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{{Infobox Television episode
  
{{Infobox Television episode
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| Title=Now Museum-Now You Don't
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| Title=Now Museum-Now You Don't!
 
| Series=[[The Venture Bros.]]
  
| Series=[[The Venture Bros.]]
 
| Season=3
  
| Season=3
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| Episode=35
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| Episode=9
 
| Airdate=27 July 2008
  
| Airdate=27 July 2008
 
| Writer= [[Jackson Publick]]
  
| Writer= [[Jackson Publick]]
 
| Director=[[Jackson Publick]]
  
| Director=[[Jackson Publick]]
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| Image = [[Image:NowMuseum.png|250px]]
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| Image = [[Image:Museum.jpg|250px]]
 
| Caption = "Okay, everyone, say, 'Go Team Venture!'"
  
| Caption = "Okay, everyone, say, 'Go Team Venture!'"
 
| Production = 3-35
  
| Production = 3-35
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| Guests = [[Mia Barron]] as Sally Impossible<br />[[Toby Huss]] as Scaramantula<ref>[http://urbaniak.livejournal.com/162000.html James Urbaniak's LiveJournal]. '''James Urbaniak''': "Sadly, his name was misspelled in the credits."</ref>
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| Guests = [[wikipedia:Mia_Barron|Mia Barron]] as [[Sally Impossible]]<br />[[wikipedia:Toby_Huss|Toby Huss]] as [[Scaramantula]]<ref>[http://urbaniak.livejournal.com/162000.html James Urbaniak's LiveJournal]. '''James Urbaniak''': "Sadly, his name was misspelled in the credits."</ref>
 
| Episode list = [[List of The Venture Bros. episodes]]
  
| Episode list = [[List of The Venture Bros. episodes]]
 
| Prev=[[Tears of a Sea Cow]]
  
| Prev=[[Tears of a Sea Cow]]
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| Next=[[The Lepidopterists|The Lepidopterists]]
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| Next=[[The Lepidopterists]]}}
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'''"Now Museum-Now You Don't"''' is the [[List of The Venture Bros. episodes|35<sup>th</sup> episode]] of ''[[The Venture Bros.]]'' and is part of Season 3.
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'''Now Museum-Now You Don't!''' is the ninth episode of Season 3 and the overall thirty-fifth episode of [[The Venture Bros.]]
   
 
==Plot==
  
==Plot==
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{{Plot|date=October 2009}}
  
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The episode begins in 1969, at Spider Skull Island. However, at this date, the island is the headquarters of the super villain Scaramantula, who leads the Fraternity of Torment (which includes Manotaur and a large-headed villain named Brainulo). The Fraternity is welcoming a new supervillain into their fold, the [[Japanese people|Japanese]] Dr. Fangdragon from Japananawa (actually Jonas Venture Senior in disguise) and are planning to kill Rusty. [[Dr. Venture]] reveals himself and Team Venture bursts onto the scene in the Excavator Car. Following a melee, the villains and their henchmen are soundly defeated, and only Scaramantula escapes via an underground tunnel. In his escape, he activates the self-destruct mechanism to blow up the island, as he continues down the deep subterranean passage. The mechanism inexplicably shorts out before the countdown completes, and the victorious Team Venture, topside, declare Spider Skull Island their new headquarters. A young Professor [[Richard "Dicky" Impossible]] is on hand to photograph their triumph.
  
