I think one major aspect of Time & Eric is how excruciatingly frustrating it is to even just do the boring, status quo crap. Like, you’re just trying to do a simple cooking show, but the onion dip is blorping out of the bowl and getting all over your shirt. It shouldn’t be so hard to do the boring and expected, but somehow life is still a constant struggle, even when you try to “coast through” and it drives us all crazy, so we identify with Tim’s frustration (he always has trouble even speaking) and laugh.

The “Catherine” shorts always remind me of this “soap opera” style series we had to watch in high school Spanish class, which was very similar in it’s extremely dull dialogue and delivery.