Lexicon: heard only once
Words, memes and bits recorded in a single video of 2007–2026. They stay out of the glossary because one use does not show that a phrase caught on; some were coined as running bits that never came back inside this wiki.
Words, mottos & catchphrases (64)
| date | item | what is said | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-07-02 | Law of Compound Nerdfighting | John coins the Law of Compound Nerdfighting, modelled on compound interest: 100 nerdfighters together can do what 100 alone cannot. | Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting 00:00:59 |
| 2008-04-08 | there is no them | John says Nerdfighters taught him over 15 months that there is no them, only facets of us: every imagined 'them' turned out to be part of us. | Nerdfighting in Bangladesh 00:02:20 |
| 2008-05-06 | Hankian | John coins 'Hankian' ('like Nietzschean, but less frighteningly nihilistic') for his excited, busy state. | Hank Would Think This Is Awesome: The Project 00:00:00 |
| 2008-05-22 | iota | Hank also asks about anagrams in math, whether evil people like Hitler or Stalin had pets, and what an iota is. | Adorable Puppy Injury!!!! 00:03:05 |
| 2008-06-19 | Decepticonian | To apologize to Tobies and Tobians, John proposes removing 'Tobian' from the Nerdfighter vocabulary and replacing it with 'Decepticonian', which has a nice Draconian ring. | Memo to the Fourteenth Century (and to the Tobians) 00:01:12 |
| 2008-08-15 | metric Sabbath | Hank coins 'metric Sabbath' for resting on the tenth day after his days of awesome. | Metric Sabbath 00:01:36 |
| 2008-10-06 | Sitzpinkler | A fan of German insults, John says he used 'sitzpinkler', a man who sits to pee, about a hundred times in his second novel. | Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) 00:01:21 |
| 2008-10-06 | Warmduscher | John learned a new German insult in Germany, for a man who takes hot showers, and admits he is one. | Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) 00:01:21 |
| 2008-12-26 | Skoodilypooping | John introduces his grandmother's word for making out, 'Scootily Poopin'', the title bit, with the story of Nanny asking whether he and a girlfriend had been doing it. | Skoodilypooping 00:02:07 |
| 2009-08-04 | Twitiquette | Hank says he isn't sure how Twitter works yet; John told him he needs work on his 'Twittikit' (Twitter etiquette). | Twitter Games and Truth or Fail 00:00:53 |
| 2009-08-10 | HipPOTATOmus | A hippo-shaped potato is named the hippotato, then the hippotatamus. | HipPOTATOmus 00:01:15 |
| 2009-11-22 | famy | John introduces 'famy' (heard 'fummy'), the opposite of infamy, declaring Hank's punishment day one that will live in famy. | Hank in FAMY 00:00:00 |
| 2010-01-13 | froofy | John says 'froofy' is not a word; Hank probably meant froufrou, a French word for frilly ornamentation, which more fine arts classes would have taught him. | Froghoppin' with Gatsby 00:00:00 |
| 2010-01-13 | froufrou | John says 'froofy' is not a word; Hank probably meant froufrou, a French word for frilly ornamentation, which more fine arts classes would have taught him. | Froghoppin' with Gatsby 00:00:00 |
| 2010-01-29 | xenocide | Hank says there is no word for what is going on with the dolphin harvest in Japan; the closest he can find is Orson Scott Card's 'xenocide'. | The iPad and Dolphin Murder 00:03:25 |
| 2010-03-03 | social video | Hank calls most of this new content 'social video': even Miley Cyrus vlogging is a personal interaction, not reality television but reality. | VidCon Schedule Spectacular! 00:01:46 |
| 2010-09-24 | virg-out | John says that, as Hank pointed out on Twitter, the best antonym for 'virgin' suggested in the comments by far was 'virg-out'. | Dumping My Girlfriend 00:00:28 |
| 2010-11-15 | binkaboo | After joking that Europe has it all figured out, John says the deficit projections for most developed economies look much like America's. | Hey! You! Fix the Budget! 00:02:56 |
| 2010-12-07 | pseudophone | Hank coins 'pseudophones' for words that are similar but not quite the same, which make everything go wrong if said wrong. | Tongue Twisters 00:01:28 |
| 2011-07-25 | pussy | Hank rejects the driver's use of 'pussy', saying it implies untrue assumptions about gender, weakness and cowardice. | I Am Not a P#$$Y - this video contains mild swear words. 00:00:58 |
| 2011-12-05 | Imogen | John says the name Imogen comes from Shakespeare's Cymbeline and is probably a transcription error for Innogen, so Imogen Heap's name rests on a typo. | 5 Worst Typos of History 00:00:51 |
| 2012-01-02 | huzzah | John proposes saying 'huzzah' more often, as a secret thing. | Changes to Vlogbrothers 00:01:08 |
| 2012-05-11 | hypothetheory | Hank coins 'hypothetheory' for a hypothesis, such as 'gay marriage would undermine the institution of marriage', that is asserted as theory without being tested. | Your Arguments Are Invalid: Gay Marriage 00:01:31 |
| 2012-07-17 | monorchid | John shares a favorite word, 'monorchid', a person with one testicle, and lists prominent monorchids: Mao Zedong, Lance Armstrong, Hermann Göring and the drummer from Green Day. | Hitler and Sex! 00:01:45 |
| 2013-10-04 | Johnsel | Ansel says he thinks 'Johnsel' is already a thing, and ships it too. | Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set 00:00:46 |
| 2013-11-22 | fartbag | Hank coins 'fartbag' (title bit): a person who hurts someone and then blames the person they hurt, the alternative to a real apology. | How to Apologize like a Fartbag 00:00:37 |
| 2014-01-10 | average global atmospheric energy increase | Hank feels people would accept the idea more if it were framed as an energy increase, separate from everyday experience, though 'average global atmospheric energy increase' isn't catchy and he could be wrong. | Global Warming and the Polar Vortex 00:03:09 |
| 2014-05-06 | johning | John reports the 'johning' craze: after The Hollywood Reporter's article included a picture of him, a longtime nerdfighter posted herself 'johning' and many, including Hank, followed. | TFIOS Movie Madness, Incongruent, and Headless Hotel People 00:00:15 |
| 2014-05-23 | autological | Words that describe themselves ('noun', 'magniloquent', 'polysyllabic', 'unhyphenated', 'coined') are called autological, and 'autological' is itself autological. | My Freakish Talent 00:01:55 |
| 2014-05-23 | heterological | The hard part, Hank says: autological's antonym heterological cannot consistently be said to describe itself or not; luckily there is a word for that too. | My Freakish Talent 00:02:21 |
| 2014-05-23 | inflammable | Some words mean the opposite of themselves, Hank says: inflammable means both very easy and very hard to catch on fire; sanguine means both cheerful and bloodthirsty. | My Freakish Talent 00:01:16 |
| 2014-05-23 | sanguine | Some words mean the opposite of themselves, Hank says: inflammable means both very easy and very hard to catch on fire; sanguine means both cheerful and bloodthirsty. | My Freakish Talent 00:01:16 |
