Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Let's review each episode of the TV show The Venture Bros, the greatest adult animated series ever made!
Transcript:
In Any Which Way But Zeus, seemingly random heroes and villains are kidnapped by what appears to be the literal Greek god Zeus. Thus the OSI and Guild must band together to track down their missing teammates. Just as soon as they can get their thumbs out of their asses. This episode feels like one that's trying WAY too hard to be funny. To the point I don't know WHAT it's trying to do. The main plot, if we could call it that, is that side characters are being kidnapped and forced to fight to the death in a hidden arena. Including Pete, Billy, Henchman 21, and SPHINX's flamboyantly gay member Shore Leave. So we see them fighting for a while, all wondering who's behind all this, while the writing tries to inject what it thinks is comedy into their dialog. Which mostly just boils down to long periods of bickering, and the characters not taking their predicament as seriously as Zeus wants them to. Especially Pete and Billy, who, in an actually funny bit, just start arguing in the middle of their match, and are told to stop fighting and start fighting. That was actually clever. Less so is the joke with the OSI and Guild trying to track them down, which just becomes one long joke about the ineffectiveness of bureaucracy. As both sides take an INCREDIBLY long while meeting up in a secret chamber, including an excruciating amount of time meeting the medical requirements to be around each other, followed by one long forum where they just spend an exorbitant period trying to figure out what they're up against. I get that this is the joke, but when the joke starts boring the audience, then it ceases being a joke. Doesn't help that this exceedingly long routine was preceded by another exceedingly long routine, where Brock and Hunter Gathers joke about how flabby the pole dancers were at the strip club they visited. You get the impression they didn't actually have any jokes for this episode, so they just typed up 500 variations of the same joke? And the meeting doesn't even make sense, as it includes Phantom Limb's Revenge Society and SPHINX. The former I thought was too focused on making the Guild pay to work with them, while SPHINX was literally formed to take down these rogue threats the OSI is too tied up with red tape to take on themselves, AND is supposed to be an invisible organization! Is the joke that they're also hypocrites, or is this just one the writers wanted to get over and done with to make their quota? Oh, and it's revealed the mastermind is a disguised Henchman One. You know, the joke character from The Lepidopterists, who was presumably taken out by Brock? Yeah, he's still alive and this was all his convoluted scheme to take revenge on Henchman 21, while also manipulating the original Captain Sunshine into helping him. ... I don't follow either, and he's taken down by the captured heroes and villains breaking free, so whatever. Thankfully, the B plot is LITTLE better, where Venture thinks that he's going to be the next one taken by the mysterious abductor. To the point he actually starts to become depressed and desperate when it looks like he's not worth being kidnapped! So Hatred, Dean, and Hank all stage their own abduction just to make him feel better about himself, which is very strangely heartwarming. Leading to a sequence where Venture seems to let it slip that he loves Dean a lot more than Hank, even saying his supposed kidnappers can just go ahead and kill the latter. Only to later unknowingly reveal to Hank that he knew they'd be no match for his more outgoing son, even being proud that he's decided to break away from the Venture legacy and travel his own path. Something Rusty wishes he could have done, and is worried he's now forcing Dean to follow out of instinct. Again, surprisingly heartwarming! ...Ruined a bit by how he never catches on his supposed cellmate is a Teddy Ruxpin. Yeah, this is definitely a filler episode, probably made just for the scenes with Venture and his boys. I don't want to call it terrible, but the humor doesn't resonate with me, and I don't feel like anything is accomplished, so I recommend just skipping this one. And where can I get me a box of Apple Mummy cereal?
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Let's review each episode of the TV show The Venture Bros, the greatest adult animated series ever made!
Transcript:
In Any Which Way But Zeus, seemingly random heroes and villains are kidnapped by what appears to be the literal Greek god Zeus. Thus the OSI and Guild must band together to track down their missing teammates. Just as soon as they can get their thumbs out of their asses. This episode feels like one that's trying WAY too hard to be funny. To the point I don't know WHAT it's trying to do. The main plot, if we could call it that, is that side characters are being kidnapped and forced to fight to the death in a hidden arena. Including Pete, Billy, Henchman 21, and SPHINX's flamboyantly gay member Shore Leave. So we see them fighting for a while, all wondering who's behind all this, while the writing tries to inject what it thinks is comedy into their dialog. Which mostly just boils down to long periods of bickering, and the characters not taking their predicament as seriously as Zeus wants them to. Especially Pete and Billy, who, in an actually funny bit, just start arguing in the middle of their match, and are told to stop fighting and start fighting. That was actually clever. Less so is the joke with the OSI and Guild trying to track them down, which just becomes one long joke about the ineffectiveness of bureaucracy. As both sides take an INCREDIBLY long while meeting up in a secret chamber, including an excruciating amount of time meeting the medical requirements to be around each other, followed by one long forum where they just spend an exorbitant period trying to figure out what they're up against. I get that this is the joke, but when the joke starts boring the audience, then it ceases being a joke. Doesn't help that this exceedingly long routine was preceded by another exceedingly long routine, where Brock and Hunter Gathers joke about how flabby the pole dancers were at the strip club they visited. You get the impression they didn't actually have any jokes for this episode, so they just typed up 500 variations of the same joke? And the meeting doesn't even make sense, as it includes Phantom Limb's Revenge Society and SPHINX. The former I thought was too focused on making the Guild pay to work with them, while SPHINX was literally formed to take down these rogue threats the OSI is too tied up with red tape to take on themselves, AND is supposed to be an invisible organization! Is the joke that they're also hypocrites, or is this just one the writers wanted to get over and done with to make their quota? Oh, and it's revealed the mastermind is a disguised Henchman One. You know, the joke character from The Lepidopterists, who was presumably taken out by Brock? Yeah, he's still alive and this was all his convoluted scheme to take revenge on Henchman 21, while also manipulating the original Captain Sunshine into helping him. ... I don't follow either, and he's taken down by the captured heroes and villains breaking free, so whatever. Thankfully, the B plot is LITTLE better, where Venture thinks that he's going to be the next one taken by the mysterious abductor. To the point he actually starts to become depressed and desperate when it looks like he's not worth being kidnapped! So Hatred, Dean, and Hank all stage their own abduction just to make him feel better about himself, which is very strangely heartwarming. Leading to a sequence where Venture seems to let it slip that he loves Dean a lot more than Hank, even saying his supposed kidnappers can just go ahead and kill the latter. Only to later unknowingly reveal to Hank that he knew they'd be no match for his more outgoing son, even being proud that he's decided to break away from the Venture legacy and travel his own path. Something Rusty wishes he could have done, and is worried he's now forcing Dean to follow out of instinct. Again, surprisingly heartwarming! ...Ruined a bit by how he never catches on his supposed cellmate is a Teddy Ruxpin. Yeah, this is definitely a filler episode, probably made just for the scenes with Venture and his boys. I don't want to call it terrible, but the humor doesn't resonate with me, and I don't feel like anything is accomplished, so I recommend just skipping this one. And where can I get me a box of Apple Mummy cereal?
