Aqua Teen Hunger Force season 11

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The eleventh season of the animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, alternatively titled Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever (or shortened as Aqua Teen Forever),[1][2] aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, originally set to be the final season. It premiered on June 21, 2015, with "Mouth Quest" and ended with "The Greatest Story Ever Told" on August 30, 2015, with a total of nine episodes. The show is about the surreal adventures and antics of three anthropomorphic fast food items: Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad, who live together as roommates and frequently interact with their human next-door neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski. In late January 2016, this season became available on Hulu Plus.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Season 11
The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever title card used for the eleventh season
Starring
No. of episodes9
Release
Original networkAdult Swim
Original releaseJune 21 (2015-06-21) –
August 30, 2015 (2015-08-30)
Season chronology
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Season 10
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Season 12
List of episodes

Episodes in this season were written and directed by Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro. The theme music, entitled "We Rule Your Animated Comedy Ass Forever", was written and performed by the three main cast members alongside Michael Kohler. Almost every episode in this season featured a special guest appearance, which continues a practice used in past seasons. This season has been released in various forms of home media, including on demand streaming.

Production

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Episodes in this season were written and directed by series creators Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro, who have both written and directed every episode of the series. Episodes in this season aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim.

An episode entitled "Laser Cowboy" was written for this season but was never produced, as Adult Swim did not think it would work. The episode was to be entirely live action, and did not actually feature any of the main characters. The episode was to be as if the main characters were watching a completely different show on Carl's Roku box, with the episode itself being an episode of the show.[3]

Dave Willis first announced that this will be the final season on April 25, 2015 at a C2CE convention panel.[4] He stated that the series was cancelled, and it wasn't his decision to end it. Willis and Maiellaro first learned about the cancellation from people from the animation studio, halfway through the production of this season.[5] Willis mentioned on Reddit that Adult Swim president Mike Lazzo made the decision to end the series because "he was ready to move on from it".[6]

In 2017, Adult Swim was asked why they don't make more episodes, to which they responded "we might" with a bump.[7] Willis also expressed interest in doing a Kickstarter to fund Death Fighter, a scrapped sequel to Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters.[8] The series was announced to have been renewed for a five episode 12th season in 2023.[9]

Cast

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Main

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Recurring

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Guest appearances

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  • Justin Roiland as Honest Abe Lincoln's Hot Links mascot (credited as "Rustin Joyland") in "Mouth Quest"[10]
  • Andy Daly as Presbobot (credited as "Cactus Tony") in "Mouth Quest"[11]
  • Henry Zebrowski‡ as Toby in "Mouth Quest"[11]
  • Doug Stanhope as The Hairy Bus in "The Hairy Bus"[12]
  • Andy Daly as The Flesh Train (credited as "Cactus Tony") in "The Hairy Bus"[12]
  • Kumail Nanjiani as Frylock's bees in "Sweet C"
  • Betsy Sodaro as The Queen Bee in "Sweet C"
  • Nick Gibbons as "Drunk" in "Sweet C"[13]
  • Monica Rial as Jubilee in "Knapsack!"
  • Brian Stack as Mappy the Map in "Knapsack!"
  • Andrés du Bouchet as GPSy the GPS (credited as "Francisco Gugliani") in "Knapsack!"
  • Matt Stanton as Nappy the Knapsack in "Knapsack!"
  • Greg Fitzsimmons as Randy in "Rabbit, Not Rabbot"
  • Matt Foster as Lionel in "Rabbit, Not Rabbot"
  • John DiMaggio as Dr. Zord (credited as "Pat McGroin") in "Rabbit, Not Rabbot"
  • Eddie Pepitone as Carl's mother in "Hospice"
  • Eugene Mirman as Dr. Mirman in "Hospice"
  • Sal Lupo as Dominic in "The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We Fucking Mean It)"
  • Dan Triandiflou in "The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We Fucking Mean It)"
  • Max Willis as Hankwad in "The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We Fucking Mean It)"
  • Sadie Willis as Meatwad's daughter in "The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We Fucking Mean It)"
  • Patti Smith as Performing "Aqua Teen Dream" in "The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We Fucking Mean It)"
  • Lavell Crawford as Unbelievable Ron in "The Greatest Story Ever Told"

