History Recap / TheVentureBrosS1E11PastTense

* SexInASharedRoom: Rusty and Broke were roommates in college. Flashbacks show Broke would regularly bring women back to his room while Rusty was stuck listening to them in his bunk. This eventually leads to Sorayama believing Rusty had sex with Leslie Cohen after he finds her leaving his room one morning, her clothes a mess.

* SkewedPriorities: Back in college, Ünderbheit nearly killed Sorayama with his oregano prank; however, Sorayama is more upset about the fact that it caused him to miss his study date with Leslie.

** The scene where Sorayama is revealed to be a robot, and short-circuits while repeating Leslie's name, is a reference [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E7TheLonely "The Lonely",]] an episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' where a robot short-circuits in death and repeats the name of the human she loved.

Team Venture follow the tracking device to Rusty's old college dorm room. They find the tooth under a bed, having been knocked out years ago. (The group assumes Rusty removed it himself in a fit of youthful rebellion.) Hank and Dean mention Sorayama, who the student currently in the room has for a professor. The student hadn't heard of Sorayama being dead.

The {{Stinger}} shows another flashback to the day after the D&D game. Brock apologizes to Venture, and explains that he is going to join the army with his scholarship now revoked. On his way out the door, Brock casually says that someone called to tell Rusty that his father died.

* CollegeRadio: Pete White was a DJ on the college radio station in college until he got kicked off for the mean joke he played on Sorayama on-air.
* DeadAllAlong: It is initially assumed that Sorayama faked his death to gather his old friends at his funeral and exact his revenge. As it turns out, he really did die and his robots were programmed to carry out his plot after his death.

* DestinationDefenestration: During his rampage, Brock throws one of the group in his/Rusty's room through a window.

* ReunionRevenge: The episode centers on Dr. Venture, Brock, Pete White, and Baron Ünderbheit being kidnapped by a supposedly (and actually) dead college classmate for their "crimes" against him - all of which are extremely minor, petty pranks which he thinks ruined his chances with the girl of his dreams (they didn't; he was a total loser and she wasn't interested).

** In the flashback's to Rusty's room, a poster with a stylized "Yea" is a parody of the logo of the band ''Music/{{Yes}}.'' Another poster is based on the cover of ''Music/PinkFloyd's'' "Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon." A third poster is based on the album "You," by ''Music/{{Gong}}.''

The priest says that Sorayama has requested Venture, Brock, White, and Ünderbheit as his pallbearers. When they step up to the coffin, it shackles them to it, hits them without knockout gas, and flies off with them. Four identical looking women in the back of the church follow the coffin out.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Col. Gentleman believes that Rusty removed his tooth with the tracker as an act of rebellion, not too shocking given his troubled relationship with Jonas. It was actually knocked out by Brock in a drunken rage.

* NoodleIncident: The Venture family saving the Ant people in the beginning of the episode.

** Mike Sorayama is named after artist Hajime Sorayama, who drew characters very similar to the Lesliebots.

* NotMeThisTime: Hank and Dean's first instinct after the kidnapping is to call the Monarch and check if he was responsible.

** Brock too, when he wakes up and finds himself chained in a dungeon with the other three, he immediately accuses Ünderbheit of being responsible, leading to this [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments priceless response]]:

* NotMeThisTime: The Monarch to Hank and Dean about the kidnapping. Brock too, when he wakes up and finds himself chained in a dungeon with the other three, he immediately accuses Ünderbheit of being responsible, leading to this [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments priceless response]]: