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2007

Also named in: Brotherhood 2.0: January 16, 2007

2008

  • 2008-01-08 · Sledding and YouTube Tag — Hank tags five YouTubers in turn, among them Ransom Riggs and Maureen Johnson. — 00:03:26
  • 2008-02-11 (said on 2008-02-12, implied) · Nerdfighters Blurbing Book Club! — recommendation: Hank picks Maureen Johnson's 13 Little Blue Envelopes as the first book, fitting since it is a Nerdfighter's book. (hedged) — 00:02:00
  • 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
  • 2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — announcement: John: Asked why Maureen Johnson, who has read Paper Towns, can't talk about it, John says for the same reason Hank can't: it's secret. (playful) — 00:02:31
  • 2008-02-26 · Best Wishes! — ask: John: To take part in the Blurbing Book Club and maybe win prizes, Nerdfighters must write a blurb of 13 Little Blue Envelopes in 10 words or less and post it as a Ning blog post by Sunday (2 March 2008) midnight. — 00:02:12
  • 2008-03-04 · SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD — recommendation: John recommends Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson and Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter. — 00:01:56
  • 2008-03-15 (said on 2008-03-14, implied) · Ruins, LOLBooks, and the Blurbing Book Club — announcement: John announces the winner of the first Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club: a blurb that is an anagram of Maureen Johnson's 13 Little Blue Envelopes. — 00:01:30
  • 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
  • 2008-05-05 · A HORRIFYING OVERSIGHT!!!! — announcement: John: Nerdfighters in or near Grand Rapids, Michigan can hear John, Maureen Johnson and Hank talk at a library on Thursday at 6:30. — 00:01:47
  • 2008-05-06 · Hank Would Think This Is Awesome: The Project — announcement: John: As said yesterday, Hank, Maureen Johnson and John will speak at a Grand Rapids, Michigan library on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. — 00:01:05
  • 2008-05-07 · From the Airport: And some Nerdfighterlike — announcement: Hank looks forward to seeing some viewers in Grand Rapids the next day. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-05-11 · Nerdfighting IRL — Hank recounts that the turnout expected at the Kent library grew from a misheard 16 to 60; about 75 were there on arrival and 97 Nerdfighters by the end, in a very small room. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-05-11 · Nerdfighting IRL — Hank shows the inaugural Maureen Johnson happy dance from three angles filmed by Nerdfighters, calling it possibly the most important thing that happened that night. (playful) — 00:02:21
  • 2008-05-11 · Nerdfighting IRL — Hank: At the event John read from Paper Towns and Maureen Johnson read from her new book Suite Scarlett, which Hank says viewers can buy via the sidebar. — 00:02:21
  • 2008-05-11 · Nerdfighting IRL — Hank: John, Maureen and Hank went to Grand Rapids because the Michigan Library Association asked them to speak at its conference; Hank thanks its organisers. — 00:03:32
  • 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
  • 2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — John says they believe what happened in Grand Rapids can happen everywhere, and that they will hopefully go everywhere. (hedged) — 00:01:20
  • 2008-06-27 · Marion the Nerdfightarion — Marion says she is speeding to try to pick up the book John Green just showed he was signing, a Maureen Johnson book. — 00:00:51
  • 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — announcement: Hank announces he will be at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square at 6 o'clock the next day with special guest Maureen Johnson, who will sign her books bought there. — 00:00:46
  • 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — ask: Hank tells Nerdfighters anywhere on the East Coast they have to come, excusing only those as far away as Florida, then softens it to 'if you can, do it'. (playful) — 00:00:46
  • 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — announcement: Hank says they will hopefully be in the upstairs conference room; he won't have his guitar or sing, but will sign John's books for anyone who buys them. (hedged) — 00:01:15
  • 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — Hank says they are holding the event because the Barnes & Noble in Manhattan apparently doesn't think John Green can draw a crowd, so this unsanctioned gathering will show that Nerdfighters can. (hedged) — 00:01:45
  • 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — ask: Hank asks viewers who want to help to come to the Barnes & Noble in Union Square at 6 o'clock the next day, which he confirms is August 6. — 00:01:45
  • 2008-08-12 · Eight Days of Awesome — Hank: The next day (6 August 2008) Hank and about 50 Nerdfighters flash-mobbed a Barnes & Noble store after a short announcement, then hung out across the street. — 00:01:09
  • 2008-08-12 · Eight Days of Awesome — Hank: That night Hank had dinner with Maureen Johnson. — 00:01:39
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — announcement: 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
  • 2008-09-11 · A Video about Videos — ask: John says his secret siblings introduced their new baby in a funny birthday video for him, and suggests viewers go and welcome the baby to the world. — 00:02:24
  • 2008-09-25 (said on 2008-09-24, implied) · Obama llama Duck — announcement: Hank says he and John, still following the presidential campaigns, are both taking part in YA for Obama, where authors for young people write why they are voting for Obama. — 00:02:41
  • 2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — announcement: John got far too many author copies of Let It Snow and will give five away to random commenters on this video. — 00:03:18
  • 2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — recommendation: John: For Nerdfighters who can't wait for Paper Towns, John recommends Let It Snow, the holiday romance anthology he wrote with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle. — 00:03:22
  • 2008-10-09 · Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow — announcement: Hank announces that Let It Snow, with stories by John, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle, is available now, and teases John's top billing, which is alphabetical. (playful) — 00:01:20
  • 2008-10-09 · Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow — recommendation: Hank speed-reads the opening of Maureen Johnson's story, which comes first in the book, and says no one could resist the book after hearing it. — 00:01:49
  • 2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — a guest: At a diner, a guest playfully introduces John Green, Scott Westerfeld and Maureen Johnson as famous people. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2008-11-17 · Life on Tour — John: They arrive in Pittsburgh, where John jokingly contemplates how he will 'pwn' Maureen Johnson. (playful) — 00:01:24
  • 2008-11-17 · Life on Tour — Maureen Johnson: In a staged scene, Maureen Johnson says she and John are mortal enemies because wherever he goes he crosses her name out of Let It Snow; a truce is discussed. (joke) — 00:02:02

