88-672: The second season of the animated television series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim . Season two started on May 25, 2003, with "Super Birthday Snake" and ended with "The Last One" on December 31, 2003, with a total of twenty four episodes. Aqua Teen Hunger Force is about the surreal adventures and antics of three anthropomorphic fast food items: Master Shake , Frylock , and Meatwad , who live together as roommates and frequently interact with their human next-door neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski in
176-422: A 20th-century work), and Leading Female Performance. Vanessa Claire Smith won Best Actress for her gender-bending portrayal of Alex, the music-loving teenage sociopath. This production utilised three separate video streams outputted to seven onstage video monitors – six 19-inch and one 40-inch. In order to preserve the first-person narrative of the book, a pre-recorded video stream of Alex, "your humble narrator",
264-495: A bookseller was arrested for selling the novel (although the charges were later dropped). In 1976, A Clockwork Orange was removed from an Aurora, Colorado high school because of "objectionable language". A year later in 1977 it was removed from high school classrooms in Westport, Massachusetts over similar concerns with "objectionable" language. In 1982, it was removed from two Anniston, Alabama libraries, later to be reinstated on
352-628: A camera system for it to show on the inside the collateral damage he's done to a horrified Frylock. Completely fed up with everything, Frylock abandons his friendship with Shake and moves to a condominium. Without Frylock's stabilizing influence and actions, the house falls into total chaos with Shake burning styrofoam, stockpiling chicken carcasses, abusing and dominating Meatwad. They both, along with Carl, get conjunctivitis in which their eyelids getting so puffy, they can barely see. Master Shake destroys another TV, which happens to be their last one. Shake and Meatwad then discover that Frylock had been cloning
440-424: A cross between an onion and a spider, who tries to scare people through use of a triple-head electric razor. The only thing it gets is ridicule from Shake and Frylock. Finally, the onion/spider reveals who he is: his name is Willie Nelson, and he lives in the attic. He's also looking for his mail, which he hasn't gotten for a while. Frylock admits to throwing said mail away, which angers Willie and causes him to throw
528-500: A device to torture Meatwad. Carl has installed an ultra high-tech security system that can be seen from space to keep the Aqua Teens out of his pool, but it instead attracts a pair of drunk alien fraternity brothers. It's Meatwad's birthday, and Master Shake can't stand " Happy Birthday To You ", so he and Geddy Lee write a new song called "Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary" and hire Zakk Wylde to play guitar on it. However, Shake
616-476: A former rival gang leader. They take Alex outside town, brutalise him, and abandon him there. Alex collapses at the door of an isolated cottage, realising too late that it is the one he and his droogs invaded in Part 1. The writer, F. Alexander, still lives here, but his wife has since died of what he believes to be injuries she sustained in the rape. He does not recognise Alex but gives him shelter and questions him about
704-414: A good job with a 401(k) and health insurance. The group decides to teach him English so he can communicate better. Unfortunately, the spore learns the hard way as Meatwad uses an "instructional tape" from Carl, which is a really a self-help tape for picking up women. He manages to learn English but with tainted grammar, incessant cursing, and being rude, much to Frylock's anger. The Aqua Teens participate in
792-465: A huge DVD Frylock loaded. The experiments works only for Shake, and when Frylock realizes he forgot to put sports on the colossal disc, he recruits Carl. Master Shake discovers a cavern where a cursed sandwich known as "the Broodwich" rests. Every time he ingests a bite of the sandwich, he is sent to a hellish dimension for a few seconds, and is warned by a disembodied voice and Frylock that anyone who eats
880-413: A productive member of society and start a family of his own while reflecting on the notion that his children could end up being just as destructive as he has been, if not more so. The book has three parts, each with seven chapters. Burgess has stated that the total of 21 chapters was an intentional nod to the age of 21 being recognised as a milestone in human maturation . The 21st chapter was omitted from
968-480: A restricted basis. However, each of these instances came after the release of Stanley Kubrick's popular 1971 film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange , itself the subject of much controversy after exposing a much larger part of the populace to the themes of the novel. The Sunday Telegraph review was positive, and described the book as "entertaining ... even profound". Kingsley Amis in The Observer acclaimed
