There's a reason why William's Street, notorious for cancelling literally everything in their repertoire (including this show), kept it running since 2001. It's just too damn good.
I have one of the seasons of ATHF on DVD and I always find it so hilarious that when you press “play all”, thinking that you’re going to be watching the episodes one after another like any other show on DVD does, instead you’re blasted with everything single episode on that DVD played all at once on individual boxes on your screen 😂
They did a similar gag on TV when the movie came out. They told everyone that they were gonna air it completely commercial free, and what they actually did was play it in a box in the bottom right corner of the screen over every show in their line up with no audio, and Spanish subtitles. Was the funniest shit ever.
You know it’s crazy I remember seeing it when it 1st aired as a 10 year old. Thought it was hilarious back then and now as a 35 year old it still holds up and I still binge it
It always made me laugh that the opening gets you hype, but the actual show is just them bickering. If any action occurs they just run away from it as quickly as possible
Story time: in 1998 I was laying in bed with Cartoon Network on barely paying attention (because I was 7 and it was late for me) and I had Space Ghost on. My mom stormed in and said “I’m turning this off! I heard him say ‘sex’ like 9 times!” And that sums up my entire history with Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.
We the same age, and i had this exact same experience the exact same year, except it was with South Park, and she started letting me watch it like 2 or 3 years later.
Those adult swim bumpers sent me straight back to my very stoned teenage and 20s years Hell yeah That said it’s always weird to me when people think absurdity is weird. Aqua Teen isn’t even surreal usually. It seems like some people just can’t understand the point of making something that doesn’t have a coherent plot. Scenes exist to be amusing by virtue of their writing. Basically, it’s humor in its purest form
I couldn't go see it for 2-3 weeks after release. By that point the only theater still playing it was a bit over an hour away. Still went and saw it. Like 4 people in the theater. It was amazing.
Seeing the OG Adult Swim logo definitely brought back some memories. I was a kid when they first aired, and ligit thought i was going to get im trouble for watching adult content. Then, it went on to give birth to many of my favorite intellectual properties!
What a nice little deep-dive! Rick & Morty and Smiling Friends may be the top dogs of Adult Swim these days, but Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad will always be the mascots of the block in my eyes. Also, I gotta give a special shout-out to the Mooninites; hands down the best characters in the whole series, atleast in my opinion. No one can defeat the Quad Laser!
"They truly were an Aqua Teen Hunger Force" - Carl Brutananadilewski When I was a pubescent teen, at first glance looking at the promos for this show, I thought this was the stupidest shit put on TV. Then back in 2003, I accidentally ended up watching an episode and really taking a shine to Master Shake's asshole, bullshit artist character and bully dynamic to Meatwad, then every other character fell into place for me to love this show. Alot of memorable episodes like 'The Broodwich', 'Total Re-Carl', 'Dumber Dolls', 'Hand Banana' (probably the funniest episodes I'd almost died laughing at). Seinfeld needs to lose that slogan for their show. Aqua Teen Hunger Force was a show about nothing and it was and STILL is AWESOME! 😂😁😎
When people would say to me; "Seinfeld is so ahead of its time! It's a show about absolutely nothing, heh heh" And I reply; "it's a show about a sassy metro trying to get by, by being a bystander, and what challenges they face...all while curing you of insomnia..! Helping you fall asleep within a few minutes of the beginning of each episode! Amazing show--but a show 'about nothing' it is not... ...however...if you actually want to watch something that's funny, while actually being about fk-all nothing, watch 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force,' but try not to lose your mind looking for 'meaning' and just enjoy the experience.."
This is the greatest show of all time. I had the season 2 DVD and when you pressed "play all episodes" it would play every episode at the same time. Genius.
i discovered this show when i was in high school, and i had watched it all the way through so many times that by the end of my senior year i could recall entire episodes while bored in class lol
I’ve been waiting for this retrospective for years! This show is banished to the darkest corners of my mind, childhood memories peaking through soggy, crusty eyes just to see the most absurd and, a lot of the time, gory bits to ever grace the airwaves.
I miss when the pop-up website was an actual domain you could visit. Enter the domain name as spelled out in the episode (which the algorithm _won't_ let me do even without punctuation for God knows why), you'd be greeted by sound clips of Master Shake, a repeating buffering animation, and catch occasional glimpses of the Wwwyzzerddd as he flooded your browser with fake pop-up ads until your browser crashed. Unfortunately, ad-blockers came out a couple years later, and the charm fell off a cliff. Still, the site remained up for many years after the episode aired. They put actual effort into that website. You don't see that kind of fake tie-in site/elaborate shitpost anymore in mainstream media... *_"ENTER THE INTERNET..."_*
Lol i did go to an actual movie theater in 2007 to watch the Aqua Teen Movie on the big screen. This show came at the perfect time for me, pretty much at the exact same time as mary jane did so obviously I thought it was the shit.
