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I've got a question to start out our podcast today. What if there are no rules? I don't know. I mean, I guess I might just have to like go crazy in here. Sure, brother. I just don't know if it's true. I think there just might be no rules.

If people can't tell by now, we're clearly talking about the wonderful sketch comedy I Think You Should Leave on Netflix. Yeah, I think you should leave with Tim Robinson. You might also know him from Shawshank Redemption. I think he was in Beautiful Mind. No, definitely not. He wasn't in either. Was that not him?

Those weren't Tim Robinson? Well, one of them is Shawshank Redemption. They're not both? No. But also, no. Sorry. Shawshank Redemption is not Tim Robinson. It's Tim Robbins. Oh, no.

none of them are tim robinson i already forgot redemption is not the same guy as a beautiful mind but but he he is the guy from i think you should leave and that's what we're talking about today the beautiful mind of tim robinson we will be talking about that yeah yeah hello and welcome to the popcorn isn't real the podcast where we cover all things regarding fan theory and all sorts of media wait fan theory how could we have a fan theory about a sketch comedy does that doesn't make any sense do we have like several quick fan theories in the form of sketches is it something like that are we that talented and funny no we definitely aren't we're not going to be as funny i think you should leave honestly you are better off turning off this podcast right now and just watching i think you should leave because i think most of what we're going to do today is just retell i think you should leave sketches yeah yeah well that sounds like fun to you

our podcast we're quite popular we have many listeners we have received some complaints from our dedicated listeners that sometimes in the middle of a theory we start talking about I think you should leave sketches and it's like we just suddenly start speaking gibberish. I'm just saying we should probably make an effort to summarize the sketch first before we just start quoting random parts of it. If this is our new rule moving forward, then we're going to take a lot of time summarizing Will and Grace episodes in the middle of other theories. Dude, in this episode, I have something to say about will and grace get to that later all right this is gonna be great why are we gonna be summarizing sketches what what is this episode all about what are we doing here so we are looking at some theories for the popular show i think you should leave a sketch comedy created by tim robinson and we have some fan theories from some of the sketches now at the

time of this podcast at the time of recording um there have been three seasons of i think you should leave uh release so we're probably only gonna cover sketches from the first three seasons it would be very surprising to me if we cover a catch from the fourth if we cover a sketch from the fourth season that that would be very strange uh if you haven't seen i think you should leave you should go watch it because it's very funny it's you know it's a sketch comedy but it's funny It's a little more absurd and strange than most sketch comedies. But I think still funny. I feel like the Tim and Eric show, that's absurd and I enjoy it, but I don't think they're funny.

I haven't met a lot of people who have actually watched I Think You Should Leave, but I have met a lot of people who have seen memes from it. So even if you're not familiar with this show, you've probably seen some memes from it. Well, I mean, if you've got Netflix, it's way more worth your time than like the unbelievably massive catalog of stand-up comedy that Netflix keeps recommending to me. Yeah, I don't even... I mean, stand-up's fine. I have nothing against stand-up. I'm just not going to turn it off. It's good when you're there. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I laugh at a stand-up comic when I'm there, but if I watch it on TV, it's just for some reason not funny. No, well, it's like if I was at a comedy club, that's fine. Stand-up comedy is best. If I'm having dinner, that's great. When like, yeah, you're having dinner, you're at a comedy club. I feel like if it's on my TV... Some guy runs up on stage, he gets kidnapped by some random people, and then the comic gets kidnapped by some random people, and then the venue people get up on stage and are like, uh, nobody panic, but get out!

And leave. Get up and get out. Everybody get out. Right now, we need everyone, but everything's fine, but get out right now. Just leave. With no explanation. So look, I'm the producer, and everybody get out. panicking and staring out the door like their voices are all over the place like uh everything's fine guys oh man like that lady contradicts herself three times in one sentence is when she's like she's like sit down sit down but stand up and everybody get out see this is what you might call a sketch which we haven't introduced but are now talking about sorry it's actually not this is what our audience doesn't like so there's this video which will have no meaning at all when this episode releases um but several months later there's a video of a stand-up comedian who's just you know doing his comedy show and then the events that we just described happen and it's as confusing as our description of it just was it makes no sense yeah

seems like some guy gets kidnapped on stage by like potentially aggressive knife wielding women And then the stand-up comedian gets kidnapped. They take his mic, lead him out the door, and he's like, oh, okay. I guess I'm just going. But yeah, that's not a sketch. Sorry. So we are going to start by talking about... So one of the happiest days of my life... Wow. Oh, my God. I was I was driving home and I saw this person driving in front of me had a bumper sticker and it said, I'm not a piece of shit. I used to be. And that was pretty awesome. That's a good bumper sticker. That, of course, being a famous quote from I think you should leave. 100 percent. I thought you were going to describe how his bumper sticker said, honk if you're horny. And that really helped you because you were having a major problem right then. He's just started honking. So now we're referencing two different sketches from I Think You Should Leave.