Episodes

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No.
overall
No. in
season
Title [14]Directed byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code
US viewers
(millions)
1311"Mouth Quest"Dave Willis, Matt Maiellaro
& Craig Hartin
Dave Willis & Matt MaiellaroJune 21, 2015 (2015-06-21)13010.81[15]
1322"Brain Fairy"Dave Willis & Matt MaiellaroDave Willis & Matt MaiellaroJune 28, 2015 (2015-06-28)13020.89[16]
1333"The Hairy Bus"Dave Willis & Matt MaiellaroDave Willis & Matt MaiellaroJuly 12, 2015 (2015-07-12)13030.85[17]
1344"Sweet C"Dave Willis & Matt MaiellaroDave Willis & Matt MaiellaroJuly 19, 2015 (2015-07-19)13041.10[18]
1355"Knapsack!"Dave Willis & Matt MaiellaroDave Willis & Matt MaiellaroJuly 26, 2015 (2015-07-26)13051.15[19]
1366"Rabbit, Not Rabbot"Dave Willis & Matt MaiellaroDave Willis & Matt MaiellaroAugust 2, 2015 (2015-08-02)13061.20[20]
1377"Hospice"Dave Willis & Matt MaiellaroDave Willis & Matt MaiellaroAugust 16, 2015 (2015-08-16)13071.14[21]
1388"The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We ****ing Mean It)"Dave Willis & Matt MaiellaroDave Willis & Matt MaiellaroAugust 23, 2015 (2015-08-23)1308
1309
1.59[22]
1399"The Greatest Story Ever Told"Dave Willis & Matt MaiellaroDave Willis & Matt MaiellaroAugust 26, 2015 (2015-08-26) (online)
August 30, 2015 (2015-08-30) (TV)
13101.23[23]

Home release

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This season is available in HD and SD for digital purchase on iTunes,[24] Google Play,[25] Amazon Video,[26] and Microsoft.[27]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Towers, Andrea (April 27, 2015). "Aqua Teen Hunger Force ending after this season". EW.com. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
  2. ^ Minton, Turner. "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Will Meat Its End; Final Season Premieres June 21". Pastemagazine.com. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
  3. ^ "'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' Creators Talk Cancellation, Weirdness". July 20, 2015.
  4. ^ Dave Willis speaking at a C2CE convention panel on April 25, 2015 posted on Twitch
  5. ^ Martin, Garrett (June 15, 2015). "The Life and Death of Aqua Teen Hunger Force". Paste. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
  6. ^ "RealDavidWillis comments on I am Dave Willis, co-creator of Aqua Teen Hunger Force...AMA!". reddit. June 16, 2015. Retrieved July 14, 2015.
  7. ^ Schwarz, John (July 5, 2017). "Is Adult Swim Teasing An "Aqua Teen" Revival?". Bubble Babbler. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
  8. ^ Statement made by Dave Willis on June 16, 2015 on Reddit
  9. ^ "Adult Swim Orders New Episodes of Iconic Series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" | Pressroom". pressroom.warnermedia.com. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  10. ^ Statement made by Dave Willis on June 21, 2015
  11. ^ a b Statement made by Dave Willis
  12. ^ a b Credits found at the end of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever episode "The Hairy Bus".
  13. ^ "Nick Gibbons". www.facebook.com. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  14. ^ Aqua Teen Hunger Force official website, archived by Wayback Machine. Adult Swim. 16 May 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  15. ^ Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 6.21.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on June 23, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  16. ^ Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 6.28.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on June 30, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
  17. ^ Bibel, Sara. "Sunday Cable Ratings: 'Naked and Afraid XL' Wins Night, 'True Detective', 'Basketball Wives', 'Ballers', 'The Strain' & More". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved July 14, 2015.
  18. ^ Bibel, Sara. "Sunday Cable Ratings: 'Naked and Afraid XL' Wins Night, 'True Detective', 'Ballers', 'The Strain', 'The Last Ship', 'Tut' & More". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on July 24, 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  19. ^ Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals: 7.26.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on July 30, 2015. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  20. ^ Bibel, Sara. "Sunday Cable Ratings: 'Rick and Morty' & 'Naked and Afraid XL', Win Night, 'True Detective', 'The Last Ship', 'Ballers', 'The Strain', 'Ray Donovan' & More". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on August 6, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2015.
  21. ^ Sara, Bibel. "Sunday Cable Ratings: 'Naked and Afraid XL' Wins Night, 'Rick & Morty', 'Ballers', 'The Last Ship', 'The Strain', 'Ray Donovan' & More". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on August 20, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  22. ^ Kondolojy, Amanda. "Sunday Cable Ratings: 'Fear the Walking Dead' Tops Night + 'Talking Dead', 'Naked & Afraid', 'Rick & Morty', & More". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on August 28, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  23. ^ Bibel, Sara. "Sunday Cable Ratings: 'Fear The Walking Dead' Wins Night, 'MTV Video Music Awards', 'Rick & Morty', 'The Last Ship', 'Falling Skies', 'Ray Donovan' & More". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on September 2, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
  24. ^ Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever on iTunes.
  25. ^ Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever on Google Play.
  26. ^ Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever on Amazon Video.
  27. ^ Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever on Microsoft.
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Season 12