There IS technically a point to all of this ATHF stuff. It’s funny. It amuses the audience in so, SO many ways, thus people care for it despite the fact that it’s completely nonsensical.
*_MY NAME IS_* Shakezula the mic rula the old schoola you want a trip I'll bring it to ya Frylock and I'm on top rock you like a cop Meatwad you're up next work your knock knock Meatwad get the money see Meatwad get them honies G drivin in my car livin like a star ice on my fingers and my toes and on my toys
I'm horrified with how many of these scenes I can quote line for line... Also the movie has a fantastic soundtrack. Some killer punk and hard rock tracks in there.
Gonna be honest, whenever I watch videos discussing Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a point I tend to disagree with is the idea that it's just pure nonsense with no rhyme or reason with writing that feels like it's just pure stream of consciousness. I'm not saying it's straight genius or that the show isn't weird, but it's like when I watch the show I get the strong impression that the writers just straight know what they're doing. Characters have strong personalities and chemistry with one another, gag one offs and reocurring characters have some clear intentions behind how they can bounce off the main cast. Like the bible fruit present a fun idea of what if The Aqua Teens met characters more maladjusted than them and suddenly they look like the normal ones in comparison. Alot of Carl's characterization does so much to make him more interesting than just a straightman to the Aqua Teens and show how he's a pretty far gone bad person with self-destructive habits. Like so many episodes indicate clear as day that the show's not pure randomness and that the writers have very clear ideas of what they want to do with the characters and episode plots.
I rewatch it constantly. Dad insisted I watch it in college and H. Jon Benjamin as Mothman, The Mooninites and Ezekiel won me over. My husband points to this show when he needs to prove I am weird and watch dumb shit. ❤
How in the hell did one confused a led light with a bomb??? I've seen thousands of LED lights and ain't a damn one of them blown up! I mean after you find the first one, why keep spending the money to employ all those city employees to take them down "safely" unless it was just a ploy to grab some money! Look me the city has spent all this money to take down these supposed bomb threats... Boston should have to give all that money back! This is just another example of creative people making money and then the system turning on them! "For safety" if you ask me if you're that scared of LED lights you shouldn't be employed by the city at all!
Loved SG:CTC, Brak Show and of course ATHF!! My third childhood when I was in my thirties 😂 The second one having been Saturday Morning 90s t.v., Ren & Stimpy, and Beavis & Butthead. I'm presently on my fourth one with Rick & Morty, Smiling Friends and Invincible. Because fuck adulthood.
Cool video dude! I love Aqua Teen. It's interesting how the animation was more cheap and stilted in the old iteration, and now the show is a lot more fluid (It's kinda jarring, ngl)
i am so fuckiung glad you mentioned the budget losing charm of the show, after season 4 or so it looked too good and the charm and "soul" of the show kinda fell off, to be fair theres only really so much magic that can happen with this type of stuff so having 4(?) seasons of some of the best writing was already impressive
Regrettably studios largely don’t understand “intentional low-quality as humor”. It’s the same reason they didn’t make the pirates in the first SpongeBob movie Patchy the Pirate like they were going to in the script apparently
The fact that they managed to get 12 seasons for this is already a mirracle and Im so glad they did
Also amazing committment to the bit of playing the movie in the bottom left
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There's a reason why William's Street, notorious for cancelling literally everything in their repertoire (including this show), kept it running since 2001.
It's just too damn good.
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I have one of the seasons of ATHF on DVD and I always find it so hilarious that when you press “play all”, thinking that you’re going to be watching the episodes one after another like any other show on DVD does, instead you’re blasted with everything single episode on that DVD played all at once on individual boxes on your screen 😂
I thought my DVD player was broken for so long when I got that DVD
I forgot about that EVERY SINGLE TIME I booted up the DVD as a teen.
They did a similar gag on TV when the movie came out. They told everyone that they were gonna air it completely commercial free, and what they actually did was play it in a box in the bottom right corner of the screen over every show in their line up with no audio, and Spanish subtitles. Was the funniest shit ever.
@@Joomluh12I literally remember that. It was so hilarious and fucked up
@@Joomluh12It's funny how so many today could legit watch it with their huge TVs or projectors.
