The Venture Bros. (2003– )

The bizarre animated escapades of pseudo-heroic scientist Dr. Rusty Venture, his competent, high strung bodyguard, and his two over-enthusiastic sons.

Creator:

Christopher McCulloch

Stars:

Christopher McCulloch, James Urbaniak, Michael Sinterniklaas

Cast

Series cast summary:
Christopher McCulloch	...	Hank Venture (59 episodes, 2003-2012)
James Urbaniak	...	Dr. Venture (55 episodes, 2003-2012)
Michael Sinterniklaas	...	Dean Venture (54 episodes, 2003-2012)
Patrick Warburton	...	Brock Samson (49 episodes, 2003-2011)
Doc Hammer	...	Henchman 21 (49 episodes, 2004-2012)
Steven Rattazzi	...	Dr. Orpheus (27 episodes, 2004-2012)
Soul-Bot	...	H.E.L.P.eR. (24 episodes, 2003-2008)

Storyline

The warped misadventures of a former boy genius turned washed-up, middle-aged mad scientist Dr. Rusty Venture; his moronic teenage sons; their maniac bodyguard; and the Doctor's arch-nemeses, incompetent super villain The Monarch and his masculine paramour, Dr. Girlfriend.

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Plot Keywords:

venture | scientist | bodyguard | super villain | villain | 

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Taglines:

Jonny Quest is Jonesin'!

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Official Sites:

Adult Swim [uk] Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 August 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

Os Irmãos Aventura

Company Credits

Production Co:

Noodlesoup Productions, World Leaders Entertainment, Astro Base Go!

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

H.E.L.P.eR. stands for "Humanoid Electric Lab Partner Robot." It's discussed during the audio commentary on the episode "Tag Sale, You're It" that Jackson Publick originally voiced the sounds for H.E.L.P.eR. Then Doc Hammer ran this through Soul-bot, a robot that they have at Astrobase Go! to give us H.E.L.P.eR. sounds. You can see Soul-bot at the end of every episode in the Astrobase Go! i.d. It was also discussed that they gave up making new sounds after a while and just use the same ones over and over.

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Quotes

Baron Ünderbheit: Catclops! What have you to report?
Catclops: Tourism has skyrocketed at the Well of Bitter Sorrows and the Ünderbheit Birth Crevasse since you enacted the mandatory attendance edict.
Baron Ünderbheit: Told you. Girl Hitler?
Girl Hitler: Benzene chewables have doubled production in ze child slave mines. Dilly-dallying saw a brief spike, but ve stabilized it by removing ze feet of the alpha males, UND DE POPULAR GIRLS!
Baron Ünderbheit: Good! Good!

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Crazy Credits

The title of each episode appears at the end of each episode, rather than the beginning. Every episode thus far has had a brief epilogue following the closing credits.

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Connections

Spin-off The Venture Bros.: A Very Venture Halloween (2012)

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Soundtracks

"No Vacancy"
Written and Performed by J.G. Thirlwell
Opening theme

User Reviews

My Favorite Adult Swim Original

This action-comedy spoof of sixties Johnny Quest-style super-science, evil nemeses, and supernatural happenings is by far, the best original Adult Swim program to date. The story follows The Venture family, Dr. Venture, a forty-something pill-popping scientist who never managed to step out from his father's shadow, his two sons, Hank and Dean (both rather Leave it to Beaver-like in their refusal to swear and constant wearing of sweaters and pants), Brock Samson, their James-Bond-on-steroids bodyguard who apparently works part-time for the office of secret intelligence and refuses to carry a gun, favoring of his serrated bowie knife. Most of the hilarity stems from The Monarch, the self-declared arch-nemesis of the Venture family, a weaver of ridiculously circuitous plans against them, an employer of hilariously incompetent henchmen, and a man who harbors an unhealthy obsession with monarch butterflies and an over-wrought sense of self-importance. His melodrama usually falls on the deaf ears of his girlfriend, Dr. Girlfriend, who, in complete contrast to the Monarch, is professional, take-charge, and inexplicably husky-voiced. The cast of supporting characters is of equal quality, including a well-meaning but dim-witted robot named Helper, a necromancer renting out the Venture family's garage apartment named Dr. Byron Orpheus (doctorate in communications, minor in women's studies), whose propensity towards unnecessarily dramatic changes in pitch and dire warnings of disruptions in the spirit world offer the Monarch's only competition in the melodrama department. Baron Underbheit, the tyrannical and oppressive ruler of Underland, who sports an Arnold-like accent, enormous (and anatomically complimentary) armor, and a metal lower jaw, is another arch-nemesis of the Venture family, blaming Dr. Venture's inattentiveness when they were college lab partners for the loss of his jaw. There's a myriad of others, ranging from fake ghost pirates to the forbidden love of a fugitive and a sasquatch. Check it out; you won't be disappointed.