Tallies

Tallies

(some box sets are counted as more than one)
DVDs: 411 | Blu-rays: 624 | Television: 291 | Foreign Language: 91 | Animation: 102
Criterions: 38 | Steelbooks: 36 | Total: 1035

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume One


Aqua Teen Hunger Force is crazy, fun, and hilarious. I got to see their debut on Space Ghost and probably the only thing that carried over from that was Meatwad's voice. They were originally a superhero team but that was just for the sake of pitching the show because studio execs didn't "get" a show about food items doing random things, so a lot of the first episodes are about them solving crimes (usually pyramid schemes) brought on by Dr. Weird's experiments. But I'm happy to say that the first episodes are still as funny as any of the others, and having structure in a show that later had no structure does not subtract from the overall enjoyment. My one complaint, however, is that the early episodes had some rapper guy as a narrator, which I found to be completely useless and unfunny. All he does is say stuff like, "Come on, Meatwad, y'all should know better den dat!" or "Shake, you one cold mofo!" Actually he's less a narrator and more a commentator. But luckily that element was eventually removed from the show.

My favourite characters are Shake and Carl (who you can see in the banner at the top of the page) because I find them the funniest. Shake because his selfish douchebag shtick projected by whoever his awesome voice actor is just delights me; and Carl, the Aqua Teens's fat loser neighbour, because pretty much everything about him makes me laugh: his sweatpants and thick mustache, his permanent hands-on-hips pose like everything is annoying him, his funny voice and accent, and the way the Aqua Teens are always destroying Carl's pool, car, or house, or sometimes even Carl himself. And who can forget the time he used the magic belt from 80's rock group "Foreigner" to accidentally turn his own head into a Connect Four board. Classic.

Recommendation
It's not for everyone. I'm sure there are those who would just find it weird (and it is weird), but if you have a bizarre sense of humour and enjoy randomness to the max then give it a shot. It's also a great show for those suffering from A.D.D., because the episodes are just over 10 minutes long.

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