Episodes

Don Shake just wants to make it big. Don't we all? Matt, Dave, and Jay join the podcast to wax poetic about Aqua Teen's live action episode. And then, afterwards, we waxed each other smooth... but I forgot to record that part. But boy do we look good! We're hearing about why they called this one "The Last One Forever and Ever" despite being renewed for another season, who else might have played Don Shake, and who was late to filming. R E F E R E N C E S • Matt & Ronnie's Cartoon Those Cats : htt...

Fry Legs is one of the most controversial episodes among Aqua Teen fans... and one of my favorites. Ever since starting this podcast, I've been looking forward to talking about horned-up-Frylock and his romantic escapades. To judge Frylock's performance with the ladies, I brought on real-life, actual ladies - my wife Hannah and friend Wren - to see just how masterfully Frylock handles the fairer sex. (Spoilers: not well.) R E F E R E N C E S • Bad Luck Buck: https://youtu.be/r6Cpl96hnS8 • The Be...

Matt Maiellaro and Ronnie Neeley debut their podcast series tackling the exciting world of hard drive prices. Subscribe on Patreon at $3000 a month to get three episodes from Matt and Ronnie every single day. H O S T 🎙️ Ronnie Neeley • Instagram: @ronnievneeley • Ronnie & Matt Maiellaro's Cartoon, Those Cats: https://www.thosecats.org/ • Ronnie's King of the Hill Podcast, Yep: yeppodcast.com • Meat Kingdom: meatkingdom.net ⭐ Support the Show & Get Bonus Episodes: dancingisforbidden.com/support/ ...

Not that long ago... in this exact galaxy... Aqua Teen art director Bob Pettitt and I talked about the best Star Wars parody of all time! Bob is back on the show to talk about his kidney-hurting Pawn Shop background, side-stepping legal loopholes with mustaches, and Bob's least favorite thing he had to draw for Aqua Teen Hunger Force. R E F E R E N C E S • Aqua Teen Xmas Fan Animation: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSrFYdsjKcz/ • Rabbot Rebuilt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx4sQBySJNE • Aqu...

If I had a time machine, I'd go right back to the start of this recording session just to experience it again. Joining us is "Time Machine" editor Dave Hughes , one of the last remaining original employees at Adult Swim. When he isn't curating Adult Swim Smalls , producing the instant classic Haha, You Clowns , or running the long-standing Off the Air , Dave is building a legendary resume that includes Beavis and Butt-Head , Celebrity Deathmatch , and Space Ghost Coast to Coast . I bet if he had...

Today on the podcast we're joined by four certified* Aqua Teen legends: Matt Maiellaro, Dana Snyder, Jay Wade Edwards, and John Brestan. Without these guys, Aqua Teen would suck ass - and this podcast episode would be a lot lonelier. In this buffet of an episode, we're talking about the dead tech that Aqua Teen was founded on, adult swim pilots that never got finished, standards and practices being angry about Spacecataz, and why none of us are opening up Al Roker's cookbook. I mean, come on. Ho...

Come all ye Aqua Teen faithful, for Shawn Coleman & Dave Willis – the Two Minstrels of Meat – come bearing holy gifts... of KNOWLEDGE! After spending the last two Christmases deep diving our way through the wonderful world of Have Yourself a Meaty Little Christmas, we're finally blessed with the album's chief architects to learn all about this modern day classic! Support Dancing is Forbidden to get more cool stuff like this: https://www.dancingisforbidden.com/support/ R E F E R E N C E S • Aqua ...

Don't try and get any sort of nest egg going, because all it'll do is get your teeth knocked out. That's the lesson I've learned from this episode. Aqua Teen art director and character designer Todd Redner joins the show to give us invaluable information behind the creation of Creature from Plaque Lagoon — he'll trade one fact for every tooth you'll offer him. We're talkin' Tooth Fairy lore, Todd seeing his 2D characters in 3D on Zombie Ninja Pro-Am, and making Wongburger — oops, sorry; Chatterm...

Master Shake's got himself a chick magnet... but it doesn't work the way he expected. Like, in a big way. Voice of Master Shake, Dana Snyder, joins the podcast to talk about this great Season 6 episode! Dana is weighing in on why Shake is such a popular character, whether or not he was nervous to voice Shake for the very first time, and Dana gives Shake some advice on how to actually get chicks. Other topics discussed include Dana's craftiness, what ever happened to Matt Maiellaro's daughter, an...

She Creature reminds us of life's greatest truths: never clean your pool, never cross the mob, and definitely don't go messing around with no mermaids. Adult Swim legends John Brestan & Lear Bunda - the original spec writers behind this episode - join the pod to wade through Aqua Teen's most pool-centric adventure yet. Writing bumps, thrown scripts, pool-turned-hot-tub-guy-dads, caught wangers, mispronouncing conch all your life — this one is fun for the whole family! ...assuming your family is ...

Shake Like Me was banned from DVD and TV, but not from the Dancing Is Forbidden podcast... but maybe it should have been. Ronnie attempts to cover the notorious episode, and it goes exactly as well as you’d expect. Craigslist guests derail the show, a Kentucky mayoral candidate demands beer money, British “musicians” try to take over the show, and somewhere in there we actually talk about Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Maybe. Sort of. R E F E R E N C E S • Meat Kingdom with Seth Green: https://www.yout...

If you had 12 (or 3, whatever) wishes, what would you use them on? Well it doesn't matter, either way you're turning invisible. In today's episode, we're joined by ATHF co-creator — and, unknown to him, voice of Gene Eugene — Matt Maiellaro to talk all about this animation-less episode where Shake tries to make a movie, Carl needs to see women use the restroom, Meatwad wants to be Zack and/or Cody, and Frylock attempts to make an invisibility vaccine. None of that stuff actually ends up happenin...

