Aqua Teen Hunger Force

***Aqua Teen Hunger Force*** (later known by various alternative titles) is an American adult animated television series created by Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim.

In 2015, the show had a unexpected and controversial cancellation by Adult Swim which which was done against the wish of the creators.

In 2023, the show was revived.

## Plot

The show centers around three anthropomorphic fast food items. The brains of the group is Frylock, a floating box of fries, but Master Shake does a lot of the talking, most of it aimed at making life miserable for Meatwad, a sweet-natured ball of meat.

In earlier episodes, the trio would solve and fight crimes (many of which were caused by Dr. Weird, the scientist who created the trio). However, this premise was dropped early on in favor of the trio getting involved in many different kinds of strange situations, with their next-door neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski, often getting unintentionally involved.

## Why It's Considered Number One In the Hood, G.

1. Despite the premise initially coming across as being a crime-fighting show, the overall premise is completely erratic in a good way, especially in later seasons. This leads to unpredictable, unusual, and hilariously nonsensical plots.
2. Great and creative animation. Despite using a lot of stock special effects and all of the backgrounds being made with Adobe Photoshop, both are handled very well and ultimately adds to the show's charm.
3. Epic and memorable opening theme by Schooly D.
	* The opening themes in the later seasons that use alternative titles are also memorable in their own way.
4. Likable, well-written protagonists.
	* Shake's idiotic acts are pretty funny, and it's always satisfying to see karma catch him whenever he does anything villainous.
	* Frylock's logical, calm personality makes him more relatable than Shake and Meatwad.
	* Meatwad's childish personality makes him the most lovable of the characters.
	* Carl is the most realistic of the characters and has many hilarious lines. He constantly has to deal with the trio's shenanigans to the point that it also makes him the most relatable character for many viewers.
5. Plenty of memorable and enjoyable villains. The most notable examples include:
	* Dr. Weird, who is shown executing some idiotic plan at the beginning of each episode in the earlier seasons to the point that it's hilarious to see how crazy and bizarre his inventions and decisions get.
	* The Mooninites Ignignokt and Err, two arrogant, pixelized aliens who utilize guns that fire ridiculously slow bullets.
	* The Plutonians Oglethorpe and Emory, two blocky and spiked aliens, with the former speaking in a German accent.
6. Awesome voice acting that gives each character a distinct sounding voice.
7. Clever writing and comedy which is made better with the show's nonexistent logic, with multiple running gags such as Shake causing whatever he throws to explode, or the characters dying, only to come back in the next episode with no explanation.
8. Heartwarming Moments, most notably the ones involving Meatwad.
9. The show had a ton of hilarious and great episodes like:
	* HandBanana (Often considered to be the best episode in the series)
	* Broodwich (Also considered to be the best)
	* Rabbot (The series' first episode)
	* One Hundred
	* The Greatest Story Ever Told (depending on your view)
	* Bible Fruit
	* Shake Like Me (one of the banned episodes)
	* Multiple Meat
	* Rabbot Redux (started season 7 on a high note)
	* The Granite Family
	* Muscles
	* The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We \*\*\*\*ing Mean It) (depending on your view)
10. A lot of memorable quotes. Some examples include:
	* *"Truly, they were, an Aqua Teen Hunger Force... YOUR EMERGENCY BREAK IS ON!!"*
	* *"Don't tell me how to drive, jackass!"*
	* *"Well... Dracula called and he said he's coming tonight and I said okay."*
	* *"Look, all I know is that this cord was plugged into my house and your house was glowing like the freakin' sun. So, I put two and two together there and decided that you're pissing me off."*
	* "Tonight, You"
11. Depending on your view, the series finale, *The Greatest Story Ever Told*, was a pretty okay way to send off the series.
12. It's movie, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters was pretty decent.

## Bad Qualities

1. Dr. Weird and Steve are almost entirely absent from season 3 onwards.
2. Some characters can be pretty unlikable.
	* Out of the protagonists, Shake is most likely the least tolerable.
3. Meatwad's voice can be hard to understand at times, so you might need to turn subtitles on.
4. None of the episodes prior to Volume 7 have been released in uncensored form so far.
5. Some banned and censored episodes like Dickesode, Boston and Shake Like Me.
6. There's some bad or average episodes like Der Inflatable Fuhrer, Dickesode (depending on your view), Fry Legs, Deleted Scenes, and most infamous of all, Reedickyoulus.
7. A promotion for the show caused the 2007 Boston Mooninite panic, which led to a regime change at Cartoon Network, causing many beloved series to end prematurely, several key people to leaving the network, and a shift in content that focused on live action rather than animation. Fortunately, this rut was rather short lived, and the network had another renaissance in the 2010s.

## Reception and legacy

In January 2009, IGN listed the series as the 39th best in the Top 100 Best Animated TV Shows. The series was nominated for Teen Choice Awards in 2007 and 2008. In 2011 Willis and Maiellaro received Annie Award nominations for writing in the season eight episode, "The Creditor". In 2013, IGN placed *Aqua Teen Hunger Force* 19th on their list of Top 25 Animated series for adults.

James Rolfe, best known for creating the *Angry Video Game Nerd*, has cited the show as an influence on *Nerd* as well as shaping his sense of humour. YouTuber Jason Gastrow, better known as Videogamedunkey, has also cited the show as a comedic influence.

## Trivia

* In some of the seasons' DVDs, selecting the "play all" option will cause all of the episodes of that season to play at the same time.
* It Spawned Memes (e.g. Tonight You, Yo Fryman, YOU QUESTION THE WORDS OF THE MIGHTY JIMMY?!)