Why weren't you watching Check it Out! with Dr. Steve Brule?

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Why weren't you watching Check it Out! with Dr. Steve Brule?

POSTED: Monday, June 21, 2010, 4:55 PM

Filed Under: TV

Love 'em or hate 'em, Philadelphia natives Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have been responsible for the most subversive comedy on television for a while, and Check it Out! with Dr. Steve Brule is their bastard baby. More focused than Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (as if that holds much weight), Check it Out! is a spinoff that follows the talk show escapades of Dr. Steve Brule (John C. Reilly), a man of ambiguous, yet palpable, mental and social deficiencies.

Check it Out!, which aired the final episode of its first season (watch the promo above) last night, is the premonitory imagining of a communicative apocalypse — a complete breakdown of progress in thought, communication, style and taste. It's so viscerally bombastic that it provokes alarm almost as much as it does laughter, as if something so outrageous is actually happening might mean there's a chance that it's real.

Who knows? Maybe we're already there, and Check it Out! is just the ugly painting we've locked inside our attics all these years. What I can tell you is that these guys are smarter and more creative than you'd want to believe, and they're completely unencumbered by any sense of artistic restraint. While the 12-minutes episodes are finished for the foreseeable future, Adult Swim has vids up online, including the fourth episode, "Health."

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