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Right now, I'm like on year 3 of falling asleep every night to the Venture Brothers Marathon on the Adult Swim app. I've seen every episode countless times and they never.get.old.
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Nov 23, 2022 01:16
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Freaks, the lot of you
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Nov 23, 2022 01:32
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mutantIke posted:(coming from someone who read Homestuck when they were 10) terrified by this dating you to no earlier than 1999
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Nov 23, 2022 01:41
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mutantIke posted:I'm a big fan of the show's tendency to smash cut to credits immediately after something insane happens, that finale was brutal It is genuinely the best way I think that any show ends. Credits are usually an afterthought and somewhat subdued; Venture Brothers credits come crashing in hot without warning and you get essentially the final scene of the episode afterwards as a palette cleanser, then it's straight into the next episode. Absolute genius, I love it.
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Nov 23, 2022 02:06
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QuarkJets posted:I rewatched some episodes on Hulu and they are really bad about skipping the stinger scenes Wonder if I still have the original scene releases. I'd love to see how blocky those encodes are in today times!
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Nov 23, 2022 02:21
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Cloks posted:anyone else still wearing the gargantua 2 sweatshirt? This was by far my softest hoodie for a while but I wore it too much. Now it's like my third softest hoodie.
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Nov 23, 2022 02:22
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DoctorWhat posted:terrified by this dating you to no earlier than 1999 I feel like I should just make "Born in 2004, certified toddler" my bio (signature? description? idfk forums are for nerds)
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Nov 23, 2022 02:28
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bull3964 posted:Right now, I'm like on year 3 of falling asleep every night to the Venture Brothers Marathon on the Adult Swim app. I've seen every episode countless times and they never.get.old. VB is my background noise if i can't think of anything else i want to put on. always works.
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Nov 23, 2022 02:29
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The dark horse book going out of print bums me out. It's a great book, it should get reprints! Maybe whenever they get a special out.
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Nov 23, 2022 03:43
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And it has to be stressed that these episodes are brought to us in glorious extra COLOR! I used to watch a lot of old science fiction shows on the earliest incarnation of the Sci Fi channel. These were shows like Time Tunnel that nobody remembers today unless they're fans of Time Tunnel for some reason. So many of those shows probably only got on the air because they were made in color. Some used the color technique's name (like Technicolor), some made up a new word for the fact that it was in color, but VB brings it home with glorious, extra, color. The episode-ending format (smash cut to credits, end with a stinger) is amazing and effective, and it doesn't get old. Two of my favorite examples of it (including the action right before the smash cut, the credits, and the stinger) are the season finales to Season 1 and Season 4, both of which could have seriously ended the show.
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Nov 23, 2022 05:09
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mutantIke posted:Just finished S4E1. Confusing as hell with all the timeline poo poo (coming from someone who read Homestuck when they were 10) but the comic appraisal gag made me laugh out loud. Awkward considering I watched it on a plane. Hank now >>> Dean. If you can get through season 3 nothing plot or timeline-wise should bother you. Maaaybe the stuff with the Sovereign in Gargantua Too. Edit: Unless you just mean the out-of-order storytelling in Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel, in which case just go by the comic's value from high to low.
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Nov 23, 2022 05:49
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mutantIke posted:I feel like I should just make "Born in 2004, certified toddler" my bio (signature? description? idfk forums are for nerds) My forums account is older than you. Thanks for reminding me that I am old enough to have an adult child if I'd knocked up my college girlfriend. Coincidentally, I remember watching Venture Bros in her dorm room on Sunday nights in 2005. I'm honestly surprised there's anyone that young on Something Awful. I thought the youngest people here were like 35 at this point.
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Nov 23, 2022 06:08
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Maybe they're one of those kids whose parents met on here and registered their newborn. 
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Nov 23, 2022 07:31
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If my parents were goons I'm pretty sure I would've turned out normal
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Nov 23, 2022 07:46
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S4 is imo the best overall season of the show, and the point where the creators finally get comfortable enough with their characters and world to really start rocking the boat and making some status-quo changes. It's also very much The Season of Hank
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Nov 23, 2022 09:46
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If when I was 18 I was insufferably into bands that broke up years before I was born, this kid can post on ancient forums about a show with a pilot that aired before they were born.
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Nov 23, 2022 14:31
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mutantIke posted:Just finished S4E1. Confusing as hell with all the timeline poo poo (coming from someone who read Homestuck when they were 10) but the comic appraisal gag made me laugh out loud. Awkward considering I watched it on a plane. Hank now >>> Dean.
