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[Chowder] Does Dwight Schultz run a very profitable car wash or does Chowder have cheap animation?

Iconic scene, Mung Daal spends all of the catering company's money,  running out of money for the animation of the show. Thus Dwight Schultz, Tara Strong, Nicky Jones, and John DiMaggio have a car wash to raise money for the animation. They get enough money and manage to get the animation funding back.

So what's the deal? They were only out there for about a day washing cars. Does Chowder just not cost much to animate?
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They just needed “enough money to get the animation back” *for as long as it took to get the catering business back to normal*, re: the actual plot of that episode (which escapes me atm)

Once things were back to normal, they’d of course be pulling in plenty of money, *as usual/normal*—Mung Daal is an excellent chef, his wife does all the reception work (for free), Chowder works as his apprentice (for free), and Schnitzel is paid a pittance because he’s so strong it takes minimal effort to clean things. So they wouldn’t need to go wash cars once the business was fixed. 

I imagine the way they got so many cars to pay is by playing to their audience; depending on who drove up, Mung (Schultz) would talk fast to *thee llladiesss*, Schnitzel (DiMaggio) would show off his strength and speed (maybe because Mung would order him to), Truffles (Strong) would utilize her sex appeal (and if that didn’t work, would browbeat them into paying), and Chowder (Jones) would make the sign, and would ask for the money with his natural youthful cuteness.