| 2014-11-13 | Jonathan (name) | John: the name John is not the same as Jonathan, which comes from a different Hebrew word meaning 'gift from God' and is a longer form of Nathan, not of John. | The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 00:02:54 |
| 2014-11-14 | Hank (name) | Hank: Middle English shortened Johan to Han, and a little Han was called Hankin, which is how the name Hank first appeared; so John and Hank have the same name. | A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! 00:03:22 |
| 2015-03-17 | esquivalience | John's favourite example is the New Oxford American Dictionary's invented word 'esquivalience', defined as avoiding one's official responsibilities; he is unsure how to pronounce it. | What Are Paper Towns? 00:01:59 |
| 2015-07-07 | Grexit | John will not offer solutions, only try to understand how things got so desperate that the news media coined the 'horrific' compound word Grexit. | Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece 00:00:22 |
| 2015-08-18 | pileous | John explains that 'pileous' means of or relating to hair, saying the hair anxiety is bringing out his vocabulary. | The Cold War of Nerdfighteria 00:02:11 |
| 2015-10-27 | Under Puff | John has trimmed his beard because Nerdfighters had started calling it the 'Under Puff'. | Understanding YouTube Red: Paid Subscriptions and the Future of Online Video 00:00:09 |
| 2016-01-12 | Cho mai | John says the Star Wars universe has a phrase, Cho Mai, for using a lightsaber to amputate an opponent's hand. | Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things 00:00:44 |
| 2016-07-29 | Cheeto media | Hank wants to snack less, stop consuming 'Cheeto media', and focus on things that take up his brain and make him love the world, loving things the way the fans do. | Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!) 00:02:34 |
| 2017-03-21 | Twittering | John coins 'twittering', his word for the buzzing misery the social internet fills him with: a brew of outrage, worry, exhaustion and not being able to look away. | My Information Diet 00:00:10 |
| 2017-05-05 | Appreciation deficit theory | Hank states his 'appreciation deficit theory': by making all transactions quantifiable in money, we have lost the sense that unmeasured value can be transferred. | Sick and Tired 00:01:45 |
| 2018-03-16 | OK | Hank grants that a word like 'taxi' may be adopted into more languages, but says OK is adopted for everyday conversation while 'taxi' serves only specific situations. | The Most Popular Word in the World 00:00:00 |
| 2018-05-22 | Liger delusion | John says the 'liger delusion' is at the heart of a lot of contemporary discourse, especially around politics. | The Liger Delusion 00:01:12 |
| 2018-06-08 | space ball | Hank announces he now calls planets 'space balls', which is itself an inevitable consequence of the universe's starting conditions. | Intentionally Ignorant: Does Free Will Exist? 00:02:07 |
| 2018-08-10 | giant robot suit | Hank writes that the internet can collapse the distance between people chatting among themselves and a mainstream celebrity; celebrities feel like ordinary people, so reacting to hearing terrible things is understandable, but those people see the robot suit, not the person. | My Giant Robot Suit 00:00:00 |
| 2019-04-26 | Twitter hole | Hank explains what he calls Twitter holes, known from Delete This: chains of quote tweets in the same format that lead down to the progenitor tweet. | It's Time to Care About "Business" 00:00:00 |
| 2019-06-21 | Head lie | Hank calls a 'head lie' a true fact that becomes a lie when it reaches your brain; it happens in headlines, and we are getting good at it. | How to Lie While Telling the Truth 00:00:00 |
| 2021-01-01 | Little Hank | The timeline cured cancer in 2000; Hank apologises to little Hank that there turn out to be many cancers. | In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are 00:01:51 |
| 2022-02-04 | emperor of the world idea | Hank describes emperor of the world ideas, good only if everyone got out of the way and agreed: not really bad ideas, just fantasies; the phrase comes from Daniel Biss talking to John. | How John and I Talk About Ideas 00:02:48 |
| 2022-02-04 | Newman's Owning | Hank explains Newman's Owning: an okay idea gets way better when all the profit goes to charity, making it more interesting to everyone involved and less like normal business. | How John and I Talk About Ideas 00:01:49 |
| 2022-02-04 | top 10 | Hank defines a top 10 as any idea that would be successful but would not add much value to the world. | How John and I Talk About Ideas 00:02:18 |
| 2022-02-04 | Walkman | Hank defines a Walkman: an idea that is technically difficult for them as non-experts and that someone else will definitely do anyway, so their effort would not speed it up. | How John and I Talk About Ideas 00:00:58 |
| 2022-02-04 | you can't scale a person | Hank explains 'you can't scale a person': an idea permanently reliant on one person is long-term unsustainable, not necessarily bad, since a person runs out of hours, years or desire. | How John and I Talk About Ideas 00:01:27 |
| 2022-07-12 | nervcited | John tells Hank he is nervcited and hopes the club works, a word he just made up for how he feels most of the time. | Nauseous Puddle Water 00:03:14 |
| 2022-10-18 | Terraverse | Thinking about how to talk about this world with grass, John asks what the opposite of a metaverse is and proposes 'the Terraverse'. | Terraverse Over Everything: Thoughts from London 00:02:19 |
| 2022-10-25 | instantly debatable | John calls such questions 'instantly debatable' and says they tend to avoid nuance and complexity. | Instantly Debateable 00:00:00 |
| 2023-02-28 | invalid | John says strategies for limiting empathy are built into language, like 'invalid', the English word for people in the 19th century disabled by tuberculosis. | Empathy and its Limits 00:00:58 |
| 2023-06-30 | bon vivant | Hank says he only recently learned what 'bon vivant', an enjoyer of life, means, and realized he is, or aspires to be, one himself. | Bon Your Vivant 00:01:21 |
| 2023-11-03 | sarapocial relationship | Hank says there is no word for this reverse relationship, but on the phone yesterday John called it a 'sarapocial relationship', which Hank thinks is the best possible term. | We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships 00:01:40 |
| 2024-04-23 | dread-drenaline | John theorizes that he and Hank give too much of themselves to work for two reasons; the first is 'dread-drenaline', a sought-after feeling between thrill and dread, which he calls the Twitter feeling. | Full Hank 00:00:29 |
| 2025-07-04 | cable news fallacy | Hank names the problem the cable news fallacy: the mistaken belief that a group's most vocal or visible members represent the whole group. | This Graph Changed My Life 00:04:32 |
| 2025-08-22 | howdy | Hank gives 'how do you do' turning into 'howdy' as an example of words changing to be easier to say. | Are Languages Alive? 00:01:27 |
