Did anyone find the later seasons kinda boring ?
Earlier seasons seemed to have had a bigger cast that engaged in the action stories.
In season 6 until 7 most of the cast seems to have just "retired", with just the Monarch and Gary actually doing cool stuff.
Rusty didnt do anything besides babysitting a heroes/villains meeting.
Brock became a bodguard again who does even less stuff what Hatred did as a bodyguard in earlier seasons.
Hank and Dean just live their lives with the ocasional villain/hero meetup.
Dr mrs the monarch became a boring b***hy boss that just does offscreen stuff, along with the rest of the council members.
It was really close to in the last season, but I think the next season would have cemented it. The writers realized "oh crap this comedy show is actually getting serious" and they also would have kept the show going forever if they could. I think its better it dies a heros death with one last movie as a deus ex machina from cancelation
Dean is probably bi, he mentions Jared right after Serena. Even if that wasn't referring to him, Rusty definitely is and Dean takes after him the most so
I watched a couple season two and three episodes and tried watching it from the beginning but I just can’t get past the first half of season 1. I wouldn’t even say I dislike it it’s just….idk unable to hold my interest. I’ve sat down like three times saying I’m gonna just plow through it to season 2 but I can’t
I was hooked from the beginning since a parody of Johnny Quest with adult humor and gratuitous violence was right up my alley. Maybe you didn't grow up with Johnny Quest reruns, so the Race Bannon cameo didn't make you hype as frick.
Same. Was a huge tv junkie in high school and Adult Swim was in full swing I remember seeing the promos for VB and was hyped more than anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8m1qQ_w1qY
>Because Cinemaphile doesn't talk about good things.
No, we just don't like to talk about how much it hurt that it was canceled for the bird woman sex show.
I disagree as a first time viewer literally watching it for the first time right now. You just have to have a few beers. It's pretty fricking good, especially if you were already a fan of thirwell's music.
>especially if you were already a fan of thirwell's music.
i've always been tangentially aware of Venture bros but finding out Thirlwell was the composer is what pushed me to finally watch it. Now I'm pissed I waited so long.
I've never been aware of it and only found it through thirwell's music which was one of the greatest accidents of my life, at least so far because this is exactly what I have been looking for in terms of literally every aspect of it.
>bro just watch the six hours of shit animation >yeah bro it totally gets better but right now we need a fantastic four parody that does nothing to actually parody the fantastic four yet besides make the powers shit >ok time to watch the weird paralyzed bee man
Sometimes it's ok to skip the extended 20 bucks worth of animation pilot.
Did anyone find the later seasons kinda boring ?
Earlier seasons seemed to have had a bigger cast that engaged in the action stories.
In season 6 until 7 most of the cast seems to have just "retired", with just the Monarch and Gary actually doing cool stuff.
Rusty didnt do anything besides babysitting a heroes/villains meeting.
Brock became a bodguard again who does even less stuff what Hatred did as a bodyguard in earlier seasons.
Hank and Dean just live their lives with the ocasional villain/hero meetup.
Dr mrs the monarch became a boring b***hy boss that just does offscreen stuff, along with the rest of the council members.
I still enjoyed them immensely, but there's not much for Brock/Vatred to do anymore so the action angle is pretty much gone. I actually find Shiela's arc to be more interesting than Malcom despite her lack of screen time, he's been on a pretty predictable trajectory for ages.
Considering the leads were in their mid 50's in S1 it kinda always was, they just pretended to be relevant to the hero/villain industry for a while and did some pulp cartoon spoofs in the process.
It started with season 5. Seasons 5, 6, and 7 had some great points but nothing has matched how much of a blast season 3 and 4 were. Personally I think season 4 would've been a decent ending for the show.
You're totally right. The series and the characters in it all got bored of the shit. They wanted to do a "Rusty collapses the family company" extended bit but they accidentally did it too well and too fast with him firing everyone, the rest of the two seasons just felt inevitable, like of course the company goes breasts up, of course Jonas is evil, of course Monarch gets out of his crimes squeaky clean. The only surprises was involving Blue Morpho and Venturion, but those plot threads went out the door after episode 1 of S7. Iirc they just forgot to give S6 its big finale, miscalculation, so they had to make the climax of that arc S7's opener and then after that nothing was available to work with so it was just "Dean go to college".
