John Green bobblehead: John's birthday present, sold to Nerdfighters (2009)
project history · status: completed · last event: milestone (2015-11-27 (said on 2015-11-26, implied)) · last mentioned: 2016-08-26
Hank's and the Nerdfighters' 2009 birthday present to John was a John Green bobblehead; 500 had to be made, and nearly all were sold to Nerdfighters. In 2016 Hank brought it up again as one of John's birthday presents.
Part of: Happy John Day 2009 edition: Nerdfighters' birthday collaboration video for John
Told alongside: Hank: make John a longer, comprehensive birthday collaboration (2009) · John: auction his nerd glasses for P4A 2009 (2009)
About: John Green bobblehead
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-08-24 | outcome | Hank reveals the John Green bobblehead: 500 were made, nearly all have sold, and one is on its way to John. | HAPPY JOHN DAY!!! 00:09:18 |
| 2009-08-30 | milestone | Asked whether he likes his John Green bobblehead, John answers without a word, just rattling it so its head nods. | 100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!! 00:00:12 |
| 2009-12-16 | milestone | Hank says a single John Green bobblehead signed by both brothers is also being auctioned; his auction money goes to the Nature Conservancy, and John's (glasses, bobblehead) to stopping malaria. | Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy 00:01:25 |
| 2009-12-20 | milestone | John says several P4A items are still auctioned on eBay, including a nerdfighter's bobblehead of John benefiting charity: water; links are in the doobly-doo. | Awesome Project Is Awesome 00:01:51 |
| 2010-12-17 | milestone | John lists P4A raffle prizes from YouTubers including Meekakitty, WheezyWaiter, Nerimon and Ryan Higa, plus Nerdfighter raffles including his nerd glasses and the last remaining BobbleJohn. | PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2010: Save the Children and Partners in Health 00:02:24 |
| 2011-02-11 | looked back | Hank shows his Bobble-John, Sandman comics and other graphic novels, Terry Pratchett, Mars trilogy and Neil Gaiman books and DFTBA CDs; his Hunger Games is loaned out. | 200 People in Your Pants 00:00:56 |
| 2015-11-27 (said on 2015-11-26, implied) | milestone | Hank announces everything at DFTBA.com is 20% off this week (week of 23 November 2015) and that Bobble John and Bobble Hank bobbleheads are available. | Never Satisfied: The Story of Humans ¦-/ 00:03:16 |
| 2016-08-26 | looked back | Hank recalls the John bobblehead as one of John's birthday presents, of which the brothers made a whole bunch; his own copy is broken, and the new John and Hank bobbleheads, sold as a set, look better. | I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes 00:00:11 |
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
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-08-24 · HAPPY JOHN DAY!!! — announcement: The description says the bobbleheads are sold out and that people on the secret project mailing list got first dibs. — video description
- 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — announcement: The description lists P4A auctions (bobbleheads for Malaria No More and charity: water; So Jokes cover and disc art for the Nature Conservancy) and says Fall of Autumn Distro matches donations to Save the Music. — video description
- 2016-08-26 · I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes — Hank says that early in Vlogbrothers the brothers did a lot of birthday stuff, one-upping each other until it was a lot of work; the John bobblehead was one such present, made in quantity. — 00:00:03
- 2016-08-26 · I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes — announcement: Hank notes John was long the only brother with a bobblehead, but now Hank has one too and viewers can get a set of both. — 00:00:17