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If you’ve been a fan of Adult Swim’s “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” over the past few seasons, you’ve noticed the drop off in hilarity that has plagued it recently. More bizarre than witty, less smart and more wacky, the show was in desperate need to get back to its roots for it to stick around late night cable any longer.

In “Rabbot Redux,” Aqua Teen not only accomplishes this feat, it creates one of the best episodes in recent memory, making no qualms along the way. If you needed any convincing before, you won’t need it after watching this episode.

The boys are back in town.

Getting back to basics, the premiere is all about the gang of Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shake starting a new life in a different house, that ironically is on the other side of their long-time neighbor, Carl. However, in spite of this, this episode is more of a return to the type of scenarios and comedy that made the show a cult-hit.

Simply put, if you were a huge fan of the first few seasons of this show, it was mainly due to Master Shake’s abuse of poor Meatwad, with Frylock being stuck in the middle to pick up the pieces. There were no vampire landlords or former New York Giants offensive linemen; it was just the trio with Carl thrown in for added humor. This episode adheres to that formula with the type of perfection that hasn’t been seen from the likes of series creators Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro in quite some time.

After watching the first half of the show and seeing Shake back to his old tricks and Meatwad showing that he’s smarter than he looks, you feel that reconnect with characters that hasn’t been there in a while. As a result, you also find yourself laughing, a lot. The bathroom scene by itself is worth watching the episode, but the rock-paper-scissors scandal later is the type of witty and energetic humor that made it what it was.

In the immortal words of singer John Sebastian, “Welcome Back.”

You were missed.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13818 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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