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Meatwad, Frylock, and Master Shake team up for their biggest adventure yet in this animated feature that finds the popular Adult Swim trio pursued by an immortal piece of exercise equipment that poses a severe threat to the balance of galactic peace. Despite their best efforts to elude the malevolent body-shaper, the super-sized friends are soon horrified to discover that the Plutonians have joined forces with the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past to take control of the renegade device in a bid to rule the universe. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

It's time for another eleven thrill-lacking adventures of the superhero team comprised of a pompous bag of French fries (Frylock), an obnoxious milk shake (Master Shake) and an idiot ball of hamburger meat (Meatwad) as Aqua Teen Hunger Force lumbers into its third season. The suspense is bearable in the season opener "Video Ouija", in which Master Shake commits suicide in order to contact Meatwad from the Great Beyond--digitally. Frylock shrinks to the size of that black stuff in the bottom of the bag to retrieve a microchip from inside Meatwad in "Unremarkable Voyage". The gang-banging aliens known as the Mooninites are back again in "Remooned", prepared to reduce Earth to a cinder in order to cash a check. Singer Ted Nugent provides his own voice in "Gee Whiz" a profoundly movingly inspirational religious experience, sort of. The central crisis in "-Dork" concerns Master Shake's search for the perfect helmet accessory. The dreaded morphing rap deejay MC Pee Pants returns in the hideous form of an old nursing-home fart in "Little Brittle". Disaster of apocalyptic proportions occur when Meatwad is left in the care of Carl, owner of the Hunger Force's swimming-pool fortress of ineptitude, in "Robositter". At the request of no one, the Mooninites return to take advantage of Meatwad's video-game prowess in "Moon Master." The sight of four fast-food entrees trying to lose weight is a daunting and almost funny one in "Diet." Milk Shake's quest to bring the Olympics to New Jersey results only in a visit from a well-endowed stripper in "Dusty Gozongas." An ancient Egyptian curse and a pissed-off Santa Claus are the main ingredients in "T-Shirt of the Living Dead." Frylock's Mexican jumping beans transform him into a theatrical impresario in "Hypno-Germ." And in the season finale "Carl", the title character again demonstrates his incompetence as a baby sitter while Meatwad becomes the toast of Panama City. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Frylock, Master Shake and Meatwad drift aimlessly into 24 new and marginally thrilling adventures during Season Two of the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The season begins with the belated "original" pilot episode, which was supposed to introduce the fast-food protagonists (a bag of fries, a milkshake and a chunk of hamburger meat) on Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast), but remained unfilmed until twos year after the series debuted. And if that makes sense to you, maybe you need to lie down for a while until it passes over. Anyway, this season's trayful of excitement includes a birthday mixup in which Master Shake buys Meatwad a deadly snake instead of a cute bunny--and then kills both of his comrades (temporarily, of course). Later on, Meatwad reinvents himself as a new, toxic-wasted superhero called "The Drizzle"; Frylock's newly invented super computer destroys the home of the Hunger Force's reluctant "host" Carl; the Force's efforts to thwart a killer tentacle (the "Super Spore") are complicated by the fact that their enemy speaks only Japanese and won't stay on the paper; Meatwad goes the "Dead Zone" route when he acquires the power to see the future whenever touching someone (how can a hamburger touch anyone? Oh, well. . .); Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is heard as the voice of trivia expert Wayne "The Brain" McClain (no, he's not mainly on the plain); monumentally inept aliens Emory and Oglethorpe use "Fargate" technology to hack into the Force's cable TV; New Jersey is held in the grip of terror by the attack of the killer trees; the monster in Carl's attic shows up at Halloween to pick up his mail and make his usual feeble efforts to scare people; a demon-possessed submarine sandwich calls for an improvised exorcism; the Force is sorely disappointed when the all-knowing Wisdom Cube refuses to reveal anything important; DP and Skeeter, the fearsome Frat Brothers from Outer Space, manage to lose friends and infuriate people without really trying; and it must be the end of the world when Carl transforms into. . .oh no!. . .a CLOWN! AAAAAAAH!!!! Evidently, the second season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force was supposed to be the last, else why would the season finale be titled "The Last One" and feature a reunion of all the Aqua Teen's past enemies? Never mind; there was a third season. Feel better now? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Using characters intended for an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, writers Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis created Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which began airing in 15-minute episodes as part of the Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" programming. The first episode was a "stealth pilot," aired in the middle of the night with no promotion in December 2000. The animated series follows the misadventures of a group of fast food-shaped detectives living in a crumbling New Jersey. Expanding on the superhero deconstruction of the animated series The Tick, the show follows the daily toils of three would-be crimefighting roommates with irreverent, absurd humor. The supposed leader, Master Shake, frequently puts the rest of the group in danger with his self-centered pursuits. Frylock, the brains of the group, is the only one to possess actual superpowers, or skills, for that matter. The mush-mouthed Meatwad is the bumbling good-natured fool with useless yet hilarious shape-shifting abilities. The three roommates attempt to do battle with the experiments created by the villainous Dr. Weird, a mad scientist, as well as the occasional space creature. However, the team spends most of their energy trying to swim in the pool belonging to their hairy next-door neighbor, Carl. The character designs were all created with layered Photoshop images and then crudely animated by the folks at the Williams Street studios. Some of the series' characters have appeared on other wickedly funny Cartoon Network shows like Sealab 2021 and The Brak Show. Aqua Teen Hunger Force is unique among other cartoons in its excellent original music created by rapper Schoolly D. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide