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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume One -Turner Home Entertainment (2000)
Summary A milkshake, a meatball, and a living container of French fries have crazy adventures. My Thoughts Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of the cartoons that marked Adult Swim as the place for irreverent, outrageous, and simply bizarre adult skewed humor. This first volume of Aqua Teen Hunger Force showcases the earliest episodes of the food item crew and lays the groundwork for one of Adult Swim’s most successful and longest running series to date. What’s that? You don’t know what Aqua Teen Hunger Force is? For shame! I’ll catch you up to speed then. Aqua Teen Hunger Force showcases the oddball adventures of a talking container of French fries (Frylock), Milkshake (Master Shake), and a meatball (Meatwad). They basically do screwy stuff and piss off their low class neighbor, Carl. Hilarity ensues. The episodes on the first disc are rather hit or miss. It seems like the creators didn’t really get it until about episode eleven. At that point, all bets are off and watching these episodes reminds me why I went nuts over the show oh so many years ago. If you’re a fan of the series and you haven’t gotten this set yet, do yourself a favor and pick this up if you can or at least rent it. It’s a rather cheap feeling release, but it delivers the goods. Notable Episodes "Mayhem of the Mooninites": This is wear it all begins with the natives of the moon that terrorized Boston. The episode is pretty standard ATHF humor, but as a first appearance it is very suiting. "Drippy": Shake’s mess in the kitchen grows a creature that is ultra nice. This is hands down the best episode on the first disc. "Revenge of the Mooninites": The Mooninites come back in an even better episode than their first episode, setting up the reason for their being a fan favorite. "MC P Pants": What nerd doesn’t like when MC Chris is a guest voice on an Adult Swim 'toon? MC P Pants remains one of the greatest episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force to feature the talents of nerd rapper MC Chris. "Love Mummy": Meatwad and Frylock find a mummy in their basement and find out what the true mummy’s curse is. You can’t get any funnier than a mummy screaming, “hug!” "Dumber Dolls": In my opinion this is one of the best episodes in the entire series. Shake destroys Meatwad’s toys in a lawnmower so Frylock buys him a replacement doll named Happy Harry. It turns out that Happy Harry isn’t so happy. In fact, he’s a black hole of emotional suffering and pain. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder than when the the dancing hillbilly doll blew his brains out. "Dumber Dolls" is an exceptionally good episode, especially because Happy Harry is voiced by David Cross in his sardonic/sarcastic tone that he’s honed to perfection. Favorite Line: “Idol hands spend time at the genitals, and you know how much God hates that.” Extras Since this is a rather low budget affair, the first volume doesn’t offer a whole lot in the ways of extras. "Rabbot" Original Cut - This is the first episode with very little animation, some really crudely drawn story boards, and lots of extra dialogue. Commentaries - There are three commentary tracks in this set. What’s amazing is that the creators aren’t half as funny or interesting than the show they produced, at least in the commentary for "Rabbot." In the commentary for “Space Conflict”, they play music instead of talking for three minutes so that’s something, I suppose. San Diego Comic-Con International - This isn’t very strong on its own, but it’s nice to have if you’re one of those people that has to have everything. Score: Episode Average: 8.0 Extras: 6.0 Edition: 6.0 -Paul |
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