Venture Bros.

Think Tank has just replaced Truckules for my favorite vehicle themed villain.

Also, I can't wait to see how Rusty fucks this one up.

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Well, it's only an 8-episode season, and frankly they should be lurching on towards the grand finale. Series has gone over 11 years now.

Years are a really shit indicator of how long The Venture Bros has been running, since there's a two-year gap between each season. If the series had even a halfway normal production schedule, it'd be on year six now, and plenty of shows have run longer without running out of steam. Hell, the new episode is gonna be number 65, which is kind of the low-end of long-runner status.

edited 22nd Jan '16 9:42:19 AM by Wackd

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Right, but time, i feel, is also an issue, not just for voice actors (as The Simpsons prove they can practically run forever), but for a show's cultural relevance (where The Simpsons also proves that nothing really lasts forever, even if the cash-cow status can).

Also good to go out on a high note, lest they end up like The Boondocks with a hated and largely disavowed and ignored final season.

Venture Bros is parodying fifty-year-old comics and thirty-five-year-old TV cartoons. Relevance is not something they ever really had.

Granted, I'd argue that the current superhero/nostalgia market makes them more relevant now than they were when the show started.

Also, The Boondocks final season sucked because the creative team left to make Black Jesus. Hammer and Publick are so paranoid about so much as a comic book being made without their involvement that I don't doubt that Venture Bros will end the second the two walk away, and not a second earlier.

edited 22nd Jan '16 11:13:29 AM by Wackd

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

Finally got around to watching the Gargantua 2 special. It was a good way of cutting dangling plot threads, as people have mentioned, putting an end to Jonas Jr, The Investors, "David Bowie" (who turned out to be just a random shapeshifter who impersonated Bowie), and most of the old Council of 13 for the Guild, as well as setting up well enough for the new season.

Although in order to trim the plot threads, it had to run at a brisk pace and didn't really have much time for characterization.

Venture Bros. (primarily) parodies 50 year old comics AND a fifty year-old cartoon. Jonny Quest aired (originally) from 1964-65.

For another interesting parody of Jonny Quest, track down Toby Danger, which aired as a short on WB's Freakazoid. It predates Venture Bros. by about 10 years or so, but it hits a lot of the same notes.

why did i think jonny quest was so much more recent

i feel like a fool

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Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

There were extra episodes of Johnny Quest (and some TV movies) made in the 1980s, and then a sequel series made in the 1990s, which is what you could be thinking of.

It's actually had quite the impact for a show that lasted only one season (admittedly, a single season that was then frequently rerun).

Ugggh, another shortened season? I don't think that worked out well for season five.

I have to agree. If I hadn't already been teased by the trailers for this season I think I might prefer to wait twice as long for a full length season.

As it is, I'm already anticipating Jan 31 too much.

edited 26th Jan '16 3:52:45 PM by StateOfBedlam

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I thought this was technically season 5 part 2.

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Whatever it technically is, officially it's Season 6. To me All This and Gargantua-2 is essentially Season 5 part 2.

Formerly KarmaMeter.

Yeah, the special was supposed to be the season five finale and I like to think of it that way.

edited 27th Jan '16 9:55:33 AM by GamerSlyRatchet

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Hope the bad news Dr. The Mrs has to tell Monarch is that the Guild is going to splinter because she didn't sleep with that whale guy.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.

I think we already heard the bad news: The Monarch is no longer Venture's arch.

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Yeah.

Er.

The fact that we spent a swath of the episode thinking Wide Wale was blackmailing her into sex was...uncomfortable.

As was the "people of color" joke. Well. Not so much that line specifically as the fact that the show addressed its lack of diversity and immediately turned it into a cheap gag.

And the lazy-ass Wonder Woman parody.

And. Like. I get there's a lot of table-setting going on, but the story this week was, er. Not great.

edited 31st Jan '16 9:37:00 PM by Wackd

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the wonder woman parody was great, and that people of color line being repeated twice was hilarious. I though the story was great but suffered from trying to set up too much, but understand it's because everything changed. sad to see hatred go, but eh brock's back.

You generally have to give pilots/season premieres some leeway quality wise. With the obvious exception of Lucha Underground, not every season premiere is going to knock it out of the park. They needed to setup, they setup.

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This season had a lot more to set up than normal. Rusty is rich, they moved to new york, the guild has to be rebuilt.

so how do you think Rusty is gonna lose his money. I say he spends it all on a rusty musical starring brown spider and it becomes a total failure like turn off the dark.

It's just the most obvious fucking thing they could've done. We get it. Feminists hate men and have weirdass ways of talking about them. Also, Amazons cut their breasts off, or at least people think they did. Hilarious. Move the fuck on.

I mean for cripes sake, you already put literal actual Valerie Solanas on your program. There's only so much material to be mined here.

Also, Publick, Hammer—we know you've noticed your show is like 95% white dudes. You get asked about this crap all the damn time and continue to give appalling answers. Acknowledging that for a friggin' "white, black, green" joke is, just. Learn to take fucking criticism, guys.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

I don't get the problem with the wonder woman parody. Like year she is kinda lazy but just playing up the amazon myths up to 11. and fallen archer and night dick and stars and garters more than make up for her. she is mostly there so brock can fuck someone on the regular. and to be a wonder woman/thor parody for the avengers parody.

and I get you are mad about it not being diverse enough but purple pitcher actually thinking purple was a color that mattered for diversity was hilarious.

I also loved that the special item doc ordered was a fucking track suit.

edited 31st Jan '16 10:15:53 PM by Deadpoolrocks

Oh, well, that makes it okay, then.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

see now you get it. she is a one off joke character for now. if she appears more and doesn't move beyond her thing now then you might have a reason to bitch, but as it is, it's a joke. a joke about wonder woman but more like our myths instead of just weird bondage.

edited 31st Jan '16 10:18:06 PM by Deadpoolrocks