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
  • 2009-04-21 · Question Tuesday — recommendation: John recommends Maureen Johnson's brilliant Suite Scarlett, out in paperback in a few days, as a way to get her to like you (or become a puppy). (playful) — 00:02:04
  • 2009-04-28 · 10 Book Reviews in 4 Minutes — recommendation: Hank, who only just read Maureen Johnson's The Bermudez Triangle, can't believe people wanted to ban it; it should be required high-school reading, the best portrayal of friendship and sexuality he has read. — 00:02:13
  • 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 says she, John and E. Lockhart used to write together every day in a café. — 00:00:44
  • 2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — Maureen Johnson: Maureen says John, on Weight Watchers and complaining about points, flailed with his cream-cheese bagel and dropped it cream cheese down into his lap, filling his corduroy's grooves. (playful) — 00:01:30
  • 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
  • 2009-10-06 · 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
  • 2009-11-25 · Things I'm Not Thankful For — announcement: Hank congratulates John on Let It Snow, his book with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle, becoming a New York Times bestseller, and recommends it as a wintertime 'romp'. — 00:03:06
  • 2009-12-06 · LOSERS!!!! — John thanks 'our secret brother' Dan Brown (pogobat), who made about 20,000 phone calls during the challenge, including to a trailer park, a Ben & Jerry's and a prison guard. — 00:01:54
  • 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
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John thanks the livestream hosts, from Maureen Johnson and Natalie Tran to several Five Awesome Girls, Liz, Karen Kavett and Alan of Fall of Autumn Distro, and the 2009 logo designer. — 00:01:22
  • 2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — Hank says secret siblings are anyone who makes video responses to their videos. — 00:02:30
  • 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

