The BEST episodes of The Venture Bros.

Every episode of The Venture Bros. ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best 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.

Last Updated: 12/8/2024Network: Adult SwimStatus: Ended
Operation: P.R.O.M.
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8.84
498 votes

#1 - Operation: P.R.O.M.

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/21/2010

What's more frightening than a doll that wants to kill you with a broken bottle? What's more perilous than a car that has no brakes and is aimed at your torso? What brings more sleepless nights than the threat of chlymidia? The PROM! The Venture boys embrace societies most feared school dance in this hour long danger-pile. Will they live to look back at their rented suits with horror?

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Everybody Comes to Hank's
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8.70
406 votes

#2 - Everybody Comes to Hank's

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/3/2010

With Dean off to New York for a summer internship, Hank is forced by his father to get a job. But when the budding entrepreneur dons a fabled fedora to become a private dick, a tangled mystery of sex, lies, and dirty secrets lands right in his lap.

Writer: Doc Hammer
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Showdown at Cremation Creek (2)
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8.62
364 votes

#3 - Showdown at Cremation Creek (2)

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/15/2006

As Phantom Limb makes his stunning power play, only Brock can rally The Monarch's forces to mount a defense. The fate of almost everyone in the Venture universe hangs in the balance as The Sovereign reveals his true identity and guys and stuff explode all over the place.

Directors: Jackson Publick
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What Color is Your Cleansuit?
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8.55
401 votes

#4 - What Color is Your Cleansuit?

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/2/2013

Dr. Venture hires an army of college interns to help with his ambitious new science project. Dean finds love among the new recruits, but class warfare and nuclear physics threaten to tear the Venture Compound apart. And if they don't, The Monarch will.

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Bot Seeks Bot
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8.52
305 votes

#5 - Bot Seeks Bot

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/14/2013

Brock and the O.S.I. launch a bold and bizarre surveillance mission against one of the Council of 13's top members. But the mission takes a turn for the worse when Doc and Billy get caught up in the super-villain crossfire.

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Arrears in Science
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8.49
188 votes

#6 - Arrears in Science

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/20/2018

The Morphic Trilogy reaches its stunning conclusion in a decades-spanning tale of friendship, betrayal, and mass murder that overwrites Venture history.

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The Revenge Society
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8.44
502 votes

#7 - The Revenge Society

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/2009

The Guild of Calamitous Intent comes under attack from an old foe with a new name, Revenge. Revenge's hunt for the all-powerful Orb brings the entire Guild to the front door of the Venture Compound, where they must face the combined might of Sgt. Hatred and Hank Venture.

Directors: Jackson Publick
Writer: Doc Hammer
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The Invisible Hand of Fate
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8.42
424 votes

#8 - The Invisible Hand of Fate

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/15/2008

Billy Quizboy recovers the memories of his former life as a failed TV Quizboy, the loss of his hand and eye in a dogfight, his recruitment into the OSI, and his first mission as a spy.

Directors: Jackson Publick
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O.S.I. Love You
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8.41
382 votes

#9 - O.S.I. Love You

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/30/2013

Brock and the O.S.I. come under fire from the higher ups when they lose two high value super-criminal prisoners. Somebody helped them escape, and everyone aboard the hover-quarters is a suspect in this 22 minute potboiler - even the visiting Ventures.

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The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (2)
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8.39
486 votes

#10 - The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (2)

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/24/2008

Heads will fly as the explosive conclusion of The Venture Bros. two-part season finale finds Brock and the Venture family on the run from the Law, The Monarch, Sgt. Hatred and the entire O.S.I!

Directors: Jackson Publick
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Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel
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8.34
565 votes

#11 - Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/2009

Questions are answered and truths are revealed. Learn how Henchman 21 copes with life without 24. See what happens when Brock and the Venture family are forced to part ways. Discover the final fate of H.E.L.P.eR. And all the while, the balance of the free world hangs in the hands of Dean Venture, who must kill Hitler.

