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** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but 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.
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** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but 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 cracked in real life.
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** Robbin spends much of his screentime casually talking about his troubled past, including how he survived wrecking a Scion driving 100mph.
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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 after Robbin himself flat out venerated celebrated 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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* {{Manchild}}: Angela is rather immature and childlike and is constantly playing around during her free time.
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* {{Manchild}}: Angela is rather immature and childlike and is constantly playing around during her free time. Nathan even questions whether she really wants to prepare for motherhood or if she's just using the show as an opportunity to get a free vacation.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Fake Angela delivers a brutal takedown of Nathan in a rehearsal.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Two, both directed at Nathan, and with one seemingly orchestrated by Nathan himself.
**In the first episode, Fake Kor rips into Nathan after he admits to having engineered his winning night at trivia, telling him he's ruined the best night of his life and that he's an awful person for it.
** In Episode 5, Fake Angela delivers a brutal takedown of Nathan in arehearsal.rehearsal. Notably, unlike Fake Kor's takedown, Fielder appears to break character and ask if they can replay the scene with a more positive outcome.
**In the first episode, Fake Kor rips into Nathan after he admits to having engineered his winning night at trivia, telling him he's ruined the best night of his life and that he's an awful person for it.
** In Episode 5, Fake Angela delivers a brutal takedown of Nathan in a
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* TheStoner: Robbin is constantly high, even while driving.
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* TheStoner: Robbin is constantly high, even while driving. He later admitted to Vice that the car crash he keeps referencing in the show occured because he was high.
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: While ultimately well meaning, Nathan does questionable things and manipulates others, much to comedic effect.
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: While ultimately well meaning, Nathan does questionable things and manipulates others, much to comedic effect. As the series goes on, his actions take on darker undertones, including convincing a man his friend has died, faking a teenager ODing, and taking a child to religious services against his mother's wishes and without her knowledge.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Angela grew up in an abusive household and turned to drugs and alcohol in her teenage years, which explains why she turned to fundamental religion later in her life.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: A recurring theme on the show:
** Angela grew up in an abusive household and turned to drugs and alcohol in her teenage years, which explains why she turned to fundamental religion later in herlife.life.
** Nathan himself admits to having been through a painful divorce in the first episode, and a big part of Episode 5 revolves around him realizing he still has unresolved issues and trauma relating not only to that breakup but all his previous failed relationships.
** Angela grew up in an abusive household and turned to drugs and alcohol in her teenage years, which explains why she turned to fundamental religion later in her
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* TheFundamentalist: Angela and especially Robbin hold extreme religious views. Angela is convinced Halloween is satanic and Robin hates any non-Christians.
** Miriam has rather extreme religious views of her own, but for Judaism. She uses her religion to defend any action of Israel, including attacks on Palestinian citizens.
** Miriam has rather extreme religious views of her own, but for Judaism. She uses her religion to defend any action of Israel, including attacks on Palestinian citizens.
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* TheFundamentalist: Angela and especially Robbin hold extreme religious views. Several pop up
** Angela is convinced that Halloween issatanic Satanic and Robin hates any non-Christians.
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**Miriam has rather Robbin is perhaps the most extreme example on the show, finding religious views of her own, but numerological significance in everything he encounters, believing that non-Christians are all possessed by demons, and not wanting to even associate with non-Christians. In an interview with Vice magazine after his episode aired he doubled down on this by claiming that Nathan Fielder wanted to murder him for Judaism. She his beliefs and admitted he compares himself to Jesus.
** A rare Jewish fundamentalist appears in the form of Miriam, who uses her religion to defend any action of Israel, including attacks on Palestiniancitizens.citizens. Rather than end with a song as usual, the credits for Episode 5 play over an extended rant by Miriam in which she extols Israel's alleged superiority to other nations, including the claims that they're single-handedly responsible for modern medicine and technology.
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** One of the unique conceits of the show is that, as the series goes on, the line between the Nathan character- which has always been a burlesque of Nathan Fielder- and the real man begins to blur, to the point it's impossible to tell if Fielder is just leaning even further into his own shtick or if he's suffering some kind of real-life breakdown on camera.
