is this show actually good?i've always avoided it because of the shit animation and artstyle.
It's funny if you grew up with it back in the early 2000s. I don't think the humor translates at all to the dumbed down masses of today's world..
I'm guessing this is just a stealth ATHF fan thread, but assuming OP is genuine yes it's a good show as long as you like comedy. It's pretty absurd and silly but in the universe and in the episode the plot beats mostly make sense, it's not just le random for the sake of le random. Just accept that this world exists as it is and it's extremely consistent within itself, not le random xD. It's vert much "stoner" humor though. You don't have to be a pothead to enjoy it but it's low ball slow burn stuff and with occasional extreme spikes in action.
It's worth watching just for Carl.
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY
>>217216468It's great, actually well written dialogue and consistently funny characters, shit pretty much every modern AS show is missing
>>217216468It was mimicking the cheap flash animation of web cartoons of the time.
First few seasons really had a charm to them Later half of the series falls off. Just feels like the writers forgot how to make witty stoner humor and just went full blown le wacky randumb humor.
The voice work of ATHF and Sealab 2021 is phenomenal compared to modern day animation like Smiling Friends where everybody sounds like an incel retard
WHERE YOU AT DAWG
>>217216468>animation style That’s actually one of the reasons I started watching it back in 2006, just so happened to be fucking hilarious and turned out to be one of the GOATs for Adult Swim.
>Your car is badass. >Yeah, I know. >Too bad you're a pussy!
watch bible fruit it's the best one>>217216555I didn't understand that it was stoner humor until I got really stoned and couldn't stop laughing at the Gene E. episode. It's funny not on drugs too though.
Reminder Boston spent like 500k and blew some of the viral marketing up for the movie because they're dumbasses who thought this was terrorism related kek
>>217216468It is excellent.Carl's just fucking trying to live a simple life, man, and then these fucks just have to show up.>WHAT DO YOU WANT>WHAT DO YOU NEED>CAN I NOT JUST LIVE HERE WITHOUT OCCASIONALLY HAVING TO DEAL WITH YOU ANIMALS!?!?!He is truly all of us.
ATHF had a sense of humor that's hard to boil down and pigeonhole, but you know it when you hear itas much as I love Xavier Renegade Angel, the episode made of fan-submitted videos had the show's numberATHF's fans couldn't do that without just copying specific jokes the show already didbut every once in a while IRL you'll hear a phrase or something and think "that sounds like ATHF" and you're not sure why
>>217216468it has some great moments, it's one of those "love it or hate it" onesthey write it stoned as shit and it comes off like being high[as] has better shows (like Xavier) and much worse ones too (12 oz Mouse; every live action thing ever)
>>217217435Xavier is one of the greatest shows to ever exist. It still constantly filters people almost twenty years later. Some people aren’t cut out for it, just like Wonder Showzen.
>>217217583agreedwhat I'm saying is that fans could come up with their own Xavier jokes, and the ones in that episode were pretty goodyou can't really come up with an ATHF joke. you could run into something that sounds like it'll fit, but you only realize after hearing itATHF isn't necessarily better than XRA, but ATHF humor is more mercurial
>>217217704For sure. Apples and Oranges for me, but both still taste fucking great. Aqua Teen is amazing for its own reason, just like Xavier.
dave willis bent the knee in 2020 and agreed to let them remove the "shake like me" episode from DVD and streaminghe also personally fired Unknown Henson from Squidbillies 2 months later because he shat on BLM on his facebook account sad to see good people lose their fucking minds over the course of twenty years
https://swatkats.info/exclusives/aqua-teen-hunger-force/I fucking knew it
Its art style is actually excellent and its probably top 3 adult cartoons of all time. The humans look perfect
>>217218227>he also personally fired Unknown Hensonthis, fucking over the Frisky Dingo/Sealab people, the Metalocalypse cancelling, and cancelling VB in its final season, forcing it to be a kind of shitty but best they could give us movie wrapping the series up; all on top of giving Rick & Morty enormous money deals; [as] is full of assclowns
>>217217583I couldn't do the 3d animation shit on any show including that one
>>217216468Shits to intelligent for you.AND LETTUCE
>>217217359Tell them how hard you used to hit me.As hard as l could, as long as l could. Frankly, all the hitting drained me.
