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126-433: The Venture Bros. is an American adult animated action comedy television series created by Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer for Cartoon Network 's late night programming block Adult Swim . Following a pilot episode on February 16, 2003, the series premiered on August 7, 2004. 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

252-460: A bionic former soldier and his lover, Sasquatch . To protect them, Brock shaves Sasquatch and passes them off to guards as military friends. H.E.L.P.eR. discovers that Rusty is building a new defense robot and leaves the compound, hurt. Both The Monarch's and villain Baron Werner Ünderbheit's henchmen attack Rusty at the same time, causing the compound to lock them outside and send him and

378-516: A commentary track for 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. For the video release of the Season 3, a soundtrack album was also released, titled The Venture Bros.: The Music of JG Thirlwell . This

504-473: A hallucinogen when he smells it and he convinces himself to kill Rusty, who is also attracted to Cocktease. He attacks and seemingly kills him. Brock is tasked with killing colonel Hunter Gathers, his now rogue mentor. He track Gathers down, finding that he has undergone a sex change operation . Unable to kill her, he leaves. The episode opens with a recap of "Part One", where the Ventures cross paths with

630-418: A "meta-commentary on a whole sub-section of male nerd culture " and that it had become one of the funniest contemporary shows. 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

756-466: 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. 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. It was also released on digital. The first four seasons are available in the UK (both halves of Season 4 are sold as

882-417: A Guild supervillain that arches J.J., and Orpheus and friends break in to find Rusty signing Killinger's severance agreement. Billy hits his head, causing him to remember his past, but Pete knocks him out before he can do anything. Flashbacks reveal that Billy was a disgraced game show contestant after Pete, the host of a show he was colluding with, cheats for him. After Rusty rejects them when they asked for

1008-502: A bureaucrat, he orders the Ventures killed as a display of power. Brock kills the Guild agents invading the compound and goes to save the boys, who Phantom Limb notices in the bathroom and decides to kill. Brock intercepts him and threatens him into backing down. Phantom Limb apologizes, admitting he just wanted to impress Dr. Girlfriend. While flying back from a costume party, the Ventures fly over Ünderland, Ünderbheit's territory, who downs

1134-567: A camp for aspiring scientists at the compound, where Hank befriends petulant teenager Dermott Fictel , who aggravates Brock. The Monarch sends the disguised moppets to spy on Rusty, but Brock identifies them and kicks them out after failing to get them to beat up Dermott. Rusty takes the tour group into an abandoned building, only to be attacked by a rabid gorilla inside, which kills one of the children before he can lock it in. Dean beats up Dermott when he mocks him in front of Triana. Hatred arrives after mixing up his arching schedule and helps Rusty make

1260-421: 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

1386-406: A child, he was orphaned in a plane crash and raised by a swarm of monarch butterflies , and wants to give the boys that same care. Brock drives his car through The Monarch's " Cocoon " fortress and massacres his men, while Rusty rescues the boys and has them play rock paper scissors to decide who gives up their kidney for him. Rusty is summoned to Jonas's space station, Gargantua-1, to investigate

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1512-599: A doctor, The Monarch's henchmen kidnap the boys and barely manage to incapacitate Brock, burying him out in the desert. The doctor takes Rusty's kidneys and he calls his Humanoid Electronic Lab Partner Robot (H.E.L.P.eR.) to take him back to his jet, the X-1, where he converts him into a dialysis machine . He finds Brock's grave, only for him to burst out of it and take Rusty to rescue the boys. The Monarch, feeling guilt over how little Rusty seems to care for them, explains why he wants to help them to his girlfriend, Dr. Girlfriend : as

1638-540: A drunken Monarch stormed over to his house. Orpheus is called to the stand to read The Monarch's mind, revealing that, while urinating on Phantom Limb's lawn, he was caught by the officer. The Guild drugged The Monarch and paid the officer to fake his death. Before Orpheus can reveal this, Guild agents freeze everyone in the room, the entire situation revealed to be a sting to capture the attorney opposing The Monarch. Phantom Limb hypnotizes Orpheus to implicate The Monarch, while Dr. Girlfriend hypnotizes The Monarch to believe she

1764-447: A fight so he can sneak into the house and use the bathroom, and once inside, he finds that Rusty's life is too mundane and depressing to make any worse. Before Dr. Girlfriend can voice her concerns, they are attacked by O.S.I. guards, who The Monarch kills before declaring his determination to hate Rusty and escaping with a rejuvenated Dr. Girlfriend. The Ventures attend the funeral of Rusty's old friend Mike Sorayama. His mechanical coffin

1890-540: A finale to the series. Scientist and former boy adventurer Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture , his twin sons Hank and Dean , and his dangerous Office of Secret Intelligence (O.S.I.) bodyguard Brock Samson live on his deceased father Jonas's compound, and are frequently attacked by butterfly-themed supervillain The Monarch . The family travels to the United Nations so Rusty can present his new invention, where

2016-463: A former O.S.I. agent, for assistance, and is attacked by the second assassin, who drags him into the ocean and tries to get him eaten by sharks. Brock tricks him into decapitating himself on a shark's teeth. The Ventures lay low in a motel, only for Brock to realize they are rooming across from the third assassin. He nearly kills Brock, but Hank distracts him long enough to make him impale himself on his own sword. As Brock orders Hank to call "The Cleaner",

2142-408: A giant caterpillar. As Rusty begins to cocoon himself, a guilty Dr. Girlfriend returns and injects him again with a serum that turns him back to normal. Before The Monarch can torture the Ventures, Dean begs him to stop because of the sudden pain he feels in his genitals. Rusty cites a law of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, the villain organization The Monarch is licensed under, that forces him to halt