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Nov 23, 2022 15:05
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qirex posted:He’s just trying to solve a cool mystery and everyone else is all “go team boobies!” Dean is entirely realistic as far as teenage boys go. The circumstances in which Hank loses his virginity are certainly questionable enough that he even agreed that having his memory wiped of the experience was the way to go for his mental health. One of those bits where the show is a lot more realistic than anyone might like to admit, really. Kinda funny that eventually you get Hank getting a girlfriend who cheats on him with Dean... which also makes an odd amount of sense. The two complement one another, and grew to have strength where the other doesn't.
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Nov 23, 2022 15:49
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Omnomnomnivore posted:If when I was 18 I was insufferably into bands that broke up years before I was born being an insufferable music dork is a very important element of this show.
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Nov 23, 2022 15:55
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Omnomnomnivore posted:If when I was 18 I was insufferably into bands that broke up years before I was born, this kid can post on ancient forums about a show with a pilot that aired before they were born. In pursuit of honesty I do also do the first thing. That is very much a thing that I do
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Nov 23, 2022 21:30
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My gargantua 2 hoodie is still going but starting to show some real dino damage. Sad because it's very high quality and fits me like a glove, much like the venture bros Anyway what was that bit about bums not liking dicks coming around
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Nov 24, 2022 02:23
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Or was it booooobs OW
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Nov 24, 2022 02:57
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Dean is entirely realistic as far as teenage boys go. Like, for real. I grew up in rural Ireland and I still knew people like Dean everywhere. Hank, not so much. Plenty of Dermots though.
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Nov 24, 2022 05:59
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Nilbop posted:Like, for real. I grew up in rural Ireland and I still knew people like Dean everywhere. EVERYONE knew a Dermot growing up. If you didn't, you were the Dermot.
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Nov 24, 2022 07:02
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The Guild being founded by The Big Bopper and Buddy Holly may be the funniest piece of lore in the entire series so far (S4E5)
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Nov 24, 2022 08:50
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Hello! I'm David Bowie
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mutantIke posted:The Guild being founded by The Big Bopper and Buddy Holly may be the funniest piece of lore in the entire series so far (S4E5) SOUSAPHONE PLAYER! THE WORST
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Nov 24, 2022 13:23
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Love how the entire superhero/supervillain system was basically just a way for bored rich dudes to play dress and go on adventures that became its own thing once all the rich dudes were dead
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Nov 24, 2022 15:06
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I"m still fuzzy on the transition from Col Venture's Guild (from the orb flashbacks) to the Guild of Buddy Holly/The Big Bopper/Dragoon/Red Mantle. It's obvious there were more power hungry factions in the original old tyme Guild, but how it fractured and reformed as the current GoCI was never explained, I think.
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Nov 24, 2022 15:15
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pixaal posted:Hello! I'm David Bowie
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AlternateNu posted:I"m still fuzzy on the transition from Col Venture's Guild (from the orb flashbacks) to the Guild of Buddy Holly/The Big Bopper/Dragoon/Red Mantle. It's obvious there were more power hungry factions in the original old tyme Guild, but how it fractured and reformed as the current GoCI was never explained, I think. I took it as the original Guild fell apart entirely in those flashbacks we see and Fantomas just used the name when he started his band. How it went from a terrible band to a supervillain organisation isn't explicit but at the same time the whole superhero/supervillain thing feels very similar to rock star culture so it makes sense to me.
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Nov 24, 2022 15:23
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pixaal posted:Hello! I'm David Bowie CELEBRITY VOICE IMPERSONATED
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Nov 24, 2022 18:06
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Still doesn't beat the best Bowie impression of all time https://youtu.be/kYBtg8lFgfg
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Nov 24, 2022 18:15
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Aw Changes? I love that album! Dude, you are such a poser, Changes was a best of.
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New Yorp New Yorp posted:EVERYONE knew a Dermot growing up. If you didn't, you were the Dermot. This is up there as one of the grand universal truths of the American male experience So is Young Gary finding a box of porn in the woods. Where did it come from? No one knows, but it happened to everyone I grew up with. My experience was by a high tension power line tower, in an area frequented by teenaged dirt bike delinquents. Sash! fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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(S4E9) 21 is the coolest. Would easily watch a spinoff series where he goes on Haunted Guy Adventures or whatever
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Nov 25, 2022 07:13
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Dimebags Brain posted:Aw Changes? I love that album! I've been called out on this multiple times in my life years apart and each time it destroys me.
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mutantIke posted:(S4E9) 21 is the coolest. Would easily watch a spinoff series where he goes on Haunted Guy Adventures or whatever 2 ton 21 really has the best arc in this series. From a disposable henchman to an incredibly competant #2. I guess I'll spoil this because i don't remember if you've seen this The scene where he is able to fight back against Brock was such a great moment for his character.
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The relationship to The Monarch is the best part of the character growth. From nameless henchmen to best friend and number 2 that can actually TALK BACK TO THE MONARCH.
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