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Lists, 2009

112 lists in 81 videos, by upload date. Each list: who says it, how many named members, what it is about (the statement or segment it belongs to) and its start; then the members in the order said, each linked to its entity page where there is one. A skipped number (…) is an item that names no entity; “quoted” words are how a member was actually said when that differs from its name. All years

2009-01-04 · Israel. Gaza. PUPPY!

  • John, 2 named — Hamas is the Palestinian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, which inspired al-Qaeda and the Taliban and is illegal in Egypt, one reason the Egyptian government hates Hamas. (00:01:59)
    1 al-Qaeda · 2 Taliban

2009-01-06 · The Rock-Afire Explosion Controversy

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says fans bought old Rock-afire Explosion sets and programmed them to sing songs like Hips Don't Lie and Love in This Club. (00:00:00)
    1 Hips Don't Lie · 2 Love in This Club (00:00:39)

  • Hank, 6 named — Hank introduces the band: keyboard gorilla Fatz Geronimo, drummer Dook LaRue (his favourite), Mitzi Mozzarella, Beach Bear, Looney Bird and Billy Bob Brockali. (00:01:12)
    1 Fatz Geronimo · 2 Dook LaRue · 3 Mitzi Mozzarella · 4 Beach Bear · 5 Looney Bird · 6 Billy Bob Brockali

2009-01-07 · Hank Green: Behind the Music

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank recorded many of his YouTube hits with Schmidt, who he says owns THE music studio in Missoula, played on Weezer albums and made music for That '70s Show. (00:00:29)
    1 Weezer · 2 That '70s Show

  • Hank, 2 named (joke) — Behind the Music parody: Hank's fame, the Rock-afire rift with John, producer Schmidt and the songs they recorded (00:01:03)
    1 Weird Al Yankovic · 2 John Lennon

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank recorded many of his YouTube hits with Schmidt, who he says owns THE music studio in Missoula, played on Weezer albums and made music for That '70s Show. (00:01:03)
    1 Edward Spoonhands · 2 Accio Deathly Hallows · 3 Book Eight

2009-01-11 · SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad!

  • John, 3 named — John asks who is at fault for the piracy and the wars in Chad: the combatants, France, Italy and Britain for disastrous colonization, or us for not paying attention; he really wants answers. (00:03:25)
    1 France · 2 Italy · 3 United Kingdom “Britain”

2009-01-16 · Hank Green from the Detroit Auto Show

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank advises car buyers that the 2010 Prius looks like a good choice, the Honda Insight saves money (though less gas), and the Volt is coming soon. (00:03:02)
    1 Toyota Prius · 2 Honda Insight · 3 Chevrolet Volt (00:03:31)

2009-01-21 · Google Verb! A Meme.

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank tags five YouTubers to do the meme because he thinks it would be funny: Nerimon, Dr. Noise, Sistersalad, Short sisters and pilocrates. (00:02:06)
    1 Alex Day “Nerimon” · 2 Bill Martin “Dr. Noise” (00:02:10) · 3 Sistersalad · 4 Short sisters · 5 Stefan Chin “pilocrates”

2009-02-01 · Super Bowl Analysis from an Idiot

  • John, 3 named (joke, 1 unnamed item) — John says if the Cardinals lose Super Bowl 43 they need a more awesome mascot and suggests ninjas (with the Ask a Ninja guy), the Arizona Mother-in-laws, and the Arizona Herpes. (00:01:38)
    1 Ask a Ninja · … · 3 herpes simplex · 4 Edward Cullen “the Arizona blood-drinking silver-haired virgins” (00:02:08)

2009-02-04 · 51 Jokes (in Four Minutes)

  • Hank, 2 named (joke) — 51 jokes submitted by Nerdfighters, told in rapid succession (00:01:17)
    1 Bulbasaur · 2 Charizard

2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday

  • John, 4 named — John says Paper Towns is about Margo Roth Spiegelman, her next-door neighbour Q, the state of Florida and Walt Whitman. (00:00:00)
    1 Margo Roth Spiegelman · 2 Quentin Jacobsen · 3 Florida · 4 Walt Whitman

  • John, 2 named — The Paper Towns movie rights were acquired by Mr. Mudd and Mandate, the people behind Juno. (00:00:00)
    1 Mr. Mudd · 2 Mandate Pictures

2009-02-11 · A Song About an Anglerfish

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank announces that DFTBA Records hosts the DFTBA Radio Hour tonight at 9 pm Eastern, with Toddly00 and Caitlin Sky talking about nerdy and musical things. (00:02:35)
    1 Toddly00 · 2 Caitlin Sky

