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Lists, 2010

99 lists in 69 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

2010-01-06 · 15 Hours in Target!

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank reports that, after Reese's and Dove peanut butter cups, the Lindor Peanut Butter Truffles came out highest at 5.9 calories per gram, and cost more. (00:02:25)
    1 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups · 2 Dove Peanut Butter Cups (00:02:27) · 3 Lindor Peanut Butter Truffles (00:02:29)

2010-01-15 · Introduction to Chemistry with Hank

  • Hank, 2 named — Carbon fills its orbitals by sharing electrons with other atoms: with hydrogen it forms methane, with oxygen carbon dioxide, which Hank calls the two principal greenhouse gases. (00:01:27)
    1 methane · 2 carbon dioxide

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says Nerdfighter Shawn Ahmed, doing amazing work in Bangladesh, is one of five finalists to possibly attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, and asks everyone to vote for him via the sidebar. (00:02:55)
    1 extreme poverty · 2 YouTube · 3 Nerdfighteria (00:03:24)

2010-02-03 · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR!

  • Hank, 7 named — Prizes listed include Harry Potter books signed by J. K. Rowling with a thank-you note, a guitar signed and used by Tom Felton, a cast-signed Deathly Hallows, signed Gaiman, Pratchett and John Green books, and Where the Wild Things Are artwork. (00:01:17)
    1 Harry Potter (book series) · 2 Tom Felton · 3 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows · 4 Neil Gaiman · 5 Terry Pratchett · 6 John Green · 7 Where the Wild Things Are

  • Hank, 3 named (playful) — Hank says the goal is $105,000, enough for three cargo planes to be named Ron, Harry and Hermione, and asks viewers at least to check out the prize list. (00:03:00)
    1 Ron Weasley · 2 Harry Potter (character, “Harry Potter”) · 3 Hermione Granger

2010-02-06 · Truth or Fail: SUPERBOWL

  • Hank, 2 named — First set of facts: Darren Sproles the smallest NFL player today vs William 'the Refrigerator' Perry the largest of all time (00:00:44)
    1 Darren Sproles · 2 William Perry

2010-02-08 · Hypocrisy: All They Want is Money

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says Unilever sells Slim-Fast for weight loss while owning about twelve ice cream companies, including Breyers, Klondike Bar, Good Humor and Ben & Jerry's. (00:03:07)
    1 Breyers · 2 Klondike bar · 3 Good Humor · 4 Ben & Jerry's

2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT

  • Maureen Johnson, 3 named — Relaying her agent, Maureen says not to claim your book will be a big movie or the next Twilight, Harry Potter or Wimpy Kid: it is presumptuous and seems arrogant; agents want a clear letter about the story. (00:02:31)
    1 Twilight · 2 Harry Potter (book series) · 3 Diary of a Wimpy Kid

2010-02-22 · TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND!!

  • Hank, 2 named (joke) — Going to the doctor for a neck he can't move; painkiller joke; 200,000 subscribers (00:00:00)
    1 Rush Limbaugh · 2 Gregory House

2010-02-24 · JOHN GREEN IS FAT.

  • John, 2 named (joke) — Pizza Hut/Taco Bell photo; the pizza-mustache photo he wants as a shirt; thanks; almost 15 pounds lost since Henry's birth (00:01:27)
    1 Pizza Hut · 2 Taco Bell

2010-03-01 · The Marriage Ref SUCKS

  • John, 2 named (1 unnamed item) — John says unlike NBC, Nerdfighteria is not in the advertiser business but in pond sand filters, Haitian relief and the pizza shirt, and above all in taking care of each other. (00:02:14)
    … · 2 Haiti · 3 Pizza John

2010-03-03 · VidCon Schedule Spectacular!

