I regret waiting so long to get into this show, it's great

The writing is also top-tier. It's really impressive how you see characters differently and come to care for them as their stories unfold.

Man I wish the Scooby Doo characters got to be recurring characters like Action Jonny or Professor Impossible.

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Many thanks, friend.

Pubick and Hammer probably blew their budget this season, the difference of animation quality between the St. Cloud episode and Monarch Super villain Team Up episode is truly jarring.

>It's pretty much confirmed to be the last season too.
As cited by who?

I actually really liked how it shook out.

The teleporter plot never really went anywhere...

Didn't really expect it to, since the OSI are pretty much a bigger joke than the Guild, but still.

Probably the biggest change to the status quo in this season finale though. Finally official confirmation that Doc and Monarch are related. Monarch is back to a ten, 21 as right hand might finally officially take on the Viceroy name, Hank has run away from home.

It will be interesting to see if Hank can really make the change into manhood and not just stumble his way as has been the case with a lot of his success. Dean's been making serious strides, even if he does still act like a little bitch in some cases. I also hope they have Sirena try to make amends with Hank and not go the usual "Oh, you were smothering me, so it was justified" crap that happens in these kinds of scenarios.

>It will be interesting to see if Hank can really make the change into manhood and not just stumble his way as has been the case with a lot of his success

I think the ending made it pretty clear he won't. He didn't 'grow up' from coming out of coma town, he regressed.

>I also hope they have Sirena try to make amends with Hank and not go the usual "Oh, you were smothering me, so it was justified" crap that happens in these kinds of scenarios.

One user had supposed that the reason why she did that was less so 'being smothered' and rather that she's just unaccustomed to a guy genuinely liking her for her as opposed to someone interested in her for her looks or something of that ilk and leaving her to chase another skirt.

Honestly I found it amazing how they never really had to retcon anything about Jonas to make him such a terrible human being. All the hints and small things over the years. He was just in the background and despite being incredibly important to the universe never had the spot light on him like this last season.

Then bam we finally get to see the man in action and he fit into the idea we had of him, but Jesus Christ the blanks spots that got filled in really clarified everything . turns out the things we knew were the damn shining examples of his good side, which made it all the more nightmarish.

This put alot of things about rusty in a new light too. The fact that rusty was actually struggling to claw his way out of his bottomless pit of psychosis that he had been thoroughly destroyed and thrown into , rather then being a man who had taken every excuse to slide downward that we thought he had been. Just the fact he understands how to be a decent human being and wants to try to do what they would do is amazing

Just damn.

Also I have like no fan art it seems and just a few official pieces as there doesn't seem to be much fan art, that's a shame. So here have this

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DUDE! Blue board!

Enjoy your ban

>turns out the things we knew were the damn shining examples of his good side
Damn. I'm in the same boat as OP, but have been putting off season seven to make the wait for eight seem a bit shorter but now I'm not sure I can. Jonas always seemed absolutely reprehensible to me, and the idea that he's actually magnitudes worse seems impossible. Do they reveal he raped puppies or something?

2 more seasons and they'll hit syndication so its worth the wait, though when is season sevens dvd coming out?

The fact that a show with this visual quality & great writing can still exist in this day and age is baffling to me.

Jonas was always portrayed as kind of a dick but early on just as a sort of generic chad who gave Rusty an inadequacy complex but later you really start to see that casually traumatizing Rusty was Jonas at his best.

I wish the seasons were longer, 10 episode seasons is annoying as fuck.

It's amazing what can happen when you forsake money in exchange for making your dreams in a new york closet.

Most people would rather just have the money for that kind of effort and dedication over the years.

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>and here we see the ultra-vegan walking skeleton in its natural habitat

what is it that makes the venture bros so good, Yea Forums?

The amount of time and effort that's invested in every season, and the fact that it's only the two creators writing the show.

i miss when the guild was this huge organization with unknown goals, and a leader nobody knew the real identity

It's carefully crafted with love by people who know exactly what they're doing and are unwilling to compromise.

