The Venture Bros. episode
Perchance to Dean
Season 4
Orig. Airdate	Nov 1, 2009
Writer(s)	Jackson Publick
Director	Jackson Publick
Co-Director	Jon Schnepp
Production #	4-42
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Dean finds an aborted clone of his, who attempts to kill him, while Hank (and Dermott) run over his body.

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• Hank is heard chanting "Attica! Attica!" early in the episode, a reference to Dog Day Afternoon and Saturday Night Fever.
• Progressive rock albums mentioned or shown by Doctor Venture to Dean include
  • Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
  • In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
  • The band Asia is named dropped, but no albums are mentioned
  • Fragile by Yes can be seen in the back of Dr. Venture's album collection
• In the final scene, Hank is wearing a lighter colored version of the sombrero he got in Dia de los Dangerous!
• When Hank asks if the delivery man was psychic, Doctor Venture snaps at him that not all black people have the shining, a reference to the titular psychic ability of the Stephen King novel and Stanley Kubrick film The Shining, which features a black psychic.
• The aborted clone Dean's appearance is likely based on traditional depictions of Quasimodo, the deaf and dumb hunchback of Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame. He also lives in the attic of the Venture Compound, likely a reference to Quasimodo's residence in the highest bell-towers of Notre Dame, coveting what he saw below him.
• Dermott claims that in his old neighborhood people used to call him, "The Wolf". This is possibly a reference to Harvey Keitel's role as a cleaner in the movie Pulp Fiction.
• The aborted clone Dean aimed to sew a suit made of Dean's skin, a reference to Jame Gumb, the alias of Buffalo Bill, the villain of The Silence of the Lambs. In the novel and film, Buffalo Bill was sewing a "woman suit" made out of the skin of the women he had killed. The original inspiration for Jame Gumb was Ed Gein, killer and grave robber.
• In the opening scene, a young Dr. Venture is showing the lab to a young Brock Sampson. They seem to be meeting each other for the first time, but they were supposed to go to college together.
• The Episode Title is most likely taken from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. "To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub.", Hamlet (III, i, 65-68). This is part of Hamlet's famous soliloquy which begins "To be or not to be", and it reveals his thoughts of suicide.

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