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The Venture Bros.

The Venture Bros.is an Americanadult animatedaction comedytelevision series created byJackson PublickandDoc HammerforCartoon Network's late night programming blockAdult Swim.Following a pilot episode on February 16, 2003, the series premiered on August 7, 2004.

The Venture Bros.
Genre
Created byJackson Publick
Written by
Directed by
  • Jackson Publick (seasons 5–6)
  • Juno Lee (season 7)
Voices of
Music byJ. G. Thirlwell
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No.of seasons7
No.of episodes81 (+1 pilot and 4 specials)(list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
ProducerRachel Simon
Running time22–24 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkAdult Swim
ReleaseFebruary 16, 2003(2003-02-16)–
October 7, 2018(2018-10-07)

The Venture Bros.was one of Adult Swim's longest-running original series in terms of years, and had the record for fewest seasons produced of a scripted show per year of continuous production, with seven produced seasons over fifteen years of production.

Throughout its run, the series has received critical acclaim for its writing, characters, humor, animation and world building. It ended its run on October 7, 2018, with a total of 81 episodes over the course of seven seasons as well as fourspecials.On September 7, 2020, series creator Jackson Publick announced onTwitterthat the series had been canceled. Adirect-to-videofilm,The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart,was released on July 21, 2023, on digital and July 25, 2023, on Blu-ray[1]and premiered on Adult Swim andMax90 days later. The film serves as the series finale.[2][3][4]

Premise

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The series chronicles the lives and adventures of the Venture family: emotionally insecure, unethical and underachieving super-scientist fatherDr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture;his well-meaning but dimwitted and incompetent teenage fraternal twin sonsHankandDean Venture;the family'sbodyguard,secret agentBrock Samson,or his temporary replacement, the reformedvillainandpederastSergeant Hatred;and the family's self-proclaimedarchnemesis,TheMonarch,a butterfly-themed supervillain.[5]Initially conceived as a satire of boy adventurer andSpace Agefiction prevalent in the early 1960s, it is considered to be an action/adventure series with bothcomedicanddramaticelements.

Characters

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Main article:List of The Venture Bros. characters

The characters ofThe Venture Bros.are largely re-imaginings of characters fromJonny Questas well as comic booksuperheroesandsupervillains.

  • Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture(voiced byJames Urbaniak), a former boy adventurer and inspiration for the "Rusty Venture" cartoon series, runs what remains of Venture Industries, a once-leading global corporation established by his super-scientist adventurer father Jonas. Since Jonas's death, Venture Industries has declined to a shadow of its former glory, now occupying only a portion of the vast and deteriorating Venture compound and external locations including a base on Spider Skull Island, which his father captured, and the space station Gargantua-1, which his father built. Rusty dropped out of college shortly after his father's death and his academic credentials have been questioned.[6]It is stated he only holds an honorary degree from aTijuanacommunity college.[7]He attempts to follow in his father's footsteps by becoming a super-scientist himself. His competence frequently falls short of his father's and he often demonstrates questionable ethics, leading others to claim that his occasional successes merely capitalize on the work of his late father.
  • Hank(voiced byChris McCulloch) andDean Venture(voiced byMichael Sinterniklaas) are the titularfraternal twinbrothers of the show. Hank is the more adventurous and Dean is the more timid and bookish of the two brothers. The two teenaged brothers often wind up in perilous situations, and (as revealed in the second season) have been killed over a dozen times, only to be replaced with exact clones who have no memory of their own deaths. The titleThe Venture Bros.has taken on different meanings throughout the series with the introduction of Rusty's fraternal twin brother Jonas Jr., and Hank and Dean's illegitimate paternal half-brother,Dermott Fictel.The identity of Hank and Dean's mother remains the subject of some debate. At the end of the series finale movieThe Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heartit is revealed that Rusty Venture grew the boys in an artificial womb that he attached to his own abdomen, and it is suggested that Deborah Majeure, daughter of supervillain Force Majeure and actress Bobbi St. Simone, is the boys' genetic mother.
  • Brock Samson(voiced byPatrick Warburton) is the longstanding bodyguard to the Venture family. Appointed by theOffice of Secret Intelligence(OSI), the muscular and hyper-masculine Brock frequently uses hislicense to killto protect the Venture family from any threat with sudden and brutal violence. He is a ruthless (and somewhat sadistic) hand-to-hand combatant, usually preferring to use a combat knife, his hands and feet, or his vintage Dodge Charger rather than firearms; the Monarch refers to him fearfully as Venture's "Swedish murder machine" ( "Dia de Los Dangerous!"). In the fourth season, Brock Samson is replaced as a bodyguard bySergeant Hatred(voiced by McCulloch), a former supervillain. Prior to becoming their bodyguard, Hatred was assigned to be the Venture family's arch-enemy. Hatred is also a "cured"pedophile;his pedophilia is actually controlled by an experimental drug ( "Nomolestol" ) given to him by the OSI and its effectiveness has varied wildly between episodes. Season 6 sees Samson return to his position as the Venture's official bodyguard while Sgt. Hatred becomes security for the new Venture compound in New York City.
  • Dr. Venture's deceased father, Dr. Jonas Venture (voiced byPaul Boocock), was the model super-scientist of his day. He was a visionary who changed the world with his inventions and stands as the inspiration for most other protagonists in the series. He formed "Team Venture", a collection of friends and associates that helped him fight crime and subsequently save his son (Dr. Venture) from his arch-enemies. To help his son cope without a mother figure, he developed a loyal and rather emotionalrobotnamedH.E.L.P.eR.(listed in episode credits as voiced by "Soul-Bot" ) that accompanies and assists the Ventures. Early in the series, he was portrayed as a model man and father. However, later episodes show him as callous and uncaring about his son's well-being, while showcasing questionable ethics, both medically and socially. In the fourth-season episode"Self-Medication",there is a scene showing the young Rusty Venture receiving psychotherapy from his father. As Rusty says that he longs for a normal childhood, Jonas is shown to have snuck out of his study while Rusty elaborates upon his desire to not follow in his footsteps; after tiptoeing back to his desk, Jonas interrupts him and insists that Rusty blames his father for all of his problems, and is ungrateful for the opportunities given to him. In general, Jonas' portrayal has shown him to be less and less of a sympathetic character as the series progresses, eventually leading Rusty to proclaim that he was a "far worse" father than he is.

