Sitting at the upper end of what could be reasonably termed a “cult hit”, I Think You Should Leave was that rarest of things: a sketch show where the hits far outnumber the misses where many of the misses were in fact hits by stealth, striking you obliquely but resoundingly on repeat viewings. This may surprise some of those familiar with I Think You Should Leave, his Netflix sketch show whose heady mix of social dysfunction, pedantry, absurdity, humiliation and beet-red rage seemed to evoke the manic, internet-poisoned headspace of modern life better than pretty much anything else. Say no more.Tim Robinson isn’t on Twitter. Zach said, 'That guy hates everything that's not motorcycles,'" Robinson says. "We were walking down the street and we saw this guy, who looked like a motorcycle guy, yelling it a bus. Motorcycles (Episode 2) - A quickie about a group of motorcycle enthusiasts from outer space was inspired by writer Zach Kanin. Charades (Episode 3) - Tim Heidecker, who knows a thing or two about oddball sketch comedy, shows up as a jazz enthusiast whose references are a bit too obscure (shout out to "The Colgate Comedy Hour") for his fellow party guests.ġ6.
Whoopee Cushion (Episode 2) - A co-worker prank - the forced awkwardness of office culture is a recurring "I Think You Should Leave" theme - goes bad in this sketch that illustrates how embarrassment can quickly morph into rage.ġ5. "I like to see his face going around the internet."ġ4. "I really like how much people enjoy Ruben," Robinson says. Focus Group (Episode 3) - One of Robinson's proudest moments from the show is this sketch, which made a meme out of character actor Ruben Rabasa, who plays a man in a focus group with really bad ideas for what should go into a vehicle. The Night the Skeletons Came to Life (Episode 5) - In this riff on star-making moments in music industry biopics, a Johnny Cash-style singer's breakthrough is frequently interrupted by his bandmate's improvised tune about an army of resurrected skeleton warriors.ġ3.
"We did that one early on, and when we did it, I knew it had the feel and the tone we wanted to set for the show."ġ2. "That was the one where we started to figure things out," says Robinson. It begins with an awkward party guest making sure his friend appreciates the birthday gift he's given him and quickly morphs into something else entirely, and demonstrates the way you're never quite sure the show is heading. is this exercise in absurdity, which keeps doubling down and getting stranger as it goes on. The Gift Receipt (Episode 1) - The sketch that best represents "I Think You Should Leave's" M.O. The 20 Best "I Think You Should Leave" Sketchesġ. If you haven't already seen "I Think You Should Leave," now's a good time to dive in there's no where to leave to anyway. In celebration of the show's first anniversary, we ranked "I Think You Should Leave's" 20 best sketches, and had Robinson, 38, chime in with his thoughts on a few of them. Every episode has between four and six sketches that are just a few minutes in length.
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The 6-episode series is a rapid-fire binge watch installments are roughly 15 minutes each, so the whole thing can be viewed in about 90 minutes.
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