   
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The episode begins in 1969, at [[Spider-Skull Island]]. However, at this date, the island is the headquarters of the super villain [[Scaramantula]], who leads the [[Fraternity of Torment]] (which includes [[Manotaur]] and a large-headed villain named [[Brainulo]]). The Fraternity is welcoming a new supervillain into their fold, the Japanese Dr. Fangdragon from Japananawa (actually Jonas Venture Senior in disguise) and are planning to kill Rusty. [[Dr. Venture]] reveals himself and Team Venture bursts onto the scene in the Excavator Car. Following a melee, the villains and their henchmen are soundly defeated, and only Scaramantula escapes via an underground tunnel. In his escape, he activates the self-destruct mechanism to blow up the island, as he continues down the deep subterranean passage. The mechanism inexplicably shorts out before the countdown completes, and the victorious Team Venture, topside, declare Spider-Skull Island their new headquarters. A young [[Professor Impossible|Richard Impossible]] (addressed as "Dickie") is on hand to photograph their triumph.
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Fast forward to the present, [[Dr. Jonas Venture Jr.]] has decided to open Spider Skull Island to the public by setting up a Jonas Venture [[Museum]]. Among the dignitaries are both the current Team Venture ([[Thaddeus Venture|Thaddeus]], [[Brock Sampson|Brock]], [[Dean Venture|Dean]], [[Hank Venture|Hank]], and [[H.E.L.P.eR.]]) and the former Team Venture (the Action Man, Kano, Otto Aquarius and Humongoloid (Dr. Entmann), as well as Swifty and Hector, while Ook Ook is frozen in a block of ice). Col. Horace Gentleman arrives to round out the team, explaining that he was not dead when the Venture boys found him in "[[Twenty Years to Midnight]]", but that he was in a [[diabetes|diabetic]] [[coma]]; he also punches Thaddeus in retaliation for "breaking [his] stepdaughter's heart" (as seen in "[[Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman]]"). Also at the party is Conjectural Technologies, various government dignitaries, and the Fraternity of Torment themselves (excluding the deceased Manotaur).
  
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Fast forward to the present, [[Jonas Venture Jr.|Dr. Jonas Venture Jr.]] has decided to open Spider-Skull Island to the public by setting up a Jonas Venture Museum. Among the dignitaries are both the current Team Venture ([[Thaddeus Venture|Thaddeus]], [[Brock Samson|Brock]], [[Dean Venture|Dean]], [[Hank Venture|Hank]], and [[H.E.L.P.eR.]]) and the former Team Venture ([[The Action Man]], [[Kano]], [[Otto Aquarius]] and [[Paul Entmann|Humongoloid]] (Dr. Entmann), as well as [[Swifty]] and [[Hector]], while [[Ook Ook]] is frozen in a block of ice). [[Colonel Gentleman|Col. Horace Gentleman]] arrives to round out the team, explaining that he was not dead when the Venture boys previously found him in [[Twenty Years to Midnight|''Twenty Years to Midnight'']], but that he was in a [[wikipedia:Diabetes|diabetic]] [[wikipedia:Coma|coma]]; he also punches Thaddeus in retaliation for "breaking [his] stepdaughter's heart". Also at the party is Conjectural Technologies ([[Master Billy Quizboy]] and [[Pete White]]), various government dignitaries, and the Fraternity of Torment themselves (excluding the deceased Manotaur).
   
 
Although they are retired and officially at peace with each other, The Fraternity and the original Team Venture still bear deep ill-will towards each other. They spend most of the evening bickering over old scores.
  
Although they are retired and officially at peace with each other, The Fraternity and the original Team Venture still bear deep ill-will towards each other. They spend most of the evening bickering over old scores.
   
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Additionally, the Sea Captain is run ragged around the island by order of Jonas Junior. Much annoyed by the consistent order giving Jonas Junior, the Sea Captain unintentionally walks into Sally Impossible's room where she is changing. The Sea Captain sees Sally naked while she is changing clothes, which causes the two to scream frantically.
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Additionally, the [[The Pirate Captain|Pirate Captain]] is run ragged around the island by order of Jonas Junior. Much annoyed by the consistent order giving Jonas Junior, the Pirate Captain unintentionally walks into [[Sally Impossible|Sally Impossible's]] room where she is changing. The Pirate Captain sees Sally naked while she is changing clothes, which causes the two to scream frantically.
   
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A disheveled Professor Richard Impossible arrives, whom Jonas Junior invited as a dignitary. Not only is he drunk and bitter, but his estranged wife Sally is furious that he was invited without her knowledge. Meanwhile, the Sea Captain and his ex-ghost pirates (who now work as butlers and valets) are getting more and more fed up with Jonas Junior's condescending method of management. On top of everything else, Thaddeus/Rusty gets annoyed that Jonas Junior seems to be trying to erase him from the Venture legacy.
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A disheveled Professor Richard Impossible arrives, whom Jonas Junior invited as a dignitary. Not only is he drunk and bitter, but his estranged wife Sally is furious that he was invited without her knowledge. Meanwhile, the Pirate Captain and his ex-ghost pirates (who now work as butlers and valets) are getting more and more fed up with Jonas Junior's condescending method of management. On top of everything else, Thaddeus/Rusty gets annoyed that Jonas Junior seems to be trying to erase him from the Venture legacy.
   
