![]() For one, the opening “Space Oddity” flashback foregrounds McCulloch and Hammer’s Bowie obsession and foreshadows the Thin White Duke’s canonical role in the show. It’s not highbrow Venture Bros., but it’s funny as hell.īut even as a monster-of-the-week episode, “Ghosts of the Sargasso” punches above its weight. made that got a man killed, and family bodyguard Brock Samson beats up “ghost” pirates during a cavity search by clenching down and whipping around the guy who has his hand stuck up where the sun don’t shine. Here, brother adventurers Hank and Dean are in fine bumbling form, their pompous dad Doc “Rusty” Venture hopes to profit off of an invention his father Jonas Sr. Season one’s “Ghosts of the Sargasso” is classic early Venture, a profane riff on a plot that’d be right at home in Jonny Quest or Scooby-Doo. “Ghosts of the Sargasso” (Season One, Episode 6) In celebration of the show’s resilience - and in acknowledgement of its impressively dense storylines - here’s a list of the 15 best, most essential installments of The Venture Bros., presented here in chronological order. You can’t keep the Venture family down, though: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart hits Blu-ray and digital purchase on July 21 (with Max streaming promised 90 days later). Though then-head of HBO Max Andy Forssell quickly promised they were working to revive Venture in some form and the film was later green-lit in 2021, it’s been hard to keep the faith during David Zaslav’s disastrous reign over parent company Warner-Discovery. That we’re getting this finale at all seems like a small miracle the show was canceled after seven seasons in late 2020. This month will see the release of Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, a film set to conclude the series that first had its pilot air on Adult Swim over 20 years ago. and the strangers it introduced us to sadly aren’t here to stay much longer. Jackson Publick) and Doc Hammer, The Venture Bros. ![]() Like nearly all of the characters on the show, we may at times feel sad, confused, and seemingly surrounded by enemies, but for better or worse, we are never alone.Ĭreated by Chris McCulloch (a.k.a. with a Bowie lyric, but how could you discuss this show without diving headfirst into the influences it draws from and parodies so lovingly? Mid-century concepts of super science and supervillainy define much of the world we see in The Venture Bros., but its cast of heroes, henchmen, and evildoers embody the same human, un-super foibles that spur us to badly sing Bowie songs in the car with gusto. Maybe it’s a bit obvious to open an article about The Venture Bros. ![]() “All the strangers came today / And it looks as though they’re here to stay.”
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