I'm still upset that I didn't spring on the triad t-shirt they did a limited release on. I forget which season, but adult swim ran a promotion where they released a different t-shirt each week for each episode.
The thing I love that shows how fucking brilliant doc hammer and Jackson publick are is that they are so well read and astute at pop culture that they can weave history, nerd culture and art history into their narrative with near perfect accuracy
That kind of knowledge can only be gathered by living through some of the 80s and the late 90s and early 2000s. I'm lucky enough to have grown up with that era despite not being born in part of two of them. Even though I was born 93' I was blessed with the knowledge of a lot of those references specifically because Doc and Jackson via the venture Bros! Among other media.
I don't remember where I read this, but it bears repeating. Rusty Venture makes Alcoholic drinks like a child with access to his father's liquor cabinet without supervision after seeing the wild cocktails of the 60s his father and friends drank but not knowing what the ingredients were, just the colors, so replacing them with things from a child's palette
I've never been able to really grasp the magnificent complexity of the V-Bros until now, but I sure as hell have enjoyed the ~10 episodes I've been able to see over the past ten years.. I want you young people to Know how WEIRD it feels to have my whole life's events crazily parodied as though they are mythology. I'm 80 years old, a lifetime sci fi reader (thus meta-conscious since childhood) and every fucking event in this timeline I have either watched on TV in real time, been present at, or actually participated in. The same thing happened to me during the 3-4 (each) times I've watched the movies Watchmen, Platoon, and Apocalypse Now. It blows my mind when I realize that your generation has made a legend of the contents of my life history. At the time it was actually happening, it didn't seem out of the ordinary at all (well most of it). BUT THAT BLOWS MY MIND TOO!! I was living in a fantasy world and didn't know it!! Maybe I was spending too much time trying to get laid. Yes I am definitely going to see "Baboon Blood."
Hold on. I never interpreted Orpheus as having CURSED Action Man in the sense that he caused the stroke. I always thought it was him being petty and 'cursing' Action Man with the KNOWLEDGE of when he would die. Like, for a guy like him, knowing he would die of a stroke in just over two years would probably be a hell of a kick in nuts, but not actually cross the line by standards set around them. Doc O's generally been one of the much more reasonable/polite/good natured cast members of the show. Edit: Yeah, they use the word 'predicted' not cursed.
Originally my first thought was, wow he just predicted when he's going to die and I ended up being correct 😂 I don't know how many people thought he was cursing him, but that would have never been my first guess.
@@xxkhandikidxx right, the only time we ever saw Orpheus really do something like that was when those two knuckleheads decided to call him a fun slur 😊 and they learned the hard way just how powerful he is.
@@xxkhandikidxx that would have been Noble of him, and you're probably right, I can just hear H Jon Benjamin's voice tell him to turn the other cheek or something. I would have just turned them into cockroaches and stepped on them but you shouldn't meet bigotry, racism, homophobia, or transphobia with violence. I really hope that taught them a lesson tbh
Quick note. It's implied that Venturion was trying to "right the plane" like in his memory, due to that memory being played over him choking rusty, and Venturion saying "error" and then letting him go
I've always chalked the fuzzy spots in the time line up to the unreliable memories of those narrating the stories told in the flashbacks. Almost all of them are being told from the perspective of some one or another's memories.
Watching the film made me feel like I was saying goodbye to a very old friend. I've been watching this show since the premiere, and it my favorite animated show of all time. Hell, it may be my favorite show of all time. I love this fanbase. Go Team Venture, and god willing they can find a network to let them continue on. Love you guys.
Me too. Since day one I was connected with this show. I honestly teared up after watching the movie. It's just sad, because it was so damn good. Maybe people will see the film, and want more and we'll get something more.
My fav show.. the day after I moved to NYC I ran into Doc Hammer in the lower east side leaving a gig, I was like holy crap is that doc hammer??!! And he turned around like “do I know you??” I only knew what he looked like because of the special features on the dvds
Better to end on a high note than have several mediocre seasons and to end on a huge let down. Unfortunately this is what happens to many great shows. Let go and do as I do, rematch it every couple of years.
But didn’t rusty die as a kid? Meaning that it’s possible that the OG didn’t have a twin inside of him and that his brother is actually just a deformed clone him?
Ben mentioned when examining dean that there was no "fetiform terratoma" discovered in him, which would indicate that, being a clone, he does not have what appears to be a fetus-like tumor growing in him. I realized when I looked that up (please don't actually look it up, they have a very gross looking image that I wouldn't share with my worst enemy), that he was looking at Dean's health thinking he's another of Doc's clones and realized he does NOT have a twin brother growing inside him
The only reason Dermot is accepted into the OSI is because he blackmails Rusty into helping him get in. He says it in the show. So it's not like he's in because he's actually good at... anything. He's also the lowest possible rank in the entire organization. Also, Hank never actually applied to the OSI. He wanted to join Sphinx, which at the time was a covert operation. The last thing you need when you're trying to work under cover is a goofy-ass, giddy teenager who thinks he's Batman.
@@esteemedyams Besides the fact that Dermot was conceived from a 15yd that Rusty knocked up, while Hank was conceived from a artificial womb with eggs harvested from the daughter of Force Majeure and Bobbie St. Simone Majeure.
