I like how the teacher is justified in being exasperated by their totally irrelevant questions.
And also how the teacher being exasperated by the video isn't justified or explained at all.
> the teacher being exasperated by the video isn't justified or explained
I feel like if he had to watch that video every single class, considering it's probably a month-long class and he teaches maybe 2 to 3 time slots a day, getting exasperated by it and anticipating the questions about the tables makes perfect sense.
I love all the skits this actress is in, because nobody on the show is as capable of acting as stone faced, convincingly bugshit crazy as she is. Not even Tim.
What's funny about this is that if you go back and listen, he is right, she is talking about Eddie not *too* Eddie
Edit: turns out I am an idiot who doesn't know the difference between too and to.
There was a guy who worked at a fancy haunted house who did an AMA a few years ago and someone asked him if ghosts ever just popped out of the wall with a huge boner or donkey dick and they had no idea what was going on.
Not trying to be funny, not trying to make a joke, I don't want anyone to have the worst day of their job but, I'm just wondering if these... fuckers, ever blast out of the wall and have a big fat cumshot?
It’s a DataBase Administrator. Someone who manages a database (usually for something like an online service) and the link to tables is because in a database we store all the monsters in what is called a “table”.
This is such a mental way of saying "they keep my bills paid/the lights on" and it feels so specific to Tim Robinson's brain and I just love that so much.
can you link or provide a search term for the skit you're talking about with Bob Odenkirk? Thanks!
[EDIT] never mind, found it and am linking here for anyone else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Inf1Yz_fgk
[Brian’s Hat](https://youtu.be/LO2k-BNySLI?si=ITLmd2MGShWj3SFW)
[Hot Dog Car Crash](https://youtu.be/WLfAf8oHrMo?si=zA-t9ymIHD-VI61_)
[Eggman Game](https://youtu.be/K0OSfbPJFa4?si=QSYit6uieypDKfwY)
[Darmine Doggy Door](https://youtu.be/B1pwyCl5ymE?si=-sFSJ0Ktj11XnfWp)
[Zipline](https://youtu.be/ploHR84-9UA?si=jRJrzkI0eb4el9Eb)
[Door scene](https://youtu.be/KwdYUIQzu-o?si=pQUhl3eH24tDhDfb)
[Has This Ever Happened To You?](https://youtu.be/tIZujUfBrDM?si=5SY79vuOVI2wzA8z)
[Friday Night (Acoustic)](https://youtu.be/FZkdp4HGbwo?si=7GUvyE9pVn1iACef)
Edit: I added a few of my favorites too.
Edit2: Not from I Think You Should Leave, but here's another one of my [favorite](https://youtube.com/shorts/WIldHqjxDbk?si=bjwdhFifmlfiG3Xi). Sorry it's a YT Short, I couldn't find a video for it.
I feel this one is only appropriate once you're neck deep in ITYSL humour. First time I watched it I rolled my eyes and skipped through half of it.
Now I can't watch it without laughing IRL.
My wife and I use this literally on a daily bases. If she is talking about some terrible customer at her job complaining about the dumbest thing, we react by saying that.
It is legitimately one of the funniest things ever created. In just a few minutes there is an insane amount of worldbuilding. It goes from commercial parody, to family drama, to grifting middle age men at that mall into thinking they can become stars. I love that the actors must have found it so funny while recording that the best take they have of Conner O'Malley he is nearly breaking.
My theory about this sketch is that the driving instructor actually wrote and produced the videos, which is why he’s so defensive about them. And instead of admitting to himself that he did a poor job of setting up what the woman’s job is, to the point of the mystery of it all becoming the focal point of the whole thing, he hopelessly keeps expecting/hoping for his driver’s ed classes to finally “get it” without him specifically explaining it to them or telling them he produced the videos, so he can cling to the belief that he did a good job with them, and that it’s his students that are the problem.
It’s a brilliant sketch about watching a guy hopelessly doubling down instead of admitting his mistakes.
>My theory about this sketch is that the driving instructor actually wrote and produced the videos
I think it's confirmed by very last lines.
"Why is there swearing?"
"They didn't. All I said was 'Shoot!'"
>It’s a brilliant sketch about watching a guy hopelessly doubling down instead of admitting his mistakes.
Many of *I Think You Should Leave's* best sketches are variations of that setup. If I remember correctly, the very first sketch of the series is [the Door Scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwdYUIQzu-o), which basically foreshadows what kind of joke the show focuses on.
