Animation artist, director, producer, and scriptwriter Dave Willis is best known as the co-creator (with Matt Maiellaro) of the irreverent cable series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. This ongoing animated tale of three obstreperous, acid-mouthed fast-food entities -- the trouble-causing milkshake Master Shake; the goateed, bejeweled, science-obsessed box of French fries Frylock; and the slow-witted lump of flesh Meatwad (who was branded "not suitable for human consumption") -- immediately caught fire with the late-night cable crowd when it bowed in 2000 on the Turner Cartoon Network's after-hours "Adult Swim" block of programming, and ultimately yielded a big-screen adaptation of the series.
Willis and Maiellaro initially met and collaborated as scriptwriters and producers for Williams Street Entertainment on that company's equally irreverent series Space Ghost Coast to Coast. This half-animated, half-live-action program, which commenced in 1994 and wrapped in 2003, resurrected the Space Ghost superhero character from his eponymous Hanna-Barbera series of the 1960s and early '80s, but rewrote him as an egotistical, imbecilic, and delusional host of a talk show, in which he conducts outrageous interviews with real celebrities including Susan Powter, Bob Denver, and Adam West.
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