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Go Team Venture!

Woot! The Venture Bros. DVD is (finally) out today! Our copy should be arriving at our doorstep later this week. In the meantime, go check out Mike Russell's review of The Venture Bros.: Season One over at The DVD Journal.

Imagine if Hanna-Barbera made "Jonny Quest: The Next Generation" — only it starred Jonny as a bitter, pill-popping, fortysomething single dad who lived in the shadow of his dead superscientist father. Imagine if Jonny had two idiot teenage sons (one of them looking suspiciously like Race Bannon) whom he dragged around the world on hilariously pale imitations of his father's exploits. The names have all been changed, but that sort of begins to sum up the Cartoon Network's brilliant Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros. — a relentlessly inventive, laugh-out-loud funny sendup of Hanna-Barbera's "exotica" adventure cartoons of the 1960s and '70s. […]

Posted by rv at May 31, 2006 03:12 PM to tv