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* ActingForTwo: InUniverse, Nathan has some actors play multiple characters in rehearsals.
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* PlatonicCoParenting: After Angela cannot find a suitable man to raise her son with, Nathan decides to step in as a co-parent, [[spoiler: at least until Angela leaves the rehearsals and he continues raising Adam alone]].
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* {{Tagline}}: "Why leave life to chance?"
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--->'''Fake Angela''' "Nathan! What family life? You know we’re not your real family, right? This is your work. All of this. So, is this silly? Or is this something that I should take seriously? Why are you here? Why are you doing this? Are you really trying to help me? Or am I the silly part that you talk about? Is my life the joke? Do you sit here with your friends at the end of the day laughing at me? Just shut up! You’re a liar. Because if this were real, you would have some sort of emotion instead of standing there like a rock. Do you want to feel something? Do you want to feel something real? That’s sad. You never will. No matter how hard you try, you never will."
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--->'''Fake Angela''' Angela:''' "Nathan! What family life? You know we’re not your real family, right? This is your work. All of this. So, is this silly? Or is this something that I should take seriously? Why are you here? Why are you doing this? Are you really trying to help me? Or am I the silly part that you talk about? Is my life the joke? Do you sit here with your friends at the end of the day laughing at me? Just shut up! You’re a liar. Because if this were real, you would have some sort of emotion instead of standing there like a rock. Do you want to feel something? Do you want to feel something real? That’s sad. You never will. No matter how hard you try, you never will."
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** In episode 5, she gets angry at Nathan for playing a game with Adam where he pretended to eat poop, as she claimed that eating poop is a Satanic ritual. Nathan angrily claims that she is convinced everything is Satanic, and that if he brought home oranges, she could argue that oranges are also Satanic.
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** In episode 5, she gets angry at Nathan for playing a game with Adam where he pretended to eat poop, as she claimed that eating poop is a Satanic ritual. Nathan angrily claims that she is convinced everything is Satanic, Satanic.
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--->'''Fake Angela''' "Nathan! What family life? You know we’re not your real family, right? This is your work. All of this. So, is this silly? Or is this something that I should take seriously? Why are you here? Why are you doing this? Are you really trying to help me? Or am I the silly part that you talk about? Is my life the joke? Do you sit here with your friends at the end of the day laughing at me? Just shut up! You’re a liar. Because if this were real, you would have some sort of emotion instead of standing there like a rock. Do you want to feel something? Do you want to feel something real? That’s sad. You never will. No matter how hard you try, you never will."
--->'''Fake Angela''' "Nathan! What family life? You know we’re not your real family, right? This is your work. All of this. So, is this silly? Or is this something that I should take seriously? Why are you here? Why are you doing this? Are you really trying to help me? Or am I the silly part that you talk about? Is my life the joke? Do you sit here with your friends at the end of the day laughing at me? Just shut up! You’re a liar. Because if this were real, you would have some sort of emotion instead of standing there like a rock. Do you want to feel something? Do you want to feel something real? That’s sad. You never will. No matter how hard you try, you never will."
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Miriam initially seems like a voice of reason to Angela, pointing out her Antisemitism and convincing Nathan to stand up for himself. That is at least until the end of the episode, when she starts defending Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians, and we see that she isn't much different than Angela.
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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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* SatanicPanic: Angela believes Halloween was started by Satanists and is used to perform sacrifices. She also claims that Google is run by satanists Satanists who covered up the truth about the holiday.holiday.
** In episode 5, she gets angry at Nathan for playing a game with Adam where he pretended to eat poop, as she claimed that eating poop is a Satanic ritual. Nathan angrily claims that she is convinced everything is Satanic, and that if he brought home oranges, she could argue that oranges are also Satanic.
