The essential episodes of Nathan for You
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Nathan for You — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Comedian Nathan Fielder gives marketing advice to small businesses in this series, which begins with a campaign for a frozen yoghurt shop to offer an unconventional flavour; and a plan for speedier pizza delivery.
- 02
Nathan helps a department-store Santa who's harboring a dark secret and develops a marketing plan for a petting zoo. Also, a teen is nabbed doing graffiti.
- 03
Gas Station / Caricature Artist
Nathan helps an independent gas station by devising the world's greatest rebate. He also attempts to make a fledgling caricature artist famous.
- 04
In this special episode, Nathan performs a daring escape in which he risks a fate that is truly worse than death, and failed business ideas from the season are showcased.
- 05
Nathan sets up a fake film shoot in an effort to boost sales at a Hollywood souvenir shop, but his plan gets complicated when he discovers that he may have committed fraud.
- 06
Nathan makes use of parody law to open up a coffee shop nearly identical to Starbucks in its branding and appearance.
- 07
Nathan clashes with a giant corporation when he tries to help a struggling electronics store.
- 08
Nathan comes up with a way for a ranch to accommodate overweight riders; a women's boutique attempts to appease male customers by creating a "Man Zone"; after discovering that the maker of his jacket had published a tribute to alleged Holocaust denier Doug Collins in its catalog, Nathan starts a holocaust awareness-themed clothing company of his own, Summit Ice Apparel.
- 09
Nathan provides a moving company with free labor by developing an exercising fad known as "The Movement".
- 10
Nathan discovers he can allow smoking at a bar if he presents it as a "play" to an audience of two; Nathan stages a re-creation of the scenes as an actual performance.
- 11
A plan to protect women's nail polish from chipping goes awry, and Nathan addresses his worst personality flaw.
- 12
Nathan impersonates another person in an effort to turn them into a humanitarian hero.
- 13
Nathan reteams with an old client to enlist several disgruntled taxi drivers for a plot to sabotage Uber's business from the inside.
- 14
Nathan hones his storytelling skills.
- 15
Nathan attempts to help a Bill Gates impersonator reunite with his long-lost love.
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