Aqua Teen Hunger Force season 1
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The first season of the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force began on December 30, 2000, and ended on December 29, 2002. There were 18 episodes produced.
Rabbot
"Rabbot" (production code: 101) is the first episode of the first season, and the first episode overall. It was originally broadcast on December 30, 2000, unannounced, at 5:00 AM, almost six months before Adult Swim officially premiered. The show was listed on the official schedule as "Special Programming" and was aired with two episodes of Sealab 2021 and an unfinished Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law pilot. Dr. Weird builds a titanic robotic rabbit, which spritzes everything it doesn't smash with a hair-growing formula. It's up to the Aqua Teens to stop this menace, though Master Shake isn't as enthusiastic about this mission as he first seemed.
Stealth Pilot
In the original, December 21 "stealth" broadcast of this episode, there was many differences from the final cut. There was no theme song or opening titles, the segues that cut to another scene were also different - instead of Schooly D narrating over some rap music, they showed the old "outer space zoom" segue from the Hanna-Barbera Superfriends cartoon, with the ATHF (instumental) theme music played over it.
In the cold open, after the Rabbot escapes, Dr. Weird says "Unleash the mechanical frog!" and the giant garage door opens again, showing a huge mechanical frog. There was also a scene of Master Shake sitting in the hair salon talking about things he hates. After Meatwad says "everyone likes dancing" it cuts to Shake getting his hair done and saying "..And I HATE dancing. It's one of my LEAST favorite things to do. Other things I hate are work, exercise, people, stupid people—". This stealth broadcast is more tuned up and finished than the "Rabbot - The Original Cut", found on the ATHF Volume 1 DVD and has never been aired since the premiere.
Escape from Leprechaupolis
"Escape from Leprechaupolis" (production code: 102) is the second episode of the first season, and the second episode overall. It was originally broadcast on September 9 2001. Scott Hilley and Andy Merrill guest star as the leprechauns Flargon and Merle.
Dr. Weird shows off his rainbow machine. The lights suddenly go dark as we see the rainbow taken from the lab. Dr. Weird ponders how someone could have penetrated his impenetrable fortress, although it's quite obvious that they came in through a giant Rabbot-shaped hole in the wall.
Master Shake asks Frylock to look up what kinds of acid dissolve meat, to Meatwad's dismay. Frylock then receives an email telling him to go to the park and step into a rainbow to make him rich with gold, and also to forward the email to 20 other people. While Frylock wonders who would be stupid enough to fall for this, we see Carl in the park waiting impatiently for the rainbow.
Three leprechauns, Flargon, Dingle, and Merle, are seen in a nearby forest carrying out a plan to use a rainbow machine to rob people, but it appears the only things they have robbed people of is their shoes and a Bananarama tape, sans case. They spot Carl waiting for the rainbow, and engage the machine, which sucks Carl to the forest, where the leprechauns mug him for his gold chain.
Shake and Frylock are swimming in Carl's pool, when Carl comes out of the sky. Carl tells Frylock what happened, and Frylock insists that they investigate, to which Shake reluctantly agrees to. The rainbow appears, and Shake runs into it. Frylock uses his Frydar to find Shake, and Meatwad immediately claims a pair of roller skates and the Bananarama tape.
Frylock discovers what the Leprechauns are doing, and Shake takes credit for it as he was there first. When the leprechauns try to use the machine on Frylock, he blows it up. With the machine destroyed, the leprechauns flatly deny doing it, which Shake believes after finding Carl's gold chain. Meatwad explains that they don't need a machine to create a rainbow, since rainbows come from "happy thoughts, dreams, chocolate unicorns, gumdrops, licorice sunsets, and fuzzy gumdrop bears in gumdrop land." The leprechauns escape, which Shake blames on Frylock for "trying to frame them".
Shake explains to Carl that the case is unsolved, but is questioned regarding Carl's chain, which is hanging from Shake's straw. Meatwad shushes Shake so he can try to sleep and dream of the rainbow, when a rainbow appears on Carl's house and tears it from its foundation, and bringing it to the leprechauns, crushing them. The episode ends with Carl chasing Master Shake.
Notes
- The shark that appears during Meatwad's speech was originally from a Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Kentucky Nightmare" (which is a rewrite of "Baffler Meal", the SGC2C episode which is regarded as the origin of Aqua Teen Hunger Force). The shark later became a recurring character on the Williams Street series 12 oz. Mouse.
- Flargon later appeared on the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed."[1]
Bus of the Undead
"Bus of the Undead" (production code: 103) is the third episode of the first season, and the third episode overall. It was originally broadcast on September 30 2001. H. Jon Benjamin guest stars as Mothmonsterman, Don Kennedy portrays a live-action Assisted Living Dracula, with Mary Kraft as his nurse.
Dr. Weird introduces a half-man, half-moth monster he calls Mothmonsterman, who escapes through a giant Rabbot hole in the wall.
Mothmonsterman escapes from Dr. Weird's lair and is drawn to the Aqua Teens' house by lights. It turns out the lights are the "Shake Signal" which Master Shake is wearing on his head while watching "Assisted Living Dracula". Mothmonsterman threatens trouble for the Aqua Teens if they don't leave their lights on. Master Shake suspects that the school bus from which Mothmonsterman is calling them is actually possessed by Dracula's ghost. Frylock attempts to discover who is threatening them by putting the flag that Mothmonsterman destroyed in his cloner. Eventually, though, Frylock decides to prove to Master Shake that the bus is not Dracula by taking him to Dracula's grave.
When the Aqua Teens return home they find Mothmonsterman in their house watching "Assisted Living Dracula"; he has encased Carl in a cocoon and laid a thousand eggs in his esophagus, and Carl is "being a real baby about it." Shortly thereafter the house is taken over by cloned monsters created when Shake threw a pan of brownies into the cloner, where they spliced with the moth DNA to form brownie-moths.
