History WesternAnimation / AquaTeenHungerForce

* AmericanAccents - Although the action takes place in New Jersey, Meatwad has a mangled Southern accent for some reason. Carl understandably has a {{Joisey}}-ish accent.
** Also Frylock sounds black, as pointed out by Master Shake once.
*** "Come on dawg, you're into this. You're black. You sound black. [pause] Where are you from?"
* AmusingInjuries: Shake attempts to get out of military recruitment by [[AteHisGun shooting himself]]. Not only does this not work, even though his entire head was blown away, in the next scene his mangled head is attached to his neck by band-aids.

* ArtShift - During "The Broodwich," to trippy, deranged, even more simpler animation.

* BadAss - Boxy Brown-
** I'm just a '''WHAT''', bitch?
*** [[EscapeFromNewYork Y-You're the duke of New York! You're A-Number one!]]

* BerserkButton - "Those are weapons! They are all laser-guided and I get CRAZY if you touch them!"

*** '''I just a''' '''''WHAT''''', '''bitch'''?
* BewareTheNiceOnes - Meatwad is abused by Shake a great deal, but will occasionally rebel, usually with disturbing results.

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Carl uses the shrinking/enlarging ray in "Unremarkable Voyage" on his... friend.

* BlackBestFriend - Boxy Brown... sort of.

** Which is funny, because Shake plays what is very explicitly stated to be a Gibson guitar, even having a note for it in the credits.
*** Not that unusual, Gibson endorses Metalocalypse, another Adult Swim show. It's not surprising they would be willing to endorse some product placement in the ATHF movie.
* BlatantLies - Shake is very fond of telling these, even when it is of no profit for him to do so.

* BodyHorror - Too many instances to count.

* BrokenAesop - Frylock invests in a new plasma TV.

* TheCameo - [[ShapedLikeItself Cameo (the band)]] in TheMovie.

* CatchPhrase - "Gentlemen... BEHOLD!"

*** "Dracula called and he's comin' tonight!!"

*** '''''"You."'''''

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Master Shake, Meatwad, and countless supporting characters.

* ClusterFBomb: PlayedForLaughs in "Gee Whiz." Also a CrowningMomentOfFunny. [[http://video.adultswim.com/aqua-teen-hunger-force/the-price-i-pay.html (skip to 01:25)]]

* {{Contest Winner Cameo}} Held a contest for the role of Carl in the live action episode.

* ContinuityCavalcade: The Last [[spoiler:Fucking]] One [[spoiler:of 2003]] has all of their previous [[VillainOfTheWeek Villains]] trying to kill them but instead arguing for the entire Episode. In the ScoobyDoo parody in ''100,'' Dr. Weird, Handbanana, billywitchdoctor.com, & [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Willie Nelson]] are briefly seen in the haunted house. The Movie features many of the the "villains" making returns, with several having roles as prominent as the Aqua Teens themselves.

* ContinuityNod: In "The Last Fucking One", the brownie monsters end up adopting a highway, and call the villain group "CLICK CLICK CLICK...." This results in a sign with "This highway adopted by CLICK CLICK CLICK..." This sign is later seen in the Boost Mobile parody episode.

* CrossDressingVoices: One episode has KidsInTheHall alum Scott Thompson guest-voicing exotic dancer (and inept city employee) Dusty Gozongas. (Credited under the pseudonym of "Veronica Billingsley.")

* [[RichardNixon Dick Nixon]]: Meatwad thinks he's Abraham Lincoln.
** I believe you mean, Wayne Gretzky.
* DogsAreDumb - Handbanana acts like this, so everyone will think Carl's just being nuts when he starts accusing Handbanana of rape.

* DudeNotFunny - In-Universe example: When Shake's VA, Dana Snyder, tries to pitch the 100 episode to the Williams Street animators, Nick Weidenfeld brings up the "Can I rape her and behead her? Possibly not in that order." joke (see RapeAsComedy below) in a NoJustNo tone.
* DumbassHasAPoint - See OhCrap below.

* EarWorm - "I Like Your Booty (But I'm Not Gay)," from the movie.