| 2026-04-24 | Shelter Bench | When someone says AI will change everything and solve all problems, Hank checks it against a benchmark he created, Shelter Bench: how will AI help solve the housing crisis? | The AI Question that No AI Person Asks 00:00:00 |
Running bits (94)
| date | item | what is said | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-01-16 | The brothers' 'Battle of the Books' bit | Inspired by Hank's Battle of the Books, John stages his own with editions of Looking for Alaska (American vs Dutch, Danish and British). | Brotherhood 2.0: January 16, 2007 00:01:40 |
| 2007-03-01 | John's 'world's largest ball of earwax' proposal for Hank | John proposes Hank accrue the world's largest ball of earwax by the end of 2007 with viewers' earwax. | Brotherhood 2.0: March 1, 2007: Sophistication. And balls. 00:01:22 |
| 2007-04-16 | The brothers' 'Brotherhood of the Traveling Shirt': sharing the one Nerdfighter shirt | John dubs the shared Nerdfighter shirt arrangement 'the Brotherhood of the Traveling shirt': what is brotherhood if not sharing clothes? | Brotherhood 2.0: April 16: Brotherhood of Traveling Shirts 00:01:58 |
| 2007-06-25 | Hank's 'Dum de dum de dum de readin' a book' ditty | Hank sings 'Dum de dum de dum de readin' a book' while finishing a book; the ditty is the video's title. | June 25: Dum De Dum De Dum De Readn' a Book 00:00:03 |
| 2007-08-03 | Hank's 'retail store dance' | Hank names and performs 'the retail store dance', the ritual sounds and moves of paying at a store, which his three free exchanges skipped. | August 3: The Retail Dance 00:01:57 |
| 2007-09-04 | John's hypothetical band names, e.g. 'Negative Suck Cubed equals Awesome' | John lists the names of the hypothetical bands he would be in if he didn't suck at music, ending with the title name 'Negative Suck Cubed equals Awesome'. | September 4th: Negative Suck Cubed Equals Awesome 00:00:39 |
| 2007-10-15 | Hank's conceit that Brotherhood 2.0 is a 16-year-old | Taking John's calculation of time spent watching, Hank declares Brotherhood 2.0 a 16-year-old and wishes it a happy birthday (title). | Oct 15th: Happy 16th Birthday B20 00:00:10 |
| 2007-11-28 | John's 'liquid brain' after finishing a revision | John says he is so tired after the revision that his brain feels like it has turned to liquid and might drip out. | November 28th: Amy Winehouse and Brain Liquefication 00:00:45 |
| 2008-04-30 | Hank: the Vlogbrothers 'killed a man' with viewers' watching time | Hank claims he and John 'killed a man' with YouTube: total Vlogbrothers viewing time equals one 77.4-year lifetime. | BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! 00:00:00 |
| 2008-06-19 | John's '60 seconds with the 14th century' memo | John performs '60 seconds with the 14th century', a comic memo of germ theory, science and history advice to medieval people. | Memo to the Fourteenth Century (and to the Tobians) 00:02:18 |
| 2008-11-06 | Hank's funny noises: John says it is all Nerdfighters want from Hank's videos | John tells Hank all Nerdfighters want from him is funny noises, and Hank answers with a long scream. | Funny Noises from Tennessee 00:01:08 |
| 2009-03-18 | Hank's Facebook fan page for Dr. Manhattan's dong | Hank reveals he made a Facebook fan page for Dr. Manhattan's dong the day before (17 March 2009), became a fan, and sings about it. | Dr. Manhattan's Dangle and Brain Crack 00:00:00 |
| 2009-03-22 | John's made-up name 'Hakkenslaken' for Dutch chocolate-sprinkle bread | John coins a made-up name (heard 'Hakkenslaken') for Dutch bread with butter and chocolate sprinkles. | John Loves Amsterdam 00:01:09 |
| 2009-09-01 | Hank's 'I am Computer Man' | Hank proclaims himself 'Computer Man', after the staged multi-computer photo, and says his Montana friends see him that way. | I AM COMPUTER MAN!!! 00:02:04 |
| 2009-11-25 | Hank's 'Hanksgiving': complaints on the day before Thanksgiving | Hank names the day before Thanksgiving 'Hanks-[giving]', the opposite of Thanksgiving, when he lists what he is not thankful for. | Things I'm Not Thankful For 00:00:00 |
| 2010-01-25 | Hank's logarithmic age scale: more birthdays when you're young, fewer when you're old | Hank brings back his logarithmic age scale (more birthdays when young, fewer when old), noting he talked about it briefly in the vegetarianism video. | Name My Dog! 00:00:00 |
| 2010-05-03 | Hank's shower as the internet: the title demonstration of 'Net Neutrality in the Shower' | Hank uses his running shower as the internet, the water as information, to explain bandwidth and net neutrality. | Net Neutrality in the Shower 00:00:29 |
| 2010-09-11 | John's 'attacked by a (giant) baby' bit for his broken rib | John recalls saying earlier this week (week of 6 September 2010) that a baby attacked him and escalates: he has now been attacked by a giant baby. | Giant Baby Attack 00:00:00 |
| 2010-10-11 | 'Like a snake swallowing an egg': the two-bite eating gag that titles Hank's Florida video | In the closing outtake an off-camera voice says someone eating something in two bites was 'like a snake swallowing an egg', the line that titles the video. | Like a Snake Swallowing an Egg: Thoughts from Florida 00:02:47 |
| 2010-11-19 | John's 'I'm not going down' sleepless-flight bit | Delirious after a failed sleeping pill on the flight, John films himself in the airplane bathroom insisting he will not go down (title bit). | I'm Not Going Down: Thoughts from Amsterdam 00:00:32 |
| 2010-11-24 | John's 'Vienna is packed with babies' bit | John's title gag: Vienna is packed with babies (not cherubs), which he points out one by one. | Babies and Catacombs: VIENNA (Thoughts from Places) 00:00:32 |
| 2011-01-17 | John's 'cheating cheaters of cheatery', in his Brazil cotton video | John voices Brazil's WTO complaint: when it comes to cotton, Americans are 'a bunch of cheating cheaters of cheatery' (the video's title). | Cheating Cheaters of Cheatery: The Amazing Story of Brazil's Cotton War with the U.S. 00:01:16 |
| 2011-02-04 | John's trouble spelling words: the 'Spelling is Hard Edition' of Question Friday | John's run of words he can't spell (occasionally, refrigerator, sacrilege, queue) becomes the 'Spelling Bee Nightmare Edition', the title bit. | QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition 00:02:43 |
| 2011-03-04 | John's 'Sheen or Gaddafi?' quotation-guessing game | John introduces 'Sheen or Gaddafi?', the title game: guess whether a grandiose quotation was said by Charlie Sheen or Muammar Gaddafi. | SHEEN or GADDAFI? 00:00:00 |
| 2011-03-09 | 'Dandy lions': lions that eat you when you wish on them | Asked 'dandy lions or dandelions?', John picks dandy lions, which eat you if you wish on them, and calls 'The Dandy Lions' a really good band name; the title bit. | DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day 00:00:40 |
| 2011-03-28 | John's definition of basketball as 'participatory geometry' | John defines basketball as two hollow cylinders and one sphere, 'essentially participatory geometry', the title bit; he returns to it in his defence of sports. | Participatory Geometry 00:00:50 |
