Nathan For You

absolutely brilliant episode

This was fantastic. Exactly what I needed tonight.

Smokers Allowed was pretty incredible, and really shows Nathan for You at its best. Like, the "I love you" exchange - what's real? What's not real? If someone is feeling something, is it real? Did he really cry? Isn't that an honest emotion? Felt like a wonderful moment, so was it? And then the brilliance of flipping it into a punchline, not just for her erstwhile acting partner's intense reaction shots but also for the payoff at the end with the fake bartender. Just amazing all around.

someone found his old blog from ten years ago, hard to tell exactly how serious any of this is but it's entertaining

http://www.nathanjoseph.blogspot.com/

lol @ this picture
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/297/4329/1024/shuswap%20043.jpg

tonight, there is a "traffic light party" at the bar -- wear red if you are taken, yellow if you are taken but willing to compromise, and green if you want to hook up.

i have decided to wear red because my theory is that women want what they can't have.

truly, he is the wizard of loneliness

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/297/4329/400/vicpics%202021.jpg

i feel sure he desperately wishes this had remained buried.

can't you make new blog posts look old w/ blogspot? part of me wants to believe this is all made up recently for an upcoming episode. like why would it pop up now?!

the pictures are definitely of young nathan and the storylines on that blog FEEL authentically early twentysomething

re: the "people want to be on TV" thing, any of the small business owners probably consider it free advertising.

I love you.

Say it again.

can't you make new blog posts look old w/ blogspot? part of me wants to believe this is all made up recently for an upcoming episode. like why would it pop up now?!

you can (he moved all the "guest blogmaster" posts to 1990) but I think this is for real. his Youtube channel is full of old videos from around that time which are just as dry.

jesus christ smokers allowed was fantastic. that 'nathan' is this horribly lonely man desperate for human contact and love but prevented by his delusions and vanity from achieving it is always this nice touch in other episodes but my god it paid off there. i also thought the girl and the actress playing 'ellen' were kinda shockingly good though i guess that's la, and it was perfect if predictable that ellen wouldn't really be able to pull off 'ellen' as well as the actress. loved the guy staring at the audience both times. the tag showing both productions side by side was great. i get some ppl's complaints that the show is mean spirited i guess (i mean a huge percentage of his business proposals are basically 'what if we exploit a loophole to commit fraud') but so often you have such amazingly natural and yes awkward (but not in a miserable way necessarily) moments of genuine humanity.

http://i.imgur.com/kAzxVMD.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Im37oRMRE

Nathan's old band!

http://wildryce.tripod.com/

"Wednesday Nite" is cracking me up ..."Wednesday...on a Wednesday night...it's on a Wednesday night"

"I gave them your names, so it would be more realistic", my god

also lol@ the kid morphing into Nathan

So what do people think--was the sex box segment real? If anything on Nathan For You were going to be outright faked, that would have to it. I know some stage parents will agree to put their kids in just about anything, but that would be too far... right?

Highlight of this week: "coming off the thrill of go-kart racing, I wanted to harvest Brendan's blood as quickly as possible."

p sure it was edited so there never was a kid in that box while the sex was happening

That's what I assume, too. Unfortunately, that means that the bit where Nathan gives the porn stars the parents' names (which was a brilliant example of the show's ability to ratchet up the tension in an already-awkward scene beyond what the audience expects) wasn't genuine, since with no kid in the box there would be no reason for the parents to be in the room.

the build-up to his racist mock-asian accent was excruciating and also peak nathan

So what do people think--was the sex box segment real?

this has been in the back of my mind too hahaha

if it was real, imagine explaining this to the Comedy Central legal dept before attempting

yeah, the "asian accent" to the stunt driver was uncomfortable enough that i had to leave the room.

to say nothing of the confession of stealing that poor guy's urine. more or less up to the end, i thought nathan had finally broken my ability to not feel sorry for these poor schlubs he tapes. But you know what, the guy really had a good time at Knotts Berry Farm! I think he was cool with it! I wanna believe they hang out occasionally still.

i don't see why the kid COULDN'T be in the box if the parents consented! what are the legal ramifications?

Both the parents and Nathan can be arrested for endangering a child?

"Oh no, your honor, the box three feet away where we hired people to moan and jizz was SOUNDPROOF, we did a test"

well i'm sure whatever they had the parents sign gave them the right to put the kid in that position so where's the endangerment? Unless he gets stuck in the box. That's what I was worried about!
but yeah, it was probably staged.

I'm not a lawyer, but paying someone to jizz feet from a child's head is probably illegal even if the parents say it's ok unless you are in Finland

xp replace with murder box and think about what you are saying

i hate to tell you but murder is illegal even if you get everyone's consent first

So is whatever is happening to minors in a sex box is my point

so if forcing a child into seeing adults having sex is illegal and you are putting a child in a box that will do this illegal thing if it fails, you have to be endangering a child I'd think? then again maybe a car/airplane/etc. qualifies as a "murder box" in this scenario, so maybe the legality is more ambiguous than it first seems.

since the motive is just profit or entertainment, though, I'd think it'd still be endangerment.

Sort of the flip side of the robot built to depants him in front of kids, isn't it?

do you guys not remember the Claw of Shame episode?

I am fascinated by Nathan's hand gestures this season.

This old Nathan gig segment really got me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rw-43W4Plg

renewed for a 4th season.

great news, can't wait for tonight's episode

oh wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lC3zb7fNW4

I made this my wallpaper

http://i.imgur.com/7miuvyN.png

p sure it was edited so there never was a kid in that box while the sex was happening

― gr8080, Friday, December 4, 2015 3:37 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk why this would be

obviously he's lying about needing to 'test' the box's soundproofing

http://www.gq.com/story/nathan-for-you-season-3-qa

Speaking of those other segments, where are we headed with the personal arc of Nathan, this socially awkward guy who can't seem to find his place in this world?

That's always prominent. I try to draw as much as I can from real experiences and feelings I've had and bring them into the show. This season, structurally, we have more full stories that span an entire episode. I'm thinking about identity a little bit more this year. The season culminates in a finale that I think is the most ambitious thing I've ever done. It took me eight months of physical training just to pull it off. I can't go into specifics, but it's very elaborate and really crazy (laughs). A lot of things that happen this season will culminate in the finale.

i am a little worried about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu0D5mhjDyc

Yeah it's almost frightening...I heard him say that on the Best Show. It's kind of hard to imagine what could out-concept episodes like the robot pants-puller.

"most people your age sort of grow out of that mentality..."