“Dean! Have you been shooting dope into your scrotum? You can tell me! I’m hip!” – Dr. Venture
Monarch flies Hank and Brock back to the cocoon, messing with Hank’s mind the whole way. In the X-1, Doc tries to diagnose Dean’s testicular pain with increasingly bizarre results. Dean’s uncomfortable letting Doc check him out, so Doc calls the only other doctor he knows – Billy Quizboy. Billy agrees, for a steep fee.
–This is really just a series of great lines. We have Hank learning that the exemption Doc cited is called “Rusty’s Law”, obviously named after a certain former boy adventurer. Monarch is the first guy to point out that Jonas Venture was a dick – right now, we’ve only really seen the idealized version of him, but Monarch is going to turn out to be right. I like Monarch trying to convince Hank that he’s his real father, and 21 and 24 trying to intimidate Brock. These guys are officially the go-to henchmen now, and they’ll be taking a big role very soon. This is the first reference to “Conjectural Technologies” – Billy and Pete White’s company. Up to this point, they’ve just shown up here and there, but here we find out that they live together in a rather small trailer. By the way, White is playing Grand Theft Auto, and I love that the thing he’s most excited about is finding out that he can see his stats. This is also the first appearance of the Monarch’s airship, and if I had to guess, I don’t think we ever see it again.
