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15 Best ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Sketches, Ranked

I think You Should Leave Best Sketches

Grab your Stanzo-brand fedora and a Dan Flashes shirt, because it’s time to determine which sketch from “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” reigns supreme.

The series, created by Robinson and Zach Kanin, is best known for its off-the-wall comedy style, usually punctuated by a wild performance from Robinson himself. To celebrate the May 30 release of the third season on Netflix, Variety ’s biggest “I Think You Should Leave” fans ranked the show’s best moments.

Honorable mentions: “Triples is Best,” “You Can’t Cancel Lunch,” “Tammy Craps,” “TC Tuggers,” “Baby of the Year” and “Has This Ever Happened to You?”

Drive-Thru Pay It Forward (Season 3, Episode 3)

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SPOILERS: If you don’t recognize this one yet, don’t worry, we’re doing something! In this sketch, Tim tries to do a good deed — for Tim — by pulling a fast-food-pay-it-forward that he plans to enjoy himself by swooping back around in the drive-thru line. This Season 3 newcomer is an early highlight of the new batch of episodes, and ordered its way onto our list fifty-five times.

Best line: “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.”

Little Buff Boys (Season 2, Episode 1)

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Troll Boy gets it. Even if the sketch is goosed (It’s an old circus term!), Little Buff Boys flexes it way into our hearts, led by Sam Richardson as the host of a young men’s bodybuilding pageant that is taking center stage during a corporate retreat, much to the chagrin of the company’s head exec.

Best line: “What a crop. That’s a crop.”

The Dan Flashes Saga (Season 2, Episode 2) 

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Don’t spend your per diem all in one place, unless that place has the most complicated shirt patterns you have ever seen. With a bit about duking it out for expensive, snazzy attire and a follow-up ad promoting the outlet mall where the shirt-fighting goes down, the Dan Flashes two-parter is better because it has more scenes, and rightfully so.

Best line: “I mean, you walk by a store that has 50 guys who look just like me fighting over very complicated shirts, you go in. Yes, you do. You go in.”

The Babysitter Excuse (Season 1, Episode 5)

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An off-hand excuse for tardiness becomes the center of an intense vengeance in this Season 1 sketch. After his partner casually mentions at a dinner party that their babysitter was late, Tim takes things one step further, saying she was in a hit-and-run. Instead of simply owning up to being late, he inexplicably implies it was the babysitter’s fault, and they called the cops but they said the people she hit “don’t matter.” When a friend, Barry, asks questions out of concern for the victims, forcing Tim to dig his heels deeper into the bizarre lie, Tim threatens to “beat the crap” out of Barry and devotes the entire evening to embarrassing him.

Best line: “Oh my god, Barry just palmed the dip!”

Hot Dog Car Crash (Season 1, Episode 5) 

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A hot dog shaped car drives through the window of a Brooks Brothers – but who was the driver? Certainly not Tim Robinson, who just so happens to be wearing a hot dog costume. Random! He rallies the customers to work as a team to find the culprit: “Maybe take his bare butt out of his costume and spank him?”

Best line: “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this and give him a spanking.”

Fully Loaded Nachos (Season 1, Episode 4) 

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One way to ruin a good date: ask the waiter to enforce a fake rule prohibiting one person from eating all the fully loaded nachos. Tim’s date sees right through his desperate ploy, saying, “Did you ask him to come over here and say that?” Over an orchestral score, Tim has a complete meltdown, fishing for excuses as the waiter immediately rats him out. Showcasing one of Tim’s most fragile characters yet, “Nachos” joins a rich assortment of “I Think You Should Leave’s” hall of fame food sketches.

Best line: “ What? ”

Calico Cut Pants (Season 2, Episode 4) 

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Tim Robinson comes to the defense of a coworker (Mike O’Brien) when he gets some droplets of urine on his pants, telling him about a completely user-funded site: Calico Cut Pants. But if you benefit from the site, you gotta give. After a series of Robinson’s increasingly desperate attempts to fundraise, O’Brien makes a fatal error: he hits him in the cup, and finds out that the Calico Cut gang runs deep. Sean, the security guard? He gives.

Best line: “ Hold that door! Hold that door! ”

Sloppy Steaks (Season 2, Episode 2)

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We’ll forgive you if you didn’t like this sketch at first, because people can change. This sketch proves that through Tim Robinson’s character, who used to be a piece of shit — and the baby at a party knows it. Once you stop pouring water all over your big ol’ rare cut of meat and slicking back your hair, well even let you hold the baby.

Best line: “They can’t stop you from ordering a steak and a cup of water!”

Dylan’s Burger (Season 2, Episode 3)

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When a group of business school friends reunite for a dinner with their professor, the conversation can’t seem to get away from Dylan’s burger. What starts as typical buyer’s remorse — Professor Yurabay regrets his order — soon turns into a bizarre obsession, as he begins poaching food from Robinson’s plate. “Let me take a video of you saying that you’re gonna kill the president,” he says, threatening to blackmail his former students if they tell anyone he housed Dylan’s burger down at Graham’s Loralei Lounge.

Best line: “Gimme dat.”

Ghost Tour (Season 2, Episode 1)

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Emboldened by the ability to swear during an adult ghost tour, Tim goes on an absolute tear, continuously asking as he walks around a haunted mansion if any of “these fuckers,” meaning the apparitions, ever “pop out of the fucking wall and have like a huge cum shot,” annoying the rest of the tour group. Once he’s reprimanded by the guide, our protagonist chokes through tears to continue his crude line of questioning. But the genius of this sketch is its heartbreaking ending, as Tim is exiled from the tour and picked up by his elderly mom, who innocently asks, “Make any friends?”

Best line: “You’re saying we’re allowed to swear. I’m saying ‘big fat load of cum and horse cock,’ and you’re getting mad.”

The Bones Are Their Money (Season 1, Episode 5) 

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With a record deal on the line, Billy’s band had one job: Give ’em something spooky. Or at least, that’s how Tim Robinson’s character interprets the assignment. And from this, a song about the skeletons came to life, using bones, worms and bones as their money. (Editors note: Bones was mistakenly included twice in the list of currencies because the writer forgot if they had said it or not.)

Best line: “No, that’s why I’m so fucking confused.”

Coffin Flop (Season 2, Episode 1)

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Spectrum is planning to drop 22 channels, including Corncob TV. If that happens, fans will miss out on the smash hit “Coffin Flop,” which has shown over 400 naked dead bodies falling out of coffins. The guys at Spectrum may think Tim Robinson is just some dumb hick (they said that to him at a dinner), but those with good taste know better.

Best line: “There’s no explanation, just body after body busting out of shit wood and hitting pavement.”

Focus Group (Season 1, Episode 3) 

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Launching perhaps the first viral sketch from “I Think You Should Leave,” Ruben Rabasa dominates a car focus group by repeating nonsensical suggestions, like “a good steering wheel that doesn’t fly off while you’re driving.” As is the case in many “ITYSL” sketches, the straight man becomes the butt of the joke, as Ruben’s character accuses Paul (played by co-creator Zach Kanin) of being a “teacher’s pet.” Then, with a bottle flip and a dab, he made television history.

Best line: “You flinched, Paul! Now you have to marry your mother-in-law!”

Karl Havoc (Season 2, Episode 1)

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When Tim Robinson’s Carmine Laguzio transforms into Karl Havoc for the prank show “Everything Is Upside Down,” the plan is to cause some chaos at a local mall. When Carmine hobbles into the mall food court clad in a head-to-toe prosthetic suit, he’s not so sure about the sketch anymore: “There’s too much fucking shit on me!” Robinson proves his strength as a physical comedian throughout the series, but his ability to deliver hilarious lines while under an unmoving mask covering his expressions really shines through here.

Best line: “I don’t even want to be around anymore.”

Safari Flap Fedora (Season 2, Episode 3) 

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Employees from the company Qualstarr are on trial for insider trading, but their testimonies go off-track when their text messages are revealed. What begins as a conversation about their nefarious plans quickly turns into a back-and-forth over their coworker’s new fashion choice: “Oh my God, did you see Brian’s hat?” The kicker? Brian’s in the court room listening, with the hat on his head and a pair of dice in his pocket.

Best line: “I swear to fucking God, he tried to roll the hat down his arm like Fred Astaire, but the backflap got trapped around Rick’s wheelchair.”

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A Ranking of Every Sketch in ‘I Think You Should Leave’

It’s time to see how Season 3 stacks up to Seasons 1 and 2. How the Darmine Doggy Door stacks up to Calico Cut Pants. How 55 pastas stack up against total tuna cans.

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With the third season of I Think You Should Leave now streaming on Netflix, we asked our staff to sit down, have a sloppy steak, and update our ranking of the show, evaluating every sketch with the same intensity with which they would play the Egg Game. It wasn’t easy to do—nearly every sketch in the series deserves praise and has an argument for being the best—but after much deliberation, here is our updated ranking of every sketch in I Think You Should Leave.

79. “Dad Video” (Season 3, Episode 1)

There’s something about a sketch that front-loads the “what-the-fuck”-ery of it all. A father (Fred Armisen) gathers his two sons to watch a video; we find out that they have been acting up and, in a last-ditch effort to straighten his sons out, their father throws on a VHS tape to teach them a lesson. But the tape is a crudely produced video starring the father, in which he responds to a rude kid by beating him to a pulp on an oddly quiet street. Soon we find out that this idiot father blew $15,000 to try and scare his kids into … not dancing in the kitchen when all of his stuff is on the marble island? Ironic, since it’s the father’s constant blowups about the production values of his trash video that might be why his sons are acting out. I also want to point out that the father and his sons really should’ve bonded over discussing his wack fight video; talk about missed opportunities. — khal

78. “Don Bondarley” (Season 3, Episode 6)

I’ve attended a bachelor party that included a private magic show (shout-out to Jimmy Fingers), and let me tell you, “Don Bondarley” captures the uneasy dynamic of an intimate show by a performer who, perhaps, time has passed by (not you, though, Jimmy Fingers). Alberto Isaac turns in a great performance as the king of dirty songs (incredible falsetto on the last syllables of “Oh, old Bart Dogfuck had a dong a mile long, a dong a mile long had heeeeee ”), but this sketch doesn’t have time to descend fully into madness and doesn’t have the bizarre propulsive energy that makes some of ITYSL ’s shorter sketches resonate. “Don Bondarley” has its moments—and adds to the show’s rich musical canon—but in retrospect, they probably should have just gone to Corset. — Isaac Levy-Rubinett

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77. “Ponytail” (Season 3, Episode 2)

Will Forte is only in two episodes of ITYSL . In Season 1, he was the man screaming from the back of the plane in a failed attempt to enact revenge on the baby (now an adult) that kept him from saying anything funny to the guards at Buckingham Palace; in Season 3, he’s the ponytailed man screaming from underneath a car at two women and their ponytailed neighbor. Screaming Forte is simply great TV. His delivery of the “it’s not that gross” line in his Season 1 appearance is among the best in the show, as is his “put his hand in dog shit” jab at the neighbor in Season 3.

The rules are simple. Don’t park over the sidewalk. The latter isn’t the minor inconvenience you think it is, either. If you break the rules, men with ponytails that go down just past their butthole will get stuck under your car. You can’t cut them out with scissors (they’re not going to be worse off!), and you won’t be able to cover for them showing up late to their reservation with a Google image search for “disgusting diarrhea in bowl.” The maître d’ has already seen it. — Austin Gayle

76. “Fenton’s Stables and Horse Farm” (Season 1, Episode 6)

A trademark of most Tim Robinson sketches is that where they start and where they end up often have nothing to do with each other. Plotlines morph into unrecognizable tangents, the smallest details are latched on to and beaten into the ground until the dotted line from setup to punch line becomes a twisted thread of confusion and hilarity. But that’s, uh, not the case with this one. It’s just a 90-second sketch about horse dicks. — Cory McConnell

75. “Del Frisco’s Double Eagle” (Season 2, Episode 5)

Credit card roulette is an objectively terrible game. It’s an automatic night ruiner. The credit card gods can always sense the most vulnerable bank account, and in this case, Leslie is smote with a 10-person tab at a fancy restaurant. Like Pavlov’s dog, upon hearing his name, Leslie immediately replies with an all-time hissy fit: “I’m not paying the bill. That’s fucking crazy. It’s too much money. Maybe if I got a bite of everyone’s meal, but I just don’t want to do it.” Hal, the friend who proposed the game, attempts to diffuse the situation by saying he’ll pay the check, but Leslie is just getting started. “FUCK! I SHOULD HAVE LIED! I should have said there was some reason I couldn’t pay and not just said right away I’m not gonna.” Yes, Leslie. You should have lied. — Matt Dollinger

74. “Dave Suit” (Season 2, Episode 6)

As far as ITYSL sketches revolving around bathroom humor go, “Dave Suit” is probably the weakest. It just doesn’t have the specificity and knotty plotting of “The Gift Receipt” or the surrealism of “Calico Cut Pants.” What it does have is Tim Robinson being scolded by his boss for hiring a guy who looks like his coworker to take huge dumps he could then blame on said coworker—a gag that, with all due respect, worked “150 times.” It also has Robinson arguing that Jerry from Tom & Jerry probably sniffed women’s panties (“You weren’t with him 24/7 in the cartoon!”) and interrupting his own scolding to complain about how a guy who lives too far away wants to buy his bike stand. It’s not a peak sketch; it’s still pretty great. — Andrew Gruttadaro

73. “Little Buff Boys” (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 5)

“Little Buff Boys” is Season 2’s spiritual sequel to Season 1’s “Baby of the Year.” For that reason, it lacks some of the original’s absurd shock, but it’s still ridiculous and quotable. Instead of Sam Richardson making three judges pick a perfect baby, he’s making one office manager select who he thinks is the buffest little boy (they’re not actually that ripped—Richardson has just put the boys in “goose suits”). Obviously, the boss has some qualms about evaluating minors in front of all his employees, and the thing falls apart in quick order. No matter, Richardson hosting failed competitions is a clearly rich vein for ITYSL . There must be a third one coming, though the winner will never be Troll Boy. — Richie Bozek

72. “Robert’s Christmas Birthday” (Season 3, Episode 3)

While I can’t argue with “Robert’s Christmas Birthday” landing near the very bottom of this list, I also think there are plenty of small details about it that underline what a deeply weird, deeply specific, deeply brilliant show I Think You Should Leave is. In this short tale about a disgruntled employee who keeps defacing a cardboard cutout of her boss at his birthday party, ITYSL standout Patti Harrison gets to dump countless shots on cardboard Robert’s face, and furiously spray Windex into a cup—that she then immediately dumps on cardboard Robert’s face, to the increasing concern of human Robert. Then the exposition drops: Harrison’s Candy is exacting revenge on Robert because last week he told her she couldn’t bring her rats to work, even though he let Steven bring his dog to work. This opens the door for Harrison to make a face that says “finally you’re starting to make sense” when Robert admits that it’s not up to him to decide which animals are worse—and to deliver lines like, “Dogs are to Steven what rats are to me” and “I take the food, put it on the desk. I knock it in, no one knows I have rats.” Isn’t I Think You Should Leave a treasure? And don’t you think Patti Harrison should’ve been in more sketches in Season 3? — Gruttadaro

71. “Mortal Enemies” (Season 3, Episode 1)

Once in a while on I Think You Should Leave , there are two people who should leave. The first offender of “Mortal Enemies” is Stan (played by Tim Robinson), who takes a hypothetical suggestion during a work seminar that his coworker Rick is his mortal enemy to the absolute extreme—by which I mean he resorts to fake-dumping water on him. But there’s an even worse offender here: Alex, who actually dumps water on Stan. “I got too hyper,” a dejected, reflective Alex correctly deduces, while a soaking-wet Stan parachutes in with newfound self-righteousness (and loose hair plugs). Let’s be honest: This isn’t a very strong sketch, and there are maybe a dozen better office-based sketches on this show. But it is quite funny that it makes a singeing noise when Alex’s water touches Stan’s skin. — Gruttadaro

70. “Lifetime Achievement” (Season 1, Episode 4)

An award ceremony honoring the great Herbie Hancock—the epitome of cool—goes horribly wrong when Tim Robinson’s character, an awkward, bespectacled presenter, trips on the stairs, falls off the stage, and proceeds to be furiously mauled by a service dog. Or so he claimed. “I don’t think the dog that bit me should be put down,” he says as he opens his speech honoring Hancock’s body of work. But according to the owner of said dog, literally every audience member in attendance, and the Watermelon Man himself, the dog didn’t bite Robinson—it humped his head. Robinson is in full denial, but there’s video evidence that’s soon linked to the overhead monitor. “You don’t tape people,” Robinson begs. But with the ceremony completely off the rails and #HumpGate in full swing, Robinson’s character lobs one last attempt at getting things back on track with an all-time classic: “That’s why I love Herbie Hancock, he loves to lie.” — Dollinger

