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Reset Smith posted:So the robot owl is called a Bubo? What's that from? I am pretty sure Clash of the Titans
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Hollis posted:ENGRAMS GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!! This had better be the next thread title or I'mma be mad. 
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Reset Smith posted:So the robot owl is called a Bubo? What's that from? Clash of the Titans, a classic old movie featuring a lot of stop-animation monsters, done by the same Ray Harryhausen mentioned in the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzKhqt5IRnM Bobulus fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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Jun 24, 2013 05:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzO83dw764A So I just realized the therapist in Self Medication is the same one from the season 2 opener. This show has hella deep callbacks.
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Jun 24, 2013 05:37
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:This had better be the next thread title or I'mma be mad. SPANAKOPITA!
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Jun 24, 2013 05:42
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It looks like Rusty went to Spanikos right after his dad died  I mean sure, they're kind of cheating him, but in an overpriced vacation kind of way. And it does make him happy.
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Jun 24, 2013 05:45
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I'm still stunned that they made an F/X 2 reference. I've never met anyone that's even heard of it, aside from the people I was with when I saw it. Somehow I saw it in the theater. I was...nine, I think.
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Jun 24, 2013 05:48
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They maybe cheating him, yet they are still 100 times nicer to Rusty then his actual father. They also show mare caring towards him.
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Jun 24, 2013 05:50
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I dunno, the way he beat their asses at the end was kind of endearing, though he also just plain out doesn't like being bested so there's arguably other, probably better reasons he'd do it.
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I can't get tiny crying Dr. Venture out of my head. It was just so pitiful. (Also, I did not realize that the season was going to be so short so I'm feeling just as upset as Rusty was now.)
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Jun 24, 2013 05:52
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Yeah, we're halfway done already. At least there's been some instant classics in this first half.
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Jun 24, 2013 06:02
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Rusty is more of a whiny annoying briefcase to his father. It doesn't matter if he's happy or not, but if he's stolen, he has to be retrieved and the perpetrators beaten up by Ever realize that Jonas never calls Rusty by his real name?
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On a similar "Rusty's life is full of symbolism" note, has Dr. Venture ever piloted the X1? It's his personal conveyance, but he always had his bodyguard fly. In tonight's flashback, College Rusty showed up by boat. He has never one had control of the direction in his life.
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Jun 24, 2013 06:20
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Friends Are Evil posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzO83dw764A
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I've said it before but where the hell is Doctor Orpheus and the triad?
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TontoCorazon posted:I've said it before but where the hell is Doctor Orpheus and the triad? Very hopefully, either the entire second half of the season or on their way to becoming a spinoff.
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Bobulus posted:has Dr. Venture ever piloted the X1? Escape to the House of Mummies Part II. Oh, and the Viceroy thing comes up in whichever episode it is that the Monarch is reading the Venture Home News and there's a letter from "G. Viceroy."
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The Halloween special was pulled from this season's run, so there probably won't be another Orpheus/Triad centric episode. Hopefully they still show up, though.
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EatinCake posted:When they were arguing about being called Sphinx Commander, he also referred to himself as The Viceroy there too irc. Hella callbacks indeed. It's also a play on the Monarch's schtick
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The thing I love about Gary being 'The Viceroy' is that there's an actual butterfly called the Viceroy which has evolved to look like the (poisonous) Monarch butterfly so it won't get eaten by predators. It's brilliant, really - he was just so into the henching for the Monarch thing that when he finally goes out on his own, the name he picks isn't just great because he's imitating what he's learned from the Monarch, and a real viceroy would serve under a monarch, but also because it's the name of a lovely imitation of the same-named butterfly as well. EDIT: REALLY? Beaten on this by one post? Goddamn. 
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I have to say that I actually found this episode to be rather mediocre, at least in light of the rest of the episodes we've seen so far. I'm not sure whether it's simply because I missed quite a few of the references, but I just found the humour wasn't really there. I appreciated the premise, as it's almost textbook Jonas Sr./Rusty, but I just found myself smirking occasionally rather than being taken in. It is quite nice to occasionally see bits of what the original Venture team actually did. I get the feeling that the whole affair is a lot darker than I had originally envisioned. Oh, I'm also really not a fan of Billy's Arch.
