The Venture Bros.
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| The Venture Bros. | |
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 Dr. Thaddeus Venture, Brock Samson, Hank and Dean Venture. </small> | |
| Genre | Action-comedy |
| Running time | 0:22 |
| Creator(s) | Jackson Publick |
| Starring | James Urbaniak Patrick Warburton |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original channel | Image:Flag of the United States.svg Cartoon Network (Adult Swim) Image:Flag of Canada.svg Teletoon |
| Original run | February 16 2003–present |
| No. of episodes | 26 (plus 1 pilot and 1 special) |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
The Venture Bros. is an American animated television series airing as part of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. It chronicles the adventures of two dopey teenage boys, Hank and Dean, their super-scientist father, Dr. Thaddeus Venture, and their father's bodyguard, secret agent Brock Samson.
The series pays homage to the style of the classic Hanna-Barbera action series Jonny Quest: Hank and Dean's roles resemble those of Jonny and Hadji, Dr. Venture is a caricature of Dr. Benton Quest, and Brock Samson presents a testosterone-loaded, excessively violent take on Race Bannon, who has appeared in the show (flashbacks show, however, that Dr. Venture was more like Jonny in his youth, and his own father was a more traditional "Dr. Quest"). The show also parodies The Hardy Boys mysteries and comic super heroes.
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[edit] Origins
Show creator Jackson Publick (a pseudonym for Christopher McCulloch) was one of the main writers for the Saturday morning animated show The Tick. Ben Edlund, creator of The Tick, has co-written two episodes, and written one full episode, ¡Viva los Muertos!. Patrick Warburton, who played the Tick in the short-lived live-action series, also provides the voice of Brock Samson.
McCulloch created The Venture Bros.' storyline sometime prior to 2000. After working for the television program Sheep in the Big City and the live-action version of The Tick, McCulloch set to turning The Venture Bros. into an animated series. The Venture Bros. was originally conceived of as a comic book story for an issue of Monkeysuit. McCulloch realized that his notes were too extensive for a short comic story, and decided to pitch it as an animated series to Comedy Central, but it was rejected. Although the first draft of the pilot script was written in the spring of 2000, the premise was not greenlit until around the summer of 2002 by Adult Swim. McCulloch had not previously considered Cartoon Network because he "didn't want to tone The Venture Bros. down" and was unaware of the existence of Adult Swim. With the revised pilot, production began in autumn of that year and the pilot was first run on February 16 2003. The first season of the series was completed in 2004 and it was added to the summer schedule in August.<ref name="origins">Jackson Publick (2005-12-20). It's That Time Again.... Livejournal.com. Retrieved on June 21, 2006.</ref>
[edit] Characters
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The characters of The Venture Bros. are largely either reimaginings of the characters from Jonny Quest, comic book superheroes and supervillains, or other famous figures from popular culture. Hank (voiced by Christopher McCulloch) and Dean Venture (voiced by Michael Sinterniklaas) are the titular twin brothers of the show; both boys have identifiable characteristics, with Hank being the more adventurous and Dean being the more "effeminate" and bookish of the two. Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture (voiced by James Urbaniak), currently runs Venture Industries. Dr. Venture assumes the occupation of a "super-scientist," although his knowledge and credentials in the field are questionable. Brock Samson (voiced by Patrick Warburton) is the massively muscled and hyper-masculine bodyguard to the Venture family. He is an Office of Secret Intelligence agent with a license to kill. Dr. Venture's deceased father, Dr. Jonas Venture (voiced by Paul Boocock), developed a loyal and rather emotional robot named H.E.L.P.eR. (voiced by Soul-Bot) that accompanies and assists the Ventures.
Similar to other science fiction series, the Venture family has various recurring antagonists. Many of them are current or former members of The Guild of Calamitous Intent, a group that bears resemblance to the Legion of Doom. The pernicious but ineffective Monarch (voiced by Christopher McCulloch), the masculine-voiced Doctor Girlfriend (voiced by Doc Hammer), and their numerous henchmen are some of the Venture family's main villains (Monarch and Girlfriend broke up as a couple at the end of the first season). Baron Werner Ünderbheit (voiced by T. Ryder Smith) is a former dictator of the duchy of Ünderland and specifically opposes Dr. Venture due to Dr. Venture's being responsible for the loss of his jaw in college, citing "One is always supposed to look out for one's lab partner!". Phantom Limb (voiced by James Urbaniak) is a high-ranking member of The Guild of Calamitous Intent and former lover of Dr. Girlfriend. He seems at least as intent on persecuting The Monarch as he is in pursuing the Guild's villainous agenda.
