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* DisproportionateRetribution: Tim asks the wrong guy in the IT department to look at his malfunctioning laptop. Theo, said IT guy, photoshops Tim's head into several photographs of the boss and his wife in risque poses and forwards them to the whole company.



* InkSuitActor: Several of the actors, as much as the simplistic art style can allow.

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* InkSuitActor: Several of the actors, characters, as much as the simplistic art style can allow.



* {{Jerkass}}: Tim's Boss.

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* {{Jerkass}}: {{Jerkass}}:
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Tim's Boss.Boss.
** Omnicorp's IT department.


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* UnreliableNarrator: Tim tends to make himself sound less painfully awkward when he recounts events.
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* SadistShow

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* SadistShowSadistShow: The show's formula is basically "Someone suggests an activity, Tim participates, everything goes wrong out of no fault of Tim's, then Tim gets all the blame."
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* DudeNotFunny: In-universe. Marie has an...uncompassionate sense of humor. Tim tends to call her on it in a uselessly meek manner.

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* DudeNotFunny: In-universe. Marie has an...uncompassionate sense of humor.humor, joking about in-universe examples of rape and crippling alcoholism. Tim tends to call her on it in a uselessly meek manner.
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* DudeNotFunny: Marie has an...uncompassionate sense of humor. Tim tends to call her on it in a uselessly meek manner.

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* DudeNotFunny: In-universe. Marie has an...uncompassionate sense of humor. Tim tends to call her on it in a uselessly meek manner.
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* DudeNotFunny: Marie has an...uncompassionate sense of humor. Tim tends to call her on it in a uselessly meek manner.
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* EyeScream: Tim accidentally throws a dart into a woman's eye in "Insurmountable High Score".

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* EyeScream: Tim accidentally throws a dart into a woman's Frank's girlfriend's eye in "Insurmountable High Score".
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* EyeScream: Tim accidentally throws a dart into a woman's eye in "Insurmountable High Score".

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* TemptingFate: "Insurmountable High Score":
-->'''Tim:''' Wow. I feel great, this feels like it's gonna be a happy ending.



* TitleDrop: "The Priest Is Drunk":
-->'''Tim:''' I think the priest is drunk.

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* TitleDrop: "The Priest Is Drunk":
-->'''Tim:''' I think the priest is drunk.
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* ManipulativeEditing: Marie's video in "Tim, Stu and Marie". Although it really doesn't make things much worse.
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* AThreesomeIsManly: Marie seems to think that Tim and Stu are proposing a threesome when Tim shows up at Stu and Marie's date in "Tim, Stu and Marie".
-->'''Marie:''' I'm talking about the three of us having wild sex in my studio apartment with my cats and my fake plants.\\
'''Tim:''' That was the...strangest sentence I've ever heard.\\
'''Stu:''' The answer is yes.
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* CursedWithAwesome: Tim claims to his boss and the HR lady to have Asperger's. Boss and HR lady seem to consider the resulting LackOfEmpathy a superpower. They use him to insult others vicariously.

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* CursedWithAwesome: Tim claims to his boss and the HR lady Marie to have Asperger's. Boss and HR lady Marie seem to consider the resulting LackOfEmpathy a superpower. They use him to insult others vicariously.



* RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale: Rodney's story about Tim's escapade at the former's bachelor party in "Rodney's Bachelor Party" turns out to be that Tim was raped behind a dumpster by a bum. Everyone in-universe treats the rape pretty seriously (although ineptly), with the exception of the HR lady, who has the nerve to crack bum-rape jokes.

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* RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale: Rodney's story about Tim's escapade at the former's bachelor party in "Rodney's Bachelor Party" turns out to be that Tim was raped behind a dumpster by a bum. Everyone in-universe treats the rape pretty seriously (although ineptly), with the exception of the HR lady, Marie in HR, who has the nerve to crack bum-rape jokes.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: In "Monday Night Confession", Stu may have set a warehouse on fire, the Priest's girlfriend Tina sold all of the Priest's bibles to buy cocaine, and the Priest got a HappyEndingMassage and ran out without paying. The only one in the group who gets any flak is Tim, who masturbated to his sister and her female family members in a church bathroom after a baptism.
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* TVTelephoneEtiquette: Tim bungles a a call from a prospective employer by hanging up when he thinks the conversation is over. After a pause, the caller continues speaking, not realizing that he's hung up.
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* BadassGrandpa: Said old man in "Tim Fights an Old Man". He swims every day and can do pushups. With his penis. Subverted when he can't handle a single word of Tim's quaveringly-delivered trash talk.
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* InkSuitActor: Several of the actors, as much as the simplistic art style can allow.
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* ExactWords: Tim would like to point out that he ''did'' go to a "black-tie function" in "Senior Prom".
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* InSeriesNickname: Rodney calls Tim "Timbo".

