Lists
The brothers think in lists: 1,703 lists (50 of them written in video descriptions or comments) in 1101 of 2523 videos, 2007–2026 — numbered countdowns ("the first way… the second way…"), rapid-fire examples, this-or-that rounds, tour stops, book recommendations, song verses. A list here is every run of things said as one series; only members that name a person, place, work, idea or other entity are recorded, so a list shows its named members in the order said (a skipped number is an unnamed item).
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By year
| Year | Lists | Videos with lists | Named members | Longest | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 102 | 78 | 365 | 15 | 2007 |
| 2008 | 68 | 52 | 313 | 50 | 2008 |
| 2009 | 112 | 81 | 451 | 37 | 2009 |
| 2010 | 99 | 69 | 361 | 14 | 2010 |
| 2011 | 114 | 77 | 464 | 29 | 2011 |
| 2012 | 112 | 65 | 418 | 24 | 2012 |
| 2013 | 107 | 65 | 385 | 18 | 2013 |
| 2014 | 143 | 70 | 516 | 19 | 2014 |
| 2015 | 148 | 70 | 509 | 17 | 2015 |
| 2016 | 99 | 58 | 436 | 28 | 2016 |
| 2017 | 61 | 42 | 249 | 18 | 2017 |
| 2018 | 71 | 41 | 302 | 32 | 2018 |
| 2019 | 51 | 41 | 167 | 8 | 2019 |
| 2020 | 47 | 36 | 167 | 12 | 2020 |
| 2021 | 40 | 29 | 139 | 11 | 2021 |
| 2022 | 45 | 37 | 149 | 8 | 2022 |
| 2023 | 76 | 47 | 252 | 13 | 2023 |
| 2024 | 60 | 40 | 215 | 14 | 2024 |
| 2025 | 85 | 57 | 299 | 24 | 2025 |
| 2026 | 63 | 46 | 290 | 47 | 2026 |
List length (named members): 1: 4 · 2: 622 · 3: 484 · 4: 248 · 5: 123 · 6+: 222
What gets listed (the kind most members share): people 351 · places 287 · ideas & things 244 · organisations 204 · works 200 · mixed kinds 187 · projects 97 · characters & fictional places 52 · products 22 · groups 16 · events 12 · policies 9 · religious & mythic figures 8 · in-group terms 7 · memes 4 · animals 3
Topics (all): Books & writing 211 · Projects 196 · Nerdfighteria 184 · Global development 168 · Internet & YouTube 146 · Science & nature 131 · Pop culture 107 · US politics & society 106 · History & curiosities 102 · Personal life 93 · Everyday life 51 · Health 50 · World affairs 50 · Philosophy & meaning 47 · Economics 34 · Sports 27
The longest lists
- 2008-12-15 · Famous Last Words · John, 50 named — The real last words of 50 famous, deceased people, with comic asides (00:00:00)
1 George Washington · 2 John Adams · 3 Thomas Jefferson · 4 Henrik Ibsen “Henry Gibson's nurse” · 5 Winston Churchill · 6 Vespasian · 7 Nero · 8 Nancy Astor · 9 Dylan Thomas · 10 Abraham Lincoln · 11 John Wilkes Booth · 12 Henry Ward Beecher · 13 Brendan Behan · 14 Che Guevara · 15 Pancho Villa · 16 Benjamin Franklin · 17 Millard Fillmore · 18 Franklin Delano Roosevelt “FDR” · 19 Robert E. Lee · 20 John Sedgwick · 21 Stonewall Jackson · 22 Charles Darwin · 23 Voltaire · 24 Eugene O'Neill · 25 Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 26 Emily Dickinson · 27 Paul Claudel · 28 O. Henry · 29 Oscar Wilde · 30 Leo Tolstoy · 31 Lope de Vega · 32 John Field · 33 Elizabeth I · 34 W. C. Fields · 35 Franz Kafka · 36 Ethan Allen · 37 J. M. Barrie · 38 Pablo Picasso · 39 Malcolm X · 40 Conrad Hilton · 41 John Maynard Keynes · 42 Ned Kelly · 43 Edgar Allan Poe · 44 Del Close · 45 Walt Whitman · 46 Thomas Edison · 47 George Bernard Shaw · 48 H. G. Wells · 49 Daniel Webster · 50 Ludwig van Beethoven - 2026-06-09 · Your 1-Sentence Guide to EVERY TEAM in the 2026 World Cup · John, 47 named — Greeting; the World Cup as beautiful, confounding and corrupt; one sentence per team in reverse order of John's odds (00:00:00)
