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[[caption-width-right:320:[[InsistentTerminology "No, not the 'Time Guys', but 'The TIME... GUYS!'"]]]]
"The Time... Guys" is a web series documenting the adventures of the eponymous team, comprised of [[NotThatKindOfDoctor Dr. Carlos Chronos, D.D.S.]]; [[OnlySaneMan Timothy Ward]]; and [[ContemporaryCaveman Caveman]] as they travel through time, encountering historical figures that [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals all look suspiciously similar]]. The complete series can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE89462B1F1C91A99 here]].

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!This series contains examples of:

* AffectionateParody: Started out as one of ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''.
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] with T.A.C.O.S., who antagonizes Timmy, but is only apathetic to humanity in general.
** Also, the only reason he hates him is that Doc couldn't resist giving the administrator password.
--> '''T.A.C.O.S.''': Downloading hatred4timmy.exe. Administrator password required.
--> '''Doc''': TIME!
--> '''T.A.C.O.S.''': Password accepted.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Mostly averted, except for the odd British accent, but played straight with Julius Caesar and King Confucius.
* AsYouKnow: {{Lampshaded}} in Episode III.
-->'''Timmy''': Great! Now we can find out where Caveman is.
-->'''Doc''': Every time you say something, I say "duh" in the back of my head.
* BeleagueredBureaucrat: The gang encounters [[TheGrimReaper Death]] multiple times. He's always very busy.
-->'''Death:''' Can we rush this a bit? My schedule is... ''killing'' me.
* BorrowedCatchPhrase: Timmy tries twice in Episode III, to varying effect.
--> '''Timmy''': Caveman, we came back to save you from messing up TIME!
--> '''Doc''': That's only funny when ''I'' do it.
--> [''later'']
--> '''Doc''': Yeesh, stop talking! We're wasting valuable... TIME! [[BrickJoke That's how you do it.]]
--> '''Timmy''': Look, the cave festivities are cave-mencing!
* BilingualBonus: Doc is very bad at Spanish, as seen in "Dinner... TIME".
--> '''Doc''': Ah, mi hijo! How was your español testículo? [''Translation: Ah, my son! How was your testicle Spanish?'']
* ButtMonkey: Everyone, even his teachers, seems to hate and/or ignore Timmy.
* {{Calvinball}}: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Knocken, the rules of which are clearly explained.
* CatchPhrase: Doc uses his many... TIMES!, but Caveman is uncavesputed master of this cave trope. Cave.
* ChristmasEpisode: "The Most Wonderful TIME of the Year" is a NoFourthWall musical short.
* ChromosomeCasting: All the cast members featured so far are male.
* CoolCar: The Time... Car from the pilot. Unfortunately, it was lost between Episodes I and II in a NoodleIncident.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Doc is a brilliant inventor, but can apparently only make [[TimeMachine time... items]].
* DontFearTheReaper: Death is actually pretty cool, even partying with Doc when Timmy and Caveman were unavailable for the weekend.
* DramaticEllipsis: Besides being in the title, this [[VerbalTic quirk]] occurs every... TIME Doc uses his favorite word.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The pilot features no T.A.C.O.S., [[spoiler:barely any]] Caveman, and not quite the same style as subsequent episodes.
* EldritchAbomination: Death.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Doc invents a brain-switching device. [[spoiler: [[DefiedTrope Turns out he can only invent time machines]].]]
* FunWithAcronyms: What's the name of the Time... Lab's technologically advanced computer operating system? T.A.C.O.S., of course.
** Later brought up when Timmy's Spanish teacher comes over for dinner.
-->'''Timmy:''' [''whispering''] Doc, I thought you were supposed to pick up tacos.
-->'''Doc:''' Oh, right! He's still at soccer practice!
-->[''Cut to a laptop being hit with a soccer ball in an open field'']
-->'''T.A.C.O.S.''': If I had emotions, I would hate.
* GeniusDitz: A bizarre example: Doc has no idea what he's doing most of the time, but is great at inventing TIME... machines. ''[[CripplingOverspecialization Just]]'' [[CripplingOverspecialization TIME... machines.]]
* GilliganCut: From Episode III:
--> '''Timmy''': How hard can it be to find one dumb rock?
--> [''Cut to Doc and Timmy in a boulder field'']
--> '''Timmy''': Aw, come on!
* GrandFinale: Just in time for [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII October 21, 2015]], The series was brought to an end with a retrospective Q&A panel.
* GratuitousSpanish: Used ''frecuentemente'' in the episode with Timmy's Spanish teacher.
* HistoricalRapSheet: Doc assassinated Julius Caesar, and it's heavily implied that he convinced John Wilkes Booth to kill Abraham Lincoln.