Directors: Jackson Publick
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It Happening One Night
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8.33
309 votes

#12 - It Happening One Night

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/7/2016

A legion of avant-garde supervillains redefines the art of arching Dr. Venture while Hank looks for love in a den of ninjas.

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Red Means Stop
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8.33
300 votes

#13 - Red Means Stop

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/21/2016

The Guild of Calamitous Intent and the O.S.I. join forces to eliminate a common threat and Dr. Venture is the bait!

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The Diving Bell vs. The Butter-Glider
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8.32
480 votes

#14 - The Diving Bell vs. The Butter-Glider

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/12/2010

The semi-season opener finds Dr. Venture semi-paralyzed in a trauma-induced coma. Sgt. Hatred and the boys recruit the medical minds of Conjectural Technologies for the mystery diagnosis. Meanwhile, the Monarch is over the moon about his latest gadget, but it's driving a hot wedge in his relationships with his wife and henchmen.

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Showdown at Cremation Creek (1)
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8.31
453 votes

#15 - Showdown at Cremation Creek (1)

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/8/2006

Dr. Girlfriend finally accepts the Monarch's wedding proposal... if he calls off his grudge with Dr. Venture. He agrees, but things take a turn for the worse when his henchmen mistakenly capture Team Venture, while the Phantom Limb vows not to take his break-up lightly.

Directors: Jackson Publick
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The Silent Partners
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8.30
404 votes

#16 - The Silent Partners

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/24/2010

The men of Conjectural Technologies learn that success comes with a price when Billy is kidnapped by the mysterious and extra-creepy investors behind their recent windfall. But who is behind the investors? SPHINX would like to know.

Writer: Doc Hammer
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The Devil's Grip
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8.30
287 votes

#17 - The Devil's Grip

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/21/2013

Dr. Venture is missing... presumed dead. Sgt. Hatred sends Hank and Dean to live with their godfathers to keep them out of harm's way while he forges an unlikely alliance with Henchman 21 to wreak vengeance.

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Spanakopita!
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8.27
337 votes

#18 - Spanakopita!

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/23/2013

Every year, since he was a little boy, Dr. Venture flies to the tiny island of Spanikos for a week of fun in the Grecian sun. But this year a dangerous new enemy and a dark secret from Doc's past threaten to turn his vacation into a slay-cation.

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Momma's Boys
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8.26
339 votes

#19 - Momma's Boys

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/7/2013

A friendship built on lies threatens to unravel Dr. Venture's sanity. But Hank and Henchman 21 are the ones getting committed to an asylum. And Dean's growing relationship with a mystery woman is only making everyone crazier.

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The Unicorn in Captivity
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8.25
185 votes

#20 - The Unicorn in Captivity

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/17/2018

Dr. Venture's latest invention is a real game-changer. And the new game is deadly!

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The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (1)
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8.24
519 votes

#21 - The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (1)

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/17/2008

The OSI has put a termination contract on Brock's head, and three top assassins plan to collect. Meanwhile, the Monarch and Sgt. Hatred battle to see who will be Dr. Venture's arch.

Directors: Jackson Publick
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The Saphrax Protocol
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8.22
156 votes

#22 - The Saphrax Protocol

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/8/2018

Deep inside Guild Headquarters, The Monarch and 21 face their ultimate ordeal. Meanwhile, the Venture Brothers face one of their own.

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The Rorqual Affair
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8.22
194 votes

#23 - The Rorqual Affair

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/13/2018

Deadly waters surround the Monarch when he becomes Wide Wale's prisoner in Part 2 of the Morphic Trilogy.

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Tears of a Sea Cow
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8.22
389 votes

#24 - Tears of a Sea Cow

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/20/2008

The Monarch gets word that Dr. Venture and Brock are at a science conference, and decides to launch an attack on the Venture compound.

Directors: Jackson Publick
Writer: Doc Hammer
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The Lepidopterists
star
8.21
483 votes

#25 - The Lepidopterists

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/3/2008

The Monarch leads an attack on his new arch-nemesis, Dr. Jonas Venture Jr., at his base on Spider Skull Island.

Directors: Jackson Publick
Writer: Doc Hammer
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