Saturday, October 03, 2009

Chronologically you should read this one after the Grant Morrison Post: He's so dreamy... Wait I like women not men... Rabbit-man is confused :(

Ok so last column kind of got sidetracked and went to a weird place. Honestly I was trying to write about Grant Morrison’s brilliant run on New X-Men, but once I actually got started talking about Grant Morrison, I started rambling about crap. I mean the guy’s life story is an oscar winning biopic in the making, I swear it. I did a little bit of research about him a while ago, and there is some interesting, and paranoid shit out there, you readers should seriously look for it. Also to complete the night of grand conspiracy theories and paranoia, Look up the Montauk Chair, The Blue moon conspiracy, and Morphic Resonance. Actually just read the first paragraph on this website, the last sentence is probably one of the funniest things ever written on the internet. That Montauk wikipedia article is pretty funny too especially the part where it warns about how the article does not site any of its sources.
Crap! See this is what happens when I talk about Grant Morrison, I start rambling about conspiracy theories. WHY CAN’T I JUST REVIEW NEW X-MEN LIKE I WANTED? WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.
Ok I think I’ll just settle down by talking about a movie that deals with conspiracy theories, the horrors of aging, and the sadness of being forgotten by the world. Yeah that’s right I’m going to review “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”! Wait, I didn’t see that crappy movie. I mean Benjamin Button is like 5 and a half hours long, and no one has been able to watch the whole thing through due to how boring it is. Why would I subject myself to that? For the good of my readers who want to know about the movie? Hah that’s funny, maybe if somebody started paying me to write shit then I would review godawful pieces of shite like “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. No I’m going to review something that interests me, something like say X-Me—Bubba Ho-tep. Man what a great movie Bubba Ho-Tep was. I mean it had it all conspiracy theories, comments on the horrors of aging and the sadness of being forgotten by the world (Strange I feel like I’m repeating myself here), also it stars an aging Elvis Aaron Presley who teams up with a black guy who thinks he is JFK to fight a mummy. Yeah I know must of you loyal readers who have made it this far into the review probably were already sold based on that sentence alone so I should probably stop here with the review. But TWIST I won’t. I freaking promised to review something in this post, and dammit I am gonna review. Screw the ramifications! So basically Bubba Ho-Tep begins in a most depressing fashion depicting a bedridden Elvis Presley (Played by the amazing Bruce Campbell) trapped in the most horrible old folks home ever. Much time is spent showing how a place like that can just destroy a person, and Elvis is just a big sack of do nothing sadness. It’s a little hard to watch, especially when you think that the movie is supposed to be about Elvis and Black JFK fighting a mummy, but I digress. You see this is a movie about redemption and in order to get anyone to give a flying eff about a hero’s redemption you must first show the depths to which the hero has fallen. The first half of Bubba Ho-Tep concerns itself with that goal, and does a splendid job. Naturally once the plot reaches the turning point the rest of the movie is almost twice as enjoyable because of what came before. Overall I highly recommend this movie, for it’s humor, conspiracy theories, and surprisingly emotionally involving characters. This may be a B-movie, but it’s got more soul than any number of Hollywood blockbusters with 100 times it’s budget. (Crap I’ve been watching too much “How I met your Mother” I mean that show’s hilarious but if you watch it too long you start to think in lame metaphors (by Thor’s hammer that show is filled with lame metaphors, but it is so freaking hilarious that I love it) and even lamer analogies. So please forgive the terrible last sentence (although I would bet it is worthy of the DVD cover all it needs is a few more exclamation points.))
Rabbit-Man out!!

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Another Recycled Post: Writer's Block revealed!!

So I decided to do something different this week and talk about two comic books. Particularly I will be talking about two comic books that I bought at the store. These two comics are Jack Of Fables #35 and Ex Machina #43.
A long time ago I used to buy a whole bunch of weekly comics, mostly Marvel superhero stuff, but I kind of fell out of reading those lately (they have jacked up the price to 3.99 per issue, and they are all interconnected so reading just one is hard), and now I just stick with the Fables series of books and Ex Machina. I think explaining what both of those books are about in one sentence or so will probably make them sound lame, and won’t do the stories justice so I will just skip that part and talk about the specific comics I got.

