![]() 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. 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. These sketches have lots of laughs, though often meanader a beat too long to arrive at the real genius of the joke. ![]() 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) ![]() 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). 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. 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. 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) Here are the best I Think You Should Leave sketches, ranked from “best” to “most not-best.” Don’t agree with our rankings? Well, shit, dude, just write your own! The list here is more interested in the deeper question of what makes an I Think You Should Leave sketch great or truly transcendent. 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. We picked tiers for a specific reason: The truth is, there’s no such thing as a bad time with ITYSL. 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. ![]() “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. 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. 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. I Think You Should Leave season 3 is now out on Netflix, and frankly, that’s fantastic. ![]()
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