Venture Bros.

I'm still giggling like crazy. I loved the bump that said Adult Swim wanted Hammer and Publick to drop Doc Venture because he was too mean, and trim the show down to 15 minutes back after the pilot.

I'm looking forward to next week's episode. I liked the season premiere. Looks like repeated memory wipes are not a good idea. Also, next episode is a Phantom Limb episode.

I missed this weeks episode and my attempts to catch a rerun were cut short by Adult Swim's sucktastic scheduling lies. I wanted Venture Brothers, instead I got some sitcom with a bunch of people wearing ski-masks. >=(

Anyone know where I can watch it online?

edited 13th Sep '10 11:33:43 AM by Anaheyla

It probably won't be up for a couple weeks, but I watched the first half of the season after I missed it on TV at ninjavideo.

Also, I freaking love Pete White and Billy.

"Best ten million bucks we ever spent!"

I lol'd at The Stinger.

Wait, Nathan Fillion is doing voice work for the show?

It isn't yet, but it'll probably be up on the adult swim website soon. They're usually pretty good at putting up new episodes.

Ahaha the henchmen were fantastic in this episode.

"You guys get paid?"

When you say jump they say "What shark?"

Hehehe.

I hope they keep up with the Hank and Dean going to college storyline.

Hank seems to have taken a page from Rick Jones. After being the sidekick to a guy who causes hyperviolence every other day he seems to have picked up a ton of skills just to stay alive.

Okay, I've been puzzling it over, but I still can't figure it out: what, exactly, was the point of the piece of poop in the Council of Thirteen's room?

An immature prank by Phantom Limb, who believes it is a masterful strike.

He is crazy now. It probably seemed like a sensible idea at the time.

HENCHMAN NUMBER ONE

IS DEAD.

Well, that was an interesting episode. Doc Venture tied up, pleading with a teady bear, and Zeus being a fake made up by some guy thinking he was teaching Heroes/Villains a lesson about treating their mooks/sidekicks well. I HOPE I got the spoiler tag correct, otherwise I can see plenty of folks booing me.

I think this is easily my favorite episode of the season so far. I mean, there were some great ones before now, but this, this just takes the cake, rides off with it on a motorcycle while fighting ninja-cowboys riding acid-spitting flying sharks, jumps the motorcycle over the Grand Canyon, throws the cake into a giant helicopter with fifty thousand missiles, jumps off the motorcycle in midair to land on the lip of the canyon, and does an unflinching walk away from the helicopter which just exploded because the cake was actually a bomb.

In one of the season two commentaries, Jackson and Doc mention wish lists they keep of crazy things they want to work into the season. The example that brought this up was Doc Venture being stuck in a wall the entire season premiere. I get the feeling that this episode took out at least half of their list by itself. I mean, where do I even start?

• SHORELEAVE. God. DAMN. I love me some Shoreleave, and he was dishing it out like mad in his first scene.
• Brock and Hunter having and entire conversation about a stripper's saggy breasts.
• Doc Venture naked, tied to a chair, and trying to use drugs and sex to bargain with a teddy bear because his family did this to him to save his ego. And they even manage to pull a touching moment out of it!
• Evil Professor Impossible. Professor Impossible is so much better as a villain, he's just so much more alive and fun.
• Henchman #1.
• Brock, Hunter, Trayster, Phantom Limb, Professor Impossible, the two-headed Councilman of 13, and a slew of other heroes and villains sitting around a table in their underwear accomplishing absolutely nothing. Except Trayster. Because he's SPECIAL!
• Topanga Lawrence.
• Watch and Ward and the injection machine. Blood!
• Henchman 21 and Shoreleave team up to save the day.

I also like how Henchman 1 was still wearing his henchman's cowl and mask under his costume.

Edit: Bah, messed up one spoiler tag.

edited 27th Sep '10 4:08:08 AM by Wryte

I didn't follow Rusty's logic about why they should have killed Hank instead of Dean.

Well, first of all, he said that he knew they weren't actually going to kill either one of them; he knows he's dealing with amateurs here. But if anything were to happen (torture or whatever), he believes that Hank is the one that can take it, while Dean is the one who needs to be sheltered. Does that make any sense? That's what I gathered from watching it and reading our page on the series.

Makes sense. Dean is a bit of a... pussy.

Yeah, that makes sense. Didn't look like Hank liked it thought. Can't say I really blame him.

Impression I got was that he thinks Dean actually has a shot at leading a happy, fulfilling life. If he thinks Hank is going to end up like him, killing Hank now could be construed as a mercy killing.

I like how adult swim had a bump informing us that Sgt. Hatred's and Hank's VAs actually recorded their parts in an Optimus Prime and Hulk masks.

Loved the Hank/Doc developments, along with all of the Treister scenes - I didn't really enjoy Treister last time he showed up, but he completely stole the episode.

Shore-Leave telling off White was mildly awesome.