Because people talking about actual good animation like Venture Bros get drowned out by political zeitgeist modern cartoons that are either outrageous or outrageously bland
Is it bad that I was happy for Dean when he got with Serena? I mean yeah it was shitty for him to do that but at the same time Serena was in on it too, and it just showed how far Dean had come from being a little b***h in the first few seasons. Our boy got laid just by being his own self, and it was with a grade A bombshell to boot.
Except they'd literally only interacted for one episode. Hank had all this development with Serena only for it to amount to nothing. Honestly Serena and Wide Whale felt like that
It's more that she realized she had more in common with Dean than she did with Hank. She was also gradually losing patience with Hank because, while she found his antics charming in small doses, he never learned to tone it down.
>She was also gradually losing patience with Hank because, while she found his antics charming in small doses, he never learned to tone it down.
That and she wanted him despite Hank being too nervous to undress in bed with her.
Doc Hammer is from my hometown and I've run into him a few times. Cool guy. Bc of that my buddies and I became obsessed with this show like it was our local team or something. It's very quotable and fun to reference, rewatch and talk about
The show is in some ways a time capsule because you can see the cultural acceptability of edgy jokes shift from “we can just say gay and rape!” To where we are now with the New York seasons, and yet they never lose what makes venture bros funny
I haven't. Didn't get into The Venture Bros. until it was cancelled and the whole world threw a tantrum. Had to go see what all the hubbub was about. Glad I did. Can't wait for that movie.
Everyone thought she was a black widow because her husbands kept dying, Rusty wanted to get with her because he thought that she would treat him well before trying to kill him and that Brock would prevent him from actually being killed, plus it would effectively be no strings attached since she would ultimately be dead or arrested. But it turned out that she wasn't a black widow at all, she just had a string of husbands who all died due to other reasons, which may or may not have something to do with the fact that she was also secretly a bride-themed superhero named Novia who used to be Dr. Mrs. The Monarch's arch back when she was Lady Au Pair.
I did. I got tired of repeating the obvious to people. You seriously think an Adult Swim series that looks THIS GOOD wouldn't be worth watching? Anyone who hasn't seen VB yet only has themselves to blame.
Not going to lie even episodes I didn't care for like Momma's Boys and even Spanakopita when they first aired grew on me over time. I remember when Careers in Science first aired and didn't like it as much, but by the time the dvd came out and I watched all the way through again I warmed up to it and other episodes I found lacked. I love how Doc and Jackson used Careers in Science as juggernaut cornerstone for the show's canon later on. Mad men.
He was sick a few years ago, but he's better now. A while back he posted pics of him doing some work in his yard. But yeah the commentary on season 7 Doc did sound a bit rough.
I watched the entire thing during last week and I have never seen a show get more dated as it went along.
Like S1 and 2 are good but after that it's just feels dated as shit.
Doesn't help that side characters would make a better show.
How can it become more dated when it's a parody of a show from the 60s and almost half of all the conversations in it references pop culture from the 80s?
I dunno but it's mostly age of the reference
Having a 80's or 60's reference fits better with the show, so when you get Star wars reference, the "keep toys in a box" jokes from 2000s it just makes it more jarring if you remember those times.
I never watched the show until recently and I could tell the exact year the season was being made just by catching a reference that sticks out like a sore thumb
Venture Bros is the only show I watch for creator's commentary. Most of it isn't even to do with the show, Doc and Jackson are just funny >That story about Doc being 7 years old and his older sisters used to call him Rick because it annoyed him and they got him in trouble by making him go to his parents and ask them "Can I've a rubber"
Season 6’s commentary is just Doc confessing all this embarrassing childhood shit, like how he apparently used to sleepwalk & piss in his family’s closets.
No joke this is the only show cancellation that made me tear up/cry. Been following this show since the Brisby episode and that's like over half my life at this point.
Have you been living under a fricking rock?
yes
Yeah seriously, I knew it was amazing back in season 1. Which, if I remember correctly, came out 50 years ago when the world was young and innocent.
Yeah forreal, Cinemaphile has always love venture bros
Trannies spam a lot of their shitty shows
probably just a zoomer
Because you need to learn to think for yourself
very fair answer but I also feel like the show wouldn't have gotten canceled if more people knew about it
then again though it had a good run and things can't last forever I suppose I should just be happy it never got bad.
