Breaking Down 3 OUTSTANDING Sketches from I Think You Should Leave 

I had a writing mentor tell me to never write a scene funny. Find a funny situation, and write it seriously. Tim is the king.

The sketch I always end up coming back to is Dylan’s Burger. The actor who plays the professor in that sketch just kills me with his delivery every time. “Inside I’m just a scared little boy who never learned how to ask for people’s food or their burger” (as if burgers are an entirely separate category from all other food items) 💀💀💀

"THIS IS THE MADDEST I'VE EVER BEEN"! The delivery on that line, to immediate ramming his car into the truck just kills me every time.

What makes Tim's comedy so great is how every character he plays is blatantly unaccountable for the issues they cause and constantly deflecting personal responsibility

Crashmore is so good. “He might kill you, but there’s no fucking way he’s killing me. Fucking asshole. He said that?!”

The "They keep my house HOT" line always kills me

I love the Jamie Taco sketch shitting all over the Boomer "I hate my wife" humor trope. The fact that it did it in a totally unironic, heartfelt way is the icing on the cake.

the jamie taco story had me so invested i thought i was watching a whole drama series, completely forgetting that i was watching itysl and i damn near cried when he managed to get that final line before taco until i was ripped back into realty and had to miss the bomb ass sleepover

What I love about the Jamie Taco skit is how it subtly makes a commentary on societal groups, and how the people we hang out with, that we seek validation through, can lead us to unconsciously thinking similarly to and speaking opinions that you don't originally hold, in order to seek their approval. It's a toxic friend-group. Not for everyone involved, but our MC is able to catch himself, and think about what he's really saying; and pull himself out of it. All while staying hilarious the entire time

The most poignant, sentimental and hilarious line in season 3 (which is a subtle common theme in this series) is: "My life is nothing I thought, and everything I worried it would become."

I think the “Chunky” gameshow is my favourite sketch. Just the insane “FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU DO” as if a show would get this far in production and they’re relying on the mascot to just make something up on the fly, and the the delivery of “dump it” at the end - that half way through filming the just go fuck it and give up.

"I can't know how to hear anymore about tables." is the best line in that episode imo. he so frustrated xD

I love how the dialog does this great thing where the character discussing a Place or Person will keep repeating that name of it. Like Dan Flashes or the driving crooner.

Patti Harrison has only been in 4 episodes but she’s such a standout I could have sworn she’s been in way more.

There’s something really amazing about (more often than not) setting up a sketch that really seems to be about X, and then just abandoning X to pursue Y

the sleeping bag setup for the grown men after their poker game was the cherry on top

Gilly and Keeves is just at great. More proof that getting fired from SNL is the greatest career move a comedian can make.

imagine how good SNL could have been if they just let tim go crazy

This show is perfectly written. The viewer is always guessing and the reactions are hilarious!

Egg man game sketch is brilliant. It’s all in the timing and editing. As an editor myself, I’m captivated by how expertly assembled it really is. Also…take note of the calendar. It’s chock full of meeting dates. Which is basically what the argument is about.

One of the finest qualities of this show is the childlike, mystical sense of reality that seemingly every single character in the show goes in and out of either completely respecting or disrespecting

You can also talk about the desk surfing sketch. Sometimes, a sketch can start or one way and end a mile away. So the surfing desk sketch starts off with co-workers at a meeting pretending to have a beach party and end with Tim's character taking about how he got a ugly pair of pants so he was going to kill himself.

Sometimes I get really sad that something as good as I Think You Should Leave isn’t getting more attention from broader mainstream audiences. It’s just doing something so smart and thoughtful, while in the same moment, so over-the-top, out-of-control silly, in a way that I really think is a huge evolution and *Moment* for sketch comedy. Like, I want comedy this good for people in general. I wish that more people were really aware and attentive of this show so more people could enjoy it and appreciate it, cause I just think it’s really special. Also, I just saw that you have another video looking at a more recent sketch from s3. I’m gonna go watch that, and I hope you keep making more videos looking at the show! I’ll be sure to check out your other stuff too, super great video, thanks for making it!

