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Summary: You've tamed him with your greasy dance of joy
Review: Aqua Teen Hunger Force ('ATHF') is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Starring late on night on the Cartoon Network's 'Adult Swim', ATHF centers around a narcissistic milkshake, Master Shake, a genius batch of frenchfries with super powers, Frylock, and a sizzling ball of hamburger meat, Meatwad. The three form a detective agency/squad (The Aqua Teen Hunger Force, natch) and noisily "solve" mysterious events, much to the continued annoyance of their pot-bellied and 'self-employed' neighbor Carl. Sound bizarre? You have no idea. ATHF is some sort of sick, demented combination of Super Friends, South Park, and all those unintentionally creepy cartoons from the early 80s like The Snorks. Read: it rocks.This series is one of the most consistently entertaining, funny, and quotable I've ever seen. Each episode starts with some sort of bizarre creation or device either escaping from or otherwise being generated at the lab of Dr. Wierd in his castle on the New Jersey shore. Whatever that creation is, it inevitably ends up involving our heroes in very short order. The best episodes involve the Mooninites, a pair of pixelated freaks straight out of Moon Patrol or some other 1981 Atari game with mouths like children on South Park. The Mooninites descend from, naturally, the Moon, and proceed to wreak havoc with their kleptomania and ability to fire extremely slow, square video game bullets at people ("The bullet is enormous! Jumping..is useless.") A hilarious side plot involves the fixation of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force on the joys of basking in Carl's above-ground pool. In one classic moment, Carl puts up neon racing stripes around his pool: Carl: Yeah.. my pool looks like it's tearin' arse around the backyard..'cept it's standing still. Still waters run deep.
[enter Shake]
Shake: Carl! Whoa, that pool is tricked out...turbo!
Carl: You stay away from it..because you are wierd. In another episode, as Carl is blasted into the sky, his final lingering shriek is 'Stay out of my poooooool!' In short, this is a series that was clearly a blast for the animators to put together, and it's just as much fun to watch. I recommend it to anyone with even the faintest hint of appreciation for the absurd.
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Summary: Here's One for the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past!
Review: Alright...if you havn't seen this cartoon, you have not lived yet. Its hard to find, because its on for 15 minutes once a week (Sunday Nights at 12:45). I couldn't sleep one night and i stumbled apon it. I'm so glad I did because it is perhaps the FUNNIEST, MOST CLEVER, MOST ENTERTAINING cartoon ever made. I wait all week for the 15 minutes of show! I'm getting this DVD so I'll have something to hold me over. Trust me, if you like humor of any kind, this is the funniest cartoon ever EVER! I guarantee you will not be disappointed!
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Summary: The Best Show On TV!!!
Review: This show is by far one of the smartest and best shows on television. The plot follows a Giant milkshake, Box of Fries, and Wad of meat that are supposed to be detectives in Southern New Jersey. The show focuses mostly on what happens to the Aqua Teens, and their always irritated neighbor, Carl, when not solving a crime, and usually the events in their "normal" lives are far more exciting (and hilarious) then anything they could experience while solving crimes. With a great soundtrack (especially the Opening theme, which always gets stuck in my head), and hilarious plots, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force will entertain anyone with even a remote sense of humor.
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Summary: Deliciously Bent
Review: This is my current favorite DVD series. It's so absurd a premise and so beyond the pale of most cartoon series out there these days, that it has infinite appeal to both my sixteen year old son and to me. Our dynamic trio and their next door Jersey neighbor, the tank top wearing Carl, are the funniest toon characters in Television land. That's saying a lot as television is currently witnessing a true renaissance of cartoon humor. The creators are the same crew that brought us the equally silly, but cutting edge SPACEGHOST COAST TO COAST. The same sort of hip, off colour humor that informed that show is at play here, only more so. My favorite segment involves a manic depressive, deadbeat, suicidal doll who has a negative, lifeforce-draining impact on all who come in contact with him. Other highlights include a pair of aliens who look as if they've escaped from some crude '70s Atari game. The punk talking little alien, err, is particularly amusing. Of the three main characters, my favorite is Meatwad, the mush mouthed, single toothed meatball, whose speech is almost unintelligble, but who is delightfully, stupidly impressionable. If you're in the mood for some absolutely mindless, but hysterically hip comic relief, give this DVD set a try. The extras aren't that much to write home about, but no contemporary toon buff should be without this two disc set in his/her collection. If you have a sensibilty that is as warped as mine is, and you enjoy The Simpsons, South Park, Beavis and Butthead, The Family Guy, etc., I'm certain that you will enjoy this anti-superhero trio. BEK
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Summary: Probably the funniest cartoon on TV today
Review: If you can get past the absurd premise and the fact that the plot of each episode makes very little sense, Aqua Teen Hunger Force emerges as one of the smartest, funniest cartoons on TV today. Simply put, the dialogue is absolutely hilarious. I'm not exaggerating when I say that almost every other line uttered by the characters on the show (and particularly Master Shake) is worthy of being quoted. Coming in perfectly at just under fifteen minutes per episode, ATHF hits you fast and hard and then leaves you wondering what the hell you just saw when you can finally stop laughing. It's not for everyone, but those that do get it will enjoy the show immensely. The DVD itself is kind of a standard affair. It includes sixteen episodes, the highlights of which are the Mooninites ("We're here to steal your pornography and sodomize our vast imaginations") and Happy Time Harry ("No... but I've got Action Bills!"). The sound and picture are good, but was it really necessary to have two DVDs when we're talking about a show whose episodes are this short? There are also only three episodes with commentary tracks, but these are short on information and long on dead air and nonsense jamming. Buy the DVDs just for the show, though, and hope that Volume Two includes a little more in the way of extras.
