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That's a nice motorcycle.

Back away, banana breath. What the hell did you just eat? A banana?

No, I don't know how to fucking drive. I don't know what any of this shit is, and I'm fucking scared.

I have so much stuff on my phone. Music, apps, games, obviously. A medieval game, obviously. Obviously a jousting game. I have no problem being on my phone for hours and hours. I love my phone. I even have an alarm on my phone.

Bigger than a horse's? I like the sound of that.

Look... we will stay married and raise the kids until they're out of the house, but I will not respect you, and I'll make sure the kids don't either.

I found this badass store called Dan Flashes, that's my exact style.

They're saying they want to drop Corncob TV because we showed over 400 naked dead bodies on our show Coffin Flop. If you love Corncob TV shows, it's time to tell Spectrum, "No."

My life is nothing I thought it should be and everything I was worried it would become because for 50 seconds, I thought there was monsters on the world.

Well, you parked your car over the sidewalk. Where I was walking. So I crawled under your car and my ponytail got stuck. Now I got a car stuck in my ponytail and I'm fucked! And I need a little help.

You flinched, Paul! Now you have to marry your mother-in-law!

His father didn't need to do the oral. And that is why this is so tough... for me to tell about the oral.

My date's eating all the fully loaded nachos. All the ones with the meat and cheese and everything, the ones that are fully loaded, she's hogging them, so I'm mostly getting just, like, just chips. Like mostly just chips, like nothing on 'em, but, like, a little bit of cheese and maybe one little nugget of meat.

You sure about that? You sure about that's not why?

He finished shaking. Those ain't piss dots. That's got nothing to do with piss.

I don't even want to be around anymore.

Triples makes it safe. Triples is best.

Slapping down some pig shit with these fat fucks, and I'm the fattest of them all. If I died tomorrow, no one would shed a tear. Load my fricking lard carcass into the mud. No coffin, please, just wet, wet mud... bae.

I've seen every cock on the planet. I've seen everyone naked.

It's got a bush? What the hell?

55 burgers, 55 fries, 55 tacos, 55 pies, 55 Cokes, 100 tater tots, 100 pizzas, 100 tenders, 100 meatballs, 100 coffees, 55 wings, 55 shakes, 55 pancakes, 55 pastas, 55 peppers, and 155 taters.

The bones are the skeletons' money. In our world, bones equal dollars. That's why they're coming out tonight to get their bones from you. The skeletons will pull your hair. Up, but not out. All they want is another chance at life. They've never seen so much food as this. Underground, there's half as much food as this and the worms are their money. The bones are their dollars.

I almost killed myself, Julie!

You think this is slicked back? This is pushed back.

One time she drank a jar full of mucus just so she could get a backpack.

Sometimes I put my dad in JibJab videos so he's alive again.

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The 12 Funniest Sketches From 'I Think You Should Leave' Season 2

The tim robinson sketch masterpiece is back for round two and it's just as brilliant as the first..

Published on 7/7/2021 at 6:16 PM

At long last, Netflix has finally given us  I Think You Should Leave  Season 2, a second batch of brilliant sketch comedy starring Tim Robinson. The six new ITYSL episodes are just as gloriously absurd as the six from Season 1 and avoid the trap of repeating bits we can now recite by heart . In other words, no one turns up wearing the much memed hot dog costume. Instead, Robinson, co-creator Zach Kanin, and their writers have figured out new ways to push every situation to uncomfortable extremes.

We encourage you to watch each and every minute of I Think You Should Leave —the episodes are very short. But if you have limited time right now and just want to watch the very best ITYSL sketches, here are the dozen from Season 2 that we think are the cream of the crop.

ALSO READ: The Best Sketches From I Think You Should Leave Season 1

Episode 1 The opening sketch of Season 2, in which an office drone (played by Robinson) has his lunch interrupted by an impromptu meeting, resulting in him surreptitiously chowing down on a hot dog hidden up his sleeve, is the perfect refresher of the I Think You Should Leave sensibility and house style. But the Corncob TV sketch, a faux-commercial making a plea to save the cable channel behind a show called Coffin Flop , in which (often nude) bodies fall out of rickety wooden coffins, is the first home run of the second season. Like most of the show's best ideas, it's a simple premise pushed to the absolute limit, supplemented by Robinson's Midwestern blowhard delivery. "Just body after body busting out of shit wood and hitting pavement," he says. What more could you ask for? —Dan Jackson

Episode 1 Robinson's "Now this is gonna be funny!" prank TV host Carmine Laguzio goes undercover as Karl Havoc, who, "suffice to say, is a lot." And yeah, Karl is kind of a menace, hulking around a suburban mall looking like Leatherface under pounds and pounds and pounds of horrible-looking prosthetics, a scenario that sends Carmine into an existential tailspin about being way too hot and what good flipping over a table does for the world, as his producer (played by Saturday Night Live writer Gary Richardson) watches from a van. Like plenty ITYSL sketches, it's really about the kicker: When Carmine has finally worn down his producer to scrap the Karl Havoc bit, he goes, "Then what's the show?"— Leanne Butkovic

Episode 1 Ultimately, the ghost tour sketch is about loneliness, but it's also about saying "jizz" and "horse cock." Robinson's patron attends an after-hours tour of a haunted house where guests are allowed to drink and say anything they want. He takes the latter part extremely literally, calling the ghosts "these fuckers" and inquiring about "nuts." Watching Robinson cluelessly say ridiculously profane and gross things is obviously the treat of the sketch, but it's the note of melancholy that serves as a button on the end that makes it poetic in a classic ITYSL way. After being kicked off of the tour, Robinson is picked up by his mother who asks if he made any friends, to which he responds, "not really." It's a tiny tragedy.— Esther Zuckerman

Dan Flashes

Episode 2 Truly, why eat when you can buy Dan Flashes shirts? The patterns. They are so unique. Essentially a two-part sketch, the first finds Robinson playing Mike, a man who refuses to use a per diem allotted for lunch from his company to buy food, instead using it to buy extremely expensive shirts from Dan Flashes. Mike doesn't find them tacky. He finds them hypnotic and his hunger is making him extremely testy. ITYSL breaks for another sketch and then comes back to Dan Flashes later in the episode in the form of a hotel TV ad. Now you can see what power Dan Flashes has over men just like Mike. Dan Flashes drives men mad. —EZ

Sloppy steaks

Episode 2 In addition to airless boardrooms and bland restaurants, Robinson loves to set sketches at parties, the type of mild-mannered social events where his characters can meltdown and cause maximum damage. This sketch, which finds Robinson's reformed "piece of shit" describing his bad boy days to confused onlookers after a baby starts crying in his arms, is one of the more straight-forward, textbook sketches in the series. But the details, like the idea of "sloppy steaks" that you pour water over and devour with your crew of fellow deviants, are so specific and warped. When the sketch transforms into a hyper-stylized music video parody and you actually see the quasi-ceremonial wetting of the meat, it becomes even more perversely surreal. —DJ  

Professor eating burger

Episode 3 Robinson and Kanin have a gift for finding older character actors who steal the show. In Season 1, it was Ruben "No Good Car Ideas" Rabasa. Now it's the star of this sketch, Bob McDuff Wilson. He plays a professor out to dinner with his former students. All of them respect him greatly, but he doesn't really care about that. He just wants to eat the burger on Robinson's plate. He starts out by "joking" about stealing it. Then he houses it. And then shit gets weird. A triumphant performance.— EZ

Insider trading trial

Episode 3 A case of sloppy insider trading turns into a courtroom indictment of a dumb hat. Gita Reddy plays the prosecutor tasked with reading aloud an incriminating text exchange about "Brian's stupid fucking hat"—cue the camera shifting focus to Robinson looking dopey in the fedora with safari flaps—and unloading a bunch of stocks. The straightness with which Reddy recites the texts is already gold, but the crescendo of a boardroom breakdown reenactment to Reddy's dramatic "dollar sign emoji" closer is beauty itself.— LB

Blues Brothers

Episode 4 Robinson tries to save the day at an awkward gathering by donning a hat and sunglasses and doing a Blues Brothers impersonation. That's really all you need to know. And if that sounds funny, just realize that somehow this sketch is even funnier, taking the absurdity of the premise to yet another level when the dog starts barking thinking it's a "different guy."— EZ

Calico Cut Pants

Episode 4 Is the "Calico Cut Pants" sketch Tim Robinson's masterpiece? This supersized sketch, which takes up more than half of Episode 4, starts off as one thing (the notion of a website for men who dribble pee on their pants which makes it seem like the pee droplets are an intentional style of pant) and turns into something different and undefinable. After Robinson helps out the pee guy, played by former SNL writer Mike O'Brien, he explains that you have to "give" in order to keep CalicoCutPants.com alive. Rick—regular I Think You Should Leave player Conner O'Malley—is "under water" trying to keep Calico Cut Pants alive, and if O'Brien's character doesn't donate, it will disappear. Is that so big of a deal? Turns out: Yes. Robinson's ploys to get O'Brien to give keep getting more elaborate and more unnerving. The society of men who use Calico Cut Pants is strong, and quite possibly demonic. It's a spin on Fight Club about the fragility of masculinity all centered around dudes who pee sloppily in public settings.— EZ

Mars-themed restaurant date 

Episode 5 A place like (the sadly no longer existing) Mars 2112 is clearly not the best restaurant to have a quiet date to talk about a serious matter, but alas! Tim Heidecker, playing a similar role to last season's obscure jazz guy, chews out the animatronic alien in the wall there to roast diners about negging his date that she should have swiped left. How could the practically teenaged voice behind it have known that her sister was addicted to drugs and her mom drank puke and big jars of music on a shock jock show for school supplies? Does that sound boring??? —LB

Driving school 

Episode 6 Patti Harrison, who played the central nut in last season's standout "Santa came early" sketch, is once again given one of Season 2's funniest characters in dated videos shown in a drivers' ed classroom. Screaming on the phone about how Eddie Munster stepped all over her tables before getting into an accident, wiping down her tables that are so dirty before getting into an accident, and getting into it with another driver about how she doesn't respect the crypt keeper before inciting a road rage incident, Harrison as Carrie, the lady whose job is tables, could not have been better cast to confuse a room of teens about how, exactly, the tables are her livelihood. —LB

Claire's ear-piercing video

Episode 6. The line delivery of "it's a JIB JAB" from Richard Wharton, the ponytailed old man featured in the Claire's informational ear-piercing video with 9- and 10-year-old girls, would have put this sketch in the top tier of Season 2 alone. Fortunately, the whole thing is incredible, the last sketch of the last episode representing what ITYSL is all about: the one character who sticks out like a sore thumb among the mundane, ridiculous and quotable one-liners, a twinge of existential grief, and poop jokes. —LB

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15 Best ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Sketches, Ranked

Grab your Stanzo-brand fedora and a Dan Flashes shirt, because it’s time to determine which sketch from “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” reigns supreme.

The series, created by Robinson and Zach Kanin, is best known for its off-the-wall comedy style, usually punctuated by a wild performance from Robinson himself. To celebrate the May 30 release of the third season on Netflix, Variety ’s biggest “I Think You Should Leave” fans ranked the show’s best moments.

Honorable mentions: “Triples is Best,” “You Can’t Cancel Lunch,” “Tammy Craps,” “TC Tuggers,” “Baby of the Year” and “Has This Ever Happened to You?”

Drive-Thru Pay It Forward (Season 3, Episode 3)

SPOILERS: If you don’t recognize this one yet, don’t worry, we’re doing something! In this sketch, Tim tries to do a good deed — for Tim — by pulling a fast-food-pay-it-forward that he plans to enjoy himself by swooping back around in the drive-thru line. This Season 3 newcomer is an early highlight of the new batch of episodes, and ordered its way onto our list fifty-five times.

Best line: “55 burgers, 55 fries, 55 tacos, 55 pies, 55 Cokes, 100 tater tots, 100 pizzas, 100 tenders, 100 meatballs,100 coffees, 55 wings, 55 shakes, 55 pancakes, 55 pastas, 55 peppers, and 155 taters.”

Little Buff Boys (Season 2, Episode 1)

Troll Boy gets it. Even if the sketch is goosed (It’s an old circus term!), Little Buff Boys flexes it way into our hearts, led by Sam Richardson as the host of a young men’s bodybuilding pageant that is taking center stage during a corporate retreat, much to the chagrin of the company’s head exec.

Best line: “What a crop. That’s a crop.”

The Dan Flashes Saga (Season 2, Episode 2) 

Don’t spend your per diem all in one place, unless that place has the most complicated shirt patterns you have ever seen. With a bit about duking it out for expensive, snazzy attire and a follow-up ad promoting the outlet mall where the shirt-fighting goes down, the Dan Flashes two-parter is better because it has more scenes, and rightfully so.

Best line: “I mean, you walk by a store that has 50 guys who look just like me fighting over very complicated shirts, you go in. Yes, you do. You go in.”

The Babysitter Excuse (Season 1, Episode 5)

An off-hand excuse for tardiness becomes the center of an intense vengeance in this Season 1 sketch. After his partner casually mentions at a dinner party that their babysitter was late, Tim takes things one step further, saying she was in a hit-and-run. Instead of simply owning up to being late, he inexplicably implies it was the babysitter’s fault, and they called the cops but they said the people she hit “don’t matter.” When a friend, Barry, asks questions out of concern for the victims, forcing Tim to dig his heels deeper into the bizarre lie, Tim threatens to “beat the crap” out of Barry and devotes the entire evening to embarrassing him.

Best line: “Oh my god, Barry just palmed the dip!”

Hot Dog Car Crash (Season 1, Episode 5) 

A hot dog shaped car drives through the window of a Brooks Brothers – but who was the driver? Certainly not Tim Robinson, who just so happens to be wearing a hot dog costume. Random! He rallies the customers to work as a team to find the culprit: “Maybe take his bare butt out of his costume and spank him?”

Best line: “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this and give him a spanking.”

Fully Loaded Nachos (Season 1, Episode 4) 

One way to ruin a good date: ask the waiter to enforce a fake rule prohibiting one person from eating all the fully loaded nachos. Tim’s date sees right through his desperate ploy, saying, “Did you ask him to come over here and say that?” Over an orchestral score, Tim has a complete meltdown, fishing for excuses as the waiter immediately rats him out. Showcasing one of Tim’s most fragile characters yet, “Nachos” joins a rich assortment of “I Think You Should Leave’s” hall of fame food sketches.

Best line: “ What? ”

Calico Cut Pants (Season 2, Episode 4) 

Tim Robinson comes to the defense of a coworker (Mike O’Brien) when he gets some droplets of urine on his pants, telling him about a completely user-funded site: Calico Cut Pants. But if you benefit from the site, you gotta give. After a series of Robinson’s increasingly desperate attempts to fundraise, O’Brien makes a fatal error: he hits him in the cup, and finds out that the Calico Cut gang runs deep. Sean, the security guard? He gives.

Best line: “ Hold that door! Hold that door! ”

Sloppy Steaks (Season 2, Episode 2)

We’ll forgive you if you didn’t like this sketch at first, because people can change. This sketch proves that through Tim Robinson’s character, who used to be a piece of shit — and the baby at a party knows it. Once you stop pouring water all over your big ol’ rare cut of meat and slicking back your hair, well even let you hold the baby.

Best line: “They can’t stop you from ordering a steak and a cup of water!”

Dylan’s Burger (Season 2, Episode 3)

When a group of business school friends reunite for a dinner with their professor, the conversation can’t seem to get away from Dylan’s burger. What starts as typical buyer’s remorse — Professor Yurabay regrets his order — soon turns into a bizarre obsession, as he begins poaching food from Robinson’s plate. “Let me take a video of you saying that you’re gonna kill the president,” he says, threatening to blackmail his former students if they tell anyone he housed Dylan’s burger down at Graham’s Loralei Lounge.

Best line: “Gimme dat.”

Ghost Tour (Season 2, Episode 1)

Emboldened by the ability to swear during an adult ghost tour, Tim goes on an absolute tear, continuously asking as he walks around a haunted mansion if any of “these fuckers,” meaning the apparitions, ever “pop out of the fucking wall and have like a huge cum shot,” annoying the rest of the tour group. Once he’s reprimanded by the guide, our protagonist chokes through tears to continue his crude line of questioning. But the genius of this sketch is its heartbreaking ending, as Tim is exiled from the tour and picked up by his elderly mom, who innocently asks, “Make any friends?”

Best line: “You’re saying we’re allowed to swear. I’m saying ‘big fat load of cum and horse cock,’ and you’re getting mad.”

The Bones Are Their Money (Season 1, Episode 5) 

With a record deal on the line, Billy’s band had one job: Give ’em something spooky. Or at least, that’s how Tim Robinson’s character interprets the assignment. And from this, a song about the skeletons came to life, using bones, worms and bones as their money. (Editors note: Bones was mistakenly included twice in the list of currencies because the writer forgot if they had said it or not.)

Best line: “No, that’s why I’m so fucking confused.”

Coffin Flop (Season 2, Episode 1)

Spectrum is planning to drop 22 channels, including Corncob TV. If that happens, fans will miss out on the smash hit “Coffin Flop,” which has shown over 400 naked dead bodies falling out of coffins. The guys at Spectrum may think Tim Robinson is just some dumb hick (they said that to him at a dinner), but those with good taste know better.

Best line: “There’s no explanation, just body after body busting out of shit wood and hitting pavement.”

Focus Group (Season 1, Episode 3) 

Launching perhaps the first viral sketch from “I Think You Should Leave,” Ruben Rabasa dominates a car focus group by repeating nonsensical suggestions, like “a good steering wheel that doesn’t fly off while you’re driving.” As is the case in many “ITYSL” sketches, the straight man becomes the butt of the joke, as Ruben’s character accuses Paul (played by co-creator Zach Kanin) of being a “teacher’s pet.” Then, with a bottle flip and a dab, he made television history.

Best line: “You flinched, Paul! Now you have to marry your mother-in-law!”

Karl Havoc (Season 2, Episode 1)

When Tim Robinson’s Carmine Laguzio transforms into Karl Havoc for the prank show “Everything Is Upside Down,” the plan is to cause some chaos at a local mall. When Carmine hobbles into the mall food court clad in a head-to-toe prosthetic suit, he’s not so sure about the sketch anymore: “There’s too much fucking shit on me!” Robinson proves his strength as a physical comedian throughout the series, but his ability to deliver hilarious lines while under an unmoving mask covering his expressions really shines through here.

Best line: “I don’t even want to be around anymore.”

Safari Flap Fedora (Season 2, Episode 3) 

Employees from the company Qualstarr are on trial for insider trading, but their testimonies go off-track when their text messages are revealed. What begins as a conversation about their nefarious plans quickly turns into a back-and-forth over their coworker’s new fashion choice: “Oh my God, did you see Brian’s hat?” The kicker? Brian’s in the court room listening, with the hat on his head and a pair of dice in his pocket.

Best line: “I swear to fucking God, he tried to roll the hat down his arm like Fred Astaire, but the backflap got trapped around Rick’s wheelchair.”

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The 6 Best Moments of ‘I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson’ Season 2 (VIDEO)

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From baby pageants to biker gangs in space, the unhinged comedy of Tim Robinson ‘s I Think You Should Leave Season 1 left the world screaming for more. The Detroiters star did not disappoint with the sophomore season, bringing more timeless sketches that will make you want to put on a hotdog costume yourself!

Scroll down to relive some of the funniest sketches from Season 2.

5 Hilarious Sketches From Tim Robinson's 'I Think You Should Leave' (VIDEO)

This ghost tour is for adults, so swearing is A-OK! But one guest (Robinson) completely misunderstands the rule and can’t stop earnestly asking about the graphic sexual lives of the ghosts. Seeing Robinson never stop asking, even through tears, about the dirty details is poignant, disgusting, and hilarious all at once.

Shane (Robinson) thinks a baby doesn’t like him because he “used to be a piece of s**t.” Increasingly defensive, he tells everyone the dark details of his past. His only crime? Slicking his hair back and pouring water on steaks to make the damp delicious dish, Sloppy Steaks. Complete with a flashback scene to when he made Sloppy Steaks at high-end restaurants, this sketch is classic I Think You Should Leave : dinner parties, screaming, and an eternal commitment to the bit.

Driver’s Ed

A driver’s ed video goes off the rails when the confusing plot outshines the cautionary tale of distracted driving. Carrie ( Patti Harrison ) is distracted by the filthy tables in her trunk, but nobody knows why she says, “These tables are how I buy my house,” and blames The Munsters character, Eddie Munster, as the culprit behind their soiled state. (Fans might recognize Harrison from the Season 1 sketch, “New Printer.”)

