"Superheroes" isn't really the right word to describe this trio of fast-food-(sometimes)crime-fighters-on-welfare. Frylock is a well-intentioned computer nerd, while Meatwad is sort of the opposite: a gullible, somewhat demanding, childish, um..., wad of meat. Master Shake is pretty much just an asshole. But the team has found it's way into our hearts, fifteen minutes at a time. Adam Liebling caught up with the creators of Adult Swim's most popular show.

al: How long have you two been working together?
mm: Since '98?
dw: Yeah, six years.

al: And what do you hate most about each other?
[Silence.]
dw: Matt, you go first.
mm: I don't know...
dw: I hate his girlfriend.
mm: I hate his wife. I hate their baby, and they haven't even had it yet.
dw: [laughs]
mm: We get along pretty well. It's unusual.

al: Are you two bonded by anything?
mm: A murder that happened several years ago...
dw: We're not supposed to talk about that!!
mm: We have the teeth...
dw: ...the rest is buried in the desert.

al: Uh..
mm: We might be bonded by our ridiculous sense of humor and by what we think is funny. But probably not. We're probably bonded by our hatred of everyone else. We're bonded in bile.

al: How do you guys write so many episodes in such a short period of time?
dw: No supervision! (Laughs) We're just in a groove. We've worked together for a number of years, and we can complete each other's sentences in a lot of ways. Plus we don't edit ourselves. We use everything. We think everything is golden that comes out of our mouths. We don't evaluate anything to see if it could possibly be any better.

al: No focus groups or anything?
mm: Ah, hell no! (laughs) No focus groups. No concern.
dw: Complete disregard. (Laughs).

al: So you guys pretend to write everything, but I heard that you couldn't take this call yesterday because you were in a "writer's meeting." Ghostwriters?
dw: No, we write everything on Aqua Teen. But we're doing Squidbillies with... Squidbillies is kind of a supergroup, like Asia. We've got guys from Aqua Teen, the Brak Show, Space Ghost... we're all working on it together.

al: Can you tell me anything about Squidbillies?
dw: It's hillbilly squids living in the north Georgia mountains, and, uhh, dealing with evolution in modern times.

al: You guys are going to get so much hate mail.
mm: You think?
dw: Why?

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