The Ventures also have acquaintances that are used to help progress stories and add to the atmosphere of the show. The expert necromancer Doctor Byron Orpheus (voiced by Steven Rattazzi) and his goth daughter Triana (voiced by Lisa Hammer) rent out a portion of the Venture Compound. The albino computer scientist Pete White (voiced by Christopher McCulloch) is a former college friend of Dr. Venture's who usually appears in the company of hydrocephalic "boy genius" Master Billy Quizboy (voiced by Doc Hammer). Surviving members of the original Team Venture, a group of extraordinary people assembled by Dr. Jonas Venture, have also appeared in occasional episodes.
[edit] Episodes
The second season of the series premiered on the internet via Adult Swim Fix on June 23 2006 and on television on June 25 2006; the season finished on October 15, 2006. The considerable delay between the end of the first season and the start of the second was partially caused by Adult Swim's delay in deciding whether to renew the show, but primarily because the show is drawn and inked in the traditional animation style, albeit digitally, causing each episode to take considerable time to move through production. Additionally, the producers were dealing with time constraints of producing a first-season DVD that contained live action interviews and commentary for several episodes.
Most episodes open with a letterboxed scene prior to the opening title sequence. Additionally, almost every episode has a short scene following the credits that usually wraps up the episode humorously or reveals something significant about the characters (usually both).
Each episode is "PRESENTED IN GLORIOUS EXTRA COLOR", as jokingly stated during the episode's end credits - a reference to Hanna-Barbera programs in their golden age being presented in Technicolor. The only normal-run episode that this is missing from is episode 2, "Careers in Science".
[edit] Themes, homages, and references
One of the themes of The Venture Bros. is its multifarious use of allusion in its dialogue, character design and other facets. The series openly homages a variety of sources, including adventure serials, pulp magazines and many other elements of pop culture; musical references, television shows, movies, toys, fads, and comic books have all been used for fodder in the past.
[edit] Jonny Quest
Image:VBJQComparison.png The series' predominant homage is to Jonny Quest as it's the basis for many of the main characters. Dr. Venture represents Benton Quest, Brock as Race Bannon, and the Venture boys as Benton's children. The comparisons, however, are taken to the level of an extreme parody: Dr. Venture is a pill-popping, barely-competent scientist who treats his children and those around him with overt disdain and contempt, Brock is a hyper-macho man who kills without hesitation, and the boys are nincompoops stuck in an out-of-date mindset.
In the latter part of the first season and most overtly in the second, the writers have retrofitted the notion of Dr. Venture being an adult analogue for Jonny Quest. Flashbacks and references to merchandise show Rusty as a Jonny Quest-like child adventurer. This was expanded upon in season two with brief appearances from Hector, who served as an analogue for Hadji, and former boxing champion Swifty as another analogue for Race Bannon.
Direct connections to Jonny Quest is made in three episodes. "Ice Station – Impossible!" featured a cameo appearance from Race Bannon, who dies after parachuting from an exploding airplane. In "Twenty Years to Midnight," a drug-addicted adult Jonny Quest lives in the same bathysphere his father, Benton Quest, once used to communicate with sea life. In "Fallen Arches,", Dr. Venture has built a "Walking Eye" machine, reminiscent to the spider-like robotic spy built by Dr. Zin from the Jonny Quest episode "The Robot Spy".
[edit] Comic books and other literature
The boys' ages and desire to solve mysteries is reminiscent of The Hardy Boys; Jackson Publick's original sketches of the boys depicted what he called "dim-witted Hardy Boys". Hank's appearance and clothes also closely resemble that of the character Fred Jones from the Scooby-Doo series, while Dean's resemble Peter Parker circa Amazing Fantasy #15. In several episodes, Dean wears Spider-Man pajamas and Hank wears Aquaman pajamas (similar to Underoos). Hank has been frequently shown wearing a Batman costume. Brock Samson is a mix of Doc Samson and James Bond, among others.
