Because of the brothers’ sheltered lives and dubious upbringing, teenagers Hank and Dean Venture are incredibly out of sync with the way the real world works. They approach every new situation as if it is just a big, exciting adventure. Their slang comes mostly from a bygone era of “golly gees” and “gosh darn its,” but occasionally their language is peppered with stray misused modern phrases they pick up intermittently. The Venture brothers are geeks in the extreme and always side by side (usually hopelessly abandoned somewhere together). They are good kids, but their playful cajoling of each other and their incessant high-pitched laughter quickly grates on the nerves of their perpetually uptight father, Dr. Venture.
The Venture Brothers Characters
By Nancy Basile, About.com
Dean, the younger brother, is the self-proclaimed “brain” of the pair but, like his brother, is not particularly bright. Unlike his brother, Dean spends most of his time and energy reading books (limited as they are to adolescent adventure tales, like Giant Boy Detective). He’s also more sensitive. Dean’s stomach and conscience are often too delicate to handle many of the situations the family finds itself in. He’s far more likely to issue forth a high-pitched scream or jet of vomit in the face of danger than take action – but he’s also the first to show an interest in girls, namely the Ventures’ neighbor, Triana Orpheus.
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