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For those of you not in the know, Tim and Eric are two "comedians" who currently have their own show on Adult Swim, entitled "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!" If reading that title makes you want to strangle them, you should see the show itself, or rather you shouldn't. It appears, at first, to just be excessively campy, but the more you see of it the more you realize it's a whole new breed of "comedy." To use an SAT-style analogy:
Camp:Homosexuality::Tim&Eric:Pederasty
At least, I assume that's who watches it. I have, fortunately, never seen a six-year-old boy getting sexually violated by a middle-aged man, but if I did I imagine it would inspire feelings much like Tim and Eric. First shock and disbelief, then revulsion and horror, and finally white-hot, burning rage combined with a desire to wipe the perpetrators off the face of the earth. If you were ever frightened by the ghoulish makeup of a clown as a child, you have the beginning of an idea of the feeling this show gives to your stomach. Plus the "dammit, that's not funny and I want to beat the crap out of anyone who thinks it is" factor of Zippy the Pinhead comics in the newspaper.
And no, I can't "just not watch it." For one thing, AS wedges the show in everywhere to try and trick people into watching it, possibly as part of a sinister plot to ensure that every child on the planet under the age of ten gets cornholed. For another, they show brief snippets of it in commercial, and even that tiny exposure may be harmful. Just to give a hint of how much ass-suckage we're talking about here, I'll give you the dialog from one such spot:
(Tim and Eric stand side-by-side against a psychedelic background, holding a gilded picture frame in front of their faces)
TIM: Hey, Eric, how did you get into this painting?
ERIC: Oh, I was just chilling.
(Both burst into forced, hysterical laughter for no discernible reason)
Other examples of their oeuvre include a cat crapping repeatedly into a litter box at high speeds and lots of men wearing heavy women's makeup making silly noises while staring into the screen. It's evil, I tell you. Evil.
For those of you not in the know, Tim and Eric are two "comedians" who currently have their own show on Adult Swim, entitled "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!" If reading that title makes you want to strangle them, you should see the show itself, or rather you shouldn't. It appears, at first, to just be excessively campy, but the more you see of it the more you realize it's a whole new breed of "comedy." To use an SAT-style analogy:
Camp:Homosexuality::Tim&Eric:Pederasty
At least, I assume that's who watches it. I have, fortunately, never seen a six-year-old boy getting sexually violated by a middle-aged man, but if I did I imagine it would inspire feelings much like Tim and Eric. First shock and disbelief, then revulsion and horror, and finally white-hot, burning rage combined with a desire to wipe the perpetrators off the face of the earth. If you were ever frightened by the ghoulish makeup of a clown as a child, you have the beginning of an idea of the feeling this show gives to your stomach. Plus the "dammit, that's not funny and I want to beat the crap out of anyone who thinks it is" factor of Zippy the Pinhead comics in the newspaper.
And no, I can't "just not watch it." For one thing, AS wedges the show in everywhere to try and trick people into watching it, possibly as part of a sinister plot to ensure that every child on the planet under the age of ten gets cornholed. For another, they show brief snippets of it in commercial, and even that tiny exposure may be harmful. Just to give a hint of how much ass-suckage we're talking about here, I'll give you the dialog from one such spot:
(Tim and Eric stand side-by-side against a psychedelic background, holding a gilded picture frame in front of their faces)
TIM: Hey, Eric, how did you get into this painting?
ERIC: Oh, I was just chilling.
(Both burst into forced, hysterical laughter for no discernible reason)
Other examples of their oeuvre include a cat crapping repeatedly into a litter box at high speeds and lots of men wearing heavy women's makeup making silly noises while staring into the screen. It's evil, I tell you. Evil.
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