The Mantis-Eye Experiment

First I just thought I'd let everyone know that the House of Mummies capsule and notes are (finally) complete. You know what you must do. That aside, I think I have enough crazy e-mail to do another mailbag! Hooray! Let's begin.

First we have some e-mail from waaaaaay back in May from 'Tex' answering a question from the previous mailbag:

In an email posted on May 1st Swanky~Tuna asked,

"I was wondering, do you know what song is playing when Brock is hosing down the X-1? I hunted through the Foetus and Steriod Maximus song samples on cduniverse but didn't seem to have any luck. Would you happen to know?"

I have to make a couple of guesses here but if you hang on for a minute you'll follow the logic.

The first guess is that the scene in question is from the pilot episode.

The second guess is that the song is "Hobbit Ride (To the Midnight Sun of Valhalla)," also noted here.

And in fact Tex is correct. If you listen to the commentary for TSTB Jackson and Doc mention as much. The tune is a lampoon of Led Zep (Brock's favorite band) and their tendency to write about Hobbits and Vikings and stuff.

Here's a nice e-mail from Brandon:

Hi Mike, hope you're well - really appreciate your website - here's a pic you can post if you want for one of your updates - it's the Hank and Dean portion of the inside DVD art by Sienkiewicz - the original color is much more vibrant than in the DVD - sorry for the crappy pic but it's too big to scan, 15"x20"

And he's attached a pretty picture from the DVD. Feel free to grab it if you'd like. Thanks Brandon!

Here's a nice e-mail from 'Hop':

i just found your site last night while sort of battling insomnia and sort of accepting it's time-to-time rule over me. i'm a huge fan of the venture brothers (addict) and i spent better than an hour flipping through it. after i wore out my mouse finger i just wanted to drop a line saying "great site!" so... hey you've got a great site going. keep up the good work!

also i have a question, what do you think dr V's pills are? he calls them diet pills in careers in science, look like xanax to me tho.

Well thank you Mr. Hop, sir. I appreciate your kind words. And to answer your question, I have no idea what Dr. Venture's 'diet pills' are, but I suspect they are probably Xanax or maybe even Valium or one of those other crazy prescription pills people get addicted to (remember, they are prescription, as we learned in los Dangerous). It's probably not important what they are though, you just need to know that Dr. V has issues.

Question from Kacy Mathews:

i just watched Escape to the house of mummies... my boyfriend and i are trying to figure out who is the voice of Dr. Orpheus' "master".... he sounds so familar... but we just can't place it..

Well, the Master is voiced by none other than H. Jon Benjamin, who voiced Coach McGuirk in that series. He's also the voice of Mothmonsterman in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, if you're not a big Home Movies fan (and shame on you if that's the case!) and Ben in Dr. Katz.

Oh it was only a matter of time. Sing it, 'vbmaster1984':

were you at comic con, did you get to meet jackson and doc. I asked them if they would have a follow up to Escape to the House of Mummis Prt III. Their answer was no, hope that helps answer some questions. Good day Mike, i love the site

I was not at Comic-Con, but I applaud you for asking the tough questions, good sir! You will make a fine investigative reporter one day.

And to wrap it up, Jon Bennett sends along the following question:

When can I get my H.E.L.P.eR. action figure? Or Any Venture Bros. figures? Is it ever going to happen?

As of right now (and to quote Jackson on the subject), nope. No plans for Venture related figures just now.

So that's it for today. Catch the re-airing of Hate Floats tonight at 10:30pm EST (which is good because it's the most popular episode according to the poll), and don't forget that a new episode will be on next weekend. Huzzah! Thanks for the letters, guys.