This show littleraly shaped my weird sense of humor
Don't let it take all the credit. You can't forget Invader Zim.
You know it’s crazy I remember seeing it when it 1st aired as a 10 year old. Thought it was hilarious back then and now as a 35 year old it still holds up and I still binge it
Shaped my weird penis lol
Been watching athf my whole marriage and we've been together 22 years, that's nuts 🤪
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters should be in the National Film Registry and Criterion Collection
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They made another one & new episodes recently, btw
With a linoleum knife!
Tina Fey as a sexy burrito with big tits will never not be arousing I mean hilarious
It always made me laugh that the opening gets you hype, but the actual show is just them bickering. If any action occurs they just run away from it as quickly as possible
Story time: in 1998 I was laying in bed with Cartoon Network on barely paying attention (because I was 7 and it was late for me) and I had Space Ghost on. My mom stormed in and said “I’m turning this off! I heard him say ‘sex’ like 9 times!”
And that sums up my entire history with Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.
We the same age, and i had this exact same experience the exact same year, except it was with South Park, and she started letting me watch it like 2 or 3 years later.
I'm a 62 Brit and I'm still watching and re-watching ATHF. Every character is just an absolute riot.
I'll bet you're fun.
It don't mattah. Nona dis mattahs.
i am sofa king we todd ed
ARISE CHICKEN!!
Yes, yes you are.
The point of this show is that there is no point.
Seinfeld made that work successfully
Having the movie just playing in the corner for the rest of the video once the movie gets discussed is great.
Good video!
“Daddy??”
“Next door jackass”
Arguably the essential Adult Swim series
all i learned from this video is that
their name is frylock, master shake and meatwad
MY NAME IS
@@thecianinator Meatwad! I'm a beef blog! I'm an igloo! Or a hot dog!
SHAKE ZULA, THE MIC RULA, THE OLD SCOOLA@@thecianinator
and Carl
What more do you need?!
Found out they had a movie I missed in 2022.
Two years later still funny
A 70 min direct to DVD special isn't a movie.
@@V1VISECT6 tomato, tomato
Those adult swim bumpers sent me straight back to my very stoned teenage and 20s years
Hell yeah
That said it’s always weird to me when people think absurdity is weird. Aqua Teen isn’t even surreal usually.
It seems like some people just can’t understand the point of making something that doesn’t have a coherent plot. Scenes exist to be amusing by virtue of their writing.
Basically, it’s humor in its purest form
“Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law” is underrated.
Avengerrrrr, bring me my personal digital assistant
Yea Birdman, ATHF and Venture Brothers MADE that era of adult swim.
13:04 Carl’s like… Jersey Homer Simpson
"You kinda just have to be high"
Me -2024
I have fond memories of watching ATHFCMFFT in the theater on opening weekend. That opening song has been stuck in my head ever since.
I couldn't go see it for 2-3 weeks after release. By that point the only theater still playing it was a bit over an hour away. Still went and saw it. Like 4 people in the theater. It was amazing.
the mooninites closing down Boston seems entirely in character, frankly
I watched this show when it aired back in the day, still watch some of the episodes cuz nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Seeing the OG Adult Swim logo definitely brought back some memories. I was a kid when they first aired, and ligit thought i was going to get im trouble for watching adult content. Then, it went on to give birth to many of my favorite intellectual properties!
FINALLT A VIDEO ESSAY ON AQUA TEEN
ATHF is my favorite show so I’m happy to see someone talking about it for once
What a nice little deep-dive! Rick & Morty and Smiling Friends may be the top dogs of Adult Swim these days, but Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad will always be the mascots of the block in my eyes.
Also, I gotta give a special shout-out to the Mooninites; hands down the best characters in the whole series, atleast in my opinion. No one can defeat the Quad Laser!
i like to think about how eric andre took what tim and eric tried to do and made it actually watchable
how's tim and eric unwatchable?
"Classic Rock will be forever changed"
Has left such an indelible mark on me from such a young age.
I Think about this a lot
I love how you can watch any episode and not worry about being out of the loop, story only started to matter towards the later seasons
"Do they have lil turkey muffins?"