69. “New Joe” (Season 1, Episode 3)

New Joe (Fred Willard) is the replacement organist at a funeral service, and he brings his own American Fotoplayer –esque instrument to the proceedings. To honor the departed, he plays a little ditty that absolutely slaps but is a bit tonally off. Things get even more awkward (and hilarious) when he starts breaking dishes with glee. You’d think a funeral would be one of the easier rooms to read, but New Joe cannot read rooms. (“My condolences,” he keeps saying.) It’s that absurdity that makes “New Joe” a great addition to I Think You Should Leave . — Levy-Rubinett

68. “Christmas Carol” (Season 1, Episode 4)

In this two-minute mash-up of A Christmas Carol and The Terminator (sure, why not?), Baby of the Year/Little Buff Boys host Sam Richardson stars as the Ghost of Christmas Way Future, a power-armor-wearing warrior from the year 3050 who Kool-Aid Mans through Ebenezer Scrooge’s wall to warn him about the dangers of Skeletrex and his Bone Brigade. The time-traveling Ghost doesn’t divulge how the Bonies came to life—is this the origin story for “The Bones Are Their Money”?—but the brief sketch is worth it to hear Richardson rant, “He’s 15 feet tall and he has bones the size of tree trunks!,” “Use your Christmas cheer and bash its frickin’ brains out, ya idiot!,” and “Crap dang it, this sucks!” This isn’t Richardson’s best role in the series, but it gives me an excuse to say that if you haven’t watched real-life besties Richardson and Robinson (and other familiar faces from ITYSL ) in the dearly departed Detroiters , you should do so immediately . — Ben Lindbergh

67. “Joanie’s Birthday” (Season 2, Episode 5)

Nothing resonates with millennials like a Johnny Carson impersonator. Unfortunately for the attendees of this house party that Carson was hired for—“at a low, low price point”—he can hit. As in, he’s contractually allowed to assault the party’s patrons. “Oh my god, Johnny Carson just fucking hit me,” cries out one partygoer. Tim Robinson’s character, the impersonator’s wrangler, comes breathlessly barging in: “HE CAN! HE CAN! HE CAN!” Little do the people know, hitting is, of course, allowed at this price point, allowing Carson to tee off on unsuspecting attendees like he’s taking his famous monologue swing . “Wild, wild stuff.” — Dollinger

66. “Supermarket Swap” (Season 3, Episode 2)

A sketch that eerily came out the same week that Apple unveiled its new Vision Pro headset, “Supermarket Swap” is a Supermarket Sweep parody in which contestants have to grab items from a virtual grocery store. (The game is hosted by The Bear ’s breakout star Ayo Edebiri.) Everything starts off harmlessly enough, but when Robinson’s character wins a round and gets to put on the VR headset, he has an existential crisis—and forgets how to breathe:

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While it’s tempting to inject greater meaning into the sketch—an absurdist cautionary tale about how the immersive nature of AI can never fully replicate the human experience—“Supermarket Swap” is mostly a testament to Robinson’s gifts as a physical performer. To watch this man violently flail and convulse his body in a futuristic dental chair is like seeing Roger Federer at Wimbledon: art of the highest order. — Miles Surrey

65. “Mars Restaurant” (Season 2, Episode 5)

Comedy is specificity, and specificity is Tim Heidecker with shoulder-length hair in a deep V-neck giving an increasingly personal and detailed account of his date’s mother drinking vomit, repeatedly, on the Davy and Rascal Show just to buy school supplies for her children, all because a fake alien comic at a novelty space café zeroed in on the wrong table at the wrong time. That it’s shot as if Heidecker’s Gary is having an honest-to-god conversation with an animatronic alien head is a freaking gift. But what unfolds from there is a story of justice. This is the comeuppance that all roast comics deserve: to be dragged out into the light and made to answer for themselves, and then be conned out of another Mars Cocktail™ just because. — Rob Mahoney

64. “Banana Breath” (Season 3, Episode 6)

Just a few things worth noting here:

  • Not all heroes wear capes. Cam (Alison Martin) recognized her coworkers suffering in the doldrums of a run-of-the-mill HR training session and broke the torment with comedy gold: “Back away, banana breath. What the hell did you just eat? A banana?” Utter brilliance.
  • Then, in an all-time heat check, she quickly pulls up Tees Today™ on her phone, offers shirts to both Mary and Meredith, and ropes Rick into the design process because she sees him for the artist he truly is. What did we do to deserve her?
  • You think Barney deserves credit for the project while he was out chowing down bananas at lunch? Come on, banana breath. Get a grip.
  • Cam laughed to herself for 27 seconds (I timed it) before the presenter asked if she needed to leave the room.
  • Mary is a piece of shit. Everyone wears T-shirts. Just get it big and use it as a night shirt. Imagine lounging around in a big T-shirt and undies. Like it or not, Cam’s putting you down for one, bitch.
  • Rick fumbled the bag. He spends all day drawing at his desk and can’t doodle up a computer? It’s just a box with keys! — Gayle

63. “Friend’s Weekend” (Season 2, Episode 4)

There are tiny moments that save this sketch, in which Robinson’s character tries to lighten the mood of a party by doing a Blues Brothers routine, only to make things way worse by freaking out a family dog: Conner O’Malley playing the world’s most aggrieved husband; the banal discussion about why the dog is losing its shit, which ends with O’Malley yelling, “What?! We know what the problem is”; and a second dog coming out of nowhere and nearly running through a glass door. And finally, there’s Robinson’s performance after the routine has clearly bombed: tears smeared on his face, the whole house staring at him, he simply says, “This really is quite a beautiful house.” Annnnnd scene. — Gruttadaro

62. “Jenna’s Bad Day” (Season 3, Episode 4)

Everyone farts. He squoze when he threw his hands down, and he farted. It’s OK. You’re OK. What isn’t OK is fighting the 200 friends you paid for in the pool and splashing water in their mouths. You’re going to have to pay more for that.

Tim Robinson is farting and screaming in an oversized suit as the ringleader of a pay-to-play friend group. It’s perfect. He steals the scene away from former SNL cast member Beck Bennett, making his ITYSL debut as Stuart. But that doesn’t mean I want to be either of those guys. I want to be Mike ’cause he has the best friend group. His friend group has a smooth rhythm, all orchestrated by Mike. — Gayle

61. “Tasty Time Vids” (Season 3, Episode 6)

If only this sketch were a “So you wanna be a content creator?” PSA. It really speaks to many ills of that ecosystem, from the cesspool that comment sections have become, to the glut of bad videos out there, to the prison that is having to create content consistently. The why of Draven’s confusing (and awful) “Frankenstein’s Chick” video series aside, I kind of blame David (and not just because he handed someone his phone to place a lunch order). David was way too quick to big up Draven. Either figure out how to dole out constructive criticism or say you lost your phone in a tornado or something. Positive reinforcement of internet garbage is why this particular brand of short-form content is clogging up every app with the ability to host videos. The Davids of the world need to chill so that the Dravens of the world can, I don’t know, throw their phones in a river or actually lose them in a tornado. Whatever keeps Draven off the timeline. — khal

60. “Metal Motto Search” (Season 3, Episode 6)

Danny Green’s Photo Wall of Metal: Metal Motto Search is, like its title, a simple game. Its rules just take a really long time to explain, and there’s so much lore surrounding it that contestants have to watch a cartoon about “what’s happening in Metaloid Maniac’s world.”

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OK, you know what: I lied. Metal Motto Search is a horrible game, especially because the guy playing the Metaloid Maniac can’t zoom around the metal board— that he built —fast enough because the suit’s too heavy (and he had a difficult conversation with his daughter that morning). But it seems like Danny Green—played by Sam Richardson—really had a vision, and that he sunk a lot of money into that vision. And if there’s one thing I could watch on a loop, it’s Sam Richardson trying to sell a terrible game show. — Gruttadaro

59. “Bozo” (Season 1, Episode 6)

ITYSL excels at using everyday office settings as setups for absurd social interactions, and “Bozo” is one of the best sketches in that genre. This two-parter revolves around Reggie, who not only isn’t in on the joke but also doesn’t seem to understand jokes. Feeling peer pressure from his younger, YouTube-savvy coworkers, who swap viral video recommendations and assure each other that their selections are so funny , Reggie first pretends to have a favorite video that he forgets how to find. Determined not to come up empty-handed in the conference room again, he then creates and uploads his own video, in which a foul-mouthed Bozo the Clown confusingly dubs over footage of himself saying what he was thinking in the scene. It’s a ridiculous solution to a slight problem, but it’s also somewhat relatable: Somewhere in the world, there’s a person in an office who hasn’t seen ITYSL but felt left out when everyone was talking about it and pretended to have a favorite sketch that they couldn’t remember how to type in. — Lindbergh

58. “Parking Lot” (Season 2, Episode 5)

There are few things in life more universal than getting annoyed at a driver who doesn’t know what they’re doing, something “Parking Lot” capitalizes on in an unexpected way. The sketch hinges on a frustrated driver getting blocked while leaving a parking lot, and in an attempt to insult the other person (played by Robinson) by telling him he can’t drive, the driver finds out that, well, he actually can’t. There’s a hilariously infantile quality to the way Robinson reacts to his unfamiliar surroundings, like screaming when he accidentally hits the horn because it scared him. And if nothing else, “Parking Lot” is responsible for one of the most meme-worthy moments of the show’s second season. This is exactly what I say every year trying to file taxes:

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57. “Pacific Proposal Park” (Season 3, Episode 4)

What features would you include in a perfect park for marriage proposals? Gardens full of flowers? Romantically lit gazebos? A special, spongy, soft soil that’s perfect for the most perfect kneel of your life? Well, the last one has unintended consequences.

Nothing will ever top Sam Richardson in ITYSL ’s “Baby of the Year,” but “Pacific Proposal Park” comes close. Richardson wages war on Toilet Truck, Jerry “The Jet” Jones, Baby Duff, and other professional wrestlers because they’re practicing their slams on his spongy, soft soil meant for proposing knees. He accidentally built the perfect place to practice wrestling, and now he wants Toilet Truck and Baby Duff dead because of it. He also outs King Larry as Scarecrow because he saw him (and his whole red penis) changing in his car. And if King Larry is in fact Scarecrow, you can’t convince me Baby Duff isn’t actually Bart Harley Jarvis. — Gayle

56. “First Date” (Season 3, Episode 3)

Look, the idea that a man would get a haircut that looks like dog ears for a date because of a little barber miscommunication is definitely funny. As is the way this sketch spoofs the overly cheesy male relationships that infect certain rom-coms. (Sample line from Random BFF 1: “Cut to: We’re chatting about this at your bachelor party.”) Or the fact that the actual inspiration for Robinson’s main character’s haircut is a blurry photo of Bryan Cranston throwing out a bucket of popcorn. But this is the moment that really takes this sketch about a guy who’s trying so hard to impress a first date that he accidentally gets dog ears for a haircut to another level:

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And by the time you can even react to this twist, the sketch just ends. Cut to: me laughing hysterically as ITYSL ’s interstitial music plays. — Gruttadaro

55. “Claire’s” (Season 2, Episode 6)

So many of I Think You Should Leave ’s most outstanding bits are underpinned by some kind of profound sadness, but this is the only one that Trojan horses its darkness in a pair of unicorn earrings. You know what’s scarier than getting your ears pierced in the back of a tween accessory store? Seeing the people who cared for you as a baby become babies themselves. Luckily, Claire’s is a place where people young and old can go to find peace—a place where a cool college girl will calm your deepest fears, and even in moments of gastrointestinal distress, help you to live life like no one can hear the splashes. — Mahoney

54. “Gelutol” (Season 3, Episode 4)

Here’s something that’s great: having a full head of hair deep into middle age. Here’s something that’s even better: having a full head of hair while your nemesis stays as bald as a newborn. “Gelutol” is a power trip masquerading as an infomercial—an ad that’s not selling a hair-loss solution, but rather, spite. After spotting a friend at a St. Patrick’s Day party worrying about his thinning mane, Robinson offers him a solution: a pill that’s kept his thick. The catch? Don’t tell the nebbish Bret Shefter the name of the drug. (For added security, make sure you’re saying it wrong.) And Shefter has a full-on meltdown, screaming about fingering as his wife sweats in her green jacket. It’s a master class in pettiness on Robinson’s part—one that pays off so well you’ll be trying to figure out how you can enlist as one of his soldiers, whether you need Gelutol or not. — Justin Sayles

53. “Biker Guy” (Season 1, Episode 2)

Biker Guy is one of the most important fictional characters in at least the last decade of television. He has forever changed the way I view everyday methods of transportation. I instinctively say, “That’s a nice motorcycle” when I see a motorcycle, even though I know nothing about motorcycles. Bicycles now are motorcycles with no motor; standard four-door sedans are two motorcycles with a little house in the middle; I drop to my knees when I see a bus.

There’s such a thing as influence, and “Biker Guy” has it. — Bozek

52. “Children’s Choir” (Season 3, Episode 4)

Perhaps it’s fitting that “Children’s Choir” doesn’t play by I Think You Should Leave ’s typical rules. For one, Robinson plays the straight man, ceding the most outrageous behavior to his “shirt brother” Shane, played by Biff Wiff. And second, while this sketch doesn’t achieve the series’ usual hilarity—to me, anyway—it does access a distinct emotional register. Most ITYSL sketches portray a character who doubles down in an awkward social situation to the point of extreme discomfort for everyone around them; “Children’s Choir,” by contrast, ends with both characters embracing their inner selves and finding a new sense of freedom and satisfaction. Maybe it was just the Turnstile soundtrack , but the ending of this sketch is surprisingly uplifting. Am I going nuts in here?! — Levy-Rubinett

51. “Party House” (Season 1, Episode 6)

Let’s take a moment to shout out some of the I Think You Should Leave behind-the-scenes staff. In a series defined by the over-the-top performances of its actors, the most over-the-top performance in this sketch comes from the set designers. They built a house that is—as its owner (Kate Berlant) boasts—“all Garfield.” The sketch remains funny as characters try to stage an intervention for their friend in an environment that hampers any serious conversations, but the show already won when the lights flip on to reveal a house that’s filled with Odie chairs. (They recline!) — Rodger Sherman

50. “Wilson’s Toupees” (Season 1, Episode 2)

The most memorable part of “Wilson’s Toupees” is when a gorilla emerges out of nowhere to snatch someone’s toupee. The funniest part is the concept of a direct-to-consumer subscription service that sends 500 “little wigs”—each slightly more bald than the last—to men who are ready to ditch the toupee and embrace their baldness but need a gradual progression so their coworkers don’t say, “Was that a toupee, you piece of shit?” That’s comedic gold; we didn’t really need the gorillas. — Levy-Rubinett

49. “Wife Joke” (Season 2, Episode 4)

A poker night with the boys hits all the clichés as everyone takes turns making fun of their nagging wives over some beers. But after an offhand comment about how being married to his wife makes him want to drink more, Scott (a committed Paul Walter Hauser) immediately regrets what he said. The sketch then spirals into an unexpectedly earnest flashback about Scott’s wife supporting him when he gets cast as a mobster in a local theater production and all his lines keep getting stolen by an asshole named Jamie Taco (Jamie talks, like, super fast). With how many I Think You Should Leave sketches culminate in chaos and/or despair, there’s something genuinely sweet about Scott going full Wife Guy at poker night, which also happens to be a sleepover party for middle-aged men. Dudes rock—except for Jamie Taco, whose name I’ll never forget—but they should also say nicer things about their wives. — Surrey

48. “Tammy Craps” (Season 2, Episode 6)

When I watched Julia Butters in Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, I knew she’d be a star. What I didn’t know is that the next time I saw her she’d be pitching a mildly toxic doll who lies about pooping and huffing Macanudo cigars in a Season 2 sketch on I Think You Should Leave . You see, the problem with the Tammy Craps doll is that there was an upset factory worker who was farting in all the heads. That led to the company using a deodorizing low-grade poison, which solved one problem …

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… but it turns out that that low-grade poison is an extremely high -grade poison for anyone under 60 pounds. In that case, “holding a Tammy Craps doll is like smoking five Macanudo cigars a day,” a wildly committed Julia Butters says to another girl. (That girl goes on to put rocks in her pockets to fake her weight and get a Tammy Craps doll, and then she … dies?)

