You know what I love? Joy! Something that brings me joy is knowing that other people can feel the same level of joy I do when consuming media. A good ballet showcase also brings me joy, but that is besides the point. When I initially finished season one of Netflix’s original sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave, With Tim Robinson, joy was the only concept on my mind. When it became apparent more people also really loved the show, the joy turned into elation.
For those not in on SNL alum Tim Robinson’s sketch series, you need to be. The trailer for the third season was just released and soon it will arrive on Netflix. Never has there been a better time to get in on a new comedy series, than literally right now.
Not every sketch is everyone’s brand of humor, but they are all mine. Today I will be listing six of my favorite sketches from Tim Robinson’s incredible sketch show, I Think You Should Leave. Normally I would do five, but I am indecisive, and I love this show.
Tim Robinson in the Netflix original sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave. Image provided courtesy of Netflix Studios.
Honorable Mentions: They Moved Lunch, The Hot Dog Car, and She’s Eating all the Fully Loaded Nachos. No, I won’t elaborate on what those are. Watch the show for yourself. Also, to be clear, these are my favorites and not the objectively best ones. Alright, let’s have some fun by starting with:
#6: Honk if You’re Horny
For many people, myself included, this is an introduction to Conner O’Malley. O’Malley is a semi frequent collaborator with Tim and possibly the most irreverent comedian working today.
The premise of this sketch is simple: Conner O’Malley NEVER stops honking his horn. The classic gag bumper sticker causes major backfire for Tim. Eventually the joke spirals into the best musical moment of the entire series so far. I won’t say how the sketch ends, but I would legitimately classify it as catharsis. While the majority of Tim’s skits kind of just end, I think this is a special exception since it all wraps up nicely after the mania and honking.
Conner O’Malley in the Netflix original sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave. Image provided courtesy of Netflix Studios.
What really makes this sketch so great is Tim’s growing frustration and Conner’s drive to get what he needs. It all culminates in a weirdly beautiful, definitely strange, pretty awesome, and kind of dark musical moment.
#5: Driver’s Ed. Class
Oh man, this one is just so great. In true Tim Robinson fashion everything starts fine. The situation is fairly normal and then everything is chaos. In this case we are in a driver’s education class. Tim is the instructor showing a video on road safety but the contents of the video itself are where it all goes south.
The woman in the video, Patti Harrison, is distraught because her tables are a mess. What do the tables mean? What is her job? No one knows, but it’s the only thing that matters.
It is kind of hard to describe what makes this sketch so great without listing every second of it. Tim putting different levels of frustrated emphasis on the word “Tables” is great. Every student having different problems with the videos is funny. Patti Harrison makes this thing tick and probably wouldn’t be as funny without her. This sketch is so good.
#4: Calico Cut Pants
To me, “Calico Cut Pants” might be Tim’s most perfectly structured sketch. If anything, this skit proves to me that Tim could even make entire anthology episodes on a single basic idea.
“Calico Cut Pants” take a bit to explain so I won’t bother, but what makes it all so great are the layers. The whole idea of the pants is so stupidly funny it gets me every time. Conner O’Malley makes every single skit he’s in better. AEW wrestler Brodie King shows up and literally screams for a while- it’s awesome. If Mike “The Rock” Davis was real I would absolutely buy pants from him.
On top of the ridiculous plot, this bit is super quotable. “You gotta give” is the biggest line, but there are some other fantastic quotes here. “You wore that dress yesterday” is one I frequently say. “I’m basically a dead man walking” is so strangely funny in this context.
Give this one a watch and have a good time with it like I do every single time.
#3: Ghost Tour
Alright look, it is going to be hard to describe this one without repeating all of the obscenities. The premise is simple: a guy takes an adult ghost tour and asks the guide some gross questions. Every question is about the ghosts that haunt the mansion, but they also contain some language I’m not comfortable writing here.
Admittedly, this is actually my most quoted sketch of the whole show so far. It is just so weird and simple that it all makes sense to my brain and makes me laugh. Personally, the end makes me kind of sad but nevertheless I still really enjoy this. I would go as far as to say that if I was on this tour with Tim I would be thoroughly entertained. Maybe that’s my immature brain talking but it is so funny.
What works the most for me in all of this is Tim’s delivery. At first it may seem like a joke but the longer he goes on the more real this is. By the end it feels like a time bomb is about to go off and the blast radius is huge.
I will link the sketch below. If by some miracle you have not seen this one yet and want to see Tim’s simplest work- here it is. If this is not your bowl of gazpacho soup, I understand, but it is mine.
#2: Dan Flashes
Currently sitting in my closet is a Dan Flashes shirt. It was gifted to me by my girlfriend for our one-year anniversary. “What is a Dan Flashes shirt,” you demand to know? Remember those moving pipe screen savers from early 2000’s Microsoft computer screens? It is an entire shirt of that.
I sincerely hope I have been able to convince you that this show means so much to me at this point. “Dan Flashes” is a two part skit so far but I sincerely hope it becomes a three parter.
Both parts have basic premises just like everything else. Part one is about a guy in a business meeting wearing a Dan Flashes shirt laying on a couch. He gets into a shouting match with a coworker and chaos ensues from there. The quotability in this is all over the place. I’m fairly certain I can quote this whole thing down the smallest whisper or breath.
Part two is a commercial for The Shops at The Creeks, where the man gets his Dan Flashes shirts. The commercial starts off quaint and kind of nice but then in come the shirts. Men swirling and ravaging just to figure out the end of the complicated patterns take this bit from a 3 to a 10. It is crazy.
What works the most for me within this sketch is how simply stupid it is. I know I have said simple, dumb and stupid a lot, but all of these are fairly easy to get behind. The name of the store is funny enough to me to put at least in the top three.
#1: Coffin Flop
When Season 2 began I thought everything changed the moment Tim got a hot dog lodged in this throat. I felt silly, foolish, and wrong because that was not the moment. Everything in my life was rearranged moments after the hot dog, when Tim revealed Corn Cob TV will be canceling the hit series Coffin Flop.
This was unknowingly the saddest day of my life, because after careful review, a show about people falling out of coffins is so funny.
From start to finish there is no way to predict what will happen next. Also, from start to finish- every word is quotable. Every moment is insanity. “It’s just body after body busting out of s*** wood” is a phenomenal line. This skit has slightly ruined my brain. Any time I see corn, corn on the cob, a coffin, the word “flop,” or the word “dinner”- I lose my mind thinking of this skit.
Dissecting “Coffin Flop” is like dissecting anything at all- it’s not very fun afterwards. Therefore, I am not going to, but what I will do is offer some advice when you watch this. Try to remember that you are watching the greatest piece of sketch comedy of the 2020s. I said it and I meant it.
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
Season 3 of Tim Robinson’s modern masterpiece has officially arrived. It feels like it has been a long time coming and finally it has returned to us all. Again, I do not think every skit will be everyone’s cup of gazpacho soup, but they are all mine. If you are still not at least somewhat familiar with this show, or even with Tim, then I think you should be. I Think You Should Leave, with Tim Robinson Season 3 is available now. Be sure to check back here at Respect My Region to see how it is!
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