I think you forgot to explain when the PROBLEM light started blinking, which was also because of Rusty. This is one of my favorite shows of all time, and I'm sad to see it end, but glad it got to have an actual ending. My favorite line in the show is ether "I'll check for Blaculas... Nope, no Blaculas." or "Super fucking runaway!" And I love that Dr. Henry Killinger is much less evil than his real world counterpart. Go Team Venture!
Small note, I'm pretty sure Rocket isn't Venture's kid, it's Professor Impossible. I'd be super impressed if they could detect pregnency like 2 days after conception lol.
Most underrated show. It’s so hard to show people tho because the show is pretty polarizing Edit: I personally love the show so much, that being said, I can understand how some people might not be able to get into it, hence I said the show can be pretty polarizing. It’s fairly slow to start and the initial animation might push some people away at the beginning. Additionally a lot of the jokes, tho not all, are based heavily on references that some people might not get, and some people might find crude. Again, I personally love the show and how it developed over time to be such a serialized masterpiece, and I love the jokes and the sometimes crude humor. A+ show, but I’ve tried to show it to some people and they can’t get into it, and that’s fine, I get it, it’s all about preference.
The show is great but I've also had difficulty sharing this show with others, I just figure one day I'll meet other fans and they will be my best friends forever.
Because I'm a nerd and enjoy being that guy, I have to point out one quibble with the timeline. Chester Ong was using the shark from Damien Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" in the molecular redistributor. So, he couldn't have become Wide Whale until sometime after 1991.
Probably never gonna happen now, but here's my theory of the overarching plot of the Venture Bros.: Jonas Venture Sr. is the ultimate villain of the series. I believe that his super science served only one true purpose, to make himself immortal. Cloning (and the associated consciousness storage), the PROBLEM, Ventronic, everything we know about Jonas' work could be applied to extending one's lifespan. Rusty was a clone of Jonas and left to mature naturally in order to study the long term effects and complications of the cloning process. After regaining consciousness from the PROBLEM, Jonas immediately wanted to be placed in Vendata's body until a new body could be cloned for himself, the Blue Morpho's brain to be unceremoniously discarded in the process. The next plot point is that only Malcolm Fitzcarraldo (The Monarch), Dr. Tara Quymn, and Billy Quizboy are the only known biological children of Jonas Venture Sr. via natural conception. Jonas was a notorious womanizer and not only had relations with Mz. Quymn (Tara's mother) and Mrs. Fitzcarraldo, but it is entirely possible the Rose Whalen, aka Triple Threat and former member of the original Team Venture, also slept with Jonas, seeing as that BIlly Quizboy has red hair. Finally, all of this would have come to light and the dark truth of the Venture family would be revealed, ultimately resulting not with a happy ending, but some closure for the involved parties to move on with their lives unencumbered by 'the sins of the father'.
Because 21 is the change we want to see in all of us. Not just to "work out" or "be the best" But just to be better then we were before. That's all we can do.
"doc and the monarch are at least half brothers" and then the movie came out and now we know they are actually just failed clones the same way Dean and Hank are
Which we were actually given clues to by Ben's various medical conditions when analyzing Dean which when you turn them from medical jargon into plain terms are parasitic twin, going bald, and _big bushy eyebrows._
Bravo👏👏👏👏👏! The MCU has nothing that is the magnitude of The Venture Bros. I’ve watched this series at least 5 times and it only gets better w/ each viewing! This video essay connected more than a few dots that I failed to make or completely forget. This shows pop culture ref is insane! Comics books, cartoons, US history, music, and call backs that keep you engaged. I can’t express how wonderful this show is. Flawed people failing miserably in the pursuit of greatness and finding meaning in life in general. This show is beautiful.
@@dmtripreport8542 I said, “watched at least 5 times”. Fearing accusations of hyperbole, I didn’t mention that at bed time I would turn the lights out, put my headphones on and listen to either the “Go Team Venture” podcast or a UA-cam playlist of Venture Bros clips so they enter my dreams and it’s like I’m in the adventure having conversations with the characters.
That was a hell of a refresher. Thanks for that. Honestly, the most astounding part of that whole thing was finding out the Venture Compound is in Colorado Springs. How did I miss that?
ikr. There's a reference to Morpheus staying at a hotel near I-25, but I just figured the compound had no set address, or that could be placed wherever the plot needed it to be, like the map of Springfield.
i’ve always sort of interpreted Jonas Junior as being the result of Rusty being a "slug", and that the original Rusty wasn’t carrying him around during his childhood
It was found out through the recent Venture Bros movie that Rusty and the Monarch are indeed brothers. However instead of being the son of Blue Morphos wife he is the clone of Jonas Venture just like Rusty is. The monarch was initially born as R22 and was a clone of Jonas Venture which was spliced by baboon dna which gave him the side affect of enhanced anger and aggression thus implying that this is the reason why Malcom hates Rusty due to those same side affects. After the Monarch was cloned he was given to Blue Morpho and his wife as they were unable to conceive and Jonas lied to Blue Morpho that Malcom was his son. Since Rusty was also the clone of Jonas Venture and the original Rusty Venture this makes him and Malcom brothers. In addition we now kind of know who exactly is the mother of Hank and Dean. Also in the recent venture bros movie it was revealed that Hank and Deans mother wasn’t Bobbi but rather it is implied that Bobbi’s daughter Debbie’s eggs were given to Rusty in exchange for her transferring her powers to her daughter thus making Debbie Hank and Deans mother. In addition this makes Bobbi the maternal grandmother of Hank and Dean. Now two theories of the show have been confirmed to be true that being who Hank and Deans mom was and that Rusty and Malcom were brothers.