2268-449: 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 Brothers wasn't trying to be public service announcement... it was trying to entertain you in a way that kinda made you feel uncomfortable, but helped you learn about yourself, as you were watching it." In the same interview, Hammer continues on, saying that having

2394-401: A job, Pete accidentally enlists Billy in a dogfight that lost him his eye and hand. He abandons Pete and is found by Gathers and Brock, who equip him with his robot hand and have him go undercover at Phantom Limb's college. Phantom Limb makes him his research assistant and reveals that his limbs are shriveled, making him a laughingstock amongst his family, and he has built a machine with help from

2520-420: A lot like this." 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". Publick and Hammer have stated that one of the primary themes of The Venture Bros.

2646-537: A message from Jonas in it, an alien descends to Earth. Jonas explains that at midnight tomorrow, Rusty needs to assemble pieces of a machine to save the world. The Ventures travel to Spider-Skull Island so Rusty can steal the X-2 but are caught by J.J., who offers to help. The boys go to Colonel Gentleman's place in Tangier and find the machine piece, as well as his dead body. J.J. and the pirate captain, now his employee, find

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2772-422: A new Monarch henchman during a raid on the compound and is unable to shake his guilt over the idea that the man could have turned his life around. He goes to an Order ceremony and has an epiphany about his work that reinvigorates him. Rusty rebuilds the dead henchman as "Venturestein", a low-functioning monster he tries to sell to the military. A psychotic gang of detectives stumble onto the compound and come across

2898-577: A party specifically to woo her, earning Phantom Limb's contempt and convincing the Council of his innocence in the present. They reveal that the entire ordeal was a test to certify Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch's official dual villain status under the Guild. The Monarch's henchmen are taken over by Dr. Girlfriend's henchmen, the two "moppets," who order them to rebuild the Cocoon. 21 and 24 contact Brock to try and have him kill them, but he instead helps rebuild

3024-601: A portal himself despite The Master's warnings that the Outrider is more talented, and goes back to Torrid's portal when he fails. The Outrider emerges, having rescued Torrid, who grapples with him and sends his spirit to Hell. The Order performs a ritual that allows them to be sent to Hell, but only The Alchemist and Orpheus go through. They meet the Outrider, who explains to Orpheus that he continuously practices risky magic to get where he is, while Orpheus gave up everything to learn it properly, something he admires. Jefferson, having

3150-520: A prostitute into the bowels of the Cocoon to make her fight for her life after having her pretend to be Dr. Girlfriend. 21 forges archnemesis IDs and steals jetpacks to try and encourage 24 to work with him, but they are unable to get them to work. Gargantua-1 crashes, leaving Manstrong as the only survivor. He is regarded as a national hero and invited to dinner at the White House , which the Ventures also attend. The ghost of Abraham Lincoln informs

3276-448: 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 four specials . On September 7, 2020, series creator Jackson Publick announced on Twitter that

3402-470: A set). Madman Entertainment have 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 higher R18+ rating for Season 4 Part 2, due to strong dialogue in the finale episode. Jackson Publick revealed that he and Doc Hammer had recorded

3528-408: 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. Publick had not previously considered Cartoon Network because he "didn't want to tone The Venture Bros. down," and

3654-460: 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

3780-495: A time traveling Egyptian cult. "Part Two" opens with them in a room with spiked walls closing in, and Rusty reluctantly calls Orpheus to help them. He stops the walls and Rusty escapes, leaving the boys and Brock behind. They get access to the time machine, allying with historical figures and other versions of Hank and Brock. Rusty returns to the compound and refuses to thank Orpheus, believing he could have saved them with science. They bet on who can shrink an object smaller, and Rusty

3906-446: A woman who claims to be Rusty's former bodyguard and the boys' mother. She happens across Rusty and kidnaps him as well, forcing Brock to rescue them. Kindly villain advisor Dr. Henry Killinger accosts The Monarch and takes over and improves the Cocoon, convincing 24 to side with him. 21 goes to Dr. Girlfriend for help, who fights her way to The Monarch, only for Killinger to reveal he set things up so they could make amends. Brock kills

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4032-478: Is annoyed to see a depressed Impossible also present. One of the old villains uses his psychic powers to upset the pirate captain, who revolts with his friends against J.J.'s poor treatment of them. Team Venture (along with Colonel Gentleman, who was actually in a diabetic coma ) fights back, and the chaos is stopped when J.J.'s memorial film for Jonas starts playing. J.J. invites Rusty to speak, but he has already left. The villain tries to reconnect to his robot, one of

4158-403: Is approached by Killinger, who turns the compound around and forces Rusty to confront his fear of success that stems from Jonas and his childhood. Despite how well liked Killinger is by the Ventures, Orpheus is unsettled by him and becomes determined to beat him when Killinger evicts him. He convinces Brock and The Alchemist to help him. Killinger reveals to Rusty that he has been grooming him to be

4284-411: Is failure. Hammer in 2006 said, "Yeah, failure, that's what Venture Bros. is all about. Beautiful sublime failure." In the creator commentary for the episode " Home Insecurity ", Hammer and Publick elaborated on the theme. Publick stated: 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

4410-400: Is forced to get Jonas's broken shrink ray from Pete and Billy. They test the ray on Billy, but it does not work properly. Unable to cast the spell properly, Orpheus consults his sarcastic mentor, The Master, who gets him to see that he is single and friendless because of his overdedication to his work. Rusty and Orpheus admit to each other that they failed. As Brock discovers an old camera with

