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Does anyone else think that Venture Bros really, really needs to do a second soundtrack release?
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Jun 23, 2013 08:42
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I think my biggest disappointment with the season is how short it is. Is it a matter of Adult Swim being really tight-fisted, or do the producers just prefer to work the way they work and that happens to be unconducive to doing more than a handful of episodes a year?
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Jul 24, 2013 16:50
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Sereri posted:The answer in this thread to this usually comes down to "artistic integrity", Publick and Hammer write the all episodes themselves and that takes time. Also the animation process is a apparently time intensive. I guess you could "solve" both by throwing money at the problem but then would you want to? I guess it would depend on where a lot of time is spent. I mean if it genuinely takes them two years to bust out thirteen (or ten, now) scripts, then no, I wouldn't want AS to hire additional writers. But if throwing more money at animation meant going from two years to one year with approximately the same visual quality then hell yes I am all for it.
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Jul 24, 2013 17:26
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I think Brock killed them so there wouldn't be any potential realization. Remember the episode where Hank realizes Brock's thought about killing him and Dean? Honestly I think that one's a bit much, it's way funnier that he's thought about it merely because they can be so dumb and annoying (especially first season, jesus).
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Jul 28, 2013 20:48
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I rewatched the old Brisby episode and I got the impression that if Congress hadn't outlawed cloning technology, Rusty's career might have been on a completely different track. Honestly, given how well the clone slugs work, Rusty's cloning tech would be revolutionary; if he was able to prevent brain development altogether, he could mass-produce organs for transplants. Or make custom slugs for wealthy individuals who want a whole personal backup set of "spare parts".
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Jul 31, 2013 18:50
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TheBalor posted:No, that always seemed to be the case to me as well. It looks like he can halt the aging process, but not speed it up, which is why he needed dozens and dozens of slugs waiting around to replace Hank and Dean. Can't just grow new ones. What about the clone of the kid who died at the Boy Adventurers Camp?
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Jul 31, 2013 23:06
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Supposedly season 6 is slated for fall 2014 at the earliest, possibly early 2015.
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Aug 9, 2013 17:18
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DrBouvenstein posted:8. The portable force field that is weirdly susceptible to club soda. Well, let's be clear, club soda works on everything. Jeffrey posted:His dad almost seemed to relish forcing him into it, like it was a fun game to torture him. "When your father turned from role model to tormentor rival" and stuff. Of course it doesn't stop Rusty from doing it to Dean, but Dean at least has a spine now and can say no. Nah, he mentions more than once that the cloning was his "life's work", and that he'd have been loving golden if the government hadn't cracked down on cloning technology. The learning beds were leftover from Jonas, but I think Rusty adapted them to also serve as braindumps for the clones. I mean honestly just the cloning is a loving amazing achievement in itself. Just alter the clone slugs so they never develop brains, and voila! you have an organ donation farm. Imagine mass-producing organs of all blood types so that we never lacked donor organs again. And medical research! Imagine what kind of disease and pharmaceutical studies could be done if you had an endless supply of brainless human bodies to experiment with! Rusty's an rear end, but he's also got some legitimate reasons to be angry at the world. Imagine if you spent twenty years achieving a goddamn miracle of science and technology, with the potential to both revolutionize medical science and guarantee a lifetime of respect (and riches), and loving cheated death... and were then told "nope sorry, gently caress off and never do anything with it again".
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Dec 18, 2013 20:45
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Pope Guilty posted:Yeah, but what does it do? It doesn't do anything, that's the beauty of it! 
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Dec 22, 2013 08:41
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Wade Wilson posted:That's just what Starfleet wants everyone to think. This is getting into some dumb/lazy Terry Nation poo poo
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Jan 20, 2014 18:33
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Entropic posted:I can never remember what season we're even on with this drat show. It's been so long. Season 6 is allegedly going to premiere early 2015.
