
Quinn Angstrom
[venture bros] initial impressions: this sure is an adult swim show from 2004

Quinn Angstrom
Rick and Morty is kind of a spiritual sequel to Venture Bros isn't it

Niamh Vibes
I don't remember most of the first season and I'm sure I'm not missing much

Niamh Vibes
100%

Quinn Angstrom
I've seen the first two episodes before

Quinn Angstrom
what I did not notice on my first viewing

Quinn Angstrom
was that the tech fetishist claims to be from the Onani Corporation

oh i'm scary
I should warn you there's at least one character whose entire deal is

oh i'm scary
intensely, violently transphobic

Quinn Angstrom
Dr. Girlfriend?

oh i'm scary
no

Quinn Angstrom
oh

oh i'm scary
infinitely worse

Quinn Angstrom
hm

Quinn Angstrom
ok

Quinn Angstrom
maybe I'll watch something else

Princess Emily
what, what character,

oh i'm scary
I don't remember the name but Brock's, like, old sergeant or whoever

EsperBot
Yeah uh, that bit's bad

EsperBot
and then they kind of walk it back a bit later

EsperBot
and then I stopped watching for unrelated reasons so I don't know what happened after that

EsperBot
but yeah, uh, it's bad

oh i'm scary
the way they walk it back is that he was only pretending to be trans for a mission, which, like

oh i'm scary
doesn't help

EsperBot
I recall there was a bunch of dialogue implying that he did like it and claiming it was for a mission was itself a cover?

Quinn Angstrom
this conversation has convinced me not to watch venture bros

EsperBot
But anyways I haven't watched it in ages and the best case scenario is that it knocks off like 5% of the bad

oh i'm scary
yeah, don't

oh i'm scary
it's not like there's not good material in there but the bad is at like

oh i'm scary
potentially lethal concentrations

Niamh Vibes
I genuinely forgot about this character until now

Niamh Vibes
I imagine I must have skipped past scenes whenever they showed up

Quinn Angstrom
maybe I can watch Foundation

shivorce
Yeah like VB gets really good as it goes on but the early seasons were extremely rough

A Grinning DM
VB certainly aged

A Grinning DM
I remember that teenage me thought it was hilarious.

EsperBot
A lot of it absolutely is hilarious

EsperBot
like, Escape to the House of Mummies is still one of the strongest half-hours of television of all time

EsperBot
But...certain aspects...

Niamh Vibes
Every season is better than the last but it also makes huge errors that it leaves in center frame way too often

A Grinning DM
yeah I still agree that it has very funny parts, but even if those are most of it, there is no amount of goodness that can override the transphobia