Also the movie makes Dean and Hank more like Guild Royalty, because both are descendants one of the founders of the Guild and the rightful sovereign of the Guild.
Man, I got the complete series for Christmas and a month later the movie for my birthday. I love this series so much. Im a little sad it's over, but seven season and a movie that also sorta encapsulate nearly two decades of my life on a part of my shelf? I love it. I fucking love The Venture Bros.
I've watched the Venture Bros for years. Just bought the 7 season DVD set and finished it the other day. Still finding stuff I've missed the many times I've watched them. For instance, at JJ's funeral, the captain is singing the Crash Test Dummies song 'Mmm Mmm Mmm'. Dr. Venture can't believe JJ requested this. The attorney said yes he requested it. Sing Crash Test Dummies At My Funeral. They have a song with that title, At My Funeral. But not being familiar with band's songs, the Captain took it at face value. And sang the other song. 🤣
Only thing I didn't see, was that the Sovereign very clearly turned into an eagle and got accidentally shot out of the sky by OSI Agent Headshot, gives an eagle scream and plops into the water, then sinks. Not just disappeared, dead with no notice.
7:25 In the commentary for the movie, Doc and Jackson say that Richie Valens was approached by the Guild but didn't want to be a part of it, so Red Mantle and Dragoon's first assignment was to murder him
i love the huge discrepancy between doc being 44 in 2004 (so born in '60) but a junior (underclassmen is freshmen and sophomore) in 1987, when he is supposedly 27 years old. PERSONALLY i think Jonas cloned Rusty many times. Sure, rusty could just be 27 and still going for his bachelors, but thats not as fun as the horror of him being kept a preteen for extra years. (and yeah, canon just say of his 44th year so it doesnt have to be 2004 buts thats where it lines up)
The way those guys work, I thought we had more time. Happily surprised!! More thought is put into the VB writing than ANY MCU or DCU project. GO TEAM VENTURE!!!
I still believe Jonas opened the bay doors. I think Vendata called his bluff and played the tape and Jonas out of desperation opened the doors, counting on Team Venture and the P.R.O.B.L.E.M. to bring him back.
I think it was Bud Manstrong. He probably wandered in and saw the blackmail tape and freaked out, accidentally or purposely opening the bay doors. Would explain his extreme reaction to anything sexual later in life.
Totally! My thinking was leaning more towards he's a necromancer and hasn't shown any ability to predict the future, which would've helped him out in a ton of ways, like his dissolving marriage to his ex-wife or the boys running away in the season one finale.
48:05 At this point - I'm loving the little slurry smiles that pop in and out. Drank along with this... what a great time 🎉 I NEVER missed an episode of this show. ❤ 😂 My favorite episode is the Yard Sale. Just everyone all in one place... yes.
This show taught me so much about failure and accepting yourself. Also that David Bowie lives in a package of cigarettes and can animorph into an eagle.
I came across the term "testicular torsion" a few days ago, for only the second time ever. It made me realize that i knew what that was, all thanks to Venture Brothers. So not only was it a wildly entertaining show, but also accidentally educational on occasion.
Fun fact, perhaps the most obscure David Bowie reference in Venture Bros is the name of the Major Tom/Action Man’s wife; Jean, or Jeanie, which is itself a reference to the David Bowie song “Jean Genie” from Aladdin Sane.
I really, REALLY wanted Kim to come back at some point, she'd have been a great POV character for a "how to become a henchman and why you'd want to" type episode lol
So one thing that I didn't see get noted that when Dr. Z and the Blue Morpho, is that he may not have had an encounter with the Blue Morpho, given even Z seems confused as to how Blue did the illusion. But this is an era in which a Shapeshifting Soverign is running around. There is a distinct possibility that recounting was a false flag for reasons unknown by the Sovereign. Great dive into the chronology of the series though, and the second youtuber I've seen risk trying a DocTale.
2:10 Action Man reminisced to Brock in Spider Skull Island "we'd swing to Cuba and Arch Castro for a couple of hours" I think Team Venture were Guild-Members
Fun Fact:, The Factory also included the Father of Robert De Niro and the Grandfather of Beck Hanson. (Both of which were talented artists in their own right.)
I look forward to the movie. The show left so much open. Hank going off on his own leaving Dean to worry about him as he just recovered from his injury. Dr. Venture and The Monarch half brothers? Oh so much left unfinished, and unanswered.
I just started revisiting this show for the 4th time a few weeks ago. This recap is so well done, kudos! I didn't even realize the movie has already been released.
I always thought Doe and Cardholder’s characters were meant to be a direct hat tip to the detectives in the movie Barton Fink. Same double act patter. Awesome video by the way, thank you very much.
