"The Venture Bros." (2003) TV series 2003-????

User Rating:

9.5/10   

Creator:

Christopher McCulloch
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Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Release Date:

7 August 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Jonny Quest is Jonesin'!

Plot:

The bizarre animated escapades of pseudo-heroic scientist Dr. Rusty Venture, his competent, high strung bodyguard, and his two over-enthusiastic sons.

Plot Keywords:

Venture | Scientist | Bodyguard | Super Villain | Villain

US TV Schedule:

Mon. Nov. 9	12:00 AM	TOON
Mon. Nov. 9	4:00 AM	TOON

Cast

Christopher McCulloch	...	Hank Venture / ... (41 episodes, 2003-2008)
James Urbaniak	...	Dr. Venture / ... (40 episodes, 2003-2008)
Patrick Warburton	...	Brock Samson / ... (39 episodes, 2003-2008)
Michael Sinterniklaas	...	Dean Venture / ... (38 episodes, 2003-2008)
Doc Hammer	...	Henchman 21 / ... (33 episodes, 2004-2008)
Soul-Bot	...	H.E.L.P.eR. (23 episodes, 2003-2008)
Steven Rattazzi	...	Dr. Orpheus / ... (21 episodes, 2004-2008)

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Series Directed by
Christopher McCulloch		(43 episodes, 2003-2009)
Jon Schnepp		(2 episodes, 2009)

Series Writing credits
Christopher McCulloch		(42 episodes, 2003-2009)
Doc Hammer		(24 episodes, 2004-2008)
Ben Edlund		(3 episodes, 2004-2006)

Series Produced by
Christopher McCulloch	....	executive producer (41 episodes, 2003-2008)
Rachel Simon	....	producer / associate producer / ... (38 episodes, 2004-2008)
Steven S.H. Yoon	....	executive producer: Digital eMation / executive producer (37 episodes, 2004-2008)
Nathan Graf	....	associate producer (27 episodes, 2003-2006)
David Lipson	....	producer (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Jeremy Rosenberg	....	supervising producer / associate producer (14 episodes, 2004-2006)
Keith Crofford	....	executive producer: Williams Street (13 episodes, 2008)
Michael Lazzo	....	executive producer: Williams Street (13 episodes, 2008)
Charlie Miller	....	executive producer / supervising producer (13 episodes, 2008)
Jeffrey Nodelman	....	supervising producer (12 episodes, 2003-2004)

Series Original Music by
J.G. Thirlwell		(39 episodes, 2003-2008)

Series Film Editing by
Doc Hammer		(28 episodes, 2003-2006)

Series Art Direction by
Stephen DeStefano		(9 episodes, 2008)
Kimson Albert		(3 episodes, 2008)
Jennifer Batinich		(3 episodes, 2008)
Nick DeMayo		(3 episodes, 2008)
Ian Jones-Quartey		(3 episodes, 2008)
Stephan DeStephano		(2 episodes, 2008)

Series Production Management
Keith Crofford	....	executive in charge of production: Cartoon Network (27 episodes, 2004-2006)
Michael Lazzo	....	executive in charge of production: Cartoon Network (27 episodes, 2004-2006)
Nisa Contreras	....	production manager (13 episodes, 2006)
Charlie Miller	....	supervising producer (11 episodes, 2008)
PeeDee Shindell	....	production manager (9 episodes, 2008)
Cathy Kwan	....	production manager (2 episodes, 2008)

Series Art Department
Marina Dominis-Dunnigan	....	color supervisor / color director (27 episodes, 2003-2006)
Peter Brown	....	background painter (26 episodes, 2004-2006)
Jonathan Roscetti	....	storyboard artist / storyboard revisionist (24 episodes, 2004-2006)
Douglas Lovelace	....	storyboard revision supervisor / storyboard artist (23 episodes, 2004-2006)
Rick Lacy	....	storyboard artist / storyboard revisionist (17 episodes, 2004-2006)
Bill Presing	....	storyboard supervisor / additional color artist / ... (15 episodes, 2003-2006)
Doc Hammer	....	title sequence (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Christopher McCulloch	....	title sequence / storyboard artist / ... (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Liz Artinian	....	background painter / color supervisor (15 episodes, 2006-2008)
Siobhan Mullen	....	storyboard supervisor (13 episodes, 2006)
Stephen DeStefano	....	storyboard artist (11 episodes, 2004-2006)
Michael Oviedo	....	storyboard revisionist (11 episodes, 2004)
Katie Nix	....	background painter (10 episodes, 2004)
Danny Kimanyen	....	storyboard revisionist (9 episodes, 2004)
Tom Conner	....	storyboard artist (8 episodes, 2004-2006)
Rafael Rosado	....	storyboard artist (8 episodes, 2006)
Michael Manley	....	storyboard artist (7 episodes, 2004-2006)
Esao Andrews	....	background painter (5 episodes, 2004)
Christophe Pouchot	....	storyboard artist (5 episodes, 2004)
Toni Tysen	....	storyboard revisionist (5 episodes, 2004)
Mike Borkowski	....	storyboard artist (5 episodes, 2006)
Michael Kornstein	....	storyboard revisionist / additional color artist (4 episodes, 2003-2004)
Chris George	....	storyboard revisionist (4 episodes, 2004)
Irene Wu	....	storyboard revisionist (4 episodes, 2004)
Alexander Woo	....	storyboard artist (3 episodes, 2006)
Bob Cavin III	....	storyboard artist (2 episodes, 2004)
James Webb	....	storyboard artist (2 episodes, 2004)
Dan Root	....	storyboard artist (2 episodes, 2006)
Garrett O'Donoghue	....	storyboard artist (2 episodes, 2008)