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Before I wrote this all out, I thought “Tammy Craps” was a pretty good, medium-funny sketch. Now I’m convinced it’s the weirdest thing this show has ever done. — Gruttadaro

47. “Babysitter” (Season 1, Episode 5)

“Let’s say the babysitter was late” has to be the best, most used excuse of all time. I can’t speak from experience because I don’t have children, but whether it’s true in the moment or not, it feels like a situation that has legitimately happened at one point to all parents. And who are you to question those using the excuse? If somebody says their babysitter was late, then the babysitter was late. Leave it at that, everybody move on.

This sketch expands upon what might happen if either party didn’t just leave it at that. If, say, the excuse-maker got a little too elaborate and explained that the babysitter was late because she was in a hit-and-run that killed some people who the cops say are “just kind of, like, nothing.” And then some guy named Barry asked too many goddamn questions. Lies and questions build and build before somebody needs to get embarrassed. From the outside it’s hilarious, but I would hate to be caught in the mess of it like Barry. — Bozek

46. “Bloody Eyeball” (Season 3, Episode 5)

Low-key, this is one of the more depressing sketches in the series. Everyone feels like they see the world differently, right? Every day, people are experiencing this one planet in many different ways, and in this sketch, Randall is no different. He really isn’t the problem here—he just sees the world differently. Way differently: a quick rumble in the office is a massive volcano; those highlighters are little pimps. The problem? No one seems to want to understand how Randall sees things—in fact there’s seemingly an edict not to encourage him. Who knows what’s going on with Randall? The fact that no one wants to find out is what bothers me the most. — khal

45. “Barley Tonight” (Season 3, Episode 1)

It’s certainly enough to appreciate the many ways Tim Robinson contorts his body in “Barley Tonight” as he plays a talk show host who stubbornly retreats to his phone anytime he’s close to losing a debate …

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But what elevates the sketch is the kernel of truth buried within it. “If I ever feel weird at all, I’m just looking at it,” Barley says, explaining the deep connection he feels with his phone. And I know that line rings true to anyone (all of you, don’t lie) who’s ever gotten to a party before their friends or found themselves alone at a restaurant when their partner goes to the bathroom and immediately pulled out their phone to pass the time and ward off any feelings of awkwardness. Barley shouldn’t be ignoring his guests—unless, maybe, his mom really has been taken hostage—but at the same time, you can see where he’s coming from. — Gruttadaro

44. “Pink Bag” (Season 1, Episode 2)

Whoopie cushions are not funny—I feel like we can all agree on this. What’s the joke, even? That someone farted but it doesn’t even smell? That no one’s puking from the stench of the fart? And what comes after that: Cake batter down someone’s pants? Brown pudding in their shoes to make them think they’re mighty sick? They go to the ER and not only miss their family photo but use hospital resources that someone with more pressing needs could use? And then that person dies? Wow. You got her, Jane. You really got her. — Gruttadaro

43. “Choking” (Season 1, Episode 5)

I Think You Should Leave ’s best sketches feature characters taking things way too far. “Choking” takes that approach to a hilarious end point when Robinson’s character refuses to acknowledge that he’s choking to death because his favorite musician-actor-designer, Caleb Went, is sitting at the table and he doesn’t want to seem weird—which, as he speaks in a pained honk and gives a toast with veins bulging from his forehead, he obviously doesn’t. Just look at this desperation…

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… that ends in complete resignation:

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— Levy-Rubinett

42. “Big Wave” (Season 2, Episode 6)

After I worked remotely for a year and a half, this sketch became my most recent point of reference for what a workplace environment should resemble. I can’t wait to get back.

After their boss leaves the conference room, members of this work team start surfing, dancing, spinning chairs to create whirlpools, and cracking open multiple cans of seltzer water to spray ocean mist. Tim Robinson’s character, Russell, isn’t in on the fun at first, until he literally flips the table to create a “big wave!” as only Tim Robinson can. This is followed by a variety of laughable exclamations in the midst of the chaos, like “Napkins, napkins!,” “I need a wet paper towel!,” and “Fucking psycho!” It is yet another ITYSL story about a man who does not fit in, trying disastrously hard to do so.

Also, if you know me and are reading this, take note: Please don’t ever gift me chode jeans. — Bozek

41. “Both Ways” (Season 1, Episode 1)

“Both Ways” is the very first sketch in the series, and as such, it’s responsible for establishing the template of a typical ITYSL scenario: Someone makes a minor faux pas in a mundane social situation and, rather than acknowledge the error, doubles (or quadruples) down on pretending that it wasn’t one. As he exits a cordial coffee-shop job interview, Robinson pulls on a door that only opens outward, then tries to play off the slightly embarrassing mistake by insisting that he was there yesterday and that the door “does both.” At that point, he has to commit to the cover story by yanking the door off its hinges until it’s so splintered that it does go both ways. While performing this feat of strength and stupidity, Robinson maintains eye contact and keeps up a plastered-on smile, even as his forehead vein throbs with the effort and drool slides down his chin. He’s probably not going to get the job, but you have to applaud his persistence. — Lindbergh

40. “Sitcom Taping” (Season 3, Episode 2)

One of my favorite recurring bits in I Think You Should Leave is when a character successfully rallies everyone else to their side regardless of how absurd the situation starts out. (For instance, the other members of the instant-classic “Focus Group” sketch following Ruben Rabasa’s lead in making fun of Paul.) In “Sitcom Taping,” Robinson plays a man who’s part of a live studio audience for a popular sitcom, during which a producer tells him and his viewing peers that “Millions of people are going to hear your voice.”

Naturally, this inspires Robinson’s character to lace his personal grievances into the laugh track, complaining about a watch exploding on a date and a rented limo that had a separate group lurking behind a makeshift divider. “Sitcom Taping” becomes oddly poignant once the studio audience and the sitcom crew sympathize with Robinson’s ordeal, and by the time we get a flashback sequence of everything that happened to him, the sketch reaches a new level of delightful WTF-ery. Robinson’s watch exploding in Zack Snyder–esque slow motion—a bunch of springs land in his date’s soup and hair—is one of the funniest things I’ve seen all year. — Surrey

39. “River Mountain High/TC Tuggers” (Season 1, Episode 2)

Here are two immaculate parodies smashed into one: first, a perfect riff on a CW teen show that includes this splendid tidbit of dialogue:

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But then the principal (Robinson) shows up wearing an interesting shirt, one with a little knob on the front so your shirt doesn’t get messed up when you pull on it, and that brings us to the second immaculate parody: of a commercial for said shirt, geared specifically toward middle-aged men.

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The song used in the ad sounds exactly like the song Home Depot uses for its ads; it’s just wonderful. Also? TC Tuggers solves a problem that every man on earth has encountered at one time or another. That’s what takes this from bizarre banter and pitch-perfect recreations to absolute brilliance. — Gruttadaro

38. “The Capital Room” (Season 2, Episode 2)

I Think You Should Leave takes place in its own parallel universe, where the bones are their money and coffin flops abound. It’s therefore jarring to get a pop culture parody as precise as “The Capital Room,” a transparent riff on Shark Tank. But while “The Capital Room” may not fit seamlessly into I Think You Should Leave ’s particular gestalt, it’s a remarkable showcase for Patti Harrison, a recurring guest star who seems to get the show’s whole stupid, grotesque, profane deal. Harrison’s fellow sharks—sorry, “moguls”—made their fortunes in fashion and sunglasses. She sued the city after getting sewn into the pants of the Charlie Brown float at the Thanksgiving Day parade. It’s a perfectly nonsensical choice that Harrison elevates with her deeply strange delivery. Just listen to the way she says “popcorn.” — Alison Herman

37. “Photo Booth” (Season 3, Episode 5)

“Three seconds to think of something silly? That’s fucking insane! That’s not enough time!”

Truer words have never been spoken.

“Do something silly” is the second or third call to action in every single group photo situation, yet it’s a shock to the system every single time. Prop or no prop? Three … Do I just stick my tongue out like I do every single fucking time? Two … Cross-eyed again? One …

Tim Meadows as the man fighting against this photo booth mandate—to the point of puking—doesn’t miss once in his ITYSL debut. His delivery of every line is astounding. He’s the centerpiece of the random-tangent Twister game Robinson plays so well, and he does it almost better. Right foot? Barney and his little, tiny cloth hairs. Left foot? The Pelling Ball and 15 business deals. Right hand? In the shape of an “L” on your forehead while doing a Fortnite dance. — Gayle

36. “Crashmore—Trailer” (Season 2, Episode 3)

Explaining why this sketch is funny doesn’t require nuanced analysis. It’s a trailer for a fake movie starring the titular aging, horrifically violent detective with a long white beard. Think: Dirty Harry if he were a hermit. He shoots up bad guys at close range and says things like “Eat fuckin’ bullets, you fuckers!” Oh, and also: He’s played by Santa Claus, who during a press junket interview refers to the film as “a cosmic gumbo.” — Alan Siegel

35. “New Printer” (Season 1, Episode 5)

Repetitiveness is the death of good comedy, as approval-seeking office worker Tracy (Patti Harrison) discovers. After her boss gets mild chuckles with a Christmas joke, Tracy deploys “hundreds of on-par, if not better” jokes, only to find that the Christmas humor had already run dry. Luckily, there’s no repetition with Harrison, who treats every line as an opportunity to be a different sort of weirdo. She pinballs between personas, transforming from a naive kid awaiting presents to a bullying coworker (“DID I STUTTER, MEGAN?” she scowls, before emphatically retelling a tired Santa joke) to an elf with a vaguely Scottish accent. Every delivery is unexpected. With replacement-level line reads, this sketch would have been forgettable; with Harrison on fire, it’s a keeper. Thank Santa and his reindeer for bringing Harrison’s performance to us early. — Sherman

34. “Ghost Tour” (Season 2, Episode 1)

Robinson specializes in playing maladjusted men. What’s impressive is that he somehow makes each one unique. Like this guy. When a late-night ghost-tour guide tells his guests that they can say whatever they want, Robinson’s character immediately blurts out “jizz.” Then, to the group’s chagrin, he proceeds to ask questions like “Any of these fuckers ever fall out of the ceiling and just have like a big messy shit? Or have a dingleberry?” The group eventually bands together to toss out the foul-mouthed dude (who argues, quite compellingly, that he isn’t actually breaking any rules). But the turn comes at the very end, when his elderly mother picks him up and asks if he’s made any new friends. For a brief moment, we sympathize with someone whose only way of connecting with people is by talking about ghost excrement. — Siegel

33. “Baby of the Year” (Season 1, Episode 1)

“Baby of the Year” is probably best remembered for Bart Harley Jarvis, the bad boy of the annual competition who is so unlikable that audience members shout expletives at an infant dressed like a little biker. (Side note: FUCK YOU, HARLEY JARVIS!) But this god-tier sketch soars for all the delirious details that get thrown into the mix: the fact that the competition takes three months and has been going on for 112 years; the infants’ health being assessed by a guy named Dr. Skull; an “In Memoriam” segment for previous winners that includes cause of death; and Sam Richardson as the host, who, upon learning that one of the baby’s parents gave the mystery judge oral, deadpans, “Aw man, that’s a bummer, might fuck this whole thing up.” It’s only fitting that “Baby of the Year” is just the third sketch in the series’ run. What better litmus test to find out whether you can get on the show’s wavelength than with one of its most chaotic sketches right off the bat? — Surrey

32. “Chunky” (Season 1, Episode 6)

Honestly, Dan Vega? This one’s on you. You created Dan Vega’s Mega Money Quiz ; you brought Chunky into this game-show world. You identified his role in the ecosystem as a character who “eats your points, and”—emphasis mine—gets “ very mad .”

Chunky could’ve just eaten the points, Dan Vega! He did not need to get mad at the contestants. Maybe if you had provided him with a more positive and healthier framework for how to exist in the game, he wouldn’t be absolutely wrecking Andy Samberg’s shit every time he comes out from behind the curtain and seeking your approval in the process, only to be met with louder and louder scorn:

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You know that scene in Mallrats where Stan Lee tells Brodie about creating Marvel characters that “reflected my own heartbreak and my own regrets”? This is that, but with Dan Vega creating Chunky as a vessel for his inability to process and defang his unfettered rage. I don’t think Chunky’s the one who really has to figure out what he does. You have all summer to think of it, Dan Vega. Good luck. — Dan Devine

31. “Traffic” (Season 1, Episode 4)

Even among the many weirdos in this show’s universe, Conner O’Malley’s character here stands out. After spotting a “Honk If You’re Horny” bumper sticker on Robinson’s car, he lays on his SUV’s horn—“That’s me!”—then follows Robinson around for days, honking nonstop. O’Malley spends the sketch doing what he does best: grunting, groaning, and yelling until Robinson finally asks him what his deal is. “I thought that you worked for like a service or a company that helped out guys that are so horny that their stomachs hurt!” O’Malley says. “’Cause that’s what I am!” What takes this sketch to another level is when, in a hysterically strange bonding moment, Robinson helps him alleviate his pain. With his stash of porn. Because it turns out he is like a service that helps out guys who are so horny that their stomachs hurt. — Siegel

30. “Baby Shower” (Season 1, Episode 6)

The protagonist of this sketch attempted and failed to make a mob movie, and now he’s stuck with 50 Stanzo-brand fedoras, 1,000 plastic meatballs that may or may not look like little pieces of shit, and 50 black slicked-back-hair wigs, all of which he’s trying to unload in a baby-shower planning meeting as part of the gift bags. He’s visibly upset that the rest of the group prefers items like candles or individual bottles of champagne, so one of the planners generously offers to buy a few fedoras. The highlight of the sketch comes when he tries to leverage that modicum of sympathy to get a bulk order. The way he says, “It’s gotta be quality on my end, otherwise no fuckin’ deal” kind of makes me want to watch his mob movie. — Levy-Rubinett

29. “Calico Cut Pants” (Season 2, Episode 4)

Tim Robinson is unmatched in his ability to pinpoint everyday nuisances that most everyone experiences but is too embarrassed to talk about. Season 1 had TC Tuggers to solve the issue of bunched-up shirts getting ruined by men pulling on them; Season 2 has Calico Cut Pants (dot com), a website that provides an excuse to men who dribble urine on their pants by giving the appearance that such pee dots are actually intentional design choices. You can’t buy the pants, but it looks like you can, and that’s all one really needs, wouldn’t you agree?