Jack Of Fables #35
(Note this is part 8 of a continuing story) This issue begins with two hilarious two-page spreads introducing all the characters involved for those unfortunate enough to pick up this issue without reading the first 7 parts of the story. Pretty much everything is hilarious about the first four pages from the character descriptions to the art work. My favorite are the descriptions of the Genre Characters mystery’s description is left blank, SciFi’s is a bunch of technobabble, and Fantasy’s is a bunch of mythical type stuff so convoluted that the author gives up midway through. Also this book has a two page spread of a little girl brutally murdering like 8 people with her bare hands. Yeah you read that right.
This comic book was awesome! Makes me excited to see how this whole thing will be wrapped up in the next installment.

Ex Machina #43


Hopefully with Lost on hiatus Mr. Big Shot Hollywood writer Vaughan will find some time to finish the last seven issues of this awesome comic in a timely manner. Because hell he has gained a name for himself by writing some of the best cliffhangers ever, and the one for the issue before this was brutal. From the first issue of this series we were told that the year 2005 was a disaster for Mayor Hundred, and this storyarc finally begins to reveal just what happened in “goddamned 2005”. So far the mayor’s political career could easily be killed by any of three threats introduced in this storyline, the mysterious box he kept locked away in a safe house, the resurgence of his old archenemy Jack Pherson, or the fact that he has resumed his role as vigilante(!). This is the first storyline to put the main focus on the Superheroics, in all the proceeding chapters the superpowers-related storylines always came second to the political action, and this shuffling up of the series is pretty intriguing. Also I was waiting forever to see more stuff about Pherson who I think is the most interesting part about the whole Ex Machina series. This book deserves full marks by beginning in the most awesome way possible, with the Great Machine facing up to the Zombified mistakes of his past. Yeah you read that right.

Both Jack of Fables #35 and Ex Machina #43 are highly recommended by me, but both of these books continue previous storylines so be sure to catch up before you read either of them.

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I already posted this on the other blog: The Tragedy of the recycled post

Transformers 2 is the story of a severely disturbed young man who retreats into a vivid fantasy life to avoid the trauma of living with two severely mentally handicapped parents. Director Michael Bay presents Sam Witwicky as a great study of a character who has too much responsibility and wishes to escape it all. Clearly Sam is the rock that tethers his deranged parents to reality, and when he gets ready to leave for college, their whole world comes crumbling down. Bay cleverly represents this by having Sam’s childhood home get destroyed by his imaginary robot pals. Bay cuts between scenes of confusing, and poorly thought out fantasy, and heartbreaking family drama, to further play up how much the burden of his mentally retarded parents has affected his life. In one scene of pure cinematic genius Bay reveals how deep Sam has retreated into his rich interior world, by having an enormously attractive woman embrace, and kiss him after his house is destroyed. The brilliant camera work in this scene is what really conveys this retreat, by having the camera repeatedly circle around Sam and his fantasy ideal of a woman, bay begins to create a sickeningly dizzy display of emotion. Many spectators at my screening were beginning to get sick of all the camera rotation around this scene, and I smiled at how Bay got such a visceral, and real reaction from the audience with only his camera work. He is clearly an auteur to be revered.

Like any young man Sam envisions himself as the center of his fantasy world. In Sam’s fantasies he is the Christ like protagonist of some absurd struggle between warring robots. This reflects Sam’s real world responsibility as caretaker of his very very stupid parents. Intercut with heartbreaking scenes of his mother humiliating herself when Sam goes to college, are scenes of Sam rejecting his role as savior of the robots. Clearly this is all a metaphor for Sam rejecting stewardship of his childlike parents. Only when Sam’s fantasy world threatens to implode on itself in a sheer clusterfuck of amazing ridiculousity does he realize that cannot reject his duty of caring for his severely challenged parents.

Bay throws in several hints that Sam may be suffering some mental hangups himself with the portrayal of two grossly offensive illiterate stereotype robots, that seem to poke fun at how White people view Black culture, just by being so inherently thoughtless and offensive. Unfortunately the spectators at my screening seemed to think that these gross stereotypes were funny when they clearly, clearly were annoying and racist. Perhaps Bay can fix this in the just announced 5 hour long director’s cut.

Overall Transformers 2 is an excellent look at the life of a pathetic young man, and his burdensome mentally handicapped parents.

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Monday, May 25, 2009

A plea for help.

