Ventures Bros. Is a Very Gay Show, But…
Gayest Episode Ever
Gayest Episode Ever
4.8 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
"Handsome Ransom" (October 25, 2009)
Let's say this at the top: We are both fans in general of The Venture Bros, but this extremely homosocial show has a tendency to tiptoe up to being full-on gay and then laughing it all off as a joke. It's a product of its time, and even explicitly gay characters like The Alchemist and Shore Leave don't get their own episodes. So when it comes to picking one installment of the Adult Swim series that comes closest, we had to go with the one with Captain Sunshine, which sort of works but also makes the mistake of approaching pedo humor in the same manner it did gay humor. And that's kind of a fuck-up?
Warning: Despite the presence of Brock Samson the art, Brock does not appear in this episode. We apologize.
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And one about Jonny Quest: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cartoons-that-us-131953014
Both have a lot to do with how Venture Bros. ended up becoming the show it did! Have a listen!
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, look away |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, look away. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBT |
| 0:29.5 | episodes of classic sitcoms, but also sometimes decades-spanning parodies of animated |
| 0:35.5 | adventure series. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, sure. |
| 0:38.1 | I'm Drew Mackie. I'm Drew Mackey. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm Glenn Lakin. |
| 0:41.4 | Glenn, what TV series are we saying is gay this week? |
| 0:42.4 | Venture Brothers. |
| 0:43.4 | Not a sitcom. |
| 0:46.9 | No, half hour and funny, but not a sitcom. |
| 0:51.2 | Although I would say that the family has some like sitcom family tropes to it. |
| 0:55.8 | So the scope of this show is huge and like globe spanning, but like the heart of the show is like the mundanity of like family life and running unfailing business. |
| 1:03.4 | And hating your children. Yeah. And yeah, yeah. So it's very sitcom adjacent, even if it's not |
| 1:09.8 | a traditional sitcom by any normal definition of that term. |
| 1:14.3 | What is your personal relationship with the Venture Brothers TV program? |
| 1:17.7 | I was, I won't say, an early adopter, an early fan. |
| 1:22.9 | I think I hopped on board with season two. |
| 1:25.9 | I had seasons one and two on DVD and rewatched it quite often. |
| 1:30.1 | And then I think, you know, when season three came around, I watched that after the fact. |
| 1:37.3 | And that's the Killinger season. |
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