2010

  • 2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — announcement: Hank declares John's paternity leave begun and tells Maureen Johnson he will see her on Friday. — 00:03:15
  • 2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — announcement: Maureen Johnson introduces herself and says she will be filling in for John while he is off being a father, for the next few days or weeks. — 00:00:00
  • 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
  • 2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — Maureen Johnson: Maureen jokes that she is 'second prettiest green brother' and the Conan to John's Leno: John is giving her the show only to take it right back, having picked her because she is bad at videos. (joke) — 00:00:20
  • 2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — ask: Maureen Johnson: Maureen asks viewers to send comments on her performance to her on Twitter rather than by mail, and says she will read them. — 00:01:05
  • 2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — Maureen Johnson: She says there is another side to John she can help viewers explore, and presents footage she shot of him, cut into a music-video homage. — 00:01:25
  • 2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — Maureen Johnson: The song 'Actual John Green' casts John as dangerous, with the refrain 'Actual John Green'; most lyrics are unclear in the audio. (joke) — 00:01:48
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: Maureen records at about 2:30 Wednesday morning while packing for a flight to London, so as not to be punished for a missed video. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: She tells viewers to turn their expectations down: nothing this week (week of 25 January 2010) will be as complicated as Friday's video, as things are crazy. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: She thanks viewers for their comments on the last video, including constructive criticism of the 'apocalyptic' lighting, which she is trying to fix. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: Maureen says 80% of the comments noticed that 'John Green' had boobs, an interest she says YouTube shares with baby Henry; 'the man just had a baby'. (playful) — 00:00:54
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: She was in the New York Times this week (week of 25 January 2010), with her picture, by what she calls a weird fluke. — 00:01:23
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: At the end of last year (2009) she persuaded her publisher to give away free e-books of Suite Scarlett for a couple of weeks. — 00:01:23
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: Maureen thinks there is a huge benefit to giving away free books and materials whenever possible. (hedged) — 00:01:23
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: Like John, she thinks the coming revolution of e-books and other ways of delivering books will radically change the way we read, and we have to embrace it. (hedged) — 00:01:53
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: She says that if the rumors are true, Apple is announcing its tablet today. (hedged) — 00:01:53
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: She is excited about the tablet and will probably buy one, but not on the first day, because new products always have something wrong with them. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:53
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: Free books are also good in the form of libraries, which she calls the building blocks of society. (playful) — 00:02:22
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: Mid-interview she was distracted by her 2010 Rob Pattinson annual and made a Rob Pattinson joke; she implies that joke is what the New York Times quoted. (playful) — 00:02:22
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — recommendation: Maureen Johnson: Her advice: never make a Rob Pattinson joke to the New York Times; she had been warned that interviewers quote only the stupidest thing you say, and found it '100% true'. (playful) — 00:02:51
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: She has a book due: she is finishing a sequel to 13 Little Blue Envelopes. — 00:02:51
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — announcement: Maureen Johnson: Her novel Scarlett Fever comes out on Monday. — 00:02:51
  • 2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: On what Hank should name his dog, Maureen says YouTube has spoken: name it 'Boobs', imagining calling for it in the park; anything else would let Nerdfighteria down. (joke) — 00:03:20
  • 2010-02-03 (said on 2010-02-04, implied) · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — announcement: Hank says the sequel to Maureen Johnson's Suite Scarlett is out, though no copy has reached Missoula yet. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-02-03 (said on 2010-02-04, implied) · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — recommendation: Hank urges viewers who haven't read the first Suite Scarlett to read it: he loves it and is a big Maureen Johnson fan; the sequel's first chapter is online. — 00:00:29
  • 2010-02-03 (said on 2010-02-04, implied) · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — announcement: Hank says John and Maureen will each write a 1,000-word short story on any topic the raffle winner chooses. — 00:01:46
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen Johnson: Maureen says she turned in her draft at 1 a.m. last night and is free-ish today, though dazed, as if hit on the head with a plank. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen Johnson: Asked by a viewer afraid of sucking at writing, Maureen tells nerdfighters, who want to decrease world suck, that they should instead dare to suck. (playful) — 00:00:27
