Season 1: 2004
| # | No. | Title | Written by | Original air date | Prod. Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | 1 | "Dia de Los Dangerous!" | Jackson Publick | August 7, 2004 (2004-08-07) | 1-01 |
| On a visit to Tijuana, the Venture family find themselves in peril: Hank and Dean are kidnapped by The Monarch, who attempts to deal with his own abandonment issues by bonding with them. Dr. Venture's one remaining kidney is stolen, and he, Brock, and their robot assistant H.E.L.P.eR. mount a rescue to save the boys, whose kidneys the doctor requires to replace his own. | |||||
| 102 | 2 | "Careers in Science" | Doc Hammer, Ben Edlund | August 14, 2004 (2004-08-14) | 1-02 |
| The Venture family travels to the orbital space station Gargantua-1, built in the 1970s by Dr. Venture's father, Dr. Jonas Venture, so Dr. Venture can repair it. The station's female officer, Lieutenant Anna Baldavich, is instantly attracted to Brock, leading to romantic tension with her fellow officer Colonel Bud Manstrong. Hank and Dean become convinced that Gargantua-1 is haunted by a "phantom spaceman", while Dr. Venture discovers that the problem with the station is his own fault. | |||||
| 103 | 3 | "Home Insecurity" | Jackson Publick | August 21, 2004 (2004-08-21) | 1-07 |
| Dr. Venture builds a new robot, G.U.A.R.D.O., to protect himself and his sons while Brock is away on a camping trip. However, the Ventures end up trapped in their panic room when The Monarch and Baron Ünderbheit both send their henchmen to attack Dr. Venture on the same night. Meanwhile, Brock befriends the cyborg Steve Summers and his lover, a Sasquatch, helping them to evade the United States military forces who are after them. | |||||
| 104 | 4 | "The Incredible Mr. Brisby" | Jackson Publick | August 28, 2004 (2004-08-28) | 1-05 |
| Theme park and cartoon magnate Roy Brisby kindaps Dr. Venture and attempts to extract from him his father's research on cloning, which the disabled Brisby desires in order to clone a new, healthy body. Hank and Dean are abducted and brainwashed by the Orange County Liberation Front, who seek to overthrow Brisby and his Brisbyland park. Brock teams up with his old acquaintance, the mercenary Molotov Cocktease, to rescue the Ventures. | |||||
| 105 | 5 | "Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic!" | Doc Hammer | September 4, 2004 (2004-09-04) | 1-04 |
| Necromancer Doctor Byron Orpheus moves into the Venture Compound as a tenant, and Dean is instantly smitten with his goth daughter Triana. Brock, Hank, and Dean become trapped inside Dr. Venture's latest invention, a "Joy Can" which creates hallucinations of the user's deepest desires, and the two Doctors are unable to free them. Dean's feelings for Triana eventually reveal the door and permit their escape. | |||||
| 106 | 6 | "Ghosts of the Sargasso" | Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer | September 11, 2004 (2004-09-11) | 1-08 |
| The Venture family sails to the Bermuda Triangle on their hydrofoil, the X-2, to recover an experimental aircraft built by Dr. Venture's father which crashed there in 1969. While Dr. Venture explores the ocean floor in a robotic atmospheric diving suit, the X-2 is overtaken by pirates whose ship has been stuck in the sargassum for years. Dr. Venture is trapped underwater after his "metasonic locator" accidentally summons the screaming ghost of the experimental aircraft's pilot, Major Tom. Brock and Hank work together to subdue the pirates, deal with the ghost, and save Dr. Venture. | |||||
| 107 | 7 | "Ice Station – Impossible!" | Jackson Publick | September 18, 2004 (2004-09-18) | 1-09 |
| Dr. Venture and fellow super-scientists Pete White and Billy Quizboy are recruited into a government think tank in the Arctic headed by Dr. Venture's former college professor, Richard Impossible. After flirting with Richard's wife Sally and discovering that the Impossibles all have freakish mutations, Dr. Venture is abandoned in the snow by Prof. Impossible and left to die. Meanwhile, Hank has been exposed to a serum that will eventually cause him to explode. Brock rushes him to the Arctic and saves Dr. Venture so that the think tank can come up with an antidote. | |||||
| 108 | 8 | "Mid-Life Chrysalis" | Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer | September 25, 2004 (2004-09-25) | 1-03 |
| Brock is depressed to learn that his license to kill has expired, and Hank and Dean help him to prepare for his recertification exam. The Monarch sends his lover and co-villain Doctor Girlfriend undercover to seduce Dr. Venture and inject him with a serum that mutates him into a giant caterpillar. She regrets doing this, however, and eventually administers the antidote. | |||||
| 109 | 9 | "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean" | Doc Hammer | October 2, 2004 (2004-10-02) | 1–10 |
| The Monarch captures the Ventures, but when Dean suddenly begins to suffer acute testicular torsion he is bound by the laws of the Guild of Calamitous Intent to grant them a reprieve. Pete White and Billy Quizboy help Dr. Venture operate on Dean, while The Monarch holds Hank and Brock as collateral. Dean recovers, but Hank eventually suffers the same ailment. | |||||
| 110 | 10 | "Tag Sale – You're It!" | Doc Hammer | October 9, 2004 (2004-10-09) | 1-06 |
| Dr. Venture holds a large tag sale to raise income by selling off assorted inventions and equipment, an event which attracts many scientists and supervillains. Hank runs a lemonade and sandwich stand at the event, with Dean, Triana, and H.E.L.P.eR. as his employees. The Monarch takes the opportunity to instigate a riot so that he can sneak into the Venture Compound to use the restroom and vandalize Dr. Venture's equipment. | |||||
| 111 | 11 | "Past Tense" | Jackson Publick | October 16, 2004 (2004-10-16) | 1–12 |
| Dr. Venture, Brock, Pete White, and Baron Ünderbheit are kidnapped by robotics expert Mike Sorayama, who blames them for ruining his chances with a girl he had a crush on 20 years prior, when they were all college classmates. Hank and Dean reunite members of the original Team Venture, a group of adventurers who worked for their grandfather in the 1960s, to mount a rescue. The kidnapper turns out to be a robot, the real Mike Sorayama having died some time ago. | |||||
| 112 | 12 | "The Trial of the Monarch" | Doc Hammer | October 23, 2004 (2004-10-23) | 1–13 |
| The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend have a bitter breakup, and she returns to her former lover Phantom Limb. When The Monarch drunkenly attempts to win her back, Phantom Limb frames him for the murder of a police officer and The Monarch goes to trial. Phantom Limb, along with agents from the Guild of Calamitous Intent, ensures that The Monarch is found guilty and sent to prison, which upsets Dr. Girlfriend. | |||||
| 113 | 13 | "Return to Spider-Skull Island" | Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer | October 30, 2004 (2004-10-30) | 1–11 |
| Dr. Venture has surgery to remove a tumor from his abdomen. Thinking that their father is pregnant, Hank and Dean run away from home and wind up in a Scared Straight!-style prison program led by The Monarch. The "tumor" turns out to be Dr. Venture's twin brother, who has been living inside him since being devoured while the two were still in the womb. The twin attempts to claim his birthright by killing Dr. Venture, but is stopped by Brock and H.E.L.P.eR. After a truce, he takes the name Jonas Venture Junior and Dr. Venture gives him the X-2 and their father's facility on Spider-Skull Island. The family recovers Hank and Dean, but they are accidentally killed by Monarch Henchmen 21 and 24. |
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