>>217216468Master Shake is one of the funniest characters of all time
>>217216468ATHF and 4Chan were forged in the same fire. Sadly, neither exist today in their original form, bc just as you can't step into the same river twice, bc you have changed and so has the river, the show and 4chan changed, and so did the culture. RIP to both.
>>217218719F I L T E R E D
>>217216468
>>217216468The animation and art style is perfect for what it is and enhances the humor. Kys.
>>217216468Number One in the Hood, G.>>217216539Have some faith I know a 22 year old who likes it.
>>217217322fucking Lol'dI need to rewatch this entire show. I think I missed one or two of the latest seasons also. What a treat.
>>217218865You are a sorry piece of tangerine bitch>>217219504>>217217583I only watched a few minutes of that show but it didn't hook me. Wonder Showzen was old school kino and ATHF is the GOAT.
>>217216961I prefer the later seasons, specifically 7-10, they have sharper writing.
>>217216961It was always insane surreal comedy>witty stoner humor>le wacky randumbwhat the fuck were you watching community?
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Say "mother may I" then spell cup.
>>217218227Idiotic decision. This episode was too funny.
i tried watching a random episode or 2 and thought it was unfunny. should i give it another chance or will i likely find it unfunny again?
at first I did'nt like Aqua Teen but it grew on me. yes, its not an Animation lovers show.
>>217218227PiracyIsAlwaysJustified
>>217217385>boomers shat and pissed their pants thinking these were bombs
>animationPeople who genuinely care about this shit in comedy cartoons seem like the most autistic man children of all time
>>217220250it can be hit or miss episode to episode sometimesthey're short enough you can watch a good bit of the series in a couple hourswatch the really early stuff from the first couple seasons, if nothing there grabs you, nothing else in it willdr weird bits almost always managed to nail me
>>217220250try this onehttps://www.adultswim.com/videos/aqua-teen-hunger-force/love-mummy/
>>217220688>they paywalled their site to require a cable accountholy shitsorry
>>217218227>>217218691they also never paid any of the ATHF voice actors and he did something racist to the black one
>>217220688>>217220723Why even attempt to do anything but pirate it all
>>217220923I got nothing
>>217220564looks like the kinda guy whos dad owns a dealership
OK, I'm back, and we're safe, ladies and gentlemen. They won't be bothering us any more. I chased them off with my nudity. Does that arouse anyone down there?
>>217220688>>217220723https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCTlcJMCSpM
>>217216468Alright what do you want, you BIG GAY BABYhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TjcPVwJWibc
>>217216468It was for stoners back then, i didnt even like it much because i was sober at the time. Its got some funny moments though.
>>217220250Were they from the first season? ATHF's first season is very rough, it doesn't really find its stride until the latter half of Season 1. Watch Mail Order Bride and Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas. If you're still not into it then try some Season 2 episodes, 2 is part of ATHF's peak. If you still don't like the show then quit.
>>217216468>shit animation and artstyleI want to pummel you and make u cry (in a snowball fight)
>>217222197retard opinion. maybe u should exercise anon.
I think ATHF is underrated in appreciation for how quotable it is
>oh man I am so desensitized, it's gotta be totally bananas ta get me off
>>217218227>where Master Shake turns black and adopts Black stereotypes>a anthropomorphic soda shake turning black is RACISSSjesus kill me now
Pretty sure I got Kazaa or whatever the fuck it was called just so I could download the first two seasons of this show at the time. It was fun to watch stoned or sober but I do recall later seasons getting weird in a good way.
>>217216468>i've always avoided it because of the shit animation and artstyle."People" like you are such faggots.