4536-620: Is forced to mobilize the henchmen to go pick up The Monarch, and Hank wakes up with the impression that he is immortal. In 1969, Team Venture seizes Spider-Skull Island from its villainous owner. He sets it to self-destruct, only for the bomb to malfunction before it can explode. In the present, Rusty is invited by J.J. to the island's opening of the Jonas Venture Museum, where he is irritated with his lack of presence despite his importance in Jonas's life. Sally, now Jonas's girlfriend,

4662-400: Is going, and he bitterly suspects she is doing her own shoot. He finds 21 in his treehouse and accuses him of trying to overthrow him. 21 instead expresses his admiration for The Monarch's genuine hatred, and he decides to let 21 have the tree fort for a little longer, planning to burn it. Phantom Limb kidnaps and wounds councilmen Red Mantle and Dragoon, having Billy sew the latter's head onto

4788-452: Is hiding in the bag. He sees The Monarch tracking Sunshine and forwards his location to Rusty, who will get the payment back via Guild law if he rescues Hank first. Rusty and The Monarch converge on Sunshine's mansion and The Monarch corners him with a solar weapon, which only strengthens Sunshine. Sunshine sees Hank with Rusty, contradicting his story that he was an orphan, and disgustedly orders him to leave. A discarded clone of Dean lives in

4914-520: Is illegal in Ünderland, getting Ünderbheit exiled. Orpheus registers for a Guild archnemesis and is ordered to put a team together for his upcoming interview. He assembles his friends "blacula" hunter Jefferson Twilight and The Alchemist into the "Order of the Triad". Arch candidate Torrid kidnaps Triana, provoking Orpheus into fighting him and earning him his role as the Order's nemesis. The Monarch drops

5040-506: Is moved by his desperation to win Dr. Girlfriend back and helps him escape through the sewer line. The Monarch calls his remaining henchmen, 21 and 24, and orders them to assemble a new team, which they source from a bad neighborhood. Rusty finishes restoring the boys' brains and they go to the mall. Dr. Girlfriend and Phantom Limb go to the same mall and The Monarch follows them. He tries to win Dr. Girlfriend back but gets distracted when 24 notices

5166-524: Is rescued by his longtime adversary and love interest, mercenary Molotov Cocktease. They fight and almost have sex, but he is disheartened to learn that she is still wearing a chastity belt . The boys are kidnapped from the X-1 by a revolutionary group fighting Brisby's empire and mind-controlled to hate him. Brisby shows Rusty his plans to take over the world with his influence, only for the revolutionaries to attack him just as Brock and Cocktease arrive, who goes off on her own to complete her mission. Brock frees

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5292-559: Is rigged to kidnap Brock, Pete, Rusty, and Ünderbheit, all of whom he knew in college. Having faked his death, Sorayama explains that all of them hurt his chances of asking out his crush in one way or another, and Brock escapes using Ünderbheit's metal jaw. The boys call Jonas's old friends, Team Venture, for help, including the suave Colonel Gentleman, the violent Action Man, and the super-strong Kano. Team Venture locates Sorayama, destroying and disguising themselves as his robots, only for Brock to beat them up, accidentally dispatching Sorayama in

5418-602: Is several inches thick . Impossible leaves Rusty out in the Arctic to die for discovering his secret. An O.S.I. agent dies on the Venture compound while rescuing a vial of a serum created by Impossible, which gets on Hank. Brock learns that he will soon explode if not cured and takes him to Impossible, rescuing Rusty along the way. Impossible concludes that the serum doesn't work on humans, and Sally tries to leave with Rusty, but he leaves her behind, disgusted by her condition. After

5544-543: 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 on Race Bannon . The Venture boys are based on the Hardy Boys and take the places of Jonny and Hadji. One newspaper critic remarked, "If filmmakers Woody Allen and Sam Peckinpah had collaborated on Jonny Quest , it would have come out

5670-531: 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; 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

5796-512: 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. In 2023, shortly before the release of the series finale Radiant 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

5922-560: 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 , Publick 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 . Publick realized that his notes were too extensive for

6048-496: The Venture Bros. story". On November 13, 2020, HBO Max general manager Andy Forssell tweeted that HBO Max was "working on" reviving The Venture Bros . On May 12, 2021, it was announced that a direct-to-video film based on The Venture Bros. was in production from Adult Swim, On April 18, 2023, it was revealed that the film will be titled The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart , which would serve as

6174-400: The womb . Brock knocks the tumor out of his suit, but Rusty begs Brock to spare him. The tumor names himself Jonas Jr. or "J.J.", and Rusty gives him the X-2 and the family compound on Spider-Skull Island as restitution for. The boys are arrested after speeding on their hover scooters. Orpheus informs Rusty of their predicament, who bails them out and makes them ride their scooters in front of

6300-448: The 5th season it is revealed that The Sovereign is actually a shape-shifter who frequently appears as Bowie. Most episodes begin with a cold open and are shot to appear to be in letter-box format. Almost every episode features both a smash cut into the end credits, and a short scene following the credits . The second season of the series premiered on the internet via Adult Swim Fix on June 23, 2006, and on television on June 25, 2006;

6426-488: The Cocoon just as the Guild arrives to assist them. The moppets stab 24 when he dumps a cooler of Gatorade on them, and The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend, now Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, move into Phantom Limb's old house. Post-credits scene: Phantom Limb tracks down and kills a villain The Monarch pretended to be while seducing Dr. Girlfriend. As Rusty's finances turn dire and he refuses to accept another loan from J.J., he

