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myth · in 15 videos (2007–2011)

Mentions by year: 2007: 5 · 2009: 5 · 2010: 1 · 2011: 4

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What the videos say

2007

  • 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John says something matters a little more than the presidential debate they have had for months on the forum ('in my pants'): he is appalled that Hank prefers unicorns to zombies. (00:01:35)
  • 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John says young adult authors have been feuding for months over whether zombies or unicorns are preferable. (00:01:35)
  • 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John argues unicorns are worse: the worst parts of horses and rhinoceri, and in all of fiction they have accomplished nothing but carrying the Care Bears. (00:02:33)
  • 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John prefers the hard truths of zombies to the easy lies of unicorns, and says that goes for his presidents as well as his myths. (00:02:33)
  • 2007-10-10 · October 10th: A Spoilerific Attack on Unicorns — John says Hank will never win the zombies-versus-unicorns part of the feud, and offers a 'foolproof' argument against unicorns only for those who have read Harry Potter 7. (00:01:24)
  • 2007-10-10 · October 9th: The Feud Continues — Hank would rather meet a unicorn than a zombie in an enchanted forest: zombies can only make more undead by killing the living, and he prefers something whose mission is not to kill him. (00:01:47)
  • 2007-10-10 · October 10th: A Spoilerific Attack on Unicorns — John's argument 'Why do you guys hate Tonks so much?': Voldemort survives by drinking unicorn blood, so unicorns saved him, and his war killed Tonks; if you like unicorns, you killed Tonks, and Hedwig. (00:01:53)
  • 2007-10-10 · October 10th: A Spoilerific Attack on Unicorns — John is not defending zombies, which are disgusting, but zombies didn't kill Tonks; in Narnia unicorns only impale people and in Harry Potter they save villains, so unicorns kill while zombies only make people undead. (00:02:22)
  • 2007-10-12 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — Hank suggests the sweetness of Japanese pop might explain his attraction to unicorns, which feature prominently in Japanese pop culture. (00:02:57)
  • 2007-10-12 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — In the feud, Hank says he may be ready to accept that zombies are more awesome than unicorns, though not for John's reasons, but will not give up his place on Team Unicorn. (00:02:57)
  • 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do... — Hank says he isn't especially proud of heading Team Unicorn, but is quite proud of being on Team Science. (00:02:04)
  • 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do... — Hank assumes this is what John meant by calling young-earth creationism anti-intellectual in the comments, and says that, unlike on zombies and unicorns, he agrees with John. (00:02:40)

2009

  • 2009-04-25 · Saturday Video?!?!?! — Asked whether his opinion on zombies vs. unicorns has changed since 2007, John says only in that he hates unicorns more than ever. (00:01:34)
  • 2009-07-20 · Harry Potter Nerds Win at Life — John says that when he played 20Q thinking of puppy-sized elephants, a creature 'in pre-existence', it guessed unicorns. (00:02:08)
  • 2009-08-12 · The Island of Nerdfighteria? — John catches a viewer's attempt to trick him into saying he loves unicorns and declares that he hates unicorns. (00:01:39)

2011

  • 2011-05-23 · Eating the Unicorn — Two nights ago John dined with his Dutch translator and publishing people; the Google-translated document about the dinner ended by saying they did not know who would eat the unicorn. (00:00:39)
  • 2011-05-23 · Eating the Unicorn — John jokes that he volunteered to eat the unicorn at the dinner, but it was not on the menu, so he had the sea bass. (00:01:05)