I can see Hank as Scare Bear, he came during opportune times when Hank would've likely died or not known things. And if their main adventures involve time travelling (which explains why the adults are always so pissed off, I'd be too if my moments of rest were action packed enough to make a show out of) then knowing Hank's rogue-ish nature as he got older he'd likely use it to look out for his younger self since aside from Brock few others really looked out for him.
because we know from Seasons 6/7 OSI have Dummy Corp as a general shell company for public appearances, is it possible Mike Soriyama took a summer internship to build Billy’s original replacement hand we see in the Season 3 flashback?
I was hoping that this was updated after the movie. The movie talks a bit the Guild; you did mention Force Majeure, and that villain plays a big part in the movie. I forgot about the Big Bopper story! I forgot about Sky, too! I'm loving this video.
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I know Dr. Orpheus wasn't too important to the time line, but I just wish he was. He's a fantastic character along with the rest of the Triad
In he's the most normal character on the show even while being a sorcerer. Everyone can relate to him.
@justincovert6943 "they smell my cat!"
I'm still upset that I didn't spring on the triad t-shirt they did a limited release on. I forget which season, but adult swim ran a promotion where they released a different t-shirt each week for each episode.
I had TACO BELL for lunch!!!
It says something about the show if even the side characters are so well loved 😅
The thing I love that shows how fucking brilliant doc hammer and Jackson publick are is that they are so well read and astute at pop culture that they can weave history, nerd culture and art history into their narrative with near perfect accuracy
Where did they go to school, out of interest?
That kind of knowledge can only be gathered by living through some of the 80s and the late 90s and early 2000s. I'm lucky enough to have grown up with that era despite not being born in part of two of them. Even though I was born 93' I was blessed with the knowledge of a lot of those references specifically because Doc and Jackson via the venture Bros! Among other media.
I don't remember where I read this, but it bears repeating. Rusty Venture makes Alcoholic drinks like a child with access to his father's liquor cabinet without supervision after seeing the wild cocktails of the 60s his father and friends drank but not knowing what the ingredients were, just the colors, so replacing them with things from a child's palette
Thats a really good take ive never seen anywhere before your onto something
Sort of like KingCobraJFS
@@FooglerDoodgler Ah, a true man of culture.
I've never been able to really grasp the magnificent complexity of the V-Bros until now, but I sure as hell have enjoyed the ~10 episodes I've been able to see over the past ten years.. I want you young people to Know how WEIRD it feels to have my whole life's events crazily parodied as though they are mythology. I'm 80 years old, a lifetime sci fi reader (thus meta-conscious since childhood) and every fucking event in this timeline I have either watched on TV in real time, been present at, or actually participated in. The same thing happened to me during the 3-4 (each) times I've watched the movies Watchmen, Platoon, and Apocalypse Now. It blows my mind when I realize that your generation has made a legend of the contents of my life history. At the time it was actually happening, it didn't seem out of the ordinary at all (well most of it). BUT THAT BLOWS MY MIND TOO!! I was living in a fantasy world and didn't know it!! Maybe I was spending too much time trying to get laid. Yes I am definitely going to see "Baboon Blood."
Hold on. I never interpreted Orpheus as having CURSED Action Man in the sense that he caused the stroke. I always thought it was him being petty and 'cursing' Action Man with the KNOWLEDGE of when he would die. Like, for a guy like him, knowing he would die of a stroke in just over two years would probably be a hell of a kick in nuts, but not actually cross the line by standards set around them. Doc O's generally been one of the much more reasonable/polite/good natured cast members of the show.
Edit: Yeah, they use the word 'predicted' not cursed.
Originally my first thought was, wow he just predicted when he's going to die and I ended up being correct 😂 I don't know how many people thought he was cursing him, but that would have never been my first guess.
Came here to say this exact thing. Orpheus would never actually curse someone like that, it'd be insanely out of character.
@@xxkhandikidxx right, the only time we ever saw Orpheus really do something like that was when those two knuckleheads decided to call him a fun slur 😊 and they learned the hard way just how powerful he is.
@@PhallicPhantom2 I know this is never stated in the show, but I think Orpheus let them go eventually.
@@xxkhandikidxx that would have been Noble of him, and you're probably right, I can just hear H Jon Benjamin's voice tell him to turn the other cheek or something. I would have just turned them into cockroaches and stepped on them but you shouldn't meet bigotry, racism, homophobia, or transphobia with violence. I really hope that taught them a lesson tbh
Quick note. It's implied that Venturion was trying to "right the plane" like in his memory, due to that memory being played over him choking rusty, and Venturion saying "error" and then letting him go
This show is a hidden gem. Shame general public only learned about it after cancellation
Or is it a blessing the general public didn't get a chance to wreck it and it got to go out true to itself, leaving us wanting more?
@@acidtwini mean clone high is an example
Dude...it's not hidden. Wtf? Stop being trite. Yeesh folks.
Very much not hidden. Up there with the other Adult Swim Originals.
Hidden? It was on adult swim-- the blind would have known about it if they tuned in to the channel
This show deserves to be called a classic. Decades from now it will be used to illustrate the satirical media autocannibalism of this age.
