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by Josh Geller
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OK.

Brock's fighting Herr Triggermensch. He breaks the guy's sniper rifle over his head.

TM's lying there, Brock does the whole I-don't-love-you bit with the boys, TM starts getting up, Brock spins and tosses his k-bar, which hits TM, like, in the solar plexus and sticks halfway out with some bits of blood on it. TM twitches a bit.

Shift perspective. We see TM twitching in the background and falling still. He lies there, apparently dead, while Brock finishes his Lassie speech.

X-1 takes off, Brock starts to turn, bullets hit around his feet. He dives, there is his sparkling clean knife, which he picks up. He runs for Hunter's Spyhunter car and jumps in, pulls off.

Bullets bounce off the car, and there is TM, standing there with one of those Czech machine pistols, maybe twenty feet away.

Now, we will leave aside how an expert assassin manages to miss someone as large as Brock Samson twenty feet away with his little machinegun. Everybody knows that bad guys can't shoot, no matter how qualified they are supposed to be. But as for the rest of it, WTF?

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Aug. 16, 2008, 2:14pm

by Pirate Hippy
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Wow, talk about missing the joke(s) due to excessive literal-mindedness.

Bad guys missing the good guys is such a cliche that The Venture Brothers is bound to parody it.

And the assassin has just been pummeled by Brock several times so his aim must have been off (if you insist on looking for a "rational" explanation).

More "rational" explanations might include the fact that it's very easy to miss people twenty feet away with a little "machinegun" (actually submachinegun or machine pistol), that's why they teach single shot rifle marksmanship to soldiers. Policemen and criminals get into point blank fire fights all the time and miss. It happens.

Seriously, you're overthinking this.

Aug. 17, 2008, 12:19pm

by Josh Geller
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I am very literal minded, this is known. It runs in the family.

Apparently there is some kind of high-functioning autism going on.

What I normally say is that I have no detectable trace of a sense of humor.

We still disagree about the good General, but you're correct here.

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Aug. 17, 2008, 4:20pm

by Hardy
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I just assumed that since he was hit over the head several times....and lost some blood.....that he really wasn't operating on all cylinders immediately. And then slowly getting more and more coordinated as more adrenaline enters his body....enough to let him drive his motorcycle.

Isn't that realistic?

Aug. 18, 2008, 7:18am

by Crush Venture
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"Now, we will leave aside how an expert assassin manages to miss someone as large as Brock Samson twenty feet away with his little machinegun"

He evidently wanted the cool car chase , a game of "cat and also cat" , maybe he was sharpening his claws before the kill , you know like fencing the art of it all.....and it paid off , he likes pain and he got to get hit by Brocks wheels ...and ftw gets to ummm get off with that Stinger Missile for the real kill.

Aug. 21, 2008, 9:04am

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