| rdfs:comment | - Master Billy Quizboy (real name: William Whalen) (Born 1970) is a supporting character appearing on the Adult Swim show The Venture Bros. He is a friend and ally of Dr. Venture and Team Venture as well as business partner and close friend of Pete White. He is voiced by Doc Hammer.
- Billy claims to be a boy genius, though in reality he is not a boy, nor has he shown much proof towards the genius claim (though he is occasionally shown repairing or inventing mechanical devices, as well as successfully performing surgery on Dean, after he developed testicular torsion as well as discovering hidden codes like in ORB). He continues calling himself a "boy" genius because "nobody's really impressed with 'Master Billy Quizboy, Adult Genius.'" He took the "quizboy" moniker due to his winning as champion on a game show at a young age. He was later ousted from the show when it was revealed that White, the host of the show at the time, was fixing the game, resulting in Billy being accused of cheating. Billy was inspired to become a scientist and child prodigy by his future friend
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| abstract | - Billy claims to be a boy genius, though in reality he is not a boy, nor has he shown much proof towards the genius claim (though he is occasionally shown repairing or inventing mechanical devices, as well as successfully performing surgery on Dean, after he developed testicular torsion as well as discovering hidden codes like in ORB). He continues calling himself a "boy" genius because "nobody's really impressed with 'Master Billy Quizboy, Adult Genius.'" He took the "quizboy" moniker due to his winning as champion on a game show at a young age. He was later ousted from the show when it was revealed that White, the host of the show at the time, was fixing the game, resulting in Billy being accused of cheating. Billy was inspired to become a scientist and child prodigy by his future friend Dr. Venture during his time as Rusty of the original Team Venture. He and White are the co-founders, and probably sole employees, of Conjectural Technologies, which they run out of an old trailer which also seems to serve as their home. As seen in "Are You There God? It's Me, Dean", it is unknown what the company actually does, but it appears as if White bosses Billy around, forcing Billy to do housework and company-related tasks while he plays video games (Billy retaliates by passive-aggressively leaving post-it notes reminding Pete of what he should do). However, in that episode, White states that Billy is (more like) a "neurogeneticist," so he may not be as incompetent as most of his colleagues. He operated on Dean to help his testicular torsion and fitted Jonas Venture Junior with a bionic arm similar to his own in the season two premiere, "Powerless in the Face of Death". He also reattached Dr. Venture's arm at the end of "Victor. Echo. November." despite it being detached for some time; in "The Revenge Society" Billy attached Councilman 8's head onto Councilman 3's body creating a 2 headed man. At the very least, Billy is an exceptionally skilled surgeon. Billy first appeared in "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay", where he mocked Dr. Venture for his Ooo-Ray but did not do much else — his appearance here was even more abbreviated than it usually is. He then appeared as an invitee to Prof. Impossible's government think-tank in the episode "Ice Station – Impossible!", awed at the fact that Impossible invited him. He helped Dr. Venture, Sally Impossible, and White develop an antidote for the Goliath serum that Hank had consumed (although Prof. Impossible later claimed the serum was never tested on a human, it was supposed to be used on a "dog or something"). He also featured prominently at Dr. Venture's tag-sale — he and White gossiped about some of the other people attending, whom they later attempted to woo into becoming their arch-enemies. Billy and Dr. Venture also fought over a shrink ray, and Billy criticized Venture for a redundant decal on the ray. In "Escape to the House of Mummies Part II", the shrink ray caused some problems for Billy when he, White, and Dr. Venture attempted to repair it. White and Venture forced Billy to be their human guinea pig, and instead of fully shrinking him, it seemed to do one body part at a time (at first his lungs, then his head). He eventually forced them to reverse the ray to make him normal again, but it merely made a giant out of him without making his clothing bigger. Billy has shown a fondness for the high five. In "Escape to the House of Mummies Part II", Billy admits that he is a virgin, & at the end of the Season 4 episode "The Revenge Society" it is suggested that he inadvertently loses it to Sgt. Hatred, yet in The Silent Partners Hatred reveals he merely cuddled with him; he loses his virginity in the same episode to three prostitutes whom he believed to be vampires. Billy lost his hand and his eye in an underground Mexican bulldog fighting arena, which White mistook for an underground Quizboy contest. Then his second, "false" eye was sucked out of the socket while he "assisted" Dr. Fantomas with an experiment. (The same experiment that changed Dr. Fantomas' body, and led him to eventually become the villain Phantom Limb.) In season 4's "Handsome Ransom", Billy and Pete White try to aid Dr Venture in rescuing Hank from the Monarch (none of the three knowing he had already been rescued by Captain Sunshine). During these events, Billy reveals that he is 37 years old after Sgt. Hatred mistakes him for a little kid. Later, in "The Revenge Society," he is kidnapped by his former teacher - now insane and calling himself "Revenge" - and forced to participate in the activities of Revenge's "team." He is left out cold in Dr. Venture's study and eventually found by Sgt. Hatred, as described above. Also in "The Better Man", he becomes a member of The Order of the Triad, but this was because they didn't want to pay his steep medical fee.
- Master Billy Quizboy (real name: William Whalen) (Born 1970) is a supporting character appearing on the Adult Swim show The Venture Bros. He is a friend and ally of Dr. Venture and Team Venture as well as business partner and close friend of Pete White. He is voiced by Doc Hammer.
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