So Torvald, why don't you tell us about the famous, I guess the sketch is called Baby Cries. Oh, I would have called it Sloppy Sticks. It's a really good introduction to I Think You Should Leave. I think it should be everyone's first sketch that they watch. Basically, they take a premise and they drag it out as far as they can without actually delivering the punchline. And then usually just kind of forget to deliver the punchline and instead deliver something just like a continuation of the sketch at the end. So, yeah, Sloppy Steaks is basically about a guy who he's at his friend's party. They're celebrating the new baby and he tries to hold the baby and the baby starts crying and he tries to kind of play it off. He's like, oh, I guess he just doesn't like me. Because that's something you might understand a guy would say if he's holding a baby and it starts crying. It's a stupid thing to say.

incredibly dumb sense to make fun of right it's the dumbest thing you could say if you actually think about it because a guy saying that is implying that he thinks that this baby somehow knows deep down something about him that is making the baby uncomfortable and that's the premise of this sketch is that this guy truly believes that this baby knows that he used to be a big piece of shit. But he's not anymore. He used to be. And then he gets worried that the baby thinks that people can't change. Yeah, he's like worried about this baby. And he's also worried that the parents are so accepting of the baby's outlook on his used to having been a big piece of shit. And then he starts to realize that the baby's grandpa may have also been a huge piece of shit at one point in his life because the baby crying um and apparently there are a few things that make you a big piece of shit one of them according to this guy is having slicked back hair

another of them is eating and not just pushed back hair mind you it has to be slicked back no no slicked back another thing that makes someone a huge piece of shit is when they go to a specific restaurant for a specific food item although in that case it might be justified that was really the one thing he was doing that was actually a really crappy thing to do suddenly he has a flashback to when he was a huge piece of shit and we get to see what he means by sloppy steaks which is the specific food item he used to order he would order sloppy steaks at stefano's that made him a piece of shit and as he explains sloppy steaks is when you pour water on a steak that's it and the cool thing is they can't stop you if you order a glass of water and a steak what are they gonna do they can tell you not to make sloppy steaks all you want but you just pour the water on there and you got sloppy steaks well

the waiters really don't like it he gives them their steaks and he says guys please no sloppy steaks they're like no no we're not gonna do that and as soon as he turns around and pour their water over the steaks and start eating as fast as they can as the waiters run at them guys from like the the baby party at the beginning is there with him and is his wingman apparently and that guy at the party denied it he was part of that guy's dangerous night crew and during the flashback it sings dangerous nights that's the name of the song they made it just for the sketch do you know why that guy denied it is he worried about having been a piece of shit and he's just not as honest as the main character of this sketch i i didn't see him hold the baby so that's true you're right he was scared he knew that that baby would know well he says we went out for wings once but they didn't go clearly denied they went out for sloppy steaks they he was he was clearly

there either way the sketch ends with some kind of crystallization of all of the events as he's remembering being on the beach but then in his memory he looks over and sees the baby on the beach and the baby smiles at him and laughs and he realizes that he's not a piece of shit anymore like he was in his memories yeah and i feel like that's also implying that the baby was seeing that flashback. It could read his mind. But that's not weird from his perspective, because he believes the baby can see this about him, right? He believes the baby knows his past. So it makes sense that the baby would share his flashback, right? Yeah. Well, it's interesting because, of course, in this world, it seems that everyone kind of believes that. When he says, I want to hold the baby again the mom is like i'm not sure that's such a good idea that's because he's a crazy person weird but then the dad convinces her by saying i used to be a piece of shit people can't change

so she really was worried that her baby possibly was reading his mind to the social pressure from her dad i don't know but i i think that's it's a great sketch and i think that's a great example of what we're going to be doing in this episode, which is providing sort of like a psychoanalysis of the ideas behind these sketches and the actual true meaning of these sketches. I think that's what's fun about I Think You Should Leave. Most of the sketches are good. Not all of them do I like right away. A lot of them, I think, aren't even funny the first time I watched them, but I go back because they're interesting. And then I start to realize that they're very deep and complex. And I feel like the characters, like, I don't know if this is what they do, but it seems like they have huge backstories for all the characters. They all seem to end on like an almost poignant note that kind of makes us question, you know, whether we should be laughing at these poor, crazy people who are in the sketches.

Like that guy who he didn't want his girlfriend to take his food, so he made the waiter come over and tell them that there's a rule at this restaurant. You can't take all the nachos. Take all the nachos with all the with all the toppings. I also feel like I should reiterate, you should go watch this show because it would be far more entertaining than hearing us talk about it. Yeah, definitely. Well, one thing I've noticed just from listening to interviews from former SNL comedians like Tim Robinson and Bill Hader, they're very nervous people. And you'd think they're really good with people because they're funny and they get up on stage. No, they're very anxious. And I think a lot of them deal with anxiety by like just swearing a lot and saying and sometimes the weird stuff they do is funny. And that's where their humor comes from. This would be a probably good chance for you to go over your theory about the ghost tour.

So the ghost tour sketch, there is a popular theory, top comment on YouTube. Whoa. that this sketch is based on Tim Robinson's time at SNL. Hold on. These comedians, you talked about how they're a little awkward and they might start swearing. Do they ever, like, pop out of the walls and, like, cum shot all over? Horse cock, donkey dick on the couch. All right. So the ghost tour sketch is... Well, the thing our audience needs to understand is that this is a special episode where the kids aren't allowed here. This is the adult podcast episode, so we can say whatever the hell we want. Oh, wow. Jizz. So, the ghost tour sketch. A group of people are doing a typical ghost tour, and the guide is having a fun time. Have you ever done an actual ghost tour? Because that's like something I would like to do, but I haven't had the opportunity. I just don't see how they would be interesting. It's like just them making crap up and nothing scary really happens.