2009-02-18 · Fake Movie Talk With A Sock

  • Hank, 5 named (joke) — Hank and Hank Sock list current movies that would be better with one title word changed (Gorilla Wars, Rise of the Ligers, Hotel for Ligers, Paul Blart Small Cop, Anything Else-aholic). (00:00:27)
    1 Bride Wars · 2 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (00:01:02) · 3 Hotel for Dogs · 4 Paul Blart: Mall Cop · 5 Confessions of a Shopaholic

2009-02-18 · Winners and Winners and Ningmasters

  • Hank, 9 named — Anglerfish song title chosen; the first Ningmasters announced with their roles and days (00:01:19)
    1 Ningmaster Tom · 2 AmberTheAmberyOne (00:02:04) · 3 KatieMonster · 4 Eric · 5 Sarah (community member, mentioned from 2009) (00:02:33) · 6 Panny · 7 Jennafighter (00:02:57) · 8 Chip (community member, mentioned from 2009) · 9 Benny Boo Boo (00:03:26)

2009-02-24 · How to Make Guys Like You

  • John, 2 named (joke) — John says there are about six ways to get 15-year-old boys to like you: become a giraffe, become World of Warcraft, be 'hot', be yourself, act like an idiot, consider different boys. (00:00:56)
    1 giraffe · 2 World of Warcraft (00:00:58)

2009-03-01 · Free Will Fetish

  • John, 2 named (joke) — Remembering the girl ends the desire, showing the mind can control the body - a linchpin of Descartes' defense of free will; a disaster for cross-eyed women (00:01:07)
    1 Princess Leia · 2 Han Solo

2009-03-10 · How to Get Girls to Like You

  • John, 2 named — John names Ransriggs and Wheezy Waiter as recent favourite new YouTubers, linked in the sidebar. (00:02:51)
    1 Ransom Riggs “Ransriggs” · 2 Craig Benzine “wheezywaiter”

2009-03-15 · Lighting a candle for Rwanda

  • John, 3 named — John says that 15 years ago the US, the UN and Europe got almost all of 'our people' out of Rwanda unharmed, leaving the hundreds of thousands killed to conclude they were 'a them'. (00:00:54)
    1 United States “the US” · 2 United Nations “the UN” · 3 Europe

2009-03-22 · John Loves Amsterdam

  • John, 2 named — John has just come home from a week touring Holland with two other American authors, Jordan Sonnenblick and Steve Kluger, and says it was fun. (00:00:12)
    1 Jordan Sonnenblick (00:00:42) · 2 Steve Kluger (00:00:12)

2009-03-24 · Peeps! Prom! Puppy!

2009-04-01 · A Few Of My Favorite Things

  • Hank, 2 named (playful) — Hank enjoys unrelated organisations sharing an acronym, like NWA (Northwest Airlines) and the two WWFs (wildlife and wrestling). (00:02:40)
    1 World Wide Fund for Nature · 2 WWE “World Wrestling Federation”

2009-04-05 · The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea

  • John, 2 named (satire) — Via an imagined letter from China, John mocks North Korea's totalitarianism, cult of personality, refusal to let people leave and killing of political enemies. (00:01:57)
    1 totalitarianism · 2 cult of personality (00:01:59)

2009-04-08 · Become a Time Traveller TODAY!

  • Hank, 2 named (playful) — Hank says the brothers disagree on the orphanage as a story: John wants well-known evil babies like Stalin and Hitler, but then why does the world still suck? (00:00:50)
    1 Joseph Stalin · 2 Adolf Hitler

2009-04-12 · The Death of Youtube?? Redesign Coming

  • John, 2 named — John explains that huge audiences watch user-made clips like water-skiing squirrels for free, but advertisers such as Lucky Charms won't associate their brand with them, preferring shows like American Dad and Bones. (00:01:43)
    1 American Dad! · 2 Bones

2009-04-14 · The World's Largest Balls

  • John, 6 named — John lists the world's largest balls of barbed wire (Texas), popcorn (Sac City, Iowa) and twine (Cawker City, Kansas), or, depending on shape, Branson, Missouri, Darwin, Minnesota, or Wisconsin. (00:02:14)
    1 Texas · 2 Sac City · 3 Cawker City · 4 Branson · 5 Darwin · 6 Wisconsin

