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Sarah Urist Green

person · in 187 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 61 · 2008: 24 · 2009: 25 · 2010: 19 · 2011: 22 · 2012: 11 · 2013: 25

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2007

2008

  • 2008-01-22 · A Short History of the PUPPY SIZED ELEPHANT — Because nerdfighters miss punishing the brothers, John announces projects: when viewers complete one, they earn the right to punish or challenge the brothers, with the wives keeping veto power. (00:02:29)
  • 2008-02-14 · The Puff Pwns Gravity — John says he and Hank are proof that nerds can meet and fall in nerd love, but romance doesn't always come easily to nerdfighters. (00:03:01)
  • 2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — John says the puff keeps growing and thanks the Yeti for supporting his hair, but thinks he is losing the will and the puff will be gone next time. (00:00:13)
  • 2008-03-05 · SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD — The Yeti isn't seen on camera because, John says, her cute would break the camera. (00:02:22)
  • 2008-03-15 · Ruins, LOLBooks, and the Blurbing Book Club — John is in Mobile because Sarah is curating an exhibition opening there, Among the Ruins, which he calls great. (00:00:31)
  • 2008-04-14 · PAPER TOWNS-TACULAR — John reports that the Yeti is sick and, whispering, takes Hank on a mock safari to see her asleep. (00:02:10)
  • 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)
  • 2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — John announces the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting across America and hopefully a few places in Canada, telling Nerdfighters to mark their calendars for November. (00:00:48)
  • 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)
  • 2008-08-06 · Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) — John says he proposed to the Yeti by having Hendrik Hertzberg, a writer she likes whom he met at a conference, sign a book to Sarah asking "Will you marry John Green?". (00:02:09)
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — John announces an October 16 New York launch party for Paper Towns' release with Hank, their parents, the Yeti, Maureen Johnson and other authors; Julia Nunes is floated as a 'rumor'. (00:01:12)
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — After a few days off, Hank, Katherine, sometimes the Yeti and John start the Great American Tour de Nerdfighting 2008, from Plano, Texas, on November 2 to Ames, Iowa, on November 16. (00:02:56)
  • …and 8 more statements in 2008 (most important shown)

2009

  • 2009-04-20 · Weekend of Surreality — John recalls that at his wedding to the Yeti, he and she nearly got dehydrated because people kept stopping to congratulate them while they tried to get water. (00:01:47)
  • 2009-06-08 · I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! — John and Sarah visit Sydney; he shows a warship called HMAS Vampire at the National Maritime Museum and an aquarium with platypuses and a dugong. (00:00:42)
  • 2009-06-17 · Half a Beard — John reports almost 5,000 people voted on his beard, preliminarily to keep it - but says the Yeti always has 10,000 votes, and asks Sarah to decide. (00:00:00)
  • 2009-06-17 · Half a Beard — John says he is about 20% bigger than he used to be; the Wii Fit he and Sarah got calculated his BMI and made his Mii portly. (00:01:05)
  • 2009-06-20 · Neck Beards and Fitness Challenges — Hank thanks the Yeti for vetoing at least half of John's beard and says Green men were not meant to wear beards. (00:00:00)
  • 2009-07-01 · Nerdfighter MARRIAGE PROPOSAL — John recalls that he did not ask the Yeti to marry him himself: he had Hendrik Hertzberg do it when signing John's copy of his book Politics. (00:00:39)
  • 2009-08-10 · HipPOTATOmus — John spent the weekend at the Philo Apple Farm cooking school with the Yeti and her family, a woman and her son, and a woman who knows all about organic, sustainable food. (00:00:23)
  • 2009-08-10 · HipPOTATOmus — John can show little footage because the Yeti is in all of it, and showing her would make Nerdfighteria collapse. (00:00:23)
  • 2009-08-12 · The Island of Nerdfighteria? — Asked again to show the Yeti after three years, John says he cannot, because her cuteness would break viewers' computers. (00:01:39)
  • 2009-09-07 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John and the Yeti are beginning a big home renovation, part of which replaces the moldy basement walls. (00:00:01)
  • 2009-12-16 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — John 'discovers' a crib in his new filming spot and reveals that the Yeti, his wife, is going to have a baby. (00:03:36)
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — John says he and his wife are about to have their first baby (joking that she will have it and he will stand there and faint). (00:00:48)
  • …and 5 more statements in 2009 (most important shown)

