5.0/103 votesLoading...#1 - Mid-Life Chrysalis
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/25/2004
The Monarch sends Dr. Girlfriend undercover to seduce Dr. Venture in order to inject him with a body-altering serum.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer
5.3/103 votesLoading...#2 - Dia de Los Dangerous!
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/7/2004
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
7.0/102 votesLoading...#3 - Careers in Science
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/14/2004
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!
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
7.0/102 votesLoading...#4 - Home Insecurity
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/21/2004
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
7.0/102 votesLoading...#5 - Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 9/10/2006
The ghost of Abraham Lincoln and Team Venture investigate an insidious plot to assassinate the President.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
7.0/101 votesLoading...#6 - Pomp & Circuitry
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 9/19/2010
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
7.3/103 votesLoading...#7 - Maybe No Go
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/2016
White and Billy grapple with their archenemy in their old neighborhood; Doc realizes he cannot face his responsibilities alone.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
7.5/102 votesLoading...#8 - The Incredible Mr. Brisby
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/28/2004
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
7.5/102 votesLoading...#9 - Eeney, Meeney, Miney… Magic!
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/4/2004
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
7.5/104 votesLoading...#10 - Spanakopita!
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 6/23/2013
A figure from Dr. Venture's past haunts him during his annual vacation to Spanikos.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
7.8/104 votesLoading...#11 - Momma's Boys
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 7/7/2013
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
8.0/102 votesLoading...#12 - Ghosts of the Sargasso
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/11/2004
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer
8.0/102 votesLoading...#13 - Ice Station Impossible!
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/18/2004
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
8.0/102 votesLoading...#14 - Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/2/2004
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
8.0/102 votesLoading...#15 - Tag-Sale – You're It!
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/9/2004
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
8.0/102 votesLoading...#16 - Past Tense
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/16/2004
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
8.0/102 votesLoading...#17 - The Trial of the Monarch
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/23/2004
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
8.0/102 votesLoading...#18 - Return to Spider-Skull Island
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/30/2004
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.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer
8.0/102 votesLoading...#19 - Powerless in the Face of Death
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/25/2006
Team Venture struggles to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives and move on in the wake of Hank and Dean's violent and untimely deaths.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer
8.0/102 votesLoading...#20 - Hate Floats
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/2/2006
Aided by Henchmen 21, 24 and new recruits, The Monarch attempts to rebuild his villainous empire and rekindle his relationship with Dr. Girlfriend.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer
8.0/102 votesLoading...#21 - Assassinanny 911
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/9/2006
When Brock is reactivated by O.S.I., he subcontracts his ex-girlfriend, Molotov Cocktease, to protect the Venture Compound from enemies.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
8.0/102 votesLoading...#22 - Escape to the House of Mummies Part II
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 7/16/2006
Continuing last week's adventure, Team Venture find themselves trapped in the clutches of a bloodthirsty Egyptian cult and their time machine.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
8.0/102 votesLoading...#23 - Victor. Echo. November.
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/13/2006
Phantom Limb and Dr. Girlfriend agree to a civil double date with The Monarch to discuss his official re-entry into the Guild of Calamitous Intent.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
8.0/102 votesLoading...#24 - Love-Bheits
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/20/2006
Baron Ünderbheit captures Team Venture when the X-1 crash lands in Ünderland while en route from a superscience costume party.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
8.0/102 votesLoading...#25 - Fallen Arches
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/3/2006
Dr. Orpheus calls upon old friends The Alchemist and Jefferson Twilight to resurrect their former super-team, The Order of the Triad.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
The Worst Episodes of The Venture Bros.
Every episode of The Venture Bros. ranked from worst to best. Explore 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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Network:Adult Swim
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!".