The family of four that possess Impossible Industries have received horrific, inferior versions of the Fantastic Four's powers. The Office of Secret Intelligence (OSI) is a direct parody of S.H.I.E.L.D. Brock's OSI trainer, Hunter Gathers, is partially a tribute to Nick Fury. The old OSI uniforms also closely resemble those of S.H.I.E.L.D., including the jet-pack seen in older Nick Fury tales. Dr. Jonas Venture and the original Team Venture are strongly reminiscent of pulp novel hero Doc Savage and his entourage.
Henchman 21 has an extensive collection of various memorabilia related to comic characters including the Hulk, Magneto, Spider-Man and Wolverine. 21 has argued that they are not toys on several occasions, even though in Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part II), 21 and Hank end up playing like small children with them.
The characters Doctor Byron Orpheus and Baron Werner Ünderbheit are influenced by Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom, respectively.
[edit] Music
Image:Vb bowie.jpg Musicians and songs are commonly referenced and quoted in The Venture Bros. Many characters often quote songs, sometimes to a great length. Monarch henchmen numbers 21 and 24 are usually discussing music related topics. Some musicians have even appeared as characters in the show. David Bowie is the most referenced musician in the series as of 2006, to the point of arising as a character, the Sovereign, in Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part I) and II.
The dialogue between Major Tom and the Action Man at the beginning of "Ghosts of the Sargasso" refers to the David Bowie songs "Space Oddity" and "Ashes to Ashes." Major Tom's spacecraft is named "TVC 15", the title of another Bowie song. It is said that Mr. Brisby won his "lifelong companda" from Bowie in a trivia contest. Bowie later sends the mercenary Molotov Cocktease to retrieve the animal. In "Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part II)" it is revealed that Bowie is the Sovereign of the Guild of Calamitous Intent. After being briefly usurped by Phantom Limb (with the help of Iggy Pop and Klaus Nomi), he reappears and defeats the three traitors.
There have been numerous references to the band Led Zeppelin, primarily in relation to Brock. Brock mentions that "Zep sold out" on In Through the Out Door. He later implies that he hates the album due to its connection to his memories of a former lover (possibly Molotov Cocktease). When Brock must take an exam to renew his license to kill, instead of answering the questions on its written portion, he draws whom he deems Icarus from the Swan Song Records logo (The actual logo contains Apollo); Brock eventually gets a tattoo of this logo. While listening to "When the Levee Breaks," H.E.L.P.e.R. proceeds to call Zeppelin "jock rock" and an argument ensues with it and Brock.
[edit] General pop culture
The Guild Of Calamitous Intent's agents, called "Strangers," seem inspired by the antagonists of the 1998 science fiction thriller Dark City. (See "The Trial of the Monarch" for additional notes.) The Strangers wear headpieces similar to those of the Cyclops from the french movie The City of Lost Children.
Brock works for the "Office of Secret Intelligence", a subtle play on the Office of Scientific Intelligence that employed agent Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man. To further extend the homage, Brock met Steve Summers, a former government agent who had been bionically rebuilt. Brock's mentor from the OSI, "Colonel Hunter Gathers," takes his appearance and first name from the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. The character's mirrored aviator glasses, distinctive speech cadence, and use of a long cigarette holder all echo Thompson's public persona.
In an apparent reference to William S. Burroughs, Colonel Horace Gentleman speaks to a scantily clad boy named Kiki, with whom it is implied he has had sexual relations. (Burroughs had an affair with a boy named Kiki, which was depicted in the film Naked Lunch.) In a later episode, Horace Gentleman's diary reveals that he attended a party with "the Frosts". The Frost couple, and the party they hosted, were also a major part of the film Naked Lunch. When Pete White inaccurately shoots Billy Quizboy with a shrink ray, Quizboy sarcastically comments "Nice shot, William Burroughs." (Burroughs killed his common-law wife Joan Vollmer while drunkenly attempting to shoot a glass perched on her head.)
