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"World Domination? I'll leave that to the religious nuts and the Republicans thank you"
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May 15, 2017 17:55
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Man that clip has just reminded me of how much I love Dr.Z, such a great understated character. I love the sheer glee he gets out of villainy and how he's viewed as this pioneering legend within the supervillain community. Watching him bust out the villain speech at Rusty's day camp and seeing Hatred geek out over meeting him were both great. "What about scorpions? Can I drop scorpions on him?"
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Oct 6, 2017 09:15
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gently caress it, I'm ordering this book right now. I'm almost as excited to read it as I am for the new season (Which I still can't believe is airing this weekend!)
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Aug 2, 2018 18:48
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I only recently figured out the meaning behind Queen Etheria too- she's supposed to be 'ethereal' i.e ghostly and barely visible to contrast with Phantom Limb's invisible appendages, which is why everyone makes comments about how her old costume was really revealing and skanky
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Aug 3, 2018 01:22
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I'm going to get  and watch the episodes tonight. I've got Venture fever and I need to watch this show like right now
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Aug 3, 2018 17:14
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Tuxedo Ted posted:
I've always loved the scene in Home Insecurity where Monarch and Underbeit stare eachother down with increasing intensity, the animation on their faces slays me every time.
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Aug 4, 2018 21:59
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SeanBeansShako posted:Seriously why was Pete almost naked. The only reason I can think of is HELPeR was going to feed him to Jonas? He'd been through a bunch of haunted house poo poo on his way to the lobby. That does things to a person.
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Aug 7, 2018 22:29
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The best racist joke on the show is Col.Gentleman stating that Kano is a crackerjack pilot despite his 'racial handicap'
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Aug 17, 2018 04:51
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The Ooooo Ray seemed to be a solid invention too, albeit not for the reasons that Doc intended it for. At least he made some money out of it
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Sep 21, 2018 12:40
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WrathOfBlade posted:I love Treister based solely on Toby Huss knocking every single one of his line readings out of the park. I feel the same way about Red Dragoon, their lines are funny on their own but it's the delivery that really knocks it out of the park. I still giggle just thinking about the way he pronounces the whacky races
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Oct 4, 2018 22:32
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Hey guess what? Nobody cares who would win in a crazy fantasy fist fight between Hunter S Thompson and Douglas MacArthur!
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Oct 5, 2018 18:53
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of the Venture Bros upon hearing this news
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Oct 31, 2018 03:11
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Dragoon breathlessly proclaiming that he was accidentally inventing Hip-hop! is one of my favourite line deliveries in the whole series
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Feb 4, 2019 10:32
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uber_stoat posted:"Finally someone who understands that serration is only good for bread." This line has been stuck in my head for years, and pops up pretty much every time I slice bread. I completely lost my poo poo when they called back to it in S5, I had no idea that it stuck out for other people.
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Jul 23, 2019 13:40
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I'm interested to see what the Monarch's operation is going to look like next season now that he's got his mojo back and has a clear shot at arching Rusty again. Is he going to revert back to the old cocoon/henchman army model that we're used to or continue with the slimmed-down operation with Gary that he's been working with for the past couple of seasons? Given the change in both his and the Ventures living situations it's going to be cool to see what his first big arch as a Lvl.10 is going to look like now that he can't just flood the compound with henchmen like back in the old days. Plus now that the secret's finally out about Rusty and Malcolms relationship to one another I'm expecting big things from their first big showdown in NYC
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Nov 1, 2019 23:34
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Kesper North posted:I wanna give this show a shoutout for teaching me the name of the Valsalva maneuver. I once won a point in a pub quiz because the show taught me what a Lepidopterist is
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Mar 1, 2020 05:34
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Images you can hear https://twitter.com/itsstillalex/status/1238836963442130946?s=19
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Mar 15, 2020 23:43
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That episode does not go a minute without an all time great line, it’s incredible. You're not kidding. I wanted to quote one of my favourite lines from the episode ("what if its actually Zeus? All pissed off because nobody cares about Zeus anymore") but in the process I stumbled upon the scene on YouTube and literally every single line here is comedy gold. Triester was such a good character, its a shame we never got to see more of him https://youtu.be/VbKIH4E8hac
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Apr 17, 2020 22:39
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Yeah I paid double that for my book and it still felt like I got a bargain.
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Apr 25, 2020 21:31
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luxury handset posted:
It really says a lot about the strength of the shows worldbuilding that they could even introduce a concept like 'avant-garde conceptual arching' and have it intuitively make sense to both the characters in the show and the audience themselves. The sheer density of the lore and references contained in that episode is astounding and yet none of it ever feels stilted or difficult to explain.
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May 21, 2020 20:43
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Sankara posted:The entire point of Venture Brothers was to have Colonel Gentleman say "AT-AT Imperial Walker". I crack up every time. This is a timely discussion because since lockdown started and we all became that bit more weird and insular I've been rewatching the show and have found myself quoting Col Gentlemen whilst doing chores around the house; he's such a fun character to do impressions of. Current favourites are "Shcooby Doo Monster Game", "Blashted mallowmars! My tits are back!", "That's for calling Ook Ook a monkey!" and the entirety of his "Rodney killed a baby once" conversation. I should really watch the extended version of him riffing on his favourite toys and pick up a few new phrases. 24 is another fun one to try and replicate too. Anyone else find themselves randomly doing VB voices irl?
