The WORST episodes of The Venture Bros.
Every episode of The Venture Bros. ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. 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.
#1 - Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/1/2008
The truths and half-truths about Dr. Venture's past arch nemesis, Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch, are revealed.
#2 - Perchance to Dean
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/2009
Hank, along with is friend, Dermott, start breaking all of the Venture Compound Rules in a bid to get his father's attention. But Dr. Venture is focused completely on Dean, who is taking his first steps in joining the family business as a Super Scientist. But someone else wants Dr. Venture's attention, too: A shadowy figure from Dr. Venture's past who is out to steal Dean's future.
#3 - 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 when both the Monarch's and Baron Underbheit's henchmen choose the same night to launch attacks. While the supervillains bicker over who has dibs on Dr. Venture, Brock is busy befriending the strangest couple in the Cascadian mountains. Oh yeah, and H.E.L.P.eR. runs away in a fit of jealousy.
#4 - Self-Medication
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/2009
Dr. Venture's therapy group, a collection of former Boy Adventurers (who have become failed adults), quickly fall back into their old habits when a mystery is literally dropped into their session. Meanwhile, Sgt. Hatred tries to overcome his own past when he's stuck in a movie theater crammed with kids. History is doomed to keep repeating itself if Hatred and Dr. Venture can't break their cycles.
#5 - Twenty Years to Midnight
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/6/2006
In the middle of spring cleaning, Brock's discovery of a lost videotape from Jonas Venture Sr. sets Team Venture off on a global scavenger hunt for the hidden pieces of a fantastic and potentially deadly machine. But to save humanity from a terrible fate, they'll have to overcome death, drug addiction, Jonny Quest and Professor Impossible - all under the watchful eye of the mysterious Grand Galactic Inquisitor.
#6 - 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. Meanwhile, the boys are given the Patty Hearst treatment by the Orange County Liberation Front, a group of militant suburbanites who want to take down Brisby's empire Brock enlists the aid of former lover and fellow superspy Molotov Cocktease to 'mount' a rescue, but she may have her own agenda.
#7 - Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/6/2008
Team Venture meets Team Quymn, led by Dr. Tara Quymn, Dr. Venture's childhood sweetheart. Her two twin daughters and manly bodyguard seem oddly familiar, but the two teams must join forces to battle a dreaded were-o-dile: half man, half crocodile.
#8 - Return to Malice
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/2009
In the aftermath of the death of his best friend, Henchman 21 has rededicated his life to become the most feared and skilled of all of the Monarch's Henchmen. But tonight, all bets are off as Henchman 21 begins the hunt for the murderer of Henchman 24. Alliances shift, secrets are revealed, and the Venture brothers are kidnapped. Again.
#9 - 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. But their newfound freedom is short lived once they run afoul of the law and land themselves in a 'Scared Straight'-style outreach program headed by none other than the recently incarcerated Monarch.
#10 - Fallen Arches
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/3/2006
When the Guild of Calamitous Intent finally approves Dr. Orpheus for his very own arch nemesis he calls upon old friends The Alchemist and Jefferson Twilight to resurrect their former super-team, The Order of the Triad. While they audition supervillain candidates at the Venture Compound, a jealous Doc isn't about to let Orpheus steal the show. Let loose the Walking Eye!
#11 - 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. While there, the Ventures' hydrofoil is hijacked by a group of fake ghost pirates who've been stranded in the sargassum since Jesus Jones was popular.
#12 - What Goes Down, Must Come Up
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/13/2008
Brock and Dr. Venture stumble into a hidden state-of-the-art fallout shelter beneath the Venture compound, while Hank and Dean call in Dr. Orpheus to summon the Order of the Triad and help them out.
#13 - 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. Meanwhile, the mysterious kidnapper reveals the secret of his twenty year old grudge through a series of flashbacks to when he, Brock, Doc, Baron Underbheit and Mr. White were all in college together.
#14 - Venture Libre
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/9/2013
One of Dr. Venture's old inventions seems to have gotten a mind of its own, so General Manhowers sends him to Central America to fix it. The Ventures must all confront their own hearts of darkness if they're to survive what's waiting for them in the jungle.
#15 - Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/10/2006
When the Gargantua-1 Space Station breaks orbit and crashes into a wanted terrorist, Colonel Bud Manstrong becomes a national hero. But did it really happen or is Bud's mother, the indomitable Mrs. Manstrong, behind an insidious plot to assassinate the President? The mysterious blinking band aid on Bud's head might be the key to a mystery only the ghost of Abraham Lincoln and Team Venture can solve.
#16 - Powerless in the Face of Death
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/25/2006
The premiere episode finds Team Venture and friends struggling to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives and move on in the wake of Hank and Dean's violent and untimely deaths. While Doc searches for his soul in the far corners of the globe, Dr. Orpheus wallows in guilt, and a mullet-less Brock repairs his beloved Charger, The Monarch plots a daring prison break with the help of his fellow supervillainous inmates.
#17 - Pomp and Circuitry
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/19/2010
Hank and Dean finally graduate from their learning beds. But what's next? College? The army? Life on the outside sees the boys taking two very different career paths--and one of them leads straight to the Phantom Limb.
#18 - The Doctor Is Sin
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/8/2008
Dr. Venture learns that a life without an arch enemy is not fulfilling.
#19 - ¡Viva los Muertos!
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/1/2006
When Dr. Venture finally succeeds in attaining the holy grail of superscience - the revivification of a human corpse for fun and profit - a washed up gang of wandering former teen sleuths is convinced that the Venture Compound is haunted. Their investigation uncovers something far creepier. Meanwhile, Orpheus shepherds Brock through a crisis of conscience with the help of a New Age shaman and a bizarre tea party.
#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. According to the bylaws of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, a temporary truce must be called in order to get Dean medical attention, so Brock and Hank are held as collateral. Doc calls on his friends, Master Billy Quizboy and Mr. White, to perform orchiopexy on Dean.
#21 - Assassinanny 911
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/9/2006
When Brock is reactivated by the Office of Secret Intelligence to track down a rogue agent, he subcontracts his ex-girlfriend, the malevolently mercenary Molotov Cocktease, to protect the Venture Compound from enemies within and without. Love is in the air! Or is it...murder?
#22 - Home Is Where the Hate Is
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/22/2008
With the Monarch busy settling into his new home with his wife, a new villain arises to arch Dr. Venture.
#23 - Handsome Ransom
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/25/2009
The Monarch's abduction and ransom of Hank and Dean, part of his newest scheme to hurt Dr. Venture, inadvertently catches the attention of semi-retired super-hero Captain Sunshine. As Dr. Venture and The Monarch squabble over the rules of kidnapping, Hank must decide if he's ready to become Captain Sunshine's newest young and supple sidekick.
#24 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/24/2006
The Monarch continues to rebuild his villainous empire with the aid of his shadowy new Number 2, Dr. Henry Killinger, but Henchman 21 is suspicious of the deadly foreigner's unctuous charms. Meanwhile, as Dr. Orpheus attempts to exorcise a Japanese demon from Dr. Venture, a mysterious woman from Doc's past resurfaces. And she'd kill to find out where Hank and Dean are.
#25 - 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. Rather than execute them immediately, he inflicts an unspeakable torture upon them: they're forced to attend his wedding. Only the shadowy, disorganized Ünderground resistance group can help them escape.