>>217220351this. and easier than ever now that companies openly say "the product will never be available again". that puts the 'unavailable' product on internet archive.The only company that avoids this regularly is Disney, they are absolute fucking demons when it comes to copyright and putting shit 'in the vault'
>>217223730home movies is great for this too>no, no, you can stay, you're a regular>oh... hah... my parents pronounce it 'irregular'
>>217217385Boston is Moonenite territory
>>217225214>i have to return them- i don't want swords, brendan>why not? i do>well then buy them off me>i can't, i don't have any money>well, so you see, you share my predicament
>>217216468It's GOATed if you like stupid humor. Otherwise you'll want to kill yourself
>>217217435athf, even with the absurdism, is really grounded in reality. carl often acts as a foil to the aqua teens shenanigans; a way to view what's going on through normal eyes. it's like when meatwad tries to get a job at the car wash because they're broke; a lot of the setups for "jokes" or plotlines are things that are at their core relatable to viewers - even if the car wash ends up being a brain extraction operation ran by brain aliens in the end>WE ARE ALL CARL...
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>>217218227So you're saying any old dvd with that episode included is worth hundreds now? Based, thank God I still have my old dvd copies.
I don't have any food, so get lost.
>>217225292>this is retarded!>STOP HIM... from calling me retarded
>>217218227Unknown Hinson got fired and ruined his life for calling Dolly Parton a race traitor, not for criticizing BLM
>>217218534What a fun fact
The movie is kino for how much of a middle finger it is. Perfect show-to-movie adaptation.
>>217227766Agree. 100%. It’s hyper kino and one of the best things to ever come out of Adult Swim. Squidbillies went for fucking years and never got the silver screen treatment. That’s really mind blowing.
>>217227438Which makes him based as fuck.
>>217227438Fuck off tim
>>217227438Was she a race traitor? Yes? Please explain the logic behind someone getting fired for speaking the truth.
>>217228021>>217229315Honest question, no trolling; would you be ok living in a world where races interacted with each other but white people weren’t blamed for all the ills of the world? I guess I don’t feel the need to be allied with my race so long as it isn’t being attacked and I don’t think tribalism is getting us anywhere.
>>217216468Search "teeth" and "plaque conspiracies." And "metallica."
>>217227766>>217228003I didn't care for it. I love ATHF and even enjoy a majority of post-movie episodes. Something about it just didn't grab me, even though it had its moments ("Nude Love" may be the greatest song ever created).
>>217217435I think this video captures the same vibe pretty well actually:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t9atoY_vkQc&pp=ygURQXRoZiBlcGlzb2RlIGV2ZXI%3D
>>217217359the prayer part always makes me lose my shit
>>217216468Some episodes are great, some are good, some are okay, some are bad.Great voice talents all throughout though.
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>>217229440There are two acceptable worlds in my mind. 1) White ethnoglobe. 2) World split up evenly between east asians and whites. Maybe allow some regions to be a mix of the two.Blacks and browns are an unmitigated disaster on the planet. They are incompatible with civilization and need to go.
>>217229625>you see, MY race is not violent or retardedHow to tell you are a salty mutt without saying you are one. Race obsessed loser.
>>217229492>"Sex with animals? There's no time, man!"
>>217220906Carey Means took a bigger up front payment in lieu of a percentage of the gross.He has an unfortunate history of mental problems.You bet your ass Dana Snyder got paid.
>>217229625FUCKING BASED>>217229885brown & cringe
>>217229581>Great voice talents all throughout though.dana snyder (shake) is woefully underpaid regardless of what he makes. i have never seen anybody take such lackluster lines and make them hilarious. don't get me wrong, many of his lines are great and could be given to most people to be funny. dave willis (meatwad/carl/others) is great at making distinct voices with distinct character. replace either of those guys' voices and athf would have been a shell of what it is.carey means (frylock) is shit. i understand he's the straight man most of the time, but he is shit even when he's given the funny man role. you could have replaced him with anybody and the show would not have been worse. it would likely have been better. i know i'm in the minority when there was fracas about him being broke after the show ended and not getting rehired for the reboot. he's broke because he's not a good actor.
