He's definitely a substitute for the audience. I've always though that Brent is the guy who wants to be a sitcom character, Gareth is the one who is a sitcom character and Tim is the one who realises he's in a sitcom (hence all he looks of bafflement that this is actually happening)

@ Cliffclaven - it feels wrong to talk about the canonicity of a sitcom but if you take Brent's appearences in the US Office as canon then yes, it is doomed to fail. He mentions in his job interview that he is single.

"The episode where he gives that motivation speech to a night school class was on BBC America about a year ago and had to stop halfway through because I couldn't do it— sometimes it's the anticipation more than actually watching it for the first time."

Jurassic Pork.

@ The Mildly Perturbing Dormammu - yes, it does just end. The film is split between a 90 minute chunk of set-up and weird humour (it's bizarre chucking a bunch of high calibre actors with Coen Brothers sensibilities into the hyper world of a Bay film and, tone-wise, Malkovich, Tuturro and Jeong leave it completely…

The Town's the only one where Hamm's name or image is used as a selling point in the advertising (being in the trailer for Bridesmaids doesn't count, those clips are there because they're funny, easily sellable jokes, not because they think seeing the guy from mad Men will sell more tickets. Isn't he uncredited in…

His staring down of the documentary crew was my favourite part of the whole finale.

Around season 3 or 4 they figured out how to use AJ as dumb, clueless comedy and it worked brilliantly. Anytime he had serious stuff to do it wasn't so good - which got more in 5 and 6 - but I always found his idiotic dipshitness hilarious. Of course that was mostly due to Tony's reactions to it. Even SEASON 6…