But it then also sums up the entire series, the irrational ire of the Monarch, the driving force of Guild vs. OSI, it's all there just because we're only 98% human
4:02 I hope you were proud of yourself when you said Rusty was "driven by Hatred" and then the camera pans over to Sergeant Hatred literally driving Rusty.
“The Venture Bros feels like it cares about the fact that you care” is beautiful. It’s the exact opposite of Rick and Morty, a show I *did* care about but tried its hardest to make me not care.
Rick and Morty is such a frustrating show because for 1, maybe 2 of the episodes each season, it pulls out a home run. The episode last season where they go back to their original dimensions and are forced to confront their change is phenomenal. But then the rest of the episodes are just weirdly antagonistic to the idea that the show could be something more than it is, and it takes the piss on viewers for wanting answers before dropping yet another incest episode on them. Someone had a really good way of phrasing it where Venture Bros actively engages and acknowledges that it's fun to be geeky, even if it's not "practical", while Rick and Morty actively spites its inspiration and tries to ruin the fun of it.
Rick and Morty also pains me so. I watched the first two seasons and thought to myself "wow this show has so much potential" and it might be the only time where it was totally squandered. When venture brothers sees their fans, they see the bad, the good, and try to provide inspiration for those fans. Rick and Morty feels like it sees only the bad. It hates the fans and hates itself. Every time you see a glimmer of life in that show it's snuffed out before it can flower. Best way I can put it is like this. Most people I know are aware of Rick and morty but nobody really watches it, and if they do it's very on and off. Very few people I know have heard of the venture brothers but if they have then they've watched basically everything in the show or really want to. People might like Rick and morty, but people give a fuck about the venture bros. God I wish this show had marketing
you know the weird thing is... as much as i agree that rick and morty is an intentionally irritating and hard to watch show most of the time; it really was those home-run episodes that made me seek out venture brothers at all. sure, it came out first but was so relatively unknown compared to r&m that i'm not entirely sure my love for venture brothers wouldve blossomed the way it did if rick and morty hadn't become unwatchable around the time Steak dropped his "venture bros and failure" video, which was my final driving recommendation to check VB out and wow i'm so glad i did. TLDR yeah R&M is bad, but if it didn't become bad, i would've been stuck with it and might have never grown to love Venture Bros so much. Thank you Steak for your love for this show. ALSO super huge thanks for recommending i check it out myself in that video before watching your spoiler analysis. it took about a year but going back to finish that video AFTER catching up on the show was one of the best decisions i've ever made and it's both thanks to you, and a weird thanks to Dan Harmon, for ruining his own show(s).
@@jbeast33sconniepyroit like when rick and morty final meet evil morty their barley interact that was the first time rick meet him and he was so nonchalant about it
That bitterness and contempt from Doc and Jackson throughout those commentaries probably also wasn't helped by the fact that Doc was in a REALLY bad accident during 2020. I'm not gonna be one to psychoanalyze, it's not my place, but I imagine that breaking two of your vertebrae, leaving you temporarily wheelchair-bound, during a worldwide pandemic, and then suddenly hearing the one consistent source of joy in life for over 20 years - that you were promised was still going - is instead being snatched away from you and shot behind a woodshed PROBABLY contributed to that anger. It's amazing they were able to stay alive and laughing after all that. Man deserved to mow his goddamn lawn in style. And knowing them, they probably deeply got a kick out of the image of Warner Discovery kicking a broken, sick, crippled broken man out of his wheelchair while he's down, expecting applause, and instead getting a chorus of boos and shit thrown at him on stage. Quite literally, in Zaslav's case, at the BU conference. To anyone who finds this comment, if you wanna keep following these two: if you don't know, Doc has a band, Weep. They're pretty good. And Jackson's worked on some other Adult Swim shows and will probably still be writing for TV in the future to keep the bills paid, doubly so with Adult Swim heading to primetime so he'll probably be fine...and he also wrote for The Tick. So. Go watch The Tick.
this is a really cool comment! thank you for the recommendations, the fact Doc has a band AND I now have an official license to go watch the tick, i have a feeling i might be back to track you down and thank you again at gunpoint once all is said and done.
In "What Goes Down Must Come Up", the boys discovers that Rusty have full camera system around the Venture Complex and Hank says "This explains why pop finds me so fast every time I run away to live in the ABANDONED ZOO"
I actually caught this the other day when I was doing my 9th watch through. The hidden little details throughout the series are just fantastic. For instance, in the Doctor is Sin I noticed that the orange juice carton that Jonas Venture Sr puts down has a picture of henchman 24 on it. Little stuff like that always made me love this series, just finding little easter eggs that you're rewarded simply if you paid attention.
for a show that constantly had to cut and compress a ton of material, it's somehow fitting and infuriating that they ended up having to compress a whole season's worth of a finale. really glad this show was made.
I kind of want Force Mesuir to play a role in the last season as it meant that Hank and Dean are grandkids of the previous sovereign and doctor venture
Honestly the idea of this amazing feud is a misunderstanding that one thinks the other fucked his girlfriend is absolutely genius. There was never going to be a serious answer that would have been satisfactory and any comedic answer would have been too subjective so they went with "so unfunny it is actually funny" and it hit the nail on the head, looping back around to perfect humor.
It's what the Venture Bros and Doc/Jackson loved doing. They played up these absolutely fuckhuge plot threads like they were earth-shattering revelatory information, and then it turns out, as a hypothetical, no... Movie Night was caused by some guy taking a drunken piss on the airlock control doors as opposed to an act of pure, hateful vengeance done by Blue Morpho. That's totally within their wheelhouse, and they love doing it.
