Adult Swim OPO

imo tim&eric awesome show had a pretty long run of mediocrity after the first season that wasn't redeemed until the paul rudd sketch in the final episode

why don't you stand like a regular man
Then you can pee in the urinal can

Tim & Eric seems much better suited for Youtube. They're incredibly hit and miss and many of their sketches just make me uncomfortable. But man, the best stuff is just incredible.

Check it Out! is pretty good, though tbh I don't really know what Steve Brule is supposed to be anymore. He's kinda had the Homer Simpson character arc where he's went from dimwitted and charming to being literally too dumb to do anything

If you haven't seen it yet, the Totino's Pizza Roll commercial they did was actually really funny. Its the whole T&E essence boiled down to three minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80yjtJFf-v0

that actor is the best part of the current season of newsreaders

the comedy was really great, dunno if it's still on netflix, probably is

The one full episode of Awesome Show I would recommend without reservation is Jim & Derrick. Probably followed by the Tairy Greene Machine episode (feat. Zach Galifianakis, David Cross, Ted Danson, Richard Marx, and Peter Cetera).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB7mwekcDWc

I hated 'the comedy' so much
iirc Eric at one point was like 'I would be an awesome slave owner'
the film kindled all my 'the rich must be destroyed' feelings
I did not laugh once

or tim
it was tim

http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/pattygopez/default/tim-enchanter-monty-python-holy--large-msg-130998059361.jpg

agreed, except i turned it off after the first scene.

I still haven't seen The Comedy, but wasn't the point that they were supposed to be terrible people? Also, FWIW, they only acted in that one (their Baseketball, if you will).

yeah if you want to see a bunch of privileged shitheads really being the world's most committed privileged shitheads, it's worth a view

Tim and Eric had a lot of good bits but they have tested my faith over the last few years. I still love Check It Out! though.

I turned off The Comedy and the T&E movie pretty quickly.

The Comedy's pretty pointedly not a comedy, more of a critique of irony drenched, hyper cynical, privileged hipster shithead attitudes. Unpleasant viewing but kinda interesting, for a while at least. Not sure it really went anywhere or added up to much.

Frankly, that's what I figured Tim and Eric actually already were.... so another good opportunity for them to "perform" awfully?

why would ilx prefer to talk about tim and eric than pffr, is what i wonder

Maybe I'm just way the hell out of touch with what codes as 'privileged hipster shithead' these days (entirely possible) but I've never gotten the impression that their stuff was informed by those attitudes. The fact that they've done next-to-no straight press probably hasn't done them many favors with people who aren't inclined to meet them halfway, but what biographical info I do know about them suggests that they're pretty decent and normal dudes who people really enjoy working with.

In other Adult Swim news... lol

NICKI MINAJ ✔ @NICKIMINAJ
The artist who made the lyric video for “Only” was influenced by a cartoon on Cartoon Network called "Metalocalypse" & Sin City.

I think the episode of WTF with both of them was the closest I've heard them come to "straight" press, though even then it was couched in a Maron's stand-offish attitude and a few "standard" T&E detours into absurdity. I think your last line though nails what I kinda took away from the interview.

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I still stand by my Adult Swim picks way upthread

I feel like I only catch the actual AS cartoons occasionally now and just end up bitching about how it used to be better. To me, it's going to be really hard to beat the first few seasons with Aqua Teen / Sealab / Home Movies / Brak Show / Space Ghost.
― mh. (mike h.), Sunday, January 14, 2007 10:57 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Home Movies is all-time. Still prefer Cartoon Planet to any of the other Space Ghost enterprises.

adult swim right now is all about eric andre and mike tyson mysteries... newsreaders not so good with new cast/writers and i'm burned on attack on titan
about half of the T&E Bedtime Stories are pretty good and the other half are terrible. basically, t&e

i'd rather not watch the cartoon about the famous rapist boxer

i wouldn't fault you for not being into it but it's pretty good. It's in the Brak Show / Space Ghost lane.

or harvey birdman. and tbf, MTMysteries is about ten to twenty steps behind eric andre but most everything is.

if there's no actual joke/scenario/plot/story (take your pick), it's just a bunch of smug idiots pointing their fingers and haw-hawing it up

Ive never once gotten this vibe from T&E. Certainly not that the aim is smugness "look at this idiot lol retards". That seems a sad take, to me.

(I'm not saying its all good, that said. Endless vomit/shit scenes do nothing whatsoever for me, bleugh)

we are obviously watching different tim and eric shows

i def. feel that the grislier stuff in "too many cooks," while producing some funny and inventive gags, feels like the creators didn't trust their basic concept enough. it feels like easy audience gratification in a "skit" (or whatever it is) that is exciting mostly for suspending normal forms of gratification to absurd lengths.

but i'm not going to front, this thing was great. people who say it's been done before are right in a sense, but as with most things, the devil is in the details, and the details are very, very clever.

