June 5, 2010
For those of you of the European persuasion (specifically those in the UK), it's worth noting that
Turner has struck a deal with FX UK to bring adult swim to that network. This includes
The Venture Bros. of course, so now watching it will be easy! Thanks to Mark Wilkinson for sending me that news.
January 4, 2010
Welcome back! Even though the first half of the season and the holidays are now over there's still some more stuff to do! I couldn't get everything I wanted in during December (for various reason) but technically this Five Years thing can last a whole year, right?
For now we have a little thing I whipped up something to display
historical episode scores by you, the readers. I've been collecting votes since 2006 and this list shows monthly scores for the top fifteen episodes of every month from 2007 through 2009.
Go check it out and let me know what you think!
December 24, 2009
Since the episode isn't up on AS Video, here's all the clips from that episode with a handy navigation thingy. You'll have to navigate them yourself since Adult Swim's video player isn't exactly developer friendly but it's better than nothing! Happy holiday of your choice!
November 13, 2009
Obviously I wouldn't be reporting on this if
The Venture Bros. wasn't on this list, so let's just cut to the chase. It's
in spot twenty-six:
If The Venture Bros. wasn't the best show of the 2000s, it was at least the most unexpected: Debuting on a network best known for funny-but-dust-thin stoner comedy, it quickly evolved into one of the most emotionally involving shows on television, showing real character growth, genuine depth of feeling, and a hefty thematic obsession with failure and disappointment.
You can also
check out the full list instead of skipping directly to page three.
December 22, 2008
For those of you who may not have seen it, you can check out
A Very Venture Christmas on Adult Swim Video if the Krampus compels you so. Also feel free to
check out the capsule if you'd like too!
November 27, 2008
Right on the heels of Amazon's deals (but more likely because the company is bankrupt), Circuit City has
both seasons for $12.99. That's right, season one and two for $12.99 together. It's only available on the site, but if you still don't have them and were waiting for an amazing deal than $6.50 per season (that's fifty cents per episode!) is probably as good as you'll find. So go already!
November 19, 2008
Just in time for the holidays Amazon has put
Venture Bros. Season One DVD and the
Season Two DVD on sale for only $12.99. They're listed as being normally $29.99 but that's a tad high, though you'd be hard pressed to find them under $20 most places. Either way thirteen bucks each is a good deal so if you know someone who you think would like a season or two or you have just been waiting to strike yourself now is a great time.
Also, just so there are no secrets between friends, those links use this site's ad codes for Amazon (same as the sidebar ads) which gets me a small percentage of the sale. So feel free to buy lots of stuff with those links! If I get a fat enough check from Amazon I might just have a Christmas contest/giveaway with some Venture-related paraphernalia as the prizes.
September 25, 2008
New list over ad AS.com for those of you who are Monarch-starved. Enjoy!
August 28, 2008
In their series of 'Ode to...' videos, Adult Swim has put up one in honor of the mighty 21 and 24 and all their selfless sacrifices. Enjoy! (Also spoilers if you haven't seen the last episode yet).
June 24, 2008
AS finally released their fall schedule through early October. Most notably the airing order for the final four episodes of the season, though none of them have official names yet (one of them was tentatively titled 'The Ant Farm'). Aside from that when season three finishes up on August 24th, the entire series will be airing every weeknight at 12:30am (EST/PST) starting with the pilot. So if you missed a season or just want to rewatch from the start mark your calendars for September 1st.
Full schedule with episode names is here as always.
May 29, 2008
In celebration of season 3 starting up this weekend (or tomorrow at 6pm EST if you want to watch it on the internet), Adult Swim has
the Top 10 Brock Beatdowns. If nothing else watching Brock kick ass ten times will get you pumped for season three, where he will no doubt kick a few more asses. Enjoy!
October 22, 2007
I might have some 'stuff' for you guys in the future, if I am not too lazy. If.
January 4, 2007
Rick Marshall, the online editor of
Wizard Entertainment, dropped me a line about
this article in Toy Fare which has a short commentary on each Venture Bros. episode by Doc, Jackson and even James Urbaniak (how come James gets his last name printed but Doc and Jackson only get firsties? It just seems to work for me...). Anyway, here's a quote because I don't know how to end this update:
James Urbaniak: "Hank has insisted on being Batman, so they're all Star Wars characters except for Hank. In the original script he said, 'I'm Batman' and I said, 'Yes, you're Batman. You're Batman every year.' You'd think you could say 'Batman' and it wouldn't be a rights issue, but I guess the fact that he looked like Batman and saying 'Batman' was too much, so they changed it to 'The Bat,' which I actually think is much funnier."
So go
check it out!
December 1, 2006
Over on
JP's livejournal, Jackson has made a very informative update on the upcoming season two DVD. What do we have to look forward to? Well, there's commentary for every episode, including some with guests James Urbaniak (Dr. Venture) and Mike Sinterniklaas (Dean Venture), there's some more live action extras as well as a bunch of deleted scenes cut after storyboards and animatic. Sounds excellent. Oh, and it'll be out on April 17th, 2007. Do I smell a new countdown? You bet I do!