Heck for the longest time I thought it was the flash back of rusty stealing Monarchs toy train that started it Something so childish and petty that spark a blood fude
@@ImmaLittlePip I was operating on the assumption Jonas left the inheritance and instructions for the Monarch to arch Rusty, because he didn't want Rusty to feel like less of a super scientist. It would be with good intentions but still have Jonas' trademark obliviousness to how much Rusty hated being a boy adventurer.
An underrated part of movie that I haven't seen other people talk about is Dean's subplot about believing he's a vampire. Dean argueably has the most character development during the show, maturing into a young adult who could plausibly function in the real world. But I like that through all of that, deep down, he's still a goofy kid who's prone to unhealthy flights of fancy. I think that was a great place to leave the character, even if it's a little regressive. It felt very honest to who dean is
@@mzaite It'd be different if they were older and married or in love with each other, but they're at the age people make f* ups like that. I think it speaks to how much they care about each other. They've been through so much together and have so many more important things to worry about. That doesn't make it ok but it shows how much Hank values Dean. And honestly, I think Hank worries about Dean and wants to stay in touch to make sure he's happy. They have each other, something Rusty didn't have, and I think Hank knows that.
I think Dean's false belief that he is a vampire is a manifestation of his guilt about sleeping with Sirena. Dean may be many things but he is basically a good person and he loves his brother deeply. He did a genuinely terrible thing and he has to come to terms with this horrible side of himself - on his own. Worrying about becoming a vampire - without telling anyone is a way for him to deal with this.
Something I loved in the finale was how much it showed Dr O as a kind of substitute father for the boys. He really stepped up and has left a huge impact on them.
The best part of Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart is that it feels like season 8 crammed into a movie. The worst part of Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart is that it feels like season 8 crammed into a movie. Even without the commentary directly stating it, scenes felt like they would have been entire episode subplots in season 8 proper shaved down to what would fit for runtime. Goodbyes are never easy.
Of all of the things we missed out on by not getting a full season eight, the fact that apparently Doc and Jackson wanted Matt Berry to voice Force Majeure is very high up on the list...
probably the most beautiful thing... was that Neil Cicerega ending, combining Venture Bros Life On Mars with a monotone readout of random words that is a patreon list.
I saw a few interviews and I do really love and respect that Doc and Jackson never really fell into fanservice, they wanted it to fit in the spirit of the show and didn't want to overindulge, they said that they wanted the characters lives to continue the moment the show end.
I could have lived the rest of my life happy in the ignorance of the fact that I was robbed of a Matt Berry voiced Force Majure. Now i am cursed with this knowledge and the fact that we all missed out on it. I am crushed, utterly crushed.
I love this movie to bits but it definitely feels cramped. Like its Doc and Jackson saying “yeah heres everything we would’ve done with Season 8” but goddamnit if its still charming in the way i love EDIT: wept in sorrow at SGT Hatred’s beautiful rendition of Life on Mars as well
Thank you for this. I caught Venture Bros when they aired the stand alone pilot, running a 103 fever and thought I hallucinated it. I bought the DVD's for years, shared the series when I could, and them going off-air was like losing an old friend.
Venture Bros is a special part of my childhood / adult life. There really was nothing quite like staying up till like 3 am and watching a show you definitely are too young to watch but at the same time because of that most of it flys over your head. You just know something is there tho and it keeps you enthralled. I watched venture bros when i was younger and remembered liking it. I watched it as an adult and fell in love with it. It never really loses the feeling of Im here and if you get me you get me. It never trys to pander to a broader audience. It targets the people who would get the joke. Im gonna miss it.
Venture Bros is a weird case that I am sad to see it go, but am 100% content and happy that we got what we got.. Eight seasons is amazing. So many shows nowadays have discourse over "when a show loses its edge" or "when the writing becomes stale.. Venture Bros always felt like as the show progressed, everything improved. Animation, Writing, Vocal ranges, Jokes. It never felt stagnant. Without a doubt one of the best [AS] shows ever produced, and its going to be damn hard to find something else to dethrone it.
It really was the best show on television. And it deserved so much more. It was hand crafted episode by episode by people who loved what they had and what they did. So much media is created these days simply as a cash in on nostalgia and it shows. This show was basically nostalgia distilled into a potent and gut satisfying warmth and belly laughter that will never be seen again in our time. By God, its even nostalgic for itself and we forgive it because its just so well done. Every time Doc And Jackson had to fight to keep their show alive amidst a sea of people who cared not about good television and love for an art would always punch me in the gut and the fear of cancellation was real and they overcame it. I will always miss The Venture Bros. It was the show that television needed, and it was too good for this world. Good night, sweet princes of men, no more tears, only dreams now.
Your Venture Bros. and Failure video is what pushed me to finally watch the series. I remember being maybe 10 years old, staying up too late, and seeing trailers for season 4. I had the lyrics of Jacket stuck in my head for almost a decade before even seeing the show it was from. I've rewatched the whole series maybe four times. It's wonderful. Thank you.
I was lucky enough to tell you this in a VC but I do want to post it here (and help boost your engagement) but you put about all the thoughts I could have had about the movie into a well said (and edited) video. I'm sad we wont get more venture bros, but I'm glad we got an ending. You're a talented guy Steak, and I eagerly await what else you can make
My only gripe is talking about how the Venture Bros "couldn't be made today" for being offensive. You couldn't make it today because it's conception relied heavily on a semi-professional "fast and loose" management style that would allow what they were going for. The suits killed that off. We will likely never have television shows that have a sort of "wood panel college radio station" vibe again. That's what's over.
well, we appreciate the venture bros in life because it is temporary, whenever a series is at its best and brightest that is temporary. when all the original cast and crew is there that is temporary. but we appreciate it the most above all because we know that we are temporary. As Doctor Seuss said when he was alive " do not cry because it ended, smile because it happened". one thing is to be said, more than enough of the venture bros has been done to be remembered for a long time to come. I am thrilled myself that I experienced it.
