I love how essentially a random Scooby-Doo villain from season 1 is one of the mainstay characters of this show. He's so committed to the bit and such a nice dude, I love how this show does stuff like that
What's great about the Captain is that we know nothing of his backstory. He solely existed to be a Scooby-Doo villain that got in over his head when he met the Venture's. The fact that his whole identity is being a pirate captain for no apparent reason just adds to the absurdity of it. Also the fact that he was stupid enough to get stranded at sea for so long, but is also capable of running Ventech is pretty amusing.
Eh, from what we can tell - they wanted to stay there. They liked it. They decided to use the boat they were hitting (which happened to be the Venture's boat) that night to leave.
It’s essentially the episode I show friends when convincing them to get into the series since it’s one of the best season one episodes that closely aligns to the Johnny quest parody setup I tell them it is. the only prior knowledge they need to know is who Orpheus is and I can give a quick explanation.
15:30 : "that's a real gun, you idiot" One of my fave side arcs from this show is the Captain's descent into the world of large animal tranquilizer-dependence, and all the callbacks to drug movies from it. The Trainspotting bit slayed me
I lowkey love the fact that the Captain was basically JJ's sidekick. He's Jonas' version of Samson and in a weird mirror mirror thing JJ is the competent Doc and the Captain is the Doc version of Samson.
JJ is also like the person Jonas Sr made every calculated evil manipulative effort to appear to be to the world at large. Purely by accident he turned out to be the only good altruistic hero in the entire show.
It gets funnier when you realise the crash test dummies have a song called “At My Funeral” meaning it probably said something like “I want you to play Crash Test Dummies, At My Funeral” in JJ’s will and the captain horrendously misinterpreted it
I choose to believe he was a former businessman who convinced most of his former graduating classmates to be pirates with him when the economy got bad. 10:50 He flat out gives us his inspiration behind the pirate idea. He watched a lot of Scooby doo as a kid and after watching pirates of the Caribbean became a real Scooby doo pirate
Overall he has very good Arc, I find it really admirable he sticks with Ventech despite Rusty being an asshat and firing everyone, it shows how loyal he was to JJ that hes willing to be loyal even after JJ is gone. Also Muffin, who is your favourite character?
JJ probably had a clause that barred Rusty from firing him. He's been with him from the get-go and they had a pretty good relationship(though JJ wasn't the best to him at times)
6:25, I never fucking noticed that helper comes in and starts drumming as a throwback to dermot and hank teaching him, this show is amazingly good at fitting in little details you only notice later.
I've been attacked with syringes hundreds of times my adopted family used to buy equine tranquilizers from the ferrier shops and they darted me with carcorics and roofy pills and sexually assaulted me hundreds of times and made me have over 100 kids
18:50 am i the only one who kept seeing Foxy over this? lmao😆ironically this soo would be my fnaf oc (foxy the joker aka my avatar) in a nutshell to be honest if she became addicted to tranquilizer darts like Pirate Captain😆
considering the parody of a fake ghost from scooby doo showed up to be beat up by brock the first time the pirate appeared in show that makes sense lol
the problem with this show, like the writing and visual style is great, but the longer it went on the more the side characters are part of the regular cast and they're all just the same two guys talking. Ultimately getting to the point where it's 2 guys representing 6-12 guys in the same scenes.
yeah, good point. but their interview on chapo trap house was pretty funny, in that they come off as just two random guys who love doing weird banter at each other in wacky voices.
@@darthlegit I think actually I thought the finale was perfect and they handled that really well where they were only 2 people in any given subplot in any one scene, I was paying attention and they wrote around it very cleverly. Except for things like YAAY BRICKFROG but that was the appropriate place for it. very good and a fitting outtro to the entire series. all the other actor voiced characters were present the entire time. etc etc.
