The confession is, that was me, adding those details meant texture. What I try to do a lot of the time is to make the jokes or pranks as four-dimensional as they can be. It's a little dangerous and a little fun what you can do with a phone in your hand. I don't think we caused any major damage or anything, but it's disruptive, and I like anything that can be a little disruptive.

Tim Heidecker

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Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Tim Heidecker

ideas

We use all the takes that no one would ever use and often the moments before we say action, or before we say cut. No one's ever called and complained or anything like that. Everyone's just so grateful to get the work and to be on TV and all that.

Tim Heidecker

grateful cutting action

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

Tim Heidecker

new-music

Just because we can shoot something that looks like a movie doesn't mean we should. Sometimes if something looks too good, it's not funny. Some things need to look good, because we think it's funny that you'd spend so much time and be so precious about such a stupid idea.

Tim Heidecker

stupid mean thinking

There's probably some buried conservative inside of me, coming out like a little gremlin in my belly that I've suppressed. This is a sort of character I've done before: He's kind of dumb and he's kind of arrogant, and a little seedy. A little coke-y. He's gotten into the cocaine or he's had too much coffee. It's been pretty fun. Not all the songs are like that but it sort of creeps in there.

Tim Heidecker

coffee song fun

A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.

Tim Heidecker

rocks guitar play

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

Tim Heidecker

wells intelligent choices

Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.

Tim Heidecker

writing

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

Tim Heidecker

expressive emotion thinking

It's never fun to read death threats.

Tim Heidecker

threat fun

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

Tim Heidecker

junkie political littles

When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.

Tim Heidecker

jokes people

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

Tim Heidecker

hipster hate

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

Tim Heidecker

dope people school

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

Tim Heidecker

not-trusting skeptical entertainment

The thing that struck me is so many people that said, "Hey, I've been watching you since I was 12, and I'm 25 now." It was a weird shift, because you start off fighting for an audience based on doing something so strange that only you find funny, and it's weird when other people find it funny. Those people aren't always ready to laugh yet, and there's a sort of standoffish quality to it.

Tim Heidecker

fighting laughing people

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

Tim Heidecker

bob musical hero

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

Tim Heidecker

eric ridiculous world

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

Tim Heidecker

personality fun school

When you travel, specifically for our show, you get inspired by rest stops, Cracker Barrel. Middle-America people are perfect.

Tim Heidecker

inspired perfect people