These are the 15 best sketches from Tom Robinson’s ‘I Think You Should Leave,’ including the Hot Dog Car Crash and the Coffin Flop.
• Don’t spend your per diem all in one place, unless that place has the most complicated shirt patterns you have ever seen. With a bit about duking it out for expensive, snazzy attire and a follow-up ad promoting the outlet mall where the shirt-fighting goes down, the Dan Flashes two-parter is better because it has more scenes, and rightfully so. Best line: “I mean, you walk by a store that has 50 guys who look just like me fighting over very complicated shirts, you go in. Yes, you do. You go in.”
• An off-hand excuse for tardiness becomes the center of an intense vengeance in this Season 1 sketch. After his partner casually mentions at a dinner party that their babysitter was late, Tim takes things one step further, saying she was in a hit-and-run. Instead of simply owning up to being late, he inexplicably implies it was the babysitter’s fault, and they called the cops but they said the people she hit “don’t matter.” When a friend, Barry, asks questions out of concern for the victims, forcing Tim to dig his heels deeper into the bizarre lie, Tim threatens to “beat the crap” out of Barry and devotes the entire evening to embarrassing him. Best line: “Oh my god, Barry just palmed the dip!”
• A hot dog shaped car drives through the window of a Brooks Brothers – but who was the driver? Certainly not Tim Robinson, who just so happens to be wearing a hot dog costume.
