Quick! What's the most deranged fanboy toon on television? If you didn't answer Adult Swim's The Venture Bros., which returns Sunday to begin wrapping the rest of its transgressive fourth season, then you may need to seriously recalibrate your geek meter.

"Well, I wouldn't call it deranged," The Venture Bros. co-writer and multidisciplinary artist Doc Hammer told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. "The show is clinically sane. I mean,