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by Another Viewer
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Great Site! Just found your site after years of watching the Venture Brothers. Thank you very much to Mike for taking the time to provide summaries and for annotating the episodes.
Some comments for Pinstripes and Poltergeists and earlier episodes
"HENCHMAN 21
That's amazing- I should tell everybody, people need to know about this!

HENCHMAN 24
Oh, definitely! Maybe you should write it all down on a golden plate. Or maybe get some aviators and a compound in Diana."

These maybe reference to the theology of the Mormons or Latter Day Saints, the golden plates are a book of bound and engraved metal plates that Joseph Smith Jr. claims was the source for the Book of Mormon.

The two references to aviator glasses and a compound in Guyana (not Diana) point to the Jim Jones founded Peoples Temple movement which committed mass suicide in 1978 in their compound located in Jonestown Guyana. They drank cyanide laced kool-aid. Jones has several well known pictures of him sporting large aviator glasses.

OT: In Season Two, Viva los Muertos, the character of Ted maybe more than just a rhyme with Fred of the Scooby Doo gang. As you pointed out, the other characters in the gang all are named after serial killers/notorious villains. Ted Bundy was a charismatic serial killer and may be the inspiration for the name.

Dr. Orpheus and his situation with his wife running off to live in the underworld may be a play on the Greek myth of Orpheus whose wife Eurydice died and was trapped in the underworld. Orpheus journeyed down there and tried to win her freedom and nearly succeeds but at the last moment fails.

Dec. 29, 2009, 4:06am

by Sparky
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Guyana was meant. Ala Jim Jones.

Jan. 3, 2010, 8:55am

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