Mayhem of the Mooninites
"Mayhem of the Mooninites" (production code: 104) is the fourth episode of the first season, and the fourth episode overall. It was originally broadcast on October 14 2001. This episode is the first appearance of the recurring Mooninite characters Ignignokt and Err, voiced by Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro respectively.
Dr. Weird unveils his giant stack of amplified speakers and plays 'Robot Affliction' on the guitar. A mysterious pixellated ship descends from the sky over Belle Isle Asylum.
A pixellated purple ship lands in the street in front of Carl and the Aqua Teens' houses. Two short, square-shaped, two-dimensional, pixellated aliens exit the ship, making beeping noises reminiscent of Atari 2600 video games as they move, and knock on Carl's door. They identify themselves as Ignignokt and Err, Mooninites from the inner core of the Moon and members of a race hundreds of years advanced from the people of the Earth. Carl slams the door in their faces and the Mooninites decide to go next door to the Aqua Teens' house, where a sign on the lawn says there is a room for rent.
In their house, Master Shake explains to Meatwad that he is renting out Meatwad's room in order to make money. Shake answers the door and the Mooninites enter. As references, they spin in place and glow. Shake gives them the room. Shakes asks for a deposit, and Ignignokt offers Meatwad's jambox over Meatwad's protests. Shake accepts.
Meatwad complains to the Mooninites about Shake, and they show him how to shoot the bird and smoke cigarettes. Later, after swimming in Carl's pool, they attempt to dry a wet towel over Frylock's computer. Frylock is unhappy to learn that Shake has rented them Meatwad's room. Frylock suspiciously questions the Mooninites and he is not impressed. When Meatwad rolls out of his room smoking a cigarette and asking for alcohol, Frylock is even more incensed. Shake breaks out an electric guitar and says that the Mooninites gave it to him.
Meatwad goes with the Mooninites to the mall, where Ignignokt and Err spit in Meatwad's face until he attempts to steal a rack of DVDs by unsuccessfully trying to hide them in his meat while the Mooninites steal televisions and stereo equipment. Frylock must retrieve Meatwad from mall security, while the Mooninites make it back safely and mention that they have gouged expletives into Carl's car with a key, claiming it to be a sign of trust and friendship. The next scene shows this to be opposite of the case; Carl is angry.
On the way back to their house, Meatwad shows Frylock the tough new clown tattoo he got in jail, designating him as a member of the clowns gang. In Carl's pool, Shake and the Mooninites see who can hold their breath underwater the longest. Carl comes outside and complains about the vandalism to his car, and Ignignokt takes out 'Mr. Laser', a pixellated pistol-like gun. He fires a shot at Carl, but it moves extremely slowly. Carl easily moves out of the way and dodges it, but it bounces off his house and hits him in the back, causing him to disappear.
Frylock hovers to the pool, surprising Master Shake. They all go back into the Aqua Teens' house, and while everyone watches a movie on the television about 'Vegetable Man', Frylock tells the Mooninites he wants them to move out. When everyone ignores him, Frylock destroys the television with energy balls from his eyes. The Mooninites are initially impressed by how fast the balls move, but then pretend that the balls were actually primitive.
Frylock and the Mooninites takes their dispute outside, where Frylock uses his fries to plaster their flat two-dimensional bodies against the road. Meatwad rolls outside and shoves Frylock off of them, saying that the Mooninites are his friends. When Err extinguishes a cigarette in Meatwad's eye, Meatwad realizes they may not be his friends after all.
Ignignokt then utters the words 'Mooninites unite', and the smaller Err joins into an Err-shaped slot in the top of Ignignokt, forming the 'Quad Laser', wherein each of their arms holds a pixellated pistol-like gun. After stating that no one can defeat it, the Mooninites fire, shooting an even larger, even slower bullet than before. In response, Frylock shoots them with his energy balls, and the Mooninites quickly flee 'this primitive rock' in their ship.
Back on their ship, the Mooninites raise their middle fingers at the shrinking Earth. At Carl's pool, Shake says he will keep all of the Mooninites' stolen merchandise, because he deserves it. Having landed in a crater on the Moon, the Mooninites find Carl and threaten a 'Moon spanking'.
Balloonenstein
"Balloonenstein" (production code: 105) is the fifth episode of first season, and the fifth episode overall. It was originally broadcast on December 23 2001.
Dr. Weird unveils a black hole, which sucks in him and Steve.
In the opening, Carl is admiring his pool (completely decked out with painted flames and neon lights) and preventing Master Shake from getting anywhere near it because he is weird. Suddenly, a black hole appears in the sky and begins to suck up Carl. Frylock tries to help by tying a garden hose around his waist and having Shake hold on to it, but Shake ties it to a loosely-fitted gutter, and Frylock and Carl are sucked into the vortex.
Inside the house, Shake tricks Meatwad into climbing inside the dryer. When Frylock escapes the vortex (along with Carl, whose hands have grown greatly), he finds Shake inside and berates him for not holding the hose. When the dryer stops and Meatwad exits, he discovers he now has magical static powers (which he promptly uses to send Shake into midair, finally letting him go near the ceiling fan). While mainly using his shots of electricity to torment Shake, he does cause a great deal of harm: he shorts out Frylock's computer, jumps into Carl's pool (while Carl had his hand in it, blasting him across the yard and electrocuting him), and accidentally kills his friend, Squirrely.
Frylock, in a desperate attempt to remove Meatwad's powers, has Meatwad perform a "balloonism," having him take a blown-up balloon (shaped like Squirrely) and rub it over his body. Unfortunately, this doesn't work; the balloon becomes a massive electrified balloon which becomes even larger when Frylock tries to destroy it with electricity from his eyes. Eventually, it floats towards the sea, and the Aqua Teens head towards the beach. Frylock covers Meatwad in shattered glass and throws him in the ocean to pop the balloon; unfortunately, to get him to float, Frylock has to remove Meatwad's brain, causing him to only float around in the water and say "Do what now?" over and over. Eventually, another vortex opens, sucking up both the balloon and Meatwad.