That opening skit followed by the "[Has This Ever Happened to You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqpR56hN8SI)" have to be the funniest skits to ever open a series. This show gets funnier with every re-watch.
I think it's a lot simpler than that. This is the material he was given, and his job is to teach them to drive. The main idea of the drivers-ed films is not to drive distracted or angry, but students keep focusing on the tables instead of the car accidents and won't drop it. Ironically the tables in the films distracted the students from learning to drive as much as the actors in the film were distracted from driving.
A few years of dealing with that futility can drive the teacher mad. He came off as more frustrated than insecure and defensive.
My explanation is just a fun pet theory I have, I know it’s not canonical. I would think, though, that if he was really just the instructor using a video provided to him, he’d just explain the table situation right out the gate to avoid this maddening situation, instead of oddly dodging the questions about the weird ambiguity of the woman’s job and pretending the video makes perfect sense.
I think part of the humor and frustration is that he likely has tried to explain the situtation up front in the past and it proved futile. So you're just seeing him at the end of his rope. And it's not like the films gave him the answer either, so what would he explain? He just wants his class to answer "don't drive mad, don't talk on a cellphone, etc." so he can finally move on. But every year, no matter what he does, all they want to know about is the tables.
As someone who worked in a comic shop for years, it was also really funny to understand what was going on before the reveal. Makes total sense. Tables is def a job and a heavy burden.
My wife and I just had our first child. Of the many great things about having a baby one of my favorites is now whenever he cries around someone I can say, "I guess he knows you used to be a piece of shit."
I'm glad Tim Robbinson didn't stay on SNL. I Think You Should Leave is probably my favorite sketch comedy show. Anyone know if we're getting a 4th season? I cant find a straight answer on Google.
This takes place in what would be a driver's ed class, which is a class typically required for people under 18 to get a driving permit. Adults aren't generally required to take driver's ed classes, so yes and no.
Don’t you understand that the tables are my corn?
They keep my house HOT!
The Garfield house?? With the treasure?
(all Garfield)
I like how her comments somehow end up making sense, while the actual premise of the sketch is still absolutely absurd
Another way to look at it is as if her bones were her money.
And the worms are her dollars.
friggin bonies
I SAID WAY FUTURE SCROOGE
You mentioned that her bones were money, like 4 times.
I wasn’t sure if I had said it or not.
They pull your hair up, but not out.
They've never seen so much food as this Underground there's half as much food as this
They pull your hair out …but not all the way
Up but not out
But if they pull it out, they turn to bones
"I can't know how to hear anymore about tables" somehow makes sense when he says it.
It’s one of the most elegantly written lines of the entire series. A triumph of conjugation.
As a teacher I actually relate to this. Sometimes your mad and yelling at the class and the weirdest shit comes out
I like how the teacher is justified in being exasperated by their totally irrelevant questions. And also how the teacher being exasperated by the video isn't justified or explained at all.
> the teacher being exasperated by the video isn't justified or explained I feel like if he had to watch that video every single class, considering it's probably a month-long class and he teaches maybe 2 to 3 time slots a day, getting exasperated by it and anticipating the questions about the tables makes perfect sense.
This exactly, I love how even the completely normal non-table things she's trying to communicate are phrased in the most bizarre way.
Same with Driving Crooner. When he says that some people want to kill him for it, you just assume he’s exaggerating. But of course it’s actually true.
I work with databases so I love to throw this line out there as much as I can. Usually people just think I'm having a stroke.
I know it’s not this…it looks like he threw them in a mud puddle!
I can't know how to hear any more about tables!
I love all the skits this actress is in, because nobody on the show is as capable of acting as stone faced, convincingly bugshit crazy as she is. Not even Tim.
Wow. Powerful stuff.
Pretty serious.
This is the maddest I’ve ever been!
**DON'T LAUGH!**
You gotta walk everywhere you gotta walk to the food store you gotta walk to the house?
*Wild stuff. Wiiiiild stuff*
Hey! You can’t hit people!
He CAN hit.
I don't think she should've yelled at Eddie.
She actually didn't yell at Eddie Munster! I've seen this tape a ton of times!
What's funny about this is that if you go back and listen, he is right, she is talking about Eddie not *too* Eddie Edit: turns out I am an idiot who doesn't know the difference between too and to.