** In episode 5, she gets angry at Nathan for playing a game with Adam where he pretended to eat poop, as she claimed that eating poop is a Satanic ritual. Nathan angrily claims that she is convinced everything is Satanic, and that if he brought home oranges, she could argue that oranges are also Satanic.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: Angela is treated as the second main character of the first season, playing a major role in most of the episodes in the season, other than the first and last episodes.
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* CulturallyReligious: Nathan hasn't attended synagogue in years and isn't very religious, but he celebrates Jewish holidays and considers himself Jewish.
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* MirrorCharacter: Angela and Miriam are more similar than they first appear. While initially presented as a voice of reason to Angela's fundamentalism and anti-Semetism, Miriam eventually reveals her prejudice against Palestinians by defending Israel's attacks and all of its actions. While Angela and Miriam dislike one another for their religious views, their views are surprisingly similar in the end.
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* {{Manchild}}: Angela is rather immature and childlike and is constantly playing around during her free time.
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** The fifth episode's title "Apocalypto" comes from the movie ''Film/{{Apocalypto}}'', which Angela says is her favorite movie when Nathan asks her.
* ToiletHumor: In Episode 5, Nathan and Adam make a video while playing together where Adam is a doctor healing Nathan through farts and poop. While such humor is common with small children, Angela finds this inappropriate and disgusting and gets in a fight with Nathan over it.
* ToiletHumor: In Episode 5, Nathan and Adam make a video while playing together where Adam is a doctor healing Nathan through farts and poop. While such humor is common with small children, Angela finds this inappropriate and disgusting and gets in a fight with Nathan over it.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The first three episodes revolve primarily around Nathan helping a new person every episode rehearse for something in their lives that they've been putting off. [[spoiler: However, shortly after inserting himself into Angela's family rehearsal, Nathan becomes fixated on the rehearsal of his own life. The final three episodes are focused almost entirely on Nathan's rehearsal home life and the production of the show itself.]]
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* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: Nathan's attemtps at making jokes usually fall flat, but this awkwardness just makes them funny. For instance, his infamous line "Door city over here."
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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.
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* CringeComedy: As to be expected, like [[Series/NathanForYou his previous work]], Nathan’s awkward personality leads to many cringey moments throughout the series. His rehearsals and plans often put the guests in uncomfortable situations.
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* MindScrew: The rehearsals become even more confusing as the show continues, even appearing in multiple layers of rehearsals. For instance, Nathan interacts with an actor playing himself while playing someone else and relives the acting class he taught multiple times.
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* PsychologicalHorror: The weirdness and surreal nature of Nathan's rehearsals cause the show to possibly veer into horror territory.
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* SanityBall: In any given situation, the sanity ball can be passed between Nathan and the subjects of each episode. While Nathan may weird out people through his awkwardness and lack of social skills, he often later reacts with shock to the same people's bizarre statements.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Within the rehearsal in episode 4, Nathan had abandoned Adam for nine years.
* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Adam ages extremely rapidly during the rehearsal due to constantly being replaced with new actors to represent growing up. When Nathan leaves for his acting class and returns, he had grown from 6 to 15.
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* MethodActing:[[invoked]] "The Fielder Method" is an intense form of method acting taught by Nathan in his acting class, in which actors basically stalk the people they are impersonating and replicate their lives to perfectly act as that person and embody them.
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* TroubledTeen: In the simulation, Adam becomes extremely troubled by age fifteen due to his father's absence, turning to drugs and other unhealthy lifestyles. This is similar to Angela's actual life, as she also turned to drugs due to her treatment by her father.
* TroubledTeen: In the simulation, Adam becomes extremely troubled by age fifteen due to his father's absence, turning to drugs and other unhealthy lifestyles. This is similar to Angela's actual life, as she also turned to drugs due to her treatment by her father.
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* DarkandTroubledPast: Angela grew up in an abusive household and turned to drugs and alcohol in her teenage years, which explains why she turned to fundamental religion later in her life.
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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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* GreedyJew: Invoked by Patrick, who makes the antisemitic claim that he someone is "like a Jew" with his their money, leading to Nathan being offended.
