Chowder is a damn good show and a shot across the bow of any 80's cartoon nostalgists.
The little bit of genius is that they write Chowder himself as a kid and have a kid do the voice. Almost all kids in comedy are written as precocious and/or cynical and it's meant to be funny because a kid wouldn't say that oh my so shocking.
Chowder's hyperactive, dumb, curious, impressionable, unreliable and a constant annoyance to those around him. They just dialed up all the standard childhood traits and it's great.