# Venture Bros. 9/3
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 4, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359 "2006-09-04T02:57:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/1 "2006-09-04T02:57:56Z")
Guild episode! And it looks like Dr. Girlfriend is changing her MO. The Monarch seems to have clearly lost it. Wonder what’s going to happen with the two henchmen, especially now that a whore’s stolen the one guy’s Stanza.
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### Author:  [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/2 "2006-09-04T03:03:34Z")
Not sure what was going on through a lot of that episode, but really does it matter? Still funny as hell.
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/3 "2006-09-04T06:00:25Z")
Damn, there was so much going on in that episode it’s hard to believe it was only 22 minutes of stuff. Henchman, Monarch and the whore, Orpheus, Venture and his Walking Eye and the boys and Triana.
And it all worked so well.
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### Author:  [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/4 "2006-09-04T09:01:23Z")
I don’t know about you guys, but the scene with the Monarch and the tattoo was really creepy. Where’s that side of him when he’s out doing supervillainy?
Deeper. _Deeper_. Deeper!
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/5 "2006-09-04T12:55:12Z")
I was hoping Dr. Girlfriend was going to have Trianna’s friend as a sidekick.
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/6 "2006-09-04T13:47:48Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#):
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> I don’t know about you guys, but the scene with the Monarch and the tattoo was really creepy. Where’s that side of him when he’s out doing supervillainy?
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> Deeper. _Deeper_. Deeper!
It was a parody of Red Dragon, the Silence of the Lambs prequel. The serial killer in that movie (and presumably the novel as well) had a similar giant disconcerting tattoo covering his back, although it was a red dragon in that case. And did you notice how the ink started to run when the Monarch took a shower? He wasn’t hardcore enough to get a real tattoo!
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/7 "2006-09-04T15:56:19Z")
So many good lines in this episode. My all-time favorite that I shall remember and keep: “It smells like a Bible story in here!”
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### Author:  [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/8 "2006-09-04T16:23:09Z")
> [@Love Rhombus](#):
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> So many good lines in this episode. My all-time favorite that I shall remember and keep: “It smells like a Bible story in here!”
I couldn’t understand that one.
Is it just weird? Or is there an explicable joke being made in that line?
-FrL-
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/9 "2006-09-04T16:29:57Z")
I laughed pretty hard at that line too. I assume it was meant to imply that it smelled like large-scale brimstone and carnage, like in a Bible story about God smiting someone. The ten plagues, the destruction of Sodom, the other destruction of Jericho – all those events probably smelled really bad.
The “birds and bees talk” montage was pretty funny too.
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/10 "2006-09-04T17:26:57Z")
It’s good to see that the polar bear from _Lost_ is still getting work.
😉
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/11 "2006-09-04T17:37:38Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#):
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> I don’t know about you guys, but the scene with the Monarch and the tattoo was really creepy. Where’s that side of him when he’s out doing supervillainy?
I said the same thing while I was watching. Dr. Girlfriend seems to be having a real crisis of confidence out there. She doesn’t know who she wants to be or who she wants to be with. I hope she pulls herself together.
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### Author:  [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/12 "2006-09-04T17:49:52Z")
That episode cracked me up. Monarch was pretty ripped, I guess he worked out in prison. Things that had me in stitches-
-The Alchemist sounded like the same voice as Shake from ATHF. Also, I’m not sure if he’s definitely gay ‘had a phase for a while but went back’
-The ‘Cool Hand Luke’ reference when Dr. Venture was trying to seduce the villans with his mechanical spider.
-The Blacula that wouldnt die; Orpheus zapped him like 5 times during that conversation.
-The Triad was a pretty awesome team; they came off as a bunch of bickering over-the-hill mystic heroes but really showed their stuff vs that wizard.
Did anyone notice a connection between this ep and the Trial of the Monarch? In the trial scene, Dr. O gets ‘hypnotyzed’ into thinking the Guild will give him a villain- “I hope its a girl villain!” then we see The Au Pair auditioning- I was pretty sure she was gonna get it. “Do you smoke cigarettes or just eat them?” 😛 Look forward to seeing her teaming up with Trianna’s friend.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/13 "2006-09-04T23:21:35Z")
Wikipedia feels different, but did anyone else get a strong Samuel L. Jackson-as-Jules Winfield vibe from Jefferson, the vampire hunter? I kinda wish they’d got the guy who plays Gin Rummy on The Boondocks to voice him. 😉
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/14 "2006-09-05T01:34:56Z")
By the way…was “The Alchemist” supposed to be a pastiche of anyone? Dr. O’s archnemesis looked like DC’s “Deadman,” and the vampire hunter seemed like Blade, if played by Blacula (the original Blacula, I mean. Not the guys he was hunting.).
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/15 "2006-09-05T01:52:05Z")
And what IS the politically correct term for a blackula? 🙂
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/16 "2006-09-05T18:54:05Z")
I had to watch it twice before I realized that the folks standing in line were auditioning to be their Guild-approved villain. Somehow, I thought they were trying to join Dr. Orpheus’s team. I couldn’t quite get my mind around why the Order of the Triad would be looking for a fourth member.
What was that wizard’s name? “Kritht?” “Frith?” Against the Triad, he looked kind of pathetic. I guess the Guild will take anybody, as long as the check for their initiation fee clears…
The Alchemist is Master Shake!! I love it that that guy is getting work!
Dr. Orpheus has a secret identity? Oooohhh, tell us _more_!
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### Author:  [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/17 "2006-09-05T20:40:41Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#):
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> And what IS the politically correct term for a blackula? 🙂
Africulan-Deadagain.
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### Author:  [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/18 "2006-09-07T15:17:48Z")
I finally got around to watching this one. I loved the Walking Eye (a direct _Johnny Quest_ reference!) and Dr. Orpheus always needs more screen time. I was disappointed that Dr. Girlfriend went back to her Lady Au Pair identity. I hope she doesn’t go crawling back to The Monarch. If it were me, the season finale would be Dr. Girlfriend reclaiming her identity, going completely rouge and hatching a huge nefarious plan to take over the League of Calamitous Intent. She has already shown hostility toward that organization, and you can keep herding evil villians forever. Then the League comes to Dr. Venture (or, more specifically, Brock) to ask for help in defeating Dr. Girlfriend.
The Monarch’s scenes with the whore were suuuuuper creepy.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/19 "2006-09-07T17:46:42Z")
I dunno. _Can_ Dr. Girlfriend go completely rouge, what with her prediliction toward wearing pink Christian Dior knock-offs? Seems to me that wouldn’t be a really good look for her.
Of course, if she stays with the Lady Au Pair persona with the basic black, she might be able to get away with it.
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-bros-9-3/371359/20 "2006-09-07T18:30:28Z")
I didn’t think Dr. Girlfriend was wearing too much **rouge** , which is makeup worn on the cheeks, named after the French word meaning “red.” However, she could go **rogue**. 😛
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