Back home, while Shake and Frylock are in Carl's pool (with Shake claiming he could open the sky at his whim), Meatwad reappears, this time ten times his normal size. Meatwad asks Frylock to "get away from the pool," and he then proceeds to jump onto Shake and the pool as the episode ends.
Space Conflict from Beyond Pluto
"Space Conflict From Beyond Pluto" (production code: 106) is the sixth episode of the first season, and the sixth episode overall. It was originally broadcast on April 7, 2002. This episode is the first appearance of the recurring Plutonian characters Emory and Oglethorpe, voiced by Mike Schatz and Andy Merrill respectively. Mary Kraft provides the voice of the Plutonian ship computer.
Dr. Weird emboldens the gentlemen to "Behold!", then drops his robe.
Frylock is repeatedly transmitting the first few notes of La Cucaracha through a satellite dish on the roof of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force's house when he receives a response in the form of a house-shaking low bass note. Using his computer, Frylock contacts the aliens and opens a video feed. Two aliens, one green and one orange, both basically just a mass of spikes with heads, are barbecuing watermelon (which has ignited), some type of bird (apparently dead and unplucked chickens), and meat on a grill. They assure Frylock that the fact that they are barbecuing means they are peaceful.
The Plutonians, Oglethorpe and Emory, argue over whether they have laser eyes, then invite Frylock up to their ship. Although Oglethorpe is unsure whether they possess a transporter device, Emory knows they do and initiates the transport. As Frylock is transporting, Oglethorpe knocks over the barbecue, demanding that the 'gross shanks of meat leave his dominion' and prompting Emory to warn him about burning down the ship. Oglethorpe reveals that he has a plan to betray Frylock - he will melt him, in the 'Meltorium'. Emory objects, thinking they were just going to hang out, but Oglethorpe insists.
Frylock appears with a six-pack of beer. Oglethorpe initially does not recognize Frylock, but then invites him into the Meltorium. Frylock declines. After a bit of conversation about the Plutonians' sweatbands/headbands, Oglethorpe again invites Frylock to the Meltorium, but he again declines. Frylock asks about their spikes, which Oglethorpe says are pointy arms. Emory explains that the spikes eject soap, and when Frylock says it smells like waste, Emory further explains that "one man's waste is another man's soap." Oglethorpe again attempts to lure Frylock into the Meltorium by 'tossing a frisbee' at it, but he only drops it and stomps on it.
Frylock asks if there is a higher brain form with which he could speak, but there isn't. When Oglethorpe states that the Plutonians' plan is to dominate the world, Frylock expresses his doubt that they could succeed and starts hitting random buttons in an effort to beam himself back home. Instead, he beams Master Shake aboard. Frylock finds the correct button and beams himself back to Earth. The Plutonians' stare at Shake open-mouthed, seemingly shocked by his appearance. Oglethorpe finally expresses his desire to blow up the Earth, though he seems unsure if that is actually his plan. Shake doesn't care and lies down to rest his back, which he says hurts after the transporting. Oglethorpe and Emory drag Shake into the Meltorium.
Back at home, Meatwad shows Frylock how he set a small piece of the carpet ablaze. Frylock chides him about using fire, but Meatwad has already melted the siding off of Carl's house in an effort to 'cut his grass'. Carl, who originally paid Shake to cut his lawn, tells Frylock and Meatwad that he wants to talk to him as soon as possible.
Back on the Plutonians' ship, Emory and Oglethorpe search in vain for the remote control that activates the Meltorium. In an effort to occupy Shake they shove a few magazines through a slot at the bottom of the door, but Shake isn't interested. The Plutonians then activate an 'underwater pizza' scenario, which turns the apparent background of the Meltorium into a looping video of a slice of pizza being pushed through an aquarium.
The 'space phone' starts ringing, and the Plutonians realize that they have left it in the Meltorium. The space phone, a small robot with phone handsets for arms, rolls up to Shake, who answers it. Oglethorpe opens the door to the Meltorium and grabs the phone from Shake, but it's Frylock and he wants to talk to Shake. Frylock tells him Carl wants to talk to him, and Shake says he's unavailable, but Carl can see him on Frylock's computer. Carl expresses his anger at Shake, but Shake states that some things simply carry risk. Carl threatens to slice Shake into pieces. Shake hangs up the phone.
Shake grows bored of the pizza video, so the Plutonians play him "This Horse's Anus". After several minutes, Shake exits the Meltorium, explaining that the video was amazing, while the Plutonians watch in stunned horror. Shake states that he really enjoys the Plutonians' neat stuff, and they lure him out into space with the promise of a $100 bill. Shake, inside a small egg-shaped pod, searches for the money, but the Plutonians fly away.
Shake lands back on Earth in front of Carl's house. Carl, brandishing a tire iron, jumps into the pod so that he can show Shake the finish on it 'up close'.
Ol' Drippy
"Ol' Drippy" (production code: 107) is the seventh episode of the first season, and the seventh overall. It was originally broadcast on April 21 2002. Todd Field guest stars as Ol' Drippy.
Due to Master Shake's refusal to use garbage cans and refrigerators, the kitchen has become a disease-ridden pile of filth and raw chickens. In response Frylock, who says, "A dog wouldn't even take a crap in here!", forces Shake to go to the store and buy cleaning supplies to fix the mess. Shake returns from the store without cleaning supplies and instead with air freshener and Cheez Whiz. Saying that the kitchen is dead to him, Shake attempts to make the living room a new kitchen, with the recliner as the new stove. However, after setting the recliner on fire, Meatwad tosses a can of air freshener on the fire, which explodes and blasts Shake out of the house and into the yard.
Meanwhile, a mold on the kitchen floor has slowly grown and begun to breathe. By the time of the explosion, it enters the living room as a mobile, talking creature who agrees to play with Meatwad and his dolls. The creature is very kind and named Drippy (due to his dripping on all of Meatwad's things). When Shake returns, he is frightened by Drippy and runs to the kitchen, where Frylock finally convinces him to take all the dishes out of the house... though Shake drops them directly into Carl's pool (powered by a battery and dog shampoo).
