Mr. Salty

“ˇViva los Muertos!”
Written by Benjamin Edlund


This episode airs Sunday at 10:30 p.m. EDT and again Monday at 2:30 a.m. on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, or you can watch it now via streaming video at Adult Swim Fix.

Luther Heggs

Oh, that was just so sick and wrong. The best thing Ben Edlund has written since "The Tick vs. Filth?" I think so. What a great season this has been - pisser there are only two more episodes left.

Mr. Salty

I'm dying to see this episode, especially for the Scooby-doo spoof, but I've been too swamped at work the last two days. That should change in about two hours!

darkside

Man, I missed this episode last night. So far the season has been tremendous.

Red Dog

Loved how the Scoobies thought the Brothers were ghosts instead of clones.

cornflakeguy

It had funny elements, but can't we PLEASE stop parodying Scooby-freaking-Doo in things now? I saw that van and the Fred and Daphne clone and I wanted to vomit white death into a bucket, too.

Sean O'Hara

The problem with Scooby Doo parodies is they've been done to death. Wow, Velma is a lesbian, how original.

Why not make Fred gay, and Velma a dominatrix who wears a leather boustier under her sweater, and have Shaggy paranoid because Velma ties him down and abuses him every night. At least that'd be something I haven't already seen in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Harvey Birdman, and the Scooby Doo movies.

slop101

Great episode - but I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the music and sound effects are so loud in the mix that the dialog gets drowned out - it's actually pretty annoying.

sb5

I loved how the Venture Bros. discovering their clones looked like it was going to be some massive, show-changing revelation, and then Dr. Venture managed to snap the Bros. out of it by just telling them it was Christmas present.

UAIOE

Oddly enough, if i watch the episodes on the computer the audio mix is fine...on TV it gets drowned out.

Mr. Salty

As far as the Scooby-doo parody, I liked the touch that Scooby-doo can't talk at all and Shaggy seems to be a paranoid schizophrenic hearing the dog giving him evil commands.

Baron Of Hell

That was annoying. I never heard it this bad before though or never notice it being this bad before.

Big Boy Laroux

the audio mix has been horrible. i had to rewind a few times, and even put on CC to get some of the lines. hopefully that doesn't show up that way on DVD.

cornflakeguy

I agree with the sound comments. This eps opening through the eyes of the Henchman was just nuts with all the music, effects, 21 and 24 talking and the Monarch on the communicator.

Jason

Yeah, I couldn't make out a word during the entire opening either. I couldn't catch most of what the dog was saying, but what I did catch was pure evil.

Although I'm no fan of scooby doo or scooby doo parodies, this one was pretty good. A seriously freaked out Shaggy and a satanic scooby. Pretty cool.

BJacks

I assumed the opening was meant that way to simulate the craziness of war, a la Saving Private Ryan/Starship Troopers, etc. But yeah, there were audio problems throughout the episode. Someone prolly messed up the levels when seeding it out for broadcast.

Andalusia

Could be. I watched it on the Adult Swim site and it came through fine.

This was a seriously f-ed up episode, even by Venture standards! I enjoyed the Scooby-Doo parody, even though I was hoping for a "running through a series of doors" sequence.

"Patty, being out of your box isn't a right, it's a privilege. Baby, you don't wanna go back in your box, do you?"

slop101

Then there was Brock's fever dream with him naked, being suckled by a giant female version of his old commander...

kvrdave

I sure wish they would make this a 50 episode season.