Mayhem of the Mooninites

Infobox Television episode
Title = Mayhem of the Mooninites
Series = Aqua Teen Hunger Force


Caption = Mooninites unite and prepare to fire the "quad laser".
Season = 1
Episode = 4
Airdate = October 14, 2001
Production = 104
Writer = Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis
Episode list = List of Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes
Prev = Bus of the Undead
Next = Balloonenstein"Mayhem of the Mooninites" is the fourth episode of the animated series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". It was first broadcast on October 14, 2001.

Synopsis

Cold open

Dr. Weird unveils his giant stack of amplified speakers and plays 'Robot Affliction' on the guitar. A mysterious pixellated ship descends from the sky over Belle Isle Asylum.

Plot

A pixellated purple ship lands in the street in front of Carl and the Aqua Teens' houses. Two short, square-shaped, two-dimensional, pixellated aliens exit the ship, making beeping noises reminiscent of Atari 2600 video games as they move, and knock on Carl's door. They identify themselves as Ignignokt and Err, Mooninites from the inner core of the Moon and members of a race hundreds of years advanced from the people of the Earth. Carl slams the door in their faces and the Mooninites decide to go next door to the Aqua Teens' house, where a sign on the lawn says there is a room for rent.

In their house, Master Shake explains to Meatwad that he is renting out Meatwad's room in order to make money. Shake answers the door and the Mooninites enter. As references, they spin in place and glow. Shake gives them the room. Shakes asks for a deposit, and Ignignokt offers Meatwad's jambox over Meatwad's protests. Shake accepts.

Meatwad complains to the Mooninites about Shake, and they show him how to shoot the bird and smoke cigarettes. Later, after swimming in Carl's pool, they attempt to dry a wet towel over Frylock's computer. Frylock is unhappy to learn that Shake has rented them Meatwad's room. Frylock suspiciously questions the Mooninites and he is not impressed. When Meatwad rolls out of his room smoking a cigarette and asking for alcohol, Frylock is even more incensed. Shake breaks out an electric guitar and says that the Mooninites gave it to him.

Meatwad goes with the Mooninites to the mall (where there is "still" a Rabbot-shaped hole in the wall), where Ignignokt and Err spit in Meatwad's face until he attempts to steal a rack of DVDs by unsuccessfully trying to hide them in his meat while the Mooninites steal televisions and stereo equipment. Frylock must retrieve Meatwad from mall security, while the Mooninites make it back safely and mention that they have gouged expletives into Carl's car with a key, claiming it to be a sign of trust and friendship. The next scene shows this to be opposite of the case; Carl is angry.

On the way back to their house, Meatwad shows Frylock the tough new clown tattoo he got in jail, designating him as a member of the clowns gang. In Carl's pool, Shake and the Mooninites see who can hold their breath underwater the longest. Carl comes outside and complains about the vandalism to his car, and Ignignokt takes out 'Mr. Laser', a pixellated pistol-like gun. He fires a shot at Carl, but it moves extremely slowly. Carl easily moves out of the way and dodges it, but it bounces off his house and hits him in the back, causing him to disappear.

Frylock hovers to the pool, surprising Master Shake. They all go back into the Aqua Teens' house, and while everyone watches a movie on the television about 'Vegetable Man', Frylock tells the Mooninites he wants them to move out. When everyone ignores him, Frylock destroys the television with energy balls from his eyes. The Mooninites are initially impressed by how fast the balls move, but then pretend that the balls were actually primitive.

Frylock and the Mooninites takes their dispute outside, where Frylock uses his fries to plaster their flat two-dimensional bodies against the road. Meatwad rolls outside and shoves Frylock off of them, saying that the Mooninites are his friends. When Err extinguishes a cigarette in Meatwad's eye, Meatwad realizes they may not be his friends after all.

Ignignokt then utters the words 'Mooninites unite', and the smaller Err joins into an Err-shaped slot in the top of Ignignokt, forming the 'Quad Laser', wherein each of their arms holds a pixellated pistol-like gun. After stating that no one can defeat it, the Mooninites fire, shooting an even larger, even slower bullet than before. In response, Frylock shoots them with his energy balls, and the Mooninites quickly flee 'this primitive rock' in their ship.

Back on their ship, the Mooninites raise their middle fingers at the shrinking Earth. At Carl's pool, Shake says he will keep all of the Mooninites' stolen merchandise, because he deserves it. Having landed in a crater on the Moon, the Mooninites find Carl and threaten a 'Moon spanking'.

Notes

* This marks the first appearance of the recurring characters Err and Ignignokt, the Mooninites.

* Meatwad has a very different shape during the mall scene

* Frylock's animation during the scene when Ignignokt is " [explaining his] advanced ways" and during the "quad-laser" scene is a bit off

* ignignokt looks different in the later episodes involving the mooninites

External links

* [http://www.aquateencentral.com/epguide/mayhemofthemooninites.php Episode summary] at [http://www.aquateencentral.com/ Aqua Teen Central]