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#17328697188891056-433: A slow-witted bruiser, who is the gang's muscle; Georgie, an ambitious second-in-command; and Pete, who mostly plays along as the droogs indulge their taste for "ultra-violence" (random, violent mayhem). Characterised as a sociopath and hardened juvenile delinquent, Alex is also intelligent, quick-witted, and enjoys classical music ; he is particularly fond of Beethoven , whom he calls "Lovely Ludwig Van". The droogs dress in
1144-601: A stage play titled A Clockwork Orange: A Play with Music . The play includes songs, written by Burgess, which are inspired by Beethoven and Nadsat slang. A manga anthology by Osamu Tezuka entitled Tokeijikake no Ringo (Clockwork Apple) was released in 1983. In 1988, a German adaptation of A Clockwork Orange at the intimate theatre of Bad Godesberg featured a musical score by the German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen which, combined with orchestral clips of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and "other dirty melodies" (so stated by
1232-482: A suburban neighborhood in South Jersey . In May 2015, this season became available on Hulu Plus. With twenty four episodes, season two is the longest season of the series. Episodes in season two were written and directed by Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro . Almost every episode in this season features a special guest appearance, including the season finale "The Last One" which features the return of several guests from
1320-484: A trivia game at a local bar as team versus the one and only but smart Wayne 'The Brain' McClane. The team loses again, Meatwad having put down Backstreet Boys on half their answers, Shake putting down even far wrong answers, and Frylock lacking knowledge in sports. Frylock, sick of losing to Wayne, decides to turn it all around for the next game by using the Ludovico technique on Shake and Meatwad to boost their knowledge via
1408-405: A turkey leg. When asked what it is, Carl begins to say, "This is your great-great-great...", and the turkeys take aim with their laser-guided socks. Just before the turkeys fire on Carl, he says, "You mother-" Master Shake nearly destroys the house by leaving garbage everywhere and planting land mines all over. He especially trashes Frylock's room, closing up the doorway with bricks and installed
1496-513: A wig, and it cost a substantial amount. Carl is later reading a magazine on how to pick up girls, when Shake suddenly appears in his room. Carl tries to remove the wig and place it upon a mannequin head, but finds it stuck to his head. Carl is distracted by Shake, who is rummaging through his belongings. When Carl leaves, his mannequin head grows fangs and devilish eyes. Carl wakes up to Shake standing in his room. Carl's hair has now changed color from brown to black, and has become much curlier. Shake
1584-403: Is a Thanksgiving invitation. Since they aren't legally US citizens yet, the Aqua Teens have Thanksgiving a week past the actual holiday and invite Carl over to share in the festivities (though Carl decides to have dinner outside for the purpose of having witnesses). However, the dinner is interrupted when a mechanical turkey bursts into the home and grabs Carl by the throat (before tossing him out
1672-456: Is a non-speaking cameo of Dr. Weird in the season seven episode, " One Hundred ", and later makes his final appearance in season eight episode " Allen Part One ". Steve is accompanied with Dr. Weird in "Allen Part One", and makes a non-speaking cameo in the season intro, but is never seen following "Last Dance for Napkin Lad." Frylock develops a spherical supercomputer / game console that he calls
1760-437: Is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me until I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation, and
1848-576: Is a writer working on a manuscript entitled A Clockwork Orange , and Alex contemptuously reads out a paragraph that states the novel's main theme before shredding the manuscript. At the Korova, Alex strikes Dim for his crude response to a woman's singing of an operatic passage, and strains within the gang become apparent. At home in his parents' flat, Alex plays classical music at top volume, which he describes as giving him orgasmic bliss before falling asleep. Alex feigns illness to his parents to stay out of school
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#17328697188891936-480: Is chosen to undergo an experimental behaviour modification treatment called the Ludovico Technique in exchange for having the remainder of his sentence commuted. The technique is a form of aversion therapy in which Alex is injected with nausea-inducing drugs while watching graphically violent films, eventually conditioning him to become severely ill at the mere thought of violence. As an unintended consequence,
