Review: Venture Bros. ‘Bot Seeks Bot’

This week on the Venture Bros., ‘Bot Seeks Bot’ brings back Brock and his O.S.I. team as they attempt to track down and take down some of the council of thirteen that runs the Guild of Calamitous Intent.  One of the council members recently passed away, so the O.S.I. stakes out the funeral, training their sites on one particular robotic member, Vendetta.  Finding a dating ad online, they set up one of their own robotic allies to act as seductor and lure the man out.

The send their guy in, but being as how they’re both robots and neither of them can eat, they split from the restaurant that the O.S.I. is watching and head instead to a Guild club.  Brock and Shoreleave, in an effort to save their infiltrator from certain doom, don some super villain costumes and head in after them.

But what episode of Venture Bros. would be complete without Doctor Venture screwing things up because of his own inability to use common sense?  As it turns out, Venture thinks Brock is going to a costume party and, enlisting the help of Billy, they get dressed up and go to crash the party.  Which leads to, naturally, a bad time, since they are instantly spotted and turned into the night’s entertainment in the form of “The Wheel of Torture”.

But just as Brock and his team are about to blow their cover to save the Doctor, thus causing a potentially disastrous war between O.S.I. and the Guild, who else but The Monarch himself comes in to save Venture.  Citing Guild rules, the Monarch and Doctor Mrs. The Monarch make the claim that no one gets to kill Venture but his officially registered nemesis.

This week was a return to some of the ludicrous and random chaos that makes the Venture Bros. so fun to watch.  We get to see a host of villains heading out for a night on the town, getting a glimpse into what they do when they’re not terrorizing the world.  We get to see Brock at work, although not punching too many things this time.  Though the best part had to be the robot date, complete with artificial blind date banter.

The seasons seems to be getting better and better and all we need now is a REAL return of Doctor Orpheus (complete with The Master, The Alchemist and Jefferson Twilight) and my life will be complete.

For more Venture Bros. episode, both past and present, head over to Adult Swim.

Photo Credits -           

Brock and Robot courtesy of multiversitycomics.com