Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Grim Reaper Gutters

(S04E08) This episode wasn't so hot. In fact, it was kind of a cop-out if you ask me. It just doesn't seem right that a show that's only about eleven minutes long to begin with should spend any amount of time by showing scenes from a previous episode.

Don't get me wrong. The montage showing all the clips of Frylock saving Meatwad and Shake from episodes past was funny, but it's the sort of thing I would expect as an Easter Egg on a DVD set -- not as an actual episode. It just seems like a lazy thing to do.

Of course, I started to wonder why the team was staying inside and chatting about the good ol' days and that's when the title of the episode finally made sense. There was a grim reaper gutter salesman at their front door and he wouldn't leave until he made a sale. The plan to get rid him? They somehow got pornstar Tera Patrick (incredibly random guest star) to come over and then called up Carl to come meet her. Then maybe when he came over the grim reaper would pester him instead. Good plan... except Carl said no to the salesman and Death killed him. So Frylock finally caved and bought some gutters.

That was essentially the episode minus the whole montage thing I mentioned. There were a few other funny moments though. I loved it when Meatwad whipped out the sweater he made entirely out of pubic hair. Shake's response to Carl wearing it was even better: "How could you tell if he had it on?" Good point. Carl is a hairy man. Did anyone understand the point of Meatwad shooting himself at the end? I feel like that was a take-off on something and it went right over my head.

Favorite line?

Carl (to Meatwad, regarding the pube sweater): "I made you a shirt too. But see, without the "R" part. Get it? I made you a shirt. Go get it before it sinks. Haha! I had a lot of meat last night."