They just talk about like stuff that happened in a house. Yeah, I just don't see how it can be a thing that you can redo like every single day and still have people show up for. I don't get it. The guide starts off by saying that this is the adult tour. It's after 10 o'clock so we can say whatever the hell we want because there's no kids around. And then Tim Robinson in the back says jizz. His brain completely breaks and he can't any longer socially function. The guide says, excuse me? And he's like, uh, jizz, like, cum shot? You said we can say that because, you know, it's the adult show. We could say whatever we want. And the tour guide is like, yeah, I guess there are no rules about swearing, but to try to keep your comments, you know, on topic. The guide is giving his tour. says this is the dining room or as we like to call it here the dying room and he keeps making these kind of just silly just like dad jokes they're not very funny they're just like puns or

like you know i guess she should have swiped left like you know dumb tinder jokes um so um but tim robinson keeps interrupting to ask questions like hey does any of these fuckers ever pop out of the walls and say oh there's a horse cock in my room or a donkey dick right the point of this sketch is that tim robinson's character can't understand the direction that was given to them at the beginning of the tour and he thinks that in order to participate in the tour he needs to swear is is that what's going on well that's not really what's going on if you watch it again telling him not to swear he says to tim robinson can i talk to you for a sec he pulls him aside and says look i'm glad you're having fun but i put a lot of work into what i do and you are totally making fun of it and tim robinson just looks like surprised just like what like shocked he doesn't understand what this is not for kids it's the adult show yes so they go to the next room and

the tour guide is doing his thing and tim robinson raises his hand because he has a question but now he's crying yes and he's like i'm not trying to give anyone the worst day of their job i just want to know do any of these fuckers ever blast on out of the wall and have like a huge cum shot so wait now it seems like he's been deeply touched by what the tour guide told him and it seems like he understood that he is making the tour guide mad, and yet he can't stop his actions that are making the tour guide mad. The tour guide says, I just talked to you about this. And Tim Robbins is like, you can't change the rules just because you don't like how I'm doing things. Can we or can we not swear? The other people around him get annoyed and say, all right, I'm sick of this. you're done. And they kick him out of the group. He goes out to the car and his mom is waiting for him in the car. And she says, did you make any friends? And he says, not really. And then they

drive away. Well, and then the car is like full of Christian paraphernalia. And I think the implication is that he comes from like a very devout Christian family and swearing is something out of the ordinary for him. So he believed that like he was doing the right thing because just because he has no idea how to actually swear. So he thinks that he was following the directions and following the rules at this place. And now he doesn't understand why he's been kicked out. He's really trying. And this is a theme that you can see in several of the sketches. He really tries to understand what the guide is telling him to do. And he's trying to follow the rules. Yeah. My interpretation was like, this is a person who just like can't stop swearing. And so he thought he'd be okay at the adult show. for the Larvered Oaks Coast tour. That's an interesting interpretation of this. So you think that whenever he opens his mouth,

he has like tics that are causing him to insert swear words into his... Maybe he's socially self-conscious. Something about being in a social situation makes him nervous enough that he wants to swear. Okay. He thought he'd be able to make friends at a place where it's okay to swear when he hasn't been at any other place. That's a very sensible interpretation. My interpretation of the sketch was that He is a person who is very rigid, and he feels like he has to follow all the rules. And when somebody tells him a rule, he needs to follow that rule. Like, that's just how he works. That's how his brain works. And therefore, when the guy said, you know, we can swear, he's like, okay, swearing is the rule. So every time he opens his mouth, he swears. Yeah, that's how I took it. More of kind of like an OCD thing, I guess. Well, right. And then he's not understanding the guide because he continually asks the guide.

He's like, but you said that we can swear. That's the rule, right? And the guide always says, yes, of course, but don't do it. And so his brain's cross-wired and he's like, wait, how can I swear and not swear? And then he's really trying his best to follow these. I think he's like horse cock and donkey dick and you're getting mad. Can you see where I'm just like, uh? Exactly. But I like your interpretation as well. I would like to hear, because I don't think either of those are the popular theory that you mentioned about this sketch. So the popular theory is that this is a metaphor for Tim Robinson's time on SNL. Whoa, wait, Tim Robinson was on Saturday Night Live? Yes. So Tim Robinson was on Saturday Night Live. He must not have been on very long. I never saw him on Saturday Night Live. So I've been watching Saturday Night Live in backwards order, starting with the most recent season and slowly getting back.

I'm back in like 2014. That's the best way to watch Saturday Night Live because then it will just get better and better. That's a great idea. People say that, but I'm not sure. That's like watching Robot Chicken in chronological order. It just gets better and better. It starts out really unbelievably horrible, just like trash. And then every episode is just a little better until it's like a masterpiece of a show. One thing I've noticed when watching SNL is that there are many seasons, They always have some famous comedians in there, but then there are always some random people in there who you don't know that person's name. And that person usually doesn't really get to do much that's funny. They're kind of just an extra in every sketch. And I feel like that was Tim Robinson's job. Not that he had some funny sketches, but a lot of times he was just a person in the sketch. Like maybe the straight man or maybe just like a background person, you know, like doesn't really get to say or do much.

I feel like he wasn't one of the people who you remember from Saturday Night Live. Not like, apparently, people really love Bill Hader. He wasn't really from my time. But like Kate McKinnon, people love Kate McKinnon. She's the one on Ghostbusters who says, let's go. Dude, I love when she licks that gun. Or when she like dances with various objects. That's like the highlight of the movie. It keeps happening. The general interpretation is that the tour guide in the Ghost Tour sketch represents SNL. He does middle-of-the-road mainstream jokes, and that's what SNL is. Tim Robinson has said that he used a lot of rejected sketches from SNL in I Think You Should Leave because a lot of his stuff was not SNL material. It was too weird, or it went on too long, or it just was random and strange. You know, it was I Think You Should Leave, probably. This was how he felt on SNL. He was there pitching ideas and basically just spewing crap that's strange.