* EyeScream: The episode "Laser Lenses." Nuff said.

* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Moth Monster Man may not be an alien, per se, but he laid all those eggs in Carl ''somehow''.

* FauxSymbolism: PlayedForLaughs in the episode with Ezekiel:

* FlippingTheBird - The Mooninites (most especially Ignignokt) love to do this, typically after Frylock sends them running back to the Moon. In their first appearance, they try to get the ever-gullible Meatwad to do it, despite him lacking opposable digits of any kind.

* GagSeries

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: I am Sofa King We Todd Ed

* HeyItsThatVoice: In TheMovie, Chicken Bittle is voiced by BruceCampbell.

*** He's also the pawn shop owner who buys Frylock's jewel from Shake for 10 dollars and an AM radio. ''"I have the power of a thousand suns!!!"''

* {{Joisey}}

* KudzuPlot - Parodied in the movie. The plot is extremely complicated, involving the revelation of how the Aqua Teens came into being, the fate of Chicken Bittle, what the hell Dr. Weird's deal is, the secret conspiracy of the Insano-Flex, and whether Frylock is [[spoiler: a lesbian in a man's body in the body of a box of fries]], but by the end, no one cares because of the insanely complicated plot.

* LargeHam - Dr. Weird. Aside from being plain loud, his intonation is all over the place.

* LukeYouAreMyFather: Ezekial shows up at Shake's doorstep claiming to be his son. It's revealed later in the episode that Ezekial isn't his son, and is actually much, much older than Shake.

* MadeOfExplodium - Pretty much anything, especially when Master Shake throws it to the ground.

* AManIsNotAVirgin - "Oh, [Handbanana]'s not a boy anymore. He's a man. '''BECAUSE HE JUST RAPED ME!!'''"

* {{Mondegreen}} - The sample of Shake's voice in the end credits ("Dancing is forbidden," spoken in the first episode) has been variously captioned and subtitled - even on the [[{{DVD}} DVDs]] - as "dancing is forbidden," "dancing is stupid," "dance finger puppets," or "Danzig is morbidity." [[invoked]]

* MonsterOfTheWeek
** Not to be confused with ?SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WED-- no! we are only one week!?

* NixonMask

* OnlySaneMan - '''FRYLOCK.''' And even he has his occasional bouts of insanity.

* OverlyLongGag - "Super Birthday Snake": The zombies of Shake, Meatwad, and Carl saying Frylock killed them, and Frylock denying it. Repeat variations of this for about a minute.

* PowerOfRock - The Belt of Foreigner.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything - After a few episodes, the detective premise was dropped in favor of the cast just plain dicking around for fifteen minutes.

* RapeAsComedy - Carl's victimization by the titular character of "Handbanana."

* RunningGag - Anything thrown will explode (usually if Master Shake does it), and no one says anything about it. A very subtle acknowledgment comes in the form of Meatwad backing away in shock from cloned money as it explodes after ''floating to the ground after thrown.''

*** They somewhat try to address this by saying the use of the cloner causes the objects in their home to be so unstable. Lord knows why they even bothered.
**** It started happening after The Drizzle, where Shake rolls around in radioactive waste. Any variations where other characters throw things and they explode (if that even happens) are later in the series and a play on Master Shake's 'ability.'
* RuleOfThree - Three roommates.

* ShoutOut - The [[PowerpuffGirls Powerpuff]] Mall that was featured in the first short, "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins", shows up a few times. Craig [=McCracken=] returned the favor by putting ATHF on a TV screen in TheMovie.

*** And now it looks like [[http://www.superxstudios.com/Products/FarGate/home.htm Oglethorpe actually did rip off somebody, or somebody ripped him off.]]
* SitcomArchNemesis - Carl, who usually gets the short end of the stick.

* SnapBack - Many episodes end with Carl or one of the Aqua Teens (Especially Shake) being killed or mutilated.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent - The "Live Action" episode.

* TheSomethingForce

* SpaceWhaleAesop: "Global Grilling."

