Welcome to the world of On Cinema! If you're reading this, we're guessing you're unfamiliar with the show, so let's give a quick rundown!

On Cinema at the Cinema is a long-running movie review show hosted by Tim Heidecker with frequent guest appearances and creative input by Gregg Turkington. With weekly reviews, celebrity appearances, fun segments, and an annual Oscar Special covering the Academy Awards, it's the #1 place for movie criticism and expertise.

Though, that's not exactly true.

On Cinema is a comedic soap opera formatted as a movie review show. It follows its two egotistical hosts as they vie for creative control of the show, ignoring the blatant lack of episode quality that their arguments engender. Their movie discussions are superficial, usually ending with both giving whatever movie discussed a perfect 5 bags of popcorn rating. Through their ineptitude, they and the people around them suffer misfortune after misfortune, always coming back each week out of necessity.

Tim, the creator of the show, has only a surface level interest in movies, having most likely only started the program for attention. His lack of interest leads him to focus more on injecting his other interests into the program, including conservative politics, vanity projects, and blatant scams. However, On Cinema is his only creation that has shown any notable results, and so he continues to host the show, season after season, his interest in movies getting smaller and smaller each passing episode.

Gregg, his co-host, (though Tim will never admit to it,) is driven by two things: his love of movies, and more importantly, his need to be seen as important to the movie industry. Despite knowing little more than (and sometimes even less than) Tim about movies, he considers himself an expert on them, and an archivist, due solely to his horde of cheap VHS tapes. He will smugly dismiss anyone else who dares to try to encroach on his domain of movie knowledge, which amounts to little more than back of the box trivia. However, Gregg is incredibly inept at actually running a production, and any episodes he has creative control over is plagued with budget issues, poor editing, and is generally unwatchable.

Tim, unable to move away from On Cinema, needs Gregg on the program to talk about movies. Gregg, unable to get anything off the ground without Tim's resources, continues to make appearances to demonstrate to the public his “expertise”. Neither can stand the other, but neither can run a show without the other.