Drippy quickly befriends and performs kind acts for everybody. Among the acts:
- He rakes Carl's lawn as an apology for stealing a headless cardboard cutout of a beer model (which Carl had taken from a liquor store).
- He buys lattes for everybody (except Shake, who was absent at the time).
- He cleans Carl's pool after Shake deposits all the dishes and shampoo in it.
- He helps move the television to Meatwad's room.
Shake, however, is envious of the attention Drippy is getting and treats him very cruelly. When Shake threatens to move out, however, nobody in the house offers to stop him, and he ends up living under pizza boxes in the front yard during a rainstorm. However, a blast of lightning sends Shake back into the house, where he comes down with a cold. Drippy, in an offer to help Shake, reveals he is half-penicillin and lets Shake eat him to get better; when Frylock reveals he has penicillin, Drippy wants to stop, but Shake convinces Drippy the only way he can get better is to keep munching.
By the time Shake is finished, Drippy is nearly completely eaten. Shake then goes outside and sees a flier in the road. As he goes to pick it up, a truck comes barging towards him. Drippy, seeing Shake about to be struck, rushes out and pushes Shake out of the way, himself being smashed by the truck. Later, Shake expresses no gratitude towards Drippy, convincing Meatwad that he had spoken poorly of him before the push and that the whole incident was the mold's fault.
Revenge of the Mooninites
"Revenge of the Mooninites" (production code: 108) is the eighth episode of the first season, and the eighth episode overall. It was originally broadcast on May 5 2002.
Dr. Weird reveals himself. He asks Steve if he is invisible, to which Steve says he isn't. Meanwhile, the Mooninites' ship passes by.
Meatwad is counting the number of Harvest Time tickets he has, as he's trying to get a ten-speed. He is so keen on the idea of obtaining a ten-speed that he says while he doesn't want to do anything illegal, he would kill someone in front of his or her own mother in furtherance of this goal. The Mooninites show up, but Frylock throws them out. Meatwad asks Ignignokt and Err to help him win the ten-speed. They go to the Harvest Time carnival, where Err cheats on the skee ball machine to get more tickets. Instead of getting a ten-speed, the Mooninites leave with the Foreigner Belt, a belt that bestows upon them the powers of the super group Foreigner.
The Mooninites first use the belt on Carl, freezing him by using the belt with the song "Cold As Ice", then take his pornography and dresser. They then use the song "Dirty White Boy" on Meatwad and make him burn the dresser in the woods, starting a forest fire, and go back to the Aqua Teens' house. They then blur Frylock's vision with the song "Double Vision", so he can't shoot them with his eye blasts. Afterwards, Master Shake asks Ignignokt to use the belt to help him get girls. Err uses the belt on Shake with the songs "Working for the Weekend," "Turn Me Loose," and "Hot Girls In Love", but it has no effect as it's a song by Loverboy. So they tell him to go stand in the middle of the street with his eyes closed. Meanwhile, Carl thaws himself with his tanning bed set on Jamaican, and steals the belt to use against the Mooninites. With the song "Hot Blooded", he boils the water in his pool where the Mooninites are soaking, causing them to flee. Frylock then shows up clutching Carl's azalea bushes in his fries, thinking they are the Mooninites. Carl asks if there's a reverse on the belt, to which Meatwad replies yes. Carl attempts to reverse the effects of the belt to undo the damage the Mooninites did, only to have the top of his head turn into a Connect Four board, learning that the belt was set on "Head Games". Meatwad tries to make Carl feel better by telling him that with computers, he can talk to people without having to leave the house.
Similar to the earlier episode "Mayhem of the Mooninites," the episode closes on board the Mooninites' spaceship as they retreat from Earth. Ignignokt extends a pixellated middle finger that is substantially longer than the finger displayed in "Mayhem of the Mooninites" and declares that he is doing it harder than he ever has.
Cultural references
- Ignignokt claims his God is "an Indian who turns into a wolf", but Err corrects him that he may be referring to Wolfen. In a FOX News broadcast during the 2007 Boston Mooninite scare this line was repeated on national television in an attempt to explain the Mooninites [1].
- The Foreigner Belt uses commands named after songs by the rock group Foreigner. The songs referenced include "Cold as Ice", "Dirty White Boy", "Double Vision", "Hot Blooded", "Head Games", and "Urgent".
- Carl claims he saw Foreigner performing with Canadian rocker Bryan Adams at the Meadowlands Arena in their 1983 tour.
- Err tries to use the Foreigner belt by singing the Loverboy songs "Turn Me Loose" and "Working for the Weekend," but they have no effect as they are not Foreigner songs. Carl also claimed that he saw Loverboy at Madison Square Garden.
- Err sings part of the Styx song "Mr. Roboto".
MC P. Pants
"MC P. Pants" (production code: 109) is the ninth episode of the first season, and the ninth episode overall. It was originally aired on May 19 2002. mc chris guest stars as MC Pee Pants.
Dr. Weird introduces his beautiful fiancée, but it is actually a giant spider, which Steve subtly points out before Dr. Weird is attacked by it.
Meatwad is listening to "I Want Candy", a song by an artist named MC Pee Pants, but he's listening to it while Master Shake is trying to play a guitar. He gets fed up and breaks the neck of the guitar, but Frylock intervenes and has a different idea. He tries to get Meatwad to try some different music, like Bach, Beethoven, and Vivaldi, but the moment he leaves the room, Meatwad switches back to I Want Candy. Frylock suggests Meatwad use headphones instead, but he turns it up so loud that it causes hearing damage. Shake threatens Meatwad with the broken guitar neck, but Meatwad escapes through the window.
Shake and Frylock try to use Carl's pool, but he's already in it. He asks about the music, and mentions that he can't get the song out of his head. He's eating jawbreakers (which apparently is not related to the reason his teeth are blue).
