History Recap / TheVentureBrosS3E9NowMuseumNowYouDont

** Col. Gentleman mocks Scaramantula and Brainulo by calling them ComicBook/SpiderMan and [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones the Great Gazoo]], respectively.

* MoreDakka / ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Action Man, in the flashback, empties the entire clip from two pistols into the head of a henchman at point blank range. Col. Gentleman calls him out on it.

In a {{Flashback}} to 1969, we see a meeting of the Fraternity of Torment at the lair of the supervillain Scaramantula: Spider Skull Island. The meeting includes Manotaur, a large-headed villain who claims to be from the future named Brainulo, and their newest member: Dr. Fandragon from "Japananawa." The Fraternity has kidnapped Rusty Venture and are planning to kill him.

Suddenly, Dr. Fandragon removes his wig and "supernumerary nipple," revealing himself to be Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. He orders Team Venture to strike, breaking into the lair with the drill machine (from ''What Goes Down, Must Come Up.'') Venture, Kano, Col. Gentleman, Ook Ook (an unfrozen cave man,) and Swifty fight Scaramantula's henchmen while Otto Aquarius rescues Rusty from a tank of piranhas. H.E.L.P.eR takes Rusty to safety while Aquarius uses his fish-telepathy to sic the piranhas on the henchmen. Brainulo tries to active his mentally-controlled robot "Futuro," but Humungoloid (a giant version of Dr. Entmann,) bursts through the wall and takes the robot out. Finally, the Action Man comes riding in on a hover bike gunning down the henchmen with his pistols.

* PaperThinDisguise: Jonas Sr. as "Dr. Fandragon." Scaramantula even points out the features that are decidedly not Japanese in any way, but still doesn't realize it's Venture.

** When in his Dr. Fandragon disguise, Jonas Sr. has a "supernumerary" third nipple, the same physical defect as Fancisco Scaramanga (from whom Scaramantula gets part of his name) in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun.''

* YellowPeril: "Dr. Fandragon." [[SarcasmMode Real classy, Jonas Sr.]]

In a {{Flashback}} to 1969, we see a meeting of the Fraternity of Torment at the lair of the supervillain Scaramantula: Spider Skull Island. The meeting includes Manotaur, a large-headed villain who claims to be from the future named Brainulo, and their newest member: Dr. Fangdragon from "Japananawa." The Fraternity has kidnapped Rusty Venture and are planning to kill him.

Suddenly, Dr. Fangdragon removes his wig and "supernumerary nipple," revealing himself to be Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. He orders Team Venture to strike, breaking into the lair with the drill machine (from ''What Goes Down, Must Come Up.'') Venture, Kano, Col. Gentleman, Ook Ook (an unfrozen cave man,) and Swifty fight Scaramantula's henchmen while Otto Aquarius rescues Rusty from a tank of piranhas. H.E.L.P.eR takes Rusty to safety while Aquarius uses his fish-telepathy to sic the piranhas on the henchmen. Brainulo tries to active his mentally-controlled robot "Futuro," but Humungoloid (a giant version of Dr. Entmann,) bursts through the wall and takes the robot out. Finally, the Action Man comes riding in on a hover bike gunning down the henchmen with his pistols.

* PaperThinDisguise: Jonas Sr. as "Dr. Fangdragon." Scaramantula even points out the features that are decidedly not Japanese in any way, but still doesn't realize it's Venture.

** When in his Dr. Fangdragon disguise, Jonas Sr. has a "supernumerary" third nipple, the same physical defect as Fancisco Scaramanga (from whom Scaramantula gets part of his name) in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun.''

* YellowPeril: "Dr. Fangdragon" [[SarcasmMode Real classy, Jonas Sr.]]

** Col. Gentleman mocks Scaramantula and Brainulo by calling them Comics/SpiderMan and [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones the Great Gazoo]], respectively.

* PaperThinDisguise: Jonas Sr. as "Dr. Fangdrangon." Scaramantula even points out the features that are decidedly not Japanese in any way, but still doesn't realize it's Venture.

** The original interior of Spider Skull Island (when Scaramantula owned it,) strongly resembles the lair of Ernst Stravro Blofeld in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice,'' including the trap door/bridge that the young Rusty was on.

** In his memoir, Col. Gentleman mentions having a threesome with Creator/GoreVidal and astronaut Wally Schirra.

* YellowPeril: "Dr. Fangdragon"

** Rusty tells a story from his childhood where the Action Man would wake him up in the middle of the night by putting an empty gun to his head and pulling the trigger while saying "Not tonight, Rusty..." Derek Almond did and said this to his wife in ''ComicBook/VForVendetta.''
* SquareCubeLaw: Entmann in his giant "Humongoloid" form shows its flaws, getting winded after brief activity and later goes into cardiac arrest.

