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Christopher McCulloch
Christopher McCulloch (born September 14, 1971) is the creator, director, and co-writer (with Doc Hammer) of The Venture Bros., all done under the pseudonym Jackson Publick. He also voices several main characters, most notably the Monarch and Hank Venture.
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Dia de Los Dangerous!
"Dia de Los Dangerous!" is the first episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
Dr. Venture is appearing as a guest lecturer at a Community University in Tijuana, Mexico, although his audience consists only of a few bored students. Venture...
Original air date:
- Aug 7, 2004
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- 1
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Careers in Science
"Careers in Science" is the second episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
The episode opens with an educational slide presentation from 1971 of Gargantua-1, the awesome, self-sufficient space station built by Jonas Venture. We see the...
Original air date:
- Aug 14, 2004
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Episode number:
- 2
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Home Insecurity
"Home Insecurity" is the third episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
Baron Ünderbheit, iron-jawed ruler of Ünderland, receives updates on the nation's status from his three trusted advisers. After their status reports, Ünderbheit informs...
Original air date:
- Aug 21, 2004
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Episode number:
- 3
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The Incredible Mr. Brisby
"The Incredible Mr. Brisby" is the fourth episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
Hank and Dean are ecstatic at the prospect of visiting "Brisbyland" (a theme park that is an obvious parody of Disneyland). Dr. Venture quickly crushes their...
Original air date:
- Aug 28, 2004
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Episode number:
- 4
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Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic!
"Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic!" is the fifth episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
A booth-like machine in Dr. Venture's Lab opens, from which ominous green light and smoke pour. A figure silhouetted by the light comes into view from the...
Original air date:
- Sep 4, 2004
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Episode number:
- 5
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Ghosts of the Sargasso
"Ghosts of the Sargasso" is the sixth episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
"Somewhere over the Bermuda Triangle, 1969:" as Team Venture watches on board the X-2, test pilot Major Tom (clearly named after David Bowie's Major Tom) flies an...
Original air date:
- Sep 11, 2004
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Episode number:
- 6
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Mid-Life Chrysalis
"Mid-Life Chrysalis" is the eighth episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
While flying to Marrakech, the X-1 is intercepted by fighter planes and instructed to land. On the ground, the airmen curtly state that the jet has violated secure...
Original air date:
- Sep 25, 2004
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Episode number:
- 8
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Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean
"Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean" is the ninth episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
The Monarch has at long last somehow captured Team Venture. Bound by ropes, they hang over the Amazon River, into which The Monarch prepares to lower...
Original air date:
- Oct 2, 2004
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Episode number:
- 9
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Tag Sale – You're It!
"Tag Sale – You're It!" is the tenth episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
Dr. Venture is having a tag sale, but such a tag sale is going to be profitable and interesting only to certain types of people: adventurers, heroes and...
Original air date:
- Oct 9, 2004
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Episode number:
- 10
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The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay
"The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay" is the pilot episode of the series The Venture Bros. It was first aired as a one-off on February 16, 2003. The actual series itself would not begin airing until a year and a half later, in August of 2004. While...
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- Feb 16, 2003
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Past Tense
"Past Tense" is the eleventh episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
In an overcast cemetery, a priest solemnly recites a funeral rite and sprinkles a coffin with a handful of earth. On board the X-1, Dr. Venture struggles into a black suit...
Original air date:
- Oct 16, 2004
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Episode number:
- 11
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Powerless in the Face of Death
"Powerless in the Face of Death" is the first episode in the second season of The Venture Bros.
Seemingly due to Hank and Dean's deaths, a distraught Dr. Venture flees from the Venture compound to "find himself." He is seen in many locations around...
Original air date:
- Jun 25, 2006
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Episode number:
- 1
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The Trial of the Monarch
"The Trial of the Monarch" is the twelfth episode in the first season of The Venture Bros.
The episode opens with a scene of a deep, dark cave, with Hank dressed in Indiana Jones garb and Dean bearing a more than passing resemblance to Magnum, P.I.....
Original air date:
- Oct 23, 2004
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Episode number:
- 12
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Return to Spider-Skull Island
"Return to Spider-Skull Island" is the thirteenth episode, and the season finale, of the first season of The Venture Bros.
Team Venture has returned to base following an unseen adventure during a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Dr....
Original air date:
- Oct 30, 2004
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Episode number:
- 13
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A Very Venture Christmas
"A Very Venture Christmas" is a Christmas special in the first season of The Venture Bros. It is notable for having a runtime of only eleven minutes.
Dr. Venture stands in a snowy graveyard before a cloaked figure. The ominous specter points to a...
