T-Shirt of the Living Dead

Infobox Television episode
Title = T-Shirt of the Living Dead
Series = Aqua Teen Hunger Force


Caption = Frylock discovers a burning Santa
Season = 4
Episode = 11
Airdate = October 10 2004
Production = 311
Writer = Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis
Guests = Nick Ingkatanuwat (Easter Bunny and Darryl)
Episode list = List of Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes
Prev = Dusty Gozongas
Next = Hypno-Germ"T-Shirt of the Living Dead" is the fifty-third episode of the animated series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". It was first broadcast on October 10 2004. This episode was renamed to "T-Shirt of the Dead" on the Volume Four DVD.

Synopsis

Cold open

In a continuation of "Spacecataz", the Plutonians watch as the 50 million pizzas are delivered. They soon get hungry and teleport to the Mooninites' ship.

Plot

While at a museum, the Aqua Teens come across a T-shirt that was alleged to give Osiris, the Egyptian god of the dead, his powers. Master Shake, who didn't want to even be there in the first place, suddenly finds an interest in the shirt and decides to steal it. Telling Meatwad to take the form of a hammer, Shake swoops in, smashes the glass case the shirt is in with a crowbar, and steals the shirt, leaving Meatwad to be corralled by museum security.

Back at the Aqua Teens' house, Shake tries to use the shirt, but can't because a) he apparently doesn't know how, and b) it needs a washing because apparently after over 5,000,000 years, it "smells like ass," according to Frylock.

The shirt finds its way into the Aqua Teens' washing machine, along with Meatwad's "Christmas sock". Shake is very angry upon hearing this, and tells Meatwad that it needed to be in there with a full bottle of bleach and washed in very hot water (although Frylock, who apparently can read hieroglyphics, says it's cold water only). The laundry comes out of the washer, with Meatwad's Christmas sock faded and Shake's T-shirt shrunk considerably, so much so that only Meatwad can wear it. Shake then gives the shirt to Meatwad and tells him to do his bidding. Frylock heads off to the mall.

The first thing Shake wants is a plague of snakes... however, Meatwad's signals get crossed, and he ends up calling the Easter bunny, the Easter bunny's twin brother, Darryl, and three other replicants. Eventually, he summons Santa Claus, who first scolds Shake for being a naughty boy, and then scolds Meatwad for calling him in the middle of July when he was asleep, telling him that the elves don't come in to him until September. After Meatwad tells him what he wants for Christmas, Santa tells him that it doesn't work the way he thinks it does. Meatwad then decides to make one of his presents, a unicorn with a banana seat and a horn, appear, although he can't seem to get the horn right.

Shake eventually becomes annoyed that Meatwad is not "abusing his shirt properly". So Meatwad decides to create "Eggzilla", a fire-breathing easter egg. Santa goes outside to see what is happened, and is set ablaze by Eggzilla. Carl comes next door to complain to Meatwad about it, then promptly gets his house crushed by Eggzilla and his girlfriend. Frustrated, Carl starts to take a crowbar to his car.

Frylock returns home to find Santa Claus horridly burned, his face nothing more than a skull with two eyeballs, the skin burned off his arms, a giant hole in his chest, and his legs completely bones. Santa is then hooked up to life support so that he can breathe. Angered and mutilated, Santa swears that he'll make Meatwad pay. Frylock attempts to reason with Santa, but when he tries to keep him fom getting up, Santa turns on him as well, threatening to call the police, seeing as how Frylock doesn't understand how his job works either. Meatwad is called into the room, aghast at the damage he has done. When the Easter Bunny bounces in, suggesting that Meatwad simply gives Santa a big chocolate Easter bunny, Frylock shoots him in the face with his lasers.

Finally, Christmas night rolls around, with Meatwad and Frylock joining Santa (who's been giving a soccer ball-style skin graft by his elves) in his sleigh delivering presents. They stop at a boy named Jeffy's house, and he gets a wooden brain (he wanted a wooden train, but Santa tells Frylock that Jeffy's not a bright child, so he wouldn't care). Shake, who has been turned into a reindeer by Meatwad, wants to know when he's going to get to deliver some toys. After Shake is told that he can do the Middle East by himself, he says "*bleep* you" to Meatwad, who tells him to "cry me a river, bitch!"

Notes

* Santa's voice is the same as that of the Bizarro Santa who appeared in the "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" episode "Girl Hair."
*In the original airing of this episode, Santa says "those faggoty elves don't even come in until September". In subsequent showings, however, it is changed to "those sweet little elves".

External links

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