Día 49: Temporada 4, Episodio 8 "Pinstripes & Poltergeists"

"SPHINX!" (Sphinx!)

Boom! That's right! This is all happening!! You cannot change the channel now!

Capítulo anterior: "The Better Man"

Episodio: Temporada 4, Episodio 8

Escrito por: Doc Hammer
Fecha Original: 13 de Diciembre del 2008
Debut de Personajes: Monstroso, Dr. Schumpmaker.

Trama: The Monarch forma equipo con Monstroso, un abogado traicionero y miembro del Guild, en su más reciente plan para destruir al Doctor Venture, y este resulta en su contra, obviamente. ¿Cómo afectará esto a Brock Samson y a SPHINX, la nueva organización a la cual perteneces, además de a los Ventures?

Trivia Favorita: No mucho más que continuidad en la trivia... lo de los Fraudes nigerianos pero me hizo reir... (Más trivia en The Mantis Eye Project.)

Diálogo Favorito: Ya saben cómo van estas cosas...

HENCHMAN 21

And you can't have sex again?

HENCHMAN 24

Like we were getting laid all the time! And with no sex comes no rejection. And you don't miss sex because you're like omniscient. Seriously ask me any question.

HENCHMAN 21

Okay. What's the meaning of life?

HENCHMAN 24

The color twelve.

HENCHMAN 21

Really?

HENCHMAN 24

No! Idiot. Ask me something less Hitchhiker's Guide. Dork.

HENCHMAN 21

Do we have souls?

HENCHMAN 24

Yeah. Well, not quite souls but, eh, that's the general idea. Everything has a soul.

HENCHMAN 21

Crap. So I guess I should become a vegetarian?

HENCHMAN 24

No, like everything living has a soul. Even spinach. You can't win.

HENCHMAN 21

Oh, so that's... a problem.

HENCHMAN 24

Here's something. You know how people cry about aborting babies because of their 'soul'? It turns out you don't get a soul until you're like one.

HENCHMAN 21

So weird, one? Really?

HENCHMAN 24

Or maybe six months, I forget. Either way you're just this little crying, pooing monster blob 'til you get your soul.

HENCHMAN 21

That's amazing- I should tell everybody, people need to know about this!

HENCHMAN 24

Oh, definitely! Maybe you should write it all down on a golden plate. Or maybe get some aviators and a compound in Diana.

HENCHMAN 21

Yeah, I get it. Dude, I barely believe you're real. I mean if there were ghosts they'd be freakin' everywhere.

HENCHMAN 24

Ehh, not necessarily. You can only haunt something you were close to. In life.

HENCHMAN 21

And you chose me? Out of everything you chose me?

HENCHMAN 24

Yeah before you get all teary-eyed, I can only choose between you and a Cocoon that is constantly getting blown up.

HENCHMAN 21

Still, you could have-

HENCHMAN 24

Or Beth Seaton. Yeah, but she's not fifteen any more so she doesn't like me 'that way'.

_____________________

HUNTER

Don't kid yourself, Short Round, you two are gonna wake up tomorrow with your memory wiped. How's that metal high five treating you these days, eh?

BILLY

With all due respect, I hate you.

HUNTER

I know! And tomorrow you will love me!

DR. VENTURE

You know, this is the answer to my problems! You guys just need to pay some back rent and sign some papers.

SHORE LEAVE

Wrong-o!! SPHINX works in the shadows! We are ghosts.

BROCK

I couldn't tell anyone about this. Doc, seriously, it's important work. It's why we're all here.

DR. VENTURE

You're here because you forgot to leave me your keys.

BROCK

I mean why we're here on this planet. We had to make sacrifices.

DR. VENTURE

Like covering yourselves in rotten eggs? Do you know how bad you smell?

BROCK

No, ass, like living next to the boys all year and not being able to tell them that they're safe. That kind of sacrifice!

HUNTER

I had my pudd removed, and then reattached!

SHORE LEAVE

I pretended I became a religious fanatic!

MILE HIGH

I pretended to be in love with Shore Leave.

SHORE LEAVE

Oh! And I pretended I liked having sex with him every night.

DR. VENTURE

[his watch beeps] Uh, intruder at the front gate.

