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All statements about in your pants

92 statements about in your pants in 68 videos, by upload date.

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2007

Also named in: Helen Hunt, Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting, July 3: Decepticons, July 9: The Punishment Fiasco, Brotherhood 2.0: Harry and the Potters are Nerdfighters!, July 27: How Nerdfighters Drop Insults, August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans, August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury, August 27th: Thanks Yous and Cameos, August 28th: Starring Mom, October 12th: Carbon Re-Neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0, November 8th: SUGAR HIGH!, December 7th: Fight Night with the Green Bros., Dec 18th: The Project for Awesome and Question Tuesday!!!

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'. (playful) — 00:02:05
  • 2008-04-08 · Nerdfighting in Bangladesh — John: The children Shawn 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
  • 2008-04-21 · Belated Book-tacular Questions — recommendation: John: For the 'in your pants' game, John's favorite book title at the moment is Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Little Pea. (playful) — 00:01:22
  • 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

Also named in: Happy (Belated) Birthday, Hank, Book Eight...Another Harry Potter Song, A Video about Videos, Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants), Sharing Presents in Westport

2009

  • 2009-02-08 · 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. (playful) — 00:01:33
  • 2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — announcement: Hank: Rather than only plug his label in the gap John left, Hank shares a clip he took at LeakyCon of Maureen Johnson explaining where the 'in your pants' phenomenon began. (playful) — 00:00:44
  • 2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — Maureen Johnson: As E. Lockhart sought a title for what became The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, Maureen, staring at John's cream cheese, proposed adding 'in your pants' to any title; Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines came first. (playful) — 00:02:00
  • 2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — Maureen Johnson: Maureen says they played the game for the rest of the day and got nothing else done, and that is how the movement started, because John doesn't know how to eat. (playful) — 00:02:23
  • 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. (playful) — 00:00:37
  • 2009-07-26 · Volunteering (In Your Pants) — John says the foundation chooses books with people in the camps, based on what they need and want (after joking it picks the best in-your-pants jokes). (playful) — 00:02:24
  • 2009-09-12 (said on 2009-09-11, implied) · 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. (playful) — 00:02:51
  • 2009-10-06 · 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'. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-10-06 · 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'. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:32
  • 2009-12-13 · Eyelash Malaria — John notes he pointed at his pants but wants the questions left in the comments, not in his pants. (joke) — 00:03:27
  • 2009-12-27 · 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. (playful) — 00:02:38

Also named in: Winners and Winners and Ningmasters, Question Tuesday, So Jokes: Video EP, HAPPY JOHN DAY!!!, 100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!!, Adorable Puppy Explains Health Care Bill

2010

  • 2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — Maureen Johnson: 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. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-04-19 · I Shall BLOW YOUR MIND — ask: Hank: 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? — John: 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. (playful) — 00:03:18
  • 2010-12-10 · Project for Awesome and Thoughts from DC — announcement: Hank tells video makers to get the P4A thumbnail from 'the links in my pants' (the description); only YouTube partners can change thumbnails, so others should put 'Project for Awesome' or 'P4A' in title and tags. — 00:00:31

Also named in: The Marriage Ref SUCKS, Advice on First Kisses, Stalkers, College Majors, and More, Viacom PWNED on Piracy, I Hung out with Snookie...Accidentally, Tongue Twisters, My Zombie Apocalypse Novella

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. (playful) — 00:00:18
  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — announcement: John announces that some Nerdfighters are building Your Pants, like the old forum My Pants but yours; hopefully live within a week at yourpants.org, for friendships and decreasing world suck. (hedged) — 00:02:23
  • 2011-02-11 · 200 People in Your Pants — Hank and his team worked all day and late into the night on Your Pants, including integrating Facebook; he is very tired from coding CSS and hacking it. — 00:00:02
  • 2011-02-11 · 200 People in Your Pants — Hank: The Your Pants Facebook application produces messages like 'Are you sure you want to remove Your Pants?', which Hank says sounds like a bad text-based romance simulator. (playful) — 00:00:10
  • 2011-02-11 · 200 People in Your Pants — Hank asked on Twitter for Your Pants logos and got a lot, many really great; 'the consensus in my heart' goes to Vondell Swain's logo, which invites people to make the YP sign with their pants, with a friend. — 00:02:27
  • 2011-02-11 · 200 People in Your Pants — announcement: Hank opens Your Pants for business, but only to the first 200 people, a limited public release so that nothing crashes or breaks. — 00:03:05
  • 2011-02-11 · 200 People in Your Pants — ask: Hank asks viewers to go to Your Pants right now and sign up if they can. — 00:03:18
  • 2011-02-11 · 200 People in Your Pants — announcement: Hank says they will 'theoretically' open Your Pants to everyone very soon. (hedged) — 00:03:24
  • 2011-02-14 · CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh! — John congratulates Hank on Your Pants. (playful) — 00:02:10
  • 2011-02-16 · This Video Brought to you by Nyquil — Hank: Exploring Your Pants, Hank found some of his favourite threads in the history of all forums, such as one where sciency people blow minds, linked in the doobly-doo. — 00:01:37
  • 2011-02-16 · This Video Brought to you by Nyquil — Hank describes a Your Pants thread whose Palestinian and Israeli members decided to collaborate and become one thread. — 00:01:49
  • 2011-02-16 · This Video Brought to you by Nyquil — Hank likes a Your Pants thread where people tell how they became Nerdfighters: everyone finds the videos a different way. — 00:02:11
  • 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
  • 2011-06-29 · THE FAULT IN OUR STARS — ask: John delegates the Sharpie colour to a poll in Your Pants, linked in the doobly-doo. — 00:01:10
  • 2011-07-08 · Kill the Dollar Bill! — ask: John: Viewers are deciding which Sharpie colour John will use to sign the books: the poll in Your Pants is linked in the doobly-doo, so vote. — 00:02:49
  • 2011-11-28 · Stuffed with STUFF! — Hank explains the Your Pants forum buckles under 10,000 Nerdfighters; they are negotiating for hosting that won't crash or cost about $500 a month, and expect it back by January at the latest. — video description
  • 2011-11-28 · 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

Also named in: Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron

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 — announcement: John: Change two: John says the Your Pants forum has been down for several months because of Russian hackers but is coming back this week (week of 2 January 2012). (playful) — 00:01:08
  • 2012-06-19 · Solving Your Problems! — recommendation: John: To find local Nerdfighters, John points to Facebook, the Ning and Your Pants, where there are many location-specific Nerdfighter groups. (playful) — 00:03:16

2023

Also named in other years (nothing said): The World Needs More Magic (2013-07-09)