ATHF also features a Power Trio like that. Frylock has telekinetic abilities. Meatwad is a shapeshifter, but can only do a handful of shapes and is dumber than sin. And Shake.... is just about the laziest, most vainglorious creature on the universe. And they're antagonized by a pair of aliens called the Mooninites. Originally, the fought crime, but now they just sort of... do stuff.
ATHF was intended to be, on a slightly less obvious level than Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law or Sealab 2021, adult swim taking the piss out of an old, horrible Hanna-Barbera show. That would at least explain were the "Teen" and the "Force" in the show's name came from.
- The four of them were killed in an explosion at a fast food restaurant, and doomed to ironic punishment forever! Semi-Competent manager Frylock, layout Mastershake and newly employed school drop-out Meatwad were made to take the forms of the awful food they served. Carl, who had just pulled up in his new car to order to go was cursed to come back as the most horrific thing in existence.....himself....
- Shinji is Frylock, Gendo is Master Shake, Meatwad...doesn't have a brain because Shinji forgot about it. And Carl is just a not-so-innocent, constantly victimized bystander.
- Oh, and the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past is clearly an Angel.
- Carl is Toji and Meatwad is Kensuke, what else?
- Oh, and the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past is clearly an Angel.
- The Mooninites? Rei and Asuka. Your choice which is which.
- How is it not obvious to the previous poster that Rei is Ignignokt and Asuka is Err?
- Also, does this mean the Plutonians are Touji and Kensuke (Emory and Oglethorpe, respectively)?
- And where's Misato in all this?
- She and Ritsuko are the sirens holding John Kruk (Kaji) hostage.
- ...And Dr. Weird is Keel Lorenz. It all fits!
- This would explain why the cops stop answering his calls.
- And how all the characters can die and come back again with no other explanation.
- Big hole there. Frylock moves out in one episode and is discriminated against by a completely different person because he's a flying box of french fries.
- That guy is a figment of Carl's imagination. Just because he wasn't in that scenario, doesn't mean he couldn't dream it up.
- He would believe (correctly) that everyone else other than him would consider them freaks.
- The Live Action episode states the the characters are based off of the "writer's" actual life. His (human) landlord is Frylock, he's Shake, an exercise ball is Meatwad, Carl is a friend, and Dr. Wierd owns a fun center.
- That guy is a figment of Carl's imagination. Just because he wasn't in that scenario, doesn't mean he couldn't dream it up.
- Carl claims to "work from the home". Even if that's not part of the delusion, everything but the "unemployed" bit can still be true.
- Jossed: the final episode is titled "The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We Mean It)".
- That was not the real finale (the real one was uploaded 3 days afterwards on the AS website). Still jossed all the same, as it was named "The Greatest Story Ever Told"
- Still can't explain why the hell there are other humans in the show. Carl/Finn couldn't have made them, Carl stated the he has no children conceived because he had no sex in his life.
- Dr. Weird could've made Steve, but his experiment failed and more humans were made.
- Kinda both jossed and confirmed? Last One Forever and Ever, etc. had a proper Grand Finaleish ending, but then Greatest Story came out and fit this WMG more.