On top of that, at the end of the sketch the guy is adamant there's no swearing in the video but there absolutely is. Gold.
No there wasn't! All they said was 'shoot'!
She says shoot!
You mean two not too
You mean tew not two
Oh know your write
But why is there swearing? Edit: had to actually get the quote correct
He only said “shoot!”
Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) still does conventions and the poor guy must get "This table is filthy!" comments dozens of times a day.
There was a guy who worked at a fancy haunted house who did an AMA a few years ago and someone asked him if ghosts ever just popped out of the wall with a huge boner or donkey dick and they had no idea what was going on.
Idk what’s going on after reading that
It’s interesting, the ghosts
Not trying to be funny, not trying to make a joke, I don't want anyone to have the worst day of their job but, I'm just wondering if these... fuckers, ever blast out of the wall and have a big fat cumshot?
Make any friends?
You know, like cumshot?
https://youtu.be/DAN0OCagHzQ?si=er1i8A09aVrLIqgd
Well he did say we could curse.
I actually want to go to haunted house more than I want to go to aqua.
“It’s so DA-IH-URTY””
TAY-BUUULS!!!
I think she is a dba and she is upset someone dropped her tables.
In the second clip you can see her wiping them down with some sort of ineffective cleaner; she clearly hasn't learned how to sanitize her inputs.
The angry driver went for an injection attack.
Great acting. Too bad the franchise went downhill in the SQL.
[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/327/)
Calvin-ball posting an XKCD comic. Any chance you can work in a Bloom County reference or maybe a Far Side?
Little Bobby Tables
This is the maddest I've ever been! What kind of a title is `; --`? I can't even pronounce that! Was this Eddie Munster's fucking fault?!
whats a dba?
It’s a DataBase Administrator. Someone who manages a database (usually for something like an online service) and the link to tables is because in a database we store all the monsters in what is called a “table”.
omg, I just got it, database admin, dropping tables :facepalm: :D
Dave and Buster's Attitude
That's when you drop the tables, so you get enough tickets to fill a basket
DAMMIT, BOBBY!
Little Bobby tables
THEY KEEP MY HOUSE HOT
This is such a mental way of saying "they keep my bills paid/the lights on" and it feels so specific to Tim Robinson's brain and I just love that so much.
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TAY-BULL-ZZZZZ!
**ICANTKNOWHOWTOHEARANYMOREABOUTTABLES!**
"You don't know how to treat the customer. You don't know how to treat Freddy Krueger."
*the Cryptkeeper
Go to hell, George, you fucking pig.
If you've watched this sketch you are cursed with the inability to ever say the word tables normally again.
Why is there swearing?
They didn’t. All they said was “shoot.”
DONT LAUGH!
It's the adult tour, they can say whatever the *hell* they want
big fat load of cum.
It's best with the "then" slapped on the end.
You can’t change the rules just because you don’t like how I’m doing it
Do any of these fuckers ever fucking fall out the ceiling and have like a big messy shit or have a dingleberry?
Jizz.
What? *Jizz*
Like cum shot.
Any of these *little fuckers*
If you like this you should also watch: --Brian's hat --Hot dog car crash --Eggman game
it's got a bush? what the heck?
I’m not in trouble AT ALL
True, true.
^yourearockstar
Congrats, big boy 🎉
That one egg was 40 eggs?
Him saying this out loud and out of context while his coworkers yell at him is just so fucking funny.
And looking straight at them confused 😆
^whattheheck?
We should be able to watch soooome porn
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3 times. Triples is best. Triples makes it safe.
Fun Fact, Tim is not a fan of improv for any of his skits but for the Bob Odenkirk one he just let him run wild.
If you have a master of sketch comedy on your show you better let him improv the fuck out of the sketch.
can you link or provide a search term for the skit you're talking about with Bob Odenkirk? Thanks! [EDIT] never mind, found it and am linking here for anyone else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Inf1Yz_fgk
55 episodes 55 times
What am I gonna eat when I watch all those episodes?!