>>217216468This is some good tv
>>217220387>>217217385To be fair, these things don’t look like mooninites during the day which is when the municipal worker reported it. At that point it looked like an unknown electronic device. There were other factors I can’t remember. On the other hand, they also put these up in New York and nobody freaked out. I can see both sides. One of my favorite YouTubers did an episode about it. https://youtu.be/tGqXrV9kjSE
https://youtu.be/rZvGfsDzTfU
Black people been running around here
>>217229529The movie didn’t have enough good Carl stuff.
>>217216468I don't think Gen z will get the subtle things going on. The show is saying horrible things about people but uses characters to hide it
>>217217015THE WHOLE CITY IS BEHIND YOU
>>217230525REBOUND DUNK GET THAT JORDAN OUT OF YOUR ASS
>>217216468It's good. First season is a little rough but introduces a lot of the core characters and concepts.
>>217216468It's funny mostly because it's weird. The only thing that made me and my friends laugh super hard though was the snackbar reel that opens the movie. >DON'T TALK, WATCH!
>>217230542>The show is saying horrible things about peopleLike what?
>>217217015>>217230555https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1FYoLpVRHY
>>217216468Carl is one of the greatest comedic characters of all time.
>>217217385Never forget
I HURT MY NECK
>>217225931Not really. The DVD set with Shake Like Me was heavily mass produced (coming out at the peak of the show's popularity and was released on DVD ironically enough BEFORE airing on TV due to the show's production going out of wack from the movie to pad out the box set) and still in print. It was only skipped in the pre revival series set, which is still required buying since the last four seasons never got a DVD set (and are among the best of the series).
>>217229625I think the problem with black culture is more from leftism than anything else. Most black people are fine but unfortunately they usually support ideas that enable the ones that aren’t. They think normal everyday interactions that white people have too are a result of racism. Every marginalized group thinks this way. I’ve had interactions with black people that I chocked up to racism on their part but I had no evidence of that. I turned out to be wrong a couple times too. I challenge those thoughts and if they did too the world would be much different. Many of them do. Some of them don’t. I don’t understand the way many of them think. I do know if I was raised the way they were and had their life experience, I would think just like they do. The problem is that leftists assert that the black viewpoint is somehow more valid than the white one and we will reach some type of utopia if we adopt that viewpoint. It’s insane. I see the way forward as everyone working together and a moderate politics taking hold. I don’t know that it will happen.
>>217230169Frylock is the weakest of the three, but he's good enough for this character in this show. I wouldn't call him bad in this context. His averageness makes the others pop and he does at least sound pretty cool. Nice to have a more pleasant voice breaking apart all the (intentionally) annoying voices
Nobody ever talks about how that stupid whore Nicki Minaj ripped off M.C. Pee Pants' voice.
>>217230755I actually talk about that all the time. So much so that it has started to affect my personal relationships.
discussing race politics is forbidden
>>217217449lmao
>>217230755lol really? i've never heard her talk.
>>217230593>First season is a little roughI sorta agree, but more like the first episode has the characterization off because it's a pilot (Shake is the leader, and Frylock is much more aloof and stoic) and some of the early episodes just feel a little different. But the Foreigner Belt episode is very early and that is fully formed Aqua Teen.
>>217216468It be omes so bad and unfunny after season 3. What the fuck happened? It seems to be a reoccurring theme with AS shows becoming shit during or after their third seasons.
>>217230169Frylock's actor has his moments, like in Vampirius.>My point is this. I'M RICH AS HELL!
>>217231080>boost mobile>hand banana>party all the time>moonajuana>ezekiel>biblefruit>laser lenses>the marines>shake like me>she creature>chick magnetFiltered. Unbookmark /teevee/, never come back to /athfg/.
>>217231279that's a line that could have been delivered well. it was written to be funny, but he's just so bland.
>>217231279i think fry-legs is the only one where he's remotely funny and that's not so much his delivery as it is the context. the fucking walking sound is funnier than he is.come to think of it, ATHF has some extremely underrated sound effects - like on reedickyoulus, where carl's machine gets louder and starts sounding like a construction site had sex with a steam engine
>>217231279>okay YEAH I LIKE HER BOOBSBig Bro and Fry Legs are solid episodes that give Frylock some character and show he's just as neurotic as the others.
