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.

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!