And everyone thinks he's weird and everyone thinks he should leave. And then he left SNL. That's a very good theory. And again, very poignant, right? Like it adds a bit of like a bittersweet edge to that sketch. And in addition to that, SNL airs famously on Saturday night, very late. in fact after midnight if you're actually on the coast where it airs so it's technically sunday morning like the ghost tour just like the ghost tour was it's after 10 p.m and this is the adult tour so we can say whatever the hell we want it's this weird thing where saturday alive is late and it's for adults yet you're not really allowed to swear on it yeah you can just say like hell crazy it's just you know it still has to be cable worthy right you know i had never heard that theory before but it makes perfect sense i feel like there's another sketch in uh season three that's kind of similar are you talking about wildly and in wild ways no no i was talking

about banana breath where it's a group of office workers and they're in an hr meeting and this uh this lady comes up with a joke that's really only funny to her it's basically the hr manager asks her what should this person say in this situation she says back away banana breath what the hell did you just eat a banana and this joke is only funny to her and she can't stop laughing about it and she tries to make t-shirts about her little joke and about this hr meeting and she tries to get them to make designs but in the end the design sucks and everyone's mad at her because she's violating hr rules yeah i just wanted to know the size of her body along with what you were talking about maybe this is like the journey of tim robinson trying to put together a sketch and him thinking it's great and it's really funny he's trying to get all his friends on it and then in the end everyone just kind of hates it and they

don't even air it on saturday night live having done some comedy writing and known a lot of comedy writers i can say that comedy writers just and common comedians in general just love laughter right like their laughter sponges as i said they may not necessarily be very social people they may not know how to like interact or talk but we love it when we can make people laugh she actually does get a few laughs and to her that's just the most prized possession that's everything she's ever gonna be really great you know i think that is a comedy writer writing that sketch just like showing how they're so happy whenever they get any laugh and people around them just don't understand what it means to them yeah i think that it's sort of the inverse of the christmas came early sketch the christmas came early sketch is a guy walks in and says to an office hey we got a new photocopier looks like christmas came early and everyone kind of chuckles

and then this other woman her name i think is candy in this sketch she says uh another joke like yeah too bad he didn't wrap it and everyone's just like what and she keeps trying to make jokes like that about santa and people don't understand and it really seems like you think that maybe she believes in santa right like that's kind of i think what her co-workers are interpreting is that she's somehow offended yeah she thought it was offensive of this guy to like take santa's name in vain and she's like snarkily responding to him was my interpretation the main guy who made the first joke is like let's just hope nobody photocopies their butt on this and everyone kind of chuckles and then she makes some weird comment about oh that horny eldelf is a mean bastard to give this to us early for christmas no one laughs because it's not a joke so finally their manager is like all right everyone this whole photocopier seems to have

gotten us worked up let's let's go back to work she goes back to work for about a second and then she gets a look on her face and tries to do one more time and says are we even gonna get anything this year because i didn't ask for that is that my gift for christmas and then finally it comes out at the very end that she's she's mad because no one laughed at her jokes it's not that she's insane and she actually believes in santa she was trying to make jokes everyone laughed at the other guy's joke and she just wanted to laugh so yes i feel like that one is another metaphor for how comedy writers feel when someone else is getting laughs and their jokes are weird like say tim robinson at snl yeah my jokes are weird and no one's laughing at them and no one wants to do them you know i i always took that sketch as like a dig at like your joke but worse right like some people when they when they hear a joke they'll try and share

in the glory of that joke by telling the exact same joke just slightly worse and you see this on reddit all the time because everyone's a comedian like on simpsons you sure are good at repeating the joke i just told you that was even just your joke but your joke it wasn't even whereas it was just so over repeating the texan the last meta theory i had was the tiny pimp sketch oh whoa that's a weird sketch what do you want to say about that one i think wildly a lot of the sketches are really weird i feel like that is like maybe the weirdest sketch this is like a very weird sketch like before i saw this sketch you described it to me and even having seen like seasons one, two, and most of season three, I couldn't even imagine how this sketch worked because it's just so out there as far as an I think you should leave sketch. Like it's pretty weird. It's just weird. Tim Robinson is in a room with a bunch of, I think they're accountants.

And there is a woman with curly hair sitting next to him. And all of a sudden there's a rumble in the building. She says, oh, don't worry. It just makes a loud sound whenever the AC turns on here. And then one person at the table is like, oh, I thought it was like a truck backing into the building. And someone else is like, I thought it was an earthquake. Tim Robbins says, I thought it was like a volcano erupting. And everyone looks at him and is like, really? A volcano here? Like the curly haired woman looks at Tim Robinson and says, man, I wish I could be in this guy's head. And then they go back to work. Yeah. Except Tim Robinson isn't really working. He's very stuck on her comments. He's got more to say now. He looks at his highlighter and says, I thought this highlighter was like a little pimp. She's like, what? They start getting into a big argument because people are telling Tim Robinson to shut up because he keeps saying things are other things.

And finally, this manager lady comes in and someone blames the curly haired woman. They're like, she said that, I forget his name in the sketch. She said that Tim was creative. She didn't even say that. She just said she wanted to see what was going on in his head. So she pulls the curly-haired woman aside. Now she's in trouble. Even though Tim was the one being a weirdo. Don't say anything Tim says is interesting or good. Yes, or good. Or he's going to start picking up things and saying that they're other things. She comes back in and sits down, and then he holds out his hand to her. This is where it gets really weird. She takes his hand, and she looks down, and she sees a little pimp walking by. A little pimp walking around. A little pimp walking on the table. And then she looks out the window and there's a volcano erupting. And then it shows her just like, just mesmerized by the beauty and magic.

