Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! - Season 2 (Cartoon Network/Warner DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: C Episodes: C
My friend
went to a Tim and Eric live show;
they spent the first 15 minutes jumping around screaming one word…that is no joke. I reviewed the First Season of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job with some
hesitation, but an open mind. The series
shaped up to be interesting and original to an extent, but also possessed an
obvious degree of nonsensical dribble that was not creative or funny and
instead was exhaustingly annoying. Season Two of Tim and Eric Awesome Show,
Great Job delivers more of the same stupidity as it seamlessly continues
where Season One left off. Season
Two brings back more sketches, more inventions, more guest stars, and even
more frustratingly absurdities.
Strange,
bizarre, and odd are words that this reviewer has always embraced as creative
benchmarks that pave the way for new and creative ideas as they stimulate the
mind; Tim and Eric do little to stimulate the mind. Whereas up front their off brand of comedy is
admirable, it is quickly realized that the duo have little to offer with their
intentionally low budget and meaningless sketches. There is no doubt that the small team does
put much effort into what they do, but the end product is annoying and not
worth an ounce of anyone’s time. Tim and
Eric first annoyed this reviewer when they produced Tom Goes to Mayor, one of
Adult Swim’s worst series as evident by how quickly it was canceled. There is effort there, but I can not honestly
call it a creative effort. The series
once again this season features Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim frolicking
around the set with sketches featuring The Channel 5 News team, Cinco Products,
and Pussy Doodles. Guest stars appear
here and there (God only knows why) such as Weird Al, Jeff Goldblum in Jeff
Goldbluman Group, John C. Reilly as Channel 5’s Dr. Steve Brule, David Cross as
Pussy Doodles, and a few more. The
series has no rhyme or reason, nor does it have recurring storylines; it is one
acid trip after another. Tim and Eric is
purposely made to look like a public access series, but let me tell you that
watching paint dry on PBS may be more thought provoking than this
pseudo-intellectual endeavor. The sketches
are bad, the actors are annoying, and only an occasional chuckle can be found
when it comes to the zany Cinco products that baffle the mind.
The
picture on Tim and Eric Awesome Show,
Great Job: Season 2 is intentionally bad, but with the series already being
overwhelming annoying the gritty 1.33 X 1 full screen does not add to the
experience. The colors are weak with
dull black and an overall soft image.
The sound is better in its Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound presentation, but as
some sketches embody the same purposefully disrupted quality as the picture it
is hard to say what is good and what is bad.
The extras include more of the same quirkiness that the series attempts
to radiate as it includes such extras as a Blooper Reel, Deleted Scenes,
Extended Scenes, Promos, Karaoke Videos, Kaz Kiss, Edgar Allen Poe IV,
Awesomecon 2008, and Tim & Eric Awesome Tour 2008. This reviewer had little desire to watch the
extras after tiring of the duos brand of humor quite quickly, but I must say
that Adult Swim did an excellent job of giving fans a number of solid
extras. Most of the extras center on the
series, but Awesomecon 2008 and Tim and Eric’s Tour express the pair’s huge
following.
Maybe I
just don’t get it? The first season was
fun enough, but by season two I had enough.
If you are already a fan of Tim
and Eric, now is not the time to stop watching; but if you never saw the
series I recommend diverting your eyes from the stupidity as quickly as
possible.
- Michael P. Dougherty II
