Dancing Is Forbidden: An Aqua Teen Hunger Force Exploration

Listen up devildog, drop down and give me ONE listen to today's podcast diving into The Marines! If you were thinking of going AWOL from today's episode, well do I have a game for you... in Canada. Involving bread ties and Rush records. Today on the pod we're oorah'ing into the inspiration behind Warrior Gum's insane 3D ad, getting all Sherlock Holmes in the search for the elusive voice actor Michael E. Smith, listening to some of the DVD commentary, and MORE while we discuss this excellent Aqua Teen focused episode. I mean, Meatwad enlists Shake in the Marines, what's not to love! Other topics discussed include lame Canada jokes (and how ATHF subverts this), Janet Jackson NOT covering her brother's hit song, and archival podcast recordings from Vietnam in 1966.   • AQUA TEEN EPISODE RANKING FORM: https://forms.gle/1qAH58xekfDHaV1r6   References: • Matt Maiellaro's MEAT KINGDOM w/ Scott Luallen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEGT_9IoEhE ♫ Janet Jackson - Feedback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU0ucfoBcXM ♫ Why? - Fatalist Palmistry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYRRHZSI4MA • ATHF Fandom Wiki for The Marines: https://aqua-teen-hunger-force.fandom.com/wiki/The_Marines • K-Fee - Screamers (2004, Germany): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jddbSWPbHoA • 1998 Marine Corps Commercial "Rite of Passage": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mw1SB5P_FM • 1987 Marine Corps Commercial "Knight": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyYTK_hYeEo • Bob Pettitt's 'The Marines' Concept Art: https://www.instagram.com/pettitt_art/p/C2QXjq-vXyf/ ♫ 9LB Hammer - Carl's Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgEj9CgP37k ♫ 9LB Hammer - 12 Oz Mouse Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLW--c60lxI • 2008 Forum Thread on The Marines: https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/c-c-aqua-teen-hunger-force-the-marines-3-16.4507441/#post-69255181   ★ Support The Show + Get Extra Episodes • Patreon: patreon.com/dancingisforbidden   ★ Amazon ATHF Affiliate Links - Buy ATHF Stuff, Take Money From Jeff Bezos and Give It To Me! • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm 4K: https://amzn.to/3Svy2ea • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm BluRay: https://amzn.to/3dLcKKS • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm Digital: https://amzn.to/3t8cqtv • Baffler Meal 20 Disc DVD Box Set: https://amzn.to/3fmznWf   Timestamps: [00:00:00] Intro [00:08:35] March 16th, 2008 Pop Culture [00:24:50] The Marines Deep Dive   Contacts:  Leave a voice message: speakpipe.com/dancingisforbidden Instagram: @AquaTeenPod Email: [email protected] YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9yseLj27npIZlEnM8ooBaQ Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe5gFb5eAYH3nyF3DZ5jwhQ Website: dancingisforbidden.com Twitch: twitch.tv/ronnieneeley

Some people turn lemons into lemonade, and others turn... immortal dummies into magic shows. Optimism is the point here, and optimism will land your ass right in jail. Today we've got ATHF co-creator Dave Willis chiming in on Dummy Love, a fun exploration by the Aqua Teen guys into horror tropes. We're learning how T-Pain and Josh Homme got involved in this episode, we're finding out the original plan for the Skulldilocks book, and marveling at a non-proscenium shot in ATHF. Other topics discussed include T-Pain's autotune mastery (and why he doesn't need it), being upset that 10,000 BC isn't about man-on-mammoth love, a brand new and highly affordable Meatwad ringtone, and we're hearing from an old... well, not so old friend.   • AQUA TEEN EPISODE RANKING FORM: https://forms.gle/1qAH58xekfDHaV1r6   References: ♫ Usher - Love in This Club (ft. Young Jeezy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB5e0zHRzHc • Skulldilocks Concept Art: https://x.com/Pettitt_Art/status/1620800206198702081 ♫ Rob Zombie - Dragula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQuihD0hoI ♫ Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88r_q7oufE • Chunklet Magazine: https://www.chunklet.com/ ♫ T-Pain - Buy U A Drank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBrRBZy8OTs ♫ T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIjXUg1s5gc • 2008 Forum Thread on Dummy Love: https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/c-c-aqua-teen-hunger-force-dummy-love-3-9.4504331/   ★ Support The Show + Get Extra Episodes • Patreon: patreon.com/dancingisforbidden   ★ Amazon ATHF Affiliate Links - Buy ATHF Stuff, Take Money From Jeff Bezos and Give It To Me! • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm 4K: https://amzn.to/3Svy2ea • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm BluRay: https://amzn.to/3dLcKKS • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm Digital: https://amzn.to/3t8cqtv • Baffler Meal 20 Disc DVD Box Set: https://amzn.to/3fmznWf   Timestamps: [00:00:00] Intro [00:7:17] March 9th, 2008 Pop Culture [00:22:39] Dummy Love Deep Dive   Contacts:  Leave a voice message: speakpipe.com/dancingisforbidden Instagram: @AquaTeenPod Email: [email protected] YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9yseLj27npIZlEnM8ooBaQ Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe5gFb5eAYH3nyF3DZ5jwhQ Website: dancingisforbidden.com Twitch: twitch.tv/ronnieneeley