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen Johnson: Maureen says beginners will suck a lot and for a while, and feeling it is a sign they are on the right path, because learning anything means sucking at it. — 00:00:59
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen Johnson: Like someone who buys a violin, a beginner must practise for years (she says 8 to 10) before playing Carnegie Hall: you have to suck first. (playful) — 00:00:59
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen Johnson: Some things, like crossing roundabouts in England, have serious consequences if you suck at them, but in writing sucking has no real serious consequences. — 00:01:28
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — recommendation: Maureen Johnson: Maureen tells aspiring writers not to worry that their first work isn't good or a masterpiece; writing without publishing right away lets you write lots that sucks. — 00:01:57
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — recommendation: Maureen Johnson: To 16- to 18-year-olds who ask how to publish their books, she says don't, stop, because they haven't sucked enough yet. — 00:01:57
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen Johnson: Maureen says sucking is part of the professional process as well: first drafts, like the one she just turned in, exist to suck and get changed and ripped apart. — 00:02:26
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen Johnson: She says writers she knows laugh together about how bad their drafts are. (playful) — 00:02:26
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen Johnson: Maureen calls the phrase 'writing is rewriting' 100% true: you rewrite many times, and the work goes from suck to awesome. — 00:02:56
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — ask: Maureen Johnson: Maureen has viewers say aloud with her: 'I give myself permission to suck.' — 00:03:25
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — announcement: Maureen Johnson: Maureen says John is taking one more week of paternity leave with baby Henry (joking he will then make Henry get a job), so she fills in on Wednesday before John returns. (playful) — 00:03:25
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen Johnson: Maureen shows a Sunday-night clip of herself in a claw-foot tub in Cork, Ireland, where she went for a few days after finishing her deadline; she is now back. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — announcement: Maureen Johnson: Maureen says this is her last video for vlogbrothers. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — announcement: Maureen Johnson: Maureen's new novel Scarlett Fever has just come out and is available from local independent booksellers, Barnes and Noble or, if necessary, Amazon. — video description
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen Johnson: Answering viewers who asked how a book gets published, Maureen finishes her writing series: once you have finished your work, what you need next is an agent. — 00:00:34
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen Johnson: Maureen says an agent represents you in publishing; almost every author has one because editors usually read nothing unsolicited, only what comes from agents. — 00:01:03
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen Johnson: Maureen says the agent handles contracts, sends out submissions and takes care of the business side so the writer can stay home and write. — 00:01:03
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — recommendation: Maureen Johnson: Maureen says you get an agent by writing a one-page query letter, which must be clean, flawless and fascinating because it is your only shot at their attention. — 00:01:03
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen Johnson: Maureen relays that her agent received 3,500 query letters last year (2009) and took two clients from them. — 00:01:32
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen Johnson: Maureen says getting an agent is hard; publishing is a business, part of why she doesn't think people should publish at 15: it takes adjusting, facts, and much longer writing practice. (hedged) — 00:01:32
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — recommendation: Maureen Johnson: Maureen says internet advice on query letters ranges from very good to clueless; she would take advice from agents. — 00:02:02
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — recommendation: Maureen Johnson: Passing on her agent's tips, Maureen says not to have your characters write the query letter, or to include praise from people the agent doesn't know. — 00:02:31
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — recommendation: Maureen Johnson: Relaying her agent, Maureen says not to claim your book will be a big movie or the next Twilight, Harry Potter or Wimpy Kid: it is presumptuous and seems arrogant; agents want a clear letter about the story. — 00:02:31
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — recommendation: Maureen Johnson: Relaying her agent's dos, Maureen says to follow the instructions, write a clean letter, check it countless times for mistakes, and make it the best page you have ever written. — 00:03:00
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — announcement: Maureen Johnson: Ending her stint, done quickly while cooking dinner, Maureen welcomes John back, says she will miss the viewers and asks them to visit her. — 00:03:31
  • 2010-02-12 · Google Search Stories: Harry Potter — Hank thanks Maureen Johnson for being part of vlogbrothers during John's paternity leave. — 00:01:46
  • 2010-02-12 · Google Search Stories: Harry Potter — Hank welcomes John back, says everyone missed him, and hopes John won't hate them for taking him away from Henry. — 00:01:46
  • 2010-02-15 · Hello Baby!! — John thanks Maureen for standing in as John Green, and thanks Nerdfighters for everything. — 00:03:26
  • 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