>>217231677lmao dangerously funny jpg
>>217231516>11 episodes of non-shit episodes spanning 9 seasons.
>>217216468I think it gets dismissed as "stoner comedy", but it's a lot more clever than it gets credit for. Beavis and Butthead got the same treatment in the 90s.
>>217216990Sealab 2021 was proto-woke. Of course the one black guy in the crew is the super genius voice of reason surrounded by white (and one hispanic) morons, and he's also fucking the one white woman, and they really get into how much they fuck. Murphy hard carried that show.
>>217217385I was following the news as that was happening, and laughed my ass off when they showed Ignignot with the blurred hand on CNN.
>>217232793Theyre all geniuses, theyre doctors at the bottom of the ocean in the future. Youre just a racist.
>>217216468It's pretty much reddit meets netflix meets globohomo feminism. Basically it's feminism the show made to hypnotise the viewer into thinking "white men bad" and "POC women good". There isn't really much more to this dreary show than that.
>>217232872This. Oh my science, so much this.
>>217218227Between that and this, I completely cut ties with CN/AS in 2020. They can go fuck themselves forever for trotting out TOM, the ambassador to an entire generation to the world of anime, to call us assholes for thinking that there's maybe a little more to the story than "the cops are mean to black people because they're meanie poopoo heads", and maybe not liking that we as a nation were being locked in our homes while simultaneously being forced to watch cities around the country burn with impunity. I will never spend another dime on anything they touch again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHfJiZTtGEAIs Willis an actual executive now? I went to a convention in October that had the whole Aqua Teen crew there, even MC Chris, but Willis was nowhere to be seen.
>>217227438He was not wrong in the slightest. May that slag die screaming.
>>217227766I didn't like it at the time, then revisited it after Plantasm was a steaming turd...and still didn't like it. Aqua Teen just doesn't work outside the 10-minute format. It's like Meatwad said, "I get it. It's not making me laugh, but I get it."
>>217233030what the fuck are you talking about, schizo?although if it weren't for AS i would've never watched space dandy which is hands down my favorite japanese cartoon, years after the fact
Frylock and meatwad are both trans. Just an FYI
>>217232841I am a racist, but I'm not wrong about this. They're all self-serving morons, that's the joke. Quinn is the one running around putting out their fires and calling them morons, and acting as the moral center. When he's not fucking Debbie, of course. I'm telling you, it's a part of my regular background noise playlist, and it's very fresh in my memory.
>>217233083Try again, and maybe give me an actual argument this time. Insults are just air.
>>217216468Man I feel weird.
>>217233162FFS dude. It wasn't a completely run down woke trope when it was made. Lets not forget that most of the time too Quinn is the one suffering the most since he's also essentially the straight man and literally every other character is fucking insane, except maybe Dolphin Boy
>>217216468SSS Tier: 2*S Tier: 4, 5A Tier: 1, 3B Tier: 6, The First MovieC Tier: 7D Tier: 8**F Tier: 9+, Second Movie*Genuinely one of the funniest seasons of television ever made. Every episode is a banger.**Carried by Lasagna which is one of my favorite episodes of all time. Would be F tier otherwise.
>>217233203>goes on random rant about COVID and BLMi'm not arguing with you, i'm calling you a waste of fucking oxygen who is shitting up a thread with your neurotic idpol bullshit. its called an insult.
>>217233290Because 2020 was mentioned in the post that I was responding to, dipshit. Maybe pay attention to a converstion before you jump into the middle of it. I hope your mother gets brain cancer.
>goes on to direct Tarwhat the fuck?
>>217217704I don't know, I feel like in high school I watched so much I had a pretty good feel for how the show worked and basically wrote episodes for a creative writing class. Granted, they usually involved just a Frylock and Shake type pair, I think Meatwad is tougher to write.
>>217233257FFS dude, that's why I called it "proto-woke". It was ahead of the curve. It's not like a switch was just flipped in the last 15 years. Quinn was written to be flawless, and any harm that befalls him is because of someone else. Then they brought in Black Debbie later on with the "Uh-uh, no you di-in't" soul sistah act.
