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2008

  • 2008-01-21 · A Short History of the PUPPY SIZED ELEPHANT — announcement: John: Because nerdfighters miss punishing the brothers, John announces projects: when viewers complete one, they earn the right to punish or challenge the brothers, with the wives keeping veto power. — 00:02:29
  • 2008-01-21 · A Short History of the PUPPY SIZED ELEPHANT — John says that, under this system, the stunning success of the first annual Project for Awesome would have earned nerdfighters a punishment. — 00:02:29
  • 2008-01-21 · A Short History of the PUPPY SIZED ELEPHANT — ask: John: First project: make sure Helen Hunt has seen Hank's months-old song about her and provide proof; if nerdfighters succeed, they can punish both brothers. — 00:03:14
  • 2008-03-27 · PEEPS Eating Contest Is Peepstacular, Painful — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to suggest in comments what the winner and/or loser of the contest should get. — 00:01:09
  • 2008-04-08 · Nerdfighting in Bangladesh — announcement: John: Since this video will have few jokes, John says he will make up for it with a 'joketacular' Question Tuesday next Monday (14 April 2008). — 00:00:00
  • 2008-04-14 · PAPER TOWNS-TACULAR — announcement: John cannot do Question Tuesday today, thanks viewers for thousands of book questions, and vows to do it by the end of the week or be punished. — 00:00:43
  • 2008-04-16 (said on 2008-04-17, implied) · ITCHY MUSIC! — Hank reminds John that he promised a Question Tuesday not on Tuesday and must deliver before the week is out or be punished. (playful) — 00:03:37
  • 2008-04-21 · Belated Book-tacular Questions — John admits he didn't do his Question Tuesday video last week (week of 14 April 2008), which means he will be punished. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-04-21 · Belated Book-tacular Questions — John says Hank will be punished too: he lost the Peeps contest without participating and made a video over four minutes without a photo montage, which breaks the rule. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-04-21 · Belated Book-tacular Questions — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to suggest in comments how the brothers should be punished, wondering about a shared or simultaneous punishment. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-04-24 · Pills Pills Pills — Hank: Owing a punishment for his infraction, Hank has been reading viewers' punishment ideas and asks for ones not involving death or torture. (playful) — 00:03:11
  • 2008-05-05 · A HORRIFYING OVERSIGHT!!!! — John thanks Nerdfighters for their punishment suggestions and says he thinks they have settled on one. (hedged) — 00:01:47
  • 2008-05-16 · Hank's Punishment (ugh...I don't believe uploading this...) — Hank says he is finally doing his punishment, which he learned only yesterday; it was chosen from suggestions by Nerdfighters and John. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-05-16 · Hank's Punishment (ugh...I don't believe uploading this...) — Hank: As the punishment, Hank sings a cover of a ToyBox pop song about a 'World Wide Web girl' chatting online. (playful) — 00:00:59
  • 2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — announcement: John: To make up for last week (week of 5 May 2008), John will do a punishment: a video every day this week (week of 12 May 2008), Sunday to Thursday, taking Friday off (jokingly as a Sabbath, though he isn't Jewish). — 00:02:34
  • 2008-05-22 · Adorable Puppy Injury!!!! — announcement: Hank: The video description says there is no new video from John today because John is sick, and that the punishment will be completed on Friday. — video description
  • 2008-05-22 · Adorable Puppy Injury!!!! — announcement: Hank says John's punishment was five videos in five days, but John is not going to manage it, for a reason Hank withholds at first. — 00:00:09
  • 2008-05-22 · Adorable Puppy Injury!!!! — Hank explains John spent most of the day at the dog hospital: Willy is okay but has a broken foot, which is why John is excused. — 00:01:19
  • 2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — announcement: John announces the five winners of Paper Towns advance copies from his punishment week, from the Ning and YouTube, and asks them to email their addresses. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — announcement: John restates the standing challenge: proof that Helen Hunt has seen or heard Hank's Helen Hunt song lets Nerdfighters challenge the brothers, subject to their wives' veto. — 00:02:47
  • 2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — announcement: John announces a second celebrity challenge: if and when the brothers pass Oprah on YouTube's most-subscribed list, Nerdfighters may challenge them any way they see fit. — 00:03:23
  • 2008-07-08 (said on 2008-07-07, implied) · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer — John says Brotherhood 2.0 was initially his idea; he has a crazy idea every 45 minutes and relies on Hank to reject them, but Hank said this one was not terrible. (playful) — 00:00:25
  • 2008-07-18 · Book Eight...Another Harry Potter Song — Hank pre-empts punishment for going over four minutes: there was a montage, and the montage exception covers it. (playful) — 00:04:36
  • 2008-08-12 · Eight Days of Awesome — Hank admits the video is longer than four minutes and says he will accept whatever punishment John sees fit. — 00:04:09
  • 2008-08-15 · Metric Sabbath — Hank says the punishment he just did turned out worse than expected; someone suggested it, and since most people didn't want him punished at all, he chose it as easy and peculiar. — 00:00:43
