Frylock tries to get him help by sending him to a hypnotist named Merlo Sauvignon Blanco, but that guy’s shady as hell and merely hypnotizes Shake into being his minion in getting revenge against all who have wronged him.
Shake is allergic to shellfish but still goes out on benders anyway as a tamer version of alcoholism, which is great. In other words, the entire series loops around. So after years of this gag, finally there’s this big payoff where everyone is secretly a spy and everyone is betraying everyone through chase sequences, gunplay, and espionage. The very joke of the show is that after doing this action-packed opening credits where the team fight robots, have space adventures, and so on, we get our whacked out characters existing in a less exciting, suburban setting. In a way, I feel that this is the ultimate punchline for Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The opening, where Carl meets Larry Miller and the ending, which includes a cameo appearance by a certain regular guest character, are very welcome in adding flavor to this strange episode. He drives him down a horrible spiral in record time, which is just dark as hell. The real Carl is disgusted with how square his healthy, Christian, happily married self is and is inexplicably able to communicate with him. The meat of this episode is Carl looking at a video of what his life would be like if he had hair. Carl talks to her bluntly about his diarrhea and has stains from it on his shirt and she still doesn’t bat an eye. The true greatness comes from Carl and Shake being the absolute worst in every way and yet she still doesn’t show any signs of thinking them repulsive. There’s a whole subplot in there about her true identity and her connection to the Mooninites, but that’s the weak point.
JUMPY GEORGEĬarl and Shake meet a single mother and fight over her. Then there’s the ever-popular “Hand Banana,” but an episode where the joke is that a dude is continually raped and nobody believes him is too gross for me no matter how absurd it’s painted. I really wanted to like “Carl Wash” more than I did since it uses Carl Brain from one of my favorite Space Ghost: Coast to Coast episodes, but it never clicked. “Boston” has its moments, but it’s mostly an exercise in bitter whining. “Last One Forever and Ever” never lived up to the potential of making the characters live action, even if its version of Carl was on point. There are several notable episodes that I couldn’t bring myself to include. But it is damn enjoyable and you should watch it if you haven’t already. Now that that’s done with, I’m ranking my favorite 50. 139 episodes about three food people and their disgruntled next-door neighbor having to put up with each other while slumming it in an even more Hellish version of southern New Jersey. As a way to say my goodbyes, I decided to spend several days marathoning the entire series.
Lasting a whopping fifteen years, the 11-minute cartoon has for the most part held up its quality and remained funny. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, sadly, reached its end in 2015.
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