* AluminumChristmasTrees: The term ''Pep-Pep'' is a real term used in Pennsylvania where Tim and Eric are from.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Has its own [[AwesomeMusic/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob page]].
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Dr. Steve Brule, to the point he got his own spinoff.
** David Liebe Hart, a former public access host himself.
** Jim Heckler and Derrick Whipple, a pair of TotallyRadical 2000s-flavored counterparts to the main duo.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Has its own [[Funny/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob page]].
* HarsherInHindsight:
** Adherents of the [=QAnon=] conspiracy theory became convinced around 2022 that the ''Child Clown Outlet'' skits are [[InsaneTrollLogic legit evidence of a pedophile conspiracy]].
*** Outside of that, when the clips reappeared on Platform/TikTok in 2023, [[PoesLaw there were panicked and horrified comments asking if it was real]].
** Both InUniverse and out of it, all the jokes about Richard Dunn dying...and then he actually did.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80yjtJFf-v0 "The business world is changing at an alarming rate."]] Ray Wise, who stars in the "Business Hug" skits, would end up knowing first hand -- by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFVFTdBvYdU playing a Dow Chemical executive]] on Series/MadMen some years later.
** The Paul Rudd skit ''Celery Man'' features a guy saying things to his computer using natural English to create computer generated images, up to and including a command to generate a nude dancer. As it so happens, MediaNotes/AIGeneratedArtwork is largely done by giving prompts in a natural language to the AI model, and [[TheRuleOfFirstAdopters NSFW media generation was one of the first things people experimented with using the tech.]] Also like the skit, it would be primarily used for dumb pointless forms of entertainment, rather than anything meaningful.
* HollywoodHomely: Averted. Part of the show's surreal look comes from casting average-looking people as actors.
* MemeticMutation:
** "Sports!"
** "Now think about your dad. What's ya dad like? I wanna ''meet'' that dad."
** [-It's free real estate!-]
** Spagett!
** The moment in the "Universe" sketch when Eric's [[https://screenrant.com/tim-eric-show-mind-blown-gif/ mind gets blown]].
** "For your health!" It was to the point where people were disappointed John C. Reilly didn't say it when he was in the first ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' movie [[ActorAllusion as an allusion to the Brule character]].
* NauseaFuel: OnceAnEpisode, without exaggeration. For instance, the final sketch of the whole show involves multiple people dying from drinking ''unpasteurized male breastmilk.''
* OnceOriginalNowCommon: As with Creator/MontyPython, the show's style was shocking and unusual to see on national television at first, but its [[StylisticSuck deliberate amateurishness]], '80s and '90s {{Retraux}} production design, and AntiHumor started to become copied in TheNewTens, especially online.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Yes, that is indeed Creator/TrishaPaytas as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHx4yt_QFnQ Eric's lady-of-the-night]] (at 0:58).
* ScreenToStageAdaptation: The "Muscles for Bones" episode was comprised from footage of Tim and Eric's live tour.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[StylisticSuck Totally intentional of course]].
* {{Squick}}: A very common and deliberate theme.
** As mentioned, the final episode, Tim and Eric grow horrifyingly swollen nipples that lactate yellow breastmilk.
** The show is really fond of closeup shots of mouths overstuffed with food, complete with squishing noises. The show adores employing disgusting slurping, squelching and crunching noises anywhere and ''everywhere'' it can. Special mention goes out to the scene near the end of “Friends” wher it shows a montage of different men with their mouths stuffed with raw hot dogs.
** The end result of "Helmet Touch" in the ''Sports!'' number involves severe brain damage, with [[VomitIndiscretionShot repeated shots of vomiting]] from ''multiple angles.''
** The "Boogs" song from the last ''Kid Break'' segment has Tim eating his own boogers because his father can't afford food. Tim's "only meal of the day" is ''crunchy''.
* UnintentionalUncannyValley: [[ShowWithinAShow ''Child Showcase'']], where little boys with the heads of Creator/PattonOswalt and Creator/RainnWilson sing dirty songs. The adult heads aren't proportional to the child bodies, and the [[StylisticSuck grainy video]] disguises the digital effects, making it look more real than it should, making the effect even more unnerving.
* VindicatedByHistory: If you checked multiple [adult swim] forums in the late 00's and the early 10's, [[VocalMinority you'd think that it was the most hated show on the channel]], and using it as proof of the rampant NetworkDecay of the time -- not helped by the show being apparently being AdoredByTheNetwork. Years later, it is now considered a CultClassic, especially with its MemeticMutation (though arguably crossing over with OnceOriginalNowCommon). It helps that the show helped paved the way for overall favorite, ''Series/TheEricAndreShow''. [[OldGuardVersusNewBlood That being said, the show does help gauge the age difference between audiences]], with Millenials and Zoomers being the biggest fanbases of ''Tim and Eric'', while older fans of [adult swim] being more divisive.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Tim And Eric particularly like hiring actors with strong accents for no particular reason, which just adds to the bizarre effect. They have particular appreciation for Scandinavian and Hispanic actors. In the sketch The Best Of Pusswhip Banggang, this trope is combined with OohMeAccentsSlipping, as the accent used changes for each song introduced.
* TheWoobie: The abuse Will Grello suffered from his father as a child is truly horrific, including being made to cook his own dog. In earlier seasons it was [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood supposed to be ridiculous and funny]], but as the show went on it became more and more realistic...and upsetting.
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