While I agree that there is a need for better comedy that is not predictable, I have to disagree that this show is innovative in any way. Honestly as many times as I have tried to find a redeeming quality to T & E, it is simply painfully difficult to watch. If it were funny at any point, it would be one thing, but there is no punch line, no real plot, and no real humor. I know that there are different taste in everything, but I can hardly conceive how anyone would find any real entertainment value in this show.
When Tim and Eric did "Tom Goes to the Mayor" it was not the funniest show on the network, but it was at least watch-able. You cannot throw a bunch of would-be toilet jokes into a blender and get anything without actual comedy. Just because something isn't predictable, does not mean it is innovative and funny. Part of comedy is looking at your material and saying to yourself "will the audience laugh and smile?" Most of the time I am cringing while at other times I am bored. Even if skits are random in a show, like Robot Chicken or Family Guy for example, it leaves plenty of room for great comedy, sub-plot, and plot.
I do, at times, see the attempt at satire or tongue in cheek. Even though you might be able to see what they were trying to do with the skit, the lack of actual comedy leaves it entirely incomplete. I could say "Milk is good food" all day long, in a multitude of different ways, and no matter how I say it, it is very unlikely to ever amount to comedy. So it is for T& E. I hear a lot of people say you haven't given the show a chance. I have given it a chance and I simply never did see the point in wasting a time slot on it. Without the comedy or at least some element to make the show entertaining, it is just a boring wait until the next show comes on.
To the fans who do enjoy T & E, I am certainly glad you found some redeeming quality to it. Personally, I think they made T& E just to make Tom Goes to the Mayor seem more palatable...LOL. Seriously, I used to hate TGTTM, but after watching T & E, I realized there were worse things in life. 
RaLyr wrote:While I agree that there is a need for better comedy that is not predictable, I have to disagree that this show is innovative in any way. Honestly as many times as I have tried to find a redeeming quality to T & E, it is simply painfully difficult to watch. If it were funny at any point, it would be one thing, but there is no punch line, no real plot, and no real humor. I know that there are different taste in everything, but I can hardly conceive how anyone would find any real entertainment value in this show.
When Tim and Eric did "Tom Goes to the Mayor" it was not the funniest show on the network, but it was at least watch-able. You cannot throw a bunch of would-be toilet jokes into a blender and get anything without actual comedy. Just because something isn't predictable, does not mean it is innovative and funny. Part of comedy is looking at your material and saying to yourself "will the audience laugh and smile?" Most of the time I am cringing while at other times I am bored. Even if skits are random in a show, like Robot Chicken or Family Guy for example, it leaves plenty of room for great comedy, sub-plot, and plot.
I do, at times, see the attempt at satire or tongue in cheek. Even though you might be able to see what they were trying to do with the skit, the lack of actual comedy leaves it entirely incomplete. I could say "Milk is good food" all day long, in a multitude of different ways, and no matter how I say it, it is very unlikely to ever amount to comedy. So it is for T& E. I hear a lot of people say you haven't given the show a chance. I have given it a chance and I simply never did see the point in wasting a time slot on it. Without the comedy or at least some element to make the show entertaining, it is just a boring wait until the next show comes on.
To the fans who do enjoy T & E, I am certainly glad you found some redeeming quality to it. Personally, I think they made T& E just to make Tom Goes to the Mayor seem more palatable...LOL. Seriously, I used to hate TGTTM, but after watching T & E, I realized there were worse things in life.
You're really not paying attention to the show if you don't think it's innovative, which is not to say that you have to like it. Where else can you see two red-cheeked manchildren rap about sitting down while they pee, which later turns out to be a commercial paid for by voter initiative prop. 216? What show has a character like Pierre, who, donned in sparkling disco attire, sings about his obsession with children and their dads? How about a plot that revolves around someone gaining the ability to spontaneously create tiny porcelain tigers, a talent that ultimately shrinks his body and leads to his friend suffocating him with a clothespin?
There's almost nothing on T&EASGJ that can't be described as innovative. You can't be so dead set on hating everything about a show that you deny it the things it clearly has.
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