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Unbeknownst to all, Brainulo, while pretending to be [[senile]], is using his psychic powers to amplify the bad feelings of everyone in the room. Richard awkwardly tries to commit [[suicide]] in front of everyone by jumping off a catwalk (the fall doesn't injure him at all, but embarrasses Sally), while Jonas and Sally begin to have a series of unseemly arguments in front of the guests, and finally, the Captain and his crew attempt a mutiny (and are immediately set on by the Original Team Venture). Brainulo has little effect on [[Pete White]] because, apparently, Peter's major thoughts at the time are about the mother from [[Growing Pains]], played by [[Joanna Kerns]].
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Unbeknownst to all, Brainulo, while pretending to be [[wikipedia:Senile|senile]], is using his psychic powers to amplify the bad feelings of everyone in the room. Richard awkwardly tries to commit [[wikipedia:Suicide|suicide]] in front of everyone by jumping off a catwalk (the fall doesn't injure him at all, but embarrasses Sally), while Jonas and Sally begin to have a series of unseemly arguments in front of the guests, and finally, the Captain and his crew attempt a mutiny (and are immediately set upon by the Original Team Venture). Brainulo has little effect on Pete White because, apparently, Peter's major thoughts at the time are about the mother from the TV show ''[[wikipedia:Growing Pains|Growing Pains]]'', played by [[wikipedia:Joanna Kerns|Joanna Kerns]].
   
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Meanwhile, the current Team Venture prudently leaves before the fracas reaches a fever pitch. Brainulo tries to activate Futuro, his old attack robot (on display in the museum), with his psychic energy but is unsuccessful. During the melee, a projector is knocked on, which shows a quick film describing what a positive impact Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. had on the world. This display of sentimentality causes everyone to stop fighting. Still trying to activate Futuro, Brainulo overexerts himself and short-circuits his neural implants. Jonas Jr., seeing that his party is back online, asks Rusty Venture to speak only to find that his brother has already left. This surprise is cut short by the re-activation of the Spider Skull Island self-destruct mechanism. Brainulo and Scaramantula escape after unsuccessfully trying to disarm it and the current Team Venture leaves just as the countdown begins, with Thaddeus mocking the situation. The countdown continues as the credits roll.
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Meanwhile, the current Team Venture prudently leaves before the fracas reaches a fever pitch. Brainulo tries to activate [[Futuro]], his old attack robot (on display in the museum), with his psychic energy but is unsuccessful. During the melee, a projector is knocked on, which shows a quick film describing what a positive impact Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. had on the world. This display of sentimentality causes everyone to stop fighting. Still trying to activate Futuro, Brainulo overexerts himself and short-circuits his neural implants. Jonas Jr., seeing that his party is back online, asks Rusty Venture to speak only to find that his brother has already left. This surprise is cut short by the re-activation of the Spider-Skull Island self-destruct mechanism. Brainulo and Scaramantula escape after unsuccessfully trying to disarm it and the current Team Venture leaves just as the countdown begins, with Thaddeus mocking the situation. The countdown continues as the credits roll.
   
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In the epilogue, Spider Skull Island seems covered in Professor Richard Impossible's expanded body. It is revealed that he put his mouth over the device and contained the blast within his own elastic body, saving everybody. Sally and Jonas Junior thank him for his selfless act. As The Professor retracts back to normal and lies on the floor, the Sea Captain suggests he was trying to kill himself.
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In the epilogue, Spider-Skull Island seems covered in Professor Richard Impossible's expanded body. It is revealed that he put his mouth over the device and contained the blast within his own elastic body, saving everybody. Sally and Jonas Junior thank him for his selfless act. As the Professor retracts back to normal and lies on the floor, the Pirate Captain suggests he was trying to kill himself.
   
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== Episode Cast ==
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==Cultural references==
  
