The Venture Brothers: Your Unavoidable Deaths Will Become the Stuff of Legends

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BIG HEADLINE: Jun 13, 2006; "Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Cobalt Chloride posted:

So I'm dumb and thought that the Apollo reference was the the Apollo 1, and that it meant L Ron was really responsible for the fire, and that they were worried for Wally because he was part of the backup crew.

But it being Apollo 7 probably makes more sense, since Wally was actually on that one and since Team Venture probably stopped whatever L Ron had planned.

_{_{Go to hell Ron, L Ron.}}

I think we're all overthinking that badge waaaay too much: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/11/l_ron_hubbard_c.php

He was in the Navy during WW2 and loved sailing (supposedly outside international waters so he could get up to certain questionable things) and since he bought the ship in 1968 it makes sense he'd name it Apollo and give it a "navy-like" designation of CVS-1...despite that article not mentioning that string at all.

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 08:59 on Jun 30, 2013

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Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

X_Toad posted:

Hank, on the other hand, just seems to want to scam people and so comes up with fancy names and descriptions for dishes that are worthless, and have people pay high price for it.

I would buy a Corn Chip Mountain.

# ? Jun 30, 2013 08:54

Action Tortoise: Feb 18, 2012; A wolf howls.
I know how he feels.

Everyone talks about ORB being the episode that messes with people hoping for some grand epic storylines. What about Twenty Years to Midnight and the Contact plot twist?

# ? Jun 30, 2013 14:06

womb with a view: Sep 8, 2007

BIG HEADLINE posted:

I think we're all overthinking that badge waaaay too much: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/11/l_ron_hubbard_c.php

He was in the Navy during WW2 and loved sailing (supposedly outside international waters so he could get up to certain questionable things) and since he bought the ship in 1968 it makes sense he'd name it Apollo and give it a "navy-like" designation of CVS-1...despite that article not mentioning that string at all.

Oh no, on a rewatch Jonas specifically says the Apollo 7, I just somehow missed that. But yes, overthinking is what we do here.

# ? Jun 30, 2013 14:18

Bored: Jul 26, 2007; Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

ultramiraculous posted:

Tywin Lannister

You fuckin' nerd...

# ? Jun 30, 2013 16:22

LashLightning: Feb 20, 2010; You know you didn't have to go post that, right?
But it's fine, I guess...
You just keep being you!

muscles like this? posted:

There were 10 episodes for this season but the double length premier counts as two and the Halloween special counts as one more.

And I read that the season finale is going to be double length, too. So it gives us roughly 13 episodes, pretty good going.

# ? Jun 30, 2013 16:34

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

BIG HEADLINE posted:

I think we're all overthinking that badge waaaay too much: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/11/l_ron_hubbard_c.php

He was in the Navy during WW2 and loved sailing (supposedly outside international waters so he could get up to certain questionable things) and since he bought the ship in 1968 it makes sense he'd name it Apollo and give it a "navy-like" designation of CVS-1...despite that article not mentioning that string at all.

I thought it was something like that until Jonas said Apollo 7. Apollo 7 splashed down two days after the Onassis wedding in 1968.

Not exactly sure when Hubbard would have wanted to attack Apollo 7 though...

# ? Jun 30, 2013 17:17

LP97S: Apr 25, 2008

Sash! posted:

I thought it was something like that until Jonas said Apollo 7. Apollo 7 splashed down two days after the Onassis wedding in 1968.

Not exactly sure when Hubbard would have wanted to attack Apollo 7 though...

Space travel would reveal that Thetans and the Galactic Confederation don't exist :tinfoil:

.

EDIT: Also the Jackie Kennedy / Aristotle Onassis wedding was a huge deal, even this historical documentary about Apollo 7 puts the wedding up there with the 68 Presidential election and the Soviet Space Program in it's rundown.

LP97S fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Jun 30, 2013

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Bobulus: Jan 28, 2007

LP97S posted:

Space travel would reveal that Thetans and the Galactic Confederation don't exist .

Well, considering he somehow turned himself into a Thetan, I suspect it's more that he wanted a private monopoly on space travel or something crazy like that.

# ? Jun 30, 2013 19:02

Optimus Subprime: Mar 26, 2005; Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

Got my first 2 shirts from the shirt club, along with 2 Hankbucks. I need to figure out what to do with them, maybe frame them in a "first dollar" made sort of way and put it in my office.

# ? Jun 30, 2013 19:15

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Arglebargle III posted:

I would buy a Corn Chip Mountain.

It's basically a frito pie without the chili.

# ? Jun 30, 2013 19:43

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

I'd watch the hell out of a Jonas Venture show

# ? Jun 30, 2013 21:16

JetsGuy: Sep 17, 2003; science + hockey
=
LASER SKATES

Sash! posted:

I'd watch the hell out of a Jonas Venture show

I might if this were the 50s.

I dunno, what we know of the "Rusty Venture Show", it just seems like a typical crappy serial.

# ? Jun 30, 2013 22:01

Sankara: Jul 18, 2008

There already is a Jonas Venture cartoon. It's called Johnny Quest.

# ? Jun 30, 2013 23:45

JT Jag: Aug 30, 2009; #1 Jaguars Sunk Cost Fallacy-Haver

Doctor Reynolds posted:

There already is a Jonas Venture cartoon. It's called Johnny Quest.

I was going to say "but Johnny Quest doesn't have the implied sodomy that I look for in my Rusty Venture cartoons", but then I think... Dr. Quest and Race Bannon are on pretty cordial terms, you know.

# ? Jul 1, 2013 00:44

Three-Phase: Aug 5, 2006; by zen death robot

drat, I'd better pick up the Season 3 DVD this week. I was just looking at the descriptions on iTunes for the episodes (I want a physical DVD instead of being tethered to Apple) and my interest is again piqued.

Some people at work were talking about technical design and system troubleshooting, and I was going to mention the episode where they go to troubleshoot the space station that has ONE "fault" light.

"It's OFF!"
"It's ON!"
"It's OFF!"
"It's ON!"

"Boys, that's called blinking."

"Now it's just regular on!"

Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jul 1, 2013

# ? Jul 1, 2013 01:17

Danzou: Oct 24, 2010; by angerbot

As many times as I've seen "The Better Man", I only just noticed that The-Master-as-Dean is using what appears to be a Vacuum Boom-Vroom.

# ? Jul 1, 2013 01:47

twistedmentat: Nov 21, 2003; Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Wow I didn't notice until just now the L Ron robot has a cravat on.

# ? Jul 1, 2013 01:57

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

JetsGuy posted:

I might if this were the 50s.

I dunno, what we know of the "Rusty Venture Show", it just seems like a typical crappy serial.

I mean the real Jonas. Roughing up Greek pirates, fighting whoever, needless killing, key parties, all of it.

Action Man has a line at one point that's something like "fly down to Florida to laugh it up with the Mercury boys, arch Castro for a couple hours, then off to Vegas to the Sands to catch Sinatra's last show." That show is what I want to see.

Sash! fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Jul 1, 2013

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404GoonNotFound: Aug 6, 2006; The McRib is back!?!?

Molostro

# ? Jul 1, 2013 05:01

soupcan58: Mar 13, 2008; You blew my mind, man!

Of course Shoreleave came up with a couple name for them.

# ? Jul 1, 2013 05:02

Friends Are Evil: Oct 25, 2010; cats cats cats

Monstrotov

# ? Jul 1, 2013 05:02

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.

If they did an episode of the old Team Venture back in the sixties, it'd be awesome if they did some pop deep culture research and have nerdy references somehow finding their way into that era of the VB.

# ? Jul 1, 2013 05:03