![]() ![]() With networks demanding big, loud reality TV show concepts from producers, some of whom will just do the network’s bidding regardless of what that entails logistically or ethically, it’s not hard to imagine ending up with a real-life Coffin Flop on a cable channel soon. ![]() The over-the-top defensiveness is perfect, especially how it becomes a confession of utter desperation. I didn’t do fucking shit! I didn’t rig shit! I’ve been waiting a long time for a hit on Corncob TV! ![]() I don’t know what to tell you but we’re just shooting funerals and showing the ones where the bodies fly out. They’re saying it’s impossible that that many dead bodies are falling out of coffins every day, and it’s impossible that one out of every five of them are nude. It’s just hours and hours of footage of real people falling out of coffins at funerals. While getting increasingly exasperated, he also says: His character, referring to the (again, fictional) cable company executives who’ve made the decision to drop Corncob TV, lets us know why they object to Coffin Flop, including the lack of consent from family members. “We showed over 400 naked, dead bodies on our show Coffin Flop,” Robinson’s character says, and proceeds to show us many of those. There are also 14 stunt performers listed in the credits, though it’s not clear how many of them were coffin floppers. The credits point out that this sketch, “Spectrum,” had a different director, Jeffrey Max, and other crew members unique to the sketch, including its own director of photography and sound mixer its own special effects company, Fatal Farm and two “Coffin Flop” operators, Nate Cornett and Joe Stakun. The quick scenes of Coffin Flop are impressively shot, and a technical feat that involved a lot of people. At one funeral, a kid is knocked over backwards with surprise. One rolls down a hill, another falls out of the back of a hearse. Let’s be clear: I completely lost my shit-crying and hyperventilating- while watching this not because of the satire or cultural commentary, but because of the shock value of the footage: body after body falling out of coffins. This is dumb humor, and it is hilarious, but Coffin Flop also manages to make some points about certain kinds of reality TV shows and how they’re produced. #I think you should leave series#The unnamed, on-screen host, played by Tim Robinson, appeals directly to viewers about this impending change: “That means you won’t be able to see some of your favorite Corncob TV shows, including Coffin Flop.” Cut to a scene from a funeral, where a casket is being carried by pallbearers, and immediately the bottom drops out and a body hits the ground.Ī screenshot of the fictional Corncob TV reality show Coffin Flop from Netflix’s sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson. We’re told it will be dropped from Spectrum cable at the end of 2022. It focuses on a fictional network, Corncob TV, that I would not be surprised to find out actually exists it resembles a combination of Reelz and Investigative Discovery, CMT and WEtv. My absolute favorite is episode one’s second sketch, “Spectrum,” which takes the form of a cable channel pleading with viewers to help resolve a carriage dispute with a cable company. But this season starts with two sketches that mock very specific corners of reality television that I very much appreciated. After “Baby of the Year” in season one, a pageant that would have seemed at home on Fox in the 2000s, we get “The Little Buff Boys” pageant in season two both are hosted by Sam Richardson. Some of those play off of other TV shows. The juggling act of watching an older man recount his unhappy life, while a mid-life dullard claims that he's well-aware of these ear-piercing formalities and a perplexed child watches these two very odd spectacles helplessly, results in one of the show's boldest, darkest, but also most hilarious skits.I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson premiered its second season on Netflix today, and offers another six short episodes of usually absurd, often hilarious sketches. The mix of comedy and sorrow is handled wonderfully by Richard Wharton's hollow-eyed performance, though the humor is also heightened by the inclusion of a vocally irate middle-aged man who loudly insists that he doesn't need to watch this video tutorial. It's a solemn, remorseful skit, one that's initially focused on a nervous little girl watching an educational video about ear piercing at her local Claire's before it takes a giant detour into the gravely dissatisfied life of Ron Tussbler, a 58-year-old wayward soul trapped in a loveless marriage, suffering from intense gastrointestinal distress, and filled with pangs of regret about the sad state of life. Admittedly, "Claire's" is a peculiar conclusion for I Think You Should Leave Season 2. ![]()
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