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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.
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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.pun.
* 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.
* 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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* {{Cult}}: While discussing his foray into a capella singing in college, John narrowly escapes being recruited by the RealLife NXIVM cult.
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* PutOnABus: John’s landlord moves to Las Vegas in "How To Invest in Real Estate".
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* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: John often stutters or pauses during his narration.
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* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: John often stutters stutters, pauses, or pauses coughs during his narration.
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* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: John often stutters or pauses during his narration.
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* John himself is rather strange, as he seeks bizarre solutions to basic questions and often overreacts to minor problems.
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* John himself is rather strange, as he seeks bizarre solutions to basic questions and often overreacts to minor problems.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The series contains multiple instances of nudity, always played for laughs.
** In one scene, an old man shows his penis as he’s trying to demonstrate how to use a device to regrow his foreskin.
** In "How To Put Up Scaffolding", John talks about scaffolding before cutting to a gay bondage porn scene featuring a naked man tied to scaffolding while masturbating two other men.
** In one scene, an old man shows his penis as he’s trying to demonstrate how to use a device to regrow his foreskin.
** In "How To Put Up Scaffolding", John talks about scaffolding before cutting to a gay bondage porn scene featuring a naked man tied to scaffolding while masturbating two other men.
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* TheBigRottenApple: New York is shown to be a bizarre and dysfunctional place, although the portrayal is less harsh than other examples of this trope. It is shown more as a {{Cloudcuckooland}} than an actual terrible place.
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* TheBigRottenApple: New York is shown to be a bizarre and dysfunctional place, although the portrayal is less harsh than other examples of this trope. It is shown more as a {{Cloudcuckooland}} than an actual actually terrible place.
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* TheBigRottenApple: New York is shown to be a bizarre and dysfunctional place, although the portrayal is less harsh than other examples of this trope. It is shown more as a {{Cloudcuckooland}} than an actual terrible place.
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* AffectionateNickname: John’s landlord asks him to call her “Mama”.
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* BlackComedy: 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]], much of the humor comes from the implication that Nathan is a pedophile, grooming and manipulating a group of teenaged boys.
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* BlackComedy: This show is filmed with dark moments being PlayedForLaughs.
** 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]], much of the humor comes from the implication that Nathan is a pedophile, grooming and manipulating a group of teenagedboys.boys.
** In one scene, we see police officers cleaning a huge pile of blood off the subway floors. Later in the same episode, we see some paramedics drop a seemingly dead body they’re carrying down some stairs.
** 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]], much of the humor comes from the implication that Nathan is a pedophile, grooming and manipulating a group of teenaged
** In one scene, we see police officers cleaning a huge pile of blood off the subway floors. Later in the same episode, we see some paramedics drop a seemingly dead body they’re carrying down some stairs.
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* ShoutOut: One scene shows the outside of the cafe from ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' as a riff similar to ones on the show plays.
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* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: In one scene, John asks random business employees their views on controversial political topics. Each of them quickly try to change the subject.
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* BasedOnADream: InUniverse. A man John meets came up with the idea for a double dog leash where two people can walk the same dog at once from a dream. He created this business in real life. Similarly, John dreams of a laundromat with stoves instead of washing machines, and he creates this business at the end of the episode.
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* PrecisionFStrike: While John doesn’t curse much, one of the few times he does is when he’s at a grocery store and the only employee there to help him is a security robot.
--> '''John''': Unfortunately, this fucking machine could not accept questions.
--> '''John''': Unfortunately, this fucking machine could not accept questions.
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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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* MandelaEffect: Discussed InUniverse in "How To Improve Your Memory". John attends a conference on the Mandela Effect, in which its attendants believe that their misremembering of details comes from them being transported to an AlternateUniverse.