What I love and hate about this series is the ridiculous stream of 10/10 background/side characters that we may only ever see for a few moments.

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Brick frog!

It'll have been 15 years by then dude.

I love the conceit that rock stars have always basically been super heroes and villains.

soul

>Will season 8 be never ever?
The people who make it hate banality. It'll come when it's ready.

When JJ opened the museum on Spider Skull Island, the film played of Jonas has him say his greatest creation is Rusty.

That's really put into new context now that we know Rusty is a clone and lost even more years than Hank and Dean did.

You shouldn't regret waiting to get into the show.
You spared yourself worse waits.

>The fact that rusty was actually struggling to claw his way out of his bottomless pit of psychosis that he had been thoroughly destroyed and thrown into , rather then being a man who had taken every excuse to slide downward that we thought he had been. Just the fact he understands how to be a decent human being and wants to try to do what they would do is amazing
It is nice that they've done this as a running theme all the way back to the early seasons. Rusty has always been incredibly talented, maybe even surpassing his father, but only when his inventions are something abhorrent and god awful. The fantasy pod powered by the soul of a forsaken orphan for example. Hell, even that episode where Killinger tries to make him a super villain heavily implies the only thing holding him back is his conscience.

Eh, there's really nowhere else to go with them.

it's not never ever. it'll just be two to three years. so unless you have a terrible disease and are going to die soon, you'll be able to wait it out.

What happens when they run out of phrases and puns to make into heroes/villains?

>Rusty has always been incredibly talented, maybe even surpassing his father, but only when his inventions are something abhorrent and god awful.
It really makes you wonder how Dean is going to end up; on the one hand Rusty is perpetuating the cycle because that's all he knows but on the other you have to wonder if he realizes that and wants something better for Dean. Rusty has grown a lot as a person recently.

SPANAKOPITA

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Fuck senpai you have no idea how deep that rabbit hole goes. Every possible sequence of words and ideas will eventually be explored. At some point intellectual property laws will cease to have meaning. Software that checks for plagiarism won't be able to detect it anymore because every possible term paper will have been written.

Spoopy

>That's really put into new context now that we know Rusty is a clone and lost even more years than Hank and Dean did.

We don't actually know that. Rusty, as far as we've been led to believe, has only been cloned once. Likely as a beta test for the cloning tech. Which, as we know from the existence of JJ, was not perfected at that point.

Like really, As far as it's shown, Hank and Dean lost 5 years from their first death to the activation of their first clone slugs.

>St. Cloud episode
oof yeah the animation was stiff as a board on that one

>Which, as we know from the existence of JJ, was not perfected at that point.
If Rusty were cloned more than once JJ wouldn't have been included. Genetically they'd still be two different people.

Did you know that Brick Frog is actually a story from one of the creators past? They made the frog head for a class or something, and had a prop brick and they had a friend over to hang out.

They played super heroes and the friend put on the frog head and held the brick and just said Brick Frog and it remained the funniest fucking thing to them.

It was great.

This episode made me actually try Spanakopita when I was given the chance. Pretty good food.

Season 6 felt like it shouldve been half an actual season, and it barely had any of the fun cast that made it great. I don't HATE season 6 but it's definitely not in my top 3. But every Monarch and Gary episode was actually fun as hell. The rest of it kinda just existed and they ended the season on an episode that was 60% Saw parody.
Also unrelated, did anyone call the twist of Rusty and Malcom [monarch] being siblings like, back in season 5? I dont know why I did, but I always thought that would come up and I annoyed many a friend [all 3 who also watched the show] about it.

Actually there is a possibility, since the clones were all slugs that aged in real time in the vats rather than made more than once. There's a good chance that the clone that is current Rusty was the one who had JJ inside of him. I mean, whos to say that JJ knew what was going on outside his whole life?