Original air date:
- Dec 19, 2004
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Ice Station – Impossible!
"Ice Station — Impossible!" is the seventh episode in the first season of The Venture Bros..
Dr. Venture and his colleagues Master Billy Quizboy and Dr. Peter White have been invited by their old college professor Richard Impossible (voiced by...
Original air date:
- Sep 18, 2004
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Episode number:
- 7
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Hate Floats
"Hate Floats" is the second episode in the second season of The Venture Bros.
The uncostumed #21 (also known as Gary) is sitting at his computer when the phone rings. Answering it with "Atomic Comic Collection Connection", he finds that it is #24...
Original air date:
- Jul 2, 2006
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Episode number:
- 2
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Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?
"Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?" is the ninth episode in the second season of The Venture Bros.
The Gargantua-1 Space Station breaks orbit and begins to crash towards Earth. By a stroke of luck, it crashes into a known terrorist cell and...
Original air date:
- Sep 10, 2006
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Episode number:
- 9
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Assassinanny 911
"Assassinanny 911" is an episode of the animated television series The Venture Bros., the third episode of the second season. Molotov Cocktease returns and is both an assassin and the "nanny" in "Assassinanny."
The episode starts with a flashback to...
Original air date:
- Jul 9, 2006
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Episode number:
- 3
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Escape to the House of Mummies Part II
"Escape to the House of Mummies Part II" is an episode of the animated television series The Venture Bros., the fourth episode of the second season. Parodying old adventure series, the episode is intentionally convoluted, full of non sequiturs and...
Original air date:
- Jul 16, 2006
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Episode number:
- 4
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Twenty Years to Midnight
"Twenty Years to Midnight" is an episode of the animated television series The Venture Bros., the fifth episode of the second season.
A strange craft lands outside the Venture Compound in the night. A twelve-foot-tall figure disembarks and scans the...
Original air date:
- Aug 6, 2006
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Episode number:
- 5
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Victor. Echo. November.
"Victor. Echo. November." is an episode of the animated television series The Venture Bros., the sixth episode of the second season.
Dr. Venture offers Dr. Orpheus a rent discount if he distracts the boys for the night, mostly so he can watch what...
Original air date:
- Aug 13, 2006
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Episode number:
- 6
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Love-Bheits
"Love-Bheits" is the seventh episode in the second season of The Venture Bros.
Baron Ünderbheit uses an atomic super magnet to force the X-1 to land in Ünderland as the Venture family returns from a costume party. He captures the Venture family,...
Original air date:
- Aug 20, 2006
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- 7
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills" is the tenth episode in the second season of The Venture Bros.
The Monarch raids what he thinks is a secret Venture compound, only to find out that what he has nearly destroyed is his own accountant's office. Before...
Original air date:
- Sep 24, 2006
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Episode number:
- 10
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¡Viva los Muertos!
"¡Viva los Muertos!" is the eleventh episode in the second season of The Venture Bros. It was written by Ben Edlund (creator of The Tick), and is notable for being the only episode of The Venture Bros. not written by Jackson Publick or Doc Hammer....
Original air date:
- Oct 1, 2006
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Episode number:
- 11
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Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part II)
"Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part II)" is the thirteenth episode in the second season of The Venture Bros. It is the season two finale.
The episode begins with a twelve second montage of "Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part I)," leading up to Phantom...
Original air date:
- Oct 15, 2006
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Episode number:
- 13
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The Invisible Hand of Fate
"The Invisible Hand of Fate" is the third episode in the third season of The Venture Bros.
After slipping in his bathroom and falling, Billy Quizboy recovers several lost memories. Billy is about to shout accusations at Pete White when White knocks...
Original air date:
- Jun 15, 2008
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Episode number:
- 3
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The Doctor Is Sin
"The Doctor Is Sin" is the second episode in the third season of the television series The Venture Bros.
Dr. Venture's business is once again on the rocks, so he tries to pull out all the stops to convince a four-star army general to buy from...
Original air date:
- Jun 8, 2008
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- 2
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Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny
"Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny" is the first episode in the third season of The Venture Bros.
The episode begins with the Monarch thinking back to the aftermath of the battle with the Phantom Limb. He recalls the last words Dr. Girlfriend...
Original air date:
- Jun 1, 2008
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Episode number:
- 1
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Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman
Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman is the 32 episode of The Venture Bros. and is part of Season 3. The episode's title is a reference to Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and also the film Medicine Man, in which Sean Connery's character (like Quymn) lives in the...
Original air date:
- Jul 6, 2008
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- 6
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Home Is Where The Hate Is
Home Is Where The Hate Is is the 30 episode of The Venture Bros. and is part of Season 3.
