"Aqua Teen Hunger Force" (2000) TV series 2000-????

Creators:

Matt Maiellaro
Dave Willis

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Release Date:

30 December 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy

Tagline:

Number 1 in the hood, G!

Plot:

The misadventures of a milkshake, an order of fries, a meatball, and their retired next door neighbor in the suburbs of New Jersey.

Plot Keywords:

Milkshake | French Fries | Mad Scientist | Ghost | Meat

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Dave Willis	...	Meatwad / ... (86 episodes, 2000-2009)
Dana Snyder	...	Master Shake (85 episodes, 2000-2009)
Carey Means	...	Frylock (85 episodes, 2000-2009)
C. Martin Croker	...	Dr. Weird / ... (41 episodes, 2000-2003)
Matt Maiellaro	...	Err / ... (39 episodes, 2001-2009)

Also Known As:

ATHF (USA) (promotional abbreviation)

Runtime:

15 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:MA | USA:TV-MA | Canada:14A (some episodes) | Canada:18A | New Zealand:R16 | New Zealand:M (DVD rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:M (some episodes) | UK:12A (seasons 1 and 2) | UK:15 (seasons 3 and 4) | Brazil:16 | USA:TV-14 (some episodes)

Company:

Radical Axis

Trivia:

The show is created using Adobe Photoshop images, animated using Adobe After Effects and edited using Apple's Final Cut Pro. Writing the script takes Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro around four or five weeks, after which they spend a week making a rough show on video and get the voiceover work done. The animators use the QuickTime video as a reference and spend another five weeks making the finished 11 minute episodes. The whole thing costs around $60,000 per episode (an uncommonly low figure for an animated TV series).

Quotes:

Meatwad: [In front of a closet that has a sign that says "WARNING! DO NOT ENTER!] Carl, in here, no one won't ever think to look in here.
[Opens the door to reveal a pink intestinal-like surface with a gaping black hole]
Meatwad: No one won't ever want to get near here.
Carl: You, uh, you sure about this?
Meatwad: Aww, just do it.
[Master Shake pushes Carl in and closes the door. A second later, the door opens up again, and Carl comes flying out of the closet screaming]
Meatwad: Whoops, my bad.
Frylock: [angrily closing the door] I told y'all: this closet is not to be opened, it is a horrible horrible place in there!
Meatwad: Well there's a knob there.
Frylock: Why do you think I put the sign there? You think I was being cute?
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Angry Video Game Nerd: Halloween (#2.19)" (2007)

Deliciously Funny

ATHF has become the favorite late night entertainment snack for my family. The DVD set does introduce each segment with the now infectious rap song that describes each of the Superheroes. The humor is all over the map and comes in the form of dialog and visual pratfalls. The art is done in a quirky style on the cheap but the humor is still rich. All heroes HAVE to have a great bad guy. My favorites are the Mooninites along with Oglethorpe and emory. MC P Pants and Sir Loin are also very good.

Each of the opening bits with Steve and Dr. Weird stand alone as comic tidbits that get each segment going. Master Shake as the leader of the group garners most of the laughs in his desire to boss everyone around and ALWAYS remain the center of attention. Problem is that Master Shake has a very lame "power".