Rabbot

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“Rabbot”

Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode

Episode no.

Season 1
Episode 1

Written by

Matt Maiellaro
Dave Willis

Production no.

101

Original airdate

December 30, 2000

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List of Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes

"Rabbot" is the first episode of the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It was first broadcast on December 30, 2000, unannounced, at 5:00 AM, almost six months before Adult Swim officially premiered. The show was listed on the official schedule as "Special Programming" and was aired with two episodes of Sealab 2021 and an unfinished Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law pilot.

[edit] Plot

Dr. Weird builds a titanic robotic rabbit, which spritzes everything it doesn't smash with a hair-growing formula. It's up to the Aqua Teens to stop this menace, though Master Shake isn't as enthusiastic about this mission as he first seemed.

[edit] Stealth Pilot

In the original, December 21 "stealth" broadcast of this episode, there were many differences from the final cut. There was no theme song or opening titles, the segues that cut to another scene were also different - instead of Schooly D narrating over some rap music, they showed the old "outer space zoom" segue from the Hanna-Barbera Superfriends cartoon, with the ATHF (instumental) theme music played over it.

In the cold open, after the Rabbot escapes, Dr. Weird says "Unleash the mechanical frog!" and the giant garage door opens again, showing a huge mechanical frog. There was also a scene of Master Shake sitting in the hair salon talking about things he hates. After Meatwad says "everyone likes dancing" it cuts to Shake getting his hair done and saying "..And I HATE dancing. It's one of my LEAST favorite things to do. Other things I hate are work, exercise, people, stupid people—".

This stealth broadcast was more refined than the "Rabbot - The Original Cut", found on the ATHF Volume 1 DVD and has never been aired since the premiere.

[edit] Trivia

In this episode the producers used a number of different backgrounds cut straight out of various Hanna-Barbera cartoons, such as the city background behind the Aqua Teens' and Carl's houses, which are from SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. The "Powerpuff Mall" is taken from the pilot episode of The Powerpuff Girls - "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins".
The hole the Rabbot creates is later on used as an escape hole for many monsters that Dr. Weird creates. Likewise, a similar hole can be seen on the Powerpuff Mall in every episode that features it sans the episode, "Super Spore".
Frylock sounds a bit robotic in this episode.
Shake's comment, "Dancing is forbidden" is used in the ending sequence since its debut.
Meatwad's room is radically different in this episode than when it is seen in all following episodes.