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Song Wednesday

weekly format · in 54 videos (2007–2025)

Hank's practice of performing a song on his Wednesday videos, begun in 2007 when he accepted John's challenge to write a song every two weeks. It came back in 2009 every other Wednesday and weekly until the end of 2010, then ended; Hank recalled it in 2025, when Song Wednesdays returned for Pizzamas.

Videos by year: 2007: 22 · 2008: 4 · 2009: 17 · 2010: 4 · 2011: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2025: 3

Also known as: Song Wednesdays

Threads

Also named in the threads: Four-minute rule for vlogbrothers videos (2007) · Hank asks viewers to put stuff on their heads (2007) · Stuff on Heads: viewers send pictures and videos of stuff on their heads (2007) · Hank: recreate his goth photo as punishment (2007) · Hank's album So Jokes: release (2008) · DFTBA Records: founding of Hank and Alan's label for YouTube musicians (2008) · Hank: 15 hours in the Missoula Target for his 4:02 video (2009) · John and Sarah (the Yeti) are expecting a baby (2009) · Thoughts From Places: the vlogbrothers' series of visual essays from places (2010) · John asks Nerdfighters to tell him things they love (2010) · Pizzamas 2025 edition

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Tour de Hank (2) · Brotherhood 2.0 (9) · Punishment (3) · Katherine Green (4) · Pizzamas (3) · in your pants (2) · Project for Awesome (3) · DFTBA Records (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2007

  • 2007-04-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles — ask: John challenges Hank to make lots more songs, and right now to write a song that will replace the Helen Hunt song in his head. (playful) — 00:02:19
  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Hank thanks John for the challenge to write more songs but, as a commenter noted, it is hard and takes creative energy, so he can't guarantee anything. — 00:01:57
  • 2007-05-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning — John: Praising Hank's song, John suggests Hank could write one song every two weeks for the rest of the project, on his Wednesdays: fun and easy, for John. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:10
  • 2007-05-09 · My 9th: Singing and Randy — announcement: Hank officially accepts John's challenge to write a song every two weeks, which 'the other guy from Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone From Your Pants' suggested; he will sing on each of his Wednesdays. — 00:00:10
  • 2007-05-23 · May 23rd: Miniature Soccer Team — Hank: In song, Hank teases that John's one dream is two entire miniature soccer teams of children with Sarah, and warns her she doesn't know what she swore to. (playful) — 00:00:11
  • 2007-07-06 · July 6: Ooooooops — announcement: Hank says Independence Day has put him on the even days, so he won't have to do a song next Wednesday (11 July 2007). — 00:00:10
  • 2007-08-01 · August 1: It's Too Hot — Hank says it is Wednesday, which means he has to sing a song. — 00:00:10
    • In the song Hank complains that it is too hot: sweating in bed, lying on the floor in boxers and a washcloth, his will to live melting and his state on fire. (playful) — 00:01:04
  • 2007-10-29 · October 29th: It Just Isn't Fair — announcement: Hank realizes his song day falls on Halloween; his song is not about Halloween and he doesn't know if he can write a Halloween song in time. (hedged) — 00:00:03
  • 2007-11-29 · November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project — Hank: Because of Thanksgiving Hank has no song until next week (week of 3 December 2007); only two songs of his challenge remain and both are already written, a load off. — 00:01:02
  • 2007-12-05 · December 5th: The Adorable Cannibal (PG-13) — Hank: In song, Hank's narrator confesses he loves his partner the way he should love food, and vice versa; food is still his favorite thing, but now his favorite food is the partner. (fiction) — 00:00:25
  • 2007-12-24 · THE NERDFIGHTER HAPPY DANCE PROJECT — Debbie Kitto: The tribute lists what the brothers brought: intelligent humor, blended meals, 'In My Pants', DFTBA, songs on Wednesday, stuff on heads, awesome and togetherness. — 00:08:13
  • …and 16 statements more in 2007 — all statements of 2007

