Rewatching venture bros for the first time in a few years. To be more accurate I'm rewatching it about five times in a row for the first time in a few years.
This show just gets better and better with age.
So let's talk about it.
Favorite episodes, references, any little bullshit detail that speaks to you harder than any other fucking cartoon like this does.
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For real though, are Smurfs mammals?
Damn you, MINGLE!
>Favorite episodes
I'll give you one a season because I just wrapped up my annual rewatch
>Season 1
"Tag Sale – You're It!" has a lot of funny moments and really establishes the wider setting.
>Season 2
"Escape to the House of Mummies Part II" is the first episode I ever saw and finding out there was no part 1 still kills me.
>Season 3
"The Doctor Is Sin" has Dr. Killinger who I adore.
>Season 4 pt.1
"Return to Malice"
>Season 4 pt.2
"Operation: P.R.O.M." It's the best episode of the show and nothing will ever convince me otherwise.
>Season 5
"Spanakopita!" it's such a fun episode
>Season 6
"Faking Miracles" It's honestly my least favorite season. As a whole because I really don't care for Wide Wale. However I really enjoyed the Blue Morpho plot. I love that Monarch is great at accidentally being good and Venture is naturally good at evil.
>Season 7
"The Saphrax Protocol"
Because god I want next season already
Also Henchmen 21 is the man I aspire to be.
I think if I had to sell someone on Venture Brothers with just one episode it would Escape to the House of Mummies pt. 2. Also I took two semesters of Art History so I appreciate all the art jokes that Doc slips in.
I finally sat down and watched the latest season on streaming and the sudden resurrgence in references to M O V I E N I G H T andthe Problem light made me flip my shit.
>WHADDA BOUT THE MONA LEEESUH
I just finished Season 1 recently for the first time, because I have been living under a rock. I'm mostly spoiler free, but tell me what kind of good shit I'm in for. This show is great already.
>If you think I'm going to back to a life of ramen noodles and spaghetti-os while driving around in a Honda Accord with a ghost on the hood you are sorely mistaken.
I like it, but it occasionally gets a bit up its own ass with DEEP LORE.
>TFW this meme could be a legit line in the previous seasons
Dr. Mrs The Monarch and the Monarch's relationship is pure.
The single greatest voice acting performance Kevin Conroy has ever delivered, bar none.
I liked the Monarch at the start but he went down hill when he started killing heroes. Then you had that bullshit about how Jonas Jr wasn't allowed to kill him for some no killing rule between heroes and villains the show asspulled, that the Monarch broke multiple times and would have made him fair game.
more excitement, and then some disappointment depending on how much you enjoy Brock.
>Do you think you could...you know...put in a good word to Batman for m-
>GET OUT OF MY SANCTUM SOLARIUM!!
Its one of those few lines I'll be laughing at on my deathbed.
>I'M HERE, I'M HERE! I'm here...*ahem* to do the news.
I felt really bad for that whore the Monarch abducted when their relationship was on the rocks. I'm glad she made it out of there alive.
monarch probably made her quit being one, or atleast be extremely selective with future people.
I can’t believe that whore got past the lake of acid
Any episode with a Dr. O subplot is a fave for me.
I'll never not be mad he got left out of a season entirely.
>TRIAD! Be UNSEEN!
>Was something supposed to happen?
>Like are we invisible now?
>No, I mean hide behind something!
That does get addressed with the newer seasons The sea doc that Monarch kills is the brother to Whale.
>Oh man, my Stanza! Doug's gonna kill me.
>Who the hell is Doug?
>My Dad, I haven't finished paying him off for it yet.
One can only hope the "generous amount" of cash and the stolen car she got for her troubles would somewhat make up for a lifetime of trauma induced nightmares after that.
My roommate that I introduced the show to fell in love with it with Dr. Os first episode and then later again with Maltov
And he never did finish paying
>GIVE US The....cuttlefish...
>GIVE US The....cuttlefish...
Tell your roommate he has good taste for me.
All This and Gargantua-2 may be a flawless episode of television.
No, there are no natural occurring females, the only ones existing have been created by magic. They are also alchemical creatures or if not something asexually reproducing like fungi
I think they're a hybridistic fungoid species.
Seconding this. The Jonas Jr send-off made me shed a manly tear.
>SHIT, it's Chuck Scarsdale! Quick, hide or we're gonna be on the evening news!
Anyone else go through the gradual process of really hating to really liking Rusty? He really grew on me over time, kind of like a friendly tumor. It helps he has one of my favourite voices in the series. Now I can just laugh at the asshole shit he says and does rather than feeling bad for the characters on the receiving end.
It made it easier to like Rusty the more you found out what a shit person Jonas Sr. was. Rusty wants to be a good person, he just doesn't know how.
Pay attention to every detail and line since ALOT will come into play
I forget that season 1 has so many quotable moments.
