# Venture Brothers 10/24 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870 "2004-10-24T07:09:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fallapart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fallapart/32/3018_2.png) [@fallapart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fallapart)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/21 "2004-10-27T03:53:10Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > Dean: Do you think its a desperate cry for help? > The more I think about this episode, the more I enjoy it. Mecha-shiva! > > What the hell is Dean doing in jail in that clip? It looks like some sort of “scared straight” thing. “King, I gotta buy my bitch back.” Looks like a good one 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/22 "2004-10-27T13:07:52Z")
> [@fallapart](#): > > It looks like some sort of “scared straight” thing. “King, I gotta buy my bitch back.” Looks like a good one 🙂 Heh… You think this is gay?! I’ll tell you what’s gay! King Gorilla over there is gay! Ha! Monarch is great. I still love his bathroom line from the yard-sale episode. (quoted earlier in the thread) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/23 "2004-10-27T23:02:24Z")
> [@JoeSki](#): > > The Monarch would shoot a dart in your head if he heard you say that. C’mon, he’s not so pathetic. He’s rid himself of a few enemies in past episodes, and anyone that can lock horns with Underbite gets my respect. Speaking of Monarch Darts— [spoiler]…Was it one of the Monarch’s own darts that was used to knock him out, just like the dart with the “I Did It” note pinned to it used on the henchman at his base? If so, it’s sure lookling like one of the Monarch’s henchman was working for Phantom Limb and the Guild. I guess we’ll find out, soon enough.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/24 "2004-10-27T23:12:24Z")
Probably either the fat kid they kidnapped back when he was 12, or the dude who was ‘addicted to crack-cocaine’ before he got cleaned up by joining the Monarch 😛 ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/25 "2004-10-27T23:23:58Z")
Dr Girlfriend: “My costume! I can’t believe you kept it all these years…what are these little hard chunks?” Phantom Limb: “My tears!” ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/26 "2004-10-28T12:38:28Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > …Was it one of the Monarch’s own darts that was used to knock him out, just like the dart with the “I Did It” note pinned to it used on the henchman at his base? I had assumed that the fat guy wrote a tell-all book anonymously and that the thin guy knew about it; but that there was no conspiracy proper, just some guy writing a tell-all book about a celeb-type person. Ya know, like the butler writing a book about the rich dude he worked for. The dart, then, was just a way to keep _everybody_ from getting killed by the Monarch. I don’t recall if the darted henchman was the one who was involved with the book, but I figured that somebody picked someone at random to sacrifice. It seems funnier to me that way, because it makes the Monarch even more ineffectual since he can’t even root out the leak in his own organization. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/27 "2004-10-28T13:19:08Z")
And that’s not the first time something like this has happened. In another episode he was rooting out a traitor I think, and he says “I’m going to turn around, and the traitor can step forward. No judgements.” He turns around, and one henchmen coughs, causing Monarch to go batshit and get convinced that he was the one who did it, and gets a dart in the neck 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/28 "2004-10-29T22:39:18Z")
The [Monarch’s](http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/561/561302p1.html) two phonecalls. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/29 "2004-10-30T05:54:10Z")
Ohh…Just a thought about Dr. Orpheus’ courtroom testimony… [spoiler]He insisted on being sworn in on a _Necronomicon,_ instead of a Bible, right? Well, on the stand, he _broke_ his oath by commiting perjury. (Not intentionally, but he still did it.) :eek: :smack: Poor guy…he might get his arch nemesis, but it’ll end up being a Deep One. (Or a Shoggoth, at least.)[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/30 "2004-10-30T06:02:28Z")
I hope you’re right. That would be a freaking _awesome_ plot twist 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![Skott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Skott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skott)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/31 "2004-10-30T06:25:41Z")
From Jackson Publick’s [livejournal](http://www.livejournal.com/users/jacksonpublick/): > [@](#): > > Like the schmucks we are, Doc and I decided to redesign the opening scene at the last minute, so even though the script was the same, we designed new fantasy versions of all the characters–Hank as Indiana Jones, Dean as Magnum P.I., Brock as Knight Rider, H.E.L.P.eR. as an actual cool robot, and The Monarch as a more muscular, deadly looking version of himself. Then we decided to actually have the boys turn into Mecha-Shiva instead of just jumping on each others’ backs. So Doug Lovelace completely re-did the opening sequence (in one of the most lavishly illustrated storyboards I’ve ever seen–the lunatic did all these marker washes and everything!) It was well worth it, I think. Defintely worth it! ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/32 "2004-10-30T06:33:24Z")
Wow, this thread lasted a whole week! :eek: I hope I see a trend forming! Can’t wait for the next ep tomorrow night! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chukhung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chukhung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chukhung)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870/33 "2004-10-30T14:31:28Z")
Just a reminder for those of you who might have something better to do tonight than sitting at home watching cartoons: Be sure to set your VCR or Tivo for the season finale of Venture Bros. From the link provided by **Fern Forest** > [@](#): > > Keep in mind that there is no Sunday airing of _Venture Bros._ this week due to the _Aqua Teen_ Halloween marathon, so your only shot at seeing said finale is Saturday [30-Oct-2004] evening. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venture-brothers-10-24/270870.md?page=1)