![]() ![]() Who among us hasn’t come up with a fake excuse after being late to a social gathering? The problem for Robinson’s character in this sketch is that he backs himself into a corner by not just blaming a babysitter for his tardiness, but inventing a story that she was in a hit-and-run that wasn’t actually “a big deal” because she hit people who are “kind of like nothing.” The story doesn’t hold up under scrutiny, especially when a dude at the party named Barry keeps asking about it. (Tough beat for the horses, though.) This commercial parody is a bit lacking in the memorable character department, so let’s give a shout-out to the ridiculous sight of actual horses with tiny penis prosthetics, which I’ll merely link to rather than embed because I’m not trying to get fired. ![]() You see, Fenton’s exclusively breeds horses with micropenises, thereby satisfying an insecure consumer base. Men who love riding horses but also feel emasculated by the size of a steed’s schlong have the perfect solution with Fenton’s Stables and Horse Ranch. The Horses With Micropenises (“Fenton’s Stables and Horse Ranch”) And if you ever find yourself at the receiving end of a whoopee cushion, Robinson’s character is responsible for the best WTF clapback ever: “My farts are long, and way louder, and they REEK!” 27. (The sketch had five additional minutes trimmed from it #ReleaseTheWhoopeeCut.) But Robinson wrings real tension out of the situation, ensuring that no one is ever going to think about pranking him again. It’s one of the show’s weaker sketches, which would have benefited from being shorter or going on for so long that it loops back around to being funny again. The recipient of the “pink bag” (played by Robinson) first conveys genuine concern that he’s lost control of his bodily functions before turning on his colleagues because he can’t take-or it seems, understand-the joke. What was supposed to be an inoffensive office prank-putting a whoopee cushion on a dude’s chair before the start of a business meeting-immediately goes off the rails. The Whoopee Cushion Coworker (“Pink Bag”) I HOPE YOU FUCKING DIE, HARLEY JARVIS! 28. It’s an exhaustive ordeal, but like the characters of Robinson’s series, I have backed myself into a corner suggesting this idea to an editor, and the only way out is making content. In that spirit, we’re ranking the best characters from I Think You Should Leave’s first season, with one person (or Chunky) taken from each of the 29 sketches. But whether it’s a chaos agent refusing to back down from an unwinnable situation or the hapless schmoe caught in their way, each sketch has at least one standout character who burrows into your psyche-for better or worse. The show’s sketches live and die by its cast of eccentric characters, played by a combination of Robinson, cocreator Zach Kanin, frequent collaborator Sam Richardson, Saturday Night Live vets, legendary comedians, and even a 2021 Oscar nominee. It’s weird, wonderful, endlessly rewatchable nonsense. The Netflix sketch series, which has left such an impression that even politicians turn to it for memes, typically revolves around awkward social situations where a person refuses to acknowledge the error of their ways until the tension reaches some kind of absurdist breaking point, such as having multiple attendees at a birthday party eat gift receipts to determine whether paper or fecal matter from a Sloppy Mudpie™ was responsible for a stomach ache. (If you love the show and the NBA, boy do we have a niche Twitter account for you.) The juggling act of watching an older man recount his unhappy life, while a mid-life dullard claims that he's well-aware of these ear-piercing formalities and a perplexed child watches these two very odd spectacles helplessly, results in one of the show's boldest, darkest, but also most hilarious skits.To watch the first season of I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson is to be indoctrinated into a harmless yet exceptionally stupid online cult-one where “You have no good car ideas!” is an epic burn and “The Bones Are Their Money” is the hit song of the summer. The mix of comedy and sorrow is handled wonderfully by Richard Wharton's hollow-eyed performance, though the humor is also heightened by the inclusion of a vocally irate middle-aged man who loudly insists that he doesn't need to watch this video tutorial. It's a solemn, remorseful skit, one that's initially focused on a nervous little girl watching an educational video about ear piercing at her local Claire's before it takes a giant detour into the gravely dissatisfied life of Ron Tussbler, a 58-year-old wayward soul trapped in a loveless marriage, suffering from intense gastrointestinal distress, and filled with pangs of regret about the sad state of life. Admittedly, "Claire's" is a peculiar conclusion for I Think You Should Leave Season 2. ![]()
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