Nathan Fielder is taking public aim at Paramount+ after discovering the streamer pulled a Nathan for You episode that centered on his Holocaust-awareness apparel brand, Summit Ice—an episode he’s described as one of his proudest pieces of work. The dispute surfaced in the April 27, 2025 episode of HBO’s The Rehearsal, where Fielder recounts learning that the installment had “mysteriously went missing” from Paramount+ in late 2023 and that the company’s initial justification was a single word: “sensitivities.”
The removed episode is the Season 3, Episode 2 entry of Nathan for You (2015), titled “Horseback Riding/Man Zone,” in which Fielder launches Summit Ice after learning that Taiga—maker of his favorite winter jacket—had published a tribute to Holocaust denier Doug Collins. Fielder’s on-screen response was to create his own outerwear brand that folded Holocaust education into its marketing and directed profits toward Holocaust education organizations, including the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.
In The Rehearsal, Fielder explains he emailed Paramount contacts for an explanation while trying to stay diplomatically professional, since Paramount was also involved with another of his projects at the time—raising the stakes of how hard he could push without potential career fallout. He says the longer explanation he later received claimed Paramount+ Germany had decided to remove the episode in its territory because executives were uncomfortable with “anything that touches on antisemitism in the aftermath of the Israel/Hamas attacks,” and that other regions followed.
Fielder’s response, in typical Rehearsal fashion, wasn’t a straightforward complaint so much as a meticulously staged act of satire about institutional overcorrection and cultural erasure. He dramatizes the “spread” of the decision using a Europe map graphic styled like wartime imagery and then builds an elaborate set to role-play the confrontation he wishes he’d had—casting an actor as a German Paramount executive and placing him in a Nazi-style “war room” setup to underline what he sees as the grotesque irony of Germany trying to police Jewish art “for” Jews.
He also spotlights what he presents as a broader visibility problem on the platform, saying that searches for “Judaism” returned zero results, while “Nazi” returned 50 and “Hitler” returned 10, culminating in his on-screen line: “We’ve been erased.”
Paramount+ hasn’t publicly litigated the specifics of the editorial call in detail, but both Entertainment Weekly and People report the company confirmed the episode is not currently streaming after a “standards review,” without clarifying which standard the episode failed or what, specifically, triggered the removal. (EW also notes that at least a clip from the episode remained viewable via Comedy Central’s YouTube presence at the time of its reporting.)
What makes the story stick isn’t just a streamer yanking an old episode—it’s the subject matter and the timing. Fielder frames the removal as a decision made in the name of avoiding antisemitism that winds up deleting explicitly Jewish content that condemns Holocaust denial and raises money for Holocaust education. The contradiction is the entire point of his bit: if “sensitivities” becomes a blanket rationale, then the safest corporate move is to remove anything complicated, and the first casualties are often minority voices trying to speak in their own idiom.
And Fielder isn’t claiming Summit Ice was just a gag. Reporting notes he’s continued to position it as a real-world project that’s generated significant donations over time, with The Rehearsal using it as an example of something that started as comedy but became materially impactful.
In the end, Fielder’s “slam” lands less like a celebrity feud and more like a blunt accusation about how platforms handle fraught topics: that corporate risk management can slide into cultural deletion, and that “protecting” audiences from discomfort can end up stripping away exactly the kinds of stories that build understanding. Whether Paramount+ reverses course or not, Fielder has already ensured the controversy lives beyond the missing episode, by turning the takedown itself into the text.