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says VidCon mixes serious talks, like Ze Frank's, with fun such as Rhett and Link writing a song on stage and Mystery Guitar Man making a stop-motion video with audience sounds. (00:02:31)
    1 Ze Frank · 2 Rhett and Link · 3 Joe Penna “Mystery Guitar Man”

  • Hank, 2 named — Why VidCon exists and what is on the schedule: talks, Rhett and Link, Mystery Guitar Man, meetups, YouTube staff; dates and link; sign-off (00:03:09)
    1 Philip DeFranco “SXE field” · 2 Natalie Tran “community channel”

2010-03-05 · Red Green, the Nintendo, and HANK

  • John, 4 named — John says after long days of Zelda, Mario, Double Dribble and Blades of Steel he would leave the NES cartridge flap open. (00:01:07)
    1 The Legend of Zelda · 2 Mario · 3 Double Dribble · 4 Blades of Steel

  • John, 2 named (playful) — John says the doors were locked overnight, so the suspects are the family and Red; he knows he didn't do it, and finds their parents unlikely since he thinks they liked the Nintendo keeping him busy. (00:02:11)
    1 Sydney Green “Mom” · 2 Mike Green “Dad”

2010-03-10 · New Tour! New Book! (Remember Books?) Your Q's A'ed!

  • John, 8 named — John will be in Indianapolis on March 15 talking about vlogging, then on tour in April in Chicago, Boulder, Austin, New York City, Madison (Connecticut), LA and San Francisco. (00:00:29)
    1 Indianapolis · 2 Chicago (city) · 3 Boulder, Colorado · 4 Austin, Texas · 5 New York City · 6 Madison, Connecticut · 7 Los Angeles “LA” · 8 San Francisco

  • John, 2 named (1 unnamed item) — At VidCon John most looks forward to Ze Frank, the ball pit, Charlie McDonnell biting his finger, and the concerts at night. (00:02:05)
    1 Ze Frank · … · 3 Charlie McDonnell

2010-03-15 · Cute OVERLOAD: The Ultimate Concern Edition

  • John, 2 named (joke, 1 unnamed item) — Henry sighs; Willy; Henry's favorite rap songs (00:03:06)
    … · 2 No Sleep till Brooklyn · 3 O.P.P. (00:03:07)

2010-03-17 · Side-Boob is Not my Ultimate Concern

  • Hank, 2 named (1 unnamed item) — Hank would die for his wife, freedom for people he cares about, restoring the lost Library of Alexandria, peaceful alien contact, and free non-polluting energy for everyone. (00:00:29)
    1 Katherine Green “my wife” · … · 3 Library of Alexandria

2010-03-19 · Foreign John Green Books and the Ultimate Concern

2010-03-22 · Top 10 Weirdest Diseases

  • Hank, 10 named — Weird diseases 1-4: lightning-strike complications, pica, Nintendinitis and jogger's nipple, blue skin from silver (00:00:22)
    1 lightning injury · 2 pica (00:00:53) · 3 Nintendinitis “Nintendonitis” (00:01:09) · 4 jogger's nipple (00:01:18) · 5 argyria “odd skin coloration” (00:01:31) · 6 toxoplasmosis (00:01:53) · 7 congenital insensitivity to pain (00:02:16) · 8 nutmeg psychosis (00:02:32) · 9 trimethylaminuria (00:02:46) · 10 Ondine's curse (00:03:05)

2010-03-24 · Top 10 Animal POWER MOVES

  • John, 10 named — Power moves 10-6: bombardier beetle, giraffe, Cantor's giant softshell turtle, hairy frog, cuttlefish (00:00:08)
    1 bombardier beetle · 2 giraffe (00:00:17) · 3 Cantor's giant softshell turtle (00:00:31) · 4 hairy frog “Trichobatrachus Robostus” (00:01:00) · 5 cuttlefish (00:01:13) · 6 potato beetle (00:01:31) · 7 Mabra elephantophila (00:01:55) · 8 Australian funnel-web spider (00:02:19) · 9 platypus (00:02:39) · 10 Camponotus saundersi (00:03:09)

