Series / I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson

I Think You Should Leave is a Netflix sketch comedy show created by and starring Tim Robinson (Saturday Night Live, Detroiters). The show specializes in sketches about characters escalating awkward situations, which then take a turn into the absurd.

There are currently three seasons of six episodes each.

---

This show provides examples of:

• The Ace: Caleb Wendt is an accomplished musician and actor and owns the clothing brand Angels and Archways. He's impressive enough that Tim's character desperately tries to hide the fact that he's choking in front of him.
  Tim: I'm just, like, such a huge fan of his music and his acting.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: The hot dog suit guy invites the crowd to spank his "bare butt, balls, and back."
  • Tiny Dinky Daffy's cause of death: "pancaked by drunk dump truck driver".
  • The Darmine Doggy Door, from Darmine Devices.
• Aliens Never Invented the Wheel: A biker who walks around appreciating different motorcycles is revealed near the end to be from a parallel humanoid alien biker culture; since everything he understands is motorcycle-based, he's fascinated by concepts like bicycles ("a motorcycle with no motor") and cars ("two motorcycles with a little house in the middle"). The sight of a Greyhound bus brings him to his knees in awe and wonder.
• Alliterative Name: Little Jeffy Jeremy, Tiny Dinky Daffy, and Bartch Barley.
• An Asskicking Christmas: In "The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas", Scrooge is brought to the future as humanity's last hope to kick some ass.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: 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.
• Bad Date:
  • In "Oh Crap, a Bunch More Bad Stuff Just Happened", Tim goes on a date with a woman who eats all the best nachos on their sharing platter. Rather than ask her to share, he asks the waiter to make up a rule against it and gets caught in a very obvious lie.
  • In "Cut To: We’re Chatting About This At Your Bachelor Party", a mixup at the barber results in Tim turning up to his date with a haircut that looks like a Cocker Spaniel's ears. Despite this, things go pretty well... until Tim casually mentions that he already has a girlfriend and is trying to get a second one.
  • "I Can Do Whatever I Want": In this case, the disastrous date isn't Tim's fault, as he gets ripped off by two scam companies. First a jewelry store sells him an expensive watch which explodes in his date's face. Then a limo service puts up a partition in the limo to host multiple parties, tells Tim to shut up when he asks about it and hugs his date when they arrive at their destination.
• Bad Future: By Christmas 3050, Skeletrex and his Bone Brigade have enslaved the human race to make fleets of bone cars.
• Bad Liar: When Tim's date keeps hogging all the fully-loaded nachos, he asks the waiter to tell her that the restaurant has a rule against it. When she immediately figures out what he did, he claims that he was asking the waiter to move them to a different table because it was too cold under the air conditioning vent. When she points out that there is no vent, he changes his story to say he was complaining about the rule, even though he supposedly just learned about the rule.
• Bad Santa: 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.
• Big Eater: The main character of "Paying It Forward" orders 1,205 individual items from a fast food restaurant. Once the woman behind him realizes what he's up to, she immediately starts placing the same order.
• Blunt Metaphors Trauma: 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.
• Bond One-Liner: Detective Crashmore is really bad at coming up with these.
  "Eat fucking bullets, you fuckers! You fucking suck!"
  "You fucking SUCK!"
  "Are you dumb?"
• Broken Pedestal: Professor Yurabay loses all the respect of his former students when he, at a fancy dinner at a restaurant, houses Dylan's burger and then tries to blackmail him with footage of him saying he's going to kill the president.
• Buffy Speak: The source of a lot of the most memorable quotes, such as the driver's ed instructor saying without a license the kids will have to "walk to the food store", or the dog door salesman saying "for fifty seconds I thought there was monsters on the world".
• Calvin Ball: The egg game is a digital version. An utterly baffling game with no apparent rules where the goal is to click and drag eggs to feed them to a larger anthropomorphic egg, the egg counter seems to have no relation to the actual number of eggs you feed it, the reward at the end is that the egg exposes its anus to you.
• Carry a Big Stick: Skeletrex has a club made of lava.