2010

  • 2010-01-08 · GUS HAS NO FUZZ! — John thanks the Yeti for not going into labour during the game, and half hopes she will before next Wednesday, so his Frog Hopper ride waits until after his paternity leave. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-01-18 · Fatherhood — John is comforted that even with a 'doofus' for a father, the baby will have an awesome mom and an awesome Uncle Hank and Aunt Katherine. (00:02:28)
  • 2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — Hank announces that January 20 is the birthday of John and Sarah's son: early that morning their 'two became three' when the baby was born. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — In Hank's telling, John was a senior in high school in 1995 and took little notice of freshman Sarah, who remembers the 'charmingly nerdy upperclassman'; they had few interactions. (00:00:12)
  • 2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — In 2005 Sarah came home to a red rose on every step up to her fourth-floor apartment and John at the top with more roses and a ring; they married in a large Alabama church. (00:01:34)
  • 2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — Hank relays John's words: the birth was 'freaking weird', Sarah 'worked so hard', fatherhood is 'actually, like, really great', and he has been awake 46 of the last 48 hours. (00:02:36)
  • 2010-01-26 · Name My Dog! — Hank reports he just talked to John, who is doing very well: John was changing a diaper when Hank called, a child of the brothers has the hiccups, and John and Sarah are both very tired. (00:00:29)
  • 2010-02-19 · a child of the brothers's Pee and My Gut — Changing a child of the brothers's diaper, John's gut told him to catch a fountain of pee in his cupped hands; it dribbled onto his feet and Sarah told him to drop it. (00:00:28)
  • 2010-03-20 · Foreign John Green Books and the Ultimate Concern — The Looking for Alaska line on the Italian edition's back, 'imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia', was said to John by Sarah on their first date. (00:02:04)
  • 2010-04-27 · Nerdfighters, They Named a PLANE After Us — John misses Sarah and a child of the brothers, is tired and misses having time to write, but in a couple of hours meets hundreds of readers of the book he wrote with David, which makes him feel like the luckiest guy in the world. (00:01:38)
  • 2010-06-17 · In Defense of Contemporary Art — John and the Yeti are at 100 Acres, the art and nature park the Indianapolis Museum of Art opens this weekend, the culmination of years of work by many people including the Yeti. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-08-20 · The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? — John's home library has been recatalogued: upstairs is much the same, the downstairs is brand new; the Yeti did almost all of it, knowing that was all he wanted for his birthday. (00:01:27)
  • …and 9 more statements in 2010 (most important shown)

