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The Worst Episodes of The Venture Bros.

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The Worst Episodes of The Venture Bros.

Hank and Dean Venture, with their father Doctor Venture and faithful bodyguard Brock Samson, go on wild adventures facing megalomaniacs, zombies, and suspicious ninjas, all...

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  1. 5.0/10(3 votes)

    #1 - Mid-Life Chrysalis

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    S1:E8

    The Monarch sends Dr. Girlfriend undercover to seduce Dr. Venture in order to inject him with a body-altering serum.

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  2. 5.3/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Dia de Los Dangerous!

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    S1:E1

    When the Venture Family visits Tijuana for a lecture Dr. Venture is giving at the (community) University of Mexico, the dastardly Monarch weaves a cocoon of villainy that leaves the Venture brothers trapped in his clutches.

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  3. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Careers in Science

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    S1:E2

    The Venture family must travel to space to repair an orbiting space station that Dr. Venture's father built in the 1970s, but a mysterious space phantom could be haunting the station!

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  4. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Home Insecurity

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    S1:E3

    To protect the Venture compound while Brock is on his yearly mountain survival sabbatical, Dr. Venture builds a panic room and a robotic bodyguard, which are soon put to the test.

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  5. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Pomp & Circuitry

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    S4:E10

    Hank and Dean graduate from their education beds, and look into college. Hank rebels and tries to join Sphinx. Meanwhile, Phantom Limb breaks out of the Guild's dungeons and seeks revenge once more.

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  6. 7.4/10(355 votes)

    #6 - Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?

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    S2:E9

    The ghost of Abraham Lincoln and Team Venture investigate an insidious plot to assassinate the President.

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  8. 7.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - The Incredible Mr. Brisby

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    S1:E4

    Dr. Venture is offered a job by theme park owner and cartoon magnate Roy Brisby, who won't take no for an answer in his quest for worldwide entertainment dominance.

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  9. 7.5/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Eeney, Meeney, Miney… Magic!

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    S1:E5

    Dr. Venture's new experiment has the entire family interested--not to mention trapped inside! The Ventures' strange new neighbor, master of mysticism Dr. Orpheus, may be the only one who can help them escape.

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  10. 7.8/10(358 votes)

    #9 - Love-Bheits

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    S2:E7

    Baron Ünderbheit captures Team Venture when the X-1 crash lands in Ünderland while en route from a superscience costume party.

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  11. 7.8/10(247 votes)

    #10 - Spanakopita!

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    S5:E4

    A figure from Dr. Venture's past haunts him during his annual vacation to Spanikos.

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  12. 7.8/10(238 votes)

    #11 - Momma's Boys

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    S5:E6

    Dean pays a visit to the mystery woman in his life, while Hank and Dermott play a prank on Dr. Venture which leads him on a quest to find his mystery friend and rescue him.

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  13. 7.9/10(251 votes)

    #12 - SPHINX Rising

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    S5:E3

    While the Monarch and his wife attempt to destroy the Venture compound once and for all, the Monarch learns a startling secret about his past. Meanwhile, Twenty-One tries to create a new SPHINX... and inadvertently recruits the members of the old SPHINX.

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  14. 7.9/10(232 votes)

    #13 - Maybe No Go

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    S6:E2

    White and Billy grapple with their archenemy in their old neighborhood; Doc realizes he cannot face his responsibilities alone.

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  15. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Ghosts of the Sargasso

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    S1:E6

    On a scientific expedition in the Bermuda Triangle, Doc's experimental equipment awakens and possibly enrages the submerged ghost of Major Tom, a test pilot who crashed in an experimental aircraft designed by Doc's father.

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  16. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Ice Station Impossible!

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    S1:E7

    Dr. Venture, Pete White and Master Billy Quizboy are invited to take part in a top secret government think tank run by supergenius Professor Impossible.

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  17. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean

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    S1:E9

    The Monarch finally has the Venture family right where he wants them hanging upside down above the Amazon river! But his victory is postponed when Dean suffers a strange but fairly common injury, acute testicular tortion.

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  18. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Tag-Sale – You're It!

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    S1:E10

    Always short on cash, Dr. Venture decides to unload some of his father's old scientific equipment in a huge yard sale that attracts fellow scientists and super-villains alike.

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  19. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Past Tense

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    S1:E11

    When Brock and Dr. Venture are kidnapped from the funeral of a college friend, the boys enlist the aid of the original Team Venture: a group of superscience adventurers who worked for their grandfather in the sixties.

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  20. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - The Trial of the Monarch

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    S1:E12

    The Monarch is on trial for the one crime he may not have committed, under mysterious circumstances stemming from his bitter breakup with Dr. Girlfriend.

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  21. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Return to Spider-Skull Island

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    S1:E13

    Dr. Venture finally learns the secret of his recurring womb nightmares when a stomach tumor turns out to be something far more sinister. In a fit of jealousy over their mistaken belief their father is pregnant, the boys run away from home.

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  22. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny

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    S3:E1

    The wait is over. The truths and half-truths about Dr. Venture's former arch nemeses, Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch, are finally revealed (albeit obliquely) in an episode spanning twenty years.

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  23. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - The Doctor Is Sin

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    S3:E2

    Dr. Venture learns that a life with no arch enemy is not nearly so sweet when he finds himself besieged by C-list pretenders to the Monarch's throne, and his super-science business once again on the rocks.

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  24. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - The Invisible Hand of Fate

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    S3:E3

    At long last, The Venture Bros. peels away the onion-like shrouds of time for a look back into the troubled past of America's most beloved hydrocephalic former boy genius.

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  25. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Home Is Where The Hate Is

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    S3:E4

    As The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch settle into their new home and a new, no-more-arching-Dr.-Venture anymore life, Dr. Venture receives an unorthodox introduction to his new Guild-assigned nemesis.

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  26. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #25 - The Buddy System

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    S3:E5

    Dr. Venture, in a bid to make some much-needed money, opens up the compound as "Rusty's Day Camp for Boy Adventurers." But while the children are kept busy with activities.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Mid-Life Chrysalis" is the worst rated episode of "The Venture Bros.". It scored 5/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Christopher McCulloch and written by Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer, it aired on 9/25/2004. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Dia de Los Dangerous!".