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I Think You Should Leave season 3

Started by Ron Superior, May 24, 2023, 07:49:35 PM

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Oh, man that's a bummer. Might fuck this whole thing up.

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Quote from: HMS Beanspiller on June 07, 2023, 10:47:31 PMCrashmore

Apparently that's very closely based on an interview with Billy Bob Thornton who got angry when the interviewer mentioned his acting during a launch of his new album.
It's a cultural gumbo.

Talk about a Bad Santa!

Yes, I meant to mention that - love that it's based in reality but taken to its absurdist extreme.

https://youtu.be/qToHS07HoGw

Fair play to the interviewer who copes with BBT's piss fit extremely well.

Also from S2 'Slicked back?! This is pushed back.'


Chollis

Only just started watching this recently, more misses than hits for me, but as someone said earlier, when it hits it hits and feels fresh as fuck. Tim Robinson is very funny.

Hit and Run (or Barry?) is prob my fav sketch. That 30 second exchange where he's just like "yeahhh....the people that they hit are just like kinda nothing. Like they weren't even supposed to be in the area". Incredible.

SteveDave

Season 2 started playing after I re-watched season 3 last night and the first episode features my favourite line of the whole thing

"They said that to ME, at a dinner"

mrpupkin

I remember series 2 being a bit 'second series syndrome' overall despite highlights, so am pleased to say that series 3 had me in tears many times. It tails off towards the end but fuck me the first few are ridiculous.

dannyfc

Just binged the full series and moved to Detroiters which is also accurate.

I will never tire of Tim incredulously denying an obviously true allegation.

It's illegal for you to ask me that.


madhair60


WhoMe

If everything is a product of its time then this show brings to the fore what a weird, misanthropic time this is. Comedy that is cold, aggressive and sort of hates you. I do appreciate it mostly, but more in the way you appreciate an episode of Black Mirror despite feeling empty afterwards.   

dannyfc

Quote from: WhoMe on June 16, 2023, 11:51:56 PMComedy that is cold, aggressive and sort of hates you.   

How so? Look past the shouting and there are empathetic moments. Wouldn't say it's hateful at all.

Tim tearing up when he can't think of a YouTube video for his work group always gets me.

jonnyunitus

Yeah I find quite a few bits oddly moving. Particularly the baby that thinks Tim is a piece of shit and the sketch in the new series, with the Turnstile track.

dannyfc

Quote from: jonnyunitus on June 17, 2023, 05:44:30 PMYeah I find quite a few bits oddly moving. Particularly the baby that thinks Tim is a piece of shit and the sketch in the new series, with the Turnstile track.

I was going to reference that one, the LETS SLOP EM UPPPPP with the boys in the restaurant is both hilarious as oddly nostalgia. What do you mean by Turnstile track? Is it legit music, i thought it was just Tim on fucking about with a vocoder hah 

Also, the Ghost Tour ending with his mum outside, and the old man lamenting his life in the ear piercing sketch.

jonnyunitus

I think the vocoder track from the piece of shit sketch is the lead singer of Vampire Weekend? Turnstile are in the new series, the sketch with the shirt brother breaking all the rules

Ron Superior

Having watched this a few times now, in contrast to season 2, this season is ridiculously frontloaded with big laugh sketches, which is great, but it means that some of the more overtly weird or difficult sketches are all squashed up towards the end, which is a shame as I think, in the right sequence, they can really help compliment each other rather than seem like offcuts, like the way some songs aren't obvious standalone bangers but are really integral to the flow of an album. But still overall, so many unbelievably hilarious bits throughout the season.

Also, I hadn't seen this before but here's a really funny clip he did for Brain Dead.


Oosp

I love the Kids sketch with Jason Schwartzman. All the characters are just trying their best. What a journey.

Shaky

Loved the first two seasons but this new one isn't doing it for me. Way too much self-concious shouting, nonsense and half-baked ideas in a way that's quite wearying.

Deliciousbass

Hey that's OK
That's all right
Everything is great and everything's tonight
If you wanna feel the feeling
You wanna feel the fire
Then that's all right
Cuz you don't gotta retire
If you wanna be great
Then you gotta be good
Do it now in the neighborhood!

The Mollusk

I watched the haunted house tour sketch the other day and thought it was good. What's more is the doggy door sketch has been living rent free in my head for ages now and I've watched it numerous times and I think as a standalone piece it's helping me to appreciate the show a lot more as a whole. I still find the OTT style jarring but I'm starting to understand the good stuff below that, primarily the performances and the mental process that would have gone into writing the material. It's more substantial and smart than I'd given it credit for - I'm still by no means a convert but it may very slowly be growing on me.

Fuckin doggy door sketch honestly is near perfect from start to finish and I think about the little bits of it a lot. Someone here or in the comments mentioned his agitated blinking when he says "I saw that thing, that thing came in my house when I was on the couch" which is brilliant.

Schnapple

S3 is probably my least favourite, but the Darmine Doggy Door sketch made me laugh so hard that I had to take a break. The inexplicable captioning of "monsters on the world" got me in a way only historically attributed to Tobias crashing off the balcony while dressed as Mrs. Pennyfeather in Arrested Development, or the spaceship sequence in Life of Brian. It's a great feeling.

dannyfc

Who is everyones favourite non-Tim character?

Both of Patti Harrison's ones get me - the weird noise she makes in the Dragons Den parody and failed printer copier jokes are on my mind constantly.


Deliciousbass

And the tables lady!

"I just got screamed at by Freddie Kruger! All I said was 'what d'you do to my table? It's filthy. You should be ashamed of yourself. You're a fucking pig!' and that's when he snapped!"

Pretty much any time Patti or Conner O'Malley are on. Apart from that I really loved this guy:


The way his expression just settles into placid frowniness after every line kills me

BritishHobo

I stuck up for John Early on the other page because I really love his character. The bit where he tries to deflect the awkwardness he's created by trying to gossip with a coworker he's clearly not close to. "Linda are you still dating that big bad guy? That is a bad guy."

The woman in the harassment training sketch this series is great as well, carrying on as if everyone else in the room is having as fun a time as her.

Old Nehamkin



selectivememory

Tim Heidecker as the obnoxious older ponytailed boyfriend in Season 1.

Also liked his doctor character in this season.

madhair60

nothing he's done has been funnier than Coffin Flop




Matthew Dawkins Jub Jub

Bob Odenkirk's diner wink guy has stuck with me ever since I saw the sketch over a year ago.

Triples. Triples is best.

badaids

Just binge watched it all last night. I wanted very much not to like it but, sadly, it's irresistible.

It is formulaic. But what is the formula. It's not just shouting. For me each sketch is a simple one line writers room idea: 'what if a man does actually honk at a Honk If You're Horny bumper sticker, which is then kicked about and drawn out way past its normal conclusion on steroids. The ensemble cast does help and the fact you never know who the straight characters will be, keeps you guessing.

That Honk if You're Hormy and the Ghost Tour sketches are some of the funniest I've seen in ages. It's the best sketch show since Limmy.

Oh and of course, the whole thing is just a high production values version of Awesome Show Great Job.

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