Rusty is a kid in the 60s, the show is sort of set in the 2000s but the extreme production time on each season made it a mess where the show starts before Facebook is a thing but everyone has smart phones by the final season despite only a few years passing in-setting
I can imagine that the Venture world is a tad more advanced that ours with all the super scientists running around. Thats why I can buy smart phones existing in the early 2000s, which is undoubtably when the show takes place.
it was never really intended to closely mirror reality anyway, there are a lot of pop culture references for humor but the core of the show is making fun of Johnny Quest era adventurism/futurism and the intersection of masculinity and failure
Again, Venture Bros. doesn't closely mirror reality. A reference to an IRL show or movie doesn't necessarily tie down VB to a specific year. You guys really love to get up in arms whenever a sliding timeline happens in a long-running cartoon. It is truly not that deep.
1 month ago
Anonymous
>You guys really love to get up in arms whenever a sliding timeline happens in a long-running cartoon.
Doc and Jackson are meticulous about how they write the show, so it doesn't have a sliding timeline. The early seasons are set in 2008, as we've seen multiple indications that confirm it. We also know that Movie Night and the Pyramid Wars happened in 1987, which in those seasons are stated to have specifically happened 20 years previously. We also know that clone Rusty and the Monarch were created in 1965, as they were also in college during Movie Night and Rusty specifies his age as being 43 during the season 1 finale.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Alright, my mistake. Seems like Venture Bros's long production time for each season kinda fricked with its in-world timeline, an issue BoJack Horseman never faced. Doc & Jackson loosely kept with the times via MCU and GoT references instead of keeping the show a period piece in the early 2000s, but I still think the present year for our characters isn't all that significant. Like one anon said, the introduction of smartphones doesn't imply anything specific since the show is set in an alternate world where superscience and organized villainy are a thing, so it makes sense for technological advancements to happen earlier than for us.
The years for past events like Movie Night or State University are important, sure, but the time progression we've gotten since where the show kicks off stays as vague as "Rusty is in his 40s" and "Dean and Hank aged from 16 to college-age" and that's okay.
And in one scene, Red Dragoon are preparing to watch an episode of Downtown Abbey that didn't air until late 2013. They seem to be binge-watching the entire series to avoid doing their final arch, so it's probably even later than that.
>Thats why I can buy smart phones existing in the early 2000s, which is undoubtably when the show takes place.
IT undoubtedly took place in 2008 for the first three seasons. Season 4 jumped a year in the premier, and then went a year from then to season 7 when they made it to NY. Which would put them at 2010, which also lines up with Orpheus' prediction of the Action Man's stroke. Radiant kinda fricks with it because they make reference to 2013 in Brick Frog's file in the past tense. But that might be an oversight. >I can imagine that the Venture world is a tad more advanced
We already know that JJ canonically invented smartphones and Ipads. >Game of Thrones, which aired in 2011
In the Venture universe they probably just continued with the pilot and went from there as opposed to the version we got in real life.
Show was modern day, Hank and Dean started as late Gen X but by the time the story started they were early millennial. Show started in 2002 and I think each season is supposed to be roughly a year
Brilliant creators had total control and maintained it for the entire run. They had some kind of golden deal where Lazzo didn't care what they wrote or how long it took to produce. The problems came up when this stopped, like the first movie counting as part of the 6th season contract and leaving less episodes than they expected, and the cancellation after the AT&T merger.
Are Dean and Hank proto-zoomers?
No. They're just really fricking dumb.
So actual zoomers. Got it.
No boomers, this show was set in the 60s
Rusty is a kid in the 60s, the show is sort of set in the 2000s but the extreme production time on each season made it a mess where the show starts before Facebook is a thing but everyone has smart phones by the final season despite only a few years passing in-setting
I can imagine that the Venture world is a tad more advanced that ours with all the super scientists running around. Thats why I can buy smart phones existing in the early 2000s, which is undoubtably when the show takes place.
it was never really intended to closely mirror reality anyway, there are a lot of pop culture references for humor but the core of the show is making fun of Johnny Quest era adventurism/futurism and the intersection of masculinity and failure
Gary and the Monarch reference Game of Thrones, which aired in 2011
Again, Venture Bros. doesn't closely mirror reality. A reference to an IRL show or movie doesn't necessarily tie down VB to a specific year. You guys really love to get up in arms whenever a sliding timeline happens in a long-running cartoon. It is truly not that deep.
>You guys really love to get up in arms whenever a sliding timeline happens in a long-running cartoon.
Doc and Jackson are meticulous about how they write the show, so it doesn't have a sliding timeline. The early seasons are set in 2008, as we've seen multiple indications that confirm it. We also know that Movie Night and the Pyramid Wars happened in 1987, which in those seasons are stated to have specifically happened 20 years previously. We also know that clone Rusty and the Monarch were created in 1965, as they were also in college during Movie Night and Rusty specifies his age as being 43 during the season 1 finale.
Alright, my mistake. Seems like Venture Bros's long production time for each season kinda fricked with its in-world timeline, an issue BoJack Horseman never faced. Doc & Jackson loosely kept with the times via MCU and GoT references instead of keeping the show a period piece in the early 2000s, but I still think the present year for our characters isn't all that significant. Like one anon said, the introduction of smartphones doesn't imply anything specific since the show is set in an alternate world where superscience and organized villainy are a thing, so it makes sense for technological advancements to happen earlier than for us.
The years for past events like Movie Night or State University are important, sure, but the time progression we've gotten since where the show kicks off stays as vague as "Rusty is in his 40s" and "Dean and Hank aged from 16 to college-age" and that's okay.
And in one scene, Red Dragoon are preparing to watch an episode of Downtown Abbey that didn't air until late 2013. They seem to be binge-watching the entire series to avoid doing their final arch, so it's probably even later than that.
>Thats why I can buy smart phones existing in the early 2000s, which is undoubtably when the show takes place.
IT undoubtedly took place in 2008 for the first three seasons. Season 4 jumped a year in the premier, and then went a year from then to season 7 when they made it to NY. Which would put them at 2010, which also lines up with Orpheus' prediction of the Action Man's stroke. Radiant kinda fricks with it because they make reference to 2013 in Brick Frog's file in the past tense. But that might be an oversight.
>I can imagine that the Venture world is a tad more advanced
We already know that JJ canonically invented smartphones and Ipads.
>Game of Thrones, which aired in 2011
In the Venture universe they probably just continued with the pilot and went from there as opposed to the version we got in real life.
Show was modern day, Hank and Dean started as late Gen X but by the time the story started they were early millennial. Show started in 2002 and I think each season is supposed to be roughly a year
yes, the show was very explicit about it
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More like Doc Hammer's Ex-Wife owes him sex
Dean already got laid, what more do you want?
t. Dermott
Dean fricked Hank's gf. He is a piece of garbage.
that's not how anything works
Debt sex exists.
Nope. You want guaranteed sex, go to a prostitute.
Why was this show so consistently good?
Brilliant creators had total control and maintained it for the entire run. They had some kind of golden deal where Lazzo didn't care what they wrote or how long it took to produce. The problems came up when this stopped, like the first movie counting as part of the 6th season contract and leaving less episodes than they expected, and the cancellation after the AT&T merger.
Thats what happens when you let 2 creators write their show instead of letting a commitee do it
Triana owed Dean a chance. The fact she just discounted him after listening to Satan's bullshit is what's fricked up.
>I need to see these cartoon characters have sex to compensate for my own inability to have sex