Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job - Christ Almighty this show is funny.

john c. reilly is pretty amazing on this show

his character reminds me of will farrell's "harry caray"

yeah, but more vulnerable and insecure

Dr. Steve Brule here with a special report on cool cars. This is the coolest assignment I've ever had.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/stevenmiller/Brule-1.jpg

GLOW BONES

chaki which one were you in again?

I don't really like Tom Goes to the Mayor, but this Tim and Eric business pulled me in with the aforementioned Dr. Steve Brule.

This show is funny but I still hate the ad campaign.

GUYS TONIGHT AT THE TROUBADOR!!

SEE YA THERE!!

http://thecoming.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/timanderic.JPG

this is a minstrel show

u goin?

of coz, i am capn save-a-dultswim

dont beat me up, young elvis!

ok!

AVC: In a way, it's like avoiding an actual punchline. It's like post-punchline humor.

Tim: We let the punchlines happen in people's heads. We just create a dead beat, then you know what to do. We don't need to spell it out. We joke about explaining it in a pamphlet, with explanations of why this should be funny to you.

Ugh.

that muscles for bones show was so awesome

"Spagett!" killed me.

yah season two has been a fucking treat. goldblum was on last night!

This show is so fucking fantastic. The wackiness is absolutely hysterical--Jan's facial expressions and nuances, the whole silent-"I know" head-nod bit at the end of the "Carol' episode, the glitchy bits they do (USE MY CLO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-OWNS)--I can't believe something like this is on television. It's utterly delightful.

"post-punchline"

I'd like to like this show, but it just doesn't work for me most of the time. The cameos get a laugh for sheer WTFery, and I like the creepy androgynous newscasters.

i honestly feel bad for people that do not connect with this show

chaki which one were you in again?

-- am0n, Friday, 27 July 2007 13:39 (5 months ago) Link

im the episode "Salame"

You know what show is REALLY bewildering in that is-it-terrible-or-entertaining way? XAVIER.

i honestly feel bad for people that do not connect with this show

Yeah, seriously.

It's like Mr. Show but with a more singular absurdity.

"....sigh...dammit..............goddammnit....sigh....dammit..........AWESOME!"

the awesome tour was like the most amazing concert ive ever been too. so fucking fantastic. i was accosted by david libe hart at the end.

(this guy)
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q69/jeelde2/salame.jpg

Has anyone heard the soundtrack, Awesome Record, Great Songs?

IT IS AWESOME. I will summarize the first track:

[40 seconds of music similar to the menu screen from an EA sports game in 1994. Or maybe Smash TV, I can't remember]
[25 seconds of wicked 8th grade drum solo]
"SPORTS! SPORTS! SPORTS! SPORTS! SPORTS"
End.

Check it out, it's necessary.

where is chaki in the salame episode?

R.I.P. chaki

"Doo Dah Doo Doo" stands up pretty well without the visuals.
"have a glass of wine...it's ok kids, I won't tell."

"Time Travel" through "Petite Feet" is the most economic use of 4 minutes I've heard all year. Great job!

Dammit, I already blew my wad. Now I can't even mention "Hamburgers and Hotdogs"!

Oh, no. I had no idea about this. Everyone is going to hate me even more now that all of the annoying songs are collected on one compact disc.

it better have I LIKE CRACKERS AND SNACKS, CRACKERS AND SNACKS, CRACKERS AND SNACKS

The first time it ever occurred to me to rate a song on iTunes: "Horse and Buggy Ride". 5 stars, obv.

has anyone hated on this show in this thread yet?

i have no respect for people who watch this shit
-- and what (and@what), February 20th, 2007.

^^

hmm, well that's one.

i am still really surprised to see such (near) universal acclaim for something that is half-the-time hilarious and half-the-time fucking wretched.

oh god i heard "sports!" out somewhere and it kind of blew my mind

I'm kind of surprised to see any acclaim for this at all. It's perfectly formulated for my sense of humor, but it seems like the sort of thing that maybe three people in the world would actually enjoy. I honestly can't imagine recommending it to anyone.

i am still really surprised to see such (near) universal acclaim for something that is half-the-time hilarious and half-the-time fucking wretched.

This is sort of correct. But shit, the half the time that it's working makes me lol harder than anything else on tv, except maybe for Mr. Show.

SPAGHET

YES

YES.
This show works on so many levels and even when it doesn't it just does. Always a win.
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa200/caseytatum/Tim_and_Eric_Dads.jpg
I hate how shiny his face is, I'm torn between pity and fear for this character. I love the asexual news casters and all the random ads in between. EVERYTHING.

it's for your health.

even though everyone who likes this show besides me is an idiot like VeronaInTheClub who doesn't actually get it like i do, it's my favorite show

I wish that the one scene that had burned itself into my head wasn't the monumentally unfunny hacky sack one because there is some great stuff, I can only ever just rmeember that fucking hacky sack unfunny shit though.

Yeah, but right after the hacky sack scene is the part where the loser of the tournament goes

"....sigh...dammit..............goddammnit....sigh....dammit..........AWESOME!"

which is pretty much one of the greatest things I've ever seen. IN MY ENTIRE LIFE SO FAR.

^ street team

Fuck yeah I would be on the street team!

JUST GIVE ME THAT CHANCE

Yeah, the coda of the Hackysack scene, with C-Boy walking depressed through the surf, is amazing!

I could use less of the "bloody balls" and shit-type jokes I guess, but I'll take them if they come with the incredible awkward miscommunication/ hallucinatory cable access stuff.

New season (3!) starts July 27h!

SHRIMP AND WHITE WINE

ok, i agree that the post-hacksack thing is great. but seriously. the part before it? awful.

can't get behind the shrimp/white wine stuff iirc.

Eric Wareheim recently directed this video for Flying Lotus's track 'Parisian Goldfish'. The results are undeniably in keeping with T&EASGJ's humour stylings, and definitely not safe for work (or possibly for viewing anywhere, ever).

It's the best thing I've seen in months.

Link: http://www.dancefloordale.com/

That was some intense sex.

Like some pairs of pants, this pair of videos gets better and better each time you wear and/or watch them!

When I had the flu for a few days earlier this summer, discovering those videos helped ease my recovery.

Great job!

I love Zack, but otherwise don't get much out of these.

This, however:

or this:

Those Windex commercials were hit and miss, but the Superman one was pretty well done.