  • 2008-09-21 · The Pwning of Oprah — announcement: John says that, as previously agreed, passing Oprah means Nerdfighters get to punish the brothers. — 00:02:58
  • 2008-09-21 · The Pwning of Oprah — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to leave punishment suggestions in the comments. — 00:02:58
  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — John says the brothers do not pick their punishment; Nerdfighters do, and he names the most popular suggestions. — 00:02:10
  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to vote for their favourite punishments in the comments. — 00:02:46
  • 2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — John announces that today is the first day of the brothers' month-long Brotherhood 2.0-style vlogging challenge, the first such in almost ten months. — 00:03:18
  • 2008-10-08 (said on 2008-10-07, implied) · Hanks actual Vlog — Hank, who thinks John forgot to explain it in his last video, says Brotherhood 2.1, the brothers' private name for this month (October 2008) of vlogging, is their punishment. — 00:00:32
  • 2008-10-08 (said on 2008-10-07, implied) · Hanks actual Vlog — Hank describes the arrangement: the brothers ask Nerdfighters to do amazing things, and in return Nerdfighters get to punish them. — 00:00:32
  • 2008-10-08 (said on 2008-10-07, implied) · Hanks actual Vlog — Hank says the brothers asked Nerdfighters to help them 'pwn' Oprah, and together they got more YouTube subscribers than Oprah. (playful) — 00:00:32
  • 2008-10-08 (said on 2008-10-07, implied) · Hanks actual Vlog — announcement: Hank says the Nerdfighters' punishment is for the brothers to vlog Brotherhood 2.0-style for an entire month. — 00:01:01
  • 2008-10-08 · J Scribble Goes to Borders — John says this is only his second video of the month-long Brotherhood 2.1 project and he already has nothing to talk about. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-14 (said on 2008-10-13, implied) · Numa Numa Hank Dance — Hank says his video is late because his computer crashed about 18 times, noting it is Columbus Day and still the same day in Montana, and hopes to avoid a punishment. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-14 (said on 2008-10-13, implied) · Numa Numa Hank Dance — ask: Hank asks viewers to comment whether or not they want him to be punished. — 00:03:32
  • 2008-10-14 · Paper Towns Reading — John reports that nerdfighters voted on whether Hank should be punished for his slightly late video, and the consensus seems to be no. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-14 · Paper Towns Reading — John playfully insists the punishment decision is his, not the nerdfighters', then agrees with them: Hank is a good brother and should not be punished. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-22 · Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. — John notes Hank's previous video was 4 minutes 16 seconds long and expects a 'weird semantic argument' against being punished. (playful) — 00:00:36
  • 2008-10-22 · Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. — John says Hank's 4:16 video contained no montage, which is clearly against the rules. — 00:02:00
  • 2008-10-22 · Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. — Hank: On the phone Hank argues his video was 3 minutes 50 seconds; the rest was black space because the song ran longer than the video track. (playful) — 00:02:32
  • 2008-10-22 · Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. — ask: John lets the Nerdfighters decide: he asks them to vote on whether Hank should be punished. — 00:03:09
  • 2008-10-24 · Talking to Myself — Hank: In a phone skit with another Hank, Hank says he can see 'their point' and concedes his video was technically longer than four minutes. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-24 · Talking to Myself — announcement: Hank will take part in the Iron Man BlogTV Challenge from 3 p.m. Eastern tomorrow, staying up as long as he can without caffeine; it is not his punishment. — 00:02:27
  • 2008-10-24 · Talking to Myself — ask: Hank asks everyone to leave punishment suggestions in the comments. — 00:03:44
  • 2008-10-24 · Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! — John tells Hank he is being punished by having to do something he once agreed to: dress as Carrie Bradshaw for the Sex and the City movie, at home since it has left theaters. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-24 · Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! — ask: John: In solidarity with Hank's punishment and in gratitude, John asks Nerdfighteria what he can do for them, offering examples, and asks for answers in comments. — 00:01:50
  • 2008-10-30 (said on 2008-10-29, implied) · Hank is Late (dr horrible) — Hank is very late: with six minutes left before midnight he records in one take with Quick Capture to avoid a second punishment. — 00:00:01
  • 2008-10-30 (said on 2008-10-29, implied) · Hank is Late (dr horrible) — Hank records the video while dressed like Carrie Bradshaw, which he calls embarrassing on its own. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • 2008-10-31 (said on 2008-10-30, implied) · Show 'n Tell Thursday — video description: In the description John says it is still Thursday where he is, having just got home from the tour event, and hopes that gets him out of a punishment. (playful, hedged) — video description
  • 2008-11-06 · Funny Noises from Tennessee — Hank says this is the last video of Brotherhood 2.1 and bids it goodbye. — 00:00:06