>If Rusty were cloned more than once JJ wouldn't have been included

Incorrect. It shouldn't matter how many times you clone someone as long as you take from the Host source. And Ben listed teratomas as a flaw of the cloning process. A very passing mention, but he said it. Granted, JJ is much more than a teratoma, but it was clearly a jape at JJ for being a teratoma that unintentionally developed into a person.

That's why Hank and Dean are the perfected versions of Jonas Sr. and Ben's research. They have no internal conjoined twins.

>Also unrelated, did anyone call the twist of Rusty and Malcom [monarch] being siblings like, back in season 5? I dont know why I did, but I always thought that would come up and I annoyed many a friend [all 3 who also watched the show] about it.
Same hair color, similar voice, Jonas was known to fuck his friends' wives...

>and they ended the season on an episode that was 60% Saw parody.
That episode also had a full recitation of the Taken quote without any kind of spin or twist.

Plus the show was called "The Venture Bros" and it threw around the idea of twins and even the unconventional third brother a lot.

Hank and Dean were twins and had a half brother Dermot who was created from a secret copulation that only a few people knew.

Rusty and JJ were twins, though Rusty tried to eat JJ somehow in the womb but twins nonetheless, and Malcom [Monarch] was created through a secret copulation that only a few people knew.

Yeah that episode was like, JUST okay for a venture bros episode but not great for a season finale. Compare it to literally every other season finale.
1: JJ emerges from Rusty [god every time I type anyhting about this it feels gross] and the boys are killed, thus leading into the revelation that they are clones in season 2.
2: Monarch and Dr Girlfriend finally get married in a 2 parter where theres a fuckall massive battle, which leads into season 3 where the monarch and dr girlfriend become co-operative villains and Phantom Limb becomes a primary antagonist to the show.
3: ends with another massive two parter where Brock is seemingly hunted by the OSI, ending with a large scale battle that kills all the remaining hank and dean clones AND even 24 who was a significant character. This leads into Brock quitting the OSI and joining SPHINX, Sgt Hatred joining the Ventures and 21s growth.
4: Ends with Operation Prom, which concludes with SPHINX rejoining the OSI with Hunter at the helm, sending Traester into space, Gary [21] QUITTING being a henchman and ends with Dean finally standing up for himself when the world is telling him to just be happy for someone else [saying Fuck You to the Outrider]. This leads into season 5 where Dean tries to become his own person and Gary tries to find himself [though ends up back with the Monarch.]
5: its weird because I consider All That And Gargantua 2 to be the season 5 finale but its usually listed as a season 6 special so i'll combine The Devils Grip and All That because fuck it. Devils Grip kinda just ends with a minor character dying and Dean finally telling Hank theyre clones but thats kinda just it and i guess also with Monarch and crew moving to Jersey. All That ends with the conclusion to The Revenge Societys whole deal and kills of two major characters and leads into Ventures moving to manhattan which is where the show takes place currently.
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[cont] Season 6 however just... well it ended with nothing happening. Red Death finds out who the Blue morpho is and thats it. The Blue Morpho arc doesnt end until the next season and Rusty doesn't really do much. Season 6's finale is literally 3 episodes of season 7.

Season 7s ending literally has Hank realize he needs to grow up, Dean admit hes a terrible brother which he kinda has distanced himself from Hank, Monarch and Gary becoming rank 1s AND the concrete evidence of Monarch and Rusty being related given to us, and [possibly] the Monarch.

Season 6's finale did nothing, it didnt end anything and just existed. Plus it was a waste of guest voice actors.

i have read a lot about how good this show is and by this thread maybe it's true

i'm going to binge watch it, what am i up to Yea Forums?

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DOCTOR BYRON ORPHEUS

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Best ride of your life.

We kinda do know that Rusty lost way more than 5 years from repeated cloning.

The time line had numerous inconsistencies with Rusty's age which finally made sense when it was revealed Jonas was doing to Rusty what Rusty was doing to Hank and Dean.

