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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (S05E01)
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Season Cinco is finally here, and with it comes one of the funniest skits that Tim and Eric have ever conceived. I don't wanna ruin it, but I'll say it involves James Quall and David Liebe Hart, and with those leads I don't know how it couldn't be good.
Reviewed by
Brad Cook
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (S05E01) - "Comedy"
Tim and Eric like to poke fun at institutions of typical television, like extreme sports-esque shows ("Jim and Derek") and anniversary shows ("Anniversary"), and now it would seem they're taking on SNL, or at least they do in the opening credits, which run a bit long, but Tim and Eric do sorta specialize in excessiveness. The rest of the show takes on more of an America's Funniest Videos format, with them bantering between clips. There's also a new intro for this episode, which declares that they've "done the research" and found that we want our comedy "funnier and faster, sharper and more vibrant, with more funny accents and wigs," and finally, "less Richard Dunn." I dunno about that last one, but I suppose I can deal with the rest of that.
As with most Tim and Eric episodes, the skits tend to be hit or miss. Cinco introduces a new product called the Diarrheaphragm, so no, they have not let up with the poop jokes unfortunately. Jack McBrayer demonstrates how it works, which is something you probably don't want to know. The skit was alright, but it did feature some classic Tim and Eric characters like the tiny hats guy and the Doo Da Doo Doo dude. The REAL highlight of the show, though, was an unbelievable clip advertising a new Cop show called "Quall of Duty: San Diego Streets," featuring James Quall and David Liebe Hart as the two most awkward police officers to ever exist. It is even better than it sounds, and might be the funniest skit they've ever done. It doesn't even matter what situation you put them in, Quall and Liebe Hart are so purely strange and awkward that they'll make it the funniest thing you've ever seen, and they don't even know it. If you don't laugh at the face Liebe Hart makes while firing his gun after rolling over the car hood, I don't wanna know you. I was also glad to see a great Brule's Rules section of the show dedicated to discussing genders. Brule discusses how sometimes "some girls wanna be boys." His advice? "Just be happy with your vajana! You got it already." Brule's Rules is another skit that basically can't go wrong; John C. Reilly has proven himself to be amazingly adaptable and naturally hilarious with his Steve Brule character, which awesomely enough, he created and pitched to Tim and Eric himself.
The first episode of Season Cinco had its off-moments, but for the most part it was classic Tim and Eric. Despite being one of the flashier, seemingly more big-budget episodes, it somehow seemed to capture some of the raw humor from the first season. Quall of Duty is easily enough to make this episode worth watching, and Brule's Rules is just the icing on the cake, although it's probably a Cinco cake, so maybe count me out of that one.
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