The Venture Bros.
The Venture Bros. Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | ||
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| S1 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 7.5 | ||||
| S2 | 8.3 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 7.4 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 8.6 | 9.0 | |||||
| S3 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 8.1 | 8.8 | 8.9 | |||||
| S4 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 9.4 | 7.5 | |
| S5 | 8.3 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.7 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 8.2 | ||||||||||
| S6 | 8.7 | 8.5 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 9.0 | ||||||||||
| S7 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 9.4 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.9 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.9 |
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"Superhero parody that quietly becomes a tragicomedy"
The Venture Bros. follows Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture, a washed-up boy-adventurer turned failed scientist, as he drags his two dorky sons and his hyper-competent bodyguard through misadventures involving a bureaucratic guild of costumed supervillains. What starts as a dead-on parody of old adventure cartoons slowly reveals itself as something stranger and sadder: a densely written, joke-packed comedy about arrested development, failure, and family. It's slow to reveal its hand, talky, referential, and rewards patience with real emotional payoff buried under absurdist gags and elaborate running lore.
the joke density and surprisingly moving character work hiding under the parody surface.
you want fast-moving plots or dislike dialogue-heavy comedy stuffed with references and lore.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
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