The Venture Bros. (2003)

Genre

comedy drama, comedy television series

Country

United States

Length

7 seasons, 81 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 245 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This adult animated series follows the misadventures of a washed-up scientist, his two teenage sons, and their bodyguard. They are a dysfunctional family of wannabe adventurers who constantly fail and get overshadowed by a more successful rival.

mockumentary-stylemelancholicabsurdistwittyslow-burncampyunsettlingcerebraldysfunctional

What happens

The Venture Bros. is an American adult animated action-adventure 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. is one of Adult Swim's longest-running original series in terms of years, with seven produced seasons over fifteen years of production. Throughout its run, the series 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 the series had been canceled. A direct-to-video film that serves as the series finale, 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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