Twenty Years to Midnight
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From The Venture Bros. Wiki
| The Venture Bros. episode | |||||||||||
| 20 Years to Midnight | |||||||||||
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| First Airdate | August 6, 2006 | ||||||||||
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| Writer(s) | Jackson Publick | ||||||||||
| Director | Jackson Publick | ||||||||||
| Season | 2 | ||||||||||
| Quotes | Transcript | ||||||||||
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[edit] Overview
After finding a videotaped message made by Jonas Venture twenty years ago, the Venture crew go on a globe trotting adventure to recover pieces of a world saving invention. They're also accompanied by a robotic being fr... IGNORE ME!
[edit] Synopsis
It's night time at the Venture compound and a bright object streaks across the sky. A spaceship has landed and a dark ominous figure comes out and scans the Venture compound.
In the compound Brock is cleaning up and finds something Rusty might be interested in. Rusty comes in and Brock gives him an old film camera. Rusty thinks Brock means to sell it but Brock says there was a video in it. He pops the cassette into a cassette player and it's Jonas Venture, telling them about some radio signals he received when Rusty was a kid and that he has figured out the meaning of them. There are several pieces to a device which he spread around the globe so they wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. Outside the tall figure tries to listen in, but falls into the pool. Jonas says that on May 4th of his 44th year, which makes it tomorrow in the Ventureverse, he needs to assemble his contraption to save the world. A shadow appears over the Ventures and when they turn around they see the tall figure standing there, looking at them. They go outside and the tall figure identifies itself as The Grand Galactic Inquisitor over a very loud loudspeaker. He tells them to not talk to him, and go about as they normally would, for he is to pass judgment on them based on very complicated criteria. They get in the X-1 and fly to Spider-Skull Island and The Grand Galactic Inquisitor hitches a ride with them, telling them to "IGNORE ME" the whole time. Rusty tells Brock to swing around the back so they can get the X-2, intending for JJ to not know they were there. Rusty tries to sneak into JJ's bedroom, but unfortunately, JJ is there pleasuring a lady friend. JJ takes a piece of the machine out of a safe, and Rusty is forced to reveal to JJ what they intend to do.
Brock and the boys are on the X-2, in the dark, and when they hear a voice, Brock jumps into action and delivers some hurt. They turn on the lights and find out that it's their good friend The Pirate Captain who has been hired by JJ to pilot the X-2. They meet back inside JJ's room and both him and Brock decide to split up into teams, three to be exact. JJ and The Pirate Captain will take the X-2, Rusty and Brock can take the X-1 and the boys can take the X-X-1. They take off to their respective destinations.
JJ and The Pirate Captain make it to Quest Bell One, where one of the pieces is being guarded by Jonny Quest. Jonny thinks they are cops, and when The Pirate Captain explains that Jonas Sr left a piece of a gizmo with Benton Quest, Jonny freaks out, telling them not to talk about his father. He walks around the bell with gun drawn, stepping on prescription drug jars, and The Pirate Captain tells Jonny J.J can write him a prescription.
Hank and Dean get to Col. Gentleman's pad and look around the place. They discover the corpse of Col. Gentleman on his bed. They look around for clues, looking at his coat, his diary and any other things laying around that might give them clues as to where the object they are looking for might be. They start reading his diary, and become extremely bored. Hank is leaning up against the Colonel's walking cane and it breaks, revealing that it's hollow inside. Hank raises it to his eye and a piece falls out, right in his eye! "Good eye, Hank!" says Dean.
The X-X-1 and the X-2 rendezvous out in the sea and they head to New York to meet up with Brock and Rusty who are at One Impossible Plaza, the former site of Venture Industries.
Inside the building, Sally Impossible is getting ready to go out. She has an argument with Richard who doesn't want her to leave Rocket, or the child as he calls him, with Ned because Ned's retarded and he's read Of Mice and Men. Sally tells him she can't stand having a robot take care of her child and that she needs a real father, real human affection, for their family. Later, Sally meets Rusty in the subway. Rusty tells Sally he wants her to do something for him which is break into Impossible Industries.
The boys are in the park taking care of Ned who is taking care of Rocket, but the Secret Service shows up and tazer him and the boys and abduct them.
When Sally takes Rusty to what they think is the basement, Richard Impossible is waiting for them along with everyone else from Team Venture who has bound to some chairs. Richard says he couldn't trust the apparatus to a lollygagger like Rusty and he goes on and on, but Sally is pissed because Rocket doesn't seem to be there. She asks Richard where Rocket is, but Richard doesn't even seem to know who Rocket is. JJ, who has a microphone in his collar, radios H.E.L.P.eR. for help by hacking into the Impossible security system to set them free. H.E.L.P.rR. gets out of the X-1 followed by The Grand Galactic Inquisitor, who sees Rocket crawling around and picks him up, instructing the baby to IGNORE HIM!!
H.E.L.P.eR. gets to Impossible Industries and sets them free, but Richard is too busy to notice. Sally is arguing with him to stop and to help her find Rocket, but Richard says science is more important than family. Brock and JJ grab a hold of his face and stretch it out to cover a doorway and drill his face there. He expands his body knocking them out the window. They all grab on to Impossible's long springy body and when they hit bottom, in a subway station, Brock ties Impossible to a door handle on the subway and they climb out of the subway station. The subway takes off and stretches Impossible impossibly, the handle breaks off the door handle and springs all the way up back to his face knocking him out. He was holding the contraption with his other hand so it wouldn't fall down to the ground, but when he loses conciousness, he lets go and the contraption falls to the ground, landing and not breaking apart. Midnight strikes and The Grand Galactic Inquisitor arrives via taxi. Just then a bright light shines from the contraption and Jonas Sr. steps out and shoots the Inquisitor through the head. Rocket safely lands on the ground from the Inquisitor's arms and Sally picks him up.
Rusty tells his father not to go because he needs to ask him so many questions like why he left him alone. Jonas responds that they are never alone because the stars are always watching them and he turns to leave again but this time JJ joins in, telling him to stay. Jonas turns around and tells them he's not really Jonas, just an alien who was sent there to kill The Grand Galactic Inquisitor who was going to destroy the human race. Rusty gets pissed and lets the alien know it, and when he won't stop badgering him, he takes off his mask which leaves everyone flabbergasted. "There! That would've been better? If I'd shown up like that out of nowhere? Look at you! You practically crapped your pants! Except him (points at Ned) he crapped his pants! We know what we're doing up there, ok? So don't second guess me. Just get in your little plane, go back to your little lives and thank your lucky stars someone in this universe is looking out for you! Ungreatful little half-monkeys!" "Uhm, bye," says Dean. "Whatever." says the alien as he takes off taking the device with him. Rusty is still pissed because they don't have gas money or anything to show for running around all over the world.
"We did kinda save the world," says Brock, and JJ is happy because they all worked together as a family. The boys then Team Venture each other.
After the end credits, JJ makes small talk with with Sally, and Brock is still freaked out from what he just saw. They look at the Impossible building and see that Impossible is still flapping in the wind.
"Should we help him?" asks Rusty.
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