YouTube copy of the Dance Floor Dale video that hasn't been taken down yet (again, NSFW):

holy...wow. yeah

ok i never gave two fucks about this show but that last video is :-0

Rainn Wilson killed it so hard on the last one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHjhtIj5_bM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmIaVtn9nAg

new season

http://i50.tinypic.com/vpcbcj.jpg

not to be that guy, but the first ep was pretty weak.

it was terrible imo. only good bit was good cop/bad cop with that guy

I was laughing pretty hard @ the intro, but yeah, they've had better.

it was pretty terrible, dr steve brule was decent and squall of duty had its moment.

moments even

gonna look in this thread to find all the Tim & Eric fans so i know who to killfile

bad episode, good intro

As I've said before, I'm continually shocked that Tim and Eric fans even exist. I love the show unreservedly, though. It's the little things, like how they kept showing the clip of the dude in the audience who wasn't even really laughing, that crack my shit up.

I recently (and reluctantly) introduced my SO to the show and, to my shock and amusement, she seems to love it as much as I do. This might just be the real thing!

the dude in the audience who wasn't even really laughing

I loved that guy.

I'm a middle aged man
and I live with my dad
we like to hang out
we like to be bad
he lets me have parties
I let him hang out with the younger men

Yeah, the whole appeal of TAESGJ is the subtleties, facial twitches/tics, pauses, etc.

about half the material from the first ep was in the live show and boy do they suck live.

are you saying this isn't the pinnacle of comedy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waRoWWuZo9Q

shit doesn't rly translate well to a live act w/o all the low budgetry video shit

Whiney, methinks u do not "get" the comedey of Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Jobs.

*killfiled, no regrets*

Is there actually a killfile or just SB's?

Yes, but killfile is for stupids who like to be confused by responses to posts that they can no longer see. I do not understand its existence, but by god I'll die to defend its right to exist.

So this is S5, then? I still havent seen 4 - it seems not to be out on DVD yet. Want to see it mainly for the Tommy Wiseau bits! Which reminds me, is there a thread about The Room cos I can't find one and I saw it last weekend and woah nelly.

Tommy Wiseau's "The Room"

"oh hi trayce"

live they're openly mocking the audience and the audience is like "yeah, wouldn't it be funny if we found that funny" and everyone is like eight levels removed from what's actually happening which is a pair of guys chanting diarrhea while wearing body suits with huge flopping testicles which isn't really funny at all?

Want to see it mainly for the Tommy Wiseau bits!

most (all?) of those bits are on the adult swim website, at least four of them - there may be more in the actual episode (haven't seen it).

http://video.adultswim.com/search/index.html?query=tommy

I dont think I can view AS site stuff outside of the US :/

needs more spagett

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/shives/spagett.gif

also the pissing in the subordinates work spaces was kind of lol..

everyone is like eight levels removed from what's actually happening

posts which effortlesssly summarize the spirit of ilx

just watched the last ep - so the bunk is a fan? great job!!

tried so hard to like these guys, never got into it, nail in the coffin was when i met them (in a professional capacity) and they were jerks.

OMG plz tell story!! I've always wondered what these guys were like IRL

so they peed on u (figuratively)

Just to balance that out - and if we're work name-droppin' - I've met them in a work-related capacity and I thought they were really nice! (But I'm a LONGtime fan).

my friend ran into David Liebe Hart on the bus once... they talked for awhile and David ended up giving him his phone number. actually two phone numbers for some reason.

"trying" to get comedy is a fruitless task, ime... y'either laugh or you don't.

the other night i bizarrely asked my girlfriend "what do you find interesting about stand up comedy?"

the answer: "it's funny"

X| not exactly sure what the hell i thought i was asking

Loll <3

I do things like that fwiw hoos =)

I've heard that Tim is nice but Eric is kind of a dick.

they talked for awhile and David ended up giving him his phone number. actually two phone numbers for some reason.

Maybe the other one is the mannequin's number!

this season thus far is markedly unfunny to me for some reason.

that's the joke

Not even the iJammer commercial? That was an all-time classic clip. Just amazing. Although I'll agree that the last episode was mostly just creepy. But I enjoyed that.

Apparently, DLH just gives out his phone number to everyone, or so it seems in the T&E thread on the aspecialthing board.

"trying" as in watching other episodes to see if i was just not into a particular one, just like you can "try" to get into an album by listening multiple times - is that so difficult to understand? I chuckled during some Zach Galifinakis-featuring sketch but the three episodes I watched were profoundly MEH.

I won't get too detailed but what was so appalling to me was their brushing off of fans who had waited many hours to see them, made handmade gifts, stayed way late etc. their attitude was very "whatever, we've got better things to do" - not busy and distracted but blase and bored, and they accepted gifts that were purposely left behind, didn't bother chatting with any of these people. at the signing acted like they'd rather be anywhere else. then did an interview with them in which they didn't play ball at all, meaning yes/no answers to questions that could have easily led to funny anecdotes/explanations. after three or four of these i was like 'okay, thanks for coming' and closed the interview after five minutes. they practically ran out the door.

yo sorry, the quotes around "trying" in my post prob made it sound more dickish than intended. for me, it's rare for comedy to be unfunny without being irritating and unpleasant. T&E especially, i think, lie on that funny/irritating binary.

otoh, there's guys like louis ck, who i found just kinda boring but not groan inducing or anything. was much more inclined to check him out again after a friend's recommendation. so yeah it goes both ways.

and then there's strangers with candy, which i actually found totally obnoxious and nauseating at first, until it grew on me and started to make me lol. so yeah it's not as simple as "lol at first sight", i guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tI4CbCniBI

i think they're artistically irrelevant after being beaten at their own game by icp

this season has moved into unwatchable and not funny

but i watched the room on april fools day and thought to myself "i want that wiener guy to be in a real movie" and then the next day i saw this!!
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wow

Eric's new video video for HEALTH, "We Are Water":

http://vimeo.com/10818338

Pretty effective nu-horror pastiche!

should read MUSIC video, obv.

dont love these guys but lolz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_bqAq6GVWQ

If things continue this way, 3 episodes from now they'll have Brad Pitt or someone on the show.

Sadly, things won't continue in *any* way - that Rudd clip is from the series finale from last Sunday. The show's done for good!* (That said, the "Father and Son" short film from HBO has me very excited at what these guys could do with something not as ridiculously paced - it's their best work, I think).

(* The Steve Brule spin-off show starts very soon, though)...

Oh really they're done for good huh? I'm OK with that, I know Tim and Eric aren't finished doing projects so I'll be looking forward to what they do next (besides the Brule show).