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2011

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
  • 2012-06-19 · 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
  • 2012-08-14 · To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 — John: After time with author friends including Maureen Johnson, John read at the 'I Was a Teenage Author' panel a story about an injured firefly he wrote for his high-school literary journal. — 00:01:02

2013

  • 2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — announcement: John says he will take a four- or possibly five-week paternity leave from Vlogbrothers and everything else, except probably Tumblr. (hedged) — 00:02:26
  • 2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — announcement: John says guest Johns will fill in during his absence, including Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig and a Nerdfighter now watching. — 00:02:26
  • 2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — announcement: John says he will soon be on paternity leave, but the things made in the office will continue to be made while he is away. — 00:02:51
  • 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — ask: John asks Hank to fix this problem during his paternity leave. (playful) — 00:01:09
  • 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — announcement: John names Nerd Factor winners MagicTurtle643 and Nerdy and Quirky, who will stand in for him on Tuesdays during his paternity leave. — 00:01:27
  • 2013-05-31 · Optimism is Not Insane — Hank pre-congratulates John on his baby, due any day, and jokes that John will be relaxing on paternity leave while Hank fixes all the world's problems. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John says that when Henry was born he took only a couple of weeks off and made his first work trip when Henry was nine days old; this time he will take much more time away. — 00:00:33
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John will step away not only from vlogbrothers but also from writing and travelling, and (jokingly) from his careers as amateur historian, trivia buff and semi-professional FIFA player. (playful) — 00:00:41
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — announcement: John: During the leave there will be a Crash Course US History video every Thursday, a mental floss video every Wednesday, and Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers FIFA games every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. — 00:00:55
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — announcement: John: Every Tuesday there will still be a 'John video' on vlogbrothers, with John played by others: Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, Craig (WheezyWaiter), Maureen Johnson and two Nerd Factor winners. — 00:01:25
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John thanks Nerdfighters for making the community exist, for making it a wonderful part of his life, and for letting him briefly step away to be a full-time dad. — 00:01:58
  • 2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank writes that it is really weird to lose John not just from YouTube but largely from Tumblr and Twitter too, and asks viewers not to forget about him while he is gone. — video description
  • 2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank wishes he could see and hold Alice, and see John, but won't for a while; he signs off to Craig instead of John: 'Craig, I will see you on Tuesday'. — 00:03:18
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig explains he is there because John had a baby - Sarah had the baby, John helped - and they brought Alice Green into the world. (playful) — 00:00:48
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — announcement: Craig Benzine: Asked (in his own made-up question) when John is coming back, Craig is not sure, but says it will be a bunch of weeks with different people hosting each week. (hedged) — 00:02:19
  • 2013-06-14 · What is the Strongest Force on Earth? — Hank says he supposes he should still be making these videos for John, even though John is not making them for him. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Grace Helbig (DailyGrace, daily videos five days a week) fills in for John Green while he is away with his new baby. (playful) — 00:00:36
  • 2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — Hank: a couple of weeks into John's paternity leave things are going excellently; he jokes he'd be fine with John making more babies while he collabs with the best YouTubers, but misses him. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — Hank says he won't see John and signs off to Hannah Hart, next Tuesday's (25 June 2013) guest host. (playful) — 00:03:22
  • 2013-06-28 · Plane Butts, Fish Farts, LeakyCon, and Marriage Equality — announcement: Hank corrects the crowd's 'see you on Tuesday': he won't see John on Tuesday, he will see Rosie. — 00:03:06
  • 2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — MagicTurtle643 introduces himself as one of the two Nerd Factor winners chosen to fill in for John during his paternity leave. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-07-12 · Oh, JK Rowling - A Harry Potter Song — Hank: After the song Hank says he is getting on a plane to see John, who calls it glorious paternity leave. — 00:02:31
  • 2013-07-16 · The Ghost of Teenaged Future — Sabrina Cruz: Sabrina introduces herself as the other Nerd Factor winner, known as NerdyandQuirky, and says that, following the pattern of previous videos, she is not John. — 00:00:03
  • 2013-07-19 · TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! — announcement: John says he won't be back next Tuesday (23 July 2013), when viewers will see his secret sister Maureen, but the following Tuesday, which he thinks is July 30th. (hedged) — 00:03:30
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson says she is filling in for John Green because once again he has contributed to the birth of a human child. — 00:00:01
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: She says this is nerve-wracking: she is a writer like John but doesn't make videos all the time and doesn't think she's good at it. — 00:00:06
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: She says some people dislike the internet for various reasons, like her mom, who is confused by it and afraid she'll break it. (playful) — 00:00:21
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: To those who dismiss the internet as porn and animated GIFs, she replies that maybe so, but in their youth they also didn't join a political discussion with a thousand people. (playful) — 00:00:37
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: She admits the level of discourse isn't always high: when she filled in during John's first paternity leave, 90% of comments on her first video said John has boobs. (playful) — 00:00:55
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: She says the last few weeks have been fraught, with a lot in the media and the world that is hard to talk about, making us want to talk constantly yet not know how. — 00:01:20
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: She says with split opinions it is hard to talk to people of a different viewpoint without screaming or becoming a troll, and trolling is not productive. — 00:01:33
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: She says we can and indeed have to talk about difficult things where our opinions differ wildly. — 00:01:54
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: She thinks the internet is teaching us to talk to each other on a scale never seen before; we are just learning the language of mass discussion. (hedged) — 00:02:01
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: She says using the internet to talk is actually really difficult, which is why the one rule of the internet is don't read the comments. — 00:02:16
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — recommendation: Maureen Johnson: If you have read the comments, she advises: pause, breathe, look at some cats, and ask yourself what you want to accomplish - further a good cause or punch a troll in the face. — 00:02:23
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: She says you can probably accomplish only one; punching a troll probably doesn't improve your cause, make your side look good or further the discussion, so many comments can't become teachable moments. (hedged) — 00:02:42
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: She then mock-reverses herself, urging viewers to answer all the trolls and start a 'Troll Patrol' in this video's comments. (satire) — 00:03:10
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson: She says no one knows how to internet, and anyone who claims to should go eat some watermelon, the only thing that makes sense in this mixed-up world. (playful) — 00:03:28
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — ask: Maureen Johnson: She tells viewers to follow her on Twitter, saying she is not great at videos but very, very good at Twitter. (playful) — 00:03:39
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — Hank says sharing the channel with many people during John's paternity leave over the last few weeks has been wonderful, but he is relieved John returns on Tuesday. — 00:02:48
  • 2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — John announces he is back from paternity leave, says he missed viewers and had a wonderful time at home with his family. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — The description thanks the guest hosts by name: Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, WheezyWaiter, Rosianna, MagicTurtle643 and NerdyAndQuirky. — video description
  • 2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — John: Before this John spent the last month with his family on Lake Michigan, 'the United States' third coast': beautiful water, sunsets, and people who 'pretend to have a war' for Independence Day. — 00:00:25
  • 2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — John thanks Nerdfighteria for being understanding during his paternity leave and the guest hosts who made it more fun than 'regular me'; links in the doobly-doo. — 00:02:42