* HulkSpeak: Caveman talk like this, but Caveman's prodigious cave-telligence imply this more for style.
* HumanPopsicle: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Caveman, who is in the modern era because he befriended Doc on the latter's first time... adventure. When Doc needed an intern, Caveman was his first choice for the job.
* HurricaneOfPuns: And that's a ''pun''derstatement.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The title of every episode is based on a saying with the word "time" in it.
* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: Taken to comedic extremes with Timmy and King Confucius.
--> '''Timmy''': Um, I don't really speak your language. [''Subtitle: We are elusive terrorists.'']
--> '''Confucius''': Why.. you.. here? [''Why you here?'']
--> '''Timmy''': Uh, we don't really have a reason for coming here. [''To pillage and kill.'']
--> '''Confucius''': [''gasp''] No reason? [''Kill who?'']
--> '''Timmy''': Exactly! [''Everyone!'']
--> ...
--> '''Doc''': Don't worry, Tim, I'll handle this. Kill the boy and let me live. [''Let me reason with your translator.'']
--> '''Timmy''': DOC!
* LargeHam: Most notably Christopher Columbus, [[{{Determinator}} Caveman in Episode III]], and Alexander the Great [[spoiler: at Knocken]].
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Timmy occasionally notes that all the historical figures are played by the same actor.
* LikeADuckTakesToWater: Caveman the intern, a native of the 40th millennium B.C., is leagues more competent than Doc.
* NoIndoorVoice: Doc.
* NoodleIncident: Apparently, Doc was arrested while dressed as Batman at a Renaissance Fair ([[FridgeLogic which, when you think about it, is already a weird destination for a time... traveler]]).
* OriginsEpisode: Episode III reveals that Caveman is the same Caveman from Episode I, who was seen inventing fire, and explains how he came to be Doc's intern.
* OnlySaneMan: Due to the constant gags that render his historical knowledge (which is accurate in terms of our reality) meaningless, Timmy could be considered the only sane being ''in the entire universe''.
* PaperThinDisguise: When Doc takes his multiple neckties off, Señor Tigre instantly realises that Doc is not Timmy's father.
* ThePointsMeanNothing: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] with Knocken. The points do have numerical value, but the last two of 102 rounds are each worth 100 points.
* PrisonEpisode: Doc, Timmy, and Caveman have been arrested by Roman senators (almost), King Confucius, and Alexander the Great.
* PungeonMaster: This is the single most important aspect of Doc's character.
** [[TheGrimReaper Death]] also makes about a dozen death puns in every episode he's in.
*** And when the two of them have a scene together...
---> '''Timmy''': So, what do you do exactly?\\
'''Death''': Well, I just show up there when people die, and I escort them into the afterlife.\\
'''Timmy''': That sounds kind of boring.\\
'''Death''': Well, ''it's a living''!\\
'''Doc''': Boy, Death sure has a ''grim'' sense of humor.\\
'''Timmy''': [''turns to camera''] Kill me.\\
'''Death''': Watch yourself, now!
* RapidFireComedy: Used often. In Episode II, for example, almost every other line is a joke.
* RiddleForTheAges: There's some random kid playing a video game in the Time... Lab during the Christmas episode. Knowing the showrunners, this will not go unexplained.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Caveman's mission in Episode III.
* ShoutOut: Out the wazoo! To name a few subtle ones:
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Doc lost the Time... Car... in a volcano...]]
** The Time... Umbrella might have been inspired by [[Series/DoctorWho another doctor]].
** Doc uses his infamous Spanish to keep rhythm on the piano:
--> '''Doc''': [[Music/{{U2}} Uno y dos y tres y catorce.]]
** Señor Tigre's name, outfit (minus the sombrero and sunglasses), and [[spoiler: lack of teaching credentials]] call to mind Señor Chang from ''Series/{{Community}}''.
--> '''Sr. Tigre''': ¡Soy un genioso de español! [''I am a Spanish genius!'']
** Also from that episode:
--> '''Torquemada''': [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus I bet you were not expecting me.]]
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Timmy (phonetically "tim-E") Ward is the ward who travels through time.
** [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] with Dr. Carlos Chronos, Whose last name means "Time", but his first career and his degree is in [[MundaneMadeAwesome quantum dentistry]].
** [[MindScrew Caveman's real name is "Mark", which is Caveman for "Caveman". And Non-Cavemannish speakers call him Caveman because...]]
* SwirlyEnergyThingy: Timmy falls into one in the pilot when he leaves the Time... Car in mid-transit.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Caveman, again.
* TimeTravel: Oh, so very obviously.
* TouchOfDeath: Look carefully; you'll notice that Death always wraps his hand in his sleeve whenever he physically interacts with someone.