List of Nathan for You episodes
Nathan for You is an American docu-reality comedy television series starring Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder. The series was co-created by Fielder and premiered on February 28, 2013 on the American cable television network Comedy Central.[1] In the series, Fielder plays an off-kilter version of himself, who tries to use his business background and life experiences to help struggling companies and people, offering them sometimes-outlandish strategies.
The last of the 32 episodes of Nathan for You aired on November 9, 2017. On October 17, 2018, Comedy Central announced the show will not return for a fifth season.[2]
Series overview[]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 8 | February 28, 2013 | April 18, 2013 | ||
| 2 | 8 | July 1, 2014 | August 19, 2014 | ||
| 3 | 8 | October 15, 2015 | December 10, 2015 | ||
| Special | September 21, 2017 | ||||
| 4 | 7 | September 28, 2017 | November 9, 2017 | ||
Episodes[]
Season 1 (2013)[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Yogurt Shop / Pizzeria" | February 28, 2013 | 101 | 0.35[3] |
| Nathan introduces a "buzzworthy" poo flavor at a frozen yogurt shop. Nathan attends three job interviews: in one he repeats the words of a 7-year-old boy, in another the words of a man (H. Jon Benjamin) who is deliberately sabotaging the interview and another in which he is silent. Nathan has a pizzeria give away free pizzas if they do not deliver within 8 minutes, but the free pizza is an inch in diameter. | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "Santa / Petting Zoo" | March 7, 2013 | 102 | 0.57[4] |
| Nathan tries to have a Santa do photos at a mall during the summer, but his plan is blocked by the Santa having a criminal record. Nathan attempts to promote a petting zoo by recording a viral video of a pig supposedly rescuing a goat stuck in a pond. Nathan lures a graffiti artist so he can expose him to his parents. | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "Clothing Store / Restaurant" | March 14, 2013 | 104 | 0.42[6] |
| Nathan has a women's clothing store allow "attractive" customers to shoplift a single item, then tells some of them to promote the store to a friend. Nathan has a restaurant make their bathrooms available to non-customers, but installs screens in the stalls to play advertising for the restaurant. He asks the owner to include him in her will, which she refuses.[5] | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "Gas Station / Caricature Artist" | March 21, 2013 | 103 | 0.39[7] |
| Nathan offers a rebate at a gas station but makes it impossible to claim. He helps a fledgling caricature artist by encouraging him to draw offensive, insulting images of beachgoers. | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Haunted House / The Hunk" | March 28, 2013 | 107 | 0.46[8] |
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Nathan makes a haunted house scarier by convincing visitors that they have contracted an airborne disease. Nathan tries to become less awkward with women by dating several young women at once on a fake dating game show. Note: This episode also aired as a special "sneak peek" after Workaholics on March 13, 2013. | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "Funeral Home / Burger Joint / Skydiving" | April 4, 2013 | 106 | 0.44[9] |
| Nathan has a funeral home offer extras to attend the funerals of the "friendless"; a burger joint offers $100 to customers who do not think their hamburgers are the best in Los Angeles. Nathan attempts to go skydiving, but avoids doing so due to his fear. | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Claw of Shame" | April 11, 2013 | 105 | 0.51[10] |
| Nathan highlights failed ideas from the first season (including a video for children whose pets have died). He escapes from handcuffs a few seconds before a robotic arm was to have pulled his pants and underpants down in front of a group of children (and a police officer arrested him for indecent exposure). | |||||
| 8 | 8 | "Private Investigator / Taxi Company" | April 18, 2013 | 108 | 0.45[11] |
| Nathan tries to elude a private investigator with several dissimilar "lookalikes". A taxi service arranges for customers to have options in regard to which topics to talk about with their driver. Nathan helps organize a blind date, but is forced to include product placement for Quiznos. | |||||
Season 2 (2014)[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1 | "Mechanic / Realtor" | July 1, 2014 | 201 | 0.71[12] |
| Nathan works with an auto mechanic by allowing customers to ask for pricing estimates while the mechanic has a lie detector attached to him. Nathan tries to rebrand a realtor as the ghost realtor, who guarantees that all of the properties that she sells are ghost-free. | |||||
| 10 | 2 | "Souvenir Shop / E.L.A.I.F.F." | July 8, 2014 | 202 | 0.51[14] |
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Nathan helps a Hollywood souvenir shop attract business by inviting people to play "paying customers" as extras in a film, but realizes he actually has to make the film or else it will be fraud. Nathan organizes the "Eastern Los Angeles International Film Festival" to give his "film" credibility. Note: This episode was made available for streaming via the Comedy Central app on iOS devices a week before release.[13] | |||||
| 11 | 3 | "Pet Store / Maid Service" | July 15, 2014 | 203 | 0.68[15] |
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Nathan places an ad for a pet store on a huge gravestone (ostensibly for his pet fly) in a pet cemetery. A maid service speeds up its service by having 40 workers clean a house at once. Nathan attempts to improve his personality with the help of a focus group. Note: This episode was made available for streaming via the Comedy Central app on iOS devices a week before release. | |||||
| 12 | 4 | "Liquor Store / Exterminator / Car Wash" | July 22, 2014 | 204 | 0.60[16] |
