Many of the show's spoofs, including its take on the Sorcerer Supreme himself, developed into fully-realized characters. Comic book characters that were once considered niche curios like Doctor Strange were parodied on the series long before they became multi-million dollar Hollywood bonanzas. also presaged the influx of nerdy cultural concerns into the American mainstream. I don't know - just based on how we were never a breakout hit - how much active influence we had, or if maybe made people go 'Oh, you can do that.'"īesides advancing a particular storytelling style, The Venture Bros. "I do think we did a bunch of things first. I think just became the way people started consuming things," Publick says. "A lot of stuff we were doing that wasn't really being done. Like its forebear, Archer refrains from holding viewers' hands through its callback-heavy humor and often obscure pop culture references. " Archer was the first time somebody took what we were doing and fixed it," Hammer says. Hammer pegs Archer, which is currently airing its 11 th season on FXX, as the first time he encountered something on TV that resembled The Venture Bros. Breakout success Rick and Morty just took home its second Emmy for its own twisted send up of sci-fi clichés, and the Venture family tackled the cascading cause and effects of intergenerational trauma long before BoJack Horseman garnered widespread acclaim for doing the same. are now accepted as de rigueur in so-called mature American animation. When I rewatched it, I realized it's not just a funny show- it's a show with a lot of truth." "I can't think of one episode that doesn't have a true core of some sort of hurt or want or love or failure inside of it - sometimes as its nutty center. "I think from maybe season three or four on, every episode just stopped being joke cannons," Hammer says. Legion of Dumb: The Monarch addresses the various villains in The Venture Bros.Ĭo-creator Hammer - who recently rewatched the show in light of its cancellation - says despite its outlandish world of super-science and bureaucratic villainy, Venture is "a very realistic show." Sometimes we'll do a whole season about renovating a house." "If somebody blows a hole in the wall, it's either being fixed or staying in the wall for the rest of the season. He and co-writer Doc Hammer wrote all but one of the show's 86 installments spread across seven seasons. "There was just a natural instinct to care about continuity and that anything that actually happened was going to stay happened," Publick says. That is, rather than conforming to the classic sitcom trope of reverting back to square one after each installment, the plots and character nuances had long-term consequences several seasons could go by before a given episode's ripple effects were truly felt. Unlike its animated peers - even comedic shows that wrung poignancy from their storylines like The Simpsons or Futurama - the events depicted in its episodes lingered. didn't seem all that different from other Adult Swim offerings of the era like Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Sealab 2021, all of which sent up old children's cartoons with the unwanted wisdom and dark humor that inevitably comes with adulthood.īy the end of its first season, there were signs Venture was evolving into something different. When the show's pilot aired in 2003, The Venture Bros.
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