Last week, I was sent to San Diego Comic-Con as, I assumed, a reward for the stellar work I probably do around here but was, I realize in retrospect, more than likely a punishment for all the shitty work I certainly do around here. Comic-Con is all nerds, geeks, movies and comics–in short, it should be my Promised Land but, in actuality, it’s like a very specific kind of Hell designed by a devil who digs Twilight, hates deodorant and absolutely loves shrieking crowds of lunatics.
Go to Comic-Con next year, and see if your observations at all line up with mine.
Holy Shit There Are So Many of You
Over 120,000 sweaty, excitable people tried cramming into this goddamned place and there’s just no way to manage a crowd of that size. A lot of the general discomfort surrounding the Convention floor can be traced back to the numbers; you can’t cool down, because of all the mouth-breathing spectators, you can’t stretch without punching a Stormtrooper and you can’t get a boner for fear of getting it tangled up with some three-foot tall elf mage with wandering hands (true story). The floor is too crowded to move comfortably, and if some asshole somewhere stops to gawk at something or pose for pictures (and they will), you can just forget about moving. If you get sick of swampassing your way through the floor, you’re alternatives are A) waiting four hours in line for a panel or B) fucking yourself. The line for one panel was so long. (How long was it! It was so long that you can go eat shit because there’s nothing funny about wasting an entire day in line when you normally waste your entire day online.) The line was so enormous that overwhelmed convention employees started telling to anyone who would listen that, “This line is closed for the next panel. And the one after that. All panels, just- Get out of this line, no one else is getting in this room for the rest of the day and night,” which was screamed at around 2:30pm. Employees abandoned their jobs and opted to tell convention-goers that the panels of the future are canceled because the line is broken. That’s what Comic-Con does.
And I got sick, because that’s what happens when you cram a planet’s worth of unwashed, socially retarded nerds together and force them to breathe each other’s air. It’s bullshit. I had to call out of work Monday just because they don’t teach hygiene in fucking dragon camp.
The Women
In real life, you can just approach a chick and say, “Hey, I want to buy you dinner. I have a car,” and everything always works out fine.1 But at Comic-Con, it’s different; no one’s impressed by the usual tricks. It’s all about how much Life Mana you have, or if your Spirit Animal has the same flavor of palsy as her Spirit Animal and, frankly, it’s difficult to keep track of all the weird fetishes that are supposed to be attributed to everyone’s respective characters.
Failed Pick-Up Lines at Comic-Con:
-”Hey, baby, you are by far the most Pokemons… Or, wait, no, the least. You’re the least Pokemons. Is that right? Is Pokemon like golf?”
-”Two cruisers against a star destroyer? More like two boobs against… Against some other boobs.”
“Romulan? More like Ramulan, right? Because I want to ram you. And I’m not sure where the ‘lan’ part fits in. I guess ‘lan’ could- OH! No, wait, OK, I got it, here it goes: Romulan? More like Ramuhard, because I want to ra- What’s that? You’re a Klingon? Oh… Oh OK, then, no, carry on, I’ve got nothing for Klingon, I won’t take up any more of your time, you’ve shown remarkable patience already.”
-”Yeah, I’m gonna fuck you… Amelia Earhart. Yes.”
No One’s Buying Comics
Some folks might be surprised that Comic-Con recently added a section about comic books. Those folks would be so surprised, they may even completely ignore the artists. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of booths dedicated to both mainstream and independent comics, they’re just not exactly swamped with customers, and I’m not the only one to notice. Ask any comics author out there; no one’s buying comics anymore. This was probably the most depressing part of Comic-Con. Seeing one of my favorite comics artists, Leinil Francis Yu, sitting all by himself on one end of the convention and meanwhile there was a giant crowd of people drooling over the important blockbuster stuff in the center of the room, like enormous Transformers 2 statues, or fucking Spongebob Squarepants made out of Legos.
Nerd on Nerd Nerd-Violence
If you caught yourself inching along the convention floors, scratching your chin and thinking, “Hey, there’s something strange about that Pirate Cyborg,” you’d be absolutely right. That Piborg, like a lot of other convention-goers, was most likely marching around carrying one of these hastily thrown together signs:
Now, it’s no secret that the geek is an extremely territorial beast, and also lightning quick to point out when something has been exploited or tarnished or tainted, if it ever even tip toes with the idea of reaching the mainstream. (”Oh no, the rest of the public is now aware of the comic book/TV show/artist that I like- Everything is fucking ruined!“) The mainstream-ification of Comic-Con has been coming for a long time now, as more and more movies and toy corporations push actual comics artists farther on out of the way. This year, Twilight nerds were, to a bunch of legitimate, respectable nerds, the total manifestation of everything wrong with Comic-Con; they were loud and screechy and hyper and obsessed with vampires that had nothing to do with Joss Whedon. What’s worse is that these new nerds monopolized the Con.
Comic-Con is really sort of based around the idea of appreciating an artist and wanting to interact with said artist and other fans, so it’s hard to find fault in the Twilight crowd for doing just that but, unfortunately, other convention-goers had to suffer because of that devotion. Now, let’s say there’s a conference room with a new panel every 45 minutes (a Fringe panel, then a Star Wars panel, then a Futurama panel and then a Twilight panel, for example). If the room fills up, you miss your panel and you take your lumps. Evidently, these Twilight fans camped outside and inside of this one conference room for an absurd amount of time to ensure their spots in the Twilight panel. Let’s say they camped out a few hours before the very first panel started, for example. Unfortunately for non-Twilight fans, this meant that a whole lot of people were blocked out of that conference room all day, even if they wanted to see a pre-Twilight panel that was completely unrelated to teenage-vampire-fucking (Futurama, for example). They couldn’t see the panel they wanted because their seat was already filled with someone who didn’t even care about Futurama, they were just preemptively holding a seat for the eventual Twilight panel. If you haven’t already killed yourself out of total boredom (I know I have), you can see why this might aggravate people.
I didn’t get into the Futurama panel, is what I’m saying.
The bottom line is that those “Twilight Ruined Comic-Con” signs were all over the place by Saturday, and I unfortunately didn’t pack my “Who Gives a Shit” t-shirt. Comic-Con was supposed to be about fans coming together, wizards and elfs all hanging out or whatever, and more golden-bikini-wearing Slave Leia’s than you will ever conceivably see outside of my dreams, and instead it’s turned into a battleground between different nerd sects. This is progress?!?
One Good Thing About Comic-Con
The Adult Swim/ Venture Bros. panel was fucking incredible. Doc Hammer’s a hilarious genius, and the Q&A was wonderful.
But, just to make sure I never completely enjoyed myself this weekend, the hundreds of people attending the Adult Swim panel inexplicably booed when the moderator mentioned The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. Booed.
Fuck this Comic-Con.
1[Full disclosure: This always works out fine for me because I generally only go after people who are impressed by cars. Ninth graders, mostly. Skanks, exclusively.]
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January 16th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Well Caitlin, maybe that was the joke. You know how DOB is.
January 15th, 2010 at 2:32 am
Sarah. Shut up.
January 15th, 2010 at 2:31 am
“And I got sick, because that’s what happens when you cram a planet’s worth of unwashed, socially retarded nerds together and force them to breathe each other’s air. It’s bullshit. I had to call out of work Monday just because they don’t teach hygiene in fucking dragon camp.”
Ha! Good shit.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Uh… If you didn’t get into the Futurama panel this past year, your problem.
The Futurama panel and the Twilight panel weren’t even on the same day OR in the same place. Twilight was in Hall H on Thursday, Futurama in Ballroom 20 on Saturday. If you were displaced by any vampire fans, it was the True Blood ones.
I did my time, waited, and saw both panels. If you aren’t prepared to put in the time waiting, then it’s your own fault you don’t get in. Comic Con panel waiting wasn’t nearly as bad as the waiting there was at Celebration III.
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Dan, I’m so disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, the article was great as usual. But how could you go with “Ramuhard” when “Ramulong” was practically staring you in the face?
November 5th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I’m just glad that Futurama was mentioned.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:23 am
I think I know that girl dressed as Amelia Earhart. Awesome costume (even if it’s actually of Raz from Psychonauts)
October 29th, 2009 at 7:47 am
BTW to avoid confusion, Twilight is a steaming pile.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Tim and Eric suck, they’re lame as hell.
Tom goes to the Mayor is yet another show SOMEONE had to have sucked someone off JUST to get on the air.
It’s unwatchable stoned drunk or even sober.
I’d rather see TWILIGHT *the raping of EVERYTHING about Vampires* than another second of the lame ass ‘comedy’ that’s as stale as Steve Carell’s career… he sucks too.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Things that people who don’t like Tim and Eric probably don’t enjoy:
Rolos, medium-large dark pizzas, shrimp, white whine, sexual romance, Razlets, B’owl, D’ump, T’urd, B’ougar, married news teams, fool’s gold, Chippy, my new Pep Pep, Ukes, cats, unicorn farms, tiny tigers, crystal ships, candy tails, petite feet, Napples, D-Pants, C.O.R.Bs, Gavabond the old, Sire, James Quall, Corinians and tiny hats.
There’s more beyond that, but I think you all get the jist. When it comes to people not liking Tim and Eric, I say, who needs the hos?
Eggs-actly!
October 11th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
john flynn is a douche. not just a normal douche.
john flynn is summers eve brand douche with a sand paper nozzle and filled with taco bell fire sauce.
theres no point in you existing other than being a taint on society
(and by taint i mean the anatomical area between the testicles and the anus)
October 11th, 2009 at 7:35 am
They don’t clear the room between panels?? I’m on the volunteer staff at Dragon*Con and this is standard practice for us, to prevent the exact problem you describe here.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Tim and Eric are GREAT. Tom Goes to the Mayor? Steve Brule? Come on now! I think it’s hilarious how people are talking about how much marijuana goes into making T&EASGJ, but I’m pretty sure both Eric Wareheim and Tim Heidecker have stated (multiple times) that they are not under the influence of any narcotic, illegal or otherwise, when writing/performing the show. At any rate, sure, 99% of the time it’s inane and ridiculous, but it’s SO FUNNY! I’ve never been high or drunk before and I’m always amused by their material, regardless of the scatological content (which normally I abhor, but they’re just so darn great!). So
to all of the people who hate the show.
“Bang, bang cops and robbers
Bang, bang robbers and cops
Bang, bang, rob that bank
Put ‘em in jail, put ‘em in jail”
October 6th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
My friends recommended me a very interesting place __AgelessFriends.com__ It’s a nice and free place for Younger Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to interact with each other. Age gap is not a problem there. You may wanna check it out and tell your friends.
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:48 am
“Why would I want to spit this out? IT TASTES LIKE FRUIT!”
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:36 am
Dude, Booing Tim and Eric? Even the coolest panel is full of dorks, I guess….I went once. NEVER AGAIN.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:09 am
I went to only one comics convention, back in the early 70’s. It was one of the most frustrating, exasperating experiences I have ever had, aside from Altamont! They’re noisy, they’re full of idiots in lousy costumes and they’re just an excuse from some people to sell all those moldy old copies of Sparkman to unsuspecting suckers.
September 27th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Tim and Eric rocks. Fuck the haters!!
September 26th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Dude seriously, nerds stink. Would it freaking kill you to put on at least a little deodorant? I hate geek gatherings like this. I hate conventions. I hate nerds. Take for example John Flynn a few lines down. He’s convinced himself that Cons are good for you and is trying to brainwash the rest of us that you should attend a mass gathering of stink, stupidity, and generally pathetic people.
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
@Demmagog i was also fairly disappointed about WATCHMEN…well when i saw it it was just me and a cousin, and four other people in a huge theater. so not many disturbances, but i did miss the affect i had received when i read the comic.
serious shit, TWILIGHT CAN SUCK LADY GAGA’s cock. hate how all the stupid fangirls wanna getting people’s faces about not liking meyer’s wannabe batshit books. I love vampires, (Hellsing being my favorite manga–yes im an ota, fuck you) but are you for fucking serious? i don’t go around slashing my arms hoping someone drinks my blood. I rather read Anne Rice’s books, far more interesting (gore and sex the right way, thank you).
any twathead in my way to a futurama or adult swim panel would have there mosquito bites stabbed.
anyway, i heard they’re moving it to Long Beach…as much as i love the city of LB, it’s con center is cursed/jinxed/what have you. something always ends up disapponting. hope im wrong.
