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Willy

animal · in 70 videos (2008–2013)

Mentions by year: 2008: 19 · 2009: 29 · 2010: 12 · 2011: 6 · 2012: 2 · 2013: 2

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What the videos say

2008

  • 2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — The real reason for the absence: John and the Yeti have made an extraordinary, unbelievably time-consuming acquisition, a puppy. (00:00:46)
  • 2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — John wanted to name the puppy 'Bubbles the Nerdfighting Puppy', but the Yeti said a boy named Bubbles would be weird to explain; John adds people would ask if Nerdfighters are for or against nerds. (00:00:54)
  • 2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — They call him Willy; his full name, Fireball Wilson Roberts, refers to the first sentence of James Crumley's novel The Last Good Kiss, which John reads aloud. (00:01:14)
  • 2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — John's message to Nerdfighters considering a puppy: it is so hard; Willy needs constant attention. (00:01:45)
  • 2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — Willy makes a many-noted noise when ignored and fakes needing to pee; John gets frustrated but forgives him when he tilts his head; a bundle of joy and of work. (00:01:58)
  • 2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — John and Willy wish Katherine a happy birthday; John claims Willy is a talking dog. (00:03:10)
  • 2008-05-22 · Adorable Puppy Injury!!!! — Hank explains John spent most of the day at the dog hospital: Willy is okay but has a broken foot, which is why John is excused. (00:01:19)
  • 2008-05-22 · Adorable Puppy Injury!!!! — Hank asks John to give the 'peg-legged' puppy an eyepatch, and maybe a parrot, for tomorrow's video; though on Team Ninja, he'd love a pirate puppy. (00:01:37)
  • 2008-06-26 · Don't Suck on That Bone — John frames the video as doing ten things the Nerdfighters asked of him; the first two were to see more of Willy and more of the Yeti (Sarah). (00:00:00)
  • 2008-07-13 · Willy's Elusive Head Turn — John says the skill they most want Willy to master is turning his head to the side, which he does whenever he hears sounds he's never heard before. (00:00:44)
  • 2008-07-13 · Willy's Elusive Head Turn — John asks anyone who wants to make a video response with a sound they think Willy has never heard before. (00:02:13)
  • 2008-12-08 · I Am Afraid of Heights — Narrating as Willy, John says that at an author party Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier teased him about his fear of heights and asked what it would cost him to stand on a hotel-room table. (00:00:24)
  • …and 20 more statements in 2008 (most important shown)

2009

  • 2009-01-05 · Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! — Because the Israeli army invaded the Gaza Strip last night, John feels he has to discuss it on Newsday although it makes him miserable, and shows puppy footage to counter that. (00:00:02)
  • 2009-02-09 · All Aboard the Fail Boat — John introduces the Fail Boat, the puppy-captained vessel Nerdfighters use to travel Nerdfighteria and to sail the world learning about places experiencing world suck. (00:00:06)
  • 2009-02-21 · Paper Towns and PUPPY — In a bonus video, helped by Willy and pre-recorded questions from 'past John', John answers Paper Towns questions he didn't get to in his last video. (00:00:00)
  • 2009-08-12 · The Island of Nerdfighteria? — John says he and Willy will give $1,000 to the charity of Nerdfighteria's choice. (00:02:28)
  • 2009-08-12 · The Island of Nerdfighteria? — John asks Nerdfighters to leave a comment naming the charity they want him and Willy to give money to. (00:02:28)
  • 2009-09-09 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) — John says Willy agreed not to eat the things John loves in exchange for John keeping his secret shame, but broke the deal by eating part of the great white wall of cow. (00:00:00)
  • 2009-09-09 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) — John came home to find Willy had chewed his figurine of the Wookiee (Chewbacca), leaving it armless with a damaged foot. (00:00:52)
  • 2009-09-09 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) — John reveals Willy's secret shame: he was born with an extra tailbone that bends his tail downward. (00:00:52)
  • 2009-10-01 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! — Hank says watching John's video from a couple of weeks ago, where Willy chewed the arm off Chewbacca, reminded him that he used to be a connoisseur of Star Wars hand removal. (00:00:01)
  • 2009-10-12 · Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism — John says that when he gets cranky, he puts Willy in his tiny elephant costume. (00:00:16)

2010

  • 2010-01-18 · Fatherhood — When anxious, John reminds himself he is not the first organism to face parenthood and many were less qualified, such as Willy, who is adorable but 'an idiot' and not qualified to be a dad. (00:01:48)
  • 2010-11-19 · I'm Not Going Down: Thoughts from Amsterdam — John recounts his departure: up around 5:30, Willy senses he is leaving, he is driven to the airport, and he flies to Atlanta. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-12-30 · Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places — John woke in the Yeti's childhood bedroom, found a child of the brothers removing trash from a trash can, and the family had to drive from Birmingham back to Indianapolis. (00:00:00)

2011

  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John piles up old in-jokes: pizza in the mustache, the singamajig, his puppy-sized elephant, the Dread Pirate Fireball Wilson Roberts and French the Llama, Tender Morsels in your pants. (00:00:18)
  • 2011-03-23 · Why Does My Dog Eat Poop? — John says that a couple of years ago his doctor found campylobacter, which John calls a parasite you get from eating feces; told most people get it from their dogs' licks, he blames Willy. (00:01:01)
  • 2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — Willy is not in Amsterdam; he is staying with the Yeti's aunt and uncle, whom John says Willy likes far better than him. (00:02:46)
  • 2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John gives Willy's full name as, technically, Wilson Bubbles the Nerdfighting Puppy Roberts. (00:03:00)