It's also worth noting (and Jackson did note it, but it bears repeating) that you can purchase the season one DVD
on Amazon.com for a mere $8.99 + shipping. So if you don't have it yet, there's really no excuse unless you somehow lack nine dollars. And if you do lack nine dollars, maybe you should stop reading Venture Bros. web sites and get a damned job you dirty hippy! Seriously.
October 27, 2006
According to the
Adult Swim programming schedule, on December 25th (which is some holiday if I remember right) season two will be airing in its entirety, preceded by (I assume)
Trial of the Monarch and
Return to Spider-Skull Island (though episode 12 should refer to
Past Tense). So for those of you keeping track that's 15 episodes, or 7.5 hours of Venture in a row. Yes, that's quite a lot. So if you missed season two and don't have anything to do on Christmas night (and let's face it, who does? all the fun parts are done with), then tune in!
October 12, 2006
Two things I haven't mentioned, but people have asked me about them or mentioned them to me are songs of recent Venture Bros. episodes. Firstly, Ken Plume sent me word that
he's got 21 and 24's wedding song up on Quick Stop Entertainment along with Dr. Girlfriend and the Monarch's wedding invitation seen in the show. Fancy.
Nextly up on
Doc Hammer's MySpace you can listen to Dr. Venture and Myra's love theme
Mitre Storm by none other than Jasper McVain, the same who sang Brock's workout song in
Mid-life Chrysalis. So there you go! The Venture tunes collection continues to grow.
September 27, 2006
It's been up for a day or two now, but if you want to check it out,
part two of Ask Jackson & Doc is up on AS.com. Even more stuff is covered, such as the writing process, Jonny Quest, Bauhaus and Doc's testicles. That last sentence is a something I never thought I'd write.
September 19, 2006
You may remember when I mentioned AS was having a thing where you could
write letters to Jackson and Doc and they'd answer them on the AS web site. Well that's finally come to fruition, and you can check out
part one at Adult Swim.com. There are some good questions, and some crazy evangelizing fan questions, but all in all it's pretty good, and you get a taste of classic Jackson and Doc humor/information hybrid (humormation, or maybe informuor) that was present on the season one DVD commentary. Part two will be up next week.
August 21, 2006
First off I should mention that the
V.E.N. capsule and notes have been up for a couple days now; I just forgot to update about it here (until now). I've been screwing around with some of the non-capsule content as well, so there are a couple additions/changes to the
characters page and I've added skeleton capsules for the remaining episodes of season two (aside from the last one, which has not been named yet). I've also got a crapload of e-mail to get to, but I just want to thank everyone for all their info and insights, because there's no way I would have as comprehensive notes as I have without some of you guys. Rock on!
Nextly I added a quick feature to the capsules where you can rate each episode on a five-star level. So now we'll have some sort of weird Mantis-Eye ranking system for each episode. Just go over to any episode page and you'll see a little dropdown under the title of the episode. Select the vote you want and hit 'Rate' and you're done! You won't be able to see the show's current score until you vote, though I'll probably put up some kind of comparison chart in the near future. Enjoy, and let me know if anything breaks!
Oh yeah, no new episode this weekend. Sadness. After that there's two new ones, then another one week break, and then the final four episodes. See you guys in heck.
July 12, 2006
Quick update to let you guys know that the
notes and capsule for Assassinanny are up. As always you can e-mail me any additions/corrections.
In site-related news, I'll be off on vacation from the 15th until the 22nd and unable to update or even watch Adult Swim. I'll hopefully be able to watch
Escape to the House of Mummies on ASFix (I'll also be busy Thursday and Friday nights, and then I'm off to the Caribbean vicinity on Saturday morning, woo!) but there won't be any updates for that week. Good thing for me there's no new episode for two weeks after that, so I won't fall behind with the capsules and junk. The weekly discussion thread will auto-post at 6pm EST on Friday no matter where I am though.
So that's it for now. Unless some huge crazy Venture-related thing happens between now and Saturday morning I'll catch you guys in a week and a half!
June 11, 2006
Too poor to afford Venture Bros. season one on DVD? Too lazy to go out to the store to buy a copy? Too busy to buy it?! Just flat-out don't own it yet? Already have a copy but need a second one in case something happens to the first? Well then this is the place for you!
Click that link and you could win a brand new, unopened Venture Bros. season one DVD set! All you have to do is answer fifteen Venture-related questions (all of which can be answered by poking around this site) and you'll be entered in a random drawing on June 25th. Check the contest for the rules and stuff, and good luck!
May 31, 2006
I never imagined I'd write so many updates in such a short timespan, but then I forgot I had almost daily updates even after season one ended, so I guess five updates in two days is okay.
Anyway, I forgot to mention that
Jackson updated with an original image of the DVD insert art as well as a screenshot of VB reaching #1 on Amazon.com. It's down to #3 right now, but it's quite awesome that it made it to #1 earlier. I'm starting to believe that the ratings for season two are going to be insane. An explosion of viewers, if you will.
Secondly, Mr. McCulloch did an
interview with SuicideGirls (the page is fairly work safe, if not pink) that you might want to check out. I added that to the interviews section of
the articles page.
Also for all you late comers and cheap bastards, I will be having a DVD giveaway contest, as soon as I come up with a contest, that is. Hopefully within the next week or two.