September 20th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Holy shit. I’m perfectly sane, not a stoner, and love the shit out of Tim&Eric. It’s a DIFFERENT kind of humor and some people just don’t get it. It is UNBELIEVABLY RUDE to boo. If you don’t like it just…um…fucking leave the panel? God I hate nerds with overinflated ego’s.
September 20th, 2009 at 3:23 am
This is a really good article/blog/thing! I really enjoyed it!
Dan if i ever meet you i gonna buy you a drink, you genius person!
Last bit was the best haha
“Booed . . . Fuck this Comic-Con.” <— FUCKING GOLD!
September 19th, 2009 at 8:27 am
In regards to the horrible show, Tim & Eric blah blah too fucking long title…It’s inane, pointless and probably amused those who write it far more than those who watch it. Thirty minutes of half finished jokes, or possibly even inside jokes that the viewing populace will never get. But I will give them this. They’ve invoked the card of “Big Fucking Train Wreck” It’s horrible, it’s grisly, sometimes it makes you sick…but can you look away? No. Or rather, I can’t seem to change the fucking channel, regardless of my lowering IQ or bleeding eyes.
September 10th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
…The Tim and Eric Awesome Show is the biggest con ever pulled on sleep-deprived stonerds hitting the third pure of the day - scientifically proven to be the only demographic capable of tolerating both this self-indulgent crap AND Saul of the Molemen. Try watching it without chemical aids of any kind, or the fuzzy warmth of knowing your friendly local celebrity has jumped on the omgedgyhumour bandwagon. You will hate it, and slowly grow to loathe humanity along with it, I promise you this.
September 6th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
“This is what I do, I sit on you. Right on your head.”
If you really want to boo something, why not boo at the executives that pick up shows like ’so you think you can dance’, and cancel shows like ‘Futurama’, and ‘TSCC’? Pissing on their show because you have different taste in entertainment, is like pissing on a street corner because your mom is a crack-smoking-whore. It doesn’t benefit you, or your mother to ruin another persons day by making them walk through your misguided, and ignorant act of immaturity.
Don’t get it? Don’t watch it.
Don’t like it? Don’t hate on it.
September 4th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Doc hammer is delightful and so are you, good sir… or lady? Mmm. Lady.
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
^ -^ Just a heads-up, Anime Expo is technically Twi-tard free. It’s not Naru-tard free but hey you gotta pick your battles.
That was 2 years ago though, so I’m actually starting to fear what is to come at Expo.
I still want to go to Comic-Con though.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
no1, both those shows suck balls garder than anyone cna imagine
August 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
oh and one more thing.. tom goes to the mayor is one of the funniest shows ever made. who’s with me on that one
August 28th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Most of you saying “tim and eric blows” you just don’t get the humor. its alot more than what you just see. it might look like 4 year old poopoo and peepee humor.. but youre really not getting it at all.. you guys probably love family guy and like.. dane cook. its alright comedy isnt for everyone
August 28th, 2009 at 7:04 am
What’s so inexplicable about booing ‘Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!’?
August 27th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Dan, When you mature, perhaps, you will learn that there are far many more reasons to love Comic Con…than to hate it. I have been attending Sci-Fi and Comic conventions since 1972 when I was eighteen years old. Now, at age 55, I have seasoned and matured, and learned that fandom’s conventions don’t get any better that the superb Comic Con. We fans used to think we were blessed when a single guest from Star Trek showed up at our conventions. Now, at this year’s SDCC, James Cameron and Peter Jackson shared the stage talking about the state of the art. You will never have an opportunity like that again. The chorus line of Princess Leias in Slave Girl outfits is great, the dealer’s exhibit area is unlike any other, and the previews for the coming year make it all worth while. I feel blessed to come to CC every year…and as a SFWA author with 13 books to my credit, I love the fans who grab up everything sci-fi and comic related. Yes, there are crowds…can’t really get away from them…and the fanboys and fangirls may seem unique to most people, but they are among the most intelligent and creative people on the planet. I will take them over just about any other group. Make fun of them mouth-breathing, if you like, but they run circles around the NASCAR and sports crowds any day of the week. And if you can’t hit it off with a woman at CC, then you’re simply not trying…maybe you’d be better off in your parent’s basement alone. The women at CC are awesome, approachable, nice, and as beautiful as they are with high IQs intelligent. I’ll take them over any women in any other group. I, too, was annoyed by the Twilight twits spoiling my preview of Cameron’s Avatar, and I am hoping CC will learn to schedule future Twilight panels before anything else. But as one fan on here pointed out… Comic-con is all about being strategic, knowing what to do and demonstrating your patience in making it happen. I stood in long lines, some for more than an hour, but I had a plan…and other than missing Avatar…I got to everything else I wanted to see, and that was four pages worth of panels and events in my notes. I suppose that is what separates a casual con goer like yourself from a seasoned veteran. Plan ahead, make contingencies, demonstrate patience, and you’ll find 40+ reasons why to love Comic Con.
August 26th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Venture Brothers is always epic. <3
August 24th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
…goddamnit, now I wanna do a BSC LARP just for shits and giggles. I get to be Claudia, ‘cuz it’s my game and I say so.
August 23rd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
i am a perfectly sane, sober person who absolutely LOVES Tim & Eric’s comedy. i can’t explain why it’s funny to me, but i can say that it is NOT intended for everybody. The bottom line is this: stop being a dick. seriously dudes, if you don’t like Tim and Eric than simply don’t watch it. it’s that simple.
love, james
August 21st, 2009 at 8:35 am
Loved the article Dan, but they booed T&E because it takes 38 ounces of weed, and 96 hours of sleep deprivation to make any sane person laugh. Well rested sober people see those two guys for what they really are: a suicidally depressing attempt to be an “Ironically Unfunny Comedy Show”. You know what I’m talking about. The people who like it have only one recourse to justify their enjoyment when the average person says “It’s so stupid”, that recourse being “Yeah, but it’s so stupid it wraps back around to being funny.” It was rightfully booed. Sorry, Dan.
August 20th, 2009 at 7:14 am
In response to the booing, it’s because all of the people who enjoy Tim and Eric (including myself) we’re too busy sitting at home and smoking weed to be bothered with 12,000 narcs.
August 15th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Mr. O’Brain, Thank you very much for writing this article. It made me laugh, it made me think, but most of all, it made me not feel so bad over the fact that I didn’t have the ability to travel to San Diego this year and spend hundreds of dollars on stuff that I don’t really need. THANK YOU AGAIN! F.M.D.R.
August 15th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Venture Bros is one of the few good shows left on adult swim. Tim and eric show sucks. I would have thrown rotten fruit instead of just booing.
Anyone beyond the age of 4 and with an IQ above 50 should realize how retarded the tim and eric show is
August 15th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Dr. Steve Brule fucking rules.
August 15th, 2009 at 11:48 am
They booed the Tim & Eric show??????
Nerds can lick my dick.
(Including the guy… no, ESPECIALLY the guy b(e)low me)
August 15th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Tim and Eric sucks dick.
BOO!
August 15th, 2009 at 4:22 am
i can honestly say i love you.
that is all
August 14th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
And Zorin’s right:
“Zorin Says:
August 5th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Can’t believe people get so worked up over Tim and Eric. It only takes up a fifteen minute spot while McFarlane’s crap gets free reign of the channel”
Family guy is boring.
August 14th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
People are fucking bastards.
Tim and Eric are not people.
August 14th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Twilight should have seriously never been allowed to see the light of day.
All published vampire fiction should have to pass through some uptight panel that has no signs of pre-pubecent girls. I mean honestly, what the hell do you have to be thinking when your vampires don’t burst into flames in the sun light? If they did something cool like turn inside out while simultaneously exclaiming that they “wanna sing-a about the moon-a and the June-a and sping-a” I may be inclined to see an exception to the rule. But nooooo they don’t, they turn into walking glitter monsters. I don’t think that there is anything gayer than glitter monsters.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Ummm… that’s comic-co for ya. I don’t know what you expected.
If waiting in long lines and being in crowded areas with nerds isn’t your cup of tea, comic-con is definitely not for you. Plenty of people enjoy themselves and when people like you are there complaining about every single aspect of the con, you’re just getting in the way and ruin the good time for everyone else. I hope that everyone that complains like you simply doesn’t come anymore.
Comic-con is all about being strategic, knowing what you want to do, and having patience, and if you lack those things, forget it. Don’t go.
Is Venture Bros. a comic? i doubt it, so boo bloody hoo
August 12th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
“AvidReader Says:
August 10th, 2009 at 2:18 pm But the Twilight hate is 100% substantiated. Say what you dare about its quality all you want (and you’d be right to do so, because it really does bite), but it’s so popular that it needs its own convention…period.”
Brilliant! We give them a convention, and when they are all gathered together, then we flood the place with gas, right?
August 10th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I’m really surprised by the animosity towards the Tim and Eric show. I’m not that plugged in to what 18 year olds find funny right now, and I, like DOB, didn’t understand why people were booing it. The Steve Brule clips are still some of the funniest things I’ve ever watched on the Internet. The rest of the show was exceptionally strange, and I didn’t quite get it, but I can definitely see why some people find it funny. I have a friend from college who loves it, and he has a strange sense of humor.
Moreover, I would have figured that that a lot of people who like Cracked would also love Tim and Eric…I’m shocked they don’t. It’s weird, off-beat humor.
But the Twilight hate is 100% substantiated. Say what you dare about its quality all you want (and you’d be right to do so, because it really does bite), but it’s so popular that it needs its own convention…period. It’d be like if there were no independent Star Trek convention, and suddenly inviting Stewart, Frakes, Spiner, Shatner, and Nimoy to share a stage at a late session…you can best be sure the Star Wars fans would claim Star Trek ruined ComicCon if such a thing kept them from a Q.&A. with Anthony Daniels.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
More boos for Tim & Eric. Not in the same league as Venture Bros.
August 10th, 2009 at 11:58 am
twilight belongs at comic-con just as much as the babysitters club belongs at a LARPG.
August 9th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
If I could kill anyone in this world it would be Tim & Eric. they came to my hometown and I didnt know about it till the day of. Damn 10 day waiting period gun policy
August 9th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Tim and Eric is the best show ever you guys are retarded
August 9th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
You hit the nail on the head about this comic-con. Couldn’t agree more. I’m skeptical about going next year which is a shame because I had so much fun at the ‘08 CON. That Twilight panel seat holding left me with four hours of sun burns and the desperation to buy 2.50 bottled waters to prevent dehydration.
August 8th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Oh god the time and Eric Show sucks so much
August 7th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
People booed The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! because it is fuckstickdicklick awful. I would think you would know this as you apparently have seen a screen capture of the show before.
August 5th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I don’t know why everyone is associating Awesome Show! with pot. I tried to watch it once or twice, while high, and it didn’t work. I can only watch it while completely sober because it’s the only way I can contemplate every subtle nuance. And for those of you out there who don’t seem to understand why the show is funny, it is mostly based on bad, local television and other such abortions. And let’s quash the intelligence argument right here and now. None of us (Cracked readers) are all that smart, and being smart doesn’t make you a better person anyway. Some people like T&E for better reasons than others, and some don’t like it for better reasons than others.
August 5th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
I don’t think Tim and Eric is very clever, but I don’t know if I would boo someone. Seems a little immature.
August 5th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Can’t believe people get so worked up over Tim and Eric. It only takes up a fifteen minute spot while McFarlane’s crap gets free reign of the channel.
August 5th, 2009 at 7:58 am
There’s a reason the crowd booed “Tim & Eric Awesome…”
The show sucks. It’s not funny. Maybe a few of you like it but the vast majority of fans don’t care for it and find it’s presence a waste of space for otherwise more popular shows. I’m glad it got booed and it shall continue to get booed until taken off the air and replaced with anything else. ….that isn’t written by Tim and Eric.
August 5th, 2009 at 1:24 am
tim and eric is fucking hilarious. its all about how you watch it.
August 4th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Haha, you’re gonna get this kinda shit no matter what Con you go to. When Sakura Con was big enough to leave the constraints of a hotel & migrate to a real convention center, that’s when it started to suck hard eggs.
