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The Smudges is the first segment of the tenth episode of the third season of Chalkzone and aired on July 7, 2005.
Synopsis[]
Rudy, Penny and Snap help Queen Rapsheeba contend with a haunting by smudges, drawings that were never erased fully.
Plot[]
Snap, Rudy, and Penny arrive at Queen Rapsheeba’s new home with a moving van at her request. Penny observes that only a tiny portion of Rapsheeba’s home is in Dayzone. Rudy attempts to enter through the main entrance on the Nightzone side but gets stopped by a nervous Rapsheeba.
The trio finds Rapsheeba in the kitchen loading moving boxes, eager to leave despite having only lived in the house for a month. When prompted on this, Rapsheeba admits the Nightzone side of her house is haunted.
The group enters the house's main hall, where many strange things happen around them, such as the piano playing on its own, the lights flickering, and the statues shouting.
When they hear the echoing sound of giggling, Rapsheeba states it’s the smudges. Snap explains that smudges are the Chalkzone equivalent of ghosts: They occur when a drawing is not entirely erased from the real world. Unlike most smudges, which only exist for a few seconds, the two haunting Rapsheeba have been around for years and are not pleased with her presence in the house.
After terrorizing the group for a while, the smudges take away Rudy’s magic chalk and fly upstairs, causing all the strange things they were causing to suddenly stop. Upstairs in the attic, the smudges reveal their other halves, requesting help to be reunited.
However, the situation becomes complicated when Rudy checks to see what’s on the real-world side of the wall. Here he finds the wall leading into the bedroom of Mr. Wilter, Rudy and Penny’s teacher. The smudges recognize Mr. Wilter’s name, as they were his imaginary friends as a child.
Rudy sends the smudges into Mr. Wilter’s room through a tiny chalk portal to distract him while they work at tearing apart the wallpaper to get to the smudge's other halves. During this time, the smudges, whom Mr. Wilter addresses as Zibble and Blotz, start terrorizing him, possibly upset with him for their current situation. However, Mr. Wilter admits it was his disapproving father who had attempted to erase the smudges.
Perhaps forgiving him and feeling bad for the misunderstanding, the two smudges stop to comfort Mr. Wilter before their other halves come into the room, to which the two sides reunite and become completed drawings. With their business finished, the two head back to Chalkzone, leaving behind a very confused Mr. Wilter. After which, the smudges, Rapsheeba, and the others gather to celebrate their achievement now that Rapsheeba will no longer be haunted.
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Trivia[]
- The episode gives a greater glimpse into Mr. Wilter's attitude, in that his hatred of cartoons and mindset was wrought through his father, and that Wilter still appreciates his childhood as he merely pasted over the wall of his drawings of his imaginary friends (i.e., the smudges).