Season 1
Cockpits! Booby traps!
Synopsis
The Venture Bros. (2004), Season 1 is the Adult Swim cartoon you can watch online on iFILM — thirteen episodes that send up the old boy-adventurer comics like Jonny Quest.
This is where you meet the family: washed-up supergenius Dr. Venture, his cheerfully clueless twin sons Hank and Dean, and bodyguard Brock Samson, who settles most problems with a knife. The season drags them from Tijuana to their grandfather's orbiting space station to the Bermuda Triangle, with the preening villain known as the Monarch and his henchmen never far behind. Under the gags, characters and old family secrets slowly come into focus.
This first run is still finding the tone that later made the show a cult favorite: pitch-black humor, pop-culture riffs, and a streak of melancholy beneath the absurdity. It isn't a kids' cartoon — the jokes and the violence are firmly adult. Stream The Venture Bros. Season 1 online on iFILM.
13 episodes
S1·E1Dia de los Dangerous!
When the Venture Family visits Tijuana for a lecture Dr. Venture is giving at the (community) University of Mexico, the dastardly Monarch weaves a cocoon of villainy that leaves the Venture brothers trapped in his clutches.
S1·E2Careers in Science
The Venture family must travel to space to repair an orbiting space station that Dr. Venture's father built in the 1970s, but a mysterious space phantom could be haunting the station!
S1·E3Home Insecurity
To protect the Venture compound while Brock is on his yearly mountain survival sabbatical, Dr. Venture builds a panic room and a robotic bodyguard, which are soon put to the test.
S1·E4The Incredible Mr. Brisby
Dr. Venture is offered a job by theme park owner and cartoon magnate Roy Brisby, who won't take no for an answer in his quest for worldwide entertainment dominance.
S1·E5Eeney, Meeney, Miney… Magic!
Dr. Venture's new experiment has the entire family interested--not to mention trapped inside! The Ventures' strange new neighbor, master of mysticism Dr. Orpheus, may be the only one who can help them escape.
S1·E6Ghosts of the Sargasso
On a scientific expedition in the Bermuda Triangle, Doc's experimental equipment awakens and possibly enrages the submerged ghost of Major Tom, a test pilot who crashed in an experimental aircraft designed by Doc's father.
S1·E7Ice Station Impossible!
Dr. Venture, Pete White and Master Billy Quizboy are invited to take part in a top secret government think tank run by supergenius Professor Impossible.
S1·E8Mid-Life Chrysalis
The Monarch sends Dr. Girlfriend undercover to seduce Dr. Venture in order to inject him with a body-altering serum.
S1·E9Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean
The Monarch finally has the Venture family right where he wants them hanging upside down above the Amazon river! But his victory is postponed when Dean suffers a strange but fairly common injury, acute testicular tortion.
S1·E10Tag-Sale – You're It!
Always short on cash, Dr. Venture decides to unload some of his father's old scientific equipment in a huge yard sale that attracts fellow scientists and super-villains alike.
S1·E11Past Tense
When Brock and Dr. Venture are kidnapped from the funeral of a college friend, the boys enlist the aid of the original Team Venture: a group of superscience adventurers who worked for their grandfather in the sixties.
S1·E12The Trial of the Monarch
The Monarch is on trial for the one crime he may not have committed, under mysterious circumstances stemming from his bitter breakup with Dr. Girlfriend.
S1·E13Return to Spider-Skull Island
Dr. Venture finally learns the secret of his recurring womb nightmares when a stomach tumor turns out to be something far more sinister. In a fit of jealousy over their mistaken belief their father is pregnant, the boys run away from home.
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