History Recap / TheVentureBrosS1E6GhostsOfTheSargasso

In the present day, the current Venture family are preparing a mechanical diving suit aboard the X-2 in the same area of the ocean. Dr. Venture hopes to find and recover the TVC 15 in order to make money off of it. Venture begins making journal recordings into a hand held recorder as Hank and Brock lower him into the water. Hank accidentally jostles the crane controls, dropping the suit faster that expected and leaving Brock with severe rope burns on both hands. Using his invention, a "Metasonic Locator," Venture sets off to find the wreck.

As night falls, Brock sits at the controls of the X-2 communicating with Venture in the water. The fog clears to reveal an ancient pirate ship in the distance, which Brock leaves to investigate. Hank wakes up and leaves to take a leak off the side of the boat. Meanwhile, men dressed in stereotypical, old-timey pirate gear board the X-2 and cut the communication wires. Brock manages to sneak up behind the pirates, but drops his knife due to his bandaged hands. He disables them by bashing their heads together while telling Hank, via his communicator watch, to stay hidden.

On the ocean floor, unaware of the events on the X-2, Venture searches for the downed aircraft. Upset that his Metasonic Locator isn't getting any readings, he increases the power. As he does, the Locator's waves reach the wreckage of the aircraft, where a green glow flies out of the cockpit towards the surface. Venture accidentally walks into a giant clam, which quickly closes around his suit, trapping him. He tries to contact the surface for help, but is unable.

One of Brock's pirate guards (reluctantly) puts on a rubber glove and begins to search for the keys up Brock's ass. Brock asks the other pirate for a cigarette to help him relax, who refuses at first, but the pirate searching his ass convinces the other pirate to give Brock the cigarette. As he does so, Brock clenches his ass around the arm of the one pirate, and swings him around to take out the other pirate. When the pirate captain asks for a report via walkie talkie, Brock takes a moment to taunt the captain.

Hank uses his wrist communicator to call Dr. Orpheus, since he's an expert in matters like ghosts. Orpheus searches Jonas Venture's records at the compound, to learn the identity of the ghost as Major Tom. He instructs the boys to contact Major Tom's widow, Jeanie, who is remarried to Rodney, the Action Man. The ghost calms down when Jeanie talks to him, but starts screaming again when Rodney barges into the conversation. Brock attacks the ghost from behind, beheading it, and tosses it back into the ocean.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Justified, as the pirates have been stuck in the sargassum for 10 years. They'd like to do more, but have never been able to rob anything more than a Toys 'R' Us ship, a Red Cross ship, and a freighter full of pantyhose. Their swords and flintlocks are also useless for anything other than intimidation, having been looted from the aforementioned Toys 'R' Us ship.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: Brock, during a CavitySearch with his hands bound, manages to take out two of the "ghost pirates" by beating one with the other.

** The Sargasso Sea is the setting for an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' and a ''Literature/DocSavage'' book, two of the major influences for the series.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Justified, as the pirates have been stuck in the sargassum for 10 years. They'd like to do more, but have never been able to rob anything more than a Toys'R'Us ship, a Red Cross ship, and a freighter full of pantyhose.

** The Sargasso Sea is the setting for an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' and a ''Franchise/DocSavage'' book, two of the major influences for the series.

* GhostShip: Averted. The pirates are very much alive (though one pretends to be a ghost at one point), and their ship is just stuck.

Back under the water, Venture notes in his voice journal that he escapes the clam when the legs of his mechanical suit exploded. He is not hunched in the forward compartment of the suit, using it's arms to crawl. As he nearly gives up hope, he stumbles onto the wrecked aircraft.

* GhostShip: Averted. The pirates are very much alive (though one pretends to be a ghost at one point,) and their ship is just stuck.

* AssKicksYou: Brock takes out two pirates using his ass.

* AssKicksYou: Brock takes out two pirates using his ass.

In a {{Flashback}}, we see the original Team Venture (Jonas Venture Sr, young Rusty Venture, Kano, Colonel Gentleman, and the Action Man) in the Bermuda Triangle in 1969 aboard the X-2 boat. They are in communication with Major Tom, a test pilot flying the TVC 15, an experimental craft designed by Jonas. Major Tom cryptically ends communication, quoting lines from DavidBowie's song ''Space Oddity.'' Soon after, the craft crashes into the water, killing Major Tom.

