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''[[The Venture Bros.]]'' (2003-2004, 2006, 2008-2010, 2013, 2016-) is a cartoon series on [[Adult Swim]]/[[Cartoon Network]] that focuses upon the lives and adventures of the titular Venture brothers (snarky Hank and brainy Dean) and their father, scientist/adventurer Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture (who has grown bitter and abusive towards his own children due to his failure to live up to the legacy of his super-scientist father Jonas Venture, making him a sort of pulp version of a [[Former Child Star]]). They are followed by their government issued bodyguards: first Brock Samson, an ex-black ops agent who's described as a [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Swedish murder machine]], and then Sergeant Hatred, a former super-villain/recovering pedophile who was drafted by the military to replace Brock when he quit the job.

The Venture family travels the world, getting into all sorts of bizarre adventures and spoofing the everloving hell out of ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' along the way -- at least at first. The series [[Growing the Beard|quickly developed]] into something far more interesting than a mean -spirited ''Jonny Quest'' parody as the characters gained depth and the show took a dark turn into deconstructing the entire "boy adventurer" genre. The focus of the series shifted from the brothers and onto Rusty Venture, and as the theme of "failure" became the central element of the series, the series began to show what happens to boy adventurers as they grow up and discover that the promises of the era of "super-science" in the 1960s never came.

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