John: eat a blenderized Happy Meal, wax a leg and lick a cat, for a textual communication (2007)
punishment · status: performed · last event: performed (2007-08-16) · owner: John
Caught in a textual communication with Hank, John was punished in August 2007: after the Yeti vetoed an ex-girlfriend phone call, donations decided the punishment. John ate a blenderized Happy Meal, waxed a leg and finished by licking a cat on 16 August 2007.
Parts: Hank asks Nerdfighters what John must mention in his ex-girlfriend punishment call (2007)
Told alongside: John asks viewers to donate to Daniel Biss's Illinois state-representative campaign via ActBlue (2007) · Foundation to Decrease World Suck: the Brotherhood 2.0 fund (2007)
About: Punishment, Happy Meal, Foundation to Decrease World Suck, No textual communication
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-08-02 | accepted | Caught by Nerdfighters in a January 11 textual communication, John accepts that he is about to be punished and awaits suggestions, noting the Yeti can veto. (playful) | August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans 00:01:49 |
| 2007-08-03 | set | Hank sets John a preliminary punishment from a viewer's suggestion: call an ex-girlfriend and talk for at least a minute, mentioning things Nerdfighters will suggest. (playful) | August 3: The Retail Dance 00:02:59 |
| 2007-08-06 | changed | The Yeti vetoes the ex-girlfriend phone-call punishment Hank had set, so John must find another. | August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished 00:00:43 |
| 2007-08-06 | proposed | John proposes a ten-tier punishment whose severity depends on the number of donors to Biss's campaign via ActBlue. (playful) | August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished 00:02:03 |
| 2007-08-07 | set | Hank says the donations have skipped several tiers, so John must at least wax a limb of Hank's choosing. (playful) | August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt 00:00:56 |
| 2007-08-07 | changed | Hank rules that small gifts to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck count toward the punishment total. (playful) | August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt 00:02:14 |
| 2007-08-08 | changed | John sets a Friday-midnight deadline for donations counting toward his punishment and counts gifts from minors and non-US people to the Fund to Decrease World Suck. (playful) | August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury 00:03:31 |
| 2007-08-09 | set | Hank calls the total: with 189 donations plus about 50 fund gifts, John must eat a blenderized Happy Meal; he leaves the kind of meal and drink to John. (playful) | August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections 00:00:10 |
| 2007-08-10 | accepted | John accepts he will eat a blenderized Happy Meal while waxing two legs (or two arms if Hank is kind), and says he is 'looking forward to it'. (playful, hedged) | August 10th: Bears!!!! 00:01:11 |
| 2007-08-13 | changed | Hank leaves the Happy Meal and drink to John (blend and eat it) and, since John was a good sport, cuts the waxing to one leg plus licking a cat. (playful) | August 13: The Fair!!!! 00:03:26 |
| 2007-08-14 | changed | Unable to find a cat so far, John puts the cat-licking part of his punishment off till Thursday (16 August 2007). (playful, hedged) | August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) 00:00:22 |
| 2007-08-14 | performed | John performs his punishment: he blends and eats a Happy Meal with an orange drink, then waxes a leg (per the description); the cat licking is still to come. | August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) 00:03:50 |
| 2007-08-16 | performed | John licks Toby, a cat owned by Indianapolis strangers a Nerdfighter found for him, and declares his punishment finished. (playful) | August 16th: Finding — and Licking — a Cat 00:02:38 |
What is said about it
31 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-08-02 · August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans — announcement: John says hard-working Nerdfighters have found a textual communication he apparently sent Hank on January 11, 2007, so he, not Hank, is about to be punished. (hedged) — 00:01:49
- 2007-08-02 · August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans — John says the message read 'Hank, you should feel free to edit this'; had he written 'Hank should feel free to edit this' he would have been fine. (playful) — 00:01:49
- 2007-08-02 · August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans — John says he looks forward to everyone's punishment suggestions and reminds Hank that if the Yeti vetoes one, he doesn't have to do it. (playful) — 00:02:19
- 2007-08-03 · August 3: The Retail Dance — announcement: Hank says Nerdfighters discovered John textually communicated with him ten days after the project started, so John must be punished. — 00:02:27
- 2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — announcement: John reports the Yeti has vetoed the ex-girlfriend punishment, feeling he has tortured his exes enough with radio pieces 'and all of that stuff'. — 00:00:43
- 2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — John: Needing a punishment anyway, John phones Daniel Biss to ask whether he may accept contributions given because John injures himself, so the punishment decreases world suck. (playful) — 00:01:11