> tfw when you forget the entire plot of VB every time there's a new season because you only get new seasons every 7 years
I used to have a huge hard-on for Rusty's VA. It pisses me off that he's never gotten his own show or any maior recognition, he can do drama and comedy. He has the face and delivery for both.
what really sold me was the group therapy episode, which is one of my favourites. That, and
>"No, what happened today was a nightmare. What happened on my 16th birthday? That was my fucking life."
Pure cowardice not to make Dr. Mrs. the Monarch actually trans. I know they originally intended her voice to be a transphobic jab, but since she's actually the only competent person on the show, walking that back was actually more insulting than if they'd stuck with it.
Here's hoping he goes on to get other gigs in animation or elsewhere when venture bros finally ends in 20XX. His delivery is pitch perfect.
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Kind of feel like they made Jonas sr too evil in the culmination of the morpho stuff. It works for the episode and all but I just prefer the negligent and otherwise really bad father but great super scientist.
Also, despite how stupid an idea it is, I kind of hope treister somehow survived, he's just so good of a character.
one of the best lines in the show
It helps too that he doesn't really do things like taking kidneys from the boys anymore, he seems generally nicer, I think.
Play or watch Fallout New Vegas's Old World Blues dlc, he voices one of the insane brain-in-a-jar professors and just does his Rusty voice. All of the characters are great and voiced well, too.
kinda mindblowing that Rusty was a well-known enough character that they hired Urbaniak to do a version of him for fucking Fallout New Vegas. That was 9 years ago.
>taking kidneys from the boys
he only did that because he knew they'd probably die and be replaced anyway.
There’s already a trans character in the show
It's not like i'm looking for them to meet a quota. I don't need *any* trans characters on my TV shows, I just think that if you're gonna try it, commit; don't get cold feet.
Who is the best recurring villain and why is it so hard to choose just one? I'm torn between Dr. Z, Phantom Limb and Red Death. They're all so entertaining in such vastly different ways.
If I was forced to choose with a gun to my head, I'd probably say Phantom Limb. I love how his backstory tied directly into Billy's, I love that his voice is pure sex, how he recovered from being cheated on and left by Dr. Girlfriend and his hilarious insanity arc, and the the fact his final arch culminated in a literal dick measuring contest is just too fucking funny.
If you look at his IMDB, Urbaniak's a workhorse day-player for a lot of TV shows, but he's really more of an indie film/theater guy. He was apparently a lynch pin for getting a lot of the early actors like Steven Ratazzi (Dr. O) and Paul Boocock (Jonas Sr) on board.
I used to hate hatred because he felt like a shitty version of brock which was probably the point i guess, but my recent rewatch i really loved every scene with him. And hated how relegated he was when they went to new york.
Once the safety net was taken away, Rusty grew a bit more as a character because he was forced to start being more responsible. The opening montage of Powerless in the Face of Death also implies that Rusty's not as calloused to the whole process as he says he is.
Don't worry, tons of fans felt the same way. And hated the whole 'man with tits' saga. Hatred only really grew on me when he told Hank to shoot him and charged him $1 for every shot he missed. Hatred during the Halloween episode was the best, comedy gold:
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He was also in that nintendo game nobody played, whiny scientist and all
I liked early Hatred when he was a fairly savvy villain pretending to be more oafish than he really was, they took his downfall a little too far I think and if they hadn't brought Brock back in a timely manner it really would have started getting old.
His whole "You're gonna watch me treat your arch like a king, and there's nothing you can do about it" monologue was great."
tag sale your it is your stand out episode for season 1?
Past Tense is a better episode on like several levels, establishes stuff that gets way more mileage later and is the first proper introduction to the OG venture team.
the problem with Tag Sale your it is that it would have been a good time to introduce some of the OSI stuff with all the like secret agent guards but instead they in retrospect just seem generic and disjointed from the setting.
idk. maybe bait.
please kys though, just to be safe. thankyou.
Met him at Dragoncon two years ago. Nice guy!
>Sgt. Hatred will never show up on your front lawn in a hover tank filled with 30 armed henchmen and a big ol' basket of howdy-doo
I'm nominating DrMrsThe Monarch for this years Ms Yas Forums again
I think it ultimately fits with how hypocritical and byzantine the Guild is with a lot of their dealings. They've got so many weird rules and they really only selectively enforce them.
I don't think they had all the deep lore together at the time so yeah it doesn't fit as well. To better describe how I feel about it is that it captures more the essence of normalizing the world outside of early animation by putting these characters in an every-day situation and seeing them mingle when they're "off the clock"
It's so kino how Wide whale is portrayed as this menacing, ruthless, kingpin who leads and fellowships some of the top chains of arching in new york and is considered be a respected, ruthless and feared advisory to many sides, but in the end is still just a guy who desperately wants the approval of his older brother.
The most lamest character commands the respect of the most feared.
Does anyone else hope Warriana comes back? It was fun seeing Brock interact with her, a woman that could actually keep up with him
Most underrated show of all time. Got even better on a rewatch. First watch I didn't care for Hank but now he's one of my favorite characters.
Show me the nipples,Mansley.
godspeed, user