I don’t hit on girls at conventions, or boys. Shit, you can;t even hear yourself think over the crowd, so no matter what you say, it goes unheard, & if the person you’re talking to misreads your lips, it’s either a shrug-off or a fight.
Of course no one’s buying comics. They raise the prices on all merchandise there. You can go home & get the same shit on eBay (with shipping) for 1/2 the price.
Twilight fans ruined Comic Con, Narutards ruined any & all anime cons….. Wait, surely there were Zenoscope Entertainment cosplayer babes to wash the Twilight away?
August 4th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Is it wrong to love you soooo much Dan O’Brian??
August 4th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
i will die alone………
August 4th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
$30.00 to go to chicago con. plus gas and expensive food.
$30.00 so i can buy comics from some other source than ebay.
$30.00 to walk through crowded halls egotistical pretty people
selling there photos
$30.00 and no panels on comics pre 1990
August 4th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
i hate bloging and typing to
August 4th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
i go to buy comics i can afford and rool over those i cant.
fuck everything and everyone else.
keep comics awy from pop culture bs
August 4th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
With the kind of crowd that the Comic-Con would normally attract, wouldn’t the addition of teenage girls be a good thing? In other words, the geeky teenage boys who don’t have anything to do with girls normally?
August 4th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
That’s not Amelia Earhart, that’s Raz from the game Psychonauts. In the game, he’s a ten year old boy. I know he’s being cosplayed by a girl but you have to consider the implications.
August 4th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Tim and Eric awesome show great job blows the high fucking heavens. I watched it and had no clue what I was watching, then I asked my stoned friends on what they thought when they watched the steaming load of shit they said that it’s not funny…at all. Let’s start petition to end tim and eric…literally like to hunt them down, tie them to a truck with a rope and by their feet, then hang them upside down by their feet and disembowel them in front of their fans. Go team Venture!
August 4th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
This is why I skip Comic Con and head straight to Awesomecon, directly behind the convention center. Two words: B’owl pinata. And I’d much rather spend the day hanging out with Tim and Eric and a few dozen fans of the show than fight my way through a crowd of anime-loving basement dwellers.
August 4th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Man, someday I’ll get to go to comic con. I love venture bros and would love to actually get to meet doc hammer. I used to hate tim and eric awesome show, but it’s really grown on me. Like a fungus.
August 4th, 2009 at 10:38 am
@ Nick Sedillo:
damn you wrote the same i was thinking at the same time. I watch Tim and Eric while baked!
August 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
wow, so much hate for Tim and Eric. I know its not for everyone but godamn do people hate it. Im glad Im one of the few who see te genius of this show. the fact that a low budget show can get the likes of David Cross, Ed Begley Jr., Bob Odenkirk, Jon C. Reilly( as a regular), Peter Stormare, Elisha Cuthbert, Fred Willard, Jeff Goldblum, Micheal Cera, and even John Mayer , how can this show not have any credibility??(at least the way the haters are describing it). they are obviusly well respected by their collleagues.
and yes, that Jim and Derrick episode has to go down as the best ever. a perfect example of what they are about, and i think te most accesible episode for haters, although they won’t be in on the joke! if anything, the haters like shows like that and drink monster energy piss drinks!!
and I dont even like Tom Goes the Mayor.
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August 4th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Was starting to feel bad about all the Tim and Eric hate in the comments, but then I saw that most of those comments incorporate terms like “fucktarded” and “sucks donkey nuts” and “I’m scared of girls.” T&EASGJ is good enough for Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, John C. Reilly, everyone from Comedians of Comedy, the creepy dad guy from Twin Peaks, John Depp, Alan Thicke and RICHARD FUCKING DUNN, so there. Unless Mr. Show comes back I can’t imagine a better sketch comedy delivery system. (And for the record I mostly watch Tim and Eric while high on aspirin and caffeine.)
Comic-Con sounds miserable and overdone in the same ways Disneyland can be sometimes, but with slightly better-dressed fat people. All this means is that we need more comic book/TV/movie/toy conventions to give the respective geek herds some breathing room. In the middle of Great Depression II that’s gotta be a good sign, right?
August 4th, 2009 at 9:05 am
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August 4th, 2009 at 8:42 am
They booed Tim and Eric because it fucking blows.
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:52 pm
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August 3rd, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Here’s another pickup line that doesn’t seem to work:
“Hey there, want to Kirk my Spock? Er… wait…”
(That was the last time I EVER let anybody from Comic Con speak to me.)
(Yes, I do go sometimes. SOMETIMES. When I get bored, mainly…)
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Yes. Fantastic. All of you complaining asshats can just not come next year. ComicCon obviously sucks. You can sit at home playing Halo 3, safe from girls and other people, while I have a proportionately more enjoyable experience without you. It’s a win-win! (See: “Burning Man Sucks”)
I would have given Venture Brothers a look-see, too, if not for all the d-bags shouting at Bill Willingham to shut up in the Fables panel prior to the VB panel. (I’m a Fables fan.)
Hope to not see you next year!
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Yes. Fantastic. All of you d-bags who hate “sparkly vampires” and some Cartoon Network show I’ve never heard of; please don’t come next year. As you’ve expressed, ComicCon sucks. It’s awful, there are so many girls and other totally gay things there. This is perfect; you sit at home and play Halo, and there will be a proportionately nicer crowd at the Con next year. It’s a win-win.
And I would’ve been tempted to watch the Venture Bros. some day, if not for all the asshats shouting at Bill Willingham to shut up during the Fables panel (which I was attending) prior to their panel.
Nerd nazis must die.
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
(Woah, sorry about that. Sometimes I take things too personally.)
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Wow, I didn’t know that the reason I don’t like T&EASGJ was because I’m stupid! Thanks for clearing that up for me, fans of the show! You must all be in Mensa or some shit, goddamn!
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I love you DOB, you always say what I want to say… well, I say it anyway, but, you know, people actualy read you and… well… eh… uh… I’m going to hang myself in the bathroom, brb
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:51 pm
The bastards at Fox uninvited the cast of Futurama at the last minute- no one missed much at that panel.
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:05 am
Local comic-cons work good. Been going to the Chicago Comic-Con and it is alot better than this one sounds. Hell, the Guests of Honor and big panels actually feature writers and artist from the industry. Last year the guest of honor was Warren Ellis and the biggest panel(beside Ellis) was Bendis vs. Johns, which became DC vs. Marvel with Bendis and his team of Marvel writers and artists facing off against Johns and his league of DC contributers
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:16 am
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August 3rd, 2009 at 7:55 am
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August 3rd, 2009 at 2:37 am
Tim and Eric is NOT my thing. Comedy based on awkwardness, humiliation and non-sequiturs CAN in fact become formulaic. The show is like the band Phish, in order to enjoy it remotely, you need to be completely stoned. Then again, you can also enjoy Venture Bros or Metalocalypse when stoned, drunk or sober, because these shows are actually funny and have production values. It’s my opinion that the slew of stoner-only shows needs to die, but if it wasn’t for the fact that there were so many chronic stoners around, I wouldn’t have a side business.
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Holy fucking shit. I just finished reading damn near every godforsaken, soul-sucking comment here to assert that there are no comments by a few women making jokes about mashing genitals with you, DOB. I am in genuine mental anguish. The joke I was going to make has left me, and I might throw up. Write more funny to save me. Also, make G Stone write more funny. By means of mace if needed.
PS: The joke about the women wanting to bone you was going to be funny, idk what happened.
PSS: I am not a crook.
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:48 pm
The only reason I would have wanted to go is that I hear Phil Plaitt, the Bad Astronomer, was selling and signing his non-fiction astronomy book there. Phil Plaitt is full of win.
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
This is how I felt last year, minus the Twilight stuff. This year I went back with a whole new perspective. Family with strollers stop in mid-aisle to maybe see Keifer Sutherland twenty yards away at the WB booth? Why am I in a hurry anyway? I found out before that the most fulfilling part of the con is interacting with the folks in artists’ alley. Also, a nice crowd-free zone. I got some great sketches and some art books. I left Comic-Con extremely satisfied. Find what you like and make it work for you.
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:00 pm
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August 2nd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I love tim & eric. The songs are funny,nothing makes sense,and it’s all so trippy I just can’t stop laughing,or at least,I don’t get bored. It’s not the greatest show on adult swim,but it’s certainly better than other shit like the squidbillies.
also twilight should go to hell
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Peach on.
I attended my first comic con this year and I have NO plans on going back. I’m sure some other fanboy will gladly take my seat but all I got was the stress of fighting people to simply see or buy something and wasted time by sitting in lines for hours at a time to get into one panel or to purchase a figure. Sadly, while there were a lot of true geeks there, the place has become filled with natives who are only interested in seeing “movie stars” or looking at shit that has nothing to do with comics or the artists that started this thing 40 years ago.
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Lucky bastard! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1292175/ Saw these 2 together on TMZ… HOT!!!
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Lol you people are such homos. OMG TIM AND ERIC, OMG THIS SHOW SUCKS, OMG I HATE THIS SHOW THIS ARTICLE IS STOOPID, seriously, quit your whining, change the channel and shut the fuck up. So what does that have to do with the article not making a valid point? Conventions are a waste of time, if you like something, fine, leave it be, and move on with your life. If I liked American Idol, I wouldn’t start dressing up like Simon or Paula. I’d just like the show, appreciate it, and move on with my life. Obsessing over a TV show or obsessing over some shit to the point that you spend more than 500 dollars on a costume is just silly.
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:27 am
Well.. I just noticed that despite the fact that cracked has a bunch of great articles… that it’s just like the rest of the internet when it comes to commenters. Whiney nerds who feel the need to focus on one very small part of the article. Tim and Eric is a show on TV. You know what I’ve noticed about pretty much every show on TV? Some people absolutely hate some of them, while others absolutely love some of them. Tim and Eric is what it is. Stop bitching about it. Also… watch Jim and Derek. Brilliant.
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:38 am
Who the -FUCK- compared Mighty Boosh to tim and eric?
Boosh is brilliant quirky writing/prop and costume design. And howard and vince are the perfect comedic duo. And it has a odd sense of continuity in the madness.
Tim and Eric is a piss poor attempt at “Public Access” TV parodies and stoner humor, which is akin to cesspools of shows like 12 Oz Mouse, Perfect hair forever. Only hipster idiots blitzed on pabst and pot enjoy it “Ironically”
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:23 am
I used to think something was wrong with me because I didn’t like Tim & Eric. I’m glad I’m not alone.
Yea Venture Bros. Fuck Tim & Eric.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:26 pm
If you dont like Tim and Eric just let it slide, don’t boo and whine like a bitch.
I know it’s weird and that’s part of the reason that people like it, it’s different much like montey python.
August 1st, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Tim and eric is a horrible show,Metalocalypse and venture bros. are the only two shows left on adult swim that are worth a damn.
Tim & Eric isn’t even a goddamn cartoon therefore has no place on the network anyway.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:58 pm
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August 1st, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Tim and Eric is in fact an Awesome Show, and honestly, if as fans like the other majority of retarded hilarious shit they have, how can they hate T&EASGJ?
Like others have memtioned, I think it takes intelligence to fanthom its greatness. My favorite thing about it is how as keeps showing it despite the majority of viewers hating it, just as a big “fuck you” to them.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:31 pm
They booed because Tim and Eric sucks ass.
Oh and you’re not alone. James Rolfe felt the exact same way. This is just another reason to hate Twilight. Wtf were they doing there in the first place??
August 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pm
To be fair, though. The reason why most nerds and geeks hate it when something popular to the outside world shows up at a con (like Twilight) is because that puts us out of our element. We became nerds and geeks because we can’t handle the mass idocy that everyone else gets. We need a specially catered idocy. That’s what a comic-con was made for. So we could finally feel the same kind of social recognition that normal people feel when they talk about, say, American Idol or whatever they’re watching nowadays. They have the rest of the world. We have a small, cramped exhibition hall and the internet. And we all know the internet is whats going to be our final undoing. So it’s a bitter taste we all have everytime we google “Boobs” knowing that somewhere there’s a large super-computer making a note: “Humans are weak to these… ‘BOOBS’… We can use this.”
August 1st, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Too bad there’s not a ’stealth nerd’ Comic Con, that mature, socially functional, and *hygienically proficient* sci-fi/fantasy fans can enjoy. But if such a thing happened, the mouth-breathers that reek of Del-Taco-scented-b.o. would show up and ruin it.
