The Venture Bros
The Venture brothers are two all-American teens who spend most of their time hopping from one adventure to the next. Along with their caustic and self-centered father, Dr. Venture, the brothers have the uber-spy Brock Samson to protect them. Beast on all sides, the Venture brothers do all they can just to make it out alive!
Episode 13 – The Trial of the Monarch
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. The boys and Dr. Orpheus are forces to testify, but only Brock is aware that something far more sinister is afoot.
Episode 12 – Past Tense
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 adventures 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.
Episode 11 – Return to Spider-Skull Island
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.
Episode 10 – Are you there, God? It’s me, Dean
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.
Episode 9 – Ice Station – Impossible!
Dr. Venture, Pete While and Master Billy Quizboy are invited to take part in a top secret government think tank run by supergenius Professor Impossible (coincidentally their former college professor), but Doc’s life is in jeopardy once he learns the dark secrets of Impossible’s sequestered family. Meanwhile, Hank has become a walking time bomb thanks to a stolen Cold War serum, and Brock and Dean must race the clock to save him.
Episode 8 – Ghosts of the Sargasso
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.
Episode 7 – Home Insecurity
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 the Baron Underbheit’s henchmen choose the same night to launch attacks. While the supervillians bickers 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.
Episode 6 – Tag sale – You’re It!
Always short on cash, Dr. Venture decides to unload some of his father’s old scientific equipment in a huge yard sale that attracts fellow alike. Everyone is supposed to be on their best behavior, but The Monarch can’t resist the temptation to wreck havoc once he finds himself inside the “belly of the beast”… nor can he find a bathroom.
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