• Centipede's Dilemma: In the VR sketch, the dad is so traumatised by his VR experience that he thinks too hard about how humans move their real bodies and breathe, and so forgets how to do either.
• Central Theme: The recurring idea of nearly every sketch involves people who fail to recognize what's appropriate, defensively refuse to back down from bizarre positions, or take things way too far, often through Implausible Deniability, Digging Yourself Deeper, or Insane Troll Logic.
• Comical Overreacting: A man gets invited on stage by a magician, who hits him with a couple good-natured zingers before the trick. The man's wife takes it as a sign of weakness and is so disgusted that she announces that she will not only not respect him for the remainder of their marriage, but that she'll even make sure their children won't either.
• Continuity Nod: Pat, the office worker who choked on a hot dog during a meeting in the Season 2 premier, shows up again in the hot dog vacuum sketch later in the season, where he reveals that he was fired shortly after the incident.
• Cool Old Guy: 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.
• Cringe Comedy: Many sketches, combined with Digging Yourself Deeper.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Former Babies of the Year Little Jeffy Jeremy, 96 (Throat slashed) and Tiny Dinky Daffy, 92 (Pancaked by drunk dump truck driver).
• The Cuckoolander Was Right:
  • Lev is eventually proven correct in his suspicion that Jacob uses too small a slice of toilet paper after doing the mud pie. Unfortunately, it costs him his life.
  • When Tim claims that people want to kill him for doing the "Driving Crooner", it seems like he's being delusional and paranoid; after all, he was previously convinced that a random dog-walker was trying to steal his decals. But then a truck full of frat boys pulls up next to him at a red light and shout death threats at him.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Both Tim Heidecker and his date in the sci-fi restaurant skit. Her mother had to drink vomit on a radio show to make enough money to send her to school, while his father was executed by the state for homicide. Both of them are pissed when the local standup comedian calls them boring.
• Deal with the Devil: 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.
• Dem Bones: Animated skeletons appear in "The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas," where Bonelord Skeletrex commands them to kill humans to make fleets of 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 (but not out).
• Did Not Think This Through: Despite having an entire summer to figure it out, nobody came up with what exactly Chunky is supposed to do when he comes out.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • 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 embarrass him, ending with him tackling Barry into a china cabinet.
  • Tim's wife in the magic show sketch reacts to a magician mildly heckling him as part of the show by completely cutting him out of her life and promising to raise their kids to never respect him.
  • Draven of Tasty Time Vids posts a terrible comedy sketch on Instagram and pays his supporting actress in fast food. For this he gets scores of comments from internet trolls threatening to kill his parents.
• Door Dumb: 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.
• Driven to Suicide: Shortstack, the first ever 5-inch penis horse in "Fenton's Stables and Horse Ranch", threw himself off a cliff.
• Enfante Terrible: Subverted with Bart Harley Jarvis, the "bad boy" of the "Baby of the Year" competition, whom Dr. Skull describes as the most aggressive baby he's ever seen but absolutely nothing about him other than his style of clothing indicates he's anything other than a perfectly normal baby. The audience despises him beyond all reason.

  Man in Audience: I HOPE YOU FUCKING DIE, HARLEY JARVIS!!
  Announcer: GET, HIM... OUTTA HERE!

• Enforced Plug: Teen drama "River Mountain High" grinds to a halt when the principal won't stop talking about his TC Tuggers shirt.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: Brian, defending his hat choices, punctuates his point by slamming his hand on the table, but accidentally knocks over his water bottle which spills all over his laptop.
• Flat "What": The host gives one in the "Supermarket Swap" sketch, after already having had to explain how to breathe in VR (you just breathe normally) to the dad:
  Tim: How do we move our bodies ever?
  Host: What.
• The "Fun" in "Funeral":
  • "New Joe" provides this inadvertently with his music, but the funeral congregation is clearly unappreciative. It does get a smile out of the deceased.
  • invokedSubverted with Corncob TV's "Coffin Flop", a context-free compilation show of independently shot funeral footage where 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.