Series Sound Department
Dave Paterson	....	supervising sound editor / sound re-recording mixer (38 episodes, 2004-2008)
Rachel Chancey	....	foley supervisor (25 episodes, 2006-2008)
Shaun Brennan	....	foley artist (14 episodes, 2003-2004)
Glenfield Payne	....	sfx editor / sound effects editor (11 episodes, 2006-2008)
Damian Volpe	....	sound effects editor / sfx editor (11 episodes, 2006-2008)
Anthony Tortorici	....	adr engineer (unknown episodes)

Series Visual Effects by
Doc Hammer	....	special visual effects (39 episodes, 2003-2008)
Luciano DiGeronimo	....	compositor (28 episodes, 2003-2006)
Miguel Martínez	....	additional animation (2 episodes, 2008)

Series Animation Department
Roger Mejia	....	lip sync / lipsync and animation checker / ... (39 episodes, 2003-2008)
Kimson Albert	....	animation director / computer animator (37 episodes, 2003-2008)
Nick DeMayo	....	animation director / animation direction supervisor / ... (37 episodes, 2003-2008)
Jennifer Batinich	....	animation director (36 episodes, 2004-2008)
Tom Bayne	....	animatic director / animo compositor (29 episodes, 2004-2008)
Chris George	....	character designer (29 episodes, 2004-2008)
Mike Foran	....	character and prop design supervisor / computer animation director (28 episodes, 2003-2006)
Miguel Martinez-Joffre	....	animation direction supervisor / animation director (28 episodes, 2003-2006)
Jamison K. Kwon	....	background designer / background artist (27 episodes, 2003-2006)
Vinh Truong	....	background designer / background artist (27 episodes, 2003-2006)
Freya Tanz	....	background design supervisor (27 episodes, 2004-2006)
Matthew I. Jenkins	....	character designer / character design (25 episodes, 2006-2008)
Carly Monardo	....	character and prop color key / character color key / ... (25 episodes, 2006-2008)
Martin Wittig	....	character designer / character design (25 episodes, 2006-2008)
Ray Feldman	....	background designer / background artist (24 episodes, 2006-2008)
Agatha Sarim Kim	....	animation coordinator: Digital eMation / animation coordinator (22 episodes, 2006-2008)
Rick Lacy	....	character designer / storyboard artist / ... (21 episodes, 2003-2008)
Steffen Vala	....	animatic director (14 episodes, 2004)
Heather Austin	....	character and prop color key (13 episodes, 2004)
Amanda Baehr	....	character designer (13 episodes, 2004)
Dong M. Lee	....	background designer (13 episodes, 2004)
Phil Rynda	....	character designer (13 episodes, 2004)
Ian Jones-Quartey	....	animation director / ink artist (13 episodes, 2006-2008)
Sadie Y.E. Lee	....	animation coordinator: Digital eMation (13 episodes, 2006)
Siobhan Mullen	....	storyboard supervisor (12 episodes, 2008)
Deodato Pangandoyon	....	background artist / background painter (12 episodes, 2008)
George Fort	....	background design supervisor (11 episodes, 2008)
Danny Hynes	....	storyboard artist (11 episodes, 2008)
Jonathan Roscetti	....	storyboard artist / background designer (10 episodes, 2004-2008)
Denny Fincke	....	background artist / background designer (10 episodes, 2008)
Christopher Palesty	....	background artist / background designer (10 episodes, 2008)
Danny Kimanyen	....	character designer / additional layout artist / ... (9 episodes, 2003-2008)
Christopher Fisher	....	background artist / background painter (9 episodes, 2008)
Douglas Lovelace	....	character designer / storyboard artist / ... (8 episodes, 2003-2008)
Erik Craddock	....	background clean-up artist (8 episodes, 2004)
Lynda Nettleship	....	background designer (8 episodes, 2006)
Lauren Monardo	....	storyboard artist (7 episodes, 2008)
Mike Borkowski	....	storyboard artist (6 episodes, 2008)
Liz Artinian	....	coloring supervisor / storyboard artist (5 episodes, 2008)
Matthew Peters	....	storyboard artist (4 episodes, 2008)
Rafael Rosado	....	storyboard artist (4 episodes, 2008)
Tom Conner	....	storyboard artist (3 episodes, 2008)
Chris Fisher	....	background painter / background artist (3 episodes, 2008)
Matthew Peters	....	storyboard artist (2 episodes, 2008)