And the way they animated it originally and slowly adapted with the times to make it as good as possible is also a teaching lesson
Man, masterful timeline, well done
This show needs more 😢
Praise from Caesar!
Pretty sure you've done a better job at venture bros content coverage 2cellos.
At least, in my timeline you have....
It’s him! It’s the guy!
Johnny2cellos
I've always chalked the fuzzy spots in the time line up to the unreliable memories of those narrating the stories told in the flashbacks. Almost all of them are being told from the perspective of some one or another's memories.
True, there's also the fact that some of them have had their memories wiped or altered
And theyre all 40 or older. Ever ask your mom about what happened when youre a kid?
Watching the film made me feel like I was saying goodbye to a very old friend. I've been watching this show since the premiere, and it my favorite animated show of all time. Hell, it may be my favorite show of all time. I love this fanbase. Go Team Venture, and god willing they can find a network to let them continue on. Love you guys.
Don't forget, the original dean and hank we see are dead before the beginning of the series
Me too. Since day one I was connected with this show. I honestly teared up after watching the movie. It's just sad, because it was so damn good.
Maybe people will see the film, and want more and we'll get something more.
Go Team Venture!
My fav show.. the day after I moved to NYC I ran into Doc Hammer in the lower east side leaving a gig, I was like holy crap is that doc hammer??!! And he turned around like “do I know you??” I only knew what he looked like because of the special features on the dvds
I just want more of this show, I never want it to end.
Never.
Dude same
I'm still mourning season 8 😭
Same.
Better to end on a high note than have several mediocre seasons and to end on a huge let down.
Unfortunately this is what happens to many great shows.
Let go and do as I do, rematch it every couple of years.
But didn’t rusty die as a kid? Meaning that it’s possible that the OG didn’t have a twin inside of him and that his brother is actually just a deformed clone him?
Ben mentioned when examining dean that there was no "fetiform terratoma" discovered in him, which would indicate that, being a clone, he does not have what appears to be a fetus-like tumor growing in him. I realized when I looked that up (please don't actually look it up, they have a very gross looking image that I wouldn't share with my worst enemy), that he was looking at Dean's health thinking he's another of Doc's clones and realized he does NOT have a twin brother growing inside him
Dermot joining the OSI while Hank is continually being denied is one of the more ironic things in the show imo.
After the movie, isnt dermot pretty much the true venture and hank the clone of him
@@nakga2player27 no, you may want to rewatch
The only reason Dermot is accepted into the OSI is because he blackmails Rusty into helping him get in.
He says it in the show.
So it's not like he's in because he's actually good at... anything. He's also the lowest possible rank in the entire organization.
Also, Hank never actually applied to the OSI. He wanted to join Sphinx, which at the time was a covert operation. The last thing you need when you're trying to work under cover is a goofy-ass, giddy teenager who thinks he's Batman.
@@esteemedyams Besides the fact that Dermot was conceived from a 15yd that Rusty knocked up, while Hank was conceived from a artificial womb with eggs harvested from the daughter of Force Majeure and Bobbie St. Simone Majeure.
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Yes, exactly the guy who posted this comment is not too smart
I think you forgot to explain when the PROBLEM light started blinking, which was also because of Rusty. This is one of my favorite shows of all time, and I'm sad to see it end, but glad it got to have an actual ending. My favorite line in the show is ether "I'll check for Blaculas... Nope, no Blaculas." or "Super fucking runaway!" And I love that Dr. Henry Killinger is much less evil than his real world counterpart. Go Team Venture!
The best show, ever! I will forever wait, be it in vain, for a new season of The Venture Bros. Go Team Venture! ✌️
The movie comes out this week
Go team venture!! ✌️
Go Team Venture! ✌
Go team cooties 😊
Joking you know i meant Go Team Venture ✌🏻
Small note, I'm pretty sure Rocket isn't Venture's kid, it's Professor Impossible.
I'd be super impressed if they could detect pregnency like 2 days after conception lol.
Isn’t rocket the dumb big dude in impossible tower
@@shotpack8374he’s Sally’s baby son
@@shotpack8374that’s Ned, Sally’s cousin
Rocket is definetley Proferssor Impossible's kid. Remember, Sally swapped out Rusty's urine sample with her own.
@@htk4301 thanks for clearing it up
Venture bros is what Rick and Morty wish they were able to aspire to
Fuck yeah!!
Exactly right
A million percent!!!!😂😂😂😂
Most underrated show. It’s so hard to show people tho because the show is pretty polarizing
Edit: I personally love the show so much, that being said, I can understand how some people might not be able to get into it, hence I said the show can be pretty polarizing. It’s fairly slow to start and the initial animation might push some people away at the beginning. Additionally a lot of the jokes, tho not all, are based heavily on references that some people might not get, and some people might find crude. Again, I personally love the show and how it developed over time to be such a serialized masterpiece, and I love the jokes and the sometimes crude humor. A+ show, but I’ve tried to show it to some people and they can’t get into it, and that’s fine, I get it, it’s all about preference.
Really? You're the first I've heard of anyone potentially hating this show.
It can be hard to get into. I think the show picks up right around tag sale you’re it. Cause a lot of the first few episodes are really dry
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Then you have a very small social circle
@@Richard_NickersonOf course it's small, I don't know anyone who watches it. But online, it seems to be treated positively.
