Hank: 15 hours in the Missoula Target for his 4:02 video (2009)
punishment · status: performed · last event: performed (2010-01-08) · owner: Hank · last mentioned: 2014-07-18
Parts: John asks Nerdfighters to suggest and vote on Hank's punishment (2009) · John: announce Hank's punishment on Tuesday (2009)
Told alongside: John: eat a viewer-voted fat sandwich for missing his Sunday video (2009) · John: ride the Frog Hopper, punishment for Nerdfighters finding Gus Is a Bug (2009)
About: Four-minute rule, Punishment, Target Corporation, Missoula, Montana
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-11-22 | set | Citing Hank's four-minute-two-second video last week (week of 9 November 2009) as a breach of the four-minute rule, John declares that Hank is getting punished. (playful) → refers to Crazy Man is Crazy (with SEATTLE INFO!!) | Hank in FAMY 00:01:57 |
| 2009-12-01 | set | John sets Hank's punishment: 15 hours in the Missoula Target from opening to close without leaving, plus buying a blender and publicly blending and eating a meal in the Target restaurant. (playful) → refers to Crazy Man is Crazy (with SEATTLE INFO!!) | Shaving for Pakistan 00:03:03 |
| 2009-12-08 | accepted | Hank acknowledges he will have to spend 15 hours inside a Target. | Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! 00:03:04 |
| 2010-01-04 | changed | Under the new one-week rule John tells Hank he has one week from today to spend 15 hours in a Target. | It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules 00:02:39 |
| 2010-01-06 (said on 2010-01-05, implied) | performed | Hank serves his punishment, spending the day (15 hours) inside a Target and filming it. (playful) | 15 Hours in Target! 00:00:07 |
| 2010-01-08 | performed | John congratulates Hank on completing 15 hours in Target without going insane or getting arrested. (playful) → refers to 15 Hours in Target! | GUS HAS NO FUZZ! 00:00:29 |
| 2014-07-18 | looked back on | That November Hank made a video two seconds too long and had to spend 15 hours in a Target. | EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! 00:02:19 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
13 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — John says Nerdfighteria has long wanted to punish Hank, but Hank keeps the rules: a video every Wednesday, a song every other Wednesday, never more than four minutes. (playful) — 00:00:29
- 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — John: After Hank posted a video of four minutes and two seconds last week (week of 9 November 2009), he called John saying the overrun was only the subscription screen and that he is on tour. (playful) — 00:00:59
- 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — John says that is what happens in a world without enforced rules; he may have to live with it in real life but will not stand for it in Nerdfighteria, and is still mad about the handball. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:28
- 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — John argues that people, in sports and in life, tend to think breaking the rules isn't really breaking them unless and until they get caught. — 00:01:57
- 2009-11-22 · Hank in FAMY — announcement: John announces that Hank is getting punished, and says he doesn't mind his own punishment since Hank is being punished too. (playful) — 00:01:57
- 2009-12-01 · Shaving for Pakistan — John reports a Nerdfighter's calculation that the extra two seconds of Hank's punished video, watched about 55,000 times, cost Nerdfighteria 26 hours; 'we want our 26 hours back'. (playful) (doubtful: 26 hours) — 00:03:03
- 2009-12-01 · Shaving for Pakistan — announcement: John sets Hank's punishment: be at the Missoula, Montana Target when it opens at 8 a.m. and stay, without leaving, until it closes 15 hours later. (playful) — 00:03:17
- 2009-12-01 · Shaving for Pakistan — announcement: John: Because the store closes, John adds a second punishment for the missing 11 hours: Hank buys a blender there and publicly blends and eats (or drinks) a meal of his choice in the Target restaurant. (playful) — 00:03:30
- 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank acknowledges he will have to spend 15 hours inside a Target as his punishment. — 00:03:04
- 2010-01-06 (said on 2010-01-05, implied) · 15 Hours in Target! — Hank says Nerdfighters came to see him in the Target. — 00:00:45
- 2010-01-06 (said on 2010-01-05, implied) · 15 Hours in Target! — Hank: Near the end of his 15 hours in Target, Hank eats 'one last heaping spoonful', coughs, and calls it a horrible idea. (playful) — 00:03:09
- 2010-01-08 · GUS HAS NO FUZZ! — John congratulates Hank on spending 15 hours in Target without going insane or getting arrested. (playful) — 00:00:29
- 2026-10-13 · My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body — Hank: Asked his favorite part of his day of punishment in Target, Hank recalls a nerdfighter coming to the Target's Starbucks (not yet a Starbucks then) with little penguin art (as heard) for him: a nerdfighter gathering of three. — 00:02:22