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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 the Buddy System, a cash-strapped Doctor Venture opens a day camp for young kids hoping to one day become boy adventurers themselves. Oh, gee. I wonder if this is going to be like every single other instance where someone starts something solely to earn money, only to find they're embarrassingly ill equipped to handle it? It is? Great. It's one of my absolute favorite plots to watch. Ok, to be fair, this episode IS a lot funnier than its premise suggests. ...It's just the parts that ARE related to its premise are the usual hard to watch embarrassment. Hey, would you like to see adults dressing and acting as idiots in a vain attempt to educate and entertain children? Of course you don't. Or what about the part where they get a celebrity to entertain kids with tales of their adventures, only to discover they're completely washed and drugged out and the last person you want your children around. Or how about the tour slash hike through territory deemed completely safe that goes horribly, horribly wrong? Yeah, in case it's gone completely over your head, this episode subscribes to the classic formula of "They say one thing, but then the opposite happens." So, you see, they promise a fun, safe day for all the kids who attend, plus the counselors stuck watching and entertaining the kids. Only for that to NOT be the thing that occurs! A formula utilized to great success by the greatest comedies ever written. ...I don't like this kind of plot, if you haven't noticed. But, like I said, this episode still has its moments. With the Monarch once again stealing the show, who still won't give up arching the Ventures, but because of his promise, just sends the Moppets undercover as children to learn the secrets of the Venture compound. All while trying to keep it secret from his new wife, who's put together a racy little number that Monarch is anxious to pollinate. And while it's the obvious joke, I do like just HOW vicious the adults act towards the taunting kids. Like Billy being called not an actual boy adventurer or even a boy, and responding that nobody present is going to prove themselves one either. Or how Jonny Quest, here named Action Johnny for rights reasons, amazingly has worse daddy issues than Rusty, which he belts out to the impressionable crowd. But ESPECIALLY Brock, a guy who's taken down dozens if not hundreds of enemy soldiers and minions, and yet is rendered completely powerless to the taunting of one of the older kids. Yeah, this is a new side to the usually cool bodyguard, who probably feels even more vulnerable here than the time his License to Kill was revoked. Where, realizing he can't exactly beat down on a young teenager, tries to recruit other kids to take him down. Including the disguised Moppets, who he backs away from when they prove to be even more psychotic than him. But, in the end, things are resolved in his favor. The teenager, by the way, going by the name Dermott and also later becoming a recurring character. Basically serving as the third young Venture Brother, with a mystery of his own. We also get a fun first appearance from Doctor Z, another stand-in of a Jonny Quest villain, who traumatizes Action Johnny with his very appearance, but proves to be the only entertaining guest at the camp as he impresses the young crowd with his dramatic villain monologues. Accompanied by 60s Hanna-Barbera-esque villain music. So, unlike Sergeant Hatred, I understand why he's brought back to the show later. Who, speaking of which, completely misreads the schedule and attacks the compound right as Venture finally has things under control. In some of the first indicators that Venture's not used to a villain who does everything by guild standards and secretly misses the Monarch just as much as his former arch-rival misses him. Again, I recommend just skipping past anything resembling the typical camp gone wrong trope. But the remainder is some of the show's best comedy and should be watched. And dammit, why did we get an episode about Billy's backstory, but not about what happened in this biodome?
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 the Buddy System, a cash-strapped Doctor Venture opens a day camp for young kids hoping to one day become boy adventurers themselves. Oh, gee. I wonder if this is going to be like every single other instance where someone starts something solely to earn money, only to find they're embarrassingly ill equipped to handle it? It is? Great. It's one of my absolute favorite plots to watch. Ok, to be fair, this episode IS a lot funnier than its premise suggests. ...It's just the parts that ARE related to its premise are the usual hard to watch embarrassment. Hey, would you like to see adults dressing and acting as idiots in a vain attempt to educate and entertain children? Of course you don't. Or what about the part where they get a celebrity to entertain kids with tales of their adventures, only to discover they're completely washed and drugged out and the last person you want your children around. Or how about the tour slash hike through territory deemed completely safe that goes horribly, horribly wrong? Yeah, in case it's gone completely over your head, this episode subscribes to the classic formula of "They say one thing, but then the opposite happens." So, you see, they promise a fun, safe day for all the kids who attend, plus the counselors stuck watching and entertaining the kids. Only for that to NOT be the thing that occurs! A formula utilized to great success by the greatest comedies ever written. ...I don't like this kind of plot, if you haven't noticed. But, like I said, this episode still has its moments. With the Monarch once again stealing the show, who still won't give up arching the Ventures, but because of his promise, just sends the Moppets undercover as children to learn the secrets of the Venture compound. All while trying to keep it secret from his new wife, who's put together a racy little number that Monarch is anxious to pollinate. And while it's the obvious joke, I do like just HOW vicious the adults act towards the taunting kids. Like Billy being called not an actual boy adventurer or even a boy, and responding that nobody present is going to prove themselves one either. Or how Jonny Quest, here named Action Johnny for rights reasons, amazingly has worse daddy issues than Rusty, which he belts out to the impressionable crowd. But ESPECIALLY Brock, a guy who's taken down dozens if not hundreds of enemy soldiers and minions, and yet is rendered completely powerless to the taunting of one of the older kids. Yeah, this is a new side to the usually cool bodyguard, who probably feels even more vulnerable here than the time his License to Kill was revoked. Where, realizing he can't exactly beat down on a young teenager, tries to recruit other kids to take him down. Including the disguised Moppets, who he backs away from when they prove to be even more psychotic than him. But, in the end, things are resolved in his favor. The teenager, by the way, going by the name Dermott and also later becoming a recurring character. Basically serving as the third young Venture Brother, with a mystery of his own. We also get a fun first appearance from Doctor Z, another stand-in of a Jonny Quest villain, who traumatizes Action Johnny with his very appearance, but proves to be the only entertaining guest at the camp as he impresses the young crowd with his dramatic villain monologues. Accompanied by 60s Hanna-Barbera-esque villain music. So, unlike Sergeant Hatred, I understand why he's brought back to the show later. Who, speaking of which, completely misreads the schedule and attacks the compound right as Venture finally has things under control. In some of the first indicators that Venture's not used to a villain who does everything by guild standards and secretly misses the Monarch just as much as his former arch-rival misses him. Again, I recommend just skipping past anything resembling the typical camp gone wrong trope. But the remainder is some of the show's best comedy and should be watched. And dammit, why did we get an episode about Billy's backstory, but not about what happened in this biodome?
