- 7.3/10 504 votes
#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
- 7.4/10 337 votes
#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
- 7.5/10 550 votes
#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
- 7.5/10 436 votes
#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
- 7.6/10 404 votes
#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: Doc Hammer, Christopher McCulloch
- 7.7/10 452 votes
#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
- 7.7/10 238 votes
#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
- 7.8/10 433 votes
#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
- 7.8/10 344 votes
#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
- 7.8/10 297 votes
#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
- 7.8/10 240 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.8/10 232 votes
#12 - 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
- 7.9/10 292 votes
#13 - 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
- 7.9/10 287 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.9/10 270 votes
#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
- 7.9/10 243 votes
#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
- 7.9/10 243 votes
#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
- 7.9/10 226 votes
#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
- 8.0/10 409 votes
#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
- 8.0/10 406 votes
#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
- 8.0/10 395 votes
#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
- 8.0/10 275 votes
#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
- 8.0/10 277 votes
#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
- 8.0/10 257 votes
#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
- 8.0/10 232 votes
#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
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 for the glory of adventure. Or something like that.
Genres:AnimationComedyAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Adult Swim
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "The Venture Bros." is "Careers in Science", rated 7.3/10 from 504 user votes. It was directed by Christopher McCulloch and written by Doc Hammer. "Careers in Science" aired on 8/14/2004 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?".