2010-03-26 · Top 10 Freaking Amazing Explosions

  • Hank, 10 named (1 unnamed item) — Pre-nuclear explosions: Delft 1654, Halifax, the East River and British Columbia islands, the WWI mine under German lines (00:00:17)
    1 Delft Explosion · 2 Halifax Explosion (00:00:33) · … · 4 Mines in the Battle of Messines (00:01:12) · 5 GBU-43/B MOAB (00:01:43) · 6 Fat Man (00:02:04) · 7 Little Boy · 8 Ivy King (00:02:13) · 9 Tunguska event (00:02:21) · 10 Tsar Bomba (00:02:41) · 11 Yellowstone National Park (00:03:01)

2010-04-14 · Fun is Important. Being Serious Isn't

  • Hank, 3 named (playful) — Hank playfully declares that fun, Stephenie Meyer, Austin Powers and Weird Al Yankovic are important, and he doesn't care who hears him say it. (00:01:21)
    1 Stephenie Meyer · 2 Austin Powers (00:01:22) · 3 Weird Al Yankovic (00:01:24)

2010-04-23 · VidCon: User Generated Conference

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank floats ideas for the Sunday: a VidCon/YouTube open mic session, a poetry slam (if those aren't lame now), flash mobs, or the world's largest circle of people videotaping each other. (00:01:09)
    1 open mic · 2 poetry slam · 3 Calvinball · 4 flash mob

2010-04-28 · Who's in Your Hug Bucket?

  • Hank, 14 named (1 unnamed item) — Hank lists people he loves but has never met and wants to hug because he is impressed with their work, from They Might Be Giants and Wil Wheaton to Ursula Le Guin, plus many YouTubers. (00:01:38)
    1 John Flansburgh · 2 John Linnell · 3 Wil Wheaton (00:01:42) · 4 David Tennant · 5 Nathan Fillion · 6 Ze Frank (00:01:45) · 7 MythBusters · 8 Threadless · 9 Felicia Day (00:01:47) · 10 Jonathan Coulton · … · 12 Helen Hunt (actor) (00:01:54) · 13 Kim Stanley Robinson (00:01:55) · 14 MC Frontalot · 15 Ursula K. Le Guin (00:01:57)

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank says his own hug bucket is sturdy and quite full: daily hugs from Katherine, which he prefers above all, plus John, Alex Day, Charlie McDonnell, Shay Carl, friends and family. (00:02:18)
    1 Katherine Green · 2 John Green (00:02:23) · 3 Alex Day · 4 Charlie McDonnell · 5 Shay Carl (00:02:27)

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank will play w00tstock in Portland and Seattle on May 7 and 8, meeting Adam Savage, MC Frontalot and Wil Wheaton, adding 'two and a half' names from his list. (00:02:48)
    1 Portland, Oregon · 2 Seattle

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank will play w00tstock in Portland and Seattle on May 7 and 8, meeting Adam Savage, MC Frontalot and Wil Wheaton, adding 'two and a half' names from his list. (00:02:52)
    1 Adam Savage · 2 MC Frontalot · 3 Wil Wheaton (00:02:56)

2010-04-30 · The Greek Debt Crisis Explained in Four Minutes

  • John, 2 named — Against those blaming wasteful spending, John says the US isn't close to a balanced budget: it would have to eliminate both its two biggest expenses, Social Security and defense, to come close. (00:02:44)
    1 Social Security · 2 United States Department of Defense

  • John, 2 named — John says countries must keep lending to each other confidently, as in 1945, which is why the EU and IMF are working hard on a bailout plan for Greece. (00:03:14)
    1 European Union “the EU” · 2 International Monetary Fund “the IMF”

2010-05-03 · Net Neutrality in the Shower

  • Hank, 4 named — The shower as the internet: ISPs deliver everything at full speed, but if everyone uses it they must invest, cutting profits (00:00:29)
    1 giraffe · 2 Xbox Live · 3 Vlogbrothers · 4 Vonage

2010-05-07 · How to Live Forever

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says he just turned 30, realizes he is no longer young, and despite receiving the best birthday present ever feels a little bitter about it. (00:00:00)
    1 Basra · 2 Ohio

