I Think You Should Leave got the perfect dead eyes, butthole for the egg game

polygon.com:

There’s a lot of comedy in I Think You Should Leave that goes beyond the realm of believability, finding humor in the absurd and utterly impossible. But season 3’s egg game sketch features a game that is, actually, very real and very functional.

As captured in the sketch above, Tim Robinson’s character is trying to idly play a computer game while a colleague talks to him about his (poor) work performance. Ignoring his colleague, Robinson’s character quickly gets frustrated that the game seems to be fucking with him. The game he’s playing isn’t real — though there are certainly online versions made by fans since the show aired — but it was an actual game made for Robinson to play on the show, created by comic artist Alec Robbins.

Robbins says that co-creators Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin had already figured out the general concept of the game for the sketch beforehand: The player would move a collection of eggs, one by one, into an egg-shaped character’s mouth, with a nonsense scoring system keeping track of it all. It was Robbins’ job to visualize what the game should actually look like based on that. His goal was to get the look just right — on every detail.

“I tried a bunch of different faces and body types [for the egg character] — we had a scared-looking one, a horny-looking one who was really excited to be fed, and even a more humanoid one wearing a suit,” Robbins told Polygon over email. “The guys really liked when it looked dead-eyed, though. Just dead-eyed and staring at you, munching eggs.”

Robbins comes from a comedy and game development background (you might know his work from Mr. Boop, to name just one of his ventures), and he felt uniquely suited to this task that would marry the two. He tried out a few