one of adult swim bumper call tgttm and . the most polarizing s @ % of a b . # $ ^ we have ever air and and they weren not just try to polish a turd by label it controversial . i simultaneously love and hate this show . while it be on and i couldn not wait for them to cancel it because i somehow know that i would like it more in hindsight . i do not like it a a straight up comedy and but it grow on me once i learn to see it a partly horror . the show follow the tom peter and the nice and most normal guy on earth . he just move to jefferton to try and make a living while make the world a good place and in spite of the town be populate mostly by degenerate mutant bent on torture him to death and his new wife and 3 stepson chief among them . other viewer will call mutant an exaggeration and but the fact that only tom be concern about the town be completely submerge from a broken dam in bass fishin make me think jefferton be a mid western innsmouth . as much a i hat the first season and i respect it for it uniqueness and take in every episode . and since see it and i have see more and more thing in everyday life that bring the show to mind and convince me that it really have capture the zeitgeist and from the nightmare of find a decent job in suburban america and to the stupidity and pretentiousness of local news programming and advertising in general . it also capture awkward moment without fixate on it like seinfeld . the funny part be little commercial and visual gag and like trough style breakfast flavor instant meal and satirize how fat be allow ourselves to get in the state . the basic pattern of each episode involve something terrible happen to tom and usually the entire town turn on him because he be the only one sane enough to foresee and try to prevent something terrible from happen . the mayor normally try to help tom and either accidentally of intentionally worsen the catastrophe of the week . so the recur theme of the show humor be misanthropy . now and this next statement might only convey that i have be spoil by live a nice and sheltered life in a first world country and but the reason this doesn not work be that misanthropy be only funny when people be randomly slaughter left and right ( robot chicken ) . the stuff that happen to tom on the other hand seem so plausible that it more horrifying than anything . the porcelean bird episode in particular put the entire 18 35 demographic on suicide watch for a half hour after it first air . the show get the viewer to empathize with tom so strongly and that in the second season and when several story see tom accidentally kill and maim much of jefferton and it become truly cathartic and hilarious and partly because tom be the last guy on earth who would hurt a fly and yet he truly deserves to eviscerate every last jeffertonian . i actually laugh aloud at jeffy when tom and pilot a fake sea serpent and crush several boatload of people and and later ( though not the last episode ) and we get our happy moment a tom be finally grant the sweet release of death and and take half the town with him . sure it imply he go to hell and but at this point it be make clear to u that any hell would be a step up from his life in jefferton . since cancellation and tim and eric awesome show great job have show that their sense of humor be more suited to a. d. d. sketch comedy ( robot chicken again ) and though i be still sometimes at a loss a to whether i want to laugh of just smack them . still and tom be so adept at mess with your emotion while mock our society that it worth watch once . and if nothing else and it make other unpleasant but good entertainment more enjoyable . try watch new york ripper right after an episode .