Throughout the series, the Venture family has had various recurring antagonists. Many are current or former members of The Guild of Calamitous Intent, an organization founded to save mankind from self-destruction, but which now serves as anad hocplacement agency matching super villains with appropriate heroic nemeses. The organization is run by the mysterious leader known only as "The Sovereign", who is revealed to be real-life rock starDavid Bowiein episode 26, though in episode 5 of the 5th season it is revealed that The Sovereign is actually a shape-shifter who frequently appears as Bowie.

  • The Venture Family's primary nemesis is the pernicious but ineffective super-villain theMonarch(voiced by McCulloch). Assuming the motif of amonarch butterflyand "arching" Dr. Venture since college, the Monarch will stop at nothing to antagonize Dr. Venture (even though his motive is unknown). Accompanying the Monarch is the masculine-voicedDr. Girlfriend(voiced byDoc Hammer), referred to by the Monarch as "Dr. Mrs. The Monarch" after their wedding.
  • Baron Werner Ünterbheit (voiced byT. Ryder Smith) is a former dictator of Ünterland and bears a grudge against Venture. He blames Venture for the loss of his jaw in college, explaining "One is always supposed to look out for one's lab partner!" The season three premiere reveals that the Monarch was responsible for the explosion that destroyed Ünterbheit's jaw, in an early attempt to kill Venture.
  • Phantom Limb(voiced byJames Urbaniak) is another villain, a former lover of Dr. Girlfriend, and a rival to the Monarch. He is very snobby and debonair, and has invisible arms, which can produce energy and electrocute opponents. Phantom Limb was a high-ranking Guild member, until he tried to usurp the Sovereign.
  • The Ventures' friends and acquaintances include expertnecromancerDoctor Byron Orpheus(voiced bySteven Rattazzi) and his apathetic, teenagegothdaughterTriana(voiced byLisa Hammer), who rent a portion of the Venture Compound; thealbinocomputer scientistPete White(voiced by McCulloch), a former college friend of Dr. Venture's;hydrocephalic"boy genius"Master Billy Quizboy(voiced by Hammer); and Dr. Jonas Venture, Jr. (voiced byJames Urbaniak), Dr. Venture's formerly parasitic fraternal twin brother who has succeeded in all of the areas that Rusty does not. Surviving members of the original Team Venture have also appeared as well as Dr. Orpheus's teammates in the Order of the Triad.