It don't matter... none of this matters... except for this brand new Mail Order Bride commentary. This totally matters. Big time. For our final season 1 commentary we're joined—yet again—by Aqua Teen co-creator/co-writer Matt Maiellaro, original editor and producer Jay Wade Edwards, character designer and animation director Matthew I Jenkins, and Season 1 production assistant John Brestan getting the down low on this classic episode. We're hearing about the inspiration for Carl... and Shake's... bride Svetlana, a lost Aqua Teen treasure, and the late-great George Lowe. • Matt Maiellaro's Personal YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@mattmaiellaro7460 • Meat Kingdom with Matt Maiellaro YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MeatKingdomwithMattMaiellaro • Buy ATHF production art OR original commissions from Matthew I Jenkins: https://www.instagram.com/matthewijenkins/ • Jay Wade Edwards' Baseball Newsletter Tinker Taylor Soler Spiezio: https://tinkertaylorsolerspiezio.substack.c…

I started a King of the Hill podcast with my favorite podcaster, Rob Couch, and I'm sharing our first episode with you! There are two more episodes up right now, find us over at https://www.yeppodcast.com/ Doing Yep has been a lot of fun and I'm super proud of how it's turning out! If you like King of the Hill—or if you've been meaning to start watching it—I hope you give this dang old podcast a chance, man. Yep. ----more---- In the first ever episode of King of the Hill, Bobby gets a black eye ...

Commence the commentary! We're joined yet again by Aqua Teen co-creator/co-writer Matt Maiellaro, original editor & producer Jay Wade Edwards, character designer & animation director Matthew I Jenkins, and Season 1 production assistant John Brestan getting the down low on this classic episode. We're hearing about the rejected Space Ghost origins of this episode, discrepancies in Master Shake's sizing, Aqua Teen sound design, and David Cross stories! 📎 Jay Wade Edwards’ Baseball Newsletter – Tink...

If you want candy... well, you ain't getting any. But you ARE getting a brand-spankin'-new commentary track for MC Pee Pants! We're joined by Aqua Teen co-creator/co-writer/voice of Err Matt Maiellaro, original editor & producer Jay Wade Edwards, character designer & animation director Matthew I Jenkins, and Season 1 production assistant John Brestan getting the down low on this classic episode. We hear about Carl's flip-flop noises, Aqua Teen getting sued, and the origins of the Aqua Teens... a...

Revenge of the Mooninites went commentary-less for 23 years.... UNTIL NOW! Kicking off our (unofficial as hell) commentary series, we're joined by Aqua Teen co-creator/co-writer/voice of Err Matt Maiellaro, original editor & producer Jay Wade Edwards, character designer & animation director Matthew I Jenkins, and Season 1 production assistant John Brestan getting the down low on this classic episode. We hear about how the Mooninites got their names, Matt Maiellaro's first concert, and why Dr. We...

Season 5 of ATHF is a contentious one. Either you love it or you hate it. Or maybe you think it's okay. Or you just, like, sorta like it. Look, I don't know your life story -- but what I DO know is Season 5 is a hell of a lot better than I was expecting it to be. While the season got my panties in a bunch back in 2008, it put a big ol' smile on my face while covering it for the podcast. And also I don't wear panties anymore. Commando, baby! Today we're talking about the season as a whole & spend...

From the very first ATHF intro, to the art direction on the latest season-- Todd Redner was there. Like the wind.... or God. The all knowing, all drawing Todd Redner graces the podcast to bestow upon us several ATHF tales that I had never once heard before. And that's saying something because I've heard lots of things. Todd's telling us about the many decisions that went into Aqua Teen's newest season (and the misguided hate mail it spawned), how characters like the Love Mummy and Wongburger wer...

Not only did David Cross teach me it was okay to be named Ronnie, but he put Aqua Teen Hunger Force on the map. Big time. Fresh off his successful stint on Broadway (yes-- THAT Broadway), David takes the next logical step in his career and spends some time on a podcast about a cartoon he was on a few times. I don't know why he did, I advised him not to do it. Touching briefly on his time on Aqua Teen, David gives us the down low on having two versions of his standup sets, the origin of his nom d...

The highlander was a documentary and the events happened in real time... not unlike this AquaDonk. 18 (well, really 20) years later, Happy Time Harry is BACK -- not for vengeance, but for his own demise. He wants it, don't worry. It feels good to him. We see what (or rather, what little) Harry has been up to since 2004 (well, 2002). Harry ain't the only one going out in a blaze of glory, when Frylock and Meatwad combine forces to give Shake a taste of his own explosive medicine. The only thing t...

Grab your Bible and your crystal meth because we're in for a good time! Bible Fruit (totally not a VeggieTales ripoff) is one of the strongest Aqua Teen episodes, and has a heck of a history around it. We're covering the first mention of this idea back in 2004 & the (short lived) legacy it left behind in Soul Quest OverDrive. Other topics discussed include playing the vocoder for Alan Jackson, the good ol' days of MySpace, and Nick Gibbons tells us about working on Horton Hears A Who. References...

Support the show & get exclusive episodes (including 2 more episodes on The Room): https://www.patreon.com/dancingisforbidden ----more---- ATHF co-creator Dave Willis joins in on The Room coverage, wrapping up this trilogy of episodes on the best worst movie ever made! While we're getting in on the many weird aspects of The Room, we're also tying it back to Aqua Teen. Dave tells us about grappling with creating something imperfect, working with less-than-ideal budgets, and C Martin Croker making...

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...