I’m so glad your video got me into the Venture Bros before the movie came out. I’m not really a superheroes guy either but something about the grounded goofiness of this series was absolutely magnetic
The Venture Bros. is my favorite TV show ever. I don't think that will ever change because this show had EVERYTHING and excelled in every aspect of story-telling and entertainment. So glad I happened to watch the original premiere of the pilot, watched the original airing of the show's first season, and then became obsessive with the Venture Bros. when Season 2 released. I will never let this show go.
You used the Poker Night at the Inventory version of No Vacancy at the end! I absolutely love that game and it deserves SO much more recognition. Great video, by the way. I will add it to the rotation with my annual Venture Bros rewatch.
I was genuinely anticipating your inevitable video on this topic, and you do not disappoint, funny youtube man. Your sobriety and unbridled passion about this situation and show are something else, and I’m happy to accept another bow to add to the bows wrapping the show up. I’m glad The Venture Bros. was made, too.
A thousand curses upon David Zsalav for canceling this masterpiece of a show while allowing garbage like Rick and Morty to do the exact same fuckin thing they did.
dude I was randomly thinking about your first venture brothers video and how it’s one of my favorite TH-cam essays of all time and then I see this came out today :)
Venture Bros and I have a sort of complicated relationship, almost entirely because of the people in my own family who have liked the show throughout my life. I was a lost little nerd surrounded by people who were largely asses that also liked this show. It was hardly everyone I met who liked it, sure, but the people I interacted with the most and liked it fell into that category about 9 times out of 10. I ended up speeding through the first two seasons with my husband though, and I fell in love with it. I watch it in sporadic bursts, skip around, and also was calling the idea that *Monarch* was a clone, at the very least. Didn't call Rusty though, and for that, I'm a little disappointed in myself. It feels so perfectly comic book and camp in a way this show would absolutely embrace with open arms--and did, no less. Can't win them all. I saw your first video about the show's relationship and themes with regards to the idea of failure at a point in my life where I needed it. My last zoom through of episodes was a little bit behind me, but I adored the show and I was in a dark place. I have been (and always will be) the family failure for reasons out of my control. So much of my life was not my own in that way, but I got blamed for it all anyway. It's no surprise I sympathize to hell and back with Rusty, and that I on some level always wished I could just fuck around and LARP the way Monarch does. That video was good for me at the time. I'm in a new place, both literally and metaphorically. As much as sometimes it feels like I take 1 step forward, 3 steps back, it also feels like there's some net gain there somehow. Figuring things out is its own positive. It is weirdly fitting that you managed to release another video during a month that's very hard for me every year, and that it is also about Venture Bros. I should go watch the show some. Thank you.
Ty Steak, for making this. Last year, around this time, I saw your video on Venture Bros. and watched the show over the summer. It became one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Seeing you talk about the finale brings me closure to everything that makes this show a masterpiece.
This video couldn't have been uploaded at a better time. I just found your channel LAST NIGHT and watched your other Venture Bros video. It's like YT knew you were getting ready or already in the process of uploading this one.
Your first video on the venture bros is my favorite video ive seen made about the show. You display such love and respect for this incredible show and I was so excited when I saw this. 10/10 your presentation and editing continues to impress. the ending of the venture bros was so bittersweet we will miss it
I know Hank mentions the abandoned zoo he keeps running off to in "What Goes Down Must Come Up" and in "Pomp and Circuitry" he wants to be 'Owner and Operator of The Chimp Eden,' so the breadcrumbs were definitely there regarding St. Simon
I’ll never be happy to say goodbye and will always hold out a tiny bit of hope something anything relating to the venture bros will be given new life but the send off we got while cramped and small, was still just as quality as every single other episode and gave me great catharsis for the character I love so so much.
"Perfect show", Perfect Man You are seen There's such deep catharsis in listening to someone verbalize their grief that's so similar to my own. I've been there, seen it, and bought the t-shirt for the show since the first season aired in 2004. I'm grateful we got to see season eight in this abbreviated way even though it's a far cry from Venture Bros well-maintained standards of pacing and payoff. Despite all that it still ripped my heart out and busted my gut. Thanks for making this and doing it so well. Go Team Venture
10:34 brooo my hart! Mah sole! this is soul crushing!!!!!!!!!!!! Great video btw, it made me genuinely happy to have been alive in this era to witness this show. You can rarely find so much soul and love poured into a single series, you never feel alone when you are watching it, it kinda feels like you are sitting right next to a family member when it's on.
Man I have rewatched your first VB video so many times cause it’s just so fun watching this series and hearing the joy that it gives from others who are as obsessed as I am. I’m going to miss this show so much. With watching it 1-2 times a year since 2021. It truly has an inspiration for me so much. Go team venture ✌️
I picked up the show when at the time was in season 5, then years later i showed it to a friend, then again to another friend and every time i rewatched this show i got MORE and MORE out of it, and the jokes and everything hit even better. The continuity and the characters and the music and it was all perfect, sadly its one of the biggest sleeper shows that allot of people are not gonna give it a chance just because of the earlier season animation choppiness although it has its great charm too. Love this show to death and thanks for making videos about it!
“A two decade relationship with this show…” what’re you talking about man… *does the cold math* “…wait” *steak slides the knife in-between each one of my ribs*
well Monarch says the girlfriend thing is like reason 20 he hates Dr. Venture. My theory was always that the reason Monarch hates Rusty is because of that one flashback we see of Rusty taking Monarch's toy truck when they were playing together
@@hehe42069-k well, we didn’t know about the monkey junk until last year. Now Definitively knowing Jonas was at the wheel, it seems like a Very Jonas Venture thing to do given his manipulation of the Guild and his father knows best attitude. “What the boy needs is an Arch to drive him to excellence, just like I had. Adversity made me a better man, so he needs one too. A perfect one, and I know just how to make one.”
i just watched the first VB vid for the 4th time and this just so happens to come up. thanks steak, you truly articulate what made the show and all its extra pieces great
idk if this has been said but I don’t think the monarch hated rusty because of mantilla. The monarch tried blowing up rusty in college, but rusty didn’t get mantillas eggs and interact with her until he inherited the venture compound. You could say they would’ve interacted when Jonas was running things, due to Bobbie Saint samone working with Jonas for a time, but the monarch didn’t remember being with rusty before college.