1 Curaçao “Curacao” · 2 Haiti · 3 Jordan · 4 Iraq · 5 New Zealand · 6 Uzbekistan · 7 Qatar · 8 Cape Verde · 9 Saudi Arabia · 10 South Africa · 11 Democratic Republic of the Congo · 12 Iran · 13 Australia · 14 Bosnia and Herzegovina · 15 South Korea · 16 Tunisia · 17 Algeria · 18 Paraguay · 19 Ghana · 20 Egypt · 21 Canada · 22 Scotland · 23 Czech Republic “Czechia” · 24 Austria · 25 Mexico · 26 Ivory Coast · 27 United States men's national soccer team · 28 Senegal · 29 Sweden · 30 Norway · 31 Uruguay · 32 Croatia · 33 Turkey · 34 Switzerland · 35 Belgium · 36 Germany · 37 Ecuador · 38 Japan · 39 Netherlands · 40 Portugal · 41 Morocco · 42 Colombia · 43 Brazil · 44 England · 45 Argentina · 46 France · 47 Spain - 2009-10-04 · NERD ALERT: Presidential Last Words · John, 37 named — John recites the recorded last words of each dead US president in order, from George Washington to Lyndon Johnson, noting where they are unknown. (00:00:27)
1 George Washington · 2 John Adams · 3 Thomas Jefferson · 4 James Madison · 5 James Monroe · 6 John Quincy Adams · 7 Andrew Jackson · 8 Martin Van Buren · 9 William Henry Harrison · 10 John Tyler · 11 James K. Polk · 12 Zachary Taylor · 13 Millard Fillmore · 14 Franklin Pierce · 15 James Buchanan · 16 Abraham Lincoln · 17 Andrew Johnson · 18 Ulysses S. Grant · 19 Rutherford B. Hayes · 20 James A. Garfield · 21 Chester A. Arthur · 22 Grover Cleveland · 23 Benjamin Harrison · 24 William McKinley · 25 Theodore Roosevelt · 26 William Howard Taft · 27 Woodrow Wilson · 28 Warren G. Harding · 29 Calvin Coolidge · 30 Herbert Hoover · 31 Franklin Delano Roosevelt · 32 Harry S. Truman · 33 Dwight D. Eisenhower · 34 John F. Kennedy · 35 Lyndon B. Johnson · 36 Richard Nixon · 37 Ronald Reagan - 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup · John, 32 named — Argentina to Iceland: Messi, the Socceroos, Egypt as John's adopted team, England's fans (00:00:17)
1 Argentina · 2 Australia · 3 Belgium · 4 Brazil · 5 Colombia · 6 Costa Rica · 7 Croatia · 8 Denmark · 9 Egypt · 10 England · 11 France · 12 Germany · 13 Iceland · 14 Iran · 15 Japan · 16 Mexico · 17 Morocco · 18 Nigeria · 19 Panama · 20 Peru · 21 Poland · 22 Portugal · 23 Russia · 24 Saudi Arabia · 25 Serbia · 26 Senegal · 27 South Korea · 28 Spain · 29 Sweden · 30 Switzerland · 31 Tunisia · 32 Uruguay - 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday · John, 29 named — The cities the tour is definitely going to, recited fast; events free, few tickets (00:01:41)
1 New York City · 2 Boston · 3 Indianapolis · 4 Columbus, Ohio · 5 Atlanta · 6 Orlando, Florida · 7 Miami · 8 Naperville, Illinois · 9 Chicago (city) · 10 Phoenix, Arizona · 11 Seattle · 12 San Francisco · 13 Los Angeles · 14 Plano, Texas · 15 Oklahoma City · 16 St. Louis · 17 Louisville, Kentucky · 18 Knoxville, Tennessee · 19 Gadsden, Alabama · 20 Newport News, Virginia · 21 Charlottesville, Virginia · 22 Lancaster, Pennsylvania · 23 Westport, Connecticut · 24 Pittsburgh · 25 Ann Arbor, Michigan · 26 Racine, Wisconsin · 27 Ames, Iowa · 28 Kansas City, Missouri · 29 Minneapolis–Saint Paul “the Twin Cities” - 2011-02-11 · 200 People in Your Pants · Hank, 29 named — Instead of an annotated video: a tour of the toys, books and gifts on Hank's bookshelf (00:00:38)
1 Dark Horse Comics · 2 Mike Green “my dad” · 3 Orlando Solar Bears · 4 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · 5 Obi-Wan Kenobi · 6 John Green bobblehead · 7 The Sandman · 8 The Hunger Games (book series) · 9 Terry Pratchett · 10 Mars trilogy · 11 Neil Gaiman · 12 DFTBA Records · 13 giraffe · 14 Jet Black · 15 Cowboy Bebop · 16 John Green · 17 VidCon · 18 LeakyCon · 19 Evil Baby Orphanage · 20 Adolf Hitler · 21 Hellboy · 22 Chevrolet Volt · 23 Yoda · 24 anglerfish · 25 Mace Windu · 26 Gungan · 27 Scuzzy Kizoozle Curl · 28 Han Solo · 29 Jar Jar Binks - 2016-04-01 · Loving Loving Things in Los Angeles · Hank, 28 named — Diary montage of two weeks in LA with internet creators: collabs, dinners, parties, studio visits (00:00:15)