Ok I know how to leverage my fame with my fans into something worthwhile
Please click on this link and create a brute to fight my brute. If you do this you will help my dude progress. See you get to help me out isn't that great. If this is the first brute you made with your ip address then my brute will get experience. As far as I can tell there is no other benefit to being the first brute made with a certain IP address. In other words it's the same as making one randomly, and it greatly benefits me.
Also my brute tends to give dogs to it's pupils I created like 13 accounts as pupils for it, and maybe 5 or so have gotten dogs. So if you want your brutes to have dogs you will definitely get them from this guy.

Friday, May 22, 2009

The Best he is at what he does, and what he does is... so terribly pretty!!

Let me tell you walk you through the last few minutes of your life. First you set your computer to internet, after a few minutes of checking your favorite sites you somehow came across this blog, a blog that has been a barren wasteland for the past year. Just as you are about to leave you notice something. Here are your exact thoughts: “What is this? A new post on the ANIME IS BLASPEHEMY blog! Is it Christmas already? No wait Christmas alone can’t be special enough for something like this, maybe it’s my birthday too! Awesome I get presents now!!!”
Well let me tell you something it ain’t Christmas, and it certainly isn’t your birthday. (Unless if it is Christmas, and your birthday, but there’s like a 1 in 48,000,000 chance of that happening, so the odds are in my favor puny humans. MOO HOO HA HA!!!) Point is neither you nor Jesus was born today, and instead today is special, because I am bringing the fifth column back into style (just like I did with laser tag), and to begin the festivities I am going to write about X-men. Specifically Grant Morrison’s recent take on the x-men. Surely you’ve seen me allude to it before, I think I titled one of my blogs with the name of a storyarc from his new x-men run, and I’ve been dying to encapsulate my thoughts on what he did over the 50 issues of new x-men that he wrote. But I ain’t going to review fifty comics in one post, that would be insane… “right?”
“Yes Rabbit-man that would be insane”
“Thanks Rabbit-man that would be very insane of me to do!”
“Yeah I know I already said that stop repeating yourself”
“Good show you always were quick to catch on to the metatextual jokes weren’t you”
“Yes now shut up, and start writing”

First and foremost I think I should present a brief history of the man who wrote these comics Grant Morrison: aka King Mob, aka The God of Comics. Basically from what I can tell Morrison pretty much lived the life of a straight edge until he reached his thirties at which point he decided to do every drug he could get his hands on. Also he was abducted by aliens in Katmandu. Yeah you read that right, the dude either was or thinks he was abducted by freaking aliens. He also lived as a transvestite for a little while, and basically came up with the idea for the matrix movies at least three years before the first matrix premiered. God forbid, If his life was ever translated into a biopic movie, it would probably win all the Oscars in the world. Needless to say he is either crazy, or everybody but him is insane, and if there is one thing that’s true about writers it’s that the crazier they are the better their work. I mean look at Kafka, or even Emily Dickinson, the both of them obviously had some debilitating self doubt issues, and how about Hunter S. Thompson, or Shakespeare. Ok I don’t know if Shakespeare was crazy, but could a sane person make up as many words as him? I don’t think so. Dude made up like half the freaking English language. He was probably plotting to take over the world too, all he would have to do is get everyone to talk with his words, and then he could control their thoughts. Straight out of 1984 I tells ya. Thank god he died of (quick break to check wikipedia) unknown causes… UNKNOWN CAUSES!?!? What the fuck, the dude invented half the freaking language, and we don’t know how he died. What have historians been doing? JEEZ!
Ok this column ran long, and I didn’t get to reviewing x-men, but don’t worry I’m gonna do it soon. Think of this as the precursor, and next post will be full of x-meny goodness, and wolverine too. Yeah Wolverine. (Actually BOO Wolverine, his movie sucked ass. I mean they screwed up deadpool big time. I guess I can rant about that some other time though.)

NEXT GRANT MORRISON’S WORK ON NEW X-MEN: REVIEWED!?

Monday, August 11, 2008

Ok people here is a homework assignment.

First off go to this website

Translate it,

and tell me why they referenced my princess mononoke review in the comments.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Metal Gear Solid 4 REVIEW



The messiah has arrived Playstation fans, your $400-600 purchase of a gaming machine has finally been validated. Last Thursday fans could forget about the only two triumphs of the Playstation 3 brand namely blu-ray discs destroying the HD-dvds and the improved stability that the Playstation 3 has over the xbox 360, and focus on what would surely be one of the most anticipated events in modern history. Yes my friends last thursday Metal Gear Solid 4 descended like an angel from heaven to grace our unworthy home theater systems with its presence. It was time for Kojima productions and Konami to come through for the lowly people who purchased the PS3 for reasons other than the fact that it is a great dvd player. The hardcore PS3 gamer's day had arrived.