Hell, I bet every time Action Man put the gun to Rusty's head and pulled the empty trigger was so he could normalize it for every time he was forced by Jonas to put a Rusty down who had injuries that would take longer to heal than the amount of time it would take to get the next clone up and running.

Why is there NO porn of Sheila?

Okay let me get you ready. The pilot episode is kinda shit because the humor isnt as good and the animation is REALLY BAD FLASH TWEENING.

If you wanna fully enjoy it, have a decent idea of old cartoons [namely Johnny Quest and some hannah barbera] plus an entry level enjoyment of super hero culture. You dont need to be an avid reader or scream excelsior don't worry, I'm not and its my favorite show.

There are a few specials and depending on where you watch it, they arent in order.
A Very Venture Christmas is kind of it's own thing, not placed anywhere plot wise but aired after season 1 so watch it after you finish season 1, but it has no real plot relevance.

A Very Venture Halloween [and to a lesser extent "From the Ladle to the Grave: The Story of Shallow Gravy" are a must watch between season 4/5. Timeline wise, Venture Halloween takes place during the first episode of season 5 but its better to just watch prior to it.

It's a great show though.

Also, get ready for a lot of 80s love, mainly David Bowie the creators of this show love David Bowie.

>We kinda do know that Rusty lost way more than 5 years from repeated cloning.

No, we don't.

>The time line had numerous inconsistencies with Rusty's age which finally made sense when it was revealed Jonas was doing to Rusty what Rusty was doing to Hank and Dean.

Not that many. He's maybe lost a year or two at most. If we go by how old he perceived himself as in 1987 (he was about 24 at the time) then he'd have been born in 1963. The 60s being where the entirety of his boy adventuring took place regardless of the original or clone.

>Hell, I bet every time Action Man put the gun to Rusty's head and pulled the empty trigger was so he could normalize it for every time he was forced by Jonas to put a Rusty down who had injuries that would take longer to heal than the amount of time it would take to get the next clone up and running.

Nah. That would negate one of Rusty's problems. He didn't have extra life card that he gave to Hank and Dean. He has PTSD because he had to live through everything. He survived through 98% of it all. Unlike his sons, he wasn't spared the worst of the adventuring lifestyle because the cloning research hadn't been perfected. Rusty was just a one-off beta test.

>he wasn't spared the worst of the adventuring lifestyle
I doubt this. Seeing how Jonas is, the "worst" could be things we can't even image. Hell, the things Rusty lived through could be considered to be the milder adventures the original Team venture had for all we know.

And wasn't he already a boy by like 1962? When did they capture Spider Skull Island?

I feel you. I'm 28 now and have been watching Venture Bros since season 2 started when I was 15, so almost exactly half my life. The only real way to deal with the long-ass waits between seasons is to just forget this wonderful show forgets for years at a time.

I have a few friends who only just recently picked up VB, and got like 5 or 6 seasons of the show to binge on, I was almost jealous. But now they're roped into waiting obscenely long times between seasons.

Rusty wasn't present when they got Spider Skull Island. We don't know if he was already born at the time or not.

How butthurt did Scientologists get over L Ron Hubbard being one of Jonas Venture's antagonists?

1969

Yes he was, at the start of Now Museum Now you Don't he's being held hostage over a pool of carnivorous fish of some sort.

Assuming Rusty was born in 1960 and the Monarch was born in 1968, and assuming the current Rusty was the same age as child Monarch in that photo of them together, I think he lost more than 5 years.

Sorry man, he was actually.

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He wasn't present in the flashback where they team up with Blue Morpho though.

Ah, I was thinking of how he wasn't in the picture the group took.

Also guys, why do you think Rusty had more of a preference for Dean? I mean from early on it seemed that there was always a bit more of a preference for him over Hank, not just later when Hank blew off what Rusty wanted.

Hank is all the things Rusty hates about himself.

I don't mind the long wait between seasons anymore. What gets to me is how short the seasons are now.