A prank show’s production grinds to a halt when the host, Carmine Laguzio (Robinson), is mentally drained by the experience of being in prosthetics. What starts as a fun episode of the fictional Everything is Upside Down turns into a fit of rage in a shopping mall that booms from Robinson, even inside a rubber mask!

After telling his daughter a white lie about why she can’t get ice cream, a diner patron (Robinson) ropes in a stranger ( Bob Odenkirk ) who decides to tell her about himself, embellishing some aspects of his life. He talks a big talk, from owning vintage cars to his beautiful model wife to his housing situation, which is definitely not a hotel.

Detective Crashmore

Santa Claus (Biff Wiff) makes it to the big screen in his graphic action film Detective Crashmore. However, he is a bit of a diva during his interview, almost storming off when the topic of Christmas is brought up. Seeing Santa as both a ruthless badass and a petulant actor might be absurd, but considering his fame, something about it just makes sense.

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A Ranking of Every Sketch in ‘I Think You Should Leave’

It’s time to see how Season 3 stacks up to Seasons 1 and 2. How the Darmine Doggy Door stacks up to Calico Cut Pants. How 55 pastas stack up against total tuna cans.

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With the third season of I Think You Should Leave now streaming on Netflix, we asked our staff to sit down, have a sloppy steak, and update our ranking of the show, evaluating every sketch with the same intensity with which they would play the Egg Game. It wasn’t easy to do—nearly every sketch in the series deserves praise and has an argument for being the best—but after much deliberation, here is our updated ranking of every sketch in I Think You Should Leave.

79. “Dad Video” (Season 3, Episode 1)

There’s something about a sketch that front-loads the “what-the-fuck”-ery of it all. A father (Fred Armisen) gathers his two sons to watch a video; we find out that they have been acting up and, in a last-ditch effort to straighten his sons out, their father throws on a VHS tape to teach them a lesson. But the tape is a crudely produced video starring the father, in which he responds to a rude kid by beating him to a pulp on an oddly quiet street. Soon we find out that this idiot father blew $15,000 to try and scare his kids into … not dancing in the kitchen when all of his stuff is on the marble island? Ironic, since it’s the father’s constant blowups about the production values of his trash video that might be why his sons are acting out. I also want to point out that the father and his sons really should’ve bonded over discussing his wack fight video; talk about missed opportunities. — khal

78. “Don Bondarley” (Season 3, Episode 6)

I’ve attended a bachelor party that included a private magic show (shout-out to Jimmy Fingers), and let me tell you, “Don Bondarley” captures the uneasy dynamic of an intimate show by a performer who, perhaps, time has passed by (not you, though, Jimmy Fingers). Alberto Isaac turns in a great performance as the king of dirty songs (incredible falsetto on the last syllables of “Oh, old Bart Dogfuck had a dong a mile long, a dong a mile long had heeeeee ”), but this sketch doesn’t have time to descend fully into madness and doesn’t have the bizarre propulsive energy that makes some of ITYSL ’s shorter sketches resonate. “Don Bondarley” has its moments—and adds to the show’s rich musical canon—but in retrospect, they probably should have just gone to Corset. — Isaac Levy-Rubinett

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77. “Ponytail” (Season 3, Episode 2)

Will Forte is only in two episodes of ITYSL . In Season 1, he was the man screaming from the back of the plane in a failed attempt to enact revenge on the baby (now an adult) that kept him from saying anything funny to the guards at Buckingham Palace; in Season 3, he’s the ponytailed man screaming from underneath a car at two women and their ponytailed neighbor. Screaming Forte is simply great TV. His delivery of the “it’s not that gross” line in his Season 1 appearance is among the best in the show, as is his “put his hand in dog shit” jab at the neighbor in Season 3.

The rules are simple. Don’t park over the sidewalk. The latter isn’t the minor inconvenience you think it is, either. If you break the rules, men with ponytails that go down just past their butthole will get stuck under your car. You can’t cut them out with scissors (they’re not going to be worse off!), and you won’t be able to cover for them showing up late to their reservation with a Google image search for “disgusting diarrhea in bowl.” The maître d’ has already seen it. — Austin Gayle

76. “Fenton’s Stables and Horse Farm” (Season 1, Episode 6)

A trademark of most Tim Robinson sketches is that where they start and where they end up often have nothing to do with each other. Plotlines morph into unrecognizable tangents, the smallest details are latched on to and beaten into the ground until the dotted line from setup to punch line becomes a twisted thread of confusion and hilarity. But that’s, uh, not the case with this one. It’s just a 90-second sketch about horse dicks. — Cory McConnell

75. “Del Frisco’s Double Eagle” (Season 2, Episode 5)

Credit card roulette is an objectively terrible game. It’s an automatic night ruiner. The credit card gods can always sense the most vulnerable bank account, and in this case, Leslie is smote with a 10-person tab at a fancy restaurant. Like Pavlov’s dog, upon hearing his name, Leslie immediately replies with an all-time hissy fit: “I’m not paying the bill. That’s fucking crazy. It’s too much money. Maybe if I got a bite of everyone’s meal, but I just don’t want to do it.” Hal, the friend who proposed the game, attempts to diffuse the situation by saying he’ll pay the check, but Leslie is just getting started. “FUCK! I SHOULD HAVE LIED! I should have said there was some reason I couldn’t pay and not just said right away I’m not gonna.” Yes, Leslie. You should have lied. — Matt Dollinger

74. “Dave Suit” (Season 2, Episode 6)

As far as ITYSL sketches revolving around bathroom humor go, “Dave Suit” is probably the weakest. It just doesn’t have the specificity and knotty plotting of “The Gift Receipt” or the surrealism of “Calico Cut Pants.” What it does have is Tim Robinson being scolded by his boss for hiring a guy who looks like his coworker to take huge dumps he could then blame on said coworker—a gag that, with all due respect, worked “150 times.” It also has Robinson arguing that Jerry from Tom & Jerry probably sniffed women’s panties (“You weren’t with him 24/7 in the cartoon!”) and interrupting his own scolding to complain about how a guy who lives too far away wants to buy his bike stand. It’s not a peak sketch; it’s still pretty great. — Andrew Gruttadaro

73. “Little Buff Boys” (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 5)

“Little Buff Boys” is Season 2’s spiritual sequel to Season 1’s “Baby of the Year.” For that reason, it lacks some of the original’s absurd shock, but it’s still ridiculous and quotable. Instead of Sam Richardson making three judges pick a perfect baby, he’s making one office manager select who he thinks is the buffest little boy (they’re not actually that ripped—Richardson has just put the boys in “goose suits”). Obviously, the boss has some qualms about evaluating minors in front of all his employees, and the thing falls apart in quick order. No matter, Richardson hosting failed competitions is a clearly rich vein for ITYSL . There must be a third one coming, though the winner will never be Troll Boy. — Richie Bozek

72. “Robert’s Christmas Birthday” (Season 3, Episode 3)

While I can’t argue with “Robert’s Christmas Birthday” landing near the very bottom of this list, I also think there are plenty of small details about it that underline what a deeply weird, deeply specific, deeply brilliant show I Think You Should Leave is. In this short tale about a disgruntled employee who keeps defacing a cardboard cutout of her boss at his birthday party, ITYSL standout Patti Harrison gets to dump countless shots on cardboard Robert’s face, and furiously spray Windex into a cup—that she then immediately dumps on cardboard Robert’s face, to the increasing concern of human Robert. Then the exposition drops: Harrison’s Candy is exacting revenge on Robert because last week he told her she couldn’t bring her rats to work, even though he let Steven bring his dog to work. This opens the door for Harrison to make a face that says “finally you’re starting to make sense” when Robert admits that it’s not up to him to decide which animals are worse—and to deliver lines like, “Dogs are to Steven what rats are to me” and “I take the food, put it on the desk. I knock it in, no one knows I have rats.” Isn’t I Think You Should Leave a treasure? And don’t you think Patti Harrison should’ve been in more sketches in Season 3? — Gruttadaro

71. “Mortal Enemies” (Season 3, Episode 1)

Once in a while on I Think You Should Leave , there are two people who should leave. The first offender of “Mortal Enemies” is Stan (played by Tim Robinson), who takes a hypothetical suggestion during a work seminar that his coworker Rick is his mortal enemy to the absolute extreme—by which I mean he resorts to fake-dumping water on him. But there’s an even worse offender here: Alex, who actually dumps water on Stan. “I got too hyper,” a dejected, reflective Alex correctly deduces, while a soaking-wet Stan parachutes in with newfound self-righteousness (and loose hair plugs). Let’s be honest: This isn’t a very strong sketch, and there are maybe a dozen better office-based sketches on this show. But it is quite funny that it makes a singeing noise when Alex’s water touches Stan’s skin. — Gruttadaro

70. “Lifetime Achievement” (Season 1, Episode 4)

An award ceremony honoring the great Herbie Hancock—the epitome of cool—goes horribly wrong when Tim Robinson’s character, an awkward, bespectacled presenter, trips on the stairs, falls off the stage, and proceeds to be furiously mauled by a service dog. Or so he claimed. “I don’t think the dog that bit me should be put down,” he says as he opens his speech honoring Hancock’s body of work. But according to the owner of said dog, literally every audience member in attendance, and the Watermelon Man himself, the dog didn’t bite Robinson—it humped his head. Robinson is in full denial, but there’s video evidence that’s soon linked to the overhead monitor. “You don’t tape people,” Robinson begs. But with the ceremony completely off the rails and #HumpGate in full swing, Robinson’s character lobs one last attempt at getting things back on track with an all-time classic: “That’s why I love Herbie Hancock, he loves to lie.” — Dollinger

69. “New Joe” (Season 1, Episode 3)

New Joe (Fred Willard) is the replacement organist at a funeral service, and he brings his own American Fotoplayer –esque instrument to the proceedings. To honor the departed, he plays a little ditty that absolutely slaps but is a bit tonally off. Things get even more awkward (and hilarious) when he starts breaking dishes with glee. You’d think a funeral would be one of the easier rooms to read, but New Joe cannot read rooms. (“My condolences,” he keeps saying.) It’s that absurdity that makes “New Joe” a great addition to I Think You Should Leave . — Levy-Rubinett

68. “Christmas Carol” (Season 1, Episode 4)

In this two-minute mash-up of A Christmas Carol and The Terminator (sure, why not?), Baby of the Year/Little Buff Boys host Sam Richardson stars as the Ghost of Christmas Way Future, a power-armor-wearing warrior from the year 3050 who Kool-Aid Mans through Ebenezer Scrooge’s wall to warn him about the dangers of Skeletrex and his Bone Brigade. The time-traveling Ghost doesn’t divulge how the Bonies came to life—is this the origin story for “The Bones Are Their Money”?—but the brief sketch is worth it to hear Richardson rant, “He’s 15 feet tall and he has bones the size of tree trunks!,” “Use your Christmas cheer and bash its frickin’ brains out, ya idiot!,” and “Crap dang it, this sucks!” This isn’t Richardson’s best role in the series, but it gives me an excuse to say that if you haven’t watched real-life besties Richardson and Robinson (and other familiar faces from ITYSL ) in the dearly departed Detroiters , you should do so immediately . — Ben Lindbergh

67. “Joanie’s Birthday” (Season 2, Episode 5)

Nothing resonates with millennials like a Johnny Carson impersonator. Unfortunately for the attendees of this house party that Carson was hired for—“at a low, low price point”—he can hit. As in, he’s contractually allowed to assault the party’s patrons. “Oh my god, Johnny Carson just fucking hit me,” cries out one partygoer. Tim Robinson’s character, the impersonator’s wrangler, comes breathlessly barging in: “HE CAN! HE CAN! HE CAN!” Little do the people know, hitting is, of course, allowed at this price point, allowing Carson to tee off on unsuspecting attendees like he’s taking his famous monologue swing . “Wild, wild stuff.” — Dollinger

66. “Supermarket Swap” (Season 3, Episode 2)

A sketch that eerily came out the same week that Apple unveiled its new Vision Pro headset, “Supermarket Swap” is a Supermarket Sweep parody in which contestants have to grab items from a virtual grocery store. (The game is hosted by The Bear ’s breakout star Ayo Edebiri.) Everything starts off harmlessly enough, but when Robinson’s character wins a round and gets to put on the VR headset, he has an existential crisis—and forgets how to breathe:

While it’s tempting to inject greater meaning into the sketch—an absurdist cautionary tale about how the immersive nature of AI can never fully replicate the human experience—“Supermarket Swap” is mostly a testament to Robinson’s gifts as a physical performer. To watch this man violently flail and convulse his body in a futuristic dental chair is like seeing Roger Federer at Wimbledon: art of the highest order. — Miles Surrey

65. “Mars Restaurant” (Season 2, Episode 5)

Comedy is specificity, and specificity is Tim Heidecker with shoulder-length hair in a deep V-neck giving an increasingly personal and detailed account of his date’s mother drinking vomit, repeatedly, on the Davy and Rascal Show just to buy school supplies for her children, all because a fake alien comic at a novelty space café zeroed in on the wrong table at the wrong time. That it’s shot as if Heidecker’s Gary is having an honest-to-god conversation with an animatronic alien head is a freaking gift. But what unfolds from there is a story of justice. This is the comeuppance that all roast comics deserve: to be dragged out into the light and made to answer for themselves, and then be conned out of another Mars Cocktail™ just because. — Rob Mahoney

64. “Banana Breath” (Season 3, Episode 6)

Just a few things worth noting here:

• Not all heroes wear capes. Cam (Alison Martin) recognized her coworkers suffering in the doldrums of a run-of-the-mill HR training session and broke the torment with comedy gold: “Back away, banana breath. What the hell did you just eat? A banana?” Utter brilliance.
• Then, in an all-time heat check, she quickly pulls up Tees Today™ on her phone, offers shirts to both Mary and Meredith, and ropes Rick into the design process because she sees him for the artist he truly is. What did we do to deserve her?
• You think Barney deserves credit for the project while he was out chowing down bananas at lunch? Come on, banana breath. Get a grip.
• Cam laughed to herself for 27 seconds (I timed it) before the presenter asked if she needed to leave the room.
• Mary is a piece of shit. Everyone wears T-shirts. Just get it big and use it as a night shirt. Imagine lounging around in a big T-shirt and undies. Like it or not, Cam’s putting you down for one, bitch.
• Rick fumbled the bag. He spends all day drawing at his desk and can’t doodle up a computer? It’s just a box with keys! — Gayle

63. “Friend’s Weekend” (Season 2, Episode 4)

There are tiny moments that save this sketch, in which Robinson’s character tries to lighten the mood of a party by doing a Blues Brothers routine, only to make things way worse by freaking out a family dog: Conner O’Malley playing the world’s most aggrieved husband; the banal discussion about why the dog is losing its shit, which ends with O’Malley yelling, “What?! We know what the problem is”; and a second dog coming out of nowhere and nearly running through a glass door. And finally, there’s Robinson’s performance after the routine has clearly bombed: tears smeared on his face, the whole house staring at him, he simply says, “This really is quite a beautiful house.” Annnnnd scene. — Gruttadaro

62. “Jenna’s Bad Day” (Season 3, Episode 4)

Everyone farts. He squoze when he threw his hands down, and he farted. It’s OK. You’re OK. What isn’t OK is fighting the 200 friends you paid for in the pool and splashing water in their mouths. You’re going to have to pay more for that.

Tim Robinson is farting and screaming in an oversized suit as the ringleader of a pay-to-play friend group. It’s perfect. He steals the scene away from former SNL cast member Beck Bennett, making his ITYSL debut as Stuart. But that doesn’t mean I want to be either of those guys. I want to be Mike ’cause he has the best friend group. His friend group has a smooth rhythm, all orchestrated by Mike. — Gayle

61. “Tasty Time Vids” (Season 3, Episode 6)

If only this sketch were a “So you wanna be a content creator?” PSA. It really speaks to many ills of that ecosystem, from the cesspool that comment sections have become, to the glut of bad videos out there, to the prison that is having to create content consistently. The why of Draven’s confusing (and awful) “Frankenstein’s Chick” video series aside, I kind of blame David (and not just because he handed someone his phone to place a lunch order). David was way too quick to big up Draven. Either figure out how to dole out constructive criticism or say you lost your phone in a tornado or something. Positive reinforcement of internet garbage is why this particular brand of short-form content is clogging up every app with the ability to host videos. The Davids of the world need to chill so that the Dravens of the world can, I don’t know, throw their phones in a river or actually lose them in a tornado. Whatever keeps Draven off the timeline. — khal

60. “Metal Motto Search” (Season 3, Episode 6)

Danny Green’s Photo Wall of Metal: Metal Motto Search is, like its title, a simple game. Its rules just take a really long time to explain, and there’s so much lore surrounding it that contestants have to watch a cartoon about “what’s happening in Metaloid Maniac’s world.”

OK, you know what: I lied. Metal Motto Search is a horrible game, especially because the guy playing the Metaloid Maniac can’t zoom around the metal board— that he built —fast enough because the suit’s too heavy (and he had a difficult conversation with his daughter that morning). But it seems like Danny Green—played by Sam Richardson—really had a vision, and that he sunk a lot of money into that vision. And if there’s one thing I could watch on a loop, it’s Sam Richardson trying to sell a terrible game show. — Gruttadaro

59. “Bozo” (Season 1, Episode 6)

ITYSL excels at using everyday office settings as setups for absurd social interactions, and “Bozo” is one of the best sketches in that genre. This two-parter revolves around Reggie, who not only isn’t in on the joke but also doesn’t seem to understand jokes. Feeling peer pressure from his younger, YouTube-savvy coworkers, who swap viral video recommendations and assure each other that their selections are so funny , Reggie first pretends to have a favorite video that he forgets how to find. Determined not to come up empty-handed in the conference room again, he then creates and uploads his own video, in which a foul-mouthed Bozo the Clown confusingly dubs over footage of himself saying what he was thinking in the scene. It’s a ridiculous solution to a slight problem, but it’s also somewhat relatable: Somewhere in the world, there’s a person in an office who hasn’t seen ITYSL but felt left out when everyone was talking about it and pretended to have a favorite sketch that they couldn’t remember how to type in. — Lindbergh

58. “Parking Lot” (Season 2, Episode 5)

There are few things in life more universal than getting annoyed at a driver who doesn’t know what they’re doing, something “Parking Lot” capitalizes on in an unexpected way. The sketch hinges on a frustrated driver getting blocked while leaving a parking lot, and in an attempt to insult the other person (played by Robinson) by telling him he can’t drive, the driver finds out that, well, he actually can’t. There’s a hilariously infantile quality to the way Robinson reacts to his unfamiliar surroundings, like screaming when he accidentally hits the horn because it scared him. And if nothing else, “Parking Lot” is responsible for one of the most meme-worthy moments of the show’s second season. This is exactly what I say every year trying to file taxes:

57. “Pacific Proposal Park” (Season 3, Episode 4)

What features would you include in a perfect park for marriage proposals? Gardens full of flowers? Romantically lit gazebos? A special, spongy, soft soil that’s perfect for the most perfect kneel of your life? Well, the last one has unintended consequences.

