The Venture Bros.

Series Similar to The Venture Bros.

If you enjoyed The Venture Bros., these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Rick and Morty

   2013 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · returning

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile, highly rated (8.7), also on Adult Swim.

   Rick is a mentally gifted, but sociopathic and alcoholic scientist and a grandfather to Morty; an awkward, impressionable, and somewhat spineless teenage boy. Rick moves into the family home of Morty, where he immediately becomes a bad influence.

2. Futurama

   1999 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · returning

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile, highly rated (8.6).

   Futurama follows pizza guy Philip J. Fry, who reawakens in 31st century New New York after a cryonics lab accident. Now part of the Planet Express delivery crew, Fry travels to the farthest reaches of the universe with his robot buddy Bender and cyclopsian love interest Leela, discovering freaky mutants, intergalactic conspiracies and other strange stuff.

3. South Park

   1997 · Comedy · returning

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.3).

   South Park is an adult comedy animation show centred around 4 children in the small town of south park. Its humour is often dark involving satirical elements and mocking current real-life events.

4. Final Space

   2018 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile, also on Adult Swim.

   Final Space is a serialized intergalactic space saga about an astronaut named Gary and his adorable, planet-destroying friend, Mooncake. The series will follow their adventures as they embark on a quest to unlock the mystery of "Final Space", the place where the entire universe ends.

5. The Midnight Gospel

   2020 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile.

   The Midnight Gospel centers on Clancy, a spacecaster with a malfunctioning multiverse simulator, who leaves the comfort of his home to interview beings living in dying worlds.

6. Archer

   2009 · Comedy, Action, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy set at the International Secret Intelligence Service, a spy agency where espionage and global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other.

7. Aqua Teen Hunger Force

   2000 · Comedy, Action, Adventure · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile, also on Adult Swim.

   Aqua Teen Hunger Force follows the adventures of the aptly named Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a group of mystery-solving fast food items. The team consists of Master Shake, or Shake, a rather sadistic, lazy, ordering milkshake who loves to torture Meatwad. Frylock, the floating box of fries, is the brains the group, and contains the one thing that the rest of the group lacks: common sense. Meatwad is a loving, caring, gentle ball of meat that crawls wherever he goes, who is frequently tortured by Shake.

8. The Boondocks

   2005 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on Adult Swim.

   In The Boondocks, Robert "Granddad" Freeman is the cantankerous legal guardian of his rambunctious grandkids Huey and Riley and has moved them from the south side of Chicago to the quiet and safety of "The Boondocks" (in this case, suburban Woodcrest), hoping that he can ignore them altogether and enjoy the golden years of his life in peace. But Huey, a 10-year-old left wing revolutionary, is determined not to enjoy the affluence of suburbia. This attitude is seconded by his 8-year-old brother, Riley, a proud product of contemporary rap culture. Although they torture each other and provoke the neighborhood, they are no match for Granddad, who is eccentric even by "crazy-ass-old-black-man" standards.

9. Metalocalypse

   2006 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on Adult Swim.

   Metalocalypse is an eleven-minute flash animated comedy airing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha. The series follows the exploits of a fictitious half American/half Scandinavian death metal band known as Dethklok. The band and its members are huge the world over, but incredibly stupid - a death metal version of Spinal Tap. Watch as they leave a trail of destruction and mayhem in their wake with their ear-melting onslaught of metal!

10. Brickleberry

    2012 · Comedy · ended

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

    Brickleberry follows the hapless rangers at Brickleberry National Park as they do their worst to keep the park open. Having been through everything from "Steve's" invention of Squabbits to the birth of the anti-Christ, the rangers are back and ready for anything.