i think you should leave with tim robinson: sketch poll

the waiter can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water on the side

apparently that was ezra koenig providing the auto-tuned music during the sloppy steaks sequence

i can't even watch a movie anymore without a big pour of wine... and popcorn

some great stuff
some of this is terrible

i'm just like the tiredest i've ever been in my life

i don't even want to be around anymore

I hurt myself laughing at that

every single sketch has at least one line that sounds exactly like a @dril tweet

and people are mad at me because i showed a bunch of naked dead bodies with their spread blue butts flying out of boxes? really?

To this day, I hate bald boys. I can’t stand bald boys. Every time I see them, I think I’m back in the pants.

i had never seen this bit by Patti Harrison before, but oooooooooohhh my fucking god:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JwgqnLA-Mk

seen harrison in a number of films and shows and she misses me completely

https://media.giphy.com/media/2Y6pFs7oTVyLZTYUlt/giphy.gif

i think she's great, a favourite in my household

... and popcorn

otm

that gif makes me realize there are fewer moments of "spot zach kadin in the background" this season. or maybe i just need to rewatch a couple times.

He CAN hit!

at that price point

my mouth is purple, and when i look in the toilet bowl, it's purple. purple and BLACK

Let me take a video of you saying you’re gonna kill the President

that might be my favorite

also glad to see the great Paul Walter Hauser

Tammy Craps uses language better than any book I ever had to read for school

kids over 60 el-bees, like me, have a body density that can withstand the low low dose of premium-grade poison they spray in the tammy craps' heads

Brad have you memorized this season already

i'm working on it

Shut the fuck up Doug you fucking skunk!

Triples makes it safe…triples is best

and i don't live in a hotel

He might kill you, but there's no fucking way he's ever killing me

Fucking asshole. He said that?

Tim walking into the ominous red doorway during the end of calicocutpants slays me

I feel like this season has more weird mood sketches that aren't actually funny but are either strangely compelling (Bob Odenkirk, Jamie Taco/Wife Guy) or... not (Karl Havoc, Sci-Fi Bar). Ok Jamie Taco is a bit funny. The Insider Trading trial was a good subversion of the more typical Tim Robinson Being Weird and Yelling format.

I think they're all funny. I measure the quality more by whether or not a bit feels forced. Referring to the performance, because I've got to say they're very good at making a forced idea work by slowly revealing that all the "straight man" characters or extras are actually in alliance (or inexplicably converted) with the lone weirdo (usually Tim). Which is so much of a formula for this show that I'm surprised somewhere upthread it was mentioned that there is one person in their own universe among regular people, because almost always it is revealed that they SEEMINGLY are all normal when in fact it's opposite. Best example of this is the gift receipt sketch from first season where literally one by one they all join Tim's madness in the end. We all kind of see this coming now but that early sketch was amazing because it timed things perfectly to trick the audience into thinking it would just be Tim getting more unhinged the whole time with opposite characters simply cringing.

yeah otm, thats kind of the secret sauce that makes this different from cringe-comedy stuff. another early example of that which is oft-quoted around my house is the hot dog car sketch where tim is talking about spanking the perpetrator and one of the other bystanders is like "well SOMEBODYS gonna have to do it!"

yeah that's one of the reasons i loved everyone freaking out about tim choking on the hot dog in the first sketch xp

"Why is there swearing?"
"There's not! They just said 'shoot'"

yeah even in the boardroom scene (Dan Flashes), Doug goes from appearing as a responsible businessman mocking a younger dude's irresponsibility to actually revealing he's just a big bully who likes mocking Tim ("He got PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS at Dan Flashes"), and he's actually enjoying it.

i keep reading criticism that too many of the sketches in this season take place in office environments but idk, meetings are the kind of liminal space where this comedy functions really well, everyone is just enough of a stranger to each other and no one really wants to be there

exactly. it's a painful familiarity that often serves as a breeding-ground for laughs just on that alone. the fact that they don't actually parody traditional office politics and go off in absurdist, wtf directions on top of it is the icing.

like it's not "PC Load Letter? what the fuck does that mean?" humor, it's "oh hey, this guy is so devoted to not skipping lunch that he'd risk choking to death while secretly eating a hot dog in a meeting"

if i had to spend every day in a conference room for an entire week i too would skip all of my lunches to buy increasingly complicated shirts at dan flashes

I mean if you're saying the patterns aren't complicated....

they are....

they ARE

that's how they value the shirt, the more the lines crisscross and the patterns overlap

too many sketches with that same formula, that one was kind of weak

especially when there was another garment related office sketch (the pants website) that was way stronger

especially when there was another garment related office sketch (the pants website) that was way stronger

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but the pants aren't real

it's just a website that says the pants are real. don't you agree that's all that you need?

the dan flashes boardroom sketch was funny on its own, but was much better as a set up to that incredible callback later in the episode

Fav detail of Dan Flashes was that the shirt had the fuckin Windows 95 twisty pipe screensaver on it