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I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

Started by up_the_hampipe, April 24, 2019, 06:42:16 PM

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Icehaven

Quote from: pancreas on May 08, 2019, 12:16:24 AM
Although he evidently thinks he's a lot more endearing than he actually is.

I did feel myself flagging a bit whenever he started shouting or it became apparent he was about to, but the rest of the time he was alright.

Icehaven

#31
Stuart Heritage likes it so obviously I've just realised it's actually rubbish now.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/may/10/i-think-you-should-leave-netflix-tim-robinson

Edit; Wow, some (actually most) of the BTL comments there perfectly illustrate the ancient truth about how haranguing someone to watch something is a sure-fire way to make them loathe it. I actually think Heritage must secretly hate the show really and did this on purpose to bask in the inevitable barrage of abuse of it he's provoked, which means it's OK to like it again now, phew!

I love this show. It's the first thing I've seen in a long time that really nails the absurd without just being "lol random"

And he doesn't shout in that many sketches so I'm not sure where that's coming from.

Enrico Palazzo

Was made aware of his episode of The Characters on here recently and I thought it was pretty inspired. The sketch about the Dean Martin type swanning through the restaurant was fuckin hilarious.

phantom_power

The horse one and the Garfield one were the best. Some of the sketches go on a bit long and he does shout a lot but there is a lot of invention in there and some great co/guest stars

Ira Ass

I loved the door one from the first episode and the gift receipt/toilet washing hands one.

The man on the plane was good too as was choking guy and the nachos on the date.

amnesiac

I (thought I) watched the whole thing but I don't remember a termite sketch!

Anyway, on the whole I loved this and even when the premise is a bit ropey, as in the hotdog car, they pull it out of the fire through sheer will of force, like the hotdog guy trying to take the moral high-ground by saying people don't even watch porn on computers but use phones. I hated that sketch until that point.

hummingofevil

Guys. I excitedly gave this a go based on recommendation from here, friends and Nathan Fielder and I think it is absolute pile of awful toss. Watched it with my girlfriend having told her that it was meant to be "laugh out loud funny" and we just looked at each other in confusion. (IMHO) It is fucking dreadful. It's like Jon Glazer's comedy if Jon Glazer had zero charm or personality. Soz.

BlodwynPig

I just returned to it after watching the first two a while ago - the dip in quality from an already low bar is huge.

DoesNotFollow

The instagram one really tickled me, Will Forte is always good to watch and I was somewhat mesmerised by the old hispanic(?) guy in the focus group sketch. All these sketches are up on Youtube and, having watched a few episodes and being underwhelmed, probably are as good as it gets for my tastes.

Cuellar

Yeah I enjoyed the focus group one.

Maybe he didn't shout in the majority of the sketches but my abiding memory of the series is him doing exasperated shouting. Maybe that's just confirmation bias.

Reminded me very much of Limmy at times. Partly because of the sometimes endearingly shit supporting actors. The sketch where everyone is sharing funny videos and he can't think of anything brought the 'gonna take a little time' Limmy sketch to mind.

Chriddof

I haven't got Netflix so I looked at some sketches on Youtube. Saw where the Instagram one was going to go fairly early, and it didn't really go anywhere after that. I was liking the focus group one until it went into the final bit where they were laughing at that guy and doing fucking dabs and the water bottle flip and that, at which point it lost me. I'm leaning towards the "pile of toss" camp here at the moment.

Gregory Torso

Nothing lives up to the baby talent show sketch in my opinion which I had to watch twice because I enjoyed it so much, although the nachos one is close. I'd say across the whole series there's probably about one show's worth of really funny sketches and the rest are just either confusing or bad.

Icehaven

Quote from: amnesiac on May 21, 2019, 10:25:52 AM
I (thought I) watched the whole thing but I don't remember a termite sketch!


It's one of the first sketches in the first episode, the spoof advert for pest control firm, so no actual termites in it.

Hemulen

Quote from: Gregory Torso on May 22, 2019, 11:27:27 AM
Nothing lives up to the baby talent show sketch in my opinion which I had to watch twice because I enjoyed it so much, although the nachos one is close. I'd say across the whole series there's probably about one show's worth of really funny sketches and the rest are just either confusing or bad.