But what elevates this sketch—the longest of any in the series, and my favorite one in Season 2—is the increasing weirdness of the man (Robinson) prodding his coworker (Mike O’Brien) to donate to Calico Cut Pants so that it can stay online. First we find out that his wife is eating batteries—“She says she’s not eating them, then we go to the doctor and the doctor says, ‘Yeah, we found a battery in there’”—and then it begins to seem like he might be the devil? Or at least a demon who has a legion of pee-dribbling minions? The scenes where Robinson violently yells, “HOLD THAT DOOR!” to people who are so far away from him are just the cherry on top. — Gruttadaro

28. “H.D. Vac Part II” and “H.D. Vac Commercial” (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 3)

One day I hope to love something half as much as Tim Robinson loves hot-dog-related bits. In this two-parter, Robinson plays an office worker whose boss calls a meeting right before he’s about to eat his hot dog lunch. (“I don’t know if you’re allowed to do that.”) Naturally, the only reasonable solution is to try to stealthily inhale the hot dog in the meeting through a shirt sleeve, which goes horribly wrong when Robinson nearly chokes to death. While the chaos that ensues from Robinson’s near-death experience is the sketch’s selling point, the best sight gag might come before the fateful meeting—look at how absurdly long the hot dog actually is:

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The second half of the hot dog saga sees that same character peddling a hyperspecific hot dog vacuum—or HD Vac, which just looks like a regular vacuum—in a commercial where he’s railing against cancel culture. It’s emblematic of so many I Think You Should Leave characters taking the wrong lessons from their failures, but if we’re being honest, I gotta side with the hot dog fanatic on this one: You can’t just expect someone to skip lunch. — Surrey

27. “Driver’s Ed” (Season 2, Episode 6)

We’ve all been there. You’re sitting in traffic and there’s a lady in front of you with a minivan full of dirty, stinkin’ tables. Obviously, she’s distracted. Maybe Eddie Munster threw them in a mud puddle. Maybe Freddy Krueger was somehow involved. Or maybe they were soiled after being rented to local comic-cons and horror-cons. Either way, this woman’s job is clearly tables. (“These tables are how I buy my house. They are how I keep my house hot.”) Maybe you still don’t get it. (“DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE TABLES ARE MY CORN?”) At this point, you’ve lost all composure inside your car. Rage has boiled over. Composure has been lost. The tables are filthy, and the driver in front of you is dragging ass. So what do you do? You take it out on the tables. You floor it, plowing into the minivan, as you scream into the heavens: “THIS IS THE MADDEST I’VE EVER BEEN!” Also, it’s Driver’s Ed 101. — Dollinger

26. “Silent Show” (Season 3, Episode 3)

In “Silent Show,” Robinson is Richard Brecky, an old-school pantomime performer who can tell 73 (!) wholesome stories entirely through gestures and expressions. If Brecky ever breaks during a performance, he will give money back to the audience, one dollar at a time. Alas, that fateful policy becomes the poor guy’s undoing: Instead of fellow Charlie Chaplin admirers attending the shows, Brecky is bombarded by drunken frat bros yelling at him until he loses his cool and has to repay tons of money. The fact that Brecky’s shows are selling out adds a tragic dimension to the sketch: The more successful he is, the more abuse he receives. (“WE’RE GONNA GO NUTS IN THERE!” a dude in a sleeveless flannel tells an exasperated Brecky before one of the performances.) Not gonna lie: While I’d be down to check out a Richard Brecky silent show, I can’t promise I wouldn’t also be tempted to shout, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” when he starts using an imaginary mop. — Surrey

25. “Diner Wink” (Season 2, Episode 2)

There’s a reason your parents told you not to talk to strangers: Sometimes they just don’t shut up. Tim Robinson’s character is sitting in a diner booth across from his daughter when he tells an innocent lie—“When it’s too cold outside, all the ice cream stores close”—before looking to a stranger (Bob Odenkirk) in the next booth in hopes he’ll back him up. Odenkirk’s character not only backs him up but proceeds to up the ante time after time with increasingly absurd, trivial lies. He starts by claiming the two men are old friends. Then the same age. Then he raves about his car collection (“If I don’t have triples, then the other stuff’s not true”). Then he brings up his (very imaginary) wife. “Tell her about my wife,” Odenkirk begs Robinson. By now, the jig is up and the daughter is fully aware that not only is the ice cream store likely open but both her dad and this man are complete lunatics. Not that that stops the descent: “[My wife] was a model around the world. She was on posters. Yeah, I used to have a poster of her in my garage. Then I met her, can you believe it? And she asked me to marry her, and I didn’t even want to, but she’s beautiful, but she’s dying. She’s sick. She’s hanging in there. It’s hard. She’s gonna get better. And I’m rich. And I don’t live in a hotel.” — Dollinger

24. “ABX Heart Monitor” (Season 3, Episode 3)

You know the feeling of when you really want something, and you finally get it, but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be? Tim Heidecker feels none of that in “ABX Heart Monitor.” He plays a doctor obsessed with getting into the clubs where his cardiac patient (Robinson) has earned favored-son status. He’s so obsessed that he tracks Robinson’s heart rate throughout the night with the ABX monitor. (It’s one of the only times you’d rather someone thought you were jackin’ off instead of at the club.) What Heidecker wants most of all is a visit to Club Haunted House so he can find the trapdoor he read about online. So you’d expect a little bit of a letdown when he finally gets in (without his wife). But instead, he’s wowed by the chains and the mystery of it all, tipping over candelabras and slamming chaise lounges to the ground. The trapdoor may not be real, but the vibes are immaculate. And so is this sketch, the best team-up of the two Tims in ITYSL canon. — Sayles

23. “Nachos” (Season 1, Episode 4)

There are three things that many of Robinson’s best characters struggle with: pent-up anger, venting said rage, and accepting responsibility for their misguided actions. When the man in this sketch gets annoyed that the date he’s sharing nachos with is eating all the “fully loaded” ones, he doesn’t politely ask her to leave him some. Instead, he clandestinely convinces their confused waiter to approach the table and tell her that such a practice is against the restaurant’s rules.

She naturally figures it all out. Yet even after getting called out, Robinson repeatedly feigns ignorance—ruining the date but causing the audience to laugh at his ridiculous petulance. — Siegel

22. “Talk About My Kids” (Season 3, Episode 5)

“Do me a favor: Next time I’m talking about my kids, please stop me.”

This is not a thing you should say in front of a Tim Robinson character. Because they will do you that favor. They will ride a beautiful dog in the middle of the party so that you stop. They will make it look like that same beautiful dog is blowing him so that you stop. They will make up a dance routine that a weird number of middle-aged men take to immediately—so that you stop. They will become the most popular guy at the party, someone whom others follow around just waiting to see what wild thing he does next, so that you stop.

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But when the night’s all over, you’ll realize that you’ve had a great time. You’ve gotten deeper with people than you ever have before. Just don’t spend too much time investigating why this person was so eager to make you stop talking about your kids, because then you’ll find out that his son shot Godzilla the gorilla because he was “such a big fan of him, he wanted to own his life or something.” — Gruttadaro

21. “Dan Flashes” (Season 2, Episode 2)

The I Think You Should Leave fashion collection is ever-expanding. If you’re looking for the perfect top to go in between your Calico Cut Pants and your Stanzo Fedora, head to Dan Flashes, a very aggressive store that sells expensive and hideous bowling shirts, priced based on how complicated the patterns are. (Unfortunately, Dan Flashes shirts don’t have little tugging knobs to keep you from wrecking your shirt by pulling on it.) If you think too hard about it, this sketch is a biting critique of American consumerism—when Tim Robinson’s character Mike sees dozens of identical-looking men physically fighting over unnecessarily pricey shirts, he becomes obsessed with purchasing the most expensive ones and starts skipping meals to finance them. But you shouldn’t think too hard about it. That’s something Doug would do. — Sherman

20. “Designated Driver” (Season 3, Episode 1)

Ted Lasso famously originated from an ad spot in 2013, when Jason Sudeikis first played the titular character in an NBC short meant to drum up American interest in the English Premier League. Can we get a similar glow-up for the Driving Crooner, the cigar-smoking, fedora-wearing star of ITYSL ’s “Designated Driver” sketch? I will immediately subscribe to whichever streaming service green-lights a heartwarming half-hour comedy about aspiring entrepreneur Andrew Topecchio that gradually morphs into a prestige dramedy in which Topecchio battles frat boys determined to kill him, underground dog-walking networks conspiring to steal his decals, and the crushing realities of late capitalism as he just tries his damnedest to make money off the vision he was put on this earth to see through. — Levy-Rubinett

19. “Grambles Lorelai Lounge” (Season 2, Episode 3)

One of the joys of watching ITYSL is deciphering how it will twist a seemingly normal situation into something totally absurd. Take, for example, this sketch, during which a business school professor has dinner with his former students. Their small talk is completely innocuous until Bob McDuff Wilson’s wise teacher starts fixating on a protégé’s burger. A minute in, he’s fully devolved into a devilish little kid who “jokingly” covets and then steals the food, eats it, and threatens to blackmail his frustrated pupils if they tell anyone about what he did.

A lesser show might’ve made the gentle old soul the butt of the joke, but that’d be too predictable for Robinson and Co. They’re happy to give unassuming characters like Professor Yurabay the last bite. — Siegel

18. “Has This Ever Happened to You?” (Season 1, Episode 1)

Here’s the lifetime leaderboard of Lawyers Whose Ads I’ve Seen the Most: Peter Francis Geraci’s in third. No. 2? Cellino and Barnes. But the new leader is Mitch Bryant, the Robinson character whose commercial comes on right after the opening credits of the premiere episode. Bryant is seeking clients who have been terrorized by the Turbo Team, two burly men who will come to your house to fix a termite problem, but instead yell at you for your lack of Turbo Team membership and replace your real toilet with a joke toilet that can only suck down farts. As Robinson describes the Turbo Team’s transgressions, he gets angrier and angrier until he can barely breathe. I couldn’t pick which is funnier—the Turbo Team’s escalation or Robinson’s. — Sherman

17. “Game Night” (Season 1, Episode 3)

One of the sketches where the person who should leave is not Tim Robinson, “Game Night” stars Tim Heidecker as Howie, the new boyfriend introduced to a friend group through what ought to be an innocent icebreaker: game night. But Howie, to use a technical term, sucks —insulting the host’s “meat and potatoes” record collection, demanding ice-cold gazpacho, and worst of all, submitting impossible-to-guess celebrities like Tiny “Boop Squig” Shorterly and Roy Donk. Tim Robinson characters tend to be fundamentally well meaning, simply failing to understand why the rest of the world doesn’t get where they’re coming from. Howie is just an asshole, and a kind we all recognize: the insufferable music snob. Why can’t jazz guys just be chill for once?! — Herman

16. “The Man” (Season 1, Episode 2)

In a departure from his typical roles, Robinson plays the understated straight man here, ceding the part of “over-the-top, socially unacceptable outcast” to a fellow Saturday Night Live veteran, Will Forte. Like Robinson, Forte was a little too weird and a little too loud to reach his full potential within the constraints of SNL . He’s flourished outside that system, and he shows off his whole range in this single sketch, flitting from friendly to menacing to pathetic as he tries to exact revenge on Robinson’s character for crying on a transatlantic flight when he was a baby, which so exhausted Forte’s character that he couldn’t fulfill his dream of making the guards at Buckingham Palace laugh. By Season 1 standards, this is a fairly long and elaborate sketch. But Forte, who fits the ITYSL ethos as well as any guest star in the series, lands the plane perfectly, even though he’s prevented from sitting where he wants. — Lindbergh

15. “Drive Thru” (Season 3, Episode 3)

I love when horror movies start with a prolonged sunny, playful opening—the tension between the film we are watching and the one we know we’re getting creates a building discomfort and anticipation that’s unique to the genre. Robinson manages something similar throughout I Think You Should Leave . By now, viewers are familiar with the show’s outlandish brand of comedy, and Robinson plays on audience expectations to great effect. Some of the series’ most fun moments come during the limbo before the sketch has veered off course—we know shenanigans will ensue, but we don’t know what will happen, exactly, or how.

In “Drive Thru,” Robinson accesses genuine charm as his character pays for the customer behind him in a drive-through line. At this point, after two-plus seasons of ITYSL , Robinson has primed his audience to expect absurdity to the utmost degree. Even so, nothing could have prepared me for what happens next: His character slams on the gas pedal and whips his car back around to the mouth of the drive-through line to take advantage of the pay-it-forward chain he started, shouting at another patron who arrives at the same time to “let me go first! I’m doing something!” His order, breathlessly shouted, has unsurprisingly become one of the series’ most quotable and enduring memes. “Drive Thru” is an instant ITYSL classic—the kind of sketch I could watch 55 times and laugh during each one. — Levy-Rubinett

14. “Laser Spine Specialists” (Season 1, Episode 3)

It seems like one of those medical ads you see on TV all the time, until Tim Robinson shows up and escalates in the most unexpected ways. First, Laser Spine Specialists have given his character the renewed strength to fight his wife’s new husband, Danny Crouse. Then he testifies to being able to lift his adult son over his head (“And there ain’t shit he can do about it”). Finally, in a truly sublime turn, the advertisement basically stops altogether and turns into a pastiche of a man confronting a sleazy record producer (Robbie Star from Superstar Tracks Records) who’s bilked him out of thousands of dollars.

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The final turn of genius here comes when the Laser Spine Specialists logo creeps back into the bottom-right corner of the screen, a subtle reminder that, oh yeah, that’s how this whole thing started. — Gruttadaro

13. “Prank Show” (Season 2, Episode 1)

Maybe I was just riding the high of starting the second season when I watched this for the first time. But here’s what happened: After the hot dog sketch segued into “Corncob TV,” I started laughing uncontrollably. When the latter stopped, I was gasping for air and crying with laughter; the muscles in my face hurt. Then this sketch started. By the time Robinson, laden with unrealistic-looking prosthetics, froze in a food court and yelled “I’m so hot!” and “We did way too much!” I was crying so hard my eyes were burning. To recap: “Karl Havoc” is so funny (and also so sad?), it made my eyes burn. What’s that do for the greater good? Actually, a lot. — Lindbergh

12. “Gift Receipt” (Season 1, Episode 1)

“The Gift Receipt” starts small, with a simple and relatable feeling of insecurity: Lev (Robinson) realizes that the decorative wreath he bought for his friend Jacob (played by the delightful Steven Yeun, conferring Oscar-nominee grace and leading-man gravitas to this batshit absurdity) might not be a very good birthday gift. That insecurity leads to the crossing of a societal line: A self-conscious Lev demands the gift receipt back, as proof that Jacob was telling the truth when he said he liked the gift. That doesn’t assuage the insecurity, though; Lev persists, and heightens, and there’s the bit.

That’s just the tree, though. What makes the sketch sing is all the garland and ornaments that Robinson hangs on it: Adding a little-boy poop joke, then mutating that by turning poop into “mud pies,” which later becomes “such a sloppy mud pie”; the notion that the unit of measure of toilet paper is the “slice”; a grown man screaming, “NO, I eat paper all the time!” followed by a seemingly sane character suggesting a resolution that, in the interest of scientific rigor, demands the ingestion of additional paper. The complete devastation of a friend group; the horrified shriek humans can emit only when they’ve seen a dead body. All this chaos, springing from that small kernel of self-doubt; all this laughter, coaxed out through an unyielding commitment to both throwing sliders with diction—fuckin’ “mud pies,” man—and exploring just how much Robinson can yell. (Answer: a lot.)

There’s a reason this one closes the first episode of the series, I think: In construction and emphasis, it feels something like I Think You Should Leave ’s mission statement, delivered loudly and unapologetically ... at a time when any normal person in your life would be seriously apologetic. — Devine

11. “Eggman Game” (Season 3, Episode 2)

It’s hard to put into words why a sketch about a guy playing a nonsensical computer game in which you feed eggs to a larger egg is so damn funny. It’s just the way that Robinson’s main character, Marcus, is so focused on winning this game—which, again, has zero logic—to the point of ignoring his coworkers.

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And how that obsession devolves into something much weirder when Marcus’s coworkers walk over to his desk and see an egglike character pulling its pants down to reveal pubic hair—all while Marcus, deeply interested, reiterates that he’s never made it this far in the game.

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And then that development leads one coworker to tell Marcus, “This is very serious—you can’t look at porn in the office.” Which leads to one of the funniest kickers in ITYSL history: Robinson, somewhat flubbing the line, proclaiming, “We should be able to look at a little porn at work.”

Like I said, it’s not really funny on paper. But when you watch it, you know you’re looking at a top-tier I Think You Should Leave sketch. — Gruttadaro

10. “Instagram” (Season 1, Episode 1)

One incredibly difficult thing I Think You Should Leave manages to pull off is instituting its own vocabulary, which then infiltrates our larger lexicon. Mud pies; sloppy steaks; Turbo Time; 50 black, slicked-back-hair wigs. “Instagram” is the sketch that’s all vocabulary. As Vanessa Bayer’s character tries to grasp her friends’ concept of being a little self-deprecating on social media, she unleashes a litany of gross terms and phrases that you’d never hear anywhere else but on this TV show. You know what? I’m just gonna list out all the best ones:

  • “Slopping down some pig shit with these fat fucks, and I’m the fattest of them all.”
  • “Load my frickin’ lard carcass into the mud. No coffin, please!”
  • “Gulping down some pig dicks with these bags of meat.”
  • “Sunday funday with these pig dicks.”
  • “Hope nobody gulps us.”
  • “Slurping down fish piss with these wet chodes.”
  • “Total tuna cans.”
  • “They’re mad because I won Best Hog at the hog-shit-snarfing contest. But I’m not mad ’cause we’re all loads of beef, sitting on the side of a highway, getting our butts sucked by flies.”