How hard is it, people? Shower, brush, apply deoderant, put on clean clothes, THEN leave the house. Pro tips for advanced nerds: always carry Altoids, and learn that Axe body spray is *disgusting*.
August 1st, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Really guys…booing tim and eric?? Glad I didn’t go. Bunch of faggots that went if tim and eric got booed, get the fuck out.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job is the most idiotic thing I have ever seen. Unfortunately, it’s like a horrible accident. If you see even one second of it, you can’t look away.
And I would be pissed at the Twilight fans. They acted like assholes, so they deserve to be hated. Also, Twilight is gay.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Oh, that stupid Tim and Eric Awesome show! But if I’d been there, I wouldn’t hav booed it. I’d have just stayed silent until they talk about something else. Then stay silent and listen to that.
I like being silent.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Learn how to use a period every now and then, author. Sentences and paragraphs are two separate things. For good reason.
August 1st, 2009 at 11:25 am
the bit about missing the futurama panel was delivered with much skill and proficiency in comedic timing.
also, thinking globally rather than locally, the thing that ruined comic con was the singular moment of conception that brought all of those miserable car wash assistant managers into this world, thus eventually leading you to comic con…and perpetual virginity.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:05 am
the landscapers have no business in the kitchen
August 1st, 2009 at 9:42 am
Meh. Comic Con just doesn’t sound fun. The suits ruined it.
I’ll stick to my yearly trip to DragonCon in Atlanta. It’s big enough to be really, really interesting, but small enough that fans actually get to talk to the guests. There’s also a special area for comics and it’s not empty!
August 1st, 2009 at 9:42 am
terrible, i didn’t go and am glad
August 1st, 2009 at 9:41 am
Yeah. One thing I’ve noticed: better you go to local Comic-cons. I live in NYC, and at the Javits Center comic-con(large but not gargantuan), people are actually interested in comics. Indie comics get props, tons of swag, 3 for a dollar comics. Not to say there isn’t a massive gaming crowd, but hey: i played the PROTOTYPE demo like 6 months before the game came out. The most twilight-y thing they had were occasional hanging banners and free Twilight ballpoint pens at the registration spot.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:20 am
I hear you DOB, I usually only go for the girls impressed by sport bikes, 11th graders mostly
August 1st, 2009 at 9:06 am
So you’re telling me not to be too disapointed that I didn’t get to go to San Diego? Okay.
Baltimore’s only a few months away. I’m good with it’s teeny
tiny-ness.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:38 am
If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:22 am
Another thing to hate about comic-con: Losing your camera and other assorted crap because of the masses of people.
What makes it worse, is that I expected some nice nerd to turn it in to lost and found. But those days are over…
August 1st, 2009 at 7:03 am
Venture Bros kicks ass, Tim and Eric crap is weird, confusing, unfunny. not sure what demographic they were going for with that one
August 1st, 2009 at 6:46 am
No, no sorry. I like to feel as avant-garde and hilarious as the next geeky chick but Tim and Eric is, for me, a terrible show to put on Adult Swim. It enrages me. Venture Bros. now there is a fine show.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:28 am
Who you callin turkey? Tim and Eric rock!
August 1st, 2009 at 6:28 am
Just because you like something and other people do not, it does not mean that it is “so far ahead of them”. That’s a pitiful excuse to try to confuse people into believing you.
Some food for thought; I know many people who watch the Adult Swim line-up. The only ones who enjoy Tim and Eric also happen to be everybody I know who has used enough nitrous oxide to suffer irreparable brain damage. Sadly, that is not an embellishment.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:23 am
If you’re looking for a REAL geek-fest, I recommend ComicFest. It’s a comic book/sci-fi con that actually revolves around comic books and other nerdgasm-inducing stuff. No sparkly vampires there! I went *mumble* years ago when they had it in Philly, and I got to meet John Romeda, Jr. (artist, Amazing Spider-Man, Daredevil [including a graphic novel origin story with writer Frank Miller], Iron Man, Uncanny X-Men [most notably Wolverine], and a graphic novel series with Neil Gaiman called The Eternals, among many other impressive works), Peter David (writer, The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, X-Factor, some Buffyverse comics featuring Spike, for the Buffy fans out there, and other noteworthy graphic novels and such), and I even enjoyed a Philly cheesesteak lunch with artist George Pérez. Now, THAT was a comic book convention.
Even their last con this past April was chock-full of good, old-fashioned nerd fodder, like Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, etc. IMHO, it rocks way better than Comic-Con any day.
August 1st, 2009 at 3:23 am
FUCKING SPARKLING VAMPIRES AND FUCKING SHIT. I’D LIKE TO HAVE BROCK LESNAR USE HIS MASSIVE LUNGS TO BLOW AWAY THAT TWIGGY FAGGOT ROBERT PATTINSON!!! FUCK TWILIGHT!
August 1st, 2009 at 1:37 am
twilight+tim and eric= a worldwide suicide
August 1st, 2009 at 1:35 am
The Futurama Panel was before the simpson panel. And I got into the simpson panel no prob.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:53 am
I just noticed that 99% of Cracked readers hate both Twilight and Tim and Eric. Cracked readers are good people!
August 1st, 2009 at 12:49 am
Tim and Eric Awesome Show is so far ahead of it’s time that the majority of the rubes out there can’t conjure an appropriate emotional response, so they just boo and make other loud, guttural noises while flailing their arms around in confusion. “SHOW BAD! SHOW BAD! SHOW BAD”
Retards.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
Hilariously awesome. The only point I didn’t agree with is Tim and Eric’s “Awesome” show getting “inexplicably” booed. It’s garbage. Plain and simple.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:40 am
Well, I can’t fault the Twilight fans for camping out. Had it been my fandom (Psych), I’m sure I would have done the same. The planners should have booked the Twilight Panel first and then the rest; because preventing a Futurama fan enjoying their own fandom……absolutely terrible(not being sarcastic…I love that show too).
July 31st, 2009 at 11:56 pm
oh so so true… twilight can go fuck itself =D
fuck all that gay romantic vampire shit…
eventhough i finaly found a girl that hates twilight who is now my girlfriend they can all go jump off a bridge… its a good start to a better world i think
July 31st, 2009 at 11:42 pm
To be fair, Tim and Eric Awesome show great job is a truly awful show. Still, collective booing is a little harsh.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Twilight fans are a disease.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Man, that’s mostly exactly what I got out of my two Comic-Cons: depressed about comics, scared about women (was there a chick dressed as Jessica Rabbit who should not have been sold that dress?), pissed at crowds & panels -but thank god I missed the Twilight swarms this year.
Thanks for reassuring me that I didn’t miss much.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Fuck comic con in its giant pimpled asshole. All 250,000 of em.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:11 pm
You missed the futurama panel? Bummer man.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Pikachu chick is pretty hot. DOB, this was another great article.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Chicken Potpie is a fag. Have a nice day =]
July 31st, 2009 at 9:32 pm
You got PAID to go to ComiCon and you’re bitching about it?
All I have to say is I hope the rest of your Con-experiences are the same so that you stop going and then there will be one less whiny A-hole to deal with at these Cons. Have a great day D-bag.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:23 pm
If you like Tim and Eric watch it, if you don’t like Tim and Eric, watch something else, crisis averted. It’s that simple people.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Nice to see that fans of cartoons are showing their rage about Tim and Eric. Tim and Eric should really try and pimp their wares somewhere else other than Cartoon Network.
And I don’t like the show just because it sucks. Yes they have their small demographic; and their demographic can smoke a bowl, watch Pineapple Express, and shut their fucking cakeholes. My other problem with the show is… that it’s on Cartoon Network. I’m supposed to be watching fucking cartoons on this channel, adult ones, and instead I’m watching Tim and Eric produce everything BUT animation. TGttM wasn’t even animation, it was a goddamn storyboard… not even a cartoon storyboard!
So yes, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Fat Guy Stuck in Internet, Saul of the Mole People, and even Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (which I liked) all don’t belong on the channel. Give me Moribito, Venture Bros, Boondocks, Robot Chicken… you know, shit with production values… that’re cartoons… on a cartoon channel!
July 31st, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Ha! I have to give those nerds more credit. Tim and Eric DO suck sweaty protracted shit-stained camel balls. They are only funny by accident. This morning I produced a product (spoiler: it was my shit) that was far more superior and insightful than anything tim and eric have done in their miserable un-funny lives.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Wow that Pikachu girl has really nice boobs. Seriously look at them.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Mmmmm, Just smoke a bowl & watch a lil Tim & Eric. It’s funnier if someone is watching it with you, and! To top it off, it’s only 15 mins long. It’s divided into 3 segments & the rest is…nonsense. Funny, Playful nonsense. I’m no comedian but I enjoy Tim & Eric’s style. Some can’t appreciate-shit..maybe they get seizures? Regardless…I love the guys & I love Pokemon.
“Can I…slap your pikachu?” :3
July 31st, 2009 at 7:40 pm
ARK. No. Tim and Eric is not about judging people. David Liebe Hart is not exactly “on the ball” mentally, and he’s a permanent fixture. Also, try sorting out your grammar and spelling before insulting other people’s intelligence so harshly. It’s just bad form.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Man, I fucking love Tim & Eric; Decided not to go due to last years attendance, I knew many more were to attend & playing in Mission Beach was surely better than being surrounded by sweaty mouth breathers -.-
Thanks for this small list…love. Just; love Tim & Eric. </3
July 31st, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I must admit, I wanted to punch someone when I heard there would be Twilight bs at comic con. Amelia Earhart girl is cute.
People are more interested in seeing comic book movies and saying “I like comics because nerdy is cool now” apposed to actually reading comic books.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Fuck yeah for the Venture Brothers!
July 31st, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Yes, i am one of those geeks who hates “mainstreamification”. First Family Guy, Robot Chcken, then all of a sudden everyone was talking about MMA and the UFC and now Twilight at Comic-Con WTF?!
and venture bros. FTW
July 31st, 2009 at 7:17 pm
fuck you
July 31st, 2009 at 7:14 pm
If those little whiney Twilight bitches got between ME and, say, Futurama, there would be a lot of “I<3Edward”-wearing beheaded torsos. Not exclusively Futurama, either. Any excuse to murder them is good.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:13 pm
for your health…
July 31st, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Tim and Eric is the best show on adult swim by far.
Although I guess you can only fully appreciate it if you watched public access tv in your youth and have done a fair amount of mushrooms and acid.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:37 pm
10 lulz for the whole car/skank pun haha
July 31st, 2009 at 6:34 pm
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July 31st, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Well…I would have booed too. Hate that show.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:28 pm
@Demmagog: I had that fucking Watchmen experience. Plus, some guy was kicking the back of my seat.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:25 pm
The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is the worst piece of shit I’ve ever had to suffer through for 2 minutes while l frantically searched for my remote.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Darn, my quote got eaten.
“obsessed with vampires that had nothing to do with Joss Whedon” is what was meant to be between the signs
July 31st, 2009 at 6:13 pm
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That is the saddest part of all.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Dude that sucks you didnt get to see the futurama panel because of twilight…i would be so pissed.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:08 pm
“Jorge Says:
July 31st, 2009 at 5:49 pm
i dont know why cracked talked so much about the comic-con… i didnt even know that thing existed until coverage appeared here…. dont know maybe im just losing my touch to keep up with the world”
Dude it was on the cover of USA Today. It was all over the news. Google also changed their home page for it, spelling “Google” with contorted Super heroes. Hundreds of celebrities show up. It’s not even an inside geek thing anymore. I’m surprised you haven’t heard of it.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:04 pm
You aren’t there #5 “I am not there.”
July 31st, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Don’t feel bad, Son of RedVenom. Do you know what the majority of our society discusses? I’m not trying to claim superiority over regular folk but come on. We read, we’re more educated, we contribute more to society. Don’t feel bad dude.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:01 pm
There are really only two reasons to hate Comic-Con.
1. There are eight billion billion billion billion billion people there; and
2. The San Diego Convention Center is slightly larger than the State of Rhode Island.
And there will be a third one if there’s any truth to the rumor that Comic-Con will be moving to Vegas.
