Rabbot

Infobox Television episode
Title = Rabbot
Series = Aqua Teen Hunger Force


Caption = The Rabbot crushes Carl's car.
Season = 1
Episode = 1
Airdate = December 30, 2000
Production = 101
Writer = Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis
Guests =
Episode list = List of Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes
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Next = Escape from Leprechaupolis"Rabbot" is the first episode of the animated series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". It was first broadcast on December 30 2000, unannounced, at 5:00 AM, almost six months before Adult Swim officially premiered. The show was listed on the official schedule as "Special Programming" and was aired with two episodes of Sealab 2021 and an unfinished Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law pilot.

Plot

Dr. Weird builds a titanic robotic rabbit, which spritzes everything it doesn't smash with a hair-growing formula. It's up to the Aqua Teens to stop this menace, though Master Shake isn't as enthusiastic about this mission as he first seemed.

Stealth Pilot

In the original, December 30 "stealth" broadcast of this episode, there were many differences from the final cut. There was no theme song or opening titles, the segues that cut to another scene were also different - instead of Schooly D narrating over some rap music, they showed the old "outer space zoom" segue from the Hanna-Barbera Superfriends cartoon, with the ATHF (instrumental) theme music played over it.

In the cold open, after the Rabbot escapes, Dr. Weird says "Unleash the mechanical frog!" and the giant garage door opens again, showing a huge mechanical frog. There was also a scene of Master Shake sitting in the hair salon talking about things he hates. After Meatwad says "everyone likes dancing" it cuts to Shake getting his hair done and saying "..And I HATE dancing. It's one of my LEAST favorite things to do. Other things I hate are work, exercise, people, stupid people—".

This stealth broadcast was more refined than the "Rabbot - The Original Cut", found on the ATHF Volume 1 DVD and has never been aired since the premiere.

Trivia

*In this episode the producers used a number of different backgrounds cut straight out of various Hanna-Barbera cartoons, such as the city background behind the Aqua Teens' and Carl's houses, which are from . The "Powerpuff Mall" is taken from the pilot episode of The Powerpuff Girls - "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins".
*The hole the Rabbot creates is later on used as an escape hole for many monsters that Dr. Weird creates. Likewise, a similar hole can be seen on the Powerpuff Mall in every episode that features it sans the episode, "Super Spore".
*Frylock sounds a bit robotic in this episode. He also answers to Shake's whims (no matter how illogical), which he later tends to ignore.
*Shake's comment, "Dancing is forbidden" is sampled in the theme song and ending sequence since its debut. Televised Closed Captioning often translates this sample as "F-f-finger Puppets".
*Meatwad's room is radically different in this episode than when it is seen in all following episodes.
*In this episode, the voice work is noticeably out-of-sync with the mouth animations.