- 2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — John proposes basing the severity of his punishment on the number of people who donate to Biss's campaign. (playful) — 00:02:03
- 2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — John: Upper tiers: 75 and 100 donors, breaking Kurt's Peeps eating record plus waxing; 200, a blenderized Happy Meal; 500, 16 hours in Walmart; 5,000, a Nerdfighter tattoo. (playful) — 00:03:01
- 2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — ask: John invites Hank and the Nerdfighters to suggest more punishments and offers to say how many donors each would take. — 00:03:01
- 2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — Hank says this skips a bunch of punishments: at the very least John must wax a limb of Hank's choosing while breaking the Peeps-eating world record set by punk rock Nerdfighter Curt. (playful) — 00:00:56
- 2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — ask: Hank wants to see the blenderized Happy Meal, 96 donations away, and though unsure it can be done, asks nicely for more donations. — 00:02:14
- 2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — ask: Hank says viewers can instead give 50 cents or a dollar to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck; it counts toward the total but does not go to Biss. — 00:02:14
- 2007-08-08 · August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury — announcement: John: Contributions to Biss's ActBlue page before midnight Eastern on Friday count toward John's punishment, as do contributions by non-US people and minors to the Fund to Decrease World Suck. — 00:03:31
- 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank reports a count of 189 (by context, donors to Daniel Biss's campaign), 'not technically enough', but about 50 people also gave to the Foundation to decrease world suck. — 00:00:10
- 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — announcement: Hank leaves the kind of Happy Meal and drink (a soda flavour, or milk) to John, and says he doesn't think he will watch. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:31
- 2007-08-10 · August 10th: Bears!!!! — John admits he never expected this punishment, not thinking so many would give to Daniel's campaign; he underestimated the Nerdfighters, a lesson for everyone. — 00:01:41
- 2007-08-10 · August 10th: Bears!!!! — John is still happy that his punishment can help decrease world suck and hopefully help get Daniel elected. (hedged) — 00:02:10
- 2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — announcement: Hank doesn't care which Happy Meal or drink John gets, but John must blend it and eat it. (playful) — 00:02:57
- 2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John announces that Tuesday, August 14th, is the day of his punishment. — 00:00:24
- 2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John: Presenting it as 'cooking with John Green', John blends a Happy Meal (orange drink, French fries, hamburger), keeping some drink to wash it down. (playful) — 00:00:56
- 2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John feels like puking after one spoonful and retches, but eats the blended Happy Meal spoonful after spoonful until it is finished. — 00:01:58
- 2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John: Before waxing a leg strip by strip, John tells himself it can't be as bad as the Happy Meal; the first strip hurts far more than Sarah's predicted five. — 00:03:16
- 2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John says he would rather wax his entire body than ever eat a blenderized Happy Meal again. (playful) — 00:03:37
- 2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — Hank says he didn't have time to write a song about John eating a blenderized Happy Meal. (playful) — 00:02:59
- 2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — Hank says he looks forward to John finding a cat to lick. (playful) — 00:03:51
- 2007-08-16 · August 16th: Finding — and Licking — a Cat — John: With a Venn diagram John explains his cat-licking dilemma: no one he knows in Indianapolis owns a cat. (playful) — 00:01:26
- 2007-08-16 · August 16th: Finding — and Licking — a Cat — John: Nerdfighters are the 'fourth circle': a Nerdfighter (name unclear) put John in touch with Indianapolis people who have a cat named Toby, to be licked that afternoon. (playful) — 00:02:08
- 2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank is impressed that some nerdfighters are so into Brotherhood 2.0 that they corrected John's cat-licking technique by licking cats themselves. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank reports Katherine's point that for some cat owners licking a cat isn't really a punishment; she sometimes puts Cameo's paw in her mouth. — 00:00:00
- 2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank won't lick Cameo because he hasn't been punished, and hopes never to be punished again because John's punishment set the bar far too high. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:40
- 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In March John missed a video while hospitalised and replied to Hank on a forum, so he ate a blenderized Happy Meal, waxed his legs and licked a cat; Hank is unsure why three, possibly Daniel Biss donations. (hedged) — 00:01:03