The Venture Bros.
| The Venture Bros. | |
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| Genre |
Dramedy Black Comedy Speculative Fiction Action Adventure |
| Created by | Jackson Publick |
| Written by | Jackson Publick Doc Hammer Ben Edlund |
| Directed by | Jackson Publick Ian Jones-Quartey (art and animation) |
| Voices of |
James Urbaniak Patrick Warburton Michael Sinterniklaas Christopher McCulloch Doc Hammer Steven Rattazzi Dana Snyder |
| Composer(s) | J. G. Thirlwell |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 71 (+1 pilot and 4 specials) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jackson Publick Doc Hammer Keith Crofford Mike Lazzo |
| Producer(s) | Rachel Simon |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | NoodleSoup Productions (2003–04) World Leaders Entertainment (2006–2010) Titmouse, Inc. (2011–present) Astro Base GO! Williams Street |
| Release | |
| Original network | Adult Swim |
| Picture format |
4:3 SDTV (2003–06) 16:9 HDTV (2008–present) |
| First shown in | February 16, 2003 |
| Original release | August 7, 2004 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Venture Bros. is an American animated television series that was created by Christopher McCulloch (also known as "Jackson Publick") and premiered on Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim with a pilot episode on February 16, 2003 and its first season began on August 7, 2004. It is considered to be an action/adventure series with comedy-drama elements. The show has been renewed for a seventh and eighth season to consist of ten episodes each.
The Venture Bros. chronicles the lives and adventures of the Venture family: well-meaning but incompetent teenagers Hank and Dean Venture; their emotionally insecure, unethical and under-achieving super-scientist father Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture; the family's bodyguard, secret agent Brock Samson, or his temporary replacement, the reformed villain and pedophile Sergeant Hatred; and the family's self-proclaimed arch-nemesis, The Monarch, a butterfly-themed mega villain.
Show creator McCulloch was one of the main writers for the Saturday morning animated series The Tick. He created The Venture Bros. storyline sometime prior to 2000. After working for the television program Sheep in the Big City and the live-action version of The Tick, McCulloch set to turning The Venture Bros. into an animated series. The Venture Bros. was originally conceived as a comic book story for an issue of Monkeysuit. McCulloch realized that his notes were too extensive for a short comics story and proposed that Comedy Central air The Venture Bros. as an animated series, but the network rejected it. Although the first draft of the pilot script was written in the spring of 2000, the premise was not greenlit until around the summer of 2002 by Adult Swim. McCulloch had not previously considered Cartoon Network because he "didn't want to tone The Venture Bros. down," and was unaware of the existence of the network's late night adult-oriented programming block, Adult Swim.
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