CARL (AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE)

'Carl Brutananadilewski' (born February 19 1961^[1]) is a fictional character in the animated series ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force''. He lives at 328 Fairley Street, South Jersey, New Jersey,^[1] next door to Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad. He is voiced by Dave Willis.
Carl is balding and overweight, and bears an unflattering resemblance to actor Dennis Franz. He dresses casually, usually wearing a "gold" chain, stained wifebeater shirt, pocketless sweatpants, and green flip-flops. Carl has a collection of pornography, poor self-esteem, questionable hygiene, and dubious rapport with the opposite sex.^[3] The show has never addressed Carl's employment status beyond his reference to "busting his ass for 20 hours a week" and his claim to "work out of the home".^[4] He has worked at a styrofoam peanut factory in high school,^[5] as well as a job making carpet when he was 8, but no episode shows him gainfully employed. Merl once commented that he didn't look like he had any money, a job, or even a wallet. He graduated high school in 1981, meaning that he turned twenty his senior year, though it may also imply that either he was enrolled in school late, or was held back three grades. It has been revealed that he was raised by a neglectful father who gave him carpet samples for Christmas, which they would later eat as Christmas dinner.^[6] It has been hinted that he may have ties to the organ black market, as he once successfully (and very likely illegally) obtained a human brain for Meatwad.^[7] He also has friends with similarly illegal jobs, including one named Terry, an ex-convict on parole who performs illegal back-alley plastic surgery; in the episode "Super Model" he brings Shake to Terry for extensive plastic surgery in exchange for Carl receiving a 10% finder's fee (and making Shake and Meatwad swear they never saw him).
A running gag on Aqua Teen Hunger Force is the destruction of Carl's possessions. Carl's home has been routinely damaged or destroyed, having been melted, whisked off by the Leprechauns' rainbow-making machine, infested by thousands of termites from the Congo, burned down three times, first when Meatwad played with matches, then again from bad wiring when Shake diverted all Carl's electricity to his house, and a third time by the Mooninites because they didn't see anything in Carl's house they wanted and decided to burn it down so nobody else could have it, wrapped in silk, had a hole shot through the wall and the roof by the OoGhiJ MIQtxxXA, infested with www.yzzerdd.com's pop-ups, urinated upon by Travis Of The Cosmos, having the front door destroyed by Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future, smeared in horse manure with the numbers 1 through 3 for a fake Olympic medalist ceremony, scratched with symbols in a 'note' from Meatwad, licked by Shake on the front doorknob, crushed by two giant egg creatures, smashed by a Monster Truck belonging to Mr. Wongburger's employees, and covered in fliers for Meatwad's tour. Carl has an above-ground swimming pool in his backyard, in which the Aqua Teens often swim (uninvited and undesired). The pool has been the site of a suicide by Shake, mysteriously (to Carl) destroyed when Shake lost his PDA (Shake blew it up in the middle of the night), used by Shake in an attempt to do the dishes (also involving a car battery and dog shampoo), a storehouse of elfin blood, Shake's toilet (he claims to have urinated in it many, many times), and a depository in which the genetically-engineered Handbanana and Spaghetti were created. The pool seems to have been neglected as of late; episodes from season four show the pool as littered with leaves, with a thick layer of green scum afloat the water. Carl also has a red Dodge Stealth detailed with the graphics 2 Wycked, which has been destroyed many times over the course of the show. In fact, Carl's car was the first of his possessions to ever be destroyed, having been crushed by the Rabbot in the pilot episode. It has also been dropped onto the roof of Carl's house, stolen by Shake to be raced in a demolition derby and returned damaged, vandalized twice by the Mooninites, first when they scratched "DA MOON RULEZ #1" on it with a key, and a second time when they stole his hypno-wheels and spray painted expletives all over it, blown up by the remains of the fire that burned down his house when Meatwad played with matches, stolen by a Chechnyan mail-order bride, washed by Carl and Meatwad over and over until they washed the paint off, stolen and wrecked by Major Shake (the replicant sent by the Plutonians), smashed by Carl himself in rage while two giant egg creatures crushed his house, stolen by Shake which got him another D.U.I., used by Shake in a suicide attempt, and vandalized by the Mooninites. Carl's dresser drawer has also been destroyed once, having been set on fire by Meatwad under the influence of "Dirty White Boy" from the Foreigner belt. In the same episode, Frylock ripped Carl's azalea bushes out of his garden, thinking they were the Mooninites due to the effects of "Double Vision" that the Mooninites had used on him. They were also taken out of Carl's garden and glues together as the Aqua Teens' Christmas tree before being lit on fire, and clipped by the Cybernetic Ghost Of Christmas Past From The Future. Strangely, all of his belongings are undamaged in the next episode.
The Boston Phoenix named him the 10th most unsexy man of 2007 [1].