2009-04-16 · The Day the YouTubes Died

  • Hank, 2 named (parody) — The song says Hank will still have his subscriptions, wanting Kevjumba, Smosh and Buck over 'high-budget junk'. (00:02:09)
    1 KevJumba · 2 Smosh

2009-04-26 · Peanut Butter Face Discusses Sri Lanka

  • John, 7 named (playful) — John says he can follow about six news stories at once and lists them: the economic crisis, Iraq, Pakistan, the Craigslist killer, North Korea and Lindsay Lohan's breakup. (00:00:12)
    1 2007–2008 financial crisis · 2 Iraq · 3 Pakistan (00:00:15) · 4 Philip Markoff “the Craigslist killer” (00:00:17) · 5 North Korea (00:00:18) · 6 Lindsay Lohan (00:00:20) · 7 Samantha Ronson

2009-04-28 · 10 Book Reviews in 4 Minutes

  • Hank, 9 named (1 unnamed item) — Lost camera cord, ten quick reviews: Les Misérables, Hyperion, Le Guin's Powers trilogy (00:00:00)
    1 Les Misérables · 2 Hyperion · 3 Annals of the Western Shore “Powers Trilogy” (00:00:29) · … · 5 InterWorld (00:01:00) · 6 The Ringworld Throne · 7 The Truth (00:01:29) · 8 Sorcery and Cecilia · 9 The Bermudez Triangle (00:02:13) · 10 This Is Not Tom (00:02:38)

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says John, bestselling author of Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, is writing another book, This Is Not Tom, released through weekly riddles. (00:02:38)
    1 Paper Towns · 2 Looking for Alaska (novel) · 3 An Abundance of Katherines

2009-05-03 · Important (Temporary) Video

  • John, 2 named (1 unnamed item) — John suggests Nerdfighters get Hank something: buy his CD, bake him a Hank cake, or wish him happy birthday on YouTube. (00:00:29)
    1 So Jokes “his CD” · … · 3 YouTube

2009-05-05 · HANKO DE MAYO! Happy Birthday Hank!

  • John, 2 named — John's present to Hank is a rare original-printing Rock-afire Explosion record with 'Happy Birthday Medley' on one side and 'Do You Love Me' on the other. (00:00:51)
    1 Happy Birthday Medley · 2 Do You Love Me

2009-05-08 · Star Trek: The Movie, Review

  • Hank, 2 named — The franchise: Shatner, Nimoy, Roddenberry; the original series free on YouTube; Katherine's taped Next Generation VHS (00:00:49)
    1 William Shatner · 2 Leonard Nimoy

  • Hank, 3 named (playful) — Non-spoiler review: Star Trek as a formative influence; the film didn't suck; praise for cast and character relationships; less cerebral than he likes (00:01:18)
    1 Sydney Green “mom” · 2 Mike Green “dad” · 3 Jean-Luc Picard

2009-05-13 · My Birthday Rocks

  • Hank, 3 named — Among birthday-mail superlatives Hank shows the largest birthday card he has ever received, a card with Katherine, John and the Yeti, and one saying he could have gone to Hogwarts had it not been stuck in time. (00:02:06)
    1 Katherine Green “Catherine” · 2 John Green · 3 Sarah Urist Green “the Yeti”

2009-05-13 · GREEN SCREEN!!!!

  • Hank, 6 named (playful) — Hank shows off the green screen with a rapid montage of shouted backgrounds, from Superman and Wolverine to Margo Roth Spiegelman, animals, Neil Gaiman, Jean-Luc Picard and Hundertwasser. (00:00:00)
    1 Superman · 2 Wolverine (00:00:45) · 3 Margo Roth Spiegelman · 4 Neil Gaiman · 5 Jean-Luc Picard · 6 Friedensreich Hundertwasser

2009-05-17 · Burma! Myanmar? BURMA!

  • John, 3 named — John says Burma is a Southeast Asian nation bordering Thailand, China and India. (00:00:24)
    1 Thailand · 2 China · 3 India

2009-05-19 · Question Tuesday!

  • John, 2 named — Question Tuesday intro: an hour to make it, LeakyCon then Australia, book edits; Spock or Kirk; hand-sign workaround (00:00:00)
    1 Spock · 2 James T. Kirk

2009-05-20 · Ulcerative Colitis: A Song

  • Hank, 9 named — Hank answers questions: new album, DFTBA Records releases, LeakyCon speech, Boston meetup (00:02:50)
    1 Charlie McDonnell · 2 Alex Day · 3 Michael Aranda · 4 Molly Lewis · 5 Julia Nunes · 6 Alan Lastufka · 7 Dave Days · 8 Tom Milsom · 9 A Song About an Anglerfish

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank answers questions: new album, DFTBA Records releases, LeakyCon speech, Boston meetup (00:02:50)
    1 Charlie McDonnell · 2 Alex Day “Naramon”

2009-05-24 · WROCK!