Finally, Venture Bros. will not be airing this week. The pilot of
Korgoth of Barbaria will play at 10:30pm on Sunday and then the following week VB will take that timeslot. I believe season two will have either the 10:30pm or 11:30pm Sunday timeslot.
And other information you might learn from the DVDs! After entirely too much commentary track listening and extra-feature watching, I've completed my
review of the season one DVD complete with screengrabs. As you might expect from a Venture Bros. fansite, I give the Venture Bros. DVD a favorable review. All in all it's a steal considering how much you get for a mere $20 - $30, and well worth picking up.
May 30, 2006
So, it's DVD day! And in celebration of the season one DVD and season two starting up in less than a month, I've redone the site yet again! Lots of changes, as you can see. I've switched to an entirely new news/update engine which is a lot easier to manage and far less sloppy. You probably won't notice too much from your side of things though.
I've done away with user accounts as well. Sorry if that upsets you, but they weren't super popular anyway, and really added no benefit. The new comments are simple and you just enter a username and optional URL and post away. The guidelines remain the same, so behave! Comments have also been reset for now. I still have all your old ones, but I'm not going transfer them over just yet. Maybe in the future though.
Aside from that, there are still some kinks to work out here and there, but everything seems to be in working order, so enjoy! I'll have more on the DVD later today (tomorrow). Also I hope you've noticed the promos for season two AS has been airing. Looking pretty good.
May 28, 2006
On this lovely Memorial Day weekend (if you're in the US), you may want to check out
this interview with Jackson Publick, aka Christopher McCulloch (that should probably be the other way around, but whatever). He touches on various happenings with the show and various tidbits like where the name Jackson Publick comes from (answer: nowhere, really) and some of what's happening in season two. Interesting interview, for sure. What would I do without
James Urbaniak's LiveJournal telling me where these things were? I can't answer that, my friends.
May 25, 2006
How about a DVD review? Not from me, because I don't have an advanced copy (I figure if I complain enough eventually I'll get my way... probably not though), but over at DVD Talk there's
a very comprehensive review of the upcoming season one DVD. One of the parts I'm interested in is the commentary tracks (since I've seen every episode a billion times), which will appear on episodes
104,
106,
108,
111 and
the pilot. As far as other extras, we get a twenty-minute movie entitled
Behind The Scenes Of The Live-Action Movie, which is the voice actors discussing how they were cast in a fictional live-action Venture Bros. film. So there you go, looks like it's going to be pretty cool. I'll have a review of it up next week of course, after I pick it up. Many thanks to Jeff for informing me of this.
May 23, 2006
On sale now! Well, in less than a week anyway, you could have season one in your grubby mitts. Here's some pricing and such:
$20.99 at Amazon.com
$24.99 at Best Buy
$22.63 at Walmart
$24.99 at Circuit City
$25.37 at Buy.com
$23.58 at Deep Discount DVD
The DVD of course contains all the episodes from season one as well as the pilot and Christmas special. A few episodes (I don't know how many right now) will also have commentary from Jackson/Chris and Doc. Along with that there will be deleted scenes and various goofy shorts like the one on AS Fix last week. I might also be running a small contest to give a lucky reader the DVD, but I'm not sure yet. Maybe if someone at AS wants to send me a free copy to give away, hint, hint is anyone reading this?! I'm the fifth result on a Google search for 'venture bros' and I get 500 hits a day on average! Come on people, hook a
brother whitey up! Okay that's all.
May 20, 2006
I'm in Washington, DC on a business trip (there's something I never thought I'd say), but I still have a little bit of time for you guys! If you want to check out a sneak preview from the upcoming season one DVD, look no further than
Adult Swim Fix which has a five minute feature that, uh, features Jackson and Michael Sinterniklaas in leotards. Yeah, I don't know either. Still, it's a funny feature and if the rest of the stuff on the DVD is of this quality then we're all in for a treat. And hey, less than ten days to go!
April 17, 2006
Quick note that AS changed the Sunday schedule yet again. Venture Bros. is now on at 10pm Eastern on Sunday, instead of 12:30am. That's cool for people who have to go to bed early on Sunday night, right? I've got nothing more to say!
March 27, 2006
Those of you who are observant may have noticed that Venture Bros. didn't air yesterday night like you might have been expecting. Instead AS opted to switch Saturday night back to entirely anime (Stroker & Hoop didn't air either) and replace it with Inuyasha. Joy.
So VB is back to being not on the air at all, though it may be shown on Friday Night Fix if you need constant viewings or something.
Also, AS announced
Adult Swim Fix, which is essentially Adult Swim only on the internet. Every week there will be seven episodes from AS's original comedies and some anime for your viewing pleasure. They're not revealing what will be available, but it goes live tomorrow (March 27th), so I guess you can find out then. Otherwise those bootleg DVDs you bought on eBay for entirely too much money will have to suffice. See you guys next update!
Update: Oops, just noticed during a bump that it's actually been moved to 12:30am eastern on Sunday night (reairing at 4:30am EST), so we're good. Thanks to everyone who pointed that out to me as well, even though I didn't see them until
after I saw it advertised on TV. Suckers!