  • Hank, 8 named (1 unnamed item) — Paths 1-3 to immortality: hoping for good medicine, travelling near the speed of light, cryonics (00:00:29)
    1 longevity escape velocity “until life expectancy starts to go up more than one year per year” · 2 time dilation (00:00:58) · 3 cryonics · … · 5 technological singularity (00:01:27) · 6 Turritopsis dohrnii “the immortal jellyfish” (00:01:56) · 7 selective breeding · 8 telomere (00:02:26) · 9 mind uploading “downloading the thoughts and memories that comprise” (00:02:55)

2010-05-12 · Hank Raps about w00tstock...for real

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank performed on a bill with Savage, Fraction, Frontalot and Loading Ready Run, and the crowd was so loud he couldn't believe it was happening to him. (00:01:43)
    1 Adam Savage · 2 Matt Fraction · 3 MC Frontalot · 4 LoadingReadyRun

2010-05-14 · Advice on First Kisses, Stalkers, College Majors, and More

  • John, 2 named — John says his co-author David Levithan is on tour in Australia and New Zealand right now. (00:01:53)
    1 Australia · 2 New Zealand (00:01:56)

2010-06-04 · YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained

  • Hank, 2 named (joke) — Hank says that beyond the 'poopy Nintendo' case there are bigger messes (BP in the Gulf, Israel and Palestine) and, closer to home on YouTube, Viacom's attack on YouTube is a very big deal. (00:00:00)
    1 Israel · 2 Palestine (00:00:14)

  • Hank, 2 named (playful) — When Viacom recalls YouTube as all Daily Show and Family Guy clips, YouTube answers that was 2007; since then its content identification system has all but eradicated illegal uploads. (00:01:35)
    1 The Daily Show · 2 Family Guy

2010-06-07 · Viacom PWNED on Piracy

  • John, 3 named — Following Hank's mention of Spike.com, John found Coulton's Flickr video there behind a cell-phone pre-roll, with ads for Mountain Dew, American Express and Guitar Hero alongside. (00:01:58)
    1 Mountain Dew · 2 American Express · 3 Guitar Hero

2010-06-11 · Mmmm....PARTS

  • John, 4 named — John's new website, JohnGreenBooks.com, lists forthcoming Nerdfighter gatherings and other events, in places like Washington, D.C., Munich, Edinburgh and London. (00:02:17)
    1 Washington, DC · 2 Munich · 3 Edinburgh · 4 London

2010-06-21 · You're Gonna Die

  • John, 2 named (2 unnamed items) — John tells Hank they and everyone they love will die, and one day no one will remember the books, World Cups, proofs or in-your-pants jokes, as if they never happened. (00:00:00)
    … · 2 FIFA World Cup (00:00:12) · … · 4 in your pants

  • John, 2 named (1 unnamed item) — John chooses nerdfighting, books and, though it's silly, the World Cup, because it transcends geography, ethnicity, wealth and politics and puts the world on the same grass. (00:01:36)
    1 nerdfighter “Nerdfighting” · … · 3 FIFA World Cup

2010-06-25 · Book Nerd PARADISE

  • John, 5 named — John gets to meet authors he likes: Nina LaCour, the authors of Beautiful Creatures, Lauren Oliver, Maryrose Wood and Diana Peterfreund. (00:00:00)
    1 Nina LaCour · 2 Beautiful Creatures · 3 Lauren Oliver · 4 Maryrose Wood · 5 Diana Peterfreund

2010-07-05 · With Esther

  • John, 2 named — The prize would let the HPA continue getting books to kids from the Mississippi Delta to Rwanda and grow its human-rights advocacy. (00:02:31)
    1 Mississippi Delta · 2 Rwanda (00:02:36)

2010-07-08 · Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon

  • James at War, 2 named — Just as he discovered YouTube he posted both songs; both went viral, to his surprise, and he kept writing songs mostly for his wife. (00:02:11)
    1 Pop Star · 2 Hey Harry Potter

  • James at War, 2 named — Asked about plans, James says new Harry Potter and Twilight movies and new games are coming, and that is his niche; Hank sums it up as dorkifying popular songs. (00:03:13)
    1 Harry Potter (film series) · 2 The Twilight Saga (film series)