Series Editorial Department
Doc Hammer	....	film editor (11 episodes, 2004-2008)
Liz Artinian	....	color supervisor (5 episodes, 2008)

Series Music Department
Doc Hammer	....	music arranger / music editor (1 episode, 2003)

Series Other crew
Sal Malimo	....	track reader (27 episodes, 2004-2006)
Luciano DiGeronimo	....	animo editor / animo re-compositor / ... (21 episodes, 2004-2006)
Rebekah Browning	....	production assistant (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Patrick Costa	....	production assistant (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Sandra Gaddis	....	production assistant (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Janet Green	....	production assistant (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Alyssa Heller	....	production assistant (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Andres Kwon	....	production assistant (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Aaron Leopold	....	production assistant (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Aura Moser	....	production assistant (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Kimberly Solano	....	production assistant (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Chris Stearns	....	production assistant (15 episodes, 2003-2004)
Ki-Yong Bai	....	supervising director: Digital eMation (14 episodes, 2004)
Brad Nord	....	production coordinator (13 episodes, 2004)
Alexandra Andrew	....	production coordinator (13 episodes, 2007-2008)
Zoya Baker	....	production assistant (2 episodes, 2004)
Gary Gretsky	....	production assistant (2 episodes, 2004)
Jim Mortensen	....	production assistant (2 episodes, 2004)
Yevgenia Nechayevsky	....	production assistant (2 episodes, 2004)
Vanessa Wood	....	production assistant (2 episodes, 2004)
PeeDee Shindell	....	production coordinator (2 episodes, 2008)

Series Thanks
Vishal Roney	....	special thanks (22 episodes, 2006-2008)
Jennifer Stephens	....	special thanks (22 episodes, 2006-2008)
Kim Manning	....	special thanks (14 episodes, 2004)
Hajime Sorayama	....	thanks / additional thanks (3 episodes, 2004)

Production Companies

• Noodlesoup Productions (2003-2004)
• World Leaders Entertainment (2006-)
• Astro Base Go!
• Cartoon Network
• Williams Street

Distributors

• Adult Swim (2003) (USA) (TV)
• Cartoon Network (2003) (USA) (TV)
• Teletoon (2005) (Canada) (TV)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Bravo (2006) (UK) (TV)

Other Companies

• Goldcrest Post Production London  post-production audio services (2004)
• NYAV Post  recorded at (2006-)
• Digital eMation  production services (2004-)

Also Known As:

The Venture Brothers (USA) (alternative spelling)

Runtime:

22 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-MA | Australia:MA | New Zealand:M | USA:TV-14 | UK:15

Company:

Noodlesoup Productions

Trivia:

H.E.L.P.eR. stands for "Humanoid Electric Lab Partner Robot." It's discussed during the audio commentary on the episode "Tag Sale, You're It" that Jackson Publick originally voiced the sounds for H.E.L.P.eR. Then Doc Hammer ran this through Soul-bot, a robot that they have at Astrobase Go! to give us H.E.L.P.eR. sounds. You can see Soul-bot at the end of every episode in the Astrobase Go! i.d. It was also discussed that they gave up making new sounds after a while and just use the same ones over and over.

Quotes:

Dr. Venture: Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery?

Soundtrack:

No Vacancy

Adult Swim Redeemed

Adult swim's shows have gone off the deep end of fairly entertaining nonsense to just pure absurdity. I do not see the appeal to any of them anymore and I do not often watch the programming block anymore.

Venture Bros. However stands apart from the rest and provides truly intelligent, well thought out, over-the-top and hilarious entertainment. The show is a perfect balance between tasteless humor and really clever subtleties. The homage/lambasting of early adventure animation/comics is spot on. The characters are full of depth and they're engaging. Brock Samson could pwn Chuck Norris any day of the week. What more could one want?

When I first saw this show I thought it was one of the more ******* up shows I'd ever seen. I was surprised just how graphic it was with particularly disturbing images(guy getting his eyes gouged out, watching a henchman struggle with his last breaths as he's strangled to death by Brock, poll vaulting off henchman's jugular...etc.)

I was not turned off though because aside from the surprising imagery, the jokes and references were all spot-on. I was laughing the whole way through and intrigued around every corner.

Truly, my only real gripe with the show is that it has a hard time taking itself seriously and often resorts to fairly flippant endings and/or resolutions that sometimes I feel aren't necessary. I think the show could support itself just fine with a persistent story arc, which I think we are starting to see more of in the new season anyway, so that's good.

And again, Brock Samson, there could hardly be a better cartoon character.

Check out this show, it's well worth it. I hope that it continues for a long time.