February 19, 2006
I'm a couple days late, but Adult Swim
posted some info on the season one DVD set a few days ago.
The DVD will feature all 13 episodes of the first season, as well as the pilot and the "A Very Venture Christmas" special. Bonus features include creator commentary, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes of the Venture Bros. live-action movie and original packaging art by comic-artist/god Bill Sienkiewicz.
Release is on May 30th, two weeks before season two is scheduled to begin (June 11th). Also you may have noticed I've brought back the DVD countdown in the box along with a countdown to season two's start. Good times. I've also got a bunch of e-mail to sort through, which I will get to one of these days. Going to have to start doing some actual work with this place soon I guess.
February 13, 2006
Quick update to mention that Adult Swim will apparently begin re-airing season one starting this Saturday at 11pm. I didn't see it myself, but my sources tell me there was a bump on AS stating this fact in a large-fonted and rather blinky way, so I can only assume they are very serious about this. Also my source is a pretty reliable guy. I mean so what if his office is really the bathroom at Walmart, that doesn't make him any less of a lawyer, right?
December 20, 2005
The
Publick Nuisance updates keep rolling in! Apparently VB is not returning to the lineup, but the series pilot,
The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay will be airing on Christmas night at 1:30am EST.
In sadder news the DVD release has been postponed, so it appears my counter is somewhat obsolete now. I'm wagering the new season will be starting up by June, so releasing the DVD a week or two before that would make the most sense. There's no concrete date for season two set just yet though.
Jackson also provided the first ever production journal for the pilot, which was missing from earlier journal entries. Lots of cool info about it as well as the origins of Venture Bros. in there, so read up, kids! And have a happy whatever the hell you celebrate!
November 30, 2005
Quick update for all of you upset about the complete lack of Venture Bros. anywhere. It's not coming back to TV yet (probably not until season two starts next year), but after a barrage of angry e-mails (like, four or five... maybe even six) AS has caved to the tremendous pressure and will be putting VB back on
Friday Night Fix starting December 23rd. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty damned close to a certain holiday which may or may not have a
Venture Bros. Christmas Special themed around it. And yes, I'm talking about Kwanza. So anyone who hasn't seen this not-often-played episode, this may be your last chance to see it! Thanks to
Mike (not me, there's more than one of us) for mentioning that to me.
November 4, 2005
Since there's not much Venture-news I'll just report on tonight's
FNF schedule since it's the only place you can actually see Venture Bros. anywhere right now (I also just noticed I haven't updated the schedule box on the front page, whoops, fixed now!):
The Boondocks - Garden Party
Squidbillies - Chalky Trouble
12 oz. Mouse - Spider
Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Revenge of the Mooninites
Robot Chicken - Plastic Buffet
Venture Bros. - Ice Station Impossible
Space Ghost Coast to Coast - Explode
Minoriteam - Operation Blackout
Yes, I know 12 oz. Mouse is horrible, but there's nothing we can do to change that. At least not until I rule the world. And hey, only 131 more days until the season one DVD! And, uh, a number higher than that until season two starts... okay have fun. Oh yeah, I added another poll because I haven't done that sort of thing in a while. Polls are keen! Can't you just picture the Monarch singing Tomorrow? I'd go see Little Orphan Monarch anyway.
October 7, 2005
Early morning update for you kids. Adult Swim has finally decided to start posting the Friday Night Fix schedule. So even though VB will be off the air following this weekend, you'll still be able to catch it on the internet every Friday night until at least October 28th. Here's the showings:
October 7 - Eeny, Meeny, Miney... Magic!
October 14 - Tag-Sale, You're It!
October 21 - Home Insecurity
October 28 - Ghosts of the Sargasso
For those of you who haven't been paying attention, Friday Night Fix shows every Friday from 11pm until 6am on Adult Swim.com.
I've also added a new poll, which I'll admit is silly, but it's hard to think of questions sometimes. Enjoy!
October 4, 2005
A moment of silence please. This Sunday's airing of
Past Tense will be the last airing of Venture Bros. for... I don't know, probably a while. New episodes of
12 Oz. Mouse and reruns of
Sealab will be taking over the 12:30am timeslot. But don't be sad, kids, Venture Brothers had a good run. It's been shown at least once a week since it began airing over a year ago, and don't forget it will be returning in mid-2006 with a brand new season, and a DVD release in March.
September 30, 2005
For those of you who have been paying attention to the
Venture Bros. schedule, you may notice that
Past Tense is back in the rotation. It'll be shown October 9th (the 10th if you want to be technical) to I assume much fanfare. Apparently all the legal issues with the design of the robots (you can read more about that in the episode notes) have been sorted and the episode will air unedited.
In unrelated news, Kevin Brown was nice enough to point out an update at Brendon Small's page:
You might hear my voice in a few episodes of the new season of VENTURE BROS. (a very great show that you should check out if you haven't) but it was a real pleasure doing that.
So there you go. Also enjoy tonight's Friday Night Fix, which I presume will be showing Careers in Science, but don't quote me on that.