Detective Crashmore is hilarious. I think you misread the quote/compensation exchange. Everything leading up to that tells you that Santa's world really is driven by who is "bad" and who is "good" hence the tattoo exchange. So Santa is obsessed with the idea of a quote because he can still get a present (2 mil) even if he's "bad". I love it. If you think about it more, (aside from the ultraviolence), Santa is being "bad" in the movie in a way a 12 year-old kid would. Most of his lines are just clumsy curse words. It's genius! So, it's not that Santa is a jerk. It's how Santa would act if he had to live in the real world (of Hollywood).

The nachos sketch lives in my head rent free. Why doesn't he just grab one of the fully loaded nachos? There's only two people eating them.

When I get off work at 2am, I’m physically and mentally beat. I don’t want something to focus on, I’m exhausted. I want something I can just get lost and decompress with. This show is perfect for that

I do love how it is a bit like watching Interdimensional Cable.

I love Bozo Dubbed Over and TC Tuggers. Both made me genuinely laugh so hard. I also really enjoyed Ebenezer Scrooge. Analyze those ones!

This was a great video! You show charismatic, confident delivery and have adorable animations, so when looking at your channel's past videos I expected to be scrolling through years of content. But to my surprise, only three months! You're already doing great in so little time, friendo. Keep it up!

These sketches are hilarious, I had to pause several times to stop laughing! Great rock talk, definitely watching this series

I was genuinely entertained by this video and I can't wait to watch the next one!

Great video, man. I would also consider the sketch with the old man bullying another guy in the car focus group. I love this show, is so well done

This was a great analysis and I’d love to hear/see more videos from you on more episodes. Extremely interesting! Great work!

I have not watched this show.... but that is changing immediately.

Aww, I love you too, but how did you make this video and not talk about one of the literal dozens of sketches you could have put in this video?

Excellent work. I had watched the Tables skit at least twenty times, and the Crashmore maybe even more, but you analysis made me laugh again at both as if it were the first time since ai saw them through fresh eyes. You do a great job of isolating some of the specific aspects of what make these sketches so successful. I wouldn't say he has a 90% success rate though; for me there are infinitely repeatable sketches, and ones that I only need to see once, with little in between. With season 3, the overall quality seemed to improve, while the highs were not always as high. I guess sometimes they need to grow on you, because I often like them more as I appreciate the nuances with repeated viewings. My favorite from Season 3 was "Jellybean" where Tim Robinson plays a mime who has a crazed crowd scream at him to verbally explain what he is doing. His creative mind is priceless, and he's one of my favorite artists. Thanks for the in-depth breakdown, I'm definitely going to check out more of your work!

The "Are you sure about that?", and the Doggy Door sketch with the pig are gold.

Actually I think, for the most part, Tim's driving school character is in the right; he's just showing the video that's on the curriculum and it's not like he directed it and can cut it down or mess with the editing. He should know what her job is because he's seen the video so many times but to be fair he specifically told the class to ignore it. I'm not a teacher but I could see how this scenario could be relatable to any teacher that didn't agree with content/method they're being forced to teach. Also his attempt to steer away from the swearing in the video is probably something that happens often in classrooms when a teacher presents a video/book/movie with a swear word to a younger class. Great video, was fun to revisit these sketches with a more critical eye!

I think that one of my favorite parts about the Driver’s Ed sketch is that the videos cut without even giving you a clear idea of what happened to the driver, especially in the third one. Supposedly, the guy rams into the guy in front of him, but it’s practically impossible to tell who even got injured, or if someone even did.

Good of you to showcase sketches with other actors as leads rather than Tim Robinson. While he's the king of delivery, it's amazing how much other recurring stars like Patti Harrison, Sam Richardson and Biff Wiff are so in wavelength with the show's writing while having their unique touches. And Paul Walter Hauser should be a household name at this point.

