4x04 The Anecdote

I actually remember seeing that interview a couple of years ago. It obviously made enough impact that I remember it but I can't recall if I questioned the story or not, in hindsight it seems to silly. I probably just accepted it as true enough for something that doesn't affect me in any way.

This episode is presented as Nathan going to extraordinary lengths and expense in order to validate an anecdote he planned to tell on a crappy tv show (Kimmel was probably chosen for how boring and predictable he is). The actual premise is that he told the anecdote so as to validate the story he planned to tell on his own tv show. I doubt that he spent $350k doing all that because the story was still a lie so it would have been pointless and we can't check to see how much was spent on specifics. The irony is that he probably spent most of his budget on things that validated the story that he told to us (rather than Kimmel's audience) so that as viewers if we were to try and find out if he was lying, all of the details that we could potentially look up would be correct. The people he roped in to help him would need to be fooled to cover that so the guy with the ashes would have thought everything played out as presented, a real couple had a wedding and the cop would have been real (which admittedly is a lot of it) but anything that didn't have witnesses wouldn't need to be done