September 24, 2005
Okay, it looks like the
Friday Night Fix will be showing
Dia de Los Dangerous!. For those of you who want to see some of the more rare episodes, maybe if you bother them they'll put up the
Christmas special or
Past Tense. Head over to the message boards and give them a piece of your mind! Or you could always use
this handy-dandy form if the mood strikes you. Enjoy the weekend!
September 17, 2005
Quick update to mention that AS.com, every friday night, will be streaming some shows for you to check out. Tonight, for instance, you can
check out the new Birdman episode, some classic ATHF or Space Ghost, and even
the Venture Bros. pilot. That's right, if you haven't seen it (and I know many of you haven't), you can go check out the VB pilot over at AS.com. Good stuff.
September 13, 2005
Two updates on the same day! I just felt the need to point that out. The ever articulate
Jackson Publick hath updated once again, mentioning the eBay auctions which I mentioned already in the update below this one. Aside from that you get a lot of vague info on the current season (recordings by Brendon Small and Jon Benjamin of Home Movies fame are complete), and a bit of extra DVD news:
On the DVD front, I'm told the official release date is officially March 14, 2006 now. It will be a 2 disk set. Due to space limitations inherent in the format, we won't be doing commentary on ALL the episodes, but we are hoping to cover at least a few of them, possibly as many as five. Trust me, you don't want to hear either or both of us babble for seven hours anyway...
So there you go; official DVD release news! Also the season premier script is being worked on, so if my knowledge of the animation industry is accurate, that episode should be completed sometime in May or June, which should give you a rough idea of when the new season will begin. That's all for now folks!
Hey, remember those eBay auctions for VB storyboard art Jackson was talking about in his last update? Well those were actually put up three days ago. You can check them out here. Each one starts at $50 (except for one drawn by Jackson, which is $100) and is signed by Jackson Publick and VB storyboarder Doug Lovelace. These are really great pieces of show memorabilia, and don't forget that the money goes towards The Lance Armstrong Foundation for Cancer Research (though it's not mentioned on the auction pages). So go grab one if you have the cash to spare. Many thanks to Havocware for noticing this.
June 22, 2005
Thanks to the wonders of Internet Comment Technology
TM, you can have a couple questions answered about the inevitable Venture Bros. season one DVD by Jackson himself:
DVDs--right now the plan is to get them out some time before season two premieres, potentially with a teaser for season two as one of the extras. However there's no official release date yet and we haven't started production on it. Just talking right now.
Part of me wants to hear the cussing in all its inappropriate glory, part of me thinks it's funnier and somehow more impactful when you hear bleeps. In the end, it may not be up to me. It could be that taking the bleeps out would change the "rating" on the DVD and cause it to require a "for mature audiences only" sticker or some crap that would hurt sales. Or maybe it will already have to have that because it's TV-14, which now seems to be quickly becoming TV-MA. I'll have to find out from the powers that be.
[The pilot episode] would probably be included as sort of a "special feature" and not as the first episode in continuity. I think we're stripping the episodes of their confusing production numbers, too, and just referring to them by their titles (to this day I still see people on the message boards insisting that the boys are still alive on the grounds that the trial episode takes place after "Return to Spider-Skull Island").
Commentary: It is doubtful that you could keep a pair of chatty, complainy idiots like us from commenting on our failures. And commentaries are so easy to do, we could record them all late one night at the Astrobase if need be.
So all of this is indeed good news for everyone asking about the pilot, bleeps and commentary. No word yet on what's up with Past Tense though.
So in a similar vein, I've (finally) added a new Mantis-Poll which asks what special feature you'd most like to see on the S1 DVD.
Update - Aug. 30, 10:47am - Quick update here... two months later, but I thought I'd mention this DVD set will not be the official design. I've gotten a few e-mails and questions about this. While very cool, it's designed by an aspiring DVD box artist and is in no way official.
May 30, 2005
Well now, two updates in two days? It's almost like there's an ongoing season or something, right? You wish! Instead you'll have to settle for
a Publick Nuisance update:
Two scripts in the pipeline so far (one mine, one Doc's), neither of which will be the season premiere (yes, we're writing them out of order again, and hopefully we can find a way to keep the adultswim website from confusing everyone this season as a result). Obviously can't tell you much about them, lest the surprise be ruined, but I will say that we learn a bit more about Baron Ünderbheit and The Phantom Limb, respectively...and they're funny. Actual animation production will begin in just under a month, by which time we should have another two scripts done--hopefully one of them will be the premiere episode. We know what it'll be and all, we're just holding off on writing that one because it's so heavy with cliffhanger resolution and has much responsibility riding on its shoulders, so it has to be great.
So there's your season two progress report. There's also news that the regular cast will be returning, and J.G. Thirlwell will be scoring the show again. Also for people in the San Diego area, Jackson and Doc will be appearing at Comicon, so you can pester them about stuff there. In fact, this update is so chock full of meaty, uh, news, that I can't even summarize it all here! So go read it!
Also, in somewhat sadder news (and I hate to end on a downer, but I guess I don't have a choice), the Thursday airings of VB are no more. It's still got the 1am Sunday timeslot, though, so don't fret. Also, yes, Careers in Science is now rated TV-MA instead of TV-14 thanks to Brock's inability to say no to a slutty Russian cosmonaut.