"They truly were an Aqua Teen Hunger Force" - Carl Brutananadilewski
When I was a pubescent teen, at first glance looking at the promos for this show, I thought this was the stupidest shit put on TV. Then back in 2003, I accidentally ended up watching an episode and really taking a shine to Master Shake's asshole, bullshit artist character and bully dynamic to Meatwad, then every other character fell into place for me to love this show. Alot of memorable episodes like 'The Broodwich', 'Total Re-Carl', 'Dumber Dolls', 'Hand Banana' (probably the funniest episodes I'd almost died laughing at). Seinfeld needs to lose that slogan for their show. Aqua Teen Hunger Force was a show about nothing and it was and STILL is AWESOME! 😂😁😎
As a millenial who grew up watching this show, as someone from the generation that made and watched this, all I can say is "I am sorry"
actually, gen x was the creator base, millenial audience was there but the show was made by gen x
@@circleinforthecube5170 Fair enough
WHY ITS BADASSS
Gen X made this.
When people would say to me; "Seinfeld is so ahead of its time! It's a show about absolutely nothing, heh heh"
And I reply; "it's a show about a sassy metro trying to get by, by being a bystander, and what challenges they face...all while curing you of insomnia..! Helping you fall asleep within a few minutes of the beginning of each episode! Amazing show--but a show 'about nothing' it is not...
...however...if you actually want to watch something that's funny, while actually being about fk-all nothing, watch 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force,' but try not to lose your mind looking for 'meaning' and just enjoy the experience.."
This is the greatest show of all time. I had the season 2 DVD and when you pressed "play all episodes" it would play every episode at the same time. Genius.
This entire show was making up bits and committing to them
...I'm just glad I was one of the only 13 people that saw Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters in the theater when it was released
most powerful object in the universe, the foreigner belt.
Even More powerful than that gold glove with the costume jewelry from MCU 😂
My last semester of school was right when Covid hit. That Carl graduation speech made it a little better.
"Friendship ain't about trust. Friendship's about nunchucks." - Carl Brutananadilewski
Infinitely quotable. My friends and I practically speak in spongebob and aquateen quotes
i discovered this show when i was in high school, and i had watched it all the way through so many times that by the end of my senior year i could recall entire episodes while bored in class lol
I’ve been waiting for this retrospective for years! This show is banished to the darkest corners of my mind, childhood memories peaking through soggy, crusty eyes just to see the most absurd and, a lot of the time, gory bits to ever grace the airwaves.
I love this show sooo much I learned how to speak exactly like Meatwad and still can 😹 lmao
I miss when the pop-up website was an actual domain you could visit. Enter the domain name as spelled out in the episode (which the algorithm _won't_ let me do even without punctuation for God knows why), you'd be greeted by sound clips of Master Shake, a repeating buffering animation, and catch occasional glimpses of the Wwwyzzerddd as he flooded your browser with fake pop-up ads until your browser crashed. Unfortunately, ad-blockers came out a couple years later, and the charm fell off a cliff. Still, the site remained up for many years after the episode aired.
They put actual effort into that website. You don't see that kind of fake tie-in site/elaborate shitpost anymore in mainstream media...
*_"ENTER THE INTERNET..."_*
Lol i did go to an actual movie theater in 2007 to watch the Aqua Teen Movie on the big screen. This show came at the perfect time for me, pretty much at the exact same time as mary jane did so obviously I thought it was the shit.
I remember the first night of adult swim...
I was there...
3000 years ago...
I will tolerate no hate for Space Ghost. That show has aged like the finest wine.
Its about living in new jersey with roommates
Really enjoyable video, man. Hope this blows up.
God, those old bumps take me back...
Trying to find continuity in this is more insane than the show itself
To clerify that's why I do think it's one of the best shows of all time.
Glad someone finally acknowledges Frylock's status as Cartoon Network's first openly trans character
"I get it, it ain't making me laugh but..I get it."
You forgot to mention Carl's Lock of the century of the week where in the inaugural season the Giants actually won the superbowl
There IS technically a point to all of this ATHF stuff.
It’s funny. It amuses the audience in so, SO many ways, thus people care for it despite the fact that it’s completely nonsensical.
King of the Hill is the greatest cartoon ever made, i tell you hwat
I saw the ATHF movie when it was in theaters on opening day.
SO glad athf is being recognized lately!!
I saw ATHF:MFFT in theaters back in the day. There were 4 other people there, two stoners and two old ladys who were super offended, it was great.
*_MY NAME IS_*
Shakezula the mic rula the old schoola you want a trip I'll bring it to ya
Frylock and I'm on top rock you like a cop Meatwad you're up next work your knock knock
Meatwad get the money see Meatwad get them honies G drivin in my car livin like a star ice on my fingers and my toes and on my toys
Grammy award winning band masotdon did the intro song to the movie 😂 great video
I just started watching athf last month but I would honestly agree that it’s one of the greatest shows ever made in adult swim
I see your ATHF, and I raise you Squidbillies.