Episodes

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Main article:List of The Venture Bros. episodes
SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast releasedNetwork
PilotFebruary 16, 2003(2003-02-16)Adult Swim
113August 7, 2004(2004-08-07)October 30, 2004(2004-10-30)
SpecialDecember 19, 2004(2004-12-19)
213June 25, 2006(2006-06-25)October 15, 2006(2006-10-15)
313June 1, 2008(2008-06-01)August 24, 2008(2008-08-24)
4168October 18, 2009(2009-10-18)December 13, 2009(2009-12-13)
8September 12, 2010(2010-09-12)November 21, 2010(2010-11-21)
SpecialAugust 28, 2011(2011-08-28)
SpecialOctober 28, 2012(2012-10-28)
58June 2, 2013(2013-06-02)July 21, 2013(2013-07-21)
SpecialJanuary 19, 2015(2015-01-19)
68January 31, 2016(2016-01-31)March 20, 2016(2016-03-20)
710August 5, 2018(2018-08-05)October 7, 2018(2018-10-07)
FilmJuly 21, 2023(2023-07-21)

Most episodes begin with acold openand are shot to appear to be in letter-box format. Almost every episode features both asmash cutinto the end credits, and a shortscene following the credits.The second season of the series premiered on the internet viaAdult Swim Fixon June 23, 2006, and on television on June 25, 2006; the season finished on October 15, 2006. The considerable delay between the end of the first season and the start of the second was partially caused by Adult Swim's delay in deciding whether to renew the show, primarily because the show is drawn and inked in thetraditional animationstyle (albeit digitally), causing each episode to take considerable time to move through production. Additionally, the producers were dealing with the time constraints of producing a first-season DVD that containedlive actioninterviews and commentary for several episodes.

The third season began on June 1, 2008, and marked the beginning of the show's broadcast inhigh-definition.A 15-minute rough cut of "The Doctor Is Sin"aired on April 1, 2008, as part of Adult Swim'sApril Fool's Daytheme of airing sneak peeks of new episodes. The fourth season was split into two segments airing a year apart, with the first eight episodes airing in the fall of 2009 and the remaining episodes in fall of 2010.[8]A note contained in the closing credits of the Season 4 finale indicated that the series would continue into the fifth season.

On February 6, 2013, it was announced that Season 5 would premiere on May 19, 2013. This was later shifted to June 2, 2013, at midnight.[9]

On July 8, 2013, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick stated in an interview withSlate Magazinethat they had begun writing the sixth season as of Summer 2013 and that it would enter full-production in September 2013. They tentatively stated that Season 6 would premiere in Fall of 2014, or very early 2015 at the latest.[10]This estimated season-debut date turned out to be extremely premature as Season 6 premiered at Midnight, February 1, 2016.[11]

Jackson Publick confirmed on Twitter that Season 7 ofThe Venture Brotherswould be aired on Adult Swim in "Summer" 2018.[12]On June 27, it was confirmed via Adult Swim'sInstagrampage that Season 7 would begin August 5, 2018.[13]For this season, Publick stepped back from directing, assuming the role of supervising director. Two-time directing partner and storyboard director for season six, Juno Lee, took over as the series director. Barry J. Kelly also served as Lee's co-director.

Development

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Series co-writersDoc Hammer(left) andJackson Publick(right) at the 2010San Diego Comic-Con

Show creator Jackson Publick was one of the main writers for theSaturday morninganimated seriesThe Tick.He createdThe Venture Bros.storyline sometime prior to 2000.[14]After working for the television programSheep in the Big Cityand the live-action version ofThe Tick,Publick set to turningThe Venture Bros.into an animated series.The Venture Bros.was originally conceived as acomic bookstory for an issue ofMonkeysuit.Publick realized that his notes were too extensive for a short comics story and proposed thatComedy CentralairThe 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 notgreenlituntil around the summer of 2002 by Adult Swim. Publick had not previously consideredCartoon Networkbecause he "didn't want to toneThe Venture Bros.down, "and was unaware of the existence of the network's late night adult-oriented programming block, Adult Swim.

