Holy crap! Venturstein rocks! So many priceless bits in this ep. The whole Scooby Doo parody, Venturstein saying, “Brock bad!” and “Prostitutes!”, Brock calling the shaman the ________ Keebler, Hank and Dean finding their clones, Rusty asking Brock to round up some dead people, and Dr. Orpheus ralphing while he was talking to name but a few. There was almost too much goodness packed into this ep. If it had had Cocktease, I think i would have died.
I thought it was going to be Cocktease who brought Brock back to the way of war, not old commander mommy.
This was rather disturbing. Rusty was actually asking Brock to go on a murder spree and then decided to use the spare boys. And the Manson-esque Scooby Gang. “You don’t want to go back in the box, Patty, do you?” I was really hoping to hear Rusty refer to them as “Those Meddling kids!” And the lesbian joke for Val. That’s practically dogma for scooby parodies.
Well, Val was supposed to be Valerie Solanas, man-hating militant feminist and author of the S.C.U.M. Manifesto. Ted was supposed to be serial killer Ted Bundy, Patty was an analogue for kidnapped and brainwashed heiress Patty Hearst, and Sonny was a stand-in for the Son of Sam (real name David Berkowitz), another serial killer who received instructions to kill from his neighbor’s dog.
Man, Dr. Venture actually - in a really screwed-up way - managed to save his boys’ psyches by coming up with that “your own clone army” excuse. Impressive!
Holy crap! Good call!
This makes the whole episode that much better.
-Kris
Indeedily, doodily, no diddlely. Some of Val’s dialogino, comes straight from the manifestino!
Ol’ Val had some issues, didn’t she?
I wondered about that! The other names seemed like mere parodies of the original characters so I didn’t realize that they were based on actual people. But I couldn’t figure out where Sonny was coming from. I thought the “Dog telling him to kill” thing was just the stereotype psycho-killer reference, not the original source.
Anyone up for a “Groovy-Treat?”
Like wow, man! I missed one or two episodes this season, but I think I finally found one I like better than “Powerless in the Face of Death.” I loved the first-person, shades-of-Saving-Private-Ryan intro, the incredibly twisted take on the Scoobies, Venturestein, the twist of Sonny and Groovy having killed the boys before, pretty much the whole thing. And I loved the combination of the really dark humor of the ‘Scoobies’ with the Hanna Barbera sound effects, especially when Venturestein stepped on one of the clones and slid across the floor. Damn, that was good stuff.
I take that back, there was also the amazing “Escape to the House of Mummies, Pt. 2.” But anyway…
I think this was the best ep. this season. So much good stuff packed in, and it didn’t feel like there was too much going on. The shaman and his hot dolphin was priceless.
“This is bad…I think they’re in a ‘you’ve just seen your own clones’ coma”
Did anyone catch that ‘The Tick’ creator Ben Edlund wrote this one?
Most of the great stuff has already been mentioned.
Another thing I liked: Rusty’s to-do list. “Beat God at his own game”, I think. Someone mentioned in last week’s thread that it’s good to see him mildly competent; I think this episode has shown that through a little bit.
Did anyone catch a Bub from Day of the Dead vibe from Venturestein? That was my impression before Frankenstein.