YMMV / Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: The term Pep-Pep is a real term used in Pennsylvania where Tim and Eric are from.
• Awesome Music: Has its own page.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Dr. Steve Brule, to the point he got his own spinoff.
  • David Liebe Hart, a former public access host himself.
  • Jim Heckler and Derrick Whipple, a pair of Totally Radical 2000s-flavored counterparts to the main duo.
• Funny Moments: Has its own page.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory became convinced around 2022 that the Child Clown Outlet skits are legit evidence of a pedophile conspiracy.
    • Outside of that, when the clips reappeared on TikTok in 2023, there were panicked and horrified comments asking if it was real.
  • Both In-Universe and out of it, all the jokes about Richard Dunn dying...and then he actually did.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • "The business world is changing at an alarming rate." Ray Wise, who stars in the "Business Hug" skits, would end up knowing first hand — by playing a Dow Chemical executive on Mad Men some years later.
  • The Paul Rudd skit Celery Man features a guy saying things to his computer using natural English to create computer generated images, up to and including a command to generate a nude dancer. As it so happens, A.I.-Generated Artwork is largely done by giving prompts in a natural language to the AI model, and NSFW media generation was one of the first things people experimented with using the tech. Also like the skit, it would be primarily used for dumb pointless forms of entertainment, rather than anything meaningful.
• Hollywood Homely: Averted. Part of the show's surreal look comes from casting average-looking people as actors.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Sports!"
  • "Now think about your dad. What's ya dad like? I wanna meet that dad."
  • It's free real estate!
  • Spagett!
  • The moment in the "Universe" sketch when Eric's mind gets blown.
  • "For your health!" It was to the point where people were disappointed John C. Reilly didn't say it when he was in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie as an allusion to the Brule character.
• Nausea Fuel: Once an Episode, without exaggeration. For instance, the final sketch of the whole show involves multiple people dying from drinking unpasteurized male breastmilk.
• Once Original, Now Common: As with Monty Python, the show's style was shocking and unusual to see on national television at first, but its deliberate amateurishness, '80s and '90s Retraux production design, and Anti-Humor started to become copied in The New '10s, especially online.
• Retroactive Recognition: Yes, that is indeed Trisha Paytas as Eric's lady-of-the-night (at 0:58).
• Screen-to-Stage Adaptation: The "Muscles for Bones" episode was comprised from footage of Tim and Eric's live tour.
• Special Effects Failure: Totally intentional of course.
• Squick: A very common and deliberate theme.
  • As mentioned, the final episode, Tim and Eric grow horrifyingly swollen nipples that lactate yellow breastmilk.
  • The show is really fond of closeup shots of mouths overstuffed with food, complete with squishing noises. The show adores employing disgusting slurping, squelching and crunching noises anywhere and everywhere it can. Special mention goes out to the scene near the end of “Friends” wher it shows a montage of different men with their mouths stuffed with raw hot dogs.
  • The end result of "Helmet Touch" in the Sports! number involves severe brain damage, with repeated shots of vomiting from multiple angles.
  • The "Boogs" song from the last Kid Break segment has Tim eating his own boogers because his father can't afford food. Tim's "only meal of the day" is crunchy.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: ''Child Showcase'', where little boys with the heads of Patton Oswalt and Rainn Wilson sing dirty songs. The adult heads aren't proportional to the child bodies, and the grainy video disguises the digital effects, making it look more real than it should, making the effect even more unnerving.
• Vindicated by History: If you checked multiple [adult swim] forums in the late 00's and the early 10's, you'd think that it was the most hated show on the channel, and using it as proof of the rampant Network Decay of the time — not helped by the show being apparently being Adored by the Network. Years later, it is now considered a Cult Classic, especially with its Memetic Mutation (though arguably crossing over with Once Original, Now Common). It helps that the show helped paved the way for overall favorite, The Eric Andre Show. That being said, the show does help gauge the age difference between audiences, with Millenials and Zoomers being the biggest fanbases of Tim and Eric, while older fans of [adult swim] being more divisive.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Tim And Eric particularly like hiring actors with strong accents for no particular reason, which just adds to the bizarre effect. They have particular appreciation for Scandinavian and Hispanic actors. In the sketch The Best Of Pusswhip Banggang, this trope is combined with Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping, as the accent used changes for each song introduced.
• The Woobie: The abuse Will Grello suffered from his father as a child is truly horrific, including being made to cook his own dog. In earlier seasons it was supposed to be ridiculous and funny, but as the show went on it became more and more realistic...and upsetting.

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