Thank you for this video and it was a beautiful ride. We really wont get something like this ever again. Glad to enjoy this with you all and be in our special little club together.
I hope that the creators of Venture Bros. see your videos on their show. I'm sure they would greatly love and appreciate your enjoyment of their world and story they made.
I appreciate the editing you’re doing here. From the obvious jokes to the more subtle use of appropriate background footage, it really brings the video together.
Your original video got me to finally sit down and watch the entirety of The Venture Bros. and it was a blast. I'm sad that so many of the ideas the creators had will likely never come to fruition, but I am glad that we got some form of conclusion; even if it was just to confirm that the game of cops and robbers will go on.
Awesome to get your wrap up on this great show. My partner and I are huge VB fans. For 20 years it's felt like just us two nerds, laughing at jokes so niche only we could understand, dueting our favorite songs in all Doc and Jackson's many voices. It means so much to me that this masterpiece is beloved by others just as deeply. Thank you Mr. Steakman! And goodbye to an awesome show!
You know, while I knew about the show before your first video and was interested in it, having checked it a bit, what actually convinced me to watch it was you and your YT video. I feel like tis fitting for me to come back here and happily bury that friend's body while singing off key.
at 17:42 you say animation has changed and has gotten better and so much worse in some regards it might drive you mad. You used 2 scenes in the same episode of smiling friends as a visual for this. Are you saying that smiling friends is good, Bad, or unrelated to what you are talking about.
Mike Lazzo, the former CEO of Adult Swim is good friends with Doc and Jackson. He was probably the reason the show survived for so long, and makes it not surprising that it was cancelled shortly after he stepped down. Doc and Jackson had so much freedom to make the Venture Bros into one of a kind gem. They were allowed to love and nurture it. It wasn't ruined by corporate meddling like so many other shows.
Loved this and loved the Swimpedia interview. Matt freaking Berry as Force Majeure would have been magnificent... Didn't know they're now selling some of the shirts in-stock. They're all currently sold out in most sizes, I'm going to have to watch the store.
The fact that the title is complete retro science nonsense until the literal last minute is the most Venture Bros thing ever, I loved this movie.
I don't know that alien episode seems way more venture brothers. ignore me!
But it then also sums up the entire series, the irrational ire of the Monarch, the driving force of Guild vs. OSI, it's all there just because we're only 98% human
@@christiansenator I want you
Right? Like, they can’t just be literally the same person, The Monarch also has to have a baboon heart. Fucking perfect.
Not a fan of it, personally. But I respect your opinion!
4:02 I hope you were proud of yourself when you said Rusty was "driven by Hatred" and then the camera pans over to Sergeant Hatred literally driving Rusty.
😂😂😂😂
Editing is my passion
i came down here to comment the same thing lmao
I was about to make the same comment. How? I haven't even watched 5 minutes of this video, how do you edit like this?
I love you buddy @SteakBentley
“The Venture Bros feels like it cares about the fact that you care” is beautiful.
It’s the exact opposite of Rick and Morty, a show I *did* care about but tried its hardest to make me not care.
Rick and Morty is such a frustrating show because for 1, maybe 2 of the episodes each season, it pulls out a home run. The episode last season where they go back to their original dimensions and are forced to confront their change is phenomenal. But then the rest of the episodes are just weirdly antagonistic to the idea that the show could be something more than it is, and it takes the piss on viewers for wanting answers before dropping yet another incest episode on them.
Someone had a really good way of phrasing it where Venture Bros actively engages and acknowledges that it's fun to be geeky, even if it's not "practical", while Rick and Morty actively spites its inspiration and tries to ruin the fun of it.
Rick and Morty also pains me so. I watched the first two seasons and thought to myself "wow this show has so much potential" and it might be the only time where it was totally squandered. When venture brothers sees their fans, they see the bad, the good, and try to provide inspiration for those fans. Rick and Morty feels like it sees only the bad. It hates the fans and hates itself. Every time you see a glimmer of life in that show it's snuffed out before it can flower.
Best way I can put it is like this. Most people I know are aware of Rick and morty but nobody really watches it, and if they do it's very on and off. Very few people I know have heard of the venture brothers but if they have then they've watched basically everything in the show or really want to. People might like Rick and morty, but people give a fuck about the venture bros. God I wish this show had marketing
Yep, that just about hits the nail on the head.
you know the weird thing is... as much as i agree that rick and morty is an intentionally irritating and hard to watch show most of the time; it really was those home-run episodes that made me seek out venture brothers at all. sure, it came out first but was so relatively unknown compared to r&m that i'm not entirely sure my love for venture brothers wouldve blossomed the way it did if rick and morty hadn't become unwatchable around the time Steak dropped his "venture bros and failure" video, which was my final driving recommendation to check VB out and wow i'm so glad i did.
TLDR yeah R&M is bad, but if it didn't become bad, i would've been stuck with it and might have never grown to love Venture Bros so much.
Thank you Steak for your love for this show.
ALSO super huge thanks for recommending i check it out myself in that video before watching your spoiler analysis.
it took about a year but going back to finish that video AFTER catching up on the show was one of the best decisions i've ever made and it's both thanks to you, and a weird thanks to Dan Harmon, for ruining his own show(s).