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* MandelaEffect: Discussed InUniverse in "How To Improve Your Memory". John attends speaks to a creator of grocery store inventory software who mentions various false memories. For instance, he remembered the Raisin Bran Sun wearing sunglasses and Febreze having two “e’s”. This leads to John attending a conference on the Mandela Effect, in which its attendants believe that their misremembering of details comes from them being transported to an AlternateUniverse.
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* BigApplesauce: The majority of the show is filmed on the streets of New York City, giving a close view of the bizarre events that happen there.
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* FirstPersonPerspective: The entire show is filmed by the camera John holds as he walks around New York. Since he’s never on screen, this gives the show the appearance of being in his perspective.
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* RunningGag: Throughout one episode, John filmed dead rats on the sidewalk at random times.
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* RunningGag: Throughout one episode, John filmed pans the camera to dead rats on the sidewalk at random times.
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* MandelaEffect: Discussed InUniverse in "How To Improve Your Memory". John attends a conference on the Mandela Effect, in which its attendants believe that their misremembering of details comes from them being transported to an AlternateUniverse.
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* NiceGuy: John is generally polite and friendly to everyone he meets.
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* CringeComedy: Throughout the show, John finds himself in some uncomfortable but hilarious situations.
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* TheAtoner: In "How To Throw Out Your Batteries", John meets a former sex offender who is horrified by his past actions and wants to become a better person.
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* BrickJoke: In "How To Remember Your Dreams", John describes a dream he had where there was a laundromat filled with stoves instead of washing machines. At the end of the episode, he makes this dream a reality by opening up this business where anyone can pay to use the stoves.
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* Cloudcuckooland: This series presents New York City as a very bizarre place, with all the strange things and people John comes across every episode.
* Cloudcuckoolander: Many of the people John meets throughout the show are...strange, to say the least. For instance, in one episode he interviews a man obsessed with regrowing his foreskin.
* Cloudcuckoolander: Many of the people John meets throughout the show are...strange, to say the least. For instance, in one episode he interviews a man obsessed with regrowing his foreskin.
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* Cloudcuckooland: {{Cloudcuckooland}}: This series presents New York City as a very bizarre place, with all the strange things and people John comes across every episode.
*Cloudcuckoolander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Many of the people John meets throughout the show are...strange, to say the least. For instance, in one episode he interviews a man obsessed with regrowing his foreskin.
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* Cloudcuckooland: This series presents New York City as a very bizarre place, with all the strange things and people John comes across every episode.
* Cloudcuckoolander: Many of the people John meets throughout the show are...strange, to say the least. For instance, in one episode he interviews a man obsessed with regrowing his foreskin.
* Cloudcuckoolander: Many of the people John meets throughout the show are...strange, to say the least. For instance, in one episode he interviews a man obsessed with regrowing his foreskin.
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* RunningGag: Throughout one episode, John filmed dead rats on the sidewalk at random times.
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* OldShame: John is embarrassed of a film he made after graduating from high school called ''Jingle Berry''. For years he tried to destroy any evidence of its existence.
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* OldShame: InUniverse. John is embarrassed of a film he made after graduating from high school called ''Jingle Berry''. For years he tried to destroy any evidence of its existence.
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--> ''"Hey, New York"''
''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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* CallBack: In "How To Remember Your Dreams", John sees a basket for recycling batteries, referencing the previous episode "How To Throw Out Your Batteries".
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Much of this shows humor is based on this. John constantly films random, bizarre events happening on the streets of New York City.
* OldShame: John is embarrassed of a film he made after graduating from high school called ''Jingle Berry''. For years he tried to destroy any evidence of its existence.
* 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.
''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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!! This show provides examples of:
* CallBack: In "How To Remember Your Dreams", John sees a basket for recycling batteries, referencing the previous episode "How To Throw Out Your Batteries".
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Much of this shows humor is based on this. John constantly films random, bizarre events happening on the streets of New York City.
* OldShame: John is embarrassed of a film he made after graduating from high school called ''Jingle Berry''. For years he tried to destroy any evidence of its existence.
* 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.