3. IT’S TOO DAMN HOT HERE!
July 31st, 2009 at 5:59 pm
People booed Tim and Eric because Tim and Eric blow. Surely you made that connection.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:58 pm
“You could have said ‘Hey baby, I could Pikachu all day long.’”
Kylmar, you win at life.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Surely the organisers could have foreseen that the Twilight panel would attract “campers”? Couldn’t they have held it in a different room? That’s poor event planning.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:49 pm
i dont know why cracked talked so much about the comic-con… i didnt even know that thing existed until coverage appeared here…. dont know maybe im just losing my touch to keep up with the world
July 31st, 2009 at 5:45 pm
You could have said “Hey baby, I could Pikachu all day long.”
July 31st, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Problem is, for every one reason to hate it there are 100 to LOVE it! ComicCon ROCKED this year, best ever!
RT
http://www.anonymize.us.tc
July 31st, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Tim and Eric is the best fucking show!
If nerds booed at it..
Then fuck nerds.. I hope they all die of heart disease, and kidney failure!
LONG LIVE TIM AND ERIC!
BTW: Kevin smith is a fat hack!
July 31st, 2009 at 5:18 pm
That’s because the Tim and Eric Awesome Show is NOT FUNNY.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Also fuck Twilight. Shit is horrible shit.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Time and Eric are fucking retarded little shits and whoever gave them a job needs to die slowly and painfully.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:13 pm
It was Twilight bringing Kristen Stewart that ruined Comic-Con. Not by the fact that she was obviously high on drugs, but that she made thousands of fans shell out hundreds of dollars listen to her drug-induced drone for an hour. If I wanted to hear crazy people who have worn the same clothes for a week trail off incomprehensible phrases, I could have just listened to the toothless homeless man outside Comic Con. At least he cared enough to only ask for a donation for his rants.
Reason number B why Twilight ruined Comic Con was… Kristen Stewart’s drugs again. Her high-profile tweeks, jerks and perfume Ode de Meth Lab has like a dog-whistle into a bullhorn, attracted the attention of every drug dog in San Diego and Tijuana. That much DEA attention really ruins it for us a Comic Con who wish to watch movies in 3D without the need of any glasses.
Like all shows at Comic Con, the panel is only a preview of coming attractions and it is up to us to wait and watch how much smack she shot into her eyeballs from her autopsy next year. The proof will be in the future. Or if Kristen’s lucky we’ll have another preview where she’ll check into rehab for “exhaustion”, the type of exhaustion where you don’t sleep for 5 days straight.
July 31st, 2009 at 4:56 pm
web soup? really dude?
July 31st, 2009 at 4:46 pm
I hate Tim and Eric as well. I have never laughed at it…ever.
I could care less that it’s not animated. It’s just not as funny as anything else.
Wait, I take that back, it’s funnier than Attack of the Show and everything on G4 except Web Soup.
July 31st, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Watchthedecline, you hit the nail on the head. I read every comment on here, and everyone that says Tim and Eric sucks have something in common: noone can even say exactly why they don’t like it, and refuse to give it a chance becuase it requires intelligence to comprehend an original idea. thier style of satire goes over the heads of so many people becuase They are making Fun of how low the bar for human society has been set. Let’s face it, most people are not intelligent.
July 31st, 2009 at 4:32 pm
People fucking Booed at Tim and Eric? Morons.
July 31st, 2009 at 4:21 pm
What? They booed Tim and Eric Awesome Show?
God I have no faith left… oh wait it’s Comic Con not PAX…
Saying you hate it cause it’s live action is asinine too, next you’re gonna tell me you don’t like The Mighty Boosh…
Fuck you guys.
July 31st, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show is by far the funniest show on television, amen poop
July 31st, 2009 at 4:16 pm
This is extremely accurate.
July 31st, 2009 at 4:09 pm
most people who don’t like the tim and eric awesome show don’t like it because it is live action on cartoon network
July 31st, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I was one of the people who booed.
BOOED!
July 31st, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show sucks
July 31st, 2009 at 3:55 pm
I didn’t go this year because my experience last year was so bad. And my experience last year was bad mostly because of Twitards.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I really feel like Kevin Smith said it best:
http://www.thehdroom.com/news/Comic-Con_Kevin_Smiths_Hilarious_Twilight_New_Moon_Clip_Commentary/5380
Seriously, everybody just calm down. Twilight will probably only ruin two more Cons. Unless they actually take annoyed’s advice, which is pretty sound.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:41 pm
It’s funny, the conundrum that is Awesome Show. To a casual observer, it may just seem like a random assortment of crap, but it is actually a brilliant critique on the more subtle nuances of mediocre humanity. Unfortunately, the show’s composition and unassuming appearance alienate so many potential viewers. These “hatas” are mostly dumb, stubborn, or closed-minded. Then, possibly worse, are the imbeciles that that enjoy the show but only comprehend %15, at most, of the humor. DOB, I hear your cries, sir! You are not alone! P.S. Fucking bullshit about the Futurama panel.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:39 pm
If you don’t like Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, promptly kill yourself.
That is all.
For Your Health!
July 31st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
your face sucks.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Twilight can suck it
Tim and Eric and their incredibly crappy show can suck it
All in all, Comic Con sounds like a novel idea ruined by reality and crappy movies (Twilight again). A lot of nerds in one convention hall? Uncomfortable. A lot of nerds in one convention hall angered by Twilight-mania? ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:25 pm
There’s a good reason that The Tim and Eric Awesome Show got booed.
It sucks.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Man, fuck Tim and Eric. First they hunker over a newspaper and “create” Tom Goes to the Dumbshit, and now it’s Live Actions Retards on CARTOON Network.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Wow. I was thinking about going sometime, but thanks for making up my mind for me. NOT.
I’ve been to Fangoria cons and other smaller cons and not had this kind of trouble. I guess I’ll stick to the little ones.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:15 pm
THANK YOU! My boyfriend thought I was the devil for not having a good time. He was all “But it’s COMIC CON! These are our people!” and I said “No. None of these people know how to behave in public and there are 120,000 of them. This is terrible.”
Next year they should clear everyone out at the end of each panel, or at the very least clear the rooms a few times a day. I’d say the insanity was worth it if the organizers learned a few things for next year.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:01 pm
I almost forgot,my ex girlfriend had a nephew who was really into comic books and shit!!!
The sad thing was that he was in his 30’s when I met him!!
Haven’t talked to him in eight years,don’t plan to!!
The sad thing is that he drew some really great artwork,but whenever someone mentioned that he oughta try to sell some
of his artwork and ideas to some comic book publishers,he’d say
“But They Might Steal My Ideas!!”.
July 31st, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Never went to ComicCon,never plan to!!
Between Nerds who outgrew Pokemon
and Nerds who never outgrew Lord Of The Rings,
it sounds like something out of the freakin’
“Twilight Zone”!!!
The original with the Late;Great;Still Alive Somewhere
Rod Serling!!
Not the crappy remakes they drag out every so often!!!
July 31st, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Colin:
There must be an episode dedicated to the wacky long-lost uncle who plays in an Alan Parson Project cover band. That’s imperative. And the kids decide to play a prank by stealing the uncle’s guitar pick and THEN HE CAN’T PLAY! Said uncle (name? Uncle Gary) thinks he FORGOT THE PICK, then David and Jay come in and say, “Hey, that reminds me of the time I forgot a condom!” and then cut to sideways glance and slight smirk towards their kids. Then the kids learn their fucking lesson to not steal shit.
I like the Stephanie Tanner casting, that’s excellent. The actors playing the kids should be the children of Zachary Ty Bryan.
July 31st, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Never been to Comic-Con, but I’ve been to enough others to have picked up a couple of terms that have relevance here. “Fiawol” and “Fijagdah”: Fandom Is A Way Of Life and Fandom Is Just A Goddamn Hobby”. Get a fiawol who likes Marvel together with one who likes DC, and you’ve got a whole evening’s entertainment. I can only imagine the Twilight feuds, there hasn’t been a piece of pop culture that’s divided people like that since since Barney.
July 31st, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Wait a minute, so let me get this straight, there are actually HOT NERD CHICKS at Comic-Con, and not even they will sleep with you? Harsh.
July 31st, 2009 at 2:28 pm
“No WAY I’m spittin’ this stuff out! … tastes like FRUIT!” - Steve Brule
July 31st, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Tim and Eric is the kind of thing that would work as a two minute weekly short on the internet, and mostly because you would only see it when you wanted to that way. Generally speaking, at best the show as dull and at worst it’s awful, and then once every 5 episodes it’s funny.
July 31st, 2009 at 2:25 pm
If I had to go through all that and people started boo-ing Tim and Eric i would just start punching things. walls, small children, whatever….
July 31st, 2009 at 2:07 pm
(the 6th pic )I’m not dressed as Amelia Earhart I’m Rasputin from Psychonauts,your nerd licence has been provoked!!!
P.S. what did you write your ganna do to me??
July 31st, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Well, to be fair, Tim and Eric are only funny to:
A) Comedians who think rehashing Andy Kaufman’s stuff ad nauseum never gets old, and
B) The near-terminally brain damaged who laugh at flashing lights and bright colors.
Not a lot of actual comedy in it. Just a sort of weird meta-comedy where watching a few guys who are ostensibly very funny being as unfunny as possible for as long as possible is supposed to somehow metamorphose into humor.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:50 pm
That guy at the end looks ike has herpes. Fucked up if you ask me. I didnt know that about twilight fans camping out hogging the seats they shouldnt be allowed to do that. They should make everyone leave after each panel and have to go back to the end of the que.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Twilight really is a gigantic piece of shit that shouldn’t be at Comic Con though
July 31st, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Twilight has it’s own convention over in England and and some agent went and he said it was wall-to-wall tail. Tim and Eric rock, it’s satire that’s smart and funny. On the other hand other adult swim fare such as Squidbillies would’ve deserved to be booed.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Will have to check out The Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job - sounds …. actually it sounds awful, but I’m sure it’s not.
When will I see a post where something of Jack’s catches fire or implodes??
Good day to you, Sir.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I’d be pissed as hell if I didn’t get into the Futurama panel. That would be like the one reason I’d actually go.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Okay, whoever runs Comic Con, I’ve solved your Twilight problem for you for next year.
1. On the door of the panel room, post a sign that says “This room will be cleared between panels.”
2. Outside, post a sign that says “Twilight Panel Line Starts Here.” Maybe put some of those museum ropes or tape on the floor to keep it organized.
3. Get your staff, who I’m sure are doing all kinds of other line-management and panel-related jobs at the same time, to enforce these rules.
Not hard, is it? This is basic stuff, and considering the whining about the Twilight panel ruining everything started way before Comic Con, not too complicated to figure out ahead of time. Managing lines and crowds is a big, important part of Con planning, so maybe we should stop blaming a bunch of teenage girls for the con staff’s crappy planning.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Ha! Mention Tim and Eric in any online environment and a goddamn race war erupts. Like, Orcs vs. Elves race war. The Orcs will give their lives for Casey and his Brother while the Elves just want their pop culture references.
Anyways, Comic-Con sounds like a shit. It must have been amazing before, but I can’t stand non-hygienic nerds or Transformers.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Not as funny as your articles usually are but still an okay read.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:28 pm
They BOOED Tim and Eric? BOOED? Are you fucking kidding me?
I love how people shit on Tim and Eric and then admit to watching ATHF.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Tim & Eric were booed because the actual fans of Adult Swim hate them. They’re probably lucky they didn’t show up in person, given that…
Twilight has its own conventions. TwiCon, which charged $250+ for admission (not including travel, hotel room, food, etc.).
http://www.twicon.org/home.html
This weekend, a sad collection of fat women too rich for San Deigo throw their money away to meet the hand model from the Twilight cover. And Twilight-inspired musicians, which can only be assumed to be three steps down form Wizard Rock.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Mr. O’B,
I’ve spent the day watching The Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job online all day, and my faith in humanity has been restored. Thank you.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Tim and Eric is spectacular. Comic-Con is always bad no matter how you look at it. Glad it was worth a funny article!
July 31st, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Fuck comicon.Standing in line for hours without even getting into to see the futurama panel!It was like being in an amusement park only without the fucking amusement.Just lines and that permeating corn dog smell.
Thank god I was stoned.
By the way the sack was a little light Dan.
