It’s been a few weeks, but there are new episodes of Futurama and the Venture Bros. both airing tonight.
“The Futurama Christmas Spectacular”, guest starring Al Gore and Coolio, on Comedy Central
and
“Operation P.R.O.M.”, the one hour long season finale of the Venture Bros. on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.
Check your DVR settings.
9:30 EST for Futurama.
Venture Bros finale was brilliant, and I kind of want to cry that it’s probably the end of it.
I just wish we’d managed the happy ending and not had the hos turn into fly girls.
Is ShoreLeave the first effeminate gay man who is also an unapologetic ass kicker on TV?
-Joe, “FIX ME”
I should mention that I got the title of the Futurama episode wrong. It was the “Futurama Holiday Spectacular”. I thought it was kinda “meh”. It was broken into three parts, similar to the Anthology of Interest, and the segments dealt with Xmas, Robonukah, and Kwanzaa. It was cool seeing Al Gore, as well as Coolio once again as Kwanzaabot. And they revisited the space bees from “The Sting”.
I agree that the show was pretty bland. I like the 2 anthologies of interest so I had relatively high hopes but the storylines seemed rather blah.
I enjoyed the VB finale.
I found the whole “Rusty Venture” being a sex act, but no two people giving the answer for what it was, to be very funny.
Somehow I don’t think Mol or Monstroso are dead.
Rusty trying to be King of the Prom he set up for his kids.
Hank’s “date” and the 46 year old black woman he tried to get first.
The women all morphing into flies at the end, and Brock’s initial disappointment to find everything normal before that happened, then happiness when they changed.
Damn well better be a season 5.
It’s a show that gets better every season, so I won’t count on it being back. And if it doesn’t, at least they went out on an excellent episode.
And of course there’s no chance of Mol being dead, so, probably not Monstroso either.
“FIX ME”. Hah!
-Joe
This isn’t over until one of us gets a Rusty Venture. 
Which is particularly funny when you recall his story from the previous episode when he describes his dad doing the same thing. Rusty is trying to be as big a dick as Jonas was, and failing at it.
Also great was learning that Rusty’s senior prom date was Andrea Dworkin.
For those of you concerned about this episode ending the Venture Bros series there will be a season 5 (at some point). After the episode in the credits it said “THE VENTURE BROS. WILL RETURN…”. I almost feel dirty posting a twitpic link, but it was the only screen capture I could find.
I disagree. I think he’s trying to give his boys a GOOD version of his own childhood. The problem with his own birthday party wasn’t the whores - that was just an aside.
The Venture Brothers finale was one of the best bits of TV I’ve ever seen.
I guess he’s Sergeant V.D. now.
I think Rusty is trying to make up for a lot of bad parenting. Ever since the boys’ clones have been killed off he seems to be genuinely trying. Granted, he’s piss poor at it.
I agree with this, with the addendum that one of the main reasons he’s so poor at parenting is his extraordinary selfishness – he certainly isn’t trying hard enough. But that’s part of his charm!
A few characters got something like an “ending”: Brock vis-a-vis his relationship with Molotov; Colonel Gathers; Sgt. V ---- D and Princess Tinyfeet (was anyone else expecting the Monarch to be lying about tying her up?); 24 and 21. Still no real change in the status quo for the Ventures themselves. I’m kind of surprised to conclude that Hank might just be the one to reach full adulthood remotely well-adjusted – maybe because his role model is at least competent.
I really do hope to see more from this show.
Two questions: (1) What motive did Molotov have for lying about having infiltrated the prom, if she was just going to let herself and Monstroso fall to their apparent deaths? (2) Was Gary really hallucinating this whole time? Hard to make sense of some early events if that’s the case.
We don’t have anything definite about whether or not she’s lying. I’m kind of thinking she was telling the truth (look carefully at her conversation with the one that Brock was Johnny Dangering), but the didn’t act because of the Spanish Fly. Then, Brock got to get his killin’ in, so he was happy.
As for Gary, no way he was hallucinating. If nothing else, we’ve got 24 talking to one of Monstroso’s dead associates.
Maybe Orpheus wasn’t looking hard enough?
-Joe
Well, he may have had just a bit to drink before that point …
(It’s sad that I want to bring knowledge of the real world into this: “Vivid visual hallucinations are rare enough already – people simply couldn’t have recurring hallucinations of the sort Gary experienced without being otherwise noticeably disturbed! Ergo, Gary really was seeing a ghost.” As if that had any bearing on the Venture Bros. universe, or wasn’t itself absurd.)
Orpheus was also drunk as a skunk from the Sambuca and schnapps in the punch.
Question for the teeming folks here…
Was 24 murdered? Seems to me he was in a car that got blown up in the middle of a battle.
Is that just part of 21 flipping out, or was there some reason to believe that he was murdered?
-Joe
If 24 is really a ghost, he may think he’s been murdered. The only reason he was still in the car when it blew up is his seat belt wouldn’t unbuckle.
Futurama was a little grim - although I bet the Venture Bros. was moreso! I need to catch up on that show - and it wasn’t the funniest episode. Right now what stands out to me is Hermes saying he needed to “African-American-ize” the bees. He’s not African-American! He’s Jamaican!