2014

  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In 2013 Grace Helbig became the first non-brother punished, for a video over four minutes during John's paternity leave; though it was unclear the rules applied to her, she slapped herself. — 00:02:46

2016

  • 2016-07-01 · So, I Ruptured Both my Eardrums! (Also, NerdCon: Nerdfighteria) — announcement: Hank: Guests include Charlie McDonnell, Maureen Johnson, the Perfect Strangers, George Watsky, Meghan Tonjes, Emily Graslie, Lindsay Doe and four of the Five Awesome Girls. — 00:02:52
  • 2016-07-29 · Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!) — announcement: Hank says John will be at NerdCon: Stories, along with guests including John Scalzi, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dylan Marron, M. T. Anderson, John Darnielle, Maureen Johnson and Patrick Rothfuss. — 00:03:23
  • 2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Craig recalls that a few years ago he filled in for John, doing his best impression of him, and says it was well received. (playful) — 00:00:13
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna introduces herself as John's producing partner, John and Hank's secret sister, a YouTuber and an avid user of the internet. — 00:00:02

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2022

  • 2022-10-06 · The Pizzamas Magic Is Almost Over… — John: Asked by Maureen Johnson how she should write a book, John says he doesn't know: she has written many more books than he has. — 00:03:17
  • 2022-10-06 · The Pizzamas Magic Is Almost Over… — John recalls Maureen writing Suite Scarlett across the table while he wrote Paper Towns, at a New York City cupcake restaurant where they paid $2 for coffee and stayed six hours. — 00:03:17

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2024

  • 2024-10-02 · What I learned from the weirdest day of my life — Hank: On one of the weirdest days of his life, in New York in 2008, just after his first Nerdfighter gathering and wearing a fan-made Nerdfighteria shirt under his suit, Hank made a deal to sell EcoGeek to Scientific American for money and a job. — 00:00:29

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