Other pop-culture references are abundant. Other references, most of which are used as "one-shot" jokes, include Easy Rider, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Foetus aka J.G. Thirlwell, Lydia Lunch, Stiv Bators, John Woo films, popular director Kevin Smith, the questionable sexuality of members of Depeche Mode, Voltron, INXS, the Illustrated Wildlife Treasury, Magic: The Gathering, the music video for Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf", and prominently, the late German New Wave performer Klaus Nomi. James Bond is heavily referenced as well in the series as well as Brock is essentially a pumped up Bond and he actually carries a licence to kill. Brock remarked in an episode that killing guys in a tux makes him "feel like James Bond." Additionally, in the episode "The Incredible Mr. Brisby", when Brock is rendered unconscious by a cigarette, he mutters "chloral hydrate..." just as Timothy Dalton did in "The Living Daylights."
[edit] Star Wars
Star Wars is probably the most referenced film series in the show. Most episodes either directly or indirectly reference the series, and many of the series' most memorable lines have been quoted by the characters.
- Dr. Venture developed a faux-lightsaber which was purchased by #21 at the Ventures' tag sale. The lightsaber was just a toy and the blade it produced merely passed though solid matter with no damage done. Number 21 then attempts to fight Brock Samson with moves that parodied the Star Wars kid.
- At a costume party, the Ventures (except for Hank) dressed up as Star Wars characters in an attempt to win a contest.
- In the Christmas episode, Dr. Orpheus includes "Wookiee Life Day" amongst other culture's holidays. "Life Day" is the Wookiee faux-Christmas at the center of the plot of The Star Wars Holiday Special.
- Nien Nunb (although unnamed) appeared as a character in the two part finale of season two. He was accidentily summoned from a trading card, and was able to pilot the X-1. However he crashed it into the Monarch's flying cocoon and was killed when he hit the window.
- Portions of the episodes "Love-Bheits" and "Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part II)" directly parody the Star Wars films to a great extent.
- A teaser to the fake episode "Escape to the House of Mummies Part III" features Brock cutting open the corpse of Edgar Allen Poe to stay warm, lifted from Empire Strikes Back.
- H.E.L.P.eR. rides in the top of the X-1 similar to R2-D2 on the X-Wing Fighters in Star Wars.
- In "I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills" when Myra tells the boys she is their mother and they tell her she's wrong, she replies "Search your feelings, boys you know it to be true" from Empire Strikes Back.
[edit] Technology
Image:VB102.jpg The "advanced technology" in the Venture Compound resembles the erroneous predictions of "future technology" made during the jet age more closely than realistic modern technology. As an example, Hank and Dean own hoverbikes, but the learning aids built into their beds still run on punch cards (However, as the technology was invented by Jonas Venture, it was probably advanced at the time).
Dr. Venture's airplane, the X-1, is named after the Bell X-1, which was the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound. This X-n naming convention extends to the Ventures' research ship, the X-2. The X-X-1, invented by Jonas Venture, Jr. is a jet as absurdly advanced by modern standards as the X-1 was by jet age standards.
Fictional elements of technology are commonplace in the show. The characters have used or mentioned functioning teleporters, robots, shrink rays, time machines, and other similar machines that are science fiction clichés.
Various vehicles, especially those of minor villains, tend to resemble airplanes, rocketships, cars, and other conveyances from other popular science fiction and children's TV shows and films.
[edit] Failure
Publick and Hammer have stated that one of the primary themes of The Venture Bros. is failure and the "death of the Space Age dream world".<ref>Jackson Publick (2006-06-21). Quickcast Commentary:The Venture Bros.. quickstopentertainment.com. Retrieved on 2006-06-21.</ref> This is both failure on a personal scale and on a social scale, and there are many examples that highlight this theme.
- Obviously, Doctor Venture himself is a colossal failure as a superscientist, an adventurer, a businessman, an heir to his heroic father and as a parent himself. The Monarch even describes Dr. Venture's lab as "a museum of failure." In fact, the only thing Venture was ever actually good at was being a boy adventurer, and has been said to have 'peaked around 15'.
- Despite being one of the world's leading inventors and truly loving his son, Doctor Jonas Venture, Sr. failed raising his son, Doctor Thaddeus Venture, in a healthy environment. Due to using subliminal learning aids and going with his father on all his missions, Thaddeus grew up to be a socially awkward individual who has failed to even come close to living up to his father's legacy. Even though he was a successful "super scientist", many of his inventions have some glaring flaws. Gargantua one, for example, can only indicate problems with a blinking light labeled "Problem". H.E.L.P.eR is also laughably inept at following instructions.
