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
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