On episode 293 Nick, Lottie and Hayden discuss their favourite sketches from I Think You Should Leave, series 3 (Netflix). The sketches that we cover are: purple feather, doggie door and banana breath.
We hope you enjoy the show. It was such a good time for us that we’re going to do shirts for this episode – a fun shirt that we design that says “Learn Respect, I Think You Should Leave Class of 2023” and underneath it says: “Back away, banana breath”. Does anyone want a t-shirt? You can always get it big and use it as a night shirt. Please let us know how big your body is.
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Comedian Myq Kaplan joins us between albums to discuss his new album Live in Between Albums! We also cover: fitting in versus belonging, normalos and weirdos, and punk rock.
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On episode 281 Nick and Lottie’s I Think You Should Leave addiction is enabled and encouraged by Kevin, Jared and James from That’s a Chunky podcast (an ITYSL show). We focus on representations of gender in ITYSL, with the show “punching sideways” on gender – challenging the behaviour of other men. We discuss how gender is portrayed in the sketches: Instagram, Game Night, Jamie Taco and Coffin Flop. Also covered is neurodiversity, introversion and empathy amongst ITYSL fans. We had two ITYSL discussions with That’s a Chunky and you can check out the other discussion, covering gender and the politics of the ITYSL fandom, plus Australian versus US comedy and references, on their show. Also make sure you follow/subscribe to their show on your favourite podcast app, plus follow James on Twitter @ITYSL_memes!
This episode is wrapped up by briefly indulging Nick’s Andy Kaufman obsession, focusing on connections between Kaufman and ITYSL. For more on this, Kevin recommends the video The Other Tim From Allentown as an example of Kaufman-esque comedy from Tim Robinson and the book Andy Kaufman Revealed! Best Friend Tells All by Bob Zmuda and Matthew Scott Hanson. You can also check out a Twitter thread with ITYSL fans discussing the issue.
For those who found us through That’s a Chunky, if you want to check out some of our other episodes beyond our last three that have all been ITYSL-focused, an episode that is in a somewhat similar Q-Zone is Episode 267: Bo Burnham, Performance and Content Creation – ‘Part of Me Needs You’, as there are also themes regarding art, social commentary in comedy etc on that show.
You can listen to this episode above, subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, add us to your favourites on Stitcher, follow us on Spotify and listen to us via Amazon Music or Audible. You can also listen to this episode on Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (66mins, 46MB).
Nick and Lottie continue their obsession with I Think You Should Leave, a sketch comedy show on Netflix. We discuss some of our favourite sketches from series 1 and 2, creating and/or listening to political versus apolitical podcasts and some of our contributions to the ITYSL fandom. Lottie’s memes cover pinkwashing (specifically corporate co-opting of queer movements) and Nick’s are on Duolingo – see here and here. If you haven’t heard it yet, you can check out our last episode ‘What is this Reggie? The Politics of I Think You Should Leave’, which is climbing up the “global comedy chart”!
The sketches we discuss are piece of shit (our combined favourite series 2 sketch), photocopier (one of our biggest agreements in our series 1 rankings, Nick loves this one, Lottie not so much) and Laser Spine Specialists (our combined favourite series 1 sketch). Here are our combined series 1 rankings, going from our least favourite down to our most favourite:
29. Christmas Carol
28. Garfield house
27. New Joe
26. Motorcycles
25. Wilson’s toupees
24. Fenton’s
23. Lifetime achievement award
20. Choking
20. Baby shower
20. Both ways
18. TC tuggers (2 parts)
18. Honk if you’re horny
17. Instagram
15. Chunky
15. The man
14. New printer
13. Hot dog guy
11. Which hand
11. Baby of the year
10. Game night
9. Pink bag
8. Has this ever happened to you
7. The day Robert Palins murdered me
6. Bozo (2 parts)
5. Nachos
4. Gift receipt
3. The babysitter
2. Focus group
1. Laser spine specialists
You can see our individual rankings of series 1 sketches as a comment on our blog progressivepostings.wordpress.com. You can also join in our Twitter thread discussing and debating our series 1 and 2 rankings.
For those I Think You Should Leave fans who have found us, thanks for listening and hopefully you don’t think we’re pieces of shit! You can subscribe/follow our podcast on your favourite podcast app to be notified of future episodes and you can also sign up to follow our blog on the left of this page to get an email when we put out a new episode. If you want to check out a previous episode that has some ITYSL references, a good episode to start with might be Episode 273: This Episode is Problematic! Cancel Culture and Disposable People.