The sketch comedy show I Think You Should Leave just debuted its second season on Netflix. The series is created by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin. It notoriously puts forth the most ridiculous sketches imaginable, with mostly unlikeable characters and nonsensical plots.
However, it's hilarious and well-enjoyed by Netflix's audience and critics. I Think You Should Leave sits at a high 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 87% by Metacritic. Many of the reviews compliment the show's "rewatchability" and "cringe comedy." Despite many great choices, there are five sketches seen in Season 2 of I Think You Should Leave that, taking into consideration their meme quality and fan-favoritism on social media, are clear standouts.
Hot Dog
I Think You Should Leave Season 2's opener was incredibly strong, instantly hooking its viewer. As podcaster B.W. Carlin put it, "The first skit of I Think You Should Leave season 2 is already a SMASH hit. Hot dog skit killing me." In this sketch, Robinson plays a man who is disturbed while on his lunch break by his boss's last-minute meeting. He decides to sneak a hot dog into his jacket pocket and snack on it throughout the meeting, drawing the attention of his peers.
This sketch escalates chaotically with Robinson's character choking on the hot dog, mid-meeting. This causes his colleagues to run around frantically while trying to be helpful. It ends with him dramatically announcing the moral of the sketch: "You can't skip lunch. You just can't, guys."
Dan Flashes
The "Dan Flashes" shirts sketch takes home the prize in terms of meme-ability. It was one of the firsts to get picked up by fans who then created spoof accounts of the fictional store. Currently, there is a joke account called @DanFlashes, owned by a fan, with over 200 followers on Twitter. Additionally, there are many other fans who have opted to change their profile names to an iteration of the "Dan Flashes."
This sketch is featured in the second episode of the season. It follows an aggressive man named Mike who is obsessed with overly-complicated pattered shirts sold at a store called Dan Flashes, located in the plaza known as "The Shops at The Creeks." As the sketch continues, the character is outed by a colleague for spending his per diem on new shirts. The story grows more and more ridiculous as Mike shares that the store has a shirt that costs $2000 "because the pattern is so complicated."
Coffin Flop
Coffin Flop will likely go down as the most iconic sketch of the season. In the first episode of Season 2, there is a brief "commercial" advertising a reality show called Coffin Flop. This sketch is exactly what it sounds like: It's a reality show about people falling out of their coffins at funerals. It's truly top-tier comedy, just because of how ridiculous it is.
The sketch repeatedly shows dead bodies unexpectedly falling out of the bottom of their coffins while the pallbearers are carrying them to their proper place, or while they are resting on an elevated surface. The sketch is elevated by Tim Robinson's Corncob TV pitchman growing more and more aggressive as he defends his network and his show.
Ice Cream Store
This comedy sketch is every introvert's worst nightmare. While at lunch, a father tells his daughter that they cannot stop to buy ice cream because "ice cream stores close when it's cold outside." A seemingly kind stranger, sitting at the table next to the duo, chimes in and agrees with the father.
The stranger (played with low key brilliance by Better Call Saul's Bob Odenkirk) then continues to pretend that he's a close friend of the father and continues to build a ridiculous story about his life; pretending to have a dying wife, triples of multiple classic cars, and a nice house. The sketch is surprisingly touching as it's revealed that the stranger isn't doing too well in life, he specifically adds details like, "I don't live in a hotel," leading the audience to believe otherwise.
Driver's Ed
Lastly, is the Driver's Ed sketch that features comedian Patti Harrison, an I Think You Should Leave fan-favorite from Season 1. In this sketch, Robinson plays a Driver's Ed teacher who plays a series of low-fi educational videos. These videos are low-quality and have a pivotal plot of a woman yelling about her customers abusing her tables (which the students are forbidden from asking about).
As she's driving and yelling into her phone, her trunk is filled with the aforementioned tables. Her identified customers are "Eddie Munster" and "Freddy Krueger," and she exclaims that her tables are how she makes a living. The students observing these videos are left with many questions, such as, "What is her job?" The teacher refuses to answer and instead, tries to get them to reflect on the dramatic car crash that each video ends with.
I Think You Should Leave Season 2 is currently streaming on Netflix.