And it shows Tim like frothing at the mouth with his eyes rolling back as he telepathically lives with her or whatever. Yes, because he can raise this message into her head. So, what is the point of this sketch? Seems like a lot of work for a very weird punchline. I think that this is a meta sketch. Yeah? I think that this is Tim Robinson feeling like an outsider in the comedy community. I feel like everyone else here are the other comedians. And they're like, don't say Tim is interesting or Netflix is going to give him his own show. He's going to start saying things or other things, you know, like what happened. And I think that the curly haired woman represents us as the viewer. We're seeing his unique perspective as we watch his show on Netflix. As he slowly goes insane from creating this alternate world for us. I mean, that's really good. I like that one. That's so, yeah, that's just him.

That's who he is. He's the guy who, when he looks at a highlighter, he doesn't see a highlighter. He sees like a little pimp walking around on the table.

He sees things that aren't like funny or clever in any way. Like, why would a pen be a bloody knife? Don't say that he's created. No, no, don't do it. He's pretty crazy. Don't tell him that anything he says is interesting or good. Well, but that's that's the way it is, though, because, you know, if you start telling him he's good, then he's going to get start getting his own idea that he should have his own specials and he should have his own sketches and he should maybe have his own TV show. And I like that meta interpretation of I think you should leave because it makes sense for a very awkward guy with a very awkward style of comedy. And I actually wanted to talk a bit about the origins of I think you should leave. Did you know that there is a secret extra long I think you should leave episode that's not part of the show? No. Netflix created a show called Netflix Presents the Characters back in 2016.

Where they just gave random comedians entire episodes. And one of those episodes was given to Tim Robinson. And I had never even heard of this until just recently. And I went and watched it and it is insane. Because I think you should leave episodes are only like 15 minutes long, right? This is a full length, like 30 minute I think you should leave episode. But from before I think you should leave ever existed. My theory is that he was just one of the random comedians with his name in the hat that Netflix happened to pull out and they gave him an episode. No, and someone said he was interesting or good. Someone said he was interesting or good. And he managed to spin that out into his own TV shows. For people who haven't seen it, please, if you like, I think you should leave. Go and watch Netflix Presents the Characters, Episode 7. don't bother watching any of the other episodes they all suck they're all horrible i made they're

really bad because after i finished i think you should leave i was like what else can i watch and netflix suggested that the mcfix presents the characters and i tried to watch it i was like oh never i knew tim robinson did one episode but i never got to it so the only other episode i tried watching like some of them i got halfway through like three of them and just couldn't continue The only other episode that wasn't complete garbage but was still pretty bad was the Lauren Lopkis episode. And I feel bad saying it was any good because it kind of sucked too. But the best line of that episode was it's like a full day of events with a bunch of characters that kind of their lives intersect, but not really. And Lauren Lopkis plays like half of those characters, right? So she'll have one sketch that leads into another sketch with different characters, but she plays characters in both sketches.

one of those stories that's going on this kid's hanging out with his friend chucky and it turns out his mom is on a date with chucky's dad and he's like oh what are you doing mom why are you on a date with chucky's dad and the kid is played by lauren lopkus and then later in this sketch chucky's dad actually shows up and he comes and starts talking to the mom and the mom's like what are you doing here carl and the dad's like oh come on now call me chucky's dad that's the best line ever made me laugh so hard it was so unexpected but that's what everyone had been calling him until that point he actually goes by chucky's dad and it wasn't even delivered by lauren lofkis it was just delivered by this random guy they got to play chuggy's dad it was so good anyway tim robinson's episode it has some amazing sketches the first one sammy paradise is amazing it's really good um it's particularly good because

you can see the outcome from a mile away if you haven't seen it i'm not gonna spoil it for you it's really good another one that i am gonna talk about later is the pointer brothers sketch which at first I didn't like so much but it really grew on me but the best one of all which is just out of this world good is the one where he sings to his baby daughter this one I am gonna spoil you just because I love it so much there's this this guy who is Tim Robinson and he's like putting his baby to bed in the crib and he's like oh gosh little girl I love you so much I do just my thing for you and then he sits down picks up his guitar and he starts singing he's like well my little baby she is going straight to sleep and then someday she'll grow up and she'll scrape her little knee and then i'll hug her tell her everything you'll be okay right and he sings this whole song about his daughter he sings about her growing up and going to school and going to

college and moving away and getting a job and you're like for the first like four minutes of the sketch you're just like where's this going like this is not funny this is just a guy singing to his daughter and he starts singing about this guy that his daughter's gonna marry and the song becomes more and more about this guy he's like this guy he's so cool and he'll say all these cool things and then one day someone will insult my daughter and he'll punch that guy out in one hit and i'll say gosh how'd you do that and he'll look at me and smile and wink and then one day he'll come to give my daughter a ride on his motorcycle but she won't be there so i'll say how about i go instead then we'll go out on a ride and then we'll sit down together in the grass and i'll say gosh why are you marrying my daughter you could do so much better than and it ends with him walking out into the street but then a truck is about to hit him