2011

  • 2011-01-07 · CONCUSSED Question Friday — Will viewers ever see the Yeti? After consulting 'Yeti Researcher' magazine, John says he doesn't think they ever will. (00:01:48)
  • 2011-01-07 · CONCUSSED Question Friday — Would he date a girl more intelligent than himself? John says yes; in fact he married one. (00:02:03)
  • 2011-01-21 · Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award — About four years in, John had a finished manuscript, but it would be wrong to say he wrote the book: Ilene, his editor Julie Strauss-Gabel, his wife and others all wrote parts of it. (00:01:52)
  • 2011-01-21 · Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award — Taking part in big, interesting conversations with Hank and the Nerdfighters through his books is the most fulfilling thing in his life, John says, then jokes that it's really a child of the brothers and Sarah. (00:02:55)
  • 2011-02-14 · CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh! — Realising mid-game that it is Valentine's Day, John goes to the mall for a gift and buys his wife shampoo instead of a necklace. (00:00:42)
  • 2011-02-14 · CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh! — Being empathetic, John concludes the Yeti wants the video finished and uploaded by the time she gets home more than hastily bought toiletries. (00:01:58)
  • 2011-02-18 · Thoughts from Places: Small Town America — John and the Yeti drove east past endless cornfields to Knightstown, Indiana, to help two Swedish architects buy a tree: the life of the museum curator's husband. (00:00:00)
  • 2011-04-20 · Tulipomania — John says the Yeti needs to be in Europe because she is working on the U.S. pavilion for the Venice Biennale. (00:00:07)
  • 2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John and the Yeti agreed in advance that a boy would be named a child of the brothers and a girl 'Bubbles the Nerdfighting Lady Baby'. (00:01:47)
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — John notes he has agreed to autograph every copy of the first printing of The Fault in Our Stars; the Yeti made him a thermometer to chart his progress to 150,000 books. (00:00:48)
  • 2011-08-26 · Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. — John says Sarah has contributed tons to his writing: the line 'imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia' in Looking for Alaska, the pranks in Paper Towns, and hugely to The Fault in Our Stars. (00:03:05)
  • 2011-09-16 · Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity — John says that, in older-brother tradition, he has 'stolen' Hank's channel HankGames for a series playing FIFA while telling life stories, such as how he met and courted the Yeti. (00:02:54)
  • …and 13 more statements in 2011 (most important shown)

2012

2013

  • 2013-01-08 · Addicted to the Internet — John says it is really Saturday: later that morning he, Sarah and a child of the brothers leave on vacation, and on Tuesday he will be without a computer for the first time since he got it. (00:00:10)
  • 2013-01-08 · Addicted to the Internet — John recalls that in late 2006, while planning Brotherhood 2.0, Sarah doubted he could do it given his internet time, and he insisted making videos would replace it. (00:00:45)
  • 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says books seem one person's work, but TFIOS was partly written by a private person, his wife, Julie Strauss-Gabel, Jodi Reamer, John Darnielle, Hank and T. S. Eliot. (00:59:48)
  • 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — For the finale John brings out the performers, his parents, Julie Strauss-Gabel, Jodi Reamer, Elyse Marshall who made the evening possible, Sean Titone, Katherine, Sarah (whom he first forgot) and Valerie2776. (02:50:08)
  • 2013-01-18 · Thoughts from Carnegie Hall — Hank thanks Neil Gaiman, Kimya Dawson, The Mountain Goats, Ashley and Daniel, Hannah and Grace, Elyse, their parents, their wives and all of Nerdfighteria for making the show possible. (00:01:44)
  • 2013-01-22 · How to Be More Than Friends: Question Tuesday — John says he and the Yeti are 'more than friends' mainly because they share responsibility for important things - a car, a mortgage and a human child - not because of face-licking. (00:01:14)
  • 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — Sarah realized in eighth grade that everyone else thinks about themselves as much as she does about herself, so no one has time to think about her; it helped make her a well-adjusted teen, and John is still trying to internalize it. (00:03:11)
  • 2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — John says he is about to have a child, due around May or June (Sarah points out he will not be the one having it, but he will be its father). (00:02:26)
  • 2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — John says Sarah (the Yeti) is due to have their baby on June 1, though it might come earlier. (00:03:04)
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John announces in a pre-recorded video that his baby has been born; he jokes about his 'epic loins' before conceding Sarah did the birthing and he only reinforced the doctor's 'push'. (00:00:01)
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — In a short insert recorded after the birth, John reports that everything is good: baby and mother are healthy, and the parents are exhausted. (00:01:45)
  • 2013-10-22 · Question Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars Movie Edition — Sarah is leaving her job at the Indianapolis Museum of Art to curate and host The Art Assignment, a show with PBS Digital; John jokes he should have said so weeks ago. (00:02:26)
  • …and 15 more statements in 2013 (most important shown)