History Recap / TheVentureBrosS4E9TheDivingBellVersusTheButterGlider

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The X3's absence from the compound - turns out that it (along with the skeletons of two of Hank and Dean's clones) are in the centre of the blood clot responsible for Doc's coma.

** Dr. Venture can't have an MRI (necessitating the submarine voyage) because of the metal pins Billy used when reattaching Venture's arm in ''Victor. Echo. November.''
** The shrink ray makes yet another appearance.
** The Monarch recognizes Pete White from college, which they both attended at the same time, as revealed in ''Past Tense.''

Inside the Cocoon, 21 is revealed to be in command. He orders the Pupa Twins dropped from the bottom hatch of the Cocoon on mini-motorcycles. As they catch up to the jeep, Hank runs out of ammunition. Out of desperation, Hatred drives down the side of a cliff towards a hospital. Tim-Tom and Kevin are unable to stop in time, falling over the side of the cliff as well. However, they ditch their pupa suits to reveal mini-Monarch henchmen costumes and use the wings to slow their descent. Hatred rushes Dr. Venture and the boys inside the hospital as the twins radio the situation back to 21. 21 tells them to pull out, as it is a Catholic hospital, which is considered "hallowed ground" by the Guild.

The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. the Monarch are attending a birthday party for King Gorilla, one of the Monarch's former prison associates. King Gorilla has had his life sentence reduced as he is in poor health, apparently suffering from lung cancer. When they see the Cocoon return, Dr. Mrs. the Monarch leaves to debrief 21. Monarch stays to see King Gorilla open his gift: a carton of cigarettes. Monarch explains that no one told him that King Gorilla was sick.

Inside the Cocoon, 21 leads the other henchmen in demanding better equipment. Since Sgt. Hatred doesn't share Brock's aversion to guns, the Monarch henchmen casualty count is skyrocketing. 21 demands body armor for each henchmen, explaining that he had to pay for his own armor out of pocket by selling his ''Franchise/StarWars'' collectables, and that the other henchmen can't do that. He also explains that they want collapsible wings, since they are a hazard on the battlefield and don't fit well through the Cocoon doorways. He has a presentation prepared on the giant control room monitor about new weapon and armor designs, but Dr. Mrs. the Monarch dismisses it as too expensive, as well as because some of those items don't actually exist. With the henchmen still angry, she moves on to the next order of business (the henchmen using too much of the Cocoon's bandwidth for non-work reasons) when the Monarch comes riding into the control room on the "Butter-Glider," a wedge shaped flying device made to look like a stylized golden butterfly. He boasts about its cost ("a few mil,") and the henchmen leave angry. Dr. Mrs. the Monarch angrily tells him that she just got done explaining how they can't afford new equipment to the henchmen but The Monarch dismisses her, telling her that you don't bother to explain things to henchmen, because they're simply henchmen, they'll do as ordered.

At the Venture compound, Dr. Venture is laid out on an operating table. Hatred explains to the boys that the hospital denied them because they don't have insurance. So, he summons Billy Quizboy and Pete White. They arrive in their new "Conjecturecycle," purchased with the insurance fraud money the got in an earlier episode. Hatred explains Venture's symptoms to them and also that some metal in Venture's body was ripped out when the hospital gave him an MRI. (The metal was from pins Billy inserted when Venture had his arm severed in ''Victor. Echo. November.'')

In the SPHINX headquarters, Hatred and the Ventures argue with Hunter Gathers over the use of his sub. Gathers refuses, and tells Brock to mind wipe them, but Brock refuses, as the repeated mind-wipings is making the boys "buggy." He demonstrates by asking the boys some simple questions, and they confuse numbers for colors and days of the week in response ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphasia Paraphasia]].) Gathers reluctantly agrees after the display, but puts Brock in charge of the mission. Hatred, as the official Venture bodyguard, insists that he should be in charge instead. Brock reasons with him, arguing that Hatred should stay behind to guard Venture's actual body while he and the boys are inside, to which Hatred agrees.

Dr. Mrs. the Monarch prepares to climb in to bed with her husband, but finds him there with the Butter-Glider in her place. She refuses to sleep with the glider in bed, having chalked up Monarch's obsession with it to a mid-life crisis until now, but thinks this is going too far. Monarch angrily accuses her of jealousy and she storms out of the room.

Dr. Mrs. the Monarch has gone to the Cocoon lounge seeking some time away from the Monarch. The bartender immediately serves her favorite drink, a vodka and tonic, without her ordering. The bartender points towards 21 in the corner as the one who ordered it. 21 is sitting in the corner with the ghost and skull of 24, who claims to have ordered the drink and that she'll now come over to flirt with 21. 21 is incredulous, citing how 24 can't interact with anyone or anything besides him, and starts to think he is going crazy. Dr. Mrs. the Monarch sits down next to him, thanking him for the drink. She tells 21 his idea for better weapons and armor is a good one, and expresses her frustration with the Monarch and his butter-glider. 21 mentions that some of the henchmen are so mad about it that there is talk of going on strike. That gives Dr. Mrs. the Monarch, and tells 21 that maybe the should go on strike.

Dr. Mrs. the Monarch contacts the Monarch with her communicator, telling him that 21 and the henchmen have gone on strike and are headed to the Venture compound to kill Dr. Venture since the Monarch is too incompetent to do it himself. This enrages the Monarch who flies his butter-glider towards the compound.

