John and Hank: develop the Evil Baby Orphanage into a story (2007)
project history · status: last documented in 2008 · last event: milestone (2008-05-20)
The brothers' idea, from May 2007, of turning the Evil Baby Orphanage joke into a story or book, perhaps worked out in videos and illustrated by Cam Robertson. In May 2008 John thought he had found its premise: a second incarnation of baby Hitler.
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John asks Hank and viewers what to do with the Evil Baby Orphanage idea (2007) — On 2007-05-14 John asks Hank and viewers what to do with the Evil Baby Orphanage idea; Hank's next-day proposal to develop it into a story answers that ask
Part of: The Evil Baby Orphanage (2007)
Parts: Hank asks Brooke and the Nerdfighters for permission to develop the Evil Baby Orphanage (2007) · Hank asks John how to write a book proposal for fiction (2007)
Told alongside: John asks Hank and viewers what to do with the Evil Baby Orphanage idea (2007)
About: Evil Baby Orphanage, Cam Robertson
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-05-14 | proposed | John says something has to be done with the evil baby orphanage idea but he doesn't know what, and hopes Hank or someone else has ideas. (hedged) | Brotherhood 2.0: May 14: The Evil Baby Orphanage 00:01:12 |
| 2007-05-15 | proposed | Hank proposes that the brothers develop the Evil Baby Orphanage into a storytelling project, while not promising a book. (hedged) | May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia 00:00:56 |
| 2007-05-16 | proposed | John proposes developing the Evil Baby Orphanage through a series of videos reading proposed book proposals to each other, posted on Brotherhood 2.0 on weekends, leading to a book proposal. | Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground 00:01:10 |
| 2007-06-08 | proposed | John proposes that Cam Robertson illustrate the Evil Baby Orphanage book if and when it exists. (hedged) | Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues 00:01:16 |
| 2008-05-20 | milestone | John tells Hank he may have found the premise for the Evil Baby Orphanage story: a second incarnation of baby Hitler stays in history. (playful, hedged) | Guys Love Giraffe Love 00:03:11 |
What is said about it
16 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — Hank: On the Evil Baby Orphanage, Hank says there is only one option: the brothers have to do this. (hedged) — 00:00:56
- 2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — Hank says he is not saying there will be a Hank and John Green book called Evil Baby Orphanage, but thinks the idea is pretty fertile ground for storytelling. (hedged) — 00:01:27
- 2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — announcement: John says that, so far as he can tell, Evil Baby Orphanage creator Brooke has not officially permitted making it into a movie, novel, graphic novel or whatever, but he thinks they should move ahead with the project. (hedged) — 00:00:40
- 2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — announcement: John proposes also posting the Evil Baby Orphanage videos on Brotherhood 2.0 over weekends so the Nerdfighters can see them, if and when they do this. (hedged) — 00:01:39
- 2007-05-17 · May 17th: Wikeeeeeepedia...and Happy Birthday Katherine — Hank: On the proposed book proposals, Hank says so far he has only stories in his head, which are getting better, funnier, cooler and more intense. — 00:01:03
- 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank worries about discussing the Evil Baby Orphanage proposal publicly: for him the biggest thrill of a book, movie or TV show is secrets assembled slowly. (hedged) — 00:02:20
- 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank says the no-text-communication rule makes keeping the proposal secret harder, but he thinks they can, though he doesn't know how. (hedged) — 00:02:49
- 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank's issue with the Evil Baby Orphanage idea: there aren't very many evil baby girls. (playful) — 00:02:49
- 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank floats a gay evil baby orphanage, claiming many evil people in history were repressed homosexuals, but says he doesn't want to go there. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:17
- 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank wants female characters and leads in the Evil Baby Orphanage and says the brothers must work out where evil female babies and the love interests come from. (hedged) — 00:03:17
- 2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — John: Answering Hank's question about the scarcity of evil female babies, John presents his second find, a book on the most evil women in history. (playful) — 00:01:08
- 2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — John concludes the brothers should have no trouble finding enough evil ladies to fill out the Evil Baby Orphanage. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:12
- 2007-06-15 · June 15: AIRRRRPORRRTS!!! — Hank says he and John worked on the Evil Baby Orphanage during the family vacation, and the idea is not getting any less awesome. (playful) — 00:01:02
- 2007-08-16 · August 16th: Finding — and Licking — a Cat — John still thinks the Evil Baby Orphanage has tremendous potential as some kind of creative project, and that Nerdfighters are discussing it well in the forum. (hedged) — 00:00:57
- 2008-05-20 · Guys Love Giraffe Love — John: If the time machine's buyer killed John first, a Schrödinger's cat situation would follow; John thinks this solves the Evil Baby Orphanage's relation to history and is their premise. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:11
- 2009-04-08 (said on 2009-04-07, implied) · Become a Time Traveller TODAY! — Hank says the brothers disagree on the orphanage as a story: John wants well-known evil babies like Stalin and Hitler, but then why does the world still suck? (playful) — 00:00:40