Hank's 'butt is legs' controversial opinion (2019)
running joke · status: running joke (last seen 2026) · last event: callback (2026-03-17)
Hank's opinion that butt is legs, aired in November 2019, was debated on the P4A 2019 livestream and remained a silly running disagreement with John, who still called it insane in 2026.
Told alongside: Hank's 'we are all bat-people' line, songified by the Gregory Brothers (2015)
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-29 | first use | Hank's controversial opinion is 'butt is legs': butt is butt, but also legs, since your leg bone is in your butt. (joke) | My Most Controversial Opinion 00:01:17 |
| 2019-12-31 | callback | In the livestream's 'butt is legs' debate, participants argue the butt is the top or what happens above the legs, and one rules that medically and anatomically butt is legs. (playful) | Project for Awesome 2019 Recap (BUTT IS LEGS) 00:00:32 |
| 2021-07-13 | callback | John says the brothers' few public disagreements have been about exceptionally silly things like whether Batman is a good superhero and whether butt is legs. (playful) | The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make 00:03:02 |
| 2025-07-15 | callback | Hank holds that not all legs end in butts but all butts are legs, while John insists the butt belongs to the pelvis, not the leg. (playful) | LLAMAS Are NOT What You Think 00:03:34 |
| 2026-03-17 | callback | John says our upper butts are sacred, or upper upper legs as Hank would argue, since Hank remains committed to the insane idea that butt is legs. (playful) | Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles 00:04:14 |
What is said about it
1 statement, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-11-29 · My Most Controversial Opinion — Hank: When Twitter argues the gut ends in the butthole so butt is torso, Hank replies that butt transitions to butthole as arm transitions to hand. (joke) — 00:02:11