'In your pants' suffix game (2007)
bit · status: callback
About: in your pants, Brotherhood 2.0 forum, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?, Maureen Johnson, Brian
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-01-23 | origin | Hank introduces the 'in your pants' suffix from a conversation John, Maureen Johnson and E. Lockhart had on Johnson's blog, and adds it to book titles. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd 00:02:28 |
| 2007-01-25 | variant | John applies the 'in-your-pants rule' to books from his home library and adds an addendum: sometimes 'from your pants' is funnier. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 00:01:24 |
| 2007-01-26 | callback | John names his imagined store 'The Blind Assassin in Your Pants' and apologises that he can't stop himself. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 00:02:29 |
| 2007-01-29 | variant | Hank, Katherine and friends perform 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone From Your Pants', a project Hank says is inspired by John. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 29th 00:00:50 |
| 2007-01-30 | variant | John applies the 'in your pants' suffix to Everyone Poops and weighs 'in my pants' against 'in your pants'. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 30, 2007 00:01:22 |
| 2007-01-31 | callback | Hank argues 'Everyone Poops in My Pants' is a sad story and so funnier than the funny 'in Your Pants'. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st 00:02:13 |
| 2007-02-07 | variant | The 'in your pants' bit becomes a whole story: 'Everyone Poops in My Pants', in which everyone poops in Hank's pants. | Brotherhood 2.0: February 7, 2007 00:00:10 |
| 2007-02-09 | callback | John announces a book found in his laundry as 'the naked and the dead in my pants', the 'in your pants' suffix applied to a title. | Brotherhood 2.0: February 9, 2007 00:00:33 |
| 2007-02-23 | callback | John appends 'in your pants' to the title The Day Nobody Shared. | Brotherhood 2.0: February 23, 2007: Books 00:00:57 |
| 2007-02-28 | variant | The 'in my pants' story is redone as a picture book in Hank's video. | Brotherhood 2.0: Everyone Poops in my Pants, a Picture Book 00:00:04 |
| 2007-04-24 | callback | John says he keeps his celebrity list in his copy of 'How to Be a Lady in Your Pants'. | Brotherhood 2.0: April 24: Moving 00:00:44 |
| 2007-04-25 | callback | Hank's Helen Hunt song puns on As Good as It Gets with 'in my pants'. | Helen Hunt 00:01:21 |
| 2007-05-02 | callback | John reluctantly adds 'in your pants' to the title The Bermudez Triangle. | Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning 00:00:52 |
| 2007-05-09 | callback | Hank adds 'from your pants' to a title when describing who suggested the song challenge. | My 9th: Singing and Randy 00:00:10 |
| 2007-05-29 | callback | John adds 'in your pants' to the titles of the two books he found and riffs on goth armies in his pants. | Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies 00:01:08 |
| 2007-06-06 | callback | Hank says he just read Feed 'in my pants', applying the 'in your pants' suffix to the book. | Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum 00:00:44 |
| 2007-06-06 | callback | John says he's in his boxers because 'my pants are full of people' (the forum), and vows not to tire of the joke. | June 6th: Lindsay Lohan's Bikini and My Pants 00:01:06 |
| 2007-06-06 | variant | Hank names the new forum 'My Pants', so that continuing a discussion 'in my pants' becomes a double meaning. | Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum 00:02:06 |
| 2007-06-08 | callback | Hank riffs on the forum's name: 'addicted to my pants', 'my pants have gotten very big'. | June 7: Weather and My Pants 00:01:46 |
| 2007-06-09 | callback | John finds a 'clue in my pants' and will give his tote bags away 'in my pants', the forum. | Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues 00:00:43 |
| 2007-06-20 | callback | Hank wears his Brotherhood 2.0 'In my pants' shirt and a stranger asks him about it. | June 19: GOOD LUCK JOHN 00:01:38 |
| 2007-06-27 | callback | Hank finds 'spam in my pants' after dancing, a play on the 'in your pants' suffix. | June 27: Good Morning John, it's Wednesday 00:02:11 |
| 2007-07-02 | callback | John imagines non-nerdfighters asking why someone is discussing post-colonial theory 'in his pants', playing on the forum nickname. | Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting 00:03:27 |
