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I'm going with a Rusty clone who was left for dead some where in China back in the 60's. He grew up with some monks, learns mind powers and is now hunting down criminals with his gun.
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My money is on Rusty killing a couple of supervillains at a costume party by tripping on something and the guild freaking out thinking he's an assassin.
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Aug 7, 2014 20:29
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If the supervillain killing thing is at the Gargantua 2 opening, it might be less a costume party and more a 'oh, god, I'm required to show up but I don't want anyone to recognize me at my brother's thing' disguise. But, yeah, we are thinking similarly. edit: What if his fake name is 'Phantom SpaceMan'?
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Aug 7, 2014 20:40
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Bobulus posted:If the supervillain killing thing is at the Gargantua 2 opening, it might be less a costume party and more a 'oh, god, I'm required to show up but I don't want anyone to recognize me at my brother's thing' disguise. But, yeah, we are thinking similarly. Phantom Spaceman! What's the name of the song that plays at the end of Assassinanny 911 when Hank is hypnotized and trying to kill doc? It sort of apes 'The End' by the Doors but I think it's original.
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Aug 13, 2014 15:10
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Skrill.exe posted:Phantom Spaceman! Almost every song ever used in the venture bros is something by JG Thirlwell. Some of the songs are released under one of his band's names, but it's all original score for the Venture Bros initially. I think it's because he's a friend of Doc Hammer and he's cheap/good for the style.
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Aug 13, 2014 15:16
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Also because he's awesome.
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Aug 13, 2014 15:26
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There's a Venture Brothers soundtrack album by Thirlwell, but I can't tell if the James Hank Morrison song is one of them.
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Aug 13, 2014 15:28
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Not sure if it's the case for that track, but the few original songs that aren't Thirlwell's are Doc Hammer's band doing horrible pseudo-covers like the fake Zeppelin and such. Or Doc And Jackson doing Shallow Gravy obviously.
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Aug 13, 2014 15:35
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Captain Blaargh posted:Not sure if it's the case for that track, but the few original songs that aren't Thirlwell's are Doc Hammer's band doing horrible pseudo-covers like the fake Zeppelin and such. Or Doc And Jackson doing Shallow Gravy obviously. They did actually buy the rights to some song used in the climactic scene of the home-school prom episode, IIRC.
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Aug 13, 2014 15:40
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eriktown posted:They did actually buy the rights to some song used in the climactic scene of the home-school prom episode, IIRC. That and the opener to season 2 are the only big songs they've paid real money for. EDIT: AHAHAHA I just googled homeschool prom hoping to find a video clip of that song. It starts with the King & Queen dance and runs through the end. But what I found is there are actually homeschool proms that happen all over Texas for people raised in religious homeschools.
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Aug 13, 2014 15:43
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Well, I meant original to the show, should have been clearer on that.
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Aug 13, 2014 15:51
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Skrill.exe posted:Phantom Spaceman! Guys here schooled me on that very track two pages ago. (Guys, Mike.)
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Aug 13, 2014 15:51
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eriktown posted:They did actually buy the rights to some song used in the climactic scene of the home-school prom episode, IIRC. Some song? That's not just some song. That's Pulp, you fool!
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Aug 13, 2014 16:08
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Jack Gladney posted:Some song? That's not just some song. That's Pulp, you fool! Oh. I didn't realize. *puts on the Comsat Angels*
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Aug 13, 2014 16:54
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Captain Blaargh posted:Not sure if it's the case for that track, but the few original songs that aren't Thirlwell's are Doc Hammer's band doing horrible pseudo-covers like the fake Zeppelin and such. Or Doc And Jackson doing Shallow Gravy obviously. How many Yaz albums do you have on this thing?
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Aug 13, 2014 18:04
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The best part of that joke is that there are only two Yaz albums.
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Aug 14, 2014 00:26
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DrBouvenstein posted:How many Yaz albums do you have on this thing? Real answer: strangely none even though I love Erasure/Vince Clarke stuff. Jack Gladney posted:The best part of that joke is that there are only two Yaz albums. I know, I don't know how many watches it took until until realized and went, "Hey, wait a minute..." Such a great throw away joke. God, I'm glad those brilliant bastards take the time they do on the show.
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Aug 14, 2014 02:01
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I think the music references/jokes are my favorite thing about VB. Probably because it references New Wave and old school deathrock most of the time.
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Aug 14, 2014 02:18
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I think my favorite music references in VB were the Bowie/Iggy Pop/Klaus Nomi lines in the Season 2 finale. They pack something like a dozen music references in a handful of lines. Though the prog rock scene might have been just about the greatest thing I have seen on TV.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:11
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I so want Princess Tinyfeet's giant cat in the closet in Home is Where the Hatred Is, the one that Brock says looks like a man in a giant cat costume to actually be a man in a giant cat costume given her... lifestyle. I know it's unlikely but its kinda thematically consistent that Hatred is so completely oblivious to her goings on in his own house.
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OtherworldlyInvader posted:I think my favorite music references in VB were the Bowie/Iggy Pop/Klaus Nomi lines in the Season 2 finale. They pack something like a dozen music references in a handful of lines. For me it was the opening of Ghosts of the Sargasso. Edit: 3 of the 4 posts I have in this thread are about that scene. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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Aug 14, 2014 13:49
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Ghosts of the Sargasso was my first episode and got me hooked.