You should absolutely do more videos on Tim's sketches. Your observations are astute and this was both entertaining and informative AF. A superlative treatise. 🧐

season 3 was so funny. i rewatched the wedding photo one so many times. or the gameshow where the metal, is his ground

Please break down more of these lol, this was great and I love these sketches

I just found your channel after watching your Bo Burnham vid and might I say, I super dig your style. That being said, I imploore you to make videos for each and every I Think You Should Leave sketch! "Darmine Doggy Door" and "Don't Know How to Drive?" both literally made me ugly laugh harder than I've ever laughed in my entire life 😂

Idk if you’ve watched trailer park boys but I bet you could make a really cool vid on that :)) I think you should leave is easily my favorite sketch comedy along with some of the stuff MDE put out back around the time they had their adult swim show. No idea if you have seen much MDE but I don’t think I’ve ever laughed quite as hard at sketch comedy as when I watched some of their best. With how much sketch comedy I’ve seen on RU-vid it really highlights how talented someone like Tim Robinson truly is. It seems like an easy task to write a 5-10 minute sketch when looking on the outside in but at least to me when someone does it right it’s super impressive and entertaining.

The one that really got me was the ghost house 😂

Patti is also in "Shrill". She kills it there too. 👏

As a Canadian, I’m kinda proud that the Cashmore was so definitely based on the Gian Ghomeshi interview with Billy Bob Thornton. Not proud of the rest of Gian, though.

man i hadnt laughed like that in a long time thanks for putting this together.

Clever format for videos. Very fun!

Tables and Detective Crashmore are some of the funniest sketches ever

Please do all of the sketches!! This is great analysis

It's not even that there are rabbit holes, the rabbit hole isn't same joke told slightly differently, it's a whole other joke, that's where so many other sketch comedies fail when they stretch out a premise. Like the Santa thing, it's obvious that it's a bad movie with corny lines, but the studio couldn't care, because they get to sell that it's Santa the whole time. Then Tim and the other writers drop an Atomic Power Bomb of a call back in a throw away line like "It doesn't matter if I do a bad job"

the jamie taco skit is one of my favorite skits of all time. jokes about hating your wife are so normal for men. i love to see the man reflect on the seemingly minor wife-hating-joke and realize, "no, this isn't truly how i feel", and stands up for his feelings, beliefs and his wife's name. he's like, nah screw, this i wanna see her right now, and i'm like omg wow that's real love. it's both silly and so heartwarming, screw jamie taco fr

the show is great and your video style is too. im a insta fan!

Also the ability for a show to somehow get funnier with every watch is incredible but itysl does it

“The mark of an effective artist is the ability to do more with less” “…really understand how to set up a conflict that you can actually get a lot of juice out of” I really think based on these comments that you would like On Cinema at the Cinema. If you haven’t checked it out already, I highly recommend it. Although it’s not really something you can just watch casually lol.

Really goos analysis! Please do more videos about I Think You Should Leave. I love the one where he wears the "funny" (actually scary" mask / costume and has an existential crisis.

Detective Crashmore is a work of beauty

great vid, love the show

“The mark of an effective artist is the ability to do more with less“ made me transcend

Vids are only getting better :)

One thing I never thought about with the jamie taco sketch: none of his “boys” are there to support him! Only his wife

You talking about Jamie Taco and then mentioning taking the High Road, when the actor who plays Taco is the same kid from Mastodon's video also named High Road is like a nice coincidence

Loved this video!

I always found it so funny how in their universe all the characters accept the idea that if you say the lines faster they're yours

I love thé Nacho one. Gold. also, no good car ideas is the staple of the damn show

I loved this show…Patti and Tim are the main reasons I’ve kept coming back🌭🤓🍿

I’d like to believe that the show’s title of “I Think You Should Leave” is a reference to his being fired from SNL. He has said some of these skits are sketches that didn’t make it for SNL when he was a writer.

I’ve laughed so hard at this show. The coffin drop sketch is comedy gold 😂

The Doggy dog skit is the funniest skit i've ever witnessed. It deserves to be talked about.

