VENTURE BROS. season 4 premiere screwed up on West Coast
Monday, October 19, 2009
Was this bizarre doubling intentional? After all, the episode's storyline had been jumping around in time, there was magic and talk of time machines and Dean's hair kept getting longer and shorter from scene to scene, so was this repeated 15 minutes supposed to be some sort of time warp deal? Were there subtle differences between the two sequences that we were supposed to watch for? The little counter that occasionally showed up in the upper left of the screen, was that some sort of clue?
It just didn't feel right. The Venture Brothers is certainly a weird show, but it's never been as strenuously, aggressively weird as some of the other Adult Swim shows. It's possible to imagine the writers of Space Ghost or Aqua Teen Hunger Force, for instance, getting lazy and trying to pass off showing the same 15 minutes twice as some sort of avant-garde comedy experiment. But Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick, the pair who created The Venture Brothers, care too much about their show and their audience for that sort of crap. Don't they?
Well, yes, they do. A quick bit of Googling (and who doesn't enjoy a quick Googling to start the week?) reveals that in other markets, the show actually had a second act. It seems Cartoon Network screwed up on the West Coast and aired the same damn 15 minutes twice, then they just shrugged, started Metalocalypse and left it running while they went out to get that "fourth meal" at Taco Bell.
So. The Venture Brothers 4th season premiere will presumably be rerun sometime. Hopefully very soon. Or maybe we're supposed to catch it online. Hey, no big deal, either way. After all, we Venture Brothers fans have only been waiting for the new season and the resolution of some of those dangling plot threads for 14 damn months.
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12 comments:
Found your post while trying to figure out if it was a screw-up or not. Luckily they got it correct at the 4am rebroadcast, and I managed to record that. Hopefully CC will make it right for everyone and rebroadcast the premiere again for those who missed it. -rob m, berkeley, ca
D'h, I mean Cartoon Network, not CC (was thinking Comedy Central for some reason).
Odd, I didn't have that problem with repeated 15 minutes. Still, with the full episode, little made sense.
how could they do that... it was really a great injustice to all venture bros fans. and seriously blew.
Ah, see, I came here to find out what happened with the Central Time Zone episode. The first commercial break interrupted the episode early so the end of the scene was cut off. No idea if it was just a brief second or two missing or even longer.
Sounds like Cartoon Network screwed this one up pretty good.
i am soo pissed i had to leave for school at 6 am i stayed up late just to see it.
i was late to school today.
how lame.
Where can I watch this online?
yeah they are rerunning the show this week cause they admited they screwed up, gonna air the premiere all this week at 12 30
hope that helped
they are re airing it all week at 12:30
You can watch the episode (hopefully in its entirety) on adultswim.com
but seriously [as].. not even an apology?
As far as my DVR is concerned, they never reran this episode. And as far as my eyes can tell, Adult Swim doesn't have it up on their website. For the life of me, I cannot find the premiere anywhere and the latest episodes are piling up in my DVR. Anyone have any advice?
RE: The comment on Nov. 12... Have you tried Youtube and similar sites? I'm a little surprised to hear it's not on the AS site. Double check, and have a look at the VB forums... This has to be something a lot of other fans are looking for.
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