The main cast of Soul Quest Overdrive. From left to right: Mick, Mortimer, Bert, and Tammy.
Soul Quest Overdrive was a short-lived Spin-Off of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, featuring the three characters from the "Bible Fruit" episode re-imagined as sports equipment rather than fruit, and with a fourth character - an angry Scottish punk-rocker soccer ball - added in. Mick (Gavin McInnes), Mortimer (H. Jon Benjamin), Bert (David Cross), and Tammy (Kristen Schaal) are a group of Evangelical Christians who, to put it mildly, do not behave in a very Christian manner. Drug-addicted, sex-crazed, and prone to extremely impulsive and destructive behavior, the cast of Soul Quest Overdrive make the cast of Aqua Teen Hunger Force look positively sane and well-balanced by comparison.
Soul Quest Overdrive, after losing an online pilot contest to Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge in 2010, nonetheless received a series order for six episodes. Four episodes aired once at 4:00 AM on a Tuesday in 2011 with no promotion, and the show was never aired again.
Tropes:
- Adaptation Species Change: Bert, Mortimer and Tammy in this series go from being anthropomorphic fruits to anthropomorphic sports equipment, specifically changing from a banana, a mango and a tangerine respectively to a bowling pin, a catcher's mitt and a basketball respectively.
- Animate Inanimate Object: As stated above, Bert, Mortimer and Tammy are now anthropomorphic sports equipment instead of anthropomorphic fruits, specifically becoming a bowling pin, a catcher's mitt and a basketball respectively, in addition to adding a Scottish soccer ball named Mick to the group.
- Amusing Injuries: Frequently, with the episode "Pilot" revolving entirely around the characters suffering comedic injuries.
- Black Comedy: The show is drenched with extremely morbid and screwed-up jokes, most notably with the main characters casually mutilating themselves and paying no mind when other people get gruesomely killed.
- Black Comedy Rape: Bert gets violated by the old man in "Meals on Wheels".
- Bloody Hilarious: Like its sister series, many of the jokes are about people dying in highly over-the-top and disturbing ways.
- Canon Foreigner: Mick is exclusive to this show and lacks a Bible Fruit counterpart.
- Cephalothorax: Most of the main characters are essentially heads with arms and legs.
- Comedic Sociopathy: The entire show is about a bunch of sociopaths who do awful things all the time.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: A random bystander was killed like this twice in "Pilot".
- Cute and Psycho: The main characters are cute, cuddly, drug-addicted sociopaths.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The episode "Pilot" does not feature Mick. It includes only the redesigned Bible Fruit characters.
- Gross-Out Show: Lots of the humor of the show is composed of very gross off-color jokes.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: The entire cast, although calling them heroes is a total stretch of the word.
- Jerkass: All the main characters are bad people to some degree, but Bert is selfish, cruel and obnoxious to the point that he gives Master Shake a run for his money.
- Loser Protagonist: The entire cast are a bunch of assholes who are also total fuckups.
- Mister Seahorse: "Adoption" has a man determine whether the main characters are eligible to adopt a child and then give birth to an Enfant Terrible on the spot.
- Mobile-Suit Human: "Meals on Wheels" has the old man turn out to be a robot controlled by a small dog.
- Mythology Gag: "Meals on Wheels" shows a TV screen displaying Bert, Mortimer and Tammy in their original forms from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Bible Fruit".
- No Ending: Episodes frequently end abruptly and with little or no closure.
- Non-Mammalian Hair: In contrast to her Aqua Teens counterpart being a tangerine with a pair of leaves as her only plumage, Tammy in this series is a basketball with two blonde pigtails.
- Random Events Plot: Every episode has the characters go through a spontaneous series of events..
- Robosexual: In the episode "Golf", the gang end up on a planet of robot ex-wives who have their way with Bert and Mick.
- Self-Surgery: In "Meals on Wheels", Mick removes his ribcage (and the rest of the cast's ribcages, without asking them) so that they can "lick your own balls".
- The Sociopath: The entire cast, as how they were in their appearance in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Bible Fruit", are a bunch of selfish and abrasive assholes who are willing to harm other people to get what they want and have a disturbing lack of empathy for other people's suffering.
- Spin-Off: Soul Quest Overdrive was spun off from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Bible Fruit".
- Surreal Humor: Like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, this show relies heavily on bizarre, outlandish humor and situations.
- Time-Passage Beard: At the end of "Spaghetti", all four main characters (including Tammy) are shown to have grown beards after a one-year Time Skip.
- Toilet Humour: "Meals on Wheels" has Bert prepare food for senior citizens by pissing in a bowl of dog food.
- Word Salad Title: The title Soul Quest Overdrive, while not as convoluted as Aqua Teen Hunger Force, still doesn't make sense and doesn't reflect the content of the show in any single way.
- Vulgar Humor: Constantly in every single episode, with highly crude and obscene jokes packed every second.