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John: eat a viewer-voted fat sandwich for missing his Sunday video (2009)

punishment · status: performed · last event: performed (2014-07-18) · owner: John

Part of: Brotherhood 2.0.0.9: the vlogbrothers' 2009 schedule and rules (2009)

Parts: Hank asks viewers to post punishment ideas for John's missed video (June 2009) · Hank asks Nerdfighters to vote on the recipe for John's Carl's Jr. punishment (2009) · John: answer the first 317 questions asked in comments (2009)

Told alongside: Hank: 15 hours in the Missoula Target for his 4:02 video (2009)

About: Carl's Jr., Carl's Jr. portobello mushroom burger, Punishment, Crisco

date event what video
2009-06-01 proposed Hank tells John he is being punished for not making his video, whatever his excuses. (playful) DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants 00:00:00
2009-06-05 set Hank sets John's punishment for missing his Sunday video: eat a Carl's Jr. burger as its constituent parts (not blenderized), in a way viewers choose. (playful) JOHN'S PUNISHMENT! Eating Carl's Jr John's Way 00:00:29
2009-06-07 accepted John says he can't afford another punishment and that, with the sandwich winning the vote, Hank will likely see him eat a fat sandwich on Tuesday. (hedged) I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! 00:03:46
2009-06-10 performed Hank reports John has eaten and filmed the fat sandwich and says he puked after two bites; the video is not yet up. (playful) WIDE ANGLE LENS! And Not Eating Fat Sandwiches 00:00:29
2009-06-10 performed John eats the strawberry-protein Crisco fat sandwich on camera, vomits partway, and finishes it. (playful) Eating a FAT SANDWICH 00:03:37
2014-07-18 performed In June 2008 John missed a video and had to eat a sandwich made of lard and protein meal. EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! 00:02:12

What is said about it

11 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — announcement: Hank tells John that, whatever his excuse, he should have made his video and is being punished, which Hank says is overdue and he looks forward to. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-06-05 · JOHN'S PUNISHMENT! Eating Carl's Jr John's Way — Hank reports finding many Carl's Jr. ads on YouTube, some by his favorite YouTubers, all on the theme of how you eat the chain's portobello mushroom burger. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2009-06-05 · JOHN'S PUNISHMENT! Eating Carl's Jr John's Way — Hank says four recipes at nerdfighters.com are nutritionally and chemically very similar to the burger, each with 50 g protein, 1,000 mg sodium, 9 g sugar, 47 g carbohydrates and 54 g fat. — 00:00:58
  • 2009-06-07 · I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! — John says he is very tired but is making the video anyway because he cannot afford to be punished again. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-06-07 · I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! — announcement: John says the sandwich is winning the vote, so Hank will likely see him eat a fat sandwich on Tuesday. (hedged) — 00:03:46
  • 2009-06-10 · WIDE ANGLE LENS! And Not Eating Fat Sandwiches — announcement: Hank announces the chosen punishment: strawberry-flavored protein powder dissolved into melted Crisco and made into a fat sandwich, like a Carl's Jr. burger eaten 'John's way'. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2009-06-10 · WIDE ANGLE LENS! And Not Eating Fat Sandwiches — Hank says John has done and filmed the punishment; John reported the first two bites were delicious and then he puked. — 00:00:29
  • 2009-06-10 · Eating a FAT SANDWICH — announcement: John explains the challenge: eat the nutritional equivalent of a Carl's Jr. specialty burger as its constituent parts - fat, corn syrup, salt and protein - plus a bun. (playful) — 00:00:16
  • 2009-06-10 · Eating a FAT SANDWICH — John's recipe: a quarter cup of Crisco, one teaspoon of high fructose corn syrup (Mrs. Butterworth), one teaspoon of salt and two scoops of strawberry soy protein, blended, on a wheat bun. (playful) — 00:00:44
  • 2009-06-10 · Eating a FAT SANDWICH — John finds the fat sandwich 'kind of delicious' at first - strawberry, salty, sugary, fatty - but halfway through it tastes bad and he feels sick, and powers through. (playful) — 00:02:10
  • 2009-06-10 · Eating a FAT SANDWICH — John: A voiceover freezes the footage so young viewers need not see John vomit; John then finishes the sandwich. (playful) — 00:03:11