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The Worst Episodes of The Venture Bros.

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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 Worst Episode
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    The Venture Bros. Season 1 Episode 2 - Careers in Science
    7.3/10(605 votes)

    S1:E2

    The Venture family must travel to space to repair an orbiting space station that Dr. Venture's father built in the 1970s, but a mysterious space phantom could be haunting the station!

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  2. The Venture Bros. Season 2 Episode 9 - Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?
    7.4/10(407 votes)

    S2:E9

    The ghost of Abraham Lincoln and Team Venture investigate an insidious plot to assassinate the President.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  3. The Venture Bros. Season 1 Episode 1 - Dia de los Dangerous!
    7.5/10(659 votes)

    S1:E1

    When the Venture Family visits Tijuana for a lecture Dr. Venture is giving at the (community) University of Mexico, the dastardly Monarch weaves a cocoon of villainy that leaves the Venture brothers trapped in his clutches.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  4. The Venture Bros. Season 1 Episode 4 - The Incredible Mr. Brisby
    7.5/10(522 votes)

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  5. The Venture Bros. Season 1 Episode 8 - Mid-Life Chrysalis
    7.6/10(486 votes)

    S1:E8

    The Monarch sends Dr. Girlfriend undercover to seduce Dr. Venture in order to inject him with a body-altering serum.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writers:Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer

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  6. The Venture Bros. Season 1 Episode 3 - Home Insecurity
    7.7/10(543 votes)

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  7. The Venture Bros. Season 2 Episode 7 - Love-Bheits
    7.7/10(411 votes)

    S2:E7

    Baron Ünderbheit captures Team Venture when the X-1 crash lands in Ünderland while en route from a superscience costume party.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  8. The Venture Bros. Season 4 Episode 10 - Pomp and Circuitry
    7.7/10(297 votes)

    S4:E10

    Hank and Dean graduate from their education beds, and look into college. Hank rebels and tries to join Sphinx. Meanwhile, Phantom Limb breaks out of the Guild's dungeons and seeks revenge once more.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  9. The Venture Bros. Season 1 Episode 5 - Eeney, Meeney, Miney… Magic!
    7.8/10(518 votes)

    S1:E5

    Dr. Venture's new experiment has the entire family interested--not to mention trapped inside! The Ventures' strange new neighbor, master of mysticism Dr. Orpheus, may be the only one who can help them escape.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  10. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 6 - Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman
    7.8/10(357 votes)

    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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  11. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 7 - What Goes Down, Must Come Up
    7.8/10(343 votes)

    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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  12. The Venture Bros. Season 5 Episode 6 - Momma's Boys
    7.8/10(281 votes)

    S5:E6

    Dean pays a visit to the mystery woman in his life, while Hank and Dermott play a prank on Dr. Venture which leads him on a quest to find his mystery friend and rescue him.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  13. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 4 - Home Is Where The Hate Is
    7.9/10(354 votes)

    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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  14. The Venture Bros. Season 4 Episode 3 - Perchance to Dean
    7.9/10(335 votes)

    S4:E3

    Rusty begins to indoctrinate Dean into his career as a super scientist, not knowing that a deformed and believed aborted Dean clone stalks the compound. The deformed clone's attempt to kill Dean leads to a mix up with Hank thinking that he's killed his brother, while local police prepare to raid the Compound after a UPS delivery man suspects illegal activities going on.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  15. The Venture Bros. Season 5 Episode 3 - SPHINX Rising
    7.9/10(292 votes)

    S5:E3

    While the Monarch and his wife attempt to destroy the Venture compound once and for all, the Monarch learns a startling secret about his past. Meanwhile, Twenty-One tries to create a new SPHINX... and inadvertently recruits the members of the old SPHINX.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  16. The Venture Bros. Season 5 Episode 4 - Spanakopita!
    7.9/10(295 votes)

    S5:E4

    A figure from Dr. Venture's past haunts him during his annual vacation to Spanikos.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  17. The Venture Bros. Season 6 Episode 2 - Maybe No Go
    7.9/10(275 votes)

    S6:E2

    White and Billy grapple with their archenemy in their old neighborhood; Doc realizes he cannot face his responsibilities alone.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  18. The Venture Bros. Season 1 Episode 7 - Ice Station Impossible!
    8.0/10(487 votes)

    S1:E7

    Dr. Venture, Pete White and Master Billy Quizboy are invited to take part in a top secret government think tank run by supergenius Professor Impossible.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  19. The Venture Bros. Season 1 Episode 9 - Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean
    8.0/10(491 votes)

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  20. The Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 8 - Tears of a Sea Cow
    8.0/10(336 votes)

    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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  21. The Venture Bros. Season 4 Episode 5 - The Revenge Society
    8.0/10(314 votes)

    S4:E5

    The Guild of Calamitous Intent comes under attack by an insane Phantom Limb, who now goes by the name "Revenge". Meanwhile, Hank and Sergeant Hatred must protect the compound from the Guild's agents. We also learn something very interesting about Dean's birthright.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  22. The Venture Bros. Season 4 Episode 11 - Any Which Way but Zeus
    8.0/10(300 votes)

    S4:E11

    Someone is capturing heroes and villains and taking them to a super death camp. The forces of good and evil must join forces to stop their mysterious captor.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  23. The Venture Bros. Season 4 Episode 15 - The Silent Partners
    8.0/10(289 votes)

    S4:E15

    Conjectural Technologies' newfound success hits a snag when Billy is kidnapped by the same mysterious benefactors who invested in their company, and SPHINX launches an investigation aimed at determining who is behind these dubious financiers.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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  24. The Venture Bros. Season 1 Episode 11 - Past Tense
    8.1/10(465 votes)

    S1:E11

    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.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Christopher McCulloch

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  25. The Venture Bros. Season 1 Episode 12 - The Trial of the Monarch
    8.1/10(464 votes)

    S1:E12

    The Monarch is on trial for the one crime he may not have committed, under mysterious circumstances stemming from his bitter breakup with Dr. Girlfriend.

    Director:Christopher McCulloch
    Writer:Doc Hammer

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Careers in Science" is the worst rated episode of "The Venture Bros.". It scored 7.3/10 based on 605 votes. Directed by Christopher McCulloch and written by Doc Hammer, it aired on 8/14/2004. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?".