Fuck I’m buying from Swaim next time.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Great article, and always remember, the sounds of people enjoying something will always be drowned out by the sounds of assholes pissing and moaning about something they most likely got for free in the first place.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:02 pm
“But, just to make sure I never completely enjoyed myself this weekend, the hundreds of people attending the Adult Swim panel inexplicably booed when the moderator mentioned The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. Booed. ”
And in the words of Tony the Tiger: Thaaaaaat’s GRRRReat!
Hopefully more people boo that steaming turd of a show.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Yeah Tim & Eric fucking sucks. Now if they booed something like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, that’d be a different story but Tim & Fucking Eric? It deserves to be booed and then shitted on.
July 31st, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Meghan
They also live in the desert and make at least one “Get the sand out of your genitals” joke every episode. But the main plot always involves fighting off the problems of raising children, so there’s a good number of moral lessons taught. The wife is played by Stephanie from Full House and they also have a wacky neighbor who’s obsessed with Wile E Coyote cartoons played by Liquid Terminator.
Let’s keep going, this is comedy gold! We’ll be better then two and a half men.
July 31st, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Tim & Eric is terrible, it deserves to get booed.
Agreed on just about everything else, though.
July 31st, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I think they booed it because it sucks. Not saying they were right to do so (obviously some people out there like it… for some reason), but isn’t Comic Con composed largely of people who spend most of their day being dicks on the internet? The booing doesn’t surprise me.
Venture Bros. = AMAZING. I wish they didn’t wait so long in between seasons, fucking teases.
July 31st, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Not to sound like a territorial nerd or anything, but if some jumped up fat preteen in an Edward Cullen shirt tried to get in the way of me seeing the Futurama panel, I’d rip her throat out. You know, for the poetic justice.
July 31st, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Eh. I noticed the signs, but I think I only saw, like, one thing Twilight related. Might be because I didn’t go near the panels, and nothing approached the area where I was working.
There’s something weird in the world when, of all the nerds that Comic-Con attracts, it’s the *anime* nerds who are the best behaved…
July 31st, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Man fuck that, I love the Tim and Eric Awesome Show… I also can’t wait for the new season of Venture Bros.
…I love Adult Swim
July 31st, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Colin
Their show would be called “Back from the Wild Side” and it would tell the tale of two washed-up comedians who used to do lines off Andrew Dice Clay’s dick but find out they knocked up the same woman when on the road and their two kids come and stay with them, and the woman is now a Episcopalian minister who has to travel a lot but comes back every three episodes or so to point out how different her life is now from the days of banging two hysterical comedians with suitcases full of fart jokes.
I’m just brainstorming here though, I’d need to flesh this out.
July 31st, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Yeah, so uhhhhh…. I read this whole thing…. why did I do that?
July 31st, 2009 at 12:21 pm
what the FUCK!?!?
Hotbox and Tim and eric awesome show great job are the most genius shows on the TV.
July 31st, 2009 at 12:17 pm
meaghan
David Spade and Jay Mohr are the two most misunderstood comedians in the world. Everyone says they’re the badboys of comedy and no topic is too sacred for them to joke about. I feel their comedy is just right. Man, I’m getting goosebumps thinking about what if David Spade AND Jay Mohr had a TV show just like 2&Half Man!!!!!
July 31st, 2009 at 12:06 pm
*either
and please take additional note that your ‘handle’ is that of a meme found and created on 4chan, this removing any credibility you may have had, whereas my handle is MUCH too complicated for a plebeian to comprehend.
You see, my name is ‘Son of RedVenom’, those familiar with Spider-Man GRAPHIC NOVELS will note that this translates to: “Son of Carnage”. Those deeper into the mythology will note than this further translates into: “Toxin”.
Now do you see the difference between us? My friend, we are LEAGUES apart; for my knowledge of minor Marvel characters fully asserts my superiority in internet fights.
Know me and fear me.
And seriously wanna do something later? Maybe get some ice cream like the old days?
July 31st, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Twilight absolutely doesn’t belong at that convention. It’s the complete opposite of what that’s about. You’d think that the teenage boys and middle-aged dudes that like all the other nerd stuff would have something in common with those shrieking tween girls and barely literate middle-aged women that read Twilight (like wanting to have sex with each other). They really don’t. I didn’t go, and I’m glad. Twilight should get it’s own convention if it refuses to get super AIDS and die horribly like it ought to.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:58 am
Hi mom,
Maybe you should take my Mao Zedong out of your mouth and double check your reading comprehension skills. After all you are a secretary. Here mother, let us double check the post I had made stating that Tim and Eric is the comedy equivalent of the Twilight series. Granted this has no grounds in and of itself other than pissing off ‘fans’ of other series it’s effectiveness has been stated in your most recent e-letter.
Hugs and kisses,
Trevor
P.S. Wanna do something later?
July 31st, 2009 at 11:57 am
Wait, DOB. You say Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! got booed like it’s a bad thing. That can’t be right. Because that show getting booed is a good thing.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:53 am
Dear Son of RedVenom,
If people have the right to rudely voice their “distate with [a certain] program”, then I have the right to voice my personal opinion that Twilight fans deserve a horrible literary torture.
Sicerely,
Your mom.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:52 am
TIM AND ERIC IS AMAZING!!!! who the fuck booed that?
July 31st, 2009 at 11:48 am
So, if I don’t like the ‘comedy’ equivalent of Twilight then surely I must like the novelization? Sir you’re logic is so flawless Leonard Nemoy would play crotch footsies with you.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:43 am
Anyone who boos the Tim&Eric awesome show instantly likes Twilight and deserves to burn at the deepest circle of Hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy, cozily next to Hitler and Judas.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:42 am
I don’t think anyone here is saying Robot Chicken is the best thing on TV since the Lone Ranger here Lou.
And we’re simply stating our distaste with the program, some a little more… ‘vocal’ than others.
Don’t like it? Don’t read it.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:38 am
Damn, glad I missed it.
To the Tim & Eric haters, don’t like it? Don’t watch it. At the same time, don’t go saying Robot Chicken is genius.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:18 am
You killed Swaim, didn’t you DOB?!?!? Brilliant work
July 31st, 2009 at 11:18 am
Colin: It breaks my heart every time I hear someone say, “Arrested Development was a great comedy show!” or “30 Rock is genius!” In my opinion, not enough credit is given to the CBS comedies designed to entertain 40-something marrieds living in Minnesota. I mean, they really do comedy right over there at CBS. You have to admire any network willing to put that envelope-pusher David Spade in a primetime show.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:03 am
This looks like a really boring con. Even if everything had went right, it sounds boring as shit
Fans of comics hanging around together and stuff? Look I kind of get the premise, but it still sounds like the dullest thing ever. Specially because most of those people are well…the dullest thing ever.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:45 am
“And then the fat kid says something.”
lol, i ‘member that part
(one of you two really should write a topic on 2 1/2 men, if it hasn’t been done yet)
July 31st, 2009 at 10:42 am
Tim and Eric fucking suck. Nothing they have ever made is funny, in the slightest. You could watch random youtube videos and get the exact same show.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:42 am
Why would you boo Tim and Eric, but camp out for Twilight? It really is like Hell in there.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:41 am
This one goes out to the poor bastard that picks the comments for the Cracked Roundup:
I’m sorry, dear lord I’m sorry. I had no idea… I just read through some comments on a few articles and… I… I have no words.
And now back to this ABSOLUTELY CRAZY BACK AND FORTH!:
July 31st, 2009 at 10:39 am
meaghan
Man, I wish more people appreciated the complex humor involved with T&tM. The world would be a much funnier place.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:37 am
Colin: And then Molly Ringwald comes on and divorced guy starts dancing to “Try a Little Tenderness” to try to impress her, but then Topper sweeps her off her feet and gives her a raging case of herpes? Such a good episode. So. good.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:35 am
meaghan
Hahaha remember when she said “I’m fat and repulsive but I’ve supposedly slept with every guy ever!” and then Wild Thing was all like “Hey this show can’t have two sex fiends!” and then the fat kid says “I think the spirit of christmas is eating away all my troubles, like the trouble of no friends!” snare-snare-CRASH!
July 31st, 2009 at 10:31 am
@Colin: Yeah the Christmas episode is my fav, especially when the fat nanny is hunched over the stockings, shoving her face full of all the Christmas candy and then she turns around and she’s like totally sheepish and covered in chocolate! HAHA oh god I need to leave my desk for a moment, my co-workers are staring at me, I’m laughing so hard at that CRAZY CHOCOLATE CANDY FACE-STUFFER!!!
July 31st, 2009 at 10:30 am
Delicious nerd rage.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:27 am
they booed tim and eric because it’s the biggest piece of shit in tv history. never have 2 people deserved more horrible deaths than what tim and eric merit.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:27 am
meaghan2k
Oh the christmas episode! I have like 5 VHS copies of it, it’s a family tradition. We feel our family is so similar in our antics to the characters in 2&1/2M. I remember watching and thinking “Where do they get this stuff? They must be high or something!”
July 31st, 2009 at 10:26 am
It’s not inexplicable, they booed because the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Good Job! sucks BALLS.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:23 am
@Colin: No, it was the episode when the drunk mom comes on and says something witty and drunk and her sons sigh and Topper is like, “I need to get me some of whatever you’re drinking!” and then the nerdy brother is all, “My ex-wife and the alimony! Am I right?!” And then the fat kid goes to the fat nanny, “Hey, we’re fat, can I have Yodel?”
I’m pretty sure that’s the episode I’m thinking of.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
“Hi, I’m Dr. Steve Brule with another Brule’s Rules. If your raking leaves and some get on the drive way, just wash them off with a hose, dummy!”
BRILLIANT!
Here’s $30,000,000,000,000,000
July 31st, 2009 at 10:20 am
@meaghan2k
Was that the episode where Wild Thing got a motorcycle and was like “Look at this motorcycle!” and the fat kid was making jokes like “I’m fat and stupid, fart…” and then when he was riding his motorcycle and Wild Thing said “At least you’re not hard to ride” HAHAHA It was like a sex joke HAHAHAHA!
July 31st, 2009 at 10:16 am
Tim and Eric are certifiably insane but they are comedic geniuses. Tom Goes To The Mayor is definitely better than Awesome Show but…booed? WTF is this world coming to.
“Hi, I’m Dr. Steve Brule with another Brule’s Rules. If your raking leaves and some get on the drive way, just wash them off with a hose, dummy!”
July 31st, 2009 at 10:15 am
@Colin: Did you see that one time when that handsome one was all, “Shut up Duckie!” and Duckie was like, “But Wild Thing, all you do it talk about women! I’m divorced!” and then Wild Thing was like, “My brother is Emilio Estevez! Let’s get him on here for a guest appearance!”
And then the fat kid says something.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:12 am
@Pedgerow, I’m pretty sure that’s John C. Reilly.
@Bethany the reason her altering what a vampire is is annoying, it’s like taking a zombie that isn’t really dead. Then it’s not a fucking zombie. She was just too lazy to come up with a new name for her “monster”. By the very definition of a vampire, Twilight has no vampires in it. It has sparkle monsters. And sparkle monsters doesn’t sound as sexy as vampire so she called them vampires. It’s like calling a goat a lion. Or having a 6′ 6″ dwarf. There have been hundreds of versions of vampires, the Buffy vampire, the INterview with a Vampire vampire, the Lestat vampire, and of course the Dracula vampire (AKA the best vampire), but they all have the same elements: they’re all by definition, vampires.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:08 am
meaghan2k
Hahaha those Two guys. The one is a responsible everyman with a kid and the other is a sex crazed maniac… HOW ARE THEY EVER GONNA LIVE TOGETHER?!?!?
July 31st, 2009 at 10:06 am
Okay, let’s stop ragging on Tim and Eric and start talking about a show I’m sure we all love- Two and a Half Men. I mean, could it GET any zanier?!
July 31st, 2009 at 9:57 am
No unclejimbo you suck.
And you won’t get a good reason as to why you suck either…
July 31st, 2009 at 9:56 am
@garth thanks - I’m familiar with the famous Mr. Reilly. but shit that barely looks like him.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:55 am
sheesh, cop, tone it down a notch : | MOO! ME IS A FUCKING COW?! anyone fooled yet?
July 31st, 2009 at 9:53 am
haha, awesome
July 31st, 2009 at 9:48 am
Good to know that I’m not the only one who thinks that the Tim and Eric show is complete shit.
