The Mantis-Eye Experiment

"My parents were into education. That was their bag, and they kept toys to a minimum so I could become more creative and look, hey! It worked! You know what I had a lot of? Those quirky, dinky, die-cast metal toys for TV shows that I’ve never seen. They’re British TV shows that were cancelled about 20 years before I got the toys, so I had no idea what these f*cking things were, and I had to make adventures—" -- Doc Hammer

Hammer: There are also characters I forgot we didn’t put on the show. We’ve been doing one for a solid year now, and I forget that nobody’s seen him, that he’s our character. I guess he would count as a new character, but to me it’s a guy who’s existed in the Venture-verse for over a year.

Publick: We usually write them that way. We almost never write characters who walk on and go, “OK, I’m a new guy you’ve never met before. I’m here to mess up your world.” We usually have new guys in and go, “Oh yeah, you’re so-and-so’s ex-husband. Or you’re that guy who’s in the background at the yard sale and now we know what your story is.”

Hammer:“You have a plug for a face and now you know why.”

"I saw the first one, because this is too huge for me to not to be aware of as a guy who makes a TV show. And then I watched the second one because I'm a completist, and because I just like dumb sh*t. They’re not good, but there’s no point for me to rally against it because they’re not for me, they’re for thirteen-year old girls and they do what they do well." -- Jackson (speaking about Twilight)

UGO: I've also noticed you have a propensity to kill off those memorable characters as easily as you introduce them. Is there any character that you consider off-limits, that you would never kill off?

Jackson: No.

Doc: No, we would kill anybody. It's all fair game.

Yeah, there was a lot of love and cupping. A lot of slash includes cuddling. I'm actually charmed by it because a fan loved something so much they needed to see it procreate...that's kind of beautiful. I know it's horrifying and grisly, but I think it's a high compliment.

"We’re hoping to approach production a little differently, and Adult Swim has been really supportive and encouraging, and so they’re giving us the ability to put some more people on the show and try to get some more help for us so that we’re not as immersed in every second. Yeah so hopefully it will be a little easier on us, We’re going to do ten-episode seasons instead of thirteen, and some combination of those things will hopefully make it just more like having a hard job instead of 8 really hard jobs."