The Venture Brothers

Episode Recap of “Bright Light, Dean City”

In this week’s episode of the Venture Bros, we learn the details of Dean’s internship at Impossible Industries in New York City. The episode takes place at the same time Hank was at home selling Rusty’s old junk, playing detective, and getting lucky.

It starts out with Phantom Limb narrating the demise of many characters including Jonas Jr, Girl Hitler, the Monarchs, and the Guild. Before we can digest this, the scene pans out. It was Limb’s revenge wish list that Professor Impossible calls a “bit killy.” Ünterbheit tries to have his say, but the other two insist he needs to prove his loyalty and he snaps his manservant’s neck. When Dean comes in to the room, Ünterbheit and Limb hide.

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Episode Review “Everybody Comes to Hank’s”

Where can I get an application to HankCo? Episode 4.12 is a visionary masterpiece. As they have established time and again, Astrobase Go proves unafraid to take their sordid tale of woe into dark and risky places, ultimately providing us with a rich and thought-provoking story.

The opening of the episode seems like well-worn territory; Rusty continues to thrust Dean into his failed super-scientist footsteps with an internship in New York, even going so far as to make his sensitive son don an old suit that he himself wore in his intern days. He sternly lectures Hank about finding a job. Hatred is lovably quirky and befuddled on nighttime jet functions, and adorably excited about tickets to a Broadway production of the Music Man. Cut to a Hank-operated business reminiscent of exploits seen in season 1’s Tag Sale-You’re it! It makes sense, of course, that one of the only ways Hank can think to make money is by selling his father’s possessions; it’s one of the only examples he’s ever been given to follow. Once this comfortable Venture formula has been set up, however, the meat of the episode is revealed: the mystery of Dermott’s parentage, alluded to in past episodes but never fully scrutinized, is about to be investigated by Henry Allen Venture, expert gumshoe, and his girl-Friday, the Alchemist.

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Episode Recap of “Everybody Comes to Hank’s”

In this week’s episode of the Venture Bros, a question that’s been lingering since season 3 is answered with a surprising twist. We also learn the memory wipe machine is working overtime, putting on a fedora everything turns black and white, and our little Hank is becoming a man.

The episode starts with Dean in a lime green leisure suit getting ready for an internship in New York. This spurs Rusty into badgering Hank to find employment better then “mafia don, fire eater, or traveling race car salesmen.” Fast forward four days and Hank has resurrected Hankco’s from season 1. No longer just a lemonade and grinder stand, Hank has turned it in into a Superstore. Besides being a glorified yard sale, Hankco’s is also a cafe, notary, and massage parlor.

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