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2009

  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — Hank reads 'Auld Lang Syne' as asking whether Hank and John should make more videos in 2009, and answers yes. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — Hank restages his first Brotherhood 2.0 video from two years ago, including the camera glitch and the eye reflection, admitting he then did not know how to make videos. (playful) — 00:00:37
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Restaging his first video, Hank reverses its no-textual-communication line: this time the brothers will be communicating through textual means. (playful) — 00:00:37
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every Sunday for the year, John will send Hank a video about a current news event he considers vitally important and Hank is probably ignorant of. — 00:01:19
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — Hank says John's news videos were one of the coolest things they did in Brotherhood 2.0: blissful ignorance is nothing compared to the crushing weight of the truth. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:19
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank wants John's Sunday news videos to be good, comprehensive and in-depth, though John may also eat toilet paper or smear peanut butter on his face. (playful) — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every Tuesday one brother sends the other a video blog of any kind. — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every other Wednesday Hank will perform an original song: Song Wednesdays are back. — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Later in the week there may be a surprise video, so viewers who like surprise and those who like structure both get what they want. (hedged) — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: A brother who fails to keep up these responsibilities will be punished; Hank jokes the punishment could be sticking a needle in his eye. — 00:02:17
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank sums up: at least one vlog a week, news on Sunday, songs every other Wednesday, more structure and more videos because everybody wanted more videos. — 00:02:41
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank adds there will be more BlogTV appearances and open days for doing whatever they want. — 00:02:41
  • 2009-01-04 · Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! — John: Because the Israeli army invaded the Gaza Strip last night, John feels he has to discuss it on Newsday although it makes him miserable, and shows puppy footage to counter that. (hedged) — 00:00:02
  • 2009-02-21 (said on 2009-02-14, implied) · Paper Towns and PUPPY — ask: John: Relaying a question, John tells Hank he needs to do the Carrie Bradshaw punishment now. (playful) — 00:02:15
  • 2009-03-01 · Free Will Fetish — announcement: John reveals, whispering, that the vlogbrothers now have more subscribers than Google, the company that owns YouTube. (playful) — 00:02:12
  • 2009-03-08 · PEEPS for Bangladesh — announcement: John says he will try to set the Question Tuesday world record on Tuesday, and tells Hank to dress up as Carrie Bradshaw soon to avoid a YouTube mutiny. (playful) — 00:02:42
  • 2009-03-29 · Tiny Chickens Cause Epic Fail — John says Hank has owed a Carrie Bradshaw dress-up for about six months and won't do it, and claims to speak for Nerdfighters in being mad. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:35
  • 2009-03-29 · Tiny Chickens Cause Epic Fail — John reports weeks of discussions on the Ning about boycotting Hank's videos until he does the Carrie Bradshaw punishment. — 00:00:35
  • 2009-03-29 · Tiny Chickens Cause Epic Fail — announcement: John tells Hank to dress up as Carrie Bradshaw and says he is boycotting Hank's videos until he sees it in a video thumbnail. (playful) — 00:01:09
  • 2009-04-01 (said on 2009-03-31, implied) · A Few Of My Favorite Things — announcement: Hank apologises for not yet being dressed as Carrie Bradshaw and says he thinks he will make up for it tomorrow. (hedged) — 00:03:38
  • 2009-04-01 · HANKROLL'd — Hank sings a cover of 'Never Gonna Give You Up', rickrolling viewers; the description says he does it dressed as Carrie Bradshaw. (playful) — 00:00:17
  • 2009-05-03 · Important (Temporary) Video — ask: John: Apologising for the late video, John says viewers can vote in comments on whether he should be punished, swearing he looked hard for a FireWire cable. — 00:00:58
  • 2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — announcement: Hank tells John that, whatever his excuse, he should have made his video and is being punished, which Hank says is overdue and he looks forward to. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — ask: Hank asks viewers to post punishment ideas for John in the comments. — 00:00:44
  • 2009-06-05 · JOHN'S PUNISHMENT! Eating Carl's Jr John's Way — announcement: Hank sets John's punishment for not making a video on Sunday: eat the Carl's Jr. burger 'the way only John Green can' - not blenderized, but as its constituent parts. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2009-06-05 · JOHN'S PUNISHMENT! Eating Carl's Jr John's Way — Hank says four recipes at nerdfighters.com are nutritionally and chemically very similar to the burger, each with 50 g protein, 1,000 mg sodium, 9 g sugar, 47 g carbohydrates and 54 g fat. — 00:00:58
  • 2009-06-05 · JOHN'S PUNISHMENT! Eating Carl's Jr John's Way — ask: Hank asks viewers to go to nerdfighters.com and vote for the most punishing recipe, deciding how John eats the constituent parts. — 00:01:30
  • 2009-06-07 · I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! — John says he is very tired but is making the video anyway because he cannot afford to be punished again. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-06-07 · I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! — ask: John tells Nerdfighters they can still vote on his punishment. — 00:03:46
  • 2009-06-07 · I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! — announcement: John says the sandwich is winning the vote, so Hank will likely see him eat a fat sandwich on Tuesday. (hedged) — 00:03:46
  • 2009-06-10 · WIDE ANGLE LENS! And Not Eating Fat Sandwiches — announcement: Hank announces the chosen punishment: strawberry-flavored protein powder dissolved into melted Crisco and made into a fat sandwich, like a Carl's Jr. burger eaten 'John's way'. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2009-06-10 · WIDE ANGLE LENS! And Not Eating Fat Sandwiches — Hank says John has done and filmed the punishment; John reported the first two bites were delicious and then he puked. — 00:00:29
  • 2009-06-10 · Eating a FAT SANDWICH — announcement: John explains the challenge: eat the nutritional equivalent of a Carl's Jr. specialty burger as its constituent parts - fat, corn syrup, salt and protein - plus a bun. (playful) — 00:00:16
  • 2009-06-10 · Eating a FAT SANDWICH — John's recipe: a quarter cup of Crisco, one teaspoon of high fructose corn syrup (Mrs. Butterworth), one teaspoon of salt and two scoops of strawberry soy protein, blended, on a wheat bun. (playful) — 00:00:44
  • 2009-06-10 · Eating a FAT SANDWICH — John finds the fat sandwich 'kind of delicious' at first - strawberry, salty, sugary, fatty - but halfway through it tastes bad and he feels sick, and powers through. (playful) — 00:02:10
  • 2009-06-10 · Eating a FAT SANDWICH — John: A voiceover freezes the footage so young viewers need not see John vomit; John then finishes the sandwich. (playful) — 00:03:11
