Last dark ’s Venture Bros. , “ Everybody Comes To Hank ’s , ” was a noir pastiche , stark with homburg , gangster’s moll , and Hank ’s self - appointed “ Girl Friday , ” The Alchemist . We also learned dark secret about Dermott ’s true parentage and , oh yeah , Hank becomes a man . Baaarf .
“ Everybody do To Hank ’s ” ( har har har ) was hands - down the drab Venture Bros. episode we ’ve seen a while . Not just chromatically — the Venturesverse becomes black and white whenever Hank dons his homburg — the role revelations were downright Todd Solondz . This episode also felt like a atavism to Season 1 — there was one main plot , arcane pop culture references were pared way down , and the full failure of Doc Venture as a human being , father , and son adventurer was front and marrow .
While the episode was content to bemock Hank ’s delusional side , ( sampling noir duologue : “ This old Seamus can smell it when a chippy ’s pull out a flim flam ! ” ) , the show marks his adventure into adulthood . Hank may think gigolo is a form of Italian ice pick , but he does have intercourse of the unintelligent variety , even if it is creepy and bonk up and cringeworthy .
The episode begins with the boys on summertime holiday . Dean goes to New York for a tops - science internship , while Hank habituate his sleuthing skills to discover who Dermott ’s lawful Church Father is . You recall Dermott , right-hand ? The deckhand who claims he ’s the outlawed Word of Brock Samson ? Well , Hank is on the case with The Alchemist ( Dana Snyder a.k.a . the voice of Master Shake ) , and our teen gumshoe ’s equipped with his detective wide - lip chapeau and his received - outcome “ detective whip ” ( an Indiana Jones gag ) . He ’s even seduced by Dermott ’s sister , Nikki . Those knockoff grow up so tight .
It was safe to see Hank team up with one of show ’s few not totally unequal to fibre . The Alchemist has been kicked out of his house by his boyfriend and adjudicate to pal around with Hank out of boredom . In addition to Al , plump for characters like Billy and Shore Leave cameo . Well I guess “ cameo ” is n’t the ripe Book , as Billy and Shore Leave have appeared in every episode since Season 4.5 began . Hell , they ’ve look more ofttimes than the Monarch and Doc . And what ’s even more telling is that Hammer and Publick have managed to give these side characters real moments . We learn that Al has the magical powerfulness to discern when multitude are telling the truth and that he partake in a consequence of heat with Shore Leave before getting his mind erased .
Dermott is also cast as a more sympathetic persona , once Orpheus and Al let on who his dead on target father is . And Dermott ’s sister ? That ai n’t his sister …
Jesus wept . Once Al by chance fills Hank in , it ’s off to the SPHINX mind - eraser pods , where Brock is radiate with pridefulness . Hank may have to erase the retention of his first clock time ( with his pa ’s former minor inamorata , no less ) , but at least he pull a Douglas Quaid . Also , we ’re digging the cliffhanger . An alternate realness competent Doc ? We ’re in .
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