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* AsHimself: Nathan Fielder plays himself in the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ0ecJm-pnI How To With John Wilson - Anatomy of a Scene The Bread Scene + Nathan Fielder Tik Tok House]], which portrays him as a creepy control freak who runs a Tik Tok house and might be a pedophile.


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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ0ecJm-pnI How To With John Wilson - Anatomy of a Scene The Bread Scene + Nathan Fielder Tik Tok House]] starts out as a discussion of the show and how it was made by John and Nathan Fielder, only to randomly shift halfway to focusing on Nathan running a Tik Tok house filled with teenaged boys, with the implication that he is grooming them.
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''How To with John Wilson'' is a documentary comedy television series created by and starring filmmaker John Wilson and produced by Creator/NathanFielder. It premiered on HBO in 2020, and its second season premiered in 2021. It has been renewed for a third season. The series follows John Wilson as he tries to give advice while filming the streets of New York City. In each episode, he tries to make a tutorial answering a different topic. Throughout the episodes, he meets a variety of interesting people and witnesses strange situations. Much of the show's humor comes from the bizarre people he meets and the [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Funny Background Events]] he films.



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''How To with John Wilson'' is a documentary comedy television series created by and starring filmmaker John Wilson and produced by Creator/NathanFielder. It premiered on HBO in 2020, and its with a second season which premiered in 2021. It has been renewed for a 2021, and its third season.and final season in 2023. The series follows John Wilson as he tries to give advice while filming the streets of New York City. In each episode, he tries to make a tutorial answering a different topic. Throughout the episodes, he meets a variety of interesting people and witnesses strange situations. Much of the show's humor comes from the bizarre people he meets and the [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Funny Background Events]] he films.


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* MurderSuicide: A man John met at a vacuum collector convention says that someone killed his wife and then shot himself, and the bullet went flying into the vacuum collector's aunt's house and hit the vacuum. He still owns the vacuum.
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* CelebrityCameo: Many celebrities make brief appearances in "How to Work Out" when John takes part in a television awards show.
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* StunnedSilence: John is left speechless after a personal trainer who unknowingly trained one of the 9/11 hijackers was proud of his former client for achieving his goals using his training.

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* ConspiracyTheorist: John meets a believer in MandelaEffect conspiracy theories and goes to a conference filled with theorists on the effect.

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* ConspiracyTheorist: John meets a believer in MandelaEffect MandelaEffect[[invoked]] conspiracy theories and goes to a conference filled with theorists on the effect.



* {{Hypochondria}}: John meets multiple people who believe they have electromagnetic hypersensitivity, meaning that they are sensitive towards electromagnetic fields. There is no scientific basis towards this. Although one woman claims that others with the condition are faking it, she believes that she truly has it. In reality, it is a psychosomatic disorder.



* {{Irony}}: When John goes to Burning Man, theoretically a celebration of free expression, he's forbidden from using any footage he shot because another documentary crew have "exclusive rights" to film the festival.

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When John goes to Burning Man, theoretically a celebration of free expression, he's forbidden from using any footage he shot because another documentary crew have "exclusive rights" to film the festival.festival.
** One woman who claims to have electromagnetic hypersensitivity claims that a lot of other people are faking it. However, electromagnetic hypersensitivity is not a medically recognized disorder, meaning that neither she nor the people who she is skeptical towards really have it.
* LoudOfWar: In "How to Clean Your Ears", there are multiple people who express annoyance at their neighbors for being too loud. One was playing annoying loud music in the middle of the night, while another randomly shoots a cannon.
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* AllForNothing: John spends a week filming at Burning Man and says that the footage he filmed is some of his best. However, he was unable to use any of the footage due to another show having exclusive rights to filming at Burning Man.


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* DisgustingPublicToilet: New York is filled with disgusting public toilets, and John sees many of them in "How to Find a Public Restroom".


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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title starts with "How to".


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* MoodWhiplash: Many episodes will start out talking about a mundane or lighthearted issue before randomly shifting to a much darker topic and sometimes back again.
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* CrazySurvivalist: John has come across multiple disaster preppers throughout the show.


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* TurnOffTheCamera: John sometimes comes across people who get angry at him for filming him and try to force him to turn it off.
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* FanDisservice: In one scene, John talks with an old man trying to regrow his foreskin by attaching a weight to his penis. We get a very unflattering view of his naked penis and butt as he's showing how the devise works.
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* {{Irony}}: When John goes to Burning Man, theoretically a celebration of free expression, he's forbidden from using any footage he shot because another documentary crew have "exclusive rights" to film the festival.
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* VisualPun: This show is filmed with visual humor. Often, what is being shown on screen matches up with John's narration to create a pun.
* WorldOfWeirdness: John's attempts to explore simple tasks (like cooking risotto or improving his memory) inevitably lead him into encounters with many odd strangers and their tics, habits, and collections.

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* VisualPun: This show is filmed with visual humor. Often, what is being shown on screen matches up with John's narration to create a pun.
* WorldOfWeirdness: John's attempts to explore simple tasks (like cooking risotto or improving his memory) inevitably lead him into encounters with many odd strangers and their tics, habits, and collections.
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* WorldOfWeird: John's attempts to explore simple tasks (like cooking risotto or improving his memory) inevitably lead him into encounters with many odd strangers and their tics, habits, and collections.

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* WorldOfWeird: WorldOfWeirdness: John's attempts to explore simple tasks (like cooking risotto or improving his memory) inevitably lead him into encounters with many odd strangers and their tics, habits, and collections.

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