and then this wonderful guy pushes him out of the way but gets hit by the truck and dies then it ends with him just weeping and crying and grieving at this guy's graveyard this guy who his daughter was going to marry and then that's the end of his song and he puts away his guitar and it's like i love you little girl to sing to her about her awesome unbelievably cool future boyfriend who is one day going to save his life it's so good it's an amazing sketch seriously watch episode seven of netflix presents the characters but let's talk about bozo okay so bozo dubbed over i think that this sketch is about a guy who just has no idea what a youtube video is like he doesn't even understand the concept like he's completely lost so on its surface i do think the joke as as many of these sketches do i think they start as a simple joke and they go in a weird direction and this one i think is there's

a guy who's much older than everyone else working right and he has no clue what you can't fit in yeah he just he can't fit in with the younger crowd he's sitting there they're waiting for a meeting and the younger people in the room start turning on youtube videos they're like hey you You know, that funny video where the clown lady falls down and they all laugh about it. And they're like, oh, the weatherman. Have you seen the one where the weatherman draws a penis? And they all laugh about that. And the whole time, this guy, Reggie, is just looking confused and worried, but like he's trying to fit in. So he's like laughing along with them and being like, oh, yeah, that one's so weird. Yeah, I've totally seen it. But then they ask him what his favorite one is. What's your favorite, Reggie? he clearly has no idea how to even respond to this question like he just starts blabbering like he's there are gosh there's tons he doesn't even know what it is that they're impressed about

because yeah he's like there's so many that just blow me away not that they're funny viral videos aren't supposed to blow your mind and then to explain to them why they can't find them he's like i just can't remember how to type it in which is a weird thing to say you can't remember and then she's like well i could search for it and then he just starts like parroting her because then he's like i just can't remember how to search for it he just repeats the phrase she said and says i can't remember what you said that first half ends with him like laughing and crying a single tear like to show that he's completely out of his depth he's been dumped into a situation that is just so far beyond him but he's not going to give up because in part two the next day he's all like hey hey guys i have one have you ever seen bozo dubbed over and then he explains to them how to search for it how to type it in because he didn't know how to type it he's trying to prove

to them that he does know these things now he knows how to type it in and he knows how to search for it so he's like type in both are dubbed over and there's spaces between each of the words like that's something you need to specify when you tell someone to type in a sentence and maybe for in his mind it is because like when you type in a url right yeah then there's no spaces but if you're searching there's spaces then she's like it has one view and it was uploaded it at 6 a.m. this morning and he's like yeah have you seen it it's hilarious obviously they haven't seen it as one view he's conceptually completely out like he has no idea what she is saying to him but he's trying real hard to grasp it and fit in and here's where it almost feels like the the sketch devolves a little into just like aha the joke is that someone's swearing a lot but I think it gets even smarter well that's because they watch it and the sketch is just bozo the clown

But he's dubbed over and just swearing all the time and saying the most random weird things like, I'm not even supposed to be here. I hope I don't jack off. Which is like, why would you hope you don't do that? Just don't do it. It's not a thing you need to. Is that a danger of happening? Right. And so this leads into the conversation that follows where they start discussing like, Richie, what is this? is this supposed to be what bozo's thinking or saying and then he reggie he insists that this is bozo bozo did the dub bozo's the one right because they're like what's this guy trying to do he's like what guy there's no guy well and the girl says i feel like it makes more sense if a different guy is dubbing over it and she's right because it only makes sense if this is somebody else who's like narrating bozo's actions and then saying i hope i don't jack off because like I don't know what Bozo's going to do here.

He might jack off, right? You know, that's the only way it makes sense. But Reggie insists that this is Bozo's voice that we're hearing. This is what he wanted to say when he was on the show. And now he apparently made a YouTube video dubbing himself over. My theory about this is that he cobbled together everything he could understand from the viral videos they watched the day before. He remembered the first video had a dancing lady with a clown mask. So he's like, okay, viral videos must have something to do with clowns. Then the weatherman accidentally drew a penis. So he's like, okay, viral videos must have something to do with sex. And then they talk about a kid who puts a glow stick in a microwave. They didn't actually watch it, but they talked about it. And I think he kind of is like, okay, viral videos must have something to do with kids. So he makes this video with a clown. talking about jacking off in front of kids.

And he's like, that's a viral video. I made it. It has all the elements. Oh, yeah. I think you're correct here. That's my theory. That's what I got. Very similar to what we were talking about with the ghost tour. It seems to be about someone who's trying his best to understand how to be like a normal person, but utterly failing at it, despite his best effort. Yep, that's it. So it ends with them asking, Reggie, did you make this video so you'd have something to show? And it slowly zooms in on his face. And then he, even though he doesn't move his lips, he's dubbed over himself saying no. My theory is just that Reggie definitely filmed this himself. It wasn't that he just found old videos. This is something mind-blowing that I had never thought about until you presented this idea to me. The video that they show, the black and white video of Bozo the Clown, I always just assume this is an actual old like stock footage, like archive footage of Bozo the Clown that

they actually dubbed over. No. You believe that they filmed that. Yes. And also, you believe that Bozo is played by Tim Robinson, right? Possibly. That I could not figure out for sure, but maybe. He could be. He's wearing a lot of makeup and a big clown wig, so. Yes, I think Reggie filmed this himself somehow. I don't know how he had access to kids or the recording studio. I watched some of the old Bozo show. Bozo does not look like he does in this video that Reggie shows. It is a different actor. Whether or not it's Reggie, I'm not 100% sure. The other big part of this theory is the clown pewter. Bozo doesn't like this clown pewter because he's like, it probably doesn't have any games. Now, in the actual Bozo show, he does have a computer, but it's called a Bozo Pewter, which is so much worse of a name. Yeah, that's a much worse name than Clown Pewter. Clown Pewter actually almost sounds like computer.