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* [[wikipedia:James_Urbaniak|'''James Urbaniak''']]: [[Dr. Venture]], [[Jonas Venture Jr.|Dr. Jonas Venture Jr.]]
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* [[wikipedia:Patrick_Warburton|'''Patrick Warburton''']]: [[Brock Samson]]
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* [[wikipedia:Michael_Sinterniklaas|'''Mike Sinterniklaas''']]: [[Dean Venture]]
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* [[Chris McCulloch|'''Christopher McCulloch''']]: [[Hank Venture]], [[Brainulo]], [[Pirate Captain]], [[Col. Gentleman]], [[The Action Man]], [[Ned]], [[Professor Impossible|Prof. Impossible]], [[Pete White]], Additional Voices
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* [[Doc Hammer|'''Doc Hammer''']]: [[Billy Quizboy]], Extra Pirates
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* [[wikipedia:Paul_Boocock|'''Paul Boocock''']]: [[Jonas Venture Sr.|Dr. Jonas Venture Sr.]], More Pirates
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* [[wikipedia:Mia_Barron|'''Mia Barron''']]: [[Sally Impossible]]
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* '''[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2463003/ Stephen DeStefano]''': [[Paul Entmann|Dr. Entmann]]
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* [[wikipedia:Toby Huss|'''Toby Huss''']]: [[Scaramantula]]
   
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== Museum Opening Attendees ==
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* The old interior of Spider Skull Island resembles the lair of [[Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] in the [[James Bond]] film [[You Only Live Twice]]. ( Including the trap door-bridge that Rusty is precariously balanced on! )
  
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A variety of people attended the grand opening of the '''Jonas Venture Jr. Museum of Jonas Venture''' on [[Spider-Skull Island]], all connected to [[Jonas Venture Sr.]] in some way. Attendees included:
   
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[[Boys Brigade|'''Boys Brigade''']]
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*When in his Dr. Fangdragon disguise, Dr.Venture claims to have a third nipple. This is the same physical characteristic of [[James Bond]] villan [[Francisco Scaramanga]], in the film [[The Man With The Golden Gun]].
  
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* [[General Manhowers]]
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* [[Professor Impossible]]
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'''Brisby Corporation'''
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* [[Mandalay]]
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* [[Roy Brisby]]
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[[Conjectural Technologies|'''Conjectural Technologies''']]
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* [[Billy Quizboy]]
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* [[Pete White]]
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[[Fraternity of Torment|'''Fraternity of Torment''']]
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* [[Brainulo]]
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* [[Futuro]] (dormant)
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* [[Scaramantula]]
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[[Gargantua-1|'''Gargantua-1''']]
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* [[Bud Manstrong]]
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* [[Mrs. Manstrong]]
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'''Miscellaneous'''
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* [[Action Johnny]]
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* [[Augustus St. Cloud]]
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* [[Mexican University Administrator]]
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[[Original Team Venture|'''Original Team Venture''']]
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* [[Colonel Gentleman]]
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* [[Dr. Paul Entmann]]
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* [[Kano]]
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* [[Ook Ook]] (frozen in ice)
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* [[Otto Aquarius]]
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* [[Swifty]]
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* [[The Action Man]]
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'''Super-scientists'''
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* [[Dr. Quentin Ball]]
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* [[Unnamed Jetpack Scientist]]
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[[The Venture Family|'''The Venture Family''']]
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* [[Brock Samson]]
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* [[Dean Venture]]
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* [[Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture]]
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* [[Hank Venture]]
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* [[H.E.L.P.eR.]]
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[[Venture Techno Industries|'''Venture Techno Industries''']]
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* [[Jonas Venture Jr.|Dr. Jonas Venture Jr.]]
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* [[Hector Molina]]
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* [[Ned]]
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* [[Sally Impossible]]
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* [[The Pirate Captain]]
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* Various Pirates
   
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== Connections to Other Episodes ==
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*Scaramantula is also a reference to "Scaramanga".
  
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[[Twenty Years to Midnight|'''''Twenty Years to Midnight''''']]
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* [[Colonel Gentleman]] explains that he was not dead when the Venture boys found him in [[Twenty Years to Midnight|''Twenty Years to Midnight'']], but that he had fallen into a [[wikipedia:Diabetes|diabetic]] [[wikipedia:Coma|coma]] from eating too many [[wikipedia:Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats#Mallomars|Mallomars]] (washed down with a [[wikipedia:Yoo-hoo|Yoo-hoo]] chaser) after getting into a fight with his lover, [[Kiki]].
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* [[The Pirate Captain]] brings the members of [[original Team Venture]] and the [[Fraternity of Torment]] to [[Spider-Skull Island]] aboard the [[X-2]]. He established in [[Twenty Years to Midnight|''Twenty Years to Midnight'']] that J.J. had made him the new ship's captain for the X-2.
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[[Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman|'''''Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman''''']]
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* When [[Colonel Gentleman]] punches [[Dr. Venture]], he says "that's for breaking my step-daughter's heart." He's referring to Dr. Venture's treatment of [[Tara Quymn]] in [[Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman|''Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman'']].
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* Talk show host [[wikipedia:Dick Cavett|Dick Cavett]] was previously seen in a flashback as a guest at the "key party" at [[the Venture compound]] in [[Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman|''Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman'']].
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[[Spanakopita!|'''''Spanakopita!''''']]
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* Colonel Gentleman claims astronaut [[wikipedia:Wally Schirra|Wally Schirra]] was one of his lovers. In a flashback to 1968 in [[Spanakopita!|''Spanakopita!'']], when [[L. Ron]] reveals his plans to interfere with the splashdown of [[wikipedia:Apollo 7|Apollo 7]], Colonel Gentleman exclaims "Wally's on that mission!"
   