Nothing will ever top Sam Richardson in ITYSL ’s “Baby of the Year,” but “Pacific Proposal Park” comes close. Richardson wages war on Toilet Truck, Jerry “The Jet” Jones, Baby Duff, and other professional wrestlers because they’re practicing their slams on his spongy, soft soil meant for proposing knees. He accidentally built the perfect place to practice wrestling, and now he wants Toilet Truck and Baby Duff dead because of it. He also outs King Larry as Scarecrow because he saw him (and his whole red penis) changing in his car. And if King Larry is in fact Scarecrow, you can’t convince me Baby Duff isn’t actually Bart Harley Jarvis. — Gayle

56. “First Date” (Season 3, Episode 3)

Look, the idea that a man would get a haircut that looks like dog ears for a date because of a little barber miscommunication is definitely funny. As is the way this sketch spoofs the overly cheesy male relationships that infect certain rom-coms. (Sample line from Random BFF 1: “Cut to: We’re chatting about this at your bachelor party.”) Or the fact that the actual inspiration for Robinson’s main character’s haircut is a blurry photo of Bryan Cranston throwing out a bucket of popcorn. But this is the moment that really takes this sketch about a guy who’s trying so hard to impress a first date that he accidentally gets dog ears for a haircut to another level:

And by the time you can even react to this twist, the sketch just ends. Cut to: me laughing hysterically as ITYSL ’s interstitial music plays. — Gruttadaro

55. “Claire’s” (Season 2, Episode 6)

So many of I Think You Should Leave ’s most outstanding bits are underpinned by some kind of profound sadness, but this is the only one that Trojan horses its darkness in a pair of unicorn earrings. You know what’s scarier than getting your ears pierced in the back of a tween accessory store? Seeing the people who cared for you as a baby become babies themselves. Luckily, Claire’s is a place where people young and old can go to find peace—a place where a cool college girl will calm your deepest fears, and even in moments of gastrointestinal distress, help you to live life like no one can hear the splashes. — Mahoney

54. “Gelutol” (Season 3, Episode 4)

Here’s something that’s great: having a full head of hair deep into middle age. Here’s something that’s even better: having a full head of hair while your nemesis stays as bald as a newborn. “Gelutol” is a power trip masquerading as an infomercial—an ad that’s not selling a hair-loss solution, but rather, spite. After spotting a friend at a St. Patrick’s Day party worrying about his thinning mane, Robinson offers him a solution: a pill that’s kept his thick. The catch? Don’t tell the nebbish Bret Shefter the name of the drug. (For added security, make sure you’re saying it wrong.) And Shefter has a full-on meltdown, screaming about fingering as his wife sweats in her green jacket. It’s a master class in pettiness on Robinson’s part—one that pays off so well you’ll be trying to figure out how you can enlist as one of his soldiers, whether you need Gelutol or not. — Justin Sayles

53. “Biker Guy” (Season 1, Episode 2)

Biker Guy is one of the most important fictional characters in at least the last decade of television. He has forever changed the way I view everyday methods of transportation. I instinctively say, “That’s a nice motorcycle” when I see a motorcycle, even though I know nothing about motorcycles. Bicycles now are motorcycles with no motor; standard four-door sedans are two motorcycles with a little house in the middle; I drop to my knees when I see a bus.

There’s such a thing as influence, and “Biker Guy” has it. — Bozek

52. “Children’s Choir” (Season 3, Episode 4)

Perhaps it’s fitting that “Children’s Choir” doesn’t play by I Think You Should Leave ’s typical rules. For one, Robinson plays the straight man, ceding the most outrageous behavior to his “shirt brother” Shane, played by Biff Wiff. And second, while this sketch doesn’t achieve the series’ usual hilarity—to me, anyway—it does access a distinct emotional register. Most ITYSL sketches portray a character who doubles down in an awkward social situation to the point of extreme discomfort for everyone around them; “Children’s Choir,” by contrast, ends with both characters embracing their inner selves and finding a new sense of freedom and satisfaction. Maybe it was just the Turnstile soundtrack , but the ending of this sketch is surprisingly uplifting. Am I going nuts in here?! — Levy-Rubinett

51. “Party House” (Season 1, Episode 6)

Let’s take a moment to shout out some of the I Think You Should Leave behind-the-scenes staff. In a series defined by the over-the-top performances of its actors, the most over-the-top performance in this sketch comes from the set designers. They built a house that is—as its owner (Kate Berlant) boasts—“all Garfield.” The sketch remains funny as characters try to stage an intervention for their friend in an environment that hampers any serious conversations, but the show already won when the lights flip on to reveal a house that’s filled with Odie chairs. (They recline!) — Rodger Sherman

50. “Wilson’s Toupees” (Season 1, Episode 2)

The most memorable part of “Wilson’s Toupees” is when a gorilla emerges out of nowhere to snatch someone’s toupee. The funniest part is the concept of a direct-to-consumer subscription service that sends 500 “little wigs”—each slightly more bald than the last—to men who are ready to ditch the toupee and embrace their baldness but need a gradual progression so their coworkers don’t say, “Was that a toupee, you piece of shit?” That’s comedic gold; we didn’t really need the gorillas. — Levy-Rubinett

49. “Wife Joke” (Season 2, Episode 4)

A poker night with the boys hits all the clichés as everyone takes turns making fun of their nagging wives over some beers. But after an offhand comment about how being married to his wife makes him want to drink more, Scott (a committed Paul Walter Hauser) immediately regrets what he said. The sketch then spirals into an unexpectedly earnest flashback about Scott’s wife supporting him when he gets cast as a mobster in a local theater production and all his lines keep getting stolen by an asshole named Jamie Taco (Jamie talks, like, super fast). With how many I Think You Should Leave sketches culminate in chaos and/or despair, there’s something genuinely sweet about Scott going full Wife Guy at poker night, which also happens to be a sleepover party for middle-aged men. Dudes rock—except for Jamie Taco, whose name I’ll never forget—but they should also say nicer things about their wives. — Surrey

48. “Tammy Craps” (Season 2, Episode 6)

When I watched Julia Butters in Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, I knew she’d be a star. What I didn’t know is that the next time I saw her she’d be pitching a mildly toxic doll who lies about pooping and huffing Macanudo cigars in a Season 2 sketch on I Think You Should Leave . You see, the problem with the Tammy Craps doll is that there was an upset factory worker who was farting in all the heads. That led to the company using a deodorizing low-grade poison, which solved one problem …

… but it turns out that that low-grade poison is an extremely high -grade poison for anyone under 60 pounds. In that case, “holding a Tammy Craps doll is like smoking five Macanudo cigars a day,” a wildly committed Julia Butters says to another girl. (That girl goes on to put rocks in her pockets to fake her weight and get a Tammy Craps doll, and then she … dies?)

Before I wrote this all out, I thought “Tammy Craps” was a pretty good, medium-funny sketch. Now I’m convinced it’s the weirdest thing this show has ever done. — Gruttadaro

47. “Babysitter” (Season 1, Episode 5)

“Let’s say the babysitter was late” has to be the best, most used excuse of all time. I can’t speak from experience because I don’t have children, but whether it’s true in the moment or not, it feels like a situation that has legitimately happened at one point to all parents. And who are you to question those using the excuse? If somebody says their babysitter was late, then the babysitter was late. Leave it at that, everybody move on.

This sketch expands upon what might happen if either party didn’t just leave it at that. If, say, the excuse-maker got a little too elaborate and explained that the babysitter was late because she was in a hit-and-run that killed some people who the cops say are “just kind of, like, nothing.” And then some guy named Barry asked too many goddamn questions. Lies and questions build and build before somebody needs to get embarrassed. From the outside it’s hilarious, but I would hate to be caught in the mess of it like Barry. — Bozek

46. “Bloody Eyeball” (Season 3, Episode 5)

Low-key, this is one of the more depressing sketches in the series. Everyone feels like they see the world differently, right? Every day, people are experiencing this one planet in many different ways, and in this sketch, Randall is no different. He really isn’t the problem here—he just sees the world differently. Way differently: a quick rumble in the office is a massive volcano; those highlighters are little pimps. The problem? No one seems to want to understand how Randall sees things—in fact there’s seemingly an edict not to encourage him. Who knows what’s going on with Randall? The fact that no one wants to find out is what bothers me the most. — khal

45. “Barley Tonight” (Season 3, Episode 1)

It’s certainly enough to appreciate the many ways Tim Robinson contorts his body in “Barley Tonight” as he plays a talk show host who stubbornly retreats to his phone anytime he’s close to losing a debate …

But what elevates the sketch is the kernel of truth buried within it. “If I ever feel weird at all, I’m just looking at it,” Barley says, explaining the deep connection he feels with his phone. And I know that line rings true to anyone (all of you, don’t lie) who’s ever gotten to a party before their friends or found themselves alone at a restaurant when their partner goes to the bathroom and immediately pulled out their phone to pass the time and ward off any feelings of awkwardness. Barley shouldn’t be ignoring his guests—unless, maybe, his mom really has been taken hostage—but at the same time, you can see where he’s coming from. — Gruttadaro

44. “Pink Bag” (Season 1, Episode 2)

Whoopie cushions are not funny—I feel like we can all agree on this. What’s the joke, even? That someone farted but it doesn’t even smell? That no one’s puking from the stench of the fart? And what comes after that: Cake batter down someone’s pants? Brown pudding in their shoes to make them think they’re mighty sick? They go to the ER and not only miss their family photo but use hospital resources that someone with more pressing needs could use? And then that person dies? Wow. You got her, Jane. You really got her. — Gruttadaro

43. “Choking” (Season 1, Episode 5)

I Think You Should Leave ’s best sketches feature characters taking things way too far. “Choking” takes that approach to a hilarious end point when Robinson’s character refuses to acknowledge that he’s choking to death because his favorite musician-actor-designer, Caleb Went, is sitting at the table and he doesn’t want to seem weird—which, as he speaks in a pained honk and gives a toast with veins bulging from his forehead, he obviously doesn’t. Just look at this desperation…

… that ends in complete resignation:

— Levy-Rubinett

42. “Big Wave” (Season 2, Episode 6)

After I worked remotely for a year and a half, this sketch became my most recent point of reference for what a workplace environment should resemble. I can’t wait to get back.

After their boss leaves the conference room, members of this work team start surfing, dancing, spinning chairs to create whirlpools, and cracking open multiple cans of seltzer water to spray ocean mist. Tim Robinson’s character, Russell, isn’t in on the fun at first, until he literally flips the table to create a “big wave!” as only Tim Robinson can. This is followed by a variety of laughable exclamations in the midst of the chaos, like “Napkins, napkins!,” “I need a wet paper towel!,” and “Fucking psycho!” It is yet another ITYSL story about a man who does not fit in, trying disastrously hard to do so.

Also, if you know me and are reading this, take note: Please don’t ever gift me chode jeans. — Bozek

41. “Both Ways” (Season 1, Episode 1)

“Both Ways” is the very first sketch in the series, and as such, it’s responsible for establishing the template of a typical ITYSL scenario: Someone makes a minor faux pas in a mundane social situation and, rather than acknowledge the error, doubles (or quadruples) down on pretending that it wasn’t one. As he exits a cordial coffee-shop job interview, Robinson pulls on a door that only opens outward, then tries to play off the slightly embarrassing mistake by insisting that he was there yesterday and that the door “does both.” At that point, he has to commit to the cover story by yanking the door off its hinges until it’s so splintered that it does go both ways. While performing this feat of strength and stupidity, Robinson maintains eye contact and keeps up a plastered-on smile, even as his forehead vein throbs with the effort and drool slides down his chin. He’s probably not going to get the job, but you have to applaud his persistence. — Lindbergh

40. “Sitcom Taping” (Season 3, Episode 2)

One of my favorite recurring bits in I Think You Should Leave is when a character successfully rallies everyone else to their side regardless of how absurd the situation starts out. (For instance, the other members of the instant-classic “Focus Group” sketch following Ruben Rabasa’s lead in making fun of Paul.) In “Sitcom Taping,” Robinson plays a man who’s part of a live studio audience for a popular sitcom, during which a producer tells him and his viewing peers that “Millions of people are going to hear your voice.”

Naturally, this inspires Robinson’s character to lace his personal grievances into the laugh track, complaining about a watch exploding on a date and a rented limo that had a separate group lurking behind a makeshift divider. “Sitcom Taping” becomes oddly poignant once the studio audience and the sitcom crew sympathize with Robinson’s ordeal, and by the time we get a flashback sequence of everything that happened to him, the sketch reaches a new level of delightful WTF-ery. Robinson’s watch exploding in Zack Snyder–esque slow motion—a bunch of springs land in his date’s soup and hair—is one of the funniest things I’ve seen all year. — Surrey

39. “River Mountain High/TC Tuggers” (Season 1, Episode 2)

Here are two immaculate parodies smashed into one: first, a perfect riff on a CW teen show that includes this splendid tidbit of dialogue:

But then the principal (Robinson) shows up wearing an interesting shirt, one with a little knob on the front so your shirt doesn’t get messed up when you pull on it, and that brings us to the second immaculate parody: of a commercial for said shirt, geared specifically toward middle-aged men.

The song used in the ad sounds exactly like the song Home Depot uses for its ads; it’s just wonderful. Also? TC Tuggers solves a problem that every man on earth has encountered at one time or another. That’s what takes this from bizarre banter and pitch-perfect recreations to absolute brilliance. — Gruttadaro

38. “The Capital Room” (Season 2, Episode 2)

I Think You Should Leave takes place in its own parallel universe, where the bones are their money and coffin flops abound. It’s therefore jarring to get a pop culture parody as precise as “The Capital Room,” a transparent riff on Shark Tank. But while “The Capital Room” may not fit seamlessly into I Think You Should Leave ’s particular gestalt, it’s a remarkable showcase for Patti Harrison, a recurring guest star who seems to get the show’s whole stupid, grotesque, profane deal. Harrison’s fellow sharks—sorry, “moguls”—made their fortunes in fashion and sunglasses. She sued the city after getting sewn into the pants of the Charlie Brown float at the Thanksgiving Day parade. It’s a perfectly nonsensical choice that Harrison elevates with her deeply strange delivery. Just listen to the way she says “popcorn.” — Alison Herman

37. “Photo Booth” (Season 3, Episode 5)

“Three seconds to think of something silly? That’s fucking insane! That’s not enough time!”

Truer words have never been spoken.

“Do something silly” is the second or third call to action in every single group photo situation, yet it’s a shock to the system every single time. Prop or no prop? Three … Do I just stick my tongue out like I do every single fucking time? Two … Cross-eyed again? One …

Tim Meadows as the man fighting against this photo booth mandate—to the point of puking—doesn’t miss once in his ITYSL debut. His delivery of every line is astounding. He’s the centerpiece of the random-tangent Twister game Robinson plays so well, and he does it almost better. Right foot? Barney and his little, tiny cloth hairs. Left foot? The Pelling Ball and 15 business deals. Right hand? In the shape of an “L” on your forehead while doing a Fortnite dance. — Gayle

36. “Crashmore—Trailer” (Season 2, Episode 3)

Explaining why this sketch is funny doesn’t require nuanced analysis. It’s a trailer for a fake movie starring the titular aging, horrifically violent detective with a long white beard. Think: Dirty Harry if he were a hermit. He shoots up bad guys at close range and says things like “Eat fuckin’ bullets, you fuckers!” Oh, and also: He’s played by Santa Claus, who during a press junket interview refers to the film as “a cosmic gumbo.” — Alan Siegel

35. “New Printer” (Season 1, Episode 5)

Repetitiveness is the death of good comedy, as approval-seeking office worker Tracy (Patti Harrison) discovers. After her boss gets mild chuckles with a Christmas joke, Tracy deploys “hundreds of on-par, if not better” jokes, only to find that the Christmas humor had already run dry. Luckily, there’s no repetition with Harrison, who treats every line as an opportunity to be a different sort of weirdo. She pinballs between personas, transforming from a naive kid awaiting presents to a bullying coworker (“DID I STUTTER, MEGAN?” she scowls, before emphatically retelling a tired Santa joke) to an elf with a vaguely Scottish accent. Every delivery is unexpected. With replacement-level line reads, this sketch would have been forgettable; with Harrison on fire, it’s a keeper. Thank Santa and his reindeer for bringing Harrison’s performance to us early. — Sherman

34. “Ghost Tour” (Season 2, Episode 1)

Robinson specializes in playing maladjusted men. What’s impressive is that he somehow makes each one unique. Like this guy. When a late-night ghost-tour guide tells his guests that they can say whatever they want, Robinson’s character immediately blurts out “jizz.” Then, to the group’s chagrin, he proceeds to ask questions like “Any of these fuckers ever fall out of the ceiling and just have like a big messy shit? Or have a dingleberry?” The group eventually bands together to toss out the foul-mouthed dude (who argues, quite compellingly, that he isn’t actually breaking any rules). But the turn comes at the very end, when his elderly mother picks him up and asks if he’s made any new friends. For a brief moment, we sympathize with someone whose only way of connecting with people is by talking about ghost excrement. — Siegel

33. “Baby of the Year” (Season 1, Episode 1)

“Baby of the Year” is probably best remembered for Bart Harley Jarvis, the bad boy of the annual competition who is so unlikable that audience members shout expletives at an infant dressed like a little biker. (Side note: FUCK YOU, HARLEY JARVIS!) But this god-tier sketch soars for all the delirious details that get thrown into the mix: the fact that the competition takes three months and has been going on for 112 years; the infants’ health being assessed by a guy named Dr. Skull; an “In Memoriam” segment for previous winners that includes cause of death; and Sam Richardson as the host, who, upon learning that one of the baby’s parents gave the mystery judge oral, deadpans, “Aw man, that’s a bummer, might fuck this whole thing up.” It’s only fitting that “Baby of the Year” is just the third sketch in the series’ run. What better litmus test to find out whether you can get on the show’s wavelength than with one of its most chaotic sketches right off the bat? — Surrey

32. “Chunky” (Season 1, Episode 6)

Honestly, Dan Vega? This one’s on you. You created Dan Vega’s Mega Money Quiz ; you brought Chunky into this game-show world. You identified his role in the ecosystem as a character who “eats your points, and”—emphasis mine—gets “ very mad .”

Chunky could’ve just eaten the points, Dan Vega! He did not need to get mad at the contestants. Maybe if you had provided him with a more positive and healthier framework for how to exist in the game, he wouldn’t be absolutely wrecking Andy Samberg’s shit every time he comes out from behind the curtain and seeking your approval in the process, only to be met with louder and louder scorn:

You know that scene in Mallrats where Stan Lee tells Brodie about creating Marvel characters that “reflected my own heartbreak and my own regrets”? This is that, but with Dan Vega creating Chunky as a vessel for his inability to process and defang his unfettered rage. I don’t think Chunky’s the one who really has to figure out what he does. You have all summer to think of it, Dan Vega. Good luck. — Dan Devine

31. “Traffic” (Season 1, Episode 4)

Even among the many weirdos in this show’s universe, Conner O’Malley’s character here stands out. After spotting a “Honk If You’re Horny” bumper sticker on Robinson’s car, he lays on his SUV’s horn—“That’s me!”—then follows Robinson around for days, honking nonstop. O’Malley spends the sketch doing what he does best: grunting, groaning, and yelling until Robinson finally asks him what his deal is. “I thought that you worked for like a service or a company that helped out guys that are so horny that their stomachs hurt!” O’Malley says. “’Cause that’s what I am!” What takes this sketch to another level is when, in a hysterically strange bonding moment, Robinson helps him alleviate his pain. With his stash of porn. Because it turns out he is like a service that helps out guys who are so horny that their stomachs hurt. — Siegel

30. “Baby Shower” (Season 1, Episode 6)

The protagonist of this sketch attempted and failed to make a mob movie, and now he’s stuck with 50 Stanzo-brand fedoras, 1,000 plastic meatballs that may or may not look like little pieces of shit, and 50 black slicked-back-hair wigs, all of which he’s trying to unload in a baby-shower planning meeting as part of the gift bags. He’s visibly upset that the rest of the group prefers items like candles or individual bottles of champagne, so one of the planners generously offers to buy a few fedoras. The highlight of the sketch comes when he tries to leverage that modicum of sympathy to get a bulk order. The way he says, “It’s gotta be quality on my end, otherwise no fuckin’ deal” kind of makes me want to watch his mob movie. — Levy-Rubinett

29. “Calico Cut Pants” (Season 2, Episode 4)

Tim Robinson is unmatched in his ability to pinpoint everyday nuisances that most everyone experiences but is too embarrassed to talk about. Season 1 had TC Tuggers to solve the issue of bunched-up shirts getting ruined by men pulling on them; Season 2 has Calico Cut Pants (dot com), a website that provides an excuse to men who dribble urine on their pants by giving the appearance that such pee dots are actually intentional design choices. You can’t buy the pants, but it looks like you can, and that’s all one really needs, wouldn’t you agree?

