I Think You Should Bracket Begins, Plus…Another Announcement

Three items on the bracket front.

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First, my parents watched the first two episodes of I Think You Should Leave last weekend. They started by watching two episodes of Paw Patrol so they could better understand the interests of their two-year-old grandson. Then, they watched two episodes of I Think You Should Leave so they could better understand the interests of their 28-year-old son. They were a little alarmed, but who can blame them, having seen Bart Harley Jarvis like that?

This doesn’t really impact you, but I thought I’d share it with you all anyway. It is unclear if my parents will be voting in this next bracket (They didn’t seem to like the whoopie cushion sketch as much as I do). Since you’re still reading, though, the update on The Biggest Weirdo is that we’re thinking we’ll do the championship on Thursday.

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Second, we’re getting our next bracket set up, and we need your help. The bracket will be titled America’s Backbone, and it will consist of 64 regional chains. Buc-ee’s. QuikTrip. Wawa. Sheetz. Culver’s. Whataburger. In-N-Out. Waffle House. Casey’s General Store. If it’s a chain and it’s regional, we want it in this bracket, and we’re asking for your help, because we have only lived in a few regions in this country.

Please nominate your nominees using this form. We’ll be accepting them until Thursday night. Preliminary voting will be held over Memorial Day Weekend if we have more than 64 nominees.

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Third, we’re starting I Think You Should Bracket, our bracket of the 59 sketches from the first two seasons of Tim Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave, the third season of which is scheduled to be released a week from today. Let’s get at that.

The full bracket is below, and the show is on Netflix if you want to watch—each of the first two seasons is somewhere around two hours in length. If you’ve seen the show but you want a refresher, these lists of scenes from Netflix and The Ringer were helpful for us in constructing this thing.

We did have to give a few byes, but we tried to do this in a way that still got us to each of the classics within the first round. We gave first round byes to the whoopie cushion sketch and the Blues Brothers sketch because they’re among my personal favorites, and to the one where Tim Robinson’s character is caught bringing in a double of his coworker Dave to take huge, embarrassing dumps because a bye fit well into that spot in the bracket. We’re giving a second round bye to the winner of You Can’t Skip Lunch vs. Coffin Flop because of how iconic those two are and the challenge they therefore face against one another in the first round.

We’re going to be rushing through this bracket, which means there will be weekend voting. We’re doing this for two reasons: For one, we put it off so long that the topic won’t be all that relevant come Tuesday, when we’ll have another 30 new sketches or so. For another, this is a niche bracket. Not all of our followers have seen ITYSL, so we’re going to run this in the background and try to not lose too many people who are anxiously awaiting the weirdos and the regional chains.

As always, there are two ways to vote: Instagram and the Google Form. As always, there is one rule with the voting: Be cool. In our case, it means not to spam the vote. You know who’d spam the vote? Bart Harley Jarvis.

Here’s the link to our Instagram, where voting is live in our stories.

Here’s the link to the Google Form.

Instagram voting will be live until the stories expire. Google Form votes will be accepted if they’re in prior to 4:30 PM EDT tomorrow, Wednesday May 24^th. We’re going to try to get right on the second half of the first round tomorrow morning, but we’ll see if there are scheduling conflicts.

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Ok. That was all the items. Now, to discern our own votes.