Tim Wareheim's little known dark side: HEALTH - We Are Water

I guess that would be Eric Wareheim's little known dark side.

lol @ hat wobble

kinda happy it's over - this season was easily the worst. no new ideas. i thought that father + son thing was pretty weak also. for me the hectic pace and psychedelic visuals are key to their style.

this is still my favorite bit from this show
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/86864/detail/

I like the wrongness and secret evil of the show, but I dislike the bathroom humour.

I really like the actors other than Tim and Eric such as David Leibe Hart and friends. They are such biscuits of worth.

it's a british. i can tell from the 'humour' and 'biscuits,' and from reading posts by quite a few britishes in my day.

not England -- NEW ENGLAND

LOL @ the computer in that sketch using the Earthbound font

NUDE TAYNE

need a .gif of 1:09-1:12, hes doing the sam cassell

came here to post that. it is basically the funniest thing i have seen in a long time

"now TAYNE i can get into"

the way rudd sells it, the casual coffee-sipping / concentration, like he's a pro working on a tough but intriguing problem = pretty fantastic comedy performance

"are you sure?" "mmmmHMMM"

yeah this was epic

watched it so many times

The print out of Oyster smiling kills me

yes

"now TAYNE i can get into"

oh man

"are you sure?" "mmmmHMMM"

― sir gaga (s1ocki), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:20 PM

sports

sports

sports

sports

if i cd travel in time some time

Horse and buggy ride…horse an bu-GENtf*

So annoying the AS site doesnt allow one to view the clips outside the US or UK >:|

yellow ball
iced canes
diamond bags
flight wheel
sand spheres
helmet touch

curving poles
felted holes
no-touch ball

FACE-TIME PARTY SNOOZER

Sadly, things won't continue in *any* way - that Rudd clip is from the series finale from last Sunday. The show's done for good!

I was poking round on YT (its hard to find clips of their shit not on AS!) and there was a promo for some thing they did with Zack called "Just 3 boyz" and it was insanely strange - wtf is it, a new show theyre doing or some one off thing?

oops meant to italicize that first bit.

i know the last 1 aired on 'funny or die' on hbo -- yah it was v. funny & i have a low tim & eric threshold

this show is over for good? :( I find it insanely funny. this season wasnt as funny, though. I do not like the bathroom humor AT ALL. i love their regulars - james quall, richard dunn, etc. i will miss them :(

Yeah, "Just 3 Boyz" and "Father & Son" were from HBO's "Funny or Die Presents," which was made up of sketches from lots of "big name" alternative comedy scenesters. It was amazing how traditional and - for lack of a less obnoxious term - safe the other material was next to the Tim and Eric stuff.

The "Check it Out with Steve Brule" promos have been cracking me up: http://vimeo.com/user2972231/videos/sort:date
That show starts tomorrow on Adult Swim.

I agree that the gross out/bathroom side of what they do is not nearly as funny or interesting as the stuff where they obsess over the basic horrors of technology (i.e. Tayne, the Tairy Greene Machine, the Cinco Phone (which is possibly my favorite sketch from Awesome Show), etc.).

Yeah I love T&E but when the spewing and "bloody balls" and stuff comes up I have to hide my eyes. Hate spew.

But the show overall is so fucked up and crazy awesome. Hanging out for S4 coming out on DVD (I think I said that upthread somewhere)

The Cinco stuff with Jeff Goldblum was A+++.

There's another Funny Or Die sketch on its way (Morning Prayer With Skott and Behr), which has already leaked, if you know where to look (my$p133n).

I really adore this song:

http://video.adultswim.com/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job/a-fathers-gift.html

Did you guys see the sketch with Michael Cera for the movie called "KITTY CAT MAN"? That one really fucking made me crack up. Oh and the Paul Rudd sketch is pretty damn amazing.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2ex8wQwPa1qztk8oo1_250.gif

i love this bob odenkirk character
http://video.adultswim.com/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job/crystal-shyps.html

http://video.adultswim.com/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job/crystal-shyps-outtakes.html

love dr steve brule but really don't see check it out with dr steve brule being anything other than shit.

i'm sorry your mom got bit by a bird and now she's dead

For the record, it turns out "Check it Out with Dr. Steve Brule" is really, really funny.

Tim Heidecker gave an interview where he said they wanted the show to feel like Brule "made it himself after sneaking into a studio somewhere," and they nail it. I was seriously laughing nonstop. I think it's up on the Adult Swim website for US people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEXUo3JLbdM

http://www.avclub.com/articles/ask-dr-steve-brule-the-audio-answers,41169/

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loving check it out w/ steve brule. "sushi meat, peaches and gaucamole."

Hat wobble gif is totally lol <3

1st ep of "Check It Out" is pretty amazing.

shushi

the av club thing is ridiculous, especially how many clips they bothered to make.

computer, can i get a printout of oyster SMILING?

FLAAGENSTOW

http://imgur.com/twQ6i

der

http://imgur.com/twQ6i.png

On "Check it Out," in the "Doctor to Doctor" segments, are those people actors, or assorted hack pseudo-doctors they've invited on?

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/04/richard-dunn-of-tim-and-eric-fame-dies-at-75/

RIP

http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-awesome-show-regular-richard-dunn,41814/

RIP.

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

Best part of the Chrimbus special: Watching TIm's eyes glowing with anger during the songs.

Has anyone else listened to the Heidecker & Wood album>?

yeah some really lol lyrics and musical themes in there

VERY NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaezCMkzM0o

The Terrys, by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim

They've always had an interest in uncomfortably dark stuff, flirted with it more over time. Thats nuts though! Chrimbus Special had too many of their old tricks, and while this has a bit of that too, I think they made it work.

It was weird watching that since the Adult Swim show seems so Rated R already.

It really isn't, but it was strange realizing that I had never heard Heidecker say the F word before.

The look on his face after he delivers the baby… and then walking out to get some food. It was sweet.

And I don't know what it is about him, but I can't stand Eric Wareheim. He's still funny.

This is my favorite Heidecker & Wood song so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKqRN2mHdi8

the soundtrack disc is really good, even though I've never seen the show. reminds me of Sifl and Olly's stuff but even more out there. some of this is really legit - "Lost in the Wheel", "Dirty Socks", "Doo Dah Doo Doo", "Petite Feet", and "Rolo Tony" are all on repeat

im really looking forward to The Comedy: http://vimeo.com/35703057

LOL @ james murphy

the teaser embedded on this page frames it better as a dark comedy

has anybody pulled the trigger on billion dollar movie? It doesn't look so good but I'm hopeful.