  • John, 2 named — John says he is short on time because he is going to Australia, and invites Nerdfighters in Melbourne or Sydney to hang out with him (details in the sidebar). (00:00:00)
    1 Melbourne · 2 Sydney

2009-05-26 · A Message to the Class of 2009

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says their real advantage is not knowing Facebook or 4chan, which is how to explain it to elders, but a completely different perception of how the world works. (00:01:10)
    1 Facebook · 2 4chan

2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants

  • Hank, 3 named — Whoever collects the most addresses wins an iPod Shuffle inscribed 'DFTBA Records', preloaded with five DFTBA releases including So Jokes, the DFTBA compilation and Chameleon Circuit's new album. (00:00:44)
    1 So Jokes · 2 DFTBA Volume One · 3 Chameleon Circuit

  • Maureen Johnson, 2 named — As E. Lockhart sought a title for what became The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, Maureen, staring at John's cream cheese, proposed adding 'in your pants' to any title; Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines came first. (00:02:00)
    1 Looking for Alaska (novel) · 2 An Abundance of Katherines (00:02:23)

2009-06-03 · Protons and Neutrons: A Song

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank sings that his guitar string is made of atoms (protons, neutrons, electron clouds) packed into lattices among billions and trillions of others. (00:00:12)
    1 proton · 2 neutron · 3 electron

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank sings that carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen form proteins stacked into beta pleated sheets, making the thing that grows out from his finger and strikes the guitar string. (00:01:32)
    1 carbon · 2 oxygen · 3 nitrogen · 4 hydrogen

2009-06-17 · The Fathers of the Founding Fathers

  • Hank, 3 named (playful) — Hank lists Rockefeller, Washington and Bell and their achievements, but says he knows none of the men who called them sons. (00:00:12)
    1 John D. Rockefeller · 2 George Washington · 3 Alexander Graham Bell

  • Hank, 2 named (playful) — Song: famous men and women whose fathers nobody remembers; good dads are underrated (00:00:39)
    1 Jesus · 2 Hank Williams Jr.

  • Hank, 4 named (playful) — Hank sings that great women - Earhart, Nightingale, Curie, Tubman - were polished by their fathers into 'powerful pearls'. (00:00:39)
    1 Amelia Earhart · 2 Florence Nightingale · 3 Marie Curie “Fury” · 4 Harriet Tubman

2009-06-29 · GAY is NOT an INSULT

  • John, 8 named (joke) — Not every viewer is awesome: reading hateful comments with American poets' names for curse words; grammar lessons on you're and 'stupid' as a noun (00:00:00)
    1 Walt Whitman · 2 Edna St. Vincent Millay · 3 Emily Dickinson · 4 E. E. Cummings (00:00:40) · 5 Robert Frost · 6 Nikki Giovanni · 7 Anne Sexton · 8 Ralph Waldo Emerson (00:01:27)

2009-07-01 · Most Subscribed: A Song

  • Hank, 9 named (playful) — Song about YouTube's most-subscribed channels, with one-line jabs at each (00:00:00)
    1 Fred Figglehorn · 2 Ryan Higa (00:00:27) · 3 Smosh · 4 KevJumba · 5 Universal Music Group · 6 Machinima (00:01:22) · 7 Jonas Brothers · 8 Michael Buckley · 9 Philip DeFranco “Sexy Phil”

2009-07-17 · Selling Out, Chewbacca and Taking Leave

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank recommends a six-track, six-dollar CD by YouTubers Alan Lastufka and Tom Milsom, whom he calls one of YouTube's best musicians; they made it without ever meeting. (00:02:11)
    1 Alan Lastufka · 2 Tom Milsom (00:02:31)

2009-07-22 · Truth or Fail with John! Famous Authors Edition

  • John, 2 named — Truth or Fail literary edition: rules; Tennessee Williams bottle cap vs Edna St. Vincent Millay died a virgin (00:00:00)
    1 Tennessee Williams · 2 Edna St. Vincent Millay

