I Think You Should Leave Season 3: Ranking Every Sketch

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While Tim Robinson’s style of humor is incredibly distinct it still does borrow quite a bit from the dadaist nightmare visions of Tim Heidecker. It’s only fitting that Tim has invited other Tim onto his show for three consecutive seasons. Even though the other Heidecker skits have worked out quite nicely, season 3’s immediately jumps to the top of the pack as the best. Everything in this one is calibrated to perfect lunacy. Tim Robinson suffering a heart attack at Club Aqua is funny. His doctor then being obsessed with Club Aqua and Club Haunted House is also funny. Tim constantly assuring his doctor he’s only jacking off and not dancing is even funnier. And then the coup de grâce: Club Aqua’s Robinson-built deck collapses, beheading Kim Kardashain offscreen. If there were ever a Robinson/Heidecker sketch that showcases each comic performers’ sensibilities, it’s this one.

3. Summer Loving

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“Summer Loving” presents compelling evidence for why Tim Robinson didn’t last long at Saturday Night Live and while the world is all the better for it. At first glance, there is so much parody-rich material when it comes to summer-themed dating shows like Love Island. Robinson, however, wisely side steps all of those tired, cliche, and daresay SNL-esque opportunities in favor of something far more satisfyingly goofy. What if this goober just really wanted to go on the zipline over and over again? And so Robinson does just that – wetshirt, expressionless face, 360 rotations and all. “Summer Loving” is the perfect combination with the visual and verbal as Robinson’s acrobatics are funny but “He’s just too excited. He’s too rough on the rope.” is even funnier.

2. Pay it Forward

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Weirdly enough, “Pay it Forward” might be among the most “conventional” I Think You Should Leave sketches ever. At its center there is a very simple “set-up + punchline” joke structure. Set-up: guy pays for the next order in the drive-thru line to “pay it forward.” Punchline: he immediately tears back into the line to order $680 worth of fast food. If “Pay It Forward” were only that, it would probably still be a mid-tier season 3 clip based on ingenuity alone. As it stands, however, it’s the second best skit of the season because it does what all great ITYSL skits do: it ups the ante. The specificity of Tim’s fast food order is hilarious, as is an unrelated customer’s effortless parroting of it. The best moment of all though is the final one in which Tim’s character finally realizes that he’s not bound to stay in his car and pay for the fast food. “Oh! I can just run.” It’s the “if it sucks, hit da bricks” meme come to glorious life.