** In his Humongoloid form, Dr. Entmann looks and talks like AndreTheGiant.

** In his memoir, Col. Gentleman mentions having a threesome with GoreVidal and astronaut Wally Schirra.

* CaptainErsatz: Brainulo is a parody of comic book villains {{Brainiac}} and ComicBook/{{MODOK}}.

* GenreSavvy: Rusty and Brock realizing that a big fight is about to break out in the party. Lampshaded nicely:
-->'''Dr. Venture:''' This is gonna be one of those things, isn't it?
-->'''Brock:''' Uh-huh.
-->'''Dr. Venture:''' I mean, you get a bunch of short-fused, costumed idiots together in one room like this, and what do you think's gonna happen? Any minute now, stuff's gonna start blowing up, guys'll be throwing each other at other guys.
-->'''Brock:''' Yeah, probably.
-->'''Dr. Venture:''' You know, when you're not the one in the middle of it all for once, it's actually totally, completely obvious.
-->'''Brock:''' Welcome to my life.

* CaptainErsatz: Brainulo is a parody of comic book villains {{Brainiac}} and {{MODOK}}.

* GenreSavvy: Rusty and Brock realizing that big fight is about to break out. Lampshaded nicely:

Fed up with Scaramantula's plan, Brainulo goes around the party using his telepathy to put destructive thoughts in all the guests. Richard tries (and fails) to commit suicide by jumping off the cat walk, thanks to his super stretching powers. After the incident with the photo, the Captain gets his pirate buddies to mutiny. Sally and JJ have an unseemly argument in front of the guests. At Brainulo's suggestion, Billy starts to steal some of the Rusty Venture cartoon original merchandize on display.

Brainulo, fed up with Scaramantula's plan, Brainulo goes around the party using his telepathy to put destructive thoughts in all the guests. Richard tries (and fails) to commit suicide by jumping off the cat walk, thanks to his super stretching powers. After the incident with the photo, the Captain gets his pirate buddies to mutiny. Sally and JJ have an unseemly argument in front of the guests. At Brainulo's suggestion, Billy starts to steal some of the Rusty Venture cartoon original merchandize on display.

Scaramantula flees, activating a self destruct device for the island located in his secret escape passage. as teh victorious Team Venture searches for the device, it shorts out. Team Venture celebrates, declaring Spider Skull Island their new headquarters. They pose for a picture take by a young Richard Impossible, who is part of their "boys brigade."

* {{Expy}}: Brainulo is a parody of comic book villains {{Brainiac}} and {{MODOK}}.

** The original interior of Spider Skull Island (when Scaramantula owned it,) strongly resembles the lair of Ernst Stravro Blofeld in ''YouOnlyLiveTwice,'' including the trap door/bridge that the young Rusty was on.
** When in his Dr. Fangdragon disguise, Jonas Sr. has a "supernumerary" third nipple, the same physical defect as Fancisco Scaramanga (from whom Scaramantula gets part of his name) in ''TheManWithTheGoldenGun.''

** Rusty tells a story from his childhood where the Action Man would wake him up in the middle of the night by putting an empty gun to his head and pulling the trigger while saying "Not tonight, Rusty..." Derek Almond did and said this to his wife in ''VForVendetta.''

Suddenly, Dr. Fangdragon removes his wig and "supernumerary nipple," revealing himself to be Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. He order Team Venture to strike, breaking into the lair with the drill machine (from ''What Goes Down, Must Come Up.'') Venture, Kano, Col. Gentleman, Ook Ook (an unfrozen cave man,) and Swifty fight Scaramantula's henchmen while Otto Aquarius rescues Rusty from a tank of piranhas. H.E.L.P.eR takes Rusty to safety while Aquarius uses his fish-telepathy to sic the piranhas on the henchmen. Brainulo tries to active his mentally-controlled robot "Futuro," but Humungoloid (a giant version of Dr. Entmann,) bursts through the wall and takes the robot out. Finally, the Action Man comes riding in on a hover bike gunning down the henchmen with his pistols.

* WilhelmScream: One of the Scaramantula henchmen in the opening action scene.

** In his Humongoloid form, Dr. Entmann looks and talks like AndreTheGiant.

At the event, Rusty gets drunk at the open bar while the Action Man regales Brock with tales of the good old days. Dr. Entmann meanwhile asks the members of old Team Venture if they need a roommate, as the Venture boys keep trying to flush him down the toilet. When Billy Quizboy, a big fan of the Rusty Venture cartoon show, arrives and asks them for autographs, willing to pay for them, the old Team Venture sets up a table selling them. Rusty, now drunk, berates them for dishonoring his father when Col. Gentleman shows up and punches him in the face for "breaking his stepdaughter's heart," in ''Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman.'' He reveals that he is still as alive as ever, and that he was merely in a diabetic coma when the boys found him "dead" in a previous episode (''Twenty Years to Midnight.'')