Nathan Fielder loves an elaborate plan. In the TV show that made his name, Nathan for You, the Canadian satirist played an exaggerated version of himself – affectless, sexless, awkward yet oddly confident – who offered terrible advice to real-life business owners. He meets a restaurateur, for instance, who is struggling to get permission to sell his chili con carne inside a nearby hockey stadium. Fielder ‘helps’ him by inventing a heat-resistant body suit that he fills with the chili, smuggling it into a game and dispensing it through hidden tubes; in a subplot, he tricks a doctor into thinking that he has a pacemaker to get a medical exemption that allows him through the stadium’s metal detectors.
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