Anna Daniels
Appearing throughout the run of Aqua Teen were a couple of would-be villains named Ignignokt and Err. They’re Mooninites, pixelated and oddly-shaped creatures who look like old-school video game characters. “I had read an article a long time ago about how E.T., the Atari video game, didn’t sell as well as they’d hoped, and apparently they buried almost a million of these cartridges in the desert,” Aqua Teen Hunger Force co-creator Matt Maiellaro told Flak. “And we were thinking: ‘What if [the house where the show is set] was built on the burial ground of this video game?” It turned out to be too complicated of a story to tell in an 11-minute episode, so instead, the writers made them natives of the moon. “And they think they’re beyond our culture, but literally they’re about 18 years behind us?”
The show also introduced a couple of other space hostiles called the Plutonians, blobby trees from Pluto (or beyond) named Oglethorpe and Emory. In 2004, Aqua Teen Hunger Force paired up the two extraterrestrial groups into a pilot for a spinoff called Spacecataz. Adult Swim turned down the opportunity to make it into a full series, so producers took the episode, chopped it into small chunks, and used them as little sketches inside of Aqua Teen episodes.
Written by: Looper