The Monarch and Doctor Girlfriend have moved into Phantom Limb's former home, modeled on the Frank Lloyd Wright Storer House. However, as they are moving in,...
Original air date:
- Jun 22, 2008
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Episode number:
- 4
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The Buddy System
The Buddy System is the 31 episode of The Venture Bros. and is part of Season 3.
The episode begins with a commercial for Rusty's Day Camp for Boy Adventurers. It cuts to Dr. Venture sitting at an autograph table on the front lawn of the Venture...
Original air date:
- Jun 29, 2008
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- 5
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What Goes Down, Must Come Up
What Goes Down Must Come Up is the 33 episode of The Venture Bros. and is part of season 3.
The episode begins as Dr. Venture and Brock are in the Venture Compound hangar, renovating an excavation vehicle left behind by Jonas Venture Senior. While...
Original air date:
- Jul 13, 2008
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- 7
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Tears of a Sea Cow
Tears of a Sea Cow is the 34 episode of The Venture Bros. and is part of Season 3.
The episode begins with The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend raiding the base of their new arch-enemy, Dr. Dugong, who appropriately resembles a manatee, a very similar...
Original air date:
- Jul 20, 2008
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Episode number:
- 8
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Now Museum, Now You Don't
Now Museum-Now You Don't is the 35 episode of The Venture Bros. and is part of Season 3.
The episode begins in 1969, at Spider Skull Island. However, at this date, the island is the headquarters of the super villain Scaramantula, who leads the...
Original air date:
- Jul 27, 2008
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Episode number:
- 9
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ORB
"ORB" is the 37 episode of The Venture Bros. and is part of Season 3.
While watching an episode of the old Rusty Venture cartoons, Billy Quizboy discovers a hidden message describing the length and circumference of a cylinder intended to be used as...
Original air date:
- Aug 10, 2008
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Episode number:
- 11
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The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part I)
"The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part I)" is the 38 episode of The Venture Bros. and is part of the multi-episode season finale. Although ostensibly the first half of a two-part story, the episode continues directly from the end of...
Original air date:
- Aug 17, 2008
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Episode number:
- 12
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The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part II)
"The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part II)" is the 39 episode of The Venture Bros. and is part of the multi-episode third season finale.
Mr. Doe and Mr. Cardholder walk into the office of O.S.I. leader General Treister and explain...
Original air date:
- Aug 24, 2008
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Episode number:
- 13
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Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel
"Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel" is the 40 episode of The Venture Bros. and is the fourth season premiere.
The episode is a non-sequential series of scenes, which closely follow the events of the third season finale, "The Family That Slays...
Original air date:
- Oct 18, 2009
Episode number:
- 40
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The Better Man
The Better Man is the 46th episode of the series The Venture Bros.
The episode begins with the Order of the Triad attempting to stop the supervillain Torrid from opening a gate to Hell. In the process, Torrid accidentally releases a demon from...
Original air date:
- Dec 6, 2009
Episode number:
- 46
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Perchance to Dean
"Perchance to Dean" is the 42 episode of The Venture Bros..
Hank has been grounded for being rude to his father in front of guests. Meanwhile, Dean - showing signs of a developing mustache - appears to have become the golden child of the Venture...
Original air date:
- Nov 1, 2009
Episode number:
- 42
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Return to Malice
"Return to Malice" is the 43 episode of The Venture Bros..
The episode begins in The Monarch's cocoon, where two Monarch Henchmen (86 and 87) are discussing the relative fighting prowess of lake monsters The Loch Ness Monster and Champ. This draws...
Original air date:
- Nov 9, 2009
Episode number:
- 43
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Self-Medication
Self-Medication is the 45 episode of the The Venture Bros.
This episode begins with Dr. Venture fleeing the compound from the Monarch and his flying cocoon. Dr Venture makes it to the roof, but falls off to his doom. He is caught by several ropes...
Original air date:
- Nov 23, 2009
Episode number:
- 45
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Handsome Ransom
"Handsome Ransom" is the 41 episode of The Venture Bros..
The Monarch is holding Hank and Dean hostage and, fed up with never being able to kill Dr. Venture, demands a $10 million ransom. Superhero Captain Sunshine barges in and attacks the cocoon...
Original air date:
- Oct 25, 2009
Episode number:
- 41
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The Revenge Society
"The Revenge Society" is the 44 episode of The Venture Bros..
The episode begins with a mysterious Highwayman-themed villain calling himself "Revenge" infiltrating the lair of the Guild of Calamitous Intent. During an inquisition held by the Guild's...
Original air date:
- Nov 15, 2009
Episode number:
- 44
