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.
Tim
Voiced by: Steve Dildarian
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.
- Anti-Hero: Generally a type I, though at his worst he can be a type V.
- Audience Surrogate Tim tends to say what the audience is thinking.
- Bad Liar: Notoriously terrible at lying and yet always resorts to it when in a jam.
- Butt-Monkey: Everyone in Tim's world seems to actively try to take advantage of and/or humiliate him.
- Character Development: 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.
- The Chew Toy: Something bad is guaranteed to happen to him in every single episode.
- The Comically Serious: A large part of the humor comes from how straight-laced Tim remains as the world unravels around him.
- Comic Trio: With Stu and Rodney, where he of course plays the straight man.
- Deadpan Snarker: Tim deals with most of his problems through extremely deadpan sarcasm as opposed to actively trying to resolve them.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: Whenever Tim isn't the direct cause of his problem, he'll make it worse in an attempt to get out of it.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: A sign crushes Tim, most likely to death, in literally the last second of the series.
- The Everyman: Tim is more or less the perect "average Joe" archetype.
- Extreme Door Mat: Part of Tim's problem is that he lets everyone walk all over him.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Stu, for some reason.
- Informed Deformity: 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.
- In-Series Nickname: His coworkers call him "Tim the idiot".
- Jerkass to One: 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.
- Loser Protagonist: 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.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Tim reacts to dying the same way he reacts to all other inconveniences: mild annoyance.
- Mistaken for Gay: Tim gets mistaken for a gay man pretty frequently.
- No-Respect Guy: 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.
- Odd Friendship: Not only does he get along extremely well with Debbie the Prostitute, but their friendship is also probably the most loyal one Tim has.
- Platonic Life-Partners: With Debbie the prostitute, who he fails to sleep with after hiring for the first time but continues to go to for advice.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Stu and the Boss' red.
- Ridiculously Average Guy: You can't get more average than Tim.
- Status Quo Is God: 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 Amy leaving him, losing his job, and dying, the first two of which are resolved about an episode later.
- The Stoic: Tim keeps the same deadpan expression on his face at all times and generally never goes anywhere beyond "mildly annoyed".
- Straw Loser: Tim is never allowed to succeed.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: 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 Friendship Moment, 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.
- Tooka Level In Jerkass: As the show progresses.
- Unfazed Everyman: 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.
Amy
Voiced by: MJ Otto
Tim's long-suffering girlfriend.
- Butt-Monkey: 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.
- Extreme Door Mat: To a certain extent. While she gets angry at Tim essentially Once an Episode, she stays with him barring a short story arc throughout the series. Even then, it was partly through strong encouragement from her parents.
- Informed Attractiveness: 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.
- Jerkass: Although considering the kind of stuff Tim puts her through, it's justified.
- Not So Above It All: 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 Trigger-Happy; 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.
- Only Sane Man: Perhaps more so than Tim himself.
Stu
Tim's friend and co-worker from OmniCorp.
- Butt-Monkey: 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.
- Laser-Guided Karma: 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.
- The Stoner: He reveals that he has been constantly stoned for the fifteen years he has known Tim for.
- Toxic Friend Influence: 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.
Rodney
Another one of Tim's co-workers.
- Butt-Monkey: Similarly to Stu in that it is not frequent, but when he's significant in the plot, bad things happen to him.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: 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.
The Boss
Tim's self-absorbed and jerkish boss.
- 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.
- 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.
- No Name Given: Always called (even in the intro) as "The Boss".
- Pet the Dog: When he believed that Tim was raped by a bum, he treats it surprisingly serious.
Debbie
A prostitute and one of the few people in the series that Tim has a positive relationship with.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Once seeing how nice Tim is, she is shown to be a frequent ally to Tim and helps him on occasion.