However the buildup to thursday was not all sunshine and blowjobs. Prior to the games launch sinister things were being leaked to the interwebs. Rumors like 90 minute cutscenes, and crazy review restrictions that were arbitrarily imposed on early reviews were slowly eating away at the happy facade years of anticipation had lovingly constructed. Was the long wait in vain?


NO! MGS4 dropped on Thursday and proved to be almost as awesome as the crazy hype made it out to be. First I should confess my bias. I can't say that I am a fan of the early MGS games I didn't like the control scheme, and the whole sneaking around thing never appealed to my playing style. Whenever I see a bad guy in a video game I like to kill them with my gun, but this was kinda discouraged in the original metal gear games, because said bad guy would call all of his friends and they would kick my ass. The whole point of MGS is to avoid conflict and sneak around in boxes and shit like that. Fortunately MGS 4 found a way to make sneaking around cool enough for me to enjoy it, by giving the protagonist "old snake" a bad-ass suit that instantly takes on the color of the surrounding area. This new edition allows snake to effectively hide in plain site by lying on the floor, at which point his suit will adopt the color scheme of said floor providing excellent camouflage and if you hide well enough the badguys won't notice you allowing for the whole sneaking around thing to take place (See I am really clever aren't I?).

In the game Solid Snake inexplicably seems to have aged about fifty years, and decided to grow a badass mustache to compliment his newly grayed hair. It's cool to have a geriatric protagonist for a game, at least if it isn't cool it certainly is kind of unique. Fortunately for the player snake seems to have grown a few extra layers of steel underneath his loose wrinkly skin because he has become a lot harder to kill than his previous incarnations (look I tried to play the other games but I kept dying really easily I am ashamed to admit). In addition to this MGS 4 has a much better control scheme adapting a control scheme similar to most shooters nowadays, but oddly enough no cover system is utilized in this game, which would have been a great help in some of the harder difficulties.

Before you buy MGS4 you need to consider your gaming preferences, Answer this: would rather watch a gorgeous cutscene depicting a fight, or actually play through said fight yourself. Your answer will probably determine how much you like this game. IT should be no surprise to anyone that this game will have alot of cutscenes and some of them take over an hour to finish, the ending is close to that ninety minute mark which was thrown about in early romors or at least the ending seemed really long to me. However these cutscenes manage to tell a coherent story, and even add some emotional stakes to the whole experience so they can be forgiven because they contribute to the greater experience of the game. I have to say that in retrospect I am impressed with how much I cared about what would happen to Snake by the end of the game, especially since i am a newbie to the whole MGS franchise, and the first time that I even heard of Snake was when he was announced as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. A couple of days before I got the game I watched gametrailer's excellent retrospective series on the metal gear games which told enough of the backstory for me to understand the plot of MGS4 even though I am pretty sure that the story it tells is pretty self contained. The only thing which bothered me was the extensive exposition about the bosses after I fought and defeated them. I mean I really don't give a flying frack if the person I just killed was traumatized as a child, and if I was supposed to care then maybe the game should have told me that crap before I fought them to maybe create some sort of emotional conflict when I am shooting like fifty bullets in their face! I am sure eventually even the stupidest player will realize after the first two boss fights that they are going to hear the life story of the other bosses they kill so maybe that emotional conflict will exist later, but just flooding the player with expositional dialogue without accompanying images or explosions gets a little boring. Note I am being kind of vague here on purpose so as not to spoil anybody who hasn't played the game yet. When the game does go into full on cutscene mode you can expect beautiful animation and superb acting though. The acting in this game is especially good and I'd like to single out David Hayter's Old Snake and the guy who played Otacon for praise because those were the two characters I ended up liking the most because of the great acting that characterized them. I am man enough to say that I almost shed a tear at the end. I was kind of touched by the acting and storytelling