  • 2009-06-17 (said on 2009-06-16, implied) · Half a Beard — announcement: John announces the Vlogbrothers 2009 Fitness Challenge: in two months, a three-part contest - a three-mile run, consecutive push-ups, and getting closer to ideal BMI. — 00:01:34
  • 2009-06-17 (said on 2009-06-16, implied) · Half a Beard — announcement: John: Confident of winning, John proposes that the loser be punished by Nerdfighteria. — 00:02:06
  • 2009-06-17 (said on 2009-06-16, implied) · Half a Beard — John has hired a personal trainer, a semi-professional strongman; in the first session he thought he would puke and was told to go ahead. (playful) — 00:02:06
  • 2009-06-20 · Neck Beards and Fitness Challenges — Hank got a Wii Fit, which will give him his body mass index; he doubts it will do more for his health than his $20 High School Musical 3 DDR dance pad. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2009-06-20 · Neck Beards and Fitness Challenges — Hank tells John he is ready to take him on in the fitness challenge, though he can't recall its name; he did six push-ups, his Wii Fit age went from 28 to 45, and his BMI went down. (playful) — 00:02:31
  • 2009-06-20 · Neck Beards and Fitness Challenges — Hank boasts he will beat John in body mass index: he started at 24 and says he only has to get to 22; he tells John to start doing push-ups. (playful) — 00:02:31
  • 2009-06-21 · The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less — John says their back-and-forth videos spawned a community of Nerdfighters who fight for awesome and raise a lot of money for charity, sometimes via the brothers' horrible stunts, like his blenderized Happy Meal. — 00:00:33
  • 2009-06-29 (said on 2009-06-28, implied) · GAY is NOT an INSULT — The description says there is no punishment for the late upload because YouTube would not let John upload the night before. — video description
  • 2009-06-29 (said on 2009-06-28, implied) · GAY is NOT an INSULT — John notes that in their two-and-a-half-year conversation the brothers have uploaded more than 500 videos, watched many times thanks to Nerdfighters. — 00:00:10
  • 2009-06-30 · Nerdfighter MARRIAGE PROPOSAL — John says he has lost about three pounds in the fitness challenge but expects Hank to win the BMI part, so he must focus on running and push-ups. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · HipPOTATOmus — John announces that the channel has 100,000 subscribers. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · HipPOTATOmus — announcement: John offers three suggestions ('we') for the 2009 Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge: extend the deadline to October 1st, make it Hank vs John vs all Nerdfighteria, and five ridiculous disciplines. — 00:01:45
  • 2009-10-20 · The Bella Twins Like Paper Towns — John is in Columbus, Ohio, getting ready for a Nerdfighter gathering, and has to make a video or he will be punished. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-11-03 · This Machine Pwns n00bs! — announcement: John uses the album's first single to start the first event of the 2009 Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge: how many circuits of Jumping Jack Push-Up Dance Move during the anglerfish song. — 00:00:47
  • 2009-11-03 · This Machine Pwns n00bs! — announcement: John rules that, to count, a dance move must feature at least two distinct movements. — 00:01:08
  • 2009-11-15 · Gus Is A Bug — ask: John challenges Nerdfighters to find him a copy or the author of Gus Is a Bug; if they do, they may punish him however they see fit. — 00:01:10
  • 2009-11-17 · Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition — John congratulates Nerdfighters: they now get to punish him, and an official thread for discussing punishments is linked. (playful) — 00:02:33
  • 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — John says Nerdfighteria has long wanted to punish Hank, but Hank keeps the rules: a video every Wednesday, a song every other Wednesday, never more than four minutes. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — John: After Hank posted a video of four minutes and two seconds last week (week of 9 November 2009), he called John saying the overrun was only the subscription screen and that he is on tour. (playful) — 00:00:59
  • 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — John says that is what happens in a world without enforced rules; he may have to live with it in real life but will not stand for it in Nerdfighteria, and is still mad about the handball. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:28
  • 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — John argues that people, in sports and in life, tend to think breaking the rules isn't really breaking them unless and until they get caught. — 00:01:57
  • 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — announcement: John announces that Hank is getting punished, and says he doesn't mind his own punishment since Hank is being punished too. (playful) — 00:01:57
  • 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — ask: John asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas in comments and to read through them and thumbs-up the ones they like most. — 00:02:27
  • 2009-11-25 · Things I'm Not Thankful For — Hank complains there were about 2,000 comments on how to punish him but only about two on how to punish John. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:38
  • 2009-11-25 · Things I'm Not Thankful For — ask: Hank asks viewers to leave comments suggesting how to punish John. — 00:02:38
  • 2009-11-29 · John Reviews Twilight and New Moon — announcement: John says that on Tuesday he will announce Hank's punishment and discuss the political situation in Pakistan. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-01 · Shaving for Pakistan — John reports a Nerdfighter's calculation that the extra two seconds of Hank's punished video, watched about 55,000 times, cost Nerdfighteria 26 hours; 'we want our 26 hours back'. (playful) (doubtful: 26 hours) — 00:03:03
  • 2009-12-01 · Shaving for Pakistan — announcement: John sets Hank's punishment: be at the Missoula, Montana Target when it opens at 8 a.m. and stay, without leaving, until it closes 15 hours later. (playful) — 00:03:17
  • 2009-12-01 · Shaving for Pakistan — announcement: John: Because the store closes, John adds a second punishment for the missing 11 hours: Hank buys a blender there and publicly blends and eats (or drinks) a meal of his choice in the Target restaurant. (playful) — 00:03:30
  • 2009-12-02 (said on 2009-12-03, implied) · This Machine Pwns n00bs: A Song — announcement: Hank says he will talk about his punishment and show things he got on tour, but first plays a song he wrote while on tour. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank says it has been long days, so the video comes in four parts: balloons, him being weird, the Project for Awesome, and punishments. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank acknowledges he will have to spend 15 hours inside a Target as his punishment. — 00:03:04
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — ask: Hank says John's punishment is still undecided; he floats John watching every Vlogbrothers video in order without sleeping (about 26 hours) and asks for suggestions in comments. (hedged) — 00:03:04
  • 2009-12-13 · Eyelash Malaria — John says he perseveres mainly for fear of further punishment, and takes off his Paisley shirt so Hank isn't punished by looking at it. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • 2009-12-22 · John and Hank Take on X-Scape! — Hank jokingly declares a punishment: making John ride the Frog Hopper. (joke) — 00:03:00