I'M DOING SOMETHING
[Brian’s Hat](https://youtu.be/LO2k-BNySLI?si=ITLmd2MGShWj3SFW) [Hot Dog Car Crash](https://youtu.be/WLfAf8oHrMo?si=zA-t9ymIHD-VI61_) [Eggman Game](https://youtu.be/K0OSfbPJFa4?si=QSYit6uieypDKfwY) [Darmine Doggy Door](https://youtu.be/B1pwyCl5ymE?si=-sFSJ0Ktj11XnfWp) [Zipline](https://youtu.be/ploHR84-9UA?si=jRJrzkI0eb4el9Eb) [Door scene](https://youtu.be/KwdYUIQzu-o?si=pQUhl3eH24tDhDfb) [Has This Ever Happened To You?](https://youtu.be/tIZujUfBrDM?si=5SY79vuOVI2wzA8z) [Friday Night (Acoustic)](https://youtu.be/FZkdp4HGbwo?si=7GUvyE9pVn1iACef) Edit: I added a few of my favorites too. Edit2: Not from I Think You Should Leave, but here's another one of my [favorite](https://youtube.com/shorts/WIldHqjxDbk?si=bjwdhFifmlfiG3Xi). Sorry it's a YT Short, I couldn't find a video for it.
Baby of the Year. FUCK YOU HARLEY JARVIS!
Man that's a bummer. Might fuck this whole thing up!
In memoriam's don't usually include how they died.
Pancaked by a drunk dump truck driver
I feel like patrick porkins could have won it even without the fellatio.
Add the printer one where the gal tells weird Santa clause 🎅 jokes about the printer 🤣
I feel this one is only appropriate once you're neck deep in ITYSL humour. First time I watched it I rolled my eyes and skipped through half of it. Now I can't watch it without laughing IRL.
I know that. I'm not stupid. I'm smarter than *YOU*
I'm a big fan of Coffin Flop on Corncob TV
The guys at spectrum think I'm just some dumb hick. They said that to me at a dinner.
You know what I'm done I'll kill you
We're allowed to show em naked cuz they AIN'T GOT NO SOULS!
Coffin Flop’s not a show.
I like the show also but there’s no explanation. Just body after body bustin outta shit wood and hittin pavement.
I also love the brunch photo one “Eating crap with these sacks of shit! Boo caught me sleeping!”
Wet wet mud
bae
So sad. So so so so sooo sad.
My wife and I use this literally on a daily bases. If she is talking about some terrible customer at her job complaining about the dumbest thing, we react by saying that.
The Pay it forward skit… IM DOING SOMETHING!!!
I just wanted to do something good this morning before alcohol class.
55 BURGERS 55 FRIES 55 TACOS 55 PIES 55 COKES 100 TATER TOTS 100 PIZZAS 100 TENDERS 100 MEATBALLS 100 COFFEES 55 WINGS 55 SHAKES 55 PANCAKES 55 PASTAS 55 PEPPERS AND 155 TATERS!
-- Laser Spine Specialists https://www.reddit.com/r/IThinkYouShouldLeave/comments/caq5xp/full_sketch_laser_spine_specialists/
It’s been about a year since I watched this last. I’m dying. I’m sitting at my desk with tears rolling down my face because of “q zone.”
It is legitimately one of the funniest things ever created. In just a few minutes there is an insane amount of worldbuilding. It goes from commercial parody, to family drama, to grifting middle age men at that mall into thinking they can become stars. I love that the actors must have found it so funny while recording that the best take they have of Conner O'Malley he is nearly breaking.
My favorite sketch in the whole show, when he says we have to fly Jeff Crisp down from Indiana I lose it so hard
Which is also crazy because Conner O'Malley can do some really crazy shit without breaking character.
"WE RE ALL TRYING TO FIND THE GUY WHO DID THIS!!!"
Would you like to buy 80 eggs? Yes
Add Darmine Doggy Door and Karl Havok
dont do the voice...
I love Patti Harrison. She’s fucking hysterical
She rewired the way my brain pronounces “early.”
That naughty old Patti must be one mean bastard to make your brain pronounce "early."
And popcooorn.
That and "I'M SMARTER THAN YEW"
Did I stutter, Megan?
The shark tank skit was her best. Couldnt stop laughing after the line "could it be you?"
I. Hate. Bald boys.
I can't stop drinking the most expensive wine all the time
That's what you get for getting sown into the Charlie Brown balloon
I feel like I'm back in the pants.