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6552-573: The Guild to grow them. It explodes during a test, regrowing his limbs but also vanishing them. Brock is reassigned to guard Rusty by a Guild agent posing as O.S.I., and he brings Billy back to Pete after wiping his memory. Rusty's new arch, recovering pedophile Sergeant Hatred , throws a party to celebrate his new job and invites him. The Monarch steals one of Hatred's explosive devices and plants it on Rusty, while Hatred reveals that he intentionally arched Rusty because The Monarch had his henchmen steal Hatred's technology. Rusty joins them in conversation as

6678-410: The Guild used to be a righteous organization that fell apart when they fought over their source of power, an orb-shaped device. He learns from Gathers that he is to kill Rusty if he tries to use the orb and tracks a signal to Kano's apartment, who reveals that he has a second cylinder. They listen to it and discover that Sandow killed Lloyd when he tried to use the orb, while The Alchemist properly decodes

6804-579: The Ventures as a gift on the day of the wedding. He convinces Dr. Girlfriend that he brought the Ventures to the Cocoon as guests. An annoyed 24 sends Dean away, and he winds up in the Cocoon's engine room. Dr. Girlfriend is walked down the aisle by David Bowie. Before the couple can be wed, Phantom Limb surrounds the Cocoon with his henchmen despite being denied retaliation by Guild leader The Sovereign , and orders Dr. Girlfriend returned to him. Bowie's treacherous men, Iggy Pop and Klaus Nomi , incapacitate him and take Dr. Girlfriend, while Brock takes command of

6930-483: The Ventures, and she rejects him after realizing he cares more about his grudge than her. The henchmen kidnap Rusty and the new men overthrow the Monarch and lock him up with 21, 24, and Rusty. Dr. Girlfriend helps the boys steal Brock's car and has Hank drive her to the Cocoon, while Phantom Limb helps Brock break into the Cocoon, believing The Monarch took Dr. Girlfriend. Unaware that Phantom Limb and Brock have massacred

7056-432: The X-1 and captures them. Believing Dean is a girl because of his Princess Leia costume, he decides to marry him. Brock, Rusty, and Hank are rescued by revolutionaries who have been fighting Ünderbheit by pranking him, and they decide to rescue Dean by themselves. Dean's royal tailors realize that he is male and contact the revolution. Just as Ünderbheit marries Dean, the revolutionaries arrive and point out that gay marriage

7182-421: The X-1 is pulled over by the military, Brock learns that his O.S.I. license is expired. The boys help him study and train for the exam, and despite him completely ignoring the rules, he passes and kills a bartender who mocked him when he was unlicensed. Rusty, insecure after one of the soldiers mocks his age, tries to find a date. A disguised Dr. Girlfriend seduces him and injects him with a serum that turns him into

7308-402: The ability to act as a gateway between two worlds, pulls them back. Triana discovers that The Master's portal is in her closet, who points out that her ability to see him makes her magic and she should train herself with her mother and the Outrider right away. The Monarch signs with Guild attorney Monstroso to get Rusty evicted from the compound, unknowingly signing over his own arching rights in

7434-529: The alien catches up with them and Jonas steps through the machine to kill it, explaining that it was going to destroy the world. Rusty tries to talk to him, only for him to reveal that he is an alien using Jonas's face to hide his horrifying true form. Orpheus sets the boys up for dinner with Triana and her friend when Rusty asks him to watch them, while The Monarch goes to the same restaurant to discuss his Guild contract with Phantom Limb, who brings Dr. Girlfriend. When The Monarch mocks Phantom Limb's guild status as

7560-418: The bathroom, depressed over his wife leaving him and demanding Rusty kill him. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch manipulates H.E.L.P.eR. into giving her Rusty's location. Cocktease and Gathers confirm to Brock that three assassins have been sent to kill him, and the first one attacks. He boards the X-1 to escape, but the ejector pod lands on top of the assassin after he shoots out one of its engines. Brock goes to Shore Leave,

7686-473: The best shows on television" and praised the detailed serial nature of the humor with a favorable comparison to Arrested Development . Also in 2013, The Atlantic ' s Armin Rosen compared the show favourably to The Simpsons , noting that the two shows held the same "slacker optimism" and great comedy. The A.V. Club ' s Zach Handlen commented in 2012 that the show had evolved over its seasons into

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7812-410: The bomb comes close to going off, only for the ineffective device to create a minuscule explosion. 21 explains 24's stabbing to Hank and asks for help getting rid of the moppets, only for them to notice the two trying to sneak up on them and giving chase, assuming Hank is 24 out of costume. 21, 24 and the boys flee from the moppets, distracting them by putting 21 and 24's costumes on dummies. Rusty hosts

7938-442: The boys and rescues Rusty. Necromancer Byron Orpheus becomes the compound's new tenant, and Dean is instantly smitten with his daughter Triana. Brock rescues Hank from being lured into Rusty's new invention, a machine that shows those inside it their greatest pleasures, but is pulled in. The boys cover their heads and follow him in, protecting them from its visions but locking them in with him. Orpheus senses dark power coming from

8064-586: The boys encounter The Monarch, fleeing from him and almost consorting with a prostitute. Brock tracks down The Monarch under the assumption that he has done something to the boys. Rusty's invention turns out to be a death ray, which the UN rejects but the army buys. A Japanese businessman that has been trying to steal the ray is found masturbating with it, having a fetish for advanced technology rather than trying to steal it. While Rusty tries to buy drugs in Tijuana from