| 2011-05-13 | John's 'winkels to the left, winkels to the right' line about Antwerp | John says all he knew about Antwerp was that there are 'winkels to the left and winkels to the right', the line that titles the video. | Winkels to the Left, Winkels to the Right: Thoughts from Places, Antwerp 00:00:41 |
| 2011-05-16 | Hank's 'grab it by the testicle' commencement advice | Hank's advice to graduates to 'grab it by the testicle', the line that titles the video. | Grab It By The Testicle 00:01:45 |
| 2011-05-23 | John's 'eating the unicorn': a Google-translated Dutch dinner invitation | John reads the Google-translated line that no one knows who will eat the unicorn at his Dutch dinner, then volunteers to eat it; the title bit. | Eating the Unicorn 00:00:45 |
| 2011-05-30 | Horatio: Hank's zit, 'the newest member of our family' | Hank introduces his zit Horatio as the newest member of the family, the title bit; at the end Horatio wants to take over the vlogs. | Horatio, the Newest Member of our Family 00:00:04 |
| 2012-03-20 | John's champagne-popper celebrations | Asked why he no longer does champagne poppers, John says they don't fit his serious brand, then pops one at the Kiva news ('Shibam! Ow.'). | Sharpie Face Question Tuesday 00:00:38 |
| 2012-04-06 | Hank's 'President of Space' title, in his Northrop Grumman video | Hank proposes his title be changed to 'Hank Green, President of Space, Nerdfighteria' and asks John whether he can be president of space. | Can I be Space President? 00:01:01 |
| 2012-05-04 | Hank screams his way around the VidCon 2012 venue, in 'Screaming Through VidCon' | Hank sets out to tour the future VidCon venue by screaming. | Screaming Through VidCon 00:00:00 |
| 2012-06-05 | John's 'Dangling Rope of Terror' outside his 39th-floor New York hotel window, in a Question Tuesday | From his 39th-floor hotel room John frets over a rope dangling outside the window, afraid for whoever may be on it and a little for himself; at the end he wonders why it moves so much. | The Dangling Rope of Terror: It's Question Tuesday 00:00:47 |
| 2012-07-17 | John's 'Hitler and SEX!' cable-pilot jingle, in his parody TV show | John's parody cable pilot announces each segment with a dramatic 'Hitler and SEX!' jingle. | Hitler and Sex! 00:00:15 |
| 2012-07-31 | John's dream of becoming an Olympian by building a US men's team handball team, in 'Nerd Olympics' | John declares he wants to be an Olympian at 34 and, being unathletic, plans to qualify via a US men's team handball team. | Nerd Olympics 00:00:00 |
| 2012-09-28 | Hank's 'Eye of London' slip for the London Eye, in his northern Montana video | Hank calls the London Eye "the Eye of London", then corrects himself; the slip is the video's title. | THE EYE OF LONDON: Thoughts from Northern Montana 00:01:56 |
| 2012-10-16 | John's burnt microwaved Peeps, in a Question Tuesday | Asked what he has always wanted to microwave, John eats burnt microwaved Peeps from a hot plate with his lunch of apples, the title bit of the video. | Burning Peeps, My OTP, and Velociraptors: It's Question Tuesday 00:01:02 |
| 2012-10-30 | John's love of 'tiny balls', in his Las Vegas roulette video | John jokes that he loves roulette because he loves tiny balls, the title bit, extended in the P.S. to bitterballen and Dippin' Dots. | TINY BALLS! Nerds Do Vegas. 00:01:08 |
| 2012-11-09 | Hank's 'Stadium of Representatives': an ever-growing House would have to be renamed the stadium | Hank says that adding a seat for every 60,000 people would have forced Congress to rename the House 'the stadium', the joke that titles the video. | The Stadium of Representatives: The End of B20 Week :-( 00:01:27 |
| 2013-02-26 | John's three-year-old son declares himself a communist over peanut butter: 'communist celery' | John's son refuses peanut butter on his celery; asked 'What are you, a communist?', he says yes, and John is happy he's politically engaged. | Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: The Mac & Cheese and Communist Celery Edition 00:02:22 |
| 2013-05-07 | John's office Clif bars kept in a jar 'because mice' | John explains the office keeps its Clif bars in a jar because of mice (title bit). | The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour 00:02:01 |
| 2013-07-23 | Maureen Johnson's watermelon: her guest-vlog prop and 'the only thing that makes sense' online | Maureen introduces her watermelon as her guest-vlog prop and later declares eating watermelon the only thing that makes sense online. | Watermelon Internet Trolls 00:00:12 |
| 2014-01-03 | Hank's mock news bulletin 'The Golden Gate Bridge didn't collapse' | Hank opens with a mock 'special report' from the Vlogbrothers newsroom announcing that the Golden Gate Bridge did not collapse today, death count thought to be zero. | The Golden Gate Bridge Didn't Collapse!! 00:00:03 |
| 2014-01-28 | John's failed backflip, in a Question Tuesday | Asked how many backflips he can do, John attempts one on camera and reports zero. | Question Tuesday! TFIOS Movie Trailer, Penguin Knees, and Backflips 00:03:13 |
| 2014-05-02 | Hank vs. Hank: Hank debates himself as an internet user and as a cable company | Hank holds a debate in his house between himself as an internet user and himself representing a cable company, on opposite sides of the table. | Hank vs. Hank: The Net Neutrality Debate in 3 Minutes 00:00:02 |
| 2014-05-23 | Hank's 'freakish talent' reveal: his remarkable skill is talking | Hank builds up a remarkable skill he has never mentioned on Vlogbrothers, then reveals it is talking. | My Freakish Talent 00:00:19 |
| 2014-05-27 | John wears all 32 World Cup team shirts in one video | John announces he has to wear a lot of shirts today, for reasons that will soon become clear. | ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) 00:00:09 |
| 2014-06-13 | Hank's Team Soggy versus Team Crunchy cinnamon toast bit | Hank stages the cinnamon toast showdown, rejects the crunchy version and declares 'Team soggy for life!' | How to Make Cinnamon Toast (two ways) 00:00:50 |
| 2014-08-26 | John's food-and-disease curses: a cooking method plus a disease in place of swearing | John starts cursing by naming a cooking method and a disease ('pickled rotavirus', 'steamed Ebola', later 'fried meningitis'). | Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World 00:00:59 |
| 2014-11-21 | John's exhausted mock place names: 'the sleepiest sleepyhead in Sleepsylvania' | John describes his exhaustion with mock place names, starting with 'the sleepiest sleepyhead in Sleepsylvania' (the title has Sleeptown), then Fatiguedville and Exhaustia. | The Sleepiest Sleepyhead in Sleeptown 00:00:14 |
| 2015-06-02 | The brothers' alternating 15-part and 16-part list videos ('this whole 15/16 thing', 2015) | John continues the 15/16 exchange: Hank made another 15-part video, so John makes a 16-part list of things he loves about being outside. | Let's Go Outside 00:00:01 |
| 2015-08-14 | Hank's corndog ghost attack | Hank's opening is cut short by an unseen 'corndog' encounter that drives him from his chair; the video's title calls it a corndog ghost attack. | Corndog Ghost Attack, Book Towers, and Census 00:00:06 |
