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Summary: Great series, okay DVD.
Review: Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of those cartoons that sounds on paper like a fever dream. A talking milkshake, a floating container of french fries, and a ball of meat have zany adventures that often end with their hapless neighbor dead or seriously wounded. Aliens are also often involved. Yet despite the insane premise, or maybe because of it, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of the funniest cartoons on Cartoon Network. The show itself is five star, PG-13 entertainment.However, I was disappointed with the DVD as a set. Each episode is only 12 or so minutes long, were two discs really necessary? There's a few easter eggs and a few commentary tracks, but little to justify two discs, except perhaps to inflate the price.
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Summary: Shake, Frylock, Meatwad...Hamm?
Review: As happy as I am to see ATHF rise in popularity and acclaim, I can't help but feel that many of the show's fans don't truly comprehend its humor and intelligence. Consider, for instance, what ATHF has been compared to in preceeding reviews. The Family Guy? No way. Shake'll never make a joke about W. Somerset Maugham or The Sound of Music; indeed, ATHF seems about as far removed as one can get from FG's postmodern gumbo for people too well-versed in popular culture. Monty Python's Flying Circus? No. ATHF may star a trio of talking fast-food items, but it hasn't, as of yet, given in to wallowing in erroneously conceived silliness. In my opinion, the show's closest relative, in terms of humor, is the work of Samuel Beckett (please note: I DON'T say this to lend the show a type of credibility it may or may not deserve). The greatest similarity is this: unlike other contemporary "adult" cartoons (and like Beckett), ATHF doesn't spend much time toying with absurdity as it relates to plot or situation, but as it relates to language itself. This is especially apparant in Shake's conversations with Meatwad, which, given time to progress, will almost always devolve from an ill-founded arguement into near-gibberish. I'd provide examples, but I can't quote the show THAT exactly. Here are a few shorter ones which, I feel, illustrate the above point: Shake: "This is a bag full of sand."
Meatwad: "That's what you eat!" Frylock: "Well, I'm glad that's over with." Shake: "Who are you talking to? Because I (pause) don't know you." Shake: "Look, I shall not walk so that a child may live." I'm sure that someone better versed in Beckett than I could form an excellent counter to my comparison. Then again, I'm not implying that the two are inexorably linked. The most important point to consider is, perhaps, this: that as viewers, we shouldn't be approaching ATHF as mere entertainment which we may use to "sodomize our vast imaginations", but, rather, as a work of art more serious and relevant than it's given credit for.
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Summary: Great DVD Transfer ; Bad Special Features
Review: The many risqué misadventures of Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad have finally been put on DVD and made available to the masses, and while every episode is crystal clear w/ exceptionally good sound, the special features are lacking. Along with the 16 episodes of the first two seasons the special features consist of: The original director's cut of "Rabbot", commentary on "Rabbot, "Space Conflict from Beyond Pluto" & Mayhem of the Mooninites", and never-before-seen-footage. With all these features it'd be insane to say it dulls the quality of the DVD... right? Wrong. While it was interesting to listen to the creator commentary I felt that it just wasn't enough because there were many instances where the creators would just stay silent for a few minutes and not say anything, which left me feeling a little awkward. At times the intervals would be so long that it would seem as if you were merely re-watching the episode w/ the volume turned down, and I found that to be very disappointing. Other than this, the only other noticeable flaw I found was that some of the curse words were edited out in the episodes which I found to be outrageous. Though I can sit through these side-splitting episodes without having to hear fowl language, I had previously read from other reviews that these episodes contained scenes and situations (i. e. language usage) that was cut off the Adult Swim broadcast. Needless to say after reading this and having seen that the language had still been cut out, I felt that I had been ripped off a bit. Aside from these two shortcomings, the DVD is great overall and the price from Amazon cannot be beaten. I would recommend this DVD to any person who loved ATHF on Adult Swim as it does bring back memories from old episodes. The navigability is impressively easy and there isn't much "red tape" to have to go through to get to what you really want to see when you buy a DVD. All in all, these episodes will leave anyone with a sense of humor rolling on the floor laughing time and time again, and in my opinion, is an absolute must for everyone's DVD collection.
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Summary: Funniest show I've seen for years...
