Line #52 Characters/TheLifeAndTimesOfTim


1	A work in progress list of Tim, his girlfriend, and all of the freaks he has to deal with on a regular basis. Feel free to contribute.
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3	[[folder:Tim]]
4	-> Voiced by: Steve Dildarian
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6	The twenty-something main protagonist. Tim is an unassuming white collar worker for "Omnicorp", a fictional corporation in New York City. Although well-meaning, he almost always finds himself in greatly embarrassing scenarios, often as a consequence of bad judgment or lying.
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8	* AntiHero: Generally a type I, though at his worst he can be a type V.
9	%%** ClassicalAntiHero
10	* AudienceSurrogate Tim tends to say what the audience is thinking.
11	* BadLiar: Notoriously terrible at lying and yet always resorts to it when in a jam.
12	* ButtMonkey: Everyone in Tim's world seems to actively try to take advantage of and/or humiliate him.
13	* CharacterDevelopment: While he remains relatively mild-mannered and spineless, Tim becomes slightly more assertive each season, making him more of a Jerkass Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist in the process. Doubles as Flanderization.
14	* TheChewToy: Something bad is guaranteed to happen to him in every single episode.
15	* TheComicallySerious: A large part of the humor comes from how straight-laced Tim remains as the world unravels around him.
16	* ComicTrio: With Stu and Rodney, where he of course plays the straight man.
17	* DeadpanSnarker: Tim deals with most of his problems through extremely deadpan sarcasm as opposed to actively trying to resolve them.
18	* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Whenever Tim isn't the direct cause of his problem, he'll make it worse in an attempt to get out of it.
19	* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: A sign crushes Tim, most likely to death, in literally the last second of the series.]]
20	* TheEveryman: Tim is more or less the perect "average Joe" archetype.
21	* ExtremeDoorMat: Part of Tim's problem is that he lets everyone walk all over him.
22	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Stu, for some reason.
23	* InformedDeformity: Tim is apparently incredibly ugly while in reality he is probably the most attractive or at the very least the least weird looking character on the show.
24	* InSeriesNickname: His coworkers call him "Tim the idiot".
25	* JerkassToOne: While Tim's a pretty well-meaning guy, he takes his relationship with Amy for granted on a regular basis, most famously hiring a prostitute on the day she brought her parents to their apartment in the first episode. Becomes more and more of one as time goes on.
26	* LoserProtagonist: Works a job where he is constantly pushed around by his workers, has friends who either drive him into making terrible decisions or leave him high and dry, has some of the worst luck imaginable, and ends up in extremely embarrasing and humiliating situations on a daily basis. It's so bad that even a ''homeless person'' refused to steal Tim's job because it was that demeaning.
27	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler:Tim reacts to dying the same way he reacts to all other inconveniences: mild annoyance.]]
28	* MistakenForGay: Tim gets mistaken for a gay man pretty frequently.
29	* NoRespectGuy: No one listens to Tim and they can do pretty much do anything they want with him. Though this is entirely due to how weak-willed and spineless Tim is.
30	* OddFriendship: Not only does he get along extremely well with Debbie the Prostitute, but their friendship is also probably the most loyal one Tim has.
31	%%* OnlySaneMan
32	* PlatonicLifePartners: With Debbie the prostitute, who he fails to sleep with after hiring for the first time but continues to go to for advice.
33	* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Stu and the Boss' red.
34	* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: You can't get more average than Tim.
35	* StatusQuoIsGod: If anything good happens to Tim, expect it to be gone by the end of the episode. Likewise, no matter how bad of a thing happened to him in the previous episode, Tim's life will return to normal by the next one. The only exceptions being [[spoiler: Amy leaving him, losing his job, and dying]], the first two of which are resolved about an episode later.
36	* TheStoic: Tim keeps the same deadpan expression on his face at all times and generally never goes anywhere beyond "mildly annoyed".
37	* StrawLoser: Tim is never allowed to succeed.
