Half-hour Adult Swim toon. 4/5ths Johnny Quest, (characters / tone / groovy soundtrack by FOETUS) w/ loads of other things added to taste (Scooby-Doo, Marvel Comics, etc etc). If Harvey Birdman was less about the frenetic multi-gag pomo Hanna-Barbera reimagineering (which I love) & more about the satisfying narrative push & maintaining its goofball continuity, and treated their characters w/ a tad more respect, it'd be The Venture Brothers.
I bring this show up here because A) the two Venture kids wear Spider-Man & Aquaman jammies, B) the Venture's neighbor is the best Dr. Strange piss-take / homage you could ever hope for, and C) one episode riffed on the FF. Also, D) - as Brak would say, IT'S FRIKKIN' AWESOME!
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)
Don't forget Dr. Venture's Dr. Doom-like nemesis! As much as I love the other Adult Swim shows, this one is my favorite.
― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)
I'll try to remember to catch Saturday's, SNL has been shit this year.
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)
Those Cartoon Network bastards better re-up for a 2nd VB season.
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 27 December 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 December 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)
Late breaking news I didn't mention last time because I didn't have the details yet...Adult Swim has decided to give our little Venture Bros. television programme an experimental whirl at 11pm Sundays starting this Sunday. As far as I know it's only for four weeks--long enough to show "Ice Station--Impossible!," "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean," "The Trial of the Monarch," and "Return to Spider-Skull Island."What's especially exciting about this is that, through whatever deal AS has going with them vis-a-vis Family Guy, FOX will be airing commercials for The Venture Bros.--thereby exposing them a Big-Ass prime time network audience--during Family Guy for the next three Sundays.Pretty cool for us.
Adult Swim has decided to give our little Venture Bros. television programme an experimental whirl at 11pm Sundays starting this Sunday. As far as I know it's only for four weeks--long enough to show "Ice Station--Impossible!," "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean," "The Trial of the Monarch," and "Return to Spider-Skull Island."
What's especially exciting about this is that, through whatever deal AS has going with them vis-a-vis Family Guy, FOX will be airing commercials for The Venture Bros.--thereby exposing them a Big-Ass prime time network audience--during Family Guy for the next three Sundays.
Pretty cool for us.
"Return to Spider-Skull Island", BTW, is the season finale.
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 13 January 2005 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)
(Yes, there's new Family Guy.)
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 January 2005 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)
Yay for Venture Brothers, but most of those Sundays are ones where I won't be home!
His name can't really be Jackson Publick, can it?
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)
http://venture.mancubus.net/article.php?id=34
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 31 January 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)
Also, there are screen shots from SEASON TWO on Jackson Publick's blog.
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)
I've now watched both seasons of this on DVD. FUCK YES. The Monarch is my favorite villain ever, with Dr. Girlfriend right behind.
"He's straight." "But he was in Depeche Mode!" "Straight." "Depeche Mode!"
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 12 September 2007 07:12 (eighteen years ago)
yessssssssss
I am hoping for more HANKBATMAN in S3. I also hope he and/or Dean scores.
― David R., Wednesday, 12 September 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)
The galactic inquisitor/doomsday device ep slays me every fucking time I rewatch it.
"IGNORE ME!"
― John Justen, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)
I want to make gross, sticky love to this show.
Publick's got season three stuff up at his LJ, btw.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 13 September 2007 02:57 (eighteen years ago)
For some reason the single VB line that's stuck in my head more than any other is from the pilot, when the Monarch is loading up his fake meteorite: "And when he drills open the cosmic mystery, he'll get a face full of MEN! MY men!"
― Telephone thing, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)
Also, "Face Full of MEN": great band name or greatest band name?
Supposedly, the BS DVD art from the S1 box is now available in poster-size -- perfect for your wood-paneled rumpus room!
― David R., Monday, 23 June 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)
I (used to) be such a spaz.
I've definitely been digging this season, but is anyone else legitimately creeped out by all the crazy flashbacks involving Jonas Venture and company? It seems to get weirder every episode.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 04:31 (seventeen years ago)
The Rusty / JV flashbacks have always been creepy! I'm waiting for a <em>Blue Velvet</em> homage w/ Jonas huffing some helium while shrieking, "Daddy wants cold fusion!"
S3 has been OK+, tho the pop-cult referentialism gets a little tedious (cf. that whole schtick about not saying Ant-Man last week). And I really wish the Order of the Triad was more Defendersy & not just 70s-Marvelsy.
RETURN OF HANK BATMAN PLEASE
― David R., Wednesday, 16 July 2008 04:48 (seventeen years ago)
IGNORE ME (HTML ERROR)
― David R., Wednesday, 16 July 2008 04:50 (seventeen years ago)