Sunday, June 2, 2013

Returning To The Daze Of Venture...

*Ladies and Gentlemen, PLANET GRIFFIN takes a moment out for time travel--- y'know, that near impossible temporal event that we only know in reality as hindsight *ahem*--- let's take a short hop back to February of 2003, where a little cable station in Atlanta would change the game forever...



Created by JACKSON PUBLIK (aka CHRISTOPHER McCULLOCH) and DOC HAMMER, the whacked out adventures of the Venture Family has been one of longest, and strongest, running shows on the Cartoon Network (only just shy of the current animated zeitgeist, ADVENTURE TIME), as well as one of the cornerstones of the Network's ADULT SWIM mature viewer block... Not bad for a show COMEDY CENTRAL turned down... (Hence the phrase 'Corporations CREATE their competition', but I digress...)

As a wild parody of the old JOHNNY QUEST show, the program captured the attentions of young and old alike; spawning a legion of fans and taking no prisoners with it's hilariously scathing riffs on other shows and popular characters. After 3 years of waiting, TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT will see the return of one the funniest shows on the network as SEASON 5 begins! Rather than explain the twisted tale here, we'll leave that to famed former henchman,  HENCHMAN 21! 

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