On the surface, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of point in recapping TV shows from five years ago.  And yet, I’m going through the first season of Venture Bros. and providing long-winded recaps of those early days when the Monarch was single, Hank and Dean hadn’t hit puberty, […]

At first glance, “The Incredible Mr. Brisby” seems like a bit of a throwaway episode – unlike most of the Season One Venture Bros. episodes we’ve been watching, it doesn’t introduce any major characters and we don’t really see the important players in this episode ever again.  But even though […]

We continue our retro-recaps of Venture Bros. Season One episodes with Episode Four – “Eeny, Meeny, Miney… Magic!”.  This is the episode that includes creator Jackson Publick’s favorite joke in the series, so you know it’s got to be good.  Besides that, it’s the first appearance of Dr. Orpheus, Triana, […]

After a brief delay due to technical issues (that “PROBLEM” light just kept blinking…), we’re back with our retro-recaps of Season One Venture Bros. episodes.  This week, it’s Midlife Chrysalis.  Now, when Adult Swim runs the first season, they put this one pretty badly out of sequence.  They put it […]

Continuing with our retro-recaps of Season One Venture Bros. episodes, this week it’s time to look at the second episode – “Careers in Science”.  This one’s notable for several reasons – it’s the first appearance of the late Jonas Venture, and it helps establish some of the series’ major themes, […]

It’s going to be a while before we get Venture Bros. Season Five.  However, since we didn’t begin the Venture Bros. Dossier until Season Four, there are thirty-nine unrecapped episodes just laying around.  Even if you don’t have the DVD’s, Adult Swim is repeating the series from the beginning.  So we’re going […]