Episode Commentary: A PE Christmas

Only the lunatic minds behind Aqua Teen Hunger Force would dare air a Christmas episode in late March.

They too would be the only ones to have one be as religiously offensive through the first three minutes as this episode is as well.

It’s easily the best three minutes of the season however, as Meatwad, at church, Christmas mass as a matter of fact, with Frylock and Master Shake, somehow believes the man on the cross is none other than Santa Claus himself and is wondering aloud how he’s going to sit on his lap later, with the nasty appendectomy scar on his [the lord and savior's] chest.

An amazing rant that can be taken a million different ways that is later followed by another rant by Shake and you already have enough hilarity and hijinx for an entire episode.

While the rest of the episode is still hilarious, this is the type of skit that this show does so well, playing off of Meatwad’s naiveté and Shake’s cruelty, two of the things that make the show what it is.

After that scene, we see naturally see Shake take over the show. Pissed off that Christmas is going to be slim pickings, he devises a plan and eventually ends up in jail for identity theft and afterward craps out space eels that he attracted at Chuck D’s house.

Doesn’t make much sense? Welcome to Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

With both Meatwad and Shake taking center stage in this one, the action is non-stop and between Shake’s rapping and bowel problems and Meatwad’s inability to see that he’s just a ploy in another hair-brained scheme, this is another great episode of the show.

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