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Summary: You must own these DVDs
Review: ATHF is the funniest show on TV now, w/ Arrested Development its only competition. If you loved the non sequitur, endlessly rewatchable humor of 91-95 era Simpsons, you'd love this show about animated fast food items and the strange characters they run into, like the Mooninites. "Do you have any eggs?" "Hold on let me check." "Yes, eggs or pot." Meatwad talking to his new, depressing Happy Time Harry doll: "You know, I notice you don't have a rocket launcher or a sniper rifle" "No, no, I don't have any firearms, here I have *action* bills" "Ugh, oh, those sound like fun" Carl, the only "human", is one of the funniest things on TV because we have all seen or run into men just like him. "Yeah I got a deal down at the dumpster, I mean, warehouse." This DVD set has some of the show's best, "MC Pee Pants, Revenge of the Mooninites, Dumber Dolls", but also some of the weaker ones, "Rabbot" and "Interfection". But they are all better than all the crappy sitcoms on TV, and the aforementioned classics are well worth the price.
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Summary: If you want a trip, I'll bring it to ya
Review: "I want candy, bubble gum and taffy
Skip to the sweet shop with my sweetheart Sandy
Got my pennies saved cuz I'm a sugar daddy
I'm her Hugh Cronyn she's my Jessica Tandy, I want candy!
(...)
Do it to your daddy, embarass your own family
Just 'cause you came in front of a kid and his candy
I need candy, any kind'll do
I don't care if it's nutritious or "FDA approved"
It's gonna make me spaz like bobcats on booze
I'll make a hyperactive juice that only I can produce
To bore a giant drill straight into hell
Realeasin' ancient demons from a sleep forever spell
So they can walk upon the Earth, and get resituated
And hawk the diet pills that MC P Pants created
Mess up the mix, mix up the mess
Come on down yo here's the address
It's six, one-two, Wharf Avenue
Six, one-two, Wharf Avenue" I highly reccomend ATHF... because where else can you watch a giant 8 foot spider wearing a disposable diaper pose as a cardboard 12 year old rapper who had a stroke and raps about an elaborate pyramid scheme to sell diet pills?
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS
Review: This is a show about Frylock, Meatwad, and Master Shake who live somewhere near the Jersey Shore. Carl there neighbor always get mad with what they do. He has a swimming pool which Frylock, Master Shake, and Meatwad swim in. Master Shake acts like he owns the swiming pool though. The three face mostly robots and aliens in every episode. In Voume One there are 16 episodes about 12 minutes long each which are all hilarious. I can't stop laughing when watching this. There are not that many special features though on the dvd but the show itself is alone worth the price. DISC ONE
Episodes:
1. Rabbot
2. Escape from Leprechaupolis
3. Bus of the Undead
4. Mayhem of the Mooninites
5. Ballonenstein
6. Space Conflict from Beyond Pluto
7. Ol' Drippy Special features:
Rabbot- The Original Cut (about 15 minutes long)
Rabbot- The Original Cut commentary
Space Conflict From Beyond Pluto commentary
Mayhem of the Mooninites commentary
Never Before Seen Footage (5 minutes) SECRETS:
1. Got to Special Features menu and got to second title and press right and you'll see Carl's Necklace light up. Press enter. DISC TWO
EPISODES:
1. Revenge of the Mooninites
2. MC P Pants
3. Circus
4. Dumber Days
5. Love Mummy
6. Dumber Dolls
7. Interfection
8. Bad Replicant
9. PDA Special Features:
None SECRETS:
1. On Menu Screen click left and you'll see Master Shakes Straw light up, press enter.
2. On Menu Screen click right and you'll see Frylocks eyes light up, press enter. I can't wait for season 2. It will be released on July 20, 2004.
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Summary: Totally weak!!
Review: Totally weak! ATHF is a great series but the DVD collection adds NOTHING to the series as it originally aired. The extras are totally lame and even the expletives that were bleeped in the broadcast versions were bleeped on the DVD collection. What the #%*& is that all about? Do yourself a favor, tape the series off air and save yourself some money.
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Summary: Utterly Disappointing
Review: I bought this DVD on the strength of the many glowing online reviews written here, and really wanted to like it. Sad to say, I didn't - at all! Although some of the dialogue is clever, the overall impression is patchy and lacklustre, the characters confused, and the storylines hollow. The very basic graphics (to say the least) are truly terrible; the music is clichéd hip-hop nonsense and the stories don't engage. Sitting through an entire episode is in fact, something of an endurance test. How anyone can put the Aqua Teens in the same sentence as the superb Invader Zim or the wonderful Family Guy, I'll never ever fathom.
Think carefully before you buy this.
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