@@jbeast33sconniepyroit like when rick and morty final meet evil morty their barley interact that was the first time rick meet him and he was so nonchalant about it
That bitterness and contempt from Doc and Jackson throughout those commentaries probably also wasn't helped by the fact that Doc was in a REALLY bad accident during 2020. I'm not gonna be one to psychoanalyze, it's not my place, but I imagine that breaking two of your vertebrae, leaving you temporarily wheelchair-bound, during a worldwide pandemic, and then suddenly hearing the one consistent source of joy in life for over 20 years - that you were promised was still going - is instead being snatched away from you and shot behind a woodshed PROBABLY contributed to that anger. It's amazing they were able to stay alive and laughing after all that. Man deserved to mow his goddamn lawn in style.
And knowing them, they probably deeply got a kick out of the image of Warner Discovery kicking a broken, sick, crippled broken man out of his wheelchair while he's down, expecting applause, and instead getting a chorus of boos and shit thrown at him on stage. Quite literally, in Zaslav's case, at the BU conference.
To anyone who finds this comment, if you wanna keep following these two: if you don't know, Doc has a band, Weep. They're pretty good. And Jackson's worked on some other Adult Swim shows and will probably still be writing for TV in the future to keep the bills paid, doubly so with Adult Swim heading to primetime so he'll probably be fine...and he also wrote for The Tick. So. Go watch The Tick.
this is a really cool comment! thank you for the recommendations, the fact Doc has a band AND I now have an official license to go watch the tick, i have a feeling i might be back to track you down and thank you again at gunpoint once all is said and done.
Perfect Comment.
@@TheMaxFusionGaming I too will do this as well but I'll bring the knife :-D
Also if you care about the Venture Bros, write a letter to the WB offices. That's what Doc said is honestly the show's best bet.
@@SSFhighcommandJOHN I like writing!
In "What Goes Down Must Come Up", the boys discovers that Rusty have full camera system around the Venture Complex and Hank says
"This explains why pop finds me so fast every time I run away to live in the ABANDONED ZOO"
It's also probably why the boys act like 10 year olds around girls. No privacy
I actually caught this the other day when I was doing my 9th watch through. The hidden little details throughout the series are just fantastic. For instance, in the Doctor is Sin I noticed that the orange juice carton that Jonas Venture Sr puts down has a picture of henchman 24 on it. Little stuff like that always made me love this series, just finding little easter eggs that you're rewarded simply if you paid attention.
for a show that constantly had to cut and compress a ton of material, it's somehow fitting and infuriating that they ended up having to compress a whole season's worth of a finale. really glad this show was made.
I kind of want Force Mesuir to play a role in the last season as it meant that Hank and Dean are grandkids of the previous sovereign and doctor venture
Honestly the idea of this amazing feud is a misunderstanding that one thinks the other fucked his girlfriend is absolutely genius. There was never going to be a serious answer that would have been satisfactory and any comedic answer would have been too subjective so they went with "so unfunny it is actually funny" and it hit the nail on the head, looping back around to perfect humor.
It's what the Venture Bros and Doc/Jackson loved doing. They played up these absolutely fuckhuge plot threads like they were earth-shattering revelatory information, and then it turns out, as a hypothetical, no... Movie Night was caused by some guy taking a drunken piss on the airlock control doors as opposed to an act of pure, hateful vengeance done by Blue Morpho. That's totally within their wheelhouse, and they love doing it.
Heck for the longest time I thought it was the flash back of rusty stealing Monarchs toy train that started it
Something so childish and petty that spark a blood fude
@@Crowald Wait when was that information about movie night being caused by some drunk dude is from?
@@ImmaLittlePip I always thought it was just the the Monarch hated rusty's guts. No deep event, no personal reasons, just hatred of Rusty as a person
@@ImmaLittlePip I was operating on the assumption Jonas left the inheritance and instructions for the Monarch to arch Rusty, because he didn't want Rusty to feel like less of a super scientist. It would be with good intentions but still have Jonas' trademark obliviousness to how much Rusty hated being a boy adventurer.
An underrated part of movie that I haven't seen other people talk about is Dean's subplot about believing he's a vampire. Dean argueably has the most character development during the show, maturing into a young adult who could plausibly function in the real world. But I like that through all of that, deep down, he's still a goofy kid who's prone to unhealthy flights of fancy. I think that was a great place to leave the character, even if it's a little regressive. It felt very honest to who dean is
Dean still got off way to easy for fucking Sirena behind Hank's back.
@@mzaite It'd be different if they were older and married or in love with each other, but they're at the age people make f* ups like that. I think it speaks to how much they care about each other. They've been through so much together and have so many more important things to worry about. That doesn't make it ok but it shows how much Hank values Dean. And honestly, I think Hank worries about Dean and wants to stay in touch to make sure he's happy. They have each other, something Rusty didn't have, and I think Hank knows that.
@@lexp6099 I meant more generally Karmically. Hank and Sirena were doomed the moment she went to College. I think even Hank knew that.
I think Dean's false belief that he is a vampire is a manifestation of his guilt about sleeping with Sirena. Dean may be many things but he is basically a good person and he loves his brother deeply. He did a genuinely terrible thing and he has to come to terms with this horrible side of himself - on his own. Worrying about becoming a vampire - without telling anyone is a way for him to deal with this.
@@FFlynnsArcade oh that's a very good take too!
Something I loved in the finale was how much it showed Dr O as a kind of substitute father for the boys. He really stepped up and has left a huge impact on them.
The best part of Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart is that it feels like season 8 crammed into a movie.
The worst part of Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart is that it feels like season 8 crammed into a movie.
Even without the commentary directly stating it, scenes felt like they would have been entire episode subplots in season 8 proper shaved down to what would fit for runtime.
Goodbyes are never easy.
