Revenge of the Mooninites

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


Caption = Ignignokt gives Earth the finger.
Season = 1
Episode = 8
Airdate = May 5 2002
Production = 108
Writer = Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis
Episode list = List of Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes
Prev = Ol' Drippy
Next = MC P. Pants"Revenge of the Mooninites" is the eighth episode of the animated series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". It was first aired on May 5 2002.

Synopsis

Cold open

Dr. Weird reveals himself. He asks Steve if he is invisible, to which Steve says he isn't. Meanwhile, the Mooninites' ship passes by.

Plot

Meatwad is counting the number of Harvest Time tickets he has, as he's trying to get a ten-speed. He is so keen on the idea of obtaining a ten-speed that he says while he doesn't want to do anything illegal, he would kill someone in front of his or her own mother in furtherance of this goal. The Mooninites show up, but Frylock throws them out. Meatwad asks Ignignokt and Err to help him win the ten-speed. They go to the Harvest Time carnival, where Err cheats on the skee ball machine to get more tickets. Instead of getting a ten-speed, the Mooninites leave with the Foreigner Belt, a belt that bestows upon them the powers of the super group Foreigner.

The Mooninites first use the belt on Carl, freezing him by using the belt with the song "Cold As Ice", then take his pornography and dresser. They then use the song "Dirty White Boy" on Meatwad and make him burn the dresser in the woods, starting a forest fire, and go back to the Aqua Teens' house. They then blur Frylock's vision with the song "Double Vision", so he can't shoot them with his eye blasts. Afterwards, Master Shake asks Ignignokt to use the belt to help him get girls. Err uses the belt on Shake with the songs "Working for the Weekend," "Turn Me Loose," and "Hot Girls In Love", but it has no effect as those are all songs by Loverboy. So they tell him to go stand in the middle of the street with his eyes closed. Meanwhile, Carl thaws himself with his tanning bed set on Jamaican, and steals the belt to use against the Mooninites. With the song "Hot Blooded", he boils the water in his pool where the Mooninites are soaking, causing them to flee. Frylock then shows up clutching Carl's azalea bushes in his fries, thinking they are the Mooninites. Carl asks if there's a reverse on the belt, to which Meatwad replies yes. Carl attempts to reverse the effects of the belt to undo the damage the Mooninites did, only to have the top of his head turn into a Connect Four board, learning that the belt was set on "Head Games". Meatwad tries to make Carl feel better by telling him that with computers, he can talk to people without having to leave the house.

Similar to the earlier episode "Mayhem of the Mooninites," the episode closes on board the Mooninites' spaceship as they retreat from Earth. Ignignokt extends a pixellated middle finger that is substantially longer than the finger displayed in "Mayhem of the Mooninites" and declares that he is doing it harder than he ever has.

Cultural references

* Ignignokt claims his God is "an Indian who turns into a wolf", but Err corrects him that he may be referring to "Wolfen". In a FOX News broadcast during the 2007 Boston Mooninite scare this line was repeated on national television in an attempt to explain the Mooninites [http://www.vagrantcafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24249] .
* The Foreigner Belt uses commands named after songs by the rock group Foreigner. The songs referenced include "Cold as Ice", "Dirty White Boy", "Double Vision", "Hot Blooded", "Head Games", "Urgent" and "Juke Box Hero."
* Carl claims he saw Foreigner performing with Canadian rocker Bryan Adams at the Meadowlands Arena in their 1983 tour.
* Err tries to use the Foreigner belt by singing the Loverboy songs "Turn Me Loose," "Hot Girls in Love," and "Working for the Weekend," but they have no effect as they are not Foreigner songs. Carl also claimed that he saw Loverboy at Madison Square Garden.
* Err sings part of the Styx song "Mr. Roboto".

Notes

* The music during the end credits is "Mooninites Death March" in place of the original song.
* Ignignokt and Err appear during the end credits sequence on the Moon.

External links

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