But what elevates this sketch—the longest of any in the series, and my favorite one in Season 2—is the increasing weirdness of the man (Robinson) prodding his coworker (Mike O’Brien) to donate to Calico Cut Pants so that it can stay online. First we find out that his wife is eating batteries—“She says she’s not eating them, then we go to the doctor and the doctor says, ‘Yeah, we found a battery in there’”—and then it begins to seem like he might be the devil? Or at least a demon who has a legion of pee-dribbling minions? The scenes where Robinson violently yells, “HOLD THAT DOOR!” to people who are so far away from him are just the cherry on top. — Gruttadaro

28. “H.D. Vac Part II” and “H.D. Vac Commercial” (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 3)

One day I hope to love something half as much as Tim Robinson loves hot-dog-related bits. In this two-parter, Robinson plays an office worker whose boss calls a meeting right before he’s about to eat his hot dog lunch. (“I don’t know if you’re allowed to do that.”) Naturally, the only reasonable solution is to try to stealthily inhale the hot dog in the meeting through a shirt sleeve, which goes horribly wrong when Robinson nearly chokes to death. While the chaos that ensues from Robinson’s near-death experience is the sketch’s selling point, the best sight gag might come before the fateful meeting—look at how absurdly long the hot dog actually is:

The second half of the hot dog saga sees that same character peddling a hyperspecific hot dog vacuum—or HD Vac, which just looks like a regular vacuum—in a commercial where he’s railing against cancel culture. It’s emblematic of so many I Think You Should Leave characters taking the wrong lessons from their failures, but if we’re being honest, I gotta side with the hot dog fanatic on this one: You can’t just expect someone to skip lunch. — Surrey

27. “Driver’s Ed” (Season 2, Episode 6)

We’ve all been there. You’re sitting in traffic and there’s a lady in front of you with a minivan full of dirty, stinkin’ tables. Obviously, she’s distracted. Maybe Eddie Munster threw them in a mud puddle. Maybe Freddy Krueger was somehow involved. Or maybe they were soiled after being rented to local comic-cons and horror-cons. Either way, this woman’s job is clearly tables. (“These tables are how I buy my house. They are how I keep my house hot.”) Maybe you still don’t get it. (“DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE TABLES ARE MY CORN?”) At this point, you’ve lost all composure inside your car. Rage has boiled over. Composure has been lost. The tables are filthy, and the driver in front of you is dragging ass. So what do you do? You take it out on the tables. You floor it, plowing into the minivan, as you scream into the heavens: “THIS IS THE MADDEST I’VE EVER BEEN!” Also, it’s Driver’s Ed 101. — Dollinger

26. “Silent Show” (Season 3, Episode 3)

In “Silent Show,” Robinson is Richard Brecky, an old-school pantomime performer who can tell 73 (!) wholesome stories entirely through gestures and expressions. If Brecky ever breaks during a performance, he will give money back to the audience, one dollar at a time. Alas, that fateful policy becomes the poor guy’s undoing: Instead of fellow Charlie Chaplin admirers attending the shows, Brecky is bombarded by drunken frat bros yelling at him until he loses his cool and has to repay tons of money. The fact that Brecky’s shows are selling out adds a tragic dimension to the sketch: The more successful he is, the more abuse he receives. (“WE’RE GONNA GO NUTS IN THERE!” a dude in a sleeveless flannel tells an exasperated Brecky before one of the performances.) Not gonna lie: While I’d be down to check out a Richard Brecky silent show, I can’t promise I wouldn’t also be tempted to shout, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” when he starts using an imaginary mop. — Surrey

25. “Diner Wink” (Season 2, Episode 2)

There’s a reason your parents told you not to talk to strangers: Sometimes they just don’t shut up. Tim Robinson’s character is sitting in a diner booth across from his daughter when he tells an innocent lie—“When it’s too cold outside, all the ice cream stores close”—before looking to a stranger (Bob Odenkirk) in the next booth in hopes he’ll back him up. Odenkirk’s character not only backs him up but proceeds to up the ante time after time with increasingly absurd, trivial lies. He starts by claiming the two men are old friends. Then the same age. Then he raves about his car collection (“If I don’t have triples, then the other stuff’s not true”). Then he brings up his (very imaginary) wife. “Tell her about my wife,” Odenkirk begs Robinson. By now, the jig is up and the daughter is fully aware that not only is the ice cream store likely open but both her dad and this man are complete lunatics. Not that that stops the descent: “[My wife] was a model around the world. She was on posters. Yeah, I used to have a poster of her in my garage. Then I met her, can you believe it? And she asked me to marry her, and I didn’t even want to, but she’s beautiful, but she’s dying. She’s sick. She’s hanging in there. It’s hard. She’s gonna get better. And I’m rich. And I don’t live in a hotel.” — Dollinger

24. “ABX Heart Monitor” (Season 3, Episode 3)

You know the feeling of when you really want something, and you finally get it, but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be? Tim Heidecker feels none of that in “ABX Heart Monitor.” He plays a doctor obsessed with getting into the clubs where his cardiac patient (Robinson) has earned favored-son status. He’s so obsessed that he tracks Robinson’s heart rate throughout the night with the ABX monitor. (It’s one of the only times you’d rather someone thought you were jackin’ off instead of at the club.) What Heidecker wants most of all is a visit to Club Haunted House so he can find the trapdoor he read about online. So you’d expect a little bit of a letdown when he finally gets in (without his wife). But instead, he’s wowed by the chains and the mystery of it all, tipping over candelabras and slamming chaise lounges to the ground. The trapdoor may not be real, but the vibes are immaculate. And so is this sketch, the best team-up of the two Tims in ITYSL canon. — Sayles

23. “Nachos” (Season 1, Episode 4)

There are three things that many of Robinson’s best characters struggle with: pent-up anger, venting said rage, and accepting responsibility for their misguided actions. When the man in this sketch gets annoyed that the date he’s sharing nachos with is eating all the “fully loaded” ones, he doesn’t politely ask her to leave him some. Instead, he clandestinely convinces their confused waiter to approach the table and tell her that such a practice is against the restaurant’s rules.

She naturally figures it all out. Yet even after getting called out, Robinson repeatedly feigns ignorance—ruining the date but causing the audience to laugh at his ridiculous petulance. — Siegel

22. “Talk About My Kids” (Season 3, Episode 5)

“Do me a favor: Next time I’m talking about my kids, please stop me.”

This is not a thing you should say in front of a Tim Robinson character. Because they will do you that favor. They will ride a beautiful dog in the middle of the party so that you stop. They will make it look like that same beautiful dog is blowing him so that you stop. They will make up a dance routine that a weird number of middle-aged men take to immediately—so that you stop. They will become the most popular guy at the party, someone whom others follow around just waiting to see what wild thing he does next, so that you stop.

But when the night’s all over, you’ll realize that you’ve had a great time. You’ve gotten deeper with people than you ever have before. Just don’t spend too much time investigating why this person was so eager to make you stop talking about your kids, because then you’ll find out that his son shot Godzilla the gorilla because he was “such a big fan of him, he wanted to own his life or something.” — Gruttadaro

21. “Dan Flashes” (Season 2, Episode 2)

The I Think You Should Leave fashion collection is ever-expanding. If you’re looking for the perfect top to go in between your Calico Cut Pants and your Stanzo Fedora, head to Dan Flashes, a very aggressive store that sells expensive and hideous bowling shirts, priced based on how complicated the patterns are. (Unfortunately, Dan Flashes shirts don’t have little tugging knobs to keep you from wrecking your shirt by pulling on it.) If you think too hard about it, this sketch is a biting critique of American consumerism—when Tim Robinson’s character Mike sees dozens of identical-looking men physically fighting over unnecessarily pricey shirts, he becomes obsessed with purchasing the most expensive ones and starts skipping meals to finance them. But you shouldn’t think too hard about it. That’s something Doug would do. — Sherman

20. “Designated Driver” (Season 3, Episode 1)

Ted Lasso famously originated from an ad spot in 2013, when Jason Sudeikis first played the titular character in an NBC short meant to drum up American interest in the English Premier League. Can we get a similar glow-up for the Driving Crooner, the cigar-smoking, fedora-wearing star of ITYSL ’s “Designated Driver” sketch? I will immediately subscribe to whichever streaming service green-lights a heartwarming half-hour comedy about aspiring entrepreneur Andrew Topecchio that gradually morphs into a prestige dramedy in which Topecchio battles frat boys determined to kill him, underground dog-walking networks conspiring to steal his decals, and the crushing realities of late capitalism as he just tries his damnedest to make money off the vision he was put on this earth to see through. — Levy-Rubinett

19. “Grambles Lorelai Lounge” (Season 2, Episode 3)

One of the joys of watching ITYSL is deciphering how it will twist a seemingly normal situation into something totally absurd. Take, for example, this sketch, during which a business school professor has dinner with his former students. Their small talk is completely innocuous until Bob McDuff Wilson’s wise teacher starts fixating on a protégé’s burger. A minute in, he’s fully devolved into a devilish little kid who “jokingly” covets and then steals the food, eats it, and threatens to blackmail his frustrated pupils if they tell anyone about what he did.

A lesser show might’ve made the gentle old soul the butt of the joke, but that’d be too predictable for Robinson and Co. They’re happy to give unassuming characters like Professor Yurabay the last bite. — Siegel

18. “Has This Ever Happened to You?” (Season 1, Episode 1)

Here’s the lifetime leaderboard of Lawyers Whose Ads I’ve Seen the Most: Peter Francis Geraci’s in third. No. 2? Cellino and Barnes. But the new leader is Mitch Bryant, the Robinson character whose commercial comes on right after the opening credits of the premiere episode. Bryant is seeking clients who have been terrorized by the Turbo Team, two burly men who will come to your house to fix a termite problem, but instead yell at you for your lack of Turbo Team membership and replace your real toilet with a joke toilet that can only suck down farts. As Robinson describes the Turbo Team’s transgressions, he gets angrier and angrier until he can barely breathe. I couldn’t pick which is funnier—the Turbo Team’s escalation or Robinson’s. — Sherman

17. “Game Night” (Season 1, Episode 3)

One of the sketches where the person who should leave is not Tim Robinson, “Game Night” stars Tim Heidecker as Howie, the new boyfriend introduced to a friend group through what ought to be an innocent icebreaker: game night. But Howie, to use a technical term, sucks —insulting the host’s “meat and potatoes” record collection, demanding ice-cold gazpacho, and worst of all, submitting impossible-to-guess celebrities like Tiny “Boop Squig” Shorterly and Roy Donk. Tim Robinson characters tend to be fundamentally well meaning, simply failing to understand why the rest of the world doesn’t get where they’re coming from. Howie is just an asshole, and a kind we all recognize: the insufferable music snob. Why can’t jazz guys just be chill for once?! — Herman

16. “The Man” (Season 1, Episode 2)

In a departure from his typical roles, Robinson plays the understated straight man here, ceding the part of “over-the-top, socially unacceptable outcast” to a fellow Saturday Night Live veteran, Will Forte. Like Robinson, Forte was a little too weird and a little too loud to reach his full potential within the constraints of SNL . He’s flourished outside that system, and he shows off his whole range in this single sketch, flitting from friendly to menacing to pathetic as he tries to exact revenge on Robinson’s character for crying on a transatlantic flight when he was a baby, which so exhausted Forte’s character that he couldn’t fulfill his dream of making the guards at Buckingham Palace laugh. By Season 1 standards, this is a fairly long and elaborate sketch. But Forte, who fits the ITYSL ethos as well as any guest star in the series, lands the plane perfectly, even though he’s prevented from sitting where he wants. — Lindbergh

15. “Drive Thru” (Season 3, Episode 3)

I love when horror movies start with a prolonged sunny, playful opening—the tension between the film we are watching and the one we know we’re getting creates a building discomfort and anticipation that’s unique to the genre. Robinson manages something similar throughout I Think You Should Leave . By now, viewers are familiar with the show’s outlandish brand of comedy, and Robinson plays on audience expectations to great effect. Some of the series’ most fun moments come during the limbo before the sketch has veered off course—we know shenanigans will ensue, but we don’t know what will happen, exactly, or how.

In “Drive Thru,” Robinson accesses genuine charm as his character pays for the customer behind him in a drive-through line. At this point, after two-plus seasons of ITYSL , Robinson has primed his audience to expect absurdity to the utmost degree. Even so, nothing could have prepared me for what happens next: His character slams on the gas pedal and whips his car back around to the mouth of the drive-through line to take advantage of the pay-it-forward chain he started, shouting at another patron who arrives at the same time to “let me go first! I’m doing something!” His order, breathlessly shouted, has unsurprisingly become one of the series’ most quotable and enduring memes. “Drive Thru” is an instant ITYSL classic—the kind of sketch I could watch 55 times and laugh during each one. — Levy-Rubinett

14. “Laser Spine Specialists” (Season 1, Episode 3)

It seems like one of those medical ads you see on TV all the time, until Tim Robinson shows up and escalates in the most unexpected ways. First, Laser Spine Specialists have given his character the renewed strength to fight his wife’s new husband, Danny Crouse. Then he testifies to being able to lift his adult son over his head (“And there ain’t shit he can do about it”). Finally, in a truly sublime turn, the advertisement basically stops altogether and turns into a pastiche of a man confronting a sleazy record producer (Robbie Star from Superstar Tracks Records) who’s bilked him out of thousands of dollars.

The final turn of genius here comes when the Laser Spine Specialists logo creeps back into the bottom-right corner of the screen, a subtle reminder that, oh yeah, that’s how this whole thing started. — Gruttadaro

13. “Prank Show” (Season 2, Episode 1)

Maybe I was just riding the high of starting the second season when I watched this for the first time. But here’s what happened: After the hot dog sketch segued into “Corncob TV,” I started laughing uncontrollably. When the latter stopped, I was gasping for air and crying with laughter; the muscles in my face hurt. Then this sketch started. By the time Robinson, laden with unrealistic-looking prosthetics, froze in a food court and yelled “I’m so hot!” and “We did way too much!” I was crying so hard my eyes were burning. To recap: “Karl Havoc” is so funny (and also so sad?), it made my eyes burn. What’s that do for the greater good? Actually, a lot. — Lindbergh

12. “Gift Receipt” (Season 1, Episode 1)

“The Gift Receipt” starts small, with a simple and relatable feeling of insecurity: Lev (Robinson) realizes that the decorative wreath he bought for his friend Jacob (played by the delightful Steven Yeun, conferring Oscar-nominee grace and leading-man gravitas to this batshit absurdity) might not be a very good birthday gift. That insecurity leads to the crossing of a societal line: A self-conscious Lev demands the gift receipt back, as proof that Jacob was telling the truth when he said he liked the gift. That doesn’t assuage the insecurity, though; Lev persists, and heightens, and there’s the bit.

That’s just the tree, though. What makes the sketch sing is all the garland and ornaments that Robinson hangs on it: Adding a little-boy poop joke, then mutating that by turning poop into “mud pies,” which later becomes “such a sloppy mud pie”; the notion that the unit of measure of toilet paper is the “slice”; a grown man screaming, “NO, I eat paper all the time!” followed by a seemingly sane character suggesting a resolution that, in the interest of scientific rigor, demands the ingestion of additional paper. The complete devastation of a friend group; the horrified shriek humans can emit only when they’ve seen a dead body. All this chaos, springing from that small kernel of self-doubt; all this laughter, coaxed out through an unyielding commitment to both throwing sliders with diction—fuckin’ “mud pies,” man—and exploring just how much Robinson can yell. (Answer: a lot.)

There’s a reason this one closes the first episode of the series, I think: In construction and emphasis, it feels something like I Think You Should Leave ’s mission statement, delivered loudly and unapologetically ... at a time when any normal person in your life would be seriously apologetic. — Devine

11. “Eggman Game” (Season 3, Episode 2)

It’s hard to put into words why a sketch about a guy playing a nonsensical computer game in which you feed eggs to a larger egg is so damn funny. It’s just the way that Robinson’s main character, Marcus, is so focused on winning this game—which, again, has zero logic—to the point of ignoring his coworkers.

And how that obsession devolves into something much weirder when Marcus’s coworkers walk over to his desk and see an egglike character pulling its pants down to reveal pubic hair—all while Marcus, deeply interested, reiterates that he’s never made it this far in the game.

And then that development leads one coworker to tell Marcus, “This is very serious—you can’t look at porn in the office.” Which leads to one of the funniest kickers in ITYSL history: Robinson, somewhat flubbing the line, proclaiming, “We should be able to look at a little porn at work.”

Like I said, it’s not really funny on paper. But when you watch it, you know you’re looking at a top-tier I Think You Should Leave sketch. — Gruttadaro

10. “Instagram” (Season 1, Episode 1)

One incredibly difficult thing I Think You Should Leave manages to pull off is instituting its own vocabulary, which then infiltrates our larger lexicon. Mud pies; sloppy steaks; Turbo Time; 50 black, slicked-back-hair wigs. “Instagram” is the sketch that’s all vocabulary. As Vanessa Bayer’s character tries to grasp her friends’ concept of being a little self-deprecating on social media, she unleashes a litany of gross terms and phrases that you’d never hear anywhere else but on this TV show. You know what? I’m just gonna list out all the best ones:

• “Slopping down some pig shit with these fat fucks, and I’m the fattest of them all.”
• “Load my frickin’ lard carcass into the mud. No coffin, please!”
• “Gulping down some pig dicks with these bags of meat.”
• “Sunday funday with these pig dicks.”
• “Hope nobody gulps us.”
• “Slurping down fish piss with these wet chodes.”
• “Total tuna cans.”
• “They’re mad because I won Best Hog at the hog-shit-snarfing contest. But I’m not mad ’cause we’re all loads of beef, sitting on the side of a highway, getting our butts sucked by flies.”

I just … it’s so beautiful. It’s so strangely eloquent. It’s enough to make you cry. Bae. — Gruttadaro

9. “Qualstarr Trial” (Season 2, Episode 3)

What begins as a couple of coworkers on trial for insider trading soon pivots into a merciless roast of one guy’s questionable fashion sense. As the prosecutor reads through one of the workers’ text messages, the conversation lingers on Brian (Robinson), who shows up to their office with a stupid hat. The icing on the cake comes back in the courtroom, when Brian comes into focus, still wearing that fuckin’ hat:

It’s somehow as awful as advertised, a fedora with safari flaps in the back. As Brian gets more uncomfortable in the courtroom, the texting transcript piles on the fedora-related indignities. By the time Brian gets angry in a meeting because he was asked to take the hat off (which he then tried to roll down his arm like Fred Astaire), I was guilty of secondhand embarrassment. — Surrey

8. “Which Hand” (Season 1, Episode 3)

Credit the quality of this sketch—in which a wife lashes out at her husband because he allowed himself to be humiliated during a magician’s routine—to the line readings. Every choice is spot on, from Robinson going full normcore with “If I didn’t have to drive, I would’ve probably taken them up on that bourbon flight—that’s so cool ” to literally everything Cecily Strong says (one highlight: “I’m glad you had fun, while everyone else had to watch an adult man jerk your little-boy dick off”). Watching Strong’s dissatisfied wife go up against Robinson’s beta husband will never not be funny. And it’s all underpinned by one undeniable axiom: Magicians do suck. — Gruttadaro

7. “Baby Cries” (Season 2, Episode 2)

Do babies cry spontaneously, or is it because they know that you used to be a piece of shit? That’s the question driving Robinson’s character in this sketch, after he attends a baby shower and the infant in question starts bawling when he tries to hold it. “I’m worried that the baby thinks people can’t change,” he tells the mother, a quote that’s permanently lodged into my broken brain. Robinson then goes into the details of his past life as a self-professed piece of shit: sporting slicked-back hair, rolling with his Dangerous Nights crew, and ordering sloppy steaks at Truffoni’s. It’s the deranged fixation on sloppy steaks—as in, pouring a glass of water on a sizzling slab of meat in defiance of the restaurant owner—that draws you in, especially when we’re whisked into a flashback of just what a night of sloppy steaks at Truffoni’s with the Dangerous Nights crew actually looks like. That the flashback is soundtracked by Ezra Koenig solidifies this sketch as an instant classic. All that’s left to do now is try a sloppy steak yourself. — Surrey

6. “Corncob TV” (Season 2, Episode 1)

Most reality-television parodies are as boringly manufactured as the shows that inspire them. But in typical ITYSL fashion, this one cranks up the shock knob to dangerously explosive levels and, well, smashes through the genre’s staleness. Coffin Flop is exactly what it sounds like: “Just hours and hours of footage of real people falling out of coffins at funerals,” says Robinson, a Corncob TV exec who looks and sounds like the kind of guy who’d watch a lot of Corncob TV. “There’s no explanation.”

