Forgot to mention: Race Bannon doing a little wet work for the OSI was funny. And Steve Summers had a walk-on too.
Now that I’ve actually seen the episode, I realize I completely misunderstood the question. I’m guessing this is something that’s in the works to be revealed, maybe.
Pah! Fanwank? I’m just interpolating from the facts provided.
Did anybody else notice what the sign painter was doing on Dr. Fantamas’ door? He was removing a second name which appears to have been “R. Impossible.” Maybe a signal that there will be some more backstory next week.
I caught that! My wife didn’t believe me until I rewound. God, I love digital recorders.
It’s getting a little weird that ALL of these people have crossed paths before, though.
Not only that but two individuals who looked very much like the original patterns for Hank and Dean appeared in the episode. We were trying to figure out if they were time traveling or the originals or something else entirely…
On the other hand they definitively are not clones of Brock and Rusty which was my theory for the longest time.
Where did you see them?
HelpeR was holding them while Myra was being taken away.
I think he meant what could have been the original patterns, not the boys themselves. I’d be curious, too.
I’m glad to finally find out how Billy lost his hand – but saddened that it ended up so undignified. Cool way to lose his eye, though. I’m rather surprised Phantom Limb hasn’t demonstrated much of a grudge. Perhaps he’s grateful?
Oh, you mean the babies? I thought you meant you saw teenagers in this episode that looked like Hank and Dean, hence the “time traveling” part. Clearly, this episode takes place about twenty years ago (since according to their “mom”, Hank and Dean should be 19, not 16…clearly Rusty takes “time off” after their deaths before activating new clones, so they aren’t as old as they should be.)
I don’t see why time travel has to be involved…that’s just the infant Hank and Dean, which IMO lends more credibility to Myra being the mother (we already know that she WAS an OSI member, not just a crazy ex-American Gladiator as Brock said, and Rusty did admit to fucking her.)
Oh yeah - I didn’t see anything like that.
Given recent evidence of Phantom Limb’s lack of intelligence and observation skills, do we have any reason to think he’d even remember his relationship with Billy?
Exactly. The boy who screwed up his plans was William Whalen; the one who’s running around with Venture and White now is Master Billy Quizboy, Boy Genius. Who on earth would think they’re the same person? 
Well he did give Billy a wicked wedgie at the tag sale … .
Does anyone else suppose that Myra might have represented a case of superfecundity? That blond-headed baby looked more like a little Brockling than a Rustyspawn.
I watched this one again last night and liked it more. It’s a really dense episode.
I’m still not clear on why Billy’s memory had to be wiped. Was it because the Guild, who had infiltrated OSI, wanted to cover his memory of Phantom Limb’s origin?
Probably because at the time, people didn’t think The Guild was still around doing anything. Billy helped to find out that it was still around, so Sgt.Hatred (who was in OSI and a secret member of The Guild) had his memory wiped so he wouldn’t go blabbing that The Guild is still around.
Or they just didn’t want him to spill the beans about…The Nozzle. The Nozzle is very top secret.
I did. I wish I had recorded the episode so I could say exactly when, but I definitely saw something that looked like Hank talking to Brock, except he wasn’t tow headed. He looked just like him except for the coloring.
For the hell of it, I went through the Venture Bros. collection on Wikiquote just now. Check this out, from Victor. Echo. November.:
Seems like Jackson Publick knew where he was going with this.
I believe the “prototype” for Hank was the OSI operative who appeared briefly delivering a message to Brock – he looked like an older, but recognizable version. I think the Dean protoype may have been Stevie, the Prof’s former assistant.