I just finished watching the pilot episode and I have to say...Wow. It looks like "Tom Goes To The Mayor" was an enormous fluke, because I thought that this was incredibly hilarious.

It seemed so random and cheesey, it looked exactly like something Me & my frat brothers might have filmed, while incredibly drunk It was almost like a live-action version of Robot Chicken, except more incredibly random and weird. If there was a definition of "Pothead Humor," this would be it.

I will definately be tuning in next week.

Well...that was...a show. On television. I seriously don't know what to think.

I know what to think...it stunk. "Tim" and "Eric" are names that have no business being in the general vicinity of "awesome." It's just some random skits thrown together and drenched in the suck that is the Married News Team. Why do these two keep getting work on [as], while my boy Evan Dorkin can't even get a script produced?

There's hardly a shortage of frat boy humor on television, so why make a show to add more if you can't be bothered to make it funny?

I'm sorry, what is "frat boy" about this show?

Oops...sorry if I didn't make this clear, I meant to say because of how low the production values are, anyone like a group of drunk college students could've pulled this off.

I thought you meant it because of all the hoyay.

Is the one joke on this show that they act like amateurs? It seems like they need cameos by their famously talented friends to show that they're only 'pretending' to be crappy. We see John C. Reilly acting like a guy who doesn't know what he's doing and we know it's a performance, so we then assume that the other two acting like they don't know what they're doing must also be amazing thespians.

B'owl wasn't a good joke, Bob.

Oh I laughed like crazy at B'Owl.

It's like Tom Goes to the Mayor, with 100% less clinical depression!

Isn't that another word for "low-brow"?

So, in retrospect I feel that this show demonstrates that "Tom Goes to the Mayor" really wasn't that bad...alright, it was. But at least I didn't have to look at these guys in live action.

Egads this is horrible.

Right there with ya. I'm thinking I need a dimebag or six to really make something of this show.

I'm sure the title is supposed to be self-referentially ironic, but given the quality of the actual show, it just comes off as lame.

Can't believe I actually watched this again. Still pretty lame. I think I liked it better than last week, but maybe that's because it ended with Eric Wareheim getting punched in the daddybags.

So, this shit actually gets ratings?

This is worse than the talking ass.

This episode was...something. I actually thought last week's was better (and notice how I never said the show was "good" in my first post).

Anyway, I'm strangely compelled to see next week's, and I seem to be hooked for some reason.

This may have everything to do with my previous run-ins with T&E, but I do find a lot of this funny. Adding John C. Reilly as Dr. Steve Brule to the news thing really helps make the whole segment less creepy.

The Hackey-Sack competition last week was okay, but what made that scene was C-Boy's lament following it. B'Owl is totally a product I would get a kid I didn't like.

The rolo jingle scene made me laugh. It's exactly the kind of stuff the other music majors I know do, except they don't actually try pitching and of their bad ideas. Eric wearing a Bass Fest shirt made that part even better (WIIIIIIIIIZ!).

That dance thing which ends up being related to Tim dying of Limp Lip was kind of funny. The little thing they did with people just holding hotdogs in their mouths struck me as funnier though.

I don't find most of this funny, but "Doo-da-doo-doo" would have been if hadn't gone on so long. The limp lip thing was too obvious--Tim wasn't really sick, Tim was going to eat the hot dog, Tim was going to get limp lip from eating the hot dog...

Do Da Do Do! That wasn't Ben Vereene, who was that?

I'm not ashamed to say I like this show. These two episodes have been funnier then anything I've seen on SNL in the last 10 years.

Also, the woman in the opening 'Ball Insurance' sketch was incongruously beautiful.

Talk about damning with faint praise! I saw this show for the first time Sunday morning and.. well, I guess this week was about housecats.... or something.

I watched for the first time last week, based on my sister's recommendation. The Doo Da Doo Doo skit was fairly funny, especially the part about the rotten meat. The rest of the show was awful.

I don't personally do it, so I can't say myself, but I often hear comments that Adult Swim shows are often the right sort of thing to watch while stoned or otherwise in a different state of mind. Based on what I've seen on this show so far, this seems to be the first one where such a state is apparently obligatory.

Geroge Michael Bluth, nooooooo!!!!

Really, what do these two doofs have on the people who guest star on their crappy show?

I know, I felt sorry for the poor guy myself. A good sport, though.

Besides being sleepy while watching, I'm sober as a judge. Guess that says something about my mental state?

And yay for Michael Cera!

This week had Weird Al Yankovich but it still sucked.

Yeah, I didn't even like this one. Weird Al looked:

1: Old

2: Creepy like woah.

And there was nothing else going on.

I had to do this sooner or later. And Al? Stick to Robot Chicken, buddy.

It needed to be done. "Teh" makes it art.

I didn't get the Salame thing at all, which took up too much of the episode. The cops and robbers song, and the part where Tim and Eric were doing the child clown thing and yelling back and forth at each other made me laugh.

Tim & Eric's live show hits LA tomorrow night. I was planning to go, but they apparently sold out in advance.

