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* StealthPun: In the third episode, Patrick and his brother had an argument over whether his girlfriend was a gold digger. Later in the episode Patrick helps an old man dig up his stash of gold, making him a literal gold digger.
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* GreedyJew: Invoked by Patrick, who makes the antisemitic claim that he is "like a Jew" with his money, leading to Nathan being offended.
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* HolierThanThou: Robbin hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus. UptoEleven after Robbin himself flat out venerated his former roommate's death on social media. He later claimed that Nathan (who is Jewish) wanted to kill him for being Christian.

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* HolierThanThou: Robbin hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus. UptoEleven UpToEleven after Robbin himself flat out venerated his former roommate's death on social media. He later claimed that Nathan (who is Jewish) wanted to kill him for being Christian.



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* GoldDigger: Patrick's brother is convinced that the Patrick's girlfriend is a gold digger, leading to the central conflict of the episode.



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** Happens in the third episode "Gold Digger" when the Patrick and the actor playing his brother argue over whether his girlfriend is a GoldDigger.
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** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but Robin stands out. He has an extreme obsession with numerology and makes random connections with every number he sees, randomly brings up crashing his Scion all the time, hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus, drives while high, tries to solicit sex from an unmarried woman who explicitly said that they're waiting for marriage, and doesn’t have a license plate. He lacks any self awareness and thinks all of these things are normal. This trope became more enforced when his relatives on social media confirmed that his actions weren't unscripted and he's actually that unhinged in real life.
*** Robin didn't do himself any favors going to Vice to "clear the air" for an interview that just made him seem more unhinged than he did on the show. Among other admissions, he clarifies that he crashed the aforementioned Scion during an illegal street race while high and drunk, and complains that the producers cut out all the parts of his appearance in which he compared himself to Jesus. He also claims he believed Nathan Fielder wanted to murder him for being Christian.

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** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but Robin Robbin stands out. He has an extreme obsession with numerology and makes random connections with every number he sees, randomly brings up crashing his Scion all the time, hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus, drives while high, tries to solicit sex from an unmarried woman who explicitly said that they're waiting for marriage, and doesn’t have a license plate. He lacks any self awareness and thinks all of these things are normal. This trope became more enforced when his relatives on social media confirmed that his actions weren't unscripted and he's actually that unhinged in real life.
*** Robin Robbin didn't do himself any favors going to Vice to "clear the air" for an interview that just made him seem more unhinged than he did on the show. Among other admissions, he clarifies that he crashed the aforementioned Scion during an illegal street race while high and drunk, and complains that the producers cut out all the parts of his appearance in which he compared himself to Jesus. He also claims he believed Nathan Fielder wanted to murder him for being Christian.



* CringeComedy: Nathan’s awkward personality leads to many cringey moments throughout the series.

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* CringeComedy: Nathan’s awkward personality leads to many cringey moments throughout the series. His rehearsals and plans often put the guests in uncomfortable situations.



* TheFundamentalist: Andrea and especially Robin hold extreme religious views. Andrea is convinced Halloween is satanic and Robin hates any non-Christians.
* HolierThanThou: Robin hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus. UptoEleven after Robin himself flat out venerated his former roommate's death on social media.

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* TheFundamentalist: Andrea Angela and especially Robin Robbin hold extreme religious views. Andrea Angela is convinced Halloween is satanic and Robin hates any non-Christians.
* HolierThanThou: Robin Robbin hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus. UptoEleven after Robin Robbin himself flat out venerated his former roommate's death on social media.media. He later claimed that Nathan (who is Jewish) wanted to kill him for being Christian.



* NumerologicalMotif: Robin is obsessed with numerology and tries to find deeper meanings within numbers in any given situation.

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* NumerologicalMotif: Robin Robbin is obsessed with numerology and tries to find deeper meanings within numbers in any given situation.



* TheStoner: Robin is constantly high, even while driving.

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* TheStoner: Robin Robbin is constantly high, even while driving.



** Robin drops the title of the second episode "Scion" multiple times when he talks about crashing his Scion car.

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** Robin Robbin drops the title of the second episode "Scion" multiple times when he talks about crashing his Scion car.

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* HolierThanThou: Robin hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus.

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* HolierThanThou: Robin hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus. UptoEleven after Robin himself flat out venerated his former roommate's death on social media.
* LeftHanging: Patrick's storyline involving his grandfather's will and relationship with his brother. While Patrick has a pretty emotional breakthrough at his rehearsal, he doesn't show up the following day and claims that he went to go try funnel cake with his girlfriend instead and invites Nathan to join him at an amusement park. Once Nathan arrives, he gets stood up by Patrick and never sees him again.
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** Andrea has many unusual beliefs, stemming from her fundamentalist religious views. For instance, she thinks Halloween is a satanist holiday and that Google is hiding the truth due to being run by satanists. She is shocked that Nathan has never heard of this and treats it as common knowledge.