It was really close to in the last season, but I think the next season would have cemented it. The writers realized "oh crap this comedy show is actually getting serious" and they also would have kept the show going forever if they could. I think its better it dies a heros death with one last movie as a deus ex machina from cancelation
it wouldn't have been cancelled if att werent fricking bastards
It got cancelled because new people came in and cancelled it. They were literally in the middle of making the new season
At least we're getting a movie to finish the series. Eventually.
I couldn't get into this at all because Cinemaphile kept overhyping it
You are a pathetic contrarian. You are actually worse than someone who just likes popular things.
which one was the gay, brunette or blond?
blond kinda is. brunette actually attracts b***hs
Hank absolutely would take some pipe from Dermott if the right circumstances played out.
Dean was the one who got the cut gay scene though. Hank is the based straight guy
Dean is probably bi, he mentions Jared right after Serena. Even if that wasn't referring to him, Rusty definitely is and Dean takes after him the most so
>Rusty definitely is
There weren't any men in his internal mind harem
>Rusty definitely is bi
Rusty was trying to bone (or be boned, I forget) Brock in the pilot. But that was removed for the show.
I… don't remember that at all.
>cut gay scene
Source
Here gay
peak comedy
i can see why it was cut. theres no joke
can't tell if you're baiting or if it really was too subtle for you.
The joke is that Dean isn’t actually gay with brown widow. It was just a misunderstanding
that
the
what the actual frick, are you serious?
Neither, they both frick, and it's spectacular.
Dean is probably bi
You
Both with each other.
I watched a couple season two and three episodes and tried watching it from the beginning but I just can’t get past the first half of season 1. I wouldn’t even say I dislike it it’s just….idk unable to hold my interest. I’ve sat down like three times saying I’m gonna just plow through it to season 2 but I can’t
Season 1 is okay but rough around the edges. Season 2 is when it gets good. I think my favorite season is 4 though.
The first half of S1 is the roughest part of the show, there's some solid stuff there but it doesn't start finding its feet till the second half.
I've introduced people to the series starting with the Brisbyland episode, its a solid starting point.
I was hooked from the beginning since a parody of Johnny Quest with adult humor and gratuitous violence was right up my alley. Maybe you didn't grow up with Johnny Quest reruns, so the Race Bannon cameo didn't make you hype as frick.
Same. Was a huge tv junkie in high school and Adult Swim was in full swing I remember seeing the promos for VB and was hyped more than anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8m1qQ_w1qY
Because Cinemaphile doesn't talk about good things. Venture Bros is my#1 favorite cartoon, can't wait for the movie when it comes out in 2027
>Because Cinemaphile doesn't talk about good things.
No, we just don't like to talk about how much it hurt that it was canceled for the bird woman sex show.
I tried introducing this to a friend, but the season 1 episodes can get really boring.
get new friends
I think he would be more interested if I showed something from the middle seasons. But season 1 really isnt engaging enough for a first time viewer.
I disagree as a first time viewer literally watching it for the first time right now. You just have to have a few beers. It's pretty fricking good, especially if you were already a fan of thirwell's music.
>especially if you were already a fan of thirwell's music.
i've always been tangentially aware of Venture bros but finding out Thirlwell was the composer is what pushed me to finally watch it. Now I'm pissed I waited so long.
I've never been aware of it and only found it through thirwell's music which was one of the greatest accidents of my life, at least so far because this is exactly what I have been looking for in terms of literally every aspect of it.
Oh no I can't sit through thirteen 20 minute episodes. What a burden. Ditch that crippling ADHD, pussy.
>bro just watch the six hours of shit animation
>yeah bro it totally gets better but right now we need a fantastic four parody that does nothing to actually parody the fantastic four yet besides make the powers shit
>ok time to watch the weird paralyzed bee man
Sometimes it's ok to skip the extended 20 bucks worth of animation pilot.
Did anyone find the later seasons kinda boring ?
Earlier seasons seemed to have had a bigger cast that engaged in the action stories.
In season 6 until 7 most of the cast seems to have just "retired", with just the Monarch and Gary actually doing cool stuff.
Rusty didnt do anything besides babysitting a heroes/villains meeting.
Brock became a bodguard again who does even less stuff what Hatred did as a bodyguard in earlier seasons.
