Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (often shortened to Tim and Eric Awesome Show, or just simply Tim and Eric and sometimes just, TAEASGJ) is an American television series, created by and starring Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, which premiered February 11, 2007 on Adult Swim.

Overview: The show, which expands the genre of the live-action material featured in Heidecker and Wareheim's previous show, Tom Goes to the Mayor, consists of sketches, songs, and mock commercials. It features several characters and segments seen in Tom Goes to the Mayor, such as Gibbons, the "Channel 5 Married News Team", and the Cinco Corporation with its variety of useless products. New recurring characters and sketches include "The Pivot Man," "Uncle Muscles Hour," a cable access variety program hosted by a gravelly-voiced "Weird Al" Yankovic and Channel 5 News Correspondent Dr. Steve Brule, played by John C. Reilly.

The show features a variety of celebrity cameos from actors and comedians including, but not limited to Maria Bamford, Michael Cera, David Cross, Will Forte, Zach Galifianakis, Paul Linde, Neil Hamburger, David Liebe Hart, Palmer Scott, Michael Q. Schmidt, Tom Kenny, The Lonely Island, Flight of the Conchords, A.D. Miles, Patton Oswalt, Josh Groban, Rainn Wilson, Bob Odenkirk, and Brian Posehn.

The credits of the show include Tim Heidecker's father Rich saying, "Abso...lutely" at the end of each broadcast. This signoff for their projects and the name itself for "Absolutely" productions stems from the answer given by the senior Heidecker during a family vacation in 1991 when asked to sum it up. The full clip can be found on their timanderic.com DVD and also on YouTube.

Halfway through the broadcasting of the first season, Cartoon Network picked up Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! for another season ordering as many as 30 new episodes. The second season began airing on November 18, 2007. Season one was released on DVD in April, 2008. The third season began on July 27, 2008 and ended on September 28, 2008. Eric posted a MySpace bulletin Oct 1, 2008, announcing that as a "holiday surprise" season four would be airing in January 2009. The show has been renewed for a fifth season.

One of their first live performances incorporating characters from Awesome Show was Muscles for Bones, a spoof telethon seeking bones for Richard Dunn. This was performed at Troubadour nightclub in West Hollywood, California. Major portions of this live performance were incorporated into season three, episode 8 "Muscles for Bones". Prior to the beginning of seasons two and three, Tim and Eric combined "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" Live in Vegas (2007). The second of these, listed as season 3 episode 0, shared their 2008 cross-country tour and was titled Awesome Tour Live 2008.

Facts: Format Surreal sketch comedy Created by Tim Heidecker Eric Wareheim Starring Tim Heidecker Eric Wareheim Richard Dunn David Liebe Hart "Weird Al" Yankovic John C. Reilly Country of origin United States No. of seasons 4 No. of episodes 40 (List of episodes) Production Running time 11 minutes Broadcast Original channel Adult Swim Original run February 11, 2007 – present Chronology Preceded by Tom Goes to the Mayor

Spinoffs: While doing press for the first season of the program, Heidecker and Wareheim told an interviewer that they had aspirations to create a spinoff featuring Awesome Show regular Richard Dunn: "It's just him interviewing people like The Charlie Rose Show. We would love to produce that. No one would ever watch it."

Using characters and skits from Awesome Show, Heidecker and Wareheim (via their Absolutely production company) created a online-only show called Tim and Eric Nite Live!, originally broadcast on the website SuperDeluxe.

In a summer 2008 interview, Heidecker and Wareheim revealed that an Awesome Show spin-off, Check It Out!, With Steve Brule, would air on Cartoon Network beginning some time in 2009. The show parodies local newscasts, and as Heidecker briefly described it: "It's like his half-hour to go around town and interview the local beer-maker or whatever." The show will have an episode run time of approximately 11 minutes, and it will feature John C. Reilly reprising his role as Dr. Steve Brule.