Yeah, I'm 28 as well and have been a fan since the 15 minute pilot aired in 03. I can still remember the hype of the season 2 premiere with Adult Swim being mum in their advertising over whether or not Hank and Dean would be back or not. It's kind of a weird badge of honor the more off seasons of Venture Bros you've had to wait through.

6 was the only one to be especially shortened, and that was because Gargantua-2 was technically part of the season, from the production standpoint.
5 and 7's 10 episode seasons aren't really that short, considering 13 was the average beforehand.

What exactly was Rusty show? Originaly I thought it was in world cartoon based on their adventure with Team Venture voice acting but now I dont know. Did they had a camera team with them all the time? How did they made it exacly?

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10 episodes go by in a blink, though. I guess that's why I can wait 2 years for more without much hurting. Everything just...goes so fast now. I'm scared of waking up one morning and suddenly being 80.

I think the joke is that it kinda just is both and neither. The Rusty Venture show is kinda just... a thing in the universe. If it was a filmed show theyd have tons of the crew die constantly. But then how was it Rusty in the show if it was based on him, plus the fact there are secrets in the show [in that one ep where billy breaks clues in it].

I think thats part of the joke, that it kinda is just.. a THING in universe.

They call it a cartoon all the time, so I assume Jonas tells the writers about the adventures he goes on with Rusty, all in the most positive of lights, obviously.

>What exactly was Rusty show?
A cartoon recreating Rusty's boyhood adventures, apparently quite accurately - although I can't imagine things like Jonas forcing Rusty to kill a man with a house key would have made it in.

In Venture Bros the Johnny Quest & James Bond shit happened in real life so the pop culture equivalents were true stories adapted into cartoons. Rusty had one, Action Johnny probably had one. But then, it's kid-friendly recreations of what happened. They probably never portrayed Jonas as the arrogant merciless prick he really was.

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>They probably never portrayed Jonas as the arrogant merciless prick he really was.
Until you got close to him you wouldn't really know it though, would you? From the outside looking in he was basically a great guy and a raging turbochad.

Venture Bros definitely takes the never-meet-your-heroes thing seriously.

>Venture Bros definitely takes the never-meet-your-heroes thing seriously.
Most of the characters on the show have some serious psychological issues no matter how likable they are; Brock is a cool guy but he's also a complete psychopath with at least a triple-digit body count.

Sirens also has been dating around and seemed to be something of “free spirit” she was way too much for naive Hank to handle

It wa s cheap cartoon exactly like the Hanna Barbara ones to cash in on merchandizing to fund Jonas science.

He's not taking the situation too seriously, but it doesn't mean he's not trying to become ore adult. And given his family, it kind of is a smart move to bail. The question is, will he last or just end up crawling back? Or just find someone to pamper him?

Where was it said she dated around? Most she said about her previous relationships was that a lot of the guys just wanted to fuck her, which did seem to annoy her a bit, so she was honestly surprised that Hank didn't want to get into her pants, at least not right away/his only motivation.

someone give this man first prize at the Standup Guy convention

He seemed aware enough of his shit behavior, given how he ultimately treated Blue Morpho, he probably was able to charm his way around gullible people, and likely did so to antagonize Rusty every now and then.

>He seemed aware enough of his shit behavior
Yeah, but the $64,000 question is whether or not he cared; from what we've seen of him he was basically a narcissistic sociopath.

I mean he was one of the biggest names in the world. Had a massive corporation in NYC, was making Gargantua, massive playboy, big hotshot in the world.

If youre that famous do you think youd care? It honestly seemed that the rest of Team Venture were aware of his bullshit though.

anyone else kind of ready for the show to end? been watching since S2 first aired and i haven't really loved it since the move to new york. i think it's pretty rare that a creative endeavor stay relevant and keep up a consummate level of quality 15+ years after beginning and VB is no exception. i'd just rather it end on a strong note and not gradually slide into zombie mode just because i want a new season to look forward to every 2 years.

He probably is the sort who in some teeny scrap of his heart cared about a few select people, but he was otherwise too amoral to refrain from abusing pretty much everyone if he saw a benefit to it.