And really, there doesn’t need to be. That’s the beauty of the bit: It skewers the vulgarity of bad reality TV while also kind of making the case for it. After all, who can look away from the sight of body after body busting out of shit wood and hitting pavement? — Siegel

5. “Summer Loving” (Season 3, Episode 1)

It was only a matter of time before I Think You Should Leave spoofed reality dating shows, and “Summer Loving” doesn’t disappoint. While the other contestants on the program are trying to win the affections of an attractive bachelorette, Robinson’s Ronnie has made it abundantly clear that he’s only interested in using the house’s awesome pool zip line. Ronnie’s enthusiasm is so intense that he keeps getting into fights with Mike from 360Zipline. (“He’s too rough with the rope,” Mike explains.) A montage of Robinson on the zip line is as glorious as it sounds:

I suspect that “Summer Loving” exists only because Robinson personally wanted to use that zip line countless times, and, well, who can blame him? — Surrey

4. “Darmine Doggy Door” (Season 3, Episode 2)

What’s the scariest thing you can think of? A pig in a Richard Nixon mask? Your wife getting flipped by a swing dancer eight times? Or another day of existential dread at your dead-end job? “Darmine Doggy Door” finds Tim Robinson’s pitchman confronting all three. After a property-line dispute causes his neighbor to unleash an unholy beast into his home, a sleep-deprived Robinson comes face-to-face with his fate. But staring down what he believes to be his certain death, his first instinct is neither fight nor flight. Rather, it’s acceptance: If he dies, he doesn’t have to show up at the office tomorrow. And getting eaten by this monster is better than getting eaten alive by the corporate machine. “That was the most consequential day of my life,” Robinson says, “because now I know I don’t like my work.” Sure, in the end, there aren’t monsters “on the world,” but the feelings this creature stirred in him were both terrifying and clarifying. And as for me, this much I know: For two minutes and 11 seconds, I thought this was the funniest thing I’d ever seen. — Sayles

3. “The Day That Robert Palins Murdered Me” (Season 1, Episode 5)

When a record company exec tells the auditioning band he’s looking for something new and original—a direct parody of Walk the Line —frontman Billy (Rhys Coiro) shoots his shot with “The Day That Robert Palins Murdered Me.” Billy’s country crooning piques the exec’s interest, but then his oblivious bassist (Robinson) jumps in with his own lyrics—which to his credit are original. He shrieks about skeletons coming up from the ground to pull people’s hair (up, not out), with lines such as “The worms are their money / the bones are their dollars,” as well as my personal favorite, “They’ve never seen so much food as this / Underground there’s half as much food as this.” It’s utter nonsense, and it’s utterly delightful. — Levy-Rubinett

2. “Focus Group” (Season 1, Episode 3)

Quiet, subtle moments aren’t I Think You Should Leave ’s strong suit. When I think about “Focus Group” now, though, several million viewings later, what I keep coming back to is the way it primes the pump.

Robinson introduces the premise: Ford is soliciting ideas from the public for a new car model. And then, on the second cut introducing us to the members of the focus group, about 10 seconds in, there he is:

Bam . Center of the frame, crystal clear, a magnet drawing your eye: Ruben Rabasa , an actor with nearly a half century of credits , but one you feel positive you’ve never seen before, because just look at this dude . If you’d seen him before, you’d remember it.

The shot lingers on Rabasa for a beat, giving you a second to really drink in his presence as he looks across the table. At that moment, you don’t know that he’s looking at Paul, played by Kanin, who will soon become his nemesis in “wanting to do good at something that just doesn’t matter” —precisely the sort of making-molehills-into-mountains thematic bull’s-eye that this show so frequently aims for and hits. You don’t know yet that Rabasa’s mere seconds away from unleashing an avalanche of memeable moments like arguing for the necessity of sturdily constructed steering wheels in cars deliberately made too small, all delivered in an utterly infectious accent that’s equally powerful when raised to yell, “STINKY!” and lowered to hiss, “Who’s the most popular now , Paul?” You could not possibly anticipate the dab, or the bottle flip.

All you know, right then, is that you’ve never seen anything quite like this guy, and you’re already laughing, even if you don’t exactly get why. In other words: It’s the perfect standard-bearer for a sketch show blissfully and brilliantly unlike any other. “We’re looking at the monitor while you’re shooting, and it’s like having Brad Pitt,” ITYSL executive producer Akiva Schaffer told Vulture in 2019 . “Every shot is already the funniest sketch I’ve ever seen.” — Devine

1. “Brooks Brothers” (Season 1, Episode 5)

There are many memeable bits in ITYSL —see directly above—but none so broadly applicable and so satisfying to reference as the one about the driver of a hot dog car who tries to gaslight the patrons of an upscale clothing store (and sort of succeeds). On paper, there’s no way this sketch should work so well. But Robinson sells it so hard, and the visual gags are so good, that it’s one of the most memorable moments in a season stuffed with them. The surprise reveals of Robinson in his costume—yelling, “Yeah, whoever did this just confess, we promise we won’t be mad”—and innocent bystander/series co-creator Zach Kanin in his hot-dog-adjacent attire are topped only by the sketch’s signature line, “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.” In real life, the grifters are less likely to drive Wienermobiles, but their schemes are sometimes just as transparent—and just as liable to work anyway. — Lindbergh

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Whoopee Cushions Are Not Funny, Ok.

By now you've probably heard of I Think You Should Leave , the universally adored chaotic sketch comedy show on Netflix. If you're like me, you've watched every sketch a dozen times, and Robinson-isms like "cosmic gumbo" and "sloppy steaks at Truffoni's" have wedged their way into your vocabulary and are there to stay.

ITYSL sketches have a reputation for showcasing socially inept characters, often played by the man himself, Tim Robinson . As fun as it is to imagine that all of Robinson's characters are actually the same guy, moving from temp job to temp job with an unjustifiable pent-up rage, the logic simply isn't there. The man in the hot dog suit in season one cannot be the same guy who chokes on a hot dog later on in season two. He would know how to eat a hot dog. It just doesn't make sense. Therefore, each of Robinson's characters is a slightly different person, with different bizarre goals and ticks and the same face. No one brings a comedic character to life quite like Tim Robinson and his team.

Whoopee Cushion Guy

From his single appearance in a relatively short sketch, we learn a lot about this poor unsuspecting man who sits on a whoopee cushion during an office meeting. He's a family man. All he wants is his face to look nice and not beet red for his family photo tonight. He's never heard of a whoopee cushion before, and it does not feel like a joke. He is one of the few Tim Robinson character who is absolutely 100% correct. Whoopee cushions are NOT funny.

There are layers to this character that go beyond a single sketch. If he's never seen a whoopee cushion, has he ever been to a joke shop? What would he do if someone offered him an old-timey stick of gum? It really makes you think.

Adult Ghost Tour Guy

Definitely one of the most three-dimensional characters in all of ITYSL , the guy on the adult ghost tour is never actually given a name, but he does get a haunting backstory, and manages to be at his most chaotic and hilarious while holding back tears. He does not grasp the concept that an adult ghost tour that allows swearing would not allow him to say "horse cock" continually to no apparent end.

What makes this character truly memorable comes at the end of the sketch. After being booted out of the tour, he walks up to a car with biblical knick-knacks spanning the dashboard. It's his mother's car, and she asks if he made any friends on the tour, implying that this man lives with his mother, can't drive, and is desperately lonely. It's character background that is rare in ITYSL , and it makes this character and the end of the sketch a contender for saddest of all time .

The Teacher

The key to the teacher character in this driver's ed sketch, better known as the table sketch, is that he has done this dozens of times before. Deep down, he is jaded. He has seen the inexplicable driving safety video/table salesman PSA repeatedly, and he knows the exact questions the kids are going to ask.

His rage comes from a place of pure exhaustion, and it's hilarious. Should he be working with young people? Should he be wearing an untucked golf shirt? No and no.

Singing Stash of Porn Guy

The best ITYSL sketches are the ones that leave you completely baffled and crying with laughter. There are many questions you could ask about Tim Robinson's character in the show's response to a "honk if you're horny" bumper sticker. Why does he have a stack of porn mags in his car? Why does he have a stack of porn mags in his car at his mother's funeral ?

The character quickly averts attention from these mind-boggling character questions and bursts into a brilliant earworm of a song. Here is this guy, with a hit original song that is totally inappropriate for anyone's funeral, let alone your own mother's, and he doesn't have a care in the world. He nails the performance. He wins over hearts and minds. Find the "live" version of the song in this season two trailer .

Carmine's Karl Havoc

A dark, behind-the-scenes look at a prank show host, this character, Carmine Laguzio, is relatable to the point of pain. First, we watch as Carmine is transformed, through an inordinate amount of latex prosthetics, into his prank persona, Karl Havoc. As soon as he gets into position to prank mall-goers in his uncanny costume, things quickly devolve.

Do you ever look at your surroundings and wonder what you're doing there? Karl Havoc is burdened by existential doubt in the middle of the mall. Suddenly, he's lost, wondering what it's all for. Who can relate? Despite looking like low budget Lord of the Rings orc in a funky vest, he is the most sympathetic and deeply human characters of the show.

Laser Spine Specialist Guy

This one's for everyone who has been scammed by a Nigerian Prince. Twice. This character, who starts the sketch in a mock spine surgery advertisement, working through his messy divorce and lifting his adult son over his head thanks to the benefits of Laser Spine Specialists.

In the middle of the ad, he steps into the Superstar Tracks Records studio. What follows is a cautionary tale about blind ambition. He is stuck between his need to end a deal that he knows is a scam, and his dream of being a star. The character is at the crux of a universal moral dilemma: what do you do if a song is in your Q zone?

Mitch Bryant: Has This Ever Happened To You Guy

Another fake advertisement, another off-the-wall Tim Robinson character. Poor Mitch acts like he is a lawyer trying to protect unsuspecting consumers from misconduct, but it quickly becomes clear that his "has this ever happened to you" call has happened to exactly one person. Mitch Bryant.

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Mitch is a lovable guy, and he did not deserve to have a Turbo Team wreak havoc in his life. Once again, a Tim Robinson character is a freak, but also the victim. He just wanted to look at his art books. Now look at him.

The Bassist from 'The Day Robert Palins Murdered Me'

Tim Robinson as the bassist in this Johnny Cash parody sketch embodies a trail that is trademark for a socially disruptive ITYSL character: confusion. All he is doing is trying his best and trying to fit in with the rest of the band.

He hears that his band's prospective label wants original songs, and he tries his best to give one to them. Yes, it's a song primarily about skeleton currency, but it was a good effort to try to save a record deal. Why is everyone so upset?

Hot Dog Suit Guy

This man has been used as an allegory for lying politicians and big-wig corporate executives. Dressed in a hot dog suit, he swears he had nothing to do with the hot dog car that crashed into the side of a clothing store. Deceitful and slimy, he tries to get away with his obvious crimes by deflecting, eventually stealing an armful of shirts and running from the police.

Hot dog guy is a classic Tim Robinson portrayal. Robinson thrives as the guy who does the wrong thing in public and refuses to admit it, which makes the concept of him hosting the Oscars so thrilling. Hot dog guy is the pinnacle of Robinson's token nonsensical denial.

He Used to be a Piece of S***

What an arc. From slick-back hair, living for New Year's Eve, and sloppy steaks and Truffoni's, to holding a baby without it crying. This man is proof that people can change. Of course, he used to be a piece of s***, but he's not anymore! This character goes through an epic redemption , the likes of which have not been seen since Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender .

The final montage in this sketch brings a tear to the eye. A tear of joy, of laughter, of hurt, it's hard to tell. Watching this man in his element - Truffoni's - back in his days of white Ferrari's and white couches, it hits deep. This emotional journey builds until the very last shot. An arresting study of the human capacity for change, this is top-tier Tim Robinson character work.

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‘I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson’: Ranking the Sketches, from Best to Very Best

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If you want to feel completely unmoored by the passage of time, here’s a fun fact: Nearly four years passed between Seasons 1 and 3 of “I Think You Should Leave” from co-creators Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin. Thankfully, the wait is over, and now comedy fans can savor a whole new batch of sketches to join the previous 57, bringing the total to a whopping 85. The full series (so far — fingers crossed for more) ranks as Netflix’s easiest and most satisfying binge with episodes under 20 minutes and endless absurdity.

It’s doubtful anyone realized what kind of impact that first season would have on our culture; a man in a hot dog costume is now visual shorthand for shunning responsibility , and an old man dabbing became someone to laugh with, not at . Season 2’s sketches quickly broke through, while others were repurposed based on news at the time. Still more might be forgotten, only to be rediscovered as fans power through Season 3 and drown their sorrows in an inevitable series rewatch.

The writers at IndieWire couldn’t help talking about which were the best, and which were the very best. While “I Think You Should Leave” is clearly not built to be a broadly accessible comedy, anyone who dials into its specific humor frequency are bound to appreciate aspects of every sketch. They may have their own favorites. They may have their least favorites. But when we decided to rank the sketches, we decided first and foremost this wouldn’t be a ranking of every sketch from best to worst — because there is no “worst.” There are only sketches worth celebrating.

That held up for Season 3, as well. After initially publishing our Season 1 list, we added Season 2 sketches when they premiered in 2021 and now 2023’s Season 3 sketches to form a complete ranking. Below, you’ll find IndieWire’s appreciation of every sketch from “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson.” So let’s look back, remember, and laugh.

Ben Travers and Leo Adrian Garcia also contributed to this original article, which included four independent sketch rankings, averaging each ranking to create a master list, and a three-day debate before finalizing the order. Proma Khosla added the Season 3 sketches with limited supervision.

85. “40th Birthday Weekend”

Alternate Title: King of the Dirty Songs

Laugh Line: [making nonsensical sounds while putting hat on and off] (the captions actually say “nonsensical sounds”)

Maybe You Forgot: This sketch feels unfinished, and not just because Don Bon Darley can’t remember his dirty song act from the ’80s. Maybe that’s for the best.

84. “Dog Haircut”

Alternate Title: Hairy Date

Guest Star: Mithra Jouhari

Laugh Line: “Think about it: two girlfriends. That’s better. You know what I’m saying, Meredith?”

Maybe You Forgot: It’s not unusual or unwelcome for “ITYSL” sketches to start as one premise and then take a sharp turn into something else; the dog haircut follows a known formula, but there are just many better versions of it. 

83. “Credit Card Roulette”

Alternate Title: “I’m Not Paying For It”

Guest Star: John Early (hates credit card roulette)

Laugh Line: “Fuck, I should have lied! No!”

Maybe You Forgot: There’s no such thing as a bad “ITYSL” sketch, but Credit Card Roulette doesn’t exactly trend toward the top. Without Robinson there to facilitate the awkwardness of the bill debacle, Early is left to carry all of the humor himself. That said, forgetting to lie and then beating yourself up over it is just a funny concept.

82. “Summer Loving Farewell”

Alternate Title: Return of the Zipline

Laugh Line: It’s an on-screen credit: “Ramp guitar by Slish Valez”

Maybe You Forgot: Only this far down because it’s more of a reprise (a coda?) than a full sketch, with no actual dialogue. But Robinson kicking his legs in perfect time with the guitar riff is what dreams are made of.

81. “Herbie Hancock” (pictured)

Alternate Title: “He Was Humping You”

Laugh Line: “That’s why I love Herbie Hancock, he loves to lie.”

Maybe You Forgot… that this sketch was centered around a Herbie Hancock tribute, considering it quickly devolves into Tim Robinson’s speaker claiming an audience member’s dog “bit” his head.

80. “Dave’s Huge Dumps”

Alternate Title:  (that’s just what it’s called)

Laugh Line: “Oh my God. How long have you been doing this?”

Maybe You Forgot… his name is Luca. That’s important. 

79. “Team Building Workshop”

Alternate Title: Fake Workplace Rivalry

Laugh Line: “All of this happened because teacher.”

Maybe You Forgot: Of course taking things too far is an indispensable ITYSL tradition, but this sketch doesn’t scratch any itches that “Dan Flashes” or “Big Wave” can’t.

78. “Jelly Bean”

Alternate Title: Silent Theater

Laugh Line: “If you’d asked me when I started this how many frats would come, I woulda said none.”

Maybe You Forgot: If Richard Brecky (Robinson)  talks, he has to pay the audience, so they come in from near and far to heckle him until he does. But he’s doing sold out shows, so it’s a dream come true!

77. “Fourth Grade Concert”

Alternate Title: Shirt Brothers

Guest Star: Biff Wiff

Laugh Line: “I tried to rip the Wright brothers off the ceiling, brother!”

Maybe You Forgot: It’s rare to see Robinson as the straight man, and he always handles it just as well as his heightened characters.

76. “Surprise 50th”

Alternate Title: Rat Mom

Guest Star: Patti Harrison

Laugh Line: “I’m the rat mom!”

Maybe You Forgot: Every ITYSL mainstay brings something unique to their characters, and Harrison’s always have a dark side (and love Christmas). Who else could play the rat mom who tries to poison a cardboard cutout with Windex and dog shit?

75. “Tasty Time Vids”

Alternate Title: Frankenstein’s Chick

Guest Star: Connor O’Malley

Laugh Line: “Frankenstein’s chick and her manager are really coming after me.”

Maybe You Forgot: Following yourself on someone else’s Instagram should be illegal, and this sketch shows why.

74. “ABX Heart Monitor”

Alternate Title: Club Haunted House

Guest Star:  Tim Heidecker

Laugh Line: “Theres been a tragedy in the club community.”

Maybe You Forgot: A man who dances too hard at club Acqua (where he built the deck) gets a heart monitor, which his doctor uses to spy on him and see if he’s out other exclusive clubs, like Haunted House.

73. “Office Happy Hour”

Alternate Title: Pay For Friends

Guest Star: Beck Bennett

Laugh Line: “Just when I slammed my two hands down I squoze and I farted.”

Maybe You Forgot: Bennett’s character pays for his 200-person friend group, which comes with rules.

72. “The Capital Room” (pictured)

Alternate Title: “Charlie Brown Money”

Laugh Line: “And popcorn!”

Maybe You Forgot… if you bring her a bad deal, she’ll raise her arms above her head and make burping sounds.

71. “Office Meeting”

Alternate Title: Workplace Hallucinations

Laugh Line: “He’s gonna keep picking up stuff and saying it’s other stuff.”

Maybe You Forgot: Once you see the world through Randall’s (Robinson) eyes, it kind of makes sense! Why wouldn’t there be a volcano, a little knife, or a tiny pimp in the board room? Anything is possible.

70. “Insult Comic Restaurant”

Alternate Title: “Space Date”

Guest Stars:  Tim Heidecker, Tracey Birdsall

Laugh Line:  “Just to get school supplies her mom had to drink puke on a local morning radio show.”

Maybe You Forgot: Tim Heidecker also made an appearance as jazz aficionado Howie in the “Game Night” sketch in Season 1 of “I Think You Should Leave.”

69. “Bozo Dubbed”

Alternate Title:  “Viral Videos”

Laugh Line:  “I guess it’s, like, a viral video where Bozo dubs over.”

Maybe You Forgot:  Look closely while a Google search is being performed for “Bozo Dubbed Over” and you’ll notice that Reggie’s video is nearly 57 minutes long. Release the Reggie Cut.

68. “Carber Hot Dog Vac”

Alternate Title: “You Can’t Skip Lunch, Part 2”

Alternate Title No. 2: “You Sure About That? You Sure About That, That’s Why?”

Laugh Line: “We all make mistakes. We shouldn’t be punished for them.”

Maybe You Forgot… Pushing lunch without asking shouldn’t be allowed . That’s the big takeaway here.

67. “Wilson’s Toupees”

Alternate Title: “Gorilla Attack”

Laugh Line: “That’s my real hair.”

Maybe You Forgot… if you can’t wait 52 weeks and need to be bald right now, Wilson’s will send a fake gorilla to a public place of your choosing, and rip your hair clean off!

66. “Parking on the Sidewalk”

Alternate Title: Ponytail Guy

Guest Star: Will Forte

Laugh Line: “Google ‘disgusting diarrhea in bowl’ image search.”

Maybe You Forgot: Forte is a madman.

65. “Street Sets”

Alternate Title: Dad Deepfake

Guest Star: Fred Armisen

Laugh Line: “Brian! You were filming this whole thing?”

Maybe You Forgot: This man spent $15K.

64. “Baby Shower” (pictured)

Alternate Title: “Stanzo Brand Fedoras”

Laugh Line: “It needs to be quality on my end, otherwise no fucking deal!”

Maybe You Forgot: Shawntay Dalon plays Tim’s wife in the sketch, but before “I Think You Should Leave,” she played Tim’s wife (and Sam Robinson’s sister) on their Comedy Central series, “Detroiters.”

63. “Pay It Forward”

Alternate Title: Fast Food Hustle

Laugh Line: “55 burgers 55 fries 55 tacos 55 pies 55 cokes 55 tater tots 100 pizzas 100 tenders 100 meatballs 100 coffees 55 wings 55 shakes 55 pancakes 55 pastas 55 peppers and 155 taters!”

Maybe You Forgot: Nothing on this show hits like Robinson unleashed, and he’s at 110% giving that drive-in order and using a strangers goodwill against them. The sketch also offers a greater moral lesson: Sometimes you can just run away!

62. “Work Convention After Party”

Alternate Title: Guy Who Can’t Stop Talking About His Kids

Guest Star: Jason Schwartzman

Laugh Line: “I’m the most popular guy here now!”

Maybe You Forgot: You don’t have to talk about your kids constantly, but you do have to make sure they don’t shoot Godzilla the gorilla.

61. “Metal Motto Search”

Alternate Title: Metaloid Maniac

Guest Star: Sam Richardson

Laugh Line: “This wall is his ground. Is there any way we can make it look like this wall is your ground?” 