If you don't want someone to steal your contact lenses and torture you with their new-found abilities, you'd better get LASIK! If only Frylock had read this warning, then he could have saved himself, Carl, and Meatwad! ...Hmm, but then this episode of Aqua Teen wouldn't exist.... and then what would this podcast episode have been about???? THEN WHAT WOULD YOU BE READING RIGHT NOW??!!!!???!!??!!!?? Maybe a question for M. Night Shyamalan. Anyways, back to the podcast thing: today we're diving into the incredibly loved Laser Lenses! We're touching (with our plastic bat extensions) on the origins of the episode, gossiping about Carl's randomly new blue-tinted pool, and giving props to Terry's uncredited voice actor Vincent Pastore. I'm also telling you about a video I was in with ATHF badboys Matt Maiellaro and John Brestan! Other topics discussed include the 2000-era ATHF adultswim.com game Head Games, Davey Grohl's masterful PR team, and how reading about The Sims DLC turned me into a perv.   • AQUA TEEN EPISODE RANKING FORM: https://forms.gle/1qAH58xekfDHaV1r6   References: • Meat Kingdom 3: Five Sausage Finger Death Punch Chili: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnSwub5IDHc • Head Games (Carl & Meatwad Adult Swim Game): https://flashmuseum.org/aqua-teen-hunger-force-head-games/ ♫ Jack Johnson - If I Had Eyes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZcOJgdC9R0 ♫ Foo Fighters - Long Road To Ruin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=308KpFZ4cT8 • Nathan Churney & Joshua Mullinax Interview: https://www.dancingisforbidden.com/e/nathan-churney-joshua-mullinax-interview/ • 2008 Forum Thread on Laser Lenses: https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/c-c-aqua-teen-hunger-force-laser-lenses-3-02.4501011/   ★ Support The Show + Get Extra Episodes • Patreon: patreon.com/dancingisforbidden   ★ Amazon ATHF Affiliate Links - Buy ATHF Stuff, Take Money From Jeff Bezos and Give It To Me! • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm 4K: https://amzn.to/3Svy2ea • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm BluRay: https://amzn.to/3dLcKKS • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm Digital: https://amzn.to/3t8cqtv • Baffler Meal 20 Disc DVD Box Set: https://amzn.to/3fmznWf   Timestamps: [00:00:00] Intro [00:10:09] March 2nd, 2008 Pop Culture [00:28:11] Laser Lenses Deep Dive   Contacts:  Leave a voice message: speakpipe.com/dancingisforbidden Instagram: @AquaTeenPod Email: [email protected] YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9yseLj27npIZlEnM8ooBaQ Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe5gFb5eAYH3nyF3DZ5jwhQ Website: dancingisforbidden.com Twitch: twitch.tv/ronnieneeley

In a late-night quest to get chicks, Carl ends up succumbing to the power of the recorder, becoming a musical slave for Hoppy Bunny and his religious covenant of furries. Today we're packing this podcast out with input from FOUR of the critical figures behind this critter-full episode-- Aqua Teen co-creator Dave Willis tells us about turning Frylock's room into a parking garage, Matt Maiellaro gives the low-down on performing as the live-action Recorder Wizard, producer/editor Jay Wade Edwards fills us in on his costume origin, and this episode's original writer Ted Murphy shares with us the power of Apple computer discounts. We're also learning about the surprising medieval-based origin of this episode, Matt gives us his preference on playing the guitar instructor vs recorder instructor, and I'm figuring out what my fursona is. Other topics discussed include how expensive furry suits are, the lingering effects of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Communist Manifesto sheet music. I also toot my 'corder along the way!   • AQUA TEEN EPISODE RANKING FORM: https://forms.gle/1qAH58xekfDHaV1r6   References: • Matt Maiellaro's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@mattmaiellaro7460 ♫ Aqua Teen Hunger Force Production Music - Chirpy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSVGpAX_J9c ♫ Aqua Teen Hunger Force Production Music - Re-Percussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eToXKMJT20o • Bob Pettitt on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pettitt_art/ • 2008 Forum Thread on Hoppy Bunny: https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/c-c-aqua-teen-hunger-force-hoppy-bunny-2-17.4493951/ • Ted Murphy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spookytoons • Jay Wade Edwards on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaywadeedwards/ • Matt Maiellaro on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattMaiellaro • Dave Willis on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davewillisshaketable   ★ Support The Show + Get Extra Episodes • Patreon: patreon.com/dancingisforbidden   ★ Amazon ATHF Affiliate Links - Buy ATHF Stuff, Take Money From Jeff Bezos and Give It To Me! • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm 4K: https://amzn.to/3Svy2ea • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm BluRay: https://amzn.to/3dLcKKS • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm Digital: https://amzn.to/3t8cqtv • Baffler Meal 20 Disc DVD Box Set: https://amzn.to/3fmznWf   Timestamps: [00:00:00] Intro [00:07:30] February 17th, 2008 Pop Culture [00:23:04] Hoppy Bunny Deep Dive   Contacts:  Leave a voice message: speakpipe.com/dancingisforbidden Instagram: @AquaTeenPod Email: [email protected] YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9yseLj27npIZlEnM8ooBaQ Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe5gFb5eAYH3nyF3DZ5jwhQ Website: dancingisforbidden.com Twitch: twitch.tv/ronnieneeley