I just … it’s so beautiful. It’s so strangely eloquent. It’s enough to make you cry. Bae. — Gruttadaro

9. “Qualstarr Trial” (Season 2, Episode 3)

What begins as a couple of coworkers on trial for insider trading soon pivots into a merciless roast of one guy’s questionable fashion sense. As the prosecutor reads through one of the workers’ text messages, the conversation lingers on Brian (Robinson), who shows up to their office with a stupid hat. The icing on the cake comes back in the courtroom, when Brian comes into focus, still wearing that fuckin’ hat:

It’s somehow as awful as advertised, a fedora with safari flaps in the back. As Brian gets more uncomfortable in the courtroom, the texting transcript piles on the fedora-related indignities. By the time Brian gets angry in a meeting because he was asked to take the hat off (which he then tried to roll down his arm like Fred Astaire), I was guilty of secondhand embarrassment. — Surrey

8. “Which Hand” (Season 1, Episode 3)

Credit the quality of this sketch—in which a wife lashes out at her husband because he allowed himself to be humiliated during a magician’s routine—to the line readings. Every choice is spot on, from Robinson going full normcore with “If I didn’t have to drive, I would’ve probably taken them up on that bourbon flight—that’s so cool ” to literally everything Cecily Strong says (one highlight: “I’m glad you had fun, while everyone else had to watch an adult man jerk your little-boy dick off”). Watching Strong’s dissatisfied wife go up against Robinson’s beta husband will never not be funny. And it’s all underpinned by one undeniable axiom: Magicians do suck. — Gruttadaro

7. “Baby Cries” (Season 2, Episode 2)

Do babies cry spontaneously, or is it because they know that you used to be a piece of shit? That’s the question driving Robinson’s character in this sketch, after he attends a baby shower and the infant in question starts bawling when he tries to hold it. “I’m worried that the baby thinks people can’t change,” he tells the mother, a quote that’s permanently lodged into my broken brain. Robinson then goes into the details of his past life as a self-professed piece of shit: sporting slicked-back hair, rolling with his Dangerous Nights crew, and ordering sloppy steaks at Truffoni’s. It’s the deranged fixation on sloppy steaks—as in, pouring a glass of water on a sizzling slab of meat in defiance of the restaurant owner—that draws you in, especially when we’re whisked into a flashback of just what a night of sloppy steaks at Truffoni’s with the Dangerous Nights crew actually looks like. That the flashback is soundtracked by Ezra Koenig solidifies this sketch as an instant classic. All that’s left to do now is try a sloppy steak yourself. — Surrey

6. “Corncob TV” (Season 2, Episode 1)

Most reality-television parodies are as boringly manufactured as the shows that inspire them. But in typical ITYSL fashion, this one cranks up the shock knob to dangerously explosive levels and, well, smashes through the genre’s staleness. Coffin Flop is exactly what it sounds like: “Just hours and hours of footage of real people falling out of coffins at funerals,” says Robinson, a Corncob TV exec who looks and sounds like the kind of guy who’d watch a lot of Corncob TV. “There’s no explanation.”

And really, there doesn’t need to be. That’s the beauty of the bit: It skewers the vulgarity of bad reality TV while also kind of making the case for it. After all, who can look away from the sight of body after body busting out of shit wood and hitting pavement? — Siegel

5. “Summer Loving” (Season 3, Episode 1)

It was only a matter of time before I Think You Should Leave spoofed reality dating shows, and “Summer Loving” doesn’t disappoint. While the other contestants on the program are trying to win the affections of an attractive bachelorette, Robinson’s Ronnie has made it abundantly clear that he’s only interested in using the house’s awesome pool zip line. Ronnie’s enthusiasm is so intense that he keeps getting into fights with Mike from 360Zipline. (“He’s too rough with the rope,” Mike explains.) A montage of Robinson on the zip line is as glorious as it sounds:

I suspect that “Summer Loving” exists only because Robinson personally wanted to use that zip line countless times, and, well, who can blame him? — Surrey

4. “Darmine Doggy Door” (Season 3, Episode 2)

What’s the scariest thing you can think of? A pig in a Richard Nixon mask? Your wife getting flipped by a swing dancer eight times? Or another day of existential dread at your dead-end job? “Darmine Doggy Door” finds Tim Robinson’s pitchman confronting all three. After a property-line dispute causes his neighbor to unleash an unholy beast into his home, a sleep-deprived Robinson comes face-to-face with his fate. But staring down what he believes to be his certain death, his first instinct is neither fight nor flight. Rather, it’s acceptance: If he dies, he doesn’t have to show up at the office tomorrow. And getting eaten by this monster is better than getting eaten alive by the corporate machine. “That was the most consequential day of my life,” Robinson says, “because now I know I don’t like my work.” Sure, in the end, there aren’t monsters “on the world,” but the feelings this creature stirred in him were both terrifying and clarifying. And as for me, this much I know: For two minutes and 11 seconds, I thought this was the funniest thing I’d ever seen. — Sayles

3. “The Day That Robert Palins Murdered Me” (Season 1, Episode 5)

When a record company exec tells the auditioning band he’s looking for something new and original—a direct parody of Walk the Line —frontman Billy (Rhys Coiro) shoots his shot with “The Day That Robert Palins Murdered Me.” Billy’s country crooning piques the exec’s interest, but then his oblivious bassist (Robinson) jumps in with his own lyrics—which to his credit are original. He shrieks about skeletons coming up from the ground to pull people’s hair (up, not out), with lines such as “The worms are their money / the bones are their dollars,” as well as my personal favorite, “They’ve never seen so much food as this / Underground there’s half as much food as this.” It’s utter nonsense, and it’s utterly delightful. — Levy-Rubinett

2. “Focus Group” (Season 1, Episode 3)

Quiet, subtle moments aren’t I Think You Should Leave ’s strong suit. When I think about “Focus Group” now, though, several million viewings later, what I keep coming back to is the way it primes the pump.

Robinson introduces the premise: Ford is soliciting ideas from the public for a new car model. And then, on the second cut introducing us to the members of the focus group, about 10 seconds in, there he is:

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Bam . Center of the frame, crystal clear, a magnet drawing your eye: Ruben Rabasa , an actor with nearly a half century of credits , but one you feel positive you’ve never seen before, because just look at this dude . If you’d seen him before, you’d remember it.

The shot lingers on Rabasa for a beat, giving you a second to really drink in his presence as he looks across the table. At that moment, you don’t know that he’s looking at Paul, played by Kanin, who will soon become his nemesis in “wanting to do good at something that just doesn’t matter” —precisely the sort of making-molehills-into-mountains thematic bull’s-eye that this show so frequently aims for and hits. You don’t know yet that Rabasa’s mere seconds away from unleashing an avalanche of memeable moments like arguing for the necessity of sturdily constructed steering wheels in cars deliberately made too small, all delivered in an utterly infectious accent that’s equally powerful when raised to yell, “STINKY!” and lowered to hiss, “Who’s the most popular now , Paul?” You could not possibly anticipate the dab, or the bottle flip.

All you know, right then, is that you’ve never seen anything quite like this guy, and you’re already laughing, even if you don’t exactly get why. In other words: It’s the perfect standard-bearer for a sketch show blissfully and brilliantly unlike any other. “We’re looking at the monitor while you’re shooting, and it’s like having Brad Pitt,” ITYSL executive producer Akiva Schaffer told Vulture in 2019 . “Every shot is already the funniest sketch I’ve ever seen.” — Devine

1. “Brooks Brothers” (Season 1, Episode 5)

There are many memeable bits in ITYSL —see directly above—but none so broadly applicable and so satisfying to reference as the one about the driver of a hot dog car who tries to gaslight the patrons of an upscale clothing store (and sort of succeeds). On paper, there’s no way this sketch should work so well. But Robinson sells it so hard, and the visual gags are so good, that it’s one of the most memorable moments in a season stuffed with them. The surprise reveals of Robinson in his costume—yelling, “Yeah, whoever did this just confess, we promise we won’t be mad”—and innocent bystander/series co-creator Zach Kanin in his hot-dog-adjacent attire are topped only by the sketch’s signature line, “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.” In real life, the grifters are less likely to drive Wienermobiles, but their schemes are sometimes just as transparent—and just as liable to work anyway. — Lindbergh

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I Think You Should Leave's Brian's Hat Sketch Is the Show's Best

Tim Robinson's absurdist Netflix series, I Think You Should Leave, is a hidden comedic masterpiece and its greatest bit is all about Brian's hat.

Even in Season 3, it still seems unreal that I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson is a show that actually exists. After spending the better part of the last decade writing for iconic comedy series such as Saturday Night Live and Detroiters , Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin took their most ambitious swing yet: a surreal Netflix sketch comedy series that put Robinson in front of the camera. The series has amassed a cult following thanks to the infectious lunacy of its humor, and while both seasons are bursting at the seams with contenders for the series' best sketch, one stands out above the rest: the courtroom-set piece titled "Brian's Hat."

As a primer, audiences should know that I Think You Should Leave is not a typical comedy series by any stretch of the imagination. Robinson and Kanin's humor revels in discomfort, with the series often exploiting the tension found in an audience not quite knowing what is and isn't funny. The very first sketch of the entire series, "Both Ways," acts as a brilliantly effective introduction to I Think You Should Leave 's uniquely unsettling brand of comedy.

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I Think You Should Leave Takes the Normal and Makes it Absurd

Will Forte screams at Tim Robinson on an airplane in I Think You Should Leave

In "Both Ways," Robinson is wrapping up a job interview at a cafe. It seems to be going well, with him and the interviewer jovially saying their goodbyes as Robinson heads for the exit. When he reaches the door, he tries in vain to pull the door open, to which his interviewer responds with "Looks like you push." Robinson responds by saying the door opens "both ways" and proceeds to slowly pull the door open with a great deal of difficulty, exerting himself over the course of several minutes of runtime. After painstakingly breaking the door so that it will indeed pull open, he turns to look back at the interviewer and says, "See? Hope to hear from you soon."

This is a pretty perfect representation of the series as a whole. Robinson and Kanin's writing delights in taking the discomfort of nominal everyday occurrences and ratcheting up the tension to an absurdist, heightened degree. "Both Ways" is incredibly accessible and relatable on a narrative level: a nervous individual making a common mistake as they leave a job interview. And yet everything about its execution is positively anxiety-inducing . Robinson's unfaltering commitment to the performance, the escalating editing, the crescendoing dissonance of the musical score all work in support of the juxtaposition at the heart of I Think You Should Leave .

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Brian's Hat is Brilliant Courtroom Comedy

Tim Robinson makes a stupid face in I Think You Should Leave

Coming in the middle of Season 2, "Brian's Hat" is a startling culmination of all of I Think You Should Leave 's greatest strengths . It takes Robinson and Kanin's penchant for establishing genre fare only to immediately undermine it as well as their love of foregrounding escalating anxieties and blends those things together in the name of an engagingly absurdist work. The sketch opens with a series of shots played straight, all setting the table: viewers are thrown into the middle of a traditional courtroom drama, centering around insider stock trading. The prosecutor proceeds to read aloud from a list of text messages between the two defendants, which she claims will prove the illegality of their unloading of Qualstarr stock.

This entire setup -- from the narrative to the craning establishing shot of the courtroom with shallower-focused singles on the individual players -- is the kind of thing audiences have seen dozens of times before. It is straight out of an episode of Law & Order ; everything about it lulls viewers into a sense of comfort through the familiarity of what they are seeing. As the prosecutor begins to read the text messages, audiences are treated to flashbacks of the defendants engaging in the insider trading. These flashbacks are color-graded a deeper hue of blue -- another stylistic trope of traditional courtroom dramas that I Think You Should Leave exploits.

Crucially, even as the editing cuts back and forth between the flashbacks and the reactions of the defendants in the present, the prosecutor remains a constant. As she continues to read the detailed messages, her voice gradually reels viewers in. And then the sketch plays its hand: the prosecutor reads the text, "Oh my God, did you see Brian's hat?" In conjunction with this line, the camera's focus sharply shifts from the prosecutor to Brian, a man sitting in the gallery (played by Robinson) wearing what can only be described as a fedora with a flap on the back.

Any trace of the insider stock trading conversation vanishes as the texts and their corresponding flashbacks now focus entirely on the defendants discussing the stupidity of Brian's hat. Here, I Think You Should Leave innovatively weaponizes the visual language it so mundanely established in the opening moments, hijacking the conventions of the courtroom drama to give the sketch a wider canvas, as Brian's titular hat takes a beating.

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The Courtroom Sketch Showcases Everything Great About I Think You Should Leave

Tim Robinson dressed as a hot dog in an office in I Think You Should Leave

"Brian's Hat" has an obscenely simple hook: "What if a traditional courtroom drama centered around what the defendants thought of their co-worker's dumb hat?" But through its endlessly motivated cutting and meticulous setup, the sketch carves out a space to deliver I Think You Should Leave 's best work. As the prosecutor continues to read the texts, narrating over the flashbacks, she serves as the voice of each character -- including Brian himself. This results in the very monotonous tone of the prosecutor clashing against Robinson's unflinchingly committed absurdist performance in profoundly funny ways.

The sketch also makes excellent use of filmmaking to further heighten its gags. The focus shift on the reveal of the "Brian's hat" message is a perfect example, but the sketch is full of brilliant beats using the formal language and editing of the sketch to further accentuate the jokes. The sketch escalates to an insane degree, as the texts divulge increasingly personal trials and tribulations faced by Brian as a result of his hat, from it getting him in trouble at work to being the cause of an anxiety attack that turns his face "f***ing beat red."

I Think You Should Leave finds humor in elevating the discomforts and anxieties of social interaction to the forefront while embracing genre filmmaking and subverting expectations. What makes "Brian's Hat" such a standout sketch is the masterful way in which it blends the show's approaches in a singular fashion. No one else is making comedy quite like Robinson and Kanin, and while it may be unsettling, I Think You Should Leave remains essential comedy viewing.

I Think You Should Leave is streaming on Netflix.

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I Think You Should Leave Season 2: Ranking Every Sketch

From Dan Flashes shirts to some very sloppy steaks, I Think You Should Leave season 2 delivers another round of superb sketches.

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Tim Robinson as Karl Havoc in I Think You Should Leave season 2

How on Earth did we survive two years without new episodes of Netflix’s brilliant sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson ? The first batch of six episodes premiered on April 23 of 2019 and proved instantly iconic. 

Contained within the season’s roughly two-dozen sketches was absolutely hilarious and essential comedy that provided ample memetic kindling for the internet’s conversational fire. For the focused enough mind, it’s entirely possible to communicate with one’s friends exclusively in I Think You Should Leave memes. Lord knows, I’ve tried it.

Thankfully, ITYSL season 2 has finally arrived on Netflix after its COVID-19 delay. It features 28 sketches that range from “pretty funny” to “I can’t stop laughing. Oh God, I can’t stop laughing. It hurts, surely this is the end. Surely, I will die.”

Check out our rankings below and then begin yelling at our chances like Spectrum is dropping your network.

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28. Credit Card Roulette

If nothing else, Tim Robinson and I Think You Should Leave co-creator Zach Kanin are incredible comedy scouts. Through two seasons, the show’s sketches have been a who’s who of up-and-coming comedic talent, like the wonderful John Early who is featured in this sketch. Unfortunately Early is not served well by the material here, which doesn’t rise to the same ludicrous heights as season 2’s other sketches. The best moment is Early’s immediate resolve that he’s not paying the bill, but the sketch doesn’t go too far after that. 

27. Dave’s Poop Double

The sketch that serves as the cold open of season 2’s final episode doesn’t get things off to the best start. The concept of Tim’s “Luka” hiring a guy who looks just like his coworker Dave to take monster shits every time he gets up is certainly fun but missing an important layer of added absurdity. Luka is probably the best name for any of Robinson’s random characters yet though.

26. Little Buff Boys Pt. 2

Season 2 features many more callbacks to previous sketches than the first season did. This followup to Little Buff Boys is the worst of the bunch but still quite funny. Perhaps the only thing more absurd than a Little Buff Boys competition is someone being proud of running “one of” the biggest LBB competitions in the Greater Cincinnati area. This sketch also passes up an easy Cincinnati Chili joke in favor of creating the truly vile “cherry chuck salad.”

25. Detective Crashmore Trailer

This trailer for action thriller Detective Crashmore is funny enough on its own but doesn’t reach another comedic level until the AOL Blast interview two sketches later. Still, I unironically want to see an action film with a lead character whose main quip is “Eat fucking bullets, you fuckers. You fucking suck. You fucking SUCK!”

24. I Should Have Got That

I Think You Should Leave deserves a big spread in AARP magazine. No other sketch show revels in the talents of older comedians quite like this one. After 81-year-old comedian Ruben Rabasa stole the show in season 1, season 2 ups the ante with many more sketches letting old folks shine. It’s Bob McDuff Wilson’s turn this time around and his child-like obsession with his student’s burger kills right up until the shockingly dark kicker.

23. Office Surfing

“I almost killed myself, Jullliieeeeee” is one of the best line-reads of the season. The sketch it’s built around isn’t too remarkable but man, does Robinson knock that one out of the park. 

22. “No, I Don’t Know How to Drive”

This is a quickie but a goodie. Robinson’s characters break down in tears quite often this season and this is one of the better occasions. How far have Tim’s characters come – from reveling in the existence of four-wheeled motorcycles to looking at the inside of a car and weeping “I don’t know what any of this shit is and I’m fucking scared.”

