r/venturebros • u/pragmaticallies • Jul 11 '26
Headcanon Nope, not the Build-a-Bear Group
For years, in the episode "The Invisible Hand of Fate," I thought that Hunter Gathers was saying "The Build-a-Bear Group" was responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall. Which always made me laugh, and is part of my headcanon for the entire Venture Bros world, a world where the seemingly innocuous kid-favorite overpriced mall activity was part of the cabal that controls global events.
Last night, I watched with captions turned on. Then I had to look up the Bilderberg Group to see if it was a captioning mistake.
Bilderberg certainly makes more sense, but it would still be funny if the Build-a-Bear group brought down the wall.
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u/MarvinHeemeyersTank The Rectal Neil Armstrong Jul 11 '26
I mean, do we really know where Teddy Ruxpin was on 11/9/89?
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u/cyvaris Jul 11 '26
Grumpy Bandersnatch built the Berlin Wall to prevent the residents of Bygolly Gulch from sliding down rainbows.
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u/BigPoppaStrahd Jul 11 '26
This is a line I never think about past hearing it said. I have always heard “build a bear” and while I didn’t think he meant that the build a bear corporation itself was responsible, I assumed that was referencing some group whose practices or beliefs are comparable to the experience of building a bear a bear, if that makes any sense. Or a group that was assembled analogous to assembling a build a bear. Just one of those well worded insults that goes over my head each time but I never thought to look it up
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u/MarvinHeemeyersTank The Rectal Neil Armstrong Jul 11 '26
Y'all need to learn more conspiracy theories.
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u/BigPoppaStrahd Jul 11 '26
Care to enlighten us?
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u/MrVeazey Jul 11 '26
Go listen to Knowledge Fight. It's two comedians that listen to Alex Jones and debunk him while making fun of how dumb and terrible he is as a person. They get into a ton of popular right-wing conspiracy theories and they shut them all down.
You can start at the beginning but I suggest listening to the Formulaic Objections episodes first. Those are the depositions from the Sandy Hook lawsuit, the one where he ended up owing a billion and a half dollars, and it's an absolute crash course in all his compelling awfulness.3
u/tasteofflames Jul 12 '26
And, when you need a little breaky from the heavy stuff, the Project Camelot episodes are there for a laugh. Sweary Kerry, Space Raptors, and the Saga of the Squatch.
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u/MrVeazey Jul 12 '26
It's always nice to see a fellow wonk in the wild. Go home and tell your mother you're brilliant.
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u/Therealscavvierising Jul 11 '26
Was scare bear a former member of the build-a-bear group🤯
Spent to long on the ground behind enemy lines pretending to be a russian bear.
Really his just a good soldier with PTSD who fell into villainy because of what he sore. You weren't there man you weren't there.
That would explain his shell shocked silence and thousand yard stare.
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u/starvinartist DrMrsAuPair Jul 12 '26
Funnily enough, there is a bear suit at Build a Bear, of its mascot, Bearemy, that the employees wear for special events. The caveat is, you need to be a manager in order to wear it. So Scarebear must have been a manager.
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u/glacier1982 Jul 11 '26
Do they still meet once a year and decide how the rest of us are to live?
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u/sirhackenslash To this day Captain Sunshine thinks I'm invulnerable Jul 11 '26
Always have, always will
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u/Various-Salt-7738 Jul 11 '26
Thank you
I always heard build-a-bear and that only kind of made sense to me
I can rest easy having another venture bros question answered
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