John grows a Movember beard for prostate cancer research (2009)
story · status: told 2×, last update 2014 · last event: retold (2014-11-12)
In November 2009 John grows a beard for Movember to raise money for prostate cancer research, and on 1 December 2009 he shaves it on camera. In 2014 Hank recalls that shave as the origin of Pizza John.
Told alongside: John's Pizza John mustache, worn on camera as a recurring bit (2011)
About: Movember
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-11-17 | told | Asked about his beard, John says he is growing it for Movember after someone offered money to prostate cancer research if he kept it all month. | Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition 00:00:35 |
| 2009-11-22 | update | In a coda John says his beard has become very beardy but still cannot grow over one area. (playful) | Hank in FAMY 00:02:27 |
| 2009-12-01 | update | John says Movember is over, so he can finally shave his beard, which he does during the video. | Shaving for Pakistan 00:00:00 |
| 2014-11-12 (happened 2009-12-01) | retold | Hank retells John's video about Pakistan in which he slowly shaved his Movember beard, ending in a few seconds of mustache: the image that became Pizza John. → refers to Shaving for Pakistan | The History of Pizza John! 00:01:32 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-11-17 · Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition — announcement: John says Hank's album is already on iTunes but recommends buying the physical CD because it comes with a poster. — 00:01:05
- 2009-11-17 · Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition — John jokes he dislikes unicorns for refusing to disarm, loves glitter, and calls fruitcake the unicorn of the cake genre. (joke) — 00:01:05
- 2014-11-12 · The History of Pizza John! — Hank: A nerdfighter screencapped that moment; Valerie2776, now the brothers' community manager, adjusted the contrast, traced it in Illustrator and made it white on red: that was Pizza John. — 00:01:44
- 2014-11-12 · The History of Pizza John! — Hank: Valerie2776 posted it on her blog; John saw it and said he wanted it as a shirt, so they made one and some, not many, people bought it. — 00:01:57
- 2014-11-12 · The History of Pizza John! — Hank says the Pizza John face is weird, recognizable and bold, fits the nerd aesthetic and takes a little bravery to wear in public, so it became a kind of nerdfighter badge. — 00:02:07
- 2014-11-12 · The History of Pizza John! — Hank does not know why Pizza John happened: such things happen and we want to explain them but can't, and if we could they would be less special. (unsure) — 00:02:26