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Last  night, Adult Swim's Friday Night Fix ran a few premiere episodes online, including the first new episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force since the parting of the Red Sea. In "Dirtfoot", Master Shake throws himself down a well - which mysteriously appears in the Aqua Teen's front yard - in order to get women to sleep with him. (It's a whole Jessica McClure thing, I guess.) Midway through the episode, it turns out that Shake's built himself an entire bachelor's alcove at the bottom, complete with hot tub, hydraulic elevator - and, oh yeah, a big dirtball with one foot and a predilection for batting for the home team.

Was it funny? On an Aqua Teen scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it a...oh, screw that. Yeah, it was funny, though not the pinnacle of laughs; it wasn't "Revenge of the Mooninites", "Bus of the Undead", or "Broodwich". Aqua Teen is a lot like Monty Python: you watch it, not because every episode is hilarious, but because it's a comic delight whenever they do manage to run on all cylinders. We'll see what the rest of the season has in store; for now, it's off to a promising start.

The episode will replay this Sunday, December 4th, at 12am.