John's diseased gallbladder and its removal (2011)
story · status: told 2×, last update 2023 · last event: mentioned (2023-12-24)
In summer 2011 John's diseased gallbladder made him cut short a visit to Venice and miss a Nerdfighter gathering, and it was removed, so he missed a video. The brothers joked about the recovery, and both recalled the surgery in later years.
Told alongside: Hanklerfish: an anglerfish drawn by a Hank (2011) · Hank: punishment for missing a video (August 2011)
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-07-20 (said on 2011-07-21, implied) | told | Hank tells John the Nerdfighter gathering just shown was one John missed because of his gallbladder. | HARDCASTLED! 00:00:03 |
| 2011-08-03 | update | Hank says John missed a video because he was having his gallbladder removed, earning a medical exception from punishment. | I Love My Brother 00:02:55 |
| 2011-08-15 | update | John says his gallbladder was recently removed (he declines to show the scars) and recites a haiku for the occasion. | HANKLERFISH! 00:01:45 |
| 2011-08-19 | update | John relays being told that after gallbladder surgery he'd feel like he did a thousand crunches; the brothers joke about getting an eight pack. (playful) | Outtake Insanity and NERD FACTOR 00:01:11 |
| 2011-10-19 | mentioned | Answering a viewer, John says he once stopped liking pizza because he had a diseased gallbladder and needed abdominal surgery. (playful) | Question Wed — THE COVER OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS! 00:01:32 |
| 2014-08-08 | mentioned | Hank recalls that John missed a video when his gallbladder was removed. | Who Owns a Monkey's Selfie? And a Song About Meningitis! 00:02:23 |
| 2017-08-08 (happened 2011-06) | retold | John recalls cutting that visit short the next day to fly back to Amsterdam; his gallbladder turned out to need removing. | What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy 00:02:12 |
| 2023-12-24 | mentioned | After having his gallbladder removed, John says he can't do the sandwich punishment and asks viewers to suggest another for Hank to pick. | John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 02:08:36 |
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).
- 2011-07-20 (said on 2011-07-21, implied) · HARDCASTLED! — Hank says those who were there can attest the gathering was fun without John. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:03
- 2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — John says he owes a punishment but cannot do the sandwich punishment, because his gallbladder was recently removed; he declines to show the scars. — 00:01:35
- 2011-08-19 · Outtake Insanity and NERD FACTOR — John says someone told him gallbladder surgery is no big deal and afterwards he'd feel like he'd done a thousand crunches, which sounds horrible to him. (playful) — 00:01:11
- 2014-08-08 · Who Owns a Monkey's Selfie? And a Song About Meningitis! — Hank says John has now missed three videos through hospitalisation: orbital cellulitis (an infection behind his eyeball), gallbladder removal, and now viral meningitis. — 00:02:16