I'm most of the way through the season and I would have to agree. It's still very enjoyable, but it feels safer than the previous seasons. In season one and two it felt like Tim Robinson was really swinging for the fences, and being rewarded for it. This season it's like he's just trying to get on base. He succeeds in doing so, but the impact isn't quite there.

My theory: Robinson has said that a number of ITYSL sketches came from stuff that was rejected by SNL, so he started with a strong backlog of concepts and even written material, and he had a fair bit of time to let it all roll around in his head. It might be that he's already put the best of that stuff into the show, and now we're seeing more fresh material based on the tone and direction of the previous seasons, and it's not quite as thoroughly developed.

I still got a kick out of it. The whole ponytail guy sketch was wild. I thought it was hysterical when the guy across the street puts his hand in the dog poop and Will Forte laughs triumphantly, despite still being stuck under the car. I'll have to finish the season and give it a second pass, it deserves that much.