Dancing Is Forbidden: An Aqua Teen Hunger Force Exploration

Please come visit me, dawg... but only if you're a vampire. In the third MC Pee Pants installment, our favorite shower-cap wearing, yellow eyed, diaper sporting rapper returns as a dying old man. In his lust for eternal life, he ends up... well, dying sooner. We dig into Dave Willis's thoughts on this episode, how it compares to the previous MC Pee Pants features, and Meatwad's finger on the music...

Shake and Carl don the badge... for 15 minutes. Their first day on the job and they already let someone destroy the mall. Oh well! Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future is back defending the earth against the evil Breakie B (aka Model X100) and the Quickening of the Dragonoids. We talk about the beautiful pacing of this episode, Ben Prisks's awesome drawings, and the bombshell Aqua Te...

The script that permanently changed the landscape of adult animation.... and classic rock. Baffler Meal was written in 1999, and after many rewrites, was shelved. Three years later, Matt and Dave dusted off the script for the 2003 NYE block. We dive all into the history of the episode, the legacy of the episode, and of course, the episode itself. We also hear some unaired interview clips from Jay,...

How far would you go to be on the cutting edge of technology? For Master Shake, he'd rather be dead than not in the eHelmet ecosystem... and luckily for him, he does end up dead. Carl gets addicted to VR human-animal relations. Meatwad wipes a boogie. Frylock listens to Mozart. We dive all into eDork and how the ATHF team masterfully creates a compelling episode despite its extremely limited mobil...

PRAISE HIM, for he is carrying the messiah! Well, messiahs... with eight legs. This episode of Aqua Teen takes on two real life targets: billboard-induced religious fervor, and standards and practices. Meatwad gets pregnant. Frylock pirates software. Shake convinces a man to kill himself. Carl gets shot by poopy boy Ted Nugent. George Lowe teaches us how to appropriately blow a nun's head off. Oth...

The Mooninites are back! Their first dedicated episode in two years, Ignignokt and Err enlist the Aqua Teens to help them cash a check.... but it's actually a bill. A radioactive bill. Oops! Uncle Cliff gets killed. Carl gets shaved. Frylock gets fed up. We talk about the Mooninites working with the Aqua Teens, the possible confusion around Spacecataz, and Meatwad with a mustache. Other topics dis...

What would you do with a shrink (and also growth) ray? Would you increase food sizes to feed the poor? Would you use it to advance humanity's technological achievements? Or would you make your johnson bigger? If you chose the latter, I've got the episode for you. Meatwad thinks all chips are for eating, but he doesn't poop. Shake throws up on his own face and becomes a malevolent ruler. Frylock cr...

If you could talk to the dead, what would you want to talk about? If your answer is "someone's sister's baby", then I've got the game for you-- VIDEO OUIJA! Meatwad's obsession with this game gives Shake an idea: to insert himself into the game, and ruin the experience for Meatwad. While he is successful in becoming a ghost and entering the Video Ouija, his plan didn't account for one thing: Meatw...

Talkin' all about Season 2, from the biggest bits of pop culture from the time, to my favorite episodes + villains of the season, to its impact on Aqua Teen as a whole!   • AQUA TEEN SEASON 2 EPISODE RANKING (personal tierlist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGOqJNqLMC4   ★ Support The Show + Get Extra Episodes • Patreon: patreon.com/dancingisforbidden   ★ Amazon Affiliate Links - Support The Po...

How many villains does it take to defeat the Aqua Teens? Unfortunately, this episode doesn't get to the bottom of this... but it DOES rock you like a hurricane! The Last One closes out ATHF's historic 2003 run on the highest note possible, featuring an assload of our favorite villains. From Episode 1's Rabbot to late Season 2's Bingo, this group of classic television villains are tricked by the Mo...

International cool guy Matt Maiellaro ( Aqua Teen co-creator, co-writer, voice of Err/Markula/Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future) shreds the podcast with his amazing voice. We get into who Matt and Dave Willis initially wanted on Plantasm , the long-promised Death Fighter , Space Ghost showing up in the original Rabbot episode, and the exciting future of Aqua Teen Hunger Force . Ot...

The incredible Adult Swim mashup you probably didn't know existed. On New Years Eve 2003, Adult Swim aired a "buttload" of bumps between all their new episodes that night. These bumps had the Brak family hosting a New Years Eve party, with the sexiest of Williams Street guests. We see Carl hit on Sealab 2021's Debbie, Meatwad throw up with Brak, Frylock meet an old invention, and Shake pee in a ba...

The galaxy's favorite fraternity brothers return! After 20 years, AquaDonk gives us a look into Hell Week-- Upsilon Phi Omicron's hazing ritual. Skeeter and DP attempt to supervise their pledges, but end up enduring much more.   References:  • Watch Frat Aliens: Hell Week : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAZfcHcLHbw • Frat Alien Sticker Tweet: https://twitter.com/EavesKelsey/status/15659208626242...

