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What A Cartoon! - Aqua Teen Hunger Force "The Shaving" (Patreon)

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2020-10-12 04:01:00
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This week, we're returning to one of our favorite Adult Swim series that always mixed horror and comedy so well: Aqua Teen Hunger Force! And for our second look at the series, we're discussing a classic Halloween episode all about Blood Feast Island Man, his missing mail, love of juice, and failed Freddy-Kruger-style zingers. Plus, you'll get to hear the guest of this episode berate one of our hosts! So sit back, listen in, and beware of unknown attic roommates!

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Byron Lagrone

As a person who also shoulders overwork and feels bad when I don't -- y'all are putting out plenty of content! Give yourself permission to accept where you are. <3

Frank Grimes

Maybe I'm not understanding what produced in means, but Monk was never filmed in NJ...it was set in SF with some filming there, and mostly filmed in LA and Canada. There was an NY episode though.

ShyRanger

I agree with you guys that bleeped swears are funnier. In fact this episode has one of my favorite, that is the stupid way TV decided to censor "asshole" as "assbleep." When I first saw this episode as a dumb preteen I literally thought Carl was saying "I live here, ass-fuck" and to this day that misunderstanding still cracks me up.

Micah

Wait, is the best show call the origin of Bob's move to Canada? It only took 12 years and a not-fictional Canadian girlfriend

Brian Hortin

The Infomercials series is now on HBO Max with 30 episodes including Too Many Cooks, Unedited Footage of a Bear, and This House Has People in it.

Joe Hodgson

Aqua Teen is the most recent thing I think I have nostalgia for. I remember watching Season One a lot when I was in college and I even utilized the bonus voice mail messages on the DVDs for my campus phone. There were a few of them and I went with a really obnoxious one read by Shake that had lots of pauses in it as he kept hyping the coming of The Beep to leave a message. Only, my college's recording service was apparently more sophisticated than I thought and it auto-removed the silence in the message so it was just a string of poorly recorded nonsense. I just remember returning a call my dad left for me and him asking "What the hell was that?!" In hindsight, the only people that ever called my phone were my parents so I don't know what I was thinking actually using one of those messages. I also find it interesting this went up after the death of Maude episode of The Simpsons. Aqua Teen is a mean and cynical program that manages to be funny, where as The Simpsons in Season 11 is struggling to integrate that style of humor into its programming without being off-putting. There's something to be said of making your cast mostly unlikable and only exposing them for 11 minutes that probably helps this show remain as funny as it is. I was also a huge Danzig fan in my younger days (still like it) and I was very much aware that Glenn Danzig had a guest spot coming up on the show at some point. As a result, whenever I hear the closing credits and "Dancing is forbidden," I hear it as "Danzig is coming," since I'd tune in every Sunday (I think?) to see if the Danzig episode was actually that week as all of the news I was receiving on it wasn't sure what week it was going to air. In hindsight, it probably would have narrowed things down if I had known it was going to be a Christmas episode, not that I cared that much as I would have tuned in every weekend regardless since I liked the show. There was a chaotic energy to those early Adult Swim days that's largely gone from television viewing now. I very much enjoy the convenience of the On Demand/Streaming world we live in, but there is a lack of excitement that I suppose I miss. The annual Treehouse of Horror is about the only appointment viewing I have on an annual basis, but at least that's this week!

Toushin

The joke of that episode is that Shake was a much better person as a black man to the point where the other charecters were pissed that frylock changed him back. he's Steve's eye

Camille Walters

Only watched the one episode of this show in university with my old smoking buddies. The episode was basically one long rape joke, was not impressed. I'm not opposed to offensive humor but I didn't enjoy it at all. Might have to give in another go.

crystalhearts

Oh man, I'm so in favour of you guys taking it a bit easier - you put out an honestly heroic number of podcasts and I'd rather you stay sane instead of talking about a new and different cartoon every single god damned week of your lives. I like these return episodes, too, anyway.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I watched the hell out of this show back around 2010 thanks to a block on (Canadian) G4 that also introduced me to stuff like Superjail, Tim & Eric, and Harvey Birdman. To put it simply, I love how batshit insane every episode is and it's absolutely made by the terrific performances of the lead three actors, plus every actor brought in to participate in this nonsense. I don't think I'll ever forget the episode with Inflatable Balloon Hitler (who I only just learned was Bill Hader) or Wongburger's quest to build a Dick Ship to go back to Planet Dick. -- I hadn't revisited it really at all since the last WAC episode about it, but this episode definitely does have a Bush-era sensibility to it that is so odd now that we're 12 years removed from his tenure. Some stuff I can tolerate easy enough, like Shake's nonsensical homophobia, which did make me laugh a bit, but there's for sure other things that make going back to the show hard, as I keep finding over and over with a lot of things of this era. It's certainly a think of personal tolerance for whether or not you could sit through things like the Shake Blackface episode, and I would never argue that that *wasn't* racist, but I really think streaming services just not including these episodes washes over the faults and fallibility of everyone involved, rather than taking responsibility and admitting that in your attempts to be funny you did some insensitive and dumb shit. -- P.S. I can't believe that Golden Girls episode isn't on Hulu or anything because of THAT. Knee-jerk reaction stuff really does hurt us sometimes if we can't tell the difference between something like the Shake or Sarah Silverman Blackface (ironic racism, so still racist) or that Golden Girls bit (the joke being about racism without just committing it).