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Jun 23, 2020 22:05
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Thread's starting to read like a 21/24 conversation again
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Jun 24, 2020 11:04
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I've been rewatching the series recently and just heard them namedrop the Treaty of Tolerance all the way back in Season 2. This loving show
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Jul 10, 2020 17:13
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I was just thinking recently that it'd be cool to finally get an episode about Jefferson Twilight. He doesn't really get as much development as the rest of the triad and New York is probably the best location to do something with his skillset. A blaxploitation episode involving him fighting blackulas in harlem or wherever would be pretty cool
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Sep 7, 2020 17:05
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*sighs* Get their clones
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Sep 9, 2020 00:21
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At this point I'm just going to do what Rusty would do in this situation, which is treat all parties involved with contempt and indifference, confident in the knowledge that poo poo will probably work itself out in the end somehow due to some 11th hour twist. Whilst making this face the whole time of course: 
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Sep 9, 2020 00:52
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"Orpheus? It's your landlord speaking. I'm being cancelled by a cliché"
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Sep 9, 2020 00:54
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I've been rewatching the show during lockdown and just reached S5, and while I was a bit lukewarm on it at the time I find myself appreciating it a lot more now. When it first broadcast it felt like the series was spinning its wheels a bit at that point (and I think they admitted as much in the book), but now with the benefit of hindsight it's a great capstone to the 'classic' VB era before they start switching things up in S6. Feels like there's a little bit of everything in that season, and pretty much every side character gets a moment to shine. I don't think there's any episodes there I'd rank as my favourites, but pretty much all of them are still a ton of fun. E: S5 was also the point where I realized that I liked Hatred more than Brock. He's such a fun character and imo just has much better chemistry with Doc and the boys, and it really feels like they nailed writing him during that season. It's a shame they ended up sidelining him for Brock again, who tbh has felt a bit flat ever since he got reintroduced in S6. His whole plotline in the S7 finale, while awesome, really highlighted that they haven't known what to do with his character for a while now. pablo gbscobar fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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Sep 10, 2020 06:49
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There's a scene in S7 where Hatred is giving a tour to a bunch of schoolchildren and cheerfully regales them with a story from his supervillain days, and even though it's kind of a throwaway bit I remember thinking that the amount of groundwork and development they've had to put his character through to arrive at a place like that organically is really quite staggering when you stop and think about it. To think that all started from a one-off joke about the boys getting molested is amazing
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Sep 10, 2020 08:31
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luxury handset posted:this whole little sequence is some of my favorite supernatural bullshit in the show. i love it when characters tone switch from semi-realistic to completely dramatic grandiose speech and then back again. orpheus and the monarch are both splendid for this "Knock it off ya idiot! Nobody wants you open a Door to Hell" is one of those great underrated lines that's always rattling around in my head. This whole episode is amazing and it's a shame we never really get to see much more supernatural stuff in the show; there's still so much untapped potential there that we haven't seen. We never even got to see Orpheus' new pad with the Dr Strange window!
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Sep 10, 2020 20:33
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I've never watched the whole thing but the way Monarch distastefully describes the actor playing Doc as 'theatre people' has always stuck with me.
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Sep 15, 2020 18:12
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Triana?
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Sep 17, 2020 15:20
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SeanBeansShako posted:I just love the concept the Cocoon has an off shift Henchmen bar complete with bar tender who still must wear the uniform with the wings. And that iirc both The Monarch and Dr.G have been refused service there. Also, heads-up if you're not aware yet-- You can stream the whole series (plus a bunch of other AS stuff) in the UK using the C4 app!
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Sep 20, 2020 20:11
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The World Inferno posted:So it is! This right here is why I love this show. I'll be spending the rest of my life discovering new things and going "wait, wasn't this a venture brothers thing" and finding out it sure was. In a similar vein- it was only recently that I learned that the Monarch's rant about Captain Sunshine literally throwing him in jail was a reference to a scene from the original Superman movie, which I randomly stumbled upon whilst channel surfing and immediately started cracking up. Like most of their references it was already a good joke on its own, but that extra layer of detail is what really elevates a lot of their stuff.
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Dec 3, 2020 15:49
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In a similar vein, I'm surprised that out of everything the Monarch's done to Rusty over the years he never seems to rag on him for being a creepy incel loser with a crush on his wife.
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Dec 12, 2020 11:06
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I want to hear Doc do a rendition of Happy Xmas (War Is Over) because that song was MADE for Urbaniak's deadpan snark. I think Hatred could probably do a pretty good Merry Xmas Everyone by Slade too!
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Dec 17, 2020 01:52
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I was really curious to see where Monarch would go post-tenning; whether he'd revert back to the Cocoon/Henchmen loadout or if he'd continue on as a duo dream team with Gary.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:IIRC the henchmen actually had a higher (primarily offscreen) death count from Hatred, since he actually uses guns. Plus he did y'know, blow up the entire Cocoon by shooting it with his hovertank
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