38	* ThrowTheDogABone: Due to his immensely terrible luck, ''any'' episode where Tim doesn't suffer from sort of humiliation by the end can be considered this. "Atlantic City" being the crowning example, where him and Stu share a genuine FriendshipMoment, Amy deciding to get back together with him after breaking up in a previous episode, and Amy's father agreeing to not tell Amy that he was hanging out with a stripper who looks exactly like his daughter.
39	* TookaLevelInJerkass: As the show progresses.
40	* UnfazedEveryman: No matter what situation Tim ends up in, he reacts everything with mild annoyance. From being accused of murder, to becoming a laughing stock, to possibly ''dying'', Tim reacts to everything with at most, mild inconvenience.
41	%%* UnluckyEveryDude
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43	[[folder:Amy]]
44	-> Voiced by: MJ Otto
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46	Tim's long-suffering girlfriend.
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48	* ButtMonkey: Despite faring well than most characters, she still ends up in many bad situations due to Tim's hijinks. Such as in "The Model from Newark" where she has urine sprayed on her face.
49	%%* DeadpanSnarker
50	* ExtremeDoorMat: To a certain extent. While she gets angry at Tim essentially OnceAnEpisode, she stays with him [[spoiler: barring a short story arc]] throughout the series. Even then, it was partly through strong encouragement from her parents.
51	* InformedAttractiveness: Amy is apparently way out of Tim's league, but while not quite as ugly as some of the other characters, Amy hardly looks like anything amazing.
52	* {{Jerkass}}: Although considering the kind of stuff Tim puts her through, it's justified.
53	* NotSoAboveItAll: As the series progresses, more of Amy's flaws is shown. Such as in one episode where Amy gets a gun and becomes a bit TriggerHappy; shooting their neighbor and even ''Tim'' by mistake. In 'The Sausage Salesman" her lie about Tim being rich from selling sausages spirals into her father now jobless and without pension.
54	* OnlySaneMan: Perhaps more so than Tim himself.
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56	[[folder:Stu]]
57	Tim's friend and co-worker from [=OmniCorp=].
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59	* ButtMonkey: Not always, but if the episode centers around him or if he plays a big part in it, his luck tends to be as bad as Tim's. Notably, it is shown a few times that his life is even more ''miserable'' than Tim's and that he possibly regularly cries in the employee bathroom.
60	* LaserGuidedKarma: In 'Amy Gets Wasted" after letting a drunk Amy kiss him (among other perverted actions) which would eventually snowball into Amy leaving Tim, Stu ends up crushed by a hot dog vendor's cart and hospitalized due to Tim's antics.
61	* TheStoner: He reveals that he has been constantly stoned for the fifteen years he has known Tim for.
62	* ToxicFriendInfluence: Of the unintentional variety. He doesn't mean harm to Tim, but most of his advice tend to drag Tim deeper into a bad situation.
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64	[[folder:Rodney]]
65	Another one of Tim's co-workers.
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67	* ButtMonkey: Similarly to Stu in that it is not frequent, but when he's significant in the plot, bad things happen to him.
68	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Both Tim and Stu have shown to not really care about him much but they still hang out with him occasionally. In "Rodney's Bachelor Party", almost ''none'' of his guests bother to show up other than Tim and Stu; the latter saying that even ''he'' did not want to come.
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70	[[folder:The Boss]]
71	Tim's self-absorbed and jerkish boss.
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73	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Boss has a rather... odd way of thinking. He often drags Tim into strange and degrading situations that no other boss would put on their employess. There is also the one time where he dragged Tim, Stu, and Rodney with him out to sea and become pirates all because he did not want his ex-wife to take custody of his dog.
74	* {{Jerkass}}: Smug, mean, and loves to put Tim down on a frequent basis while also being his go-to-guy for whatever scheme or issue he has that inevitably ends bad for Tim only.
75	* NoNameGiven: Always called (even in the intro) as "The Boss".
76	* PetTheDog: When he believed that Tim was raped by a bum, he treats it surprisingly serious.
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78	[[folder:Debbie]]
79	A prostitute and one of the few people in the series that Tim has a positive relationship with.
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81	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Once seeing how nice Tim is, she is shown to be a frequent ally to Tim and helps him on occasion.

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