed to then transform into giant robots to destroy the originals, then take a dive when Dr. Wasabi came to bring down "the Chooks." Chick P was able to destroy all three by dropping them into a vat of molten steel.
  • Karmagatchas: Evil little toys that suck out a persons good karma by hugging them (possibly the name "karma-gotcha"). Wasabi used them to suck the karma out of everyone on Christmas Eve to use for himself. They appear in "His Master's Choice." their name is a parody of the Tamagotchi virtual pets.
  • Wasabi Bugs: Evil mutant bugs created by Wasabi in "Swarm Welcome". Once created, the parent bug (Wasabi's temporary wife in "Swarm Welcome") laid eggs in Wasabi World's pipes. By the end of "Swarm Welcome", Chick P revealed that Wasabi bugs are part praying mantis due to the parent bug's attempt at eating Wasabi.
• Omnioni: An ancient demon who is supposed to be so powerful and evil that he had to be bottled up by the Ruler of the Underworld. In Big Bad Bubba, he possesses Bubba in an attempt to open a portal to the underworld. However, Bubba's inability to read slowed him down long enough for Chick P to make Bubba sneeze Omnioni out of him and was sucked into the portal.
• Kobi/Kobura: An anthropomorphic cobra-like creature who was Chuckie Chan's rival since before the show's history. According to his master, Kobi is bad-tempered. After he was bitten by cobras, he changed into a insane, antagonistic, merciless berserker and was banished forever. Soon, years later, Kobi becomes a snake-like being with the ability to possess great strength, control cobras, and deadly venom that will explode a person's heart by sunset. The Chooks were poisoned by Kobura and his snakes and attempt to find the cure before sundown. When they were finally cured, Kobura lunges toward K.O. Joe only to fall off a tower where his final battle with Chuckie took place. Despite this however, he seemed to survive and returned to destroy Chuckie again. This time, he revealed the Chop Socky Chooks secret identities and appears to be able to hypnotize people. This attempt failed as well though.
• Oni/Deadeye: She appeared in the episode "If Looks Could Kill". As a child, she used to be Chick P's best friend, but apparently had a left eye condition. Dr. Wasabi used this to his advantage and taught her to use her evil eye (which is why she donned the name Deadeye). Once she came into town, she greeted her friend, but then left to settle business with Wasabi to negotiate. As Deadeye, Oni is the one who actually made Chick P's father allow Wasabi to break it down, as she specializes in hypnosis and altering reality. As Chick P is about to finish her, she says "I can't control it and neither can you" and then crawls up a pipe, leaving a sad Chick P and a dazed K.O. Joe and Chuckie to regret.
• Lardzilla: When the Chooks were investigating the secret formula of Wasabi Burger, they ended up in a fight where Dr. Wasabi is thrown into a machine that can suck up fat from overweight civilians. His brain is sucked out of his head in the process and the brain soon creates Lardzilla, a giant monster made out of tons of living lard with Wasabi's brain inside. The monster begins to attack the Wasabi World mall where it begins to eat everything in sight as well as getting bigger as he eats and can duplicate smaller versions of itself. Chick P prepares a plan for the creature and Chuckie and Joe manage to destroy Lardzilla's duplicates instantly by using tons of vegetables. Lardzila is later defeated by the Chop Socky Chooks, sucked into a giant machine leading to Dr. Wasabi's base.
• Mr. Quackers: Mr. Quackers is a giant, mechanical toy duck who was the worst nightmare of Chuckie Chan. When Chuckie goes to sleep inside a machine alongside others for a place to rest, Mr. Quackers goes after him and when K.O. Joe went to help them, the giant duck went after both of them. He soon made an alliance with Joe's worst nightmare, a gigantic jelly bean machine, but unfortunately for them, Chuckie and Joe switch nightmares and to fight against them. Mr. Quackers, alongside the gigantic jelly bean machine, is simultaneously defeated.
• Gigantic Jelly Bean Machine: This monstrosity happens to be the worst nightmare of K.O. Joe, as Joe had a trumatic childhood incident where a red jelly bean (he is scared of the red ones the most) gets stuck in his nose. The Gigantic Jelly Bean Machine makes allies with the giant, mechanical toy duck Mr. Quackers to destroy both Chuckie Chan and Joe. However, the jelly bean machine is defeated alongside Mr. Quackers where Chuckie and Joe switch nightmares to fight back.

