Baffler Meal

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"Baffler Meal" is a television script for an episode of the animated series Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and is considered the inspiration for the television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The script was rejected as a SGC2C episode because it focused too much on the Aqua Teens, Frylock, Meatwad, and Master Shake. The episode was rewritten and aired as "Kentucky Nightmare", with different characters and plot involving a shark and a bear.

Once production on Space Ghost Coast to Coast ended, Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis pitched Aqua Teen Hunger Force as its own show to Cartoon Network, and they accepted. Matt and Dave later returned to the "Baffler Meal" script, producing and directing it along its original intent, and it aired December 31, 2003. It was also released as a special feature on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume Two DVD box-set.

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Space Ghost has made a deal with the "Burger Trench" restaurant for a houseboat and two speakers (though he only gets one), and ends up regretting it when their mascots, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, show up and try to steal the spotlight. Somehow, Colonial Man (Space Ghost's nemesis from a previous episode) is connected to this, and the future of classic rock hangs in the balance as Space Ghost decides what to do.

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The characters, while similar to what they are today, were still far from being developed. Master Shake is still the leader of the team, but has no hands, a Space Ghost emblem or sticker on his back (which disappears after being knocked over by Space Ghost toward the end of the episode), and is chocolate, as opposed to the regular series in which he is pistachio. He was voiced by Dave Willis. Frylock had crinkle-cut fries, legs, an amulet worn around his neck called the amulet of Ayahockales, a fry sword, and was voiced by Matt Maiellaro. Meatwad looked and sounded much like he currently does, but is uniformly depressed and more subservient to Shake, and constantly says the phrase, "The bun is in your mind." Master Shake and Frylock had voices similar to Ignignokt and Err, respectively.