Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | May 7, 2026
Zach Bryan is a lot. He’s done a lot of asshole things in his career. He told a teenage fan to get off his di**. He called concertgoers Karens for wanting partial refunds after lightning ended his set early. He has an ongoing feud with a guy named Gavin Adcock that has produced, among other things, a fence-jumping incident I’m not going to get into. He is a very talented musician, but he also seems to attract controversy wherever he goes.
To wit: This week, Bryan drove past a fan outside Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi during a stop on his tour — the first full-stadium concert in Mississippi State history, by the way — and the fan asked for a photo. What the fan got instead was Bryan leaning out his car window and shouting: “You think any ghosts ever come out of the walls with a big cumshot?”
The fan, who is apparently a longtime devotee, posted a TikTok. Called it “kinda crazy.” The internet, which never misses an opportunity to pile on, agreed. Bryan responded by calling his fans “soft & weird,” then deleted his Twitter and Instagram accounts
But here’s the thing: Bryan was quoting I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson. Specifically the “Ghost Tour” sketch from Season 2, in which Robinson plays a man on an adults-only haunted house tour who interprets “you can say whatever the hell you want” as an invitation to ask the tour guide, repeatedly and with escalating commitment (as is the Robinson way), about the sexual anatomy of ghosts. It’s one of the funniest four minutes of television ever produced. It is, I would argue, mandatory viewing for all Americans.
This should not be a controversial position. I Think You Should Leave rewards huge fans and punishes the uninitiated. If you don’t know the ghost tour sketch, that’s on you. It is a you problem. Bryan was not being cruel. He was not being dismissive. He was doing what any reasonable person does when they see an opportunity to deploy a Tim Robinson reference, which is deploy it immediately and without hesitation. YOU WOULD DO THE SAME THING!
Should he have called his fans “soft & weird” and rage-quit the internet? Maybe not. But that’s Zach Bryan for you. He’s moody. But yelling of an obscure Netflix sketch comedy line out a car window at a stranger? Listen: A world where you can’t scream Tim Robinson quotes out your car window at random people is not a world I want to live in.
You should watch it now so that you never get caught unawares if a famous musician yells a Tim Robinson line at you out of his car window.
