![]() ![]() The family’s new bodyguard and babysitter happens to be the Ventures’ erstwhile arch nemesis Sgt. ![]() The family’s bodyguard and babysitter, Brock Samson (voiced by Patrick Warburton), has long since taken his old job back at the O.S.I (Office of Secret Intelligence) and the family’s pet robot is now sharing a body with a giant, spider-like walking eye (after temporarily slumming as Brock’s artificial heart). As the seasons have progressed, we have learned that he was once “Rusty Venture”, a Jonny Quest analogue who has grown up into a shadow of his father. The Venture clan (at least those still surviving into the current lineup) includes the two oblivious Venture teens, Hank and Dean (voiced by Christopher McCulloch and Michael Sinterniklaas, respectively) and their super-scientist failure of a father Doctor Thaddeus Venture (voiced by James Urbaniak). This is especially true in Season 5, in which the fractured Venture family is all over the map, figuratively and literally. great also has the potential to make the show inaccessible to new fans with its dense layering. That said, the very evolution that makes The Venture Bros. is so damned well-written, hilarious and engrossing that this show can be immediately addictive to just about anyone who stays tuned through any given three consecutive episodes. Minor and one-off characters have become featured players, central conceits of the show have been destroyed and replaced, and layer after layer after layer of history and in-story mythos have been added over the previous four esoteric seasons, making this show a comic book and cartoon geek’s dream come true.Īt the same time, however, The Venture Bros. The evolution of the storyline and each individual character (going far beyond Hank and Dean, the ostensible title characters) has been as fascinating as it has been logical. What started out as a hilarious self-aware parody of Jonny Quest created by former The Tick writer Christopher McCulloch (aka: Jackson Publick) and Goth Rock musician Eric “Doc” Hammer has become an ingenious pop-culture collective with the absolute best continuity on television. has enjoyed over the past 11 years, the show may still qualify as Adult Swim’s best best-kept-secret. ![]() Above: A whacked out Monarch couple laughs at their own failures.įor all the popularity that The Venture Bros. ![]()
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