| 2016-05-03 | John versus the Indianapolis airport's Spanish no-smoking announcements, 'No Fumar' | John calls the Indianapolis International Airport the best airport on Earth; his number one complaint is a no-smoking announcement every 12 minutes. | No Fumar 00:00:14 |
| 2016-05-20 | Hank's 'I AM A GOLDEN GOD!' shout | After signing off, Hank shouts the video's title line, 'I AM A GOLDEN GOD!'. | I AM A GOLDEN GOD 00:03:19 |
| 2016-05-27 | Hank's 'reaction video' to The Thing, a roadside attraction it does not show | Told he can't broadcast what The Thing is, the video becomes just a 'reaction video' to The Thing, as the title says. | Reaction Video: THE THING! 00:00:31 |
| 2016-06-10 | Hank's Roast Yourself diss track | Hank performs his self-roasting diss track for the Roast Yourself challenge started by Ryan Higa. | Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge 00:00:00 |
| 2016-06-28 | John and fellow YouTubers' plan to move Iceland south as 'New Iceland' | The group's proposal is to move Iceland from its rainy, lava-spewing spot to one where it would be a lovely stopping point between continents. | New Iceland 00:01:40 |
| 2016-07-12 | John's mock review of humans' capacity for wonder, rated 10 out of 10 | John 'reviews' humans' capacity for wonder like a product, giving it 10 out of 10 and calling it highly recommended. | Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review 00:03:18 |
| 2016-09-09 | John and Hank wear the same outfits several videos in a row, prompting viewer conspiracy theories | Hank says this third week they wore the same outfits on purpose, just to keep messing with viewers. | Sleep Paralysis, Double-Pregnancy, and The 2016 Census 00:02:06 |
| 2016-10-04 | John's 'London is lousy with Drowzees and masterpieces' | John coins the title line after catching Drowzees: London is lousy with Drowzees and masterpieces. | Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London 00:01:51 |
| 2016-11-17 | John names Maureen Johnson the weirdest animal he has met | Asked for the weirdest animal he has ever met, John answers 'Probably Maureen Johnson'. | Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday 00:00:43 |
| 2016-11-29 | Hank the 'baby poop rookie' | John calls Hank's attempt to catch the poop 'a rookie error'; Hank: 'I'm a rookie' (the title's 'Baby Poop Rookie'). | Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited 00:01:34 |
| 2016-12-06 | John's video structured like the human sternum, in three parts | John says today's video is like the human sternum, coming in three parts (manubrium, body, xiphoid process), joking that anatomists are bad at naming. | Exactly Like the Human Sternum 00:00:00 |
| 2017-01-06 | Hank gets too excited about pears | Describing how he cuts and eats a soft Bartlett pear, Hank realizes he may get too excited about pears (the title bit). | Too Excited about Pears! (Question Tuesday with Hank) 00:02:12 |
| 2017-01-27 | Hank and WheezyWaiter scream for four minutes straight | Asked by a viewer to scream for four minutes, Hank says it is something he feels like doing anyway after this week (week of 23 January 2017). | Screaming for Four Minutes Straight (with WheezyWaiter) 00:02:04 |
| 2017-02-07 | John's contradictory opinions on bears | Asked his opinion on bears, John gives a rapid string of contradictory verdicts, from strongly in favor to overrated to opposed. | Good News, YA Books, and Bears: It's Question Tuesday 00:00:53 |
| 2017-02-17 | Luzu's Spain-only expression 'as cold as the milk' | Luzu says in Spanish that it is cold using a Spain-only expression, which Hank catches as something about milk: 'as cold as milk'. | As Cold as The Milk: Learning Spanish with Luzu 00:00:15 |
| 2017-05-16 | John's childhood dream job as 'the Introducer' of documentaries, fulfilled by recommending them | John recalls cable channels like Turner Classic Movies where a host introduced each old film with context; as a kid his dream job was to be such an introducer, but of documentaries. | The Introducer, My Childhood Dream Job 00:01:00 |
| 2017-08-15 | John's 'desclibe' flub | John mispronounces 'describe' as 'desclibe' while describing his feelings about the book, giving the video its title. | Very Hard to Desclibe 00:00:59 |
| 2017-10-17 | 'Look at tiny baby Hank': John shows Hank's high school yearbook photo | John shows Hank's high school yearbook photo: 'Look at tiny baby Hank!' | Look at Tiny Baby Hank 00:00:56 |
| 2017-11-07 | The 'pecan orchard' that was in retrospect definitely not one | The description says the brothers answer questions from what was, in retrospect, definitely not a pecan orchard, though they call it one on camera. | Definitely Not A Pecan Orchard: A Pizzamas Question Tuesday 00:00:00 |
| 2017-11-17 | Hank's tax explainer turned musical: sung interjections such as 'Tax jail!' and 'Capital Gains!' | The description says Hank meant to make a tax-policy video and ended up singing a bunch and repeatedly falling out of his chair. | Why Are Taxes So Complicated? (The Musical?) 00:00:00 |
| 2018-09-28 | Hank's 'mountain goats aren't goats' jab at John | After one brother is called a mountain goat fan, not a billy goat fan, Hank says he doesn't think mountain goats are actually goats; the reply is 'Shut your mouth'. | REUNION!!! Mountain Goats Aren't Goats 00:00:42 |
| 2018-11-05 | The brothers read Vlogbrothers comments saying whom they look like | John says he recently discovered that all Vlogbrothers comments can be searched, so they will find out what commenters say the brothers look like. | Reading Mean Comments with John 00:00:00 |
| 2018-11-23 | Orin's four jokes, shared by Hank | Orin has told only four jokes, and Hank shares every one of them in order. | Four Jokes from a Two year Old 00:00:00 |
| 2019-01-04 | 'Big Daddy likes pork rinds': P4A 2018 livestream line, title of the recap | A livestream voice says 'Big Daddy likes pork rinds', the line the recap takes as its title. | Bid Daddy Likes Pork Rinds - P4A Recap 2018! 00:02:05 |
| 2019-02-15 | Hank's bizarre stock photos captioned by people on Twitter | Hank shares strange stock photos found by the SciShow team and by himself, with captions that people sent him on Twitter. | The Most Bizarre Stock Photos I Could Find Brought to Life by Your Captions 00:00:00 |
| 2019-04-05 | Hank's 'too many milks': Orin wants oat milk in his tea | Hank says there are too many milks: his two-and-a-half-year-old son asks for oat milk in his tea. | TOO MANY MILKS 00:03:17 |
| 2021-05-18 | The inside joke that John's novel protagonists are only children because he doesn't like writing about siblings | John cites the long-standing inside joke that his novels' protagonists are only children because he dislikes writing about siblings; really, siblings are too close to his vulnerable, beating heart. | Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While 00:03:10 |
| 2021-07-20 | John reviews reviews of The Anthropocene Reviewed on the five-star scale | John reviews the reviews of his book of reviews, giving each review a star rating. | Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews 00:00:58 |