Meatwad goes trick-or-treating (even though it's May) dressed as Elvis. First he visits his own house, and Shake answers the door, but only gives him some soy sauce, plumber's putty and a burning candle. Meatwad goes to Carl's house next, Carl complains about the music. Meatwad says that he doesn't listen to I Want Candy anymore. MC Pee Pants has a new single called I Need Candy. He then notices that Carl has a pallet of chocolate bunnies, which he apparently got from a dumpster.
Meatwad and Carl are washing Carl's car in the middle of the night listening to and singing the new song. Frylock takes notice of the song lyric, which mentions drilling a hole straight to hell to release ancient demons to run a global diet pill pyramid scheme. Shake says that all he hears in rap is "clicks and whistles". Meatwad and Carl hear the song mention the address "612 Wharf Avenue", which Carl recognizes as being an abandoned warehouse next to "Melon Shakers", a gentlemen's club. They decide to go there, bringing some chocolate bunnies for the road.
When they get there, Meatwad tells Carl to stay low and be quiet, but then turns on the song and runs into the warehouse. He sees a cardboard cut-out of MC Pee Pants up in a spider web, who orders Meatwad and Carl to get in a throne, which is actually a lawn chair and a Christmas tree stand attached to a giant drill. When Carl refuses, MC Pee Pants reveals his true form, a giant 8-foot spider with a diaper and shower cap, and attaches Carl to the drill, but there isn't enough power to run it.
Frylock and Shake confront the spider, who says the only reason he's doing this is because he can't fit in with anyone. Frylock takes him to a boarded-up Pizza Potamus restaurant and tells him to go in for a job interview. When MC Pee Pants goes to the door, the Aqua Teens blow him up, along with the building.
MC Pee Pants ends up in hell, where he finds out from Satan that they only listen to speed metal in Hell.
Dumber Dolls
"Dumber Dolls" (production code: 113) is the tenth episode of the first season, and the tenth episode overall. It was originally broadcast on November 3, 2002. David Cross guest stars as Happy Time Harry.
Dr. Weird starts to reveal his 'time space contin--', but suddenly freezes. Steve nudges Dr. Weird, and he tips over, then shatters. Steve flees.
Meatwad is playing with his dolls Vanessa and Dewey on the lawn when Master Shake suddenly pushes a lawnmower over them, shredding them to pieces, then attempts to do the same to Meatwad. Frylock takes Meatwad to the mall to buy a new doll. Meatwad wants Jiggle Billy, with the musket and the night vision goggles, but Frylock thinks he's too expensive so they purchase Happy Time Harry instead, a balding, drug-addicted action figure wearing nothing but shorts and red dancing shoes.
Back at home, Happy Time Harry threatens Meatwad with the knife attachment at the end of his right arm. Meatwad asks him if he likes dancing, to which Harry replies, "Not now, not ever." Harry reveals he doesn't actually dance because of a back injury and shows Meatwad his 'action bills', then lies down to take a nap. Meatwad tells Frylock that Harry is depressed, and Frylock writes out a check for $1,000,000 in 'fun money' on a Post-It. Harry tells Meatwad that what he needs is pills, to make the phone calls stop, so Frylock writes a Post-It prescription for 'jolly sunshine happiness.' Meatwad refuses to take it to Harry, and Frylock confronts Harry and discovers that he has drunk all of the Aqua Teens' root beer and triple sec (although he didn't get to the tequila Frylock was going to use for margaritas, and he wasn't happy about hearing that). Periodically, Harry spontaneously vomits on the floor and/or passes out. Master Shake comes into Meatwad's room to torture him, but Happy Time Harry and Meatwad tell Shake to just 'do' (kill) Happy Time Harry. Outside, Shake threatens to kill Harry with a blowtorch, but Harry is so gung-ho about getting killed that Shake becomes unnerved and backs off.
Displeased with Happy Time Harry's attitude, Frylock purchases Jiggle Billy after all, but even his belly jiggling can't cheer up Meatwad and Harry. Outside the house, Meatwad, Jiggle Billy, and Happy Time Harry play, but Happy Time brings Jiggle Billy to such an emotional low that Jiggle Billy blows his own head off with his musket, though he survives. Frylock threatens to kill Happy Time, but Shake instead says they will make Happy Time immortal ('Highlander-style') as a suitable torture for the suicidal doll, by tossing him off a cliff.
The Aqua Teens stand atop a cliff, and after a short argument about if this scenario was even in Highlander all, Shake tosses Happy Time somewhere far below. Shake then jumps off the cliff, thinking he's immortal, but his straw catches on a branch and he decides he isn't. Some weeks later, Shake comes out of traction, rides up to Frylock and Meatwad in a wheelchair, then is struck by lightning when he lofts a magical 'Highlander sword'.
Bad Replicant
"Bad Replicant" (production code: 115) is the eleventh episode of the first season, and the eleventh episode overall. It was originally broadcast on November 10 2002.
Dr. Weird wants Steve to chop off his head with so much force that the blood rush will rocket his body all the way to Phoenix.
The Plutonians, Oglethorpe and Emory, are orbiting the Earth in their spaceship. Oglethorpe reveals his plan to rule the Earth with an army of replicants. Currently, they have only one, and he is still cooling in the oven. Emory warns him that the replicant is not yet ready, but on Oglethorpe's insistence Emory releases him.
On Earth, Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad are singing hymns together, because Frylock wants to join a nearby church. Oglethorpe calls Shake, telling him he wants to speak to him about starring in a movie. After some negotiation, Shake accepts. When Oglethorpe tells him to come outside to run through the script, Shake sees that the Plutonians have landed their ship in front of the Aqua Teens' house, and he gladly boards.
Onboard, Shake meets the only partially formed clone of himself. The bad replicant is shorter than Shake (though the Plutonians do give him high heeled shoes), one of his hands is attached to the end of his straw, the other protrudes from his bottom, and he has half a jambox sticking out of the side of his shake. Oglethorpe doesn't seem to notice the mediocre quality of the replicant and quickly forces him outside.