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==Cultural References==
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*Col. Gentleman mentions having a [[three-way]] with author [[Gore Vidal]] and astronaut [[Wally Schirra]].
  
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''[[wikipedia:A Christmas Story|'''A Christmas Story''']]''''' (1983)'''
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* [[Dean Venture|Dean]] dares [[Hank Venture|Hank]] to press his tongue to the block of ice encasing [[Ook-Ook]], betting him that it will stick. Hank's tongue gets stuck to the ice, freezing him to it, similar to the character Flick in the 1983 film ''[[wikipedia:A Christmas Story|A Christmas Story]]'', who became stuck to a freezing cold flagpole after he pressed his tongue to it on a "triple dog dare".
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[[wikipedia:Andre The Giant|'''Andre The Giant''']]
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* [[Paul Entmann|Dr. Entmann]], in his Humongoloid form, physically and audibly resembles the actor/wrestler [[wikipedia:Andre The Giant|Andre The Giant]].
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[[wikipedia:Brainiac (comics)|'''Brainiac''']]
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* [[Brainulo]] is a parody of the [[wikipedia:DC Comics|DC Comics]] villain [[wikipedia:Brainiac (comics)|Brainiac]].
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[[wikipedia:Dick Cavett|'''Dick Cavett''']]
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* [[Jonas Venture Sr.]] is interviewed by tv talk show host [[wikipedia:Dick Cavett|Dick Cavett]] in the film strip shown in the museum.
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[[wikipedia:Gore Vidal|'''Gore Vidal''']]
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* [[Col. Gentleman]] mentions having a [[wikipedia:Three-way|three-way]] with author [[wikipedia:Gore Vidal|Gore Vidal]] and astronaut [[wikipedia:Wally Schirra|Wally Schirra]].
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''[[wikipedia:Growing Pains|'''Growing Pains''']]''' '''''<nowiki/>'''(1985-1992)'''
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* [[Pete White]] fantasizes about the episode of the TV show ''[[wikipedia:Growing Pains|Growing Pains]]'' where mother Maggie Seaver ([[wikipedia:Joanna Kerns|Joanna Kerns]]) was shown in the bathtub.
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[[wikipedia:Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats#Mallomars|'''Mallomars''']]
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* [[Colonel Gentleman]] blames his consumption of an entire package of [[wikipedia:Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats#Mallomars|mallomars]] (graham cracker and marshmallow coated with dark chocolate) for previously putting him into a [[wikipedia:Diabetes|diabetic]] [[wikipedia:Coma|coma]] and causing his "tits" to come back.
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[[wikipedia:Menorah (Temple)|'''Menorah''']]
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* [[The Action Man]] acknowledges his low opinion of [[Hank Venture|Hank]] and [[Dean Venture|Dean]]'s intelligence by referring to them as "not exactly the brightest bulbs on the ol' menorah." A [[wikipedia:Menorah (Temple)|menorah]] is a multi-branched ceremonial [[wikipedia:Candelabrum|candelabrum]] historically used by [[wikipedia:Judaism|Jews]] for ancient temple rituals ([[wikipedia:Menorah (Temple)|seven branch menorah]]) and for celebrating the holiday of [[wikipedia:Hanukkah|Hanukkah]] ([[wikipedia:Menorah (Hanukkah)|nine branch menorah]]).
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_%28comics%29 '''M.O.D.O.K.''']
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* [[Brainulo]] bears a strong resemblance to the [[wikipedia:Marvel Comics|Marvel Comics]] villain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_%28comics%29 M.O.D.O.K.]
