Sam just told all the white fish that they have a team of lawyers, nurses and doctors in the basement that assured the production that Burt is “not a danger to anyone.” Meanwhile Director cuts to Burt’s schizo ranting, it was insanely funny. Now the fish are gassing up Burt, complimenting his teeth and walking on eggshells with him.
Incredible move - they are reinforcing the white fish’s oversensitive tendency to not say a single bad word to minorities.
Also, Sam admonished Ted for saying “faggot” and “retard”, Ted held it together but I could see him crying about this later.
With how on the nose they are being with being so coy and "playing around" with Burt's schizophrenia it does make me very curious if he is actually a super mega deep plant and is just putting on an
insanely good act or if there is something else equally bizarre happening.
For reference, very recently Jet Neptune's twitter account mentioned Nathan Fielder and if anyone has seen "The Rehearsal" (besides his earlier stuff like Nathan for You) then you will probably know just how high-tier Fielder's show is in terms of asking really deep questions about entertainment, acting and all of that by putting a truman show inside a truman show and leaving the viewer
totally unable to discern whether he (and the other participants) are acting or not. A lot of "The Rehearsal" is kind of a commentary or investigation into what people do to "become famous" and what ideas it puts in people's minds when they know they're on a camera. There are a few moments in his shows where he sort of addresses the camera directly and just
almost breaks the fourth wall.
Especially his "Finding Frances" show (which was the finale for "Nathan For You") had an ending in which it was actually incredibly difficult to tell whether Nathan was putting on an act when it came to his relationship with the woman on that TV show--it basically made it almost impossible to know where the acting/TV show/characters/script/reality TV started and where it stopped. Nathan Fielder is particularly brilliant at acting and its really hard to tell what parts of it are acting and what parts of it are him putting himself out there and being genuinely vulnerable about his own personal insecurities.
If you want to really get mindfucked when it comes to "reality TV" then I highly suggest watching Nathan Fielder's stuff. And watch it and fully concentrate on it (don't fuck around on your smartphone). Particularly "The Rehearsal" features a lot of hidden camera and acting stuff that is pertinent for this season of Fishtank. "Nathan For You" is still really great (and it only makes sense to watch the finale, "Finding Frances" after watching all of "Nathan for You" first) but "The Rehearsal" is like 100x better and a lot deeper.
A lot of his stuff is about the actors/contestants in each show (which includes himself) but its also about the audience (sort of the same way "The Truman Show" shows snippets of people watching and experiencing Truman's life through TV sets). Sam Hyde and Jet basically implied I think in an interview that they were basically going to go down that route this season.
and BTW do NOT watch the clips on YouTube of "Nathan For You" as they cut out significant parts of each episode and make them way shorter. To really understand "Nathan For You" you have to download the entire series and watch it from episode 1 onwards. There is a sort of "story" in the form of various side characters (they're sort of like contestants in fishtank) and how they develop through the series progressively.
("Nathan For You" btw features a pilot for a fake reality TV show in which Nathan is "the hunk" and there are a bunch of attractive women trying to get famous and only pretend they like Nathan for fame while they try and hock their shitty social media or side hustle projects. They hired a real TV presenter guy to act in it. If anyone wants to accuse Fishtank of ripping off Big Brother or Ice Poseidon or whatever, then its far more likely fishtank's inspiration came from Nathan For You)
Now I'm not 100% confident that the wiggers could actually pull off something of that caliber and compared to Fielder's stuff, Fishtank has a lot more unpredictable moving parts (in that the participants are a lot more erratic, there is TTS and it is 100% live and stuff like that). But its definitely seeming slightly more possible--if Burt isn't a plant then I am starting to believe there is something very strange going on because this season is certainly not anything like the other seasons.