Other Characters

• Professor Shericon: Chick P's old mentor. He has a crab-like appearance. He appeared in the episode "Double Trouble" where Dr. Wasabi used him to create robotic clones of the Chop Socky Chooks. His name is a play on "Shuriken".
• Citizens of Wasabi World: An assortment of these appear in every episode. The most commonly seen one is a large, fat lady with white skin, a green kimono, red lipstick, and black hair tied in a bun.
• The Cabbage Lady: A woman with a cabbage. She appeared in "If Looks Could Kill" when Deadeye disguised herself as her. Her only line was "Cabbage?" She appears again in "Snake in the Class" when she is being mugged by hoodlums. In this episode, she appears without her cabbage and says other things than what she said in the past.
• Siren Sung: A mermaid songstress who can't sing very well. Chuckie Chan has a HUGE crush on her and thinks that she has the best voice in the world. She almost married Dr. Wasabi (Chuckie Chan and Dr. Wasabi fought over her), only because of his wealth, later in the episode she dumps him after realizing what a selfish materialist he is, but presumably died after being sucked down a drain. She fell down when Chuckie Chan accidentally let go of her while reaching for the six dollars he owed her (the reason is that Chuckie Chan got her to sign something and she wrote 'To a special someone' and she said that it was $5 for the CD and $1 for the love stuff).
• Chuckie's Master: A one-eyed old man that was the master of Chuckie and Kobi when they were kids. He first appears in "Kobura Strikes". He appears in person in "His Master's Choice."
• Chuckie's Students: Recurring characters in the show. These include a boy with green skin named Ichi, a girl with yellow skin named Ume, an unnamed boy with dark skin, and an unnamed girl in a kimono. Ichi (Dung Beetle), the dark-skinned boy (Slaying Mantis), and the kimono girl (Lady Bug) briefly became Junior Chooks in "Snake in the Class".
• Iron Butt Monks: A trio of Chinese monks with big iron booties (as their name suggests). In "Return the Other Cheek", Wasabi enlists Bubba to steal the Twin Cheeks, but was only able to steal one, and Bubba leaves behind one of Joe's hairbands as proof that the Chooks were responsible for stealing the Twin Cheeks.

Cast

• Rupert Degas - Bubba
• Chris Hardwick - The Ninja Chimps
• Paterson Joseph - K.O. Joe
• Paul Kaye - Dr. Wasabi
• Shelley Longworth - Chick P.
• Rob Rackstraw - Chuckie Chan