I'd like to take a second to address some of the boss fights in this game I'd say that exactly half of them were freaking awesome and the other half were a letdown. I had high expectations entering this game after watching the awesome trailer with the beauty and the beast unit (you can see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdfPp4xVqa0 seriously watch the trailer it's pure awesomeness squeezed into 4 minutes and 21 seconds) and after hearing stories of past metal gear bosses like Psycho Mantis or The End (I heard the stories from people before I even knew what the game was about oddly enough). I have to say that in comparison to No More Heroes (a game with bosses that I thought were inspired by the Metal Gear series) some of MGS4's bosses are a little disappointing. But I will say this the fight with Screaming Mantis is worthy of being added to the pantheon of great metal gear bosses (Possible spoiler: Please do not look up how to beat her you can figure it out easily enough because one of the methods of stopping her is established in a previous boss fight, well kind of. My point is you should be able to figure out the trick to this boss fight after enough trial and error. Looking up what to do would take away at least half the fun of this fight in my opinion). Also while there are some issues with the final boss fight I think the way it's presented is just too cool to give it any fault. Also I'd like to mention that the game does come to a really satisfying conclusion and I can't really see any continutation of solid snake's story after this (Maybe a new protagonist will be introduced in the inevitable sequel, or the next game will be another flashback like MGS3). There are also some really cool set pieces that I would hate to spoil in this review. I really liked the ones in act 2 and 3.

Overall I would say that MGS4 is a great and worthy game to serve as a showcase for everything the PS3 can do from the beautifully rendered, and superbly acted cutscenes to the great attention to detail, and awe inspiring battles. Even if you are a newbie to the series (like I was) you can still enjoy this excellent game. Just watch that trailer with the beauty and the beast unit that I linked to earlier that shit freaked me out the first time I saw it and then watch the first four parts of the retrospective on Gametrailers you'll be prepared enough.


(Also since this game is like Sony's knight in shining armor and all, did anyone find it odd that Otacon and Sunny were using apple computers? I mean macs are great and all but wouldn't you think Sony would want them to use the Sony branded Vaios? I mean James Bond was using Sony branded products every chance he could get in Casino Royale which was also produced by Sony. Just an observation on my part I would really like to discuss it with people I mean I watched the featurettes on the extra disc included in the MGS4 collector's edition and I could plainly see that Kojima likes apple stuff but...) And I didn't make that picture up there, but it's freaking hilarious!!

Also this game automatically gets a thumbs up from me because the ending song refrences Sacco and Vanzetti. Yeah that's right. Mother fucking Sacco and Vanzetti the anarchists who were executed by the U.S. Government for being anarchists. That's like a million cool points for the game right there.

Here's to you Nicola and Bart
Rest forever here in our hearts
The last and final moment is yours
That agony is your triumph

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Saturday, April 07, 2007

Not anime

So I'm one of the lucky few people who has a wii, literally figuratively, metaphorically and metaphysically, and I'm one of the even fewer people that has a wii and an Xbox 360. Here are my thoughts on each. You might be asking yourself, "Why is this article not about anime?" to which I would reply, "It is you just aren't looking deep enough. Open your mind grasshopper".

Wii-(teeheeeheee)
THis thing is excellent and what few games I have for it are awesome, especially zelda twilight princess. The only two problems with the wii are that the graphics aren't as detailed or polished as the other next gen consoles (which isn't that bad to me gameplay and story are all that matters), and that there aren't many good games (zelda, and coming soon paper Mario are the only two great games [FUCK YOU WII SPORTS AND WARIO WARE!!!!!]). But let me tell you something this console is freaking durable I accidentally kicked this thing off the stand where I keep it, and my wii crashed to the ground, while I was still playing a game. Naturally I was horrified, but guess what the game was still playing, and the wii still worked great.

My opinion wait for some good games and get this.

XBox 360

This console is awesome, and the games are great. Dead Rising and Oblivion are the standouts here (FUCK YOU GEARS OF WAR!!!!). I bought mine on December 24 2006, and the console worked great until today. I popped in Dead rising, and two minutes after I started the game it froze. Naturally I thought this was a one time occurence, and immediately restarted the system, and tried again. Guess what it froze again, and again and again and again....etc...etc...etc. I called customer support, and they were really great and helpful, and they even gave me instructions that allowed my xbox to function for about 15 minutes, but then the xbox crapped out again and I gave up for good. Now I have to send it in to get repairs (for free I might add).

My conclusion the xbox is awesome, but be afraid becasue it may freeze out on you. Thankfully customer support is pretty good.