An over-overextended T&EASGJ skit with Funny or Die's clumsy pawprints all over it. The plot-driven padding tramples T&E's manic/erratic antihumor. The gross-out gags, grotesque characters, and glut of guest stars can only do so much to keep the film from flatlining. It was about as good as Macgruber, and it really should have been a lot better.

yeah I can't see how any T&E thing over 2-3 minutes can be good. compare those 1-minute sketches like "Rolo Tony" and "It's Not Jackie Chan" with those insanely long videos with Zack Galafinikis

hal jam v otm

yeah that's basically why i'm more looking forward to the comedy, it seems like a much better way to extend t&e's humor into a full length feature

it's like "The Terrys" via UHF. not so awesome.

I'm watching Billion Dollar Movie right now... I'd say if you really like Tim and Eric its worth watching, but its definitely got the feel of an SNL film where a 5 minute skit is extended to 90 minutes.

I'm watching Billion Dollar Movie right now... I'd say if you really like Tim and Eric its worth watching, but its definitely got the feel of an SNL film where a 5 minute skit is extended to 90 minutes.

― Frobisher (Viceroy), Monday, February 6, 2012 6:45 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you know... they kind of never actually do this with their SNL movies. They always try to expand the universe of the skit which is where it gets really boring. Like the coneheads going to pta meetings and shit.

Season 2 of Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule starts tonight!

I just watched teh Billion Dollar Movie - I'm not sure it "worked"

I couldn't get through the movie. Turned it off.

Check It Out, on the other hand, has been great.

Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that sketch performers (which is sorta kinda what T&E are) should probably just not make movies. Monty Python are a really rare exception, but I think that's because they came to movies with solid ideas beyond, "Hey, let's make a movie!"

Obviously, I mean sketch performers shouldn't just basically make a film adaptation of their sketch show. I have no problem with them making films in general (I mean, what would Bridesmaids have been without Heidecker?).

their error was they should have asked me to come and guide them. I could have saved the movie. But they don't know I exist yet.

The problem with the movie I think was a lot of their signature bits were kind of old by that point. Otherwise greater analysis is required for me to specifically comment on it not working. I agree though...

The one scene that practically saved the movie was the meeting they had with Will Ferrell's character in his office. Loved it.

Yeah, it's a lot like Brain Candy and Run Ronnie Run inasmuch as there are a lot of great little moments, but a lot of great little moments in a suspension of meh does not a good movie make.

what I liek best about the show is the parody commercial, odd editing and effects, and the extras , not really the acting of tim and eric or poo

i thought billion $ movie was pretty good! i'm not a superfan of the tv show (i like it but haven't seen all the eps) so maybe it's because i'm not coming from that perspective? i wasn't crazy about the big gross-out moments (cock-piercing and shrim bath) but i laughed a lot.

i just knew there would be like 30 posts praising that Paul Rudd sketch. so pitch perfect in a way they usually aren't. these guys are great with surrealism but simply chopping up a bunch of scenes or repeating lines over and over isn't really it. for example the "iJammer" sketch which is brilliant for about 45 seconds and then turns boring and weird

My humor isn't scatological either, but it was funny watching a shit-smeared Eric chase after a g-string clad Tim through a rundown mall and falling into the fountain.

Also going out on the town and sawing your arm off.

But yeah. Sketch comics have a hard time making movies for some reason.

my new theory is they made that movei like when Dylan made "Self-portrait" in order to make their fans go away becuase they are tired of them

Ouch! I at least liked the meeting the mall manager (Will Ferrell) had with Tim and Eric.

The problem with the movie was that none of the ideas were fresh and the pacing was off.

the meeting with Will Ferreell is the best part probably - mostly for Will Ferrell's weird reactions

Top Gun bit as well!

And I think Tim & Eric excel at parodying awkward conversation/small talk cliches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Cj8J00-Us

Has this board lost its fascination with hipsters? Tim & Eric's take on them has been out for like 10 months.

Coming to VOD October 24, 2012 · in THEATERS starting November 9, 2012

been dying to see this movie

this was p good

movie?

ya

enjoyed the convo here too, tho prob best 2 watch post-viewing -http://smellslikescreenspirit.com/2012/04/rick-alverson-tim-heidecker-the-comedy-video-interview/

it was really sad. i felt a strange empathy toward swanson. even shed a solitary tear for the scene at the end, no lie. i have seen reviews criticizing that last scene but personally felt it to be very poignant and bittersweet.

i have a few heady ~~theories~~ or whatever about the movie and the swanson character. i think his sadness goes beyond his dying dad; i read a lot into the scenes with the sister-in-law. it just seems like there's sadness in the family (brother in the looney bin, AWOL mom) that has inspired the one remaining family member, the sister-in-law, to cope with deep numbness. and i think a lot of his interactions with people stem from frustration with that numbness. trying to open the sleeping girl's eyes - "wake up!". poking around the unconscious hospital patient. he spends so much time just trying to get reactions out of people. when he does those few rare times, he is at a loss, but i think that possibility really excites him.

i was also curious about the whole water thing in the movie. found it curious how so much of the movie is him being around water but not in it, which changes at the end. i know it seems facile to read such overt symbols into the movie but alverson by his own admission is a pretty deliberate director.

what was up with the random disintegration loops? and the random shot of the empire state building during the random disintegration loops scene? i didn't get how that fit in at all, apart from it being a sad tune for a sad movie.

"the comedy" was really great

saw it last night with jaymc and je55e. at the end some people in the theater applauded and i couldn't tell if it was sincere (we were in the "artsy" movie theater) or if people were consciously/unconsciously mimicking the theatrically ironic behavior they had just seen in the movie, it was very weird.

other thoughts:

* most disturbing sex scene in a movie in a while
* heidecker is fantastic in this
* scene in the black bar was the one that felt a little played-out, just a slightly more acidic/knowing version of "clueless white guy tries to buddy up with black dudes" scene from a bunch of other movies

though apparently mayhem lauren was one of the bar patrons

sorry, meyhem lauren

Mmm...was hoping I could wait to see this in my home because low $$$, but I love Heidecker and the reviews are eclipsing my good sense.

you can see it in your home already, it's on VOD and itunes

That's good info, but I have no cable or computer or credit card, so. And I'm back in Chicago so the actual theater is really the easiest way (he justified to himself).

last night was its final night at facets, don't think it's playing anywhere else so you're SOL, sorry

GUH

Maybe the Logan'll get it. Falling in love with that place since I've been back.

damn the comedy is surprisingly good

Shit I never saw it.

is it? I have heard such mixed things on it but I would guess that a lot of the negative reviews are from those who just don't like Tim & Eric style humor (which is a lot more understandable than people like me who do like it)

Tim Heidecker is my favorite comedian.

what a strange white existence

its on netflix streaming now

on a side note i've been enjoying those tim heideker at the movies videos he's doing with the neil hamburger guy.

its not really tim and eric style humor, I think?

its basically a cross between the master and girls and ends up better than both, but then again I'm only like halfway thru it and its playing in the background as I type

I really enjoyed this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDj-ZOqFiLI

on a side note i've been enjoying those tim heideker at the movies videos he's doing with the neil hamburger guy.