Maybe You Forgot: Another knockout from Richardson, who plays the effervescent host but also voices multiple characters in the Metaloid Maniac cartoon. Can Netflix pick up “Metaloid Maniac” please?

60. “Babysitter Hit and Run” (pictured)

Alternate Title:  “Late to the Party”

Laugh Line:  “If you keep talking about the hit and run, I’m gonna fucking kill you.”

Maybe You Forgot:  If you’re a fan of characters very quickly digging themselves in a series of bigger, deeper, and cringier holes, this is the only sketch that has someone getting pushed into a china cabinet — that at least has to count for something.

59. “Little Buff Boys” (Commercial)

Alternate Title:  “The Buffest Little Buff Boy”

Guest Star:  Andre Belue, who played Tommy Pencils on “Detroiters”

Laugh Line:  “I get full to the brim eating cherry chuck salad. People say it’s healthy, but with that much cherry and that much ground chuck, it can’t be healthy.”

Maybe you forgot:  The way Belue growls and flexes between lines like “I still think I should have won in Tuscon!” and “Now I eat at some of the best restaurants in town” deserves its own mention. 

58. “Whoopee Cushion”

Alternate Title: “Pink Bag”

Laugh Line: “Oh my God… I farted.” (or: “So what’s the joke? That I had a milder fart than I normally do?!”)

Maybe You Forgot… that placing a whoopee cushion on an unsuspecting person’s chair — especially on the day of their family photo — is “a betrayal on levels that no one has ever seen!”

57. “New Office Printer”

Alternate Title : “Christmas Came Early”

Guest Stars : Patti Harrison 

Laugh Line : “Oh, that naughty old elf must be one mean bastard to give us this so early.”

Maybe You Forgot: Some “I Think You Should Leave” sketches are showcases for writing, and others are showcases for Choices. Some of Harrison’s line deliveries here are like a soloist throwing in extra notes, that aren’t even in a scale, yet somehow work. It’s a simple premise built around a 140-second joke, but Harrison playing her character’s frustration/embarrassment by weaving through four or five different voices elevates the whole thing.

56. “Hotel TV Channel”

Alternate Title: “Del Omni Hotel and Atrium”

Laugh Line: [the one guy following the screensaver pipe pattern all across the one shirt]

Maybe You Forgot… that the “baby, baby, baby” song was coming from the inside of the fabric of that last Dan Flashes shirt. That’s canon now. 

55. “Conflict Resolution”

Alternate Title: Banana Breath

Laugh Line: “Back away, banana breath! What the hell did you just eat, a banana?”

Maybe You Forgot: Cracking a joke at work that actually makes people laugh is a special feeling, one we should more regularly celebrate with shirts.

54. “Garfield House”

Alternate Title: “Party House”

Guest Star: Kate Berlant

Laugh Line: “That chair reclines, by the way. The tongue sticks out.”

Maybe You Forgot: If nothing else, this sketch beautifully illustrates the show’s commitment to a bit, as well as reminding us of how hand-in-hand hilarity and horror work. Nightmares have been had over that Odie recliner and nightmares will be had again.

53. “Wedding Reception”

Alternate Title:  Photobooth Vomit

Guest Star: Tim Meadows

Laugh Line: “Hey look at me I’m Barney, like Barney’s hair!”

Maybe You Forgot: Three seconds really isn’t enough time to think of something silly, especially when you’ve got business deals on the line!

52. “Honk If You’re Horny”

Alternate Title : (no one has ever called this anything other than “Honk If You’re Horny”)

Guest Stars : Conner O’Malley 

Laugh Line : ♫ “Fri. Day. Night. I’m thinkin’ that We. Just. Might….” ♫

Maybe You Forgot: Watching O’Malley physically convulse while pacing around a fleet of headstones, you get the feeling he might just be the most committed performer in all of comedy. This sketch maxes him out, and it’s telling that just the sight of him with his palm laying into the steering wheel has become a no-context meme all its own. Even if you don’t know the source of that image, you can sense this is a character working through some of the deepest on-screen existential (sexual) frustration this side of “Splendor in the Grass.” Kudos here also to the sound mixer, who manages to put the honk at just the right level in each step to sell the joke that this guy is Everywhere.

51. “Gelutol”

Alternate Title: Hair Loss

Laugh Line: “I don’t like him, I don’t want him to have hair!”

Maybe You Forgot: “ITYSL” loves to derail an infomercial, and this one turns into psychological warfare at a St. Patrick’s Day party.

50. “The Man ft. Will Forte”

Alternate Title: “Old Baby’s Revenge”

Laugh Line: “It was 1982. I was 48, you were nine months.”

Maybe You Forgot… what the man was really upset about was the fact that he was too tired to do anything funny in pursuit of his lifelong dream of making the guards at Buckingham Palace break.

49. “Stable of Stars”

Alternate Title: “Carson Can Hit”

Guest Stars: Johnny Carson, George Kennedy, George W. Bush (kind of)

Laugh Line: “That’s my George Kennedy. I brought him here as a perk.”

Maybe You Forgot… that Tim Robinson characters are preoccupied with what’s around people’s houses. Remember the view from the Gift Receipt house? Maybe it’s for the best there are no coffee shops nearby.

48. CalicoCutPants.com

Alternate Title: “The Long One” (clocking in at eight minutes, 50 seconds, “CalicoCutPants.com” is the longest sketch of “ITYSL” so far)

Guest Star: Michael Patrick O’Brien

Laugh Line: “It’s the same thing Supreme does, wouldn’t you agree?” “She just keeps eating batteries.”

Maybe You Forgot… that he always needs you to “hold that door!” (But he’ll never hurry to get there.)

47. “Gift Receipt”

Alternate Title: “Happy Birthday”

Guest Star: Steven Yeun

Laugh Line: “Tell them it’s the ugly house on Kenmore.”

Maybe You Forgot… that before he was an Oscar-nominated movie star, Steven Yeun was just some guy trying to conserve toilet paper. (OK, he was never “just” anything — Yeun has been great for a long, long time — but his quiet transition from enthusiastic to irritated to humbled birthday boy is outstanding, selfless work.)

46. “Summer Loving”

Alternate Title: Zipline Bachelorette

Laugh Line: “Carmelo said your face looks like a clock.”

Maybe You Forgot: Robinson’s Ronnie takes things too far as usual, but this time in a way that irritates no one (except the rope guy) and brings him infinite joy in paradise (something that true love can’t provide).

45. “Motorcycles”

Alternate Title : “Mind-Blown Alien” (pictured)

Laugh Line : [delivered to a woman standing by herself with a stroller] “Yeah! Yeah! Yeh-hey!”

Maybe You Forgot: Few on-location shoots have ever captured the wonder and beauty of walking around North Hollywood. With so many other “I Think You Should Leave” sketches centered around characters whose lives are crumbling at various speeds, it’s the ideal antidote to see Robinson in a “last-minute costume from the Halloween store”-level biker getup gaze in wonder at the most banal sights in the neighborhood. (He also manages to invent an entirely new accent in the process.) The reveal of the spaceship is one of the best effects-driven gags of the season, and the whole group joining in at the end makes for a perfect button. Just joyous.

44. “Ghost Tour”

Guest Stars: Alex Aiono, as the tour guide

Laugh Line: “Any of these little fuckers ever pop out of the fuckin’ wall and say, ‘Fuck, there’s a horse cock in my room or a donkey dick?’”

Maybe You Forgot: So much of Season 2 seems to be concerned with sad men who do not understand the world in which they live, and there’s no better example of this than Robinson’s final monologue in “Ghost Tour,” which is expertly preceded by a sheepish hand raise that both tips the audience off to what’s coming, but also makes us feel for this poor idiot: “You can’t change the rules just ‘cause you don’t like how I’m doing it. I don’t know what is going on, but somewhere our wires got crossed. You’re saying we’re allowed to swear. I’m saying ‘big, fat load of cum’ and ‘horse cock’ and you’re getting mad.”

43. “Instagram”

Alternate Title: “Sunday Funday”

Guest Star: Vanessa Bayer

Laugh Line: “Are we the pig dicks or the bags of meat?”

Maybe You Forgot… that before Brenda tagged her brunch friends as “wet chodes” and “bonafide pieces of hog shit,” they did call her a “dumb-dumb” — why are they bullying her?

42. “Supermarket Swap VR Edition”

Alternate Title: Father/Son Game Show

Guest Star: Ayo Adebiri

Laugh Line: “How do we move our bodies ever?” (“What”)

Maybe You Forgot: He turns into a mannequin!

41. “Blues Brother” (pictured)

Alternate Title: “Take Off Your Hat and Glasses”

Laugh Line: [as a second dog appears from nowhere] “Oh, fuck.”

Maybe You Forgot: At first glance, there’s nothing intricate here. It’s just a guy trying to liven up an unnecessarily tense weekend getaway. But there’s something in the way that every new detail is an escalation. The Mr. Happy t-shirt. The dog is barking. He asks her to turn it up. The dog is jumping now? Wait, there’s a kid? Do they really not know his name? ANOTHER dog?? In and out in true “ITYSL” fashion, this is the show’s id on display.

40. “Laser Spine Specialists”

Alternate Title: “Your Family Hates You, Only I Love You”

Laugh Line: “I can finally fight my wife’s new husband.”

Maybe You Forgot… that Robbie has a new beat ready for you, and it’s totally in your Q zone. (For at least two brief shots, the faintest hint of a smile crosses Connor O’Malley’s lips, as he tries to pull one over on Tim Robinson’s irate wannabe singer.)

39. “River Mountain High”

Alternate Title: “TC Tuggers”

Laugh Line: “But they’re not a joke.”

Maybe You Forgot: Sure, the bulk of the “TC Tuggers” sketch(es) take place in a pseudo-early-oughts teen drama “River Mountain High,” but things go next-level with a commercial for the shirts featuring chubby dads dancing awkwardly in their beloved TC Tuggers.

38. “Pacific Proposal Park”

Alternate Title: Wrestler Park

Laugh Line: “That’s what I’m looking at when I’m putting proposals in the calendar, I’m looking at a guy’s penis that looks like it’s about to pop!”

Maybe You Forgot: The park proprietor is nothing like Richardson’s usual characters, or even the range he’s established with previous “ITYSL” episodes. The world deserves more unhinged Sam Richardson and this show is providing.

37. “Magicians Suck!”

Alternate Title: “Which Hand”

Guest Star: Cecily Strong

Laugh Line: “Well, you wouldn’t know it from the suit!”

Maybe You Forgot… that Charlie makes 10 times as much as the magician, but his wife and kids will never respect him. Not after this. Not after… the magic show.

36. “Darmine Doggy Door”

Alternate Title:  Nixon Pig

Laugh Line: “For 50 seconds I thought there was monsters on the world.”

Maybe You Forgot: The world can look different when you’ve been losing sleep over a swing dancer flipping your wife over, so cut yourself a break.

35. “Game Night”

34. “Pacific Proposal Park”

33. “choking”.

32. “Pacific Proposal Park”

31. “big wave”.

Alternate Title: “Surfing on the Conference Table”

Laugh Line: “I need a wet paper towel.”

Maybe You Forgot: Some of the main characters in these sketches just want to watch the world burn. Is Russell one of those people? Or is the act of causing destruction, getting overly personal, and hyperarticulating the phrase “chode jeans” the only way he knows how to fit in? Who can say. (Also, the sound of the guy’s head hitting the office wall is absolutely horrifying.)

30. “Sitcom Taping”

Alternate Title: TK Jewelers is a Scam

Laugh Line: “You really can’t do anything once someone says ‘Shut Up.'”

Maybe You Forgot: TK Jewelers is a scam and 500 springs exploding all over your date is not what you want.

29. “Tammy Craps” (pictured)

Alternate Title: “Dolls Without [Expletive] in Their Heads”

Guest Stars: “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” breakout star Julia Butters

Laugh Line: “You gotta get outta here, little girl.”

Maybe You Forgot: Eagle-eyed redditors noticed that the girls in the Tammy Craps sketch were clearly not saying “farts” in the ad, with some pretty obvious dubbing over the word “shit.” Which somehow makes the new and improved doll that craps herself and then lies about it even funnier.

28. “Claire’s”

Alternate Title: “JibJab Video”

Laugh Line: “Sometimes I put my dad in a JibJab video so he’s alive again. I showed it to my mom. She said, ‘Where is he?’ I go, ‘Mom, it’s not real. It’s a JibJab.”

Maybe You Forgot: Ron Tussbler’s final monologue about laughing hysterically at nothing in empty rooms, so that when his life flashes before his eyes when he dies he’s able to trick himself.

27. “Ghosts of Christmas Way Future”

Alternate Title: “The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas”

Laugh Line: “That’s good bone-crushin’!”

Maybe You Forgot… this is actually a two-part sketch, which starts at the top of Episode 4 when Sam Richardson’s “Edge of Tomorrow” character says “there’s only one man who can save us now.” Then the title card hits and the “Herbie Hancock” sketch plays out in full, before we circle back to the bone-crushin’. To better emphasize Sam’s surprise reappearance, there’s even a shift in format: whereas we meet Sam’s skeleton-fighting warrior in high-res widescreen, the “classic” Scrooge story is shot in grainy 4:3.

26. “Driver’s Ed”

Alternate Title: “Tables”

Laugh Line: “What is her job?” “Tables!”

Maybe You Forgot… that we do find out what Carrie’s job is! So in the first video, we learn that “Carrie” (played by Patti Harrison) is loading tables into her minivan, and she’s really upset that “Eddie Munster” dirtied up one of them. “It’s filthy,” she cries, before calling up her client to complain about losing out on her “livelihood” (aka the tables).

The easiest answer to the lingering question, “What’s her job?” (asked by a persistent student) is simple: She rents tables. How that “pays for [her] house” is a reasonable if inexplicable follow-up, but hey — maybe the table market is really strong where she lives. After all, if George is gonna razz her about learning to treat “talent” the right way, that likely means there are a lot of “Comic-Cons and Horror-Cons” going on — otherwise, she wouldn’t have to worry about Freddy Krueger’s hurt feelings. It sounds like he’s a repeat client. So he’s gonna need those tables again.

25. “Funeral Organ”

Alternate Title : “His Own, Much Larger Organ”

Guest Stars : The One and Only Fred Willard 

Laugh Line : “My condolences.”

Maybe You Forgot: It wasn’t Willard’s last screen appearance, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a better swan song punchline than this: playing an organ player enthusiastically shouting “2, 3, 4!” before twirling knobs, pulling levers, and smashing plates at a wake filled with unsuspecting mourners. As a performer, the guy always held his own as a captain navigating any joke through choppy waters. That he delivers all of his lines here with the same placid tone amid all the noise, antics, and chaos is a filling tribute. He layeth on high, indeed.

24. “You Can’t Skip Lunch”

Alternate Title: “Hot Dog Sleeve”

Guest Stars: Whitmer Thomas, Sisa Grey, Eugene Samuel Kim

Laugh Line: “I don’t know if you’re allowed to do that.”

Maybe You Forgot… this is the first sketch of Season 2, and much like the first sketch of the first episode of the first season (“Pulling the Door Open”), “You Can’t Skip Lunch” serves as an excellent thesis statement on what’s about to come. 

23. “Detective Crashmore” (Trailer)

Alternate Title: “Detective Crashmore, Part One”

Guest Stars: Biff Wiff as the titular Detective Crashmore.

Laugh Line: “You fucking suck!”

Maybe You Forgot: The Detective Crashmore saga is stronger taken as a whole than in individual pieces, but despite what other IW staffers might tell you, the trailer is the better of the two. While the sketch lives and dies on the late-breaking reveal, the trailer up to that point is full of classic “ITYSL” humor, which is to say that Crashmore’s lines are so odd and strangely put together. While Wiff isn’t quite as adept at delivering on the humor as Robinson has proven himself to be time and time again, he easily plays the part of a celebrity hoping to expand their resume.

22. “Pulling the Door Open”

Alternate Title: “Both Ways”

Laugh Line: “I was here yesterday, and it actually goes both ways.”

Maybe You Forgot… this is the sketch that started it all, the first sketch of the first episode of the first season of “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson”; a perfect representation of the show, for better or best.

21. “Diner Wink”

Alternate Title: “Classic Cars”

Guest Star: Bob Odenkirk

Laugh Line: “But she’s beautiful, but she’s dying.”

Maybe You Forgot… triples makes it safe. Triples is best.

“Feed Eggs”

Alternate Title: Egg Game (ft. Butthole)

Laugh Line: “We should be able to look at a little porn at work…”

Maybe You Forgot: The egg shows its butthole!

20. “Scott Loves His Wife”

Alternate Title: “Poker Night” (or “Jamie Taco”)

Guest Stars: Paul Walter Hauser

Laugh Line: “Your husband is a henchman.”

Maybe You Forgot: OK, so maybe that line isn’t funny. And maybe there aren’t as many jokes in here as its length would suggest. But for all the talk about how “I Think You Should Leave” is filled with irredeemable agents of pure chaos, it’s a genuine achievement that the series can also include a sincere sketch-length ode to Wife Guys and community theater. It’s just magical.

19. “Barley Tonight”

Alternate Title: Phone Pundit

Laugh Line: “My mom’s getting robbed.”

Maybe You Forgot: Going on your phone is a great way to exit a conflict! You’ve got tons of stuff on your phone (a jousting game, obviously), and don’t even have to worry about losing it when the new one comes out.

18. “Fully Loaded Nachos”

Alternate Title: “First Date”

Laugh Line: “…what?”

Maybe You Forgot… how well Richardson sells the bit, not only to the audience, but to his character’s nacho-hoarding date. As she confronts him about talking to the waiter, and the waiter confirms what happened, Robinson leans harder and harder into feigned confusion. It’s a great performance, and one of his softer, non-screaming turns.

17. “Fenton’s Horse Ranch”

Alternate Title: “Hung Like a Horse”

Laugh Line: “Where the horses are hung like you!”

Maybe You Forgot… that “Shortstack” was the first horse at Fenton’s Ranch to have a five-inch penis… before he jumped off a cliff.

16. “Detective Crashmore” (Junket)

Alternate Title: “Cosmic Gumbo”

Laugh Line: “To see if they got tattoos. If they do, they get no gift.”

Maybe You Forgot… that this was all for AOL Blast, a junket outlet so specific it doesn’t matter that it actually doesn’t exist. Biff Wiff , the legend. 

15. “The Driving Crooner”

Alternate Title: Designated Driver

Laugh Line: “Fuck, he’s tryna steal my decals!”

Maybe You Forgot: Some people hate the Driving Crooner so much they want him dead. Dead!

14. “Dan Flashes”

Alternate Title: “It Costs More Because of the Patterns”

Laugh Line: “Shut up Doug or I’ll eat her whole fucking head!”

Maybe You Forgot… the more the lines crisscross and the patterns overlap, the higher valuation Dan Flashes gives their shirts. One shirt is so complicated it costs $2000.

13. “Baby Cries”

Alternate Title: “Sloppy Steaks”

Laugh Line: “What are sloppy steaks?”

Maybe You Forgot… people can change. After all, just this past weekend, my best friend handed me his four-month old son, and the Wee Baby Seamus started crying. He was right. I used to be a piece of shit. White bathing suit? Check. Slicked back hair? You bet. Sloppy steaks? Come on, I was 25!

But now, my swimsuit is aqua marine, I push back my hair, and damn it, if steaks don’t just taste better well done. So wouldn’t you know it? After we got a good look at each other, Seamus smiled at me. He knew. I used to be a piece of shit. But I’m not anymore.

12. “Little Buff Boys” (Competition)

Alternate Title: “Oversized Water Bottle”

Guest Stars: Sam Richardson, Brooks Whelan

Laugh Lines: “What a crop! That’s a crop!” “Goose suit! It’s an old circus term!” “No, no. Not Troll Boy. It’s not going to be Troll Boy. We’re not doing Troll Boy. I mean, you get that right, Troll Boy? You get why it can’t be you? Yeah, see? OK. It can’t be him. This can’t be Troll Boy.”

Maybe You Forgot: Sam Richardson is the funniest person on the planet, and this spiritual successor to Season 1’s “Baby of The Year” sketch serves as further evidence.

11. “Parking Lot”

Alternate Title: “Road Rage”

Laugh Line: “No, I don’t know how to fucking drive, I don’t know what any of this shit is, and I’m fucking scared.”

Maybe You Forgot: One popular warning used to deter road rage involves reminding people that their bad behavior could cost them. “What if you get to where you’re going and it’s a job interview, and I turn out to be the boss?”

While acknowleding that idea mid-sketch, what “Parking Lot” presupposes is that your worst assumptions are true: that the other driver you just cussed out is incompetent, that they can’t drive, and that they don’t know what they’re doing.