| 2021-12-21 | John is now 'the science one' too, after The Anthropocene Reviewed is named a best science book | So now John is the science one too: there are two science ones and two writer ones. | NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… 00:00:29 |
| 2023-12-15 | Hank: 'cat I farted', the French-sounding pronunciation of ChatGPT | Hank tells the title pun: French newscasters' pronunciation of ChatGPT sounds like 'cat, I farted'; he later begs France to keep saying it. | Cat...I Farted. 00:01:29 |
| 2024-02-23 | Hank would rather be the juiciest Hank in the world | Hank would rather be the juiciest Hank in the world than the driest: any human is far juicier than dry, so max juicy is closer. | The Juiciest Hank in the World 00:00:42 |
| 2024-04-04 | Hank's title calls the Turtles All the Way Down film the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie | The title jokingly presents the Turtles All the Way Down trailer as the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, which 'looks weird'. | The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie looks WEIRD!!! 00:00:00 |
| 2025-02-18 | John's deliberately unclickable fake-topic title after million-view videos | John says he therefore picked a title no one would casually click on; the video is not really about tuatara digestion but about the Project for Awesome. | Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara 00:00:29 |
| 2025-08-05 | John's 'One Take Johnny' nickname from Stan and the one-take video rule | John says he is doing something new in Vlogbrothers' 18 years: Stan, his Crash Course Humanities co-creator, called him One Take Johnny because he could do nothing in one take, but this video with Hank is one take. | ONE TAKE JOHNNY 00:00:00 |
| 2025-09-16 | John breaks his long refusal to ask viewers to like and subscribe | Saying something he has not said in many years, John asks viewers to like and subscribe and comment when they started watching Vlogbrothers. | After seven long years… 00:04:22 |
| 2025-11-07 | Hank's raw-file-name title 'I live in Texas now' | Hank titles the video like a raw file name, 'I live in Texas now', joking that shutdown-hit airports may leave him stuck in Texas. | Filming at Space Center Houston, Hank tells John that the video he made replying to… 00:01:04 |
| 2025-11-11 | John's annual November psychophysical decline | John says it's November with snow on the ground, which means it is time for his annual psychophysical decline. | John's Annual Psychophysical Decline 00:00:00 |
| 2026-02-14 | Dr. Billiam Feathersby: Hank's alien visitor who tells the Project for Awesome whether Earth is worth saving | Speaking as the alien Dr. Billiam Feathersby, Hank tells viewers that things can feel like they are going badly, but everybody is trying and the effort is seen. | Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! 07:03:03 |
| 2026-03-24 | John's 'everything is tuberculosis' bit: unlikely things shown to be tuberculosis | The title and description present the video as John explaining how the French Revolution, Panda Express, My Chemical Romance and mountain goats are all tuberculosis. | How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis 00:00:00 |
| 2026-04-17 | Hank's title-phrase bit from his favorite vocal stem: something awaiting him in the divine for resisting | Hank opens with his new favorite vocal stem: a voice, asked why it has no podcast, answers with the video's title phrase, which Hank then repeats. | Something Awaits For Me in the Divine for Resisting 00:00:00 |
| 2026-06-26 | Hank makes Vlogbrothers videos to say he is not making a Vlogbrothers video | Hank makes one of his Vlogbrothers videos whose purpose is to say he is not making a Vlogbrothers video. | No Video Today!! 00:00:00 |
Borrowed internet slang & memes (74)
| date | item | what is said | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-07-06 | Email bankruptcy | Hank is confused that John is excited to declare email bankruptcy, since financial bankruptcy is really bad, and says John should take it more seriously. | July 6: Ooooooops 00:01:39 |
| 2007-11-27 | Green Grinch | Hank says the article may have coined the term 'Green Grinch', which he calls ironic: the Grinch took away the presents, yet the people stayed happy because they loved each other. | November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping 00:01:16 |
| 2007-12-12 | lulz | John feels woot was not the perfect word of 2007, since it peaked in 2006; the word of 2007 should have been one invented in 2007. | Dec. 12th: w00t is the WORD OF THE YEAR?! 00:01:33 |
| 2007-12-31 | Don't tase me, bro! | The song recalls the year on YouTube: 'the Buck' taking over, Chris Crocker crying, Tay Zonday singing, Lonelygirl dying and 'some guy' saying 'don't tase me bro'. | Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 00:00:40 |
| 2009-01-04 | Homo homini lupus | John quips that both sides are animals, since, as the Romans put it, man is a wolf to man. | Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! 00:00:02 |
| 2009-11-29 | A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle | John says the books suggest Bella can't be whole without a man to take care of her, whereas a woman needs a man "like a fish needs a bicycle". | John Reviews Twilight and New Moon 00:01:13 |
| 2009-12-20 | For the lose | John explains 'French the llama': he kept seeing 'world suck FTL' in comments; FTL means 'for the lose', but a nerdfighter told him it means 'French the llama'. | Awesome Project Is Awesome 00:02:21 |
| 2010-03-17 | Sideboob | Hank says he had meant to devote the video to the top 10 celebrity side-boob shots of 2009 before John's ultimate-concern question; the title bit. | Side-Boob is Not my Ultimate Concern 00:00:00 |
| 2010-05-28 | That's what she said | John demonstrates tying a tie (small end shorter, big end over, under, around and through), after joking that one should always choose a Christmas tie. | How To Do Everything 00:00:29 |
| 2010-07-30 | LOL | Hank says he sometimes forgets that not everyone in America is like him and most people don't live their lives online; many Americans still have dial-up, have never streamed a video, or think LOL means 'lots of love'. | Demon Four Year Old 00:00:01 |
| 2010-08-02 | Freedom fries | A restaurant near John's house, Hotcakes Emporium Pancake House Restaurant (he nicknames it 'Heifer'), still sells 'Freedom Fries' that look and taste like French fries. | I Love Hank: Esther Day 2010 00:00:29 |
| 2010-09-15 | Consequences will never be the same | John combined TPing with ding-dong ditching, his heart racing as he ran away in panic every time. | Positive Pranking: The TP Edition 00:01:27 |
| 2010-09-17 | Is your refrigerator running? | Hank turns the most common prank, the prank call, positive: he calls people with encouraging and true facts about the world. | Positive Prank Calls!! 00:00:31 |
