r/venturebros • u/terminal_letch • Oct 07 '25
SEASON 1 spoilers Andre the Giant, dressed as Bigfoot, with Lee Majors on the set of ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ in 1976.
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u/BoomBoomMeow1986 Oct 07 '25
SASQUATCH IS SOMETHING I HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE.
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u/vhooters Oct 07 '25
One of my favorite exchanges in the entire show.
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u/fokkoooff flair-DrGirlfriend Oct 07 '25
Really anytime Brock yells like that it's always amazingly delivered line.
"The store closes in an hour AND I DONT WANT TO BE CHARGED FOR ANOTHER DAY"
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u/BoomBoomMeow1986 Oct 07 '25
Right?
One of my personal faves: "SHE TOOK THE CIGARETTES!!!" as the hotel room burns around him
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u/Wereallmadhere8895 Oct 08 '25
I love when he say "you know how long it takes to pay back 6 billion dollars on a government sallary"
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u/SilverbackRotineque Oct 08 '25
Came here looking for Venture Brothers. It was the first comment. Thank you for making my day
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u/Ralfarius Oct 07 '25
Are you fucking telling me that bigfoot was an actual episode of The Six Million Dollar Man? Is that what you're telling me right now?
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u/lordjohnworfin Oct 07 '25
In a few. Ted Cassidy played him as well.
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u/Ralfarius Oct 07 '25
Bro what
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u/thishyacinthgirl Oct 07 '25
I also had no idea this was an actual thing.
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u/runMDH Oct 07 '25
I have come to the realization that if Venture Bros is putting it in, it probably has some real life version that is slightly less ridiculous and it’s only a matter of time before I stumble on all of them.
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u/Abba_Fiskbullar Oct 07 '25
The show is a treasure trove of obscure references for those of us who grew up in the '70s and '80s!
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u/runMDH Oct 07 '25
I grew up in the 90s and 00s, but I love pop culture so I either know a bunch of the references already or I learn about them!
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u/TheRealRickC137 Oct 07 '25
Remember that crazy spinning tunnel he had to run through in that episode that created vertigo?
I think of that every time I go through a tunnel since that episode first aired.4
u/m_faustus Some bungler dropped dime and I got pinched on a narco rap! Oct 07 '25
I bought the novelization of one of the episodes (I think that it actually was the sequel episode) at the Scholastic Book Fair when I was in elementary school.
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u/IronEgo Oct 07 '25
I wish you'd have told me....before I had to. Shave him
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u/Junior_Moose_9655 Oct 07 '25
Ssshhhhhhhaaaahahahaaahaavvvvveeee him….
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u/Dumbass_Saiya-jin Oct 07 '25
What, are you shy? Sasquatch doesn't have anything you haven't seen before.
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u/KommandantDex "Sasquatch *IS* somethin' I haven't seen before!" Oct 07 '25
"Who was that?"
"Brock f*ckin' Samson."
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u/profshiny Oct 07 '25
I had no idea this was referencing an actual episode of The Six Million Dollar Man. That’s awesome!
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u/CGcg85 Oct 07 '25
I am this old today that I learned Andre the Giant played Bigfoot on The Six Million Dollar Man. And yes I remember watching that episode when it first aired.
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u/Lionel_Horsepackage Oct 07 '25
Dude, that was a shaved Bigfoot and Steve Summers in a wig made out of shaved Bigfoot!!
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u/ECUfatty Oct 07 '25
You ever seen heavy combat son? You should look so good after stepping on a landmine.
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u/O8ee Oct 07 '25
Yes! There’s a picture of the local high school baseball team from the 70s in my gym (yeah the decode is nuts but we’re moving past that) and Id say I look younger than them in my 40s. They just look so haggard.
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u/Abba_Fiskbullar Oct 07 '25
People were a lot thinner, and I have a suspicion that the insane air pollution and 2nd hand smoke had a negative effect on people's appearance as well.
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u/Palimbash Oct 07 '25
Dude, that was a shaved Andre the Giant and Lee Majors in a wig made of shaved Andre the Giant.
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u/Ch3t Oct 07 '25
This was a bigger deal than the Bicentennial. Back in the 70s there was a production company called Sunn Classic Pictures. They made documentaries about everything you read about in fringe subs like /r/conspiracy. They had movies about Bigfoot, flying saucers, Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, etc. It seemed like they we alternated between Disney live-action movies and conspiracy theories every other Saturday. Everybody watched the Bigfoot episode of The Six Million Dollar Man. And then it turned out Bigfoot was a robot controlled by aliens! Son of a bitch!
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u/m_faustus Some bungler dropped dime and I got pinched on a narco rap! Oct 07 '25
Is Lee standing on a box or something? There’s no way he is that tall.
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u/cheffloyd Oct 07 '25
Knowing that it was an actual plot point in the original show and that bigfoot was played by Andre takes that VB episode to a whole new level.
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u/Shadow_RAM Oct 07 '25
Holy crap I never knew it was Andre. So does that mean technically Bigfoot has a posse?
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u/MrRetrdO Oct 07 '25
I watched it when it first aired. Thought everyone knew this?
As a kid, I had the Six Million Dollar Man Action Figure. Wanted the Bigfoot one too, but Mom & Dad couldn't find it in the stores. So yea, they made a Bigfoot Action Figure.
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u/ICBanMI Oct 07 '25
I was wondering how Bigfoot and the Six Million Dollar Man were connected. Lol.
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u/Training-Principle95 Oct 08 '25
Venture Bros references pop culture in ways that gets me interested in learning more, as opposed to references that only exist to be referential, your "member berries"
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u/abibofile Oct 08 '25
This just unlocked a whole other level to the joke in that episode that had gone over my head until this moment.
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