Hank and Dean just live their lives with the ocasional villain/hero meetup.
Dr mrs the monarch became a boring b***hy boss that just does offscreen stuff, along with the rest of the council members.
I still enjoyed them immensely, but there's not much for Brock/Vatred to do anymore so the action angle is pretty much gone. I actually find Shiela's arc to be more interesting than Malcom despite her lack of screen time, he's been on a pretty predictable trajectory for ages.
The show actually evolves as it goes on
It evolved into a retired villains/heroes sitcom though.
Considering the leads were in their mid 50's in S1 it kinda always was, they just pretended to be relevant to the hero/villain industry for a while and did some pulp cartoon spoofs in the process.
It started with season 5. Seasons 5, 6, and 7 had some great points but nothing has matched how much of a blast season 3 and 4 were. Personally I think season 4 would've been a decent ending for the show.
You're totally right. The series and the characters in it all got bored of the shit. They wanted to do a "Rusty collapses the family company" extended bit but they accidentally did it too well and too fast with him firing everyone, the rest of the two seasons just felt inevitable, like of course the company goes breasts up, of course Jonas is evil, of course Monarch gets out of his crimes squeaky clean. The only surprises was involving Blue Morpho and Venturion, but those plot threads went out the door after episode 1 of S7. Iirc they just forgot to give S6 its big finale, miscalculation, so they had to make the climax of that arc S7's opener and then after that nothing was available to work with so it was just "Dean go to college".
One thing I wondered is why are voiced actors so limeted after season 2. Maybe VA union rules made things more expensive
Union ingrates destroyed America once and now they’re doing it again.
16-17 years...the single best thing on TV and you didn't listen...you silly billy.
Because people talking about actual good animation like Venture Bros get drowned out by political zeitgeist modern cartoons that are either outrageous or outrageously bland
Is it bad that I was happy for Dean when he got with Serena? I mean yeah it was shitty for him to do that but at the same time Serena was in on it too, and it just showed how far Dean had come from being a little b***h in the first few seasons. Our boy got laid just by being his own self, and it was with a grade A bombshell to boot.
He was still a little b***h to do that to his brother. Even if Serena was in on it too.
You don't break the bro code. Bros before hoes
Except they'd literally only interacted for one episode. Hank had all this development with Serena only for it to amount to nothing. Honestly Serena and Wide Whale felt like that
>Except they'd literally only interacted for one episode
I’ll just chalk it up to Serena and Dean being very horny
It's more that she realized she had more in common with Dean than she did with Hank. She was also gradually losing patience with Hank because, while she found his antics charming in small doses, he never learned to tone it down.
>She was also gradually losing patience with Hank because, while she found his antics charming in small doses, he never learned to tone it down.
That and she wanted him despite Hank being too nervous to undress in bed with her.
It's hard to sift through the mountains of amphibia house threads to find people talking about actually good shows
they dont even have the decency to make a general or something
Because those are banned. Atleast when the show's over
maybe because no one is even trying anymore
but I sure am tired of "why does no one talk about this?" threads
Haven’t Jackson and Doc Hammer written every episode aside from the one by Ben Edlund? (Creator of The Tick)
Amazon cancellation of that recent incarnation is a tragedy
Ben wrote the one with the not Scooby Doo people
but he also was involved in the two episodes with Bud Manstrong
Did Dean even know Hank was dating Serena?
Its been a while
They weren't really interacting that season, and Hank was sneaking around to date her.
>They weren't really interacting that season, and Hank was sneaking around to date her.
Hank literally asked for help from Dean on his date.
Doc Hammer is from my hometown and I've run into him a few times. Cool guy. Bc of that my buddies and I became obsessed with this show like it was our local team or something. It's very quotable and fun to reference, rewatch and talk about
The show is in some ways a time capsule because you can see the cultural acceptability of edgy jokes shift from “we can just say gay and rape!” To where we are now with the New York seasons, and yet they never lose what makes venture bros funny
Because it’s not. Rick and Morty does everything it does magnitudes better.
>Female lead
PPFFTTT AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
i like both rick and morty and venture bros. shut the frick up
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weak b8
We did.
Every time a new season came out.
So every five years?
Literally everyone has since season one.