• Gag Dub: 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.
• Gasshole: Tim in the whoopee cushion sketch is less insulted by the fact that his coworkers put a whoopee cushion on his seat than by the fact that the whoopee cushion sounds absolutely pathetic in comparison to his actual farts.
  "My farts are long. And loud. And they REEK!"
• Gift-Giving Gaffe: 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.
• Halfway Plot Switch: 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.
• Hated by All: Bart Harley Jarvis, a baby, is booed viciously by the "Baby of the Year" audience as soon as he appears onstage and is nearly the victim of an assassination attempt in the middle of the pageant. The only person who seems to avert this is the announcer, who is annoyed at people shouting how much they hate the baby.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Detective Crashmore gleefully kills scores of bad guys and isn't very concerned about the well being of his Love Interest.
  Monique: He said he'd kill us both.
  Crashmore: He might kill you, but there's no fucking way he's ever killing me. Fucking asshole, he said that?
• Hipster: Howie is a jazz elitist who dismisses the record collection of his host as "very meat and potatoes" and keeps sneaking people like "Roy Donk" and "Tiny Boop Squig Shorterly" into his friends' innocent game of Taboo, to their bafflement.
  Howie: Don't you remember, we listened to his whole album that one night when I told you you'd never be a good writer because you don't have a curious mind?!
• How Is That Even Possible?: "Coffin Flop" is a show on Corncob TV consisting of allegedly unstaged footage of dead bodies falling through shoddily-made coffins at wakes and funerals. Spectrum Cable has a lot of questions about it:
  Corncob TV guy: They're saying, "Coffin Flop's not a show. It's just hours and hours of footage of real people falling out of coffins at funerals. There's no explanation, just body after body busting outta shit wood and hitting pavement." They’re saying, "It's impossible that that many dead bodies have fallen out of coffins every day, and it's impossible that one out of every five of them are nude!" I don’t know what to tell ya, bud! We're just shooting funerals and showing the ones where the bodies fly out! They're saying, "No way! You must've rigged something." I didn't do fuckin' shit! I didn't rig SHIT! I've been waiting a long time for a hit on Corncob TV- I DIDN'T FUCKING DO THIS!
• Hypocritical Humor: Santa Claus gets pissed off at being asked about Christmas during his interview with AOL Blast, but later brings it up organically without incident.
• Human Alien: The biker aliens.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: While the first season's episode titles are all quotes from the sketches, the second's are subtly incorrect quotes (and, in the case of "They have a cake shop there Susan where the cakes just look stunning.", a line that was either cut in writing or edited out).
• Ignored Epiphany: When Don Bon Darley's dirty songs fail to impress Tim's friends, he comes to the disheartening realization that his act is outdated and unfunny and he has wasted his life... but then he bounces back and convinces himself that they actually love it, despite all evidence to the contrary.
• Implausible Deniability:
  • Who crashed a hotdog-shaped car into a store front? Certainly not the guy in a hotdog costume.
  • This door can be both pulled and pushed open, claims the man desperately trying to push the door through its own hinges.
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Men's clothing store Dan Flashes sells absurdly garish shirts for high prices, with prices actually increasing based on how complex the pattern on the shirt is. The one we see the most of – implied to be the least busy one – looks like a Windows "Pipes" screensaver with moon patterns on top of it.
  • There's also Brian's Hat. It's described as "a fedora with safari flaps in the back." Brian seems extremely attached to it, though.
• Incoming Ham: The ghost of Christmas WAYYYY FUTURE suddenly appears through a portal at the beginning of the The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas sketch, shouting and firing his Hand Cannon into the air.
• Informed Attribute:
  • Played for laughs with "bad boy" of the Baby of the Year competition, Bart Harley Jarvis; Dr. Skull claims that he's singularly aggressive and has "a massive underbite 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 Metaloid Maniac "zips around" the board like it's "his ground", according to Danny Green, and contestants have to guess quickly before he replaces the removed tiles with more metal. The reality is an old man in a painfully cumbersome, heavy magnetic suit, who struggles to make it through a single answer.