2024-416: Is intended to be impenetrable to outsiders (especially eavesdropping policemen). Additionally, slang like appypolly loggy ("apology") seems to derive from school boy slang. This reflects Alex's age of 15. In the first edition of the book, no key was provided, and the reader was left to interpret the meaning from the context. In his appendix to the restored edition, Burgess explained that the slang would keep
2112-581: Is quick to anger Carl, and is then thrown out the window. As Carl leaves the room, his mannequin head speaks to a floating head with a clown wig on. They argue, and then part ways as Carl reenters the room. Later that day, Carl brings home a prostitute. The Aqua Teens follow him, and through the holes in Carl's wall, watches as Carl plays an air guitar solo, only to be interrupted by the Aqua Teens. As he steps outside to speak with them, his hair gains more mass and becomes red. After they argue, he proceeds to have sex with
2200-507: Is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex , narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian -influenced argot called " Nadsat ", which takes its name from the Russian suffix that is equivalent to '-teen' in English. According to Burgess,
2288-480: Is unable to pay anybody for their work on the song and Zakk is out for revenge. The Wisdom Cube, a cube from outer space, comes to the Aqua Teens' yard. It claims to have all of the wisdom in the universe, but it does little to reinforce its claim. Shake quickly warms up to him, but soon gets annoyed by his antics. Frylock asks him to solve a paradox, but all the Wisdom Cube says is "Yuh-huh". When they try to go out to
2376-570: The Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Baffler Meal", which introduced early rough-cut versions of the main characters on the Volume Two set, and commentaries and deleted scenes on select episodes on both sets. Both sets were later released in Region 4 by Madman Entertainment on November 7, 2007, and August 6, 2008, respectively. In Region 2 the Volume Two set was released on December 7, 2009, and
2464-688: The Volume Three set was released on January 25, 2010 The Volume Two set was also released as part of the Adult Swim in a Box set on October 27, 2009. Season two is also available on iTunes and the Xbox Live Marketplace . The second half of the seasons' release on iTunes and Xbox Live is labeled as season three. This season was also released on Amazon Video , in two parts under the labels "Volume Two" and "Volume Three". Aqua Teen Hunger Force Too Many Requests If you report this error to
2552-466: The "height of fashion", which consists of black tights with codpieces to protect themselves which included emblems (Alex's has a spider, Pete's has a hand, Georgie's has a fancy flower, and Dim's has the face of a clown), waist jackets without lapels and big shoulders, off-white cravats, and big boots. The droogs sit in their favourite hangout, the Korova Milk Bar, drinking "milk-plus" (milk laced with
2640-500: The American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed its editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the US version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex becoming his old, ultraviolent self again – an ending which the publisher insisted would be "more realistic" and appealing to a US audience. The film adaptation, directed by Stanley Kubrick , is based on the American edition of
2728-625: The Aqua Teens are gearing up for the holiday by dressing up...except Master Shake, of course. Frylock is a sailor on the Ship of the Damned, and Meatwad is the Incredible Plum (a take off on the Incredible Hulk, with Meatwad being painted purple). Shake, being the person he is, can't resist making fun of their costumes. While Frylock is finishing getting ready, Shake and Meatwad are met by a creature that's
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2816-485: The Aqua Teens' TV out a window. After making fun of Willie's methods (Shake calls the laid back spider "The Gayest Monster since Gay Came to Gaytown" and says he should star in a musical called " The Texas Chainsaw Mascara "), Shake decides to remake the laid back onion/spider into a killing machine, in the image of a serial killer. During the course of this, Shake has Willie assume the persona of Blood Feast Island Man, and try to scare Carl next door. After Willie fails for
2904-563: The Aqua Teens' TV, and they have no idea what's happening. Finally, Frylock investigates, and turns off the TV several times, only to have it continually turn back on. Frylock then unplugs it to see what will happen, and the Universal Remonster comes into view and plugs the TV back in. The Universal Remonster becomes Shake's personal plaything. Although the Remonster is meant for TV, Shake uses it as
2992-502: The Aqua Teens' house and throws Meatwad at Shake, who is flipping out because Willie didn't scare Carl. Shake and Willie decide to go with one final prank to scare Carl. Shake hooks up a huge electrical generator to Carl's door using jumper cables, while Willie is waiting with a cement mixer full of blood to dump on Carl once the electricity shocks him unconscious. However, the plan doesn't go as well as hoped, as Carl scares Shake with Meatwad's Incredible Plum mask, causing Shake to fall into