1 Jon Cozart · 2 Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig · 3 Grace Helbig · 4 Meghan Camarena · 5 Lee Newton · 6 Rhett and Link · 7 Good Mythical Morning · 8 Dysh · 9 SourceFed · 10 John Green “you came to town” · 11 Just Between Us · 12 Gaby Dunn · 13 Allison Raskin · 14 Derek Muller · 15 Meghan Tonjes · 16 Tyler Oakley · 17 They Might Be Giants · 18 Steve Zaragoza · 19 Jake Roper · 20 Michael Stevens · 21 BuzzFeed · 22 Google · 23 Mayim Bialik · 24 3BlackDot · 25 MatPat · 26 Markiplier · 27 Hannah Hart · 28 Mitchell Davis - 2012-11-27 · Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers · John, 24 named — Recommendations: The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber (Swoodilypooper fans), Behind the Beautiful Forevers (world-suck fighters) (00:00:29)
1 The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber · 2 Behind the Beautiful Forevers · 3 Sula · 4 Mansfield Park · 5 Persuasion · 6 The Blood of the Lamb · 7 Uglies “Ugly Series” · 8 Matched “Match series” · 9 Divergent · 10 Telegraph Avenue · 11 Bossypants · 12 The Magicians · 13 Harry, A History · 14 The Art of Fielding · 15 The Book Thief · 16 Wolf Hall · 17 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing · 18 The Emperor of All Maladies · 19 The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks · 20 Everybody Sees the Ants · 21 If I Stay · 22 To Say Nothing of the Dog · 23 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · 24 P. D. James - 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z · John, 24 named — John fails to recall Hank's 1990s Mars website and sets up the A to Z of Hank Green (00:00:00)
1 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing · 2 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor · 3 Crabulous · 4 Dear Hank and John · 5 Edward Spoonhands · 6 Focus Friend · 7 Good Store “this Hank Green invention” · 8 IHateI4.com · 9 Journey to the Microcosmos · 10 Koidu Government Hospital · 11 The Lizzie Bennet Diaries · 12 Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers · 13 Nerdfighteria · 14 Origin of Everything · 15 Hank Green's stand-up comedy special on Dropout “Pissing Out Cancer” · 16 QI · 17 ReadIt1st “Read It First” · 18 Subbable · 19 Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana · 20 URLatron “UR Eletron” · 21 VidCon · 22 We're Here newsletter · 23 Twitter “XX.com slash Hank Green” · 24 YouTube - 2026-07-14 · On the Road Again · John, 20 named — Hollywood, Ending tour announced: tickets and the full list of stops (00:00:00)
1 Toronto · 2 New York City · 3 Birmingham, Alabama · 4 Washington, DC · 5 Winston-Salem, North Carolina · 6 Portland, Maine · 7 Pittsburgh · 8 Gainesville, Florida · 9 Nashville · 10 Madison · 11 Indianapolis · 12 Chicago (city) · 13 Saint Paul, Minnesota · 14 Kansas City, Missouri · 15 Tulsa, Oklahoma · 16 Tucson, Arizona · 17 Boise · 18 Salt Lake City · 19 San Diego · 20 Los Angeles - 2014-02-18 · 18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read · John, 19 named — 18 recommended books: sports, conjoined twins, funny books, YA, picture books, classics, political prisoners, the Carter Family (00:00:23)
