I Think You Should Leave Season 2: Our Favorite Sketches

Season 2 available now on Netflix


I Think You Should Leave Season 2 recently hit Netflix, and it's quickly become a fan favorite for many--not just those who couldn't stop talking about Season 1. In fact, ITYSL has become a series that is constantly memed--so much so that we have a bunch of handy memes ready for you.

The Netflix sketch comedy series stars Tim Robinson in a series of wild and absurd sketches. Season 1 brought us classics like the man in a focus group who wants a car that is too small or a guy in a hot dog costume who drives a hot dog car into a store and tries to convince everyone he didn't. While two seasons have premiered of the sketch comedy series, there's been no news yet of a Season 3.

The staff here at GameSpot love the show, and we can't stop quoting it, even during important meetings. So after watching and rewatching Season 2, we're discussing some of our favorite sketches from the show. Check out why we love certain sketches below, and let us know what ones are your favorites.

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"Secret Hot Dog," Episode 1 | Gabe Gurwin, Associate SEO Editor


You can't skip lunch. It's just not allowed. Tim Robinson's manic and surreal sketch show kicked off its second season with one of its very best gags--literally--with Robinson trying to smuggle a footlong hot dog into a work meeting after his lunch gets pushed to accommodate a coworker's schedule. He doesn't like that very much, so he shoves the entire thing down his sleeve (it has no condiments on it… and how did he cook it?) in order to take hidden bites during the meeting.

This goes about as well as you'd expect, with his boss immediately spotting the hot dog and his attempt to hide it resulting in him choking, momentarily passing out, and then popping up like a rabid animal that's cornered by a gang of shotgun-wielding villagers. I now need at least one hot dog-based sketch per season.

I was literally crying 30 seconds into the first episode of the season because of this sketch. It distills what makes the show so funny to its core elements: someone who completely commits to the bit.


"Coffin Flop" Episode 1 | Mason Downey, Associate Entertainment Editor


Can you believe people are saying CornCobTV's "Coffin Flop," a show where they film dead bodies falling out of coffins (usually in the nude), isn't a real TV show? Of course it's a real TV show--and they don't stage it either. That many coffins really do flop and the cameras really do just happen to be there, so it's up to us to make sure CornCobTV stays on as part of your cable TV package.

OK but in all seriousness--the Coffin Flops sketch is a few minutes of pure I Think You Should Leave gold. In a lot of ways, it's the show distilled into its simplest form--it's mostly just Tim Robinson standing against a white background, addressing you directly, in his increasingly manic, completely absurd way. But even then, it's never boring. In fact, it's even more memorable for how barebones it is, and proof that the fancy sets and big name guest stars are just the icing on the cake.


"I Don't Live in a Hotel," Episode 2 | Mat Elfring, Entertainment News Editor


While the dive into Bob Odenkirk's incredibly sad life may not be the funniest of sketches from Season 2, it quickly became my favorite because of the journey it took us on. A father and daughter are out to lunch and in order to avoid taking his daughter out for ice cream, he tells her that all the ice cream machines are broken. Odenkirk's character, who is sitting by himself, jumps in to agree with the father, then takes all on a journey about his obviously fake life.

The first real turn is when Odenkirk mentions that he's "rich" and "owns all the classic cars. It's a moment where Odenkirk reveals his life isn't going the way he expected. This leaves Robinson to play his character straight throughout the sketch, which we typically don't see, but he does it beautifully, primarily through reaction shots, and finally, as someone who's trying to pump Odenkirk's character up--who becomes more and more depressing as the sketch goes on. When he says he doesn't live in a hotel, that's the breaking point for me, where I can't stop laughing--that and when he's trying to get triples of cars online.


"Dan Flashes," Episode 2 | Chris Pereira, Senior Editor


Dan Flashes opens in a conference room that immediately evokes Season 1's most well-known sketch, car ideas. And while an old, adversarial man in a suit features prominently, this one is here in a much different capacity, serving as a voice of reason in a battle with Tim Robinson's Mike, who lays on a couch as uncomfortably as you can imagine.