• In Memoriam: In-Universe, 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 names the method by which each of them died, some of which are surprisingly violent for nonagenarians.
  Little Jeffy Jeremy, 1923-2019. Throat Slashed
  Tiny Dinky Daffy, 1927-2019. Pancaked by Drunk Dump Truck Driver
• Jump Scare:
  • A commercial for dog doors takes a hard turn when some mutant abomination bursts screaming through the door. It turns out to be a pig wearing a Nixon mask.
  • The friend group sketch has another one where Stuart is explaining his "friend group" dynamic to his coworkers, only to scream as Tim's character suddenly appears in the background.
  "Oh crap, it's one of my friends!"
• Large and in Charge: Lord Skeletrex. He's huge! He's 15 feet tall and he has bones the size of tree trunks!
• Latex Perfection: Subverted. The prosthetics in "Prank Show" are actual, recognizable professional-quality appliances, but they're terribly applied, left unpainted, and paired with a Halloween-store wig and a cheap, lumpy, uneven muscle suit. The end result, "Karl Havoc", is so hellish-looking◊ and uncomfortable to wear that Carmine has an existential breakdown.
• Loony Fan:
  • In the Season 1 finale, Kate Berlant's character has purchased the former home of Jim Davis, fully furnished with Garfield-themed furniture and decor. She talks about it at every opportunity, and even insists on hosting an intervention there for the sake of showing it off. She is dismayed to learn that Jim Davis actually never lived there; the home was instead owned by another Loony Fan who tried to kill Jim Davis and claimed to be Garfield himself.
  • In "Don't Just Say Relax, Actually Relax", Tim mentions that his son shot a famous gorilla at the zoo because "he was such a big fan of him, he wanted to own his life or something".
• Lyrical Dissonance: "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.
• Magnum Opus Dissonance: 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.
• Naked People Are Funny: Played with in the "Coffin Flop" sketch. While the show bills itself as a humorous prank show, and 20 percent the corpses in the coffin inexplicably end up naked, this just gives the In-Universe broadcasting company more reason to can the channel.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Santa Claus's furious tirade about being asked about Christmas while promoting his action movie is a reference to Billy Bob Thornton's similar tantrum about being asked about his movies while promoting his music.
• No Product Safety Standards: Apparently this is the case for the factory that makes Tammy Craps dolls. They've allowed a disgruntled worker to fart in the head of every single doll, a practice that has somehow continued after the worker's firing (indicating that it's a more widespread issue). Their solution to the problem is to spray deodorising poison in the head, which has the side effect of being deadly to anyone under 60 pounds.
• Non-Indicative Name: Apparently, "He Layeth On High" is an organ piece about a big baby duck who gets his head caught in a stewed tomato.
• Numerological Motif: The number 55 in the "Paying it Forward" sketch, for some reason.
• Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: While meant to be an important lesson on the dangers of road rage and watching for oncoming traffic, all the driver's ed video does is provoke confusion on what exactly the woman does that involves renting folding tables to fictional monsters. The instructor even prefaces the video by forbidding the new class from talking about it, clearly fed up with years of questions.^note And given the implication that he knows this, the fact the teacher is seemingly determined to not tell the students only makes things worse. She loans them to booths for actors at horror conventions.
  Student: What does she do?
  Instructor: TABLES!
  Student: But how is 'tables' a job?
  Instructor: I CAN'T KNOW HOW TO HEAR ANY MORE ABOUT TABLES!
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Implied with Ruben Rabasa's character, who hates his mother-in-law so much that he specifically requests the company he works for make a car so small it can't fit her, and relentlessly mocks Paul when he admits he loves his mother-in-law.
• One-Joke Fake Show: Coffin Flop, the blooper show about bodies falling out of coffins!
• Only Sane Man: The Announcer for Baby of the Year appears to be one of the few people who doesn't hate Bart Harley Jarvis, even getting angry at and kicking out members of the studio audiance for insulting him and wishing for his death.