Friday, October 13, 2006

Venture Bros. Season One DVD Review

Alright you guys know how much I love the venture Bros. so I'm writting a review of the first season. The DVD sales have been excellent, and this set even reached #1 on Amazon's best seller list. Everyone needs to go out and buy this set, It is awesome!!

Disc One
Dia De los Dangerous-3.4* this was a pretty good episode, but the animation was a little crude, and there was some unnecessary exposition. The whole monarch origin sequence was kind of awkardly initiated, but the writers have done a better job with the recent origin sequences (Phantom limb has like 3 origins, and none of them are verified). But the opening sequence of this show is so awesome, and it touces on some of my favorite urban legends, chupacabra and stolen kidneys (Awesome).

Careers in Science-3.5* I thought this episode was aweful the first time I watched it, but when I watched it again I thought it was alot better. Watch out for PHANTOM SPACEMAN!!!

Mid-ife Chrysalis-1.5* This episode just sucks, the main plot involves Doc. Venture being turned into a giant caterpillar, ala metamorphosis, and there just aren't many jokes or entertaining moments. Oh well.

Eeny, Meeny, Miney...Magic-3.3* This episode features the debut of Doctor Orpheus, and is a pretty good episode. Not alot of action, but this episode deserves an extra half point for the Marco Polo scene.

The Incredible Mr. Brisby-3.2* Really good episode with a parody of Walt Disney who forcibly enlists Doc. Venture to create a clone of himself...Foreshadowing? Otherwise this was a pretty neat episode and also features the debut of Molotov Cocktease...best name ever!

Tag Sale You're it!-4.5* Awesome episode, everything is funny from the opening scene ("If I had it my way you'd all be in skirts") to the final credits. This episode also initiates the infamous Anne Frank vs. Lizzie Borden debate (Anne Frank would win of course "She's scrappy")

Home Insecurity-3* I don't really like this episode, but it has the most epic opening sequence, and has the best asassination attempt on Doc. Venture ever. I didn't care for the six million dollar man parody or the Big foot appearance though.

Ghosts of the Sargasso-3.8* A pretty good episode that lampoons all those old Scooby Doo stereotype villains. Also I like the parody of Captain America parody with the Action Man.

Disc Two

Ice Station--Impossible!-3* A pretty lackluster episode that really shouldn't be that bad. Stephen Colbert voices a character, and it even has a parody of the Fantastic four, but I just didn't enjoy it that much. Race Bannon from Johnny Quest has a Cameo also.

Are You There, God? Its Me Dean.-4.2* No man can watch this and not be afraid, it introduces two of the most horrible genitalia related ailements known to man. One is the dreaded Candiru, and the other...Testicular Torsion (FREAKING SCARY! OH MY GOD I DID NOT NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT SHIT). Because of these horrible genital related ailements I was not able to enjoy the episode the first time I saw it, and the second time just freaked me out, but the third time was a charm and I loved it. THe show is hilarious, and it even has the sequel to the Anne Franke Lizzie Borden debate, in the form of whether smurfs are mammals or reptiles.

Past Tense-4.8* When an old college roommate of Doc Venture kidnaps him, Brock Baron Underbheit, and Pete White, It's up to Hank and Dean to reunite Team Venture and save their Doc. and Brock. A really well done episode, and very funny, the whole League of Extraordinary Gentleman parody is hilarious.

The Trial of the Monarch-4.8* I could never properly describe the awesomeness of this episode so I give you the greatest quote ever. "While you were busy castrating I priceless artifact, I have been busy feeding babies to hungry mutated puppies"

Return to Spiderskull Island-4.9* The only thing bringing this episode down is the odd opening sequence that was not properly explained. Apparently the writers had to cut a few scenes out of this episode, and the one that explains the entire opening sequence was cut. Oh well, still an awesome episode.

Bonus episodes

The terrible secret of Turtle Bay-3* has some great lines and has the best euphemism for sex ever "The Mommy and Daddy dance".

A Very Venture Christmas-5* YESSS Somebody else thinks the Krampaus is funny also

Extras
There are a few commentaries, but the creators get distracted talking about how they met, divulging secrets (that get bleeped out), and even talking about which characters they would have sex with female and male?!?!
Aside from the commentaries there are much better extras like the animating Hank and Dean Segment, and the Behind the Scenes of the Venture Bros. Live Action Movie Featurette. Then there's also deleted scenes, but those aren't that great.

Overall I say that you must go out and buy this DVD set, It's awesome.