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[http://superheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Spider-Man '''Spider-Man''']
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* [[Colonel Gentleman]] mockingly refers to [[Scaramantula]] as "[http://superheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Spider-Man Spider-Man]".
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[http://flintstones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Great_Gazoo '''The Great Gazoo''']
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* [[Colonel Gentleman]] mockingly refers to [[Brainulo]] as "[http://flintstones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Great_Gazoo The Great Gazoo]".
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''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_(film) '''The Man With The Golden Gun''']''''' (1974)'''
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* [[Scaramantula]] is parody of James Bond villain [[wikipedia:Francisco Scaramanga|Francisco Scaramanga]] from the film ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_(film) The Man With The Golden Gun]''.
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* When in his Dr. Fangdragon disguise, Dr. Venture claims to have a third nipple. This is the same physical characteristic of [[wikipedia:James Bond|James Bond]] villain [[wikipedia:Francisco Scaramanga|Francisco Scaramanga]].
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''[[wikipedia:The Omen|'''The Omen''']]''' '''''<nowiki/>'''(1976)'''
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* When [[Richard Impossible]] jumps off of the balcony, he yells, "Sally! It was all for you!" This is a parody of the nanny's suicide from ''[[wikipedia:The Omen|The Omen]]'', in which the nanny says, "Look at me, Damien. It's all for you," before hanging herself by jumping off a roof.
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''[[wikipedia:V for Vendetta|'''V for Vendetta''']]''
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* Rusty's comments about childhood memories where The Action Man would wake him up in the middle of the night by putting an empty gun to the boy's head, pulling the trigger, and stating "Not tonight, Rusty..." mirrors the actions and threats of Derek Almond to his wife Rosemary in ''[[wikipedia:V for Vendetta|V for Vendetta]]''.
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[[wikipedia:Wally Schirra|'''Wally Schirra''']]
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* Col. Gentleman mentions having a [[wikipedia:Three-way|three-way]] with author [[wikipedia:Gore Vidal|Gore Vidal]] and astronaut [[wikipedia:Wally Schirra|Wally Schirra]].
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[[wikipedia:Wilhelm scream|'''Wilhelm scream''']]
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* The [[wikipedia:Wilhelm scream|Wilhelm scream]] can be heard in the opening scene.
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[[wikipedia:Yoo-hoo|'''Yoo-hoo''']]
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* Following his fight with [[Kiki]], [[Colonel Gentleman]] puts himself into a [[wikipedia:Diabetes|diabetic]] [[wikipedia:Coma|coma]] by eating an entire box of [[wikipedia:Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats#Mallomars|Mallomars]] and washing it down with a [[wikipedia:Yoo-hoo|Yoo-hoo]] chaser. Yoo-hoo is a chocolate beverage.
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''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(film) '''You Only Live Twice''']''''' (1967)'''
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* The old interior of [[Spider-Skull Island]] resembles the lair of [[wikipedia:Ernst Stavro Blofeld|Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] in the [[wikipedia:James Bond|James Bond]] film ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(film) You Only Live Twice]'' (including the trap door-bridge that Rusty is precariously balanced on).
   