2010

  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — announcement: John announces rule four: breaking any rule brings a punishment chosen by Nerdfighters and the other brother, to be completed within one week of being assigned. — 00:02:39
  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — announcement: John tells Hank the new rule means he has one week from today to spend 15 hours in a Target. — 00:02:39
  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — announcement: John says he still owes a punishment too, which Hank has not yet given him; once Hank does, John will have a week to complete it. — 00:02:39
  • 2010-01-06 (said on 2010-01-05, implied) · 15 Hours in Target! — Hank, tired and unwell, starts his punishment inside a Target with 15 hours to fill; five hours in, he is really bored. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-01-06 (said on 2010-01-05, implied) · 15 Hours in Target! — Hank says Nerdfighters came to see him in the Target. — 00:00:45
  • 2010-01-06 (said on 2010-01-05, implied) · 15 Hours in Target! — Hank: Near the end of his 15 hours in Target, Hank eats 'one last heaping spoonful', coughs, and calls it a horrible idea. (playful) — 00:03:09
  • 2010-01-06 (said on 2010-01-05, implied) · 15 Hours in Target! — announcement: Hank assigns John's punishment: face his fear of heights with a full session on the Frog Hopper, and tell Hank he loves him while up there. (playful) — 00:03:17
  • 2010-01-08 · GUS HAS NO FUZZ! — John thanks the Yeti for not going into labour during the game, and half hopes she will before next Wednesday (13 January 2010), so his Frog Hopper ride waits until after his paternity leave. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-01-08 · GUS HAS NO FUZZ! — John congratulates Hank on spending 15 hours in Target without going insane or getting arrested. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2010-01-13 · Froghoppin' with Gatsby — John is on his way to pick up his friend Chris to go to Xscape and get on the Frog Hopper. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-01-13 · Froghoppin' with Gatsby — John rides the Frog Hopper, screaming; the ride's audio is cut because Lady Gaga music was playing; afterwards the operator says he was the biggest guy she'd seen on it. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 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
  • 2010-05-17 · My YouTube Story is Short — Hank gives his own YouTube story: his brother convinced him to do something ridiculous they thought would be about two people, and it turned out to be about many more. — 00:01:55
  • 2010-07-16 · VidCon, Oil Spill, Punishments, Shane Dawson, and my Balls — announcement: Hank says he and John both failed to make a video last week (week of 5 July 2010); viewers' forgiveness over VidCon doesn't count, since they agreed to keep the schedule, so both must be punished. — 00:02:13
  • 2010-07-16 · VidCon, Oil Spill, Punishments, Shane Dawson, and my Balls — ask: Hank asks viewers to suggest punishments or vote on suggested ones in the YouTube Moderator module below the video on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:02:42
  • 2010-07-16 · VidCon, Oil Spill, Punishments, Shane Dawson, and my Balls — announcement: Hank says they can't guarantee taking the most-voted punishment, but it will be something unpleasant. — 00:02:42
  • 2010-07-16 · VidCon, Oil Spill, Punishments, Shane Dawson, and my Balls — Hank restates the rule that the best punishments are embarrassing but not illegal, and painful but not dangerous. — 00:03:11
  • 2010-07-20 (said on 2010-07-19, implied) · I Like Balls — announcement: John says he is sure Hank will tell him what his punishment is on Wednesday. — 00:02:12
  • 2010-07-21 · I Hung out with Snookie...Accidentally — announcement: Hank sets John's punishment, first suggested to him at VidCon: a 10-minute workout video working 'the whole nerd body', since John is doing well on his fitness plan. — 00:02:34
  • 2010-07-21 · I Hung out with Snookie...Accidentally — announcement: Hank: The punishment outfit must include a sweatshirt cut off at the ribs and a headband, preferably leg warmers, and possibly a whole-body leotard. (playful) — 00:02:34
  • 2010-07-24 (said on 2010-07-23, implied) · Grammar School with Snooki — John says Munich is lovely and that his punishment sounds horrible. (playful) — 00:03:21
  • 2010-07-24 (said on 2010-07-23, implied) · Grammar School with Snooki — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to keep suggesting punishments for Hank in the comments; he reads them all. — 00:03:26
  • 2010-07-24 (said on 2010-07-23, implied) · Grammar School with Snooki — announcement: John tells Hank he will find out his punishment on Wednesday. — 00:03:30
  • 2010-08-02 · I Love Hank: Esther Day 2010 — announcement: John sets Hank's punishment: a makeup tutorial in the style of YouTube makeup tutorials, deadline September 1. — 00:02:55
  • 2010-08-18 · Demon Four Year Old Interviewed — announcement: Hank notes both brothers owe punishments (his makeup tutorial is not done; John is unpunished) and proposes an agreement that both be complete seven days from now. (hedged) — 00:01:49
  • 2010-08-23 · Make-up Tutorial: Katniss Everdeen Look — Hank has to make a makeup tutorial but neither he, Katherine nor anyone they know owns makeup, so they go to Target. (playful) — 00:00:04
  • 2010-08-27 · Rest In Awesome, Esther — announcement: John says vlogbrothers videos will look vlogbrother-y again from Monday and he will do his punishment on Wednesday (1 September 2010). — 00:02:24
  • 2010-09-02 · Fitness for Nerds — In the description, John says he fulfils his punishment with this video, a mock nerd workout he hosts as 'Fitness for Nerds'. (playful) — video description
  • 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — ask: John says no punishment is due for going over four minutes, since Nerdfighters allowed longer videos, and asks viewers to say how the brothers are doing. — video description

