TV SERIES · 2003– · USA
The Venture Bros.
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- #001
The series' cast of characters draws from Jonny Quest (1964) characters, comic-book superheroes and villains, and other famous figures from popular culture.
- #002
The creators describe the show's central theme as failure: "This show is really all about failure. A beautiful, noble failure. Every character is not only flawed, they're terrible at what they do, and they're beautiful about it. Even in the design, everything has to be kind of the death of a dream, the jet age promising. It shows that failure is funny, it's beautiful, it's life, and it's okay."
- #003
The Venture Bros. remains one of the last major cartoons to be drawn entirely by hand. This explains the long waits between seasons, since the method is so labor-intensive.
- #004
The Venture Bros. has been a quietly integral part of Adult Swim for more than 15 years, and it recently overtook Aqua Teen Hunger Force as the network's longest-running program.
- #005
At the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick confirmed that they had begun work on an eighth season alongside their work on the seventh, and that the season would consist of ten episodes. The release of The Venture Bros.' eighth season was cancelled in 2021, but later that same year a film to conclude the series was greenlit.
- #006
The Monarch's house in New Jersey was designed after the Krueger Mansion in Newark, NJ.
- #007
The Venture and Orpheus families live at 1297 Venture Compound West.
- #008
Brock Samson's devotion to Led Zeppelin surfaces in several episodes. Some references are very subtle — while driving the Charger, Brock is almost always listening to soundalike Led Zeppelin songs — while others are more overt, such as Hank rifling through Brock's "Zep" tape collection or Brock drawing the band's record-label logo instead of completing the essay section of a written exam. He even has a (currently unfinished) label tattoo on his arm.
- #009
Within the first three minutes of the series, it is revealed that the boys have no mother.
- #010
The character Hunter Gathers is based on the famous gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson.
- #011
Doctor Venture's car appears to be a 1968-74 Saab Sonett V4.
- #012
The series first aired on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's late-night programming block. The pilot episode aired on February 16, 2003, and the first season began on August 7, 2004.
- #013
In the summer of 2020, it was announced that the series had been cancelled and that its eighth season would not be made.
- #014
Hank Venture's full name is Henry Allen Venture.
- #015
Dermot's "sister" is actually his mother.
- #016
Season 3 gave Brock Sampson's eyes an eye-light and also made them a slightly lighter blue, with slightly wider irises and pupils, and depicted them as more wide open than his usual shifty glance. This gave them a gentler, more glinting look.
- #017
The Monarch is a clone of Rusty Venture.
- #018
Myra Brandish first appeared in the season 2 episode I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills (2006). She was revealed to be Dr. Venture's former bodyguard/lover and the possible mother of the Venture brothers Hank and Dean.
- #019
Pete White's character design is based on Doc Hammer.
- #020
Hank and Dean's character designs are based on Christopher McCulloch and Michael Sinterniklaas, respectively.
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