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Recap / Aqua Teen Hunger Force S 11 E 9 The Greatest Story Ever Told

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The(ir) Last Supper
In this, the true Series Finale of the show (the previous episode being the emotional extra-long Series Fauxnale), Master Shake tries to gain immortality through religion while Frylock and Carl become immortal via magical shampoo.
  • And I Must Scream: Frylock and Carl both become immortal. However they will spend all of eternity in prison to serve out their life sentences while also being subjected to continuous executions.
  • Back for the Finale: The Mooninites and The Plutonians make a return as followers of Shake's religion. Many one-off and largely forgotten characters also appear as followers.
  • Continuity Cavalcade: Loads of call-backs and nods to previous episodes are stuffed in this.
  • Death Montage: Frylock, Carl, and Christopher Lambert all have fun killing each other over and over again in increasingly absurd ways.
  • Downer Ending: As an inverse to the Bittersweet Ending of the fake finale. Shake and many past villains are killed in a shootout while Carl and Frylock are sent to death row. However since the two of them are immortal, they are continuously subjected to the electric chair and cannot ever leave prison. Also Frylock becomes a white supremacist. The Stinger shows the Aqua Teens and Carl all normal again, and they deride the episode for being anticlimactic.
  • End-of-Series Awareness: The final few seconds of the series has the Aqua Teens and Carl back in the living room, all normal again, criticizing the episode for being an anti-climatic finale. Meatwad thinks that they can fit one more joke before the show ends, only to be cut off by the Georgia logo.
  • Extra-Long Episode: Averted. Despite the mock-finale being a double-lengthed episode, the true finale has the usual eleven minute runtime.
  • Face Death with Dignity: Shake for the second time in a row. As he and the villains are gunned down by the police, Shake proudly proclaims that he will live forever through his religion.
  • Forced Transformation: When watching a magic show in Las Vegas go wrong, Christopher Lambert (and the rest of the audience) gets turned into a flock of birds.
  • Hand Wave: The events of the last episode are excused as happening "last weekend". Still though, it doesn't explain how Shake and Frylock are still alive and well.
  • Karmic Death: Most of the characters who died during the church shootout likely deserved their death (except maybe Shake).
  • Out of Focus: In contrast to the previous Series Fauxnale where Meatwad was arguably the main star, here he's largely a minor character.
  • Series Finale: The true finale for the series (the previous episode was an emotional mock-finale intentionally advertised as the finale).
  • Tempting Fate: As Frylock tells Meatwad that he can be immortal, he adds that they'll be on TV forever... only to be cut off by the Williams Street logo.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: Christopher Lambert. He's lived for so long that he constantly spouts that he's bored.

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