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21. The Capital Room

Speaking of top tier comedic talent, thank God Patti Harrison stopped by another season of I Think You Should Leave . This time around, we get two heaping doses of Patti. This one, the first of the two, is the inferior but still quite great. In the span of roughly 30 seconds, Harrison unveils the saga of a woman who A. Got sewn into the pants of the Thanksgiving Day parade Charlie Brown float, B. Hates all bald boys, C. Sued the city and won a fortune, D. Is now helplessly addicted to wine, and E. Is tragically self-aware that her money will run out soon.

20. But It’s Lunch

Just like last year’s opening sketch, “But It’s Lunch” (this is probably a good time to mention, that I’m naming all of these things myself. You could very easily call this the Hotdog sketch but that would confuse it with last year’s hotdog sketch) sets the perfect opening mood. The sight gag of Robinson’s Pat trying to stealthily eat a hotdog is wonderful, and the fact that things so quickly escalate to hotdog surgery and puke is just sublime. 

19. Carber Hotdog Vacuum

The follow-up to “But It’s Lunch” occurs a full two episodes later and proves to be a hell of a pay-off. Robinson’s unnamed character (who is obviously Pat) very quickly reveals that there is one very specific reason he made this hotdog vacuum invention and you’ll never guess what it was. We all make mistakes. We shouldn’t be fired for them.

18. Insider Trading Trial (Stupid Hat)

This sketch somewhat mimics the experience of trying to explain what I Think You Should Leave is like to someone who has never seen it. “So, this guy took too small a slice of toilet paper…” or “…and then he has to have to have sex with his mother-in-law.” “Insider Trading” rotely describes the bizarre behaviors of one of Robinson’s deeply strange characters, Brian, as it’s being read into the court record. Brian and his stupid fedora with the safari flaps is in attendance to provide a visual aid. As are some hilarious flashbacks in which Brian attempts to roll the hat down his arm like Fred Astaire and instead encounters only wheelchair grease. 

17. The Ice Cream Store is Closed Today

Before he was a criminal lawyer , Bob Odenkirk was one of the most legendary sketch writers of all time. It’s only fitting that he stop by ITYSL season 2 to provide his comedic blessing. Odenkirk is great from the get-go but this one doesn’t really get rolling until the end when Robinson finds himself truly immersed in the fictional life of this sad old man. “His wife’s sick but she’s gonna get better” is a shockingly emotional moment amid pure farce.

16. Barbie and the Blues Brothers

This is the sketch that climbed the most in my rankings upon a second viewing. What first seemed to be a waste of Conner O’Malley’s manic comedic energy became a semi-classic once I submitted to its strange vibes. I don’t even know what to call this one but Robinson’s character refusing to stop dancing as Barbie the dog melts down is hilarious. O’Malley is better served by last season’s “honk if you’re horny” sketch, still he gets some bangers in this time around like “She thinks he’s a whole new guy because of the glasses and the hat” and “it’s her house, she’s doing what’s right!” Robinson once again closes this nonsense out with some well-earned tears. “It’s just me, Barbie. I’m not the Blues Brothers.”

15. Jaime Taco (I Love My Wife)

“Jamie Taco” is a prime example of just how rapidly (and how well) I Think You Should Leave is able to veer into pure nonsensical genius. At the top, this sketch comes perilously close to making an actual statement about how men are too quick to pretend like their wives are horrible nags. This sketch, however, has its sights set on something much dumber…and therefore better. Our hero (played hilariously by Richard Jewell ’s Paul Walter Hauser) loves his wife because she helped him through his darkest moment, which just so happens to be when snotty young actor Jamie Taco refused to let him say his Henchman lines in a play.

14. Comos Restaurant 

All hail the return of the great Tim Heidecker! Heidecker, of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! fame, is one of the few comedians with a strange enough sensibility to be reasonably seen as an I Think You Should Leave forerunner. His season 1 turn as a walnut-obsessed jazz douche is a classic and this one reaches similar heights. This time, Heidecker’s character, Gary, and his lovely date, Janeane (Tracey Birdsall), have good reason to be annoyed by their date night at the sci-fi cosmos restaurant being interrupted by some hacky jokes. Of course, they use this opportunity to reveal that Jeannine’s mom used to drink puke for the Davy and Rascal radio show to pay for school supplies. It’s oddly refreshing to have a Heidecker character given a game partner and Gary and Janeane make one great team.

13. Detective Crashmore Interivew

While the Detective Crashmore trailer is the setup, this interview with AOL Blast is the punchline. Detective Crashmore is played by Santa Claus, because why not? Actor Biff Wiff’s gruff, nasally Midwestern timber is the perfect accent to accompany this lunacy. This is a Santa who in one breath demands to be taken seriously as an actor (Billy Bob Thornton-style) and in the next admits to seeing everyone in the world’s dick.

12. Sloppy Steaks (I Used to Be a Piece of Shit)

From here on out, it’s nothing but absolute homeruns. “Sloppy Steaks” could very well have been number one on this list and few would have batted an eye. The setup here is amazing as it gives Tim Robinson a reason to essentially have beef with a baby. The baby cries because he knows Robinson used to be a piece of shit. But don’t babies understand that people can change? That’s funny enough to begin with, but the real gut-busting moment here is the reveal of what “being a piece of shit” really means. In this case it means slicking one’s hair back and dousing the steaks at Truffoni’s with water to make sloppy steaks.

11. Johnny Carson Impersonator

Just a quick rundown for those who are confused…

Johnny Carson = Can Hit. George Kennedy = Can’t Hit. George Bush = Can’t Hit. 

10. Driving School (Her Job is Tables)

This is the rare I Think You Should Leave sketch that actually provides an answer to all the lunacy. As Robinson’s character’s Driver’s Ed class watches Patti Harrison’s actress in some dated videos, they can’t help but wonder what she does for a living. “Tables,” Robinson answers over and over again. This would be funny enough on its own but the reveal that Harrison provides tables to Monster Cons is a rare and valuable moment of “Ohhhhh that’s why” for this show. Equally as valuable is Harrison, who really sells that those tables are her lifeblood.

9. Claire’s Ear-Piercings

One has to wonder how much time goes into choosing the perfect “order” for the sketches in I Think You Should Leave . Two seasons in a row now, the show has selected pitch perfect opening and closing sketches. This closing number is oddly melancholic as the Claire’s orientation video for girls who want to get their ears pierced somehow gives way to one 58-year-old man named Ron Tussbler’s existential dread. If we really get to see the “highlights” after we die, forcibly fake laughing every ten minutes to make the voyeuristic experience all the richer sounds like a good strategy and not sad at all. Hang in there, Ron.

8. Little Buff Boys Competition

What. A. Crop. It was a virtual certainty that ITYSL season 2 would feature a spiritual successor to the classic “Baby of the Year” sketch in season 1. Thank God “Little Buff Boys” is up to the challenge of replicating that magic. This one has all the right elements to be another hit: Sam Richardson (in a wig this time, no less), a grand pageant hall, and some precocious youths. Troll Boy also joins the canon of young ITYSL characters who everybody instinctively hates alongside Bart Harley Jarvis.

7. Tammy Craps

There’s something weirdly nefarious about this commercial for a poisonous doll that doesn’t have farts in her head anymore. It’s a criticism of late stage capitalism crossed with the cursed nature of the Annabelle movies…while not being like either of those things at all. In reality, this is just another absurdist concept sprung from the terrifying inner depths of the writing staff’s mind. It also happens to be a particularly great one. The girl weighing her clothes down with rocks so she can hit the magical 60-pound threshold to safely play with Tammy Craps is one of the best gags of the season.

6. Karl Havoc

“Little Buff Boys Competition” and another upcoming sketch are likely to produce the lion’s share of memes and quotes from this season of ITYSL . But the one quote that’s stuck in my mind most aggressively comes from this hilarious episode 1 clip. The sight of Robinson’s Carmine Laguzio posing as the dead-faced freakshow Karl Havoc and muttering “I don’t want to be around anymore” is quite simply one of the funniest things I’ve ever witnessed. This is a marvelous, unnerving, utterly hilarious sketch. That there are somehow five better sketches speaks to how strong this season is. 

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I Think You Should Leave is now two for two in introducing the most cutting edge items in men’s fashion. Season 1 featured the arrival of the highly practical TC Tugger shirt. Now season 2 ups the ante with the stylish Dan Flashes. This sketch succeeds because it takes a simple question “Why is Mike laying down during a business meeting?” and divines the most outlandish answer possible. Mike isn’t eating because he’s spending all his money on Dan Flashes shirts. 

4. Dan Flashes Pt. 2 (Hotel Menu)

It’s one thing to introduce a hilarious concept, it’s another thing entirely to put it into practice. This second entry into the Dan Flashes canon is amazing. Back in part 1, it seemed as though the intricate patterns on the Dan Flashes shirts have a hypnotic effect on men who look exactly like Tim Robinson. Seeing the reality of that – pasty men battling one another to get their credit cards to the cashier before the other – is truly hilarious stuff.

3. Coffin Flop

This is the second sketch of the entire season…the second! And holy shit, does it set a strong precedent for what’s to come. This impassioned message from the Corncob TV CEO for Spectrum to save his network and its precisely one television program is a masterclass in shock humor. Watching body after body busting out of shit wood somehow never loses its grim luster. Somehow, in a sketch that features dozens of naked corpses flopping to the ground unexpectedly, it’s Robinson’s monologue that hits the hardest. “This world is so fucked up. And people are mad at me because I showed a bunch of naked dead bodies with their spread blue butts flying out of boxes? Really?”

2. Calico Cut Pants

Every episode of I Think You Should Leave season 2 features five sketches save for episode 4 which has only three. And that’s because episode 4 is dominated by a near 10-minute epic called “Calico Cut Pants.” In many ways, Calico Cut Pants is the platonic ideal of an ITYSL sketch. It takes place in a nightmarish world where every bizarre action only leads to an even more bizarre reaction. Nothing ever cools down. There is always something stranger on the horizon.

In this instance, Mike O’Brien (longtime SNL writer and the creator of the terminally underrated comedy A.P. Bio ) plays an office drone who enters into a living hell merely because his co-worker helps him out of a mildly annoying social jam. Robinson’s character introduces him to a website that advertises pants with piss stains on them. That’s all well and good but once you know about Calicocutpants.com you Always. Have. To. Give. It’s like PBS, but more demonic. This remarkable sketch includes everything that’s great about this show, right down to characters with inexplicable idiosyncrasies like Tim Robinson’s adamance that doors must always be held open for him.

1. Ghost Tour

The funniest moment in ITYSL season 2 (and maybe the funniest moment in the history of the world) occurs in this sketch. Tim Robinson’s character has been admonished for his potty mouth during a ghost tour over and over again. The tour guide even said he’s ruining his job. But this poor man sincerely cannot understand why he’s in trouble. This is a tour for adults and he’s following the rules by using adult language. Like any good Robinson character, he truly believes that he’s the sane one and it’s the rest of the world that’s taking crazy pills.

So in his darkest moment, the man musters up his strength through tears and delivers the following query:

“Not trying to be funny. Not trying to get a laugh. I don’t want anybody to have the worst day at their job. But. Do any of these….fuckers….ever blast out of the wall and have, like a huge cum shot?”

Cue: riotous, damn near apocalyptic laughter. What a treasure and blessing this whole show is.

I Think You Should Leave season 2 is available to stream on Netflix now.

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Every Sketch From ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Season Two, Ranked

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This is an attempted ranking of the sketches in the second season of I Think You Should Leave . It will be helpful to go over a few things first, which I will address via bullet point:

  • This ranking, like all rankings, is subjective, and yours might look substantially different than mine
  • I’m doing the best I can
  • Please do not yell at me

Okay. Here we go. I’ve separated everything into four tiers, if only because this is all quite silly and adding tiers to it made it feel even sillier. That’s all we’re doing here. That and being thankful that the good show is back. So, those two things. But that’s it.

TIER IV — THESE ARE STILL GOOD SKETCHES

24. Credit Card Roulette (Episode 5)

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The thing I like about this one is that Hal seems like a legitimately nice and fun guy who likes to party. Credit Card Roulette is a terrible idea with a table that big unless everyone is flush with cash, but still. Hal seems cool. He didn’t deserve this.

23. The Little Buff Boys (Episodes 1 and 5)

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There’s nothing wrong with this sketch. It’s got so much going for it: Sam Richardson, Sam Richardson in a wig, little buff dudes in goose suits, a follow-up bit multiple episodes later from a franchise owner who eats at all the best restaurants in town. I think I just bumped it down because it made me miss the “Baby of the Year” sketch from season one. I don’t know. I’m sorry!

22. Stable Of Stars (Episode 5)

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This is why you need a nice coffee shop or restaurant in your area. In case your bargain-basement celebrity impersonators are hitting your guests. Remember this when house hunting.

21. Tim Can’t Drive (Episode 5)

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“You don’t want to help, you just want to yell” killed me because, like, yeah, sometimes we all do just want to yell a bit.

20. Huge Dumps (Episode 6)

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I need you to really think about the concept of this sketch, about a person hiring a lookalike of his coworker to wreck the company bathroom over 150 times. I need you to think about it for two reasons: One, it is maybe the purest window into Tim Robinson’s mind that we’ve seen yet; two, if you think about that, you won’t think about Jerry from Tom & Jerry sneaking around and smelling people’s underwear.

Profoundly disturbing. in a number of ways. Good show.

19. Corncob TV (Episode 1)

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My favorite thing here, coming in a close second to the general idea of a show called “Coffin Flops,” is that Tim Robinson has the full-on “stubble plus razor burn” situation going on here, which somehow sells the performance in a way no expensive makeup or prosthetics ever could.

18. Space Restaurant (Episode 5)

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I wasn’t in on this sketch until Gary revealed that his dad shouted “Never let the party die!” right before his execution. That could have been a whole standalone sketch, and they’re just out here tossing it off as a nonsense punchline. I have no choice but to respect it.

TIER III — THESE SKETCHES ARE ALSO GOOD

17. The Bob Odenkirk One (Episode 2)

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I like that Bob Odenkirk is in this one. I don’t know if I would like it less if another actor said all those things about owning doubles and triples of classic cars. I bet I would still like it if they had cast, say, Delroy Lindo. That might have been fun, too. But I definitely liked it with Odenkirk. Yes, I did.

16. Sloppy Steaks (Episode 2)

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Almost all of the sketches on this show have a twist. Not even a twist, really. More of a “someone grabs the wheel and yoinks the whole car off the highway” thing. It’s one of the things I like so much about the show, how it keeps finding new and fun ways to do that one thing over and over without it getting tiresome. A lesser show would whiff way more often. It’s almost a magic trick, really.

The point I am getting at here is, of course, slop up those steaks, boys. You’ve earned it.

15. Claire’s (Episode 6)

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Look, if you don’t see the humor in a mall-based chain of children’s jewelry stores showing people an ear-piercing testimonial from a ponytailed 58-year-old man named Ron who gets diarrhea when he gets nervous, maybe this isn’t the show for you. That’s fine. You’re missing out, on both this and presumably many other simple pleasures in life, but it’s fine.

14. Insider Trading (Episode 3)

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I love how far this one went. From the hat with safari flaps to the dice in the pocket to the full-on boardroom meltdown. I wonder if the hat was a Stanzo. I hear they’re nice.

13. The Dan Flashes Saga (Episode 2)

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Three things:

  • “Dan Flashes” is an incredible name for a store that sells shirts with complicated patterns, and it would be my favorite fake name on the show if we weren’t on our way to discussing Jamie Taco
  • I hope this brings back calling people skunks as an insult
  • Just a marvelous piece of business to follow this up later with a hotel television commercial

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12. Tammy Craps (Episode 6)

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The layers here are what I enjoy. The weight requirement is a result of a poisonous spray to cover up the fart smell; the little girl stuffing rocks in her pockets as a ruse to acquire a doll that poops; the whole thing kind of revealing itself to be a cigar commercial. But maybe my favorite thing: the fact that the main girl in this sketch is Julia Butters, who played the child star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood . What a powerful career she is building. I am serious about this.

TIER II — I ALSO HATE BALD BOYS

11. Chode Jeans (Episode 6)

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I laughed out loud, hard, when the “big wave” came and Tim flung the surfer off the table. And that was before it all got to the discussion about chode jeans. What a blessing this television program is.

10. The Hot Dog Saga (Episodes 1 and 3)

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See, you think the highlight here is going to be some poor dope choking on a hot dog he hid inside his sleeve during a work meeting over lunch, and then, two episodes later, everything goes 8-10 steps further with a commercial for a hot dog vacuum that features the same poor dope shouting, “You sure about that? You sure about that’s not why?” straight into the camera in what is either the smartest take on cancel culture you’ll ever see or the dumbest thing you’ll ever see regardless of category. Could be both.