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** Andrea Angela has many unusual beliefs, stemming from her fundamentalist religious views. For instance, she thinks Halloween is a satanist holiday and that Google is hiding the truth due to being run by satanists. She is shocked that Nathan has never heard of this and treats it as common knowledge.
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* HolierThanThou: Robin hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus.


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* TheStoner: Robin is constantly high, even while driving.
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* TheFundamentalist: Andrea and especially Robin hold extreme religious views. Andrea is convinced Halloween is satanic and Robin hates any non-Christians.


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* TheOtherDarrin: InUniverse, Adam is played by a large number of child actors due to child labor laws and to make him age quickly.
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** Andrea has many unusual beliefs, stemming from her fundamentalist religious views. For instance, she thinks Halloween is a satanist holiday and that Google is hiding the truth due to being run by satanists. She is shocked that Nathan has never heard of this and treats it as common knowledge.


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* SatanicPanic: Angela believes Halloween was started by Satanists and is used to perform sacrifices. She also claims that Google is run by satanists who covered up the truth about the holiday.
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*** Robin didn't do himself any favors going to Vice to "clear the air" for an interview that just made him seem more unhinged than he did on the show. Among other admissions, he clarifies that he crashed the aforementioned Scion during an illegal street race while high and drunk, and complains that the producers cut out all the parts of his appearance in which he compared himself to Jesus. He also claims he believed Nathan Fielder wanted to murder him for being Christian.
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** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but Robin stands out. He has an extreme obsession with numerology and makes random connections with every number he sees, randomly brings up crashing his Scion all the time, hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus, drives while high, tries to solicit sex from an unmarried woman who explicitly said that they're waiting for marriage, and doesn’t have a license plate. He lacks any self awareness and thinks all of these things are normal. This became an even bigger job when his relatives on social media confirmed that his actions weren't unscripted and he's actually that unhinged in real life.

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** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but Robin stands out. He has an extreme obsession with numerology and makes random connections with every number he sees, randomly brings up crashing his Scion all the time, hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus, drives while high, tries to solicit sex from an unmarried woman who explicitly said that they're waiting for marriage, and doesn’t have a license plate. He lacks any self awareness and thinks all of these things are normal. This trope became an even bigger job more enforced when his relatives on social media confirmed that his actions weren't unscripted and he's actually that unhinged in real life.
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** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but Robin stands out. He has an extreme obsession with numerology and makes random connections with every number he sees, randomly brings up crashing his Scion all the time, hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus, drives while high, and doesn’t have a license plate. He lacks any self awareness and thinks all of these things are normal.

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** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but Robin stands out. He has an extreme obsession with numerology and makes random connections with every number he sees, randomly brings up crashing his Scion all the time, hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus, drives while high, tries to solicit sex from an unmarried woman who explicitly said that they're waiting for marriage, and doesn’t have a license plate. He lacks any self awareness and thinks all of these things are normal. This became an even bigger job when his relatives on social media confirmed that his actions weren't unscripted and he's actually that unhinged in real life.
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* AbsurdPhobia: One of the men Angela goes on a date with says that his biggest fear in life is eels.
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** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but Robin stands out. He has an extreme obsession with numerology and makes random connections with every number he sees, randomly brings up crashing his Scion all the time, hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus, smokes while high, and doesn’t have a license plate. He lacks any self awareness and thinks all of these things are normal.

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** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but Robin stands out. He has an extreme obsession with numerology and makes random connections with every number he sees, randomly brings up crashing his Scion all the time, hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus, smokes drives while high, and doesn’t have a license plate. He lacks any self awareness and thinks all of these things are normal.
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** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but Robin stands out. He has an extreme obsession with numerology and makes random connections with every number he sees, randomly brings up crashing his Scion all the time, hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus, smokes while high, and doesn’t have a license plate. He lacks any self awareness and thinks all of these things are normal.
** The "night owl" Nathan hires to control the robot baby falls asleep within fifteen minutes of starting his job and believes in conspiracy theories about the government hiding Bigfoot’s existence.

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* TitleDrop: Kor drops the title of the first episode "Orange Juice, No Pulp" when ordering the titular drink at the bar.