• Overly Long Gag: Features these regularly as part of its concept of increasingly awkward situations.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: A digital version occurs in "Bozo Dubbed Over." When Tim's character Reggie can't contribute to a conversation about viral videos at work, he comes in the next day and says that he knows a hilarious example—the titular Bozo Gag Dub—that's extremely popular. But when his coworkers search for the video, they find that it was uploaded that very morning, only has one view, and uses Reggie's voice, which he didn't even attempt to change. As such, they quickly determine that Reggie himself made the dub just to have something to share.
  Reggie: Type in "bozo dubbed over", and there's spaces in between each of the words.
  Coworker: It has one view and it says it was uploaded at 6:00 AM this morning.
  Reggie: Have you seen it? It's hilarious.
• Periphery Demographic:
  • In-Universe. Claire's is a jewelry store that primarily caters to little girls, but also has an extremely belligerent middle aged man waiting in the backroom for his appointment. Judging by the presence of a 58 year old man in their instructional video, this isn't uncommon.
  • Also In-Universe: Pacific Proposal Park has special spongy soft soil, making it the perfect place to kneel for a proposal. This ends up backfiring when the park becomes a popular practice spot for professional wrestlers.
  • Richard Brecky is a professional mime and silent theater actor who attracts a crowd that consists mostly of rowdy frats (and bachelor parties) that scream at him relentlessly until he breaks character, mostly because of his ill-advised decision to pay out money to people who get him to talk.
• The Pig-Pen: Eddie Munster, Freddy Krueger, and the Crypt Keeper, judging by the way they treat Carrie's tables.
• Planet of Hats: The motorcycle guy is an envoy of a planet of bikers, sent to Earth to see if this planet has motorcycles. They do, and so much more.
• Poke the Poodle: 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).
• Porn Stash: 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.
• Product Placement: TC Tuggers shirts through the entirety of "River Mountain High".
• Rags to Riches: The billionaire investor moguls on The Capital Room. Their origin stories range from working in a mailroom, to having a sunglasses stand in the mall, to suing the city for accidentally getting sewn into the giant inflatable Charlie Brown's pants at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (and that settlement money's not getting any bigger). All of them want to make a deal with you.
• Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Subverted in "Detective Crashmore", where the rabid loose-cannon cop getting revenge on the underworld 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.
• Really 17 Years Old: A bizarre variation in "Tammy Craps", where a girl lies about her weight to play with the doll, which is full of fart-neutralizing poison that's fatal to children in the under-60-pound weight bracket. Sure enough, she dies.
• Red Right Hand: Bart Harley Jarvis (apparently) has a completely flat back of the head.
• Reformed, but Rejected: Tim's character is anxious about this in the baby shower sketch, fearing the baby is crying because it can sense that he "used to be a huge piece of shit."
• Rule 34: When listing various porn sites, the Hot Dog Guy mentions "homegrown Simpsons stuff".
• Screaming Plane Baby: "The Man" was once subject to this, and followed the baby into his adult life for revenge.
• Secretly Selfish: Exaggerated in "Paying It Forward." A man in line at a fast food drive-thru offers to pay for the person behind him, apparently out of the goodness of his heart... only to immediately rush back through the line (to the point of forcing himself past another person by screaming at her) and place a gigantic order for over 1,200 items as a scheme to keep the "pay it forward" chain going and get all of the food for free. The guy ahead of him quickly realizes what's going on and refuses to pay.
• Serious Business:
  • The "Driving Crooner" act, in which Tim places stickers on his car window to make it look like he's wearing a fedora and smoking a cigar. He claims that he was inspired to do it by a childhood near-death experience and drives at dangerous speeds to maintain the illusion ("Gotta be right next to me for it to look real! Everybody tries to make it look fake. Fuckers...") As it turns out, he's not the only one taking it deadly seriously; some people hate it enough to threaten to kill him over it.