With the revised pilot, production began in autumn of that year, and the pilot was first run on February 16, 2003. The first season of the series was completed and premiered in 2004, and it was added to the summer schedule in August.[15]

Cancellation

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After the conclusion of the seventh season in October 2018, the series was announced to be renewed for an eighth and final season.[16][17]On September 5, 2020, one of the show's illustrators, Ken Plume, tweeted thatThe Venture Bros.was cancelled.[18][17]Jackson Publick confirmed two days later that the show was cancelled. The script for Season 8 had been partially written at the time of its cancellation a few months before the public announcement.[19][20]

Film

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The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart

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Main article:The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart

Following the cancellation, Adult Swim stated via Twitter that "We also want moreVenture Bros.and have been working with Jackson and Doc to find another way to continue theVenture Bros.story ".[21][20]On November 13, 2020,HBO Maxgeneral manager Andy Forssell tweeted that HBO Max was "working on" revivingThe Venture Bros.[22]

On May 12, 2021, it was announced that adirect-to-videofilm based onThe Venture Bros.was in production from Adult Swim,

On April 18, 2023, it was revealed that the film will be titledThe Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart,which would serve as the finale to the series. It was released digitally on July 21, as well as on Blu-Ray/DVD on July 25, 2023.[2][4]

International broadcast

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InCanada,The Venture Bros.previously aired onTeletoon'sTeletoon at Nightblock[23]and laterG4'sAdult Digital Distractionblock.[24]The series currently airs on theCanadian version of Adult Swim.[25][26][27]

Themes, homages, and references

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Jonny Quest

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Comparing the main characters ofThe Venture Bros.andJonny Quest

The series' principal reference is to the 1964 animated science fiction adventure television seriesJonny Quest,as it is the basis for many of the main characters. Dr. Venture is modelled after what a child such as Jonny Quest might have grown up to be like after having lived through a childhood filled with bizarre, life-threatening events. Brock is modelled onRace Bannon.The Venture boys are based on theHardy Boysand take the places of Jonny and Hadji. One newspaper critic remarked, "If filmmakersWoody AllenandSam Peckinpahhad collaborated onJonny Quest,it would have come out a lot like this. "[28]Despite the homage and references, Jonny Quest himself, as well as Hadji, Race Bannon, and their arch-nemesis, Dr. Zin appear as characters on the show. Cartoon Network, who owns the rights to Jonny Quest, restricted the use of their characters, with Jonny Quest appearing as "Action Johnny", and Dr. Zin as "Dr. Z".[29]

Failure as a recurring theme

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Publick and Hammer have stated that one of the primary themes ofThe Venture Bros.is failure. Hammer in 2006 said, "Yeah, failure, that's whatVenture Bros.is all about. Beautiful sublime failure. "[30]

In the creator commentary for the episode "Home Insecurity",Hammer and Publick elaborated on the theme. Publick stated:[citation needed]

This show... If you'll permit me to get a 'big picture', this show is actually all about failure. Even in the design, everything is supposed to be kinda the death of the space-age dream world. The death of the jet-age promises.

Hammer responded:[citation needed]

It's about the beauty of failure. It's about that failure happens to all of us...Every character is not only flawed, but sucks at what they do, and is beautiful at it and Jackson and I suck at what we do, and we try to be beautiful at it, and failure is how you get by...It shows that failure's funny, and it's beautiful and it's life, and it's okay, and it's all we can write because we are big...failures.(laughs)

In 2013, Publick and Hammer discussed moving away from the theme and embracing the "successes" of the characters as well. Publick stated:[31]

I think you and I are both sick of every interview mentioning the "It's a show about failure" from five years ago. I don't think we made a conscious effort to fight that or anything, but every year, we push what we do as writers a little more. An area we hadn't gone into very much was positivity. I mean, all our victories are still satiric, but there are definitely places where we said, "I want to see these guys do something. I don't want to just have everything fall on its face all the time."

In a 2023 interview withChapo Trap Houseproducer Chris Wade, Hammer clarifies that:[32]

Failure is always something that we always embraced, but we never embraced it as this kind of clarion call between the two of us. We never just woke up one day and he calls me and he's like "I've cracked the code: we're about failure."... It's part of life, and we wrote about life. And I know it's a cartoon, and I know it's about superheroes, and superscience, and villains, but for us, it was about life. It was about relationships, it was about existence, it was about growing up in society with toxic masculinity. It's about everything that we experienced, and we just threw it into a show and hoped it was funny. And failure is one of the things that we think is funny, inevitable, and absolutely beautiful. But so is tiny successes, so is the rise of [Henchman] 21. These are absolutely beautiful things and I think, you know [the] show was never about failure, but we embrace the beauty of failure.