Apparently force mesuir the previous sovereign was going to play a bigger role, seeing how it's revealed Hank and Dean are his grandkids
clone brothers in a war without end. you're not slick steak, you have a type
It gets worse when you know venture bros has tie-ins to games. Tf2 and valve being the most obvious but there are some more if you look
umm ermm actually it does end in MGS4 🤓
What's the other thing you're referencing?
@@debrachambers1304 Metal Gear
I got confused and thought "did Steak do an Ultrakill video?"
Of all of the things we missed out on by not getting a full season eight, the fact that apparently Doc and Jackson wanted Matt Berry to voice Force Majeure is very high up on the list...
That hit me pretty hard.
legit was in shambles from learning that
Was going to say the same thing.
Another one is Brock Samson marrying Warriana, but the wedding reception is interrupted by Molotov Cocktease. That would've been fucking legendary
I bet they so could have gotten him, too.
VB may be over but we are so back
24: “ I’ll pick you in five, be outside. I don’t want talk to your mom.”
@@Karlos1234ify *begins vocalizing Mars, the Bringer of War*
@@a_donut *pushes imaginary buttons & opens door to uniform* “Daddy’s home.”
probably the most beautiful thing... was that Neil Cicerega ending, combining Venture Bros Life On Mars with a monotone readout of random words that is a patreon list.
If we beg hard enough do you think we can get a full version
I saw a few interviews and I do really love and respect that Doc and Jackson never really fell into fanservice, they wanted it to fit in the spirit of the show and didn't want to overindulge, they said that they wanted the characters lives to continue the moment the show end.
Starting the show as a 11 year old and finishing as a 31 year old really hits
i’m in that exact same age range when it started watching. it was really humbling to remember how old i was when i started watching
This show is the same age as me and I can buy beer 💀
"driven by hatred" is such a good visual gag
I could have lived the rest of my life happy in the ignorance of the fact that I was robbed of a Matt Berry voiced Force Majure. Now i am cursed with this knowledge and the fact that we all missed out on it. I am crushed, utterly crushed.
took the words out of my head
I love this movie to bits but it definitely feels cramped. Like its Doc and Jackson saying “yeah heres everything we would’ve done with Season 8” but goddamnit if its still charming in the way i love
EDIT: wept in sorrow at SGT Hatred’s beautiful rendition of Life on Mars as well
Hearing Doc and Jackson talk about their plans and writing for S8 they had to abandon is heartbreaking.
Thank you for this.
I caught Venture Bros when they aired the stand alone pilot, running a 103 fever and thought I hallucinated it.
I bought the DVD's for years, shared the series when I could, and them going off-air was like losing an old friend.
peak is back on the menu
Peak recognizing peak
Venture Bros is a special part of my childhood / adult life. There really was nothing quite like staying up till like 3 am and watching a show you definitely are too young to watch but at the same time because of that most of it flys over your head. You just know something is there tho and it keeps you enthralled. I watched venture bros when i was younger and remembered liking it. I watched it as an adult and fell in love with it. It never really loses the feeling of Im here and if you get me you get me. It never trys to pander to a broader audience. It targets the people who would get the joke. Im gonna miss it.
I remember staying up extremely late when I was a kid to watch it just because the art style intrigued me
The Venture Brothers is a journey, one we all thought was meant for us.
Venture Bros is a weird case that I am sad to see it go, but am 100% content and happy that we got what we got.. Eight seasons is amazing. So many shows nowadays have discourse over "when a show loses its edge" or "when the writing becomes stale.. Venture Bros always felt like as the show progressed, everything improved. Animation, Writing, Vocal ranges, Jokes. It never felt stagnant.
Without a doubt one of the best [AS] shows ever produced, and its going to be damn hard to find something else to dethrone it.
It really was the best show on television. And it deserved so much more. It was hand crafted episode by episode by people who loved what they had and what they did. So much media is created these days simply as a cash in on nostalgia and it shows. This show was basically nostalgia distilled into a potent and gut satisfying warmth and belly laughter that will never be seen again in our time. By God, its even nostalgic for itself and we forgive it because its just so well done. Every time Doc And Jackson had to fight to keep their show alive amidst a sea of people who cared not about good television and love for an art would always punch me in the gut and the fear of cancellation was real and they overcame it. I will always miss The Venture Bros. It was the show that television needed, and it was too good for this world. Good night, sweet princes of men, no more tears, only dreams now.
shout out to "HYPER DEATH ASCENDED QUEER LATINO GOD MODE KILLER". youre the realest patron.
Your Venture Bros. and Failure video is what pushed me to finally watch the series. I remember being maybe 10 years old, staying up too late, and seeing trailers for season 4. I had the lyrics of Jacket stuck in my head for almost a decade before even seeing the show it was from. I've rewatched the whole series maybe four times. It's wonderful. Thank you.
Thank for caring enough about the venture bros make this and thanks everyone who cared enough about the venture bros to watch this.
I was lucky enough to tell you this in a VC but I do want to post it here (and help boost your engagement) but you put about all the thoughts I could have had about the movie into a well said (and edited) video. I'm sad we wont get more venture bros, but I'm glad we got an ending. You're a talented guy Steak, and I eagerly await what else you can make
Thank you, Steak, for making a video
omg he's back with the cigarettes. I love you dad.
There is a world where we got Season 8.
But there is also a world where we never got the Venture Bros.
I think we did alright.
Nothing lasts forever, but memories can last for a very long time. The show is over, but our love for it doesn't have to be.
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Ludwig Jacobowski but often attributed to Dr. Seuse, but hear his in Dr Orpheus' voice.
My only gripe is talking about how the Venture Bros "couldn't be made today" for being offensive.