Does that make your anger… better? Excusable? The right reaction? No, it doesn’t. All it does is turn you into an asshole who’s yelling at a scared, crying human being who was just trying to safely operate their van. Honking doesn’t help, it only makes them more upset. Just be respectful. Practice a little patience. And if he screams when he grabs the steering wheel, believe him when he says “It hurt!”

10. “Dan Vega’s Mega Money Quiz”

Alternate Title : “Chunky”

Guest Stars : Andy Samberg 

Laugh Line : “Figure out what you do!! You had alllllll summer to think of it.”

Maybe You Forgot: Finding a new angle on the fake-game-show sketch is not an easy task. So rather than  choosing to just focus on the manic energy of the host, zero in on an odd detail of the show itself, or lean into the anxieties of the contestants, this does all three with absolute glee. The questions are inane (half of them aren’t even questions), the space on the board the contestants pick is never the actual square that gets revealed, the “Press Your Luck” animated version of Chunky is just lifeless enough to make an impression of its own. Is this game show set in a portal to Hell? Are these four people stuck in purgatory, doomed to wear terrible hats, not talk, have their choices ignored, and live perilously on the edge of popping a forehead vein? No laptop is safe.

9. “Insider Trading”

Alternate Title: “Brian’s Hat”

Laugh Line: “And then I swear to fucking God, he tried to roll the hat down his arm like Fred Astaire.”

Maybe You Forgot: Everything about this sketch makes me laugh. The narration of the flashbacks. Robinson’s background reactions. The escalation of the scene in the meeting. The fact that it features a Season 2 hallmark: Robinson crying. Very divisive at IW HQ, with some voters (correctly) declaring it their new favorite overall sketch.

8. “Professor Dinner”

Alternate Title: “I’m Just Joking!”

Laugh Line: [the way he hesitates right before tossing the last bite of the burger into his mouth]

Maybe You Forgot: It’s not so much forgetting as it is giving credit where it’s eternally due. Behold the comic wizardry of Bob McDuff Wilson, who elevates this from an amusing premise to a deranged spectacle of singularly focused restaurant behavior. We’ve all had this thought at one point. To see someone commit to it so fully and unreservedly makes for an absolute symphony to behold. 

7. “Has This Ever Happened to You?”

Alternate Title: “Just for Farts Toilet”

Laugh Line: “It’s Turbo Time!” (and, of course, “You’re not part of the Turbo Team!”)

Maybe You Forgot… that Home Depot sells “joke hole just for farts toilets” (which are the actual words listed on the receipt left behind by the prankster termite exterminators).

6. “Prank Show”

Alternate Title: “Karl Havoc”

Guest Stars: “SNL” writer Gary Richardson as Craig

Laugh Line: “What’s that do for the greater good?”

Maybe You Forgot: Just the third sketch of the second season, “Prank Show” is the first to truly delve into the central conceit of the season: “What if this absurdist hilarity was also really fucking sad?” Never has existential despair been so funny. 

5. “Coffin Flop”

Alternate Title: “Corncob TV”

Guest Stars: None, unless you count the various stunt people like LJ LaVecchia tasked with busting out of shit wood and hitting pavement. 

Laugh Line: Nearly every line both in composition and delivery is a stone cold classic, but “We’re allowed to show ‘em nude ‘cause they ain’t got no soul” likely takes the cake.

Maybe You Forgot: There’s now an unofficial Change.org petition to keep Corncob TV on Spectrum. I guess it’s your move, Spectrum. 

4. “Wienermobile”

Alternate Title: “Brooks Brothers”

Guest Star: Zach Kanin

Laugh Line: “Or we could work as a team, find out whoever did this, and punish him ourselves. Maybe take his bare butt out of his costume and spank him.”

Maybe You Forgot… the beauty of the hot dog car sketch is the escalation of humor, all hitting on different notes and ultimately striking a glorious chord of hilarity. And while scads of internet ink could be spilled about Tim Robinson’s antics as Hot Dog Man, one of the most delightful bits of humor in the sketch comes from HDM claiming innocence by pointing out that another man appears to also be dressed as a hot dog. That unfortunately-outfitted man, dismayed by the accusation, is actually “I Think You Should Leave’s” own co-creator Zach Kanin, who appears to be the show’s go-to for a sensible schlub destined to become the butt of a joke. (See also: the very next sketch on this list.)

3. “Focus Group”

Alternate Title: “You Flinched!”

Guest Stars: Ruben Rabasa and Zach Kanin

Laugh Line: “No space for the mother-in-law,” “I’m doing the best at this,” “Who is the most popular now, P aul?” and “Stinky!”

Maybe You Forgot… you… have… no… good… car… ideas.

2. “Baby of the Year”

Alternate Title: “Another Chode”

Laugh Line: “I hope you fucking die, Harley Jarvis!”

Maybe You Forgot… they don’t stay babies forever, you idiot (and In Memoriams typically don’t include how they died).

Fun Fact: Three of the four authors behind this list all chose “Baby of the Year” as the series’ No. 1 sketch, but one dissenting vote kept it out of the top spot. Votes will remain anonymous, so you’ll have to blame the math, not Libby Hill, for this ranking.

1. “The Bones Are Their Money”

Alternate Title: “The Day That Robert Palins Murdered Me”; “The Night the Skeletons Came to Life”

Laugh Line: [all]

Maybe You Forgot: Listen, it’s not that “Baby of the Year” isn’t an amazing sketch. Sam Richardson is a goddamn national treasure and everyone knows it; his commitment to keeping lil Bart Harley Jarvis from being unceremoniously murdered by any number of adults is admirable. But this show is called “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson,” and this is the sketch that best captures Robinson’s manic energy, oddly guileless nature, and incomparable ability to make it seem like every line he utters is improvised. It’s been more than a year, but the song still inspires uproarious laughter whenever I watch it. I suspect I’m not alone. – Libby Hill

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I Think You Should Leave season 3 is now out on Netflix, and frankly, that’s fantastic. Writer-comedian Tim Robinson’s situational sketch comedy series has firmly established itself as one of the best series on television for its idiosyncratic characters, deadpan weirdness, and easily quotable jokes and catchphrases that have lodged themselves in the zeitgeist of the internet through countless gifs, memes, and remixes.

If you’re new to the show and want to burn through the show’s three seasons, you’re in luck: Every episode clocks in just shy of 20 minutes and can be leisurely dusted off in a weekend. “But Toussaint, Zosha, and co.,” you rhetorically ask, “what are the best sketches from I Think You Should Leave that I should watch first?” Good question, hypothetical Polygon reader. To answer, we’ve put on our thinking caps, crunched the numbers, plotted out a complicated and scientifically definitive ranking of each sketch from the series, and organized them into tiers.

We picked tiers for a specific reason: The truth is, there’s no such thing as a bad time with ITYSL. Robinson’s comedic stylings are always sharp, and his distinct energy that can completely explode or be fully contained in a single instant guides the show well enough that every sketch, zany or mundane, gets laughs. The list here is more interested in the deeper question of what makes an I Think You Should Leave sketch great or truly transcendent. Don’t agree with our rankings? Well, shit, dude, just write your own!

Here are the best I Think You Should Leave sketches, ranked from “best” to “most not-best.”

[ Ed. note: We’ve updated our list to include every sketch from season three of I Think You Should Leave. ]

Sketches: Car focus group (S1, E3, sketch 2); hot dog car hit-and-run (S1, E5, sketch 1); the bones are their money (S1, E5, sketch 4); chunky eats your points (S1, E6, sketch 2); Coffin Flop (S1, E1, sketch 2); Karl Havoc (S2, E1, sketch 3); driver’s ed tables with Patti Harrison (S2, E6, sketch 2); Driving Crooner (S3, E1, sketch 5); Darmine Doggy Door (S3, E2, sketch 2); Egg feeding game (S3, E2, sketch 4); Jellybean silent comedy (S3, E3, sketch 1); Pay-it-forward drive-thru (S3, E3, sketch 4)

These sketches are the best; the crème de la crème, the jokes that are so absurdly delivered by characters so memorable with personalities so utterly batshit that they’ve lodged themselves in the minds of everyone who has watched them. The perfect I Think You Should Leave Sketch has a clearly identifiable arc: starts out weird from the jump, inexplicably escalates into ever-higher levels of insanity, and uses Tim Robinson’s distinct brand of oddball weirdness to full effect. Throw in a memorable catchphrase or two, a couple hints of horror, and one solid breakout guest performance and you’ve got an instant classic (and probably a good meme).

Sketches: Sloppy steaks (S1, E2, sketch 5); hot dog lunch meeting (S1, E3, sketch 1); funeral organist with Fred Willard (S1, E3, sketch 4); The Ghost of Christmas Way Future (S1, E4, sketch 2); calico-cut pants (S2, E4, sketch 3); I don’t know how to drive (S2, E5, sketch 1); Team building workshop (S3, E1, sketch 2); Summer Loving zip line (S3, E1, sketch 3); Live sitcom recording (S3, E2, sketch 5); house party with Jason Schwartzman (S3, E5, sketch 3)

These sketches come just close to reaching the heights of I Think You Should Leave ’s very best: instantly ridiculous and easily memorable, but not quite cooked all the way through. In any other context, these sketches would be the weirdest (and funniest) SNL pitch that would never make it to air.

Sketches: Whoopee Cushion office prank (S1, E2, sketch 4); honeymoon baby revenge (S1, E2, sketch 6); “adult” ghost tour (S2, E1, sketch 5); The Capital Room with Patti Harrison (S2, E2, sketch 1); hot dog vacuum (S2, E3, sketch 3); Little Buff Boys (S2, E1, sketch 4); gimme that burger (S1, E3, sketch 1); Brian’s hat (S2, E3, sketch 5); Rodney impersonator office prank (S2, E6, sketch 1); table-surfing office prank (S2, E6, sketch 4); Barley Tonight (S3, E1, sketch 1); special date haircut (S3, E3, sketch 2); Pacific Proposal Park (S3, E4, sketch 2); wedding photos (S3, E5, sketch 2); Metaloid Maniac (S3, E6, sketch 2)

These sketches are specific and weird, far from the crème de la crème but still so unique, strange, vulgar, and funny that these hit more specifically for one particular line than they do on the whole. These are the ones that make you go, “Huh, that was weird,” and lightly chuckle to yourself before being washed away by sheer hilarity of the series’ best.

Sketches: Mitch Bryant/Turbo Time infomercial (S1, E1, sketch 2); brunch Instagram posts (S1, E1, sketch 4); Herbie Hancock loves to lie (S1, E4, sketch 1), nachos date (S1, E4, sketch 3), honk if you’re horny (S1, E4, sketch 4), choking in front of Caleb Went (S1, E5, sketch 2); Santa brought it early (S1, E5, sketch 3), baby shower bags (S1, E6, sketch 4); Dan Flashes office meeting (S2, E2, sketch 2); I love my wife/Jamie Taco (S2, E4, sketch 1), Claire’s ear piercings (S2, E6, sketch 5); VR shopping spree (S3, E2, sketch 1); ponytail got stuck (S3, E2, sketch 3); ABX heart monitor/Club Aqua ad (S3, E3, sketch 3); office 50th birthday party (S3, E3, sketch 5); 200 friends (S3, E4, sketch 1); Gelutol commercial (S3, E4, sketch 3); shirt brothers (S3, E4, sketch 5)

These sketches have lots of laughs, though often meanader a beat too long to arrive at the real genius of the joke. What often saves these are the guest appearances, as in the case of the “honk if you’re horny” sketch featuring comedian Conner O’Malley of How To With John Wilson and Joe Pera Talks with You fame.

Sketches: Job interview/door (S1, E1, sketch 1); Baby of the Year (S1, E1, sketch 3); happy birthday wreath receipt (S1, E1, sketch 5); beautiful motorcycles (S1, E2, sketch 1); River Mountain High (S1, E2, sketch 2); Wilson’s Hair Removal (S1, E2, sketch 3); T.C. Tuggers ad (S1, E2, sketch 5); shit-talking magician (S1, E3, sketch 1); pretentious charades with Tim Heidecker (S1, E3, sketch 5); babysitter lie (S1, E5, sketch 5); small-penis horse ranch (S1, E6, sketch 1); Bozo did the dub (S1, E6, sketch 6); Jim Davis’ Garfield house (S1, E6, sketch 7); triples is best with Bob Odenkirk (S2, E2, sketch 3); Dan Flashes mall ad (S2, E2, sketch 4); Detective Crashmore (S2, E3, sketch 2); Crashmore press interview (S2, E3, sketch 4); I’m not the Blues Brothers (S2, E4, sketch 2); I’m not gonna pay for it (S2, E5, sketch 2); Johnny Carson can hit (S2, E5, sketch 3); Space Alien restaurant with Tim Heidecker (S2, E5, sketch 5); Tammy Craps (S2, E6, sketch 3); Fred Armisen beats up kids (S3, E1, sketch 4); Don Barndarley, King of Dirty Jokes (S3, E6, sketch 3); Tasty Time Videos (S3, E6, sketch 4)

These are the filler sketches of I Think You Should Leave . Always good for a laugh, sometimes run longer than they should, and start to feel indiscernible from what any other sketch comedy show that isn’t ITYSL would do. That said, this series’ worst easily ranks among any other sketch series’ best.

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Every ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Sketch, Ranked

By Ej Dickson

As arguably the best sketch-comedy series on TV right now, Netflix’s absurdist I Think You Should Leave (created by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin) has been subject to lengthy critique and analysis — because of course, there’s nothing that makes a joke funnier than a bunch of underpaid Brooklyn-based 30-somethings writing 4,500 words describing what makes it funny.

There have also been more than a few rankings and ratings of the most beloved sketches on the show from ITYSL superfans, who have GIFed and memed and quoted their favorite moments ad nauseam at parties to the point that it’s become the 2020s equivalent of Anchorman. Unfortunately, these rankings are wrong. That’s why we at Rolling Stone — or rather, one working mother of two whose descent into total burnout has been punctuated by brief respites of ITYSL watchings — felt compelled to correct the record with a totally comprehensive list of the best sketches in ITYSL history.

You may ask why we — again, I — felt compelled to rank nearly 80 comedy sketches in order of how much they make me laugh and why. The honest answer is, I don’t know. I wasn’t even supposed to be here today. But here goes. Hope I don’t jack off. 

Season 2, Episode 6 “I need a wet paper towel.”

One of the hallmarks of ITYSL is its absurdism, and as this horrendous sketch proves, there can indeed be too much of a good thing. “Tammy Craps” is, ostensibly, an ad for a doll that shits itself, but it also throws a million additional details at that premise — the doll’s head is full of farts? It’s toxic for kids under 60 pounds? Something about Macanudo cigars? — that it ultimately leaves the viewer totally cold. Cute kid actors, though. 

Season 2, Episode 5, “Friend’s Weekend”

A couples’ weekend getaway goes awry.  

Yes, it’s somewhat amusing to see Tim Robinson do a Blues Brothers dance as a means of defusing marital tension. Other than that, however, “Friend’s Weekend” is the very definition of a throwaway sketch.

Season 2, Episode 2, “Diner wink”

A trip to a diner goes awry.

Poor Saul Goodman deserved better than this weak-ass sketch in which a dad (Robinson) tells a white lie to his daughter about an ice cream store being closed, and a lonely man (Odenkirk) jumps on it by weaving an elaborate fantasy about having a beautiful wife and triples of classic cars. Some ITYSL sketches are too tragic to be funny, and this one falls into that category. 

Season 3, Episode 6, “Tasty Time Vids”

Following a colleague on Insta goes awry. 

One of the lengthier sketches of Season Three, “Tasty Time Vids” tries to capture the eternal agony of being forced to follow a coworker’s (Connor O’Malley) dumb meme account on Instagram. But despite being centered around a mildly amusingly lame bit about hooking up with Frankenstein’s Chick, it ends up a bloated mess.

Season 1, Episode 2, “Wilson’s Toupees”

A toupee ad goes awry.  

Despite the promising opening bit of a middle-aged man hooting incomprehensibly at a water cooler while his envious colleague marvels at his social acumen, this sketch about a toupee company that hires a fake gorilla to rip off your hair to make it look like you’re going bald naturally has serious All That energy, and there’s not much more to say than that. 

Season 3, Episode 6, “Metal Motto Search”

Yet another game show goes awry. 

Yet another variation on the game show parody template, “Metal Motto Search” features an elaborate, 1980s-inspired opening animation that the producers clearly spent a third of the Netflix budget on. Unfortunately, that’s not enough to save it from being a weaker “Chunky.”

Season 2, Episode 5, “Mars Restaurant”

A date at a galactic restaurant goes awry.  

Though Tim Heidecker as a V-necked douchebag at an alien-themed restaurant is predictably funny, am I the only person who’s genuinely bummed out by his date’s traumatic past, particularly her mom going on a radio morning show to chug puke for school supplies? It doesn’t sound fun. Though, as the insult comic Heidecker heckles concede, it’s definitely not boring.

Season 2, Episode 6, “Big Wave”

A meeting break goes awry. 

A meeting is held. A social convention is breached. Robinson takes it too far. We’ve seen this before. It’s… fine. 

Season 3, Episode 4, “Children’s Choir”

A children’s choral recital goes awry.

Following Biff Wiff’s starmaking turn as Santa in Season Two, ITYSL brings him back for Season Three as Shane, a grandparent at a school chorus recital who bonds with Robinson when he sees they’re wearing the same shirt, then asks him to help out when a 2000s-era-inspired pop-punk song inspires him to go apeshit on a classroom. (He kicks a Wright brothers diorama. It’s not pretty.) In the grand tradition of ITYSL original music being weirdly good, the song, “Listening” by Turnstile slaps, but the ending is weirdly anticlimactic and Robinson as straight man just isn’t as fun to watch.

Season 2, Episode 1, “Little Buff Boys”

A corporate event goes awry. 

A third-rate Baby of the Year, this competition of little boys wearing “goose suits” to appear muscular is only passable because of Richardson’s manic energy, as well as the palpable discomfort of the audience member asked to judge 8-year-olds’ bodies. 

Season 1, Episode 2, “Biker Guy”

An alien’s trip to earth to see if there are motorcycles goes awry. 

The sheer joy with which Robinson’s alien biker character surveys various vehicles is fun to watch, but otherwise, this Season One interlude is forgettable. 

Season 3, Episode 2, “Supermarket Swap”

A VR shopping spree game show goes awry. 

To quote Robinson’s character in “Pink Balloon,”… what’s the joke? Is it that VR is disorienting? Is it that we’re all essentially meat sacks with eyes and it’s a miracle that we figure out how to navigate the world in these bodies? Or is it that Ayo Edebiri deserved better?

Season 1, Episode 4, “Lifetime Achievement”

A ceremony to honor Herbie Hancock goes awry. 

Fragile masculinity is one of Robinson’s favorite themes, and in this sketch where an event emcee simply refuses to acknowledge that he tripped, fell down, and a dog publicly humped his head, we see it on full display. Points for the sketch’s button — “That’s why I love Herbie Hancock. He loves to lie!” — but honestly, the funniest thing to me about this sketch is that Hancock is played by someone who only vaguely resembles him.

Season 3, Episode 6, “Don Bondarley”

A bachelor party guest goes awry. 

Listen, sometimes you don’t want to prepare for your job. Sometimes you just want to watch TV instead. No one knows this better than Don Bon Darley, the dirty limerick singer who’s asked to come out of retirement to perform at a bachelor party, but can’t remember the words to any of his filthy songs (except that “the dog’s dinner is his cum”). Definitely one of the lesser sketches of the third season, but the equal parts joy and incompetence with which Bon Darley approaches his work is inspiring to me. As is his respect for his clients when it’s time for him to turn around so they can jack off.

Season 1, Episode 3, “Game Night”

A game of Celebrity with a new boyfriend goes awry. 

There’s something objectively hilarious about jazz musicians, who have their own private vernacular and get unreasonably annoyed when other people don’t understand it. Still, this sketch featuring Tim Heidecker as an obnoxious jazz aficionado who just can’t stop dropping obscure references during a game of Celebrity is basically a one-joke premise, though “where be your nutcracker?” is a pretty good line. 

Season 2, Episode 4, “Wife Joke”

An offhand joke about a wife at a card game goes awry. 

One of the sweetest bits in ITYSL history, in this sketch Paul Walter Hauser plays a dude at a card game whose offhand joke about his wife leads to him being plagued with guilt, culminating in a hilarious flashback showing how his wife supported him when his community theater costar tries to steal his lines as a mobster by saying them faster (side note: Robinson and co. clearly find 1940s gangster aesthetics very funny, and they are right). Hauser as Wife Guy is endearing, and also, I genuinely want to see a production of that play.

