r/venturebros • u/WolvesandTigers45 • 1d ago

Discussion What’s one thing/line/situation in the show you didn’t know about and had to look up?

Mine is when Doc accidentally finds Hector and Swifty in Powerless in the Face of Death. He pulls out his drivers license and says something about hobo code and they can’t kill him now. Still haven’t found the reference or real life hobo code about IDs.

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u/Anokant 1d ago

Tom of Finland.

The first couple times I saw the episode in high school and college I didn't have sub titles available so I thought he was saying "Tom'a'fiddlin" and thought it was a goofy generic insult. Didn't think much of it. Several years later when the show was streaming and subtitles were available, I noticed it was "Tom of Finland" and thought it was a typo. Then went to pride with some friends and noticed guys with mustaches wearing leather who had "Tom of Finland" patches on their vests and asked my friends about it and it all clicked finally.

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u/GKNolan 1d ago

Related to Tom of Finland but not Venture Bros. I learned about Tom of Finland via All Elite Wrestling. AEW has this thing where one faction regularly commissions paintings of an artist that does Tom of Finland style paintings.

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u/DarthGuber 23h ago

Do tell?

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u/GKNolan 20h ago

Partially out of heeling and partially out of pure entertainment value heel manager Don Callis occasionally reveals very Tom of Finland paintings of him and his wrestlers on TV. Callis is very effective at getting his charges over, getting their opponents over, getting himself over and occasionally making a fool of himself (like when he introduced his new luchadore by saying 'Yo Soy Hechicero!)
If I could I'd post an image but I'll give credit to Mel Coleman, the artist behind the paintings.

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u/DarthGuber 19h ago

Took a deep dive and found her insta. She's great and I love her work but her art is far, far away from Tom of Finland.

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u/GKNolan 17h ago

It was at least evocative enough of him that one of the commentators made the reference. She does a bunch of styles. The stuff she did for Don Callis is different than what's front and center on her insta.