Why would the erstwhile villains, who always had better science and local cognizance, always DIAF? They’d be lending Johnny their drain snake/tracer pistol/2" plastic blade to curb his dog, and Johnny’d get suspicious and gank them first, then run 10 minute miles through dense jungle, no triage. The Quest Family (because they were acquired about the same time by whoever overnights mercs and jumpjets…) could be standing their ground crossing a road, and west Baltimore or the Sexless Indies or wherever would just have to mulch half the population and chalk it up to Mondays. Shot on 20s and 40s, so you’d have plenty of chance to imagine sensibility if it only hung together that much.
Awesome!! Thanks for finding that!
The lack of adult swim content on the buffet-style streaming services has been a constant fount of frustration for me. I was just starting season 2 on Netflix when they yanked it (and they only had 2 seasons to begin with).
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DAMN what a cool video. And do you know- they just made a model kit of that plane. Man did I want that growing up. Coolest intro music ever for a Sat morning.
Not sure when you saw the show, but I’m guessing it was reruns – the original airing was in primetime, on Friday nights(!). To me, that’s always been a strong factor in why the show made such an impression on white boys of a certain age – previous primetime animation shows had been things like Disney or The Flinstones: cartoons.
JQ was animated, but not 'toon-y. The music put you in mind of “grown up” cop shows and B&W noire-y movies. The stories were adult action, with two kids generally holding their own in the field. Primetime placement just validated the fact that the JQ model of family life was absolutely the best ; -)
(As I recall, we considered Bandit to be the weakest link in Dr. Quest’s operation. And, to our '50s-and-'60s-racist-heritage credit, we recognized that while Hadji was certainly more competent than Jonny, he was doomed to never be more than Jonny’s Tonto. Which was fine by us – when we’d go off in the woods to play JQ or Lone Ranger, Hadji and Tonto were always the most-desired roles. Those cats knew their shit!)
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If it wasn’t for Jonny Quest being a little disturbing, we wouldn’t have the full-blown perversity of The Venture Bros.
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So I understand from the thread subsequent to my post. I’m not familiar with the Venture Brothers, but I’m not at all surprised my observations are not uniquely my own.
I haven’t read past your post yet, but I’d guess some folks have said you really should check out Venture Bros… I’ll add my voice to the chorus; it’s totally excellent.
Maybe they’re over on Hulu?
I had just talked the wife back into watching S1 when I discovered they were gone. ::SOB!::
I see you’re skilled in the pigment arts
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I feel for you, I would strongly recommend acquiring the lot though by any means necessary; Buying it, or dispatching someone who has it and robbing their corpse, etc…
Isn’t the Clinton Presidency going to distribute a boxed set and 4-pound packs of anabolic vegan butter substitute anyhow?
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I’m sorry to say that I don’t understand- do you mean that Clinton is good by unnessarily giving away awesome prizes or that she’s bad for the same reason? Also is she actually even giving away prizes? Free cartoons and dairy free butter is a win for me but it wouldn’t be enough to sway my vote, but I aint a resident of the US and can’t vote so wouldn’t be eligible for such treats.
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I don’t watch it myself, but I did just confirm that Venture Brothers is on Hulu. I did watch the full run of Harvey Birdman on the same service as well.
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