Production
All episodes in season one were written and directed by series creators Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis. The first episode from this season, "Rabbot" originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network, unannounced, on December 30, 2000. The remaining episodes from this season originally aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. Season one episodes "Mayhem of the Mooninites", "Revenge of the Mooninites", "Dumber Dolls", "Circus", "Interfection", and "PDA" all feature the TV-14 parental rating; all other episodes feature the TV-PG rating.
Season one marks the first official appearances of Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad, who first made unofficial rough-cut appearances in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode, "Baffler Meal". This season also marks the first appearance of their next door neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski, as well as a number of recurring characters such as Dr. Weird, Steve, Ignignokt, Err, Oglethorpe, Emory, MC Pee Pants, Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future, and George Lowe.
The first three episodes of season one feature Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad as detectives. After three episodes, this premise and the use of the name by the characters were dropped. The premise was a trick that had been added to appease Cartoon Network executives, who "didn't want to air a show about food just going around and doing random stuff". In the show itself, Frylock mentions that they stopped fighting crime because "that wasn't making us a whole lot of money". This premise was later revisited in the season eight episodes "Allen Part 1" and "Allen Part 2", which were the first two episodes to premiere as Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1, after the title was officially changed in 2011.
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Famous quotes containing the word production:
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but it can not do without that life.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)