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STUDIO: Cartoon Network
MSRP: $69.98
RATED: Not Rated
RUNNING TIME: 1200 minutes
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Deleted Scenes
Commentaries
Music Video
Featurettes
The Pitch
Food fights crime and solves mysteries.
The Humans
C. Martin Croker, Carey Means, Schooly-D, Dana Snyder and Dave Willis
The Nutshell
Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shake made their names with their sophomore season. Dr. Weird’s introductions were becoming shorter, as the stories got crazier. The trio grew closer together, as they learned more through their meandering activities. There’s plenty of guest stars and wackier adventures to be had this year. What’s nice is that this is the last season before the wacky guest-star train started.
The Lowdown
The second season opens with Carl ordering a mail-order bride. When that goes to shit, he tries to share her with Master Shake. Meatwad gets a snake, discovers the Universal Remonster and gets tickets to the Super Bowl. If that wasn’t enough, Meatwad also finds a way to connect to the Meat Zone. Sadly, there’s no additional Ol’ Drippy segments this year. Ol’ Drippy was voiced by Oscar nominee Todd Field. You might remember Todd Field as the creepy piano player from Eyes Wide Shut.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force also debuted their most beloved Christmas creation this year. The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future arrived to tell us all of a time when things would go wrong. The Ghost then makes Carl’s house bleed and scares the living hell out of the last Jersey pimp. This leads to a truly inspired cameo from Glenn Danzig as himself. Danzig makes anything better and he manages to sell the performance with a simple growl.
Adult Swim should actually go back and define where the first and second seasons ended and began. Most people tend to state that Super Birthday Snake was the season opener for the second season. But, it’s the second episode of this set. The same line of thought also states that this season ends with The Last One which featured the Mooinites’ master villain team-up to destroy the Aqua Teens. It’s not like any of that hurts the story telling. You could show most of these episodes out of order and people couldn’t tell what’s the right chronology.
The second season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force is also where the true off-the-wall humor began. Following weird tangents based in character faults allowed for Willis and Maiellaro to really build the world of ATHF. You got new villains and more time spent with the players introduced in Season 1. Emery and Oglethorpe lacked the finesse of the Mooinites, but they served to introduce the Universal Remonster and push the team along. Plus, we had the early signs of Carl stealing the show. Carl is the star of the show…you know this to be true.
The Package
The second season DVD comes loaded with a Baffler Meal music video and a ton of commentaries. If that’s not enough, you also get to see the full puppet sections taken from the first season. The first six or so episodes also sport a ton of deleted scenes. The A/V Quality is standard for TV on DVD, but I’m left wanting to know why the transfer couldn’t have been a little cleaner.