2011

  • 2011-05-05 · IT'S HANKO DE MAYO!! — announcement: John chose not to upload a video on Wednesday, reasoning that the best gift for his brother is the chance to make him do something humiliating, embarrassing or unpalatable. (playful) — 00:00:54
  • 2011-05-05 · IT'S HANKO DE MAYO!! — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to leave punishment suggestions in the comments. — 00:01:02
  • 2011-05-05 · IT'S HANKO DE MAYO!! — John: In a playful aside, John asks Hank, when choosing a punishment, to think not of the brother who (he jokes) tried to poison him with iodine as an infant or stole from his piggy bank, but of the brother he has made YouTube videos with for years. (playful) — 00:01:11
  • 2011-05-06 · Happy Birthday To Me! — announcement: Hank says that after a punishment drought three punishments are now owed: one for John not posting on Wednesday, and two (one per brother) for Nerdfighters getting Helen Hunt to see the Helen Hunt video. — 00:02:43
  • 2011-05-06 · Happy Birthday To Me! — ask: Hank asks viewers to post punishment ideas in the comments and thumb up the ones they like. — 00:03:05
  • 2011-05-23 · Eating the Unicorn — John tells Hank they still haven't decided on punishments and need to do that this week (week of 23 May 2011). — 00:02:28
  • 2011-06-08 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — Hank asks what John was thinking when he gave himself a punishment, since he now has two because of the Helen Hunt thing. (playful) — 00:00:07
  • 2011-06-08 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — Hank proposes a punishment adapted from Corey Vidal's video where viewers clicked annotations to choose two items he blended and drank: viewers will pick two of six ingredients for John's sandwich. — 00:01:19
  • 2011-06-08 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — Hank proposes John's two punishments, without saying which is which: a video of more than 35 parts (six times six), and making many sandwiches with gross ingredients. (hedged) — 00:02:37
  • 2011-06-08 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — ask: Hank asks Nerdfighters to suggest in the comments things to include in John's sandwiches. — 00:02:58
  • 2011-06-10 · Then I Took Off My Bra — John tells Hank the punishments in his last video are very mean and says he will talk more about that when he gets back to the States. — 00:00:31
  • 2011-06-15 (said on 2011-06-14, implied) · Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) — John sets Hank's punishment as the one most popular in Nerdfighteria, Humpy Hank All Over Town: Hank must hump the town. (playful) — 00:02:23
  • 2011-06-20 · On Religion — announcement: John: Apologising that the video had few jokes, John shows a baby rhinoceros and, as penance, says he will eat 36 disgusting sandwiches on Friday (24 June 2011). (playful) — 00:03:20
  • 2011-06-24 · On Religion (Redux) — John says he has been sick lately and has a doctor's note saying he doesn't have to do his punishment, but wanted to continue the religion conversation. (playful) — 00:00:07
  • 2011-06-27 · My Hairy Ball of Anxious Anxiety — Hank: John isn't feeling well and has stomach problems, which is why he hasn't eaten his sandwiches yet; Hank asks everyone to send him warm wishes. — 00:03:46
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — Hank performs his punishment, humping things around town to a dance track, and calls it a very punishing punishment. (playful) — 00:02:20
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — Hank says Geoff Pepos filmed it because Katherine probably wouldn't want to, and once told it was a punishment he made sure it was punishing, as in a long shot of Hank humping a restaurant sign. (playful) — 00:02:20
  • 2011-08-03 · I Love My Brother — ask: In the description Hank asks punishment suggesters to think more 'challenge' and less 'horrible death-defying punishment'. — video description
  • 2011-08-03 · I Love My Brother — announcement: Hank admits he missed a video, entirely his fault, so viewers get to punish him and can suggest punishments. — 00:02:55
  • 2011-08-03 · I Love My Brother — announcement: Hank says John missed a video because he was having his gallbladder removed, so as a medical exception viewers don't get to punish him. — 00:02:55
  • 2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — John says he owes a punishment but cannot do the sandwich punishment, because his gallbladder was recently removed; he declines to show the scars. — 00:01:35
  • 2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — ask: John asks viewers to suggest a different punishment for him; Hank will pick one. — 00:02:09
  • 2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — announcement: John announces a punishment for Hank: besides his family, John brought to Montana one box of signature sheets for The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:02:15
  • 2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — announcement: Hank says the box holds 7,400 sheets, 5% of the total, and he will draw an anglerfish on every one, so buyers have a 5% chance of a 'Hanklerfished' copy. — 00:02:23
  • 2011-08-19 · Outtake Insanity and NERD FACTOR — announcement: John: In an outtake, John announces a punishment for Hank for failing to make a video, breaking their promise of a video every Monday, Wednesday and Friday into perpetuity. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — John tells Nerdfighters not to punish him: Hank permitted this longer-than-four-minutes, unedited video, which saves him time for signing books. (playful) — 00:00:14
  • 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — John says he has Hank's prior permission for the long video, so viewers who like punishing him should not try. (playful) — 00:00:37
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John says the tour gatherings will feature music, readings, decreasing worldsuck, punishments and hilarity. — video description