You couldn't make it today because it's conception relied heavily on a semi-professional "fast and loose" management style that would allow what they were going for. The suits killed that off. We will likely never have television shows that have a sort of "wood panel college radio station" vibe again. That's what's over.
well, we appreciate the venture bros in life because it is temporary, whenever a series is at its best and brightest that is temporary. when all the original cast and crew is there that is temporary. but we appreciate it the most above all because we know that we are temporary. As Doctor Seuss said when he was alive " do not cry because it ended, smile because it happened". one thing is to be said, more than enough of the venture bros has been done to be remembered for a long time to come. I am thrilled myself that I experienced it.
PLEASE UPLOAD! I’M DYIN’ HERE!
Steak has truly returned, this is a good day
I'm glad to get a followup here, you really speak with your heart in these and it means the world to me getting to listen to you talk on this stuff
I am begging you on my scraped bloody knees for the base audio of the seargent hatred life on mars cover
where did that come from? is it ai???
"thank you steak bentley" we all said in unison
I’m so glad your video got me into the Venture Bros before the movie came out. I’m not really a superheroes guy either but something about the grounded goofiness of this series was absolutely magnetic
The Venture Bros. is my favorite TV show ever. I don't think that will ever change because this show had EVERYTHING and excelled in every aspect of story-telling and entertainment. So glad I happened to watch the original premiere of the pilot, watched the original airing of the show's first season, and then became obsessive with the Venture Bros. when Season 2 released. I will never let this show go.
You used the Poker Night at the Inventory version of No Vacancy at the end! I absolutely love that game and it deserves SO much more recognition.
Great video, by the way. I will add it to the rotation with my annual Venture Bros rewatch.
I WAS JUST REWATCHING THE VENTURE BROS AND FAILURE!
God, love your vids Steak. Thank you!
He does make the best vids
I was genuinely anticipating your inevitable video on this topic, and you do not disappoint, funny youtube man. Your sobriety and unbridled passion about this situation and show are something else, and I’m happy to accept another bow to add to the bows wrapping the show up. I’m glad The Venture Bros. was made, too.
Thanks Coach
as you said, i wouldn't be a venture bros fan if i wasnt a fan of things that ended violently and abruptly.
A thousand curses upon David Zsalav for canceling this masterpiece of a show while allowing garbage like Rick and Morty to do the exact same fuckin thing they did.
i've been waiting to know your opinions on this for a while. thanks steak man
never have i clicked a youtube notification so fast
“Making parodies but also making something completely new.” - I love this
dude I was randomly thinking about your first venture brothers video and how it’s one of my favorite TH-cam essays of all time and then I see this came out today :)
Venture Bros and I have a sort of complicated relationship, almost entirely because of the people in my own family who have liked the show throughout my life. I was a lost little nerd surrounded by people who were largely asses that also liked this show. It was hardly everyone I met who liked it, sure, but the people I interacted with the most and liked it fell into that category about 9 times out of 10. I ended up speeding through the first two seasons with my husband though, and I fell in love with it.
I watch it in sporadic bursts, skip around, and also was calling the idea that *Monarch* was a clone, at the very least. Didn't call Rusty though, and for that, I'm a little disappointed in myself. It feels so perfectly comic book and camp in a way this show would absolutely embrace with open arms--and did, no less. Can't win them all.
I saw your first video about the show's relationship and themes with regards to the idea of failure at a point in my life where I needed it. My last zoom through of episodes was a little bit behind me, but I adored the show and I was in a dark place. I have been (and always will be) the family failure for reasons out of my control. So much of my life was not my own in that way, but I got blamed for it all anyway. It's no surprise I sympathize to hell and back with Rusty, and that I on some level always wished I could just fuck around and LARP the way Monarch does.
That video was good for me at the time. I'm in a new place, both literally and metaphorically. As much as sometimes it feels like I take 1 step forward, 3 steps back, it also feels like there's some net gain there somehow. Figuring things out is its own positive. It is weirdly fitting that you managed to release another video during a month that's very hard for me every year, and that it is also about Venture Bros.
I should go watch the show some.
Thank you.
Ty Steak, for making this. Last year, around this time, I saw your video on Venture Bros. and watched the show over the summer. It became one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Seeing you talk about the finale brings me closure to everything that makes this show a masterpiece.
AW HELL YEAH MAN IVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO RELEASE THIS FOREVER THANK YOU STAKE
Dude, your videos are full of passion and thought. I’ve watched this and MGS4; I’m looking forward to more! Keep them coming, you’ve got a talent.
I've been looking forward to this video as much as the film itself
This video couldn't have been uploaded at a better time. I just found your channel LAST NIGHT and watched your other Venture Bros video. It's like YT knew you were getting ready or already in the process of uploading this one.
Your first video on the venture bros is my favorite video ive seen made about the show. You display such love and respect for this incredible show and I was so excited when I saw this. 10/10 your presentation and editing continues to impress. the ending of the venture bros was so bittersweet we will miss it
You have been uploading more and I’m so here for it! Thank you for more venture bros also!
I know Hank mentions the abandoned zoo he keeps running off to in "What Goes Down Must Come Up" and in "Pomp and Circuitry" he wants to be 'Owner and Operator of The Chimp Eden,' so the breadcrumbs were definitely there regarding St. Simon
I’ll never be happy to say goodbye and will always hold out a tiny bit of hope something anything relating to the venture bros will be given new life but the send off we got while cramped and small, was still just as quality as every single other episode and gave me great catharsis for the character I love so so much.
14:18 You can't just drop Gurren Lagann noises in there like that!
"Perfect show", Perfect Man
You are seen
There's such deep catharsis in listening to someone verbalize their grief that's so similar to my own. I've been there, seen it, and bought the t-shirt for the show since the first season aired in 2004. I'm grateful we got to see season eight in this abbreviated way even though it's a far cry from Venture Bros well-maintained standards of pacing and payoff. Despite all that it still ripped my heart out and busted my gut. Thanks for making this and doing it so well.
