Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! season three DVD out soon

The most sublime and disturbing weirdo-comedy show on the planet is now in its fifth season on Adult Swim, and Tim and Eric are also about to release a DVD of season three.

If you don't get it, nothing I can blog here will convince you. Go ahead and crab in the comments about how much they suck, I won't disemvowel. But if, like me, you are already a devotee? You know what you must do. For your technologies.

(via @ericwareheim and @timheidecker)

[#1 posted by Brother Provisional, June 23, 2009 8:30 AM]

SPAGHETT!!!

[#2 posted by Xeni Jardin, June 23, 2009 8:34 AM]

+1. There's an actual SPAGHETT restaurant. But I doubt if it's as good as Papa John's.

[#3 posted by Joel Johnson, June 23, 2009 8:48 AM]

I haven't actually seen much past season one. I'm saving up to have a marathon session over some mushrooms sometime in the near future.

[#4 posted by thekinginyellow, June 23, 2009 8:51 AM]

(^_^)

[#5 posted by scaryskeleton, June 23, 2009 8:51 AM]

Are you enjoying your new...Cinco Boy?

[#6 posted by cinemajay, June 23, 2009 9:04 AM]

http://www.brulesrules.com/

/that is all.

[#7 posted by usonia, June 23, 2009 9:10 AM]

Their DVD packages get weirder on each iteration. I like that.
Now think about your dad. I wanna meet that dad.

[#8 posted by doomslang, June 23, 2009 9:17 AM]

so lonely i just feel like i am in a cocoon.

[#9 posted by Ratdog, June 23, 2009 9:19 AM]

I watch it occasionally, but it doesn't beat Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

[#10 posted by Anonymous, June 23, 2009 9:19 AM]

GOOD NEWS CIGARETTE JUICE!

[#11 posted by jwla, June 23, 2009 9:22 AM]

I tried to watch it and like it, but, it's too out there for me. And that's saying a lot. I cannot get on board...

[#12 posted by Colinetc, June 23, 2009 9:24 AM]

I got tired of Adult Swim's cartoons-for-stoned-hipsters a long time ago, like, after the first season of SeaLab 2020 (which was pretty great). It seems to me that at some point all the randomness, cheap production, & shoddy camerawork eventually cease becoming more than the sum of their parts and start to smack of lazy writers taking advantage of a fad of which they've abetted the blossoming.

[#13 posted by Anonymous, June 23, 2009 9:41 AM]

#11 re: randomness, cheap production, shoddy camerawork... That's just what they want you to believe. Tim and Eric have been the cutting edge of comedy, from Humpers to Tom Goes to the Mayor, to T&E:AS Great Job!

[#14 posted by Anonymous, June 23, 2009 9:55 AM]

@12 I'm guessing you've never seen the show your griping about considering that it isn't animated.

[#15 posted by Teej, June 23, 2009 9:59 AM]

Can't even wait for Amazon to ship it in August - I'll be at Best Buy that very morning...

"My son, my SON!!!"

[#16 posted by redsquares, June 23, 2009 10:20 AM]

To any thinking "tim and eric" is just thrown together has not seen the "Jim & Derrick" episode. Do you know how hard it is to do a 'Triple-Whipple" on your board, especially when you are low on Turbo Fuel? Totally Lame!

I also can't say the Mise-en-Scène for the "Family in Turmoil" set (Your father and I are getting a divorce...) had shoddy camera work or cheap production. But just saying... GET OUTTA HERE!

[#17 posted by blueelm, June 23, 2009 10:21 AM]

I need to give this one another shot. I remember catching an episode or two when I had access to cable a while ago and beind curious. Recently I netflixed the first season and fell asleep during it. In all fairness though, I had my wisdom teeth out the day before and I was tired, swollen, and half-anesthetized.

[#18 posted by busydoingnothing, June 23, 2009 10:41 AM]

I could buy the DVD set, OR I could just poop directly into my DVD player. Same effect.

Sorry, I've tried multiple times, but I severely loathe these guys. They're the comedy equivalent of the kid in high school who was weird for the purpose of being weird, like, "Hey, look at me, look how WACKY and OUT THERE I can be."

-Comedy Snob.

[#19 posted by Colinetc, June 23, 2009 11:10 AM]

@14 I'm guessing you didn't read my comment as I mentioned "shoddy camerawork" and that's not , generally, a reference one usually throws around when discussing animation. Read closer.

And to anyone who thinks I'm not giving the show it's fair due, I implied that "eventually [it] ceases to become more than the sum of its parts" implying that at one point, it was.

[#20 posted by soosan, June 23, 2009 11:23 AM]

Pumpers are better than tumblers.

[#21 posted by Ratdog, June 23, 2009 11:26 AM]

@18

Thanks for the image.

[#22 posted by thequickbrownfox, June 23, 2009 12:11 PM]

Very poor Stoner-DADA, or Comedy Povera.

I'm guessing these guys saw "Little Britain" and thought "Hey, we can do something like that!".

Not.

[#23 posted by A Nonny Moose, June 23, 2009 12:57 PM]

After seeing the first few episodes, I quickly came to the conclusion that the original working title was "Tim & Eric: Awful Show, Good God!" I've seen nothing since to alter this opinion. Tom Goes To The mayor is not much better, but at least they tried (albeit halfheartedly) to make it a cartoon.