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Mar 11, 2014 00:53
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PostNouveau posted:They mentioned on one of the commentary tracks that they don't have the manpower to generate enough background characters. They suggested that instead of fanart, people should send them original characters they can fill scenes with. Jesus you'd think Adult Swim could maybe spend a dollar
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May 13, 2014 22:04
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prefect posted:Everything Treister says is great, but that kills me every time. My favorite Treister line is "Don't tell Washington! Don't tell secret President!"
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Aug 29, 2014 16:22
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Are you crazy? That table's at least sixty feet away.
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Jan 4, 2015 08:17
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Goddamnit Adult Swim just spend a loving dollar on animation already, jesus.
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Jan 14, 2015 07:59
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Toplowtech posted:I wonder if the "successful rusty" from the parallel dimension is just a Rusty with hair implants from a dimension where he inherited sooner/slightly in the future. Comedy option: Rusty used a time travel portal, not a parallel dimension portal without realizing it. I know this is from waaaay back, but it's even simpler: the "successful Rusty" comes from a timeline where Congress didn't outlaw cloning technology.
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Feb 11, 2015 19:38
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Data Graham posted:Speaking of, would you believe PBF suddenly started updating again a couple weeks ago after god knows how long? It's because Nicholas Gurewitch did a Kickstarter and one of the stretch goals was "release several new PBF comics". I'm guessing we'll have another dry stretch.
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Feb 12, 2015 00:20
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Let me introduce you to St. Elsewhere's Tommy Westphall. Wait, wait, wait, how the gently caress is Star Trek connected to Red Dwarf and Team Knight Rider
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Feb 14, 2015 23:43
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I dunno, every time I suggest that maybe the massive hiatus between seasons might in part be because Adult Swim needs to spend a buck on the show, everyone starts flipping out about "NO NO NO IT'S JUST THEIR MASTER ARTISTIC VISION, THEY HAVE ENOUGH MONEY, EVERYTHING IS PERFECT  " but not being able to get another woman or two in the recording studio sounds like a budget problem to me.I don't buy the "we might not be able to get the same actor" poo poo either. Yeah okay Stephen Colbert that's one thing, but you're telling me there's a huge risk that a professional voice actor is going to become impossibly booked up? Please.
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Feb 16, 2015 16:43
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WrathOfBlade posted:The identity of the Venture Mothers is one of those things I doubt they'll ever actually resolve, because I love Venture Brothers, but it's very much like Achewood in the sense that most of the women are props for the men to play off of.
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Feb 17, 2015 19:46
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Pope Guilty posted:
Hey man, we don't even need a Season 6, the show's perfect as it is, why can't you just accept that? 
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Mar 16, 2015 06:07
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hughesta posted:Jim Thirlwell posted on Facebook today that Volume II of the soundtrack will be released soon. FINALLY
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Mar 23, 2015 15:08
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X_Toad posted:Hey, Hammer does female voices when they want them to be particularly gimmicky : Dr Ms The Monarch's deep voice (which must be a strain on Hammer's voice by the way, considering his natural voice) or Billy's mom voice, which is meant to sound like her son's, so I don't really have a problem with it. But yeah, another female VA would be cool. Maybe they should just kill Brock and use the money to hire a lady to voice a new regular character? Maybe Adult Swim should spend a fuckin' dollar
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Apr 3, 2015 16:00
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Doc and Jackson just abandon the animation part altogether and write megawords of official Venture Bros fiction. In order to read any of it, fans must get landline modems and spend hours attempting to get through to one of the four phone lines running into a BBS hosted on a wheezing, rickety old 486.
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Apr 3, 2015 16:29
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I think my first exposure to Venture Bros was the episode where Dean is getting married to Baron Underbheit. It wasn't a deliberate "hey this show rocks" thing, we were just lazing in front of a TV and it happened to be on.
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Sep 22, 2015 23:27
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Dazerbeams posted:Ha, the wait is going to get longer and longer between seasons until it becomes the cartoon equivalent of ASOIAF. Part of me wonders if they'll get to the point where they just say "gently caress it" and end the series as a
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Mar 22, 2016 19:53
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Sockser posted:If you think of it as a half season it feels a lot better. Someone needs to tell Adult Swim that huge hiatuses between half-seasons went out of style with Battlestar Galactica.
