The aptly titled Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is a truly bizarre series that airs on The Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. Created by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, the same demented genius' behind the late, lamented Tom Goes To The Mayor (rest in peace!), this show takes that animated insanity of that earlier show and gives it a live action make over. The show even carries over Tom's Cinco Corporation and Channel 5's Married News Team bits as well as a few new recurring characters such as the Channel 5 News Health Correspondent, Dr. Steve Brule (John C. Reilly). And while Tom and the Mayor were nowhere to be seen in the first season, they do have a fun, brief cameo in this second go round.

The series doesn't really have any sort of discernable plot nor does it have any recurring storylines even if sometimes character reappear. This is essentially a warped sketch comedy show made up of skits and fake commercials. Think of it as Saturday Night Live or The Kids In The Hall as seen on public access through the eyes of a retarded acid head. Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is strange. Usually it's pretty funny, but this material is definitely out there, even more so than Tom Goes To The Mayor.

Alongside the recurring characters, the show tends to feature guest appearances. Mr. Show stars Bob Odinkirk (who also produces) and David Cross appear again (they also popped up in the first season) playing a 'Pussy Doodles' (a new art technique in which you strap some paint brushes to your cats) artist and a commercial director respectively while Jeff Goldblum pops up once or twice, promoting his newest project, The Jeff Goldbluman Group which leads to the inevitable and hysterical moment in which we get to see Mr. Goldblum in the Blue Man Group make up dancing around to percussion heavy beats. Tom Skerritt pops in to visit while Tim and Eric try and figure out how to best write a song about him, adding another notch of surrealism to the show's casting. Weird Al Yankovic pops up here as he did in the first season, while Dave Navarro, Zack Galifianakis and Patton Oswalt also pop up briefly.

If off the wall sketch comedy and strange celebrity cameos aren't enough to get you hot for this show, how do musical numbers grab you? Not only do we get a chance to see Tim and Eric dress up and sing about how Tim's never going to wipe his butt again, we get a full blown karaoke style music video in which a woman named Ruth sings and writhes on the bed as she expresses the pure and unadulterated lust that she can't help but feel for her pudgy, hairy neighbor who washes his car without his shirt on. Anyone who has ever spent any time in a karaoke bar will get the joke, and it's a good one.

Other highlights include Dr. Steve Brule's 'For Your Health' segments. This time around, John C. Reilly talks to us about hygiene, but more importantly, he also talks to us about red wine. As we see him imbibe, the most important lesson we take away is that when you drink too much red wine, it's a good idea to have your friends carry you home. So there you go, kids, the show has a social conscience - don't drink and drive. Director Glenn Tennis, the man behind the sci-fi epic 'Crystal Shyps' shows off his new gig on a home shopping network where he peddles memorabilia from his horrible film and fields call ins from his obnoxious brother.

The film also does a good job of playing up the dynamic that can sometimes get complicated between best friends. In one of the episodes, Eric goes on vacation and makes a new best friend in the form Raz, a cool white Rastafarian guy who rides around on a jet ski and literally embodies 'cool.' This of course causes Tim some stress - he loves Eric more than Raz ever could! When Tim's birthday rolls around in another episode, Eric overdoses on sleeping pills so that he won't have to wait any longer, leaving the Cinco Corporation no choice but to send him an instructional VHS tape on how to get his memory back with a little help from a tights-wearing man named Zan. If that weren't enough, Carol returns, once again hot and bothered for her boss. She makes him a sexy video tape which he then uses to humiliate her by playing for the entire staff. She's broken hearted until she rides her bike by the office late one night and sees him pleasuring himself to her tape - vindication is a sweet reward indeed!

As it was with season one, intentional audio and video glitches are constant throughout the show, allowing Tim and Eric to repeat things for short periods of time very quickly. This can sometimes get pretty aggravating and there's never any obvious reason for it, but at the same time it adds to the show's demented sense of humor. If Season One didn't work for you, don't expect anything different out of this latest batch. Those who 'get it' will definitely enjoy this latest batch of episodes, however, as it works on the same sort of level that the first batch of brilliance did. Humor's a subjective thing (obviously) and their humor could probably be considered an acquired taste and not for everyone, but man oh man, does this show ever make me laugh.

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Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season Two looks like it's supposed to look. This show is done fast and cheap by a small cast and crew and it's intentionally made to look like a public access show. So, if you keep that in mind, you'll have no real problems with the video quality here. The 1.33.1 fullframe picture presents the material in its original broadcast aspect ratio. For some reason, some skits are flagged for progressive scan and some are not, but aside from that this material looks just as good, if not slightly better, on DVD than it does on cable.