I have watched Baby of the Year at least 5 times so far, and it makes me laugh more every time. This might be partly due to being a new father who has recently discovered just how funny a gormless baby face can be, but I also just love the way that sketch keeps zigging and zagging. That's a strength that quite a few of them have, actually - rather than just being one premise stretched out over a couple of minutes they keep building and then swerving in unexpected directions.

It's certainly not a perfect series by any means, but there's a giddy energy to it that sets it apart from pretty much any other sketch show I've seen in recent years.

amnesiac

Quote from: icehaven on May 22, 2019, 01:19:43 PM
It's one of the first sketches in the first episode, the spoof advert for pest control firm, so no actual termites in it.

haha not one bell ringing, i'm going to have to go back aren't I. Also the people being mean to this show are DICKS.

pancreas

Baby talent show was amazing. Nachos pretty good. The birthday present receipt one was excellent. Some gems amongst the horseshit.

Pseudopath

Quote from: amnesiac on May 22, 2019, 02:14:26 PM
haha not one bell ringing, i'm going to have to go back aren't I. Also the people being mean to this show are DICKS.

I think icehaven's talking about the Mitch Bryant lawyer commercial sketch. The two guys who turn up and cause him such grief were supposed to be repairing termite damage in his garage.

Icehaven

Quote from: Pseudopath on May 23, 2019, 02:55:27 PM
I think icehaven's talking about the Mitch Bryant lawyer commercial sketch. The two guys who turn up and cause him such grief were supposed to be repairing termite damage in his garage.

Yep that's the one, I've just misremembered it if the spoof ad was actually for a lawyer, but it has the termite controllers who wreck the toilet.

amnesiac

haha ok now it make more sense! yes the toilet one, and they leave a toilet with a hole only big enough for a fart, that is so wtf.

ASFTSN

This was one of the more frustrating watches for me in a while because it was such a mixed bag. Honk if You're Horny, loaded nachos, Turbo Time  and especially that first door sketch all had me creasing up. Pretty much all of the rest made me wish I was watching Limmy or Tim & Eric. The main bloke's facial expressions and general comedic manner are great, but the writing's all over the feckin shop.

Clownbaby

#51
I can't make up my mind about this, just watching it now. It definitely goes for the Tim And Eric things (strange old men, dads in high pants, repeating awkward words, lingering cringe, awkward product commercials) but there's something a bit flat about it. It's alright I think but even though it seems like something that would be up my street I'm just not sure.  Too many of the sketches (for me) collapse a bit halfway, sort of turn back around to being funny, then collapse again. And there's a few bits that I like the idea of, that don't feel right (to me) how they're actually executed. Like the whole cowey with the spine repair commercial being totally normal and then in amongst it there's an angry bloke who straightaway doesn't fit the tone of the rest of the commercial, he's just comedy angry straight off the bat where a gradual buildup to his rampage might have been nice. I could go on, bottom line, it's aite I think. Light to decent  6  / 1 0


It keeps reminding me of other shows that I like much much more though, as a few of yous have already said. i'm obviously getting Tim And Eric. Portlandia, lil bit of Limmy, Eric Andre Show, Mr Show. It's reminding me of too many other things that have done the stuff far better, even though it does give me the odd laugh

Clownbaby

#52
The Johnny Cash sketch though, got me. Might be a favourite moment. Pure Charlie Kelly with the weird intense skeleton and bone obsession of the awkward guitarist trying to join in with the singing and thinking he's really good. Just a step behind rape n ghouls n spiders

And the guy making up an elaborate story about a hit and run at a party and then horrendously failing to embarrass one person to take the focus off himself is genuinely unsettling

bollocks

I loved this show, but I think think it's gone to ground. Ut was great, but it was a victim of its own meme-a-bility.

I also love the show, I felt that some of the sketches this series were like alternative drafts of other previous sketches. Either that or enough material had been made that the commonalities are more apparent.

I also enjoy the surprise that inevitably accompanied the first series, every sketch was completely unpredictable. Now they're just predictably unpredictable