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* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:The terrible secret of calicocutpants.com -- it may be a fake site, but it's hemorrhaging money, and even if someone else uses it just once on your behalf, you ''have'' to donate.]]


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* MagnumOpusDissonance: In-universe. Santa Claus does ''not'' want to discuss the Christmas thing, he wants to focus on his acting career, and he will lose his shit on any interviewer who brings it up unprompted.


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* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Subverted in "Detective Crashmore", where the rabid loose-cannon cop getting revenge on the underworld [[SirSwearsALot doesn't say anything remotely funny, cool, or clever]], and has to be fed a straight line twice for a one-liner he still misses.
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* BadSanta: Santa Claus has picked up a new career as an action movie star, where not only does he apparently get fully nude on camera in the film itself, but also threatens to storm out of a promotional interview because the interviewer asked him about his former career, along with admitting that he spies on everyone in the world when they're nude to check if they have tattoos and need to go on his "naughty" list.


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* PornStash: After being stalked for several days and nights by the honking guy in the "Honk If You're Horny" sketch, it's revealed that Tim's character has literal piles of "pornos and calendars" in the trunk of his car.


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--> '''"SHUT THE FUCK UP DOUG YOU FUCKING SKUNK!"'''

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* SoundtrackDissonance: This is the result of hiring a circus organist to play funerals in "New Joe".

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This is the result of hiring a circus organist to play funerals in "New Joe".Joe".
** The absolutely ridiculous finale of the gift receipt sketch is scored by some extremely dramatic PostRock that could have been ripped right out of ''Series/FridayNightLights''.
* SuddenlyShouting: Tim's characters, extremely frequently. Probably most pronounced in the "Dan Flashes" sketch, where he screams at the top of his lungs every time his coworker tries to criticize him.
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** [[invoked]]Subverted with Corncob TV's "Coffin Flop", a context-free compilation show of independently shot funeral footage where [[HumorDissonance hundreds upon hundreds of dead bodies, 20% of them nude, fall out of poorly made caskets as their families scream in horror]]. It's the main factor in the service dropped from the Spectrum package.

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** [[invoked]]Subverted with Corncob TV's "Coffin Flop", a context-free compilation show of independently shot funeral footage where [[HumorDissonance hundreds upon hundreds of dead bodies, 20% of them nude, fall out of poorly made caskets as their families scream in horror]]. It's the main factor in the service being dropped from the Spectrum package.

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There is currently one season of six episodes. A second season has been announced.



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* TheFunInFuneral: "New Joe" provides this inadvertently with his music, but the funeral congregation is clearly unappreciative.

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* TheFunInFuneral: TheFunInFuneral:
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"New Joe" provides this inadvertently with his music, but the funeral congregation is clearly unappreciative.unappreciative.
** [[invoked]]Subverted with Corncob TV's "Coffin Flop", a context-free compilation show of independently shot funeral footage where [[HumorDissonance hundreds upon hundreds of dead bodies, 20% of them nude, fall out of poorly made caskets as their families scream in horror]]. It's the main factor in the service dropped from the Spectrum package.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Tim's character comes up with a terrible excuse for showing up late to a party. After partygoer Barry asks about it, Tim spends the night trying to embarass him, ending with him tackling Barry into a china cabinet.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Tim's character comes up with a terrible excuse for showing up late to a party. After partygoer Barry asks about it, Tim spends the night trying to embarass embarrass him, ending with him tackling Barry into a china cabinet.
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* InformedAttribute: Played for laughs with "bad boy" Bart Harley Jarvis; Dr. Skull claims that he's singularly aggressive and has "[[RedRightHand a massive overbite and completely flat back of the head]]", but his cutaway shots show him to be a perfectly normal, chubby little baby, and none of these things are ever hinted at aside from him arriving dressed as a biker. The audience despises him beyond all reason.
-->'''Man in Audience:''' I hope you FUCKING DIE, Harley Jarvis!\\
'''Announcer:''' GET, HIM... ''OUTTA'' HERE!
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* GagDub: Attempted by one character in "Bozo Dubbed Over", who produces the titular video in order to convince his co-workers that he actually knows at least one viral video.

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* GagDub: Attempted by one character in "Bozo Dubbed Over", who produces the titular video in order to convince his co-workers that he actually knows at least one viral video. He also keeps trying to double down on his claim that it's ''Bozo's'' dub and that he's "saying what he wanted to say on the show, now", which his co-workers point out makes so much less sense than if a random person did it.

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The hot dog suit guy invites the crowd to spank his "bare balls, back, and butt."



* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Not only is Skeletrex 15 feet tall with bones the size of tree trunks, he also has two swords and a club made of lava.



* InMemoriam: InUniverse, the "Baby of the Year" show features one of these, featuring former baby contestants who grew old and passed away ("They don't stay babies forever, idiot"), and then [[CrossesTheLineTwice names the method by which each of them died]]. "Pancaked by dump truck driver".
* LargeAndInCharge: Lord Skeletrex. He's ''huge!'' He's 15 feet tall and he has bones the size of tree trunks.

