Venture Bros. News!

[Tuckerfan]

Some good, some bad. Everything seems to be ticking along nicely according to Publick’s blog, with at least a couple of the episodes being in HD. (There’s even some stills from the future episodes on the blog.) However, Stephen Colbert just went down several notches in coolness with this bit of news

@Jackson Publick

One sour note from the past month (aside from my car getting hit yet again) is that Mr. Stephen Colbert has decided not to reprise his role as Professor Impossible this season, for reasons which probably have something to do with him being all super-famous, super-busy, and no longer in need of a few hundred bucks here and there. We figured this would happen eventually, considering his monumental success in the years since our first season, but we held out hope that the WGA strike would leave him with enough bored free time on his hands that he’d have a go at it. But after getting shuffled around from his assistant to his assistant’s assistant to his agent to his manager, one of them finally shot us an email saying: “Stephen has neither the time nor the interest in participating in your project.”

Dude, that’s just wrong.

[Galena]

Fair enough, I guess. If he doesn’t have time now, that’s understandable. But if he ever does Harvey Birdman again, I’ll consider boycotting The Colbert Report. The Venture Brothers is a far more worthy project!

[pepperlandgirl]

I doubt he’ll do Harvey Birdman again. For one thing, they killed all the characters voiced by Colbert. And for another thing, the series is over. Well, okay, he did get the very last line of the series. Ha ha ha! Last laugh!

[Galena]

@pepperlandgirl

I doubt he’ll do Harvey Birdman again. For one thing, they killed all the characters voiced by Colbert. And for another thing, the series is over. Well, okay, he did get the very last line of the series. Ha ha ha! Last laugh!

Doh! :smack: Guess I haven’t been keeping up with my Adult Swim. Thanks for spoiling the ending! Oh, well, I wasn’t looking forward to my Colbert boycott anyway.

[cochrane]

@pepperlandgirl

I doubt he’ll do Harvey Birdman again. For one thing, they killed all the characters voiced by Colbert. And for another thing, the series is over. Well, okay, he did get the very last line of the series. Ha ha ha! Last laugh!

Phil Ken Sebben, who was voiced by Colbert, (and uttered the “Ha ha ha! Last laugh.” line) was not killed off. It was Birdman, played by Gary Cole, who perished, but Phil indicated that he could be cloned from his DNA. But yes, the series is indeed over.

[pepperlandgirl]

I’ll put spoiler tags around this even though it aired last summer.

Phil was hit by a bus in an earlier episode. And then they introduced his brother, Bill. Bill looked just like Phil, prompting everybody at the office to shout “Phil’s back!” with one voice adding “Stephen’s back!!” Then he opened his mouth to speak, and of course, it wasn’t Stephen at all. Bill remained, which added another layer of humor to the last line.

[kaylasdad99]

@Tuckerfan

Some good, some bad. Everything seems to be ticking along nicely according to Publick’s blog, with at least a couple of the episodes being in HD. (There’s even some stills from the future episodes on the blog.) However, Stephen Colbert just went down several notches in coolness with this bit of news

Originally Posted by Jackson Publick
One sour note from the past month (aside from my car getting hit yet again) is that Mr. Stephen Colbert has decided not to reprise his role as Professor Impossible this season, for reasons which probably have something to do with him being all super-famous, super-busy, and no longer in need of a few hundred bucks here and there. We figured this would happen eventually, considering his monumental success in the years since our first season, but we held out hope that the WGA strike would leave him with enough bored free time on his hands that he’d have a go at it. But after getting shuffled around from his assistant to his assistant’s assistant to his agent to his manager, one of them finally shot us an email saying: “Stephen has neither the time nor the interest in participating in your project.”

Dude, that’s just wrong.

Sigh. All right, I’ll do it.

[cochrane]

@pepperlandgirl

I’ll put spoiler tags around this even though it aired last summer.

Phil was hit by a bus in an earlier episode. And then they introduced his brother, Bill. Bill looked just like Phil, prompting everybody at the office to shout “Phil’s back!” with one voice adding “Stephen’s back!!” Then he opened his mouth to speak, and of course, it wasn’t Stephen at all. Bill remained, which added another layer of humor to the last line.

Spoilered as well:

[spoiler]The way I recall the final episode (and I don’t have it recorded, unfortunately) was that Phil survived being run into by the bus. When it reached its final destination somewhere in Canada, Phil hijacked it and drove it (backwards) back to his office, where he crashed into Harvey and smashed him right against a wall.

Also, according to IMDB, Stephen Colbert is indeed listed in the credits as playing Phil. He returned for the final episode.[/spoiler]