― Spectrum, Wednesday, April 3, 2013 5:09 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Greg Turkington... I totally did not make the connection! Of course that's Neil Hamburger, right? He is so so reserved on "On Cinema, At The Cinema" I didn't even realize it.

The other day my girlfriend and I almost sat through the entire Oscar coverage by them. It's so great.

so far this movie is showing what I imagine white life is

it is exactly like that, it's awesome

best sex scene ever.

who is the guy with the moustache in the beginning scene with james murphy & richard swift?

that "you're gonna get a no no tip" scene with the cabbie is sort of perma-embedded in my psyche.

I kept thinking it was the mumblecore magic christian

Jeff Jensen of Just Farr a Laugh fame (if we're talking about the same mustache)

that "you're gonna get a no no tip" scene with the cabbie is sort of perma-embedded in my psyche.

― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Wednesday, April 3, 2013 8:58 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is otm. u prob cant buy it as a single track off itunes but it's on the s/t as "taxi hip hop" & it's roughly my most played track the last 6 months

Did anyone else watch Time & Eric's Bedtime Stories on Halloween? It was basically split into a really dumb, Three Stooges-inspired 'haunted house' skit co-starring Zach Galifianakis, followed by a "Talking Dead"-style 'Wrap Up Show' where they discussed the previous bit. It was inspired in places. Apparently it's the pilot for a regular Twilight Zone-esque series coming next year.

i shat my pants way too hard watching this. maybe it was the big bag of unsalted peanuts but anyways : ggghosts! yikes! can't think of a hotter way to get scared.

Peter Cinn

http://i.imgur.com/JqjokwE.png

directed by eric. worth watching. NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/videos/3290478/this-nsfw-video-mixes-the-devils-rejects-with-a-healthy-dose-of-wtf-am-i-watching/

oh man, "Groban Sings Casey" is so great

latest season of on cinema was great.

if you like Tim and Eric for the world-class editing, don't sleep on 2 Wet Crew, which is the hot new thing amongst youths today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTuku9wcHyQ

On Cinema is the great soap opera of our time.

del griffith on the fucking mark. Pound House, 2 Wet Crew, and now Doug's Bougs. This is high art. I can't get enough. Tim n Eric tends to turn my stomach after awhile. Doug's stuff enriches my dang life.

I preferred season 8 of On Cinema to this season. The Storks footage plus the DKR sequence here kills me every time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZNF7-v-qGA

i thought season 8 was great, but so was the denouement of this season i thought, really great stuff. love this monstrous character tim has created. and the six bags cinema, food ordering before movie reviews, and truffle aioli stuff was really overdone (in that good way).

i think my favourite is still the season when tim moved to jackson hole

oh yeah also tim getting really mad at mark's poor serving constantly

http://www.gq.com/story/eric-wareheim-master-of-none-wine

eric wareheim makes natural wine

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

Sorry doc, but I'm a one-man death panel. And your prognosis is, uh, death.

wasnt neil breen on a T and E show once?

nah. i asked tim about breen during his open hours once and he said he's only seen a bit of his movies!

I think we need to get those two together to save the rainforest

http://imgur.com/a/StbRf

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job/awesome-10-year-anniversary-version-great-job/

it's pretty good

http://i.imgur.com/NsJWzrQ.png

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was filmed, for the most part, in a quonset hut at Stewart and Olympic. And it's an adventure to rig in a quonset hut.

The steak song is really the one I've been thinking about.

you mean the veal song? same.

https://image.ibb.co/k9twGv/Screen_Shot_2017_08_30_at_7_07_47_PM.png

This was pretty good. What I want more of, though, is Steve Brule. I think that's their best work by far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1DntKXvIP4

Doesn't get better than this. Grade A+ TV comedy.

been there done that, I want more James Quall personally

best skit on all of awesomes shows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHO8XtQZLFc

I like the weird cosmic occult horror direction they took with Brule. 2 Wet Crew gets a special shout out, too, their web shorts are like a microdose of LSD. This whole scene is my favorite thing in comedy for the past 10 years.

Heidecker looks like he's going for a Sam Hyde look here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWotb3gci0A

have been enjoying this

Didn’t realize until the last ep that Axiom had donated his hand to Tim lol

Dying every time I see this:

https://i.imgur.com/ijHV6tu.jpg

we've discovered 'on cinema' and it's p much the greatest thing. the second oscars special is two hours of sustained laughter the like of which i have not known

T - Trained
R - Racer
I - In
P - Pole
P - Position

S - START
P - Passing
E - Everyone
N - Now!
C - CIA's
E - Elite
R - Racer

— ORIGINAL Master Codebreaker (@greggturkington) August 3, 2017

:D

have been immersing ourselves in the world of tim and gregg recently. a world that reached apoetheosis in gregg's 'hey guys!' at the trial

*apotheosis

have also been mooting a tim & eric vs tim & gregg poll, with my own preference the latter

idk about this, Eric is great but I do prefer "one over-the-top weird guy and one introverted weird guy" to "two over-the-top weird guys"

gregg's the straight man!!

oh wait you're agreeing with me, but have temporarily forgotten what 'latter' means :P

or you're just saying 'idk about this' as a general response to the question. keep diggin' lj ;)

I'm saying I don't know which one I prefer but I like the format of Tim & Gregg better - T & E stuff often goes off the rails too quickly because every character is always insane

it's also becoming clear to me that gregg is just one of the funniest people alive

I saw him do standup as Neil Hamburger a couple years back, it was legitimately the funniest show I've ever been to

just rediscovered that "Great Phone Calls" album from way way back and it still cracks me up. the bit where he's telling his "world famous" 7-11 joke that just goes on and on and on is so great

saw the last heidecker-hamburger tour and neil's bit about gene simmons got things to the point of feeling that sort of wild chest-hurting panic that we might pass out or die from laughing, it was amazing

i love neil hamburger doing his red hot chili peppers run of jokes

not as good as gregg turkington's portrayal of kington, master of codes obv

his Eric Clapton joke nearly made me fall out of my chair

that said this will always crack me up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiR0toIBYDY

every single one of Turkington's lines here is great and as a programmer I inadvertently quote this all the time

they're (On Cinema) doing a few live shows in June.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfHaAo4nWQR/?hl=en&taken-by=timheidecker

think they were in the UK just before i found out about them :(

omg y'all

what's up

I'm guessing On The Movies' Oscar special?

yes. i tuned in halfway through and mark proksch had just drowned and was being rushed to the hospital.

where is it?

it was on Adult Swim, TV and website. Will presumably end up on youtube with the rest of On Cinema soon

1. jaws 2
2. jaws
3. jaws 3
4. jaws 4

XD

Season 10 of #OnCinema begins soon!!!!