3080-665: The Canadian premiere of the play under the direction of Terry Costa. In 2002, Godlight Theatre Company presented the New York Premiere adaptation of A Clockwork Orange at Manhattan Theatre Source. The production went on to play at the SoHo Playhouse (2002), Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004), 59E59 Theaters (2005) and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2005). While at Edinburgh , the production received rave reviews from
3168-543: The Future (which Turkitron admits he took the form of in his first appearance). They also find it odd that he carries all his belongings in a plastic bag, including socks, which Turkitron claims are laser-guided weapons. When Turkitron passes out drunk from the wine (and after destroying the ATHF's television), Frylock ties up the turkey and explores his head with a blowtorch. After Frylock adjusts some crossed wires, Turkitron starts doing
3256-603: The Hunger Force's heads. When the Mooninites were asked how they would get it in there, the Mooninites planned (They planned on having the others do it) on giving the Hunger Force a Post-It note saying "Stay Still." Early on the episode, they decide to make a cool group name. The brownies suggest "Click-Click-Click-Click..." and they finally settle on the Rabbot's idea, "Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday..." Meanwhile,
3344-453: The Hustle. Master Shake enters with a newspaper (to show a pantyhose ad), but Frylock discovers an article that states that Turkitron is actually a defective toy called the "Hustlin' Tom Turkey" and that 5,000 were made. At that moment, a large number of turkey robots (perhaps the other 4,999 turkeys) show up at the ATHF's door. Shake directs them to Carl's house, who opens the door while munching on
3432-479: The OoGhiJ MIQtxxXA ( Klingon for "superior galactic intelligence"), which is accidentally sent back in time. It ends up in the hands of a caveman, Oog, who gains super-intelligence and longevity with the help of the computer, then takes out a patent on it. The Aqua Teens discover Travis, a spore that uses his "tongue" to penetrate Master Shake's skull and use his body to communicate. He has come to Earth to find
3520-750: The Plutonians, who were not invited because they were "teh s uck", have formed their own group consisting of them and a headless Jiggle Billy. The first eleven episodes from season two were released on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume Two DVD on July 20, 2004, along with two final episodes from season one. The remaining episodes were released on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume Three DVD on November 16, 2004. Both sets were distributed by Adult Swim and Warner Home Video and feature various special features including
3608-552: The TV, and chaos ensues when Shake takes advantage of money with the cloner. The Mooninites have gathered a bunch of their villain friends for one final push towards eliminating the Aqua Teens. However, they do not succeed, and much of their group is eliminated from the meeting. Only the Rabbot, the Mooninites, Mothmonsterman, Happy Time Harry, the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future, and Major Shake get to South Jersey . They plan to shove "The Screw of Damnation" into
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3696-446: The TVs with his cloner. and tired of doing so he plans to stop. He explains that if something is cloned too many times, the molecular structure begins to break down and unusual events will occur. After Meatwad makes a play for sympathy from Frylock, saying that he can't face the day without his TV, he decides to clone another TV. But true to Frylock's warning, odd things began to happen regarding
3784-479: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 112540976 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:41:58 GMT Ludovico technique A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novella by English writer Anthony Burgess , published in 1962. It
3872-483: The attic, presumably locking Willie in there forever (with a screaming Carl). Carl shows up at the Aqua Teen's door to reveal that his house is infested with termites. He mutters that he won't sign for any more packages with "Congo" written in blood. Meatwad hurries over to receive a termite of his own. Throughout all this, Carl seems to be level-headed, a trait that he does not usually portray. He reveals that he has gotten
3960-450: The book from seeming dated, and served to muffle "the raw response of pornography" from the acts of violence. The term "ultraviolence", referring to excessive or unjustified violence, was coined by Burgess in the book, which includes the phrase "do the ultra-violent". The term's association with aesthetic violence has led to its use in the media. The first major incident of censorship of A Clockwork Orange took place in 1973, when
