You drank some bad milk before bed.Originally Posted by Meen Bellpeppers
Had you taken WaitMate?
That is a sandal sitting by a chair.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/...eidecker_a.php
"We have dick jokes and ball jokes and fart jokes and dry comedy and sort of intellectual comedy and 'ooh-ma-ma.' We try to keep things balanced."
many tine tanies
Fucking hell, you should see the hate Tim and Eric get on the TWOP boards: http://forums.televisionwithoutpity....3151583&st=990
Oh yes, God forbid something deliciously insane and dada-esque invade their bland, precious action anime.
The hate for T&E on the internet in general is ridiculous. A while back after Tim got stabbed, some of the comments on imdb and the Adult Swim message boards were truly disgusting.
I think they're really funny guys!
"What a sticky wicket. Zorak's mind is obviously too small. He has no hair."
The Village Voice article is really great. I like this idea:
I wish they would do that; go the Wonder Showzen route and make some episodes that complete diverge from the format and center on one weird thing.Eric Wareheim: We made episode called "Getting it Done With Richard Dunn" and Tanese Gray, and it was a talk show, just those two for a full 11.5 minutes. And we loved it, it was very dry, very slow, and they just weren't willing to sacrifice an Awesome Show for that.
And in regards to the hatred, on the contrary, I never expected Tim and Eric to develop such a huge fanbase. A few years ago, when they first came into the public eye, the hatred was almost unanimous, and it seems to have cooled quite a bit at this point.
I saw a commercial for something the other day that took place on a bus, and I could've sworn Richard Dunn was a passenger on the bus. Has anyone seen that?
It's weird that Village Voice article points out the Ooh Mama sketch as unfunny, because it's right next to Spaghett as the best stuff they've done I think. While Spaghett is really funny intentionally, and maybe not so much too, the Ooh Mama skit has everything else they do well (the video loops, the lack of focus that finds focus by the end of the bit, the mother's reactions, the weird nostalgic setting, and the image manipulation stuff too) and a soothing rhythm of insanity to go along with it.
How dare they criticize something I love!
I don't think they did. They said "unfunny" in quotes, and pointed out how it lacks any kind of traditional structure or punchline, but I don't think either was said in a derogatory way.
I think the multiple mentions of it maybe stuck out more for me. Besides, there has to be less accessible material of theirs than Ooh Mama, right?
Haha, I'd honestly say Ooh Mama is probably one of the least accessible things they've done, which is not to say it's bad. But it definitely sticks out as an example of the insanity Tim and Eric are capable of creating, which is why it's cited so often.
Speaking of Ooh Mama, I found the music they used for that in GarageBand. Deep Electric Piano loops.
ooh mama is defiantly one of the strangest things they've done. If not the most. And thats not a bad thing.
haha yeah, I phrased that way incorrectly. Ooh Mama is definitely up there on the weird, I was thinking more of the stuff that could be taken out of context though, just clicking through, where Ooh Mama is just pretty much all there is to it? That doesn't make so much sense either, so I will stop typing.
Now.
I guess I'm going against the crowd by saying that I really liked the newest Tim and Eric episode. It's not their best ever or anything but the Brule bit was funny and people who don't like Tim and Eric normally like the We Sell Tiny Tigers bit in my experience of forcing them to watch it.
I liked it, except for the the Dick Douche commercial. Although I liked "I"m Dick Douche, that's my real name."
"What a sticky wicket. Zorak's mind is obviously too small. He has no hair."
Episode 302 is up!
New episode is one of the best they've done, I loved every sketch.
"What a sticky wicket. Zorak's mind is obviously too small. He has no hair."
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