12/7/2023 0 Comments Adventure time pilot av![]() His sulking around is supposed to add mystery to his motivations but instead leaves our protagonists nothing to bounce off. Senzuri (his name roughly translating to “fan of a thousand rubs”), the A villain, also doesn’t really affect the plot very much aside from knocking the boys out and leaving them in said alley. However, Hank and Dean just show up at the conference, no worse for wear, (aside from being traumatized by a hooker) and the episode is over. Their chase with the Monarch through the New York subway is cute, especially the Monarch trying to jump a turnstile and getting caught by a transit cop. Almost from their first appearance, the Venture Bros. I mention the plot as a mess because our eponymous protagonists don’t really do anything regarding the main plot. Brock reluctantly gets in on the action after Doc realizes the boys are missing, although he spends more time bedding NYC prostitutes than looking after his charges. Instead, The Monarch runs into the boys, left unconscious in an alleyway next to the Venture’s hotel by Senzuri after he tried to steal the Ooo-Ray, and the boys run from the Monarch. The Monarch, his plan of launching a henchman-filled meteor into the Venture Compound as a Trojan horse a failure, heads to the U.N. Senzuri’s not a thief or a supervillain but rather a “technology fetishist” that can only get off near brand new technology. There’s a sulking villain - Otaku Senzuri - who’s eager to get his hands on this latest invention. Doc’s “Ooo-Ray” is capable of melting entire cities, even the little people, but Doc seems flabbergasted that anyone could use it as a weapon. Venture heads to the United Nations to reveal his “latest invention” at the Science Now! conference. For those of you that haven’t had the chance to rewatch it, he’s a quick plot summary: Dr. It’s more of a proof-of-concept than anything else. This pilot seems a lot more “pilot-y” than a real episode. The Flash animation is ugly and character movements are jagged. Brock goes on a rampage on something caught in the wheel well of the X-1 twice. Doc pops “diet pills” as a stinger for a scene twice. Three jokes are repeated twice during the pilot’s short runtime, and none of them were really laugh riots (or Laugh Riot’s) in the first place: Dean’s told “But you’re supposed to be the smart one!” twice. Hank and Dean are still one-note characters barely distinguishable from each other. Let’s rip the bandage off right now: “The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay” isn’t a very good episode of TV. As we’ll see, it doesn’t, but it really runs the risk of doing so. It could easily have been “Jeepers, they’re in space this week!” or “Golly, they’re in the Amazon next week!” kind of show. could easily have stayed a one-note joke. (Well, they did make their “Hardly Boys” - so creative! - possibly mentally retarded and perverted in typical South Park fashion.) If not done well, parody can become “look how dumb this thing is!” For instance, when South Park parodied the Hardy Boys, they did so by yet again poking fun at the “Golly jeepers” and “Gee whizzes!” without adding anything new. To me, good parody comes from taking an unknown facet of something and pulling on that until the original is barely identifiable but actually saying something true about the original work. It’s very hard to make a joke about something everyone already sees as a joke. The humor focused on Frank and Joe saying “Jeepers” a lot and how they had never kissed girls. ![]() It was probably called something like “Hardy Boys Today” and was about how downright square and uncool Frank and Joe Hardy were. I don’t remember what it was called or who wrote it, but since it was a proven winner people performed it a lot. ![]() One “successful” adaptation was a “humorous” interpretation of the Hardy Boys. Here’s the point: there were always a few adaptations that seemed to score well with the judges in HI. I looked for something else I could do as a solo and came across an event called “Humorous Interpretation” - an event where individuals performed short humor pieces, often adaptations of “funny” plays with the performer (me), performing both parts. Since I was the last of my friends to join (plus, since there was an odd number of us), I wasn’t able to join their four-person debate team. In an attempt to both tag along with my friends and to overcome my crippling fear of speaking in public, I joined my high school’s Speech & Debate team.
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