Tim & Eric  Tim & Eric—Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim—are an American comedy duo and creators of the Adult Swim television series "Tom Goes to the Mayor"; "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!"; "Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule," "Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories," and "Beef House." Heidecker was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania where he graduated from Allentown Central Catholic High School. Wareheim was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Methacton High School in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Wareheim and Heidecker met in 1994 at Temple University in Philadelphia, becoming instant friends and collaborators in creating short films and cartoon strips, creating TimAndEric.com, a website designed to display their comedic talents. A short film by the duo entitled "Tom Goes to the Mayor" was selected for screenings by the Philadelphia Institute of World Cinema and was included in The University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2001, the two compiled a tape of many of their shorts and submitted it to various comedic heroes, including Bob Odenkirk of "Mr. Show", who reacted to their work with enthusiasm and agreed to collaborate with them on a pilot of "Tom Goes to the Mayor". The pilot was submitted to Adult Swim who offered to turn the short into a series which ran on the network for two seasons. Their next project with Adult Swim was the sketch program, "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!", which ran for five seasons and established a cult following for the duo. They released a CD with music from "Awesome Show" entitled "Tim and Eric Awesome Record, Great Songs!" and in 2012 they released a feature film, "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie". The duo's work is known for its distinctive and often grotesque nature, typically featuring "bad fashions, worse hair, intentionally stilted line readings, takes that linger two seconds too long, and an intense attention to the tchotchkes and hobbies everyday people substitute for personalities." Their projects often feature amateur performers and intentionally crude or tacky production values inspired by low-budget advertising, public access television, and video art. Wareheim and Heidecker became the creators, writers, and stars of "Tom Goes to the Mayor", a limited animation series that was on the Adult Swim programming block on Cartoon Network. Wareheim and Heidecker had mailed copies of an early version of the show to comedian Bob Odenkirk, who agreed to take on the project as the executive producer of the series and sold it to Cartoon Network.