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UPDATE: The new season begins November 18. Also, the first season will be released on DVD this spring.

Back in April, I told you thirty new episodes of Adult Swim's Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! had been ordered, and fans rejoiced. Now comes news from the boys themselves that the new season will kick off this November. They don't mention a specific date, but who cares, at least it's coming back.

I was a fan of Tim and Eric's work pre-Adult Swim, and loved Tom Goes to the Mayor, their first series for the network. Awesome Show, like Tom, samples from the same font of weirdness, but is also, like Tom, often much smarter than it seems. It is comedy dissected, turned inside out and gussied up in an oddball manner that makes some people fall in love with it and others hate it with a dark, unholy passion.

I'll admit I don't like it nearly as much as I loved Tom, and would be happy if Tim and Eric cut their mugging down by about half in each episode, but in a world of cookie-cutter comedy, it's nice to see one show daring to do its own thing, regardless of the confusion it might cause.

If you've never seen the series, or you're a fan and just want to enjoy some clips, I placed a few of my favorite bits from the first season below.