History Recap / TheVentureBrosS4E6SelfMedication

Dr. Venture is being pursued by the Monarch in his Cocoon. Venture makes it to the roof of the compound, but is snared by ropes attached to a giant robotic hand coming out of the Cocoon, the "Scarionette" according to the Monarch. Monarch uses the hand to move Venture around like a puppet. As he celebrates finally capturing Venture, an alarm goes off on Venture's communicator watch. It turns out that he has a therapy session, and that the Monarch has to let him go due a new "Mental Health Clause" in the Guild's rulebook. Dr. Mrs. the Monarch confirms this and the Monarch is forced to let Venture go. The Monarch also calls off his henchmen, who are battling with Sgt. Hatred, Hank, and Dean on the compound lawn. As Hatred and Henchman #21 break off their fight, 21 tells Hatred that he got lucky this time, and that 21 owes him one.

In a {{Flashback}}, a young Rusty Venture is talking to his therapist. He talks about wanting to make friends his own age, adults who are always kidnapping him, and how he doesn't even want to be a super scientist. As he speaks, Jonas Venture Sr., acting as Rusty's therapist, sneaks back into the room and acts like he has been listening the entire time. He criticizes Rusty for blaming all of his problems on his father and that he should be more appreciative of the life he has.

The therapist is using puppet therapy to help his patients when he suddenly collapses to the floor, spasms, and dies in the middle of Rusty's treatment. The boy adventurers inspect the body as a supposed "Vietnamese Two-Step Viper" slithers out of the therapists pants. It gives chase to Rusty, who is holding the therapist's coffee cup. He realizes that it contains snake pheromones and spills it on Wonder Boy. Ro-Boy destroys the snake with his eye lasers, and the group decides to solve the therapist's murder.

The therapy group finds an incongruous titty-bar matchbook in the therapist's office. Johnny knows the place, and there, the group sees a former henchman of Dr. Z, who arched Johnny in his youth. They get into a fight with the henchman but are soon beaten up by the bar patrons. Afterward, they decide to visit Dr. Z and confront him in person. After initially mistaking the group for Halloween trick-or-treaters, Dr. Z denies killing their therapist. He invites the group in for dinner and tells them that they need to stop living in the past. They're no longer "boy adventurers" and are free to do whatever they want now. He introduces the group to his wife, and laments the fact that they cannot have children. Ro-Boy asks if they would adopt him as Venture declares that he doesn't need therapy, having moved on from his unhappy childhood.

* TheBadGuyWins: Albeit not in the way he intended. 21 kills the therapist under orders from the Monarch so that Rusty won't be able to use his therapy sessions as an excuse to get out of being arched anymore. 21 pulls off the assignment with none of the therapist's patients finding out who the culprit was. However, in the course of the former boy adventurers' investigation, Rusty realizes that compared to his counterparts he's downright well-adjusted, and decides he doesn't need therapy anymore.

* AbusiveParents: Beyond the usual examples of Rusty and Action Johnny, this episode introduces the Hale Brothers who are heavily implied to have murdered their father by his psychological abuse. (Dale hints that they did it, but it could just be SurvivorGuilt).