Matt Maiellaro

Matthew Gerard Maiellaro (Born August 17, 1966) is the co-creator and writer of the cult television animated Adult Swim shows, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Perfect Hair Forever, and creator of 12 Oz. Mouse. He is a native of Pensacola, Florida, and a graduate of Pensacola Catholic High School. Prior to his work on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Maiellaro was a producer and writer for Space Ghost Coast to Coast since the show's inception in 1994. Maiellaro met friend and future writing partner, Dave Willis when Willis came on as a staff writer in 1995. The two have since made a few short independent films together, most notably the live-action short, A Day Off, which follows a Michael Myers puppet and documents what he does on his day off from murder. In 2000, Maiellaro and Willis created a spin-off from Space Ghost Coast to Coast -- Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Seven years later, Maiellaro and Willis released a full-length Aqua Teen Hunger Force feature film on April 13, 2007. His writing is characterized by surreal humour and at times, a total disregard for traditional forms of storytelling. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Maiellaro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Pastacolypse

A billionaire celebrity chef seeks revenge on all mankind when a global ban on gluten destroys his life. In the process, Alfredo Manicotti is disfigured into a hideous creature, half-man, half-macaroni, and leads a pasta uprising that threatens all of humanity. It’s up to his spoiled heiress daughter, the angel-haired Emma, to make the ultimate sacrifice and save the world from the impending pastacolypse.

Release Date: 2023-05-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 7

Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm

Everyone’s favorite rascals, the Aqua Teens, and everyone’s favorite perverted neighbor, Carl, split up then get back together to fight everyone’s favorite corporate overlord, Amazin, led by everyone’s favorite tech mogul, Neil, and his trusty scientist sidekick, Elmer.

Release Date: 2022-10-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Err / Markula (voice)

Vote Count: 35

Terror Phone III: R3-D1AL3D

A film, which is also about the production of itself, in which a cellular phone purchase begins the path of recovery for a man whose life is about to turn around.

Release Date: 2011-10-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Soul Quest Overdrive

Release Date: 2011-05-24

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 3

Terror Phone II: The Legend of Rakenstein

A film, which is also about the production of itself, in which a man buys a home for himself that comes with an ordinary looking rake.

Release Date: 2010-06-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Terror Phone

A film, which is also about the production of itself, in which a mysterious phone is given to a man to fund a high school football team.

Release Date: 2008-12-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

12 oz. Mouse: The Movie

Just when you think the world around you is what it is; it isn't. Walk with Mouse Fitzgerald through his murky past and even murkier present, for clues that will unlock the future: his and yours. Enjoy this television series as it has never been seen before: as a seamless, flawless movie, with character development and a story arc that rivals Citizen Kane.

Release Date: 2008-02-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Mouse Fitzgerald / CJ Muff / Human Citizens

Vote Count: 1

Stiff

Mulvaney and Naphtlene are partners. He managed to escape from hell (Mulvaney), and she's straight from heaven (Naphtlene). Together they are an entertaining pair of "Midnight Meat Mop Detectives," or in terms that are easier to understand...demon hunters.

Release Date: 2007-10-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Eighty Minutes of a Whole Nother Movie

A whole nother 80 minute plot comprised of unused animations from Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters.

Release Date: 2007-08-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Meatwad /Carl / Ignignokt / Video Game Voice (voice)

Vote Count: 3

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

An action epic that explores the origins of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (better known as Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad,) who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment.

Release Date: 2007-04-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Err / Cybernetic Ghost / Satan (voice)

Vote Count: 122

Raydon

After an inspection, a couple finds out their new home may have come with an unintended addition.

Release Date: 2005-12-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Inspector

Squidbillies

Squidbillies is an animated television series about the Cuylers, an impoverished family of anthropomorphic hillbilly mud squids living in the Appalachian region of Georgia's mountains. The show is produced by Williams Street Studios for the Adult Swim programming block of Cartoon Network and premiered on October 16, 2005. It is written by Dave Willis, co-creator of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Jim Fortier, previously of The Brak Show, both of whom worked on the Adult Swim series Space Ghost Coast to Coast. The animation is done by Awesome Incorporated, with background design by Ben Prisk.

Release Date: 2005-10-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 71

12 oz. Mouse

12 oz. Mouse revolves around Mouse Fitzgerald, nicknamed "Fitz", an alcoholic mouse who performs odd jobs so he can buy more beer. Together with his chinchilla companion Skillet, Fitz begins to recover suppressed memories that he once had a wife and a child who have now vanished. This leads him to seek answers about his past and the shadowy forces that seem to be manipulating his world.

Release Date: 2005-06-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Mouse Fitzgerald (voice)

Episode Count: 31

Vote Count: 25

Perfect Hair Forever

Perfect Hair Forever is an American comedy animated television series which is largely a parody of anime. It was created and produced by Williams Street, and aired on Adult Swim and Teletoon at Night in the US and Canada respectively. Perfect Hair Forever premiered with "Perfect Hair Forever" on November 7, 2004, and ended with "Return to Balding Victory" on April 1, 2007; with a total of seven episodes.

Release Date: 2004-11-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Rod (voice) / Uncle Grandfather (voice)

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 6

Anime Talk Show

Anime Talk Show (also known as Adult Swim Brain Trust) is an animated television special that aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on November 4, 2004. Anime Talk Show revolved around the unofficial pilot for Squidbillies, however many people consider it the very last episode of Space Ghost, as it follows exactly the same format of the show, with Space Ghost interviewing guests. The short was dubbed "Anime Talk Show" due to it following the premiere of Perfect Hair Forever, which aired in place of what was supposed to have been the premiere of Squidbillies.

Release Date: 2004-11-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future (voice)

Vote Count: 1

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

The surreal adventures of three anthropomorphic fast food items: Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad, and their human nextdoor neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski.

Release Date: 2000-12-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 95

Vote Count: 204

Sealab 2021

The year is 2021. Deep below the ocean's surface, looms a vast, magnificently high-tech compound: Sealab. A multi-national scientific station with an annual budget in the trillions, manned by a motley collection of malcontents and screw-ups who were unfit for work in the private sector. They really don't get any research done, but instead spend their time bickering among themselves or just plain goofing off. The crew have manipulated their luckless leader, Captain Murphy, into submission, and are content to ride the government clock, raking in fat, hazardous-duty paychecks.

Release Date: 2000-12-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 82

A Space Ghost Christmas

Space Ghost, Zorak, Moltar, and the Council of Doom unite for the festive season with altered variations of Christmas classics.

Release Date: 1994-12-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

A cartoon superhero interacts with live guests via his television set in this parody talk show based on 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost.

Release Date: 1994-04-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 96

Basket Case 3: The Progeny

Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father. But not everything is joyous as the once tight knit brothers no longer seem to trust each other.

Release Date: 1992-02-21

Department: Directing

Job: Second Assistant Director

Vote Count: 112

12 oz. Mouse: The Movie

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Mouse Fitzgerald (voice)

Spacecataz

The intergalactic pranks and battles of Mooninites, Ignignokt and Err, and the Plutonians, Oglethorpe, and Emory,

Department: Creator

Job: Creator