| 2007-07-03 | callback | Hank says he'd like to see viewers 'in my pants', meaning the forum. | July 3: Decepticons 00:01:10 |
| 2007-07-09 | callback | John calls the forum members 'some people in my pants'. | July 9: The Punishment Fiasco 00:00:09 |
| 2007-07-11 | callback | John refers to forum commenters as 'the commenters in my pants'. | Brotherhood 2.0: Harry and the Potters are Nerdfighters! 00:01:46 |
| 2007-07-20 | callback | John calls the forum readers debating his book 'people in my pants', a callback to the 'in your pants' game. | July 19: A Day in the Life of a Writer (Who Has No Friends) 00:01:32 |
| 2007-07-24 | callback | Hank invites the nerdfighters 'into my pants' (the forum), a callback to the 'in your pants' game. | July 24: More Harry Potter?! 00:02:05 |
| 2007-07-25 | callback | John says nerdfighters hang out at the Brotherhood 2.0 forum 'in my pants', a callback to the 'in your pants' game. | July 25: Brotherhood 2.0's Youtube Comments Are Answered! 00:01:40 |
| 2007-07-27 | callback | John adds 'in your pants' to the title of his library guide and wonders how many books fit in 'the library in my pants'. | July 27: How Nerdfighters Drop Insults 00:00:40 |
| 2007-07-31 | callback | John applies the 'In Your Pants rule' to the two books he is reading ('The Golden Rule In Your Pants'). | July 31: HP, Secret Siblings, and Books 00:01:23 |
| 2007-08-03 | callback | John credits 'the nerdfighters in my pants' with finding his textual communication. | August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans 00:01:49 |
| 2007-08-08 | callback | John reports 'a lot of talk in my pants' about who may contribute to Biss's campaign. | August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury 00:02:17 |
| 2007-08-16 | callback | John says Nerdfighters are doing a great job talking about the Evil Baby Orphanage 'in my pants' (the forum). | August 16th: Finding--and Licking--a Cat 00:00:57 |
| 2007-08-16 | callback | Hank hopes to see Melissa's song 'in my pants' (the forum). | Re: Vlog 6: Secret Siblinghood! 00:01:46 |
| 2007-08-21 | callback | John says there are so many Nerdfighters 'in my pants' (the forum) that the site sometimes goes down. | August 20th: Winner, South Dakota 00:02:22 |
| 2007-08-22 | callback | John says that when Brotherhood2.com is back, 'my pants' (the forum) will be on fire. | August 22nd: Um. Uh. IN YOUR PANTS 00:02:12 |
| 2007-08-22 | variant | John does a run of 'in your pants' jokes on literary titles, saying such jokes never get old. | August 22nd: Um. Uh. IN YOUR PANTS 00:02:37 |
| 2007-08-24 | callback | A greeter ends a birthday wish with 'In my pants'. | August 23rd: John's Secret Project Part 1 00:04:29 |
| 2007-08-27 | callback | Hank calls the forum 'my pants': 'I just went on my pants'. | August 27th: Thanks Yous and Cameos 00:01:24 |
| 2007-08-28 | callback | John calls the forum 'my pants': 'everyone in my pants wants to know'. | August 28th: Starring Mom 00:01:13 |
| 2007-09-05 | callback | John says 'my pants are on fire': the forum 'my pants' is busy again on the new site. | September 4th: Negative Suck Cubed Equals Awesome 00:02:17 |
| 2007-09-18 | variant | John plays the 'in your pants' suffix game with Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys titles, crediting a secret sibling's video for the idea. | September 18: In Defense of Chris Crocker 00:02:03 |
| 2007-10-02 | callback | Hank says he will start a thread 'in my pants' (the forum), a callback to the 'in your pants' game. | October 1st: Stuff on Heads...dot com??? 00:02:01 |
| 2007-10-03 | callback | John's pineapple pants mean 'Welcome to my pants', which leads into thanking Hank for the forum 'my pants'. | Oct. 2nd: Brotherhood 2.0 on the Road (Literally) 00:01:50 |
| 2007-10-08 | callback | John says they have discussed presidential politics for months 'in my pants' (the forum). | October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns 00:01:35 |
| 2007-10-12 | callback | John counts the posts 'going on in my pants', the Brotherhood2.com forum. | October 12th: Carbon Re-Neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0 00:02:31 |
| 2007-10-16 | variant | John applies the 'in your pants' suffix to new shelf titles (The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Volatile Bodies, a goth-scene guide) and calls 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone from Your Pants' a Brotherhood 2.0 classic. | October 16th: John's Library Pwns 00:01:51 |