SPHINX

INTRUDER AT THE FRONT GATE THE SPHINX HAS SPOKEN

HUNTER

How much you want for that watch of yours? Ours is way too creepy.

__________________

HENCHMAN 21

Brock Samson. At last we meet.

BROCK

Do I know you?

HENCHMAN 21

Uhh, don't pull that shit with me! [he extracts his blade and flips towards Brock, doing a few kicking moves. Brock just watches] I don't know why you're here and I don't care. I have been waiting for this moment for a year.

BROCK

[leans in] Boo.

[21 roundhouse punches Brock who flies backwards, landing on his backside]

BROCK

[spits blood, rubs his jaw] Ahh, very nice. Somebody's been training.

HENCHMAN 21

This is like Christmas, my first BMX bike, and meeting the cast of Firefly all in one! Let's go, come on Samson, bring it!

BROCK

[gets up] Ahh, okay tubs. Let's see what else you got.

__________________________

HANK

Um, what's going on?

DR. VENTURE

Oh great.

HUNTER

Is the, uh, washing machine still warm?

DR. VENTURE

You're sure that thing works?

HUNTER

Shore Leave, you have fun with those homophobic drug lords you were in prison with last week?

SHORE LEAVE

Prison? I was here last week!

[Hunter smiles at Dr. Venture]

DR. VENTURE

Come on in boys! Hey! Did I ever tell you about your mother? Or that you're both clones?

HANK

What? (el muy bastardo de Rusty jajajaja)

Review: 

AMO este capítulo, debe ser fácilmente uno de mis cinco favoritos en toda la serie. Y eso que acaba con una de las calentadas de bolas más trágicas que se han mandado en toda su corrida. Pero vamos por partes...

No cómo robot, ni cómo cyborg, ni cómo clon... sino cómo un fantasma... Mis ojos se llenaron de felicidad húmeda al escuchar de nuevo la hermosa voz de 24... extrañe a ambos mejores amigos... Y me alegra verlos juntos... Aun sí es la imaginación de 21... 

Hablando del glorioso 21. No sólo  muetra su gran estilo de combate contra los secuaces de Monstruoso, sino que... bueno, por favor gente, va y se da de igual a igual con BROCK FUCKING SAMSON. Eso no es para menospreciar. Incluso si al final Brock gana, le halla un nuevo respeto, y si nos acordamos la primera vez que ambos se "pelearon", y cómo han mejorado las cosas para 21, es para emocionarse. No vemos demasiado, es cierto, pero el mero hecho de que haya sucedido le da mucha alegría a mi corazón.

Por otro lado, también tenemos el regreso del genial Brock Samson, con SPHINX (Sphinx!), y finalmente se nos explica cual ha sido todo el plan de Hunter Gathers desde un principio (que pueden leer en la trivia), y bueno, resumiendo, SPHINX (Sphinx!) se dedica a lidiar con aquellos criminales que se rehusan a jugar bajo las reglas del Guild, y por lo tanto, son mucho más peligrosos que los villanos usuales bajo el cobijo del Guild. Mención especial y obvia al genial Shore Leave, uno de los personajes gay más cabales y sacaputas que he visto en buen tiempo.

(Sphinx!)

No mucho más peligrosos que Monstruoso, sin embargo, que hace su gran debut después de haber sido tan publicitado. Es un nuevo villano y uno bastante intimidante, y al final me quedé con las bolas AZULES cuando 21 y Brock van a pelearse con él... Mierda, que NECESITABA VER ESO...

En fin, cómo ya dije, uno de mis capítulos favoritos...


RATING

Ah pero momento, que aun queda algo. Este capítulo marcaría la mitad de temporada, y con ella, una espera de casi un año para la siguiente mitad. Eso nos trae dos cosas que ver. La primera, obviamente es nuestra acostumbrada canción de Navidad, y si el desgarrador dueto entre 21 y 24 del año pasado es mi favorita, esta es mi segunda favorita. Es un cover de una canción navideña de Alvin y las Ardillas que segurisimo han escuchado...

Y obviamente el trailer de la segunda parte de la temporada, el cual no recomiendo ver por tener demasiado spoiler (esperense a terminar de verlo todo, que joder).

Y si no se controlan o se quedaron con las ganas, también está esto, que es sublime...

GO TEAM VENTURE!

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