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Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 episode | |
Master Shake meets Allen, the strict god-like ruler of the world, nine years in the future.
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Episode no. | Season 8 Episode 1/2 |
Directed by |
Dave Willis Matt Maiellaro |
Written by | Dave Willis Matt Maiellaro |
Production code | 1001/1002 |
Original air date | May 8, 2011 (Part 1) May 15, 2011 (Part 2) |
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"Allen" is the two-part season premiere of the eighth season of the animated television series Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 (an alternative title given to Aqua Teen Hunger Force), and the 101st and 102nd episodes of the series overall respectively. Both parts of "Allen" originally aired in the United States on May 8, 2011 and May 15, 2011 respectively on Adult Swim. In the first part Master Shake freezes himself in Dr. Weird's lab and awakes up nine years later disoriented and with no knowledge of the whereabouts of Frylock and Meatwad. In the second part Shake discovers the world is now controlled by a god-like figure named Allen who kills anyone who misbehaves in order to maintain the world as a Utopia where everyone has respect for one another.
"Allen" is the first episode of the series to be branded under an alternative title, and the first part marks the final appearance of Dr. Weird. The script for the beginning of the first part was read live by the main cast at Dragon*Con in 2010, months before the episode originally aired on television. This is the first two-part episode since "Last Last One Forever and Ever" and "Rabbot Redux", no other multi-part episodes have premiered since. Both parts later aired together back-to-back in a half-hour block on May 29, 2011. Both parts ranked #1 in their respective time slots on basic cable with all key adult demographics, and the May 29, 2011 airing was seen by 1.675 million viewers. Both parts have been made available on DVD, and other forms of home media, including on demand streaming on Hulu Plus.
The newly formed "Aqua Unit Patrol Squad", a detective squad made up of Master Shake, Meatwad, and Frylock, anthropomorphic fast-food items, are under their latest investigation at an abandoned house to find out if a man is having an affair with the woman they are working for. After Frylock leaves because of a debate over the new show not being any good, Shake and Meatwad fall asleep. Later, when they wake up, a construction worker, whom they believe to be the person having an affair with their client, begins to demolish the house. Shake believes this to be an insurance scam. But then Shake believes that he may be trying to hide "evidence" by tearing the house down. He puts on a beret, a fake mustache, and a poor French accent, and walks over to the construction worker. He tells him that his name is Jacques and that he just moved into the neighborhood, wondering what the man was doing. He says that he is tearing the house down. He tries to cough out info from him, like insurance scams, affairs, and he does not budge. Meatwad then tells him that they are at the wrong house, and that the man tearing the house down got sent by the city as it has been vacant for ten years. Shake even admits that the person they are looking for is small and white, while the man presented to them is large and black. After the construction worker orders them to leave, Shake rips off his disguise and accent and orders him to tell him what kind of back-room operation he had to have to look like that.