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fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

No Pants posted:

Well, he's playing a character, and it's based in part on some research he did on autistic people (although the character is explicitly not autistic). The bit about why he's doing it might have come from that--autistic people often rehearse conversations as a coping mechanism.

At the very least, it's got a few similarities to a course of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for social anxiety I did. Where you map out what you expect and then measure how close the actual experience was to your expectations, and usually, like in the show, the reality is people don't react very strongly and there's very little social consequences for the things you think are shameful, unusual, or will inspire a bad reaction.

fez_machine fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Jul 18, 2022

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fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004
if you like the tight rope episode of NFY the concept is very likely based on this Derren Brown show, "Hero At 30,000 Feet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSaFfRc-T18

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

cant cook creole bream posted:

Man, that woman really sucks. Where does Nathan dig up these people?

vague craigslist ads promising tv time

there's multiple filters for normal people inherent in the process

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

Snooze Cruise posted:

you can just say the best show,

Thinking about how the zeeman is a little bit of a Jason Wolliner/Fielder type character himself

edit: the interview is up on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkaGct_TGWM

fez_machine fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Jan 23, 2023

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