2009-07-23 · 50 MORE JOKES in FOUR MINUTES

  • Hank, 4 named (joke) — Fifty rapid-fire jokes: termites, celebrity deaths, elephants and Mini Coopers, ether bunnies, light bulbs (00:01:19)
    1 Ed McMahon · 2 Farrah Fawcett · 3 Michael Jackson · 4 Billy Mays (00:01:22)

2009-07-26 · Volunteering (In Your Pants)

  • John, 9 named (playful) — The 'in your pants' rule, found with Maureen Johnson: book titles plus 'in your pants' (00:00:37)
    1 The Key to the Golden Firebird · 2 Everything That Rises Must Converge · 3 The Forgotten Man · 4 The Man Who Ate Everything · 5 The Sun Also Rises · 6 A Spot of Bother · 7 The Neverending Story · 8 Rabbit at Rest · 9 Funny Little Monkey

2009-08-02 · ANNOUNCING: Global Geek Week!!!

  • Hank, 4 named — Videos go to the Global Geek Week YouTube group and are judged by a committee including Hank, Lisa Nova, HotForWords, Guy Kawasaki and the 2008 U.S. Sudoku champion. (00:00:58)
    1 Lisa Donovan · 2 Marina Orlova “HotForWords” · 3 Guy Kawasaki (00:01:32) · 4 Wei-Hwa Huang “Wee Wah Hung”

2009-08-06 · Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone

  • John, 2 named — John and other Nerdfighters, in a BlogTV room, invented DJ Paige Railstone's identity, history and career; Alan made a website, Karen Kavett photos, plus Twitter and Facebook pages. (00:01:49)
    1 Twitter · 2 Facebook

2009-08-18 · So Jokes: Video EP

  • Hank, 4 named (joke) — Song 'Book 8': Hank wants J.K. Rowling to write an eighth Harry Potter book (00:02:07)
    1 Starfighters of Adumar · 2 Harry Potter and the Pillar of Storgé · 3 The Solitaire Mystery (00:02:32) · 4 Nerdfighteria “Harry Potter and the Nerdfighters”

2009-08-21 · Truth or Fail: John Green Books

  • John, 2 named — Truth or Fail, John Green books edition: rules, unicorn-head gags; last words of John Sedgwick vs Emily Dickinson (00:00:29)
    1 John Sedgwick · 2 Emily Dickinson

2009-08-24 · HAPPY JOHN DAY!!!

2009-08-30 · 100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!!

  • John, 2 named — In quick literary picks John chooses Joyce over Yeats and Whitman over Faulkner, names Hamlet his favorite play, and says he liked The Hunger Games. (00:01:20)
    1 James Joyce (00:01:21) · 2 W. B. Yeats (00:01:20)

  • John, 3 named — Question Tuesday record attempt: 100 viewer questions answered in four minutes (Willy, the puff, books, bands, Hank, favorites, in-your-pants); sign-off (00:01:39)
    1 Alaska Young · 2 Lindsey Lee Wells “Alaska, Lindsay or Margo?” · 3 Margo Roth Spiegelman “Mmmmargo” (00:01:40)

  • John, 2 named — In quick literary picks John chooses Joyce over Yeats and Whitman over Faulkner, names Hamlet his favorite play, and says he liked The Hunger Games. (00:01:55)
    1 William Faulkner · 2 Walt Whitman (00:01:56)

  • John, 2 named — John picks Picard over Kirk, Mario over Link, Canon over Nikon, Final Cut as best editing software, Amsterdam as favorite city and Fantasia as favorite Disney movie. (00:02:55)
    1 Jean-Luc Picard (00:02:56) · 2 James T. Kirk (00:02:55)

2009-09-01 · I AM COMPUTER MAN!!!

  • Hank, 3 named — Studio versions of Mules Are So Half-Ass and the Demolition Derby song; new books: Bicycle Diaries, HotForWords' book, Geektastic (00:00:47)
    1 Bicycle Diaries · 2 Marina Orlova “Hot for Words' book” · 3 Geektastic

  • Hank, 7 named — Geektastic contributors including John; newspaper photo shoot for a story on recession-proof jobs; vote on favorite photo; 'Computer Man' and his Montana friends; sign-off (00:01:35)
    1 John Green · 2 Cory Doctorow · 3 Cecil Castellucci · 4 David Levithan · 5 Scott Westerfeld · 6 Sara Zarr · 7 Holly Black

2009-09-03 · WTF IS GOING ON!!!