The Eric Andre Show is produced by Abso Lutely so maybe one thing to like about Tim & Eric is that they produce the Eric Andre Show? And are responsible for a lot of the casting? (Including the entire band)

The one full episode of Awesome Show I would recommend without reservation is Jim & Derrick. Probably followed by the Tairy Greene Machine episode (feat. Zach Galifianakis, David Cross, Ted Danson, Richard Marx, and Peter Cetera).

Would be my recommendations as well.

i def. feel that the grislier stuff in "too many cooks," while producing some funny and inventive gags, feels like the creators didn't trust their basic concept enough. it feels like easy audience gratification in a "skit" (or whatever it is) that is exciting mostly for suspending normal forms of gratification to absurd lengths.

― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, November 11, 2014 6:34 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno man. if it'd been just the first 4 minutes, or if it carried on the basic premise with no twist for 11 minutes, it'd be a lot less interesting/noteworthy/funny, and probably wouldn't have been deemed worth doing. at least not as a standalone program, maybe it would've been done as part of an episode of a series and nobody would've cared.

lol i responded to 'i dunno' by saying 'i dunno,' totally wasn't on purpose

Q: Sending up TV credits is one thing; where did the idea of throwing a Jason-like killer with a machete into the mix come from?

A: Well, you have to remember: These things are 11 minutes long. It sounds short, but when you have to fill that time slot and keep the attention of people who are usually watching TV at four in the morning...it's long. So I thought, I need to throw every notion I've got into this. Even when you start switching genres, and it turns into, say, a cop show — that joke may be funny for a few extra minutes and then that's going to wear off. And as soon as people get tired of that, I have to hit them with something else. That's where the idea of the killer came from.

ha! so i was right. maybe i'm just being an internet hardman, but i would have liked to see the whole thing develop over 10 minutes without giving so much time over to the serial killer antics.

or maybe they could have just developed the videodrome-like medium-specific elements even more...

ha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBoFPoGWatE

I had an idea a while back for a sitcom that was just 30 minutes of opening credits, with like 500 different characters.

― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:47 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark

so i guess adult swim just did this? when i first heard about it i was like "i swear to god someone on ilx proposed this very thing."

― you little affront to god (reddening), Saturday, 8 November 2014 04:06 (4 days ago) Permalink

agree about the serial killer stuff, wasn't really funny, never part of my original vision

Tim and Eric's sense of humor is more complex and multi-layered than it might seem at first glance ... it's great if you like jokes that have multiple levels to them, and like really stupid stuff, too. It's like the Simpsons, some of their best jokes have at least three different levels to them, and T&E's best stuff plays with that like an art. Not to mention their great absurd and surreal material, satire of things not commonly satirized, etc.

The serial killer thing in TMC did feel a little like a crutch plus a play at the lowest common denominator, which I guess hit my snob reflex. Also, the premise was already done by MadTV over a decade ago, which took away that novelty for me, too. Basically I couldn't find anything catching to it b/t the now-ancient T&E and PFFR aesthetic, cheap and gory serial killer thing, and the premise already having been done even longer ago. I guess I just demand novelty out of my stupid pastimes, and there's still so much ground to cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYWEm3gahfo

oh wow

Well. That was a fun few days.

https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/condenast/public/vf/production/2014/11/11/54626fc21225a2f9404eadc9_CooksMindMap1.jpg

that MadTV shares some aspects of the premise, but it's waaaaaaay less dense with ideas and nowhere near as inventive with reflexive gags

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wow

the problem is this stuff isn't about concept, its about execution, and the aesthetic is about certain sorts of characteristic period details, which is where this stuff shines.

also 2 minutes isn't long enough for the gag to work.

That Mad TV sketch does way more with its 2 minutes than the entire 11 minutes of TMC. It captures the characteristic period details, plays around with sitcom archetypes, takes them in funny new directions, and turns it into a total laugh package with a nice absurd ending. You don't need a jammed-in serial killer/sci-fi sub plot to make that joke. Plus it has the benefit of not plagiarizing its source material. I also think the actors and characters they created for that sketch were funnier ... the funniest in TMC being the nerd and the topless girl. Doesn't touch the black-clad manhunter, incestuous? twins eating a foot long hotdog, grumpy kingpin popping the kid's balloon, insane mercenary, etc.

If you want to see period aesthetic done right, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is good, it captures that syndicated 80s sci-fi/horror serial look and does some really funny stuff with it. And that's a decade old, too. Thumbs down. I should probably get back to work.

The Comedy is one of my favorite American movies of the last few years, but it has v little in common with T&E