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* InSeriesNickname: Rodney calls People have a habit of calling Tim "Timbo".
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* OverprotectiveDad: Tim's Boss, when Tim has to take his daughter to prom in "Senior Prom".
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* RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale: This turns out to be Rodney's story about Tim's escapade at the former's bachelor party in "Rodney's Bachelor Party".

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* RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale: This turns out to be Rodney's story about Tim's escapade at the former's bachelor party in "Rodney's Bachelor Party".Party" turns out to be that Tim was raped behind a dumpster by a bum. Everyone in-universe treats the rape pretty seriously (although ineptly), with the exception of the HR lady, who has the nerve to crack bum-rape jokes.
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* BolivianArmyEnding[=/=]NoEnding: Several episodes just abruptly end without any resolution(And most of them end when things seem to get worse for Tim)The Last episode of the Second Season, "Novelist" ends with [[spoiler:Tim trying to end the unfinished novel of a famous dead writer]].

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* BolivianArmyEnding[=/=]NoEnding: Several episodes just abruptly end without any resolution(And most of them end resolution, often when things seem to get worse for Tim)The Last Tim is in the worst situation of the episode of the Second Season, "Novelist" yet. The second season finale, "Novelist", ends with [[spoiler:Tim trying to end the unfinished novel of a famous dead writer]].
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* PoliceAreUseless: Tim is asked to finger the bum who (fake) raped him in "Rodney's Bachelor Party". The officer gets one of the bums to get naked and pretend to rape Tim to see if it'll jog his memory.

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* PoliceAreUseless: Tim is asked to finger the bum who (fake) raped him out of a PoliceLineup in "Rodney's Bachelor Party". The officer gets one of the bums to get naked and pretend to rape Tim to see if it'll jog his memory.
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* IWasQuiteTheLooker: Tim thinks this was probably the case for Amy's grandmother in "The Priest Is Drunk", since her breasts are still pretty great.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Amy's grandmother attempts to force this on Tim in "The Priest Is Drunk".

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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The wedding in "The Priest Is Drunk" has the band playing the Hokey-Pokey.

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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The wedding in "The Priest Is Drunk" has the band playing the Hokey-Pokey. Oddly enough, the next song they play is "Disco Lady".


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* TitleDrop: "The Priest Is Drunk":
-->'''Tim:''' I think the priest is drunk.
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The wedding in "The Priest Is Drunk" has the band playing the Hokey-Pokey.
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* FeeFiFauxPas
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--->"Cock, cock, cock, ''cock!! That '''cock''' can suck my '''COCK!!'''''"

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--->"Cock, --->'''Research Guy:''' Cock, cock, cock, ''cock!! That '''cock''' can suck my '''COCK!!'''''"'''COCK!!'''''
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: The eponymous "Angry Unpaid Hooker" is actually not particularly angry and compliments Tim on his clothes and housekeeping.

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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: The Debbie, the eponymous "Angry Unpaid Hooker" is actually not particularly angry and compliments Tim on his clothes and housekeeping.



'''Hooker:''' Well, he says he's in financial retrieval, but...that just means he's a pimp.

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'''Hooker:''' '''Debbie:''' Well, he says he's in financial retrieval, but...that just means he's a pimp.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Omnicorp CEO, who re-fashions Tim as a Latino in order to silence charges of unequal hiring practices.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Omnicorp CEO, who who, among other ridiculous requests, re-fashions Tim as a Latino in order to silence charges of unequal hiring practices.practices in "Latino Tim".


