The Eggman Game from ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Is Real and It’s Definitely Not Porn
You can’t look at porn at the office, but you can play “The Eggman Game.”
I Think You Should Leave Season Three is already inspiring online adoration and fan projects for its fresh crop of absurdist, over-the-top sketches showing the minutiae of familiar awkward situations blown up into bizarre, epic proportions. One of the most popular scenes in the new season shows Tim Robinson in a cramped office furiously playing a computer game about, um, an eggman who eats eggs, while his boss and coworker ream him out for poor performance.
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The game itself is explicitly nonsense and follows no logic familiar to the sane, but that didn’t stop an unidentified fan (or fans) from nearly perfectly recreating the game in-browser at egggame.org. The facsimile is so convincing that, apparently, Robinson thought that website was launched by the real prop game’s creator, Alec Robbins, who spoke to Vulture about his viral nonsensical invention.
“They had the idea for the game already,” Robbins said of the origins of The Eggman Game. “I knew it would be something you play at work where you drag eggs into a guy’s mouth, and that the game is nonsense and starts to fall apart the further you play. As soon as I read the script, I was like, ‘Okay, I know what this needs to be.’”
Robbins was a production coordinator on the first season of I Think You Should Leave and is also a game developer at Squanch Games, Justin Roiland’s game studio, which was responsible for the recent comedy video-game hit High on Life. As a video-game professional, Robbins understood the importance for The Eggman Game to actually be playable instead of a simple animation imitating play.
“If you hire an animator to do it, that makes a lot of sense, because making a game seems insurmountable if you’re working in TV,” Robbins explained. “But if you do it that way, you run the risk of not getting the feel of the game correct. I think a lot of the magic with I Think You Should Leave is getting that plausibility nailed down. This egg game is so much funnier if you can really envision yourself stumbling on it, like, ‘Okay, so I drag the eggs and… Wait, the counter isn’t working right? Am I doing something wrong? Is the game being mean to me?’”
On the topic of the fan project, Robbins said that the unofficial version of The Eggman Game is much more playable than his actual invention, even if it’s missing some details. “The fully playable real game is filled with things that no longer make sense because of the way the sketch was edited. And, by design, the game doesn’t really function. Even in the sketch it doesn’t work,” he continued.
“It’s really cool that a fan put this together!” Robbins said of egggame.org. “I talked to those people, and that one is great. … They didn’t have the actual assets, so they had to re-create the egg drawings, and they’re slightly off from what I drew, but they really nailed it,” adding, “I think Tim (Robinson) actually thought I just uploaded that game. He was like, ‘Oh, you didn’t make that? That’s not the real one?’ I was like ‘No, a fan made that!’”
We’re still waiting for a fan to give us an IRL version of “Coffin Flop.” Let’s stick it to Spectrum and save Corncob TV.
