the early Season 5 episodes.

The End of Season 4, Except "Operation P.R.O.M." Of the 12 lowest-rated Venture Bros. episodes on IMDB, five are at the end of the show's up-and-down fourth season. Part of this may be due to the season being an early pioneer in splitting things up—the two multi-episode runs appeared a year apart—but the season's overarching plot lines tend to get away from the show's core characters. Add in some occasional Earth-shattering abrupt introductions (a trio of potentially important all powerful beings called The Investors shows up without much explanation in the hurried 15th episode), and it's easy to see why some cheatsheets (including Adult Swim's own "The Entire Batshit History of The Venture Bros. in Eight Minutes") showed up after this stretch.

Season 1: Episodewhether or not the show's humor and nuance is for you. They also update the animation style for the better.

Seasons/Episodes You Can't Skip:

Season 1: Episode 10, "Tag Sale—You're It!" and Episode 11, "Past Tense" It'd be easy to simply recommend all of Season 1 following "The Incredible Mr. Brisby," but this final leg really stands out. Episodes 11 and 12 plant seeds of devotion for Venture fandom. In "Tag Sale," the team holds a yard sale to empty out old gear, and it attracts seemingly every villain in the Guild. "Past Tense" features an old college classmate capturing Dr. Venture, Pete White, and villain Baron Ünderbheit, forcing the boys to reunite the remaining parts of the original Team Venture for a rescue. The combination of modern-day action and