2012

  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John marks five years since he uploaded his first Vlogbrothers video, on January 2, 2007, with a deliberately terrible jump cut. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: At the show John reads and talks about The Fault in Our Stars, Hank sings, John answers questions, Hank wears a tutu, and in joint questions whoever is talking when the timer goes off is shocked with Charlie McDonnell's 'patented shocker'. — 00:01:37
  • 2012-03-20 · Sharpie Face Question Tuesday — John says that on tour Hank told him his punishment would strike when he least expects it; it still hasn't happened, so maybe Hank has forgotten. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:39
  • 2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to prepare punishment ideas for Hank and leave them in the comments. (playful) — 00:02:21
  • 2012-06-29 (said on 2012-06-30, implied) · Online Video about Online Video — Hank says he did make a video, and that the punishment ideas viewers suggested for him on John's last video could easily apply to John, who has at least one outstanding punishment. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-06-29 (said on 2012-06-30, implied) · Online Video about Online Video — Hank calls one suggestion, driving to Canada with only Mountain Dew, bread, peanut butter and $14, very good; it might be funny enough to do anyway, but he doesn't want to be blacklisted. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:22
  • 2012-06-29 (said on 2012-06-30, implied) · Online Video about Online Video — Hank mentions an idea for John's punishment: a livestream of John watching the Twilight movies, 'a full day of torture'. (playful) — 00:00:22
  • 2012-08-28 · In Which the Candle Dies — In the description John notes he has clearly underestimated Nerdfighteria again, beside the link to the Nerdfighter Kiva group. — video description
  • 2012-08-28 · In Which the Candle Dies — John says both brothers have outstanding punishments they haven't done because punishments suck, which he calls a roadblock in their relationship. (playful) — 00:01:56
  • 2012-08-28 · In Which the Candle Dies — announcement: John's deal: if the Nerdfighter Kiva group reaches $1 million before the brothers reach 1,000 videos, Nerdfighteria can challenge both; they will do the challenges and the slate is cleared. — 00:01:56
  • 2012-08-28 · In Which the Candle Dies — announcement: John: If the goal is missed before 1,000 videos, the punishment slate is wiped clean; the brothers might make videos more often to avoid punishment; John makes the rules as older brother. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:26
  • 2012-08-31 · Why The Rich Pay Lower Taxes — Hank: Nerdfighteria blew past John's goal: a million dollars raised for Kiva before Hank even made his first video promoting it. — 00:03:02
  • 2012-09-25 · Do Businesses Need to Suck? — announcement: John says he will do his punishment next week (the week of 1 October 2012) and is trying to find a llama. — 00:01:27
  • 2012-09-28 · THE EYE OF LONDON: Thoughts from Northern Montana — announcement: Hank tells John he has also chosen a punishment, made gluten-free to accommodate his "terrible excuse for colon". (playful) — 00:03:08
  • 2012-10-23 · Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit — John apologises that he is still working on his punishment. — 00:06:31
  • 2012-11-04 · Policy and Politics: Brotherhood 2.0 Week Begins — announcement: The description says this is the first of six consecutive daily videos the brothers will make to fulfil the first of their two outstanding punishments. — video description
  • 2012-11-04 · Policy and Politics: Brotherhood 2.0 Week Begins — announcement: John says the brothers are doing a week of Brotherhood 2.0-style daily vlogs as a punishment. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-11-09 · The Stadium of Representatives: The End of B20 Week :-( — Hank says this concludes the week of Brotherhood 2.0-style videos; it was really fun and he wishes they could keep going. — 00:03:24