Back in the Aqua Teens' house, the would-be Shake replica greets Frylock and Meatwad and tries to pass himself off as Major Shake and/or Mister Shake, but they immediately see he is a fraud. In the Plutonians' ship, back in outer space, the Plutonians stall the real Master Shake to keep him from leaving.
On Earth, the replicant derides the Plutonians for being morons, then fires up his jambox, inspiring Meatwad to dance to the beat. On their ship, the Plutonians can't believe the replicant hasn't yet 'deterraformed' the planet, then imprison Shake within 'deadly laser rings', which are actually harmless disco lights. The replicant calls the Plutonians and tries to explain that he has not fooled Meatwad and Frylock, then refuses to implement any of the Plutonians' nonsensical plans. After hanging up, the replicant asks Frylock for a pipe, then breaks into Carl's car and drives away.
Later, Frylock and Meatwad lounge in Carl's pool, where Carl reveals that the car has been crashed into a bridge and that the driver has fled. On their ship, the Plutonians attempt to consult a disco ball ('Orbnauticus') for insight into what to do next. Orbnauticus says nothing, as is his wisdom. The Plutonians, not paying attention to what's happening, crash their ship into the street directly in front of the Aqua Teens' house, then run away.
Circus
"Circus" (production code: 110) is the twelfth episode of the first season, and the twelfth episode overall. It was originally broadcast on November 17 2002.
Dr. Weird brings us a plate of corn. Steve appreciates the gesture, and is hungry. Little does he know that it's corn mating season.
Master Shake decides to be nice to Meatwad and send him to a computer camp... or so he tells Frylock. Shake really sells Meatwad to Randy the Astonishing, an alien prince from Jupiter who's been sent to Earth to impregnate all Earth women but who instead has been stuck running a circus near a strip club. Shake advertises Meatwad to Randy as "Meat Mountain", a meatball who can grow into the shape of a mountain (Meatwad, who does have the ability to change shape, cannot actually grow that large). After reading some 'magic words' Shake gave him (which are really just part of an ad for discounted office furniture), Randy quickly realizes that he's been ripped off again.
Back at the Aqua Teens' house, Frylock shows Shake a present he bought for Meatwad upon his return from camp - a kiddie computer that makes farm animal noises. Shake wants to use it for financial purposes, which makes Frylock suspicious as to where Shake got money. Frylock finds out what really happened after Carl comes over asking about "Meat Mountain". Carl tells Frylock that Meatwad has become a hit at the circus, with strippers dancing while he does his transformation act. After discovering that Shake sold Meatwad for $2, they head to the circus (where the admission price is $2.50, much to Shake's chagrin).
Frylock, Shake, and a disappointed Carl watch Meatwad's act, after which Carl confronts Randy about the elimination of the strippers from the act (Randy reveals that Meatwad draws the crowd in himself). Carl demands a refund, but is punched out by Randy after commenting on his appearance.
Shortly thereafter, Shake joins the circus as a Martian milkshake with three eyes, the third of which can see the future. After an act where Shake fudges his way through some "predictions" and the crowd throws garbage at him, Randy chains him up in the back and charges kids money to throw things at him.
The next night, Meatwad shows Inside-Out Boy his new transformation, calling it "Wayne Gretzky" (although Inside-Out Boy, who has to slap at his vocal cords with his bladder in order to talk, correctly identifies him as a Samurai Lincoln). Tragedy strikes, however, when something snaps inside Meatwad, rendering him unable to perform and forcing Randy to use Shake in his place.
After another bad act, in which Shake dresses up as Meatwad, then introduces "the amazing milkshake with the bearded eyes", Randy can't take it anymore and reveals his intentions to the crowd. His father, who is in the audience, reveals himself and joins in with Randy, ordering all the women to be rounded up for infiltration. A riot begins, and the Aqua Teens and Carl go home.
Back in Carl's pool, Frylock and Meatwad (who is still locked in the Samurai Lincoln position) discuss the future of Inside-Out Boy, who is living in the Aqua Teens' bathtub until he can 'get back on his feet'. Shake walks over and remarks that he's eaten a tub full of "cherry cobbler" - prompting Meatwad to scream in horror.
Love Mummy
"Love Mummy" (production code: 112) is the thirteenth episode of the first season, and the thirteenth episode overall. It was originally broadcast on November 24, 2002. Tom Clark guest stars as the Love Mummy.
Dr. Weird unveils a plate of corn to Steve. Steve is wary of the doctor's invitation to eat it, due to what happened to him last time. Dr. Weird convinces Steve it will be different this time. Little does Steve know that it is still corn mating season.
Frylock, Master Shake, and Meatwad are awakened in the middle of the night by muffled yelling coming from beneath their house. The next day, Frylock and Meatwad investigate the crawlspace and discover the Love Mummy.
The mummy continually threatens to curse Frylock if he doesn't do as the mummy demands, so Frylock hugs him, makes him a sandwich, and buys him expensive food, trendy clothing, home electronics, and a rock climbing wall. When the mummy threatens to curse Shake and even summons localized lightning as part of his 'curse', Shake ignores it, and nothing happens to him. Frylock goes to the library and discovers that mummies really can't do anything except be extremely annoying. Frylock puts the Love Mummy out on the curb with the garbage. Carl takes the mummy's headdress and wears it, but it turns the lower half of his body into a snake.
Cultural references
- Meatwad says "Sound off like you got a pair!", a line from Full Metal Jacket.
Dumber Days
"Dumber Days" (production code: 111) is the fourteenth episode of the first season, and the fourteenth episode overall. It was originally broadcast on December 1 2002.
Dr. Weird is talking on the phone with Terry about "money for brains", then offers to highlight Steve's hair before sticking him in the neck with a needle.
Frylock finds Master Shake and Meatwad in Carl's backyard, and is alarmed to see a bone sticking out of Meatwad, believing it's one of his. Meatwad tells Frylock that he took his brain out to polish it, and forgot where he put it, so he's had to stick a rotisserie chicken in there. Shake has the brain, however, and is using it for "undercover aquatic training." Frylock rips it away from Shake, and discovers the truth... Meatwad's brain is a cat toy!