Go Team Venture
imagine putting a show that has lines like "i can't be around those sexy children" out today.
Tom hanks has entered the chat.
10:34 brooo my hart! Mah sole! this is soul crushing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great video btw, it made me genuinely happy to have been alive in this era to witness this show. You can rarely find so much soul and love poured into a single series, you never feel alone when you are watching it, it kinda feels like you are sitting right next to a family member when it's on.
The ADVENTURE begins
Man I have rewatched your first VB video so many times cause it’s just so fun watching this series and hearing the joy that it gives from others who are as obsessed as I am. I’m going to miss this show so much. With watching it 1-2 times a year since 2021. It truly has an inspiration for me so much. Go team venture ✌️
Steak's back on the menu!!!
I picked up the show when at the time was in season 5, then years later i showed it to a friend, then again to another friend and every time i rewatched this show i got MORE and MORE out of it, and the jokes and everything hit even better. The continuity and the characters and the music and it was all perfect, sadly its one of the biggest sleeper shows that allot of people are not gonna give it a chance just because of the earlier season animation choppiness although it has its great charm too. Love this show to death and thanks for making videos about it!
2:39 lost my shit at this bit lmfao
“A two decade relationship with this show…” what’re you talking about man…
*does the cold math*
“…wait”
*steak slides the knife in-between each one of my ribs*
20 years, 7 Seasons Two Specials and a Movie. Only The BBC makes shows slower. Looking at You Red Dwarf.
Had no clue they made this, look forward to seeing it now and THEN watching this breakdown tomorrow.
well Monarch says the girlfriend thing is like reason 20 he hates Dr. Venture. My theory was always that the reason Monarch hates Rusty is because of that one flashback we see of Rusty taking Monarch's toy truck when they were playing together
It's the Monkey Junk. Jonas was intentionally BUILDING an arch for Rusty. Malcom would have always hated Rusty for something, the reason is secondary.
@@mzaite somehow after all these years, this is the first time i've ever seen someone coin this theory. Interesting.
@@hehe42069-k well, we didn’t know about the monkey junk until last year. Now Definitively knowing Jonas was at the wheel, it seems like a Very Jonas Venture thing to do given his manipulation of the Guild and his father knows best attitude.
“What the boy needs is an Arch to drive him to excellence, just like I had. Adversity made me a better man, so he needs one too. A perfect one, and I know just how to make one.”
i just watched the first VB vid for the 4th time and this just so happens to come up. thanks steak, you truly articulate what made the show and all its extra pieces great
idk if this has been said but I don’t think the monarch hated rusty because of mantilla. The monarch tried blowing up rusty in college, but rusty didn’t get mantillas eggs and interact with her until he inherited the venture compound. You could say they would’ve interacted when Jonas was running things, due to Bobbie Saint samone working with Jonas for a time, but the monarch didn’t remember being with rusty before college.
Thank you for this video and it was a beautiful ride. We really wont get something like this ever again. Glad to enjoy this with you all and be in our special little club together.
4:02 best pun I've ever seen
I hope that the creators of Venture Bros. see your videos on their show. I'm sure they would greatly love and appreciate your enjoyment of their world and story they made.
I appreciate the editing you’re doing here. From the obvious jokes to the more subtle use of appropriate background footage, it really brings the video together.
Your original video got me to finally sit down and watch the entirety of The Venture Bros. and it was a blast. I'm sad that so many of the ideas the creators had will likely never come to fruition, but I am glad that we got some form of conclusion; even if it was just to confirm that the game of cops and robbers will go on.
Awesome to get your wrap up on this great show. My partner and I are huge VB fans. For 20 years it's felt like just us two nerds, laughing at jokes so niche only we could understand, dueting our favorite songs in all Doc and Jackson's many voices. It means so much to me that this masterpiece is beloved by others just as deeply. Thank you Mr. Steakman! And goodbye to an awesome show!
Thanks for continuing to make videos. Your work is good
It’s crazy how every single video he has ever made was made for me specifically
Must be weird for the rest of you
Thank you for your service 🫡
You know, while I knew about the show before your first video and was interested in it, having checked it a bit, what actually convinced me to watch it was you and your YT video. I feel like tis fitting for me to come back here and happily bury that friend's body while singing off key.
Etrian Odyssey music spotted
Been binge watching The Venture brothers ever since your videos. Thanks I really liked them
at 17:42 you say animation has changed and has gotten better and so much worse in some regards it might drive you mad. You used 2 scenes in the same episode of smiling friends as a visual for this. Are you saying that smiling friends is good, Bad, or unrelated to what you are talking about.
THATS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING!!! Smiling friends is great!
Welcome back Steak. I rewatch your Venture Brothers video a lot.
I'm sad to see it go. So few really entertaining things out there for those of us not braindead.
I was saving this until I finally watched the movie. And now I did! And now I get to enjoy this. Thank you Steak! Thank you everyone involved ❤🎉
Holy shit my name is still in the patreon I AM A GOOD PERSON
This video made me feel things, how dare you ~
My dad died last night
This video made me laugh
Thanks Steak, I'll see ya next time
6:03 I have rewatched this a few times already just for this adorable kittle skit. Bless you, Steak!
Mike Lazzo, the former CEO of Adult Swim is good friends with Doc and Jackson. He was probably the reason the show survived for so long, and makes it not surprising that it was cancelled shortly after he stepped down. Doc and Jackson had so much freedom to make the Venture Bros into one of a kind gem. They were allowed to love and nurture it. It wasn't ruined by corporate meddling like so many other shows.
Loved this and loved the Swimpedia interview.
Matt freaking Berry as Force Majeure would have been magnificent...
Didn't know they're now selling some of the shirts in-stock. They're all currently sold out in most sizes, I'm going to have to watch the store.
I honestly tried my best to watch smiling friends, and it actually hurt my head to do so.