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Mentions by year: 2007: 9 · 2008: 2 · 2009: 4 · 2011: 3 · 2012: 4 · 2013: 3

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2007

2008

  • 2008-05-01 · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — Citing a video he just watched, Hank says Wikipedia took about as much time to make as it takes 100 million Americans to watch the Super Bowl. (00:02:49)
  • 2008-05-19 · Three Things — John explains the idea: just as Wikipedia is a user-created encyclopedia, Omnictionary can become a user-created novel, read in any order and written by everybody, though he doubts it will work. (00:02:44)

2009

  • 2009-01-12 · SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! — John reads from Wikipedia's Chad page that the French first 'penetrated' Chad in 1891, then plays the wording for laughs. (00:01:01)
  • 2009-02-21 · Paper Towns and PUPPY — He named the book's wiki Omnictionary not for fear of a Wikipedia lawsuit but for literary reasons: the name means it contains all knowledge. (00:01:00)

2012

  • 2012-02-28 · On Cuties and Cooties — John defines cooties, quoting Wikipedia, as a fictitious childhood disease said to infect people perceived as different or socially stigmatized. (00:00:00)
  • 2012-06-22 · Hank is Maybe Crazy — Stretching Blu-Tack ('ticky tacky') for stress relief, Hank says he read its whole Wikipedia page and that it was created completely by accident, like many of science's greatest accomplishments. (00:00:33)
  • 2012-11-20 · Great at Being Terrible: The Florence Foster Jenkins Story — John reads Wikipedia's first sentence on Jenkins: an American amateur operatic soprano known and ridiculed for her lack of rhythm, pitch and tone and her poor singing. (00:00:04)

2013

  • 2013-01-08 · Addicted to the Internet — John says he and a child of the brothers spent 20 minutes on the Wikipedia whale shark article settling whether whale sharks bite humans; he was right, and learning it cost nothing. (00:01:20)
  • 2013-02-01 · Football For Nerds — Hank says Americans will collectively spend 300 million man-hours watching the Super Bowl this year, which he calls the time it took to create Wikipedia. (00:00:29)
  • 2013-04-23 · DOCTOR GREEN — John says he looked on Wikipedia and found that, as an honorary doctor, he cannot call himself a doctor. (00:01:23)