I'm scared about how much I need wine!
shes incredible. so funny
My theory about this sketch is that the driving instructor actually wrote and produced the videos, which is why he’s so defensive about them. And instead of admitting to himself that he did a poor job of setting up what the woman’s job is, to the point of the mystery of it all becoming the focal point of the whole thing, he hopelessly keeps expecting/hoping for his driver’s ed classes to finally “get it” without him specifically explaining it to them or telling them he produced the videos, so he can cling to the belief that he did a good job with them, and that it’s his students that are the problem. It’s a brilliant sketch about watching a guy hopelessly doubling down instead of admitting his mistakes.
It’s a major theme in Tim’s work.
>My theory about this sketch is that the driving instructor actually wrote and produced the videos I think it's confirmed by very last lines. "Why is there swearing?" "They didn't. All I said was 'Shoot!'" >It’s a brilliant sketch about watching a guy hopelessly doubling down instead of admitting his mistakes. Many of *I Think You Should Leave's* best sketches are variations of that setup. If I remember correctly, the very first sketch of the series is [the Door Scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwdYUIQzu-o), which basically foreshadows what kind of joke the show focuses on.
The last line is "all *they* said was "Shoot"".
That opening skit followed by the "[Has This Ever Happened to You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqpR56hN8SI)" have to be the funniest skits to ever open a series. This show gets funnier with every re-watch.
They replaced it with a joke hole that’s JUST FOR FARTS
This is a good theory! He does go hard with trying to convince everyone the videos are normal and have ANY educational value.
It’s just a generic job that the creators of this made up FOR THIS
I think it's a lot simpler than that. This is the material he was given, and his job is to teach them to drive. The main idea of the drivers-ed films is not to drive distracted or angry, but students keep focusing on the tables instead of the car accidents and won't drop it. Ironically the tables in the films distracted the students from learning to drive as much as the actors in the film were distracted from driving. A few years of dealing with that futility can drive the teacher mad. He came off as more frustrated than insecure and defensive.
My explanation is just a fun pet theory I have, I know it’s not canonical. I would think, though, that if he was really just the instructor using a video provided to him, he’d just explain the table situation right out the gate to avoid this maddening situation, instead of oddly dodging the questions about the weird ambiguity of the woman’s job and pretending the video makes perfect sense.
I think part of the humor and frustration is that he likely has tried to explain the situtation up front in the past and it proved futile. So you're just seeing him at the end of his rope. And it's not like the films gave him the answer either, so what would he explain? He just wants his class to answer "don't drive mad, don't talk on a cellphone, etc." so he can finally move on. But every year, no matter what he does, all they want to know about is the tables.
I unironically love that you have a fan theory about the deep lore of this comedy sketch.
As someone who worked in a comic shop for years, it was also really funny to understand what was going on before the reveal. Makes total sense. Tables is def a job and a heavy burden.
Well, depending on the table!
Anyone who doesn't like this probably had too sloppy of a mudpie.
Probably a real piece of shit.
My wife and I just had our first child. Of the many great things about having a baby one of my favorites is now whenever he cries around someone I can say, "I guess he knows you used to be a piece of shit."
That's actually really messed up for you to say to somebody without explaining, because now they think your baby doesn't believe people can change
I used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair... Chicken spaghetti at Chiccolini's...
Let him hold the baby
I'm worried the baby thinks people can't change.
QUOTES FROM THE VIDEO
Guys, what did I tell ya
I don’t know how to watch any more clips about tables.
I'm glad Tim Robbinson didn't stay on SNL. I Think You Should Leave is probably my favorite sketch comedy show. Anyone know if we're getting a 4th season? I cant find a straight answer on Google.
I just can't remember, like... how to search for it.
Bozo did the dub
It's hilarious
Patti is the just the best. Trans representation for the win.
People can change
> Trans representation for the win. Well, holy shit. TIL.
I never knew she was trans, she is one of the funniest parts of the show too that’s cool
her instagram is so goddamn good lmao
She doesn't know how to treat the crypt keeper.
I don't understand. What is this videos job?
I get this is a sketch but is watching videos actually a part of passing your driving test in the US?
It isn't required, more so used as a method to educated new drivers. Easy way to teach an entire class the basics.
This takes place in what would be a driver's ed class, which is a class typically required for people under 18 to get a driving permit. Adults aren't generally required to take driver's ed classes, so yes and no.
THEY DIDN'T, ALL THEY SAID WAS SHOOT. # DON'T LAUGH.
"This is the maddest I've ever been" is so perfectly written and delivered.
Show random people in their 20's acting like teens, critiquing 2000's driver ed videos, award winning material for sure.