“Almost to a point where I said …, ’Does this look terrible? I think this looks really, really bad.’” “It was such a funny process working with because they just kept wanting it to be crazier,” Chamberlain says. Chamberlain then thought of trying out graphic patterns.Īfter mocking up about five synthetic polyester shirts at Silvia’s Fabrics, a costume shop in Los Angeles that often makes outfits for musicians, the team settled on one shirt inspired by the ‘90s 3-D pipes screensaver, with some bold crescent moons thrown in for good measure. “That started to get too grandpa and almost kind of cool,” she remembers. She tried out a look that recalled vintage Bugle Boy shirts, but those were out too. “So it didn’t look like we vomited a bunch of stuff on it, but something that did not look right.”Ĭhamberlain initially worked up roughly eight or nine designs inspired by Big Lebowski-esque bowling shirts and images of Jeff Goldblum clad in Prada shirts that mishmash the likes of flames and Frankenstein heads. It had to at once encapsulate something wild and deeply uncool with “some bit of balance,” she says. After they relayed their concept to Monica Chamberlain, the costume designer for “I Think You Should Leave,” she racked her brain trying to design the ideal Dan Flashes pattern. But the two found that “once you start putting patterns over patterns it starts to turn into nothing,” Robinson recalls. When he and Kanin first started writing the sketch, they imagined the shirt as having “s- going everywhere” and overlaying several patterns together. “It’s actually surprisingly kinda hard to make,” Robinson says of conceptualizing the now-iconic Dan Flashes garb. In a turn that seems plucked from the show itself, a brewery in Maine has even taken the “complicated” pattern to dress up one of its new beers: a triple IPA aptly called My Exact Style. TikTok is rife with fans decked out in bootleg Dan Flashes shirts or dizzyingly patterned getups that seem tailor-made from the fictional store. The shirt in question that Robinson dons in the sketch - a mess of clashing patterns, a Web 1.0-style screensaver meets a maximalist, knock-off Versace blouse - has inspired a fashion movement since it appeared on Season 2 of “I Think You Should Leave” last year. I mean, you walk by a store and you see 50 guys who look just like me fighting over very complicated shirts? You go in.” “Did I tell you they have a shirt there that costs $2,000 because the pattern’s so complicated? Later, he adds: “Dan Flashes is a very aggressive store. “Sir, you’re gonna love this: I found this badass store called Dan Flashes that’s my exact style,” he wearily tells his boss as he lays supine on the couch. In the Dan Flashes sketch, Robinson plays a man on a business trip who’s slowly deteriorating because he keeps spending his meal per diem on flashy men’s shirts. Then there’s perhaps one of the most iconic of all: The Dan Flashes shirt - an image of Robinson donning a loudly-patterned shirt that crops up almost daily online to describe anything from the most detailed-looking photograph of a human cell ever captured to the Met Gala red carpet media blitz. Postal service, or the car focus group guy who just wants a good steering wheel that doesn’t fly off when you’re driving.
Take the enduring resonance of the hypocritical Hot Dog Man, which has been repurposed to describe the likes of the Capitol riot and Donald Trump acting as though he didn’t denounce U.S. The forthcoming third season of “I Think You Should Leave,” which was announced Friday, is poised to be no different. The show’s approach to this rich, cringeworthy terrain of the human experience has taken on another life through the many memes spawned by its characters since its first season premiered on Netflix in 2019. “I Think You Should Leave,” Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin’s cult sketch comedy show, plumbs the absurdity of small misunderstandings and people’s panicked mentality when they’re backed into a corner.
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