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T-Shirt of the Living Dead

Episode Number: 53    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Sunday October 10, 2004    Prod Code: 311
The Aqua Teens manage to get ahold of an ancient Egyptian t-shirt, which eventually ends up in the possession of Meatwad who utilizes the vast power it contains to summon a disgruntled Santa Claus from his hiatus in the North Pole and other creations from the depths of his imagination.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Dave Willis, Matt Maiellaro
Star: C. Martin Croker (Dr. Weird, Steve (2001-2003)),  Schoolly D (Narrator),  Dana Snyder (Master Shake, Various Voices),  Dave Willis (Meatwad, Carl, Various Voices),  Carey Means (Frylock, Various Voices)
Recurring Role: Matt Maiellaro (Err, Santa Claus),  Mike Schatz (Emory)
Guest Star: Andy Merrill (Oglethorpe, Easter Bunny),  Nick Ingkatanuwat (Taped Tourguide)

Notes

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When the Aqua Teens are at the museum, the gold letters above them says "Egypt: The Dumb Country". (edit)
Santa's line "Those faggoty elves don't even come in until September!" was not included in the [adult swim] Friday Night Fix verison. Instead, Santa is heard saying "The sweet little elves don't even come in until September!" (edit)
With this episode Aqua Teen became the longest running Adult Swim original, with Sealab 2021 having 52 episodes, Harvey Birdman with 39 episodes, and The Brak Show with 28. (edit)
Opener - Emory and Oglethorpe are getting hungry so they teleport themselves to the Mooninites' ship hoping for some pizza. (edit)
Soccer Claus and Horror Claus were previous ideas that went no where. So they were used in this episode for cheap laughs. (edit)

Quotes

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Santa: Master Shake, you've been a naughty boy today.
Shake: Don't play with me, Fat Man! (edit)
Meatwad: (To Santa, who is know with Soccer skin) You'll be bouncin' around in no time, Soccer Clau- (Frylock glares at Meatwad) Santa Claus.. Santa Claus is what I said. (edit)
Museum guide tape: Now if you look to your right, you'll see Egypt's pathetic attempt...of a celluar phone. (edit)
Museum guide tape: Legend has it that Osiris, the Egyptian God of the Dead, wore this ancient t-shirt on hot days in the underworld. It was given to him by an ancient bank, when he opened an ancient checking account. Some say it gave him the power to know and do anything. And that's why most of the dead, in the underworld, referred to him as... an ass. (edit)
Santa: You know that remote control car he wanted? Oh yeah he's gonna get it... (tries to get up.) FAR... up his ***! (edit)

Trivia

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After Frylock hooks Santa up to life support, what happens to Eggzilla, his girlfriend, and the duplicate Easter Bunnies? Did Meatwad just make them disappear? (edit)
If Santa's face was reduced to a skull, he shouldn't have been able to talk, since one needs muscles to speak. (edit)
When Santa is on fire after being struck by lightning, if you look closely you can see that the fire has logs edited out of it, which is the same fire from Shake in the episode Dumber Dalls (edit)
While in the museum, Meatwad walks on the ground with the tape player in his backside. Shouldn't the player be moving with him like in previous episodes? (edit)
When washing the shirt, Meatwad stands by the washing machine. Yet, the dryer from Balloonenstein is mysteriously absent. (edit)

Allusions

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Godzilla: The egg monster that Meatwad creates is dubbed "Eggzilla", a play on the name of the famous ToHo owned property, Godzilla. (edit)
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10.0
Perfect
T-Shirt of the Living Dead
"Series classic"
Shake steals a mystical Eygyptian T-Shirt with supernatural powers but can no longer where it when meatwad shrinks it
Continue » Posted Nov 27, 2007 6:52 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
T-Shirt of the Living Dead
"Series classic"
Easily the top ATHF episode of 2004. Filled with two great concepts: Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny and his twin brother "Daryl".
Continue » Posted Nov 3, 2006 8:16 am PST

ringoffirejrc
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1.0
Abysmal
T-Shirt of the Living Dead
"Painful to watch"
Shake steels a magic t-shirt from an exibit, but it smells so he washes it, but it shrinks so only Meatwad can wear it, but Meatwad makes total havoc with it. He thinks up Santa Clause and an Easter egg monster that sets Santa in flames and almost dies.
Continue » Posted Jul 20, 2006 6:31 pm PST

rapidwingo
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10.0
Perfect
T-Shirt of the Living Dead
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Shake steals a shirt which allows him to know and do anything, but after washing it shrinks, and it will only fit on meatwad.
Continue » Posted Nov 5, 2005 5:29 pm PST

Erkidal
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9.5
Superb
T-Shirt of the Living Dead
"Series classic"
It starts out as any other Aqua Teen episode, but not, this one is special to me now.
Continue » Posted Oct 16, 2005 2:12 pm PST
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Episode: T-Shirt of the Living Dead
Season Number: 3
Episode Reviews: 5
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