  • "Baby of the Year", which is so serious that one of the judges threatens to kill herself if the baby she likes doesn't win (and has made the same threat multiple times before), the father of one of the babies performed oral sex on the mystery judge in an attempt to get them to vote for his son, and an audiance member tries to murder one of the babies (and apparently they've had enough issues that they have security on stand by just in case)
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: The guy in the airplane sketch spent decades of his life plotting revenge on Tim's character for keeping him awake during a trans-Atlantic flight (as a baby), only to have booked tickets for the wrong row. To add insult to injury, the man he was trying to get revenge on (and the man's wife) puts on noise-cancelling headphones to listen to music for most of the flight, meaning all he succeeds in when he tries to scream loud enough to ruin their flight from several rows back is annoying everyone around him except for the people he wanted to annoy.
  • Deconstructed in "Brian's Hat." The sketch takes place in a courtroom where a prosecutor aims to prove two people at a major company participated in insider trading. She reads text messages from the two setting it up, but then reveals that a good portion of their conversation was about Brian and his titular hat, which isn't related to the case at all. The first part of the next texts, though, outright states that the trading took place, and the guilty party readily admits it, so the prosecutor has finished her job. She then proceeds to go through the rest of the increasingly-bizarre conversation about the hat and how Brian made a fool of himself in a meeting while wearing it. The defense attorney finally asks about what relevance the hat conversation has, and the prosecutor announces that a dollar sign emoji was added to the last text—even though it wasn't necessary because the actual criminal charges were confirmed five minutes ago.
• Shout-Out:
  • "The Day Robert Palins Murdered Me" features a Johnny Cash homage introducing a self-penned murder ballad to please a record producer who's tired of gospel, which is taken from the scene in Walk the Line where Joaquin Phoenix's Cash sang "Folsom Prison Blues" in a similar manner.
  • One sketch has Tim trying to defuse the tension of a bad vacation by getting up and dancing to the Blues Brothers chase music in a jacket, fedora, and sunglasses, which he brought with him. It does nothing but scare the dog.
• The Show Must Go On: In "Prank Show", Craig the producer insists that Carmine go ahead with the prank, despite Carmine's increasingly angry objections. He finally relents when Carmine goes into a full-on suicidal existential crisis.
  Craig: You're saying you don't wanna live because... you're wearing that suit?
  Carmine: ...Yeah.
  Craig: ...Okay, yeah, let's scrap it. Yeah, let's scrap it.
  Carmine: Then what's the show?
  Craig: God damnit!
• Sir Swears-a-Lot:
  • Tim's character in the haunted house sketch. As soon as he learns that swearing is allowed on the tour, he literally cannot stop asking the tour guide things like "Any of these little fuckers just pop out of the fucking wall and say 'Fuck, there's a horse cock in my room, or a donkey dick?'" Deconstructed, as it gets him kicked out of the tour, and he turns out to be a sheltered, friendless man who was desperately trying to fit in.
  • Santa Claus, a trait he carries over into his character Detective Crashmore.
• Skewed Priorities: The driver's ed sketch is two-fold: not only are the students (understandably) more interested in trying to understand why the actress is so fixated on her tables and fictional horror characters, but the teacher (who, having seen the videos numerous times, undeniably must already know she loans those out to conventions) keeps refusing to answer their questions, trying to focus more on getting them to learn how to drive properly.
• Slashed Throat: How Little Jeffy Jeremy was killed.
• Snowball Lie:
  • A couple late to a party decide to tell a little white lie that they were held up by the babysitter not arriving in time; Tim's character, against his partner's wishes, immediately goes way too far with it (the babysitter killed someone in a hit-and-run), and Barry's questions as to why it's not supposed to be a big deal leave the guy determined to humiliate Barry to distract from how embarrassed it's made him.
  • A father gently telling his daughter the ice cream machine is broken because it got too cold gets a stranger to play along... and then the stranger keeps talking, forcing the dad to agree with him that the man's life is not pathetic.
• Sore Loser:
  • Leslie is as excited as everyone else to play credit card roulette, but when his card is picked he bluntly refuses to pay the bill, souring the mood at the party.
  • Combative talk show host Bartch Barley will drop out of the debate and start looking at his phone the second he starts losing an argument.
