- The Cloning
Infobox Television episode
Title = The Cloning
Series =Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Caption = The Aqua Teens and the cloned money.
Season = 2
Episode = 23
Airdate =December 31 ,2003
Production = 223
Writer =Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis
Guests = Nick Ingkatanuwat (Muffin Man) Scott Hilley (George Washington )
Episode list =List of Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes
Prev = The
Next = The Last One"The Cloning" is the forty-first episode of the
animated series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force ". The show premiered onDecember 31 ,2003 .Synopsis
Cold open
Dr. Weird and Steve can't make it to the Mooninites' ice cream
social because they have been spliced together.Plot
Meatwad is watching TV, andMaster Shake wants him to change the channel, shooting a flaming arrow through the TV when Meatwad refuses. After they discover that there aren't any more TVs around in the house, they then discover why there were in the first place;Frylock has been cloning them using his cloner, and he's tired of it.Frylock explains that if something is cloned too many times, like the TV, the molecular structure begins to break down and unusual things begin to happen. Shake refuses to believe it, and Meatwad makes a play for sympathy from Frylock, saying that he can't face the day without his TV.
Finally, Frylock clones another TV, and odd things begin to happen. First, the TV shows Shake as a psycho who clones money with the cloner, becoming rich. He decides to do just that with a dollar borrowed from Meatwad.
The second image the TV shoes is portray Frylock as a murderer who shoots and kills everyone in sight. This scares Meatwad, who runs away from Frylock when he sees him. Meatwad tries to convince Frylock that there's something wrong, which he only believes after blood starts to flow from the TV. The TV passes to Carl, who sees a show on channel
666 which shows him meeting the same fate as Frylock's victims from before; Carl forbids Frylock from coming near his house.Meanwhile, Frylock discovers Shake is cloning money, and tries to convince him that it's wrong, but Shake doesn't listen. Eventually, Frylock decides to start cloning money himself to open a chain of restaurants, claiming it will help him feed the hungry children of the world.
After a while, there's too much money cloned, and a money-crafted
George Washington appears to tell them what they're doing is wrong, telling them the story of theAmerican Revolution . Frylock promptly takes him out with a shotgun and says that they should have cloned $20 bills because "Jackson wouldn't have given a [bleep] ."Cultural references
* The scene where Master Shake saw himself in the TV saying "I'm in your house" and "Call me" is a reference to a scene in the film "
Lost Highway ".Notes
*This episode marks the end of the Dr. Weird and Steve cold openings, as well as their presence in the series.
*The show Meatwad watches at the start is also seen in a previous episode, "
Universal Remonster ".*The channel that the evil "show" is on is 666, which is the Devil's number.
*Master Shake said he wanted to spend the cloned money at "the Camaro dealer" but the sale of that model ended over a year before the episode was aired.
External links
* [http://www.aquateencentral.com/epguide/thecloning.php Episode summary] at [http://www.aquateencentral.com/ Aqua Teen Central]
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