8190-439: The boys from the compound and tries to make them confess. He admits that 24's death is what motivated him to get into shape but is also the only thing that drives his actions and lets them go. Hatred calls Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, suspecting The Monarch's involvement in the boys' disappearance, and she offers to meet with Rusty directly. She lies to The Monarch, who is missing a photoshoot because of an allergic reaction, about where she

8316-425: The boys make a suit out of five dollar bills. Manstrong attacks Brock when he believes he is trying to have sex with his mother just as Lincoln breaks through the force field, and Rusty realizes the device is actually a piece of Gargantua-1's motherboard, which removes Manstrong's sexual inhibitions when taken off. Rusty returns from a trip to Japan being followed by an oni . The boys are kidnapped by Myra Standish,

8442-465: The boys that he noticed a device on Manstrong's neck and suspects his mother is controlling him to kill the president. As Manstrong and his mother talk to the president in the Oval Office , Rusty breaks in so he can pitch his force field. The remote breaks when a secret service agent tackles him, trapping everyone in the office. Lincoln realizes he can move through things that bear his image and has

8568-601: The boys to the panic room. They are attacked by the defense robot and he is forced to call and apologize to H.E.L.P.eR., who reboots the compound's system and causes the robot to massacre the now allied henchmen. The Monarch and Ünderbheit have a lengthy debate over who gets to attack Rusty, eventually agreeing to team up without realizing their men are dead. The Ventures go to Africa so Rusty can meet with quadriplegic entertainment mogul Roy Brisby. Brisby asks Rusty to clone him, and has his pet panda that he took from David Bowie knock Rusty out when he refuses. He drugs Brock, who

8694-793: The boys' clones into the battle, halting it, only for The Monarch to emerge in a new, untested suit that destroys the clones and immediately crashes. Treister reveals to Brock that the O.S.I. only came to help him after he was attacked by the assassins, and a disillusioned Brock decides to quit. He goes to take The Monarch's car, only for H.E.L.P.eR. to explode, killing 24. Brock wakes up on the O.S.I. mothership with H.E.L.P.eR.'s head embedded in his chest. He escapes and has it removed before hunting down Cocktease for revenge. He bumps into an agent of anti-O.S.I. villain hunting group S.P.H.I.N.X., looking to take her down as well, distracting him and allowing her to shoot him. More S.P.H.I.N.X. agents take him away and he awakens in their hideout, where Gathers reveals that

8820-412: The boys, who they had killed before and are unaware of their clones. They chase the boys into the room that houses the clones, where Brock and Venturestein rescue them. Rusty passes off the clones as Christmas gifts to calm the boys. The Monarch proposes to Dr. Girlfriend, having been seeing her behind Phantom Limb's back. She agrees on the condition that he no longer pursues Rusty, but his henchmen kidnap

8946-401: The captain, which gets him addicted to tranquilizer. They authorize The Monarch's death because of him repeatedly killing his arches, and J.J. decides to use the island's death ray. The Monarch sends 21, 24, and the hyper-competent henchman 1 to the island to perform subterfuge, where he successfully sabotages the island's wiring. While the Cocoon speeds towards the island, J.J. prepares to fire

9072-500: The car. 24 and his best friend 21 spot the boys while driving, accidentally shooting and killing them. Rusty uses the deaths of the boys as an excuse to run away and avoid his responsibilities, only to be found and dragged back to the compound by Brock. J.J. has become more successful than him in his absence, having partially completed a teleporter that he asks him to finish. When Rusty unplugs it while standing inside, he accidentally splits his body into thirds and teleports them across

9198-443: The clone in the middle of his work. The police are called to the compound by a confused deliveryman and observe Hatred's new defense measure—several decoys of Rusty that explode on contact. Hank and Dermott steal a Venture tour tram and flee the compound, although Dermott abandons Hank. The Deans's fight ends when the clone hugs a Rusty decoy and is blown up. Obsessively talking to 24's skull, 21 vows to hunt down his killer. He kidnaps

9324-407: The compound's attic, making a skin suit from dead clones so he can pass as the real Dean. While he collects the last Dean corpse he needs for his suit, a grounded Hank is snuck out by Dermott and they steal Rusty's car, hitting the clone's corpse and believing they killed the real one. Dean is pressed to start his career in science after being shown Rusty's prog rock collection, only to be attacked by

9450-532: The compound. Hank, Dermott and H.E.L.P.eR. are trying to start a band, and Dean is annoyed by H.E.L.P.eR.'s inability to stop making noise. He shuts off H.E.L.P.eR.'s system, deactivating the compound's defenses and allowing The Monarch to infiltrate the compound. 21 informs Hank that he has seen him die multiple times and tries to prove his point by shooting him, unaware that his rifle shoots tranquilizers. Dean finds The Monarch defiling one of Rusty's robots, who manipulates him into not telling Rusty. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch

9576-401: The compound. Orpheus is shocked to learn that the boys have clone backups, having died many times, and Rusty explains that their "learning beds" that school them in their sleep are used to restore their brains. The imprisoned Monarch plots an escape, but the Guild catches wind of it and Phantom Limb bribes his accomplices to back out. When The Monarch is cornered by guards, accomplice King Gorilla

9702-453: The crew member's spirit and launch him back outside. Brock and Manstrong go to repair the hole that H.E.L.P.eR.'s return left in the station and Brock beats Manstrong up when he confronts him. Rusty discovers that a toy he left in the station's circuitry as a child melted and removes it, turning the light off. As the Ventures leave the station, the light turns back on. Brock leaves on a camping trip into military-guarded woods, where he runs into