The show is great but I've also had difficulty sharing this show with others, I just figure one day I'll meet other fans and they will be my best friends forever.
Because I'm a nerd and enjoy being that guy, I have to point out one quibble with the timeline. Chester Ong was using the shark from Damien Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" in the molecular redistributor. So, he couldn't have become Wide Whale until sometime after 1991.
The TVC-15 is another Bowie reference, as the song “TVC 15” comes off the album 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘰 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
Probably never gonna happen now, but here's my theory of the overarching plot of the Venture Bros.:
Jonas Venture Sr. is the ultimate villain of the series. I believe that his super science served only one true purpose, to make himself immortal. Cloning (and the associated consciousness storage), the PROBLEM, Ventronic, everything we know about Jonas' work could be applied to extending one's lifespan. Rusty was a clone of Jonas and left to mature naturally in order to study the long term effects and complications of the cloning process. After regaining consciousness from the PROBLEM, Jonas immediately wanted to be placed in Vendata's body until a new body could be cloned for himself, the Blue Morpho's brain to be unceremoniously discarded in the process.
The next plot point is that only Malcolm Fitzcarraldo (The Monarch), Dr. Tara Quymn, and Billy Quizboy are the only known biological children of Jonas Venture Sr. via natural conception. Jonas was a notorious womanizer and not only had relations with Mz. Quymn (Tara's mother) and Mrs. Fitzcarraldo, but it is entirely possible the Rose Whalen, aka Triple Threat and former member of the original Team Venture, also slept with Jonas, seeing as that BIlly Quizboy has red hair.
Finally, all of this would have come to light and the dark truth of the Venture family would be revealed, ultimately resulting not with a happy ending, but some closure for the involved parties to move on with their lives unencumbered by 'the sins of the father'.
It could also tie in what Brock is actually guarding on the compound
Seems about right
Monarch is a clone of the original Rusty. Beyond that, interesting theory.
@@walterhoward5512 sure, we know that now, but I held onto this theory since around the start of the Blue Morpho arc.
Billy is mommy's special water baby. He's a clone 😮
Because 21 is the change we want to see in all of us. Not just to "work out" or "be the best" But just to be better then we were before. That's all we can do.
"doc and the monarch are at least half brothers" and then the movie came out and now we know they are actually just failed clones the same way Dean and Hank are
Which we were actually given clues to by Ben's various medical conditions when analyzing Dean which when you turn them from medical jargon into plain terms are parasitic twin, going bald, and _big bushy eyebrows._
Rusty Venture likely died after his months spent adventuring with the Hodji expy and Not-Mohammed Ali.
Since he doesn't remember them as an adult.
Bravo👏👏👏👏👏! The MCU has nothing that is the magnitude of The Venture Bros. I’ve watched this series at least 5 times and it only gets better w/ each viewing! This video essay connected more than a few dots that I failed to make or completely forget. This shows pop culture ref is insane! Comics books, cartoons, US history, music, and call backs that keep you engaged. I can’t express how wonderful this show is. Flawed people failing miserably in the pursuit of greatness and finding meaning in life in general. This show is beautiful.
only 5? sheesh maybe i should stop running this show in the background
@@dmtripreport8542 I said, “watched at least 5 times”. Fearing accusations of hyperbole, I didn’t mention that at bed time I would turn the lights out, put my headphones on and listen to either the “Go Team Venture” podcast or a UA-cam playlist of Venture Bros clips so they enter my dreams and it’s like I’m in the adventure having conversations with the characters.
IMHO, Rick & Morty have nothing on The Venture Bros.
This truly is a love letter to one of the greatest and underrated shows of all time. Go Team Venture!!
*we won't focus on Brick frog*
The movie: then we will
Rusty is not Rocket Impossible's father. Sally's urine indicated that she was pregnant, and she gave it to Dr. Venture the first time they met.
Fun fact: the house that the monarch moves to in Newark NJ is actually a real mansion. It sits on a hill, last I check it was still there.
That was a hell of a refresher. Thanks for that. Honestly, the most astounding part of that whole thing was finding out the Venture Compound is in Colorado Springs. How did I miss that?
ikr. There's a reference to Morpheus staying at a hotel near I-25, but I just figured the compound had no set address, or that could be placed wherever the plot needed it to be, like the map of Springfield.
I can still remember the night the first episode aired. I can't express how much I frigging love this show and how much I'm going to miss it.
It amazes me that I found this show when I was in high school and waited for each season even into my 30s
44:09 “I was conceived in the backseat of a Packard, you were conceived in a tank, so what?” Oddly inspirational.
The movie was excellent I almost cried at the end the monarch and Doctor ventures relation was the perfect end to the entire series
It was amazing, but totally ruined my theory about how venture brothers always come in threes
I didn't know it came out already!
@@kerdnerl I mean, there's always Dr. Quimm
@@kerdnerlRusty, Malcolm, and Jonas Jr.