2010-07-14 · Top 10 VIDCON MOMENTS

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank cuts in to announce that the Vlogbrothers have just broken into the top 100 most-subscribed YouTube channels, thanking Ray William Johnson, Charlieissocoollike and Meekakitty. (00:03:43)
    1 Ray William Johnson · 2 Charlie McDonnell “Charlieissocoollike” (00:03:45) · 3 Meekakitty

2010-07-16 · VidCon, Oil Spill, Punishments, Shane Dawson, and my Balls

  • video description, 5 named —
    1 Meekakitty · 2 DeStorm Power · 3 Elmify · 4 LizzieRadio · 5 Secret Brother Tom “Namlhots”

2010-07-20 · I Like Balls

  • John, 2 named — John invites Nerdfighters in Munich to come see him later this week (week of 19 July 2010), and those in London or Edinburgh next month (August 2010); more information in the description. (00:00:26)
    1 London · 2 Edinburgh

2010-08-16 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh

  • John, 3 named — John saw Leicester Square, Big Ben, a place where Isaac Newton lived and a damaged bust of Newton, which reminded him of an American general's last words. (00:00:42)
    1 Leicester Square · 2 Big Ben · 3 Isaac Newton

  • John, 3 named — With his secret sister Rosianna, John went to an East End basement club to read while three musicians, including Tom Milsom and Alex Day, played. (00:01:12)
    1 Ed Blann “Ed Plant” · 2 Tom Milsom · 3 Alex Day

2010-08-20 · The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People?

2010-08-22 · Is Obama a Muslim? Examine the Evidence!

  • John, 5 named — The Five Pillars of Islam checked one by one against Obama's public record: Shahada, prayer, zakat, sawm, hajj (00:00:26)
    1 Shahada · 2 Salah “The second pillar is prayer.” (00:00:41) · 3 Zakat (00:00:58) · 4 Sawm (00:01:40) · 5 Hajj (00:02:03)

  • John, 4 named (playful) — John asks the Drudge Report, Huffington Post, CNN and Fox News to find something else to talk about. (00:02:47)
    1 Drudge Report · 2 HuffPost “Huffington Post,” · 3 CNN · 4 Fox News

2010-08-24 · FRENCH THE LLAMA! John is 33!

  • Hank, 3 named — Showing his favourite book, Hank hopes the crowd shows many Harry Potters and some John Green books, and not so many Stephenie Meyer books. (00:00:29)
    1 Harry Potter (book series) · 2 John Green (00:01:00) · 3 Stephenie Meyer

  • Hank, 13 named — Hank's song 'goodbye 32-year-old John' recapping John's year, refrain 'now you're 33, French the llama' (00:03:23)
    1 Henry Green “you got yourself a son” · 2 Snooki · 3 Balloon boy hoax “You got really upset about” · 4 Pizza John · 5 Sarah Urist Green “you and the Yeti did” (00:03:52) · 6 VidCon (00:04:20) · 7 Haiti · 8 Netherlands · 9 FIFA World Cup (00:04:58) · 10 Gus Is a Bug · 11 David Levithan · 12 Will Grayson, Will Grayson “you published a book with David Levithan” · 13 Margo Roth Spiegelman

2010-08-30 · Thoughts from Places: The Centennial Valley

  • Hank, 3 named — About a week ago Hank woke at 6 am to watch the sunrise, which he had not seen in a while, while he and Katherine stayed at a working ranch in Montana's Centennial Valley. (00:00:00)
    1 Wyoming · 2 Idaho · 3 Montana

2010-09-02 · Fitness for Nerds

  • John, 3 named (playful) — Lifting Infinite Jest, a Mark Twain biography and the Norton Shakespeare as weights, John says books are beautiful for reading and also for holding. (00:01:33)
    1 Infinite Jest · 2 Mark Twain · 3 The Norton Shakespeare (00:01:39)

2010-09-06 · I HATE PENNIES!!!! (Also Nickels.)