— ORIGINAL Master Codebreaker (@greggturkington) March 5, 2018

here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIAttlFcO6g

That Jaws 2 “happy 40th anniversary!” montage holy christ

Rofl

oh my god, i love how much time he's spending on the trial at the beginning. i really loved that series

almost like in the bible, the character of judas

a slightly slower burn than some of them but built to possibly the best finale

I predict that Tim will try to settle with the Delgado family by selling the IP rights to the Victorville Film Archives

the on cinema universe just keeps improving imo. feel like i need to make one of the live shows in june

lol https://www.riojenesis.com/shop

digging Tim's new alt-right 'stache and haircut

Gregg's quest to get answers re: Tim Burton not directing Sherlock Gnomes is my new favourite thing ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsanJV6nEnk

"They show movies on planes. Imagine if they went up and down the aisles with little bags — I mean, they don't have to be the full bag, but little mini-bags — of popcorn. Then, as you watch the movie, you hand the bags back to the stewardess for what your rating is of the movie.""

I've lost control of the control room!

This is always movie of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SqgA_9kuJE

its almost not even a parody

yeah it's a genuine earworm

kinda like "Our Values Are Under Attack" from Decker, a song I genuinely like

oh my fucking god

https://www.oncinematimeline.com/

this is insane

Okay, this is just what I needed to rectify the short shrift I've given On Cinema (which I've only seen spottily, as opposed to the dozens of times that I've gone through other Heidecker/Hamburger projects).

god I could spend hours watching this

anybody else go see the live stage show?

man I forgot how great the Ant Man/Fantastic Four episode was

well guess how I spent my Saturday

lol I am terrified of going in there

like how do get out

do *you* get

we rewatched a random episode - s02e9, the Jurassic Park one - and it's probably in the all-time top five episodes

Hadrian just watch the first 5 seconds of this one

https://www.oncinematimeline.com/season-1/episode-9

if anybody does not cirque soleil then you should look it up online because it really is about a circus, on ropes and with a tightrope and clowms and the things you'd see at a circus but even better than a circus

minus one bag because some of it's in French

'Kay, watched a sustained block of the first two seasons, was a little cowed by the two-hour runtime of the first Oscar special but by the time the camera was cutting back and forth between random hobbit faces and the VHS tapes Tim had barfed all over I knew I'd made the right decision.

Have you all seen Tim and Eric Nite Live because that was very much like this.

what on earth is the point of doing an "elaborate timeline" for a narrative that interweaves in parallel a podcast, a web series, another web series, a third web series, a TV series, live shows, multiple websites, years of in-character tweets and other appearances... and only including the podcast and two of the web series?

like, it's a nice design portfolio project, but it's functionally useless prima facie, let alone compared to the youtube playlist that puts the youtube episodes of On Cinema and Decker in narrative order

I forgot about the two huge Hollywood blockbuster films too

I don't think I've ever been angrier about anything in my life.

#betrayed

and various musical singles and versions and concerts

This is ridiculous. The boycott begins now.

I just have to content myself with the fact that these dudes aren't as precious about curating their material as I'd personally prefer or I really would have to abandon ship.

You didn't even mention Bicycle Built for Two (which I only own a copy of on the basis of an absolute fluke of having looked at the contents of a random McSweeney's).

that these dudes aren't as precious about curating their material as I'd

it’s just some nerd who’s done it, not them. once you get to the parts of the On Cinemaverse where the story goes back and forth between episodes of different series in different genres every week, you’ll see how ludicrously, magnificently precious they are

had not heard of Bicycle Built For Two, but from reviews it seems to have been written by the IRL Tim and Gregg, not the fictional characters?

some nerd

(I do assume as a college project in web design or database building or similar, given the massive attention to subsets and categories and filters, and very minor interest in story. It’s v v impressive at what it’s doing, just not at being a “timeline”! As a viewer, you’ll be far better off switching to the fan-created youtube playlist around the middle of S4)

Thank you for showing the true path. I want this to be the truly enriching experience I know it can be.

Yes, I suppose Bicycle is by the 'real' Tim and Greg, much like the heralded Yogi Bear pamphlet

hilarious that this is going on 10 seasons now and not once during the show is Tim as enthusiastic as he is in the title segments

'When you've got movies like Tom Cruise in them, you can't go wrong' gets me every single time.

Any site that doesn’t include the Tim and Gregg calls to The Best Show cannot be recognized

— scharpling (@scharpling) May 18, 2019

Okay so now I also have to get caught up on the last couple years of the Best Show, this is becoming a more herculean endeavor than I ever would've imagined.

Laws of physics demand at least one bag of popcorn but it is a sad, lonely bag with no salt no butter and many unpopped corns.

Only the episodes from 3rd February 2015, 27th June 2017, and 20th September, 2018.

Well except that (in a fashion which I imagine is familiar to you) because I have listened to 15+ years of the Best Show it would basically be a crime against nature for me to cherry pick random episodes I haven't heard when it's clearly incumbent upon me to piss away hundreds of hours atoning for my egregious lapse.

Okay so just finished the second Oscar special and I think maybe that watching Tim get increasingly drunk and belligerent over the course of two hours is maybe the thing that had been missing from my life.

the ep where Tim & Ayaka review the One Direction movie is so good even though it did make me very uncomfortable

Every Hobbit reference and every Star Trek 2/4 debate is killing me.

Holy shit, Mark Proksch is a secret MVP of this weird-ass world. I'd assumed through all of these Oscar specials (I'm now on my third) that he was just another Abso-Lutely weirdo doing very poor impersonations of W.C. Fields and Chaplin when suddenly I was all, 'heeeeeeyyyy...he's the pie-sitter from Better Call Saul!' That he's able to so seamlessly pick up such a Quall-esque mantle without arousing my suspicions is a real testament to his skill as a performer.

speaking of not arousing suspicions, here's how he came to IRL Gregg's attention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9VF7LyffU

also that you didn't realise until now either means you really don't notice him, or you're not watching the Decker episodes

Mark Proksch goes quietly from strength to strength. His character is as distinct as Tim and Gregg.