2008

  • 2008-10-30 (said on 2008-10-29, implied) · Hank is Late (dr horrible) — announcement: Hank says that after this video he and Katherine will perform a special song from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog for Song Wednesday, though it will be Thursday on the East Coast. — 00:00:23
  • 2008-10-30 · Hank and Katherine...On the Rise — Hank and Katherine sing a duet of 'My Eyes' from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Hank taking the despairing part and Katherine the hopeful one. — 00:00:03
  • 2008-11-06 · Funny Noises from Tennessee — Hank offers a song on Thursday rather than Wednesday: a Nerdfighter chant he and John have done at Tour de Nerdfighting gatherings, which he wants everyone to know. — 00:00:29
  • …and 1 statement more in 2008 — all statements of 2008

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
    • 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
    • Every other Wednesday Hank will perform an original song: Song Wednesdays are back. — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-07 · Hank Green: Behind the Music — announcement: Hank: On the stream Hank will play music and talk about the album, Song Wednesdays, the future of Brotherhood 2.0 and DFTBA Records, starting around 5 pm Eastern. (hedged) — 00:02:31
  • 2009-01-11 · SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! — John congratulates Hank on the hugely successful release of his first album, urges viewers to buy it, and looks forward to the first Song Wednesday. — 00:03:25
  • 2009-01-28 · Stock Adviser (Via Britney) — announcement: Hank says John agreed it is perfectly okay to do parodies on Song Wednesdays, though John did not say Katherine could sing. — 00:00:32
  • 2009-02-11 · A Song About an Anglerfish — announcement: Hank says this Song Wednesday song was recorded straight in the studio rather than first on acoustic guitar, so viewers get the studio version first. — 00:00:11
  • 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
  • 2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · HipPOTATOmus — John announces that the channel has 100,000 subscribers. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-11-18 · Crazy Man is Crazy (with SEATTLE INFO!!) — Hank: For the Wednesday song, Hank sings a short road-trip song listing things he'd be screwed without: computer, camera, chargers, guitar, phone, keys. (playful) — 00:00:54
  • 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
  • 2009-12-30 · The STUPIDEST NEWS STORIES of 2009 (a song) — Hank says his last video of 2009 falls on a Song Wednesday; he wrote the lyrics, sent them to Rhett and Link, who wrote the music, and they recorded it together. — 00:00:04
  • …and 14 statements more in 2009 — all statements of 2009

Also named in: Become a Time Traveller TODAY!

2010

  • 2010-10-07 · The Fermi Paradox: A Song — announcement: Hank announces that Song Wednesdays are returning: until the end of 2010 he will do a new song every Wednesday. — 00:00:00
    • Hank says he is doing it because songs are stuck in his head and he needs motivation to get them out, so he is motivating himself through Nerdfighteria. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-11-17 · HARRY POTTER SONG! — announcement: Hank says the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes out tomorrow night, he is very excited, and it's Song Wednesday. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-12-15 · Adult Female: A Song — announcement: Hank says it is Song Wednesday, the Wednesday before the Project for Awesome, and that John's video about things he loves inspired him to play a song about something he loves. — 00:00:00
  • …and 1 statement more in 2010 — all statements of 2010

Also named in: Phineas Gage: A Song

2011

  • 2011-01-05 · Homeless Man with a Golden Voice Gets a Job — announcement: Hank says that with 2010 over there will be no more Song Wednesdays, joking he will never sing again before admitting he couldn't stop writing songs. — 00:00:05
    • Instead of a Song Wednesday song, Hank covered a song on his second channel and points viewers to it through an annotation. — 00:00:16
  • …and 1 statement more in 2011 — all statements of 2011

2014

  • 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

2017

  • 2017-11-08 · Follow Hank All Day — Hank works on a song for the first time in a while; it was meant for Song Wednesday but isn't happening, so he put it on his Tumblr though it still has problems. — 00:00:15

2025

  • 2025-10-08 · Being Alive — Hank recalls Song Wednesday: from 2007 he did a song every Wednesday, in practice every two weeks because the brothers traded off days; it has been a while. — 00:00:00
  • …and 1 statement more in 2025 — all statements of 2025

Also named in: I Like Being Alive