@@ElRook watch the movie
Easily the best cartoon ever...I don't want to live in a world without this show.
can I has yer stuff when yer gone?
i’ve always sort of interpreted Jonas Junior as being the result of Rusty being a "slug", and that the original Rusty wasn’t carrying him around during his childhood
"The Nozzle" is 100% my favorite bit
doctor O didn't curse the Action man with a stroke. he just predicted when and how he would die.
Tru
It was found out through the recent Venture Bros movie that Rusty and the Monarch are indeed brothers. However instead of being the son of Blue Morphos wife he is the clone of Jonas Venture just like Rusty is. The monarch was initially born as R22 and was a clone of Jonas Venture which was spliced by baboon dna which gave him the side affect of enhanced anger and aggression thus implying that this is the reason why Malcom hates Rusty due to those same side affects. After the Monarch was cloned he was given to Blue Morpho and his wife as they were unable to conceive and Jonas lied to Blue Morpho that Malcom was his son. Since Rusty was also the clone of Jonas Venture and the original Rusty Venture this makes him and Malcom brothers. In addition we now kind of know who exactly is the mother of Hank and Dean. Also in the recent venture bros movie it was revealed that Hank and Deans mother wasn’t Bobbi but rather it is implied that Bobbi’s daughter Debbie’s eggs were given to Rusty in exchange for her transferring her powers to her daughter thus making Debbie Hank and Deans mother. In addition this makes Bobbi the maternal grandmother of Hank and Dean. Now two theories of the show have been confirmed to be true that being who Hank and Deans mom was and that Rusty and Malcom were brothers.
Also the movie makes Dean and Hank more like Guild Royalty, because both are descendants one of the founders of the Guild and the rightful sovereign of the Guild.
Pretty sure the movie didn't say Rusty is a clone of Jonas, it said Malcom IS a clone of Rusty with baboon dna yada yada
@@Spubl you are correct but it still makes the Monarch and Rusty brothers.
Man, I got the complete series for Christmas and a month later the movie for my birthday. I love this series so much. Im a little sad it's over, but seven season and a movie that also sorta encapsulate nearly two decades of my life on a part of my shelf? I love it. I fucking love The Venture Bros.
Unironically id love an episode to episode breakdown. I love venture bros.
I’ve been watching this show for what feels like almost 20 years now man. It’s been among my favorite series ever
Bravo, perfect way to kick off a Venture Brothers Marathon! Go Team Venture ✌️
This show is incredible. Every character, every story that is deeper than you ever could know.
I've watched the Venture Bros for years. Just bought the 7 season DVD set and finished it the other day.
Still finding stuff I've missed the many times I've watched them.
For instance, at JJ's funeral, the captain is singing the Crash Test Dummies song 'Mmm Mmm Mmm'.
Dr. Venture can't believe JJ requested this. The attorney said yes he requested it. Sing Crash Test Dummies At My Funeral.
They have a song with that title, At My Funeral. But not being familiar with band's songs, the Captain took it at face value. And sang the other song. 🤣
Only thing I didn't see, was that the Sovereign very clearly turned into an eagle and got accidentally shot out of the sky by OSI Agent Headshot, gives an eagle scream and plops into the water, then sinks. Not just disappeared, dead with no notice.
Doc did not conceive a child with impossible's wife. Rusty was given the UA sample before any potential involvement.
7:25 In the commentary for the movie, Doc and Jackson say that Richie Valens was approached by the Guild but didn't want to be a part of it, so Red Mantle and Dragoon's first assignment was to murder him
One of my favorite shows of all time. I love how over the course of the series you realize the real villain in Jonas Venture.
i love the huge discrepancy between doc being 44 in 2004 (so born in '60) but a junior (underclassmen is freshmen and sophomore) in 1987, when he is supposedly 27 years old. PERSONALLY i think Jonas cloned Rusty many times. Sure, rusty could just be 27 and still going for his bachelors, but thats not as fun as the horror of him being kept a preteen for extra years. (and yeah, canon just say of his 44th year so it doesnt have to be 2004 buts thats where it lines up)
this show is so underrated. i try to tell my friends all the time how good it is but no one tries it. thank you for making this video!!
damn, all those music references explicated and you jump right over the jam's "a town called malice."
Most crazy cohesive show ever......call backs on point, show could have another 8 seasons in 20yrs for all I care love it 😂
The way those guys work, I thought we had more time. Happily surprised!! More thought is put into the VB writing than ANY MCU or DCU project. GO TEAM VENTURE!!!
I still believe Jonas opened the bay doors. I think Vendata called his bluff and played the tape and Jonas out of desperation opened the doors, counting on Team Venture and the P.R.O.B.L.E.M. to bring him back.
I think it was Bud Manstrong. He probably wandered in and saw the blackmail tape and freaked out, accidentally or purposely opening the bay doors. Would explain his extreme reaction to anything sexual later in life.
49:13...
Pretty sure Orpheus didn't curse the Action Man, he just knew it was gonna happen.
Totally! My thinking was leaning more towards he's a necromancer and hasn't shown any ability to predict the future, which would've helped him out in a ton of ways, like his dissolving marriage to his ex-wife or the boys running away in the season one finale.
48:05 At this point - I'm loving the little slurry smiles that pop in and out. Drank along with this... what a great time 🎉 I NEVER missed an episode of this show. ❤ 😂 My favorite episode is the Yard Sale. Just everyone all in one place... yes.