_Homer hate losing! Homer_ *_smash!!_*
But you may also want to smile...friend.
One of my inspirations to create my cartoons for sure!
They definitely didnt know whay they were doing at the start. The show even acknowledges it with the jokes about how they were detectives for a bit.
Core memories im talking like three years old first memories of my life has this show in it thats why im hooked
Quite a few characters get shared by both shows
Some highschool friends and i skipped class to go watch the movie in 2007 in theaters! Good time's and i still watch it once in a while
I'm horrified with how many of these scenes I can quote line for line...
Also the movie has a fantastic soundtrack. Some killer punk and hard rock tracks in there.
I can't remember the last time a video affirmed all of my beliefs about a show this much
Good ol' talking cup
As a kid I never understood this show, as an adult it's some of the funniest god-damned shit ive ever seen.
Underwatched video I enjoyed that. Also I like your avatar guy
Dave and Matt are my favorite writing duo, genuine masters of comedy and the craft.
Wow. That was the RUclips video ever made.
What a day and age that was ❤
Gonna be honest, whenever I watch videos discussing Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a point I tend to disagree with is the idea that it's just pure nonsense with no rhyme or reason with writing that feels like it's just pure stream of consciousness. I'm not saying it's straight genius or that the show isn't weird, but it's like when I watch the show I get the strong impression that the writers just straight know what they're doing. Characters have strong personalities and chemistry with one another, gag one offs and reocurring characters have some clear intentions behind how they can bounce off the main cast. Like the bible fruit present a fun idea of what if The Aqua Teens met characters more maladjusted than them and suddenly they look like the normal ones in comparison. Alot of Carl's characterization does so much to make him more interesting than just a straightman to the Aqua Teens and show how he's a pretty far gone bad person with self-destructive habits. Like so many episodes indicate clear as day that the show's not pure randomness and that the writers have very clear ideas of what they want to do with the characters and episode plots.
The mooninites are the best things in any cartoon show lol
pretty sure Frylock was the leader there bud, check your program
... aand the fries are traditionally accompaniment to the meat -so there!
0:44 the emplemon music
I rewatch it constantly. Dad insisted I watch it in college and H. Jon Benjamin as Mothman, The Mooninites and Ezekiel won me over. My husband points to this show when he needs to prove I am weird and watch dumb shit. ❤
Now do xavier renegade angel.
“That’s the spice!”
That show was so god damned weird. I loved it.
Live laugh love Aqua teen hunger force
How in the hell did one confused a led light with a bomb??? I've seen thousands of LED lights and ain't a damn one of them blown up! I mean after you find the first one, why keep spending the money to employ all those city employees to take them down "safely" unless it was just a ploy to grab some money! Look me the city has spent all this money to take down these supposed bomb threats... Boston should have to give all that money back! This is just another example of creative people making money and then the system turning on them! "For safety" if you ask me if you're that scared of LED lights you shouldn't be employed by the city at all!
Loved SG:CTC, Brak Show and of course ATHF!! My third childhood when I was in my thirties 😂 The second one having been Saturday Morning 90s t.v., Ren & Stimpy, and Beavis & Butthead.
I'm presently on my fourth one with Rick & Morty, Smiling Friends and Invincible. Because fuck adulthood.
Carl's STONECOLD LOCK OF THE CENTURY OF THE WEEK! Carl's NFL predictions bit years ago. Twas good 😊
Props for the GTA5 reference.
Bro got a like and a sub for nothing more than the title alone
Cool video dude! I love Aqua Teen. It's interesting how the animation was more cheap and stilted in the old iteration, and now the show is a lot more fluid (It's kinda jarring, ngl)
Dancing is forbidden!
i am so fuckiung glad you mentioned the budget losing charm of the show, after season 4 or so it looked too good and the charm and "soul" of the show kinda fell off, to be fair theres only really so much magic that can happen with this type of stuff so having 4(?) seasons of some of the best writing was already impressive
Regrettably studios largely don’t understand “intentional low-quality as humor”. It’s the same reason they didn’t make the pirates in the first SpongeBob movie Patchy the Pirate like they were going to in the script apparently
This show was about making fun of personality types
Carl Brytosky is my spirit animal!
When they randomly cameoed NEKO CASE?????
It doesn't matter. None of this matters.
Man, we used to get high to this shit😂😂 Show was such a trip!!
Without a doubt THE greatest show in television history. There is no discussion to be had.
30 minutes of this just to say a box of fries is trans
This kills the shartycel
I agree with the title of video