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says some of the best things in the world, like lolcats, 4chan and Nerdfighters, were created not for money, fame or power but with the goal of awesome. (00:00:00)
    1 Lolcat · 2 4chan · 3 Nerdfighteria “nerdfighters”

2009-09-08 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns)

  • John, 2 named — To celebrate, John will give away one Paper Towns paperback a day for 14 days to his favourite 10-word comment on YouTube or the Ning. (00:01:36)
    1 YouTube · 2 Nerdfighter Ning

  • John, 2 named — John says the Paper Towns movie rights were acquired by Mr. Mudd and Mandate (makers of Juno); he wrote the first screenplay draft and is starting the first big revision. (00:02:08)
    1 Mr. Mudd · 2 Mandate Pictures

2009-09-09 · Television Crime Shows Suck

  • Hank, 2 named (playful) — Hank's song claims every television crime show, from CSI to Columbo, follows the same plot, in which the guy met in the first 15 minutes did it. (00:00:44)
    1 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation · 2 Columbo

  • Hank, 2 named (playful, 5 unnamed items) — Hank lists things better than TV crime shows: John Green's books, all books, odd objects like fake hands, video games, and YouTube. (00:02:46)
    1 John Green · … · 7 YouTube (00:02:57)

2009-09-20 · Health Care Reform: The Hank Factor

  • John, 2 named — John says the very poor can get Medicaid and the very old Medicare, so the uninsurable are those not poor, not old and not working for a big company. (00:00:36)
    1 Medicaid · 2 Medicare

  • John, 2 named (playful) — Montana's state plan insures Hank; the conservative economic case for a public option; sign-off (00:02:04)
    1 Walmart · 2 Toys "R" Us

2009-09-23 · Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event!

  • Hank, 12 named (playful, 1 unnamed item) — The song lists places where Margo was photographed, from Hawaii, Pisa and Disneyland to Kyoto, '19th century Croatia' and Florence. (00:02:15)
    1 Hawaii · 2 Pisa · 3 Disneyland · 4 Washington, DC · 5 Israel · 6 Hong Kong · 7 Skullbone, Tennessee · 8 Hollywood (00:03:05) · 9 Kyoto · 10 Croatia · … · 12 Switzerland · 13 Florence

2009-09-25 · Fake John Green : New Album : Shirts

  • Hank, 3 named (playful) — Hank lists the pictures: John loving unicorns, dressed as Edward Cullen, kissed by the Poe bust, swapped with Willy, admitting the puff is a wig; others, like a John Green cereal, are 'ridiculously awesome'. (00:00:29)
    1 Edward Cullen · 2 Willy · 3 the Puff

2009-09-29 · DFTBA TAKEOVER!!!

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank asks everyone, even outside the West Coast, to sign up on Eventful and say where they are, so he knows where to hold Nerdfighter gatherings; link in the sidebar. (00:02:40)
    1 Tucson, Arizona · 2 Phoenix, Arizona

2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1)

  • Hank, 6 named — Prequels: Phantom Menace (none), Attack of the Clones (bar jerk, Anakin), Revenge of the Sith (Dooku, Grievous, Mace Windu, Anakin) (00:00:58)
    1 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · 2 Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (00:01:07) · 3 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (00:01:30) · 4 Star Wars (film) “A New Hope” (00:02:21) · 5 The Empire Strikes Back (00:02:32) · 6 Return of the Jedi (00:03:00)

2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2)

  • Hank, 6 named — Prequels: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith (00:00:58)
    1 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · 2 Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (00:01:05) · 3 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (00:01:27) · 4 Star Wars (film) “A New Hope” (00:02:21) · 5 The Empire Strikes Back (00:02:26) · 6 Return of the Jedi (00:02:55)

2009-10-04 · NERD ALERT: Presidential Last Words

2009-10-20 · The Bella Twins Like Paper Towns

  • John, 3 named — John announces that Paper Towns won the Teens' Top Ten vote, beating great books like The Hunger Games, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and the last Twilight book. (00:00:00)
    1 The Hunger Games (book series) · 2 The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks · 3 Twilight

2009-10-22 · The Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of All Time

  • Hank, 10 named — Hoaxes 10-9: Mars as big as the moon; fairy photographs (00:00:29)
    1 Mars hoax · 2 Cottingley Fairies · 3 Alien autopsy (00:00:58) · 4 The Balloon-Hoax · 5 Fiji mermaid (00:01:27) · 6 Mechanical Turk (00:01:56) · 7 perpetual motion · 8 Hitler Diaries · 9 Great Moon Hoax (00:02:43) · 10 The War of the Worlds (radio drama) (00:03:12)