2013

2014

  • 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — announcement: John: Meanwhile John will make a video on Behind the Beautiful Forevers, the Nerdfighter Book Club summer pick, and schedule it to upload next Tuesday (22 July 2014) so he doesn't get punished. — 00:02:34
  • 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — ask: John tells Hank he owes Nerdfighteria a punishment and asks Nerdfighters for punishment suggestions for Hank in the comments. — 00:02:51
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: Answering John's claim that he owes a punishment, Hank says the brothers have been doing this so long, with so many punishable infractions, that it is getting confusing. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: Nerdfighters led by Valerie2776 made a spreadsheet of all the brothers' punishments and their reasons, which Hank turns into this video, going fast so as not to be punished. — 00:00:06
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank says the brothers created the channel on January 1, 2007 with three rules: a video on your day, no video over four minutes, and no textual communication between them. — 00:00:21
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: That same month John CCed Hank on an email, counted as textual communication, and had to wax his chin. — 00:00:31
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: For once writing 'see you tomorrow' in text in a video, Hank had to give away Peeps on the streets of Missoula, which is how he met Kurt the punk-rock Nerdfighter. — 00:00:44
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: When Hank IMed John in July and John replied, both were punished and dressed up like their most embarrassing high-school pictures. — 00:00:53
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In March John missed a video while hospitalised and replied to Hank on a forum, so he ate a blenderized Happy Meal, waxed his legs and licked a cat; Hank is unsure why three, possibly Daniel Biss donations. (hedged) — 00:01:03
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: During the first Project for Awesome in December 2007, Hank replied to John's comment and had to drink blended Peeps and Strawberry Hill wine while playing a show to six people, his first show ever; the only one there who knew him was his wife. — 00:01:15
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: After 2007 the brothers abolished the textual communication rule, changed the schedule, and exempted educational videos, montage videos and 4:01 videos (YouTube adds a second) from the time limit. — 00:01:32
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In April 2008 Hank made a video 14 seconds too long and had to sing 'World Wide Web Girl' with pigtails in his hair. — 00:01:49
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In October Hank left 30 seconds of nothing at the end of a video and had to dance around his house as Carrie Bradshaw singing 'Never Gonna Give You Up': the infamous Hankroll. — 00:01:59
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In June 2008 John missed a video and had to eat a sandwich made of lard and protein meal. — 00:02:12
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: That November Hank made a video two seconds too long and had to spend 15 hours in a Target. — 00:02:19
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: Both brothers failed to upload during VidCon 2010; the punishment videos were John's 'Fitness for Nerds' and Hank's Katniss Everdeen makeup tutorial. — 00:02:28
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In 2011 the standing deal to punish Hank if Helen Hunt saw his 'Helen Hunt' video came true: she tweeted him, and he had to hump his entire town. — 00:02:33
  • 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
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In October 2013 John's over-four-minute video was ruled not educational enough, and as punishment he ate slobber carrots made by his son. — 00:02:57
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank says that on October 28, 2012, with both brothers owing punishments for reasons he can't find, John bet Nerdfighteria: reach 1,000 videos before $1 million in Kiva loans and the punishments are wiped, otherwise doubled. — 00:03:17
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: Nerdfighteria loaned the million dollars, so each brother had two punishments; they cleared one by making six videos in a week, three each, leaving one punishment each. — 00:03:34
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — ask: Hank says he got a really good idea for his own punishment from comments on John's video, and asks everyone to comment what John's punishment should be. — 00:03:48
  • 2014-07-22 · Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John: Answering Hank's rant about punishments, John says that although he still believes he does not owe a punishment, he will do one because data does not lie. — 00:00:04
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — announcement: Hank says today's video, inspired by a comment on John's video about Hank needing to be punished, explains the science of pain while he experiences pain. (playful) — 00:00:02
  • 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — John: Asked about a punishment, John says he owes one and asks Hank what it is. — 00:02:47
  • 2014-09-19 · The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out — announcement: Hank sets John's punishment: since John doesn't want a tattoo, he will get a tattoo with no ink in the gun, painful with nothing to show. — 00:03:09

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

  • 2021-09-14 · I do this every. single. tuesday. — John: In late 2006, after An Abundance of Katherines came out, John quit his day job to write full time, found himself still inconsistent and the empty days terrifying, and three months later invented an unpaid job, this channel. — 00:01:34
  • 2021-09-14 · I do this every. single. tuesday. — John treated Vlogbrothers as a job, with work due at set times: a missed book deadline has no consequence, but a missed vlog deadline might mean eating a blenderized Happy Meal. — 00:01:56

2022

2023

2026

  • 2026-03-13 · Pain — Hank notes the brothers no longer require themselves never to miss a day, and no longer get punished for missing one. — 00:03:04
  • 2026-09-29 · Pretend You Don't Know This — Hank recalls they decided to upload a video every weekday of 2007 and relive that for two weeks every year in Pizzamas, not near Christmas and loosely based on pizza. — 00:01:30
  • 2026-09-30 · The Point of Life — John recalls that early on the brothers replaced text with video blogs for no reward but bit commitment: no money, and 200 videos before 200 subscribers. — 00:02:08
  • 2026-10-13 · My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body — Hank: Asked his favorite part of his day of punishment in Target, Hank recalls a nerdfighter coming to the Target's Starbucks (not yet a Starbucks then) with little penguin art (as heard) for him: a nerdfighter gathering of three. — 00:02:22