(Adult Swim/Madman)
”Maybe you hide my flamethrower because I make poor choices with it?”

If someone started babbling about a talking milkshake, meatball and box of French fries, I’d probably tell them ‘it’s going to be okay,’ while reaching for an invisible hypodermic and vial of diazepam. It’s possible Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro may have been jabbed several times by the real thing while pitching their idea for adult cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force. With eleven episodes from the past two seasons, the tasty trio time travel to the year 8008 (or in the case of Frylock, once brought out of his ‘wuss cave,’ 8009), fight Nazi balloon men to stop the sale of a deadly virus, and move from their Jersey house – two doors down. With uncensored audio in all its glory, Master Shake and Frylock teach a dozen new inflections of the F-bomb using lines such as “Get the fuck off my lawn!” and “Rule 1: Assess The Situation… we’re fucked.” Shake remains his arrogant, self-centred best, stroking his cardboard cutout of Kate Beckinsale, having a pinball machine made based on himself, and declaring that his ‘dictatorship’ is so because he “rules with an iron dick.” And after finding himself under the control of a duck made out of condoms and crack pipes, we learn Meatwad multiplies Fantasia-style when Shake hits him with various sharp objects. Surreal? You bet, but it’s not so far completely gone that it overpowers the humour – even if some episodes only have it in short bursts.

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SCOTTY HARMS

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