Tim & Eric Appalling Show, Abhorrent Job!

Do you know anyone who likes Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!? Anyone - just one? If you do, I am about to describe that person to a tee:

Total douchebag. A pretentious trainwreck of a human being who delights in pretending to enjoy utter shit like Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job because it's "ironic." He prides himself in being "antisocial" as a "social experiment" because it's ironic. If you don't share his "anti-taste" in what he asserts as Art, then you just don't "get it" and he sneers at you, but accepts you publicly because it's ironic. Prefers combat boots with khakis, which he tucks in. Are you seeing a theme here?

Do you remember when [adult swim] showed that God-awful Young Person's Guide to History? For like two weeks before it premiered, the bump literally said, "Which you won't like."

WTF!? If someone from [as] is reading this (and I sincerely hope someone is), fuck you. Do you want to know why we didn't like it, or is that ironic? Well, for anyone who cares, we didn't like it because it was really, really, really awful. It was not funny, it was not "cutting-edge," it was not intellectual and it was not pointedly obtuse - it was just plain awful.

How insulting is it for a network to literally tell you they are greenlighting programming they already know you will not like; they're literally saying, "You're a bunch of morons and we're going to do whatever we want, anyway."

Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job is literally what you get when you film two completely untalented boobs doing whatever comes to mind. And I don't care how many equally mediocre quasi-celebrities show-up and give them "props," the show still reeks! In going on three or four years now, there have only ever been two skits which were even mildly humorous: the one about the children's singer, "Bread," and the one where "Spaghet" or whomever got a movie deal. And neither of those would have made it to air on a decent skit show; that those were the only watchable moments in all this time goes to show how terrible this complete hackjob is! Even if this were a good show, two stand-out bits in 40 some-odd episodes is not a good record.

This is the result of the "everybody's a winner" movement! This is what happens when you tell everyone that anything they do qualifies as "art." This is so terrible, it honestly angers me! I truly feel like the show is mocking me!

I understand [adult swim] needs filler - why they don't bother showing some of the better classic cartoons in their vault (like, say, the ones they show on Boomerang), I may never know - but they have some really good shows, and a lot of episodes of those from which to choose. Why would you throw money away on shows you know "we won't like," unless you are literally thumbing your nose at us?

And now they're showing King of the Hill - quite possibly the worst cartoon ever made! If King of the Hill had been a live-action sit-com, it would have been embarrassed off the air 2-3 episodes in. And it is better than Tim & Eric!

There is nothing funny about this show, or Bob Odenkirk, ever. This is not "zany" or "wacky" or "avant-garde;" this is not "obscura" or Dadaist; this is two dipshits who cannot hold regular jobs standing in front of a camera and doing whatever the hell comes to mind until they run out of steam, then editing it down and airing it. Everything Bob Odenkirk does is a specific example of what happens when you're an overrated hack who runs out of material literally two minutes into everything you do. He just starts acting bizarrely to draw attention away from the fact that he is not talented and is actually doing nothing at all. Adam Sandler gets inappropriately angry and starts yelling.

Tim & Eric actually offends me because I know for a fact that no one at Williams Street is sitting around talking about how we "just don't get it." I know this because [adult swim] has quality shows - Venture Bros., Moral Orel, The Oblongs - so this is not a case of obscura not finding its niche in the mainstream, this is a very specific insult to [adult swim] viewers and I'm getting tired of it. I'm sick and tired of being force-fed crap - especially from people with an elitist attitude.

A show that is not entertaining is not "ironic," it is just a bad show.

And I'll tell you something else: The Life and Times of Tim is better than anything [adult swim] has done in going on five years.

© C Harris Lynn, 2008