Wow. I’ve learned something refreshing from a Cracked article. Amazing.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:47 am
Sure it had problems. I waited for 2 hours to see the Star Wars unspectacular thanks to the aforementioned Twilight fans. I still had a blast though. It’s the only time of year I get to hang out with other geeks. The rest of the year it’s pretty much suits. A couple of the highlights for me were seeing Eliza Dushku, Joss Whedon and the Danny Devito Blood Factory panel. It was more crowded this year but overall it was another great Comic-Con visit for me.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:43 am
That fucktarded piece of shit show Tim and Eric DESERVES to be booed. It’s such a huge piece of shit, it makes actual pieces of shit look nothing LIKE pieces of shit. That’s how much of a piece of shit it is.
FUCK Tim, FUCK Eric, FUCK THEIR GOOD JOB AWESOME SHOW.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:37 am
Well ‘Seriously’, I shall inform you as to why I and many other do not enjoy ‘TAEASGJ’:
The very manner in which it is carried out bothers me. It’s low budget and they are doing low budget things. This is not what is bothersome, rather that the charade continues to this day. Rather if they tried to be serious about what it was they they where filming then perhaps there MAY have seen some merit in the show in a backhanded parody of what they where mimicking. (late night infomercials, public news channels and public broadcasting shows)
This is all contrived ramblings that meld into each other like if you had left nachos sit in your fridge for a few weeks. Every skit plays out most of the others. The humor is cyclical and never changes. The set up and delivery remain the same. Unaltered and untampered with. In this regard it is the same product shipped and packaged for every show for every skit. Except maybe this time they use Papyrus on the box instead of Comic Sans.
Thus our problem with it concludes thusly: The poor production values and recycled jokes present on every show wear thin and tiresome as the show is renewed and renewed, yet other shows with much more potential (like Frisky Dingo) go to the chopping block.
However my old college roommate was flying kites 24/7 (if you toke my nickel, if you know… fuck it) and he thought that shit was hilarious. Hell I still think he’s on that same couch actually.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:33 am
I readily admit that I go to Animefest every year, and have done so for the past 6 years.
…Twilight fans…
…do not belong…
…at conventions…
There really should just be a Twilight convention for them to go to because I don’t want them dicking around in front of me. Conventions like Comic-Con are for NERDS. It’s for the fandoms that people who are SOCIALLY AWKWARD like. Twilight is the stuff of pre-teen socialite divas and preps. Putting Twilight fans in the same room as Twilight Princess fans is like attempting Nuclear Fusion - both parties would be resisting VERY STRONGLY and success would result in violence.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:32 am
I would WAY rather hang out by the actual comic book industry attractions than with a bunch of emo losers who can’t even get their vamp lore right (I STILL haven’t been able to reconcile the whole *sparkling* thing. I refuse to read the books or see the films. It’s the principle of the thing). The last good thing to happen to vampire fiction was Joss Whedon, and it’s been all downhill in an overflowing port-a-potty for the genre ever since. Besides. Comic books are art, dammit!!!
Okay - going back to my hole in my mom’s basement to google Watchmen slash-fic now.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:31 am
Anyone know? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1292175/ He WAS invited!
July 31st, 2009 at 9:28 am
just to be fair, tim and eric awesome show great job does suck donkey nuts. but not as much as a bunch of twilight tweens taking up all the prime seating.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:28 am
Amen! I’m all about comics, but these conventions are full of socially awkward dorks.
Magician conventions are worse.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:26 am
That picture at the end looks like Dan O’Brien in a very good disguise. Look at his eyes.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:25 am
Ya that Twilight shit is annoying, but it wasn’t twilight fans it would have been something else. Fact of the matter is, die-hard obsessive fans of ANYTHING are annoying.
And fuck everyone who gets on Stephanie Meyer because she didn’t go with established vampire mythology. You all know what fiction is, right? You know, that thing where you make shit up?
I don’t even like the stupid books, and the movie is a whole mess of awful, but even I think you’re all pretentious assholes.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:25 am
Booed Tim and Eric: Awesome Show Great Job? BOOED??!
Fuck Comic Con. Fuck it.
Like, 3 out of 4 people who watch Adult Swim have an irrational hatred of TAEASGJ and Tom Goes to the Mayor. Fuck those people.
And that was for your health.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:23 am
I’ll boo Tim and Eric into another dimension where the creators of shitty, unfunny shows are thrown into a pit where they have to kill each other to survive.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:21 am
If you check out that one 34 site I’m sure you’ll get all the depravity you can handle and then some.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:11 am
No, the worst part was, because of ComicCon, ToplessRobt did not put up a Fan Fiction Friday. I need my fix of depravity!
July 31st, 2009 at 9:11 am
The behavior by twilight fans would be disgusting and inconsiderate in ANY context.
Just because it happened at Comic Con doesn’t make it any less impolite.
So yeah, fuck twilight and its dumbass fans.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:07 am
hmmmmm, yeah i guess your right comic con is supposed to UNITE nerds or whatever……but seriously, that twilight shit would piss me off!
July 31st, 2009 at 9:04 am
A) What the EFF was Twilight doing at Comic-con? Seriously? It was a book, then a movie. Nothing more.
B) Twilight fans are nerds? Maybe I was unaware, maybe, but I didn’t think they counted as nerds. Thats all.
I barely count Harry Potter fans as nerds, and then only because of the fantasy elements.
Twilight was about pseudo-vampires and a ditzy girl and what the heck dlhadlfl ahgfgieh.
Sorry, got lost in my rage there.
Oh well. New Venture Bros. in November. I’m happy.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:04 am
Yeah - Doc Hammer is writing the smartest, funniest, most subversive television I’ve ever seen.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:03 am
Well you know what they say Coolguy…
July 31st, 2009 at 8:59 am
I love DOB and I love the Venture Bros. Glad you got to see at least one amazing panel.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:59 am
Also, I didn’t realize that like twenty people would comment while I was reading the others, so that last comment I left looks it has no context at all. Booyah!
July 31st, 2009 at 8:58 am
The problem is some people think that liking Tim and Eric makes them look cool. Sorry guys, no one is fooled. They are terrible.
Btw, “Is Pokemon like golf?”: funniest thing ever.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:58 am
Probably coolguy, but much like a chimpanzee I can’t resist a good nit pick.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:54 am
Actually, Venom, I’m pretty sure he was saying that the line-up sucks except for Venture and Robot Chicken. It is written in a confusing manner, but yeah.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:51 am
Well Tim and Eric is a terrible show; I don’t know if I would have booed it but I understand the sentiment.
It’s sad that the first thing I thought of upon seeing “Amelia Earhart” was “She’s dressed as Razputin!” before I even noticed the bacon.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:43 am
Demmagog:
Clearly you fail to see that the PJs is the height of both cinematography and intellectual story telling. It’s ingenious and subtle comedy is truly the apex of human society and is only even vaguely challenged by the newer seasons of Family guy for it’s spectacular insight into the common man as well as its relatable characters and juxtaposition of popular culture.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:42 am
can’t twilight fans just..you know…die?
please?
July 31st, 2009 at 8:42 am
Sorry man, but they booed because Tim and Eric SUCK BALLS.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:42 am
Hey DOB, how many, commas, can you, fit in an, article? I imagine you, talking, like, a stuttering, robot.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:41 am
the guy in the last picture is Dr. Steve Bruhle on the Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job.
his real name is John C. Rielly, and hes a pretty famous actor
July 31st, 2009 at 8:41 am
They should take TaEAWGJ off AS and replace it with Sealab 2021. God, that show kicked major ass.
…wait.
The Twatshit fans wouldn’t let you in?
Death to all!
July 31st, 2009 at 8:38 am
Hey what’s with these Tom Goes to the Mayor haters in the comics?
That show rules. If you don’t get why it is hilarious and brilliant and quite comedically innovative, then I feel sorry for you and all the gutwrenching laughter you have missed out.
Jefferton Alive!
July 31st, 2009 at 8:37 am
@ Casey
I hate to have to be the one to tell you this, but the Twilight “vampires” don’t even have the pointed vampire teeth.
No vampire teeth, don’t turn into bats, don’t sleep in coffins, wooden stakes do nothing, sparkle in sunlight.
Sounds like a vampire to me.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:37 am
Ashseti:
Kind of liked Tom Goes to the Mayor. At times. But I’d brofist the shit out of you if I could for just about everything else in that comment.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:37 am
twnkltoez0: that’s world-famous dramatic and comedic actor John C. Reilly.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000604/
People booed TEASGJ? What with the easy acronym?
July 31st, 2009 at 8:36 am
I am envious that you saw the Adult Swim/Venture Bros panel, though I would have been so damn furious at that booing over Tim & Eric….
It reminds me of the Watchmen movie, which I might have enjoyed much more had I not seen it in theaters. People who already knew the story could let themselves get sucked in despite the film’s flaws, but people who were new to Watchmen were reacting in baffling and infuriating ways like:
- Everyone laughed out loud when Rorshach steamtrayed that guy in the prison cafeteria. That was supposed to be a chilling moment when you were introduced to the full scope or Ror’s methodical, improvisational baddassery. EVERYONE FUCKING LAUGHED LIKE IT WAS COMEDY!
- Everyone laughed AGAIN at RORSHACH BEING KILLED! I wanted to stab everyone in the theatre.
Sorry for turning this into an out-of-date Watchmen rant but your comment about Tim & Eric really brought that anger to the surface. Did anyone else have that experience?
July 31st, 2009 at 8:36 am
At the behest of lab-mates, peers and Lady Logic I decided to know the evil which I hate and read Twilight. Frankly it is nothing more than simple literature, written by someone with a teen’s mindset and geared for teens. Which obviously meant that as soon as it became the mainstream the simple-minded hoovered it up and attached themselves to it immediately. Twilight has become a symbol of our current generation’s inability to break out of a simple mindframe, and in the words of the immortal, late, great George Carlin, I’ll leave the symbols to the symbol(simple)-minded.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:36 am
Back in MY days of fandom, there were almost no boobs at Comic-Con or any other sci-fi/fantasy get-togethers. Unless you count the sweaty man-boobs of the many overweight geeks. I once saw Isaac Asimov chatting up an actual, live female dressed up as Jessica Rabbit, and that was a shock to everyone at the convention. The fact that a chick showed up, not the fact that Asimov was drooling on her ample cleavage.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:33 am
Tim and Eric have two major problems.
One, they think lolrandumb is hilarious. It isn’t.
Two, they were one of the ringleaders of the “Let’s take cartoons off Cartoon network” movement. So people who might otherwise give Tim and Eric a shot, see it come on and ask “What the fuck is this stupid live action nonsense?”
For example….. I hated Tom Goes to The Mayor. They cancelled it. They cancelled it, and then gave the same assholes another show. A live action show. Going back, I can actuall appreciate certain episodes of Tom, and I’m not convinced it isn’t only because it’s semi-animated. The plot doesn’t hurt.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:32 am
You didn’t miss anything at the Futurama panel. I waited in line for more then 2 hours(outside in the heat!) for it and to say it was a massive disappointment is an understatement. to sum it up The show is coming back or it might not. And yes Twilight RUINED COMIC-CON!
July 31st, 2009 at 8:31 am
Well I can see you can’t hold in your excitement for comic con in long beach. Only like two months away, right?
July 31st, 2009 at 8:23 am
Dapperdave:
It’s more that you tend to sit in the same spot for long periods of time. If you’re seat of choice has a cushion, chances are good that all your dead skin and jerken sweat pools on that little filth pad causing it to smell something akin to a mummified elephant turd.
Starman:
Venture Bros bad?
Oh wow.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:21 am
I’d cubone that pikachu girl, if you know what I mean
July 31st, 2009 at 8:19 am
The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! sucks
July 31st, 2009 at 8:18 am
Who is that guy in the last picture? I love that picture and I HAVE TO KNOW.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:16 am
I never understood why nerd/geeks always smelled bad. I mean…I know they spend a lot of time at home, being introverts and all….but why does that have to mean you don’t bathe?
Maybe we should start a meme that only the truly l33t shower daily.
Or if Warcraft made some kind of deodorant…..Klingon Shampoo…Wookie soap….
