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Ghost Leviathan posted:Almost a pity that the Venture Bros writers probably only have a passing familiarity with anime, given the most references we get are Ro-boy (to be fair a bit of a deep cut to riff on Astro Boy's... interesting features) and Driver X almost certainly being a reference to Racer X. (As well as The Stig) Char is absolutely the kind of archetype they'd have fun riffing on. I'd think the megazord Jay-Jay and family wielded counts as anime-adjecent.
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I cannot count the amount of esoteric art and music trivia I learned just by looking up Venture Bros references. My favorite is still the Doom Factory. 
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AlternateNu posted:I cannot count the amount of esoteric art and music trivia I learned just by looking up Venture Bros references. "He's finally here and he brought Eno" "How do you know?" "Here comes the warm jets." Just tons of neat trivia and callouts.
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https://mantiseye.com/ was such a good resource for little tidbits in episodes but i think the guy grew up and lost interest/time to keep up to date.
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 Bros! quote:HOT DOLPHIN! The spirit of Venture Bros Lives on in the new year!
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well chirp indeed
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Nice. I managed to get some checked out before they sold out. Just wish they would make more figures or literally anything besides more shirts.
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gently caress I forgot that was today.
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I like that they sent the email out for it three hours after everything had already sold out lol
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CatstropheWaitress posted:I like that they sent the email out for it three hours after everything had already sold out lol Technically, it was 4 minutes after they sold out because the "noon" time was Pacific time, and they never made that clear in the e-mail, but I figured since Titmouse is based in LA.
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SyRauk posted:Technically, it was 4 minutes after they sold out because the "noon" time was Pacific time, and they never made that clear in the e-mail, but I figured since Titmouse is based in LA. Yep, I was sitting here F5'ing their site at noon Eastern ready to buy anything I could aaaaaaand it was noon Pacific time, which I was busy at the doctor and missed it all.
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I was peeing at 3 eastern and by the time I got to my desk at 3:01 they were sold out. Hopefully they'll do another round at some point.
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Klaus Nomi's stuff finally hit YouTube and this is a delight.
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I hope he sees a mild resurgence of interest as the eclipse nears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLk2vSXXtk
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drat, it's been a month since I watched the movie, several years since I binged seasons 4-7 on the AS site and somehow I suddenly want to do nothing but talk about VB. ~IRT the birth of the boys. Rusty has love within him, but does not know how to love or be loved. The lack of affection and care in his life caused him to become insular and self-fixated. Rusty cares about Rusty because he's the only person that does. ~There's something tragic about Sheila and Debbie talking about Rusty like he has cooties, even if he does deserve it. ~IRT the Movie Night Massacre and the death of Jonas: Did I miss the part where it was shown that Vendata wasn't responsible? I thought the entire raid was him enacting a plan to murder Jonas. (Dr Z obviously didn't do a great job erasing his memory. It's a human brain, not a VHS Z. You can't just run a magnet over it). Speaking of, who even gathers together in a goddamn airlock? ~Irony: Team Venture decries Jonas turning Blue Morpho's remains into Venturion but then inflict a similar fate on Jonas him by sticking him in the P.R.O.B.L.E.M. ~I wonder if Rusty hallucinating Jonas on Gargantua 1 was due to his proximity to the P.R.O.B.L.E.M. I doubt even Jackson and Doc know. ~The one time you ever see Jonas legitimately pissed is at the end of season 6 when his plan to brainjack Vendata is going tits-up because people are telling him 'no'. ~I just watched a clip on Brick Frog. Sheila described his skillset as 'yelling his name' and 'holding a brick'. Not even 'throwing bricks'. Just holding them. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Rusty might have cooties. Someone might have put herpe in there.
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They don’t ever show who opened the bay doors on movie night. My personal guess is vendata wandered off and paperboy Bud Manstrong found the sex tape, popped it into one of the players in the room, passed out when he got a chubbie, and fell over accidentally hitting the bay doors lever.
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I think that's absolutely meant to be a strong implication. Also lol having airlock doors that can kill literally the entire crew if they're in the theatre sounds like signature Venture design. Pretty karmic for Jonas Venture to have like, three of his own fuckups come back to bite him at once. Also on another note, Helluva Boss has finally released and I'd swear it has some Venture Bros influence among many other things; Sir Pentius in particular seems like a classic old school villain. Alastor even has some moments not far removed from Red Death.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think that's absolutely meant to be a strong implication. Also lol having airlock doors that can kill literally the entire crew if they're in the theatre sounds like signature Venture design. Pretty karmic for Jonas Venture to have like, three of his own fuckups come back to bite him at once. It wasn't a separate theater. It was a theater setup in the cargo bay probably because it was the only place large enough to fit the whole crew.
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There's also a difference between "I took my dead friend and made him into a cyborg without asking him" and "when I die, make me into a cyborg please."
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Mr. Nice! posted:It wasn't a separate theater. It was a theater setup in the cargo bay probably because it was the only place large enough to fit the whole crew. Ahh, right. Which is probably really not any better from an OSHA standpoint.
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Sash! posted:There's also a difference between "I took my dead friend and made him into a cyborg without asking him" and "when I die, make me into a cyborg please." Yeah Jonas wanted to be put into the problem to be revived as a normal human. Blue Morpho was turned into a robot against his will because Jonas thought it would be neat.
