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You do realize that their humor pretty well assumes that the average infomercial is actually very entertaining? That doesn't really serve as an insult in this case.
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It's really a humor you have to have a taste for. Some people just find them infuriating. Too bad.
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
The problem with Tim & Eric isn't that they are bad comedy, they are bad performers. Bad bad bad bad bad. Whenever they do a skit there's far too much self-awareness.
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Again, that's kind of the point. None of their material would work if they hired talented comedians to perform it.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
Yeah but they've had actors do sketches that were pretty good and Tim & Eric weren't in those.
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
What I'm getting at it that I don't think it's a matter of self-awareness. Everyone who appears on that show knows it's a comedy program. Everyone on that show is mugging shamelessly.
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I guess I'm not being specific enough. There is too much self-awareness of Tim & Eric. As in, hey it's us Tim & Eric doing a Tim & Eric skit for Tim & Eric's Awesome Show. Great Job! I'm Tim and I'm Eric and we're so fucking crazy!
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I'll say it again, that's completely intentional. It's the entire premise, from the very first episode where they most of their eleven minutes introducing themselves in front of shitty green-screening. It's a parody of sketch comedy. That's the point.
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They have a talent for finding something and making it simultaneously creepy and funny, which is why I can't stop watching. Knkwzrd's right, though. They do strike me as a kind of latter-day Monty Python.
And I like Tom Goes to the Mayor, so there There's nowhere I can't reach. |
I liked Tom Goes to the Mayor, I like Tim & Eric sans Tim & Eric. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
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Your laserlike focus is as good as ever, LeHah, but my point was that they are counterculture, that they experiment, and that they look to have popularity in the future because of it.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
You're right on the experimenting part, but I think you're missing the fact that Python's sketches, while off the wall and experimental, were at least superficially "normal" enough to entertain people less willing to dig deeply into the comedy.
Tim and Eric put up this incredibly large wall of obfuscation between the viewer and the comedy. If you can see through it, you find it hilarious, but it's not nearly as easily digested as Python is. Full disclosure: I do find Tim and Eric's first season funny, but their second season saw them get WAY too self aware of their own success and they started veering into Tom Goes to the Mayor levels of "so bad it's too bad to be so bad it's funny" bullshit. FELIPE NO |
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
Tim and Eric has all the cultural impact of 2 girls 1 cup. Sure it's funny, and people's reactions to it are funnier, but everyone forgot about it a couple months after it came out.
How ya doing, buddy? |
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
Man, all I know about Cartoon Network right now is that Squidbillies is the best thing on Adult Swim with Superjail coming in a close second.
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I was speaking idiomatically. |
Heres what it boils down to - if you like this kind of crap, I'll never find another good thing to say about you ever again. Its awful, stupid shit for awful, stupid people. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
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See that's funny because a lot of people hate Squidbillies and could say the same thing you all are saying about Tim & Eric. I only saw Superjail the other day and holy shit it's like they took Yellow Submarine and then just went with a premise and some characters and wooooo fun times ahoy. =)
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
You'd have to be some kinda damn Yankee sumbitch not ta like Squidbillies.
Jam it back in, in the dark. |
So why don't you like it? There's nowhere I can't reach. |