Carl (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)

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Carl Brutananadilewski
First appearance	Rabbot
Information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Year of birth	February 19, 1961
Address	New Jersey
Episode count	61
Portrayed by	Dave Willis
Created by	Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis

Carl Brutananadilewski (born February 19, 1961^[1]) is a fictional character in the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He lives next door to Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad. He is voiced by Dave Willis.

Carl is balding and overweight. He dresses casually, usually wearing a "gold" chain, stained wifebeater shirt, pocketless sweatpants, and green flip-flops. Carl has a collection of pornography, poor self-esteem, questionable hygiene, and dubious rapport with the opposite sex.^[2] The show has never addressed Carl's employment status beyond his reference to "busting his ass for 20 hours a week" and his claim to "work out of the home".^[3] He has worked at a styrofoam peanut factory in high school,^[4] as well as a manufacturing job when he was 8, but no episode shows him gainfully employed. He graduated high school in 1981, meaning that he turned twenty his senior year, though it may also imply that either he was enrolled in school late, or was held back by three grades. It has been revealed that he was raised by a neglectful father who gave him carpet samples for Christmas, which they would later eat as Christmas dinner.^[5] It has been hinted that he may have ties to the organ black market, as he once successfully (and very likely illegally) obtained a human brain for Meatwad.^[6] He also has friends with similarly illegal jobs, including one named Terry, a ex-convict on parole who performs illegal back-alley plastic surgery; in the episode "Super Model" he brings Shake to Terry for extensive plastic surgery in exchange for Carl receiving a 10% finder's fee.

A running gag on Aqua Teen Hunger Force is the destruction of Carl's possessions. Carl's home has been routinely damaged or destroyed, having been melted, whisked off by the Leprechauns' rainbow-making machine, infested by thousands of termites from the Congo, burned down three times, first when Meatwad played with matches, then again from bad wiring when Shake converted all Carl's electricity to his house, and a third time by the moomonites because they didn't see anything in Carl's house they wanted and decided to burn it down, wrapped in silk, had a hole shot through the wall and the roof by the OoGhiJ MIQtxxXA, urinated upon by Travis Of The Cosmos, smeared in horse manure with the numbers 1 through 3 for a fake Olympic medalist ceremony, scratched with symbols in a 'note' from Meatwad, licked by Shake on the front doorknob, crushed by two giant egg creatures, and smashed by a Monster Truck belonging to Mr. Wongburger's employees. Carl has an above-ground swimming pool in his backyard, in which the Aqua Teens often swim (uninvited and undesired). The pool has been the site of a suicide by Shake, mysteriously (to Carl) destroyed when Shake lost his PDA, used by Shake in an attempt to do the dishes (also involving a car battery and dog shampoo), a storehouse of elfin blood, Shake's toilet (he claims to have urinated in it many, many times), and a depository in which the genetically-engineered Handbanana and Spaghetti were created. Carl also has a red Nissan 240SX detailed with the graphics 2 Wycked, which has been destroyed many times over the course of the show. In fact, Carl's car was the first of his posessions to ever be destroyed, having been crushed by the Rabbot in the pilot episode. Yet all of his stuff always reappears in the next episode undamaged.

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Carl is a die-hard New York Giants fan (as referenced by a jersey he owns, a football helmet-lamp with the #56 on it, and a picture of Bill Parcells hanging in his living room). He has said that the day the Giants won the Super Bowl in 1991 was the greatest day of his life, but felt betrayed by Bart Oates when he left for the Niners.^[7] Carl is also a fan of the New York Mets and has a Mike Piazza poster in his house.

Carl is a fan of Arena rock and is known to have attended concerts of Styx, Foreigner, Chicago, Bryan Adams, and Loverboy in the mid-80's.^[4][8] His favorite song is "More Than A Feeling" by Boston. In this vein, Carl wrote a song called "I Wanna Rock Your Body ('Til the Break of Dawn)," which he has only played via air guitar for a hooker. The Foreigner belt (an artifact that grants the wearer superpowers based on Foreigner lyrics) attained by the Mooninites was "from the '83 tour", according to Carl, who recalls the time during that tour when he fondled a passed-out girl when the Foreigner song "Urgent" was playing in the background, and to this day, whenever he hears the song on the radio, he thinks back to that girl's breasts all covered in vomit.^[8] He has also revealed that he owns a decades-old Ted Nugent "Cat Scratch Fever" loincloth worn on laundry days.^[9]

Carl considers the Aqua Teens freaks, and generally tries to avoid contact with them; several episodes have shown Carl making an attempt to sell his home. At times, however, he seems to relate to Master Shake and partners with him in one of Shake's get-rich-quick schemes. In one episode he palls around with Meatwad because Meatwad had been playing the song "I Want Candy" by MC Pee Pants for 3 days straight and the song subliminally affected Carl. They dubiously acquired some chocolate bunnies after being subjected to the non-stop song barrage. Carl has called the members of the Aqua Teen Hunger force by various nicknames, including: Master Shake, "Cup" or "Shakeman" (although more often than not he calls him Shake, and in the pilot he called him Mr. Food Monster); Frylock, "Fryman"; and Meatwad, "Meatman." In his attempts to keep the Aqua Teens away from him, he has called the police (he said they eventually stopped taking his calls long ago),^[10] attempted to take out a restraining order,^[11] surrounded his house with lasers,^[12] and pulled a gun on Master Shake (which then resulted in the gun going off in Carl's hand while he was checking the barrel to make sure that it was loaded and shooting himself in his foot).^[13] Carl is often assaulted, injured, and killed and has other misfortunes due to the various schemes of the Aqua Teens. Carl has died more times than any other character on the show combined, yet, just like his possessions, he invariably reappears in the next episode completely unharmed. Carl is also found to have crabs in the fourth season.

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