Venture Bros.

[cignus_pfaccari]

What episodes have you been catching? I've only seen three episodes, so far, and the body count has been huge. In the Sargasso episode, he killed just about every one of the pirates. In the holodeck thingie, he slaughtered dozens across time. Heck, even in the benign Ice Station episode, he managed to gut a bear with a buck knife.

Well, yes, but that's a bear, not a person. Bears tend not to beg for mercy or make funny noises.

Let's see...I caught the entirety of: the one in Mexico (running people over doesn't count), the one on the space station, the one with the amusement park, and the ice station one.

I caught a bit of the sasquatch one and the pirate one, and I don't recall the holodeck one.

Besides, he has to get really mad, and twitch, and then go berserk on the poor saps. Really, it's the twitch that I find funny.

Brad

 

[Villano]

IMO, this is one of the best original Cartoon Network series (although Foster's Homer For Imaginary Friends and Megas XLR come close).

The only thing I didn't care for in this week's episode was the inclusion of Race Bannon because the show is already loosely based on Johnny Quest.

 

[driver8]

Great to see a Venture Bros thread. Count me as a fan too, I love the pokes the show take at not only Hanna Barbera cartoons like Jonny Quest but also at Superhero/Action shows of the 60s..like Sundays take on the Fantastic Four.

Its a nice change IMHO form the short 15 minute segments AS does. ATHF and Sealab are good, but their humor for me is hit and miss.

 

[WizarDru]

Villano, minor nitpicks: no one invented helium, they discovered it. Helium was around long before mankind was. And Janssen is usually credited with the simultaneous discovery with Lockyer. Or so I'm told.

This was a major pet peeve of some chemist friends of mine.

 

[Henry]

Darn it, what did they do to Race that was so terrible? I missed the episode, and my friends wouldn't tell me! And I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep missing this episode until it does come out on DVD! Could someone possibly (spoiler) it for me?

 

[Villano]

Villano, minor nitpicks: no one invented helium, they discovered it. Helium was around long before mankind was. And Janssen is usually credited with the simultaneous discovery with Lockyer. Or so I'm told.

This was a major pet peeve of some chemist friends of mine.

I'm shocked! Shocked, I say! Especially since it was a very famous school principal I was quotings, Principal Seymour Skinner.

That's right, it's a Simpsons quote. It's from the episode when Bart turns Skinner's weather balloon into "Big Butt Skinner" (with the alternate title "Buttzilla"). That's what Skinner shouts as the balloon floats away.

I tell you, kids today have no sense of history.

 

[WizarDru]

Well, here's the deal:

Spoiler

The episode opens with Race beating the snot of some snake-men (who bear more than a passing resemblance to members of the DCU's Kobra organization). He grabs the cannister marked Chemical X or whatever it was, and makes a daring escape with a quip, dropping a hand grenade behind. Race snickers as the plane explodes above him, lights up a cigarette.....and is prompty hit in the midsection by another passing airplane. The cannister is thrown clear, and his near lifeless form reaches the ground via parachute a few minutes later. There, small children find Race's form, and begin playing on it. When the wind catches his parachute, dragging his body along, they use him as a toy. They then start grabbing his spy gear (of which he has quite a lot) and start decimating the playground. By that point, Brock and the venture brothers show up, shoo the kids away, and discover that Race isn't totally dead. He has just enough time to tell them about the cannister (which Brock has) and to "...tell Johnny, I loved....." and then he dies.
Then his bowels release. Says Brock "Yeah......they don't show that part on television."

 

[The Serge]

Well, here's the deal:

Spoiler

The episode opens with Race beating the snot of some snake-men (who bear more than a passing resemblance to members of the DCU's Kobra organization). He grabs the cannister marked Chemical X or whatever it was, and makes a daring escape with a quip, dropping a hand grenade behind. Race snickers as the plane explodes above him, lights up a cigarette.....and is prompty hit in the midsection by another passing airplane. The cannister is thrown clear, and his near lifeless form reaches the ground via parachute a few minutes later. There, small children find Race's form, and begin playing on it. When the wind catches his parachute, dragging his body along, they use him as a toy. They then start grabbing his spy gear (of which he has quite a lot) and start decimating the playground. By that point, Brock and the venture brothers show up, shoo the kids away, and discover that Race isn't totally dead. He has just enough time to tell them about the cannister (which Brock has) and to "...tell Johnny, I loved....." and then he dies.
Then his bowels release. Says Brock "Yeah......they don't show that part on television."

It's the last line and what immediately preceeds it that's hilarious!

 

[WizarDru]

I'm shocked! Shocked, I say! Especially since it was a very famous school principal I was quotings, Principal Seymour Skinner.

That's right, it's a Simpsons quote. It's from the episode when Bart turns Skinner's weather balloon into "Big Butt Skinner" (with the alternate title "Buttzilla"). That's what Skinner shouts as the balloon floats away.

I tell you, kids today have no sense of history.

Ahhh. Sorry, my Simpson lore is seriously impaired....ever since my daughter was born, the Simpsons dropped off of my radar, except in an indirect way. Sad, but true. Luckily, Tivo came into my life.