| 2010-10-11 | Your argument is invalid | Hank wakes at nine, goes for a run, looks at some fish and, because it is so hot and humid, jumps into a pool; he is in Florida. | Like a Snake Swallowing an Egg: Thoughts from Florida 00:00:06 |
| 2010-12-07 | Betty Botter | Hank tells commenters demanding punishment for a video over four minutes that the 'Nerdfighter montage exception' applies, so he remains punishment-free. | Tongue Twisters 00:04:17 |
| 2010-12-07 | She sells seashells | Hank says 'She sells seashells by the seashore' trips speakers because it alternates two very similar sibilant fricatives, confusing the brain about which comes next. | Tongue Twisters 00:00:36 |
| 2010-12-07 | the sheik's sixth sick sheep | Hank argues the recognised hardest tongue twisters, like 'the sheik's sixth sick sheep', are just a dense forest of sibilant fricatives: hard, but not interesting. | Tongue Twisters 00:02:13 |
| 2010-12-29 | It's the journey, not the destination | When he complained on the way to Carhenge, a fellow traveller reminded him the journey matters, not the destination; John says that's true in its way, but destinations aren't all bad. | Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places 00:02:33 |
| 2011-02-14 | Chubby Bunny | John plays Chubby Bunny, a game he saw YouTuber iDoInternet play: eat marshmallows and keep saying 'chubby bunny'. | CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh! 00:00:00 |
| 2011-06-13 | Navel-gazing | Without a definition of life, Hank asks, how will we know when we have created something alive — and does it matter, or is it navel-gazing? | Google Is Alive! 00:00:27 |
| 2011-10-14 | Wadsworth constant | John opens by announcing he must defy the Wadsworth constant, then fills the first 30% of the video with joke tips and asks Wadsworth how he likes them apples. | Defying Wadsworth! 00:00:00 |
| 2011-12-07 | derp | Hank introduces his dog Lemon as, put delicately, a 'derp', illustrated with a string of derp puns. | World's Stupidest Dog 00:00:07 |
| 2012-10-26 | as American as apple pie | Hank says almost every apple anyone has eaten descends from wild apple trees in Kazakhstan, so apples are immigrants rather than 'American as apple pie'. | Apples! CGP Grey Style 00:00:35 |
| 2013-02-12 | Horse-sized duck | John lists joke questions he has prepared for the President: 'what is air?', ten duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck, pennies, and who the eff is Hank. | Talking to the President 00:01:30 |
| 2013-02-15 | Harlem Shake | Hank admits he is late to the Harlem Shake dance craze, calling himself an internet dance craze hipster who wants people not to forget Geddan and Numa Numa. | Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week 00:00:47 |
| 2013-07-23 | Don't read the comments | 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. | Watermelon Internet Trolls 00:02:16 |
| 2013-12-13 | Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? | Mike gives his number-one parenting tip in one word: encourage. | Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday 00:02:41 |
| 2013-12-16 | Superwholock | Hank explains that since 2007, every December 17, Nerdfighteria and the wider internet community spend one day of their internet experience on making the world a better place instead of fandom and cat gifs. | Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! 00:00:24 |
| 2014-02-04 | There ain't no such thing as a free lunch | John concludes that there is no free lunch, but for reducing poverty without hurting employment, higher minimum wages seem the cheapest lunch available. | Should We Raise the Minimum Wage? 00:02:26 |
| 2014-04-15 | can't even | John says the red carpet, shared with Jonah Hill and Grumpy Cat, was overwhelming: the screaming and cameras left him and Nat unable to 'even'. | Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles 00:02:16 |
| 2014-06-20 | Peanut Butter Jelly Time | Hank says Flash animations of the same period - The End of the World, All Your Base Are Belong To Us, Peanut Butter Jelly Time - are important pieces of internet culture. | Pre-History of Online Video 00:02:20 |
| 2014-09-12 | Throwback Thursday | Hank says he will save the childhood photos for future Throwback Thursdays and tells viewers to follow him on Instagram. | Hanging with High School Hank 00:03:30 |
| 2015-02-13 | Draw My Life | Answering the 'Draw my life!' suggestion, Hank scales his life down from Montana to the known universe and holds up the result: 'My life. I drew it.' | Draw My Life + 16 Other Suggestions 00:02:50 |
| 2015-05-01 | banana for scale | Emily says a tapeworm's sexual reproductive organs are all in its head, so breaking off a segment does not stop it reproducing; you have to get the head out. | A $100,000 Egg and A 200M Year Old Pinecone 00:01:10 |
| 2015-05-22 | bae | Hank says mocking slang like 'bae', 'boo' or 'slay' is wrong: language is fluid, subcultures define themselves by slang, and complaining just claims your subculture is better, which looks pretentious. | 15 Rants in Four Minutes 00:01:31 |
| 2015-05-22 | boo | Hank says mocking slang like 'bae', 'boo' or 'slay' is wrong: language is fluid, subcultures define themselves by slang, and complaining just claims your subculture is better, which looks pretentious. | 15 Rants in Four Minutes 00:01:31 |
| 2015-06-19 | Wheaton's Law | Hank says many people on Twitter and Tumblr pointed him to Wheaton's Law, basically 'don't be a jerk', which he likes but finds a little subjective. | 19 Ways to Not Suck on the Internet 00:02:49 |
| 2015-10-09 | Florida Man | After reading three Florida Man headlines, Hank says the Florida Man headline has become a cliche, with a Twitter account devoted to Florida Man's adventures. | The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! 00:01:15 |
| 2015-10-16 | Anus Georg | Hank shows his 'No, It's Becky' shirt, calling it one of his favorite internet things, right up there with Anus Georg. | Post-NerdCon Haze 00:02:37 |
| 2015-10-16 | No, It's Becky | Hank shows his 'No, It's Becky' shirt, calling it one of his favorite internet things, right up there with Anus Georg. | Post-NerdCon Haze 00:02:37 |
| 2016-01-19 | How would a dog wear pants? | Asked how a dog should wear pants, John says that on dogs with pants he stands with the president. | The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday 00:01:33 |
| 2016-01-19 | Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon | Asked to six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon himself, John says he acted in The Fault in Our Stars movie (scene cut, but in the extended version) with Laura Dern, who was in Novocaine with Kevin Bacon. | The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday 00:01:23 |
| 2016-03-18 | Brazil is not for beginners | Hank says Brazilians answered his Twitter question mostly with gifs, and a diplomat told him Brazilians have a saying: 'Brazil is not for beginners'. | Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? 00:00:12 |
