![]() While honoring Herbie Hancock (who, if you can believe it, does not appear as himself) with an award, Robinson’s mustachioed presenter focuses the opening moments of his speech not on the music man of the hour, but on the audience member’s (Judy Kain) service dog that he claims bit him on his way to the stage. “Lifetime Achievement” (Season 1, Episode 4) I Think You Should Leave is nothing if not a comedy of unforced errors.ĥ0. It’s not much, but if you love to see Robinson’s dorky earnestness turn to determination bordering on derangement as he wrenches the door open, forehead vein throbbing and drool dripping, while his would-be employer (Matt Cates) bears unblinking witness, you’re going to love what follows. Robinson’s character, having committed the common faux pas of pulling a push door while leaving a job interview, refuses to admit his mistake, sending an everyday situation nosediving into absurdity-a progression easily mapped onto most of the show’s sketches. The first sketch of the series is a basic, but effective introduction to I Think You Should Leave’s central motif-it’s literally an exit, after all. Tulving (Joyce Guy), and in the course of doing so, he gets way off-topic, suggesting that Jerry (the cartoon mouse) sniffs panties, messaging someone who’s trying to buy his bike stand online, and asks for “some time at home” so he can “look inside myself, be with my family and try new restaurants.” The sketch’s funniest lines are its last, when Luca discovers his hired gun Rodney (Marc Mazur) has a “wildly high” voice, but for the most part, “Dave Suit” will leave you, in Dave’s words, “just a little confused.” Luca (Robinson) tries to frame his coworker Dave (Jon Ryckman) for taking “huge, embarrassing dumps” in the office by hiring a lookalike, but gets caught-the sketch is him explaining himself to Mrs. One of the only sketches in the show that just never quite clicks, “Dave Suit” can’t seem to figure out what to do with its silly premise, and mostly just dances around it. That’s as close to a punchline as this sketch has, really-from there, it just sort of flails and then fizzles out. When the boss (Dwight Hicks) steps out of a work meeting, Paul (Hymnson Chan) hops up on the table and pantomimes surfing initially puzzled and resistant, his coworkers eventually get in on the fun, but when Russell (Robinson) tries to follow suit, he flips the table over (“Here comes a big wave!”) and injures multiple people. Push open the door (or pull, it does both) and walk right through for our full ranking of I Think You Should Leave.Īnother riff on how people kill time in the office a la “Bozo” (#44), “Big Wave” wasn’t worth the trip back to that well. People not wanting to be publicly embarrassed but also not wanting to admit that they’ve made a small mistake, and then taking it so far that it becomes a much bigger problem for them.” I Think You Should Leave is full of these problems, and we’re giggling unprompted just thinking about them. If you’re not yet familiar with the nature of that insanity, Robinson was kind enough to sum it up for us a little while back: “The themes are always quite similar. And before you know it, we’ll be forced to expand on this ranking, even, as Netflix just ordered a second season of Robinson and Zach Kanin’s wonderful brand of insanity. ![]() ![]() So we’re making good on that threat today, ordering all 29 of I Think You Should Leave’s sketches from slightly less great to greatest-in addition to adding in the show’s 19 other sketches, we’ve also shuffled our top 10 around a tad. It wasn’t enough to merely present our picks for the show’s 10 best sketches, a piece in which we threatened to give the whole dang show the ranking treatment. Netflix’s I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson is, to quote Scott Wampler of ., “just a thing I watch every few days now.” The streaming sketch-comedy series debuted in late April, instantly becoming one of 2019’s best (new) shows, and we’ve been going back to that delightfully deranged well again and again since. Check out our ranking of all 53 sketches below! This ranking was originally published in June 2019, but we’ve updated it to include all of Season 2 for the new season’s July 6 Netflix premiere. ![]()
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