Intergenerational trauma & growth as writers

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In 2023, shortly before the release of the series finaleRadiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart,Hammer and Publick further expanded on the evolution of the series' themes, and their feelings on what has been the main theme over the course of the series. "We can go in there and armchair diagnose our characters: Doc is a... narcissist. He was made that way by his father." Publick continued, saying that "This is kinda about escaping your generational, parental kind of bullshit, to some extent."[33]Given that much of Rusty's shortcomings as an adult stem from the emotional abuse he endured from his father and Team Venture, many episodes deal directly with Rusty trying his best to be a good father - if not a better father than his own. "This is - this is everywhere; this is the road to forgiveness. You have to embrace this, and not perpetuate it.The Venture Brotherswasn't trying to be public service announcement... it was trying to entertain you in a way thatkindamade you feel uncomfortable, but helped you learn about yourself, as you were watching it. "

In the same interview, Hammer continues on, saying that having a show in production for such a length of time allowed them to process their own growth as creators, and how much the early seasons were a product of the social norms of their time. "We made our mistakes as creators. We've done some things that we look back on and go, 'boy, that was a young kid trying to be funny.'... Luckily, we were on the air long enough to go: 'Please forgive us', and 'This is I think what we're talking about here'." Hammer highlights the verbal repartee between Jonas Venture, Jr. and the Monarch in the season 3 episode "The Lepidopterists," in which the Monarch calls Ned, a character withDown syndromea "retard,"and is chastised by J.J. accordingly." We very muchlampshadedour ideas like idiots. "

Reception

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The show received critical acclaim over its run.The Venture Bros.ranked at #56 on theIGN"Best 100 Animated Series" list.[34]In 2013,Slate's Chris Wade calledThe Venture Bros."one of the best shows on television" and praised the detailed serial nature of the humor with a favorable comparison toArrested Development.[35]Also in 2013,The Atlantic's Armin Rosen compared the show favourably toThe Simpsons,noting that the two shows held the same "slacker optimism" and great comedy.[36]The A.V. Club's Zach Handlen commented in 2012 that the show had evolved over its seasons into a "meta-commentary on a whole sub-section of malenerd culture"and that it had become one of the funniest contemporary shows.[37]

Critical reception to the first season was more mixed than later seasons but was still mostly positive.The A.V. Club's Emily VanDerWerff felt that the pop-culture references of the first season fell flat, especially in the beginning of the season, but grew better and funnier as the show's emotional core took hold.[38]Mike Drucker,writing for IGN, criticized the predictability of some first-season episodes, but noted that the show was "a refreshing cartoon because it willingly indulges in the sitcom fad of the '90s".[39]

In 2013 IGN placedThe Venture Bros.as number 12 on their list of Top 25animated series for adults.[40]In January 2021, Sean Cubillas ofComic Book Resources(CBR) described the series as "one of the most well-written superhero series of all time," a stand-out in the field of adult animation, and said it had "witty writing, tot [sic] pacing, and large yet complex cast of characters."[41]

Home media

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The first season ofThe Venture Bros.on DVD was released on May 30, 2006, as officially announced byWarner Home Video.[42]It coincided with the June 25 premiere of the second season. Originally, it was scheduled for March 14, 2006, but was delayed until May 30, 2006. The DVD packaging and interior art was created by comic artistBill Sienkiewicz.On May 31, 2006, the season one DVD reached #1 onAmazon's top selling DVDs list.[43]

On March 27, 2010, series creator Jackson Publick revealed on his Livejournal that a standard definition DVD of the first half of season 4 would likely be released sometime between July and October 2010, with a DVD of the second half of the season and a Blu-ray box set of the entire season to be released after the full season has aired.[44]

On March 28, 2023, it was announced the series will have a complete series DVD set which was released on June 13, 2023, from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment.[45][46]It was also released on digital.

