Any Awesome Show fan worth his salt knows the inherent difficulty in explaining it to someone who’s never seen it before, let alone convincing your parents or other non-internet generation elders what the fuck is going on and why it’s incredibly hilarious.

Luckily for us, internet blog human Cathy Fisher has done this very astute and fun write up of just why, academically, Tim and Eric is both funny, and much more like other comedy than people would like to believe. In a good way. Ch-ch-ch-check it out, and be sure to rewatch the red-band trailer for the upcoming Billion Dollar Movie and apply all that you’ve now learned.

- Whole Milk