There’s a tradition in stand-up where comedians talk about their fondness for phrases no one has ever said before. People who are obsessed with a thing that is not a thing - until sometimes, it is. Maybe the best example of this was the Season One sketch where Robinson’s “Honk If You’re Horny” bumper sticker inspires an irrationally engorged driver to follow him everywhere - including to a funeral - honking and beeping the entire time. The other variation - and there’s an excellent example of this in the new season involving Robinson and Jason Schwartzman - has one character tell a mild joke, followed by another character taking the idea of that joke intensely seriously, usually for a very long time. And even in such a small amount of screen time, the series has established many different and unmistakable variations on the idea of taking things too far. Combined, that’s maybe only a little more than two episodes of Ted Lasso, yet ITYSL has become one of the most beloved, and by far the most memed, comedy series of the last few years. The series, created by Robinson and Zach Kanin, has only produced 18 episodes so far, counting the six that premiered on Netflix today, and all of them clock in around 15 minutes. But then again, most of these characters would not have enough self-awareness to recognize this particular flaw, and pointing it out to them would only lead to more arguing and wrangling. This line could be part of pretty much every ITYSL sketch, both in this new season and in the two previous ones, since every bit on the show is in some way or other about people who take things too far, usually in a hyper way. In the second sketch of the third season of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, one character admits, “I just take everything way too far! I got too hyper.”
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