April 27, 2005
New poll up. I picked thirteen quotes from the series so far (13 of my favorite one-liners), so now go
vote for the one you like best!. The
last poll went resoundingly to Dr. Girlfriend who got nearly triple the votes of the runner up, the Monarch.
In show-related news, you may have noticed that
Past Tense has not been aired for a long time (11/30/04 was the last time, to be specific). This is (most likely) because the design of the Lesliebots which are inspired by the design of
Hajime Sorayama's sexy robot women. According to a comment left by Jackson on his journal, he says nobody is in trouble, but the Cartoon Network lawyer-types want to play it on the safe side and either get permission or change the designs (whichever is less expensive I presume). There's a small blurb
here on the AS boards, but I couldn't find much else. Hopefully things will get sorted out and they can start airing that episode, because it really is quite a good one.
March 16, 2005
Okay, before I run off to dreamland for the night, I just want to touch on a couple things I forgot to get into last update. First off, the DVD of Season 1 appears to now be in the works, though the release date is not final, but estimations put it happening sometime in early 2006, though very early CN projections said October, but that seems unlikely at this point. So it will be a nice compliment to an already in-progress season 2, or something to cry and get drunk over if the show is canceled.
Nextly, and I didn't even notice this until an hour or two ago, the showing of
104 last Sunday (the 6th) managed to pull in a whopping 698k viewers (males between 18 and 34 anyway) which are the highest weekend ratings the show has ever gotten. Not too shabby for 12:30am on Sunday.
And finally I have all the screencaps for the full-length episodes done, which means I only have the
Christmas episode left. Note to anyone who hasn't seen
Return to Spider-Skull Island, you might not want to look at the last image as it's pretty spoiler-tastic. I figure it's aired enough times by now that it's okay, but fair warning I suppose.
February 16, 2005
Whew, monster update follows. First off, I
finally noticed a pretty bad bug in the registration code (good going whoever made that... oh wait) which was preventing people from registering, thus rendering the feature useless. I fixed that problem, so if you tried to register within the last 12 days but you got an error saying your e-mail was already registered (which it wasn't), then
try again because you can actually register now. Related note, I added the ability to post anonymous comments, so you can do that if you don't feel like registering. Note that if you do make an anonymous comment then your IP will be displayed (which isn't a huge deal unless you're mega paranoid).
With that crap out of the way, I have some Venture Bros. and Adult Swim related news. First off HooverFan on the
SA forums pointed out that
a new VB t-shirt is available. It's red with a picture of Brock fighting the alligator in
the pilot. As for Adult Swim news,
here's an article on how AS and CN are going to do a Neilson split (the article explains what that is). Thanks to livingfruitvirus for that. You know you love him, folks. Also
here's some news that Midway will be developing some Adult Swim games. No Venture Bros. game yet. I say 'yet' because it's probably inevitable.
And finally, I updated the ratings since I missed getting them on Sunday and I just forgot to add them yesterday. Last Saturday's showing of
Dia de los Dangerous! grabbed 480k viewers. The Sunday showing of
111 didn't place in the top three, probably due to the Super Bowl, which, despite being very close the whole game, was not very exciting. And that's that. I'll have news on that breakfast tomorrow if there is any to be had, but I still have no confirmation if or not AS will be making any announcements there (but my money is on 'no').
February 12, 2005
Just a minor correction from the
last news item; that breakfast is actually this Wednesday, not last. Last Wednesday was just the RSVP for it. Also keep in mind there's no real guarantee that there will be any AS announcements at it anyway. Also apparently AS will be airing Venture Bros. Thursdays at 1:30am (and again at 4:30am as is the custom), though it appears it will just be a rerun of the episode played on Sunday. Still, they're starting it at the beginning of the season, so if you missed any episodes the first couple runs (or you're just getting into the show), you have two chances every week to catch up. That's it for now.
February 5, 2005
There's a nice lull in news and updates between seasons, and we're still at the beginning of it. Anyway, tonight's episode will be
Dia de los Dangerous! airing at 11:30pm EST. Tomorrow night will also have the airing of
Return to Spider-Skull Island at 11pm EST, but it's quite likely the Super Bowl will still be on at that point. However if it's over by 11pm (or you aren't watching it), be sure to switch the channels and get everyone at the party or gathering you may or may not be at to watch it.
This weekend is also the end of VB's early-night weekend run. The Sunday slot will be given back to Family Guy, and VB will no longer air on Saturday. However it will still be shown at 12:30am EST on Sunday (which is really Monday if you want to be technical). It is of course good news that AS continues to air VB, which attests to its popularity.
Finally, I heard it through the forum-vine that CN's annual up-front breakfast will be held on February 9th. This is where they announce all the news for the upcoming year, though AS had a separate one last year, so it may be a moot point. That's all for now and enjoy the show tonight.
January 31, 2005
Looks like last weekend was the anti-two weekends ago. The ratings for the entire weekend are actually downright perplexing, because neither of the lead-in shows were rated in the top three (VB on Sunday, Futurama on Saturday). Still, last Saturday's airing of
Trial of the Monarch got 365k viewers, scoring 3rd place. Also, AS continues to skirt the renewal issue with a bump tonight stating that they still don't know if they're going to greenlight season two.