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>>217232744what's interesting in retrospect is how for the music videos, the early episodes are just them going "huh huh, this sucks" or "YES! This ROCKS!" and Mike Judge must've gotten bored of that and realized that Music Video Beavis & Butthead are slightly different, smarter characters than in the episodes. They're really quick and insightful in the later music videos.
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>>217220161I saw the ATHF movie in theaters back in the day and I'm not sure what season the show was on at the time but that movie was when I stopped paying attention to the series and only sometimes saw new episodes from the later seasons
>>217227766I saw it the night it openedthe theater was like 60% full and it was all people who really got the showeverybody was laughing at the right spotsone of the best distinctly theater experiences of my life
>>217216468its pretty okay when youre drunk and high in college in 2006 but its absolutely not worth watching on it own
>>217233697nicei just went to watch that into song again and apparently its mastodon lmao
>>217233702reddit post
>>217233395 Nobody gave a single fucking shit about the races of the characters in sealab 2021 when it was made, and you are a massive cum guzzling fuckwit for trying to smear these modern labels on it.You sound like a tremendous fucking faggot to be around. Hope you get raped by a pack of niggas btw.
>>217220688SURF!TURFF!!!
I like candy, bubblegum and taffy
>>217233702WRONG
>>217216468It’s great in small doses. I never bothered with the movie I heard it was bad and maybe that’s why. The length of the episodes is perfect.
>>217216468It's a fucking masterpiece, you missed out nigger.t. have been a fan of Aqua Teen Hunger Force since I was eight years old
>>217233395Those media stereotypes already existed and sealab was an early parody of them
>>217216468Literally one of the best shows on AdultSwim if not the best show. I will say the later seasons fall of tremendously. Around the end of last year I had redownloaded and rewatched around season 9-11 and most of that shit wasn't funny. It's sorta like Spongebob where it really shines in the earlier seasons. I would say the first 6 seasons are the best...and then after that episodes are either hit or miss. Still love the show though.
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>>217234257I find the later seasons really focus on gratuitous violence and shock value over comedy.Not that the show is devoid of this stuff early on but it's less common and in your face about it.It became a crutch for them I think.
I enjoy it. It's sort of like a fever dream of one-liners that relies almost entirely on the delivery and timing of its voice actors.The absurdity of the storylines is just that, and very rarely were all that entertaining. They just functioned as an excuse for the aforementioned.For me, it's up there with S1-4 of Spongebob, and is my go-to choice for falling asleep to. You can fall asleep during an episode, wake up five minutes or five hours later and not miss anything.>Come on, you're into this! You're black!... You sound black... Where are you from?
>>217234333They do, but there's still some good non-sloppy stuff to be found.
>>217234328is that the lethal company guy?
>>217234333I think it was a byproduct of them just committing to their strengths, so as the show progresses everything just gets turned up to eleven. The speed and delivery of the dialogue and editing increases, and so does the violence.So it's sort of this weird blend because a lot of great lines and moments occur in later seasons, but there's also a lot of filler (so to speak) in the way of shock value that used to otherwise be reserved for the ending/outro of episodes.Basically, the show gradually went from being stoned to being on crack. Neither is necessarily bad, but they're also noticeably different. For me, there are plenty of episodes I like and dislike throughout the entire series. The early episodes were just as hit or miss as the later ones.Consistency is a pretty good drug.
>>217234764I think it's a byproduct of them getting lazy/bored.
>>217234801You joking? They started animating more as the show went on, whereas the original gimmick the show was sold and produced on was recycling virtually every animation. They started introducing new intros/outros and branched out specifically to do crazier plots set outside of the neighborhood.They actively gave themselves more work to do as the series progressed BECAUSE they were getting bored with how little work they were doing. That's the complete opposite of laziness/sloth.They did a fucking stop-motion episode my nigga.
>>217216539I'm 22 years old and I like it (I am not the same 22 year old mentioned by the other poster)
