During the USA Today.com contest to choose which Springfield would host the release of The Simpsons Movie, Ted Kennedy himself appears in a video in which he invited "Diamond Joe" Quimby and the film to premiere in Springfield, Massachusetts, and even mocked his own oft-mocked pronunciation of the word "Chowder" (as "Chow-Dah"); however, Springfield, Vermont was chosen instead.
Political Chowder was produced in cooperation with Southern New Hampshire University.
Secret Mountain Fort Awesome is an American animated television series, created by Peter Browngardt (former storyboard artist on Chowder) and produced at Cartoon Network Studios for Cartoon Network.