| 2016-03-18 | Ending in pizza | Hank says huge Brazilian scandals so often fizzle out with nobody punished that Brazilians call it 'ending in pizza', literally pizza. | Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? 00:03:48 |
| 2016-09-30 | Notification Squad | Hank says the bell on a phone gives push notifications for every upload, joining the coveted Notification Squad. | Here are Some YouTube Tricks I Use 00:01:32 |
| 2016-10-04 | pics or it didn't happen | John argues experiences now barely feel real unless photographed; documenting a meaningful experience can seem more important than having it, as if 'pics or it didn't happen' became true. | Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London 00:02:27 |
| 2016-11-25 | You miss 100% of the shots you don't take | Nathan cites the saying 'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take' (basketball, he clarifies, not alcohol). | You're Not Good Enough 00:02:44 |
| 2017-02-17 | Tres tristes tigres | Teaching Hank Spanish word by word, Luzu gets him to tell everyone to subscribe to Luzu's channel. | As Cold as The Milk: Learning Spanish with Luzu 00:02:03 |
| 2018-02-23 | Tide Pod challenge | The description says watching a Logan Paul video or reading about Tide Pod challenges makes an older adult's natural response overwhelming anxiety for the next generation. | Dear Young People, You Terrify Me 00:00:00 |
| 2018-03-20 | Russian reversal | John says the Russian reversal was a popular joke construction in his childhood; he first heard one in a 1985 Miller Lite commercial with comedian Yakov Smirnoff. | The Russian Reversal 00:00:01 |
| 2018-09-25 | Boot Too Big | When John feels that way he finds comfort and joy in the Boot Too Big subreddit, which he shares with Hank. | You Did It! 00:00:29 |
| 2019-04-05 | Bar joke | Hank says a Reddit thread made him realize he pictures one specific bar, never visited, with a very weird layout, when he hears a 'man walked into a bar' joke. | TOO MANY MILKS 00:02:21 |
| 2019-08-20 | Bennifer | Couple portmanteaus are for people in love and dating, like Bennifer, or William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman, together about 30 years. | Hank and John's Smooth Airport Reunion 00:02:34 |
| 2019-11-19 | Rise and shine | John saw a Reddit post with 129,000 upvotes titled 'Kylie Jenner thinks she owns the phrase rise and shine'. | Kylie Jenner Shows Me What's Wrong with Reddit 00:00:09 |
| 2019-12-27 | Planking | The description says the world has moved back on global faith in democracy, a hit from the social internet, rising inequality, and pundits, operatives and TV news wanting people freaked out. | Why I'm Worried about 2020 00:00:03 |
| 2019-12-27 | The dress | The description says the world has moved back on global faith in democracy, a hit from the social internet, rising inequality, and pundits, operatives and TV news wanting people freaked out. | Why I'm Worried about 2020 00:00:03 |
| 2020-07-14 | Skating on thin ice | Thin ice has become such a cliche that we forget how terrifying it is: gliding from shore ever less sure the ground will hold, which John finds a fair metaphor for 2020. | The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. 00:00:00 |
| 2021-01-05 | I for one welcome our new overlords | As a species, John says, we are too powerful and not powerful enough: able to change the planet's climate but not to choose how we change it. | SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS 00:03:54 |
| 2021-04-06 | How do you do, fellow kids? | John's all-time favorite meme is How Do You Do, Fellow Kids. | How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? 00:00:00 |
| 2021-10-05 | Berries and cream | Reason one: TikTok is culturally interesting; Hank loves subcultures, and TikTok is great at tiny subcultures, especially colliding ones like Skyrim urban planning berries-and-cream videos. | Why the Heck am I on TikTok??? 00:00:49 |
| 2022-09-30 | The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago | John closes by bending a proverb: the best time to commit to a bit was 20 years ago; the second best time is today. | COMMIT TO THE BIT 00:03:44 |
| 2022-10-21 | Karen (slang) | The description says nearly every question about 'cancel culture' is poorly phrased, since the term means at least 20 things, from celebrities jailed for sexual assault to viral 'Karen' videos. | This 'Math Test' Changed How I See Humanity 00:00:00 |
| 2023-01-03 | Up to eleven | John says most of his goals turned it up a notch (write a book, start a channel, make a podcast, produce a movie), and often pushing himself is what he needs. | TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH 00:00:58 |
| 2023-01-24 | Goncharov | To John's surprise Tumblr is pretty fun: users collectively made a non-existent 1973 film, Goncharov, make lots of art and still debate Supernatural. | Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA 00:01:31 |
| 2023-02-10 | If it ain't broke, don't fix it | says “if it ain't broke, don't fix it” | If it ain't broke don't fix it. 00:03:38 |
| 2024-01-02 | Do not cite the Deep Magic to me | John jokes that being old on YouTube means not understanding newfangled techniques like custom thumbnails, but he can say he was there when YouTube's rules were written, from reply guys to prank houses. | Being Old on YouTube 00:01:56 |
| 2024-03-29 | they crave that mineral | Flamingos could simply excrete the pink compounds; they are pink because being pink is evolutionarily advantageous. | The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo 00:02:57 |
| 2024-09-23 | brat summer | John shows this year's (2024) t-shirts: him saying hello from his Pizzamas abode, a 'pizza fall' shirt after brat summer, a cowboy lassoing a pizza, and 'Pizza John made fresh'. | IT'S HERE! 00:02:16 |
| 2024-10-18 | Everything is a conspiracy theory if you don't know how anything works | The description says Hank will keep thinking about the 'everything is a conspiracy theory if you don't know how anything works' meme, which he thinks is about 50% right. | My Ballot Made Me Angry 00:00:00 |
| 2024-11-12 | It's the hope that kills you | John grants the old saying that it is the hope that kills you, but says hope also saves you, and in his experience the two are not mutually exclusive. | BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story 00:04:38 |
| 2024-11-22 | Hawk Tuah | Hank says he knows two brothers who have used everyone-to-everyone communication, he hopes not as recklessly as some. | Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment 00:18:26 |
| 2026-05-12 | Lies, damned lies, and statistics | Lies, Damn Lies, and Bart Giamatti | Lies, Damn Lies, and Bart Giamatti |
| 2026-06-02 | 15 minutes of fame | John says Warhol saw influencer culture coming and understood social virality, saying that in the future everyone would be world famous for 15 minutes. | The Instagramification of Human Experience 00:00:58 |
| 2026-10-30 | Bottle flipping | Hank suggests people may be alert to AI partly because they walked into the last revolution thinking it would be all about bottle flips, Harambe and Pokémon Go. | The Last Normal Year 00:05:53 |