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in your pants

term · in 99 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 56 · 2008: 8 · 2009: 12 · 2010: 11 · 2011: 9 · 2012: 2 · 2013: 1

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2007

  • 2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank says he was recently at Maureen Johnson's blog, about a long conversation John, Johnson and Lockhart had on the suffix 'in your pants': every book title gets better with it. (00:01:57)
  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John applies the 'in-your-pants rule' to books from his home library: Getting the Girl, The Mystery of the Golden Spheres, Rabbit at Rest, The Cheese Monkeys, Everyman, The Stranger and more. (00:01:24)
  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John adds an addendum to the rule: sometimes 'in your pants' isn't the funniest addition; funniest is 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone… From Your Pants'. (00:02:31)
  • 2007-01-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 29th — The project is a performance of 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone From Your Pants', the old song with the 'from your pants' suffix. (00:00:50)
  • 2007-01-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 30, 2007 — Offering in-your-pants jokes, John asks Hank and viewers which is funnier: 'Everyone Poops in My Pants' or 'Everyone Poops in Your Pants'. (00:01:22)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Agreeing with most commenters, Hank rules 'in my pants' funnier: 'Everyone Poops in My Pants' is a sad story, and sad poop stories are funnier than funny ones. (00:02:13)
  • 2007-05-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning — After adding 'in your pants' to the title, John says that joke is the dirtiest thing about the book: nothing in it is inappropriate for teens, or even ten-year-olds. (00:00:52)
  • 2007-06-08 · June 7: Weather and My Pants — Hank reports that overnight the forum 'My Pants' reached over 300 registered users, who had posted about a thousand posts. (00:01:46)
  • 2007-07-20 · July 19: A Day in the Life of a Writer (Who Has No Friends) — John is working on a part of his new novel about 150 pages in, and reads its prologue as a hint because people 'in my pants' debate what the book is about. (00:01:32)
  • 2007-07-25 · July 25: Brotherhood 2.0's Youtube Comments Are Answered! — John defines a nerdfighter as a regular person made out of awesome instead of tissues, cells and organs; nerdfighters hang out on the forum 'in my pants' and embroider pillows. (00:01:40)
  • 2007-08-22 · August 22nd: Um. Uh. IN YOUR PANTS — John declares that 'in your pants' jokes never get old, like the family in Tuck Everlasting, and runs through literary titles 'in your pants'. (00:02:37)
  • 2007-12-29 · Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video — Busy grown-up siblings living across the country lack time for games like adding 'In Your Pants' to book titles; John calls knowing your siblings as adults an increasingly rare pleasure. (00:01:20)
  • …and 21 more statements in 2007 (most important shown)

2008

  • 2008-02-14 · The Puff Pwns Gravity — John had thought the 'in your pants' joke had run its course until a nerdfighter checking in books for third graders found 'Pooh Gets Stuck'. (00:02:05)
  • 2008-04-08 · Nerdfighting in Bangladesh — The children Sean works with may not know in-your-pants jokes, speak English or have fast internet, but they are still part of us. (00:02:20)
  • 2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — John shows gifts Nerdfighters brought the brothers in Grand Rapids: a ceramic DFTBA cup and a book called 'Scruffy Teddy Likes to Play in Your Pants'. (00:00:30)

2009

  • 2009-02-09 · All Aboard the Fail Boat — John says Nerdfighteria takes the attack on women's pants personally: the in-your-pants book-title joke is funny, a hoopskirt designed to rob women of power is not, and Williamson will not take his in-your-pants jokes. (00:01:33)
  • 2009-07-26 · Volunteering (In Your Pants) — John recounts that he and Maureen Johnson discovered in a coffee shop that adding 'in your pants' to book titles makes them funnier, and runs through examples. (00:00:37)
  • 2009-09-12 · Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) — John is excited to see Nerdfighters seeking political office, joking that the Nerdfighter agenda is 'in your pants' book titles and puppy-sized elephants. (00:02:51)
  • 2009-10-07 · Victoria Beckham In Your Pants — John restates the 'in your pants' rule: adding the words to the end of a book title often makes it funnier, and Nerdfighters keep finding examples, the last being 'Pooh Gets Stuck'. (00:00:00)
  • 2009-10-07 · Victoria Beckham In Your Pants — John says a Nerdfighter may have found an even better example: Victoria Beckham's book 'That Extra Half an Inch', subtitled 'Hair, Heels, and Everything in Between'. (00:00:32)
  • 2009-12-28 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — John says 'in your pants' was discovered by Maureen Johnson: adding it to book titles makes them funnier, e.g. The Sun Also Rises and A Spot of Bother. (00:02:38)

2010

  • 2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — She describes herself as a friend of John's and fellow YA author, probably best known to Nerdfighters as the originator of the 'In Your Pants' joke. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-04-20 · I Shall BLOW YOUR MIND — Noting people react differently to knowing we are on a tiny pale blue dot, Hank asks viewers to leave their reactions in the comments ('in my pants'). (00:03:03)
  • 2010-06-21 · You're Gonna Die — John tells Hank they and everyone they love will die, and one day no one will remember the books, World Cups, proofs or in-your-pants jokes, as if they never happened. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-08-20 · The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? — In 'important developments in the field of your pants', John announces that a UK Nerdfighter has found a children's book called The Sweaty Yeti. (00:03:18)

2011

  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John piles up old in-jokes: pizza in the mustache, the singamajig, his puppy-sized elephant, the Dread Pirate Fireball Wilson Roberts and French the Llama, Tender Morsels in your pants. (00:00:18)
  • 2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John explains the 'in your pants' rule: their friend Maureen Johnson discovered that book titles are funnier with 'in your pants' added, and gives examples. (00:01:31)
  • 2011-11-29 · Stuffed with STUFF! — Hank says the fight to bring back the Your Pants forum continues and apologises that it has taken so long. (00:00:58)

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)