You've made it this far! Congratulations, and Go Team Venture!
With The Venture Bros.' wonderful renewal for two additional seasons, as well a 60-90 minute special and an additional 2011 Summer short on the way, UGO had a chance to speak with series creators Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick about not only the upcoming seasons, but their future plans and all things pop culture as well!
In the final installment of our five-part interview series, we got the boys Hammer and Publick to open up a bit after where the road could take them after The Venture Bros' hangs up its speedsuit, and even what specific franchises they'd love to take over!
Take a look below at what's on the horizon, and thanks for tuning in to our interview series!
And while you're at it, pick up a copy of The Venture Bros. Season Four on Blu-Ray, and Season Four, Volume Two on DVD, both available now! Hank and Dean would (if they had technology newer than 1967), and you should too!
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UGO: After you guys are done with The Venture Bros., let's say the world's your oyster, you could work on anything. What would you want to do?
Doc Hammer: I want to get hired by Pixar to work like once a year, just like throw out an idea and have everyone follow it, and they pay you to do nothing for the rest of the time. Then I can take that time to paint, and do those kind of bucolic arts. I want to get hired in a cush position where someone overpays me.
UGO: No specific project, or ideas gestating for years the way Venture was?
Doc Hammer: No.
Jackson Publick: Just the money, just the money.
Doc Hammer: I’m talking about ease and comfort, and to be lionized, and have not really work. And then when I just raise an eyebrow, everybody in the room just becomes hushed and looks at me. And then I say something like, “Man I’d like some cocoa.” And everybody knocks themselves over trying to get me some hot chocolate.
Jackson Publick: And cocoa beans would go through the roof, and you could invest in it.
Doc Hammer: Doc Hammer wants cocoa! Make more money off of that. Doc Hammer loves cocoa! Everybody get him cocoa. Yeah, that’s what I’m looking for. I don’t want to work or come up with ideas, I just want to be loved and worshipped for being who I am.
UGO: Joss Whedon for instance, was given the keys to The Avengers after all his work. So if you can take over any franchise based on the credit you have, and maybe jumpstart it into a movie, what would it be?
Doc Hammer: Herculoids the movie. We'd want Herculoids the TV show, we just want to own Herculoids. Very impressive piece of property, that Herculoids. I have also said many times before that if somebody wanted to reboot Dr. Strange, I would do it in a half second. Or Doc Savage.
Jackson Publick: Doc Savage would be pretty great. Shadows! What about Shadows?
Doc Hammer: Shadows would be great. Yeah, these are the three properties.
Doc Hammer: Shadows totally counts, that’s four, then the Herculoids reboot after we rebooted it. And then we want to be the ones who ruin it with Herculoids Babies and Herucloids...what do we got there? We got Herculoids in Time.
Jackson Publick: Herculoid Transformers maybe.
Doc Hammer: Yeah, all the bad Herucloids ideas, and then we’re the ones who start screaming "you’ve polluted!" But it’s perfect in Herculoids, but then we reboot it as Herculoids again.
Jackson Publick: And then by then we’d be due for a Venture Bros. reboot.
Doc Hammer: Yeah, but we’d be stuck in that stupid Heculoids contract.
UGO: So, just for fun, who would win in a fight between you two?
Doc Hammer: You know who would lose? The viewers, I’ll tell you that right now. And I’m going to throw out that I’d win, not because I’m stronger, because I’m much weaker than Jackson Publick, but I am an ego-maniac and refuse to die.
Jackson Publick: Oh, me too though.
Doc Hammer: Really, but do you know Karate?
Jackson Publick: I have literally sixty, seventy pounds on you, but you know the martial arts. I think we both have a very strong will to live.
Doc Hammer: I’m fast. I know that you have a bad knee. I know too much about you, I would work that knee until—
Jackson Publick: But I know you have paper ribs.
Doc Hammer: You can break a rib, but in that last moment where I can barely move, I could decimate your knee. At the end of it we’re both going to be pretty down, but I think you're fully aware that your knee is on its last leg, and you’re not going to favor it. And I’m going to take it down, and then you’re going to a be a mono-pod of a man.
Jackson Publick: God help you if I try to take one of your eyes because they are close together. I will take both.
Doc Hammer: If you make a good fist, I’m almost legally a cyclops. Very tightly positioned eyes. If he punches me in the bridge of my nose, he’ll blind me, but I know where your f*cking knees are man. Even in my blindness, I’m going to keep going at the knee.
Jackson Publick: Because you’ll be able to hear them creaking. If you can hear them you can find them, and if you can find them you can kill them.
Doc Hammer: I’m going to hear the moan for that knee, and I know four feet under that moan: bad knee. I’m going to work for that.
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We've had a great time talking to Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick about The Venture Bros. and all things beyond, so thank you very much and we hope you've enjoyed reading!
For more dedicated Venture news, episode recaps and more, be sure to check out The Mantis Eye Experiment and The Venture Bros. Blog!
Sound off below in the comments section with your own Venture hopes and dreams, and don't forget to pick up Season Four in stores now!
(Editor's Note: We would like to point out and apologize for an error in part three of the interview, in which a transcription error misinterpreted Doc's reference to the band Suede's "Trash" album, and has since been corrected.)