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* InMemoriam: InUniverse, the "Baby of the Year" show features one of these, featuring former baby contestants who grew old and passed away ("They don't stay babies forever, idiot"), and then [[CrossesTheLineTwice names the method by which each of them died]]. "Pancaked by drunk dump truck driver".
* LargeAndInCharge: Lord Skeletrex. He's ''huge!'' He's 15 feet tall and he has bones the size of tree trunks.trunks!
* LyricalDissonance: "The Day Robert Palins Murdered Me" has a bouncy, upbeat rhythm but is about the protagonist getting gunned down in front of his wife. That's before the skeletons even show up.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Bart Harley Jarvis is booed by the audience as soon as he appears onstage and is nearly the victim of an assassination attempt in the middle of the pageant.
* TheAce: Caleb Wendt is an accomplished musician and actor and owns the clothing brand Angels and Archways.


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* BadFuture: By Christmas 3050, Skeletrex and his Bone Brigade have enslaved the human race to make fleets of bone cars.


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* CarryABigStick: Skeletrex has a club made of lava.


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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Former Babies of the Year Little Jeffy Jeremy, 96 (Throat slashed) and Tiny Dinky Daffy, 92 (Pancaked by drunk dump truck driver).


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* EnfanteTerrible: Bart Harley Jarvis, whom Dr. Skull describes as the most aggressive baby he's ever seen.


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* LargeAndInCharge: Lord Skeletrex. He's ''huge!'' He's 15 feet tall and he has bones the size of tree trunks.


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* RedRightHand: Bart Harley Jarvis has a completely flat back of the head.


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* SlashedThroat: How Little Jeffy Jeremy was killed.
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''I Think You Should Leave'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} sketch comedy show created by and starring Tim Robinson (''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', ''Detroiters''). The show specializes in sketches about characters escalating awkward situations, which then take a turn into the absurd.

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''I Think You Should Leave'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} sketch comedy show created by and starring Tim Robinson Creator/TimRobinson (''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', ''Detroiters''). The show specializes in sketches about characters escalating awkward situations, which then take a turn into the absurd.
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* DemBones: Animated skeletons appear in "The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas," where Bonelord Skeletrex commands them to kill humans to make fleets of bone-cards, and are mentioned repeatedly by the Johnny Cash analogue's companion in "The Day Robert Palins Murdered Me" as coming to life at night to pull humans' hair up [[EvenEvilHasStandards (but not out)]].

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* DemBones: Animated skeletons appear in "The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas," where Bonelord Skeletrex commands them to kill humans to make fleets of bone-cards, bone cars, and are mentioned repeatedly by the Johnny Cash analogue's companion in "The Day Robert Palins Murdered Me" as coming to life at night to pull humans' hair up [[EvenEvilHasStandards (but not out)]].
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* CoolOldGuy: The main character of the focus group sketch is an elderly man played by Ruben Rubasa who quickly wins over the crowd by taunting a focus group member about his mother-in-law, flipping water bottles, and dabbing.


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* GiftGivingGaffe: One sketch starts like this, with one character giving another a wreath that they clearly don't want, but goes off the rails and turns into a lengthy investigation of the recipient's toilet hygiene.


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* PokeThePoodle: Chunky, who clearly has no idea how to torment a game show contestant, and the skeletons from "The Day Robert Palins Murdered Me," whose worst behavior is pulling hair up (but not out).


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* {{Unishment}}: The hot dog suit-wearing man in the Brooks Brothers sketch tries to invoke this by being very insistent that whoever crashed the hot dog card into the Brooks Brothers should be spanked.
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* DemBones: Animated skeletons appear in "The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas", where Bonelord Skeletrex commands them to kill humans to make fleets of bone-cards, and are mentioned repeatedly in "The Day That Robert Palins Murdered Me" as coming to life at night to pull humans' hair up (but not out).

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* DemBones: Animated skeletons appear in "The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas", Christmas," where Bonelord Skeletrex commands them to kill humans to make fleets of bone-cards, and are mentioned repeatedly by the Johnny Cash analogue's companion in "The Day That Robert Palins Murdered Me" as coming to life at night to pull humans' hair up [[EvenEvilHasStandards (but not out).out)]].
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* DemBones: Animated skeletons appear in "The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas", where Bonelord Skeletrex commands them to kill humans to make fleets of bone-cards, and are mentioned repeatedly in "The Day That Robert Palins Murdered Me" as coming to life at night to pull humans' hair up (but not out).
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* HumanAlien: The biker aliens.
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* GagDub: Attempted by one character in "Bozo Dubbed Over", who produces the titular video in order to convince his co-workers that he actually knows at least one viral video.



* ProductPlacement: TC Tuggers shirts through the entirety of "River Mountain High".



* {{Whammy}}: Chunky in the sketch of the same name. He eats your points and gets very mad, and also occasionally makes you wear your own hat.