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==Production Notes==
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*Dr.Entmann, in his Humongoloid form, physically and audibly resembles the actor / wrestler [[Andre The Giant]].
  
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{{wikiquote|The_Venture_Bros._(season_3)#Now_Museum,_Now_You_Don't|Now Museum-Now You Don't}}
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* One of the animation directors ([https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0454068/ Kimson Albert]) gets to have a "nickname" inserted into his credits. For ''Now Museum-Now You Don't!'' the credits reads Kimson "Ook Ook" Albert.
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* This is the first episode since [[The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay|''The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay'']] (the [[wikipedia:Pilot episode|pilot episode]]) in which [http://www.biography.com/people/stephen-colbert-40920 Stephen Colbert] does not voice [[Richard Impossible]]. He is instead voiced by [[Christopher McCulloch]].<ref name="cast">[http://www.tv.com/the-venture-brothers/now-museum-%E2%80%93-now-you-dont/episode/1214226/cast.html TV.com cast list for ''Now Museum-Now You Don't!'']</ref>
   
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== Trivia ==
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*Brainulo bears a strong resemblance to the [[Iron Man]] villain [[M.O.D.O.K.]].
  
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* After [[Brainulo]] preys on [[Professor Impossible]]'s thoughts, Impossible is asked to take [[Team Venture]]'s photo. As he arrives, he is momentarily shown to be holding a pair of blue thong-style panties; the Professor stole his ex-wife [[Sally Impossible|Sally]]'s panties.
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* First reference to the [[Boys Brigade]]. Two former members, [[Professor Impossible]] and [[General Manhowers]], attend the museum opening. A photo of the group from 1966 hangs on the museum wall.
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*Rusty's comments about childhood memories where the Action Man would wake him up in the middle of the night by putting an empty gun to the boy's head, pulling the trigger, and stating "Not tonight Rusty..." mirrors the actions and threats of Derek Almond to his wife Rosemary in [[V for Vendetta]].
  
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*When Richard Impossible jumps off of the balcony, he yells, "Sally! It was all for you!" This is similar to the nanny's suicide from [[The Omen]], in which the nanny says, "Look at me, Damien. It's all for you," before hanging herself by jumping off a roof.
  
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==Production notes==
  
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* This is the first episode since "[[The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay]]" (the [[pilot episode]]) in which [[Stephen Colbert]] does not voice Richard Impossible. He is instead voiced by [[Christopher McCulloch]].<ref name = cast>[http://www.tv.com/the-venture-brothers/now-museum-%E2%80%93-now-you-dont/episode/1214226/cast.html TV.com cast list for "Now Museum, Now You Don't"]</ref>
  
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* One of the animation directors (Kimson Albert) gets to have a "nickname" inserted into his credits. For "Now Museum, Now You Don't" the credits reads Kimson "Ook Ook" Albert.
  
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"Now Museum-Now You Don't!"
The Venture Bros. episode
Museum
"Okay, everyone, say, 'Go Team Venture!'"
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 9
Directed by Jackson Publick
Written by Jackson Publick
Production code 3-35
Original air date 27 July 2008
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Now Museum-Now You Don't! is the ninth episode of Season 3 and the overall thirty-fifth episode of The Venture Bros.

Plot

The episode begins in 1969, at Spider-Skull Island. However, at this date, the island is the headquarters of the super villain Scaramantula, who leads the Fraternity of Torment (which includes Manotaur and a large-headed villain named Brainulo). The Fraternity is welcoming a new supervillain into their fold, the Japanese Dr. Fangdragon from Japananawa (actually Jonas Venture Senior in disguise) and are planning to kill Rusty. Dr. Venture reveals himself and Team Venture bursts onto the scene in the Excavator Car. Following a melee, the villains and their henchmen are soundly defeated, and only Scaramantula escapes via an underground tunnel. In his escape, he activates the self-destruct mechanism to blow up the island, as he continues down the deep subterranean passage. The mechanism inexplicably shorts out before the countdown completes, and the victorious Team Venture, topside, declare Spider-Skull Island their new headquarters. A young Richard Impossible (addressed as "Dickie") is on hand to photograph their triumph.

Fast forward to the present, Dr. Jonas Venture Jr. has decided to open Spider-Skull Island to the public by setting up a Jonas Venture Museum. Among the dignitaries are both the current Team Venture (Thaddeus, Brock, Dean, Hank, and H.E.L.P.eR.) and the former Team Venture (The Action Man, Kano, Otto Aquarius and Humongoloid (Dr. Entmann), as well as Swifty and Hector, while Ook Ook is frozen in a block of ice). Col. Horace Gentleman arrives to round out the team, explaining that he was not dead when the Venture boys previously found him in Twenty Years to Midnight, but that he was in a diabetic coma; he also punches Thaddeus in retaliation for "breaking [his] stepdaughter's heart". Also at the party is Conjectural Technologies (Master Billy Quizboy and Pete White), various government dignitaries, and the Fraternity of Torment themselves (excluding the deceased Manotaur).

Although they are retired and officially at peace with each other, The Fraternity and the original Team Venture still bear deep ill-will towards each other. They spend most of the evening bickering over old scores.

Additionally, the Pirate Captain is run ragged around the island by order of Jonas Junior. Much annoyed by the consistent order giving Jonas Junior, the Pirate Captain unintentionally walks into Sally Impossible's room where she is changing. The Pirate Captain sees Sally naked while she is changing clothes, which causes the two to scream frantically.

A disheveled Professor Richard Impossible arrives, whom Jonas Junior invited as a dignitary. Not only is he drunk and bitter, but his estranged wife Sally is furious that he was invited without her knowledge. Meanwhile, the Pirate Captain and his ex-ghost pirates (who now work as butlers and valets) are getting more and more fed up with Jonas Junior's condescending method of management. On top of everything else, Thaddeus/Rusty gets annoyed that Jonas Junior seems to be trying to erase him from the Venture legacy.

