YMMV / I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

• Aluminum Christmas Trees:
  • The guy in the car focus group keeps requesting a good steering wheel that doesn't fly off while driving. Ford actually issued a recall for this exact problem in 2018.
  • Calico Cut Pants are pants meant to always look like there's urine spots on them. Wet Pants Denim is a real store that does just that.
• Applicability: The common themes of going too far in defense of strange ideas and chafing against what's socially acceptable are familiar to people on the autism spectrum. "Ghost Tour" in particular is a surprisingly realistic depiction of an individual on the spectrum struggling to socialize properly in the face of a contradiction between what is explicitly allowed and what he has to infer.
• Awesome Moments:
  • Scott managing to say his line too fast for Jamie Taco to steal it.
  • Once Tim forbids him from talking about his kids, Jason Schwartzman's character is forced to come up with more interesting conversation starters. As a result, he becomes the life of the party, earning his boss's respect and forming new connections with his coworkers.
• Awesome Music:
  • "Big Flame (Is Gonna Break My Heart in Two)" by Doris Wilson, the interstitial music for most of the series, is a classic soul track from the 60's that gets used to hilarious effect many times.
  • Despite the Stylistic Suck, "Friday Night" is actually a really nice song.
  • "The Day Robert Palins Murdered Me" is genuinely a pretty kickass song before Tim starts singing about skeletons and stuff.
  • The song that drives Biff Wiff's character to trash a room in the Shirt Brothers sketch is an original Turnstile song, "Listening", with a dangerously catchy chorus. (Robinson is a noted fan of the band.)
• Harsher in Hindsight: Bob Odenkirk's sketch in Season 2 is a bit harder to watch after he was hospitalized for a small heart attack while filming Better Call Saul.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The sheer jubilation of the biker aliens when they learn about all the motorcycles on Earth (not to mention cars and buses) is hard not to smile at.
  • The end of the baby shower sketch in season 2. The skit quickly goes from the series' tried and true Cringe Comedy to something that kind of resembles a modern day Frank Capra film (albeit still in a completely ludicrous context).
  • Realizing just how sad and self-loathing the guy at the ice cream store really is, and that even his wish-fulfillment fantasies are tragic (being married to a supermodel that's terminally ill; spending time alone because he wants to, not because he is alone), Tim's character not only empathizes, but tries to make his fake reality a little happier than imagined. By the end, both men are near tears.
    Tim: She's sick, but she's going to get better.
    Bob: [Voice cracking] She's gonna get better. And I'm rich.
    Tim: [Softly] He's rich.
    Bob: And I don't live in a hotel.
    Tim: My friend doesn't live in a hotel.
    Bob: I got a good wife.
    Tim: He's got a wife, he's — a perfect one.
    Bob: And the cars.
    Tim: [Almost about to cry] He's got triples of the Barracuda, triples of the Roadrunner... triples of a Nova.
    Bob: [Mimes checking his phone; hopefully] Woah, good. That Nova deal's... a sure thing, now.
  • Scott — clearly troubled when the other guys are cracking wise about their wives during poker night — thinks back to how supportive his own wife was back when Jamie Taco was bullying him in a local theatre production, declares he loves her too much to even jokingly make fun of her, and misses out on the sleepover to go home and spend time with her instead.
  • In "Shirt Brothers" Tim shows genuine sympathy for what Shane is going through after hearing his new favourite song. In return, Shane urges him to return to the auditorium and listen to his daughter's solo; Tim gets back just in time to hear her rap and looks incredibly proud.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A movie with a violent, two-fisted Santa Claus, eh? Violent Night firmly makes it a Defictionalization.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Oh my God he admit it!" ^Explanation  A line from the Focus Group sketch, used as a "gotcha" in response to people who unintentionally prove themselves wrong during an argument.
  • "We're all trying to find the guy who did this." ^Explanation  A still from the Hot Dog Man sketch, with many people using it to criticize people accusing others of doing things that they themselves are responsible for, though with considerably less awareness than the skit.
  • "I'm not even supposed to be here! I hope I don't jack off!" ^Explanation  A line from the "Bozo Dubbed Over" video, made by Reggie in an attempt to show that he knows at least one viral video.
  • "I don't even wanna be around anymore." ^Explanation  A line from the "Prank Show" sketch, uttered by Carmine when he suffers an existential crisis as a result of his shoddy, cumbersome, unsettling latex suit.
  • "I don't know what any of this shit is, and I'm fucking scared."^Explanation A line spoken by Tim in the parking lot skit, widely applicable to countless different situations
  • "55 BURGERS, 55 FRIES, 55 TACOS, 55 PIES, 55 COKES, 100 TATER TOTS, 100 PIZZAS, 100 TENDERS, 100 MEATBALLS, 100 COFFEES, 55 WINGS, 55 SHAKES, 55 PANCAKES, 55 PEPPERS, 55 PASTAS AND 155 TATERS!" ^Explanation A line made by Tim's character in the "Paying It Forward" sketch, which quickly became viral after the release of the third season. This line is often used as a copypasta and is also quoted with images of people yelling or animals begging for food.
• Nightmare Fuel: "Darmine Doggy Door" suddenly and without warning features a grotesque, shrieking creature with a malformed human face bursting through the flap and into Tim's home. It turns out to be a pig in a Richard Nixon mask sent by Tim's neighbor, and he couldn't perceive it properly because he was sleep-deprived. And then Tim says "for fifty seconds I thought there was monsters on the world".
• Spiritual Adaptation: It feels a bit like if Clickhole got its own sketch show.
• The Woobie:
  • Carmine Leguzio gets so overheated under his prosthetics and makeup that he tells his producer that he doesn't want to live anymore.
  • Tim's character in the haunted house sketch just wanted to make friends. Unfortunately, none of the other attendants were amused when he kept asking if the ghosts "just fucking jizz all over the place."
  • Ron Tussbler (age 58) has had such a hard life that he forces himself to laugh for at least 10 minutes a day, so that when he dies and his life flashes before his eyes he'll have at least some time where he's laughing.
  • Assuming Suspiciously Specific Denial is in play, Bob Odenkirk’s character in the ice cream store is a sad, lonely, carless, single man who lives in a hotel.
  • Richard Brecky is a talented actor with a love for silent films, but his passion project is hijacked by a hostile audience of frat boys and bachelor parties who just want to provoke him into talking.