I think im enjoying it now for different reasons. The focus of the show definitely is split down evenly between The Monarch and The Ventures now, and id say its somewhat even moreso about The Monarch Crew these days which is a great change of pace. If the show was the same episodes over and over it'd suck but im glad to see the Monarch get so much love.

Its implied he cared about Rusty, but even then just from being his father. I mean he did clone him because he died or nearly died.

Okay thread whats your favorite and least favorite episode. Not "best and worst" just favorites and least favorite.

It's hard for me to chose a favorite, but i think its "Escape to the House of Mummies Part II" because i love how its literally just a part 2 of a trilogy that never happens and its got really fun moments.

Least favorite.. "Are you there god? It's me Dean" because from seeing that episode onward I always thought "That can happen to me and I would just kill myself if it did."

Nah but seriously itd be Red Means Stop because movie parodies and nOTHING HAPPENS THE WHOLE TIME just don't make for good episodes.

As far as we know, it's always possible he cloned Rusty due to the possible scandal he could have faced if his son up and vanished one day. It's also going to be interesting to see how the pre-slug lab cloning was done, since we know from Ben that it wasn't nearly as advanced in Jonas' time. Most I can figure is possibly something like the cloning in Metal Gear Solid, where it required a womb, which could also tie into the situation that reveals how Malcolm and Rusty are related.

>fave: viva los muertos
first episode i ever watched and i loved scooby doo as a kid. got a real kick out of it.
>least fave: the pilot
if i had seen this one first i might not have watched more tbqh

God yeah I dont think id give the show the same chance if the pilot was hte first one i saw.

Are you talking about The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay or Dia de los Dangerous? The former is unwatchable.

turtle bay obv

It's not all that bad, the twist with the ninja guy just being a weirdo who cranks it to machines was pretty good, but it certainly isn't a shining example of what the show could be/would become.

I was in middle school when this started,I will see the Sun rise in the West before it finishes. Spanakopita

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Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay. Its basically garbage.
Dia de los Dangerous is golden I love that one.

>The question is, will he last or just end up crawling back? Or just find someone to pamper him?

Neither. Hank probably won't even make it 10 blocks before Brock, Hatred or Dean find him and drag him back home or to the hospital.

That would be pretty disappointing, since Hank really could use the growth for his character.

I liked the theory that Hank finds his mom, but also finds that she has raised the original Hank and Dean. That'd be interesting to see.

Yeah, but it would be fitting as Hank very clearly became less mature from Coma Town. Coma Town was his one step backward, season 8 needs to be his two steps forward.

I'm not. I welcome death. Bring me back to my little sister

But the coma is what gave him the thought to leave the nest instead of just falling back to his usual habits and tactics.

He's attempted to leave the nest before. Doing that is not a sign of maturity. Leaving with the knowledge and skills to make it on your own is mature. Hank has neither of those. His reversion to "The Bat" is a clear symbolic indicator that he's relapsed further into immaturity. If he doesn't get arrested like last time, someone's gonna find him and bring him back.

Might be interesting if it turns out to be Monarch and Gary by accident in light of the recent revelation.

No, he just pretended to run away to teach his father a lesson, this time he's actually attempting to discover his maturity. The problem is he's still being theatrical about it, which will probably land him in a serious situation if he doesn't watch his step.

>and assuming the current Rusty was the same age as child Monarch in that photo of them together, I think he lost more than 5 years.

He isn't. Rusty stated that he was 43 in season 3. Since seasons 1 - 3 take place in 2008, that would mean that the Rusty we know of was "born" in 1965. Which would make clone Rusty at least 3 years older than Monarch.

>When did they capture Spider Skull Island?

1969. They bleep out the "Sixty" bit, but if with everything we know now, and a little bit of lipsynch, he clearly says Ninteen Sixty-nine.

>No, he just pretended to run away to teach his father a lesson
Where's that coming from?