- The Monarch is a complete failure as a supervillain and as a boyfriend, ultimately incapable of defeating even Doctor Venture. The Monarch's henchmen are essentially failures in every aspect of their lives. When they fulfilled their orders by killing the Venture Brothers, it was an accident brought about by stupidity and improper gun handling.
- Phantom Limb—a suave, clever villain—manages to fail due to his own ego; killing a potential buyer of a rare stolen painting in an attempt to show off, driving Doctor Girlfriend away from him with his pomposity and small-mindendess (and some sexism), and ultimately fails in his attempt to take over the Guild of Calamitous Intent from its leader, David Bowie/The Sovereign.
- Doctor Orpheus, though a powerful necromancer, is completely unable to make real friends or even keep his daughter in line because he's both such a pushover and such an insufferable know-it-all. He also has been incapable of establishing himself as an actual superhero, finally resorting to playing pranks and trying to offend supervillains, then handing them his card "should they wish to exact revenge."
- Professor Impossible, while truly the kind of superscientist that Doctor Venture's father was, is an abject failure at any kind of interpersonal relationship. He forgets that he even has a son, and is so offended by the concept of emotional intimacy that he has built a robot to hug people for him and contemplates developing drugs to eliminate his wife's need for love. By extension, although both Professor Impossible and his family have all gained super powers roughly analogous to those possessed by Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, the powers were achieved as the result of an accident; aside from Impossible's ability to stretch himself, the powers of his wife, brother-in-law, and cousin are useless and, cause the user significant physical and/or emotional pain.
- Master Billy Quizboy, despite being middle-aged, continues to insist he is a "boy genius" and waits (alongside Pete White) to become a full superscientific superhero. Instead, the pair live in a trailer and solicit supervillains to be their arch-nemeses.
- Brock Samson, while very powerful, has no self-control. He failed in his attempt at a collegiate football career after accidentally killing his team's quarterback during practice. He is unable to successfully "go past second base" with Molotov Cocktease. Various characters have hinted that Brock even failed at being a government agent, with the implication that his assignment as Doctor Venture's bodyguard was given to him as punishment for as of yet unrevealed failures as a OSI operative. It's also implied that Brock cannot deal with his emotions, as whenever he falls into a guilt spiral, his army mentality sends him into a homicidal rage. Brock, however, seems to have succeeded at making the Ventures a kind of second family - even if they don't always appreciate it.
- Jonas Venture Jr., while better than Doctor Venture at nearly everything, managed to be defeated by his brother twice. The first time, he was "absorbed" by Doctor Venture in the womb and remained there for 43 years. When he finally escaped from his brother's body, he tried to exact revenge on Doctor Venture and reclaim Venture Industries for himself, but ultimately failed when stopped by Brock. He also is unable to form any kind of bond with his brother, and seems completely unaware of Thaddeus' contempt and jealousy for him.
- Another trend of failure is the ruined lives of boy adventurers. The Venture Twins themselves have been murdered or died in horrible accidents numerous times, only to be cloned back to life and die again. Dr. Venture is a hopeless amphetamine addict. Dr. Venture's former best friend, Hector, was locked away in an abandoned building for years, to the point that he not only forgot what he was doing there but also how old he was.
Perhaps more telling, however, is the sense of societal failure. All around the Venture Compound one sees the artifacts of the Jet / Space Age — supersonic nuclear-powered jets, fantastic inventions and gleaming science. But, forty years later, those Jet Age relics are breaking down, and their promises (as well as the paradise that science and technology were to have ushered in) have all been broken. There is perhaps no better symbol of this than Gargantua One, a gigantic space station built by Doctor Jonas Venture, who dubbed it "the ninth wonder of the world". Intended to be a beacon of scientific advancement and hope for the future, by the present day the station has become completely abandoned except for two astronauts, a sex-starved Russian woman with a disfigured face and an emasculated, middle-aged virgin. The station has fallen into disrepair, breaking down from only minor complications, and eventually crashes into Earth and explodes (ironically killing numerous members of Al Qaeda; the station's only success was a result of its being a failure).
