Evil Baby Orphanage

term · in 34 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 13 · 2008: 3 · 2009: 5 · 2011: 4 · 2012: 8 · 2013: 1

Threads

The Evil Baby Orphanage (2007) — bit, callback, 2007–2013
John asks Hank and viewers what to do with the Evil Baby Orphanage idea (2007) — ask, reported back, 2007–2007
John and Hank: develop the Evil Baby Orphanage into a story (2007) — stage, milestone, 2007–2008
Hank asks Brooke and the Nerdfighters for permission to develop the Evil Baby Orphanage (2007) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2007–2007
Hank asks viewers to take John's or Hank's side on historical vs non-historical evil babies (2009) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2009–2009
John: make two Evil Baby Orphanage news videos this weekend (2009) — promise, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2009–2009
John asks viewers how to tell who belongs in the Evil Baby Orphanage given the complexity of history (2011) — ask, reported back, 2011–2011
Evil Baby Orphanage card game: a game company's Kickstarter campaign (2012) — stage, milestone, 2012–2013

What the videos say

2007

2007-05-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 14: The Evil Baby Orphanage — A commenter, Brooke, proposed the 'evil baby orphanage': go back in time, take evil babies from their bad homes and raise them as heroic nerdfighter babies; John loves it. (00:00:40)
2007-05-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 14: The Evil Baby Orphanage — John says something has to be done with the evil baby orphanage idea but he doesn't know what, and hopes Hank or someone else has ideas. (00:01:12)
2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — On the Evil Baby Orphanage, Hank says there is only one option: the brothers have to do this. (00:00:56)
2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — Hank formally asks Brooke, who conceived the idea, and the other Nerdfighters working on it for permission for John and him to run with the Evil Baby Orphanage. (00:00:56)
2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — Hank says he is not saying there will be a Hank and John Green book called Evil Baby Orphanage, but thinks the idea is pretty fertile ground for storytelling. (00:01:27)
2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — John says that, so far as he can tell, Evil Baby Orphanage creator Brooke has not officially permitted making it into a movie, novel, graphic novel or whatever, but he thinks they should move ahead with the project. (00:00:40)
2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — Since collaborative writing is hard without text, John proposes a series of Evil Baby Orphanage videos in which the brothers read their proposed book proposals to each other, eventually building a book proposal from them. (00:01:10)
2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank worries about discussing the Evil Baby Orphanage proposal publicly: for him the biggest thrill of a book, movie or TV show is secrets assembled slowly. (00:02:20)
2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank's issue with the Evil Baby Orphanage idea: there aren't very many evil baby girls. (00:02:49)
2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank wants female characters and leads in the Evil Baby Orphanage and says the brothers must work out where evil female babies and the love interests come from. (00:03:17)
2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — Answering Hank's question about the scarcity of evil female babies, John presents his second find, a book on the most evil women in history. (00:01:08)
2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — John concludes the brothers should have no trouble finding enough evil ladies to fill out the Evil Baby Orphanage. (00:02:12)
…and 14 more statements in 2007 (most important shown)

2008

2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — For a trip to the Evil Baby Orphanage John would take A Love Supreme by John Coltrane and something by the Mountain Goats, though evil baby Stalin would steal them. (00:01:14)
2008-03-05 · SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD — John says a book written by all nerdfighters should be about the Evil Baby Orphanage, which would be a dream come true for him. (00:01:27)
2008-05-21 · Guys Love Giraffe Love — Choosing between a million dollars and punching Hitler, John would time-travel to put evil baby Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin and others in the Evil Baby Orphanage in Tibet, then sell the time machine. (00:02:42)
2008-05-21 · Guys Love Giraffe Love — If the time machine's buyer killed John first, a Schrödinger's cat situation would follow; John thinks this solves the Evil Baby Orphanage's relation to history and is their premise. (00:03:11)

