ATHF SONG LYRICS

My name is...
Shake-Zula.
The mic-rula,
The old schoolah,
Ya wanna trip?  I'll bring it to ya.
Frylock and I'm on top, Rock you like a cop
Meatwad you up next with your knock-knock.
Meatwad make the money, see.
Meatwad get the honeys, G.
Drivin in my car, livin' like a star.
Ice on my fingers and my toes and I'm a Taurus

Check it.
Check it, check it.

'Cuz we are the aqua teens,
make the homies say ho! and the girlies wanna scream
'Cuz we are the aqua teens,
make the homies say ho! and the girlies wanna scream

Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Number 1 in the Hood, G

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ATHF Information

Aqua Teen Hunger Force (also known as ATHF or Aqua Teen) is an American animated television series shown on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, as well as Teletoon in Canada. It is one of four spin-offs of Adult Swim's Space Ghost Coast to Coast. It is also the second longest running animated spin off (the longest is The Simpsons which has being airing since late 1989). Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of the four original Williams Street series that premiered in December 2000, before Adult Swim officially debuted (the others were Sealab 2021, The Brak Show, and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law). Aqua Teen Hunger Force is the longest running original series on Adult Swim.[1]

The show is about the adventures of three anthropomorphic fast food items and their next-door neighbor in suburban southern New Jersey. The characters consist of Frylock, Meatwad, Master Shake, and their human neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski. Though the main characters are fast food items, there is no given explanation, and no other characters are related to food. In 2007 a feature film based on the series, titled Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, was released in 877 selected theaters throughout the United States. Another feature film, titled Death Fighter is planned for release in 2012.[2] The series has been cited as an example of postmodern humor.[3][4]

Episodes tend to lack clear plots and frequently place the main characters in bizarre, surreal, and often morbid scenarios. The initial premise of the show, concerning the three lead characters — Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad — solving mysteries was dropped in favor of intentionally incohesive storylines, improvised dialogue (often laden with non sequiturs), and absurd visual gags. Situations often involve the Aqua Teens being visited by strange monsters and extraterrestrial beings, most of which are of little power or consequence. An initially structured plot is often abandoned as characters' actions take the story far afield. Little continuity exists between episodes: regularly appearing characters frequently die in an episode, only to appear alive and well in the next. Since its release, Aqua Teen Hunger Force has developed a cult following, and its popularity resulted in three different spin-offs: Spacecataz, Carl, and Soul Quest Overdrive.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force is directed by Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro, animated by Radical Axis and produced by Williams Street. Much of the dialogue is supplemented with ad libs and improvisation by the voice talent.[5] The show is fully scripted but ad libs are included in the final voice recordings and the shows are animated to include this improvisation. Many, if not all, of the crew and cast members formerly worked on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.[1] Rapper Schoolly D performs the theme song, and in early episodes also provided periodic commentary.


The original version of the Aqua Teens from the Space Ghost Coast Coast episode "Baffler Meal"The Aqua Teens were originally created for an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast called "Baffler Meal", where they were the corporate mascots for a fictional fast-food chain called "Burger Trench". The versions of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force were prototypes which resembled the future characters, but both Master Shake and Frylock differed in appearance, personality, and voice from their ultimate design.[6] The name "Teen Hunger Force" refers to the squad's mission to conquer hunger in teens.[7]

"Baffler Meal" did not air for several years, and was not even animated or produced until after ATHF became popular. Instead, the Space Ghost episode was rewritten as "Kentucky Nightmare," while the Aqua Teens debuted in "Rabbot", the pilot episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Although originally Adult Swim did not feel that the show would do very well, they allowed the show to be produced due to a need for original programming.[citation needed] A full season consisting of sixteen episodes, including "Rabbot", was put into production shortly thereafter. ATHF is now one of Adult Swim's most popular shows.[8]

In early episodes, the trio were identified by Master Shake as the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," which solved crimes for money. After a few episodes, this premise and the use of the name by the characters were dropped. The premise was a trick that had been added to appease Cartoon Network executives, who "didn't want to air a show about food just going around and doing random stuff."[8] In the show itself, Frylock mentions that they stopped fighting crime because "that wasn't making us a whole lot of money".[9] In 2010 it was confirmed that the concept of the Aqua Teens being detectives will be revisited in the upcoming season eight[10].

[edit] Opening sequences
During the first two seasons, which were released on DVD in three volumes, episodes cold-opened with a glimpse into the laboratory of Dr. Weird. He and his assistant Steve use the first several seconds of the show to create monsters, disasters, and various other things. In earlier episodes of the first season, the monsters or creations usually formed the basis for the plot, but as the crime-fighting element of the program disappeared, the Dr. Weird segment became a non sequitur opening gag.

In the third season, Dr. Weird was dropped in favor of segments from the pilot episode of Spacecataz, an unaired spin-off created by Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro. Six episodes were planned for production, but Adult Swim felt that there was little, if anything, that could be made into five more episodes, since all of the characters were destroyed at the end of the pilot.[11] These segments featured the Mooninites trading insults, gestures, and practical jokes. The full Spacecataz pilot is available as a special feature on the Volume Four DVD box-set.[12] The Mooninites appear to outsmart the Plutonians for much of the series including tagging the Plutonians' ship and reversing a prank that involved 50 million large pizzas.

The openings were dropped starting in the fourth season. Dr. Weird has not been seen since, except for an appearance in the movie, and in some episodes he can be seen in a photo with Frylock, in the background of Frylock's room. In this picture he is shown having brown hair, indicating that he is younger in the photo.

It is revealed at Dragon Con that Dr. Weird will make regular appearances in season 8, which will premiere in 2011.

Closing credits
The show ends with an apparent history of ATHF, showing what appear to be the three characters in Egyptian murals, then being abducted by Abraham Lincoln and sent to the moon in a wooden rocket ship, where they are shown sitting around a campfire when an Apollo astronaut arrives. During this sequence, a soundbite from the first episode, Master Shake saying "dancing is forbidden", is played repeatedly to a beat.

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ATHF Cast

Name	Character(s)
Dave Willis	Meatwad Carl Brutananadilewski Ignignokt Boxy Brown Various
Dana Snyder	Master Shake
Carey Means	Frylock
C. Martin Croker	Dr. Weird Steve
Matt Maiellaro	Err Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future Various
Andy Merrill	Oglethorpe
Mike Schatz	Emory
mc chris	MC Pee Pants
George Lowe	Various
Tommy Blacha	Dr. Wongburger
Schoolly D