Great video about a great show

I get the impression that in the driver's ed sketch, he had something to do with the production of the videos and he's playing dumb because they didn't turn out like he wanted but he's still using them anyway.

My new favorite comedy sketch show

To me they're funny because the absurdity really hits you later after the first watch you start remembering things and can't help but laugh it's just like Tim and Eric and stuff but it's current they were a bit ahead at the time so a lot more people found them after they aired

My favorite one is still the sloppy steaks sketch. I first saw it around the time my little sister was pregnant and about to give birth, and it made me weirdly sympathetic with Tim Robinson's character, who seemed to have this weird hangup over how much of a shitty person he used to be and his doubts if he really has changed or if it it's worth anything to try and change after how much of a shitty person he had already been, all brought out by the awkwardness of an innocent baby happening to cry around him. Like it was just such a hilarious concept to me (brought over the top by the concept of sloppy steaks and the baby's grandfather sympathizing with him and talking about how he used to be a shitty person with chicken spaghetti at chicallini's), but on top of that his flashback to those warm times of when he himself thought he was a shitty person but also how much fun he had with his friends... It was inexplicably moving, I couldn't help but relate to it on a deep level. It made (and still makes) me feel feelings. A lot of them. Just a brilliant show, imo the show doesn't have a 90% hit rate like you said but when it hits, it *really* hits and that's what's important to me. (second favorite sketch now is the darmine doggy door, just fucking brilliant)

the amount of times i quote the eating paper sketch should have legal restrictions

The fact that you put crashmore in there as one of the top three most insane and funniest sketches, makes you more than worthy of subscribing to. So consider me subscribed! Detective crashmore/the interview with Santa, about the movie are two of the funniest fuckin things I have ever seen in my 35 years of life.. I've watched both at LEAST a couple dozen times each, and they still have me laughing my ass off, every goddamn time

This was a good video. :) I love you.

Have you watched any of Paul F Tompkins live sketches from his variety show? Very similar in that what the idea what of the sketch is shifts completely almost continuously. The Ex-Terminator is a great example, and there is a video of it on RU-vid.

I think the proposal park sketch from season 3 might be my favourite sketch so far. The amount of hatred the park owner has for the wrestlers gets me every time.

that hotrod clip you used made me laugh out loud

I love this show

if you havn't already seen Shrill, Patti Harrison is so funny in it. Lots of the same people as ITYSL

ITS JUST TOO GOOD!

I think you should make a real tear jerker; one where it's ok to cry. Maybe something about a baby duck getting its head stuck in a stewed tomato. If you do make more ITYSL content, you should try to bring down Jeff Chris from Indiana... That'd be in your qzone and he could really make you a star! BTW- S1E3 is solid bangers beginning to end.

The door goes both ways, i cant watch it and not laugh.😂

The main character in the second sketch is the same guy who played the Juggalo kid in the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth," where they end up screening Lethal Weapon 5 for the high school kids at the bar. I can't see that dude as anything other than the Juggalo kid. Of course, that episode has "blackface" in it, so it's been removed from streaming services.

You're good at this shit for sure man. I'd love to see a Nathan for you or tim and Eric episode. Trailer park boys even 😂

I honestly think Kanin plays the biggest role in keeping these sketches great. Robinson always knocks it out of the park but I think Kanin is largely to blame for the hilarious "what-if?" scenes

Patti Harrison is so amazing in this sketch. Fuck their so dirty is one of my favorite deliveries of the show.

Ghost Tour is one of my favorites

The “egg game/no p**n at work” (not sure what the actual title is) tickled the ever living hotdogs outta me.

Good job

Jamie taco sketch is funny as fuck, Paul Walter Hauser is a legitimately good as fuck actor too so it was great seeing him in this role

They say it's ONE of the best sketch shows out right now? What other sketch shows are being made right now??

PLEASE talk about "Brian's Hat"

"With his slicked back hair like a real piece of shit" this guy has seen this show yes he has

This show is so damn good.

Patti Harrison and Connor O’Malley are amazing I hope to see way more of both