Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories

I watched some of their old stuff back in the day and didn't care for it. It was too weird for my taste. But Bedtime Stories is very enjoyable. It's still weird but less in your face. I found most of the episodes quirky and entertaining. Yes, still somewhat dark humor but humorous.

It's not really a horror series, far as I can tell, but in the ten minutes of the first episode, it runs through a lot of the horror movie staples. It has all the bits and pieces, all the tropes of a horror story, but the context is just slightly off, so it all ends up falling into comedy. It's really clever.

There was an episode of Gintama (an anime) that had a radio program that did this same thing. It professed that it was going to be a bedtime story that would send you off to sleep guaranteed, but the execution was so off that it became a horror story.

It's really clever, when you think about it, requiring really exact joke construction. Gotta respect that. It could benefit from a longer time run or some rated R humor, but I think it's on Adult Swim so they might be pushing it as far as it will go already. I'm not sure at all what they allow.

It's Tim and Eric. It needs multiple viewings, not to understand but to embrace the ludicrous and surreal nature of it all. Make sure you have plenty of cannabis on hand, preferably strong sativa edibles too lol..

You can like shows like this and curb your enthusiasm, stuff on BBC, ect. It's ok I think?

This is like ... the extent or the maximum capacity for content to become, in regards to comedy or humor. This show is like .. 'too' funny.

& I find it quite fascinating when ever I consider the show's method they utilize in order to achieve such a dangerously hilarious cable television program, & how, without the portion of those who are there to tryin' point out how UN-funny this show is... or stupid... or to give it such negative feedback & poorly rated reviews ... the mere presence of those users & critics alike who give the 2 big thumbs down... It's THOSE very people who are the show's "fuel source" that the comedy runs off of & gets it up to top speeds & without them, the show actually would be totally just akward & not funny & super weird but because you know there's a group who will HATE this show...Their hate is what makes this show the greatest it can be.

The same method is used for a film like "Freddy Got Fingered"

In a world where 100% of everyone just LOVES that movie... would technically leave it as .. not funny what so ever... It's watching this while knowing the whole time, that there's a group of haters watching this that makes it TOO funny/

In a sentence: T&E Bedtime Stories is more subtle and less tame, exactly what they have been dying to do. Though it is only "subtle" when compared to Awesome Show Great Job. The humor is what I consider to be so far beyond bathroom humor that it has wrapped around itself and come right back to the beginning (eg. A man says something and another farts, however the punchline is not the fart ((which is too stupid to be funny)) No, the punchline is that they were making a stupid fart joke in the first place.) In this way I hope you can come to understand (and ultimately love) the geniuses that are, Tim and Eric.