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While I love the Venture Brothers show, I am somewhat horrifed at how many articles relating to it can be found on Wikipedia. Every now and then, I wonder if someone should mark 80% of the little sub-sub character entries with "NOT NOTABLE". Does The Monarch really deserve his own article? Does every single episode deserve an article? WHAT IS WRONG WITH US?
I know this sounds sarcastic, but I am genuinely curious why this sort of thing happens. Is it deliberate? Are their guidelines that justify this state of affairs? --Nik (talk) 17:51, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
I would like to inform the main talk page for all things Venture Bros that episode articles are being alter to the point where there is only a plot summary by the user A Man In Black. Such articles include The Doctor Is Sin. So far, I have seen damage to a lot of Season 3 episode articles, I have no idea if he's gone on to other seasons.
I have currently vowed to make sure ORB is kept safe. If a single user takes up arms in an episode article to restore and/or protect, then we can ensure that these articles are kept intact. -BigGator5 08:11, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
(Indent Reset)Ah the age old battle. Is it notable enough? Honestly I think removing any valid information in an encyclopedia of everything is preposterous unless that information is not accurate. A_Man_In_Black is of the mind that if he hasn't heard of it it's not notable. He's not alone. There are countless article deleters out there who hide behind "notability." They are slowly destroying Wikipedia. Perhaps if they stopped trolling and started creating new pages instead of deleting the works of other they could move past their bitterness and become contributing members of society. 198.6.46.11 (talk) 18:42, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
If anyone wants to help start moving this information to the Venture Bros. Wiki (linked above), let me know. I always thought that Wikipedia shouldn't be a place for such specific articles on fictional universes, hence the VB wiki's existence. - 72.88.203.55 (talk) 14:36, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
I didn't see anything about the fact that the main characters are part of a family in at least its third generation of superhero. It seems to have declined over time and become corrupted and lazy... Comments? (Wallamoose (talk) 02:06, 17 October 2008 (UTC))
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Season 1 (at least) was NOT "censored". Listening to the commentary reveals that there is "nothing beneath the black bars". Johnny "ThunderPeel2001" Walker (talk) 23:37, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
I like to think I was a pretty sophisticated kid. I hated virtually everything Hannah-Barbera did for TV. No, make that just plain everything. They didn't have an original idea in their heads. (See my Amazon review of The Flinstones.) To call The Venture Bros. an "homage" to Jonny Quest is a perverse use of the word, as it's more like a thorough, unapologetic trashing.
One episode has a reference to Tom of Finland. Perhaps this should be inserted in the article with an x-ref. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 18:04, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
In season one, the age seems to be in 1980s, approximately 1988, as pointed out that the rocket crash in Ghosts of the Sargasso happened in 1960, and it's been almost 30 years since then, Rusty is 43 years old, as in Powerless in the face of death, it's revealed that he didn't lose his virginity until he was 24, which presumably, was when he slept with Myra Brandish in the backseat of his car, and his sons were born 19 years ago, despite being 16, which is caused by the lag time in the process of their multiple reanimations. The Invisible hand of fate, takes place approximately in 1971, based on the fact that the boys are still babies. The cultural references made by the characters in season one supports the idea that it is the 1980s, such as in Tag Sale – You're IT!, when the monarch and Dr. Girlfriend point out one of the members from depeche mode, who happens to be straight (same with the other members of depeche mode). But other references in the show point towards the show taking place in the modern day. Such as in "The Buddy System" when the Sea Captain mentions that he looks like johnny depp, referencing pirates of the caribbean. Also in early episodes does it point towards the fact that the show takes place in the modern day, such as in Tag Sale – You're IT!, Henchmen 21 buys a lightsaber saying that it's been his dream since he was 4, Henchman 21 is approximately in his mid-20s, having served the monarch for at least 5 years since he was kidnapped when he was 15, and if it was 1988, Star Wars would have been released 11 years ago, in 1977. So, I was just pointing out that there's a, probably deliberate, mushing of a timeline. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.242.11.74 (talk) 21:39, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
it clearly doesn't take place in our universe anyways, some fiction is reality, some fiction is fiction. technology is obviously superior in their world so who knows what would have came out when, for them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.131.20.93 (talk) 21:12, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
The show's origins makes no mention of how Doc Hammer got involved, and doesn't cite him as co-creator. He may not, technically, have been there from the beginning, but he certainly has a place in any telling of the show's history. It's weird to me that Jackson Publick is hanging on to the "creator" credit when 50% of the show's lore and (probably) characters come from Doc Hammer. Of course I have no facts to back this up, but I do think Doc Hammer deserves to be mentioned for his work, however much/little that is. Johnny "ThunderPeel2001" Walker (talk) 02:43, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Well, he did some work on the pilot but he wasn't involved in the show's actual creation. However, you can argue that the amount of creative work he does for the show deserves an Executive Producer credit. But that's between Hammer and Lazzo & Crofford. 76.167.48.70 (talk) 01:21, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
In Section 4.1, this article claims that "Brock is modeled on Race Bannon". I have to take issue with this claim: the show features a recurring character who is direct homage to Race Bannon: named, explicitly, Race Bannon (http://teamventure.org/vbwiki/Race_Bannon) (a few other Johnny Quest characters make cameos, including the titular Johnny, renamed to 'Action Johnny). Brock is more accurately considered as a pastiche of 80's action movie heroes and James Bond. While Johnny Quest is definitely a large part of the inspiration for the show, its misleading to say that the main characters are directly representational; they are not. Jwieder (talk) 14:33, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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The company began to be involved in its production from the 2011 Special and from Season 5. For the confirm, visit these web links for the "closing credits" of Pilot and the previous four seasons:
Luigi1090 (talk) 00:10, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
Summary and overview comments seem to be years out of date, like 4-5 years. I've watched every episode over the years, for me it's entertainment rather than some research mission, so I'm not in a position to pick nits… but something feels amiss.
As well, there's a chunk of comment from ~2013 that seems to be present-tense oriented, like "announced they had begun writing" or "signed a new contract." Then I scan around this, and note that there's a bunch of timeline trivia. I may remove everything but data about the current/next season and the broadcast premiere, and even that ought to be minimized. Anyone is welcome to have a whack at this.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 16:36, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Overall it would appear the a majority of the article maintains a perfectly informative and balanced tone. That being said I did notice that the "characters" section goes a little further than simply listing factual information. Instead going as far as label interpretive aspects/events as facets of character. As someone who is new to the platform I'm not sure if this analysis is correct but I thought it was worth a comment. Npb5183 (talk) 19:51, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
I don't think gay characters is an important part of the show, especially if there are, what, four gay characters in the entire cast? Seems unnecessary. Plus, it talks too long about Colonel Gentleman, who barely makes a dent in the shows story, and is mainly played off for laughs. As a gay man, I say we remove this section. FunnySilly (talk) 18:52, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
Whether or not Gay characters are important to the themes of the show is besides the point. I am slightly confused by an approach that separates out queer characters for discussion as a structure. Whether or not the characters are part of the show is not in dispute, whether or not they should be put into their own differentiating section should be decided by whether or not the media itself, or sources relevant to the media, makes that distinction. Antisymmetricnoise (talk) 23:58, 31 October 2023 (UTC)