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A show as singular, beloved, and incessantly quoted asNetflixsI Think You Should Leavedoesnt just materialize fully formed.
To put it in terms fans understand, its a prewritten country song that tells a coherent story.
Its not ahastily ad-libbed songabout skeletons and bones and whether or not the latter are the formers currency.
Much of this is a well-documented part ofI Think You Should Leavelore.
But theres an impossible-to-predict twist here that pushes the whole experiment into much weirder and less obnoxious territory.
Imagine a bizarre alternate universe where Robinson and Nathan Fielder morphed into one guy.
Blooper Bloopers (Second City, 2010)
Robinsons comedy journey began at the Second City.
My Mans Comedy Pilot (My Mans, 2010)
A real sliding-doors moment in Robinsons career.
Would the world have ever gottenDetroitersorI Think You Should Leaveif the station had picked it up?
In it, the pair play a couple in the middle of a breakup talking through their dissolution.
Oh boy, here we go, he says enthusiastically when they finally turn their sights on him.
An earworm for the ages.
Its a shame those troglodyte NBC executives couldnt see the vision.
Improvise a few lines back and forth and get straight to the sex, he tells them.
Baz Luhrmann bends those rules, counters Robinson.
Yeah, I started to get that feeling, replies OBrien.
Like it was about some control or something.
Im a dead man!
he screams, before a series of disastrous attempts to climb out of this pit.
Do they do Pointer Sister songs?
I would assume so, she speculates.
Anything else would be plain stupid.
But she couldve never predictedhowstupid.
It was pretty nice of them to set aside three minutes of it just to let Robinson cook.
Make it fair, give us a clue!
Momoa says as a look of childlike wonder creeps over his face.
We gotta find this guy if we want to see what he looks like!
Never, never talk to me about before!
Thats how I know!
Naturally, the latter becomes Kenmores catchphrase.
Against all odds, it has stood the test of time.
Mike Steaks, in spite of being a bully, can really shred.
Jack Flatts (SNL, 2020)
The first clue Robinson wrote this sketch?
The name Jack Flatts.
Its a perfect Robinson-ism, a clear brainwave from the mind that brought the worldTammy Craps.The second clue?
The world must have this guy as a playable character in the nextTony Hawks Pro Skatergame.
