Another Reason to Love Carl

Episode Commentary: Larry Miller Hair System

If you consider yourself a decent pop culture guru, you should know who Larry Miller is. Appearing on tons of television shows and in a myriad of films over the past 25 years, the dude is hilarious.

Little known fact: he was also pretty close to being cast as George Costanza on “Seinfeld” before a dude with the name of Jason Alexander came along.

Nevertheless, his appearance on this episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force is entertaining, but this week is all about Carl.

Getting an opportunity to look in the mirror for once and come to some type of conclusion about the way he’s wasted away his life- on bad food, television, music, prostitutes and drugs, Carl sticks to his guns and ends up destroying a part of himself in the process.

That kind of faith Carl has, to be so unshakingly content with his situation in life, in spite of not having a damn thing to be happy about, is a rare commodity today. It proves, if nothing else, that Carl is either the coolest character in the Adult Swim Universe or one the most insane.

Either way, you’ll be laughing throughout the entire episode.

Charmingly disgusting and vile, yet remarkably witty and endearing, Carl pulls off the impossible here and manages to sink himself even lower, and laugh about it the entire time.

The first episode in quite some time to be all about the Aqua Teen’s favorite neighbor, it was well worth the wait this season is easily one of the best of its kind. A testament to the writing ability of Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro, “Larry Miller Hair System” proves that this duo can do things in 13 minutes that other writers could only dream of.

Nonetheless, with the conclusion of this episode, the same question that has been on the mind of thousands of the shows’ fans manages to pop up once again.

When will Carl get his own show?

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14262 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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