The Venture Bros.

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The Venture Bros.
Premiere February 16, 2003
Finale
Airs on hiatus
Creator Jackson Publick
Network Adult Swim
Style 30-minute animated action comedy
Company AstroBase Go!,
World Leaders Entertainment (formerly Noodlesoup Productions)
Episodes 39 + pilot + 1 special (through season 3)
Seasons 3
Status renewed through season 4
Origin USA

The Venture Bros. is an animated series broadcast on Adult Swim chronicling the adventures of Dr. Thaddeus S. "Rusty" Venture, his sons Dean and Hank, and their bodyguard Brock Samson. Dr. Venture follows in the footsteps of his super-scientist father, Dr. Jonas Venture. The Venture family frequently clashes with villains like The Monarch and his assistant Dr. Girlfriend.

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[edit] History

Show creator Chris McCulloch came up with the idea of The Venture Bros. around 1998 as a comic book story, and soon wrote the first draft of The Venture Bros. while he worked as a storyboard artist on Sheep in the Big City. At the time, Chris was meeting with Comedy Central regarding a show pitch of his comic Uncle Nature, all the while playing around with the Venture Bros. concept in the background. The Comedy Central pitch fell through, and Chris' comic book story about the brothers Venture was becoming too extensive to work as a comic book anymore, so he began to turn it into an animated pilot script. Chris also pitched The Venture Bros. script to Comedy Central, where they "politely" turned it down within the week.

McCulloch's next stop was The Tick, which was being produced by Sony Pictures Television for a live action series on Fox, which is where his newfound agent helped him bring his idea of The Venture Bros. to a studio that was beginning to develop CG animated shows. Unfortunately, the studio soon decided against the idea, and The Venture Bros. was once again in development limbo. Upon the cancellation of The Tick, Chris McCulloch revised his pilot script, made some redesigns, and gave it a better overall look. Soon, he headed back to New York City where he met Jeff Nodelman of Noodlesoup Productions, who assured McCulloch that the show could be done efficiently and inexpensively.

Later, McCulloch learned about Adult Swim, and contacted Linda Simensky for a pitch meeting. Luckily for him, the block needed to greenlight a third pilot, meaning The Venture Bros. was set to be produced. After months of negotiating, the show was ready to be produced in September 2002 at Noodlesoup, using Flash animation, and on a very low budget. For the show, Chris McCulloch adopted the alias Jackson Publick for his production and writing credits (but not voice credits). Musical artist J.G. Thirlwell allowed the show to license some of his music, as he was currently too busy to score anything new. The pilot completed, and finally premiered on Adult Swim in February 2003, much to the liking of fans. Months later, the show was greenlit for series, which would premiere in late summer of 2004.

The show is the first traditionally animated half-hour series to be produced by Adult Swim, who mainly produces 15-minute cheaply animated shows using Macromedia Flash or Adobe After Effects. The Venture Bros. is one of the lowest budget traditionally animated shows on the air, making the production a real tree-fort of an operation.

The Venture Bros. is produced by Astrobase Go! and World Leaders Entertainment in New York City and is animated by Digital eMation, Inc. in Seoul, Korea.

[edit] Cast

Actor Character Duration
Main Cast
Christopher McCulloch Hank Venture 1 2 3
The Monarch 1 2 3
Peter White 1 2 3
Henchman 24 1 2 3
Michael Sinterniklaas Dean Venture 1 2 3
James Urbaniak Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture 1 2 3
Dr. Jonas Venture, Jr. 1 2 3
Patrick Warburton Brock Samson 1 2 3
Supporting/Recurring Cast
Paul Boocock Jonas Venture, Sr. 1 2 3
Doc Hammer Dr. Girlfriend 1 2 3
Master Billy Quizboy 1 2 3
Henchman 21 1 2 3
Lisa Hammer Triana Orpheus 1 2 3
Stephen Ratazzi Byron Orpheus 1 2 3

[edit] Seasons

Season Premiere Finale #
Adult Swim
Season One February 16, 2003 December 19, 2004 15
Season Two June 25, 2006 October 15, 2006 13
Season Three June 1, 2008 August 24, 2008 13
Season Four — — 13

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[edit] DVD Releases

Title Release Date #
Season Sets
The Venture Bros.: Season One May 30, 2006 2 purchase
The Venture Bros.: Season Two April 17, 2007 2 purchase

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