At the compound, the security alarm goes off. Hatred goes outside to see an army of Monarch henchmen descending on the compound. He informs them of Venture's medical situation, and says that it would be against Guild rules for them to attack now. 21 and the other henchmen remove their goggles, informing Hatred that they're on strike and are therefore not bound by Guild rules. Hatred presses a button on his communicator watch, putting the compound under lock down. He flees inside, getting hit in the back with Monarch tranquilizer darts as he does. The steel shutters come down just in time to stop the henchmen from entering. Hatred rushes to the lab and gives himself a shot of adrenaline to counteract the tranquilizers. The mixture gives him a heart attack and he collapses on the lab floor.

The {{Stinger}} shows Billy and White on the radio with Brock and the boys, trying to figure out where they are in Venture's body based on a description of the surrounding area. Venture is back to normal size on the lab table, still comatose. Based on the boys description, Billy figures out that they are stuck in Venture's prostate. White asks how they will get them out as Billy hands him a medical glove, a bottle of lube, and a pornographic magazine on the table.

** Also, the Monarch's new Butter-Glider, which "cost a mint", doesn't appear to have any weapons mounted on it, smells like french fries due to it running on bio-diesel, and is destroyed after Sgt. Hatred enlargens Doc (tethered to it by a bola-cable) to giant-size, dragging it back down to earth.

* CargoShip: InUniverse. The Monarch's... "attachment" to his Butter-Glider involves singing to it during a moonlit flight, having picnics with it, spooning it in bed and accusing Dr. Mrs The Monarch of being jealous of it; naturally, she is far from impressed.

* DestinationDefenestration: Downplayed when Hatred is escaping from the "striking" Monarch henchmen. He does jump through a window to beat the compound lockdown, but has the sense to shoot it a few times first to soften it up. Still not Subverted, however, as he doesn't show any cuts from the glass.

* IronicEcho: The Monarch fobs off his wife's concerns about the henchmen by telling her "you gotta be more ruthless". Later, after she manipulates him into intervening in 21's assault on the Venture Compound, she mutters to herself "Gotta be ruthless."

-->'''Monarch:''' You say "jump" and they say "which shark?"

-->'''21:''' ''[leading a horde of henchmen]'' You see... we're what you might call "on strike". So no Monarch, no Guild. No Guild, no Guild rules.\\

** 21's first solo command of the Cocoon demonstrate his improved tactical knowledge and leadership, only breaking off pursuit when Team Venture enter a Catholic hospital. Later, he leads the other henchmen in a rogue assault on the Venture Compound, successfully disarms H.E.L.P.eR and forces it to override the locked-down compounds' blast shutters.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Pete says this near word-for-word in TheStinger when Billy implies they need to jerk Rusty off in order to get the boys and Brock out of his prostate.

* WholePlotReference: Team Venture shrinking the SPHINX sub and inserting it into Rusty's body to diagnose him is one to both ''Film/FantasticVoyage'' and ''{{Film/Innerspace}}''. Billy and Pete actually [[LampshadeHanging argue over which one it resembles more]].

-->'''21:''' ''[leading a horde of henchmen]'' "You see... we're what you might call "on strike". So no Monarch, no Guild. No Guild, no Guild rules."\\
'''Hatred:''' ''[gasps]'' "They've gone rogue. ''[begins running back to the compound entrance]'' CODE RED! CODE RED!"

** The new henchman armor proposed by 21. Beyond the expense of it, several of the technologies ''don't actually exist''. (And in a universe with ''SCIENCE!'' and real functional magic, that is really saying something.)

* WholePlotReference: Team Venture shrinking the SPHINX sub and inserting it into Rusty's body to diagnose him is one to both ''Film/FantasticVoyage'' and ''{{Film/Innerspace}}''. Billy and Pete actually argue over which one it resembles more.

* BoringYetPractical: Sergeant Hatred might not be the fighter Brock is, but since he has Team Venture using guns, the casualties among the Monarch's henchmen have been climbing recently, so much so that 21 demands body armor for the henchmen.

** The music that plays while Monarch is flying on and singing to his butter-glider is extremely similar to the music played in the first ''{{Film/Superman}}'' movie when Superman flies with Lois Lane.

* TheUnfettered: At Dr. Mrs. The Monarch's suggestion, 21 leads the rest of the Monarch henchman in a strike, meaning that they no longer work for the Monarch and by extension are no longer bound by the Guild's restrictions on arching during medical emergencies. Had the Monarch not shown up to reassert his authority, they may well have succeeded in wiping out Team Venture.

* {{Facepalm}}: Billy's reaction to the fact that Team Venture is in Rusty's prostate, knowing what this means [[ADateWithRosiePalms they have to do]] to get them out.

Inside the Cocoon, 21 leads the other henchmen in demanding better equipment. Since Sgt. Hatred doesn't share Brock's aversion to guns, the Monarch henchmen casualty count is skyrocketing. 21 demands body armor for each henchmen, explaining that he had to pay for his own armor out of pocket by selling his ''StarWars'' collectables, and that the other henchmen can't do that. He also explains that they want collapsible wings, since they are a hazard on the battlefield and don't fit well through the Cocoon doorways. He has a presentation prepared on the giant control room monitor about new weapon and armor designs, but Dr. Mrs. the Monarch dismisses it as too expensive, as well as because some of those items don't actually exist. With the henchmen still angry, she moves on to the next order of business (the henchmen using too much of the Cocoon's bandwidth for non-work reasons) when the Monarch comes riding into the control room on the "Butter-Glider," a wedge shaped flying device made to look like a stylized golden butterfly. He boasts about its cost ("a few mil,") and the henchmen leave angry. Dr. Mrs. the Monarch angrily tells him that she just got done explaining how they can't afford new equipment to the henchmen but The Monarch dismisses her, telling her that you don't bother to explain things to henchmen, because they're simply henchmen, they'll do as ordered.