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Jonas being just a head was definitely not in his plans. I assume he wanted to be put in a rusty clone but Team Venture didn’t want to tell anyone they dropped him or something
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Mr. Nice! posted:It wasn't a separate theater. It was a theater setup in the cargo bay probably because it was the only place large enough to fit the whole crew. Yeah, of course they were expecting a huge turnout. SHARKEY’S MACHINE.
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Splint Chesthair posted:SHARKEY’S MACHINE. That movie? My God, it's full of stars.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think that's absolutely meant to be a strong implication. Also lol having airlock doors that can kill literally the entire crew if they're in the theatre sounds like signature Venture design. Pretty karmic for Jonas Venture to have like, three of his own fuckups come back to bite him at once. I need to make some time to watch it. Saw some neat Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss cosplay over the weekend.
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I always just assumed to follow ocham's razor IRT the Movie Night Massacre. Vendata is the person with the motive for wanting Jonas dead. Vendata organized the raid. Vendata pulled the lever. Of course there was plenty of wiggle room for that to not happen. As far as the P.R.O.B.L.E.M. goes; Team Venture sticking Jonas in there and then not telling anybody might be worse than what Jonas did to...does the Blue Morpho have a known civilian name? Also: There's something that amuses me about Dragoon going all Christian at the warlock Halloween party. BLASPHEMER! YOU'RE NOT SANTA CLAUS! YOU'RE THE DEVIL! (And something less amusing about his costume). And I swear H Jon Benjamin wrote his own dialogue. It feels so 'Archer'. As far as the show ending goes: I can accept it. A show that only gets a new season every 3 years or so is hard to love no matter how good it is. But it's an IP that just begs for ancillary material like games and comics. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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ChrisBTY posted:I always just assumed to follow ocham's razor IRT the Movie Night Massacre. Vendata is the person with the motive for wanting Jonas dead. Vendata organized the raid. Vendata pulled the lever. City of Heroes but Venture Bros when? I can't wait for the sea of day 1 Brick Frogs
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The only reason I don’t think Vendata pulled the lever is because he denied it when talking to Jonas.
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Because of how the world of The Venture Brothers works my money is on accident. poo poo like Vendatta slips and falls on it, or when Jonas was talking to him when he sat down on a console he accidently triggered a delayed opening of the airlock. The alarms were turned off because Jonas didn't like how they sounded or some dumb, arbitrary poo poo. That's one of the reasons I love this show. It doesn't get too bogged down on huge reveals and handwaves a lot of them away. Hell, the biggest question has always been "Who was the boys' mother?" and the answer seems to be "No one" or "Who cares?" Even "What happened to Jonas?" was played up as this big reveal and it turned out the answer was "Shot out an airlock, possibly on accident, and shattered into pieces when one of the guys carrying him slips on a toy." Not some huge battle with an unstoppable force, betrayed by his friends because of some nefarious conspiracy, or some insane super science that is impossible to understand.
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ChrisBTY posted:does the Blue Morpho have a known civilian name? Don Fitzcarraldo, which is probably a reference to the Werner Herzog film "Fitzcarraldo"
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I'm pretty sure as already said, it was made out Movie Night Massacre was caused by Manstrong having a brain spasm seeing the Blue Morpho/Venture orgy sextape. quote:Also lol having airlock doors that can kill literally the entire crew if they're in the cargo bay like signature Venture design. Pretty karmic for Jonas Venture to have like, three of his own fuckups come back to bite him at once. Movie Night was in the cargo bay I believe but yes, now you say that out loud that is unbelievably stupid to not have a fail safe and very VERY Venture-like.
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limp_cheese posted:Hell, the biggest question has always been "Who was the boys' mother?" and the answer seems to be "No one" or "Who cares?" I mean, the movie did answer this one. Their mother is their father, using Mantilla's eggs and an artificial womb.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I'm pretty sure as already said, it was made out Movie Night Massacre was caused by Manstrong having a brain spasm seeing the Blue Morpho/Venture orgy sextape. The mass production Helper fiasco really goes to show the apple didn't fall far from the tree, the only thing keeping Jonas afloat was the infinite free money spigot of Cold War government funding. Which Rusty came of age just in time to miss out on. (Given the Pyramid Wars, Movie Night was presumably in 1987) Also funny thing is those deliberate anticlimax revelations still give things their own significance. Like that for all his grand importance and fame, Jonas died because of a confluence of events caused by his own carelessness and callousness. And the reveal of the boys parentage imo recontextualises a lot of things; they weren't a result of one of Rusty's disastrous flings and left at his doorstep, Rusty wanted to be a father and put in the effort, as much as he's really capable of.
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ChrisBTY posted:As far as the P.R.O.B.L.E.M. goes; Team Venture sticking Jonas in there and then not telling anybody might be worse than what Jonas did It almost seems like they had instructions to put however much of him was available to put into the PROBLEM. They didn't balk at just sticking his head in there and were only surprised that that was enough for it to eventually work. It also seemed like they'd anticipated the PROBLEM to notify them when he was, uh, done. Action Man's "the light never came on" says that. It all comes across that they were doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing.
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I guess it's not that they did something hypocritical, it's that Jonas suffered a similar fate to Don and Team Venture were involved. Irony? Poetic justice? I love that the rule on VB became 'never, ever assume anybody is actually dead.' Treister somehow survived spending months(?) naked in the vacuum of space. For all we know Jonas got teleported to another world that cured his cancer. Zero was probably hosed though.
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ChrisBTY posted:IRT You keep using this and I have no idea what it means.
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