/ Xeni Jardin / 9:36 pm Mon Aug 2, 2010

Tim and Eric: The Blues Brothers 2012

So this is what them Mayans was warning us about! Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are reportedly hard at work on Blues Brothers 2012. That's right. With Terminix. And in 3D. Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, yes I see the light.

(Photo courtesy Shannon Cottrel, LA Weekly / Thanks, Tim Heidecker!)

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  1. I’m sorry, I’ve tried to get in on the Tim and Eric whole post-ironic ironic thing and… they’re just not that compelling. I feel like I’m trying not to nod off during any one of their bits.

    1. Funny, that’s how I feel about Aykroyd and Belushi.

      If BB 2012 is for real, it’ll be awesomely-weird and I can’t wait. The Terminix bug-theme is throwing me off a little, though.

    2. All Tim and Eric posts should include this exact comment just to get the ball (t)rolling.

      Also, you used “compelling”. Tell me, on a going forward basis, does your interface pop?

  2. I hope and pray that this is just Tim and Eric pranking the press.

    For the love of God, you two, you’ve already ruined Adult Swim for me, keep your goddamn hands off the Blues Brothers.

  3. Eh… Oh, I dont know how should I feel…
    I DO like Tim and Eric and I DO love the Blues Brothers the same way I love chocolate and bacon, you can eat one at a time, but not together.
    Not together. Never.
    Oh God…

    2. I have had bacon and chocolate together… on a stick at the Wisconsin State Fair. It’s greasy, smokey, bacony, chocolately and sticky. It’s not an everyday kind of snack, but I enjoyed the experience.

      I liked Tom Goes to the Mayor and the Blues Brothers, then again, I like gin and I like egg nog, but not together.

  5. Hmmm, could be funny. Tim and Eric Awesome whatever remind me of Zappa’s 200 Motels, which when I was younger seemed pretty funny. But I tried to watch it a few months ago and it just couldn’t hold my attention.

    I’ll give Tim and Eric credit where I think it’s due, their current show is occasionally funny and wtf’ish, as opposed to Tom Goes to the Mayor. That show was an abomination and I’m surprised anyone in the industry would even return their phone calls after seeing it.

  7. Halloween Jack, Cara D, CLAVDIVS, VICTOR JIMENEZ, and toolbag, T&E now have their eye on you. Great job.

  9. I grew up watching SNL in the 70’s, so I’m the old get-off-my-lawn/things-were-better-old-school guy. And yet…

    Belushi and Akyroyd humor, for the most part, hasn’t aged well. In re-watching the original Blues Brothers, I have to say it’s just not that funny. It’s okay, and that’s about it. Same with most of the 70’s SNL skits, which were cutting edge at the time and now just ho-hum, with some solid exceptions (see the AV Club for some excellent recent reviews of old stuff).

    Tim and Eric? I love ’em. Much of their stuff sucks, some of their stuff is brilliant. Even if that ratio is 75:25, the brilliant stuff makes up for it. Will their humor be funny to me in 10 years? Two years? Maybe, maybe not. But for now?

    It’s the Tairy Greene Machine!

  10. sounds fantastic, apart from the extra $4 to darken and blur the movie so that it can better approximate the visual input that I receive all day every day.
    Isn’t anyone else bothered by this ridiculous trend? 80% of kids movies are coming out in 3D, implying that by the time my daughter is old enough to have tastes in movie entertainment, she’ll almost certainly be addicted to a feature that has nothing to do with storytelling, themes, characters, or anything meaningful. *sigh*

  11. Obviously a fake. Otherwise they’d be breaking their “forever” contract with Cinco.

  17. It’s 106 miles to ComicCon, we’ve got a full tank of Terminix, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.

  18. To all you Akroyd and Belushi haters: blasphemy. There was never a second Blues Brothers movie. It never happened. THE Blues Brothers movie is every bit as amusing today as it was back then.

  19. My lord, do they have to ruin everything just to be ‘new’?!? Obviously, they’re just out pubbing, but just the thought of a T&E movie…*gag*…I find it absolutely astonishing that they can get some serious actors on their god-awful show from time to time. Some episodes I can take, some I need some ‘plop, plop, fiss, fiss’ afterward and some I just downright beg for that 15 minutes of my life back. I mean, Tim looks like a decent, down-to-earth, nice guy, but Eric makes me want to make sure my 12-year-old daughter is in the house, preferably behind a bolt-locked door…Yikes!

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