Gee Whiz

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Look up gee whiz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

“Gee Whiz”

Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode

Image:Athfepgeewhiz.png
Ted Nugent with a badger loincloth.

Episode no.

Season 3
Episode 4

Written by

Matt Maiellaro
Dave Willis

Guest stars

George Lowe (S&P video host)
Michael D. Hanks (Homeless man)
Ted Nugent (himself)

Production no.

304

Original airdate

August 22, 2004

Episode chronology
← Previous	Next →
"Remooned"	"eDork"

List of Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes

"Gee Whiz" is the forty-sixth episode of the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It was first broadcast on August 22, 2004.^[1] This episode was also called "The Nuge", then just "Nuge", before being named "Gee Whiz" a day before this episode aired.^[2] Ted Nugent provides the voice of himself for this episode. George Lowe and Michael D. Hanks also guest star.^[3]

1 Synopsis
- 1.1 Cold open
- 1.2 Plot
2 Production
3 Cultural references
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Synopsis

[edit] Cold open

In a continuation of Spacecataz, the Mooninites knock on the Plutonians' door and run away.

[edit] Plot

While being harassed by Meatwad to order him pizza from his computer, Frylock learns that people have been seeing the face of Jesus on a billboard. However, he can't actually say 'Jesus' because of Standards and Practices, and shows Meatwad a video explaining the process, which helps keep funny ideas away from the TV viewers. Thereafter, the character is referred to as "Gee Whiz" (who Frylock describes as looking like Ted Nugent).

The Aqua Teens decide to head to the billboard to see whether or not it's real. Meatwad prays for a "meat craver's" pizza with a thick crust and mild sauce and leaves money to pay for it, but Frylock says that Meatwad shouldn't believe in false prophets. Master Shake, who was hiding from them, tries to steal the money, but is thwarted by flaming arrows.

Back home, Frylock tries to explain to Meatwad the story of Jesus, but quickly finds out that a genetic impossibility has happened - Meatwad has become pregnant.

Shake and Frylock return to the billboard, where Shake tries to make Frylock see the face in the woodgrain of the shotgun on the billboard, but Frylock can't see it. A homeless man then jumps off the billboard, and when Shake uses Gee Whiz's name in vain, he is again pelted with flaming arrows.

After dealing with Meatwad's apparent pregnancy and his mood swings for a few days, the Aqua Teens and Carl throw Meatwad a baby shower, after which they decide to take a sonogram of the baby using a program Frylock stole off the Internet. They discover that Meatwad is filled with spider eggs, and shortly the spiders hatch and explode out of Meatwad's body, filling the entire house.

Ted Nugent approaches the Aqua Teens and reveals that it was HIS image that was seen on the billboard. He then shoots Carl, who states that he is a huge fan of his, with a flaming arrow, mistaking him for a "varmint". Carl's head explodes, and a rainbow rises out of his body. Frylock and Shake are thankful, because they would have been "Mutha'F***ing offended" if he bled.

[edit] Production

Dave Willis's inspiration to "impregnate" Meatwad came from his wife's pregnancy during the production and writing of the episode. The idea of people seeing Jesus on a billboard came from a 1991 billboard in Atlanta, Georgia of a forkful of spaghetti, which people believed to see the face of Jesus on.^[4]

Ted Nugent portrays a likeness of himself in this episode. They were recorded in a studio in Texas while Ted was there on a hunting trip. Nugent also suggested the badger loin cloth that his animated self wore.^[4]

The standards and practices video was derived from problems that Cartoon Network had with the first version of the episode, in particular the use of Jesus. George Lowe provided the voice of the video's host, which was animated twice when Lowe rejected the first version of his animated self for having a noticeable gap between his front teeth.^[4]

[edit] Cultural references

The Necronomicon, which Frylock pulls out while trying to teach Meatwad about Jesus, is a fictional book invented by H. P. Lovecraft for his horror novels, although the binding is more similar to the same book in the Evil Dead canon.
Meatwad makes a reference to Elvis Presley's death when Frylock says he "died on the C[ross]", Meatwad guesses commode, and assumes it's Elvis.