Bozo Pewter is nothing. It's like Bozo and a rock. Pewter. I mean, it's just a dumb prop. It's made out of cardboard, but it has numbers written on it. Well, it's binary. It's just zeros and ones, right? Right. Yes, it's binary. The numbers are 1-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-1-0. It's going to take a while. That is the binary for 666. Whoa. If you have watched the Futurama episode that's parodying Christine where Bender gets bitten by a wear car at one point he looks on the wall and sees that exact same number one zero one one zero one one zero and he screams because of course it means six six six well he he first saw it you know backwards and then he looked in the mirror and saw it the right way and right yeah that proves that this was not on the original bozo show it doesn't prove it someone could have put something weird like that in there right like well i i just don't insert the word sex in the air when simba

falls down someone could put a topless lady and all right we can cover those in other episodes but i think that this was something that was created by reggie himself and i don't know why he put 666 in there but uh you know maybe he's a double worshiper i don't know one of my favorite parts of this sketch is when bozo is dubbed over to point at that guy and say this guy's about to jack off that's really good but the other part is that is a good guy takes his hat off and bozo's like whoa i thought this guy's supposed to be bald which is great because i also thought that guy was bald until he took his hat off he really for whatever reason he looks very with someone watching this thing and just doing their own commentary on it because he does look bald all right that's bozo dubbed over i want to talk about a sketch that i just really like the concept for the film detective crashmore as played by santa i just yeah i really like it i

everything about that sketch and i didn't expect to like it because again first time you watch it you feel like the comedy here is just that oh santa's swearing a lot haha i guess right that's not very funny but that's not that isn't funny and that's not the funny part of the sketch i love the idea of an action hero who just never says anything even remotely clever like action heroes are known for their witty one-liners right for saying stuff like not even witty but just you know one-liners like stick around you know i told you i'd give you last i lied right this guy detective crashmore he just says whatever happens to be on his mind and he doesn't think very much he's just saying stuff like I'm so pissed you suck when he gets a gun he likes he's like I like that gun you knew I'd like that gun that's one of the nicest guns I've ever seen he said he's going to kill you he might kill you but there's no way he's ever killing me he said that did he say that

like in the interview with aol blast so they show this trailer for detective crashmore during one part of the episode later in the episode there's like a behind the scenes is that crashmore is played by santa which is weird and then aol blast is interviewing him later for like behind the scenes you know interview he gets pissed that they call him santa and bring attention to it Because apparently he doesn't mind if people know. He just doesn't want to talk about Christmas, I guess. Because he's an actor. He wants to be interviewed as an actor. And so the interviewer, after Santa threatens to leave because he just mentioned that Santa is Santa, the interviewer starts. I feel like you sold Detective Crashmore, the movie, a little short because it's not just swearing and violence. Like, it's hyperviolence, but it knows what it is. It's a bit Tarantino, definitely a bit Michael Mann. It's sort of a cosmic gumbo.

It almost moves to the beat of jazz. Dude, you and I, we would joke about it being a cosmic gumbo, right? So Santa answers his questions after this, but he's just like being a total asshole. And his two co-stars who are with him never say a word. They just kind of keep looking at him uncomfortably as he's just kind of like an asshole who just is up his own butt about everything. think yes and then why would you ever describe a movie as a cosmic gumbo and then why would you allude to that being something that you like choked about on set they ask him how he felt about the nudity in the film and he's like well i mean the script called for it so it's fine i've seen every cock on the planet right apparently his his standpoint is i've seen everyone so you should see me nude and they're like why and he's like well i gotta check if people have tattoos right but he doesn't he doesn't care if people have tattoos it's just not good and they're like wait

you can't get a present if you have a tattoo at least not that year not that year the interviewer asks him a very pertinent question with you know him being santa and all the interviewers like how does that money help you and he explains well it helps him because that amount is called his quote it's his rate and that means that anytime he is offered another film they have to pay that same amount even if he does a bad job so even if he's offered one more movie he gets the two mil they have to give him two mil keep saying that even if i do a bad job yes even if he does a bad job right now you told me a really weird theory about this that i had never heard of that you thought his character is like based on a true story this whole sketch is based on an actual interview that happened that you can watch on youtube so let me tell you about this interview because it is even weirder everything about it is so much more bizarre than what i think you

should leave did like they told okay so wait this is like a real life like tom cruise oprah situation versus the scary movie parody of it which is somehow toned down from the real life so billy bob thornton who okay if you don't know he's basically the american jeremy irons okay they're basically the same same person as far as i'm concerned only one is american dude what if you ever what if you had to make an anagram of jeremy irons's name jeremy's iron i have a ball the idea that her not being able to immediately make a complex anagram of a random celebrity name implies that she's so stupid the only thing she could possibly play with is a rubber ball You better give one turn. It's not even very well with that. No, no, it got away from her. As to be expected of someone. We're talking about Simpsons randomly, of course. Great Simpsons gag, sorry. So Billy Bob Thornton, his band, The Boxmasters, came on a podcast or radio show or something called QTV, and they're being interviewed.

