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Love your name bro lol. If only you knew. I've been called that since I could walk and have done the same the same to my kids. Who knew a few silly words could reach so far.
That was my favorite bit and I didn't even know there were extra layers to that onion. I felt like this season had a lot more real and relatable moments, like the doggy door line "My life is nothing I'd thought it would be and everything I worried it'd become" and the genuine apology from the boss to the lady with shit in her cup. That theme gives more validity to the idea that the shirt brothers bit is an allegory for a cancer diagnosis and not just an insane coincidence
@@scottm6712if your dying then you simply don’t gotta follow the rules anymore, you don’t gotta go to work, you don’t gotta worry about consequences your free in a sense. There are no rules since your unbound
It’s so fucking weird to me turnstile has blown up to the point of doing music for tv shows. I paid $20 to see them in a bar in Michigan like ten years ago
Tim is a skater kid that’s been a Turnstile fan for years. It’s not like they picked some random band for the music. Besides they were in a Taco Bell commercial.
@@BrianM1023 that’s really cool I had no idea! Turnstile has also been getting radio play! It’s just super rare for bands from that music scene to blow up like this.
I think the main theme of the sketch is brotherhood -- the fact that two people can go from complete strangers to having a deep personal conversation about life in the span of a kid's school performance is a testament to the ability of humans to bond with each other. The fact that they repeat the word 'brother' so many times ('wright brothers off the ceiling brother') and even use it in the title of the sketch makes me think this was intended to be the main message. The way Tim & the writing team use overly specific details and makes absurd connections forces us to stay engaged in the story and ultimately gives it an entirely new gravity. I agree I don't think they intended to connect it to Biff Wiff's fight with cancer but the story of the ITYSL community rallying behind him to raise money to fight this thing is a true show of brotherhood and gives an added poignancy to the sketch. Thanks for these great videos!
Great video! I appreciate how Tim can use difficult topics or deep thoughts without directly making fun of or attacking those things or the people involved. Like in the Driving Crooner, the drunk man was never made fun of once and was genuinely applauded for being cautious. He was never the butt of the joke. The Rat woman at work was never put down by her boss, he made a mistake, owned up to it, and she accepted what he said. Sure she was made fun of because of the absurd nature of what happened, but that serious boss/employee power dynamic conflict was resolved in a very emotionally intelligent way. In the haunted house sketch, the main character is the butt of the joke throughout. Until the end where it implies his sheltered, religious upbringing is the cause of his behavior. He simultaneously cracks jokes about the results of the sheltered upbringing while causing us to feel like we shouldn't be so quick to judge those people. (This one related hard as I was one of those sheltered, religious kids) I think that's part of this reason this show connects with people so hard. At it's core, it's a very positive, understanding, emotionally intelligent show. There are so few characters in it that are unlikable. It's a show about connection, interaction, and understanding between humans and how people can blow things out of proportion and take them too far simply because they don't make an effort to understand one another. But yeah it's probably not that deep.
@@scottm6712 At the end, his mother's car has several Jesus figurines on the dash and the car is playing a hymn about Jesus. So it's not a far jump to say he was brought up in a strict, religious household
I tweeted this 3 days ago: “I can't explain it but Shirt Brothers from I Think You Should Leave is about facing illness/disability and grieving how people used to treat you.” Before that it was a comment on the song video which I deleted because people were shitting themselves over someone seeing a point in the funny shirt sketch It's just true to the experience. The people who wrote that sketch get it
i get it. i didn't know about the cancer dx and that's what i got from the sketch: little things change and you can't see the world the same anymore. it all seems too arbitrary. (I'm disabled by chronic illness too but it's grief over unjust systems that hits my 'no rules' breaking point) I thought more people would understand this after the pandemic
I think there could be a couple. 1. Artists forcing their way into society when their work is too niche to be widely accepted. 2. People and their “haters” playing make believe that someone is going to “rip off” their idea. 3. Harsh critical reception to a heartfelt and sincere effort toward a work.
The fact that I had very recently told my partner upon watching this sketch that it was a masterpiece, i had to check out this video, and I'm so glad I did. Wonderful analysis, and even a Jacob Gellar quote to boot!? A man after my own heart.
literally just wrote a piece about the layers of what makes this sketch so good, and i've got a lot in it about its sincerity and resulting emotional impact. same fuckin page man
just watched your other vid on itysl. definitely hope you keep breaking down skits, they move so fast and there's so much going on in them- analyses like yours help me appreciate them a bit more deeply. i also appreciate you bringing up the news about biff wiff and putting a link to his gofundme. had no idea he is fighting cancer, and i appreciated being directed toward a platform where i could make a contribution to his recovery.
