France

place · in 16 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 1 · 2009: 4 · 2010: 4 · 2011: 2 · 2012: 2 · 2013: 3

What the videos say

2007

• 2007-05-17 · May 17th: Wikeeeeeepedia...and Happy Birthday Katherine — Hank keeps the video quick for Katherine's birthday: a France-themed party tonight, for which he'd rather she not clean, and a present he can't reveal because she'll watch this. (00:00:34)

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)
• 2009-01-12 · SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! — John asks who is at fault for the piracy and the wars in Chad: the combatants, France, Italy and Britain for disastrous colonization, or us for not paying attention; he really wants answers. (00:03:25)
• 2009-01-15 · TIny Cars SUCK! — The song's narrator links tiny cars with living in France and being a commie, says the Mini Cooper makes him ill and consigns the smart car to hell. (00:00:42)
• 2009-08-31 · 100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!! — Asked whether Paper Towns will be published in France, John answers in French that he thinks so. (00:00:22)
• 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — John recounts that in a closely fought match Thierry Henry handled the ball and passed to a teammate who scored, so France went to the World Cup by cheating. (00:01:28)

2010

• 2010-08-03 · I Love Hank: Esther Day 2010 — John recalls that in 2003 some members of the US Congress, angry that France saw no link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, renamed French fries and French toast 'Freedom' in the congressional cafeteria. (00:00:58)
• 2010-08-03 · I Love Hank: Esther Day 2010 — John says all American political parties now admit the US was wrong and the French were right, so maybe Americans should quietly go back to saying French fries. (00:01:56)
• 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — John says the US had just won its Revolutionary War, which would have been impossible without France's support. (00:00:38)
• 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — John says France had racked up tremendous debts supporting the American Revolution and fighting the Seven Years' War. (00:00:44)
• 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — To show the scale of France's debt, John says the US spent 5% of its federal budget servicing its debt in 2009, while France in 1789 spent 50%. (00:00:51)
• 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — John says that in 1789, besides the debt crisis, there was a famine: the price of bread rose 50% in one year while wages did not rise at all. (00:01:25)
• 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — John sums up the crisis of 1789: hungry peasants, intellectuals questioning whether power should rest with the church and monarchy, and a nobility failing to make financial reform. (00:01:33)
• 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — John says that between May and October 1789 France went from a stable, if broke, monarchy to a country where armed peasant women could put the king under house arrest and no one knew who was in charge. (00:04:51)
• 2010-11-11 · Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II — John skips ahead a year, noting only that the National Assembly made no one less hungry, the financial crisis continued, and many nobles (the émigrés) took their money and left France. (00:00:13)
• 2010-11-11 · REIGN OF TERROR: The French Revolution, Part III — John sums up: after more than a hundred thousand lives lost, a decade of suffering and a continent-wide war, France went from one supreme ruler to another. (00:03:34)
• 2010-11-11 · Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II — John stresses again that nothing the Assembly, the Jacobins or Louis XVI had done addressed the underlying problems: the French people were hungry and France was broke. (00:03:53)
• 2010-11-11 · Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II — John says that with France poor, hungry and fighting two wars, radicals led by the Jacobins held a session excluding most of parliament and declared France a republic, voiding the year-old constitution. (00:04:39)
• …and 1 more statements in 2010 (most important shown)

2011

• 2011-03-08 · Why is Haiti Poor? — Hank says colonialism made it worse: Haiti was France's biggest Western Hemisphere investment, with 300,000 slaves against about 20,000 in the Spanish-owned, three-times-larger Dominican Republic. (00:01:52)
• 2011-06-01 · The Evil Baby Orphanage Returns...for George Washington? — John says a key factor in the French Revolution was that France bankrupted itself helping the Americans fight their revolution. (00:01:48)

2012

• 2012-07-17 · Hitler and Sex! — John says syphilis was a big problem among Nazi troops in occupied France and Hitler's solution was to send small, foldable blow-up sex dolls to the army; the idea was abandoned. (00:00:18)
• 2012-11-08 · The 51st State — The UN, opposed to colonization, says this is not really okay (hence a French island is the Eurozone's southernmost point), but Puerto Ricans had always said the status quo was fine, so the UN accepted it. (00:01:00)

2013

• 2013-08-20 · Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? — John says the US has more obesity but fewer smokers and less alcohol consumption, so compared with the British or French it is probably a wash. (00:02:47)
• 2013-09-20 · 42 Amazing Maps — Hank says Africa is very big: bigger than the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the UK, all of Eastern Europe, China and India. (00:02:46)
• 2013-09-24 · Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared — John says both are successful people's narratives about success: Franklin negotiated important treaties with the French, and Drake says not much happens in the music industry without him. (00:00:58)