It’s worth a shot.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:14 am
That news about Tim and Eric being booed does my heart good, DOB. Because their show is easily the stupidest thing on Adult Swim right now. Which, given the current line-up outside of The Venture Bros. and Robot Chicken, is amazing.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:14 am
They Booed Tim and Eric cause their is a huge loser contingent that is pissed at the lack of anime on adult swim.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:08 am
That Pikachu girl is really hot. Just thought I’d throw that out there.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:06 am
Twilight is quite possibly the literary equivalent of the Tim and Eric show.
There. I said it.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:04 am
To be fair, Twilight fans deserve what they get because Twilight is a shit book and a shit movie.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:59 am
Booed Tim&Eric? I don’t quite “get” it, sir. Elaborate.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:58 am
My friend and i once were watching Adult Swim - completly under the influence - and Tim and Eric came on. Now i personally don’t watch the show, for no reason in specific, but when it came on i was memorized by the lights, the crazy ass dialoge, the weird as fuck sight gags … it was all there! I was FUCKED, i couldn’t unbury my head from my pillow i was laughing so hard. Because of the crazy ass wackiness i think Tim and Eric was made for pot-heads, or just people baked out of their minds.
Man that sounded like a thesis statment, but on crack.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:55 am
Hey, dude…are these pics even from this year’s convention?
In the pic at the top, you can see a big graphic for WATCHMEN in the DC area, which I remember them doing last year in advance of the movie, but don’t quite remember from this year.
And in the picture of that girl in the manga booth–she’s standing in front of pictures of manga that came out years ago, so that’s probably not a pic from this year either.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:52 am
Klingon: Ridged for my pleasure.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:50 am
“Klingon, eh? Well I’d like to ‘cling on’ your boobs, if you know what I mean.”
July 31st, 2009 at 7:48 am
@Woobles I doubt that, Harry potter seems to be better than Twilight, hell I even read the first few as a kid. However it in no way deserves all the attention it has recieved. I don’t think Twilight is a one-off, just part of a trend.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:45 am
Twilight is shit piece of literature with unruly fans, so I could absolutely sympathize with the sign holders. If they could just learn to behave their fucking selves I think most of us nerds wouldn’t mind them so much. I know if I had gotten shut out of the Doctor Who panel by some fucking teeny bopper who doesn’t even know the real definition of vampire (because those bitches are not real vampires. The only thing that they have that fits the bill is point teeth), I know I would throw down. Some people traveled thousands of miles to go sit and see David Tennant talk about fake traveling through time and dammit if some little bitch with their sparkly “vampires” is gonna stop me! It’s a matter of nerd to nerd respect. Everyone came there for something and if you’re rude enough to do something you know will prevent someone from seeing what they came to see, you’re an asshat.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:41 am
Actually the most despicable thing about comic-con was that some folks ran a contest where you had to GROPE the booth babes (Even the ones not directly employed by the contest runners).
Yes, encourage a bunch of socially-inept nerds that women are property and it’s okay to touch and hell, you might even be rewarded for it (I think the reward was dinner with one of the babes?)
I mean yeah, Twilight sucks and it sucks that they Booed the Awesome Show, but I mean, the fact that they encourage molestation was going way too far and doesn’t even compare to the other two.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:36 am
requiem:
I do have to agree with you requiem, it did seem quite out of place when I first heard about their presence there. The only thing potentially worse than a Fangirlcon would be furcon or whatever it’s called I imagine. Every room drenched of bodily fluids, smelling of urine. Neckbeards (neckbears perhaps?) as far as the eye can see.
COMIC-Con pretty much IS NerdCon though. Second only to the more eastern oriented Otacon (or Otakon? Whichever one isn’t a scientist)
Twilight be damned, Comic and Ota are the two you really never want to see mixed. No one really needs to see an armada of Otakons greasy naruto cosplayers take on Comic-cons infamous fatBatmen legion. Humorous as all the girly slapping and poor execution of martial arts moves seen in Jackie Chan films may be.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:25 am
This was my first year at the Con. I am what is considered old and have not purchased a comic in a long time. After researching what a nightmare this could be we (this was my wife’s idea, she rocks) were as prepared as we could be. I was also surprised at how open the comic side was, well compared to the multimedia side. But for me that worked out, as I met a lot of awesome artists and writers and had nearly all my stuff signed. We did go to some panels, Robot Chicken and Quick Draw rocked. The voice panels were also pretty good.
Boondock saints was the only line (it wrapped around the halls) that we did not make it to the hall. The security company (Elite) was a pretty confused bunch, but they did a pretty good job. I only ran into a couple of A holes but easy enough to deal with.
All in all I plan on going again next year. The best shirt I saw said:
And then Buffy killed Edward, The end. If only that were true.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:21 am
I think one good, QUALITY teen book could offset the faggotry of Twilight. However Twilight has had an inexplicable effect on the literary community, spawning countless vampire novels and encouraging dipshits who can’t actually write to…. Write novels.
If there is some kind of good diety out there, I hope they see how we have weathered this unholy Twilight shitstorm, and reward us accordingly.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:21 am
The only reason I ever wanted to go to Comic Con is for the Adult Swim panel. Now that Moral Orel’s off the air though, I don’t know if there’s a reason for me to go.
I hate the Tim and Eric show, personally. I guess I just don’t understand the comedic value.
And fuck Twilight fans. Not because of their brand of nerdiness, but because of how far they’ll go to defend the author’s (I can’t remember her name, but it’s not important) literary ability as soon as it’s called into question. I’ve heard stories of people having acid thrown in their face for just saying they don’t like the book. So yeah, fuck them.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:19 am
DOB, you are a genius. I mean, I know you already know this, but I’m just providing confirmation.
Only thing I can tell you though is that Tim and Eric are even more polarizing than Twilight, but you’re a genius and can read the comments and see it for yourself.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:19 am
Those people who booed at T&EASGJ were right, it definitely sucks. Bring back Tom Goes to the Mayor if you want to keep those guys employed and doing decent work.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:17 am
I didn’t even realise this was a DOB article until I read the comments - twilight at comiccon ruined DOB!
To Son of RedVenom
You’re kinda right - but comiccon is FOR the second group, no matter how pathetic they may be.
Twilight has no business being there. Especially since they already have their own fucking convention (thanks Nate)
I say get it over with and rename comiccon to geekcon, then start a new fangirlcon for everyone else.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:17 am
How about ‘Glingon’ as in, you’ll be gargling on my crotch? Yeah, you’re right…fuck it.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:15 am
Twilight has ruined everything. I dont just mean Comic-con. I mean, like, society is ruined, all thanks to Twilight.
I mean, keeping you out of the Futurama panel?! No word of a joke, they should be killed in their beds… or coffins… or whatever Twilight fan-fags sleep in.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:12 am
Man Duke, this is just like that one time where I forgot to put on my gas cap…..
“Hey sir, you’re gas cap isn’t screwed on.”
Boy was my face red.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:11 am
Yabba Dabba Do-Me!
July 31st, 2009 at 7:07 am
Of course Tim and Eric were booed… because let’s face it, the humor of people like Dane Cook is much more hillarious!
Do I remember smurfs? HAHAHA I sure do Dane… I sure do.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:04 am
Yeah, fuck Twilight.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:59 am
This is why DragonCon clears the room in between large panels. We don’t allow camping like that.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:56 am
You’ve got nothing for Kling-on? Really?
July 31st, 2009 at 6:52 am
They booed because “The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” sucks.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:44 am
Now I’m not a big fan of Twilight, hell I’d go so far as to say I hate it. This isn’t a blind hatred though, I went so far as to read the first three chapters of the first book a few months ago for whatever reason. I didn’t like it, but then again it’s not written FOR me.
Now the main issue on nerd on nerd violence here is that these are fangirls. The lonely type who will spend hours on line talking about how often Harry pitches to Ron or just HOW sparkly the vampires are.
I then sat down and considered my passion for a man with a magic ring who punches aliens in the face with green boxing gloves or a man who takes pictures of himself in form fitting spandex for a newspaper.
I realized the only difference between us is that while they where more focused on how dreamy vampire wolf wizards where, I had engaged in a conversation mere hours ago if Dr. Strange could beat Superman. Comic issues where brought up, retcons where mentioned, canon was called into question and it is only now I realize how pathetic both groups are. Different kinds of pathetic, but pathetic none the less. And when I realized this I got depressed.
Then I heard a report of this Twilight group proclaiming their superiority because it won an MTV award. Fuck those guys.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:44 am
John C Reilly is the only good part of that show. God knows how they roped him into it.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:40 am
Twilight ruins whatever it touches. Including brain cells.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:39 am
I still had a good time but DOB is right on the money. Also I ran into my ex-girlfriend there…she was dressed like GIR…so yeah…comic con is a strange place and though we may hate its execution, it will always seem like a good enough idea (a year later) to make it appealing enough to go again and hope it will live up to its potential…kinda like any non-KoTOR Star Wars anything that came out in the last 20 years
July 31st, 2009 at 6:34 am
I guess Tim and Eric doesn’t really cater to the typical comic-con crowd…
But then again, neither does bathing or dating, so no skin off my back for loving the show.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:33 am
Tim and Eric are comic geniuses! “Use shitty editing techniques and just say ridiculous shit over and over again” should be rule number one in every comedic program. I mean it’s not funny when seventh graders do shit like this, but since two unattractive grown men are doing it that makes it fucking hilarious! Right?! Fuck Tim and Eric. [some weird synth beat] fuck-f-f-f-f-f-fu-fuck Tim and Eric. [kitten with wings horribly edited on] I’M A FUCKING SHIT YOUR PANTS LAUGHING GOLDMINE
July 31st, 2009 at 6:18 am
@Ren
Twilight does have its own Convention. Google Twicon 2009 if you don’t believe me. My sister, to my annoyance, would talk about it endlessly and is there sending me every picture of a sparkly vampire or Cedric Diggory she can come across.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:13 am
Spider, you’ll never feel like a nerd when you’re hanging out with fanatics.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:12 am
Tim and Eric IS horrible and should be booed whenever the opportunity arises, even when there is no opportunity and saying “Tim and Eric sucks!” would be totally random. I pay homeless people to yell about how that show is garbage.
AS would have more viewers if they dumped Tim and Eric and in their time slot showed 24 minutes of sloths fucking.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:09 am
It sucks but all Cons are starting to get like this. I used to love SPX in Bethesda, MD, but even that now is starting to get packed. And… I don’t know, I guess I’m just not that much of a nerd anymore. So many of the people at these Cons are just…well, annoying to be honest.
It’s also a flat out crime that no one was hanging out with Francis Yu. Fucking nerds.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:07 am
Hell, if Twilight gets it’s own convention I’m going dressed as David Bowie.. They’ll think I’m a sparkle vampire and I’ll have my pick of the 4 women of legal age.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:07 am
specter, I think she means the kid who played cedric diggory in the harry potter movie was also the dude in the twighlight movie…… ugh. nevermind, fuck this.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:45 am
I would punch so many vampire fucks right in the face if I missed out on the Futurama panel. I hope you punched a bunch of vampire fucks.
In short- vampires are fucking stupid. THE END.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:29 am
Uh, cher…not to sound like a nitpicky asshole, but I think you might just have a few details confused. You somehow combined two shitty stories into one mega-shit.
I’m sure you could find something like it in the internet’s dark, damp corner, though.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:08 am
COMIC-Con just seems like a place that isn’t right for, I don’t know, something that at no point was a comic. I mean hell, even all Star Wars and Star Trek have gotten their own comics at some point in history. Maybe I’m just a purist. Or maybe I hate being around pre-pubescent little girls that are trying to catch a glimpse of Cedric Diggory so that they can get bitten by him too. *pukes*
July 31st, 2009 at 5:07 am
Crap… so Dragon*Con’s probably going to be filled with Twilight, too.
July 31st, 2009 at 4:31 am
Eh, this is why I like the NYC Comic Con more, though that too is getting larger and more packed each year as well.
July 31st, 2009 at 4:21 am
Hahahhahahaha, great!
July 31st, 2009 at 4:18 am
That’s probably because Tim and Eric show is super annoying, and I suppose now I’m not the only person who thinks so.
Twilight fans should have their own convention, I think, because they’re way too rabid. Nerds are highly dorky and will get very excitable, but you rarely hear nerds shriek the way teenage girls do. Also I’m scared of girls.