Upon discovering this, Meatwad suddenly becomes both depressed and unaware of his surroundings. First, Carl throws him out of his window after Meatwad mistakenly thought his bedroom was his, and then he spends the next three days in the doorway of the Aqua Teens' house while ants crawl and build anthills around him. Frylock tries to convince him to come in, but Meatwad says that time and space are a mystery to him because he doesn't have a brain.
Frylock decides that the best way to make Meatwad feel better about himself is to find him a new brain. After Frylock measures the circumference of Carl's skull, Carl catches on and decides to give his friend Terry a call (the same Terry that Dr. Weird called earlier) and get a brain on the black market. Said brain arrives on the Aqua Teens' doorstep in a cooler the next day. Frylock apparently puts the brain into Meatwad's head, and the results are obvious. Meatwad's brain and body slowly grow and grow until they both are ridiculously huge and Meatwad's intellect grows to match.
Things come to a head when an arrogant Meatwad uses his brain to make Carl's car levitate and give kids rides in it for $5. When confronted by Frylock, Meatwad scolds him for getting in the way of his "financial superbrain." Frylock then yanks Meatwad's brain out of his head, revealing that he just stuck his old toy brain in there and left the donor brain in the cooler. Meatwad slowly shrinks back to his normal size, as well as going back to his old dumb self. The child in Carl's car ends up on the roof, and the car falls off the roof and lands in the yard.
Meatwad goes in the cooler and looks at the brain, wondering where they got it from...and it turns out to be Steve's brain!
Interfection
"Interfection" (production code: 114) is the fifteenth episode of the first season, and the fifteenth episode overall. It was originally broadcast on December 8 2002. Todd Hansen guest stars as the Wwwyzzerdd.
Dr. Weird, speaking with a high voice and a shrunken head, tells Steve to "turn it on". He does, and while his head grows, he screams for Steve to "turn it off" before his head explodes offscreen.
Master Shake is trying to convince Meatwad that there is no need for him to brush his teeth. He says that dental plaque is a conspiracy invented by toothpaste companies to get people to buy their products. After Meatwad says that Shake wouldn't know because he doesn't have any teeth (which actually isn't true), Shake claims that he got rid of them because he was straight, and that teeth are for gay people -- "that's why fairies come and get them."
They then head into Frylock's room and decide to get to the bottom of this, with Shake searching for "teeth, 'plaque conspiracy', and Metallica" on the Internet. After Meatwad tries to convince Shake to include Justin Timberlake in the search, Shake threatens to stab his mouth shut with skewers and cut him up with an ax, causing Meatwad to cry. After he's calmed down, Meatwad notices a pop-up on the screen, which Shake clicks. This, of course, brings more and more pop-ups onto the screen. Eventually, the problem grows and grows until the room itself is full of real-life pop-up ads, and the computer is destroyed by a pop-up slicing the monitor when it is created. However, the ads keep popping up, and they can't be closed out for whatever reason.
Frylock gets home during this, and finds out just what has happened after Meatwad blows their cover. He goes in his room, pulls the plug and the phone line leading into his computer, but things keep coming in. Finally, after Frylock pulls the fuse out in his room, one final popup comes up, revealing the Internet's ruler, the Wizard (actually spelled Www.yzzerdd.com). After Frylock tries and fails to get him to get rid of all the pop ups, he enters the internet and tries to get the Wizard to stop with the pop ups. The Wizard tries to convince him of the benefits of staying with the Internet service he has now, going as far as to show him what is going on next door at Carl's house. Carl is not pleased with the pop-ups, being unable to breathe because of the space they take up and unable to get to his bathroom because it "is currently being blocked by some stupid ass hit the monkey game". One more pop-up comes down in front of him, severing his fingertips. Frylock finally decides that enough is enough, and tells the Wizard that he's going offline. Frylock is then presented with a pop-up giving him a choice: Yes (where he would be signed up for extremely intrusive services, including the 'Home Invasion Cam'), or No. Naturally, he chooses no, but doesn't read it through—he's been given another 90 days to decide what he wants to do. Defeated, Frylock leaves, and takes Shake and Meatwad to live in the woods for the next three months—only to discover Shake has a wireless computer, and the pop-ups return.
PDA
"PDA" (production code: 116) is the sixteenth episode of the first season, and the sixteenth episode overall. It was first broadcast on December 15 2002. Todd Barry guest stars as Romulox, and Vishal Roney voices Carl's insurance agent.
Dr. Weird has lost weight, by cutting his skin off with a chainsaw. He needs to lose 20 more pounds, or he'll "never be pretty".
Master Shake's PDA is missing, and he is furious about it. During a tirade in which he tears apart the house looking for it, Frylock comes across him and asks where he got a PDA in the first place, and then asks where had he last seen it.
The Aqua Teens make a trip up to the Adirondack Mountains, where Shake claimed he was tracking alien footprints with his PDA. This turns out to be a lie, but Frylock does come across some actual alien footprints. While trying to convince Shake and Meatwad that they need to stay, they leave, leaving Frylock to get stomped by a huge alien foot.
A beat-up Frylock returns home and discovers that Shake is torturing Meatwad, asking him where the PDA might have gone. He also discovers that Shake has thrown his DVD burner on the roof when he discovered it didn't work.
Later that night, Shake blows up Carl's pool looking for the PDA, to no avail. Then, in his sleep, he has a revelation. Romulox, leader of the Trenton tar monsters, has the PDA.
