Venture Bros: “O.S. I Love You” part 2
What does Dean Venture, protagonist of this episode’s b-story, want? He’s chafing under the mantle of being a Venture Brother and all that entails (tagging along on life-threatening adventures, being cloned repeatedly, having a negligent father and a child-molesting guardian, etc) and, what’s more, he’s a teen-aged boy going through all the teen-aged-boy things teen-aged boys go through: rebellion against his parents, discovering his own identity, girl problems. Hank, on the other hand, seems to have regressed. His Destiny strength-suit gives him power, but it’s also, as Rusty points out, just another dress-up costume like the Batman getup he had when he was 10. (Note: I’ve had a 10-year-old son, who wouldn’t dream of dressing as Batman. For him it was Gordon Freeman or nothing. He even bought a crowbar. He named it “Whammy.”)
Venture Bros: “O.S. I Love You” part 1
Due to its shuffled-flashback structure and blitz-clever dialogue, “O.S. I Love You” seems like a much more complicated episode than it is. The plot is extremely simple: Brock Samson and a team of OSI guys capture Monstroso and Molotov Cocktease and bring them aboard the OSI heli-carrier. Soon after being captured, both Monstroso and Molotov escape. Monstroso vanishes (as far as OSI knows) and Molotov leads the agents on a merry chase that ends with Brock cornering her and shredding her in one of the heli-carrier’s engines (or so we think). Later, OSI higher-ups come to investigate the botched capture, which should have been routine for Samson and his crew. In a small b-story, the Venture gang – simultaneously and coincidentally – come to the OSI heli-carrier to get Sgt Hatred breast-reduction surgery: Hatred is apparently no longer so into being the “mom” of the family.