Matt Alex (Owen Thiele) opens a real Pandora’s box when he hires Stable of Stars to provide a celebrity impersonator for his friend Joanie’s (Annapurna Sriram) birthday party: As Robinson’s handler explains, his Johnny Carson impersonator (Monte Markham) is well within his rights when he hauls off and smacks Todd (Brandon Wardell) in the head, then proceeds to just wander around the party hitting people (and, at one point, a vase). “Joanie’s Birthday” (Season 2, Episode 5)
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Reggie claims he has a video to recommend, but “can’t remember how to search for it,” a failure that sends him spiraling in the sketch’s latter half, Reggie speaks up to volunteer a video-it quickly becomes clear that he not only made and uploaded this video himself for the sole purpose of currying favor with them, but has also completely misunderstood their (or anyone’s) idea of comedy: “bozo dubbed over” is just black-and-white footage of Bozo the clown, set to an obviously Reggie-recorded voiceover made up of non-sequiturs like, “Oh fuck, what the fuck, I’m not even supposed to be here, I hope I don’t jack off.” Both the video and whole sketch are laugh-out-loud funny-just not for the reasons Reggie thinks. This episode six two-parter, centering on a group of 9-5’ers killing time before a meeting, finds Robinson’s Reggie struggling to keep up with his millennial coworkers (played by Akaash Yadav, Brandon Wardell and Melody Peng), children of the internet who rattle off funny YouTube videos from memory. 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.
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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.
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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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