The always regal Dave Willis ( Aqua Teen co-creator, co-writer, voice of Meatwad/Carl/Ignignokt) graces the podcast, answering all my burning questions. We dive into Plantasm inspirations, the inner-workings of AquaDonk Side Pieces , Dave's writing partners (Matt Maiellaro on ATHF / Jim Fortier on Squidbillies / Casper Kelly on Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell ), and we even get Carl's thoughts o...

Money can tear people apart.... alongside defectively cloned television sets. These two evils almost cause the demise of the Aqua Teens, until they unite to face a greater evil: someone telling them what to do. In one of the most ambitious episodes of ATHF yet, we learn where new TVs keep spawning from, what Frylock does when nobody is policing him, and what Meatwad's grandmother gave him before s...

How big of an Aqua Teen fan are you? Are you such a big fan that you learned how to 3D model, program games, write dialog, and compose music? If you said yes, then I'm 99% sure you are this week's guest, Kirksplosion. Kirk spent three years writing a digital love letter to Aqua Teen in the form of "Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The (very unofficial) Game." The best part of this is that the game absolute...

Have you ever wanted to play a game AS the Mooninites? Big mistake, buster. Samuel of the Cosmos (Nick Gibbons) gets to play such a game, and it sucks ass. We dive into the fourth AquaDonk Side Piece and talk about video game let downs, alternate options for how this short could have played out, and this short's relation to Plantasm.   • Moon Master 9: Beware the Gorgotron: https://www.youtube.com...

Nick Gibbons (ATHF, YPF, As Seen On Adult Swim) is fun to talk to. How fun, you stupidly ask? Well, I only intended to chat with him for 30 minutes as an addendum to my coverage of " Moon Master 9: Beware The Gorgotron "-- but the conversation easily went on longer and became its own episode. Playing Samuel of the Cosmos, as well as editing on/producing the AduaDonk Side Piece, Nick has also spoof...

Want to know the quickest way to get your roommate to move out? Easy! Just emulate Mr David Lynch I'm On TV. In this episode of Aqua Teen, Frylock moves out, Shake keeps on doing whatever he wants, and Meatwad suffers. Plus, Carl falls out of an ambulance. We also see Frylock get rejected by Ned Hastings and Jay Wade Edwards. Beyond all of this, The demonstrates why Aqua Teen-- both the TV show an...

Jay Wade Edwards is an Aqua Teen heavy-hitter. Not only was Jay a producer, editor, and voice actor on the show, but he is responsible for many of the in-universe TV shows the Aqua Teens watch, as well as for the special features on the DVDs. Jay still pops in to work on Aqua Teen, such as on the 2021 HBO Max promos, some of the 2022 AquaDonk Side Pieces , and he had a hand in the much anticipated...

It's been six months, but we're bustin' out Jiggle Billy and getting our dance on. We weave thru all sorts of Aqua Teen topics-- from the Dressing answers Barry Mills gave, to the Baffler Meal Box Set, to music and video game mods inspired by ATHF. We wrap up with Ronnie blabberin' about TLC reality shows, the upcoming Smashing Pumpkins record, and how his favorite game is going away. And more!  ...

If your weird neighbors invited you to Thanksgiving dinner (in December), would you go? No? Well what if the food smells good, does that change your mind? It does? BIG MISTAKE, BUSTER! Because a giant metal turkey from the future (but not really) is gonna mess your day up. SUCKS TO SUCK! In this seasonal return of Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future (sort of?), the Teens are celebra...

Would you sacrifice your entire identity as a human being for a brief moment of beauty? Carl did, and he paid the ultimate price: he became a clown. In this episode of Aqua Teen, Meatwad's desire for a new termite pet destroys Carl's house and creates easy viewing for the gang to watch Carl get it on. Hayden Ward shows up in this episode voicing the first (English speaking) female character in the...

Imagine buying a home security system so incredible that it causes aliens to crash land in front of your house. How would you feel? Shocked? Excited? Annoyed? If you choose the last option, you might be Carl. In this episode of Aqua Teen, Carl accidentally summons two incredibly annoying frat bros to Earth, where they inflict a short-lived reign of unwanted sexual advances, vomit, and family bragg...

We've all met someone like the Wisdom Cube. A guy who just won't. shut. up. He jabbers on about the dumbest stuff you could never care about. Also, he's kind of a douche. Well, in this episode, we get to see the Aqua Teens deal with this paragon of vexation. Witnessing a barrage of "pranks", the Aqua Teens individually get sick of the Wisdom Cube, who turns out to not even be the Wisdom Cube. Jon...