So yes, Tim Robinson is our modern-day da Vinci of anger.
#Onion headline meme how to
(“55 burgers, 55 fries…” he starts, rapid-fire, his list at the ready.) When the fancy guy, who’s onto him, tells the lady behind them that Robinson’s character is trying to start a pay-it-forward chain, the woman backs her car up immediately and, with startling efficiency, starts pelting the order window: “55 burgers, 55 fries…” In the universe of ITYSL, everyone has a plan ready for how to be the worst possible person, and that plan is always ridiculous. Then he quickly zips back around to get behind the rich guy, almost running into a woman in another car in his haste to get back to the drive-thru-“I’m doing something!” he yells-so he can order an absolutely obscene amount of food that will cost the rich guy $680. In a breakout sketch from this season, Robinson’s unnamed character “pays it forward” at a fast-food drive-thru, offering the worker his credit card and magnanimously paying for the “next guy” after he spots a fancy car behind him. The Team Trying Very, Very Hard to Be the Worst in Baseball HistoryĪnother ITYSL premise: Any public interaction that looks nice, kind, and civil on the surface contains within itself the potential for mayhem. The Curse of the Bravo Reality Show Has Come for One of Its Greatest Franchises Who Is Matt Rife, the “ProbleMATTic” Comedian Who Just Sent Ticketmaster Into a Meltdown? In Robinson’s world, even the angriest freak sees himself as a victim of the real angry freaks, the rowdy kids who poke with a stick. This setup has led to a dynamic where Brecky gestures and moves about, while the audience screams things like “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?” and “WANNA KNOW NOW!” until Brecky breaks: “IT’S A FUCKING BIKE, YOU FUCKING SCUMBAGS!” The audience of “frat boys” cheers, $1 richer, while Brecky-who is genuinely in it for the love of his craft-grows increasingly frustrated. The penalty for Brecky speaking is that he has to pay the audience money. They’re also one of the core demographics who attend the performances of “Richard Brecky,” a character whose “thing” is performing Charlie Chaplin–esque, mimed antics in a one-man show that’s supposed to go off without a peep. They threaten Robinson’s character while he’s playing a game of “Driving Crooner” using carefully placed window decals, confirming his character’s paranoia that everyone he passes on the road wants him to stop doing that bit. I Think You Should Leave’s Hot Dog Guy Is More Than Just a Memeįrat boys, another embodiment of unruly behavior, make a few appearances this season. Another colleague throws actual water on Stan, before falling to the ground, moaning that his life is “out of control” because he “takes everything too far.” (“I get too hyper!”) The whole thing feels distinctly like a fight between children, down to Stan calling the facilitator a “teacher.” “I’m not a teacher!” the guy says, and the sketch wraps-the corporate politeness of the room completely destroyed. “Hate you, Rick,” Stan says, joking at first, then escalating more and more, pretending to throw water on Rick, then pretending to throw water on everyone-then, when everyone tells him to stop, saying, almost helplessly, “I’m doing it because they tell me to stop!” This idea is funny, but what makes it great is how everyone comes to join in.
Take a sketch about a team-building workshop, set in a corporate workplace like many of ITYSL’s sketches, in which a facilitator randomly picks Robinson’s character, Stan, and a colleague, Rick, to make a lightly humorous point about the wise move of not putting people who are “mortal enemies” on the same team together. It’s about men like Ronnie, the zipline-loving contestant Robinson plays in a sketch about a fake dating show called “Summer Loving,” who throw absolutely spectacular, theatrical, hilarious mantrums, blaming everyone for their problems while wearing pink Bermuda shorts. It’s about men who can hear a song about freedom-as the character played by Biff Wiff does in the course of a sketch set at a school concert-and wreak havoc on an elementary-school classroom, tossing chairs and ripping down posters, because they don’t want to obey “a single rule” anymore. Ideally a show with a better acronym?”)-is perfect for this cultural moment, because it’s all about people who are on a hair trigger, ready to do some random, destructive shit, get caught on camera, and go viral on TikTok. As Seth Meyers tweeted in a thread celebrating the new season: “In three seasons of this show has played angry 155 uniquely different ways.” I’m tempted to make a big argument about how ITYSL-as everyone calls it online (Meyers: “I can’t wait to see what a generation raised on ITYSL comes up with. Robinson’s characters have always been thin-skinned, bad-tempered weirdos. New drake meme format just dropped /2KS4sgxRv8- Jordan Arnold May 30, 2023
0 kommentar(er)