I haven't. Didn't get into The Venture Bros. until it was cancelled and the whole world threw a tantrum. Had to go see what all the hubbub was about. Glad I did. Can't wait for that movie.
i still don't understand what her deal was
Everyone thought she was a black widow because her husbands kept dying, Rusty wanted to get with her because he thought that she would treat him well before trying to kill him and that Brock would prevent him from actually being killed, plus it would effectively be no strings attached since she would ultimately be dead or arrested. But it turned out that she wasn't a black widow at all, she just had a string of husbands who all died due to other reasons, which may or may not have something to do with the fact that she was also secretly a bride-themed superhero named Novia who used to be Dr. Mrs. The Monarch's arch back when she was Lady Au Pair.
Ah, okay.
because the last two seasons sucked and the movie will too if it ever comes out. we just wanted to save you the disappointment
SPANAKOPITA!
VB fans aren't really loud stans like other fanbases. It's dedicated and humble. Small by no means, but largely comfy.
Sorry for your shit pleb taste
We never stopped telling you.
I did. I got tired of repeating the obvious to people. You seriously think an Adult Swim series that looks THIS GOOD wouldn't be worth watching? Anyone who hasn't seen VB yet only has themselves to blame.
Long wait between seasons so barely any threads get made about it
Not going to lie even episodes I didn't care for like Momma's Boys and even Spanakopita when they first aired grew on me over time. I remember when Careers in Science first aired and didn't like it as much, but by the time the dvd came out and I watched all the way through again I warmed up to it and other episodes I found lacked. I love how Doc and Jackson used Careers in Science as juggernaut cornerstone for the show's canon later on. Mad men.
I wish that Myra was just the boy's mother and they didn't make a big mystery out of it. It'd be way funnier.
The movie is going to take 5 years to make, isn't it
There's not going to be a movie.
Voice actors confirmed recording for it not too long ago. I think the first takes were done for several characters a few months ago
isn’t doc sick right now?
He was sick a few years ago, but he's better now. A while back he posted pics of him doing some work in his yard. But yeah the commentary on season 7 Doc did sound a bit rough.
First time on Cinemaphile? I don’t get it OP you seem to be a homosexual, you should’ve been here for like 8 years already.
The people who do tell you things are moronic.
It's my favorite show
I watched the entire thing during last week and I have never seen a show get more dated as it went along.
Like S1 and 2 are good but after that it's just feels dated as shit.
Doesn't help that side characters would make a better show.
first it's adventures, then it turns into SoL of a bunch of crazy characters, meh
How can it become more dated when it's a parody of a show from the 60s and almost half of all the conversations in it references pop culture from the 80s?
I dunno but it's mostly age of the reference
Having a 80's or 60's reference fits better with the show, so when you get Star wars reference, the "keep toys in a box" jokes from 2000s it just makes it more jarring if you remember those times.
I never watched the show until recently and I could tell the exact year the season was being made just by catching a reference that sticks out like a sore thumb
Every early 2000s cartoon on Adult Swim is amazing in general. Especially Aqua Teen Hunger Force
>No one told you about Venture Bros
This has to be bait
It’s not our job to sponfeed you OP you excuse for a homosexual.
>it's not our job to discuss cartoons on the comics & cartoons board
yeah I can see it you fricking moronic coombrain
Then stop whining about how no one pointed this series out for you and discuss it you shiteating little nonce.
not gonna discuss anything with a bitter c**t like you in the thread, kys
I’m not the suicidal kind of butthole, your 41% risk outclasses mine.
Venture Bros is the only show I watch for creator's commentary. Most of it isn't even to do with the show, Doc and Jackson are just funny
>That story about Doc being 7 years old and his older sisters used to call him Rick because it annoyed him and they got him in trouble by making him go to his parents and ask them "Can I've a rubber"
Season 6’s commentary is just Doc confessing all this embarrassing childhood shit, like how he apparently used to sleepwalk & piss in his family’s closets.
we did
Now tell us your favorite line
>Cause it's gay
>give me head
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't
Rusty's confrontation with his Father was super disappointing.
I miss the shirt club bros.
>Missed out on the last shirt club
>Surely they'll do one for the next season
No joke this is the only show cancellation that made me tear up/cry. Been following this show since the Brisby episode and that's like over half my life at this point.
Seriously one of the best shows ever made.