* StupidCrooks - The Mooninites once stole their uncle's welfare check so they can cash it on Earth and go on a shopping spree... except the welfare check was actually a payment bill for home care and it emits radiation when it's overdue, which is two months overdue. Plus, they kept trying to cash it at a convenience store, even after the clerk clarified that such stores don't cash checks. And to truly show how stupid they were, on the way down to Earth, Err kept telling Ignignokt that the check was bill, but Err thought Ignignokt knew something about the bill he didn't know.

* SuckECheeses - Pizza Potamus, in "MC Pee Pants" and "Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary".

* TakeThat - Boost Mobile once had Master Shake dressed in ghetto bling for AdultSwim {{eyecatch}}es on Comcast On-Demand... and then there was an episode dedicated to mocking Boost Mobile, killing some irritating sentient cellphones from said company, and Master Shake getting killed by the overdemanding cellphones.

* TalkingToHimself: Creator Dave Willis voices both Meatwad and Carl, who interact very frequently. Also, any episode featuring the Mooninites will usually feature Ignignokt (also voiced by Willis) interacting with either or both of them.

-->'''Frylock''': "You're liquefied, bitch!"

* TitleDrop: "Truly, they were... an '''Aqua Teen Hunger Force.'''"

* UnexplainedRecovery

* VoluntaryShapeshifting - Meatwad. It's suggested that the only shapes Meatwad can take are the two he exhibits in the title sequence of every episode: a hotdog and an igloo. Although in the pilot episode, he was also able to take the form of a "meat bridge," and during his brief time as a circus attraction, he managed to take on the shape of a {{Samurai}} [[AbrahamLincoln Lincoln]] (which he insisted was supposed to be Wayne Gretzky) after repeatedly shifting back and forth between the hotdog and igloo forms was starting to get old.

* WaxingLyrical

* WhamEpisode - [[spoiler:Frylock]] dies in ''Allen''. But of course, he's alive the next episode.

* WhenTreesAttack - Stupid, imbecilic trees.

* WordOfGod - Master Shake's insides are pistachio flavored.

* YourHeadAsplode: One episode ends with Carl's head exploding. For no reason.

* StoryArc - Uncharacteristically for the show, it actually did play around with having a brief {{Arc}} for a few episodes. It involved the Aqua Teens' [[{{Ass Pull}} previously unintroduced]] landlord Markula, a gas leak, military spiders, and the Mojave Desert.

** Bert Banana, the religious talking fruit who is [[{{Understatement}} not quite over his drug problems]], is [[ArrestedDevelopment David]] [[MrShow Cross]].

** Bert Banana, the religious talking fruit who is [[Understatement not quite over his drug problems]], is [[ArrestedDevelopment David]] [[MrShow Cross]].

** Deconstructed - now he can't move and '''''giant crabs are leaping off his tree-sized dick.'''''

A [[{{Understatement}} weird]] original series from Williams Street Productions, ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' covers the adventures (such as they are) of three amateur detectives/superheroes/bums living in NewJersey. The Aqua Teens first appeared as one-off characters in an (formerly) unaired episode of ''SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' (also a William Street production), but were eventually given their own show -- [[AdaptationDistillation with changes to their appearances and personalities]].

!!''AquaTeenHungerForce'' provides examples of:

A [[{{Understatement}} weird]] original series from Williams Street Productions, ''AquaTeenHungerForce'' covers the adventures (such as they are) of three amateur detectives/superheroes/bums living in NewJersey. The Aqua Teens first appeared as one-off characters in an (formerly) unaired episode of ''SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' (also a William Street production), but were eventually given their own show -- [[AdaptationDistillation with changes to their appearances and personalities]].

A highly-weird original series from Williams Street Productions, ''AquaTeenHungerForce'' covers the adventures (such as they are) of three amateur superheroes living in NewJersey. The Aqua Teens started as one-off characters in an (formerly) unaired episode of ''SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' (also a William Street production), but were eventually given their own show -- [[AdaptationDistillation with personality changes]].