2009

2009-04-06 · The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea — John says nerdfighter Naomi suggested reviving the Evil Baby Orphanage; he hesitated until North Korea launched a long-range missile, so now it's time. (00:00:08)
2009-04-06 · The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea — John recaps the Evil Baby Orphanage: invented almost two years ago by nerdfighter Brooke as a compromise in the debate over killing baby Hitler via time travel. (00:00:25)
2009-04-06 · The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea — John proposes putting Kim Jong-il's dead father Kim Il-sung in the Evil Baby Orphanage, which he says would save millions of lives and reunify Korea. (00:02:15)
2009-04-08 · Become a Time Traveller TODAY! — Hank says the brothers disagree on the orphanage as a story: John wants well-known evil babies like Stalin and Hitler, but then why does the world still suck? (00:00:40)
2009-04-08 · Become a Time Traveller TODAY! — Hank prefers the idea that an Evil Baby Orphanage already exists and its overworked creator's best effort is the world we live in now. (00:00:58)
2009-04-08 · Become a Time Traveller TODAY! — For the orphanage, Hank says every day without a time machine is another day evil babies are free to do evil. (00:03:27)
2009-04-08 · Become a Time Traveller TODAY! — Hank asks viewers in comments for other ways to travel backwards in time, and whether they side with John or him: historical or non-historical evil babies. (00:03:40)
2009-04-20 · Weekend of Surreality — John says this Sunday video has little news because he is going to do two special Evil Baby Orphanage-related news videos this weekend. (00:02:16)
2009-04-27 · Peanut Butter Face Discusses Sri Lanka — John argues that without obvious candidates for the Evil Baby Orphanage the world gets bored: we follow stories that make sense and neglect ambiguous situations. (00:03:16)
2009-05-08 · Star Trek: The Movie, Review — Hank says time travel in movies generally annoys him as a kind of cheating, admitting the irony for a lover of the Evil Baby Orphanage. (00:02:38)

2011

2011-06-01 · The Evil Baby Orphanage Returns...for George Washington? — John recalls the Nerdfighter idea of the Evil Baby Orphanage: instead of time-travelling to kill evil people as babies, kidnap them and rehabilitate them there. (00:00:08)
2011-06-01 · The Evil Baby Orphanage Returns...for George Washington? — John asks how to decide who is a good Evil Baby Orphanage candidate, taking George Washington, seemingly a terrible candidate given the War for Independence, the Constitution and his presidency. (00:00:29)
2011-06-01 · The Evil Baby Orphanage Returns...for George Washington? — John's non-rhetorical question: given history's complexity, how do we know who belongs in the Evil Baby Orphanage, and that our own lives would not land us there? He invites discussion in comments and Your Pants. (00:02:05)
2011-06-03 · I AM A BAD PERSON! — Hank likes that a Nerdfighter on Your Pants proposed listing criteria for entry to the Evil Baby Orphanage, and that most discussion focused on intent. (00:00:21)
2011-06-03 · I AM A BAD PERSON! — Hank says giving up this one indulgence makes you a little better as a person, lowering your odds of being sent to the Evil Baby Orphanage as a baby. (00:02:51)

2012

2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John says five years ago he would never have guessed there would be a Nerdfighteria, a Project for Awesome, In Your Pants jokes or an Evil Baby Orphanage (which still doesn't exist but should). (00:00:00)
2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John proposes the perfect site for the Evil Baby Orphanage, once they have a time machine and have collected the evil babies: the island in a lake on an island in a lake on Luzon. (00:00:00)
2012-04-27 · Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell — Asked whether he would kill baby Hitler, Charlie wonders why Hank asks after years of the Evil Baby Orphanage; told the orphanage is not an option, he says he would kill the baby. (00:01:35)
2012-05-01 · Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands — John can't believe Hank still asks the baby-Hitler question five years after the Evil Baby Orphanage began; he would not kill baby Hitler but kidnap him. (00:00:53)
2012-08-07 · An Open Letter to Students Returning to School — John announces that a professional gaming company is Kickstarting an Evil Baby Orphanage card game and asks viewers to check it out. (00:03:41)
2012-08-10 · I Don't Have a Favorite Pony — Hank recalls the Evil Baby Orphanage as an idea he and John conceived to escape the dilemma of killing baby Hitler: you could instead abduct him to an evil baby orphanage. (00:02:40)
2012-08-24 · Happy Birthday John Green! — Hank notes that their Evil Baby Orphanage idea is now a real card game with two decks of cards. (00:00:58)

2013

2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John retells the Evil Baby Orphanage: Hank asked about killing baby Hitler, a commenter proposed an orphanage for evil babies, inspiring fan fiction, web comics and now a professionally produced card game. (00:57:30)