Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! - Season 1

I haven't discussed much Adult Swim on this blog besides my first TV post about The Venture Bros. and there's really no good reason for that. I watch it more than any other channel, it's just a little difficult to know when to say anything because season start and ends dates are often hard to identify. It becomes easier when they release a DVD, which they're doing soon with the first run of Tim and Eric's bizarre, hilarious sketch program known as the Awesome Show. Their first show was Tom Goes to the Mayor, which was (unfairly in my opinion) hated by most viewers, and had minimal animation with a lot of live action inserts. After it was canceled, they got an opportunity to drop the cartoon millstone that was around their necks and do a fully live action show. There are lots of celebrity guests and musical numbers, and lots of ideas that don't care how weird they are, as they don't change their sense of humor for anybody.

A lot of people still can't stand the show, because it's too off the wall and not traditionally funny. But they're definitely missing out. If you have any taste at all for oddball humor, you'll probably find something to like in any episode you watch. Maybe some of it won't be to your taste, but if it isn't, you're not wasting that much time. Some of the stuff they do is a little childish, with lots of scatological and vomit jokes, and a fair amount of sketches feature decidedly unpleasant people to look at, but that's the show, and I like it warts and all.