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Hadn't pegged you for a fellow Venture fan, Patty. Cheers! 
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"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
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One late Sunday night flipping through the channels and that was that."The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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Likewise. TV's best-kept secret.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund FreudComment
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That last episode was super creepy.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Poor Che is afraid of Ghost Robot.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund FreudComment
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It had a lame plot device, which it tried to cover by announcing that it was a lame plot device.“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"Comment
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Likewise. TV's best-kept secret.
No, that's Trailer Park Boys or the Boondocks. Still a fine show, though.
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Synopsis of the first 3 seasons?We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.Comment
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Dean and Hank Venture are the twin teenaged sons of Thaddeus S. "Rusty" Venture, a former "boy adventurer"--think Jonny Quest--who has taken over his dead father's super-science racket. They are protected by their loyal bodyguard/quasimilitary operative, "Swedish murder machine" Brock Samson. They are menaced by a "supervillian" known as The Monarch, whose supervillany is guided by a very strict rulebook for supervillians and their "arching" activities.
It's a show about failure. Rusty is a barely-passable scientist, and an even worse father; the boys are, in their best moments, dim. The Monarch is also failure-prone. None of them are dumb, exactly--they just don't tend to think things through very well.
There is a very, very large cast of very, very funny supporting characters, including but not limited to: Dr. Byron Orpheus, a necromancer who is renting out some unused labspace in the Venture compound; Dr. Girlfriend, a beautiful villian with the voice of a Brooklyn bully who is The Monarch's "Number Two"; 21 & 24, two cowardly and pop-culture obsessed henchmen; Phantom Limb, a rival supervillian; and Molotov Cocktease, a former Russian superagent and current assassin, and the unrequited love of Brock Samson's life.
The humor ranges from Three Stooges-esque slapstick to outright parody to high-falutin' comedy of language and manners. It is very, very heavy on both character and plot. It wouldn't be inaccurate to call it the "Lost" of comedy and/or cartoons.
Here is 21 putting on his henchman gear, after The Monarch returns from yet another setback:
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund FreudComment
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It reminds me of The TickWe need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.Comment
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Yes, but better.
In fact, Patrick Warburton (the actor in the short-lived, but ****ing awesome live-action The Tick) is the voice of Brock."My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
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That was a good scene.Originally posted by Guynemer View Post
You forgot to mention that Johnny Quest is an occasional character in the show. Race Bannon also made a brief appearance. I can't remember if Doctor Quest was in VB or I'm remembering him from Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law.
I can't believe they killed 24.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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24 could be brought back to life. They do have cloning machines.Comment
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