I must say, after watching The Venture Bros. from day one, there is no other show as original as this. One character specifically stands out as a genius idea, which can sum up how creative the show is in it's character writing.
Master Billy Quizboy is by far the smartest character ever created.... literally. The premise of this large cranium is a boy genius who....well....grew up. He is no longer a boy but his only claim to fame is being a "boy" genius several decades ago, as well as the fact that he won a quiz show and gave himself the title "Quizboy"
The entire show revolves around a world where classic heroes and villians have all grown up and now live their lives as best they can. The antagonist Dr. Venture, once a boy of adventure (a Johnny Quest type persona), now has a family of his own and plenty of problems that seem to only get fixed by his body guard Brock Sampson. Dr. Ventures neighbor, a seemingly retired Necromancer, takes the comic book style life to another extreme while in turn taking care of his own family consisting of one apathetic, and a bit gothic, daughter. A former member of The Order of the Triad, he occasionally relives adventures with his now old partners(a monk and a blackula whose job is to kill other blackulas). Which, by the way, have the sweetest logo ever.
I must say, out of all the crazy shows for stoners on AdultSwim, Venture Bros. has to be the most original and most creative. There are tens of characters i could keep speaking of, but this is just a short list of my favorites.
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