9828-531: The death ray and 1 trips the alarm system, causing Brock to attack him. J.J. fires just as The Monarch closes in. Billy decodes a message hidden in Rusty's old cartoon and it leads him to a spot on the compound. He digs up a phonograph cylinder meant for "the Venture bodyguard," as well as another code. He and Rusty conclude they are supposed to go to Studio 54 , while Brock listens to the cylinder and learns from Rusty's great-grandfather Lloyd's bodyguard, Sandow, that

9954-521: The dog and refuses to kill it. Orpheus kills the Nazis but the dog escapes. While holding the boys hostage, The Monarch is attacked by solar-powered hero Captain Sunshine, who takes Hank with him to be his new sidekick. Hank finds him to be unstable and deeply attached to him. Rusty tries to pay The Monarch's ransom, but The Monarch only gives back Dean and steals the payment, unaware that a shrunken Hatred

10080-455: The episode to be the first episode of season 6. In January 31, 2016 the sixth season, consisting of eight episodes, began airing and being made available on various digital platforms on consecutive Sunday evenings. The seventh and final season, consisting of 10 episodes, began airing on August 5, 2018. A direct-to-video film, The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart , released on digital platforms on July 21, 2023, acting as

10206-609: The family's bodyguard , secret agent Brock Samson , or his temporary replacement, the reformed villain and pederast Sergeant Hatred ; and the family's self-proclaimed archnemesis , The Monarch , a butterfly-themed supervillain. Initially conceived as a satire of boy adventurer and Space Age fiction prevalent in the early 1960s, it is considered to be an action/adventure series with both comedic and dramatic elements. The characters of The Venture Bros. are largely re-imaginings of characters from Jonny Quest as well as comic book superheroes and supervillains . Throughout

10332-546: The fight can reach its climax, Rusty calls to inform them that Dean is healed. The Monarch prepares to torture the Ventures again, only for Hank to ask him to stop, now suffering from torsion himself. Rusty holds a yard sale at the Venture compound, which The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend attend. While he looks for a bathroom, she is accosted by Phantom Limb , an old associate of hers with invisible and electrical arms and legs. He tries to convince her to leave The Monarch and she turns him down, but has visible doubts. The Monarch starts

10458-500: The finale to the series. It was released digitally on July 21, as well as on Blu-Ray/DVD on July 25, 2023. In Canada , The Venture Bros. previously aired on Teletoon 's Teletoon at Night block and later G4 's Adult Digital Distraction block. The series currently airs on the Canadian version of Adult Swim . The series' principal reference is to the 1964 animated science fiction adventure television series Jonny Quest , as it

10584-516: The first three seasons, Adult Swim originally broadcast several episodes out of narrative order. The DVD releases presented the episodes in the order intended by Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer. Beginning with season four, the network had debuted new episodes in the correct order. An hour-long special titled "All This and Gargantua-2" aired January 19, 2015, as a precursor to season 6, although the Adult Swim website's video on demand section considered

10710-585: The former's body to save his life. He gets the location of the orb from Billy just as the Guild arrives to get help from Rusty, so he has Red Mantle and Dragoon break in and steal the orb for him. He confronts the Sovereign with it and demands the title of Sovereign due to his grandfather being the founder of the Guild, but the Sovereign reveals that the man usurped his power and the true heir is Dean, because of his great-great-grandfather, preventing Phantom Limb from ever being Sovereign. Phantom Limb tries to activate

10836-465: The fumes. Rusty and The Monarch eject themselves from the downed Cocoon, colliding with Phantom Limb's ship, who escapes after losing an arm and leg in the crash. Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch are separately grilled by the Guild's Council of Thirteen, who are putting The Monarch on trial for improper arching. Flashbacks reveal that he was originally a Phantom Limb henchman and arched Rusty in secret, where he met Dr. Girlfriend. He dressed as The Monarch at

10962-419: The henchmen and organizes them to fight Phantom Limb's forces. Phantom Limb reveals to Dr. Girlfriend that The Sovereign was Bowie, making him the new Sovereign. Pop accidentally frees Bowie, who kills him and Nomi before dueling Phantom Limb. The Order, summoned after Orpheus sensed the Ventures were in trouble, crash the X-1 into the Cocoon's engine room, where Dean is hallucinating a fantasy adventure because of

11088-421: The henchmen, the imprisoned group sneak into 21's old room and arm themselves with his collection of memorabilia, opening the door to fight their rescuers. Brock leaves on an O.S.I. mission and asks Cocktease to guard the Ventures. Disgusted at Brock's talents being wasted on his guard job, she vows to get the boys in shape, and Hank becomes infatuated with her. Her costume's self-defense mechanism injects him with

11214-475: The machine and Rusty admits he is powering it with an orphan's heart. Orpheus fails to get it open until Triana enters, and her saying Dean's name allows him to open the door. Orpheus vanishes the machine to prevent it from trapping anyone else. Rusty takes his hydrofoil , the X-2, out to the Bermuda Triangle to find Jonas's long-sunken experimental plane, hoping to salvage and sell it. He dives into

11340-476: 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." 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

11466-413: The museum's exhibits, but instead causes the bomb to restart its countdown. The Monarch launches an attack on Spider-Skull Island, but the Cocoon is damaged by J.J.'s giant "Ventronic" robot. While The Monarch realizes that, through Guild law, he can attack Rusty as revenge as long as he survives the fight, J.J. calls the O.S.I., who sends agents Cardholder and Doe, as well as Brock. Cardholder and Doe drug