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* {{Whammy}}: Chunky in the sketch of the same name. He eats your points and gets very mad, and also occasionally makes you wear your own hat.hat.
* WhoopeeCushion: A victim of this prank at the meeting doesn't understand what the gag is, asking if they're trying to insinuate that he farts more mildly than usual.
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* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: One office worker doesn't respond at all well to the phrase "Christmas came early" in relation to a new printer, wondering if this means she doesn't get a present this year.
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* TheFunInFuneral: "New Joe" provides this inadvertently with his music, but the funeral congregation is clearly unappreciative.


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* InMemoriam: InUniverse, the "Baby of the Year" show features one of these, featuring former baby contestants who grew old and passed away ("They don't stay babies forever, idiot"), and then [[CrossesTheLineTwice names the method by which each of them died]]. "Pancaked by dump truck driver".


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* StalkerWithoutACrush: "The Man" had a flight ruined by a crying baby a long time ago, so he stalked the baby into his adult life, [[DumpsterDive searched through his trash]] to find a flight he was going on, and booked the same flight so he could take {{revenge}} and loudly wail in his face.
* SoundtrackDissonance: This is the result of hiring a circus organist to play funerals in "New Joe".


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* UnusualEuphemism: "Mud pie" for feces appears in two different sketches in the first episode, most prominently in "Gift Receipt", which only serves to draw attention to how odd it sounds.

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* AnAsskickingChristmas: In "Oh Crap, A Bunch More Bad Stuff Just Happened".

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* AnAsskickingChristmas: In "Oh Crap, A Bunch More Bad Stuff Just Happened"."The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas", Scrooge is brought to the future as humanity's last hope to kick some ass.



* DrivenToSuicide: Shortstack, the first ever 5-inch penis horse in "Fenton's Stables and Horse Ranch", threw himself off a cliff.



* PlanetOfHats: Or, more accurately, Planet of Motorcycles.
* OverlyLongGag: Many.

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* PlanetOfHats: Or, more accurately, Planet of Motorcycles.
NonIndicativeName: Apparently, "He Layeth On High" is an organ piece about a big baby duck who gets his head caught in a stewed tomato.
* OverlyLongGag: Many.Features these regularly as part of its concept of increasingly awkward situations.
* PlanetOfHats: The motorcycle guy is an envoy of a planet of bikers, sent to Earth to see if this planet has motorcycles. [[HappyEnding They do, and so much more.]]


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* TeenyWeenie: Fenton's Stables and Horse Ranch bred all of its horses to have these. Consequently, it markets itself to insecure males and their spouses. "Fenton's Stables and Horse Ranch, where you're the one that's hung..."
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* Rule34: When listing various porn sites, the Hot Dog Guy mentions "homegrown Simpsons stuff".

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* Rule34: When listing various porn sites, the Hot Dog Guy mentions "homegrown Simpsons stuff".stuff".
* ShoutOut: "The Day Robert Palins Murdered Me" features a Music/JohnnyCash homage introducing a self-penned murder ballad to please a record producer who's tired of gospel, which is taken from the scene in ''Film/WalkTheLine'' where Creator/JoaquinPhoenix's Cash sang "Folsom Prison Blues" in a similar manner.
* {{Whammy}}: Chunky in the sketch of the same name. He eats your points and gets very mad, and also occasionally makes you wear your own hat.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: A commercial for a spine specialist goes off the rails when one of the testimonial actors suddenly confronts a slimy record producer who conned him.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Tim's character comes up with a terrible excuse for showing up late to a party. After partygoer Barry asks about it, Tim spends the night trying to embarass him, ending with him tackling Barry into a china cabinet.
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* EnforcedPlug: Teen drama "River Mountain High" grinds to a halt when a teacher character won't stop talking about his TC Tuggers shirt.

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* EnforcedPlug: Teen drama "River Mountain High" grinds to a halt when a teacher character the principal won't stop talking about his TC Tuggers shirt.
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* DoorDumb: The subject of the very first sketch. A man runs into this problem after he finishes an interview. He attempts to save face by forcing the door to open in the opposite direction, destroying the hinges and the frame in the process.
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There is currently one season of six episodes.



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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The guy in the car focus group keeps requesting a good steering that doesn't fly off while driving. Ford actually issued a recall for this exact problem in 2018.
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* OverlyLongGag: Many.

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* OverlyLongGag: Many.Many.
* Rule34: When listing various porn sites, the Hot Dog Guy mentions "homegrown Simpsons stuff".

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''I Think You Should Leave'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} sketch comedy show created by and starring Tim Robinson (''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', ''Detroiters''). The show specializes in sketches about characters escalating awkward situations, which then take a turn into the absurd.



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*AnAsskickingChristmas: In "Oh Crap, A Bunch More Bad Stuff Just Happened".
*CringeComedy: Many sketches, combined with DiggingYourselfDeeper.
*EnforcedPlug: Teen drama "River Mountain High" grinds to a halt when a teacher character won't stop talking about his TC Tuggers shirt.
*ImplausibleDeniability: Who crashed a hotdog-shaped car into a store front? Certainly not the guy in a hotdog costume.
*PlanetOfHats: Or, more accurately, Planet of Motorcycles.
*OverlyLongGag: Many.

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