"Ghosts of the Sargasso" is the sixth episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
"Somewhere over the Bermuda Triangle, 1969:" as Team Venture watches on board the X-2, test pilot Major Tom (clearly named after David Bowie's Major Tom) flies an experimental aircraft (the TVC15) designed by Jonas Venture. After Tom cryptically ends communication (the dialog is taken directly from Bowie's songs "Space Oddity" and "Ashes to Ashes"), the plane s...
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"Ghosts of the Sargasso" is the sixth episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
"Somewhere over the Bermuda Triangle, 1969:" as Team Venture watches on board the X-2, test pilot Major Tom (clearly named after David Bowie's Major Tom) flies an experimental aircraft (the TVC15) designed by Jonas Venture. After Tom cryptically ends communication (the dialog is taken directly from Bowie's songs "Space Oddity" and "Ashes to Ashes"), the plane smashes into the water.
The scene changes to present day, where Brock, Dr. Venture, Hank and Dean are now on the deck of the X-2. Venture prepares to dive in a large mechanical suit in an effort to locate the wreck of the experimental aircraft (and cash in on it). Inside the suit, Venture dictates intentionally melodramatic journal entries into a handheld recorder as Brock waits to lower him via rope. Hank accidentally jostles the controls of the crane that holds the suit over the water, and Brock suffers severe rope burn on both hands trying...
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