11592-498: The new messages and tells Rusty and Billy to go to the Frick Collection . They discover the orb, but before Brock can ambush them, Rusty declares intent to study it and only use its abilities for good. Brock decides not to kill him and leaves. Brock dismantles his car and realizes the O.S.I. is after him for not killing Rusty. As he and the Ventures flee, The Monarch arrives to find the compound empty. He discovers Hatred in

11718-648: The orb, but a flashback reveals that Sandow disobeyed his orders and broke the orb instead of killing Lloyd. Phantom Limb is arrested, and Dean returns the title of Sovereign. Rusty is able to get out of The Monarch's arching because of his boy adventurer group therapy appointment. After the therapist dies of a poisonous snake bite, Johnny identifies one of his henchmen patients at a strip club, who works for his old arch-nemesis and councilman Dr. Z. They visit him and he convinces them of his innocence. He tries to make them see that they need to grow up, and Rusty decides to leave to spend time with his family. Hatred locks himself in

11844-407: The panic room after going to a movie, fearing that he may act on his pedophilic urges. Hank disguises himself as Hatred's ex-wife to lure him out before 21 and his men tranquilize him. Torrid opens a portal to Hell and is sucked in, and the Order is saved from the demon that comes through by the Outrider, a powerful sorcerer who is Orpheus's ex-wife's new partner. Embarrassed, Orpheus tries to build

11970-449: The police arrive to arrest the Ventures, only for them to be freed by The Cleaner. The Monarch and O.S.I. general Timothy Treister locate them at the same time. Brock convinces them to come to the compound independent of each other. O.S.I. forces and Monarch henchmen attack each other, while 21 and 24 hide in The Monarch's car. H.E.L.P.eR., equipped by The Monarch with a bomb, gets in the car and drives off with 24 still inside. Hatred commands

12096-406: The process. 21, now having visions of 24 talking to him, breaks into the compound in an attempt to get the drop on Monstroso, only to bump into Brock and do battle with him. He loses the fight but earns Brock's respect, who agrees to help 21 attack Monstroso, which they do. Rusty discovers that the S.P.H.I.N.X. hideout is in an abandoned building of the compound, and they wipe the memories of Billy and

12222-470: The process. The Ventures discover that Sorayama is actually a robot and the real Sorayama is dead, leaving and forgetting Pete and Ünderbheit. The Monarch is put on trial for killing a police officer. In his testimony, a henchman publishes an embarrassing biography of him that delves into Dr. Girlfriend's past. Enraged that she used to work for several male, higher-ranking villains, he kicks her out. Dr. Girlfriend testifies that she went back to Phantom Limb and

12348-451: The producers were dealing with the time constraints of producing a first-season DVD that contained live action interviews and commentary for several episodes. The third season began on June 1, 2008, and marked the beginning of the show's broadcast in high-definition . A 15-minute rough cut of " The Doctor Is Sin " aired on April 1, 2008, as part of Adult Swim's April Fool's Day theme of airing sneak peeks of new episodes. The fourth season

12474-494: The rest of the day fun for the children. As the kids leave, Rusty gives a hastily made clone of the dead boy to his parents. Dermott is picked up by his mother, who asks if he met "him." Dermott asks "you sure he's my real father?" While training an orangutan to box so it can be sold on the black market , Rusty encounters his childhood friend, adventurer Tara Quymn, as well as her unstable bodyguard Ginnie and her twin daughters. Both Rusty and Ginnie are infatuated with Quymn, while

12600-455: The room and the kids to be stuck in the bunker. Rusty flees from the now-adult kids and clings to the top of the launching missile, only for it to malfunction due to them using it as a toilet. After The Monarch kills his new arch, mutant Dr. Dugong, he and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch argue about his henchmen's lack of things to do and his inability to arch anyone but Rusty. After learning that Rusty and Brock are out, The Monarch takes 21 and 24 to invade

12726-527: The room for thirty years by the hostile artificial intelligence M.U.T.H.E.R.. Rusty encounters a group of sycophants who worship recordings Jonas left for Rusty in case of an apocalypse. When Pete and the Order try to investigate, M.U.T.H.E.R. demands to talk to Jonas or else she will launch a nuclear missile hidden under the compound. Entmann explains that the kids were being given a tour of the bunker with Team Venture when M.U.T.H.E.R. went haywire and tried to seal them all inside, resulting in him being trapped in

12852-401: 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 the traditional animation style (albeit digitally), causing each episode to take considerable time to move through production. Additionally,

12978-435: The second piece in a bathysphere inhabited by "Action" Johnny, a former boy adventurer turned addict . Brock and Rusty go to New York City to infiltrate Impossible Industries, where Rusty manipulates Sally into helping them. They are caught by Impossible, who has already captured the other two groups, but Sally saves them and Brock defeats him by tying him to a subway train. The assembled machine activates at midnight just as

13104-466: 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." The first season of The Venture Bros. on DVD was released on May 30, 2006, as officially announced by Warner Home Video . It coincided with the June 25 premiere of the second season. Originally, it

13230-563: The series had been canceled. A direct-to-video film, 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 and premiered on Adult Swim and Max 90 days later. The film serves as the series finale. The series chronicles the lives and adventures of the Venture family: emotionally insecure, unethical and underachieving super-scientist father Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture ; his well-meaning but dimwitted and incompetent teenage fraternal twin sons Hank and Dean Venture ;