Our "heroes" are [[{{Jerkass}} Master Shake]], a lazy, insulting, anthropomorphic milkshake who is the self-proclaimed leader of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force; [[ManChild Meatwad]], a dim-but-lovable blob of raw meat who is frequently teased or bamboozled by Master Shake; and [[OnlySaneMan Frylock]], an intelligent box of french fries who is the [[SurroundedByIdiots extremely competent]] and halfway-morally-decent member of the force... who also has his moments of assholery.

Their "adventures" are usually limited to messing around with each other, or with their next-door neighbor, a fat, bald, slovenly Joe Average named Carl (by borrowing his stuff or swimming in his backyard pool without permission). Occasionally the ATHF has a run-in with some bizarre monster or alien who turns out to be more obnoxious than evil. Examples include two sets of recurring nuisances: The Mooninites, Ignignokt and Err, are two aliens from the moon with an uncanny resemblance to sprites from an Atari 2600 game, an unshakable belief that they are superior to everyone else, and a predilection for tobacco, alcohol, petty larceny, and flipping people the bird; and Emory and Oglethorpe, the Plutonians, are two spiny, cone-shaped aliens with designs on world domination but nowhere near enough competence or common sense to make their far-fetched schemes work.

Notable for a heavy dose of {{slapstick}}, surrealism, lots of StuffBlowingUp, the Aqua Teens' television getting destroyed OnceAnEpisode, and stream-of-silliness dialogue. ("Ever since my son was...never conceived because I never had consensual sex without money involved, I've looked at you as a... a thing I could live next door to, in accordance with state law. Now are we going to the Super Bowl or not?")

For the first two seasons, the show featured [[TheTeaser teasers]] starring Dr. Weird, a MadScientist living in an abandoned New Jersey insane asylum (along with his long-suffering assistant, Steve), who may or may not have had a hand in creating the Aqua Teens (fans have long speculated over the meaning of a picture, seen in Frylock's room on occasion, that shows Frylock with a much younger Dr. Weird). While the earliest episodes of the series showed Dr. Weird revealing his latest invention, only for it to escape and cause mayhem for the ATHF, later teasers had nothing to do with the episode. In the third season, the Dr. Weird clips were replaced with "Spacecataz," the story of an escalating prank war between the Plutonians and the Mooninites.

During the eighth season, the series [[NewSeasonNewName changed its name]] to ''Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1'', with the stated intention of rebooting the series and revisiting the notion of the characters being detectives. [[spoiler: The show is virtually unchanged.]]

* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: Parodied on their 100th episode, as it meant they would be make tons of money from syndication if they could avoid a monster that eats characters that hit this milestone. [[spoiler: However, since it's a 15 minute show, it takes two shows to count as a single episode toward the syndication cutoff.]]

* AdaptationDistillation - The change in personalities from their initial Space Ghost one shot, starting with Frylock being some sort of weird manboy that fit Meatwad better, and Meatwad being less idiotic (and a '''lot''' more depressed). Oh, and the voices. Can't forget the voices. (SG!Frylock had ATHF!Shake's voice, while SG!Shake had Ignignokt's voice and sounded very suave and sophisticated.)

* {{Juggalo}}: In the episode "Juggalo". Features an appearance by InsaneClownPosse themselves.

** "I'm just a dog. All I know is... 'ball', and 'good'... and rape.

** "Tonight, you".

* DeadpanSnarker - Frylock. Meatwad in his more lucid moments.

* IGotBetter

* FridgeBrilliance - MC Pee Pants first appears with a plan to get everyone addicted to candy as part of a "Global diet-pill Pyramid Scheme."
--> '''MC Pee Pants''': A hyperactive juice that only I can produce
--> And fuel a giant drill, bore straight into Hell
--> Releasing ancient demons from their sleep forever spell
--> So they can walk upon the earth, and get resituated
--> And Hock the diet pills that MC Pee Pants has created.
** Why diet pills? What better for a population brain-washed into candy binges?

-->'''Frylock''': "It is...but we fu(bleep)ing need it."

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: OrIsIt? No mentally normal person would have been able to think up such absurdly weird monster concepts and character designs like what this series has.