Similarly, the grandiose plans and tyranny of supervillainy have given way to the almost pathetic bureaucracy of the Guild of Calamitous Intent. Villains are divvied up according to grade depending upon their power levels and skills sets, are handcuffed via restriction to only using certain kinds of weapons, many of them expressly made to be non-lethal in order to create the appearance of the Guild being an "honorable" organization that doesn't engage in violent, murderous acts of "super-villain aggression" against innocent civilians and law enforcement personnel. Government agencies like the Office of Secret Intelligence are mere shells spouting patriotic jingoism that has little bearing on the realities of the present day. The future as promised never arrived and the next generation is incapable of even running their own lives, let alone thinking big or creating anything.
[edit] DVD releases
| DVD Name | Cover Art | Release Date | Ep # | Additional Information |
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| Season One | Image:VentureBros S1 final.jpg | May 30, 2006 | 13 | This two disc set includes all 13 episodes of Season 1. Bonus features include "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay" (the pilot) and "A Very Venture Christmas", deleted scenes, behind the scenes mockumentary with the Venture Bros. Cast and creators, and cast and crew commentaries on "Mid-Life Chrysalis", "Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic!", "Tag Sale – You're It!", "Ghosts of the Sargasso", "Return to Spider-Skull Island", and "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay". |
| Season Two | April 17, 2007 | 13 | This two disc set will include all 13 episodes of Season 2. |
The first season of The Venture Bros. on DVD was released on May 30, 2006, as officially announced by Warner Home Video.<ref name="s1dvd">David Lambert (2006-01-31). Venture Bros., The - Street Date, Box Art, Extras & More For Season 1 Package!. TVshowsonDVD.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-11.</ref> It coincided with the June 25 premiere of the second season. Originally, it was scheduled for March 14, 2006, but was delayed until May 30, 2006. The DVD packaging and interior art was created by comic artist Bill Sienkiewicz.
On May 31, 2006, the season one DVD reached #1 on Amazon's top selling DVDs list. <ref>Jackson Publick (2006-05-31). Holy crap!. Livejournal.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-11.</ref>
The season two DVD has been announced for April 17, 2007.<ref>Publick makes the season 2 date public</ref>
[edit] The "Lost DVD Commentary"
On a June 30, 2006, LiveJournal post, Jackson Publick revealed that he and Doc Hammer had recorded a commentary track for the season one episode "Home Insecurity." Warner Bros. chose to omit this track from the Season One DVD due to space limitations and some minor sound quality issues. Publick also stated that the commentary can be found and downloaded from Quickstop Entertainment.<ref>http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/?p=281</ref>
[edit] Notes and references
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[edit] External links
- The Official Venture Brothers Website
- Adult Swim - Venture Bros. Website
- AdultSwim.co.uk - Watch on Adult Swim UK
- Scrotal Safety Commission (A satirical site on testicular torsion created by Doc Hammer for the episode "Are You There God, It's Me, Dean")
- Jackson Publick's Venture Bros. Livejournal
- James Urbaniak's Livejournal (James Urbaniak - the voice of Dr. Thaddeus S. "Rusty" Venture)
- The Venture Brothers Livejournal community
- The People's Republic of Venture (A fan site. Mentioned on James Urbaniak's LiveJournal as his favorite Venture Bros. fan site/forum.)
- The Venture Bros. on TV Squad
- The Mantis-Eye Experiment (A fan site with in-depth analysis of each episode.)
- The Venture Bros. at the TV IV
| The Venture Bros. | |
|---|---|
| PRESENTED IN GLORIOUS EXTRA COLOR | |
| Characters Main | Secondary | Hank Venture | Dean Venture | Dr. Thaddeus Venture | Brock Samson | H.E.L.P.eR. | Jonas Venture Junior Dr. Orpheus | Triana Orpheus | Pete White | Master Billy Quizboy | Molotov Cocktease | Myra Brandish The Monarch | Doctor Girlfriend | #21 | #24 | Baron Werner Ünderbheit | Phantom Limb |
| Organizations Prominent | Minor | Team Venture/Venture Industries | Order of the Triad | Monarch Henchmen | Guild of Calamitous Intent |
| Cast and crew | Lisa Hammer | James Urbaniak | Patrick Warburton | Michael Sinterniklaas | Steven Rattazzi | Paul Boocock Jackson Publick | Doc Hammer | J. G. Thirlwell | World Leaders Entertainment |
| Episodes | Pilot | Season 1 | Season 2 | Specials | Phone Calls |