** Major Tom and the Action Man are references to the DavidBowie songs ''Space Oddity'' and ''Ashes to Ashes''. the TCV 15 is named after another Bowie song. Also, the dialogue between Major Tom and Dr. Jonas Venture is taken directly from ''Space Oddity.''

The Pirate Captain tells his story to Dean on the bridge of the X-2. Their ship has been stuck in the sargassum for 10 years, where they hijack passing ships. However, instead of treasure, they've only been able to raid a Toys'R'Us ship and a ship containing pantyhose. The green glow from the aircraft manifests itself on the deck of the X-2 as a screaming, burning green skeletal ghost wearing a tattered flight suit. The screaming scares the Pirate Captain, who decides to use to the X-2 to flee the area. However, Brock has the key, so he instructs his lackeys to get the key from Brock. Brock stalls for time by telling the pirate guards that they key is "up his ass."

** The Sargasso Sea is the setting for an episode of ''JonnyQuest'' and a ''Franchise/DocSavage'' book, two of the major influences for the series.

** The Sargasso Sea is the setting for an episode of ''JonnyQuest'' and a ''DocSavage'' book, two of the major influences for the series.

** Major Tom and the Action Man are references to the DavidBowie songs ''Space Oddity'' and ''Ashes to Ashes''. the TCV 15 is named after another Bowie song.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The pirates have been stuck in the sargassum for 10 years. They'd like to do more, but have never been able to rob anything more than a Toys'R'Us ship, a Red Cross ship, and a freighter full of pantyhose.

Episode - 1-06 (8th in Production Order)

In a {{Flashback}}, we see the original Team Venture (Jonas Venture Sr, young Rusty Venture, Kano, Colonel Gentleman, and the Action Man) in the Bermuda Triangle in 1969 aboard the X-2 boat. They are in communication with Major Tom, a test pilot flying the TVC 15, an experimental craft designed by Jonas. Major Tom cryptically ends communication, quoting lines from DavidBowie's song "Space Oddity." Soon after, the craft crashes into the water, killing Major Tom.

* ApocalypticLog: Venture's final journal entry indicates his journal is intended to be one of these, but is saved before he dies.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The pirates have been stuck in the sargassum for 10 years. They'd like to do more, but have never been able to rob anything more than a Toys'R'Us ship and a freighter full of pantyhose.

The Pirate Captain tells his story to Dean on the bridge of the X-2. Their ship has been stuck in the sargassum for 10 years, where they hijack passing ships. However, instead of treasure, they've only been able to raid a Toys'R'Us ship and a ship containing pantyhose. The green glow from the aircraft manifests itself on the deck of the X-2 as a screaming, burning green skeleton wearing a tattered flight suit. The screaming scares the Pirate Captain, who decides to use to the X-2 to flee the area. However, Brock has the key, so he instructs his lackeys to get the key from Brock. Brock stalls for time by telling the pirate guards that they key is "up his ass."

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In a {{Flashback}}, we see the original Team Venture (Jonas Venture Sr, young Rusty Venture, Kano, Colonel Gentleman, and the Action Man) in the Bermuda Triangle in 1969 aboard the X-2 boat. They are in communication with Major Tom, a test pilot flying the TVC15, an experimental craft designed by Jonas. Major Tom cryptically ends communication, quoting lines from DavidBowie's song "Space Oddity." Soon after, the craft crashes into the water, killing Major Tom.

In the present day, the current Venture family are preparing a mechanical diving suit aboard the X-2 in the same area of the ocean. Dr. Venture hopes to find and recover the TVC15 in order to make money off of it. Venture begins making journal recordings into a hand held recorder as Hank and Brock lower him into the water. Hank accidentally jostles the crane controls, dropping the suit faster that expected and leaving Brock with severe rope burns on both hands. Using his invention, a "Metasonic Locator," Venture sets off to find the wreck.

The Pirate Captain tells his story to Dean on the bridge of the X-2. Their ship has been stuck in the sargassum for 10 years,