  • John, 2 named — Second, John says coinage reform isn't partisan: about half its major advocates in the last ten years were Republicans and half Democrats, so it fires up no base. (00:03:15)
    1 Republican Party “Republicans” · 2 Democratic Party “Democrats”

2010-09-17 · Positive Prank Calls!!

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank tells a stranger that teen smoking, teen pregnancy and teen drug use have all declined significantly since the late 1990s. (00:00:59)
    1 tobacco smoking · 2 teenage pregnancy · 3 illegal drugs “teen drug use”

2010-09-20 · Life Is Like Pizza

  • John, 3 named (1 unnamed item) — John says we all want to be on the inside of our communities (Ireland, the US, a clique, Nerdfighteria), and whether insiders need outsiders is a hard question Ulysses explores. (00:01:39)
    1 Ireland · 2 United States (00:01:42) · … · 4 Nerdfighteria (00:01:45)

2010-09-22 · Non-VIrgin...a Lexical Gap?

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says there are many routes to choosing what and how to think (critical reading for John; statistics, population dynamics and evolutionary theory for him); what matters for a good life is getting there. (00:03:07)
    1 statistics · 2 population dynamics · 3 evolution

2010-09-27 · Stop Embarrassing Yourself

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says the United Kingdom (of Northern Ireland and Great Britain) contains Great Britain, an island of three autonomous countries: Wales, Scotland and England. (00:01:47)
    1 Wales · 2 Scotland · 3 England

2010-10-08 · GEEKING OUT Over Dying Declarations

  • John, 8 named — John reads last words from the book's F's: Douglas Fairbanks ('I've never felt better'), Ben Franklin, composer John Field, Richard Feynman ('this dying is boring'), Marshall Field II, Robert Frost. (00:00:55)
    1 Douglas Fairbanks · 2 William Faulkner · 3 Benjamin Franklin (00:01:25) · 4 John Field · 5 Millard Fillmore (00:01:54) · 6 Richard Feynman · 7 Marshall Field II · 8 Robert Frost

2010-10-15 · TOP 7 FAILS OF HISTORY

  • Hank, 6 named — Fails 1-3: Decca rejects the Beatles, the Trojan horse, land wars in Asia and an island nation's bombing; decisions made by men (00:00:48)
    1 Decca Studios · 2 Trojan Horse (00:01:14) · 3 Moscow (00:01:42) · 4 Attack on Pearl Harbor “don't send a bunch of bombers over to” (00:01:51) · 5 Wim Esajas (00:02:07) · 6 Western Union (00:02:26)

2010-10-20 · Strange Charm: A Song about Quarks

  • Hank, 6 named — The chorus names the quarks up, down, strange, charm, top and bottom, says you have them even if you don't know what a quark is, and that with leptons and bosons they make up everything we know exists. (00:00:31)
    1 up quark · 2 down quark · 3 strange quark · 4 charm quark · 5 top quark · 6 bottom quark

  • Hank, 2 named — The chorus names the quarks up, down, strange, charm, top and bottom, says you have them even if you don't know what a quark is, and that with leptons and bosons they make up everything we know exists. (00:00:37)
    1 lepton · 2 boson

  • Hank, 4 named — The song says quarks have electric charge, color charge, mass and spin; color charge means they exist only inside other particles, so they have never been studied alone. (00:00:53)
    1 electric charge · 2 color charge · 3 mass · 4 spin (physics)

  • Hank, 2 named — The song says quarks join in two ways, baryons (three quarks) and mesons (a quark and an antiquark), and that most instantly decay. (00:01:18)
    1 baryon · 2 meson

2010-10-29 · Hank Has Questions

  • Hank, 2 named (playful) — Among his questions Hank wonders whether non-Nerdfighters would wear the giraffe love shirt if it were sold at Target or Hot Topic. (00:00:29)
    1 Target Corporation · 2 Hot Topic

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank just got Fable III; before buying it he asked Nerdfighteria on Facebook and Twitter whether he should, given he'd likely be unproductive for weeks, and the overwhelming answer was yes. (00:01:27)
    1 Facebook · 2 Twitter

