So if you have yet to see the show, you might want to go do that-it’s streaming on Netflix right this moment, with an average episode length of about 16 minutes, so you can finish it in under two hours, and our words will still be here when you get back-lest we spoil some of the fun for you. Part of I Think You Should Leave’s charm is the unpredictability with which its sketches, initially appearing to be one thing, actually turn out to be another altogether. ![]() And it also offered him up as a man full of regret for his days as a piece of shit, which included regular trips to a restaurant where he and his crew would enjoy “sloppy steaks” - aka regular steaks with water dumped all over them - much to the dismay of the wait staff.If you have yet to watch Netflix’s latest and greatest sketch comedy show, Saturday Night Live alum Tim Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave, might we ask what you are doing? The Lonely Island-produced six-episode series, which debuted on April 23, is already bordering on cult-hit status, and if your friends and family failed you by neglecting to tell you of its goodness, then allow us to … succeed you. Season Two, for instance, gave us Robinson as a man on a business trip who stopped eating so he could spend his entire per diem on shirts at a local clothing store, insisting that their complicated patterns made them hugely valuable. George Carlin, for instance, once wished he could walk into a crowded party and scream, “I’ve been thinking about having my testicles laminated!” (The more family-friendly version: Ray Romano suggests saying, “Give me back my fudge suitcase!”) I Think You Should Leavetakes the concept even further, repeatedly showing its characters fixating on a concept that no one has ever heard of, usually with good reason. There’s a tradition in stand-up where comedians talk about their fondness for phrases no one has ever said before. People who are obsessed with a thing that is not a thing - until sometimes, it is. Maybe the best example of this was the Season One sketch where Robinson’s “Honk If You’re Horny” bumper sticker inspires an irrationally engorged driver to follow him everywhere - including to a funeral - honking and beeping the entire time. The other variation - and there’s an excellent example of this in the new season involving Robinson and Jason Schwartzman - has one character tell a mild joke, followed by another character taking the idea of that joke intensely seriously, usually for a very long time. And even in such a small amount of screen time, the series has established many different and unmistakable variations on the idea of taking things too far. Combined, that’s maybe only a little more than two episodes of Ted Lasso, yet ITYSL has become one of the most beloved, and by far the most memed, comedy series of the last few years. The series, created by Robinson and Zach Kanin, has only produced 18 episodes so far, counting the six that premiered on Netflix today, and all of them clock in around 15 minutes. ![]() But then again, most of these characters would not have enough self-awareness to recognize this particular flaw, and pointing it out to them would only lead to more arguing and wrangling. This line could be part of pretty much every ITYSL sketch, both in this new season and in the two previous ones, since every bit on the show is in some way or other about people who take things too far, usually in a hyper way. In the second sketch of the third season of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, one character admits, “I just take everything way too far! I got too hyper.”
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