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Mar 23, 2016 01:53
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hughesta posted:JG Thirlwell just announced that Volume 2 of the Venture Bros OST is going to be released soon FINALLY (now watch, it won't have any of the cues I actually want)
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Mar 23, 2016 16:29
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THA TITTY THRILLER posted:I would pay $10 for that one song that plays during the montage of Billy winning quizzes in "The Invisible Hand of Fate." I really, really want the sad piano theme that plays when Rusty tells Hank about how his teenaged birthday party went ("That sounds like a nightmare." "Oh no! Today was a ~*nightmare*~. That birthday party is my life.") and when they opened the box that Brock sent with HELPER's head wrapped in a jacket.
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Mar 24, 2016 17:30
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tarlibone posted:You're trolling them. I love this. I really do. (Unsolicited suggestion: consider "GAAAAWWWD" as an alternate spelling to reduce ambivalence.)
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Mar 24, 2016 17:31
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Pope Guilty posted:Now Venture'll send Samson after the rest of us and he'll go totally sickhouse on our asses! I like my rear end, gentlemen. You're referencing the first aired episode, which is not the pilot. The first episode had Rusty in Mexico giving a talk and then getting his kidneys stolen, while his kids got kidnapped and Brock got hit by a truck. The pilot had Rusty presenting a death ray at a United Nations science conference, while the boys (and then Brock) have a run-in with a prostitute as the Monarch stalks them.
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Apr 6, 2016 16:32
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Has Adult Swim ordered additional seasons yet?
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Apr 17, 2016 17:54
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tarlibone posted:... where's the spot where it says the show was renewed? Jackson Publick said "And there was actually a little confusion for a while as to whether or not the Gargantua special counted against our 10-episode order," so it sounds like even the show-runners aren't always sure where they stand.
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Apr 18, 2016 18:33
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Maaaan, no sad piano piece. 
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May 8, 2016 07:22
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Jose posted:they charge something like £4 for a bowl of cereal and got trashed in the recent riots Did Britain outlaw the import or manufacture of breakfast cereal?? 
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Sep 5, 2016 18:55
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Servaetes posted:That being said, how many seasons you guys think we got in the tank? Can't imagine them still going five or ten years from now and them still doing this poo poo considering Doc himself is drat near 50. I predict we get a ninth season and then Adult Swim pulls the plug so they can upgrade the office facilities to two-ply.
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Oct 19, 2016 23:29
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JethroMcB posted:Doc and Jackson have said, in so many words, that next season's premiere could wrap up the Big Story. They've considered doing another hourlong "special" to close it out and tide people over until the next season is completely finished. Goddamnit Adult Swim spend a loving dollar on this show already
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Jul 25, 2017 06:56
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X_Toad posted:I think they spend all the dollars necessary (seriously the animation has been getting better and better), it's just that the creators work at their own particular pace. A few years ago that might have carried some water, but not after Jackson Publick has said "And there was actually a little confusion for a while as to whether or not the Gargantua special counted against our 10-episode order." It sounds to me like they would have been entirely willing to do more episodes if Adult Swim had been willing to pay to have them made. I really think the low episode count is less about two poor little genius auteurs grinding their fingers to the bone to bring us the most exquisitely artisanal handcrafted bespoke animation, and more about Cartoon Network being stingy with how much they're willing to spend on the show, and I'm really not sure why there's so much resistance to this notion.
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Jul 27, 2017 03:50
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RandallODim posted:I still remember there being an article in TV Guide about the show after either the pilot or the first episodes of season one that was just all about how it was a Johnny Quest parody. I seem to recall a story from way back when about how during first season production or something, someone from Cartoon Network basically called them and said "you know we own Jonny Quest, right? you can literally have Jonny Quest characters show up in this thing if you want."
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Jul 27, 2017 03:54
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tarlibone posted:According to Nerdist, the return of the Venture Bros. is on the horizon! Wait... there will still be horizons in late 2018, right? That's okay it just means we're getting the most authentically artisanal handcrafted animation possible
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Sep 17, 2017 19:11
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