2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming

  • John, 2 named — November 1: NaNoWriMo begins; John does NAFADOYBIMSCOM instead; viewers' 'you should be my teacher' comments (00:00:00)
    1 quark · 2 The Catcher in the Rye

  • John, 3 named — As examples of French Revolution trivia, John says a significant event happened in an indoor tennis court, and that Marie Antoinette's actual last words were 'Sir, I beg your pardon' after stepping on her executioner's foot. (00:02:16)
    1 Tennis Court Oath · 2 Marie Antoinette · 3 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (00:02:46)

2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I

  • John, 2 named — John says the Enlightenment, including French thinkers Rousseau and Voltaire, argued that rational thought rather than God's interpreted will should be the source of truth and authority, troubling the monarchy, whose authority rested on God's will. (00:00:00)
    1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 2 Voltaire (00:00:18)

2010-11-08 · Probability 101

  • Hank, 3 named (playful) — Hank says no one, not Miss Cleo, Albert Einstein or even Dr. Manhattan, could know where an individual coin would fall. (00:01:55)
    1 Miss Cleo · 2 Albert Einstein · 3 Doctor Manhattan

  • Hank, 2 named (hypothetical) — In the poison-dart problem (6 Tylenol, 4 Imodium AD, 4 antidote pills, three picks), Hank gets a 33% chance of no antidote, so 67% survival. (00:06:46)
    1 Tylenol · 2 Imodium

2010-11-10 · Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II

  • John, 6 named — John says that within a month of the king's beheading France was at war with Prussia, Austria, Spain, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Portugal. (00:05:40)
    1 Prussia · 2 Austria · 3 Spain · 4 Kingdom of Great Britain · 5 Netherlands · 6 Portugal

2010-11-11 · REIGN OF TERROR: The French Revolution, Part III

  • John, 3 named — John says this happened under the Committee of Public Safety, led by Maximilien Robespierre, a paranoid despot who foreshadowed Kim Jong-il, Saddam Hussein and Joseph Stalin. (00:00:57)
    1 Kim Jong Il · 2 Saddam Hussein · 3 Joseph Stalin

  • John, 6 named — John says it is in a way still too soon: the Revolution brought forward conflicts that still define modernity, between secularism and religion, idealism and pragmatism, oligarchy and democracy. (00:04:01)
    1 secularism · 2 religion · 3 idealism · 4 pragmatism · 5 oligarchy · 6 democracy

  • John, 3 named — John says that more than that, the study of history is essentially an exercise in empathy: imagining being a peasant, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette or Robespierre. (00:04:26)
    1 Louis XVI · 2 Marie Antoinette · 3 Maximilien Robespierre

2010-11-12 · Blood!!!

  • Hank, 2 named (playful) — Heme and iron bond oxygen; comic analogies; hemoglobin prefers carbon monoxide (00:01:27)
    1 The Clash · 2 Cristiano Ronaldo

2010-11-15 · Hey! You! Fix the Budget!

  • John, 2 named — John says the astonishing thing is that even all the Democratic leadership's tax increases plus all the Republican leadership's spending cuts would still leave a huge deficit. (00:00:59)
    1 Democratic Party · 2 Republican Party

  • John, 4 named — John says the vast majority of the federal budget goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Defense; 'other' is mostly other mandatory programs, chiefly unemployment insurance. (00:00:59)
    1 Social Security · 2 Medicare · 3 Medicaid (00:01:28) · 4 United States Department of Defense

  • John, 2 named — John says he leaves tomorrow (16 November 2010) for a week in Europe, doing events in Amsterdam and Vienna, with details in the description. (00:02:56)
    1 Amsterdam · 2 Vienna

2010-11-17 · HARRY POTTER SONG!