>this time he's actually attempting to discover his maturity. The problem is he's still being theatrical about it, which will probably land him in a serious situation if he doesn't watch his step.
I think it's obvious he won't. His very clear regression will keep him from it. How if or will he can get out of it is another question, depending on who/what he faces and how much "The Bat" ironic competence is written for him.

>Where's that coming from?
Forget which episode, but it was mentioned that Hank has "fake-run away" on several occasions, and usually just hid somewhere nearby before wimping out and coming home.
As for him being able to grow, why is that so hard to see happening? The show isn't about failure anymore, and it's not like the boys haven't made strides since the 4th season.

I remember when my daughter was young, like, 4-5 months old, being up late at night with her. She was not going back to sleep, but wanted to cuddle anyway. I turned on the TV and gave Venture Bros a chance, and fell in love with it.

Now she's 12.

>As for him being able to grow, why is that so hard to see happening?

It's not hard to see it happening, it's just that his jumping back to "the bat" shows shows that he went and made a regression. He hadn't used it because he grew out of it, because he grew up some. His experience in Coma Town sabotaged that some and he fell back into a degree of childishness. Season 8 should deal with him coming out of that once and for all. For him to reflect and try to get back onto the road of growing up. Like I said, Coma Town was his one step backward, season 8 needs to be his two steps forward.

>Forget which episode, but it was mentioned that Hank has "fake-run away" on several occasions

Pomp and Circuitry. Season 4, ep 10.

>first episode i ever watched and i loved scooby doo as a kid. got a real kick out of it.
That was easily one of my favorite gags of the entire show.

>The problem is he's still being theatrical about it, which will probably land him in a serious situation if he doesn't watch his step.
And that will be a learning experience for him. I mean, you have to remember that even after all of the awful shit that this Hank has gone through he's still as cheerful as ever and has bigger balls than either Dean or his father; I honestly don't even think his spirit is capable of being broken at this point and I could totally see him leading a happy life as a low-level vigilante.

the idea was floated as early as season 1, but the only real evidence the audience got was the picture of malcom and rusty playing together in season 5 (i think). other than that, jonas' flagrant swinging and man whoring made it possible anyone is a venture, including billy

It seemed more like he was just using the Bat mask as his way of "going incognito" more so than regressing, given he's still committed to the concept of finding maturity, wherever it lies for him. He's being theatrical, which isn't that unusual for him, it's just a matter of whether he can really see it through and change or just luck out as he usually does with things and get rewarded for basically doing nothing.
Who knows, it's probably going to be tested since he's legitimately striking out and not just hiding away in his backyard like the old days. The question is, what will he land himself in? And how will he deal with whatever situation is dealt to him? I'd like to see him maybe go through something like a parody of the "apprentice" character where he gets taken in and thinks his life will be something like Batman and Robin, only to realize it's nothing at all like that, but manages to make the growth needed even if it's still somewhat in his happy-go-lucky way. Either that, or he somehow proves to be really business savvy because of his bouts of crazy outside the room where the fucking box is located mentality. While most of his ideas are dangerous or stupid, he has had some good ideas as noted by Brock.

i running theory is that rusty is himself unsure if the things that happen in the cartoon are memories or not. the stylized version of his life and real life blend together for him

>but the only real evidence the audience got was the picture of malcom and rusty playing together in season 5 (i think)
They have the same hair color, a similar build and the show is literally titled "The Venture Bros."; obviously it wasn't confirmed but there was writing on the wall from the beginning that just continued to grow as the show went on.

>Either that, or he somehow proves to be really business savvy because of his bouts of crazy outside the room where the fucking box is located mentality. While most of his ideas are dangerous or stupid, he has had some good ideas as noted by Brock.
I like the idea of Hank turning HankCo into a supply company for the spandex set.

