The Mantis-Eye Experiment

For those of you who have been with Venture Bros. since the ultra-beginning you may remember the pilot episode, "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay" airing way back on a chilly (I assume) February night back in 2003. Of course that night was February 15th, which makes the pilot episode (and by extension, the series) ten years old today. After season one was greenlit there was still over a year before the first canonical episode aired (sound familiar?) but the pilot is of course where it all began. Ten years is a pretty damned long time, and even though the wait between new seasons can sometimes boarder on excruciating it's important to be thankful for something that has had so much staying power. From Adult Swim for nurturing it to Jackson and Doc and the rest of the crew for toiling over it for a large portion of their lives, to you for watching it, buying DVDs and (hopefully) telling your friends. Venture Bros. couldn't have lasted this long without everything going so very right, and that's been a pretty cool thing to see these last ten years.