As with everything on ITSYL, there are numerous layers that make this sketch so funny. Mike's insistence on defending the overpriced shirts of the store Dan Flashes, where the Windows 98 screensaver-looking shirts are priced based on the complexity of their patterns. The incredible rage with which Mike responds to the old man, Doug, contrasts with his unwillingness (or inability) to move from his spot on the couch. But what gets the biggest laugh out of me every time is the specific way in which Mike screams at Doug. The completely inappropriate tone and language for a business meeting aside, Mike can't help but concede several of the points that Doug makes. Yet whereas he takes a brief moment to make that shift the first time, toward the end of the sketch, not a fraction of a breath is spared between shouting, "SHUT THE F*** UP, DOUG," and admitting in a calm voice, "I did, though."

As calicocutpants.com also demonstrates, ITYSL is rarely funnier than when Robinson is screaming his head off, and this is another prime example of that.


"Great Wife/Jamie Taco," Episode 4 | Phil Hornshaw, Editor


An aspect of I Think You Should Leave that's underrated is the more wholesome undercurrent of some of the show's sketches. Sure, a lot of them are about characters going too far, screaming in people's faces, and losing themselves in escalating absurdity. But there are several that hit an always hilarious but often touching note, where a sketch subverts your expectations about the direction it's heading in and the way the people in it react to its sadly ridiculous protagonists.

I love the Jamie Taco sketch because it's one of these. (Bob Odenkirk's turn is another good example; the way Tim Robinson eventually starts going along with Bob's lies turns him into a tragic figure and makes the joke funnier because it's so much sadder.) Paul Walter Hauser's sheer earnestness carries the sketch as he struggles with peer pressure from his friends to make lame sitcom jokes at the expense of his beloved wife. There's the usual ITYSL nonsense--Nicholas Azarian's Jamie Taco performance nails a perfect level of slimy mediocrity--but the humor of the sketch really comes from a goofy overabundance of just wanting to be nice. It's a feeling that permeates a lot of the jokes in Robinson and Sam Richardson's excellent show Detroiters, and it's something I think informs some of the best comedy in I Think You Should Leave. When the show builds an expectation for cruelty but instead finds a joke in extreme, ludicrous kindness, it lands some of its most hilarious moments.


"Parking Lot," Episode 5 | Gabe Gurwin, Associate SEO Editor


When you ask an annoying driver if they actually know how to drive their car, the question is usually rhetorical. In this sketch, however, it is not, with the terrified Robinson struggling to move his SUV out of the way of an increasingly angry driver behind him. He has no idea what the buttons and knobs do, the steering wheel causes him physical pain, somehow, and he can't keep himself from accidentally honking the horn--much to his horror.

How did he end up in this situation? How did he get to that parking lot, by himself, if he can't drive, and if he was with someone else, where did they go? Why did he choose to do this if the car scares him that much? No one in I Think You Should Leave seems like they could actually exist in society given their eccentricities, but this version of Robinson seems like he should have died in childhood because of his poor decision-making. That he didn't is impressive, and that driver should be congratulating him.


"Tammy Craps" Episode 6 | Mike Rougeau, Managing Editor, Entertainment


ITYSL sketches without Tim at their helm are often not the strongest, but Tammy Craps is surely the exception. This sketch packs a ton of jokes into a fake doll commercial that continuously escalates, from the doll itself ("the only doll that poops and lies about it doesn't have farts in her head anymore") to the seemingly inexplicable rule that you have to weigh 60lbs to play with her. Shockingly, it all makes sense by the end, but that only makes it all more hilarious. Just remember: DON'T put rocks in your pockets and lie about your weight just to get a Tammy Craps.


"Tables," Episode 6 | Mat Elfring, Entertainment News Editor


The distracted driving/tables sketch is a journey, and it's bizarre. A driver's ed teacher (Robinson) is showing a movie to students, and he tells the students the video is old and to not ask about the tables. The video depicts a woman transporting tables in her car--played by the dynamite Patti Harrison. She claims it's her livelihood, and she mentions Eddie Munster might have dropped them in mud. Of course, the kids will have questions about this video, which ends with Harrison's character crashing her car, and the teacher refuses to answer them. It's a typical ITYSL sketch where things get weirder and weirder as it goes on.

And just when you think the sketch can't figure out a way to get weirder, it has an incredibly plausible left turn that no one sees coming. It's a sketch that challenges the viewer in a way, as you think you know where ITYSL bits are headed, but sometimes, they go unexpected ways. But what really makes this sketch great is Harrison's dedication to loving tables and making sure they're clean.


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