It's been a miserable fall, filled with lame new shows and disappointing returning shows. One bright spot, however, has been HBO's animated The Life & Times of Tim. It's reminiscent of Curb Your Enthusiasm, with Tim, the relatively normal guy, finding himself in more and more outrageous, embarrassing situations. Like what happens when your girlfriend comes home with her parents and finds you on the couch with a hooker, who you called by accident when you were trying to call an electrician and asked for "back-door action." Or when Tim fights an old man and accidentally intimidates him to death. Or when your boss orders you to take the blame when his dog poops on the office floor. You know, situations that you or I come across every day.The animation is rough, but the dialogue is hilarious. Affable and terminally perplexed Tim is joined by his forever frustrated, incredulous (yet eternally forgiving) girlfriend Amy; Debbie, the hooker with the heart of gold who favors assless stretch pants and who Tim comes to for awful advice; co-worker Stu, whose attraction to the heartless office HR woman is just a recipe for disaster; and The Boss, who can beat even Michael Scott on the bad-boss-o-meter.
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