History Recap / TheVentureBrosS4E10PompAndCircuitry

** Phineas Phage is named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage Phineas Gage]]. Gage is a notable figure in the history of medical science for surviving a traumatic injury which destroyed much of his brain.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Phantom Limb makes such a reference when convincing Richard to join him as a supervillain. Limb was once a "good two-shoes scientist" before the accident that gave him his powers, much like Richard, and Limb even points out that, thanks to Richard's ForScience attitude, he wasn't all that far off from being a villain anyway.

** When Billy tells Dr. Venture that the boys have no real world experience, Venture replies that they've been "around the globe more times than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetan_Dugas Gaetan Dugas]]." Dugas was a promiscuous homosexual flight attendant who was thought to have been largely responsible for the spread of HIV among the North American gay community (although more recent research has shown that the idea of Dugas as "Patient Zero" was based on misunderstood science).

Billy Quizboy is working with Hank and Dean in the Venture kitchen, prepping them for college. He has them each write out a list of "dream jobs," but Hank's are mostly impossible or stupid. Dr. Venture enters the kitchen and tries to pressure Dean into the family career as a super-scientist. Billy explains to Venture just how unprepared the boys are for life in the real world, and, reading the learning bed transcripts, discovers that Hank didn't graduate. Venture, enraged, demands that Hank go back to his bed until he graduates, but Hank instead decides that he's going to run off and join the army. Hatred congratulates him, and says that joining the army will be the best choice he ever made, but Hank says he's not joining "that army."

In New York City, outside of the Impossible building, several homeless people are seen, including a disheveled Baron Ünderbheit with Manservant. A security guard moves in to shoo them away when one of them, Phantom Limb, jumps up and kills him. Limb disguises himself as the guard to sneak into the building. Inside Prof. Impossible's office, the professor is stretched all around the room and stopped working in despair of losing his wife. Limb enters and tries talking Impossible into a partnership between them when Impossible's arch, a villain named Phineas Phage, attacks. He tries to talk Impossible out of his slump in order to fight him, but then sees and recognizes Phantom Limb. Phage tries to escape to alert the Guild of Limb's whereabouts but Limb has Impossible launch him like a slingshot in order to stop Phage. Afterward, in slightly better spirits, Impossible agrees to help Limb.

Brock returns from his mission, covered in blood, berating the rookie for nearly getting them killed. Shoreleave and Gathers joke that they are training his new partner right now, and point to the memory wiping machine. Inside is Hank, supposedly having his memory wiped after surprisingly passing all of SPHINX's tests. However, he reveals that he used a tin foil hat to prevent his mind from being wiped.

Back at the compound, Brock consoles a sobbing Hank who has been rejected by SPHINX. Brock explains that Hank shouldn't want his life, and that he's taken a lot of mental and physical abuse over his years a secret agent. He also says that a high school diploma is required to join SPHINX. Hank bangs his head on the printer part of the bed, causing his crumpled up diploma to print out. Hank excitedly shows it to Brock, but Brock adds that you also have to be 18. Hank goes back to pounding his head as the credits roll.

* HandicappedBadass: Phantom Limb, with just one arm, one leg, and one testicle, goes up against an army of robotic Diamond Dogs, Guild Foot Soldiers, and 15 foot robots. It doesn't end well for the army.