I was rewatching the season 2 premiere of Venture Bros when this one joke came up during the Phantom Limb/King Gorilla scene. Limb bribes Gorilla with a man-shaped cake, noting its secret ingredient is "Tarzipan". I thought it was supposed to be some bad pun, but a round of googling led to this blurb floating around online...
>Okay, the other user who explained the language joke/Draculas thing was correct as to our motives. I just like the word "Tarzan" the way I like the word "Dracula." I like pluralizing it. I like using it as a noun instead of a proper name.
>Now, to answer your question, yes--King Gorilla probably has a terrarium in his cell or in the common area of the jail in which he collects a bunch of Tarzans, as raising, caring for, and potentially eating and/or raping them is a hobby of his.
>As for the cake, it's a man-sized cake. Even though we only see part of it, you can clearly make out the outline of a human body in there. Phantom Limb has smuggled a fully grown Tarzan into the jail inside a cake as one would traditionally smuggle in a file or hacksaw for an inmate.
>And that's it. The rest is up to your imagination. Do your worst...
That is a lot of thought to put into a joke that isn't fully fleshed out. I mean, it's funny, but why not show Gorilla tending to his Tarzans and elaborate on that? It just makes me wonder how much of the VB universe Jackson and Doc leave on the cutting room floor