9. Ghost Tour (Episode 1)

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It’s the real, genuine anguish on his face that sells this. The confusion and hurt, that he thinks he’s doing it right while failing miserably, almost crying as he asks about obscene things the ghosts may or may not be doing in the haunted house. That and his mom asking if he made any friends. It’s right on that line between hilarious and heartbreaking. Tricky line to dance on. Leave it to the experts.

8. Calico Cut Pants (Episode 4)

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I could not believe how long and twisted this one was. It just kept going and going, past the point of being funny and circling back around to being funny again. I think, at the end, Tim Robinson’s character revealed himself to be the devil? All for a sketch that started with drips of pee on some slacks. Part of me wants to know if Tim Robinson is, like, okay, but a bigger part of me is already waiting for season three.

7. Capital Room (Episode 2)

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Patti Harrison is the greatest. She is so funny in every sketch she’s in. Just the delivery on these lines. The wine ones. All of it. And it’s not even her highest-ranked sketch on this list. I feel bad for all my bald friends but this screencap is getting texted A LOT this week.

TIER I — I WILL BE QUOTING THESE FOR A WHILE, I AM SORRY

6. Jamie Taco (Episode 4)

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The wild thing about this one is that it’s actually a sweet story about a man with a supportive wife who loves him as much as he loves her, which is so much that he becomes filled with regret immediately upon making a joke at her expense with the guys.

And that’s great. But I will never get over a guy named “Jamie Taco” stealing lines in a community theater production by shouting them out before anyone else. Jamie Taco. Come on. Incredible.

5. Whole Different Guy (Episode 4)

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I don’t really have any great analysis here. It’s just a good sketch. I kept waiting for a second or third twist that made it darker but the twist was that the twist never came. And it wasn’t needed, it turns out. All it needed was dancing and barking dogs and Connor O’Malley shouting a lot. Please write that down if you are making a sketch show.

4. Professor Yurabay (Episode 3)

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Three notes:

  • The way he says “Give me that” is maybe the funniest single line-reading of the entire season
  • All of this building to that horrible joke at the end was delightful
  • This one is getting quoted in restaurants for many years to come

I’m just joking.

3. The Crashmore Saga (Episode 3)

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I’ve watched these two sketches — the trailer and the press tour interview — a few times already. The first time through, it was the twist that it starred Santa that got me. Then it was the lines of dialogue Santa had, like “You’re so dumb” and “You suck,” as he filled goons with bullets like a festive John Wick. By the end, it was the thing where Santa explained the concept of his quote and getting “two mill” next time even if he does a bad job. Who knows what it will be next? A real treasure.

2. Driver’s Ed (Episode 6)

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1. Karl Havoc (Episode 1)

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There’s a chance I’m overrating this one because it was early in the first episode and I was so amped up to be watching this show again after a long break, but there’s a much better chance that the idea of a guy in a ridiculous suit having a meltdown and asking “What’s that do for the greater good?” in the middle of filming a prank show is so strange and funny in a way no other show can wrap its arms around that it filled me to the brim with joy.

One or the other. Maybe both.

Season two of ‘I Think You Should Leave’ is now streaming on Netflix.

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U.S. Title : Buckled Tracks and Bumpy Cars

Air date : June 8th, 2017 (UK)

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It is a very hot summer on Sodor, which is causing many problems for the engines. Belle and Flynn are kept especially busy as many of the bushes are so dry they end up catching fire. As they travel down the line, they notice that the tracks have become slightly warped in the heat. Flynn proposes they cool the rails down with water, but as Flynn has no water left in his tanks and Belle wishes to save hers in case of another fire, they are forced to leave the rails alone.

Meanwhile, The Fat Controller has also been feeling the effects of the heat and later that day, Dowager Hatt arrives at Knapford Station aboard Thomas to deliver a present for him, in the form of a white safari-style hat, which will reflect the sun's rays rather than absorb the heat like his black top hat would. The Fat Controller feels silly with the white hat, especially when Thomas and some passengers laugh at him, but reluctantly agrees to wear it.

Meanwhile, the heat continues to warp the tracks, making them bumpier. As Whiff crosses over them, a glass bottle is knocked off his truck, which causes the nearby grass to catch fire. The Fat Controller is soon alerted to the state of the tracks and heads off to investigate. He attempts to dispose of his white hat on the way there, to no avail.

At the same time, news of the fire reaches the Sodor Search and Rescue Centre and Flynn and Belle rush off to tackle it. Unfortunately, before they can reach it, Belle derails on the buckled tracks. She urges Flynn to tackle the fire himself before it spreads, which he does so once he switches to his road wheels. Thomas later brings Rocky to lift Belle back onto the rails just as the Fat Controller arrives. When Thomas learns that his white hat has kept him cool, he proposes that, if the rails were painted white too, they would not bend.

The Fat Controller approves of the idea and soon the tracks are repainted in white as the day draws to a close. Despite this, the Fat Controller's white hat is still laughed at, much to his annoyance. He throws his safari hat to a nearby goat, only to find out that the goat did not like it and threw it back at him, giving him more grief as the others start laughing.

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  • Big "NO!" : The Fat Controller says this after failing to throw his safari hat out of his car.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase : Sir Topham Hatt : Oh, the indignity! Gordon : That's my line!
  • Butt-Monkey : Sir Topham Hatt trying to get rid of his white safari hat, with no success.
  • Even the Rats Won't Touch It : The Fat Controller tosses his safari hat to the goat, but it turns out that it doesn't like it and threw it back at him.
  • The Freelance Shame Squad : The passengers and even the engines are amused of the Fat Controller wearing his safari hat.

Alternative Title(s): Thomas The Tank Engine S 20 E 17 Buckled Tracks And Bumpy Trucks

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Sir Topham Hatt's Hat

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Sir Topham Hatt's Hat is the forty-eighth episode of the first series of Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go .

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  • 7 In Other Languages

When Sir Topham Hatt's Hat blows away in the wind before making an important announcement, Thomas and his friends race around Sodor, trying to catch it, though the hat remains out of reach until they learn to work together.

Characters [ ]

  • Sir Topham Hatt
  • Gordon ( cameo )
  • James ( cameo )
  • Emily ( cameo )
  • Annie and Clarabel ( cameos )
  • Troublesome Trucks ( cameos )
  • Farmer McColl ( mentioned )
  • Great-Grandfather Hatt ( indirectly mentioned )

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  • Tidmouth Sheds
  • McColl Farm
  • Crovan's Creek
  • Brendam Docks
  • The Windmill
  • The Dark Woods
  • Vicarstown Museum of History
  • Aaron Barashi as Thomas
  • Henri Charles as Percy
  • Sade Smith as Nia
  • Henry Harrison as Diesel
  • Chloe Raphael as Kana
  • Eva Mohamed as Carly
  • Holly Dixon as Sandy
  • Will Harrison-Wallace as Cranky
  • Tom Dussek as Sir Topham Hatt
  • Meesha Contreras as Thomas
  • Charlie Zeltzer as Percy
  • Talia Evans as Nia
  • Shomoy James Mitchell as Diesel
  • Ava Ro as Kana
  • Jenna Warren as Carly
  • Glee Dango as Sandy
  • Cory Doran as Cranky
  • Bruce Dow as Sir Topham Hatt
  • Going by production order, this is the forty-ninth episode of the first season.
  • This episode's plot is similar to the original series episodes Topped Off Thomas and Emily's Winter Party Special .
  • Percy references a fragment of his Mail Delivery Song .
  • The 75 years of the original top hat's use might be a reference to the 75th anniversary of the Railway Series in 2020, around the same time the episode was written.
  • When Sandy says "Okay" after the engines zoom past her, her mouth does not move.

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  • 2 List of Steam Engines in Thomas & Friends
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Safari hat guide.

As part of your sun protection strategy, we definitely recommend that you pack a wide-brim safari hat for your next safari - or for any time spent outside in the sun. With average high temperatures reaching mid-20 to mid-30 degrees Celsius on most safaris and with many safari areas - such as in Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, and Zambia - high above sea level, the effects of the sun will be pronounced and the risk of being burnt by the sun will be high. The same is true during summer time when you venture outside at home. The following advice may be used to decide on which men's safari hats , women's safari hats , and children's safari hats to shop for and pack. To make finding the best safari hat really simple for you, we have also included our safari hat range below this advice section. Shop knowing that you are buying a hat designed and tested for the sun of Africa - which makes them perfect for anywhere where the harsh ray's of the sun becomes a factor.

What features should a safari hat have?

  • Wide-brim : First and foremost a safari hat must prevent your face and neck from being burnt by the sun. While some people do wear baseball-style safari caps, they simply are not as effective at protecting you from the sun as a wide-brimmed safari hat is. So please do the sensitive skin of your neck & face a favour and opt for a wide-brim safari hat. The brim itself on your safari hat should not be too flimsy nor too stiff. A flimsy brim does not provide adequate shade, and a stiff brim will catch more wind when you move, and is harder to pack. Our safari hats all have brims which stay horizontal when they need to, but are soft enough to pack. Rain & the benefits of wide-brim safari hats : There is also another unexpected benefit to wearing a wide-brim safari hat: wide-brimmed safari hats offer a measure of shelter when it rains. We find that a wide-brimmed safari hat definitely makes it slightly less uncomfortable when you are caught out outside on a walk - or on a game drive on safari - and it starts to rain. Whether the rain is just a drizzle, or a heavy downpour, wearing a wide-brim hat means that your face - or most of it - remains dry.
  • High Ultra-violet protection rating : As your hat is your main protection from the sun, always opt for safari hats which have as a high an Ultra-violet protection factor (UPF) rating as possible. The UPF rating is a measure of the protection the hat affords your skin from ultra-violet radiation. The majority of our safari hats have a UPF of 50+ - which is the highest rating we know of today. Please also always wear a very good sunscreen whenever you go into the sun.
  • Safari-suitable colour : Colour is important when choosing a safari hat - with neutral shades such as khaki, green, or brown the best. Your safari hat will often be the most conspicuous part of you quite simply as it is your highest point - and it is rarely hidden behind bushes or grass. While darker colour hats also have the advantage of staying cleaner for longer, a balance between safari-suitable colours and selecting colours which are cooler in the sun is the ideal. This is why all our Rufiji & Mara&Meru hats are made in various shades of brown and khaki - and we have not gone for too dark a shade in selecting our hat fabrics.
  • Packable : Modern wide-brimmed safari hats are conveniently packable too and so do not lose their shape when you take them out of your luggage. If they have lost a bit of shape, you are usually easily able to manipulate them back into shape. Hats made from soft leather tend to be the most packable, while canvas hats should be placed with the brim flat on the surface of your other clothing in your bag. Please use commong sense when packing your hat and never crush your safari hat under a hard object - such as shoes or binoculars - when packing. A few of trial and error practice runs should be used to work out the best way to pack your hat.
  • Adjustable : While many safari hats made from leather do sit quite firmly on your head once you have the fit just right, we recommend safari hats which have some way of adjusting the fit so that it will always sit comfortably on your head - and stay there when things get a little windier or active. All our Rufiji & Mara&Meru safari hats have a built in adjustable band on the inside of the hat for this very reason.

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Explorer Canvas Wide-brim Safari hat, by The Safari Store

Your safari hat should have a wide-brim

Indie Safari Hat which is UPF50, by The Safari Store

Choose a safari hat with a high UPF rating

Serengeti Safari Hat in Safari Suitable Colour, by The Safari Store

Select a safari hat made in safari-suitable colours

Explorer Leather Wide-brim Safari hat has all the key safari hat features, by The Safari Store

A safari hat should also be lightweight, packable, adjustable, & have a removable neck strap

Safari hat questions & answers.

We provide answers to questions we are frequently asked about safari hats

How many safari hats should I pack for my safari?

1 x wide-brimmed safari hat per person.

Note: *Don't forget to pack and use a safari beanie for the winter time too.

Can I wear white hats on safari?

The same rule which applies to clothing, applies even more so to safari hats - and so the answer is "no, please do not wear a white hat on safari". From a game viewing perspective white and black are the two most conspicuous colours on safari and so are best avoided - and of course your hat is by far the most visible part of your body in the bush. As a worst case scenario, your guide may not allow you to go on a walk if you are wearing a white hat. From a practical perspective white gets dirty quickly and can be ruined by the dust & mud on a safari.

What type of safari hats should I avoid?

While the romantic in us all may wish to wear a traditional pith helmet on safari, these are impractical as they are difficult to travel with and are much heavier than modern hats. Ironically, they are now one of the worst hats to wear on safari. White hats should be avoided too (see the question above this one), as are baseball caps which offer very little protection from the sun.

What is the best safari hat for sun protection?

Any safari hat which combines these two features will provide high-level sun protection: Made from fabric which offers an Ultraviolet Protection Factor (UPF) rating of 50+; a wide-brim which affords good shade. It really is as simple as that. Of course the other features listed above all add to the equation of what makes a great safari hat. For example a hat is no good if it does not stay on your head and so an adjustable hat with a neck strap is better than a safari hat which is not adjustable and has no neck strap.

Can I look stylish in my safari hat?

Classically designed safari hats always look great. Made in safari colours - and with designs which feed back into the bygone era of travel for inspiratin - safari hats are always in fashion and have a timelessness. They are also suitable headwear for more than just safari of course.

Are safari hats good for the outdoors too?

Our safari hat advice is advice you can trust. our safari hats are designed & expedition-tested to be the best.

Our main reason for existing - and the very reason why Steve founded The Safari Store - is to improve the enjoyment for all our clients of the safari & outdoor experience. To achieve this we are constantly testing and trying new designs, ideas - and make it our primary focus to study new technologies and apply them through clever garment engineering in the products we make for your next adventure. Our process can be summarized as: research, design, sample, discuss & expedition test, refine sampling, wearer test for comfort, and then make and stock ready for your next adventure.

We also have a unique understanding of safari. We have experienced Africa & Safari not only from birth - as we were all born & raised in Africa - but also on every level. Steve spends two to three months of each year camped in a tent under a tree with his partner Claire - with no back-up or facilities - in the wildest places he can find in Africa just to live in our clothing and gear. This provides another layer of lifestyle & comfort testing for our products and it is an invaluable part of our process. We have also done it all: from grassroots sweating it out on expeditions to staying at the finest lodges. We have broken down, got lost, been stuck in mud/sand, had tyres puncture, walked our way out of car trouble, paddled, walked, ridden bicycles and horses, climbed sand dunes and mountains - just to understand Africa and the outdoors better. We have needed cotton wool to stop bleeding from cuts and scrapes on expedition, and experienced what it is like to be treated like cotton wool by luxury lodges. This grass roots to gold taps understanding of safari is what sets us apart. We apply all this knowledge into creating quite simply the best products and providing unbiased, well thought out advice. We sweat, so that you don't have to.

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The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (2010)

Stripy Safari: Nick and Sally set off on a safari with The Cat in the Hat to find all kinds of stripes. Along the way, Sally and Nick discover that stripes mean different things to different... Read all Stripy Safari: Nick and Sally set off on a safari with The Cat in the Hat to find all kinds of stripes. Along the way, Sally and Nick discover that stripes mean different things to different animals - the stripes of Jake the coral snake tells other animals to stay away, and Zelda... Read all Stripy Safari: Nick and Sally set off on a safari with The Cat in the Hat to find all kinds of stripes. Along the way, Sally and Nick discover that stripes mean different things to different animals - the stripes of Jake the coral snake tells other animals to stay away, and Zelda and Zoran's zebra stripes help them to identify each other. And best of all, Cat discover... Read all

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The Best Safari Hat for Travel

Safari hats are a timeless trend that are great for all levels of exploration activities. Whether you are birdwatching, hiking, spending a day on the beach or snapping photos on your African safari these hats are the perfect accessory to provide protection and comfort while never sacrificing style.

Originally called the pith helmet and donned by European explorers in the mid-19 th century, the safari hat has gone through many transformations through the years. The hard clam-like shell has given way to softer more flexible fabrics and the color selection has expanded.

However, the safari hats purpose has remained the same. To protect against the elements while exploring potentially harsh terrain. So, what makes the best safari hat? Here are a few key factors to consider.

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  • Best in Function: Lethmik Outdoor Boonie Hat
  • Best in Style: Einskey Sun Hat
  • Best in Sun Protection: Tirrinia Unisex Safari Sun Flap Hat
  • Best Unisex Hat: Tilley LTM6 Airflo Hat
  • Best Packable Hat: Henschel Crushable Soft Mesh Aussie Breezer
  • Best Women’s Hat: Eddie Bauer Women’s Exploration UPF Hat
  • Best Men’s Hat:  Dorfman Pacific Safari Hat

How to Choose the Best Safari Hat

What to look for in a safari hat.