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EatinCake posted:When they were arguing about being called Sphinx Commander, he also referred to himself as The Viceroy there too irc. Hella callbacks indeed. It might be a stretch, but I thought the beginning of that episode, with Gary chasing down a the semi on a jetpack, was a reference to his first attempt at becoming a supervillain: Jetboy and Jetgirl.
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Khaba posted:I have to say that I actually found this episode to be rather mediocre, at least in light of the rest of the episodes we've seen so far. I'm glad that I'm not the only one. In my book this is similar to "Guess Who's Coming To State Dinner," where it's got some funny bits (Brock's kids, Billy's dream, and the L. Ron Hubbard fight) but as a whole doesn't compare to the rest of the series. It was interesting to see Doc happy for a change, but he's funnier when he's being a dick about everything. And they need to either do something to change up St. Cloud or get rid of him altogether. Right now he's just an excuse to fit random movie references into scenes. It worked in the season premier because he was relegated to being part of a side-story in a huge episode, but he was a bigger part of this episode and it didn't work out very well. At least he's not as irritating as the Secret Service agent in State Dinner.
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TontoCorazon posted:I've said it before but where the hell is Doctor Orpheus and the triad?
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Jun 24, 2013 08:28
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I love that St. Cloud just spent millions on a bunch of pies.
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Jun 24, 2013 08:33
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Dr Pepper posted:I love that St. Cloud just spent millions on a bunch of pies. With all due fairness I would spend millions as well on spinach pie, I'd take a life for some spinach pie.
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Jun 24, 2013 08:38
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I was waiting for the Drachma coins they were handing out to turn out to really be the doubloons from the start of the episode and for Rusty to have won millions of dollars in ancient gold coins over the last 20 years.
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I'm not sure if, after this episode, I should be mad at Jonas Sr. for beating up the nice pirates, or like him more for fighting Scientology,Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:Because gently caress scientology.
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TontoCorazon posted:With all due fairness I would spend millions as well on spinach pie, I'd take a life for some spinach pie. http://www.olympiaofwilmington.com/ Yum.
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The scene with Jonas Sr. Was just soo loving dark. The look on his face the knowing exchange of glances Gentleman was waiting to lock the door. The few times we see Jonas Sr. He has an upbeat attitude it was loving dropped, that felt like a mob scene. He took a loving Eye. It just made me think that he fews rusty as his property and they messed with his property and must be punished for it.
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I loved this episode, mostly because it was just a joy to see how uncharacteristically happy Rusty was. Yay for Rusty  Also because of the incredibly hosed up Clash of the Titans inspired dream sequence that ends up getting all mixed up with the story of Icarus.
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max4me posted:The scene with Jonas Sr. Was just soo loving dark. The look on his face the knowing exchange of glances Gentleman was waiting to lock the door. The few times we see Jonas Sr. He has an upbeat attitude it was loving dropped, that felt like a mob scene. They've shown before that the original Rusty Venture stories were really loving dark, cleaned up for kids, and whitewashed Jonas Sr. Having Jonas Sr., Col. Gentleman, and Action Man beating the poo poo out of some poor pirates who felt pity for Rusty, and taking an eye. That seems more in character than seeing Jonas Sr. taking a cheerful a 'no harm, no foul' attitude. If anything, it explains the appeal of The Guild. If the 'good guys' are going around acting like mobsters with impunity, then it's time to bring some parity to the situation. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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That was a good episode and the Harryhausen tribute was loving amazing.
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It was nice to see Rusty so happy.
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Khaba posted:I have to say that I actually found this episode to be rather mediocre, at least in light of the rest of the episodes we've seen so far. I'm not sure whether it's simply because I missed quite a few of the references, but I just found the humour wasn't really there. I appreciated the premise, as it's almost textbook Jonas Sr./Rusty, but I just found myself smirking occasionally rather than being taken in. Glad to see I'm not alone on this. The whole episode felt a bit thin. There were plenty of great moments interspersed throughout (like the amazing Harryhausen tribute), but I just couldn't get into the episode as a whole. And that St. Cloud guy? A gimmick, and a two-dimensional one at that.
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How many episodes is this season again? Also is there even any idea when season 6 is coming out?
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Since Ray Harryhausen died May 7th of this year, that means he was still alive when this episode was in the can.
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LP97S posted:How many episodes is this season again? Also is there even any idea when season 6 is coming out? Only eight episodes and there's no word at all on season six except that they hope for a smaller gap this time.
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