The Venture Bros feels wholly different, it's a show that made by the creators for the creators.

It goes for the crowd pleasers, the greatest hits. It tackles sci-fi concepts/tropes but just gives it a raunchy/violent twist no different than what South Park did with the traditional sitcom starting in the 90's. For all the memes of Rick and Morty being an intelligent show, it's pretty on the nose with it's references and parodies. It deserved the mainstream success but the problem was the show didn't target the mainstream audience the way Rick and Morty did. I believe they fully sold permanent streaming rights to Hulu for this one.

Some of those episodes are copyrighted for 2021 despite premiering before that year.

The premiere of Dream Corp LLC season 3 was delayed from summer 2020 to early 2021 in hopes of getting it to HBO Max, but then moved back to fall 2020 because, nope, no dice.

The creators of Mr Pickles changed the name of their show to Momma Named Me Sheriff in a different failed attempt to get out of the Hulu deal.They delayed the final seasons of Black Jesus and Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell for 2 years after filming them while trying and failing to work around this Hulu deal.Close, according to some former AS executives Venture was a victim of Adult Swim's existing contract with Hulu as they made a hilariously stupid deal several years ago where AS shows would stay on there exclusively until a year or so after they were cancelled.

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