First off. Hats off for giving this show the shine that it deserves 👏🏾
I’m pretty sure the sovereign is dead. He was accidentally shot by the OSI in his eagle form as they approached his lair.
This show taught me so much about failure and accepting yourself. Also that David Bowie lives in a package of cigarettes and can animorph into an eagle.
I never just counted up how many horrible things Venture Sr did. Jesus...
The single greatest example of fan service in the history of time. I fucking love this show.
I came across the term "testicular torsion" a few days ago, for only the second time ever. It made me realize that i knew what that was, all thanks to Venture Brothers. So not only was it a wildly entertaining show, but also accidentally educational on occasion.
They literally made a “Cthulhu mythos”. I love this show
Go Team Venture! I was their since day 1. If every show was written half as well the world we be a merrier place.
Fun fact, perhaps the most obscure David Bowie reference in Venture Bros is the name of the Major Tom/Action Man’s wife; Jean, or Jeanie, which is itself a reference to the David Bowie song “Jean Genie” from Aladdin Sane.
I really, REALLY wanted Kim to come back at some point, she'd have been a great POV character for a "how to become a henchman and why you'd want to" type episode lol
So one thing that I didn't see get noted that when Dr. Z and the Blue Morpho, is that he may not have had an encounter with the Blue Morpho, given even Z seems confused as to how Blue did the illusion. But this is an era in which a Shapeshifting Soverign is running around. There is a distinct possibility that recounting was a false flag for reasons unknown by the Sovereign.
Great dive into the chronology of the series though, and the second youtuber I've seen risk trying a DocTale.
My favorite show of all time.
Go team venture
2:10 Action Man reminisced to Brock in Spider Skull Island "we'd swing to Cuba and Arch Castro for a couple of hours"
I think Team Venture were Guild-Members
I give this timeline a 10 out of 11 - no mention of BrickFrog.
The Monarch showing up with smokes for King Gorilla always makes me laugh.
Fun Fact:,
The Factory also included the Father of Robert De Niro and the Grandfather of Beck Hanson. (Both of which were talented artists in their own right.)
So, Venturion / Vendatta, who is formerly The Blue Morpho (sp?), is The Monarch's father.
That f*cked up!
The Action Man being a violent psychopath is one my favorite jokes of all time
Three people voiced Dr. Impossible: Stephen Colbert, Jackson Publick and Bill Haider.
I HAVE THAT HOODIE!
Amazing video. I need to rewatch the entire series for the I-don't-even-know how many time.
where'd you get that hoodie? lots of folks askin in the comments.
@@blindmanai6957 My buddy got it for me for my birthday so I'm not totally sure lol
I look forward to the movie. The show left so much open. Hank going off on his own leaving Dean to worry about him as he just recovered from his injury. Dr. Venture and The Monarch half brothers? Oh so much left unfinished, and unanswered.
As a fan of Howard Bloom, knowing that he’s a component in The Venture Brothers universe TOTALLY MADE MY DAY!
I just started revisiting this show for the 4th time a few weeks ago. This recap is so well done, kudos! I didn't even realize the movie has already been released.
I always thought Doe and Cardholder’s characters were meant to be a direct hat tip to the detectives in the movie Barton Fink. Same double act patter.
Awesome video by the way, thank you very much.
Great catch! Literally just rewatched that episode this morning with commentary and the Barton Fink detectives get a quick mention.
I can see Hank as Scare Bear, he came during opportune times when Hank would've likely died or not known things. And if their main adventures involve time travelling (which explains why the adults are always so pissed off, I'd be too if my moments of rest were action packed enough to make a show out of) then knowing Hank's rogue-ish nature as he got older he'd likely use it to look out for his younger self since aside from Brock few others really looked out for him.
This show belongs in a museum 💔
32:18 Not TVC Fifteen but TVC One Five, another Bowie reference.
Can't recommend the Steak Bentley video enough.
I think it's awesome you made this video, I recently rewatched the series in preparation for the movie coming out.
The single greatest show in history, done by one of the greatest channels. Noice!
because we know from Seasons 6/7 OSI have Dummy Corp as a general shell company for public appearances, is it possible Mike Soriyama took a summer internship to build Billy’s original replacement hand we see in the Season 3 flashback?
32:37 actually he never had sex with sally, thats Richards son
This show was loaded with dubious looking red headed children to mess with our heads haha.
37:53 bad choice of words to use when talking about Sgt. Hatred lol.
I will DEEPLY miss this series.💔
I was hoping that this was updated after the movie. The movie talks a bit the Guild; you did mention Force Majeure, and that villain plays a big part in the movie.
I forgot about the Big Bopper story! I forgot about Sky, too! I'm loving this video.
Wow - that had to take a lot of time to put together! I love this show!
I'm so glad you gave Steak Bently a shout-out!
Venture Bros. is an underated gem
Clearest telling I have seen. You got a lot of references that I couldn't quite place
Its so hard to convince people how great this show gets after season 1. So many people have started it without making it thru it.
28:46 I dont know if you just thought it was too obvious or felt it didnt need worth mentioning but thats Sgt Hatred before he goes full villain.