Robert Flaxman

Shake’s “your mother was that dog” backstory sounds like a reference to The Omen, where the body of a jackal is discovered to be the “unholy mother” of Damien.

RVG

On the subject of ironic blackface: I'm mixed (black American and Sicilian, ignore the avi) and was adopted into a multi-racial family with white parents. Ironic blackface doesn't automatically offend me and it can even be quite funny. The blackface episode of the Sarah Silverman Show was probably my 2nd favorite of the series, after the Tab one. I don't think most black people are automatically offended by ironic blackface, either. You'll certainly run into folks for whom it's a nonstarter, but black Twitter loves Tropic Thunder gifs as much as anyone else, if that's any indication. It really comes down what the "joke" is. That said, I don't presume to speak for all black minorities, just myself. The instances that do bother me are like the "who has it worse" plot from 30 Rock with Tracy in drag and Jenna in shoe polish. It ends with the lazily predictable liberal moral of "aren't we all equally oppressed"/"isn't it great we're rich"? To their limited credit, there is a scene where Twofer dresses Jenna down for what she's done, but there are no real consequences nor any depth to the “joke”. The Sarah Silverman Show starts off with a similar thread, but is actually clever in its examination of stereotypes and racism. Sarah gets extremely negative reactions from everyone the moment she steps out in blackface, but misinterprets the disgust and anger as the black experience; as if racism is always this in-your-face, hateful thing. It takes a further turn in the end where she appropriates the outrage to make her character’s lesson "people who do racist things are the real victims," a turn I suspect was inspired by the Michael Richards apology tour of the era, meant to satirize the "straight white men are the real oppressed class" crowd. The episode seems to embrace "cancel culture" ironically enough, as Sarah decries it now. What's really problematic about ironic blackface, at least to me, isn't so much that it's doing the offensive thing even if it's winking, but that A) it's an area of humor mined almost exclusively by white comedians because B) it relies on an assumption of post-racialism that doesn't really exist. It's the latter that makes the 30 Rock jokes so unappealing. There are no consequences and the differences between the characters are overcome easily. It's not dissecting issues of racism or sexism; it's patting itself on the back for the progress we've made. I find the film "The Help" far more offensive than the Sarah Silverman Show for that reason. It's smug and self-satisfied. Around the time that film came out a co-worker told me and a few other people about having worn blackface to a Halloween party, saying it was "to show how race doesn't matter anymore." I was too shocked to respond, honestly. Thankfully, one person did chime in to point out that wasn't his place to decide. But that’s why that stuff wasn’t as uncomfortable circa 2006 or whatever as it is today. Despite the Bush era, and perhaps because of the rise of Obama, the notion of a post-racial America probably did feel still feel plausible. It’s not like my life has been completely free of racism, but what I did encounter tended to be more on the side of my co-worker’s ignorance rather than what Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor, and too many other deaths have revealed the ugly reality to be. I honestly don’t remember much, if any, of the Aqua Teen episode “Shake Like Me” as I’d stopped watching regularly, but I do wonder what went through Carey Means’ mind when he got handed that script from a couple of white writers. I mean, Donald Glover was even in the writer’s room on 30 Rock and Community and that stuff was still making it to air. It’s encouraging that this stuff at least gives people pause now. All that said, I don’t want to give any fodder to the “they couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today” crowd, either. I don’t think taboo jokes are or should be off limits. They just require a lot more thoughtful construction and a bigger pay off than what was being done back then. Mugging at the camera and saying “ain’t I a stinker?” isn’t enough of a punchline when you’re dredging up some of the most awful parts of our history for laughs. PS: No, “White Chicks” isn’t ok. It’s racist and sexist in its own right and if you asked that question you’ve got a lot of work to do. Cancel the Wayans by all means, please!