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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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Careers in Science" is the worst rated episode of "The Venture Bros.". It scored 7.3/10 based on 509 votes. Directed by Christopher McCulloch and written by Doc Hammer, it aired on 8/14/2004. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?".

  • Careers in Science
    7.3/10509 votes
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    #1 - 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

  • Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?
    7.4/10339 votes
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    #2 - 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

  • Dia de Los Dangerous!
    7.5/10554 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • The Incredible Mr. Brisby
    7.5/10440 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Mid-Life Chrysalis
    7.6/10407 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Home Insecurity
    7.7/10456 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • Pomp & Circuitry
    7.7/10239 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Eeney, Meeney, Miney… Magic!
    7.8/10437 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Love-Bheits
    7.8/10345 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman
    7.8/10300 votes
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    #10 - Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 7/6/2008

    Love is in the air, kind of, when Dr. Venture encounters his childhood friend, Dr. Tara Quymn, in the Amazon Rain Forest.

    Director: Christopher McCulloch

    Writer: Christopher McCulloch

  • What Goes Down, Must Come Up
    7.8/10290 votes
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    #11 - What Goes Down, Must Come Up

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 7/13/2008

    All basements are kinda spooky, but the Ventures are about to learn the hard way that beneath the foundations of the Venture Compound lie deep, dark secrets.

    Director: Christopher McCulloch

    Writer: Christopher McCulloch

  • Spanakopita!
    7.8/10241 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • Momma's Boys
    7.8/10233 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Home Is Where The Hate Is
    7.9/10295 votes
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    #14 - Home Is Where The Hate Is

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 6/22/2008

    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.

    Director: Christopher McCulloch

    Writer: Doc Hammer, Christopher McCulloch

  • Perchance to Dean
    7.9/10272 votes
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    #15 - Perchance to Dean

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/2009

    Rusty begins to indoctrinate Dean into his career as a super scientist, not knowing that a deformed and believed aborted Dean clone stalks the compound. The deformed clone's attempt to kill Dean leads to a mix up with Hank thinking that he's killed his brother, while local police prepare to raid the Compound after a UPS delivery man suspects illegal activities going on.

    Director: Christopher McCulloch

    Writer: Christopher McCulloch

  • Any Which Way But Zeus
    7.9/10244 votes
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    #16 - Any Which Way But Zeus

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 9/26/2010

    Someone is capturing heroes and villains and taking them to a super death camp. The forces of good and evil must join forces to stop their mysterious captor.

    Director: Christopher McCulloch

    Writer: Doc Hammer

  • SPHINX Rising
    7.9/10244 votes
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    #17 - SPHINX Rising

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 6/16/2013

    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.

    Director: Christopher McCulloch

    Writer: Doc Hammer

  • Maybe No Go
    7.9/10226 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • Ice Station Impossible!
    8.0/10412 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean
    8.0/10409 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • The Trial of the Monarch
    8.0/10398 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • Now Museum, Now You Don't
    8.0/10278 votes
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    #22 - Now Museum, Now You Don't

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 7/27/2008

    Determined to honor the father he never knew, Jonas Jr. converts Spider Skull Island into a Team Venture Museum. Unfortunately, he invited all of his father's surviving friends and enemies to the grand opening.

    Director: Christopher McCulloch

    Writer: Christopher McCulloch

  • ORB
    8.0/10279 votes
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    #23 - ORB

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 8/10/2008

    A series of cryptic clues sends Team Venture out to uncover a mystery left by the late Jonas Venture, Sr. As each new solved riddle exposes one more piece of secret Venture history.

    Director: Christopher McCulloch

    Writer: Doc Hammer

  • The Revenge Society
    8.0/10258 votes
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    #24 - The Revenge Society

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/2009

    The Guild of Calamitous Intent comes under attack by an insane Phantom Limb, who now goes by the name "Revenge". Meanwhile, Hank and Sergeant Hatred must protect the compound from the Guild's agents. We also learn something very interesting about Dean's birthright.

    Director: Christopher McCulloch

    Writer: Doc Hammer

  • The Silent Partners
    8.0/10233 votes
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    #25 - The Silent Partners

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 10/24/2010

    Conjectural Technologies' newfound success hits a snag when Billy is kidnapped by the same mysterious benefactors who invested in their company, and SPHINX launches an investigation aimed at determining who is behind these dubious financiers.

    Director: Christopher McCulloch

    Writer: Doc Hammer