The interviewer introduces them, and he mentions that Billy Bob Thornton also is known for his film career, but music was his first passion. As he says that, if you look at Billy Bob Thornton, his jaw drops, and he looks up at the ceiling like, oh my gosh, I can't believe he said that. So the interviewer says, Billy Bob Thornton, you guys formed in just the last couple of years, right? Billy Bob says, I don't know what you're talking about. i'm gonna quote this whole thing to you because it's crazy and the interviewer says how so and billy bob's like i don't know what you mean by that and the interviewer says when did the band form and he says i don't know what that means and then his bandmates jump in and try to answer but they're mostly like looking at billy bob like uncomfortable like what is he doing yeah then the interviewer is like well you guys went on tour with willie nelson uh billy bob thornton

what did you learn from him? And Billy Bob says, I never met him. What? And then the interviewer's like, you guys don't hang out while you're on tour? He says, I don't know. And the interviewer actually interrupts him and says, you don't know what I mean. Why do I get the impression you're going to answer with that everything I say? Did Willie choose you guys to go on tour with him? And Billy says, gee, I don't know. Oh my gosh. It really is like, and I think you should leave sketch this is crazy so at this point from the camera angle you can see the interviewer's laptop screen that's facing him and his producer has written him a message that says if this really goes sideways i have new neil and new metric standing by so they're talking about what inspired their band and the interviewer says is that true for you billy were you a fan of the stones and the monkeys as a kid billy says i always liked baseball as a kid and the interviewer who's trying to roll

with it it's like oh you almost became a pro baseball player right billy says i don't know maybe why is he even here if he doesn't want to do the interview what's wrong he hasn't even gotten as weird as it's gonna get yet he says but didn't you love music as a kid and billy's answer this is where it gets really weird i was subscribed to a magazine called famous monsters of film land and the publisher was a guy who passed away recently and the interviewer is like do you remember what you were listening to musically as a kid just completely ignoring that answer oh my gosh billy completely ignoring the interviewer says what are they doing why are they both of them need to stop like billy says they had a contest where you could build your own model and it could be anything from king kong to one of those monsters that was actually in the magazines and they made these plastic models in those days and you could buy and put together but

this is something where you could make your own world and i actually did it once and it was a big deal for us kids in those days and the interviewer says where does music fit into that he says music no no it was a monster magazine okay is this interviewer like the world's biggest airhead like clearly this guy doesn't want to talk about music so he goes but given that you're passionate about music i was wondering and then billy interrupts and says would you say that to tom petty and then the interviewer is like are you reacting to the fact that i and billy says yeah Since you were instructed not to talk about that shit, I am. And the interviewer's like, is it because I mentioned you were an actor? And he says, that wasn't supposed to be mentioned either. And the interviewer's like, well, that's just to give context. I'm happy to interview you as a band, but for listeners, we're giving context on who you are.

And he says, no, not really, no. And the interviewer says, would you prefer that I do this without mentioning your acting career at all? And Billy says, correct. And he says, but you know that you're a new band and you might benefit from your already famous career. What does he think? Billy's like, well, we're not really that new. At least he's talking about music now. I mean, geez. Billy Bob is crazy to like follow the logic backward. He said music is your first love. And Billy, who is now thinking I am a musician, is like, you wouldn't say to Tom Petty, music is your first love. but tom petty's not an actor yeah like that's what i don't get he wasn't an actor first so i mean he's he basically he felt like i think that the interviewer was was not interviewing him as a musician in the most passive-aggressive way possible he's like if i'm not a musician then i don't know anything about any of this and also i'm going to talk about completely unrelated things

because he mentioned film which is totally unrelated to music so i'm going to mention monsters but like Billy Bob you wouldn't even be in the room if you weren't a musician like the interview wouldn't be happening if you weren't a musician my man yeah you are completely nuts you're off your rocker you're insane Billy Bob Burton what are you he's freaking even doing with your life so he's the interviewer tries to interview him on the music and he's like so there's an interesting fusion of different genres in in your music style and this might sound a little familiar. So I'm pretty much a music historian. So yeah. But yeah, it's cosmic cowboy music. That's where the phrase cosmic gumbo comes from. Does he ever talk about his rates? His quote? No. I mean, it keeps going for a while and the band is like gonna play music on this show. And Billy is just like, yeah, they'll take it from here. And he leaves. And I'm pretty sure he was

supposed to stay and play music with them but he just that makes sense i yeah wow i sure hope the rest of the band kicked him off after that because he's being a complete asshole it's just crazy watching that interview just like train wreck in slow motion like what is going on here billy what are you doing well i mean i get that it's a music interview and i'm on the interviewer's side i'm surprised he didn't give up is all like i mean this guy clearly didn't want to talk about music so i guess he was being a good journalist he's being a good interviewer he wanted to get to the bottom of it wow i don't know if i could have coped with that awkwardness like i probably would have started talking to someone else very weird people online were saying like who does billy bob think he is comparing himself to tom petty and i have to admit i have no idea who tom petty is except for will and grace where grace says to will should i pay you

in pettiness. Mr. Petty. Tom Petty. Tom Petty. Wow. I'm guessing he's a very famous musician, but unlike Billy Bob, I'm not pretty much a music historian, so I don't know. That's true. Yeah, you wouldn't know. Man, he wouldn't have said something like that to Tom Petty, who was not an actor. So yeah, he definitely wouldn't have. What on earth? Was he just like, Did he snort a line of Coke before he went in there? Like, geez. So that's the Billy Bob-Crashmore connection. That's insane. That's a really good theory. I'd never even heard that. I'm so happy to know that. Man, that's so weird. Billy Bob Thornton's a weirdo. I know. Absolute weird man. I guess everyone should go and look up that interview. Well, that's going to be it for today. I hope you've all enjoyed all the fan theories so far, but fear not. We are going to continue next time. We have even more fan theories and sketches to discuss from I Think You Should Leave.

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