The next morning, the Aqua Teens head to the Trenton Tar Pits. After going on a glass-bottom boat ride conducted by a convicted sex offender and finding nothing but garbage stuck in the tar, they return home. There, they find Romulox in their home with a PDA, a hands-free cell phone, and many other state-of-the-art gadgets. Romulux snobbishly brags about his MEPEs (mobile electronic personal enhancers), then makes fun of the Aqua Teens for having no money. Romulox soon gives the PDA to Shake (since it's 'outdated' anyway). Romulox, busy with people more important than the Aqua Teens, leaves the house through the use of a grappling hook and his dislocateable, flexible, 'easy flow elbow', which he claims only he and Bruce Willis possess. Shake then breaks Carl's bedroom window playing Batman with the grappling hook, while Carl is on the phone with an insurance claims office, hopelessly trying to get money for his blown-up swimming pool. After Carl sees the broken window, he loses it, says he's Batman too -- and promptly leaps out the window.
Mail Order Bride
"Mail Order Bride" is the seventeenth episode of the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It was first broadcast on December 22 2002.
Dr. Weird has a present for Steve, and it attacks him.
It's Christmas Eve, and Frylock is asking Meatwad for his Christmas list. Meatwad hands Frylock a piece of paper with squiggles all over it. He then explains that the pictures were of a hairdryer and hair. He wants hair for Christmas so people can take him more seriously. Frylock then sees the large pile of papers Shake has coming out of his computer printer. As a Christmas present for themselves, Master Shake and Carl split the cost of a mail-order bride from Chechnya, who locks herself in Carl's house when she gets a good look at her new "husbands."
Undaunted, Shake and Carl try to get into Carl's house to convince the mail-order bride (named Svetlana) to come out and marry them. In the process, Carl falls from an unstable ladder bridge that Shake is supposed to be holding (but isn't, because he's too busy reading magazines) and breaks his neck.
Meanwhile, Meatwad has decided that he doesn't want any hair because Regis said that the hair would come off an elf's head (and also said that it's China's fault there's too many people in the world). Instead, Meatwad wants a toy train.
Christmas Day arrives, with Frylock receiving a pair of wrap-around sunglasses made out of pine cones and hot glue (from Meatwad); Meatwad getting the hair, hair dryer, and toy train he wanted; and Shake getting nothing and being upset about it.
After all that, they head to Carl's house, where Frylock conducts the marriage ceremony through Carl's bathroom door, after which Svetlana breaks free and steals Carl's car. The Aqua Teens, however, have hired a DJ, and he stays around to conduct the reception at the Aqua Teens' house, although there is no point in doing so. The episode ends with Meatwad giving Carl a stick as a Christmas present.
Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future
"Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future" (production code: 118) is the eighteenth episode of the first season, and the eighteenth episode overall. It was originally broadcast on December 29 2002. Glenn Danzig guest stars as himself.
A giant hand comes out of the sky and rips the top of Dr. Weird's lab off, while he and Steve run away across the bridge.
Carl is sleeping in his room when he is awakened by a robot that claims to be the Ghost of Christmas Past. He has come to show Carl what Christmas was like for Carl in 1968. A flashback shows a young Carl and his father. Carl opens his "present", which he hopes is "a new mommy", but instead is a piece of berber carpet, which apparently is also his dinner. Carl's dad says that it's time to go to work at the insulation factory, and for Carl to put on his respirator and work boots. Suddenly, a huge robot stomps in the room and shoots lasers everywhere. Carl remembers eating carpet, but not the lasers and the robots. The ghost claims that the reason he doesn't remember is because it was only a prophecy, but in the future, the past has occurred. Carl reminds the robot that it's not Christmas at all, but in fact February. The robot leaves in a cloud of smoke, saying he'll be back in December, "tomorrow". When Carl tries to tell him to lock the door on his way out, the robot smashes through the door.
Master Shake shows up to tell Carl that his pool is full of blood, not that stuff what turns red when you pee in it, admitting he has had to pee in Carl's pool a number of times. Carl comments on how it looks like "someone ran a heard of cows through a juicer or something". Frylock determines it to be elfin blood. When Carl demands to know who had done this, the ghost arrives and informs them all that he is responsible for the blood. Frylock asks him why, and he goes into a long story, explaining how thousands of years ago, an ape named "Sir Santa of Claus" enslaved alien elves to make toys, then became lost during the Ice Age and built his house in the exact spot where Carl's house currently sits. Meatwad is frightened that the whole story is true, but Frylock assures him that it's not. The ghost changes his story, saying Santa is now a machine. Frylock reminds the ghost that he still hasn't explained the elf blood, and he says that it was due to an event called the "great circuiting." He then goes back into another story, and talks all through the night, ending with an explanation of where babies come from--for machines. Everyone else has fallen asleep from boredom, and Carl has passed out drunk, but Meatwad is still engaged in conversation with the "Ghost." When they awaken Frylock, they reveal the answer to the question he asked the Ghost hours before: the blood is in the pool because Carl's house was built on elf graves, and the ghost is haunting it because Carl desecrated the land by having his house on it. The only way to end it is for Carl to give himself sexually to the "Great Red Ape."
Carl would much rather just move out, though, so he packs his boxes. He gets ready to take a shower to get ready for some potential buyers for his house, but ends up covered in elfin blood. He ends up showing the house to Glenn Danzig. He explains the features of the house and the shrieking robot that comes with it, and shows him the pool, still filled with blood. Danzig loves all this, since it perfectly fits his (famously) morbid taste. He asks for a price, and accepts Carl's offer of a million. After moving in, he runs sprinklers which spray blood all over the front yard and house, and comes over to the Aqua Teens' house, looking for the robot, which he says he cannot find. Shake says he hasn't seen him, but does show Danzig a "haunted kitchen," which is Meatwad covered in a blanket with the lights flipping on and off, in an attempt to get Danzig to buy their house. Danzig gets angry and leaves, cursing at Shake that if he finds out the robot's in his house, that he'll use Shake's skull as a bowl to eat his cereal out of. Meatwad tells the ghost to come out from the hallway. The ghost says that he is freaked out and annoyed by Danzig ("He won't wear a shirt"). Shake orders him to make their house bleed.
See also
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force (season 2)
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force (season 3)
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force (season 4)
References
- ^ ""In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" summary". Ghost Planet Central. Retrieved 2007-03-13.
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