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Updated internal references to show name
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{{quote|''"Go Team Venture!"''}}
''[[The Venture
The Venture family travels the world, getting into all sorts of bizarre adventures and spoofing the everloving hell out of ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' along the way -- at least at first. The series [[Growing the Beard|quickly developed]] into something far more interesting than a mean spirited ''Jonny Quest'' parody as the characters gained depth and the show took a dark turn into deconstructing the entire "boy adventurer" genre. The focus of the series shifted from the brothers and onto Rusty Venture, and as the theme of "failure" became the central element of the series, the series began to show what happens to boy adventurers as they grow up and discover that the promises of the era of "super-science" in the 1960s never came.
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[[J.G. Thirlwell]] (aka '''Foetus''') does the soundtrack, which is [[Crowning Music of Awesome|awesome]].
There is a [[The Venture
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== A-D ==
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* [[Cavemen vs. Astronauts Debate]]: 21 and 24 debating [[Who Would Win]] in a fight: Anne Frank or Lizzie Borden? "We are talking about a large, healthy woman- of questionable stability..."
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Unusually, parodies of characters and celebrities exist alongside the real thing. Rusty, modeled as a grown-up [[Jonny Quest]], interacts with the actual Jonny Quest; Jonny and Rusty gossip about [[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Daphne and Velma]] in "Self Medication" despite parodies of the characters showing up in "Viva Los Muertos!" - not even touching the fact that other characters have [[Lampshaded]] Hank wearing Freddy's signature outfit; Col. Gathers points out the similarity between the 80's OSI superstars and [[The Village People]]; Professor Impossible and his family exist in a world where people read comics about ''[[The Fantastic Four]]''; and Captain Sunshine and Wonder Boy are real while [[Batman]] and Robin are fictional.
** <ref>You know how one of the themes of ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' is how different the world would be if superheroes really existed? For instance, there aren't any superhero comics, since there's actual superheroes. Well, as part of the "failure" theme, ''[[The Venture
* [[Celibate Hero]]: Deconstructed with Col. Bud Manstrong, who is so sexually repressed that his girlfriend cheats on him with Brock Samson. He's shown to be a complete Mama's Boy too, and it is later revealed that {{spoiler|his mother's an [[Evil Matriarch]] whose bullying of her son has caused him to repress any and all sexual desires, to the point of having a [[Heroic BSOD]] when said girlfriend gives him a handjob right before she dies}}.
* [[Cerebus Retcon]] (relatively speaking): Billy's inability to remember how he got his robotic hand.
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* [[Den of Iniquity]]: A low-key example of this appears in the fourth season; it's a room inside the Monarch's cocoon where his minions would quietly gather for drinks on their downtime.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: From circumcision to orangutans, the Amazon in the episode "Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman" looks more like the Malay Peninsula.
* [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?]]: Dr. Orpheus is friendly with the lord of the underworld, who prefers the form of Cerberus because he can give himself triple autofellatio. Also, hell in ''[[The Venture
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: The Outrider literally does this in "The Better Man."
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Both {{spoiler|Molotov Cocktease and Monstroso go off a cliff in a limo in the season four finale. The explosion is rather telling.}}
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** The Council of Thirteen, though some of them can be identified by their silhouettes (Wild Fop, for one...) However, Word of God says that they often use silhouettes when they haven't decided exactly what a character will look like.
*** Two councilmen, 8 and 3, were revealed in ''The Revenge Society'' as Dragoon and Red Mantle (or as {{spoiler|The Big Bopper and Buddy Holly}} in their earlier days).
* [[Fake Crossover]]: Race Bannon from ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' makes an appearance in "Ice Station-- Impossible!", but dies onscreen within minutes of appearing (he later appears as an OSI interrogator in a flashback in season three). In the season two episode "Twenty Years to Midnight", the group has an encounter with a deranged, drug-addled, middle-aged [[Jonny Quest]]. Though Warner owns rights to both
** In "The Buddy System," The Captain (fake [[Ghost Pirate]]) describes his past adventures as a villain to the kids, which all sound like episodes of ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'', particularly the part about getting to meet "the guy who did the vaice fer [[Inspector Gadget]]." The implication is that the Captain is, in fact, really from ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]''.
** "Self Medication" included some dialogue between Dr. Venture and his fellow former boy adventurers that referred to Daphne and Velma as if they were real, with Action Johnny having slept with Velma, much to the surprise of his companions who all thought she was a lesbian.
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* [[Shotacon]]: Sgt. Hatred. Probably Captain Sunshine, though his obsession with Wonderboy ''may'' be non-sexual.
** Word of God from Jackson Publick's blog says this is not the case for Captain Sunshine
* [[Shout-Out]]: Has its [[The Venture
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The stolen Rembrandt painting that Phantom Limb tries to sell to a Mafioso is a real painting that is currently missing.
* [[Silence, You Fool]]: The Council of Thirteen in the season three opener. Lampshaded when the first council member to shout it out has to explain himself to one of his confused comrades ("I was just trying to sound intimidating."), then subverted when another member attempts it and repeatedly screws up the timing ("Ok, you need to do that when SHE'S talking.").
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