History YMMV / TheVentureBros

** In "Victor Echo November", Phantom Limb is seen attempting to sell a Rembrandt to an uncultured mobster who insists on the ''Mona Lisa'' instead, prompting Limb to point out that just because a painting is more famous, that doesn't make it necessarily better. The painting in question, ''The Storm on the Sea of Galilee'', along with the other paintings seen on Limb's wall on that scene were all stolen during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum_theft Isabella Stewart Gardner museum heist]], one of the biggest art thefts in history. The heist heavily puzzled investigators not only due to not finding any clues of the perpetrator's identities but also ''why'' those paintings were chosen: the museum housed far more valuable and famous paintings and some of the items stolen were fairly worthless, which led investigators to speculate that the thieves weren't particularly versed in art. In other words, we are meant to assume that Limb, knowing ''too much'' about art, stole the paintings due to his own WickedCultured taste and is now [[DidntThinkThisThrough incapable of selling them]].

** Some viewers found the twist that [[spoiler: Col. Hunter Gathers only had a sex change for the purpose of gaining membership into Molotov Cocktease's all-girl hitman squad and quickly had said surgery reversed when Molotov began to suspect that he was spying on her]] to be this. Downplayed, however, [[spoiler: as he later reveals he misses being female, claiming "somewhere inside me there's a woman screaming to get out" (not to mention that OSI had female agents who could've infiltrated the Blackhearts, and Gathers didn't have any alterations done to his ''face''), and reversed his sex change for unclear reasons]].

* SeasonalRot: [[DownplayedTrope "Rot" might be too strong a word]], but season 5 could qualify, even though many of the issues are just the natural result of a shorter season. The Monarch has a much reduced role, and while this season gave us major changes,[[note]]this is the season where [[spoiler: the Venture bros. discover that they are clones]] and [[spoiler: Dermott learns that he is a Venture (half) brother]][[/note]] everyone seemed to end Season 5 in more or less the same place they were at when it started.

* CreatorsPest: Baron Ünderbheit quickly became one according to creator commentary in the early seasons. Originally intended to be the [[BigBad more threatening, competent villain]] to contrast the IneffectualSympatheticVillain Monarch, they found him to be too much of a generic EvilOverlord that they struggled to mesh with the rest of the series vibe. He gets [[PutOnABus written off]] in season two's "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS2E7LoveBheits Love Bheits]]" (otherwise one of the creators' [[CreatorBacklash least favorite]] episodes) and remains there for two-and-a-half seasons until he's brought back with some purprose as a fitting member of the Revenge Society.

** In "Victor Echo November", Phantom Limb is seen attempting to sell a Rembrandt to an uncultured mobster who insists on the ''Mona Lisa'' instead, prompting Limb to point out that just because a painting is more famous, that doesn't make it necessarily better. The painting in question, ''The Storm on the Sea of Galilee'' along with the other paintings seen on Limb's wall on that scene were all stolen during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum_theft Isabella Stewart Gardner museum heist]], one of the biggest art thefts in history. The heist heavily puzzled investigators not only due to not finding any clues of the perpetrator's identities but also ''why'' those paintings were chosen: the museum housed far more valuable and famous paintings and some of the items stolen were fairly worthless, which led investigators to speculate that the thieves weren't particularly versed in art. In other words, we are meant to assume that Limb, knowing ''too much'' about art, stole the paintings due to his own WickedCultured taste and is now [[DidntThinkThisThrough incapable of selling them]].

** In "Victor Echo November", Phantom Limb is seen attempting to sell a Rembrandt to an uncultured mobster who insists on the ''Mona Lisa'' instead, prompting Limb to point out that just because a painting is more famous, that doesn't make it necessarily better. The painting in question, ''The Storm on the Sea of Galilee'' along with the other paintings seen on Limb's wall on that scene were all stolen during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum_theft Isabella Stewart Gardner museum heist]], one of the biggest art thefts in history. The heist heavily puzzled investigators not only due to not finding any clues of the perpetrator's identities but also ''why'' those paintings were chosen: the museum housed far more valuable and famous paintings and some of the items stolen were fairly worthless, which led investigators to speculate that the thieves weren't particularly versed in art. In other words, we are meant to assume that Limb stole the paintings due to his own WickedCultured taste and is now [[DidntThinkThisThrough incapable of selling them]].

** In "Hostile Makeover", one of the first things Rusty does after inheriting his brother's tech company is to fire the company's management team, which already backfires when the Pirate Captain has to pull double-duty, leaving Rusty to manage things at their Manhattan headquarters by himself. In October 2022, real life TechBro Elon Musk would buy real life company Website/{{Twitter|X}} and one of the first acts as "Chief Twit" ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer as he actually referred to himself as]]) are a string of layoffs of the company's top executives, including Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.

!YMMV tropes for the ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' series

* [[MagnificentBastard/TheVentureBrothers Magnificent Bastard]]

* [[MoralEventHorizon/TheVentureBrothers Moral Event Horizon]]

* [[Squick/TheVentureBrothers Squick]]

* [[HilariousInHindsight/TheVentureBrothers Hilarious In Hindsight]]

* [[EnsembleDarkHorse/TheVentureBrothers Ensemble Dark Horse]]

* TearJerker: Despite the series tone most of the time. It's main theme of being Failure, means that there are times that can make the viewer feel rather saddened or just downright depressed. [[TearJerker/TheVentureBrothers Has its own page]].

* AngstWhatAngst: Gary doesn't show any particular angst over the death of all his fellow henchmen, despite the fact he bulked up and trained his fellow henchmen after 24's death to prevent more henchman deaths.

** Augustus St. Cloud is probably supposed to be the guy you LoveToHate but he's just flat-out irritating to some. Others LoveToHate him because he ''isn't'' as awesome or entertaining as the other villains, [[HateSink so they don't have to hold back about]][[LaughablyEvil enjoying how pathetic he is.]]

** Augustus St. Cloud is probably supposed to be the guy you LoveToHate but he's just flat-out irritating to some. Others LoveToHate him because he ''isn't'' as awesome or entertaining as the other villains, [[HateSink so they don't have to hold back about him.]]

** There's a good argument that the real stars of the show is Rusty and Monarch, especially given the revelation of the series finale that [[spoiler: they are half-brothers]].

* CreatorsPet: Oddly, Billy and White were a mild case of this (minus the CharacterShilling) early on. The fans didn't like them and the producers wanted them gone after season 1... possibly because they're a lot like 21 and 24 in terms of [[SeinfeldianConversation mostly talking about bullshit]], but with worse enunciation. But Hammer and Publick kept giving them screentime, so they got a chance to come into their own and now they're pretty popular. So it worked!

* CreatorsPest: Baron Ünderbheit quickly became one according to creator commentary in the early seasons. Originally intended to be the [[BigBad more threatening, competent villain]] to contrast the IneffectualSympatheticVillain Monarch, they found him to be too much of a generic EvilOverlord that they struggled to mesh with the rest of the series vibe. He gets [[PutOnABus written off]] in season two's "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS2E7LoveBheits Love Bheits]]" (otherwise one of the creators' [[CreatorBacklash least favorite]] episodes) and remains there for two-and-a-half seasons until he's brought back as a fitting member of the Revenge Society.

* ArchivePanic: The show isn't into LongRunner territory just yet, but so many characters undergo so much development, and so many changes happen to everyone, that starting to watch the show in its latest episodes and understanding what's going on will prove nigh impossible. ContinuityLockout plays into this. The creators even discussed how self-referential the show had become in the commentary for the season 4 finale ''Operation P.R.O.M.''