The first four seasons are available in the UK (both halves of Season 4 are sold as a set).Madman Entertainmenthave also released all seven seasons on DVD in Australia. No Blu-ray editions have yet been released in Australia. It's also the first Adult Swim series in Australia to be given a restricted MA15+ rating for Season 1 and later the higherR18+rating for Season 4 Part 2, due to strong dialogue in the finale episode.[citation needed]

Season Episodes Release date Additional Information
Region 1
1 2004 13 May 30, 2006 This two-disc set includes all thirteen episodes from the first season. The episodes are presented as broadcast, withbleepedprofanity. Bonus features include "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay" (thepilot) and "A Very Venture Christmas", deleted scenes, behind the scenes mockumentary with the Venture Bros. Cast and creatorscommentarieson "Mid-Life Chrysalis", "Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic!", "Tag Sale – You're It!", "Ghosts of the Sargasso", "Return to Spider-Skull Island", and "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay".
2 2006 13 April 17, 2007 This two-disc set includes all thirteen episodes from the second season. As with the Season 1 DVD release, any nudity has been covered with black bars and the profanity has been censored. Bonus features include commentary on every episode by Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer and, for some episodes, "special guests" such as voice actors James Urbaniak and Michael Sinterniklaas. Features also include deleted scenes and a tour of Astro-base Go!.
3 2008 13 March 24, 2009 This two-disc set includes all thirteen episodes from the third season. Unlike the previous DVD releases, Season 3 is uncensored, with all profanity and nudity intact. Bonus features include deleted scenes and commentary. The season was also released onBlu-ray,which is packaged with a soundtrack CD that includes 20 tracks comprising the score from the season.[47]The box cover is based on the box covers of many video games on theAtari 2600.Although the Blu-ray is only available in the "Region A" zone, it functions in the "Region B" zone also.
4 2009 16 8 October 26, 2010 This one-disc DVD set includes the first eight episodes from the fourth season. Similar to the Season 3 set, all episodes are uncensored. Bonus features include deleted scenes and commentary.[48]Both halves of Season 4 were released on the Season 4 Blu-ray. The Blu-ray special features are uncensored and the final episode of this release has the option to be played with censored or uncensored audio.[49]The rest of the episodes have censored visuals but audio remains uncensored. The streams available at Adult Swim are all censored.[50]
2010 8 March 22, 2011 This one-disc DVD set includes the final eight episodes from the fourth season. Similar to the Season 3 set, all episodes are uncensored. Bonus features include deleted scenes and commentary.[51]Both halves of Season 4 were released on the Season 4 Blu-ray.
5 2013 8 March 4, 2014 This two-disc DVD or one disc Blu-ray set includes all eight episodes from the fifth season, plus 2 bonus episodes ( "A Very Venture Halloween" and "From the Ladle to the Grave: The Shallow Gravy Story" ), audio commentary from Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, and deleted scenes.
6 2016 8 October 4, 2016 This two-disc DVD or one disc Blu-ray set includes all eight episodes from the sixth season, plus 1 bonus episode ( "All This and Gargantua-2" ), audio commentary from Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, and deleted scenes.
7 2018 10 June 4, 2019 This two-disc DVD or one disc Blu-ray set includes all ten episodes from the seventh season, including audio commentary from Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, and deleted scenes.

The "lost DVD commentary"

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Jackson Publick revealed that he and Doc Hammer had recorded acommentary trackfor the season one episode "Home Insecurity".Warner Home Video chose to omit this track from the Season One DVD due to space limitations and some minor sound quality issues. Publick also stated that the commentary could be downloaded.[52]

Soundtrack CD

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For the video release of the Season 3, a soundtrack album was also released, titledThe Venture Bros.: The Music of JG Thirlwell.This is the same audio CD included as a bonus with the Blu-ray version of Season 3. While the CD release was originally made available at Adult Swim's website, it was given a wide release on May 12, 2009;[53]the vinyl LP release came out a month earlier. It can also be downloaded from most major digital retailers. The CD features 20 tracks, while the vinyl LP release is 16 tracks and a download link of the complete release including the songs omitted from the LP.[54]

Music of The Venture Bros: Vol 2was released digitally on April 10, 2016[55]and on CD and Vinyl on June 3, 2016.[56]The album was released on Thirlwell's own Ectopic Ents label in collaboration withWilliams Street Records.[55]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^Doc Hammer is credited as executive producer from season 5 onward
  2. ^abChris and Shannon Prynoski serve as executive producers for Titmouse, Inc. for the seasons and specials produced by the studio.
  3. ^abCrofford and Lazzo serve as executive producers for Williams Street from season 5 onward. Prior to this, they are credited as "Executives in Charge of Production for Cartoon Network."

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