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says that in 1770 an inventor unveiled the Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing 'robot' that beat Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin, with a man hidden inside. (00:01:56)
    1 Napoleon · 2 Benjamin Franklin

2009-10-25 · Fame: The Road Trip

  • John, 3 named — John says he looks up to young adult writers like Walter Dean Myers, E. Lockhart and Markus Zusak and wants respect from them. (00:03:05)
    1 Walter Dean Myers · 2 E. Lockhart · 3 Markus Zusak

  • John, 3 named (playful) — John asks whose respect you want, the 'silverback gorilla' of your life's jungle: Ellen DeGeneres, Shakespeare or Jay-Z is fine; Lindsay Lohan calls for a hard look at yourself. (00:03:05)
    1 Ellen DeGeneres · 2 William Shakespeare · 3 Jay-Z

2009-10-28 · We Win When Everyone Wins

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank concludes that if 60,000 people watch this, a Michelangelo, a Da Vinci, a Machiavelli and a Raphael are watching right now; it's about what you think you can do and your community. (00:01:21)
    1 Michelangelo · 2 Leonardo da Vinci · 3 Niccolò Machiavelli · 4 Raphael

2009-10-31 · Vegas Baby...It's like...well. Hrmm

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says he will probably be in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego or Phoenix soon, so people there need not drive far to see him this once. (00:01:27)
    1 Los Angeles · 2 San Francisco · 3 San Diego · 4 Phoenix, Arizona

2009-11-04 · Please Buy My Album (A Song / Medley)

  • Hank, 11 named (playful) — Hank sings a medley of the album's tracks, including songs about Hogwarts, the anglerfish, a homicidal squirrel, the demolition derby, the founding fathers' fathers, his colitis and Edward Cullen. (00:00:22)
    1 This Isn't Hogwarts · 2 A Song About an Anglerfish · 3 I Know · 4 Mules Are So Half-Ass “The mink lost her furry scarf” (00:01:02) · 5 Squirrel Attack! · 6 Protons and Neutrons · 7 Demolition Derby (song) (00:01:29) · 8 The Fathers of the Founding Fathers · 9 Ulcerative Colitis (song) “distal portion of my large intestine” · 10 I'm Not Edward Cullen · 11 It All Makes Sense at the End (00:02:47)

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank points DFTBA.com visitors to his first album So Jokes, his live album, and new albums by Molly Lewis and Dr. Noise, both only $6. (00:03:19)
    1 So Jokes · 2 I'm So Bad at This “my live album” · 3 Molly Lewis · 4 Bill Martin “Dr. Noise's new album”

2009-11-07 · The TOUR DE HANK!!!

  • Hank, 6 named — Hank says people coming to his tour stops (San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle) probably should not order the CD, since he will reach them first; they can buy it there. (00:02:00)
    1 San Francisco · 2 Los Angeles · 3 San Diego · 4 Phoenix, Arizona · 5 Portland, Oregon · 6 Seattle

2009-11-10 · ChartJackers, Chris, Touring and Duckies

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says the song is so far in the top 100 of the US iTunes chart and the top 25 of the UK's, but needs many more sales for the top 10. (00:01:09)
    1 United States “America's” · 2 United Kingdom “UK's”

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank re-shows his tour graphic with new information for Phoenix and Portland; Seattle is still being worked on, and viewers can click their city for details. (00:02:34)
    1 Phoenix, Arizona · 2 Portland, Oregon

2009-11-18 · Crazy Man is Crazy (with SEATTLE INFO!!)

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank, in a Phoenix hotel, is leaving this section of the tour for the Pacific Northwest, with gatherings in Portland and Seattle. (00:00:00)
    1 Portland, Oregon · 2 Seattle

2009-11-24 · 50 THINGS!! That I'm Thankful For

  • Hank, 14 named — List of 50 things Hank is thankful for (open source, YouTube, science, giraffes, his shirts, Mashable Award voters, his cat, Nerdfighters) (00:00:58)
    1 open-source software · 2 YouTube · 3 Wolverine · 4 young adult literature · 5 Moore's law (00:01:44) · 6 Carl Sagan · 7 xkcd · 8 This Machine Pwns n00bs (album) · 9 evolution (00:02:20) · 10 Charles Darwin · 11 Mashable Open Web Awards (00:02:43) · 12 Cameo “My cat” · 13 Nerdfighteria “Nerdfighters” · 14 Ze Frank (00:03:24)