Watching it all through a second time at the moment and the full charm of Joe Estevez and the way his acting of obliviousness in a b-movie way slots into this universe is rapidly becoming apparent.

Decker: Classified is what made me go 'waaaaaaitaminute...' but I had my first inkling that something was up when Tim started chucking Chinese food at him (an indignity I wouldn't expect to see visited upon, say, Doug Prishpreed).

oh my god I just saw S5E2 which is where they get the footage for Turkington's original appearance in "Decker", this is absolutely brilliant

not to mention Tim's encapsulation of the American right, "while I stand by my position as a member of the pro-life community, when push comes to shove, when you are a part of that situation, choices have to be undertaken...because there was no way...I was gonna be in that situation"

Proksch is also great in the "What We Do in the Shadows" series.

GO TO THE LIVE SHOW IF YOU CAN! seeing Turkington in this context live is incredible. it's like the role he was born to play.

also you get Joe Estevez.

Decker is now integrated into the timeline website: https://oncinematimeline.com/#season-5

(no Best Show calls or Marvel movies yet, but IRL Tim was in the studio on the Best Show last week, with James Adomian.)

"so we put a little bit of bufo alvarius venom in the mix, that helps us regulate our brain waves so they are on the same level as, like, a master meditator, like a monk who's been in a cave for 20 years"
"wow, so it's good for your body"

Okay so just finished the second Oscar special and I think maybe that watching Tim get increasingly drunk and belligerent over the course of two hours is maybe the thing that had been missing from my life.

totally, I wasn't sure if I really wanted to continue after the first 15-20 minutes but holy shit does this thing go off the rails. I think they both (briefly) break character here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDj-ZOqFiLI&feature=youtu.be&t=2999

Can you just post the timestamp? Link's broken

seeing gregg as gregg tomorrow and getting the book, so stoked

I think I know the moment frogs is talking about. I believe it's in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUE5_Mnelwc

Oh god, three seconds of 'Oscar Fever' are apparently enough to get it playing on a loop in my brain, thx Tim.

50 minutes in the first special. I think the picture of Billy Crystal gets him.

We got On Cinema movie

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/on-cinema-mister-america-gregg-turkington-tim-heidecker-1203256803/

looks like a six-bagger to me

well the scale only goes up to 5 bags but i'd throw in like a little gregg turkington key chain or something

btw tim is on comedy bang bang today

obviously it's five bags of popcorn AND AN OSCAR

one of my favorite bits is when Tim gives a movie 6 bags, then Gregg argues that you can't really give something 6 bags, and they go back & forth for a bit before Tim ultimately gives the movie 3 bags

gregg talked about the film irl the other day. said he's really happy with it and it might be the best thing they've done. we shall see!

imago you got to talk to gregg out of character??

Channel 5 (Adult Swim's new 24-hour Tim and Eric (and Gregg, as an On Cinema marathon is currently airing) online channel featuring four new T&E shows plus all the classics) is go!

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2019/10/09/detail/no-joke-absurd-comedy-as-political-reality/

the way Tim's On Cinema character keeps failing upward while insisting the world is always conspiring to take him down feels pretty spot on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPaB02WpueM

yellow river boys is by far tim's best music work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tYvGfF1Gkg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAabeb0XxkU

Yes!!! "Someone To Piss on Me" and "Truck Stop Piss Club" are legitimately great songs. In fact I honest to god enjoy this entire album aside from "Mr. Mudd"

on a similar note the Neil Hamburger covers album from 2019 is way way better than it has any right to be

Beef House

https://i.imgur.com/zZmF8kQ.jpg

can't wait

this Douggpound sketch is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zyeoeIif68

https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/BeefHouse.jpg

BEEF HOUSE

LOL, I didn't even check to see whether anyone had already posted basically the exact same thing I just posted. Apologies 2 pplains.

My Beef House was bolded.

True, true. Apologies rescinded.

Ha, I didn't even recognize Meadow Soprano!

stayed at home with Beef House last night and I'm glad I did cause it was the most fun I had staying at home since I stayed at home every Friday night from 1989 to 1997 with my friends Carl, Harriette, Eddie, Laura, Judy, Richie, Rachel, Estelle, Waldo Faldo (occasionally), Myra (from 1993 until her tragic death in 1998), and of course who could forget Steve :)

https://www.adultswim.com/videos/beef-house/army-buddy-brad

Meadow Soprano totes the voice of reason in the house.

was sorry to see Brad leave so soon tbh

if you miss him that bradly you can see more of him as the main brad guy on season five of Breaking Brad

I am kinda ashamed of how hard I laughed at ep 2 of Beef House.

Ep. 1 - oh I get it, but I don't think I can watch this.

Ep. 2 - shit pipe

Ep. 3 - literally died laughing. had to get my brain remapped to post this.

Okay, got it on the dvr, had a couple beers, guess I'm finally going in.

i'm putting down money tonight to watch 2 & 3, not because I want to know what can remap a brain, but because I need to know what shit pipe means

i just found out. it’s worth it

shit happens

baby boro bit that kid bad

oh my god

https://marionswish.com/marions_wish.pdf

Wow I laughed harder at that than uh anything in years

Don’t usually like their gross out humor but ep 2 had me dying

Let’s just say I blew two loads that night

This show is the funniest thing on TV right now.

Looks like this was the season finale. What a cliffhanger!

I like how it's not spoofing sitcoms in general but rather the late seasons of sitcoms where it's not clear any more what the premises of the show is, half the punchlines are weird inside jokes, and all the characters are just one or two grossly exaggerated traits

quite ironical that the man famous for his song-and-dance cautioning about the gastrointestinal dangers of consuming spoiled meat would use a diarrhea pipe for his mayonnaise pipe

this song from the new Tim Heidecker solo album is uh...really good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvDssCCJT5c

Yeah that's really nice.

But I generally have a hard time responding to Tim's music.

Didn't know he had a new album out. That's a great track. Is that Weyes Blood on vocals (from a quick google)? He definitely writes some great songs. I absolutely adore 'When I Get Up' from the previous album.

"Fear of Death is a Serious Album about Serious Topics..."

On the basis of that one track, I'll take this statement at face value (perhaps not wise) and I'm keen to hear more.