Oh yeah, I should also mention that you can now
download some VB mp3s from adult swim.com. Included are the death theme from
111 as well as the opening and closing themes for the show.
January 24, 2005
Wowza. Sitting through Super Milk Chan has finally had some payoff. Ratings for last weekend follow:
Highest Rated Adult Swim
Programs Saturday 1/15/05
[Viewers 18-34]
| Venture Brothers | | 656,000 |
| Fullmetal Alchemist | | 570,000 |
| Futurama | | 522,000 |
|
|
Highest Rated Adult Swim
Programs Last Sunday
[Viewers 18-34]
| Venture Brothers | | 463,000 |
| Harvey Birdman | | 427,000 |
| ATHF | | 421,000 |
|
I have also heard from a reliable source that season 2 has, in fact, been greenlighted (greenlit? neither is a word according to my spell checker) and the crew is already working on it. This whole thing with 'it's up to you!' was just a clever ploy by adult swim to build hype. Well played, you devious miscreants. No official word as of yet of course, but it's safe to stop sending death threats and anthrax to Cartoon Network now.
Update over at Publick. Apparently those adverts that were supposed to play on Fox will no longer be playing on Fox. So thanks for nothing Fox.
But on a good note, Jackson promises good things VB-related things are to come tonight, including the ratings for last weekend's showings, and perhaps more? Who can tell. I'll be sure to update about the news when it's aired in a few hours, and don't forget to watch tonight's airing of Are You There God, It's Me Dean at 11pm and tell all your chums.
Finally on a site-related note, I'm thinking of adding a simple comments section to the site so you could post your thoughts on each update or the show in general, but I think that the lack of comments would just make me sad. But if you think it's a good or bad idea tell me about it, and we shall see.
January 18, 2005
Good news for you Canadians!
Meanwhile, Detour will add two adult shows to its lineup. Bromwell High, a comedy set in an underfunded, overcrowded South London school, will have its world premiere on Monday, March 7, at 10:30pm. The Venture Brothers will make its Canadian premiere on Sunday, March 13, at 10:30pm.
Thanks go out to Toon Zone for that news. Can you feel the love?
January 13, 2005
Venture Bros.? On Sunday? At eleven?!
Can it be true? Only time will tell, but be sure to watch your TV (or TVs) next Sunday and find out! Also, VB ads on Fox! I can't stop exclaiming things!
January 10, 2005
Kevin Karstens was nice enough to inform me that he's made a new Venture Bros. screen saver you can check it out. The saver is pretty neat and features character shots, sketchwork (from
Doug Lovelace's site. Grab it from his site or point your mouse clicker thingy
right over here (1.53MB). Then simply open the zip file and run the screen saver inside and it will install itself.
In other news, I don't think AS put up any ratings for the prior two weeks, but the VB shown on New Years Day night pulled in 398k viewers for second place behind Futurama.
And finally, Jackson Publick updated his LiveJournal once more with news of the holiday season and some interesting pictures and a bit of somewhat vague news that sounds promising but we shall have to see. That's all for now.
January 9, 2005
I'm just noticing it now, and I assume I'm late to the game, but those
Xmas outtakes are up. You know, the ones I mentioned on December 23rd? Go check them out. Apparently the fight scene between Brock and Krumpus was to be longer, but well, you know how these things go. Lots of very awesome sketches to see and be sad that the show wasn't a full half-hour. Maybe next year?
Speaking of next year, howsabout those new Venture Bros. bumps, eh? Mighty fine stuff, and perhaps a good sign.
December 21, 2004
As promised,
A Very Venture Christmas has been capsuled and noted and the cast list finalized. That's the last of that for a while (but hopefully not forever) though I will continue to poke around the page content from time to time. By the way I thought I should mention that I do make changes almost daily, but I don't update the main page about them because they're not usually very important. For the latest changes you can
click here for my changelog. There's also a link at the bottom of every page if you happened to notice.
Speaking of the end of the new episodes, you should note that last week's showing of
Tag Sale pulled in 540k viewers which is the second most the show has ever gotten, and the fourth time the ratings have gone over 500k, so things continue to look good. Merry Xmas to you all if I don't update again before then, and if you don't celebrate then, uh, too bad.
December 20, 2004
Just a friendly reminder that the Venture Bros. Xmas episode airs tonight at 11:45pm (EST) and again later at 2:45am (which is technically the 20th). There also won't be an episode shown at the usual time on Saturday due to Xmas programming, so the next time you'll be able to catch a half-hour episode is on January 1st. Also, remember to watch! And tell your friends to watch too!
December 18, 2004
Just a quick note that episode
111 has been capsuled and noted. This means that all the previously played episodes have been capsuled and noted for your viewing/reading pleasure, so view/read away! The Christmas episode airs in less than 24 hours as well (in fact in exactly 24 hours the second showing will be ending), and I'll probably have that done within a couple days as long as it isn't a busy time of the year. Which it is. Well, you'll live.
