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Aqua Teen Hunger Force (ATHF), currently known as Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 (AUPS1), is an American animated television series shown on Cartoon Network's late night programing block, Adult Swim, as well as Teletoon, and G4 Canada in Canada. It is one of four spin-offs of Adult Swim's Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and as of 2011, the longest running original series on Adult Swim. It originally premiered in a block with three other original Williams Street series in December 2000, before Adult Swim officially debuted (the others were Sealab 2021, The Brak Show, and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law). The show is about the adventures of three anthropomorphic fast food items — Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad — and their next-door neighbor in the suburbs of southern New Jersey. While the series initially gave no explanation as to the characters' origins, the 2007 feature film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters revealed that they were created by an anthropomorphic watermelon slice as part of a plot to inherit their accumulated real estate holdings once the characters inevitably killed each other. Since its release, Aqua Teen Hunger Force has developed a cult following, and its popularity resulted in three different spin-offs: Spacecataz, Carl and Soul Quest Overdrive.