2009-11-25 · Things I'm Not Thankful For

  • Hank, 6 named (playful) — Hank complains that too many TV characters are named Hank, claiming three current main characters (in Californication, a show called Hank, and a concierge doctor) plus Hanks on Bones and House. (00:01:11)
    1 Hank Hill · 2 Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo · 3 Hank Moody · 4 Hank (TV series) (00:01:44) · 5 Bones · 6 House

2009-12-01 · Shaving for Pakistan

  • John, 2 named — John describes Pakistan as a nation with nuclear weapons and 180 million people, bordering India and Afghanistan. (00:02:38)
    1 India · 2 Afghanistan (00:02:43)

2009-12-02 · This Machine Pwns n00bs: A Song

  • Hank, 3 named (playful) — In the chorus Hank sings that his guitar ('this machine') pwns n00bs: like a headshot, a Mario star, the Pac-Man power dot or the Konami code, it makes him feel invincible on stage. (00:00:56)
    1 Mario · 2 Pac-Man · 3 Konami Code

  • Hank, 2 named (playful) — The song recounts losing his keys after the Phoenix, AZ show and eating pizza on the sidewalk with Nerdfighters, who wanted Yogurtland and In-N-Out, and 'First Officer Spock'. (00:01:37)
    1 Yogurtland · 2 In-N-Out Burger

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank calls a huge bag from Dark Horse Comics his coolest tour gift ever: a stretchy Hellboy, signed posters (Abe, Buffy) and a stack of comics and graphic novels, including the new Dr. Horrible. (00:03:14)
    1 Abe Sapien · 2 Buffy Summers

2009-12-09 · ANNOUNCING! VidCon: Online Video IRL

  • Hank, 13 named — Hank lists who will attend: Nerdfighteria creators from CharlieIsSoCoolLike to WheezyWaiter and online video stars including Michael Buckley, Dave Days, Shay Carl, Natalie Tran and Shane Dawson. (00:01:29)
    1 Charlie McDonnell “CharlieIsSoCoolLike” · 2 Craig Benzine “WheezyWaiter” · 3 Michael Buckley · 4 Dave Days · 5 Shay Carl · 6 Brittani Louise Taylor · 7 Ray William Johnson · 8 David Choi · 9 Rhett and Link · 10 Mitchell Davis · 11 Julia Nunes · 12 Natalie Tran · 13 Shane Dawson

2009-12-13 · Eyelash Malaria

  • John, 2 named (1 unnamed item) — Eyelash research vs malaria research: the free market underfunds malaria, a drain on the world economy; Bill Gates and Ashton Kutcher (00:01:13)
    … · 2 2007–2008 financial crisis · 3 Tiger Woods

2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome

  • John, 5 named — John thanks the livestream hosts, from Maureen Johnson and Natalie Tran to several Five Awesome Girls, Liz, Karen Kavett and Alan of Fall of Autumn Distro, and the 2009 logo designer. (00:01:22)
    1 Maureen Johnson · 2 Natalie Tran · 3 Five Awesome Girls · 4 Karen Kavett · 5 Alan Lastufka

  • John, 3 named — John thanks everyone who rated, commented and favorited, and above all everyone who made a video, from big YouTubers like Lisa Nova, Shay Carl and Kassem G to people with under 100 subscribers. (00:01:22)
    1 Lisa Donovan · 2 Shay Carl · 3 Kassem G “Kasim G”

2009-12-23 · Amazing Christmas Facts With John and Hank

  • John, 2 named — John says he usually hates Christmas but is into it this year (2009): he and his wife expect their first kid, and Hank, Katherine, Mom and Dad are all there. (00:00:34)
    1 Sydney Green “Mom” · 2 Mike Green “Dad”

2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ

2009-12-30 · The STUPIDEST NEWS STORIES of 2009 (a song)

  • Hank, 2 named — The song says a Georgia flood left thousands homeless and seven dead, while the news was about Kanye West and Taylor Swift. (00:00:34)
    1 Kanye West · 2 Taylor Swift

  • Hank, 3 named — The song's refrain: many important things happened in 2009 (Iran's election, the recession, Obama's inauguration), yet what cable news covered seemed dumb. (00:01:13)
    1 2009 Iranian presidential election · 2 Great Recession · 3 First inauguration of Barack Obama

  • Hank, 2 named — The song says the Tiger Woods and David Letterman scandals were crappy news: rich men cheating on their wives is nothing new. (00:01:36)
    1 Tiger Woods · 2 David Letterman