When he sits on a whoopie cushion at the start of an office meeting, his character doesn’t understand why this would be funny since his real farts, he argues, “Are loud and very long and they reek!” Robinson is great at volcanic rage, making you believe it when he cries, “This is a betrayal on levels that no one’s ever seen!”Īnother chance for Robinson to play dumb, and to offer another variation on a theme that keeps coming up on I Think You Should Leave: a liar digging himself deeper and deeper as he tries to convince a group of people that he’s not to blame for an incident.
One of the best examples in the series of a key Robinson skill: playing the dumb victim of a prank struggling to understand why he’s been targeted. “Bash the ghost of that Bone Mama!” yells Richardson, an elite member of the Bone Brigade. Richardson, in the robot suit, barks orders at Scrooge, who must fight a poorly animated skeleton with his cane and Christmas cheer. It’s a scene in which Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by an aggressive mecha-human, The Ghost of Christmas from the waaaay future of 3050.
One of two sketches featuring Detroiters and Veep star Sam Richardon, this one looks like a low-budget cable movie viewed off an old VHS tape.
The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas (Episode 4) It’s also got a roster of excellent guest stars.ġ0. Netflix’s first season of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson stays short enough that it at least avoids the trap of overstaying its welcome (each episode is 15 to 19 minutes long, and there are only six of them). And as you might expect, not all of the sketches work, but the ones that do make the series a fun, easy watch - especially for fans of Robinson’s previous work on Detroiters, Netflix’s The Characters, and Saturday Night Live (for one season). Oh what’s this? A skit with a premise that takes too long to set up and has a lazy ending? Yuck!
Sketch comedy shows are typically such a grab bag that enjoying one often feels like nibbling through slices of pizza that contain hidden pieces of a topping you hate.