4048-503: The book in three weeks. Burgess has offered several clarifications about the meaning and origin of its title: This title alludes to the protagonist's negative emotional responses to feelings of evil which prevent the exercise of his free will subsequent to the administration of the Ludovico Technique. To induce this conditioning, Alex is forced to watch scenes of violence on a screen that are systematically paired with negative physical stimulation. The negative physical stimulation takes
4136-428: The book, and is considered to be "badly flawed" by Burgess. Kubrick called Chapter 21 "an extra chapter" and claimed that he had not read the original version until he had virtually finished the screenplay and that he had never given serious consideration to using it. In Kubrick's opinion – as in the opinion of other readers, including the original American editor – the final chapter was unconvincing and inconsistent with
4224-579: The book. Kubrick's stance was unusual when compared to the standard Hollywood practice of producing films with the familiar tropes of resolving moral messages and good triumphing over evil before the film's end. A Clockwork Orange was written in Hove , then a senescent English seaside town. Burgess had arrived back in Britain after his stint abroad to see that much had changed. A youth culture had developed, based around coffee bars, pop music and teenage gangs. England
4312-438: The chicken overlords to the banning of taco pie to the claim that Carl is, in fact, a chicken mercenary sent from 9595 to stop the mission. All the while, Turkitron downs taco pie and wine, then attempts to find a time rift through which he will travel with the dinner turkey to a time before his killing. The turkey's mannerisms lead the ATHF to believe that this turkey is somehow related to the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from
4400-461: The conditioning he has undergone. Alexander and his colleagues, all highly critical of the government, plan to use Alex as a symbol of state brutality and thus prevent the incumbent government from being re-elected. Alex inadvertently reveals that he was the ringleader of the home invasion; he is removed from the cottage and locked in an upper-storey bedroom as a relentless barrage of classical music plays over speakers. He attempts suicide by leaping from
4488-446: The customer's drug of choice) to prepare for a night of ultra-violence. They assault a scholar walking home from the public library; rob a shop, leaving the owner and his wife bloodied and unconscious; beat up a beggar; then scuffle with a rival gang. Joyriding through the countryside in a stolen car, they break into an isolated cottage and terrorise the young couple living there, beating the husband and gang-raping his wife. The husband
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#17328697188894576-440: The editions published in the United States prior to 1986. In the introduction to the updated American text (these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that US audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost his taste for violence and resolves to turn his life around. At
4664-463: The entire sandwich will be trapped there. Note: The alternate dimension scenes are an acknowledged homage to Don Hertzfeldt , Hertzfeldt's films, and Rejected in particular. The Plutonians, aboard their spaceship, have successfully traveled "eons" through use of their Stargate -type device called the Fargate (Oglethorpe insists theirs is different, as he does not want to get sued). They state that
4752-409: The episode ends with Frylock yelling at Shake and Meatwad exclaiming that he has shattered his hip. Meatwad rolls over to Carl's with a message, which he is unable to remember due to his limited intelligence, so he roots around in his meat looking for the note he wrote as a reminder, pulling out his dolls Squirrelly and a decapitated Jiggle Billy in the process. Eventually he finds the right note, which
4840-902: The finished product's name to its current title. The book, narrated by Alex, contains many words in a slang argot which Burgess invented for the book, called Nadsat. It is a mix of modified Slavic words, Cockney rhyming slang and derived Russian (like baboochka ). For instance, these terms have the following meanings in Nadsat: droog (друг) = friend; moloko (молоко) = milk; gulliver (голова) = head; malchick (мальчик) or malchickiwick = boy; soomka (сумка) = sack or bag; Bog (Бог) = God; horrorshow (хорошо) = good; prestoopnick (преступник) = criminal; rooker (рука) = hand; cal (кал) = crap; veck (человек) = man or guy; litso (лицо) = face; malenky (маленький) = little; and so on. Some words Burgess invented himself or just adapted from existing languages. Compare Polari . One of Alex's doctors explains