Unbeknownst to all, Brainulo, while pretending to be senile, is using his psychic powers to amplify the bad feelings of everyone in the room. Richard awkwardly tries to commit suicide in front of everyone by jumping off a catwalk (the fall doesn't injure him at all, but embarrasses Sally), while Jonas and Sally begin to have a series of unseemly arguments in front of the guests, and finally, the Captain and his crew attempt a mutiny (and are immediately set upon by the Original Team Venture). Brainulo has little effect on Pete White because, apparently, Peter's major thoughts at the time are about the mother from the TV show Growing Pains, played by Joanna Kerns.

Meanwhile, the current Team Venture prudently leaves before the fracas reaches a fever pitch. Brainulo tries to activate Futuro, his old attack robot (on display in the museum), with his psychic energy but is unsuccessful. During the melee, a projector is knocked on, which shows a quick film describing what a positive impact Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. had on the world. This display of sentimentality causes everyone to stop fighting. Still trying to activate Futuro, Brainulo overexerts himself and short-circuits his neural implants. Jonas Jr., seeing that his party is back online, asks Rusty Venture to speak only to find that his brother has already left. This surprise is cut short by the re-activation of the Spider-Skull Island self-destruct mechanism. Brainulo and Scaramantula escape after unsuccessfully trying to disarm it and the current Team Venture leaves just as the countdown begins, with Thaddeus mocking the situation. The countdown continues as the credits roll.

In the epilogue, Spider-Skull Island seems covered in Professor Richard Impossible's expanded body. It is revealed that he put his mouth over the device and contained the blast within his own elastic body, saving everybody. Sally and Jonas Junior thank him for his selfless act. As the Professor retracts back to normal and lies on the floor, the Pirate Captain suggests he was trying to kill himself.

Episode Cast

Museum Opening Attendees

A variety of people attended the grand opening of the Jonas Venture Jr. Museum of Jonas Venture on Spider-Skull Island, all connected to Jonas Venture Sr. in some way. Attendees included:

Boys Brigade

Brisby Corporation

Conjectural Technologies

Fraternity of Torment

Gargantua-1

Miscellaneous

Original Team Venture

Super-scientists

The Venture Family

Venture Techno Industries

Connections to Other Episodes

Twenty Years to Midnight

Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman

Spanakopita!

  • Colonel Gentleman claims astronaut Wally Schirra was one of his lovers. In a flashback to 1968 in Spanakopita!, when L. Ron reveals his plans to interfere with the splashdown of Apollo 7, Colonel Gentleman exclaims "Wally's on that mission!"

Cultural References

A Christmas Story (1983)

  • Dean dares Hank to press his tongue to the block of ice encasing Ook-Ook, betting him that it will stick. Hank's tongue gets stuck to the ice, freezing him to it, similar to the character Flick in the 1983 film A Christmas Story, who became stuck to a freezing cold flagpole after he pressed his tongue to it on a "triple dog dare".

Andre The Giant

Brainiac

Dick Cavett

Gore Vidal

Growing Pains (1985-1992)

Mallomars

  • Colonel Gentleman blames his consumption of an entire package of mallomars (graham cracker and marshmallow coated with dark chocolate) for previously putting him into a diabetic coma and causing his "tits" to come back.

Menorah

M.O.D.O.K.

Spider-Man

The Great Gazoo

The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)

The Omen (1976)

  • When Richard Impossible jumps off of the balcony, he yells, "Sally! It was all for you!" This is a parody of the nanny's suicide from The Omen, in which the nanny says, "Look at me, Damien. It's all for you," before hanging herself by jumping off a roof.

V for Vendetta

  • Rusty's comments about childhood memories where The Action Man would wake him up in the middle of the night by putting an empty gun to the boy's head, pulling the trigger, and stating "Not tonight, Rusty..." mirrors the actions and threats of Derek Almond to his wife Rosemary in V for Vendetta.

Wally Schirra

Wilhelm scream

Yoo-hoo

You Only Live Twice (1967)

Production Notes

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Trivia

References

  1. ↑ James Urbaniak's LiveJournal. James Urbaniak: "Sadly, his name was misspelled in the credits."
  2. ↑ TV.com cast list for Now Museum-Now You Don't!


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