I never realized that the Doom Factory was not just a Legion of Doom reference, but also an Andy Warhol reference.
Venture Bros has a lot of shit you can miss easily but the delivery doesn't fall flat when you don't notice it.
What did you miss on your first watch?
Everything they do makes me really want to see them work in comics, I wonder what a DC universe lead by them would look like
Venture bros was originally going to be a comic before doc got tired with that routr
It might also be a Doom Patrol reference.
Lex Luthor, Giganta, Captain Cold, Black Manta, Gorilla Grodd, Riddler, Cheetah, Grundy, Star Sapphire.
Maybe because of Eenie Meenie and Bumblebee, but I think the literal fortress rising out of a "swamp" and the "Meanwhile at the Doom Factory"-tier introduction, it's gotta be Legion of Doom
“So hey guys....let’s kill Dr. Venture”
Highly doubt that the actual quote but one of the best moments of season 6.
So, uhm, guys... We should get Dr. Venture...."
DUNDUNDUNDUNDUN
You were close.
Probably for the best, a lot of the show's humor comes from the perfect line delivery
It's not at all Doom Patrol reference.
>What did you miss on your first watch?
Thanks to two semesters of art history I caught most of Doc's art jokes, but I missed a lot of indie music jokes.
Toss some of them out.
I passively watch the entire series once a week and still find shit, but I don't even know which art jokes you're referencing.
For some reason it felt like I kept having to rewind the show in order to figure out what characters were saying at times. Anybody else?
Any good torrents or whatever with actual captions to avoid this?
>"there is a television behind the El Greco"
>"so why don't you put your fat Tom of Finland ass on your big gay bike and go home"
>the many references in "ORB"
>"call him and tell him we have a Damien Hirst"
I dunno, there's a bunch of shit. Doc and Jackson are nerds.
Is English your first language? Another user was saying he had a hard time with Sgt Hatred and other characters because of that issue. I forget dialect and things can affect how people hear things.
Some of these I get from context clues like the Damien Hirst, but I have to google them to get the real reference.
I've always glossed over the painter names. Shame as a Greek I didn't really register El Greco.
Spanakopita on the other hand was a treat of an episode.
In Escape to House of Mummies pt 2 when they're testing the shrink ray on Billy and White shrinks his head he says "Nice shot, William Burroughs"
Burroughs was a beat generation writer and artist who was convicted of manslaughter in absentia for accidentally shooting his wife in the head while drunkenly horsing around with a gun.
>Damien Hirst
There's a lot of visual jokes, too. The dissected shark that Wide Whale steals for Dugong in their origin flashback is based on a Hirst piece. Also Scare Bear was based on a performance art piece.
I hadn't heard of the slang "battle ax" when I originally watched season 6 so that was a fun little realization. I also only somehow got the double joke with Headshot's name like a week ago.
Holy shit I just realized I've never watched the pilot, christmas special or shallow gravy special because they're not on Adult Swim or Hulu.
I've watched the rest of the series 40+ times.
I'm having a crisis.
The pilot's on Hulu, s1e1.
there's also the christmas album which I just found exists
Wow, you're dumb
Thats the guy that wrote Naked Lunch, Am I right?
their commentary is the best part
I guess the Wiki description just made me think that wasn't the same episode.
I realize I've seen it .
I think it's a mix of reasons. Characters have funny voices, music tends to play over what they say, and the writing itself doesn't make it easy to figure out what they're saying from context.
Pic-related is the first thing that came up when I searched for "venture bros quotes". You see characters speaking in funny accents and using terms like "birth crevasse" you'd never hear elsewhere. Even if you know what a crevasse is you might incorrectly group up "birthcrevasse" as one word and not know what the fuck she's talking about.
>"What the fuck does the word 'birthcrevasse' mean? Oh 'BIRTH crevasse' okay..."
My parents aren't native English speakers so as a young child I guess I was sort of taught a mix of English and Spanish. Either way English has by far been my primary language most of my life (wouldn't even consider myself fluent in Spanish at this point).
Yeah, I need to see all the commentary eventually.
I think I'll buy all the DVDs eventually.
Yeah, all the time.
Yup. He had initially claimed that he was trying to impress his friends with a William Tell style trick shot, but later rescinded that story and confessed that he was just showing his gun off, dropped it and it discharged.
I love the commentary that's just Doc, Jackson and James Urbaniak talking about shower products for about 15 minutes.
Its one of the many great things about this show and Futurama. I watched them for the first time years ago and as I consoomed more of staples in music, comics, and movies I came back to these shows loving them more
Side note, but Doc Hammer's oil portraits are really fucking good considering he has almost no formal art education.
Yeah, Doc's weirdly good at a lot of things.
He really sort of is the stereotypical sickly genius.
Honestly I just wish the show got a bit more recognition for being as good as it is for the sickly genius that he is.
The most I hear from it outside of these threads that amount 30 IPs is people saying that the new Harley Shit show is similar.