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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 Now Museum, Now You Don't, we get to check back with Jonas Junior and what he's been up to. Including turning his home base of Spider Skull Island into a museum dedicated to the accomplishments of the Venture family. But when he invites all his friends and family, the place turns into a powderkeg ready to blow. Quite literally, in fact. Of the more casual episodes, this one reminds me most of Season One's Tag Sale You're It, where it's a bunch of familiar faces all gathered in one location for a reason, and we mostly follow their individual arcs. But this instance is a MILLION times funnier! For one thing, the dialog feels a lot more natural for these characters. The mentioned yard sale episode sort of felt like the actors just trying to come up with dialog on the fly for their characters, but here, I can one hundred percent believe these characters are saying these things. And we get to catch up with what a few of them have been up to since their last appearances a billion years ago. Especially Professor Impossible, who clearly hasn't taken Sally leaving him that well. And who's unfortunately no longer voiced by Stephen Colbert, but Christopher McCulloch, the show co-creator and who voices half the characters anyway, does a decent impression of him. We also see that the ghost pirate crew from the first season are all full time employed by Jonas Junior. And get our first hints from them that Jonas isn't quite God's gift to humankind his image suggests, plus a hilariously awkward scene between Sally and the pirate captain. The former of whom having her own gripes with Jonas, who turns out to be just as much of an egomaniac as her ex, thus she's stuck having to deal with both inflated personalities, quite literally in the latter case. Rusty and company are also here, but they surprisingly don't play much of a part, mostly stuck in the background as Rusty becomes ever more jealous of his twin brother's success and eventually leaves early. But the best part of the episode involves the original Team Venture, where we get to see how they acquired the island in the first place. Including a fantastically funny reference to the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice, involving one of the team disguised as a Japanese man, but not the one you'd expect. Speaking of, it's revealed that Colonel Gentleman is actually alive and was just in a sugar coma when Hank and Dean found his supposed corpse. And that he's gay, and prefers younger men. Which, as long as they're legal, then whatever. This also leads to one of my absolute favorite running gags involving the original team giving autographs. I love the escalation of the team realizing they can make big bucks by simply signing their names and opening an impromptu autograph booth. Only for their old nemeses to do the same, and it becomes a competition to find which side is more popular. Which is the topper that finally causes the party to become a brawl as everyone's gripes and insecurities reach their boiling points. Inadvertently also resulting in the island's self-destruct feature reactivating, and I will not DARE reveal what happens when things go boom! But we do get a nice scene where Venture Senior recorded a montage crediting Rusty with being his inspiration. That Rusty of course misses, and, considering what we later learn about the late adventurer, was probably just made for publicity's sake. This is yet another REALLY good episode, that you need to see yourself for the full effect and how these personalities bounce off each other to eventually reach an explosive conclusion. And, yeah, given the chance, I'd probably do what Billy does here.
Help Support the Channel: patreon.com/ZCInfinity
Let's review each episode of the TV show The Venture Bros, the greatest adult animated series ever made!
Transcript:
In Now Museum, Now You Don't, we get to check back with Jonas Junior and what he's been up to. Including turning his home base of Spider Skull Island into a museum dedicated to the accomplishments of the Venture family. But when he invites all his friends and family, the place turns into a powderkeg ready to blow. Quite literally, in fact. Of the more casual episodes, this one reminds me most of Season One's Tag Sale You're It, where it's a bunch of familiar faces all gathered in one location for a reason, and we mostly follow their individual arcs. But this instance is a MILLION times funnier! For one thing, the dialog feels a lot more natural for these characters. The mentioned yard sale episode sort of felt like the actors just trying to come up with dialog on the fly for their characters, but here, I can one hundred percent believe these characters are saying these things. And we get to catch up with what a few of them have been up to since their last appearances a billion years ago. Especially Professor Impossible, who clearly hasn't taken Sally leaving him that well. And who's unfortunately no longer voiced by Stephen Colbert, but Christopher McCulloch, the show co-creator and who voices half the characters anyway, does a decent impression of him. We also see that the ghost pirate crew from the first season are all full time employed by Jonas Junior. And get our first hints from them that Jonas isn't quite God's gift to humankind his image suggests, plus a hilariously awkward scene between Sally and the pirate captain. The former of whom having her own gripes with Jonas, who turns out to be just as much of an egomaniac as her ex, thus she's stuck having to deal with both inflated personalities, quite literally in the latter case. Rusty and company are also here, but they surprisingly don't play much of a part, mostly stuck in the background as Rusty becomes ever more jealous of his twin brother's success and eventually leaves early. But the best part of the episode involves the original Team Venture, where we get to see how they acquired the island in the first place. Including a fantastically funny reference to the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice, involving one of the team disguised as a Japanese man, but not the one you'd expect. Speaking of, it's revealed that Colonel Gentleman is actually alive and was just in a sugar coma when Hank and Dean found his supposed corpse. And that he's gay, and prefers younger men. Which, as long as they're legal, then whatever. This also leads to one of my absolute favorite running gags involving the original team giving autographs. I love the escalation of the team realizing they can make big bucks by simply signing their names and opening an impromptu autograph booth. Only for their old nemeses to do the same, and it becomes a competition to find which side is more popular. Which is the topper that finally causes the party to become a brawl as everyone's gripes and insecurities reach their boiling points. Inadvertently also resulting in the island's self-destruct feature reactivating, and I will not DARE reveal what happens when things go boom! But we do get a nice scene where Venture Senior recorded a montage crediting Rusty with being his inspiration. That Rusty of course misses, and, considering what we later learn about the late adventurer, was probably just made for publicity's sake. This is yet another REALLY good episode, that you need to see yourself for the full effect and how these personalities bounce off each other to eventually reach an explosive conclusion. And, yeah, given the chance, I'd probably do what Billy does here.