Safari hats come in a wide range of designs with a variety of potential accessories, but there are a few major components that all the best safari hats share.

Now that we have become immensely aware of the ill effects of sun exposure, protecting our skin has become crucial. It is the pivotal purpose of a safari hat, so you want to make sure you get what you pay for.

The best safari hats are going to have a brim of at least 2.5 inches which will shade your neck, face, and ears even in the harsh suns of the African Sahara.

Comfortable

Obviously, you want anything you will be wearing all day to have a certain level of comfort. This is especially true for something you are wearing on your head.

If the hat is uncomfortable you run the risk of a headache ruining your fun. You want to make sure that the safari hat fits snug but not too tight. You also want to be sure there are no itchy or agitating material where the hat touches your skin.

It is important to stay cool when in high temperatures and direct sunlight. That is why the breath-ability of a safari hat is so important. You release most of your body heat through your head so without airflow, a hat can turn your crown into a sauna increasing your body temperature greatly.

The best safari hat will have some form of breath-ability whether that be through the fabric used or mesh windows.

Chances are if you are looking into a safari hat that you intend to travel with it somewhere. That is why the best safari hats will be “crushable”. This means that the hat can be packed down flat in your backpack or suitcase and will return to its original shape when you are ready to wear it.

This will help you conserve valuable luggage space without jeopardizing the integrity of the hat.

Each material for a safari hat is going to come with its own advantages and disadvantages. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular material options.

Leather safari hats are long-lasting stylish options that give off the classic adventure Jurassic Park/Indiana Jones feel. They are durable and offer great protection against scrapes and tears.

Unfortunately, they are also the most expensive option on the market. Leather safari hats also lack airflow and can’t be crushed down into your suitcase like other options. These are a fashionable accessory but lack practical features.

Nylon is a popular material in the safari hat arena. They tend to be breathable, durable and affordable. These hats are lightweight and can be stuffed into a backpack or suitcase without losing their shape.

The bright colors also don’t get washed out in the sun. Yet, they are usually not as stylish as leather and are more susceptible to tearing.

Cotton is by far the most comfortable material used in safari hats. They are soft to the touch and don’t agitate the skin when you are sweating. Cotton safari hats are also affordable, breathable and lightweight making them exceptional across a range of outdoor adventures.

The biggest concern with cotton, however, is that it does not hold up well in heavy rains and can become soggy and deformed.

Wool safari hats are perfect for colder conditions. They have an impeccable ability to trap heat and maintain their shape even in the rain. On the flip side, they lack the breath-ability needed for warmer climates and take much longer to dry out if exposed to moisture.

Additionally, if you have ever worn a wool sweater, you know how itchy this fabric can be. If you do opt for wool make sure there is a comfortable band on the interior to prevent your forehead from chaffing.

Polyester is the most widely used material in safari hats. It covers all of the essentials by being resistant to shrinking, wrinkling and stretching. This durable long-lasting material helps your hat keeps its shape and color through years of use and is lightweight and comfortable.

The only downside of polyester is that it is slightly less breathable than cotton and tends to stick to perspiring skin.   

Helpful additions

Now that you have a better idea of the basic elements of the best safari hats it is time to look into some helpful additions you may want to consider.

  • Chinstrap: this is a great feature displayed in many safari hats that keeps you from losing it in windy conditions.  
  • Mesh crown: besides choosing breathable material, a mesh crown or mesh ventilating windows give you the maximum about of airflow, keeping you cool in the hottest conditions.  
  • Moisture-wicking internal band: this feature will help to keep sweat from dripping down your face and into your eyes.
  • Water repellent: if you expect you may want to use your hat in rainy climates you may want to look for something that has some sort of water repellent coating to help keep your hat’s shape and allowing you to see.

Insect Prevention

If you are going on an African safari it is important to be aware of and proactive about the insect-borne illnesses that you may come in contact with. Mosquitos, tsetse flies, and ticks can cause major problems as well as being a general nuisance.

So, safari hat manufacturers have come up with some prevented measures for these concerns.

Permethrin Treated Hats

Permethrin is an insect repellent that is helpful in fighting against mosquitoes. Having a permethrin-treated hat can reduce your risk of exposure to malaria-spreading mosquitoes but is of little assistance when it comes to ticks and tsetse flies.

It is always a good idea to take this added precaution if you will be in infested areas.

Roll Down Mesh

A roll down mesh picks up where permethrin leaves off. Having this mesh will not only protect against mosquitos but also prevent ticks and tsetse flies from taking a nibble.

A roll down mesh coupled with a permethrin treatment will keep your top half as protected as your Deet soaked bottom half while out in the wild. This mesh can become a feature attached to the safari hat or as an accessory that can be draped over the top.

Best Safari Hats: Our Recommendations

Panama Jack safari hat

Men’s Panama Jack Sun Hat  

Panama Jack Safari Sun Hat for men with 3″ brim, ventilated mesh sidewall, Coolmax sweatband can is comfortable, durable and packable. Perfect for the adventurer in you, the original Panama Jack castaway safari hat is rugged, lightweight and highly resilient!

Crafted from Supplex nylon mesh and Coolmax sweat-resistant materials, this packable men’s hat is designed with a nylon chin strap, adjustable toggle, and 3″ brim. With availability in fossil, ivory and navy colors and medium, large and x-large sizes, we will have you covered for your next journey.

  • Coolmax to keep you dry during workouts , adventure, and leisure
  • Coolmax sweatband 
  •  UPF of 50+ protection
  • Ultra-lightweight mesh
  • Supplex nylon
  • Soft touch of cotton with extra strength and durability  

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Pistil colton Safari Hat

Men’s Pistil Colton Hat 

Breathable enough for the outback but right at home in town, the Colton keeps you cool and covered. This men’s full-brim hat is made of rugged twill with a mesh crown for ventilation. The soft interior sweatband absorbs moisture.

  • Adjustable closure
  • Full brim provides sun protection
  • UPF rating of 50+
  • Brim fabric is a smooth but rugged twill
  • Mesh crown for breath-ability
  • Adjustable chin cord with bead
  • Brim length: 3″
  • Soft interior band for comfort

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Conner Bounty Hunter Hat

Men’s Conner Bounty Hunter Hats  

The Bounty Hunter hat is made with water-resistant cotton-poly blend and has a distressed look like leather. Features a shapeable brim so you can create your own style and a chin cord for windy days. 2.75″ brim. 5″ crown height.

Shapeable brim. UPF 50+. Chin cord with secure toggle. Organic cotton sweatband. Organic cotton inner pouch with care instructions.

What is weathered cotton? It’s a mixture of cotton and polyester that gives the hat a leather-like look and feel, as well as water-resistant capabilities.

  • Organic Cotton
  • Chin cord with a secure toggle
  • Water-Resistant
  • Shapeable Brim
  • Organic cotton sweatband
  • Organic cotton inner pouch with care instructions

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Women’s Eddie Bauer Exploration UPF Wide Brim Hat 

Bring this hat to the beach, on hikes, boating adventures, or anywhere else you’re exposed to the sun. FreeShade® UPF 50+ technology helps shield your head and face from sunburn.

The lightweight polyester is moisture-wicking, and it floats.

  • Moisture Wicking
  • Adjustable chin cord
  • 3.5″ wide brim
  • 100% Polyester

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Women’s Columbia Sportswear Bora Bora  

This Booney-style hat features an adjustable chin strap to keep the hat in place, whether it’s on your head or against the back of your neck. Either way, UPF 50 protection with Omni-Shade keeps harmful rays at bay.

Made for the fishing enthusiast, this sun hat features built-in UPF 50, an ultra-sweat-wicking headband, and a mesh vent panel for days on the water. Be sure to bring the Columbia Bora Bora Booney II Hat along when you head out in sunny climates.

The wide brim and UPF fabric protect you from the sun. Be safe and protected. Omni-Shade blocks UVA and UVB rays to help prevent sunburns and long-term skin damage. The tight weave construction with UV absorbent yarns block the full spectrum of harmful UV rays.

  • 1″ high
  • 13″ wide
  • Signature wicking fabric with sweat-wicking capabilities
  • UPF 50+ 
  • Mesh breeze-inducing vent
  • Omni-Wick quickly removes moisture

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Coolibar Hat

Women’s Coolibar UPF 50+ Marina Sun Hat  

We believe everyone deserves the right to an active, outdoor lifestyle in the sun, so we promise Coolibar clothing and accessories are UPF 50+. Sun protection is our sole purpose. That’s why we custom design, produce and offer technically elegant styles in proprietary fabrics that block 98% of UV rays.

As trusted experts in sun safety, we know the more you’re covered, the more you’re protected, and the more you’ll enjoy a carefree life outside. We’ll never compromise on protection. We’ll never skimp on quality.

We’ll always test our fabrics for UPF 50+ protection like your life depends on it – because it does. Welcome to health, happiness, and Coolibar life in the sun.

  • Protective asymmetrical brim
  • Circumference: 22 1/2 inches
  • Woven polyester shell
  • Moisture-wicking internal headband
  • Travel-friendly
  • Packable and crushable
  • Recommended for everyday use

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What’s the Best Safari Hat for Women? Travelers Vote for the #1 Option

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Going on safari? If your next adventure is under the beating sun and you’re looking for something to protect your head, here are our reader’s suggestions for the best womens safari hat styles!

Safari Hats

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Here at TFG we know that when you are out on vacation you want to look your best, but also have quality sun protection to keep yourself cool in the desert heat. 

Safari hats are a great all around option for a trip across the savannah or a hike through a national park. Our readers give you their top recommendations of comfy (and stylish) headwear to choose from!

Safari Traditional Style Outdoors Hats

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Tilley Endurables Unisex Hat

Readers’ Top Pick: Tilley Endurables

The Tilley Endurables comes highly recommended as TFG reader’s top womens safari hats. Not only can this hat shade you from the sun, but it can help in the rain too!

One TFG reader shares, “ Just spent January in Africa and I packed a straw hat and baseball cap, it worked out ok, but my husband had the Tilley Endurables and it’s awesome. It packs flat and it has sun and rain protection – super wished I would’ve got one.”

Made from nylon and polyester, you simply need to throw this desert hat into the washing machine when you get home. Readers love this style and swear “ They’re amazing and look great on anyone.”

You’ll want to look your best when you travel! Read my travel tips to Pack Light Stylishly !

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Duakars Outdoor Sun Hat

Outdoor Safari Hat for Women

If your travel style features a lot of ponytails, then the Duakars Outdoor Sun Hat might be the best pick for you. Recommended by readers, this hat has a wide brim to protect your face from the sun and a back opening for your hair.

This hat has SPF 50 to block out harmful rays and is designed to keep you cool with its lightweight mesh panels. One TFG reader shared that they took a Duakars with her on safari and loved it.

Read our complete guide to find out exactly what to wear on safari !

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Columbia Bora Bora Booney Hat

Moisture Wicking Hat

There’s no denying that it gets hot out there on safari, and one great way to beat the heat is to go with a fast-drying hat to keep the sweat off your forehead. And for the occasion, TFG readers recommend the Columbia Bora Bora Booney Hat .

Built with moisture-wicking in mind, this traditional fishing-style hat also works amazingly for safari. One TFG reader shares, “I like my Columbia! It’s khaki, crushable, wide brim, and water-repellant.”

You can get this hat a number of great neutral choices so you don’t stick out and ward off the animals!

Here’s all you need to know about what to wear on safari !

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Sunday Afternoon Quest Hat

The Sunday Afternoon Quest Hat is another great choice when it comes to moisture-wicking styles according to TFG readers. This hat is designed to block out 98% of UV rays that beat down to help you stay safe in the hot sun. One TFG reader explains that she “definitely needed it.”

Choose from three colors (and go with the sandstone or olive for a safari safe color). This hat also comes with a chinstrap to ensure it stays secure to your head.

Find out what to pack for safari – these are ten things you absolutely need!

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Outdoor Research Seattle Sombrero Hat

Safari Gore-Tex Hat

For great African safari hats, the Outdoor Research Sombrero is no exception. Made from gore-tex, it’s both machine washable and packable.

One TFG reader shares, “I just bought an Outdoor Research Goretex Sombrero type hat and love it. It’s fashionable and functional at the same time.”

Keep reading for tips on what to pack for Kenya and Tanzania for your next safari and island resort vacation!

Non-Traditional Safari Hats

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ChezAbbey Military Hat

Military-Style Hat

If you’re looking for more function and less flop, then ChezAbbey Military makes great desert hats and might be more your style. This casual lightweight safari cap is budget-friendly with a price tag of under $10 and gives off a down-to-earth travel vibe.

This option is made from breathable organic cotton twill material to keep you comfortable even in the beating sun. Plus the handy peak shades you, to keep you cool.

Take a look at these ultra-minimalist safari packing list !

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Lanzom Wide Brim Straw Panama Hat

Panama Sun Hat

The Lanzom Straw Panama Hat   “looks sharp”, with a traditional look and can work for travelistas looking for extra coverage due to its wide brim. This hat provides a practical but elegant look with its lightweight and breathable material.

A TFG reader shares, “I’ve had it packed in my suitcase for over a month now. When I took it out the other day to rearrange things it didn’t lose its shape. And it’s pretty squished in right now!”

Follow these tips for a luxury vacation from South Africa to Zimbabwe!

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Scala Cotton Hat

Cotton Packable Sun Hat

The Scala Women’s Cotton Hat might be a good choice if you’re looking for a casual but versatile option to shade your face from the sun. It has an optional fold-over brim so you can wear it multiple ways.

It has UPF 50+ sun protection to keep those harmful rays off your face and a drawstring closure to keep it in place. And don’t worry about crushing it in your carry on because it rolls up or crushes for packing without losing shape.

TFG readers highly recommend this brand, with one reader sharing, “I have a collection of Scala hats that are all packable. Tons of different colors and brim widths.”

Here are my tips on what to pack for Africa on a trip that includes a safari and beach!

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Henschel Aussie Breezer Hat

Aussie Breezer Hat

This packable hat, with a wide 3-inch brim, has a UFP 50+ rating to keep you shaded and cooled in the hot sun. The Henschel Aussie Breezer comes highly recommended by readers.One shares, “This is my favorite hat, I have used it to travel all over, not just on safari.”

If you have a larger head and find it hard to find a hat that fits, this one has different sizes (instead of one size fits all). Plus, it has a handy chin strap that keeps it in place in windy conditions.

These Africa travel packing tips will help alleviate some stress!

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J Crew Packable Straw Hat

Packable Straw Hat

The J Crew womens sun hat packable straw is made from raffia, maintains its shape, and fits true to size. TFG readers have shared that this hat is durable. One says, “I have a dent or two in it after shoving it into backpacks and suitcases for a couple of years, but it has held up well.”

If you’re not a fan of its black band, you can simply remove it. If you want something a bit more shady, check out the wide brim straw hat style as well.

Check out Travel Fashion Girl for a packing list that takes you from safari to city!

Safari Hats Comparison Chart

Reader tips for picking a hat.

Choosing the perfect hat for your adventure travels might seem daunting because there are so many choices out there, but TFG readers shared some great tips for picking the best style for your next trip.

Reader’s recommend going with a neutral hat color . Specifically, they suggest going with an option in an olive, fossil, brown or medium grey, as bright colors can ward off animals and hinder your safari experience. This also means that a black safari hat is a no go too!

One reader also suggests going with a floppy hat to give your face the protection it needs when you’re out there in the sun all day. But make sure to protect your floppy hat by choosing one with a strap to secure it in place.

Readers also recommend that you look at functionality when choosing the best hat. As one reader warns, “Temperatures can go from 90 degrees during the day to 50 degrees (or less!) at night.”

But here at TFG, one of our most important choice factors is comfort level . Make sure your hat suits your style and you feel comfortable and confident wearing it. You can definitely dress both smart and stylish for your travels!

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Compass Rose Packing Cubes

How to Pack Your Hats

Many of our readers use packing cubes to roll up and organize their clothes. Compass Rose packing cubes allow you to do so by number and color so you know where you packed everything, even when you use the cubes to separate outfits. Learn more in the video below.

Learn about our hacks with packing cubes in this video !

We also put together a five-part YouTube series showing the different methods to use packing cubes for travel. If you use this specific packing strategy, packing cubes can also compress your belongings. This is the secret to traveling carry-on only!

What are your top picks for the best safari hat? Share your thoughts below!

Looking for more travel accessories? Please read:

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