| 2007-10-23 | callback | Hank identifies the marrying friends as the duo from 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone From Your Pants'. | October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do... 00:00:10 |
| 2007-11-09 | callback | Hank slips 'in my pants' into his explanation that the missing clue is not a hidden clue. | November 8th: SUGAR HIGH! 00:02:49 |
| 2007-11-13 | callback | Hank names his four-part-harmony clue video 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone From Your Pants', the 'in your pants' suffix applied to a song title. | November 12th: Brotherhood Clue Point Oh! 00:00:54 |
| 2007-11-30 | callback | Hank describes the community as Nerdfighters and 'secret siblings in my pants'. | November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project 00:00:10 |
| 2007-11-30 | callback | John sends Nerdfighters to the forum as 'my pants', a callback to the 'in your pants' game. | Nov. 30th: A CHRISTMAS RANT 00:02:36 |
| 2007-12-08 | callback | Hank invites answers 'in my pants', explaining it is the Brotherhood 2.0 forum 'if you were confused', a callback to the 'in your pants' game. | December 7th: Fight Night with the Green Bros. 00:03:00 |
| 2007-12-15 | callback | John tells Hank that Maureen Johnson 'went to my pants' (the forum) and insists the joke is still funny after eight months. | Dec. 14th: John and Maureen Johnson: LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY 00:01:27 |
| 2007-12-18 | callback | Answering a viewer, John adds 'In Your Pants' to Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge. | Dec 18th: The Project for Awesome and Question Tuesday!!! 00:01:38 |
| 2007-12-29 | variant | John adds 'In Your Pants' to a new book title: 'Pompeii, Tales from an Eruption, In Your Pants', one of the books he uses as a tripod. | Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video 00:01:19 |
| 2007-12-31 | callback | The farewell song sings that thinking about 'my pants' (the forum) makes the brothers do their happy dance, a callback to the 'in your pants' game. | Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 00:01:24 |
| 2008-02-14 | variant | A nerdfighter's find, the easy reader 'Pooh Gets Stuck', revives the 'in your pants' title game. | The Puff Pwns Gravity 00:02:05 |
| 2008-04-21 | callback | A viewer asks John's favorite book title to add 'in your pants' to; he picks Little Pea, and later says To His Coy Mistress is 'not yet in his pants'. | Belated Book-tacular Questions 00:01:22 |
| 2008-05-18 | callback | Among Nerdfighters' Grand Rapids gifts John shows a book titled 'Scruffy Teddy Likes to Play in Your Pants'. | A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! 00:00:39 |
| 2008-05-23 | callback | A Nerdfighter's birthday question ends with the 'in your pants' suffix. | Happy (Belated) Birthday, Hank 00:07:27 |
| 2008-07-19 | callback | Hank signs off hoping viewers enjoy 'my pants' (the forum), playing on the 'in your pants' double meaning. | Book Eight...Another Harry Potter Song 00:04:14 |
| 2008-09-11 | callback | John jokes about Rosenthal's book title with 'in your pants' added. | A Video about Videos 00:01:34 |
| 2008-11-19 | callback | A gift or its reading adds 'in your pants' to a title (audio garbled). | Sharing Presents in Westport 00:01:19 |
| 2009-02-09 | callback | John says adding 'in your pants' to Everything That Rises Must Converge is funny and Williamson will not take away his in-your-pants jokes. | All Aboard the Fail Boat 00:01:41 |
| 2009-04-22 | callback | The joke initiation also involves holding 'an abundance of catherines in your pants on your head'. | Question Tuesday 00:00:40 |
| 2009-07-26 | variant | John retells the origin of the 'in your pants' rule with Maureen Johnson and redoes it with a new list of book titles for a charity video. | Volunteering (In Your Pants) 00:00:37 |
| 2009-08-19 | callback | Hank's Helen Hunt song rhymes 'as good as it gets' with 'in my pants', calling back the in-your-pants gag. | So Jokes: Video EP 00:03:43 |
| 2009-08-25 | callback | A fan's birthday song calls John the king of in-your-pants jokes. | HAPPY JOHN DAY!!! 00:05:29 |