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Nathan lets minors pre-order alcohol from a liquor store so they can pick it up once they reach legal drinking age; Nathan re-brands a pest control business as the "Hotel Excellence Awards" so they can perform their job discreetly; Nathan puts pooping birds on a tree overhanging a street near a car wash, so it can advertise a "Bird Droppings Special". Note: This episode was made available for streaming via the Comedy Central app on iOS devices a week before release. | |||||
| 13 | 5 | "Dumb Starbucks" | July 29, 2014 | 205 | 0.80[17] |
| Nathan helps a struggling coffee shop by re-branding it as a parody of Starbucks. | |||||
| 14 | 6 | "Daddy's Watching / Party Planner" | August 5, 2014 | 206 | 0.59[18] |
| Nathan helps a dating website attract female users; Nathan tries having a party planner offer to filter unwanted guests by having their invitations register as spam e-mails. | |||||
| 15 | 7 | "Taxi Service / Hot Dog Stand" | August 12, 2014 | 207 | N/A |
| Nathan has a taxi company attempt to deliver a baby inside one of their cars; Nathan has a hot dog stand allow customers to cut in line if they are legitimately in a hurry. | |||||
| 16 | 8 | "Toy Company / Movie Theatre" | August 19, 2014 | 208 | N/A |
| Nathan shows a toy company how to market to children; a movie theater implements a no-sharing policy; Nathan tries to get a security guard from the first season his own reality TV show. | |||||
Season 3 (2015)[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1 | "Electronics Store" | October 15, 2015 | 301 | 0.23 |
| Nathan tries to help a struggling electronics store by advertising TVs at an extremely low price (and making it extremely difficult, but not impossible, to claim the deal), and instigating a legal battle against Best Buy when it refuses to honor the deal through price matching.[19] | |||||
| 18 | 2 | "Horseback Riding / Man Zone" | October 22, 2015 | 302 | 0.28 |
| Nathan comes up with a way for a ranch to accommodate overweight riders; a women's boutique attempts to appease male customers by creating a "Man Zone"; after discovering that the maker of his jacket had published a tribute to alleged Holocaust denier Doug Collins in its catalog, Nathan starts a holocaust awareness-themed clothing company of his own, Summit Ice Apparel. | |||||
| 19 | 3 | "The Movement" | October 29, 2015 | 304 | 0.34 |
| Nathan provides a moving company with free labor by developing an exercising fad known as "The Movement". | |||||
| 20 | 4 | "Sporting Goods Store / Antique Shop" | November 5, 2015 | 303 | 0.43 |
| Nathan helps a struggling sporting goods store by recruiting promising young athletes to endorse the brand; Nathan has an antique shop stay open 24/7 to induce violations of a "you break it, you buy it" rule by customers coming from nearby bars. | |||||
| 21 | 5 | "Smokers Allowed" | November 12, 2015 | 305 | 0.37 |
| Nathan discovers he can allow smoking at a bar if he presents it as a "play" to an audience of two; Nathan stages a re-creation of the scenes as an actual performance to give it legitimacy.[20] | |||||
| 22 | 6 | "Hotel / Travel Agent" | November 19, 2015 | 306 | 0.39 |
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Nathan develops a way to shield kids from seeing their parents having sex in the hotel room while on a family vacation; Nathan has a travel agent offer funeral services to profit from her elderly customers; Nathan shares his solution for never being late. Note: This is the only episode of the series to be rated TV-MA. | |||||
| 23 | 7 | "Nail Salon / Fun" | December 3, 2015 | 307 | 0.38 |
| A plan to protect women's nail polish from chipping goes awry, and Nathan addresses his worst personality flaw. | |||||
| 24 | 8 | "The Hero" | December 10, 2015 | 308 | 0.41 |
| Nathan impersonates another person in an effort to turn them into a humanitarian hero.[21] | |||||
Special (2017)[]
| No. | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | "A Celebration" | September 21, 2017 | 0.21[22] | |
| In a special episode hosted by Anthony Napoli, Nathan checks in with former guests of the show, including Brian Wolfe and the Ghost Realtor. | ||||
Season 4 (2017)[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [23] | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 1 | "The Richards Tip" | September 28, 2017 | 401 | 0.29[25] |
| Nathan helps a small-town diner by suggesting that Michael Richards had left a $10,000 tip at it.[24] | |||||
| 27 | 2 | "Chili Shop / Massage Parlor" | October 5, 2017 | 402 | 0.331[26] |
| Nathan helps a chili selling business by infiltrating a sports stadium to sell it, hidden underneath a body suit. Nathan helps a massage parlour by encouraging clients to upgrade to a more expensive session through hiring untrained masseuses with contagious warts to massage clients in the cheaper sessions. | |||||
| 28 | 3 | "Andy vs. Uber" | October 12, 2017 | 403 | 0.252[27] |
| Nathan helps a previous client of his - Andy, a taxi driver - to attempt to blackmail Uber into discontinuing their "baby onesie" promotion, incorporated by Uber at a suspiciously close time to Nathan's preceding mission with similar objectives. | |||||
| 29 | 4 | "The Anecdote" | October 19, 2017 | 404 | 0.237[30] |
| Believing that his previous appearances on late-night talk shows were too boring, Nathan spends $350,000 of the show's budget to execute an outlandish and unlikely series of events he can accurately recount as an anecdote on Jimmy Kimmel Live![28][29] | |||||
| 30 | 5 | "Shipping Logistics Company" | October 26, 2017 | 405 | 0.311[32] |
| Nathan tries to help a shipping company save money on tariffs by classifying smoke detectors as musical instruments, which results in him having to form a band known as The Banzai Predicament to give the concept legitimacy.[31] | |||||
| 31 | 6 | "Computer Repair / Psychic" | November 2, 2017 | 406 | 0.226[34] |
| Nathan establishes Los Angeles's first computer repair shop staffed by asexuals; Nathan helps a psychic by creating a "personal" billboard ad specifically referencing a name that is common among residents, so that they think it is referring to themselves.[33] | |||||
| 32 | 7 | "Finding Frances" | November 9, 2017 | 499 | 0.24 |
| Nathan helps William Heath, a Bill Gates impersonator from a previous episode, try to find his long-lost love (two-hour series finale).[35] | |||||
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