Episode Guide

#	Episode Title	US air date	UK air date
1	"Game Over Chooks!"	March 7, 2008	September 8, 2008
Dr. Wasabi uses the Chooks to be the power source of a new video game. This video game will actually kill the Chooks in real life!
2	"Big Bad Bubba!"	TBA	TBA
Bubba accidentally releases an evil demon that possesses his body. When the Chooks realize this, they try to stop the demon from reaching Wasabi World.
3	"Kobura Strikes"	TBA	TBA
A rival of Chuckie Chan comes to Wasabi World so that he can take him and the Chooks down.
4	"Now You Coliseum, Now You Don't"	TBA	TBA
KO Joe protests Dr. Wasabi's decision to ban solar blading in Wasabi World. Because of this, the Ninja Chimps and the Chooks must face off in a rollerblading competition at Dr. Wasabi's arena.
5	"Double Trouble"	TBA	TBA
Chick P visits her old mentor when robotic Chooks attack Wasabi World. Once there, she tries to find out where the Chooks came from. Unfortunately, all signs point to the fact that her old teacher is working for Dr. Wasabi.
6	"If Looks Could Kill"	TBA	TBA
Chick P holds a reunion with her old friend Oni. Meanwhile, Deadeye has a new scheme to take over Wasabi World and the Chooks investigate. During the investigation, they discover why Chick P's family has lost its honor.
7	"Do You Want Thighs With That?"	TBA	TBA
Citizens of Wasabi World are getting fatter with every Wasabi Burger they eat. Luckily, Dr. Wasabi has set up liposuction centers all around Wasabi World. It's up to the Chooks to discover what exactly is inside the burgers.
8	"In Your Dreams"	TBA	TBA
Chuckie Chan is captured as a prisoner in Wasabi's Dream World because he has insomnia. To save Chuckie Chan, Chick P comes up with a plan to rescue him by sending KO Joe into Dream World. While in Dream World, both of the guys have to face their nightmares.
9	"Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Breath"	TBA	TBA
When Wasabi makes plans to marry the mermaid Siren Sung (who Chuckie Chan has a crush on), her ex-boyfriend decides to flood Wasabi World (and rename it Wasabi Water World). Now it's up to the Chooks to stop wedding arrangements or risk swimming with the fishes.
10	"Snake in the Class"	TBA	TBA
When the Chooks secret identities are revealed, they must go into hiding. Chuckie Chan's pupil's then become the Junior Chooks to act as the Chooks go-betweens, but Chuckie suspects there may be a traitor among them.
11	"His Master's Choice"	TBA	TBA
Chuckie Chan's master senses trouble in the Cosmic Balance, and traces it back to its source - Dr. Wasabi's new toy, the Karmagotcha. The Karmagotcha steals its owners' good karma. But Chuckie Chan is ordered to return to his monastery(due to the Karmagotcha), leaving only K.O. Joe and Chick P to stop Dr. Wasabi's evil plot.
12	"Chop Socky Whoops"	TBA	TBA
Dr. Wasabi decides to go back in time to the day the Chooks formed and prevent them from ever meeting each other.
13	"The Mark of the Bantam"	TBA	TBA
After Wasabi makes a foolish television show of his enemy Bantam, the Chooks have to save the day.
14	"Night of the Karaoke Zombies"	TBA	TBA
While visiting the Karaoke Korral, the Chooks discover that Wasabi plans on changing the mall-dwellers of the peaceful level into living zombies.
15	"Return the Other Cheek"	TBA	TBA
When Wasabi finds out that the Iron Butt Monk's power comes from the Twin Cheeks of the Apocalypse, he sends Bubba in to steal it. However, Bubba is only able to steal one, meaning the Cosmic Wind will attack Wasabi World. It's up to the Chooks and the Iron Butt Monks to bring the two Cheeks back together before it's too late.
16	"Planet of the Bubba"	TBA	TBA
Bubba fixes Wasabi's TV satellite and is accidentally struck by some sort of powerful force. This force causes Bubba to become super smart and he uses his smarts to put the Wasabi World citizens in a zoo. It's up to the Chooks to find a way to stop Bubba's new evil plans.
17	"The Level That Time Forgot"	TBA	TBA
The Chooks are trapped in a prehistoric game level when Wasabi attacks the group. Things take a turn for the worse, when the inhabitants find Chick P to be the Queen of the Neandermalls.
18	"Bushido Babies"	TBA	TBA
The Chooks are up against their toughest opponents yet - a group of babies. These babies aren't exactly typical, however. That's because they've been drinking Wasabi's new milk in a plan to make an army of Bushido Babies.
19	"Appalling 13"	TBA	TBA
Dr. Wasabi offers the mall-dwellers free trips to the moon, but the Chooks discover that it's part of his evil scheme to make them work as slaves in his space mine.
20	"The Chooks of Hazard"	TBA	TBA
The Chooks compete in a wacky race against Wasabi World's most dangerous villains to prevent Dr. Wasabi from obtaining the components for a deadly Doomsday device.
21	"Enter the Chickens"	TBA	TBA
To prove to his students that the pure path of Kung Fu is best, Chuckie Chan convinces the Chooks to participate in Dr. Wasabi's Ultimate Martial Artist contest. However, Dr. Wasabi knows that they'll make it to the final round, so he rigs the contest to stack the odds against them.
22	"Swarm Welcome"	TBA	TBA
Dr. Wasabi tries to obtain the powers of a radioactive bug, but things go awry and Wasabi World is overrun by cockroaches.
23	"The Lamest Show on Earth"	TBA	TBA
Chuckie Chan is entrusted with guarding a rare and valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, the Chooks must take care of the baby dragon and keep it from falling into the hands of Dr. Wasabi.
24	"Isle Be Seeing You"	TBA	TBA
The Chooks wake up on a mysterious island filled with dangerous perils as part of Dr. Wasabi's new, deadly, reality TV show.
25	"The Codfather"	TBA	TBA
Chick P wants Bubba to be the fourth member of the Chop Socky Chooks after Wasabi fires him for the Hairy Sumo Brothers. However, Bubba only seems to get in the way when it comes to fighting in battles.
26	"Drained"	TBA	TBA
Dr. Wasabi's central computer starts to go haywire, making the various electronic equipment in the mall attack the customers. The Chooks must fight the mall itself, as Dr. Wasabi is nowhere to be found.

Links

• Chop Socky Chooks on TV.com