4928-557: The first time, Shake succeeds in scaring Carl by throwing Meatwad at him. Shake's next try to make Willie scary is to have him go next door and threaten Carl with chainsaws, with him saying, "Nice head. I think I'll take it." This fails again, as Willie runs out of luck when his chainsaws become unplugged thanks to the extension cords powering them falling off. When this happens, Carl comes out angrily and asks "What!?" to which he can only reply "What are you doing here?" which Carl answers by saying "I live here, asshole!". Carl then goes back to
5016-464: The first two seasons, who have reprised their roles. This season has been made available on DVD , and other forms of home media, including on demand streaming. Every episode in this season was written and directed by series creators Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro , who have both written and directed every episode of the series. All episodes originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. This season
5104-463: The form of nausea and "feelings of terror", which are caused by an emetic medicine administered just before the presentation of the films. In its original drafts, Burgess used the working title 'The Ludovico Technique,' as he himself described in the foreword in the April 1995 publication. Along with removing the 21st chapter as insisted by his publisher in the original 1962 edition, he would also change
5192-464: The generator and get the blood poured on him. After going back up to the attic, Frylock informs Willie that he has some of his mail. After Willie urges him to bring it up, we find out the horrible truth about him- he is an actual killer who stores his bodies in the Aqua Teens' attic. Frylock and Shake are instantly horrified, and a late entering Carl gets his arms ripped off by Willie, who drinks his blood and calls it juice. The Aqua Teens run off and seal
5280-584: The hospital doctors have undone the effects of his conditioning. As photographers snap pictures, Alex daydreams of orgiastic violence and reflects, "I was cured all right." In the final chapter, Alex—now 18 years old and working for the nation's musical recording archives—finds himself halfheartedly preparing for another night of crime with a new gang (Len, Rick, and Bully). After a chance encounter with Pete, who has reformed and married, Alex finds himself taking less and less pleasure in acts of senseless violence. He begins contemplating giving up crime himself to become
5368-520: The institution purchased the documents in 1971. It is considered one of the most influential dystopian books. In 2022, the novel was included on the " Big Jubilee Read " list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II . Alex is a 15-year-old gang leader living in a near-future dystopian city. His friends ("droogs" in the novel's Anglo-Russian slang , " Nadsat ") and fellow gang members are Dim,
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#17328697188895456-427: The inventiveness of the language, but expressed unease at the violent subject matter. The Spectator praised Burgess's "extraordinary technical feat" but was uncomfortable with "a certain arbitrariness about the plot which is slightly irritating". New Statesman acclaimed Burgess for addressing "acutely and savagely the tendencies of our time" but called the book "a great strain to read". The Sunday Times review
5544-406: The language to a colleague as "odd bits of old rhyming slang; a bit of gypsy talk, too. But most of the roots are Slav propaganda. Subliminal penetration." Some words are not derived from anything, but merely easy to guess, e.g. "in-out, in-out" or "the old in-out" means sexual intercourse. Cutter , however, means "money", because "cutter" rhymes with "bread-and-butter"; this is rhyming slang, which
5632-478: The next day. Following an unexpected visit from P. R. Deltoid, his "post-corrective adviser", Alex visits a record store, where he meets two pre-teen girls. He invites them back to the flat, where he drugs and rapes them. That night after a nap, Alex finds his droogs in a mutinous mood, waiting downstairs in the torn-up and graffitied lobby. Georgie challenges Alex for leadership of the gang, demanding that they focus on higher-value targets in their robberies. Alex quells
5720-489: The novel as "cheerful horror", writing "Mr Burgess has written a fine farrago of outrageousness, one which incidentally suggests a view of juvenile violence I can't remember having met before". Malcolm Bradbury wrote "All of Mr Burgess's powers as a comic writer, which are considerable, have gone into the rich language of his inverted Utopia. If you can stomach the horrors, you'll enjoy the manner". Roald Dahl called it "a terrifying and marvellous book". Many reviewers praised
5808-546: The novel was a jeu d'esprit written in just three weeks. In 2005, A Clockwork Orange was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century . The original manuscript of the book has been kept at McMaster University 's William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections in Hamilton, Ontario , Canada since
