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Aqua Teen Hunger Force

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force (ATHF) is the show on [adult swim]~-start-0-stop, that tells the story of Frylock (a floating French Fry box), Master Shake (a six-foot-tall milkshake), and Meatwad (a meatball). They live next to their human neighbor, Carl. Recurring characters include the mooninites (space monsters from the moon), and MC PeePants (an evil spider from the labratory of Dr. Weird).

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[edit] History

The directors of ATHF Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis. The company producing This show is called Williams Street which produces most of the comedy shows on Adult Swim. The voice actors are improvising a lot of the scripts. The theme song was written by the famous 80s rapper Schoolly D. Most of the voice actors have worked on the Adult Swim show Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

[edit] Origins

The characters of ATHF was originated from Baffer Meal which is an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast. They were also mascots for the animated fast food chain Burger Trench. In the picture of the mascots, they looked the same but Frylock and Master Shake had different looks.

Even though the characters came from baffer meal, the episode didn't even air years after ATHF air and it never aired until the show became popular, instead, Baffer Meal was re-written as Kentucky nightmare while the producers aired the ATHF episode Rabbot which was the first episode of ATHF. AT first Adult Swim producers didn't think that ATHF would be a hit, but they still allowed the show to be aired for the fact of the block of programming. A 16 episode season of ATHF was put in shortly after the creation of the show. Now it just so happens to be one of the highest rated Adult Swim shows.

[edit] Title

The title of the show also came from space ghosts baffer meal. The word "aqua" sounds like it doesn't have anything to do with the show but it's called that because of the fact that they like to swim in their neighbors pool most of the time. The rest of the name comes from the fact that their a force that takes over hunger in teens. Don't be fooled by the name their not really teenagers. The force doesn't have any memory on their history but Meatwad says in an episode that he is about 55 years old. In another episode Master Shake says he's 30 or 40 years old.

In one of the first episodes Master Shake calls themselves Aqua Teen Hunger Force and their supposed to solve crimes for cash. The name they called themselves and their jobs were dropped by Cartoon Network producers because they didn't want to make a show all about a detective team go and do a whole bunch of random things. In one of the episodes that stopped the detectives, Frylock didn't think they were making enough money.

[edit] Location

The location of the show is unknown, but in the show at the beginning of most of the shows a text says south jersey shore when they show Dr. Weird's lab. In the episode "Remooned" it leaves clues on where in south jersey it is. You could see on Carl's license it say 089?? which just so happens that the area code could be in New Brunswick, North Brunswick, Waterworks and Highland Park. And in conclusion to that their all in southern and central new jersey. In the first episode that MC Pee Pants was debuted Meatwad and Carl were told to go to the street 612 Wharf Ave. That happens to be a real road in Red Bank, NJ.

The characters of ATHF was kind of thought from a Hannah-Barbara series Teen Force. Frylock was related to Elektra by the fact that Frylock can shoot lasers bolts from his mind to his eyes. Meatwad was related to Kid Comet by the fact that Meatwad can transform his shape into other types of designers. His most popular shapes are a hot dog and an igloo. Master shake is a less futuristic version of Molecule Lad. The 2 most popular enemies on the show are the Mooninites. And their related to the enemies of teen force and their called Asromites. The mooninites names are Ignignokt and Ert.

[edit] Cold Openings

During the duration of seasons 1 and 2, episodes that are called cold opened are when they show Dr. Weird's lab in the very beginning of the episodes. With the help of his assistant Steve they create the monsters and disasters that happen to be what each episode is about. For example: In the episode Rabbot (which was the first episode) Dr. Weird and Steve create a giant robot that looks and and acts like a rabbit in certain ways. Dr. Weird always said before each episode when they show him in the cold opening he say "Gentlemen, Behold" and then shows what his disaster his that the episode is most likely about. In the 4th season Dr. Weird was dropped when the spin-off Spacecataz was created by the directors. These spin-off segments have included the Mooninites which are Ignignokt and Ert and the Plutonians which are Emory and Oglethorpe showing them together and insulting each other and playing pranks on each other in space. The whole Spacecataz spin-off was never aired but shown on the season 4 DVD box set.

Dr. Weird has been dropped in the 4th volume except the movie but ever since after the movie he was never shown again.

[edit] Episodes

So far during the duration of 5 seasons their has been 78 episodes. All the episodes' duration is about 12 minutes except the christmas special was about 24 minutes when ever they've shown this episode again they have shown the first half and the second half seprate each part lasting about 12 minutes each.

[edit] Music

The Mooninites have there own theme song which they have played at the end of many episodes that they have stared in. The song was written, produced, and performed by Schoolly D. In the song their are 3 verses. each verse is played in a different episode each time.

In the episode of ATHF Party All The Time they played a song called the party song written by the directors of the show and a guest on the show, Andrew WK. They played this song in another episode which is called Grim Reaper Gutters. They play this song in a flashback video.

Famous rapper MC Chris does the voicing for MC Pee Pants, Little Brittle and Sir Loin. He has also written songs for during the show.

[edit] Films

Spoiler Warning Their was a film based on the show ATHF. The film was called Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. This film was released in theaters on April 13, 2007. The movie follows how the Aqua Teens originated. The film included the band Rush and professional drummer Neil Peart, A character named Walter Melon witch is acually a slice of a watermelon, and in the begining of the movie heavy metal band Mastodon makes an appearence. In the film their is a new member of the Aqua Teens named Chicken Bittle who is a chicken nugget. Bruce Campbell does the voice for him. A team of Characters that made appearences in the TV show who are The plutonians (made up of emony and oglethorpe). The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas past makes an appearence. The Mooninites (made up of Ignignokt and Err) MC Pee Pants and Dr. weird and Steve all make appearences in this film.

Cartoon Network aired the movie on April Fool's Day on the Adult Swim programming block. This appearence was aired before the movie came out in theaters.

In the year 2011 the sequal for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Film for Theaters called Death Fighter is planned on being released

[edit] Video games

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-Am is a vidoe game created by Midway Games for the Playstation 2 on November 2007 Dave Willis was in an interview on G4 and announced that the game is in stores. In the game you can fight villans from the game and play golf at the same time. Some of the villans include The Mooninites, The Brownie Monster, and Carl's Giant Crab's Aqua Teen Hunger Force Destruct-O-Thon is another video game starring the Aqua Teens. The game is for the moble phone and was published by Glu on December 7, 2004. The objective is to strike things from the show across the street the Aqua Teens live on.

[edit] Cameos and Appearences

  • Master Shake has appeared in Robot Chicken on adult swim
  • The game 5 minutes to kill (yourself) on adultswim.com, you can earn a trophy in the shape of Master Shake.
  • In Sealab 2021, in the end of the episode Murphy Murphy and the feng shui bunch, it shows that the events that have happened during the episode was really a video game played by Master Shake and Meatwad.
  • In the Sealab 2021 episode preditor it shows the episode of ATHF Rabbot is being played of a TV screen.
  • In the episode of Minoriteam Tremendous class, an alarm clock that looks and sounds like Master Shake wakes up Non-Stop.
  • The anchors on ESPN's SportsCenter Scott Van Pelt and stewert Scott have sgtated quotes from the show from sports commentaries and highlights.
  • A deleated scene from the movie "The Ring" they show the character aiden watching the ATHF episode Rabbot.
  • In the episode of the sopranos Johnny Cakes, A.J. Soprano is watch the show in an episode.
  • Meatwad and Carl was shown on VH1's Best Week Ever, congragulating them on their 100th episode.

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