December 15, 2004
It's late. Or is it early? I can't tell any more. Anyway, just a quick note that the capsule for
Trial of the Monarch is now complete. This leaves me with only one full episode left, which will hopefully be cap'd by the end of the week, and then the Christmas episode. Ratings for last Saturday's showing of
Mr. Brisby were lower than previous weeks, but much higher than the ratings the first time the episode was shown. Also good enough for second place behind Futurama.
December 12, 2004
Tag-Sale, You're It! and
Past Tense capsules and notes have been completed. Actually
Tag-Sale was up on the 10th, but I didn't bother to update about it. I only have the last two episodes left to capsule and the Christmas show after it's out. For next season, assuming there is one (I'm getting tired of saying that), I hope to have them capsuled a few days after the episode airs, but I got this site started after the first season ended (or right around when it did end), so I'm playing catch-up. That's it for now kids.
December 9, 2004
If you just can't stand to wait ten more days until the Christmas special,
here are some shots from it, including what seems to be a
Christmas Carol parody, some sort of wacky monster, Dr. Venture getting his temperature taken (and not in his ear or mouth) and a scale model of the Venture Compound! There's also a description of the show and a couple positive notes from the VP of production at CN. Thanks to USMcD on
Toon Zone.
December 8, 2004
In case you didn't know, the VB Christmas special will air Sunday, December 19th at 11:45pm EST. It's a 15 minute episode, but promises to be chock full of goodness. Here's the summary, which I waxed from
Toonzone:
In the Christmas speical, Dr. Venture is a bit behind on his shopping, but he's excited about hosting his annual Christmas Eve shindig. Brock turns out to have some sentimental Yuletide traditions. Dean and Hank, who still believe in Santa Claus, accidentally unlock a magical demon who threatens to ruin Dr. Venture's annual Christmas party and murder all his guests. Dr. Billy Quizboy and Mr. White hit on Traina, Dr. Orpheus' underage daughter. Meanwhile, The Monarch plans the ultimate gift for Dr. Girlfriend--the destruction of the entire Venture Compound.
Watch it! And tell your friends to watch it! I can't stress that enough, you need to watch it. Pointed out by Proudlegion on
SA.
December 6, 2004
From
TV Tome's VB page yet again... Chris McCulloch e-mailed TV-Tome with this:
Hello, this is Chris McCulloch (aka Jackson Publick) from the Venture Bros...noticed on tvtome a little new item claiming a I had "leaked info out to several sources" that a second season of our little comedy/adventure epic was "set in stone". Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth. Okay, the world being flat...that's further from the truth, but so far the network and I have not discussed it other than to discuss a potential future date in which the MIGHT be prepared to start discussing it. The way things stand right now, they probably will not have done the ratings assessment nor the financial assessment necessary to make any decisions about a greenlight until at least January, when the shows have all re-aired. Another thing I wish you were right about is our ratings having matched Futurama's and Family Guy's. Again, not so...we've been beating Sealab but haven't even approached Aqua Teen Hunger Force's numbers as of yet--which, I suspect, is the "magic number" the network's been waiting to see. Off the record. But who knows, perhaps this "leaked" news item is in fact your own clever ploy to get the show renewed, by making Adult Swim look like fools for going back on their alleged word if they don't--a clever bit of misdirection in a world that thinks that Sadam Hussein invaded the World Trade Center--it just might work! Anyway, officially speaking, I'm unemployed, save for post-production on our Venture Christmas special, and do not expect this situation to be reversed until the new year, if at all!
But thanks for caring...
So there you go. Season two is still very much in the air, though the ratings continue to be strong for Saturday night (which very often falls short of Sunday which is when ATHF is aired), so I like to think there's still a pretty good chance of renewal. Oh, last weekend's airing of
Eeny pulled in 481k viewers for third behind Futurama and FMA.
December 4, 2004
From
TV Tome's VB page:
Christopher McCulloch has leaked info out to several sources that season two is pretty much set in stone. With the show garnishing as many ratings as shows such as Futurama and Family Guy, and proving it could hold its own on a night swamped with anime programming, the show's cast and crew didn't need to say much in meetings with CN heads. One of the big demands known to the public is the desire to move to Sunday nights with all the high-profile programming, rather than to be stuck on Saturday with a replay the following evening.
Of course no sources are mentioned at all, so who the hell knows if this is true or accurate... plus it's TV Tome.
December 3, 2004
Episodes up to 110 are capsuled now, only
Tag-Sale,
Past Tense,
Trial and
Spider-Skull to go. Whew. Also episode 103 played last week pulled in 478k viewers. Not as good as the previous week, but good enough to jump back up to second place. The second run ratings seem good, so the probability of the show getting renewed seem pretty good, though I have no real knowledge of how CN goes about these things.
November 23, 2004
I'm actually updating at the same exact time (2:06) as I did last time I updated. Spooky, in a lame sort of way. Last weekend's episode (
Careers in Science) pulled down 501k viewers coming in third for the night behind Futurama and FMA. Good stuff. If the ratings for the second run keep around that number (mid to high 400k and better) VB is a shoe-in for season two. I've got up to
Ghosts capsuled, enjoy!
November 15, 2004
Ratings for last Saturday's showing of Dia de los Dangerous! - 561,000. That's a lot of cajoles. Keep up the good work kids.
