Venture Brothers – Everybody Comes to Hank’s – Venture Bro

–Just wait – it’s going to get worse. The thing I want to note is that Doc last week said that Dean was the idealized version of himself and Hank reminded him too much of his sad reality, and Nikki has the opposite take. Obviously, Nikki’s working an angle here, but I think it’s about perception. Doc doesn’t notice when Dean isn’t excited about super-science, as we’ve seen over the last couple of episodes. Remember, Dean purposely left “Super Scientist” off of his list of possible careers. Doc doesn’t pick up on that, and I think he gets his own actual childhood confused with the animated version of it. We’ve seen over and over again that his actual childhood was absolutely hellish, but animated Rusty Venture was a little scrapper. I think what Doc sees (and recognizes) in Hank is the massive gap between his ambitions and his capabilities. In some way, Doc is preparing Hank for that moment when he realizes he’s never going to achieve his dreams – it’s what turned Doc into a sour bastard, and I think he’s doing what he can to ease Hank into reality, so he doesn’t get devastated all at once. The father-son dynamics in this series are absolutely fascinating to me, in case you haven’t noticed.