I think most of his music is pretty serious. the Heidecker & Wood stuff seemed to lean into its AOR campiness sometimes but I think his three solo albums are all pretty genuine. and based off one listen on Bandcamp I think this is clearly the best of the three

certainly he's not the first comedian to have a go at "serious" music but he might be the first one whose brand of comedy is particularly dry, where you kind of have to look for the jokes, which I think has led a lot of people to listen to his music for the wrong reasons.

'What The Broken-Hearted Do' is the album I know, so commenting in terms of that, I take it as both serious/genuine and playful at the same time. I think there is definitely some of that dry humour you mention at work and a deliberate ambiguity to it, which I enjoy. Mainly when I listen to it though I just enjoy it at pretty much face value - I like the tunes etc.

yeah agreed with that

listened to it a few more times, definitely made the leap from "pretty good for a comedian" to "actually good" on this one

dare I say it is as good as the Yellow River Boys album

Even going way back to the music on Awesome Show - Great Job, Tim's music has always been decent to great. He can make a throwaway song like Decker's "Our Values Are Under Attack" an earworm for the ages.

you wave a flag on christmas day, they'll throw you in jail!

ah na na na na na naaaa

Decker's gonna get laid mon

listened to some of these songs and can't help wondering if ppl would be digging it if it weren't Tim

Really the vocals are so up front in the mix, which can be cool I guess with a good singer...but...I don't get it. His phrasing and emphases seem just kind of sloppy and rote. I appreciate some of the flourishes and other aspects of the production but I'm just not sure where the hooks are here that it's meriting so much high praise?

Anyway also not big into Warren Zevon or Randy Newman, and those seem to be his touchstones, so probably just me

he kinda went all out on this new video, even got himself a snazzy vintage non-Padres San Diego ballcap

song is completely forgettable imo but video is fun to look at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6tpI1_ASE

Yeah that song, I don't mind earnest Tim, but as <trenchant> lyrics go...oof

This guy has given me countless hours of joy over the years so I feel weird slagging him off, and he should do whatever he feels like doing...I just hope he doesn't become convinced that *this* is where his talent lies at the expense of so much genius elsewhere

Still haven't heard a note from the album that betters "Brick By Brick"

I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say this guy is a big fan of Harry Nilsson

Nilsson is his favoritev artist after the Beatles I think

lyrics are very DO YOU SEE? like, can someone really even ever *own* land, maaaan?

I'm glad he's having fun but frankly I have more fun when his songs are about drinking your own piss

His lyrics are so unwaveringly matter of fact that when he started making non-comedy music I think almost everyone was looking for his trademark drydecker parody underneath it somewhere. And part of it is the production as Hadrian said. The upfront vocals somewhat resemble how his comedy songs are mixed in Awesome show etc. So combined with the commonplace lyrics there's nothing transcendent. Just straightforward song arrangements and subject matter with a plain-speaking approach.

yeah I remember watching the video for "Work From Home" on youtube and it seemed like all the comments at that time were from adult swim fans who didnt quite get it, like "lololol this is hilarious, tim is the master of fucked up surreal satire, this is perfect!"

Yes, everyone wanted to feel like they were in on it with him; as fans they totally "get it".

as a fan I'm ready to be disappointed by Moonbase 8 next month. between that, Space Force, and that new netflix doc series about the Challenger explosion, I feel like America is poised to be burnt out on astronaut comedy

Didn't expect the Challenger doc to be hilarious, but I haven't watched it yet.

lol

I'm jusice for Moonbase 8!

juiced!

xxp oh it's not! but for those willing to seek it out there are savory comedy undertones to the early-eighties fashion choices and NASA contractor office technology

I'm confident it will be funnier than Space Force.

hopefully space force was funnier than the challenger doc though

first episode is on YouTube. it's pretty good though it clearly seems like one of those pilot episodes that gives you no real clue what the show is gonna be like. reminded me a bit of Bedtime Stories actually

i watched the first four episodes of Moonbase and I think it's terrible.

first two and same tbh

only saw the first and it seemed they were all playing it a bit too straight

it's more of a slow-burn low-key character-driven thing like Baskets, but the characters just aren't there. Tim's xian father-of-12 guy was decent, and I think the only time I laughed was when he had his face stomped on by the interim 4th crew member after he tried to consummate their unspoken relationship after praying on it, but John was just John and Fred kinda bugs. I finished it last night and was mostly bored, but ymmv depending on how much you like dehydrated food jokes. It was nice to see Alia Shawkat get some work.

btw not sure if this or the On Cinema thread is the designated thread for Office Hours talk, but replacing Doug "smoke drugs first thing in the morning" Pound with Megan Koester was a solid move for that enterprise

Huh? Isn't Doug on Office Hours right now?

oh I dunno! he was semi-replaced with Megan the other week. I don't ever watch it live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L19yFfoDhYw

Tim playing harmonica on the first song during this "band got big but still plays a show at a local bar at the end of their tour - there's hardly room for the musicians after they've put all their pedals down" type thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fKn0jR6ekc

His Joe Rogan parody was a mere 12 hours long

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Iyg9fznvM

Larry texted me this and said “Hearing tim pitch ‘now tayne I can get into’ is like watching Paul McCartney riff get back into existence” https://t.co/YwFfAQsTfv

— marge (@mags_mclaugh) May 2, 2022

for some reason a few BTS clips of this sketch have been making the rounds and they're all amazing

That one sketch needs its own limited run prestige tv series about its making. Timotheee Cahalamet as Paul Rudd.

Crossover show with Matt & Will from Chapo on Office Hours Live today, and damn has Tim dropped a lot of weight in the last few years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBRM2WouW78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6xc5YhNnvU

hadn't seen these before, apparently every once in a while they'll get back together and watch their old bits and do commentary on them, it's good stuff

best part for me is Eric meeting his in laws in Australia and them telling him "we've got this video that's right up your alley, have you seen it?" and it's "Spaghetti Again"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge9mSi3pYDQ

this one is even better

well I've only watched the first half hour but those fake ads they made for Shrek the Third are hilarious. the Boost Mobile Super Bowl Shuffle one I think is pretty funny too. seems to foreshadow a lot of Awesome Show stuff. they don't seem too fond of it though.

inspired by that I showed my kids (10 and 7) the Totinos commercial and I swear this is the most they've ever liked an internet video, literally every morning since I've woken up to that fucking bass riff when one of them puts it on the living room TV

actually kind of amazing they've created stuff that both adults and kids can enjoy in equal measure. I've tried to show them more T&E stuff but so much of it is inappropriate! they did think Celery Man and the Cinco iJammer were really funny though!