Big Swingin’ Tim… and more
I Think You Should Leave is good. But a lot of the sketches are bad. Both things can be true.
You know that one kid in middle school that would be constantly loud and obnoxious to the point that you got headaches, but like once or twice a year they would do something so funny you’ll probably tell your kids? That’s what I Think You Should Leave is like.
Tim Robinson only takes big swings. BIG swings. He will draw out a joke that should’ve only been funny once for like 10 minutes. He will switch tonal directions in seconds. He will cry multiple times an episode. He will swing and miss so hard you kind of don’t want to watch the show anymore, and then he’ll yell about the hot dog vacuum and you’re all the way back in.
Tim also takes big swings in the fit department, and I appreciate that as well.
I have this thing that when I’m getting a new thing I can’t stop thinking about it until I get it and then when I get real sad because I have it and the anticipation of it was what was really doing it for me, not the actual thing, you know? This is very normal, I know, but it happens so much that it needs to be addressed more widely. How to curb the expectations for how the things you want are going to make you feel. I have a very easy solution for when you’re obsessing about something a little too much: start obsessing about something else. This way, you can forget about the last thing a little bit, and when it comes, you’ll be surprised about it. I’ve done this with so many items of clothing I’ve bought online that I genuinely enjoy when there is a shipping delay. This is harder to do with goals and other less tangible things, so there’s not much of a solution there, it’s kind of the point of humans that we suffer a lil bit.
