Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary

Infobox Television episode
Title = Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary
Series = Aqua Teen Hunger Force


Caption = Zakk Wylde performs with robotic scorpions.
Season = 2
Episode = 14
Airdate = October 19, 2003
Production = 216
Writer = Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis
Guests = Zakk Wylde (himself)
Matt Maiellaro (singing voice of Geddy Lee)
Episode list = List of Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes
Prev = Revenge of the Trees
Next = The Shaving"Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary" is the 32nd episode of the animated series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". It was first broadcast on October 19 2003.

Plot

Cold Open

'Laboratory' is misspelled so it says 'Laborator of Dr. Weird', and Dr. Weird's giant head appears in front of his fortress and yells, "BULLSHIT!" It is the shortest Dr. Weird ever.

ynopsis

It's Meatwad's birthday, and Master Shake can't stand "Happy Birthday to You", so he commissions a new heavy-metal song co-written by him, Zakk Wylde, and Geddy Lee. Frylock discovers that the entire endeavor cost $1.4 million because Shake paid for and fed Zakk's train of white stallions (which needed to be bleached white), and Shake needs to figure out a way to pay for it. However, Shake is sure the royalties for the new song will roll in. His logic? Shake mistakenly believes that there are (only) hundreds of birthdays a year. (Shake: "Do you know how many birthdays there are a year? Hundreds. Literally...hundreds.")

Unfortunately for Shake, no one is willing to buy the song (titled "Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary"), and he is in deep financial trouble. He decides that the best way to get out is to sell the house, but that is foiled when the man he tries to sell to runs off with the TV and the complementary muffins. Almost immediately afterwards, a snow machine starts spraying snow everywhere, with a chariot driven by a train of white stallions riding with it. It's Zakk Wylde coming for his money, and Shake goes to hide in the kitchen, where Zakk sees him and puts his axe-shaped guitar through his skull.

After all is settled, the Aqua Teens head over to the abandoned Pizza Potamus restaurant where Shake decides that this would be the place for the song to best be played for children (who love pizza and squalor, according to Shake). But Shake is not going to play it...it will be played by the Black Mountain Scorpion Hoedown Bluegrass Experience Gang, consisting of two robotic scorpions (armed with guns and laser cannons) and "featuring Zakk Wylde on washtub bass". Eventually, Zakk gets fed up with all of Shake's shenanigans, and finally decides to play on his own with the robot scorpions as backup. Finally, the scorpions decide that the song sucks, and fight to the death with each other, killing Zakk Wylde in the crossfire.

On their way back to the house, Frylock spots a jet shaped like a bass guitar, painted with an owl swooping down from the moon- Geddy Lee's private jet. Shake shoves Frylock into the Danger Cart and tells Meatwad to roll them to Mexico.

Lyrics

Deep within the womb of time,
a creature thus be born
The seed of life is united with
the egg of tyranny
Gestates forth from within the womb of life
for three-quarter and nigh a year
The creature thus be born!
The creature thus be formed!
And ye of years {*} bells will chime!
When the heavens open up
and drink from the silver cup
The creature thus be born!
And blow the magic horn!
To alert the spirit deep within the cycle of life.
The creature has begun its journey deep forlorn,
upon this day which he be formed
In the sea of mucus the spirit rides down from the mountain
and unites with the creature in the womb
A holy union, dark mortality, until the dark mortality
breaks the chain of life
The creature thus be born
And every year raineth down the celebratory tears
A celebration of the years
from mere mortal sky

{*} It is at this point in the song that the birthday boy or girl sings his or her number of years

Trivia

*The song "Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary" is one of the very few songs on "ATHF" not featuring mc chris or Schoolly D. It is performed by Matt Maiellaro on vocals (doing his impression of Rush lead singer/bassist Geddy Lee) and Zakk Wylde on guitar.
*Apart from being aired on television, the song has also been performed by the original artists at venues around Atlanta.
*On the Volume Three DVD, the song is included as a bonus feature containing two sung versions and a karaoke version.
*This episode once aired in 2007 rated as TV-14L, despite the episode being actually rated TV-PGDL. The episode took the place of an episode that was supposed to air that "was" in fact rated TV-14L.
*When Meatwad is carrying Frylock and Shake in the Danger Cart, he is singing to himself the melody of the song Tom Sawyer. He also makes references to Fly By Night and then to the bridge of The Spirit of Radio the second time Shake mentions Geddy Lee.

External links

* [http://www.adultswim.com/downloads/tools/audio/athf/athf_spirit_shake.mp3 Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary as performed by Dana Snyder as Master Shake]
* [http://www.adultswim.com/downloads/tools/audio/athf/athf_spirit_matt.mp3 Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary as performed by Matt Maiellaro as Geddy Lee]