![]() ![]() A man in a hot-dog costume (Robinson) suddenly appears among the customers, trying to pin the blame on someone else, including an unfortunate bystander in a red shirt and mustard-yellow tie.Ī still from the sketch, with Hot Dog Guy declaring, “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this,” has become a go-to political metaphor used to spoof Covid-19 minimizers, enablers of the election Big Lie or anyone else who’s tried implausibly to detach their actions from the consequences of those actions. The quintessential Season 1 sketch opens with a hot-dog-shaped car crashing through the wall of a clothing store. His malleable, boyish face suits characters who don’t quite have control of their emotions he’s mastered the effect of a frustrated 6-year-old trying to will himself not to cry. Most often it’s Robinson, a Michigan native, who channels a recognizable brand of Midwestern ticked-off-ness: a freak-out that bursts through his mild exterior like a volcano erupting out of a lake of mayonnaise. ![]() Occasionally they’re played by guest stars, including John Early and Tim Heidecker. They break rules, yet are obsessed with what is and isn’t “allowed.” They get mad. They feel pressure to be confident and tough, and it scares them. (Many sketches have the rambling momentum of a preschooler’s story, such as a lawyer commercial that spins into a tale about a man bullied by exterminators who install a novelty toilet in his bathroom.) They have the childlike belief that if they deny reality, they can change it. They have unrealistic ideas of their abilities and how the world works. The characters populating his sketches are midlevel drones in chinos and novelty shirts who haven’t completely grown up. This was practically why “Seinfeld” was created it seems there’s a “Simpsons” reference for just about every human foible.Īnd Robinson, who created the series with Zach Kanin, has given us That One Weird Guy served up dozens of ways. The most resonant TV comedies identify types of conflicts and characters that we may not even have realized existed. “I Think You Should Leave,” whose second season arrived Tuesday on Netflix, is blisteringly funny. ![]() His face boils red as he strains, the wood creaks and splinters, the hinges groan and finally pop off. “It goes both ways,” he insists, and he pulls. Instead, as Robinson’s characters must, he doubles down. There is a split-second pause in which he could laugh off his mistake and move on. In the very first sketch of his show “I Think You Should Leave,” he plays a job candidate finishing a seemingly successful interview in a cafe. In 2019, Tim Robinson entered the conversation through a door that opened the wrong way. ![]()
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