Hank's talking Hank Sock ventriloquist act (2009)
running joke · status: running joke (last seen 2012) · last event: callback (2012-01-17)
A sock puppet of Hank, given to him on the Nerdfighter tour, first appeared in February 2009 and soon came back as a talking ventriloquist partner. Hank Sock kept returning to heckle Hank through 2011 and turned up backstage on the 2012 tour.
Parts: Hank asks Nerdfighters for ideas of what to do with his Hank sock puppet (2009)
About: Hank Sock
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-02-03 | first use | Hank shows a Hank sock made by a Nerdfighter and given to him on the Nerdfighter tour, and asks for ideas of what he and the sock could do besides embarrassing-moment sock puppet theater, which was already done. | Five Parts 00:01:45 |
| 2009-02-18 | callback | Hank reintroduces the Hank Sock, which now talks, as his ventriloquist partner. (playful) | Fake Movie Talk With A Sock 00:00:00 |
| 2009-02-25 | callback | Hank does a mock ventriloquist act, singing while a puppet appears to sing harmony, then admits he is not a ventriloquist. (joke) | I Know (A Song in Ten Words) 00:02:02 |
| 2009-05-20 | callback | Hank's sock puppet, 'Hank Sock', asks whether Hank is annoyed that John gets to answer questions every Question Tuesday and Hank never does. (joke) | Ulcerative Colitis: A Song 00:02:20 |
| 2009-12-09 (said on 2009-12-10, implied) | callback | Hank Sock dismisses the news as Hank and his nerdy friends drinking juicy juices, and says his ingrown toenail is a huge deal too but he isn't making a conference about it. (joke) | ANNOUNCING! VidCon: Online Video IRL 00:00:36 |
| 2010-02-17 | callback | Hank Sock returns to heckle Hank, insisting John was wrong on five major points. (playful) | WRONG WRONG WRONG 00:00:07 |
| 2011-01-19 | callback | Hank Sock talks again, interrupting Hank's Magna Carta riff to explain why we don't drink pig's milk. (joke) | YOU ARE WRONG! 00:01:39 |
| 2012-01-17 | callback | John cuts to a quick backstage meeting with Hank Sock, who says he is a little nervous before the show. (playful) | Thoughts from Places: The Tour 00:01:01 |
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
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-02-18 · Fake Movie Talk With A Sock — Hank reintroduces his Hank Sock, which can now talk; the two are going on the road as a ventriloquist act. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2009-02-18 · Fake Movie Talk With A Sock — both: Hank and Hank Sock agree movies this year (2009) mostly stink, with two exceptions: Coraline and Slumdog Millionaire. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2009-02-18 · Fake Movie Talk With A Sock — 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). (joke) — 00:00:27
- 2009-02-18 · Fake Movie Talk With A Sock — Hank: Instead, she came up to the attic to put away her Christmas tree stand, found him there, he proposed and she said yes; Hank and the sock congratulate the couple. (playful) — 00:02:19
- 2010-02-17 · WRONG WRONG WRONG — Hank Sock tells Hank that John's video was wrong on five major points and that, back after three weeks, John must be held accountable. (playful) — 00:00:07
- 2011-01-19 · YOU ARE WRONG! — Hank Sock says there are good reasons we don't drink pig's milk, having to do with pigs' reproductive system and the practice of breeding pigs for meat rather than dairy. (playful) — 00:01:42
- 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — Hank Sock: Before the show the brothers meet Hank Sock, who says he is backstage, a little nervous, and can see a lot of people through the crack in the curtain. (fiction) — 00:01:01