Season 1, Episode 6, “Fenton’s Stables and Horse Farm”

A dude ranch commercial goes awry.  

This sketch featuring a dude ranch that exclusively uses small-dicked horses so men don’t feel bad is a one-joke premise, but it’s incredibly funny to think about the boomer actors reading jokes about horse cocks for the very first time.

Season 2, Episode 2, “Baby Cries”

A meeting with a baby goes awry. 

Yes, this is the classic “sloppy steaks” sketch ranked at #62. Yes, Robinson acting like a douchebag obsessed with pouring water on steaks at fancy restaurants is mildly amusing. But this beloved sketch is still essentially a retread of the oft-used “guy takes offhand comment made during polite conversation too seriously” theme, except it goes on for far too long. 

Season 2, Episode 1, “Ghost Tour”

An adult haunted mansion tour goes awry. 

I know ITYSL fans are enamored with the ultra-X-rated dialogue in this sketch, where Robinson plays an adult haunted house tour guest who — once again — takes the “adult” theme a bit too far (“Do any of these little fuckers ever pop out of the fucking wall and say, ‘Fuck, there’s a horse cock in my room or a donkey dick?’” he wonders in front of a horrified crowd). But honestly, the button of this sketch, in which he goes home to admit to his mom that he once again had a hard time making friends, makes me too sad to find this all that funny. 

Season 3, Episode 1, “Mortal Enemies”

A team building workshop goes awry. 

If a coworker walked in on you in a dream while you were about to have an orgy, yes, you’d probably be mad at him. But in this sketch at a team-building workshop, Robinson’s feigned enmity toward a coworker — predictably — goes too far. 

Season 3, Episode 6, “Banana Breath”

An HR training goes awry. 

There’s nothing particularly new or groundbreaking about this sketch, in which a middle-aged employee makes a mild joke during an HR training (for reference: “Back away banana breath, what the hell did you just eat, a banana?”) and becomes so enamored with it that she plans to make T-shirts for the group featuring the quote. But the unhinged performance by Alison Martin as the batty employee is a Ruben Rabasa-level star turn.

Season 1, Episode 6, “Baby Shower”

A baby shower goes awry.

Tim Robinson’s obsession with 1940s gangster culture is endlessly charming, and I adore the central premise of this sketch, where a guy is desperately trying to unload an impulse purchase of stinky fedoras and fake plastic meatballs onto a baby shower planning committee. They’re Stanzos. They’re nice! 

Season 3, Episode 3, “Robert’s Christmas Birthday”

A workplace birthday party goes awry. 

While it’s not the best Patti Harrison sketch of the series — although frankly, that is a tall order — this Season Three skit about a deranged coworker taking revenge on her affable boss at his birthday party because he wouldn’t let her bring her rats to work features one of the best original songs of the series, “Wild On,” as well as the classic line, “It’s not for me to decide which animals are worse than others.” (For the record, yes it is. Rats are worse than dogs to bring to work — even if they can sit in your drawer and you can surreptitiously feed them throughout the day.)

Season 1, Episode 3, “Laser Spine Specialists

A scam to make grown men pop stars goes awry. 

The extended commercial parody template feels a little bit tired, as does the theme of grown men harboring infantile ambitions to become pop stars. Nonetheless, this gets points for the fact that I find myself constantly singing “Moon River Rock” wherever I go.

Season 1, Episode 5, “Choking”

A celebrity encounter goes awry. 

Another twist on the theme of grown men being absolutely incapable of admitting weakness or mistake in any context, this sketch in which a celebrity-obsessed Robinson would rather choke to death on a jalapeño popper rather than embarrass himself in front of his favorite designer is a solid Season One entry, mostly for Robinson’s declaration that a glass of water “stinks like shit” and the sheer specificity of the detail that “Caleb Went” is the designer behind the very plausible sounding “Angels and Archways” line. 

Season 1, Episode 1, “Both Ways”

A job interview goes awry.

The very first sketch in the entire series is a minor one, but it’s pretty effective: in an effort to save face during a job interview, Robinson pretends that a door goes “both ways” — i.e., push and pull — rather than admit that he’s messed up. It goes on for exactly as long as it needs to, and the blank stare on Robinson’s interviewer’s face as he watches him strain to pull a door off its hinges is actually one of the better performances of the entire season.

Season 1, Episode 4, “A Christmas Carol”

A Christmas special goes awry. 

For some reason, Robinson and co. really love Christmas humor, particularly when it involves infusing the holiday spirit with off-brand machismo and aggression. There’s no better example of this than this sketch, where Sam Richardson plays a gravel-voiced soldier from the future who travels back in time to warn Scrooge of an impending Boney apocalypse (pro tip: if you slurp up Boney goop, you’ll get the Boneys’ sense of humor, though it’s not clarified whether or not that’s a good thing).

Season 1, Episode 3, “New Joe”

A new funeral organist goes awry. 

Ranking this any lower on the list would ultimately be disrespectful to the memory of Fred Willard , who is perfectly cast here as an old-timey circus organist filling in for a funeral. But this is ultimately a one-joke premise that doesn’t really transcend what’s written on the page. 

Season 3, Episode 4, “Jenna’s Bad Day”

A tiered friend group goes awry. 

Robinson is clearly delighted by the weird intricacies of male friendships and reducing them to their most infantile form. Such is the case in “Jenna’s Bad Day,” in which Beck Bennett plays a middle-aged man who is paying top-dollar for access to a tiered friend group led with an iron fist by a gassy Robinson.

Season 3, Episode 4, “Gelutol”

A commercial for hair loss medication goes awry. 

It is, admittedly, always funny to see Tim Robinson assuming a mob boss-type role, and this hair loss medication commercial parody in which he gatekeeps the drug from a pesky partygoer and bullies a middle-aged man into growing curls is a great example of how well he plays his own unique version of menacing. 

Season 2, Episode 4, “Calico Cut Pants”

A classic bathroom faux pas goes awry. 

While this extensive sketch is beloved among ITYSL fan circles, mostly for the insane premise of a PBS-style donation-based website to help men get away with having piss on their pants, it is my personal belief that it drags on for far too long to pack the punch of an “Eggman Game” or even a “Huge Dumps.” 

Season 1, Episode 6, “Party House”

An intervention goes awry.

An intervention is a tried-and-true sketch format, but this bit in which Kate Berlant plays a woman obsessed with the fact that she (seemingly) owns Garfield creator Jim Davis’s house is a fun twist on the template. Extra points for Berlant’s flawless lip stain here, and also for the fact that she’s right — why don’t her coworkers care more that she bought a fully-furnished Garfield -themed house, complete with an Opie chair? 

Season 3, Episode 1, “Dad Video”

A dad tries to teach his sons a lesson and it goes awry. 

Fred Armisen’s desperate emasculated dad is funny, as is a video he makes for his kids in which he tries to scare them by beating up what is clearly an old man dressed as an 11-year-old street tough. But ultimately this is just Armisen doing a shouty Tim Robinson impersonation, rather than lending his own very specific brand of effete weirdness to the role. 

Season 2, Episode 5, “Parking Lot”

A parking lot encounter goes awry. 

For pure laughs alone, it really doesn’t get much better than watching Tim Robinson express genuine despair over not knowing how to drive during a parking lot altercation. “I don’t know what any of this shit is, and I’m fucking scared,” he weeps over his steering wheel. Who can’t say they’ve felt the same? 

Season 3, Episode 2, “Sitcom Taping”

A taping for a sitcom goes awry. 

One of the most tried-and-true templates for an ITYSL sketch is when someone, usually Robinson, says or does something insane, and through sheer force of will manages to convince normies to get on his side. That’s what happens in “Sitcom Taping,” in which a studio audience member decides to use a sitcom taping as an opportunity to expose the vendors who scammed him before a big first date — and the producers, moved by his plight, decide to let him. We still don’t know why a guy with a Super Bowl ring was hidden in the back of the limo, though. 

Season 2, Episode 1, “Corncob TV”

A show about dead naked bodies falling out of coffins goes awry. 

Though I’m probably going to get shit for ranking Coffin Flop so low, you have to admit that even though watching dead naked people fall out of coffins in rapid succession is funny, the sketch doesn’t really evolve much beyond that one image. Still, I would rather watch Corncob TV than Vice’s channel any day. 

Season 2, Episode 2, “The Capital Room”

A Shark Tank parody goes awry

In my opinion, “The Capital Room,” in which Harrison plays a Shark Tank -esque entrepreneur who made all of her money from suing the city after being sewn into a Thanksgiving parade balloon of a beloved Peanuts character, is one of Harrison’s weakest sketches. But that’s sort of like saying Magical Mystery Tour is the Beatles’ weakest album: it’s still better than 99.9% of other stuff out there. 

Season 1, Episode 6, “Chunky”

A new game show goes awry.

While the game show format feels a bit trite for a show as wildly imaginative as I Think You Should Leave , this sketch featuring a woefully unprepared mascot at least gets credit for coining one of the most memable phrases of the first season (“you had alllllll summer to think of it!”)

Season 3, Episode 5, “Bloody Eyeball”

An offhand observation at a meeting goes awry. 

This Season Three sketch in which a guy at a meeting gets a little too excited over his coworkers’ reactions to an offhand comment feels a bit like a retread of stronger sketches like “Secret Hot Dog.” But by the end it goes so delightfully off the hinges — a highlighter turns into a little pimp — that you can’t help but be charmed.

Season 2, Episode 2, “Dan Flashes”

A luxury shirt store purchase goes awry. 

The visual gag of a dude starving to death during a business meeting because he’s spent his per diem on the unnecessarily complicated silk shirt he’s wearing right now is amusing, as is a follow-up ad for the store featuring middle-aged men going berserk over the shirt’s intricate designs. But all things considered, “Dan Flashes” feels like somewhat well-worn territory. 

Season 3, Episode 4, “Pacific Proposal Park”

The construction of a proposal park goes awry. 

Who knew that a theme park with a special spongy surface perfect for proposals could double as an amateur wrestling practice ring? Not the befuddled romantic park owner played by Sam Richardson, who expresses his genuine loathing for the rowdy guests to his park. Is it a “Baby of the Year”-level instant classic? Nope. But the wrestlers have names like Toilet Truck and Baby Duff, which certainly helps. 

Season 3, Episode 3, “First Date”

A pre-date haircut goes awry.  

The central joke of this sketch — that a guy gets a cocker spaniel-inspired haircut due to a magazine ad mixup with his barber — doesn’t really pay off for me, but the preamble leading up to it, in which a normie Tim Robinson expresses wholesome pre-date jitters to his gang of bros (“I’m well within my rights to kill you right now!” he jokingly tells his bud after he swipes right) is genuinely delightful. As is the reveal that he’s cheating on his girlfriend because having two girlfriends is “just better” than one (is he wrong?).

Season 1, Episode 2, “River Mountain High”

An ad for a tugging T-shirt goes awry. 

I’m a fan of this Riverdale parody in which a bunch of good-looking teens are forced to feign interest in their principal’s new novelty TC Tuggers T-shirt, mostly because the kids are so genuinely goldarned polite as they’re being treated to an extensive summary of its benefits. But I really love the Apple-esque follow-up commercial, in which a bunch of portly middle-aged men dance around and show off the tugging knobs on their T-shirts.

Season 3, Episode 2, “Ponytail”

A parking incident goes awry.

Don’t park on the sidewalk, or else men with ponytails will crawl underneath your car rather than around them and potentially get stuck there. This is the takeaway of this standout Season Three sketch featuring the return of Will Forte as a hirsute cigar-obsessed maniac who beefs with another ponytailed dude for no apparent reason and unsuccessfully tries to Google Image search “disgusting diarrhea in toilet” to get out of a restaurant reservation.

Season 3, Episode 3, “Drive Thru”

A fast food pay-it-forward chain goes awry. 

“55 BURGERS, 55 FRIES, 55 TACOS, 55 PIES, 55 COKES, 100 TATER TOTS, 100 PIZZAS, 100 TENDERS, 100 MEATBALLS, 100 COFFEES, 55 WINGS, 55 SHAKES, 55 PANCAKES, 55 PASTAS, 55 PEPPERS AND 155 TATERS.” Very good. 

Season 2, Episode 5, “Joanie’s Birthday”

A birthday gift goes awry. 

You may not think that deceased celebrity impersonators would be allowed to hit. But at Stable of Stars, they can — albeit at a certain price point. Such is the premise for this very solid Season Two sketch, in which a birthday gift of a Johnny Carson impersonator (and a George Kennedy impersonator, and a Bush impersonator, who cannot hit), leads to violence. 

Season 2, Episode 6, “Dave Suit”

An HR meeting goes awry. 

Is a guy hiring a coworker’s doppelganger to come take huge dumps in a work bathroom so everyone else will think he’s taking huge dumps kind of a one-joke premise? Sure, I guess. But with lines about Jerry from Tom and Jerry sniffing Tom’s wife’s panties after a little piece of food gets stuck in the underwear drawer, who cares? 

Season 2, Episode 5, “Del Frisco’s Double Eagle”

A game of credit card roulette at dinner goes awry. 

Other ITYSL rankings have rated this sketch, in which John Early gets hit with a 10-person credit card bill thanks to a game proposed by a vivacious guest, quite low ( The Ringer ranked it second to last), and I truly don’t understand why. For one thing, it features two “hilarious waiter brothers” play-fighting for the benefit of diners, a thing I didn’t know I needed at actual restaurants until I saw it here; for another, it has freaking John Early in it, who gives Robinson’s shrieking protagonists his trademark snarky twist. “Credit Card Roulette” also contains a very useful lesson: when faced with a giant credit card bill you don’t want to pay, lie. 

Season 3, Episode 1, “Barley Tonight”

A Fox News -esque debate show goes awry. 

Typically, I don’t love it when ITYSL gets overtly topical in satirizing the media and entertainment industry; save that shit for The Other Two. Yet this Season Three sketch featuring Robinson as a Tucker Carlson-esque right-wing pundit who resorts to playing around on his phone and mumbling incoherently (“Fuck, my mom’s out of hot water”) when he starts losing arguments is gold regardless. I only hope that Tucker can adopt the same tactic on his new streaming Twitter show.

Season 1, Episode 2, “The Man”

A transcontinental trip goes awry. 

This Season One sketch in which Will Forte plays a grizzled old man exacting his revenge on a baby (now grown-up) who cried during a transcontinental flight to London decades ago also follows a more conventional format than most ITYSL sketches, in that it has a clear beginning, middle, and end, and a protagonist with a clear motivation (to the degree that he’s willing to get bit by a rat while rummaging through the garbage — though, as he insists, “it’s not that gross”). Still, Forte’s unhinged performance is pretty close to impeccable

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It was three years ago when my dad lost it. When the liquor made him meaner than he’d ever been. Every other night he would become a different person, like he’d morph into someone crazy, but this one night my mother decided to finally fight back.

I haven’t seen my dad since. Ma said the cops said that when they got to the house, he was sitting outside on the steps, shirtless, with the pistol beside him, guzzling beer, eating sunflower seeds, waiting. Like he wanted to get caught. Like it was no big deal. They gave him ten years in prison, and to be honest, I don’t know if I’m happy about that or not. Sometimes, I wish he would’ve gotten forever in jail. Other times, I wish he was home on the couch, watching the game, shaking seeds in his hand. Either way, one thing is for sure: that was the night I learned how to run.

And the coach kept saying stuff like, “Lu’s still the one to beat,” which was kinda pissing me off because . . . I don’t know. It just made me think about this kid Brandon at school, who always . . . ALWAYS picked on me. Not even just me, though. He picked on a lot of people, and didn’t nobody ever do nothing about it. They just said stupid stuff like, Can’t nobody beat him . Same kind of rah-rah this bowling-ball-head coach was kicking about this kid, Lu. It's just . . . ugh. I mean, he was fast, but honestly, he wasn’t that fast.

“Who you run for?” he asked. What? Who did I run for? What kind of question was that?

“I run for me. Who else?” I replied.

Where I live. Where I live. When anyone ever asks about where I live, I get weird because people always treat you funny when they find out you stay in a certain kind of neighborhood. But I was used to people treating me funny. When your clothes are two sizes too big, and you got on no-name sneakers, and your mother cuts your hair and it looks like your mother cuts your hair, you get used to people treating you funny.

And Red, well, I’ve known him for a long time. We’ve been cool since fifth grade, mainly because even though we’ve never really talked about nothing bad, we both kinda knew something bad had happened to us. Like, for me, the best way to describe it is, I got a lot of scream inside.

“You wanna tell me what happened, or should I tell you?” Principal Marshall closed his door behind him and took a seat at his desk.

“I ain’t saying that. I’ve definitely been scared of somebody before. Real scared,” I added, thinking about how loud a gun sounds when it’s fired in a small room. “That’s how come I know how to run so fast. But now, the only person I’m scared of, other than my mother . . . I mean, like I do things, I know ain’t cool, but even though I know they ain’t cool, like beating on Brandon, all of a sudden I’m doing it anyway, y’know? So I guess . . . I guess the only other person I’m really scared of, maybe . . . is me.”

“Usain ran a nine-five-eight,” Coach said. […]

“But that ain’t even that fast,” I said. Plus it just didn’t seem like one hundred meters was all that long. I mean, I had just run it the day before in what had to be six or seven seconds. Couldn’t have been more than eight.

“You know who’s really tired, son? Your principal.” Coach put his hands up, palms facing me as if to stop me from even thinking about responding. Then he continued, “No, no. You know who’s really, really tired? Your mother. She’s so tired. So tired. And she’s gonna be even more exhausted when she hears about your suspension.”

“And as of yesterday, this kid. Castle Cran—”

“Ghost,” I cut him off before he could even get the shaw out. “Just call me Ghost.”

Who is he? I thought. What gave him the right to just make fun of me for no reason? Like he was perfect. He’s the one God ain’t color in. He’s the one who looked weird.

I wonder if doctors ever cut off somebody’s arm or leg and afterward realize that they made a huge mistake. Like, totally blew it. Because that’s definitely how I felt about low-topping my high-tops, but not until I got to school the next day.

I was literally shaking with embarrassment, like my insides had turned into ice. Ice that was cracking.

I wanted to break the desk.

Or flip it over.

Scream. Something. Anything.

At first, I wasn’t going to do it. I mean, when I went into the store, it was a thought, but only a thought. Not even like a real, real thought either, because I knew that I could just ask my mother to get them for me, and she would because she felt like this track thing was gonna keep me out of trouble. But when I saw how much they cost . . . I just couldn’t ask her for them.

So I banged. Still nothing. Then I started trippin’. Like how when you at the swimming pool on the hottest day of summer, and you jump in and it’s cool, and then you take one step too far and suddenly you’re in the deep end, and things ain’t so cool no more. Because you can’t swim. That’s how I felt. Like I was drowning. Like I was filling up with water. Like this place, this weird little room that had saved my life, now felt like it was gonna take it.

I just told him that my mother had gotten them for me as a way to encourage me to do the right thing and stay out of trouble. Just saying it turned my stomach, because here I was, a boy who was suspended for busting somebody in the face at school one day, and skipped half the day the next because I was laughed at. Then I swiped shoes!

Brandon didn’t have too much to say to me. I saw him just before first period, and he walked right past me and Dre. I saw some of the other kids snickering at him as he passed. But I told them all to chill. I don’t know why because he totally deserved to be roasted, but I guess I felt kinda bad for the dude. I been there.

“I been around here before,” Patty said, skipping the hello. “I can’t remember when. But I know I been around here.”

“Me too,” Lu said. “Not really these parts, but my pops plays ball sometimes at the court down the street.”

“My dad’s in jail for trying to shoot me and my mother,” I blurted. And before anyone could say anything, I held my hands out for my utensils.

And it felt good to feel like one of the teammates. Like I was there—really, really there—as me, but without as much scream inside.

My tongue had suddenly turned into a stone in my mouth. I couldn’t breathe, like I had just finished running ladders, like I was going to yak up every sunflower I had ever eaten, and if there was a sunflower growing in me, it was definitely dying right then.

“Because that’s where we lived. That’s where I grew up. So don’t tell me what I know and don’t know, Ghost.”

“Yeah,” Lu said from behind me. He put his hand on my shoulder. He runs, real, real, real fast,” he said, taunting Brandon. Lu Pulled me into him, grabbed me by the back on my neck. “It’s me and you,” he said, snapping me out of my Brandon Simmons nightmare state and back into focus.

The sound of the gun cocking. The sound of the door unlocking. Heart pounding. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. Silence. This. Is. It.

And then . . . BOOM!