The Venture Brothers season finale dropped last night. It's here, or at least it was at the time I posted this.

I gotta admit, I found it slightly, just slightly, unsatisfying. Maybe Venture Brothers just isn't a big-episode show, it's the little in-between bits and pieces that really work. When they go all epic I feel like the subtlety always drops out.

There was a slightly edgeless quality to the writing, starting with the opening scene with the head of the OSI, General Traister, a typical southern-fried military type who sounded like he was voiced by Hank Hill's dad from King of the Hill. Funny, but in a very limited way. (Guh. I just looked it up in IMDB. He was voiced by that guy.) And yeah, I get it. Good-cop bad-cop is a cliche. Dean's a wimp. I get it. But I only really laughed out loud three times -- the first time was when the henchmen attaches jumper cable's to HELPeR's eyes and the Monarch snaps, "He's not a Mitsubishi Ga-lant!"

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