• Stalker without a Crush: "The Man" had a flight ruined by a crying baby a long time ago, so he stalked the baby into his adult life, 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.
• Soundtrack Dissonance:
  • This is the result of hiring a circus organist to play funerals in "New Joe".
  • The absolutely ridiculous finale of the gift receipt sketch is scored by some extremely dramatic Post-Rock that could have been ripped right out of Friday Night Lights.
• Stating the Simple Solution: The reason Tammy Craps dolls are filled with a poison is because an employee kept farting in the doll's heads, and the poison is meant to neutralize that. Apart from the obvious issue where a fart is far less harmful than a poison, they mention that the employee had already been fired, and yet they release dolls with the poison anyway.
• Suddenly Shouting: 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.
  "SHUT THE FUCK UP DOUG YOU FUCKING SKUNK!"
• Surreal Humor: An example where the absurdism comes mostly from bizarre character interactions.
• Teeny Weenie: 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..."
• That Makes Me Feel Angry:
  • Almost used word for word in the driver's ed video.
    Driver: This is the maddest I've ever been! *proceeds to accelerate directly into the van in front of him*
  • This is about all the emotional expression Santa Claus can muster as Detective Crashmore.
    Crashmore: They deserved every fucking bullet I pumped in their heads, chief! God I am so fucking pissed...
• Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: The Darmine Doggy Door pitchman believes initially that "this thing", a fleshy, squealing creature, visits him through his old dog door at night, but it turns out it's just a pig in a mask sent by a vindictive neighbor.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • In the "sitcom recording" sketch, Tim plays one of his usual "disruptive weirdo" characters, but this time he actually manages to gain some sympathy from the producers and his fellow audience members when he opens up about his struggles with finding love.
  • In the Season 3 premier, a father tries to intimidate his two sons into respecting him using a very poorly-staged video of him beating up a little kid - or rather, an old man dressed like a little kid. It does prompt his sons to apologise to him for their rude behaviour, although he is still embarrassed by the shoddy video.
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • The girl in the Tammy Craps commercial coughs after being exposed to the poison in the doll for less than a minute, and is told that it kills girls under a certain weight, but still goes to the point of faking her weight to get a doll of her own. Unsurprisingly, she dies.
  • When Pat chokes on a hotdog during a business meeting, he is so determined to finish eating it that he fights back like a cornered animal against the people trying to save his life, even attempting to strangle one of them.
• Too Much Information: When Tim is explaining to his coworker why pro wrestler Mike "The Rock" Davis would make a video for Calico Cut Pants.
  Tim: Mike and Rick go way back. They grew up on the same street! They lost their virginity the same night at a party at the same house...
  Coworker: What the fuck are you talking about?!
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: The Tammy Craps commercial features young girls playing with poisoned dolls, discussing weight gain, and plugging Macanudo Cigars on the side.
• 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 car into the Brooks Brothers should be spanked. It fails.
• Unusual Euphemism: "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.
• Whammy: Chunky in the sketch of the same name, referencing the Trope Namer from Press Your Luck. He eats your points and gets very mad, and also occasionally makes you wear your own hat... or breaks your laptop. They didn't really think about what exactly he should do before shooting the pilot.
• Whoopee Cushion: 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.
• Would Hurt a Child: Exaggerated. One woman at the Baby of the Year ceremony despises Bart Harley Jarvis (who, again, is literally a baby) so much that she rushes the stage with a gun in an attempt to kill him. Another man in the crowd openly and loudly wishes for his death.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: In "Paying It Forward," the main character orders 1,205 items from a fast food restaurant and receives a bill of $680. That suggests a price of roughly fifty-five cents per piece, which is unheard of for even the cheapest things at those restaurants (a "dollar menu" is usually offered as the best possible value).
• Yet Another Christmas Carol: Subverted. The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas starts with the conventional ending of A Christmas Carol, only to immediately go off the rails when the ghost of Christmas WAYYYYY FUTURE appears through a portal and tells Scrooge that only he can stop Bonelord Skeletrex's army of skeletons.