[#24 posted by pidg, June 23, 2009 2:12 PM]

"The most sublime and disturbing weirdo-comedy show on the planet"? Please come to the UK and enjoy some of our comedy. The League of Gentlemen is a great place to start. The Peter Serafinowicz Show too. Or if you're after something intellectual, try The Armando Iannucci Shows...

[#25 posted by Jeff9821, June 23, 2009 2:49 PM]

@#18 BUSYDOINGNOTHING -

You are a self-proclaimed "comedy snob". I would be very interested to hear a few suggestions for great comedy from you.

[#26 posted by d913, June 23, 2009 3:10 PM]

This looks like a great gift idea for Pep-pep or Nanna.

[#27 posted by Anonymous, June 23, 2009 3:23 PM]

This IS one of the most subversively funny programs on TV right now -- it puts the height of the dada movement to shame. I tried explaining/deconstructing part of the show's technical appeal for me at the link below, but it's nice to see others who have downed the kool-aid, so to speak (or is it The Slop?).

Also, I wanna meet that dad.

http://blog.brightlightsfilm.com/2009/04/meta-meta-sketch-comedy.html

-Joseph "Jon" Lanthier

[#28 posted by sixohsix, June 23, 2009 3:27 PM]

I keep going to the Adult Swim site and try to watch clips of these guys but it keeps saying that I'm not allowed to watch because I'm a dirty Canadian, so I dunno, I guess I'm not allowed to buy the DVDs either. *pouts, kicks rock*

[#29 posted by Crux Mondrian, June 23, 2009 4:05 PM]

Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job is actually a highly insightful parody that uses the framework of cable television to explore the cracks in our society, and it ultimately reflects back and comments upon our society as a whole. Or have I said too much?

[#30 posted by Anonymous, June 23, 2009 4:19 PM]

Yay, this is good news indeed! I love their shooooooow.

I was fortunate enough to catch Tim & Eric and company live on tour last year. AND I happen to own an original David Liebe Hart caricature drawing.

Now excuse me, I've just thrown my t'ird, I need to moisten my fence wood and register myself online.

[#31 posted by Anonymous, June 23, 2009 10:31 PM]

[AS] is great because it offers many, very different, zany shows, and I doubt anyone likes all of them. Personally I miss Perfect Hair Forever, but I think I'm in the minority on that one. It's interesting, and disappointing, that Xeni equates not liking Tim and Eric with "not getting it." That's surprisingly small-minded for her. One can "get" a show and still not like it. And given how weird the shows on [AS] are, it's more likely there than anywhere.

[#32 posted by Antinous / Moderator, June 23, 2009 10:40 PM]

One can "get" a show and still not like it.

Perfectly true, but not the point. There's a lot of comedy that I stare at stony-faced while others laugh uproariously. Whether or not I get it, I know that I don't like it. But...I don't announce that it's not funny. Because it is demonstrably funny to somebody and, if it's been on the television for three years, it's demonstrably funny to a whole demographic. Nobody demands that everybody find everything personally funny. If you refuse to acknowledge that something could be funny to other people even if it isn't funny to you, than you just don't 'get' it.

[#33 posted by Anonymous, June 24, 2009 5:09 AM]

I love this show. It has to be one of the most polarizing TV shows of all time. I consider it a good litmus test for friendship. 99.99% of the people that have seen it either love it or hate it with a passion; I get along really well with those that do enjoy it.

The dangerously shoddy products from Cinco(tm), the bad commercials, the hilariously awkward moments, the aggressively terrible power point presentations, the "public access" shows that range from bad to horribly bad... those of us who've spent countless hours in front of the TV and who've worked in a corporate environment can relate to all of that. It's interesting that there's pretty much nothing else like it right now. Great job!

[#34 posted by Anonymous, June 24, 2009 10:07 AM]

It's the best sketch comedy since Monty Python's Flying Circus and is innovative for two reasons: its humor is more abstract than that of any other show on the air, and it's the first comedy to have taken full advantage of green-screen and cheap video technology.

[#35 posted by Anonymous, July 4, 2009 1:57 PM]

I haven't laughed this hard at a tv show in a very long time. Hit and miss, either way, it's so fresh. God I hope this catches on. I am buying everything.

[#36 posted by MorbidOverlord, July 26, 2009 12:50 PM]

OMG I can't waaaaaaaaaaaaait.
Looks like I need me a Waitmate.

[#37 posted by Anonymous, August 11, 2009 11:49 PM]

Perhaps someone like Tom Green isn't considered hip or edgy anymore so his name isn't being brought up as a reference. To me this show owes much more to Tom Green than to Monty Python. The audience/cast/technicians make the comedy just by actively playing their roles and participating. Whether you are a cool Hollywood icon like Jeff Goldblum, or cable access anomaly you have equal billing. The audience is embraced by the technical "ineptitude". Tim and Eric destroy elitism with every episode. I can understand why a comedy snob would be driven away.

[#38 posted by Anonymous, September 13, 2009 8:21 PM]

The show is just the pinnacle of radical art. Outraged many, but captivated a few.