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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The episode titles.
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''The Life & Times of Tim'' is an {{HBO}} comedy animated television series, created by Steve Dildarian, about a man in his mid-20s named Tim living in New York City with his girlfriend Amy (Mary Jane Otto), who constantly finds himself in increasingly awkward situations. It is the first HBO animated original since Todd [=McFarlane's=] ''{{Spawn}}'', which ended in 1999. It was originally developed for {{Fox}} in 2007, but moved to HBO, where it is currently on its third season.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Tim is regularly put down around the office by the other employees. They tend to call him "Tim the idiot". Granted, it is kind of true...
* BolivianArmyEnding[=/=]NoEnding: Several episodes just abruptly end without any resolution(And most of them end when things seem to get worse for Tim)The Last episode of the Second Season, "Novelist" ends with [[spoiler:Tim trying to end the unfinished novel of a famous dead writer]].
* ButtMonkey: Tim (obviously) and sometimes Stu and Rodney.
* CampGay: The appropriately named "Gay Gary" in Tim's office.
* TheChewToy: Tim.
* CloudCuckooLander: Tim's boss is... interesting.
* ClusterFBomb
** The DJ in "Rodney's Bachelor Party".
** There's also this:
--->"Cock, cock, cock, ''cock!! That '''cock''' can suck my '''COCK!!'''''"
* TheComicallySerious: Most of the show's humor comes from the title character's deadpan reactions to the insanity around him.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Omnicorp CEO, who re-fashions Tim as a Latino in order to silence charges of unequal hiring practices.
* CringeComedy
* CursedWithAwesome: Tim claims to his boss and the HR lady to have Asperger's. Boss and HR lady seem to consider the resulting LackOfEmpathy a superpower. They use him to insult others vicariously.
* DeadpanSnarker: Loads.
* ExtremeDoormat: Tim is, among other things, coerced into taking the blame for the crap Boss's dog took on the office carpet. Not the blame for bringing a dog into the office. The blame for ''taking a crap on the carpet.''
* FanDisservice: Debbie the prostitute is considerably unattractive and regularly tends to dress up in assless chaps and form-fitting shirts.
* FunWithAcronyms: In "Latino Tim", there's an organization called [[{{Shotacon}} N.A.M.B.L.A.]] The Newly Appointed Minority Business Leaders of America.
* GlurgeAddict: Becky.
* {{Gonk}}: Debbie, as mentioned previously.
** Pretty much all the cast, really. The women have bizarrely proportioned figures, the men are all excessively hairy, and everyone has a distorted face.
* HatesBeingTouched: Tim. Unfortunately for him, a lot of characters don't seem to realize that.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: The eponymous "Angry Unpaid Hooker" is actually not particularly angry and compliments Tim on his clothes and housekeeping.
* HomoeroticSubtext: Pretty much a given in most of the episodes, all of it centered around Tim.
* InSeriesNickname: Rodney calls Tim "Timbo".
* ItGotWorse: For Tim, at least.
* {{Jerkass}}: Tim's Boss.
* LarynxDissonance: Debbie.
* LimitedAnimation
* NoNameGiven and NoLastNameGiven: Everyone who isn't referred to by just their first name (Such as Tim, Amy, Stu, Rodney, Marie, etc) is known only by their title (Boss, Priest, Amy's sister, etc)
** Well we know the Boss' name is [[spoiler:Percy Davis]].
* PoliceAreUseless: Tim is asked to finger the bum who (fake) raped him in "Rodney's Bachelor Party". The officer gets one of the bums to get naked and pretend to rape Tim to see if it'll jog his memory.
* PoliceLineup: In "Rodney's Bachelor Party" with bums that supposedly raped Tim.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Maurice the pimp in "Angry Unpaid Hooker". Tim helps the situation a bit by giving him his clothes.
* RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale: This turns out to be Rodney's story about Tim's escapade at the former's bachelor party in "Rodney's Bachelor Party".
* RealSongThemeTune: Music/HankWilliams's "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive".
* SadistShow
* StepfordSmiler: Amy's mother mostly seems to just want to ignore Tim's angry unpaid hooker.
* TwoShorts
* TheUnfairSex: After a lascivious drunken night out involving Stu, Amy gives Tim a free pass, for which anything wrong Tim does, she will not get mad. Tim then attempts to use it hitting on her sister. Amy gets mad (she was expecting Tim would stay out late or something).
* UnusualEuphemism: In "Angry Unpaid Hooker":
-->'''Amy:''' ''Who'' is Maurice?\\
'''Hooker:''' Well, he says he's in financial retrieval, but...that just means he's a pimp.
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