He winks in corroboration at Odenkirk, sitting one table over. The younger guy, played by series creator Tim Robinson, tells his daughter a white lie, that the ice cream machine is not working. Odenkirk played an older gentleman who happens to be sitting in a restaurant across from a younger guy and his daughter. His essence, his appeal, his average-guy-from-Naperville face and receding hairline, his unsettling alchemy of empathy and delusion - it all landed perfectly in line. Some day, when the final history of comedy is written, let it be known that last summer, on the fringes of Netflix, during the cult sketch series “I Think You Should Leave Now,” for three and a half minutes, humanity achieved peak Bob Odenkirk.
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