| 2009-08-31 | callback | John names 'Little Pea in your pants' his favorite picture book and later answers 'Where?' with 'In your pants!' | 100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!! 00:00:10 |
| 2009-09-12 | callback | John jokes that the Nerdfighter political agenda includes adding 'in your pants' to the end of book titles. | Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) 00:02:51 |
| 2009-10-07 | variant | A Nerdfighter's find, Victoria Beckham's book 'That Extra Half an Inch', becomes the new 'in your pants' example after 'Pooh Gets Stuck'. | Victoria Beckham In Your Pants 00:00:32 |
| 2009-12-13 | callback | John says that though he pointed at his pants, he wants questions left in the comments, not in his pants. | Eyelash Malaria 00:03:27 |
| 2009-12-28 | callback | John points 'down here, in my pants' and explains the 'in your pants' book-title game discovered by Maureen Johnson. | How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ 00:02:35 |
| 2009-12-30 | callback | John says he'll answer questions in comments, 'not in my pants', while pointing to his pants. | Adorable Puppy Explains Health Care Bill 00:03:38 |
| 2010-01-22 | callback | Maureen, claiming she originated the 'in your pants' joke, says John would not need a stand-in if he could 'keep it in his pants'. | ThisIsNotJohn 00:00:42 |
| 2010-03-02 | callback | John adds 'in your pants' to his proposed novel title 'Giant Inflatable Beavers'. | The Marriage Ref SUCKS 00:00:33 |
| 2010-04-20 | callback | Hank tacks 'in my pants' onto his request for comments. | I Shall BLOW YOUR MIND 00:03:03 |
| 2010-06-07 | callback | John points to the description link as 'a link in my pants'. | Viacom PWNED on Piracy 00:02:56 |
| 2010-06-21 | callback | John lists the in-your-pants jokes the brothers made among the things no one will remember. | You're Gonna Die 00:00:16 |
| 2010-08-20 | callback | Under 'important developments in the field of your pants', John announces The Sweaty Yeti children's book, adding 'In your pants'. | The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? 00:03:18 |
| 2010-12-07 | callback | Hank says there are more non-English tongue twisters 'in my pants'. | Tongue Twisters 00:03:53 |
| 2010-12-09 | callback | John says that to learn more about the Project for Awesome, viewers should 'look in my pants'. | My Zombie Apocalypse Novella 00:03:24 |
| 2010-12-11 | callback | Hank tells video makers to get the P4A thumbnail from 'the links in my pants'. | Project for Awesome and Thoughts from DC 00:00:35 |
| 2011-02-09 | callback | John wears 'Tender Morsels in your pants' on his head, and later signs off 'I'll see you in Your Pants'. | NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) 00:00:31 |
| 2011-02-12 | callback | Hank plays on 'Your Pants' throughout: the Facebook app asks whether you want to remove Your Pants, and he has been doing lots of things to Your Pants all night long. | 200 People in Your Pants 00:02:27 |
| 2011-02-14 | callback | John says 'great job with Your Pants' is a sentence he never thought he'd say. | CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh! 00:02:10 |
| 2011-02-17 | callback | Hank sums up the merged Israeli-Palestinian forum thread as 'Middle East peace in Your Pants'. | This Video Brought to you by Nyquil 00:02:02 |
| 2011-04-29 | variant | John explains Maureen Johnson's 'in your pants' rule and applies it to three new book titles. | Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday 00:01:31 |
| 2011-10-21 | callback | The URLatron tutorial jingle tells the viewer to 'go get in your pants', then 'Now in pants.' | Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron 00:03:11 |
| 2011-11-29 | callback | Updating on the Your Pants forum, Hank jokes about 'the huge load of nerdfighterity in your pants' and says it's still funny. | Stuffed with STUFF! 00:00:58 |
| 2012-01-02 | callback | John lists In Your Pants jokes among the things he never would have guessed five years ago, and later puns that Your Pants 'have been down' because of Russian hackers. | Changes to Vlogbrothers 00:00:00 |
| 2012-06-19 | callback | John tells viewers to look for local Nerdfighters 'in your pants', adding that context is everything (the Your Pants forum). | Solving Your Problems! 00:03:16 |
| 2013-07-09 | callback | MagicTurtle643 adds 'in Your Pants' to the titles of Sarah Addison Allen's novels The Girl Who Chased the Moon and The Sugar Queen. | The World Needs More Magic 00:00:58 |