Careers in Science

Season 1, Episode 2, Aired
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The Venture family must travel to space to repair an orbiting space station that Dr. Venture's father built in the 1970's, but a mysterious space phantom could be haunting the station!
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    • Trivia

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      • When Rusty Venture first pulls out his 'diet pills', they are a small, round tablet type. When he finds one on the ground after dropping them, it's a oblong, gel-cap type. Edit
      • When Dr. Venture's urine seeps through his spacesuit - a spacesuit is airtight, and therefore fluid-tight as well. So if his suit is working right, then the urine could not have seeped through. Edit

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      • Christopher McCulloch (aka Jackson Publick) and Ben Edlund previously worked together on The Tick (cartoon, comic, and live-action series). Ben created The Tick. Patrick Warburton (voice of Brock Sampson) played The Tick in the live action series. Edit
      • Monarch and Doctor Girlfriend do not appear in this episode. Edit
      • Dr. Venture's childhood nickname was Rusty, Edit

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      • Jonas Venture: Oh Rusty, you don't need "diet pills," you just need to work a few things out. Dr. Venture: Look who's telling me this - my dead 12' tall father. Edit
      • Dr. Venture: I've tried everything. Imaginary Jonas Venture: Are you kidding me? You were just flipping switches. Think, think, tiny wonder! You built this with me, you should know her inside and out! Dr. Venture: I was like ten! I just wanted to play with my plastic cowboys and Indians! Who lets a ten-year-old build a space station!? Edit
      • Manstrong: So.. h-how was he!? Baldavitch: How was who? Manstrong: Oh, come on! I shook his hand, it's all fat and stubby! He must have like a huge mushroom down there! So...does (Brock) have a Smurf living in it or what!? Edit

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      • Col. Manstrong: ...and under the flickering light of Burt Reynold's 'Sharky's Machine', he opened the bay doors...almost the whole crew was there. 'Sharky's Machine'!" Sharky's Machine is an action thriller from the early 1980s that stars (and was directed by) Burt Reynolds. It's about Sharky, a narcotics cop who, after being involved in a drug bust gone wrong, is transferred down to Vice Squad. He begins investigating a murder involving a prostitute and forms the "machine," a group of vice cops, who help him discover an international prostitution/extortion ring. Edit
      • Dr. Venture: Gargantua-1. It's like the stupidest name ever.
        The name of Jonas Venture's space station is taken from Toho's 1966 Kaiju smash-'em-up which features two mutated Frankenstein monsters eating civilians and punching each other in the face. Edit
      • Venture Team: Walking onto the station
        The Venture team walking onto the station in slow motion down a long hallway parodies a similar scene in the movie The Right Stuff. Edit

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