The Making of the Egg Butthole on 'I Think You Should Leave'

Alec Robbins spent weeks thinking about anuses. It was fall 2022, and Robbins, a cartoonist and game designer by trade, had been given a curious task: design an egg character for a video game to be played on Netflix's sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave. And there was one part of the character that had to be just right for the gag to land. In the bit, show creator Tim Robinson was going to be playing an office worker goofing around on a (fake) vintage Mac game where the goal was to feed eggs to a bigger egg. Land enough eggs in his mouth and the anthropomorphized egg would reward the triumphant player with a peep show. Thus, Robbins' butthole had to look like a real prize.