I was amazed that I actually enjoyed week's episode. Fat Carol, Spider Attack, Crystal Shyps, Bob Odenkirk, Sports - great fun.

Now, did the show actually get better or have I snapped?

If you're taking a poll, I'm choosing "snapped."

:)
I kid!

I thought the Cats ep was the best of the 5 we've seen. I kind of thought that the Salame one last week had a couple of okay things in it, as I found myself enthusiastically laughing at a couple of bits (the child clown commercials cracked me up, and I thought the sitcom class was funny, and the cops and robbers song was allright), but I personally didn't like last night's at all, well, aside from chuckling a little at the bit that Odenkirk did. Okay, okay... I may have laughed very hard when that guy randomly smashed the coffee pot on Eric's head. HAHAHA! Haven't laughed that hard since the little person kicked Eric in the daddybags in the 2nd episode.

Random Violence against either Tim or Eric? I'll watch to see that. Great Job!

It might be easier to take if we got eleven minutes of them having sex. With each other. Because the "Carol" stuff was downright grisly.

Yep, it was pretty ugly, as was the news that the show is now up on iTunes. There are six or seven good shows, and this one.

That's a really apt description.

And yet I can't look away, and laugh frequently.

Also: That episode may have made me steril.

Yeah, me too. I'm not shouting it from the rooftops or anything, but I do think it's amusing.

Maybe it was the lateness of the hour, but the "T'ird" ad had me laughing like a loon.

B'Owls did more for me than T'irds. I just felt bad for the poor frisbee monster.

The scenes with Carol made me laugh, albeit an awkward laugh. The song totally blew my mind (a lot of them do on this show).

Nobody else would really know or care about this I guess, but the calendar they had up in the cubicle was the '91 Horizons one that features Wayne and Jan Skylar. Some of the tidbits of info about them were really terrifying.

I figured Lantern7 would enjoy the spiderweb prank, given the reaction it got out of Tim.

I will admit that I found "My legs are long (Yes, they're very, very long!)" featuring animated stilt legs quite amusing, and the song is still stuck in my head.

I'm torn, do you think the people behind this show actually think it's funny, or are we being put on?

Because as much as I (hate to admit) like it, it still feels cynical, like I'm being made fun of.

Edited because I usually don't sound like the Hulk.

I freely admit I've never watched the show, so maybe my observation is totally skewed...but what the hell is up with all the vomiting I see in the commercials for this show? I can't think of something less likely to induce me to watch a show than to have someone hurling in every. single. commercial. Vomiting != humorous to me.

I wonder how many outraged letters and emails [as] has gotten from emetophobes.

I think there's something to that, MrBananaGrabber. As I was watching it last week, it dawned on me that a lot of the skits are cynical and joyless.

I think it's the Dark humor of the show that gets people laughing. Which means we're all sick in the head.

That said, this week's episode was funny, but still doesn't beat the first episode, with the T'ird being a poor man's B'owl (which is my favorite moment of the whole series so far, followed by the "Legs Are Long" song)

Bob Odenkirk has such joy praising the useless B'owl with phrases like "Everyone tolerates B'owl every day!" "Build a room for your B'owl so no one can see it!" "Put it in the trunk of your car and forget about it!" and "B'owl is perfect for throwing away!" then we get a dark zoom-in with a 1 frame flicker of light. It's the little details of shows I like, and one thing about the B'owl ad is during the scene where all of its "uses" scroll by the screen, the B'owl on the right is flat on its face, like it fell down just prior to taping.

It's amazing what whisps of a plot can do for an episode.

I'm just going to give up and enjoy.

"Where's Dad's meat?"

No one had commented on the past 3 weeks of shows?

Slop & Abstinence were probably 2 of the best episodes so far. Slop only for the great performance by Fred Willard, and the sheer absolute randomness of Abstinence, like the Abstinence song with David Cross, all of the Old Men sequences, and the fact that all of the "tape skips" that the show is now famous for were able to create a beatbox song, as well as a cartoon SET to the edited beatboxing. Someone's having fun with the editing machine.

Anniversery, however...yes, we got another "Doo Dah Doo Doo"-esque song, but to those that said that the show seems to be making fun of us...I certainly felt it in this episode (the Dunn-provise game & the "Crackers & Snacks" guy)

This week's episode "Hamburger" was much better, with the whole finishing the episode sequence, the tiny car accident fight, Neil Hamburger, and that any episode that has both Dr. Steve Brule & Uncle Muscles is a winner in my book.

Anything. Absolutely ANYTHING involving Weird Al is okay in my book. I secretly enjoyed Tom Goes, so why not?

I didn't realize how evil this show was until I was out shopping and bought a bag of Rolos, and couldn't stop saying "Rolo Tony Brown Town! Gimme some more!"

Tim and Eric will be having a little gathering at the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con. Last year they did Tomicon (I won a Pipe Camp shirt), and this year will be AwesomeCon.



I need to rewatch all the episodes of AS:GJ so I can get some prizes again. They ask the most bizarre stuff.

Just remember to keep your meat ice cold.