The Complete Guide to Everything

The first episode of The Complete Guide to Everything was released on July 2, 2009.

In the "International Travel" episode, the hosts discussed the theft of Daniels' property, a bag containing an iPad, MacBook, and speakers. While some speculation was made during the episode about the possible culprit, no arrests were made.

An official iPhone application giving access to every episode, the TCGTE blog, the host's blogs, the host's Twitter accounts and a messaging facility is available on the Apple App Store.[1]

The first gathering of TCGTE fans took place at Porterhouse Brewery in Covent Garden, London in October 2010. The official TCGTE website refers to the gathering as "the first international meet up" of TCGTE fans.[2]

In 2014 it was featured in an article in The Independent, which described it as "banal... and brilliant!"[3]

Some of the show's recurring segments include:

• "Tim and Tom Solve Your Problems" – Introduced in the episode "Life on the Road", the hosts answer emails from listeners asking for advice. The topics typically pertain to advice relating to social behavior or relationships. Of all of the show segments listed, "Tim & Tom Solve Your Problems" (sometimes referred to as "TandTSYP") is the most regular and longest running.
• "Fifty Shades of Tim" – Introduced in the episode "Fears: Elevators". After many weeks of Tom attempting to get Tim to read Fifty Shades of Grey in order to do an episode on the book, Tom finally begins summarizing the book to Tim chapter by chapter over the course of several episodes. The segment was discontinued due to the excessively graphic nature of the novel.[7]
• "The Mundane Bucket List" – Introduced in the episode "Underwear", the "Mundane Bucket List" is a tongue-in-cheek take on a traditional bucket list. Each week, Tim and Tom take turns to propose something that they would really like to do before they die but would be considered by most people to be mundane.
• "The Gauntlet" – Introduced in the episode "Colon Health and Final Destination", the hosts run through a range of topic suggestions gathered from social media and forums. The hosts read through suggestions for future topics, often giving a quick opinion about the topic suggested. It was implied that topics that passed "the gauntlet" would go on to become future full length episodes, however the hosts have since announced this was never their true intention. The segment was later discontinued.
• "You're Awful" – Introduced in the episode "Public Services (Or An Excuse To Talk About Poop)", the hosts drew on reports from listeners of instances where they had pointed out to a member of the public that the behavior they had seen that person exhibit was unacceptable by saying "You're Awful"; as clarified in later episodes, the aim of the segment was to encourage listeners to point out to those people who should, and in fact do, know that the behavior is unacceptable in a social setting but have developed (often without realizing) a sense of being "above the rules", with businessmen and old ladies being specific examples cited. Over the course of several episodes, the segment morphed and began drawing on articles from The New York Times for further examples of "awful" behavior. The segment is also referred to as "A Particular Kind of Asshole You Didn't Know Existed Until The New York Times Pointed It Out To You." The segment recurs on an irregular basis.

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