Review: This show is a classic. It's in the same, surreal, almost avant-garde humour vein as Monty Python, South Park, early Ren & Stimpy, etc. It approaches genius, honestly! Every episode I've seen so far has been hilarious and beyond explainable and, has for me, become a bit of an addiction... Everything about this show is great from the bizarre intros featuring Dr. Weird to the fantastic starting and end credits sequences with Schooly D's excellent theme music... From the crazy, hilarious character voices to the whole look & feel of the show - it's just too brilliant for words!! I didn't think in this day & age that someone could come up with anything so original and funny but I was wrong. In an age where Japanese anime is overly-popular to a nauseous point where western cartoons are sadly trying to copy them (Teen Titans for example) it's fantastic to see a show like ATHF being given the go-ahead. My personal favourite characters in this show have to be Frylock, Master Shake and Carl the next-door neighbour. I haven't seen a show in a long-time which can crack me up so often. And I love the music bits from Schooly D too! Very funny and tongue-in-cheek... In years to come, this show will rightly be regarded as a classic. I just hope it doesn't become so popular that it ends up losing its' original, creative spark like other animated shows have done in recent years... Without sounding too snobbish, I'd really like to see this show remain "underground" rather than hit the big-time because mass success often ends up killing the writing on these shows. That said, at only 11 minutes long, it does have the prospect of running for a few years. We need this show to last! We just don't need it becoming so popular that we end up getting sick of it (eg. South Park, The Simpsons...) That said, a movie surely should be in the works. I mean, the South Park movie was brilliant - I can see similar things happening with Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Anyway, sorry about going on so much about great this show is - but the people who make it deserve a lot of praise and respect. It's just so refreshingly different to anything else on TV... Anyway, about the DVD: Even though it contains only 1 and a half(!) series (and a few extras), it is must-have for comedy fans. Buy it, and maybe they'll bring out the rest soon afterwards!
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Summary: The Best DVD
Review: This is a great DVD of the 3 crime fighting food items well they fight sort of.Disc One of the DVD has the episodes Rabot, Escape from Leprechaupolis, Bus of the Undead, Mayhem of the Mooninites, Balloonenstein, Space Conflict from Beyond Pluto, and Ol'Drippy.
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Summary: A glorious collection of bizarre humor
Review: One of the best things about being an Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan is explaining the show to people who haven't heard of it. It's about a milkshake, french fries, and a wad of meat who fight crime on the Jersey shore. The episodes are hilarious and clever, the commentaries are fun, and the easter eggs are a blast. Definately the most original thing on television, Aqua Teen Hunger Force makes me dance with a reckless abandon that can only be inspired by lines like, "We should have a pool...make me one from the sky! I command it!" I cannot WAIT until Volume 2 comes out.
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Summary: Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Review: When I first saw this show advertised I thought it was the dumbest thing ever, the tv guide described it as a show about three food products: a milkshake, a carton of fries and meatball who fight crime. But, it only took that first episode to get me hooked, it's absurd and hilarious, unlike anything I've seen before or since. In the first couple episodes they do seem to be sort of detectives, but then they just seem to elapse into three guys (who aren't really teens) who hang around. They rent a house, with two bedrooms, no bathroom. They swim in their sweat-pants wearing neighbor, Carl's pool (without his permission) who's had his house up for sale ever since they've moved in. Frylock (the french fry) is the smartest, kind of like a father, or big brother to Master Shake and Meatwad. Master Shake (my favourite character) is the smart-ass. He's greedy and always coming up with schemes and picking on poor Meatwad, who's the dumbest (yet cutest). While they're hanging out at home, they encounter inter-galactic villians, who are usually really stupid. Like Emory and Oglethorpe who came once to steal the Aqua Teen's cable. The Mooninites, The Digital Ruler, Inignot and his sidekick Err(who live on the moon)are recurrent characters, real egomaniacs who are always claiming their superiority, when they're generally very cowardly. The show is well written, really funny and very unique. One of the only shows that has made me laugh out loud. Thank you Amazon for having them available, great price too! (at least I think so)
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Summary: One of the more quotable shows on T.V.
Review: ATHF is one of the more alternate shows on T.V.; a show you have work to find but is worth its weight in gold. Give yourself the time to go back and think over every episode, as a sort of revision viewing--it's a lot funnier that way. What makes ATHF's comedy format much better than Friends or Frasier is because it's less mature and more off-the-wall, but still manages to be organized. As the title states, this is one of the more quotable shows on T.V., from Carl's normal lexicon ["Freakin' awesome!"] to the more organized lines ["Well, one man's waste is another man's. . .soap."], and the unpredictability of Dr. Weird ["IT BEGINS!!"] and Steve, his assisstant/guniea pig [Steve is given a present, Dr. Weird locks himself in a cage, Steve tries to open present and it eats his head]. Of course, ATHF isn't for everyone, and I consider myself to be a huge ATHF person and being such, can make the above analyzations. Give the show a chance.
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Summary: "I was not put on this earth, to listen to meat..."
Review: Most random and best cartoon yet since the Family Guy! Can't wait for season two. "Idle hands spend time at the genitals, and you know how much God hates that.."
-- Ol' Drippy
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Summary: this show
Review: this show is on cartoon network's adult swim. adult swim starts @ 11:00
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