  • Hank, 5 named (playful) — Hank sings that Diagon Alley beats Ankh-Morpork, President Snow is no Voldemort, and Lyra's parentage is a good plot twist, but none of it is Harry Potter. (00:03:02)
    1 Diagon Alley · 2 Ankh-Morpork “Ockmore Pork” · 3 President Snow · 4 Lyra Belacqua · 5 Mrs Coulter

2010-11-19 · I'm Not Going Down: Thoughts from Amsterdam

  • John, 3 named — John says he always looks for interesting places in airports, like Atlanta's tiny interfaith chapel with Mecca's direction inked in, Martin Luther King's Nobel Peace Prize and a Chewbacca portrait. (00:00:00)
    1 Mecca · 2 Nobel Peace Prize + Martin Luther King Jr. · 3 Chewbacca

2010-11-22 · Thoughts from Places: On a Horse

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says before 4000 BC all work for humans was done by humans; using beasts of burden was a leap on the order of the industrial revolution or the internet. (00:02:50)
    1 Industrial Revolution · 2 Internet

2010-11-26 · p4a, Space Pasta, and Giant Squids of Anger

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says they just spoke with YouTube, which is giving them treatment like Conan O'Brien and the President get: a four-hour live stream on YouTube. (00:00:57)
    1 Conan O'Brien · 2 Barack Obama “the president”

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank announces a Black Friday DFTBA Records sale on new shirts (giraffe love, two DFTBA University shirts, the Giant Squid of Anger shirt by Nerdfighter Vondell Swain) and old favorites. (00:03:14)
    1 Giraffe love shirt · 2 DFTBA University shirt (00:03:18) · 3 Giant Squid of Anger shirt

2010-11-29 · Giant Tortoise Coitus

  • John, 2 named — John tells Nerdfighters the Giant Squid of Anger shirt by Vondell Swain and a DFTBA shirt are in stock at DFTBA.com and ship immediately. (00:02:54)
    1 Giant Squid of Anger shirt · 2 DFTBA shirt (00:03:01)

2010-12-01 · Makin' Babies: A Song

  • Hank, 2 named — Space pasta results: viewers' calculations show Moon pasta far less efficient than Earth beef (00:02:24)
    1 Mike Lombardo · 2 TheDanc1ngHawk “the Dancing Hawk's”

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank shows a new end screen the brothers are thinking of using: the left side (shirts, Truth or Fail) will change, while previous/next, subscribe, Twitter and Facebook stay; he asks for opinions. (00:03:06)
    1 Truth or Fail · 2 Twitter (00:03:13) · 3 Facebook

2010-12-13 · 8 Things I Love

2010-12-17 · PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2010: Save the Children and Partners in Health

  • John, 2 named — Citing his known hatred of pennies, John says he and Hank will donate one penny for every P4A comment, up to one million comments, to Save the Children and Partners in Health. (00:00:29)
    1 Save the Children · 2 Partners In Health

  • John, 4 named — John lists P4A raffle prizes from YouTubers including Meekakitty, WheezyWaiter, Nerimon and Ryan Higa, plus Nerdfighter raffles including his nerd glasses and the last remaining BobbleJohn. (00:02:28)
    1 Meekakitty · 2 Craig Benzine “WheezyWaiter” · 3 Alex Day “Nerimon” · 4 Ryan Higa

2010-12-27 · To: You - - From: The Vlogbrothers

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank asks anyone who got or bought vlogbrothers, DFTBA or Nerdfighter t-shirts to send photos of themselves wearing them to hankandjohn@gmail.com, which may go on the website. (00:00:39)
    1 Vlogbrothers · 2 DFTBA · 3 nerdfighter

2010-12-29 · Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places

  • John, 4 named — Recalling his younger years, John lists past road trips to the Grand Canyon, Alaska, San Francisco, and Arthur, Nebraska, home of the world's smallest courthouse. (00:00:36)
    1 Grand Canyon · 2 Alaska (00:00:39) · 3 San Francisco · 4 Arthur, Nebraska

2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man?

  • Hank, 5 named (playful) — Hank notes a recurring autocomplete trend of asking whether people are gay: Daniel Tosh, Justin Bieber and Nate Berkus, whom Hank does not even know. (00:00:35)
    1 Facebook · 2 Lady Gaga (00:00:48) · 3 Daniel Tosh (00:00:54) · 4 Justin Bieber · 5 Nate Berkus