5896-425: The now passed-out prostitute. At the Aqua Teen's house, an examination of Carl's hair reveals that he is infected with Clown DNA. The prostitute runs out screaming, and Carl follows with white skin dotted with purple blotches, a clown nose, huge feet, and a clown car. He goes to the Aqua Teen's house for help. Frylock attempts to cut Carl's hair off, but it only grows back and lands on Meatwad. Meatwad shortly develops
5984-439: The pool, Meatwad rolls back to listen to the cube's outrageous stories. Shake and Frylock discuss if Meatwad is smart enough to get out of the conversations, and in the middle of their conversation, Shake exclaims "For the love of all that's holy, there's another one! " After a small conversation, the second cube apologizes and claims he's the "real" Wisdom Cube and the original cube is his cousin: The Dumbassahedratron. Frylock asks
6072-568: The press while playing to sold-out audiences. The production was directed by Godlight's artistic director, Joe Tantalo. In 2003, Los Angeles director Brad Mays and the ARK Theatre Company staged a multi-media adaptation of A Clockwork Orange , which was named "Pick of the Week" by the LA Weekly and nominated for three of the 2004 LA Weekly Theater Awards : Direction, Revival Production (of
6160-422: The purpose of the gate is to steal cable from the Aqua Teens. The only problem is that they have no chance to change the channel, because they have no remote control. However, the Plutonians have created their own, something they call the Universal Remonster - a small remote control creature with fur. They plan to use him to control their programming, but he quickly escapes. The Universal Remonster begins to control
6248-421: The real cube the paradox, but the cube leaves him with a flaming bag that contains "the answer". After some convincing by Shake and the two cubes, he puts the bag out, only to have his fry covered in dog crap. The real cube tries to convince him if he wants "the final final answer" he should put it in his mouth. The cubes fly up, only to be killed by a passing helicopter. It's Halloween night in South Jersey , and
6336-415: The rebellion by slashing Dim's hand and fighting with Georgie, then soothes the gang by agreeing to Georgie's plan to rob the home of a wealthy elderly woman. Alex breaks in and knocks the woman unconscious, but when he hears sirens and opens the door to flee, Dim strikes him as revenge for the earlier fight. The gang abandons Alex on the front step to be arrested by the police; while in custody, he learns that
6424-443: The same may be said of Lawrence and Lady Chatterley's Lover ." A Clockwork Orange was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language books from 1923 to 2005. A 1965 film by Andy Warhol entitled Vinyl was an adaptation of Burgess's novel. The best known adaptation of the novella is the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick , with Malcolm McDowell as Alex. In 1987, Burgess published
6512-483: The scene are pleased with the results, and Alex is released from prison. Alex returns to his parents' flat, only to find that they are letting his room to a lodger. Now homeless, he wanders the streets and enters a public library, hoping to learn of a painless method for committing suicide. The old scholar whom Alex had assaulted in Part 1 finds him and beats him with the help of several friends. Two policemen come to Alex's rescue, but they turn out to be Dim and Billyboy,
6600-576: The script based on his novel, was disappointed. According to The Evening Standard , he called the score, written by Bono and The Edge of the rock group U2 , "neo-wallpaper". Burgess had originally worked alongside the director of the production, Ron Daniels, and envisioned a musical score that was entirely classical. Unhappy with the decision to abandon that score, he heavily criticised the band's experimental mix of hip hop , liturgical , and gothic music . Lise Hand of The Irish Independent reported The Edge as saying that Burgess's original conception
6688-418: The soundtrack to one of the films, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony , renders Alex unable to enjoy his beloved classical music as before. The technique's effectiveness is demonstrated to a group of VIPs, who watch as Alex collapses before a man who slaps him and abases himself before a scantily clad young woman. Although the prison chaplain accuses the state of stripping Alex of free will, the government officials on
6776-737: The subtitle), was released on the album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau . The track Hier kommt Alex became one of the band's signature songs. In February 1990, another musical version was produced at the Barbican Theatre in London by the Royal Shakespeare Company . Titled A Clockwork Orange: 2004 , it received mostly negative reviews, with John Peter of The Sunday Times of London calling it "only an intellectual Rocky Horror Show ", and John Gross of The Sunday Telegraph calling it "a clockwork lemon". Even Burgess himself, who wrote
