I Think You Should Leave Skit Ranking: A systematic review and meta-analysis
June 12, 2023
Multiple websites have ranked the best skits in “I Think You Should Leave.” I wanted to analyze them a bit and compare those rankings to my own opinions. The plots and tables below show a few different rankings of all the skits from Seasons 1-3. I aggregated the data in this spreadsheet, which you can contribute your own rankings to. Plots were generated using this Colab Notebook.

Top skits


Most underrated and overrated skits


Best and worst episodes
The best episode was Season 2, Episode 4, according to my rankings
- My Wife (#8)
- Blues Brothers (#9)
- Calico Cut Pants (#2)
The worst episode was Season 3, Episode 4, according to my rankings
- I’d Wanna be Mike (#49)
- Pacific Proposal Park (#82)
- Gelutol (#56)
- Farewell Ronnie (#78)
- Shirt Brothers (#39)
Some other stats
- Most underrated skit from season 3: “Dog-eared hair”.
- My rank: #14, average rank: #51
- Most overated skit from season 3: “Pacific Proposal Park”.
- My rank: #82, average rank: #50
- Season 2 skits were ranked the best (average rank=34). Followed by season 1 (43) and season 3 (49).
- Skits starring Tim Robinson were more highly ranked than those that did not
- Top 5 episodes: 100% Tim Robinson
- Top 10 episodes: 80% Tim Robinson
- Top 50% episodes: 71% Tim Robinson
- Bottom 50% episodes: 49% Tim Robinson
- Bottom 10 episodes: 30% Tim Robinson

Data sources
You can easily load the data from myself and the 8 websites below in python by running: pandas.read_csv('https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ohrGvph_ALF7NICLiDsa3g-ZnNKUhcDC1DpLdYC7jrE/export?format=csv')
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- https://consequence.net/2023/06/i-think-you-should-leave-sketches-ranked-tim-robinson/12/
- https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/i-think-you-should-leave-sketches-ranked-tim-robinson-best/i-think-you-should-leave-season-2-capital-room-sketch/
- https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/i-think-you-should-leave-tim-robinson-every-sketch-ranked-1234770232/
- https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/7/20/22583930/i-think-you-should-leave-sketches-ranking
- https://www.polygon.com/23737241/every-i-think-you-should-leave-sketch-ranked-best-to-worst-itysl
- https://variety.com/lists/best-i-think-you-should-leave-sketches/drive-thru-pay-it-forward-season-3-episode-3/
- https://www.looper.com/1122605/the-12-best-i-think-you-should-leave-sketches-ranked/
- https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/i-think-you-should-leave-best-skits-netflix-tim-robinson/