Way I imagined it is, he gets picked up by a business tycoon or just some kindly old rich man (hence the dreams of possibly Batmanning and Robining by night), and proves to be pretty good at making some profitable ideas, then finds himself made into the man's heir and has to steer the company away from plummeting into bankruptcy when Hank gets a bit overboard with his zanier concepts. Could even make for a nice return to the family where he manages to help get Ventech out of the red while impressing his father. Granted, it might be a bit too wishy washy, but it's just a thought of how Hank finds maturity by being thrust into a position of power and having to actually think smartly instead of just winging it with cool ideas.

Nah, that would just come out of nowhere.

I'm not wrong, though.

>Stop pretending to care about animation on a board devoted to animation

That would make sense. On top of being cloned possibly several times he's had substance abuse problems in the past.

And not having the luxury of the beds to backup his memories, which probably came about after his death or after a few deaths.

I dunno; I think it more likely that Jonas built the bed when Rusty was very young. I can't see Jonas either getting a tutor or teaching Rusty himself.

I meant more that the beds didn't have the backup memory feature until Rusty's death, not unless the idea of Rusty being entirely created from scratch as some people are theorizing is true.

Eh, maybe. Though I could see Jonas preparing for that too.

If he were planning on "making" Rusty since the beginning, maybe. If not, and Rusty was just a "mistake' he got saddled with during one of his sexual adventures, then he probably just built the beds once Rusty was at an age he could learn and be taught.

Fun fact that episode was written by Ben Edlund (of The Tick), the only person other than Doc & Jackson to ever write an episode

If season 8 does end up being the last season then it would be a really satisfying final arc to have it be about the Monarch and Rusty dealing with each other and Hank finding the real boy’s mom. That, a 16 episode season and every significant character showing up at some point throughout the season would be a perfect way to end the show.

As long as they spend at least two episodes waving goodbye.

who here thinks that Sheila is pregnant and wants now to settle down already?

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Doubt it. She seems pretty happy running the guild.

>who here thinks that Sheila is pregnant and wants now to settle down already?

No one thinks that, because it's common knowledge that Doc will never allow it. Jackson proposed the idea to him, Doc gave it a try and drew it and he hated it.

Dramatization of real events. Though a Professor Impossible is implied to always be hot on their tail to report their shit.
I think he's like Rusty in that he'll make excuses in real time and believe his own bullshit.
>Blue Morpho is being difficult so I'll extort him, but it's all for the best so I'm the good guy still
Whenever he gets called out he gets defensive.

>that one that went through a shit divorce wont do it
Why Im not surprised?

I guess, but Rusty's at least able to own up to his bullshit if called on it, and has been more willing to in recent times compared to before where he was a bit more dodgy.

>but it's all for the best so I'm the good guy still
Jonas really didn't care as he was an amoral, narcissistic sociopath who took perverse pleasure in making others squirm. He certainly cared that the public viewed him as a "good guy", but that was purely to feed his own ego and if it conflicted with what Jonas wanted then there was no question which would be sacrificed.

Because Dean is supposed to be the smart one.

>be me
>never make any noise while orgasming
>grow older
>start letting out a few grunts when I finish
>"Haha funny it's like how Brock did that one time"
>now every time I jack off, Brock Samson's screams from the bathroom when he masturbates plays in my mind
>not mad because Brock is cool

That's my story, and every word is true

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that's actually swish

i thought about that too but there's little opportunity to make cool pop culture comic book references with a baby in the mix. it would just turn into a bunch of stale domestic scenarios like gary running around like a fucking nanny

I did.

But it was more than enough to make me watch more. I was immediately interested in all the characters and their deal, I loved the little references and the 80s feel it gave me.

dude don't even start

I re-watched all of season 1 last night and I am stunned how much stuff is introduced in each episode that I assumed was introduced in later.

Yeah, almost every major aspect of the show's world was set up in the first season. I wonder if they meant to set it all up right away or if it was all a result of them deciding to go back and build on what they had.

Probably the latter as they’ve said they wished they hadn’t been so cavalier in killing off some of the minor characters they introduced in the earlier seasons.