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"No, no, no, a Rusty Venture is..." [The Venture Bros.]: Season 4.5 Is Over
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While OSI and the Guild play their little game of make believe fighting each other, SPHINX takes care of the really dangerous guys that want to cause trouble but aren't Guild.
Basically, the idea of OSI/GCI was to keep the costumed freaks contained. The problem is that they're starting to spill over into the real world (Monstroso is a good example of this), and OSI is too concerned with their own petty squabbles and red tape to do anything about it. So the diehards took the dismantled SPHINX operation, and began doing what the OSI wasn't - reminding the costumed nutbars exactly where there place in society is.
There's only two things. One, why didn't Hunter and the grunt want to mention the Ventures around Brock but then they all sat around a table together? Wouldn't you have thought they would have hid Rusty from Brock or vice versa?
And two, hahaha at Hatred being a flat chump. 30 seconds of screen time, all pedophile jokes. Hahahaha. I am so justified.
Okay, I lied, third thing. Nooooooooooooo, 6 months or so to the next episode.
Truckules is a bit more... rumbly like a truck engine though. Monstroso sounds more like one of the Council of 13... and I kind of wonder if he might be, considering how well connected his company is.
This episode was great. Enough humor, enough exposition and enough intrigue to be thoroughly and enjoyably frustrating til the second half of the season picks up in the spring. There were a couple annoying inconsistencies, but most of them are minor compared to the whole Phantom Limb thing from the end of Season 1/beginning of Season 2.
Imminently quotable too, 24's ghost, Brock, and Hunter all had great lines that I am sure we are going to repeat a thousand times, and 21 had some good ones too.
I thought it was sort of cool that Shore Leave is apparently at least a one-and-a-half note character than a flat SoCal gay stereotype:
"BOOM, that's right, this is really happening."
I actually like him and I was expecting not to, so that was good.
Also I thought it hilarious that
ah well. Here's hoping the second half of season 4 is just as awesome because the first 8 episodes definitely exceeded my expectations.
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Anyway, it's a little odd that Sgt. Hatred didn't get an "exit" scene. I thought for sure they were building up to one... Hatred getting more and more unhinged, OSI cutting him off, and finally he had to be restrained to keep from harming the boys. Ah well.
I wonder if she'll fire them next season and next thing we know, them and Hatred....
Oh god. I just vomited in my mouth.
Well, so far, there's nothing big and impending going on. No huge threats to anyone at the moment, just a few explanations to be told. Other than that, everything is nice and happy... so the opening of the 2nd half should introduce a new "problem" or focus.
I guess the whole 24 thing could be the current plot line. I suppose we still haven't explained the hand that marked off the list.
So, basically, where as the real bad guys don't care about Guild or the rules and are actual bad guys, SPHINX are the actual good guys.
Yeah I think it's been pretty obvious for a while that the guild and OSI are really just planing the same game.
They've got a brain washing machine right in the compound. I imagine he could do pretty much whatever he wanted.
21 + Brock is more badasserer.
BOoo! I liked deans akward attempts with her.
Brock was a born bad ass. 21 was a tubby, nerd and he went away and made himself a bad ass who can deliver a decent beating to Brock Sampson. Dude is fucking tops.
It looks like my earlier theory is right, S.P.H.I.N.X is doing the job that OSI is supposed to be doing.
I can't imagine OSI or the Guild will be too happy to find out that Doctor Venture of all people is hosting the rogue agency that's making them look like the incompetent LARPing putzes they are. Especially after the Guild was just made to look like idiots last season, and the OSI broke up an illegal clone farm.
Though, maybe Dean or Rusty will go all "Lord Sovereign of the Guild of Calamitous Intent" on the Guild in one sheer moment of awesomeness, and get the Guild on his side.
Which would technically make Rusty a villain if he did. Which means that Killinger was right about him all along.
I thought that was patently obvious, what with Killinger basicly going around fixing things wrong with the guild, kinda like a mediator.
Heh, that'd be pretty great and all... and I'm sure we're not done seeing Killinger... but Dean isn't the Sovereign anymore, and I doubt he has any pull with the guild. Though, if he needed it, I'm sure Bowie would oblige... what with all the intermingling that all the organizations in this show do.
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I love the music that played when he does his good dad routine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B8Nrw19qEM
This one will always be my favorite, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuxRxO0Y_g4
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It's a knockoff of the Andy Griffith Show theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JA1BbxrPa4
They played the same thing in Viva Los Muertos when the boys discover the cloning lab.
Dr. Venture: I hope you're proud of yourselves. You've, um, you've ruined the surprise!
Hank: The- what?
Dr. Venture: This was going to be your Christmas present.
Dean: Huh?
Dr. Venture: A whole big army of yous, ready to think you're the coolest and do your chores. Maybe eliminate targets in high-risk combat zones.
Hank & Dean: Wow!!
Dr. Venture: But now you've ruined the surprise! So I'll have to think of something even better!
Hank & Dean: Even better?!
Dr. Venture: Ha ha, now get upstairs you little Indians and wash off all that chicanery. Macaroni and cheese tonight!
Hank: Dad, you're the best dad ever!
Dr. Venture: Yeees, I am.
Yeah I know. The song is called "Fishing hole", and i also remember it from Viva Los Muertos, which is by and by my favorite venture episode.
I really like this episode.. but I am disappointed of course that we now have to wait for new episodes. Any real word on when they will air other than a vague 6 months or so from now?
Also, I want Killinger back haha.
I would say the highlight of last night's episode was
All 21 needs to do is go talk to Orpheus and find out what the deal is. I'm pretty sure it's going to be the sadder of the two options though.
He's actualy pretty awesome now. I really like new 21, especialy combined with brock sampson.
Also Hunter Gatherers asking Billy about his arm was halarious.