6864-412: The symptoms that Carl had, and Carl walks out with a balloon resembling a shotgun, asking God to kill him. Frylock freezes him until he can find a cure. At the end of this episode (67 years later), an apocalyptic future is depicted, and Carl, being used as a coat rack (and still in a frozen state), is knocked over and presumably killed. The now over-the-hill Aqua Teens struggle to remember Carl's name, and
6952-405: The violent content of the novel "nauseated" him. In 1985, Burgess published Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence and while discussing Lady Chatterley's Lover in his biography, Burgess compared the notoriety of D. H. Lawrence 's novel with A Clockwork Orange : "We all suffer from the popular desire to make the known notorious. The book I am best known for, or only known for,
7040-443: The window when Frylock asks the turkey to put him down). The turkey says his name is Turkitron and claims to be sent from the year 9595 to save the great-great-great-great grandfather of the turkey "Goblox," who is supposed to save the turkeys from the chicken overlords. Unfortunately, as Frylock points out, the turkey is already dead and about to be served as food. Turkitron then tells a series of long tales about subjects ranging from
7128-422: The window. Alex wakes up in a hospital, where he is courted by government officials, anxious to counter the bad publicity created by his suicide attempt. He is informed that F. Alexander has been "put away" for Alex's protection and his own. Alex is offered a well-paying job if he agrees to side with the government once discharged. A round of tests reveals that his old violent impulses have returned, indicating that
7216-489: The woman has died from her injuries. Alex is convicted of murder and sentenced to 14 years in prison. His parents visit one day to inform him that Georgie has been killed in a botched robbery. Two years into his term, he has obtained a job in one of the prison chapels, playing music on the stereo to accompany the Sunday Christian services . After his fellow cellmates blame him for beating a troublesome cellmate to death, he
7304-409: The word "Super" in the title. Many episodes from this season include the word "the" in the title, including one episode that is simply titled "The". Season Two is the last season to feature cold openings with Dr. Weird and Steve. After "The Cloning", Dr. Weird and Steve do not return until the 2007 movie, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters . After the movie, the only mention of them
7392-557: Was "a score written by a novelist rather than a songwriter". Calling it "meaningless glitz", Jane Edwardes of 20/20 magazine said that watching this production was "like being invited to an expensive French Restaurant – and being served with a Big Mac ." In 1994, Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater put on a production of A Clockwork Orange directed by Terry Kinney . The American premiere of novelist Anthony Burgess's own adaptation of his A Clockwork Orange starred K. Todd Freeman as Alex. In 2001, UNI Theatre (Mississauga, Ontario) presented
7480-473: Was gripped by fears over juvenile delinquency . Burgess stated that the novel's inspiration was his first wife Lynne's beating by a gang of drunk American servicemen stationed in England during World War II . She subsequently miscarried. In its investigation of free will, the book's target is ostensibly the concept of behaviourism , pioneered by such figures as B. F. Skinner . Burgess later stated that he wrote
7568-417: Was negative, and described the book as "a very ordinary, brutal and psychologically shallow story". The Times also reviewed the book negatively, describing it as "a somewhat clumsy experiment with science fiction [with] clumsy cliches about juvenile delinquency". The violence was criticised as "unconvincing in detail". Burgess dismissed A Clockwork Orange as "too didactic to be artistic". He said that
7656-563: Was one of the original seasons branded under the Aqua Teen Hunger Force title before Willis and Maiellaro started using a different alternative title for each season in 2011. As with most seasons, several episodes originally aired outside of their production order. With a total of twenty four episodes, Season Two is the longest season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force . The first ten episodes in Season Two (except for "The Meat Zone") feature
7744-616: Was projected onto the 40-inch monitor, thereby freeing the onstage character during passages which would have been awkward or impossible to sustain in the breaking of the fourth wall. An adaptation of the work, based on the original novel, the film and Burgess's own stage version, was performed by the SiLo Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand in early 2007. In 2021, the International Anthony Burgess Foundation premiered
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