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Aug 14, 2014 14:19
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I had seen other episodes before that one but it definitely got me hooked. I love the ghost pirate guy and the sleeping bag joke.
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Aug 14, 2014 15:12
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My first episode was "What goes up must come down" and I was hooked pretty good. I would probably start someone new on Sargasso or "Escape to the House of Mummies Part 2".
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Aug 14, 2014 15:17
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Escape to the House of Mummies Part 2 is, without question, the most fantastic piece of cartoon-ography ever produced.
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ultramiraculous posted:Escape to the House of Mummies Part 2 is, without question, the most fantastic piece of cartoon-ography ever produced. It very well may have been my second episode. I remember I spent a good bit of time looking around for part 1 when it first came out. I didn't start watching until halfway through season 2. It was just the ghosts episode was the first I ever saw so I started DVRing the new ones. It really is just a great episode. Both of them are standalone masterpieces. There's no real need to understand who anyone really is. You can immediately appreciate the archetypes of the characters and the 20 minute story is succinct and closes up nicely.
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Aug 14, 2014 22:38
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It is also my favorite episode because you get a glimpse of what the Venture Brothers adventures are when the most we get is them talking about it. The throwing gun bit kills me. You gotta stop doing that, you have more bullets ya know. Yeah i know but it looked cool. Well GO get it. Finnnnnnnnne.
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Aug 14, 2014 23:06
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Aug 14, 2014 23:32
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I caught the premiere of the pilot, thought it was overly full of itself and badly flash-animated and kinda mean-spirited and not anywhere near as funny as it clearly thought it was, and I almost didn't watch the real series when it showed up. I really didn't expect such a dramatic improvement right out the gate.
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I remember seeing Tag Sale, You're It! in somebody's dorm room and having it stick with me, particularly the bit where the Monarch used to DREAM of taking a whiz on this!
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Data Graham posted:I caught the premiere of the pilot, thought it was overly full of itself and badly flash-animated and kinda mean-spirited and not anywhere near as funny as it clearly thought it was, and I almost didn't watch the real series when it showed up. Right there with you. I only watched the show once it premiered because it was the summer, I was home from college and bored out of my mind. I think "Home Insecurity" aired the night before I went back and it sold me on the series. When I met Monarch, I wa' hooked on crack cocaine, got in all kinda of trouble. Monarch turned my life around. How 'bout you, why'd you join up?
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Aug 15, 2014 00:44
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The pilot was a bit all over the place. The stereotypes etc, that was just pretty drat bad. Brock on the other hand? Didn't change one bit. Sir I'm gonna have to ask you to give me that knife. *ominous music plays* GO ON. TAKE IT FROM ME.
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Shindragon posted:TAKE IT FROM ME. That's the moment that I was hooked
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Data Graham posted:I caught the premiere of the pilot, thought it was overly full of itself and badly flash-animated and kinda mean-spirited and not anywhere near as funny as it clearly thought it was, and I almost didn't watch the real series when it showed up. One of the last conversations I ever had with a college roommate was trying to describe the pilot to him and him not really being sure if what I was describing was real. We were both doing undergraduate research during the summer and shared an apartment, and he was out doing something while I was watching cartoon network. When he got back I tried to tell him about this show that was like Jonny Quest only with a skinned dog and a psychopathic Race and he gave me this weird look and asked if I was sure it wasn't Harvey Birdman.
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You're crazy, the pilot is awesome from even the first scene before the opening. Wow you totally got the kink out of it, and I don't wanna smoke anymore either!
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AFewBricksShy posted:For me it was the opening of Ghosts of the Sargasso. That episode was definitely one of my first ones, also what introduced me and my older brother to the music of David Bowie(well that and Ziggy Stardust being in the first Guitar Hero game)
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Shindragon posted:The pilot was a bit all over the place. The stereotypes etc, that was just pretty drat bad. The one MP frantically shaking his head at the other kills me every time.
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Jack Gladney posted:One of the last conversations I ever had with a college roommate was trying to describe the pilot to him and him not really being sure if what I was describing was real. We were both doing undergraduate research during the summer and shared an apartment, and he was out doing something while I was watching cartoon network. The skinned dog and the unhinged fatherly advice about cosmetics and poo poo like that, eegh... it's not funny or edgy, it's just creepy-crawly. And the ninja who wanted to hump the Ooo ray? I dunno, man. Any randomly selected later-season episode had a better premise/resolution, and made it seem a lot more effortless too. The pilot just seemed forced as hell. And yeah, I remember trying to describe the show to acquaintances based on a few S1 episodes. "Hey, so they actually meet Race Bannon this one time, only he's been kicked out of an airplane and he lands dead in the bushes with his parachute open and it drags him down the road and some kids find his body and kick it around..." —and at that point I realized all I was doing was blowing the deal.
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"They're robot bones!" I grew up watching Johnny Quest with my dad and was hooked immediately. It only got better as they kind of moved away from the straight parody into their own stride.
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