--- title: Nick Offerman Offers Advice on Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon description: The main takeaway: don't use your roommate's soap canonical: https://time.com/3326984/nick-offerman-jimmy-fallon/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-11T14:31:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:07.577Z og:title: Nick Offerman Shares Some Hilarious, Unsolicited Advice on the 'Tonight Show' og:description: The main takeaway: don't use your roommate's soap og:url: https://time.com/3326984/nick-offerman-jimmy-fallon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a12d82d8fc1b373/6986a2cb55a85915dba827f6/455200368.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Nick Offerman og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nick Offerman Shares Some Hilarious, Unsolicited Advice on the 'Tonight Show' twitter:description: The main takeaway: don't use your roommate's soap twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a12d82d8fc1b373/6986a2cb55a85915dba827f6/455200368.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Nick Offerman Has Some Very Helpful Advice for College Freshmen by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 11, 2014 2:31 PM UTC  Actor Nick Offerman during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on September 10, 2014. Actor Nick Offerman during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on September 10, 2014.Douglas Gorenstein / NBC—Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 11, 2014 2:31 PM UTC _Parks and Rec_ star Nick Offerman stopped by _The Tonight Show_ last night to offer some sage words of wisdom. First, he responded to a _Tonight Show_ fan who wrote in requesting general advice about starting college. Because he’s Nick Offerman, things got real weird real fast. The actor also offered some advice to fans who wrote in with other random questions, such as _I’m running my first marathon in a month and don’t know what you wear. What do you think?_ and _I’m thinking of leaving my teenage son on someone’s doorstep so they can finish raising him. Is this a good idea?_ Don’t agree with his advice? Well, he’s [Ron Swanson](http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2594919/ron-swanson-bacon-o.gif), and we all need to do as he says. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3326984/nick-offerman-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3326984/nick-offerman-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Nick Offerman Has Some Very Helpful Advice for College Freshmen","datePublished":"2014-09-11T14:31:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:07.577Z","description":"The main takeaway: don't use your roommate's soap","url":"https://time.com/3326984/nick-offerman-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","NBC","jimmy fallon","tonight show","celebrity","advice","nick offerman"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a12d82d8fc1b373/6986a2cb55a85915dba827f6/455200368.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a12d82d8fc1b373/6986a2cb55a85915dba827f6/455200368.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Nick Offerman","caption":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 1","creditText":"Douglas Gorenstein / NBC—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3326984/nick-offerman-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Nick Offerman Has Some Very Helpful Advice for College Freshmen"}}]}] ```