A few things: are these thoughtful, caring, kind people who’ve been writing hugely emotional content for years? Yes. Is it possible that artists can create art that has meanings they don’t *consciously* intend, but are aware of on a deeper level? Absolutely yes, that’s when art is at its best. Look at David Lynch’s films; he often goes entirely on intuition and creates incredibly complex, layered art. My take is that this was fully intentional layering and was consciously done. Can you imagine being a friend of Biff Wiff and *not* thinking about it a lot? Nope. And to put him in this sketch necessarily involved these thoughts. Unless you think Tim and Zach just randomly pick people to be in sketches and don’t think about who the person is they’re casting. That’s simply silly. This was intentional and layered.
i appreciate that you drew this parallel, and i hope that biff wiff comes out on top, but the sketch is much funnier to me without that context (which I didn't know about when I watched it)
"Why am I so moved by the rat mom who just bought a cup of dog shit like it's a drug deal" is a sentence that could only come from a review of I think you should leave. 😂
I thinks thats the most powerful thing about art, something that was maybe not meant to be about something can be interpreted by someone and it can open a whole new can of worms for the depth of a character. Its like looking at a cloud and interpreting it your own way if that makes sense.
I had Wild On pop in my head out of nowhere yesterday and this morning when I woke up I quoted the show to my dad and said “everything I know, it’s all just for show, I don’t wanna go on listening..” he cracked a smile. This show is so lovable
liked this because at 1:50 you didnt let the segment go on for too long. i think a lot of people would've used the line in its entirety, but you didnt and i appreciate that
Excellent analysis, just saw this sketch and instantly knew it was something really special. Love how the show has started to move past funny self-referential and meme-y to more moralistic and emotionally impactful. Great channel, keep up the good work, you earned a sub!
If we wanna talk about constructing meaning from this sketch. Here's one way I can see it. Shirt brother talks about how he heard a song saying there were no rules and now he's not sure if this is true. Tim takes this to mean the song inspired him to do something to change up his life. Shirt brother corrects him by saying he just thinks there may not be any rules. What are rules? They're the things we make up to make sense of life to give things order and meaning. Cancer can be seen as an aberration of that order and meaning. Cancer isn't supposed to happen. You eat right, treat your body well and live a full life growing old and dying of natural causes. Those are the rules we're supposed to be playing by. But Cancer breaks the game. There's no rules behind it no logic. It just happens whether you did things right or not. Shirt brother is struggling with having his word upset suddenly feeling like there is no logic in the world nothing makes sense. He's awake. From this position he encourages time to go to his daughter. Being with his daughter is what makes sense for Tim. Even if shirt brother himself no longer knows what to do he can encourage Tim to do what he should.
I might be missing something on this one, the older dude says "there's no rules" but the Tim robinson character runs back to see the recital. So is seeing the recital following a rule? Is it showing the two divergent paths the "shirt brothers" are going? LOL maybe I'm overthinking but I actually don't get how seeing the recital ties into the theme of "there are no rules." Hilarious sketch though.
Dude. Fucking THANK YOU for making this video. I try to explain to people how fundamentally incredible this show is on every level that a show can be. The creators of this show in every facet (design, writing, acting, editing) are all the best at what they do and through any one of these elements you can see mastery. These people could be making anything- and making that thing the best at what it does, but what they chose to make was this- and it's the best that sketch comedy has ever been. I searched youtube defeatedly after watching this sketch for the fiftieth time, fully knowing that there wasn't going to be a video made about it. And then I was wrong! What an perfectly made video, and thank you. I want to share my interpretation of the final sketch though since I got a similar interpretation but slightly different. We show up to our first day at school, and we make our friends- not for any cosmic reason or because mathematically they're who we'd be best friends with out of everyone in the world, but because they're the other 6 year old in our town who's wearing a dinosaur on their shirt. There's really very little reason for why we are friends with the people who we are other than- they're who happened to be there at our jobs or in our class. Our relationships with these people can therefore be quite shallow, we really may not have much in common beyond a surface level at that point, despite how much attention we pay to this. Another element is that as you grow up, what happens? People change. People can have a relationship that starts out fun and light, we joke around we watch tv together we talk about movies, but as time goes on they can get heavier. We have deeper differences now, we can't see past each other's ideological stances. You may work hard to find a light in the void of life, while some people may resign themselves to a rabbit hole of some sort- drugs, depression, nihilism, "we're fucked anyway because of the government and climate change." I'm not saying any of those things aren't valid things to be concerned about, of course they are, I'm making no judgement of those things, I'm just saying that at a certain point everybody has a choice to make as to whether or not they're going to take charge of their own happiness. Some people for whatever reason, valid as it might be, give up at some point. And so you have to cut those people out. Your silly little family school play may not be anything more than a shared experience in the minds of some decaying and slowly dying monkeys in north america sometimes in the 21st century, but you have decided to see the good in life, and you can only really do that (in some cases) if you shed the people from your past, who may have served you or bettered you at a certain time, but no longer do. It's a sketch about the transitory nature of relationships, leaving people behind for our dumb ape reasons and justification, but in the noble pursuit of just trying to do what we think will make us happy.
The song and sketch were obv a parody of the scene era. The lyrics are a joke and the beat is kind of generic, but it makes me laught a million times more when people my age ask what the song is called and tell me they remeber it
Great video, but just interesting how different people’s tastes can be. The sketches you listed were my least favorite from the season. I think the driving crooner, the rat girl, don’t talk about your kids, the silent entertainer, and paying it forward were the funniest sketches this season, also don’t tell him you think his ideas are cool.