13356-556: The series was announced to be renewed for an eighth and final season. On September 5, 2020, one of the show's illustrators, Ken Plume, tweeted that The Venture Bros. was cancelled. 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. Following the cancellation, Adult Swim stated via Twitter that "We also want more Venture Bros. and have been working with Jackson and Doc to find another way to continue

13482-488: 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 an ad hoc placement 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 star David Bowie in episode 26, though in episode 5 of

13608-438: The sex change was a front to infiltrate Cocktease's operation, and he, Shore Leave, and other O.S.I. agents defected to S.P.H.I.N.X.. The now competent 21 tries to pay Rusty to clone 24 with the first issue of Marvel Comics , but he declines and Hank takes it, its value being decreased as it is damaged over the course of the episode. Nazis try to force Rusty to clone a dog with Adolf Hitler 's blood in it, but Dean gets attached to

13734-427: The show's emotional core took hold. 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". In 2013 IGN placed The Venture Bros. as number 12 on their list of Top 25 animated series for adults . In January 2021, Sean Cubillas of Comic Book Resources ( CBR ) described

13860-569: 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. This estimated season-debut date turned out to be extremely premature as Season 6 premiered at Midnight, February 1, 2016. Jackson Publick confirmed on Twitter that Season 7 of The Venture Brothers would be aired on Adult Swim in "Summer" 2018. On June 27, it

13986-792: The songs omitted from the LP. Music of The Venture Bros: Vol 2 was released digitally on April 10, 2016 and on CD and Vinyl on June 3, 2016. The album was released on Thirlwell's own Ectopic Ents label in collaboration with Williams Street Records . Adult animation Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.236 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 977063956 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:06:09 GMT The Doctor Is Sin During

14112-557: The space-age dream world. The death of the jet-age promises. Hammer responded: 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

14238-525: The spirit, and throws it into the ocean. Rusty applies for a job under scientist Richard Impossible , who has the ability to stretch his limbs . When he requests a urine sample from Rusty, his wife Sally discreetly offers to give him a clean one and tries to seduce him, only for him to learn that her skin turns invisible . She reveals that she and Impossible gained their powers because of his experiments, as well as her brother, who bursts into flames whenever his skin touches oxygen, and her cousin, whose skin

14364-462: The station's "PROBLEM" light turning on. Brock and H.E.L.P.eR. are sucked into space when Rusty accidentally opens the bay doors, but Brock survives and has sex with captain Bud Manstrong's love interest. Manstrong scares the boys with a story about a crew member who went insane and sent the previous crew of the station into space during a movie night, and they mistake a returned H.E.L.P.eR. for

14490-572: The theme and embracing the "successes" of the characters as well. Publick stated: 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

14616-403: The time." In a 2023 interview with Chapo Trap House producer Chris Wade, Hammer clarifies that: 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

14742-417: The torture temporarily. Rusty brings Dean to his albino college friend Pete White and Pete's scientist roommate Billy "Quizboy" Whalen . Billy discovers that Dean is suffering from testicular torsion and fixes it. Meanwhile, The Monarch takes Hank and Brock as collateral. Brock observes that The Monarch has nothing to do other than go after Rusty, and decides to start a fight with his men out of pity. Before

14868-506: The twins are interested in Dean. They get word from natives of a "wereodile" stalking the jungle at night, making Dean paranoid that one of the Quymns could be the monster. As Rusty and Quymn prepare to have sex and the twins drug Dean and do the same, Ginnie catches the former and starts beating Rusty up. As Ginnie and Brock fight, the epileptic Quymn has a seizure, and Dean, believing her to be

14994-530: 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 with Down syndrome a " retard ," and is chastised by J.J. accordingly. "We very much lampshaded our ideas like idiots." The show received critical acclaim over its run. The Venture Bros. ranked at #56 on the IGN "Best 100 Animated Series" list. In 2013, Slate ' s Chris Wade called The Venture Bros. "one of

15120-407: The water, but his tracking device awakens the spirit of the plane's dead pilot. The X-2 is attacked by pirates looking to steal it, and they capture Brock, who quickly escapes. Dean finds himself getting along with the pirates' captain , while Hank encounters the spirit and calls Orpheus. He puts them in touch with the spirit's widow, who tries to calm it down until Brock gets back on the X-2, beats up

15246-402: The wereodile, starts hitting her. Hank is attacked by the wereodile, but it is beaten up by the orangutan. The next day, the twins lose interest in Dean after learning he is uncircumcised and the Quymns leave in disgust. Rusty falls into the compound's bunker, and when Brock follows him, he gets stuck in a room with the minuscule Paul Entmann, a former friend of Jonas's that has been trapped in

15372-463: Was confirmed via Adult Swim's Instagram page that Season 7 would begin August 5, 2018. 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. Show creator Jackson Publick was one of the main writers for

15498-422: Was not involved. Rusty is hospitalized after his stomach bulges, scaring the boys, who believe he is pregnant, into running away. A tumor is removed from his stomach, but it comes to life, runs off, and steals the X-1. Upon returning to the compound, Rusty is attacked by the tumor, actually a man with Jonas's face in a mechanical suit made from household items, who reveals himself to be Rusty's twin that he ate in

15624-447: Was scheduled for March 14, 2006, but was delayed until May 30, 2006. The DVD packaging and interior art was created by comic artist Bill Sienkiewicz . On May 31, 2006, the season one DVD reached #1 on Amazon 's top selling DVDs list. 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

15750-540: 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. 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. On July 8, 2013, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick stated in an interview with Slate Magazine that they had begun writing

15876-455: 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. After the conclusion of the seventh season in October 2018,

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