1 This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own · 2 One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal · 3 Round Ireland with a Fridge · 4 Playing the Moldovans at Tennis · 5 The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green · 6 Thirsty · 7 Boy Proof · 8 Fly on the Wall · 9 The Untelling · 10 The Golden Rule · 11 Show Way · 12 The Enormous Room · 13 Regarding the Pain of Others · 14 Death Comes for the Archbishop · 15 This Blinding Absence of Light · 16 Kendra · 17 The Optimist's Daughter · 18 Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music · 19 The Last Summer of Reason - 2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter · Grace Helbig, 18 named (satire) — Grace's media markers: NPR as a car preset, a specific favorite Simpsons episode, finding the new Arrested Development season more nostalgic than groundbreaking, reblogging the New Yorker, Wes Anderson, Ira Glass, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ken Jennings on Twitter, Alanis Morissette's misuse of 'ironic'. (00:01:19)
1 Basquiat · 2 On the Road · 3 Bill Maher · 4 Moleskine “moleskin journal” · 5 Whole Foods Market · 6 NPR · 7 The Simpsons · 8 Arrested Development · 9 The New Yorker · 10 Wes Anderson · 11 Ira Glass · 12 Neil deGrasse Tyson · 13 Food Network · 14 Rosetta Stone (software) · 15 Toyota Prius · 16 Alanis Morissette · 17 Ironic · 18 Ken Jennings - 2017-09-07 · I Love and Apologize to (Insert Location Here): Surprise Thursday Bonus Video! · John, 18 named — John lists the tour's 19 stops in one take, from New York through the South, Midwest and Northwest to two San Francisco Bay Area shows and Los Angeles, including Hank's high school auditorium in Orlando. (00:00:28)
1 New York City · 2 Washington, DC · 3 Charlotte, North Carolina · 4 Asheville, North Carolina · 5 Atlanta · 6 Orlando, Florida · 7 Nashville · 8 Cincinnati · 9 Indianapolis · 10 St. Louis · 11 Chicago (city) · 12 Minneapolis · 13 Missoula, Montana · 14 Spokane, Washington · 15 Bellingham, Washington · 16 Portland, Oregon · 17 San Francisco Bay Area · 18 Los Angeles - 2015-09-29 · Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling · John, 17 named — John tours the wall's relics: Willy, a puppy-sized elephant, a card of Hank humping Peeps, Daniel Biss's 'bloated triangles' paper, an Agloe road map, An Imperial Affliction 'stolen' from the movie set. (00:01:35)
1 Woody Guthrie · 2 Willy · 3 puppy sized elephant · 4 Hank Green + Peeps · 5 Yoshitomo Nara · 6 Yeti + Sarah Urist Green “the Yeti” · 7 Daniel Biss · 8 Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers · 9 Abraham Lincoln · 10 Black Santa · 11 Agloe, New York · 12 nerdfightastic · 13 Chewbacca · 14 DFTBA · 15 An Imperial Affliction · 16 French the llama · 17 Francis of Assisi - 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 · John, 16 named — In one take John lists the stops: Boston, New York, Washington DC, Raleigh, Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Albuquerque, Tempe, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. (00:00:00)
1 Boston · 2 New York City · 3 Washington, DC · 4 Raleigh, North Carolina · 5 Atlanta · 6 Birmingham, Alabama · 7 New Orleans · 8 Houston, Texas · 9 Austin, Texas · 10 Albuquerque, New Mexico · 11 Tempe, Arizona · 12 Santa Monica, California · 13 San Francisco · 14 Portland, Oregon · 15 Seattle · 16 Vancouver
Most-listed
Entities named in the most lists (all):
Crash Course 62 · SciShow 56 · Twitter 51 · Facebook 41 · United States 32 · VidCon 32 · YouTube 31 · DFTBA Records 29 · Canada 28 · Australia 27 · Tumblr 27 · Save the Children 26 · United Kingdom 24 · Nerdfighteria 23 · Germany 22 · Partners In Health 22 · China 21 · John Green 20 · Instagram 19 · Los Angeles 19 · Reddit 19 · Mike Green 18 · Sydney Green 18 · Hank Green 17 · Indianapolis 17 · Katherine Green 17 · San Francisco 17 · Sarah Urist Green 17 · Charlie McDonnell 16 · Chicago (city) 16