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Kor drops the title of the first episode "Orange Juice, No Pulp" when ordering the titular drink at the bar.bar.
** Robin drops the title of the second episode "Scion" multiple times when he talks about crashing his Scion car.
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* NumerologicalMotif: Robin is obsessed with numerology and tries to find deeper meanings within numbers in any given situation.
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* OrderedToCheat: While Kor wasn’t exactly ordered to cheat, he was forced into it by Nathan against his will. Knowing that Kor would be unwilling to cheat at trivia, Nathan uses actors to secretly feed him information that will give him answers in the competition.
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: While ultimately well meaning, Nathan does questionable things and manipulates others, much to comedic effect.
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* BlackComedy: While mainly a CringeComedy, the show has its fair share of dark humor.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse, Nathan and Kor have differing interpretations of [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]]. Kor sees Wonka as a philanthropist who changes people’s lives for the better, while Nathan sees him as a villainous child murderer.
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The Rehearsal is a docu-reality comedy television series created by and starring Canadian comedian Creator/NathanFielder. I’m each episode, Nathan offers to help someone with their personal issues by allowing them to rehearse for their lives. He is well-meaning but extremely awkward, leading to many CringeComedy moments

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The Rehearsal ''The Rehearsal'' is a docu-reality comedy television series created by and starring Canadian comedian Creator/NathanFielder. I’m In each episode, Nathan offers to help someone with their personal issues by allowing them to rehearse for their lives. He is well-meaning but extremely awkward, leading to many CringeComedy moments
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The series airs on Creator/HBO. The first episode aired on July 15, 2022. The first season will have six episodes.

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The series airs on Creator/HBO.Creator/{{HBO}}. The first episode aired on July 15, 2022. The first season will have six episodes.



* BunnyEarsLawyer: Although his plans and over-preparedness seem absurd, his plans are often helpful and end up improving people's lives.

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Although his plans and over-preparedness seem absurd, his Nathan's plans are often helpful and end up improving people's lives.



* MotorMouth: Tricia is constantly talking, usually complaining about her day. When she was supposed to be interviewing a birdwatcher, she spend most of the time talking, giving the person being interviewed little time to talk herself. Fake Tricia kept mimicked this trait when acting as her.

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* MotorMouth: In the first episode, Kor's friend Tricia is constantly talking, usually complaining about her day. When she was supposed to be interviewing a birdwatcher, she spend spends most of the time talking, giving the person being interviewed little time to talk herself. Fake Tricia kept mimicked this trait when acting as her.

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Although his plans and over-preparedness seem absurd, his plans are often helpful and end up improving the lives

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Although his plans and over-preparedness seem absurd, his plans are often helpful and end up improving people's lives.
* CallBack: To Fielder's previous work, ''Series/NathanForYou''. Nathan often wears his Summit Ice jacket, which was a brand he created for
the lives show.
* TheChessmaster: Nathan uses his rehearsals to manipulate situations to the best outcome through extreme planning and practice.
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* MotorMouth: Tricia is constantly talking, usually complaining about her day. When she was supposed to be interviewing a birdwatcher, she spend most of the time talking, giving the person being interviewed little time to talk herself.

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* MotorMouth: Tricia is constantly talking, usually complaining about her day. When she was supposed to be interviewing a birdwatcher, she spend most of the time talking, giving the person being interviewed little time to talk herself. Fake Tricia kept mimicked this trait when acting as her.
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* BaitAndSwitch: In a scene near the end of the first episode, Nathan is seemingly admitting that he tricked Kor into cheating, only to show that he is actually talking to fake Kor in a rehearsal.


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* MotorMouth: Tricia is constantly talking, usually complaining about her day. When she was supposed to be interviewing a birdwatcher, she spend most of the time talking, giving the person being interviewed little time to talk herself.
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* {{Dramedy}}: While primarily a comedy, it often treats the struggles throughout the episode seriously and can be surprisingly heartfelt.
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* ShoutOut: In the first episode, Kor references ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' by comparing Nathan to Wonka and himself to Charlie. At the end of the episode, "Pure Imagine" from the film plays.


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* TheWonka: Kor compares Nathan to Wonka, as he is an eccentric but surprisingly capable person with lots of resources and wants to improve the lives of others (often through morally questionable means). Nathan dislikes this comparison, as he sees Wonka as the villain.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Why leave life to chance?]]
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The Rehearsal is a docu-reality comedy television series created by and starring Canadian comedian Creator/NathanFielder. I’m each episode, Nathan offers to help someone with their personal issues by allowing them to rehearse for their lives. He is well-meaning but extremely awkward, leading to many CringeComedy moments

The show is a [[invoked]]SpiritualSuccessor to Fielder’s previous series ''Series/NathanForYou'', another CringeComedy docuseries in which he tries to help people through unconventional methods.

The series airs on Creator/HBO. The first episode aired on July 15, 2022. The first season will have six episodes.

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* AntiHero: Nathan constantly manipulates everyone around him, albeit usually for a good cause.
* AsHimself: As in ''Series/NathanForYou'', Nathan plays an exaggerated version of himself.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Although his plans and over-preparedness seem absurd, his plans are often helpful and end up improving the lives
* CrazyPrepared: The entire point of the show. Nathan over-prepares for any situation through intricate and detailed rehearsals.
* CringeComedy: Nathan’s awkward personality leads to many cringey moments throughout the series.
* TitleDrop: Kor drops the title of the first episode "Orange Juice, No Pulp" when ordering the titular drink at the bar.
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