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Personality

References

Personality

Carl seems to be a blatant stereotype of Polish-Americans due to his last name and physical appearance. He is a die-hard New York Giants fan (as referenced by a jersey he owns, a football helmet-lamp that is blue with the #56 on it, representing the number of Hall of Famer and Giants legend Lawrence Taylor, and a picture of Bill Parcells hanging in his living room). He has said that the day the Giants won the Super Bowl in January 27, 1991 was the greatest day of his life, but felt betrayed by Bart Oates when he left for the Niners in 1994, and, in retribution, ripped his poster.^[8] His devotion to the Giants is unusual, as South Jersey is generally considered a stronghold of the rival Philadelphia Eagles. Carl is also a fan of the New York Mets and has a Mike Piazza poster in his house. He is also a fan of the New Jersey Nets and New Jersey Devils.
Carl is a fan of Arena rock and is known to have attended concerts of Styx, Foreigner, Chicago, Bryan Adams, and Loverboy in the mid-80's.^[9] His favorite song is "More Than A Feeling" by Boston. In this vein, Carl wrote a song called "I Wanna Rock Your Body ('Til the Break of Dawn)," which he has only played via air guitar for a hooker. The Foreigner belt (an artifact that grants the wearer superpowers based on Foreigner lyrics) attained by the Mooninites was "from the '83 tour", according to Carl, who recalls the time during that tour when he fondled a passed-out girl when the Foreigner song "Urgent" was playing in the background, and to this day, whenever he hears the song on the radio, he thinks back to that girl's breasts all covered in vomit. He has also revealed that he owns a decades-old Ted Nugent "Cat Scratch Fever" loincloth worn on laundry days.^[10]
Carl considers the Aqua Teens freaks, and generally tries to avoid contact with them; several episodes have shown Carl making an attempt to sell his home (Even when he does sell his home, he always moves back in in the next episode.) At times, however, he seems to relate to Master Shake and partners with him in one of Shake's get-rich-quick schemes. In one episode he tags along with Meatwad because Meatwad had been playing the song "I Want Candy" by MC Pee Pants for 3 days straight and the song subliminally affected Carl. They dubiously acquired some chocolate bunnies after being subjected to the non-stop song barrage (he claimed he got a good deal at a dumpster, but quickly substituted dumpster for warehouse). Carl has called the members of the Aqua Teen Hunger force by various nicknames, including: Master Shake, "Cup" or "Shakeman" (although more often than not he calls him Shake, and in the pilot he called him Mr. Food Monster); Frylock, "Fryman"; and Meatwad, "Meatman." In his attempts to keep the Aqua Teens away from him, he has called the police (he said they eventually stopped taking his calls long ago),^[11] attempted to take out a restraining order,^[12] surrounded his house with lasers,^[13] and pulled a gun on Master Shake (which then resulted in the gun going off in Carl's hand while he was checking the barrel to make sure that it was loaded and shooting himself in his foot).^[14] Carl is often assaulted, injured, killed and has other misfortunes due to the various schemes of the Aqua Teens. One time he was even raped by a mutant dog. But perhaps the most misfortunate incident was in "Total Re-Carl", where Frylock got Carl to test out an environmentally friendly toilet that worked like a vacuum. Unfortunately, it destroyed his body, leaving only his head and after many attempts to construct an artificial body for him, Carl ended up having his head connected to a remote-controlled dump truck at the end of the episode. Carl has died more times than any other character on the show combined (he has been killed in every way from spontaneous combustion to being crushed by a giant chicken,) yet, just like his possessions, he invariably reappears in the next episode completely unharmed. Carl is also found to have crabs in the third season. After this is revealed, he is quite open about his crabs in several subsequent episodes.

References

1. Scene in "Remooned": Meatwad shows Carl's drivers license at the convenience store.
2. Scene in "Remooned": Meatwad shows Carl's drivers license at the convenience store.
3. Spoken dialog in "Super Bowl": 'Carl': "I've never had consensual sex without money involved."
4. Spoken dialog in "Rabbot".
5. Spoken dialog in "Moonajuana".
6. Scene in "Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future".
7. Spoken dialog in "Dumber Days".
8. Spoken dialog in "Bart Oates".
9. Spoken dialog in "Revenge of the Mooninites"
10. Spoken dialog from "Gee Whiz".
11. Spoken dialog in "Kidney Car".
12. Spoken dialog in "The Cubing"
13. Scene in "Frat Aliens".
14. Scene in "Super Squatter".