ComingSoon Senior Editor Spencer Legacy spoke with Aqua Teen Hunger Force creators Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis in regards to the new season of the Adult Swim collection. The duo spoke about reuniting with the voice forged and parodying A Quiet Place. Season 12 of the present is about to debut on Adult Swim on Sunday, November 26 at 11:30 pm ET/PT.
“Aqua Teen Hunger Force is again to make tv watchable once more, and to fill your empty, content-starved lives with a magical season 12,” reads the brand new season‘s synopsis. “Don’t name it a comeback! Even although by all accounts it appears to be simply that. It’s a micro-itty-bitty-mini season, 5 model new episodes of attention-whittling stupidity – however don’t fear, the laugh-per-episode density is much larger than the rest you willingly agree to position earlier than your swollen, encrusted eyes.”
Spencer Legacy: With the seven-year hole between Season 11 and Plantasm, then now the brand new season, did you two discover it straightforward to get again into the rhythm of the present, or did you need to get reacquainted with it?
Matt Maiellaro: Yeah, we’d forgotten completely about it. We didn’t bear in mind any of the characters. [Laughs]. Or tips on how to even do it. We had thrown away our computer systems and all of our writing software program, so we needed to maintain automobile washes to get sufficient cash to purchase all that stuff again. Then we went to scriptwriting coaching, and we watched quite a lot of cartoons, and we obtained again into it. So yeah, it took a number of, it took, took some time.
So that entire seven-year interval was attending to that step once more?
Matt Maiellaro: No, no, no. What occurred was The Simpsons had known as us they usually wanted seven years of our experience to get their present into form, so we spent seven years with them serving to them out.
That explains why there’s such an increase in high quality these days!
Matt Maiellaro: Yes, it does.
Dave, has the method of writing and making the present modified in any respect with this new season?
Dave Willis: Well, we do all of it from our workplace dwelling places of work, so sure, it’s modified fairly a bit. I feel we didn’t have a plague passing by the air final time we had made the present. So yeah, it’s bizarre. I see Matt day-after-day, and but, if I attain out to the touch him, he’s not there!
Matt Maiellaro: [Laughs].
Dave Willis: We used to at all times finish our writing classes with only a deep embrace. Then we go our separate methods and now, you realize …
Now you’re caught with the Zoom window between you.
Dave Willis: Yeah. But, you realize, what was cool was we made that film. Like, the entire film was made by way of Zoom. Everybody — and since we had such a shared historical past engaged on the present … how lengthy did it take? I imply, lower than a 12 months from straight-up first day of, “What’s our thought going to be,” to sweetening it. It was like … what was it, Matt? A 12 months?
Matt Maiellaro: Yeah, it was like a 12 months. So we obtained by it fairly rapidly. I feel the longest half actually was forming … effectively for the film, forming the concept, after which simply attending to that time. The script went fairly quick and all the things else flowed as regular.
Dave Willis: That’s what’s nice. It’s a small workers of people who do that, and though we’re doing it with a distinct studio — Floyd County Productions this time round — it’s nonetheless a few of the old skool folks, like Todd Redner, our animation director, began on our present at like episode seven or one thing. Like 130 one thing episodes in the past. So it’s cool. Everybody form of is aware of what to do and what the present’s about and all the things. It’s superior.
Speaking of the small staff, what was it prefer to get again along with Carey Means and Dana Snyder for the film and the present? What was that reunion like?
Matt Maiellaro: We had type of been holding in contact with them anyway, and Dana’s been actually busy. Getting again into the groove, it simply clicked. They simply obtained proper again into it. It was nearly like we didn’t even take a break.
Dave Willis: And these guys do cons and stuff. I imply, that’s such a giant a part of their lives too, you realize? They simply go on the market and that’s their world.
You’ve had so many various intro themes for the present. With these new episodes, what made you wish to return to the very first one for this comeback and do a riff on that?
Matt Maiellaro: Lack of finances. [Laughs]. We thought we have been going to get a brand new theme music. We had large concepts for large gamers and [it] seems we didn’t fairly have the cash for that. So Nick Ingkatanuwat went into all of the grasp recordings from the primary run of the season with Schoolly D and simply did a giant mishmash and had enjoyable with it. We simply instructed them to go loopy and we obtained what we obtained and we actually prefer it.
Dave Willis: I feel we stored altering the present … we have been simply bored, you realize? We have been simply attempting to do one thing completely different and this was form of like coming again. It simply felt somewhat bit like a tiny reboot to the unique in a approach. So I feel it’s according to what we have been doing within the content material of the episodes too.
With Shaketopia, there’s a distinct artwork fashion for a little bit of it. Was that the results of the brand new studio that you just guys talked about, or how did that come about?
Matt Maiellaro: No, that’s what we needed to do with it. I imply, we hope one other studio would’ve accomplished the identical factor, however these persons are all actually gifted. All the studios right here. We ended up with Floyd they usually’re nice. We actually had enjoyable watching that artwork come collectively.
Dave Willis: I ought to present you this portray. I’m going to point out you this portray that the studio gave me. They gave them out to everyone who labored on the present.
Matt Maiellaro: I didn’t get one although.
Oh, that’s wonderful! [Laughs.]
Matt Maiellaro: I can’t wait to get that. I’ll get Dave to signal it.
It’s simply misplaced within the mail in all probability, proper? They’ll ship one other one, proper?
Matt Maiellaro: I doubt it.
Dave Willis: We have one for you, Matt. They did a screening and the audio was so blown out that you just couldn’t perceive what anybody was saying, but it surely seemed dynamite,
The second episode is a riff on A Quiet Place. How, and when did the concept of parodying that particular film come up?
Matt Maiellaro: Well, really, A Quiet Place is a rip on that, as a result of we had that concept first. While we have been discussing that concept again at Skywalker, the individuals who ended up making A Quiet Place have been sitting subsequent to us having espresso. And yeah, they stole it.
Typical Hollywood nonsense.
Matt Maiellaro: Yeah. Stole it proper out from beneath us. I don’t wanna maintain riffing on that film, however they did steal it from us.
I’ll be sure that everybody is aware of. The visitors for this season are fairly stacked and one in all them is Brian Cox. What was the method of getting him on the present and recording with him like?
Dave Willis: Well, after I noticed an advert, which I’ll go away anonymous, the place I did hear the patriarch from Succession go, “Ba-da-ba-ba-baaa.” I believed. “Maybe we will get him.” Matt and I each liked his Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter and we have been like, “Oh, let’s see. Never hurts to ask!” He was like, “How a lot time do I’ve?” He was nice. He was superior.
Between the Aquadonk Side Pieces and Plantasm and the brand new season, it actually looks like Aqua Teen Hunger Force is coming again in full power. Are you guys down for extra seasons and flicks if the chance arises?
Dave Willis: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Matt Maiellaro: Yeah. We’re prepared. Absolutely. We’re prepared. The firm wants cash, the corporate wants cash, they want the present. So it’s form of a no brainer.
Dave Willis: Not our selection. [Laughs]. We’re at all times out there to make extra Aqua Teen.
