Aqua Teen Hunger Force (also known as ATHF) is an American animated television series shown on Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim late-night programming block, as well as Teletoon in Canada. A would-be spinoff of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, ATHF is one of the four original Williams Street series that premiered on December 30, 2000 before Adult Swim officially debuted (the others were Sealab 2021, The Brak Show, and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law). ATHF is the longest running original series on the network. In 2007, an ATHF movie, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, was released at selected theaters.

The show is about three anthropomorphic fast food items and their life together in South Jersey. The Aqua Teens were originally billed as a detective crime fighting unit; however, the crime-solving aspect of the show was quickly abandoned. There is little continuity between episodes; almost all recurring cast members have died at least once. The focus is instead on character interaction and a pervasive form of sarcastic and surreal humor.

The Aqua Teen Hunger Force debuted on episode 92 "Baffler Meal" of the cartoon talk-show "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" According to TVtome.com, Master Shake is portrayed as being a chocolate milkshake in this episode, although he's a pistachio shake in the series Written by jake@oshadog.com

Three pieces of food - a shake, some French fries, and a meatball - form the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a group of detectives splitting a house in South Jersey. They are Shake, the ill-tempered and cynical leader, Frylock, the intelligent and calm one who gets all the work done, and Meatwad, the dim-witted yet lovable comedic foil. Together, they try to thwart villains whom all seem to have some sort of connection to the evil Dr. Weird. That is, when they're not trespassing in their neighbor Carl's pool. Written by The Dude

Somewhere on the South Jersey coast, hidden in his secret laboratory, the (literally) mad scientist Dr. Weird plots his latest hair-brained scheme against the planet. This calls for a team of heroes to rise up and stop him, and, to fill this need, a wise and supernaturally gifted carton of French Fries called Frylock, an amiable but almost entirely stupid wad of burger meat called Meatwad, and a sharp-tongued and bullying milkshake called Master Shake have come forward. Together, this bickering team of unlikely (and with the exception of one of them, largely unwilling) adventurers battle some of the least-dangerous and incompetent threats to this planet - when they're not annoying their long-suffering neighbour Carl by swimming in his pool, that is. Aqua Team Hunger Force, assemble! Written by Scott