When customers actually start taking up the offer, the segment takes a surprisingly touching turn as Nathan spends quality time with the rebate-seekers. The episode's biggest laughs can be found in the "Gas Station" segment, where Nathan proposes that an independent gas station charge $1.75 per gallon of gas, after rebate - a rebate customers will have to climb a mountain to claim. His bait-and-switch of being hurt and offended by the drawing is the perfect punchline. It seems like the artist's customers are pretty happy about their edgy portrayals, and Nathan refuses to be thwarted, asking for the artist to give him the ultimate "King of Sting" caricature treatment. It's one of Nathan's more straightforward scenarios, but that simplicity works in its favor - the plan actually works. In the first segment, Nathan plans to rebrand a caricature artist as the "King of Sting," pushing his art to be as politically incorrect as possible. We hope to never have to see him salsa dance again. It's a cringe bonanza, infusing the show's consistently funny "Lonely Nathan" meta-plot with a faux-edgy persona that goes against his very nature.
Where this episode really excels is the cursed image of Nathan disguised as a Hot Topic manager (dyed black hair, fake lip piercing, and fishnet sleeves) in order to solicit trade secrets from a Best Buy employee.
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And so begins a typically chaotic chain of events, with Nathan setting up an increasingly difficult series of obstacles for would-be customers to overcome, from a strict dress code to a live crocodile guarding their stock like Smaug in "The Hobbit."
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Of course, Nathan is aware of two fatal flaws: Best Buy will never honor that price, and Speers TV needs to avoid honoring it themselves. The plan: sell TV sets for $1, price match at the chain store competitor, and sell the heavily discounted devices at profit. The episode follows Nathan's efforts to help a small electronics store battle the fearsome corporate beast that is Best Buy. One of the show's greatest guests makes his appearance here in the form of an older man who claims to have had every kind of wart in existence and carries around an electronic "healing wand." He's the charismatically bizarre kind of guy that Tim and Eric cast in their own sketches between him and Nathan's founding of a charity for people with warts, this one is a hit. The second part ups the ante and the laughs, as Nathan proposes that a massage parlor could upsell more expensive options by having the cheaper ones be performed by people with infectious warts. The final punchline really drives this one home, as Nathan unceremoniously abandons the plan after making only $20 profit from the entire evening. Everything is accounted for in its design, except for how idiotic the entire premise is - but that's what makes this work so well. The episode's first segment plays out like a ridiculous but hilarious "Mythbusters" plot with Nathan engineering a complex suit to discreetly dispense fresh chili at a major sports arena. It's a "who cares" attitude you can't help but respect, even while you're busting a gut over it. We get a brief cameo from series regular and Bill Gates impersonator Bill Heath, and the keystone of the entire scenario: the owner of the diner picks a faux Michael Richards, the actor best known as Kramer on "Seinfeld." Even Nathan is visibly surprised by the choice, noting that Richards isn't exactly a hot-ticket celebrity anymore.Ī brilliantly convoluted chain of events ensues, including the legal changing of a stranger's name for the very specific price of $1,001 to the creation of a legitimate newspaper called "The Diarrhea Times." The episode's true MVP is Paul, who verbalizes very valid criticisms of Nathan's ideas while still taking part in every single one of them, even when he ends up chained to Nathan across adjoining hotel rooms. This episode works so well thanks to Nathan continuously complicating an already absurd plan, and an overly-eager cast whose tolerance level for terrible ideas seems to have no ceiling.
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