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The Best Episodes of The Venture Bros. Season 3

Every episode of The Venture Bros. Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Venture Bros. Season 3!

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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 1 - Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny
    8.5/10(364 votes)

    #1 - Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny

    S3:E1

    The wait is over. The truths and half-truths about Dr. Venture's former arch nemeses, Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch, are finally revealed (albeit obliquely) in an episode spanning twenty years.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writers:Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer

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  2. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 2 - The Doctor Is Sin
    8.3/10(341 votes)

    #2 - The Doctor Is Sin

    S3:E2

    Dr. Venture learns that a life with no arch enemy is not nearly so sweet when he finds himself besieged by C-list pretenders to the Monarch's throne, and his super-science business once again on the rocks.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  3. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 3 - The Invisible Hand of Fate
    8.6/10(360 votes)

    #3 - The Invisible Hand of Fate

    S3:E3

    At long last, The Venture Bros. peels away the onion-like shrouds of time for a look back into the troubled past of America's most beloved hydrocephalic former boy genius.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  4. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 4 - Home Is Where The Hate Is
    7.9/10(321 votes)

    #4 - Home Is Where The Hate Is

    S3:E4

    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
    Writers:Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer

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  5. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 5 - The Buddy System
    8.4/10(333 votes)

    #5 - The Buddy System

    S3:E5

    Dr. Venture, in a bid to make some much-needed money, opens up the compound as "Rusty's Day Camp for Boy Adventurers." But while the children are kept busy with activities.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  6. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 6 - Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman
    7.8/10(326 votes)

    #6 - Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman

    S3:E6

    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

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  7. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 7 - What Goes Down, Must Come Up
    7.9/10(313 votes)

    #7 - What Goes Down, Must Come Up

    S3:E7

    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

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  8. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 8 - Tears of a Sea Cow
    8.1/10(308 votes)

    #8 - Tears of a Sea Cow

    S3:E8

    Bored and under-whelmed with his new Guild-assigned arch-enemies, The Monarch seeks to re-spark his old hatred by secretly visiting the Venture Compound while Dr. Venture is away at the Science Now conference.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  9. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 9 - Now Museum, Now You Don't
    8.1/10(301 votes)

    #9 - Now Museum, Now You Don't

    S3:E9

    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

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  10. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 10 - The Lepidopterists
    8.5/10(316 votes)

    #10 - The Lepidopterists

    S3:E10

    The Monarch launches his first attack on his new arch nemesis, the other Dr. Venture. But Jonas has the formidable defenses of Spider-Skull Island on his side, as well as his own Team Venture.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  11. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 11 - ORB
    8.1/10(306 votes)

    #11 - ORB

    S3:E11

    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

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  12. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 12 - The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (1)
    8.8/10(324 votes)

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

    S3:E12

    Brock Samson is a marked man.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writers:Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer

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  13. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 13 - The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (2)
    8.9/10(341 votes)

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

    S3:E13

    Brock and the Venture family are on the run from the Law, the Monarch, Sgt. Hatred and the entire O.S.I.! Only bald ingenuity and an unlikely ally can possibly save their necks from the deadly noose tightening around the Venture Compound.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writers:Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny" is the best rated episode of "The Venture Bros." season 3. It scored 8.5/10 based on 364 votes. Directed by Christopher McCulloch and written by Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer, it aired on 6/1/2008. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Doctor Is Sin".