The brothers' feud, to be judged by Nerdfighters (2007)
project history · status: last documented in 2007 (looked back on in 2009) · last event: proposed (2007-10-12) · last mentioned: 2009-04-25
In October 2007, after nine months without a disagreement, the brothers started a feud over the 2008 election and zombies versus unicorns. John conceded politics to Hank, then proposed ending the feud to honour Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize, but in later years he still sided with the zombies.
Parts: John asks Hank to suggest more topics for their feud (2007)
Told alongside: John asks Nerdfighters to leave questions for Question Tuesday (2009)
About: zombie, unicorn, Al Gore
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-10-02 | proposed | John proposes a little feud between the brothers, since they have never disagreed in nine months, perhaps with Nerdfighters picking the winner. (playful, hedged) | Oct. 2nd: Brotherhood 2.0 on the Road (Literally) 00:02:13 |
| 2007-10-04 | proposed | John suggests topics for the brothers' feud, giving his own picks. (playful) | October 4th: Happy Dances, Feuds, and Raccoon Infestations 00:01:57 |
| 2007-10-05 | proposed | Hank proposes further feud items with his picks, and names politics as the likely real feud. (playful) | October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics 00:01:12 |
| 2007-10-08 | launched | John takes up the feud topics from Hank's Friday video, the 2008 election and zombies versus unicorns, and argues his side. (playful) → refers to October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated | October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns 00:00:00 |
| 2007-10-10 | milestone | John concedes Hank has won the presidential-politics part of the feud, but says Hank will never win zombies versus unicorns. (playful) → refers to October 9th: The Feud Continues | October 10th: A Spoilerific Attack on Unicorns 00:00:39 |
| 2007-10-11 | milestone | Hank says he may accept that zombies are more awesome than unicorns, though not for John's reasons, but stays on Team Unicorn. (playful, hedged) → refers to October 10th: A Spoilerific Attack on Unicorns | October 11th National Coming Out Day 00:02:57 |
| 2007-10-12 | proposed | In honour of Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize, John proposes that the brothers end their feud and go back to decreasing world suck. | October 12th: Carbon Re-Neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0 00:00:14 |
| 2007-10-23 | looked back | Hank looks back on the zombies-versus-unicorns feud: not proud of heading Team Unicorn, and unlike on that topic he agrees with John about creationism. (playful) | October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… 00:02:04 |
| 2009-04-25 | looked back | John says his zombies-vs-unicorns opinion has changed since 2007 only in that he hates unicorns more than ever. (playful) | Saturday Video?!?!?! 00:01:34 |
What is said about it
27 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-10-04 · October 4th: Happy Dances, Feuds, and Raccoon Infestations — ask: John asks Hank to suggest more feud topics if none of his work. (hedged) — 00:02:56
- 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank plays John's feud video and responds to his picks, agreeing on some and saying pirates aren't even well-trained, though Ask a Pirate would be a good show. (playful) — 00:00:04
- 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank offers new feud items with his picks: cheese over chocolate (more kinds of cheese), sxePhil over What the Buck, and Star Trek: The Next Generation over the Original Series. (playful) — 00:01:12
- 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank says there could be a real feud if John Edwards becomes a more substantial candidate, because he likes Edwards a lot. (hedged) — 00:02:39
- 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank says universal health care would be the way to anger John in a feud (wording partly unclear). (playful) — 00:03:08
- 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John answers Hank's Friday video on feud topics, which included the 2008 presidential election: Hank is mostly for John Edwards, John mostly for Barack Obama. — 00:00:00
- 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John says something matters a little more than the presidential debate they have had for months on the forum ('in my pants'): he is appalled that Hank prefers unicorns to zombies. (playful) — 00:01:35
- 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John says young adult authors have been feuding for months over whether zombies or unicorns are preferable. — 00:01:35
- 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John does not like zombies either: they have flesh hanging off them and are not technically people, and he would bet against a zombie versus a werewolf or vampire, though Shaun of the Dead was excellent. (playful) — 00:02:04
- 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John argues unicorns are worse: the worst parts of horses and rhinoceri, and in all of fiction they have accomplished nothing but carrying the Care Bears. (playful) — 00:02:33
- 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John prefers the hard truths of zombies to the easy lies of unicorns, and says that goes for his presidents as well as his myths. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:33 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
- 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John: As a possible compromise, John suggests zombified unicorns. (joke, hedged) — 00:03:01
- 2007-10-09 · October 9th: The Feud Continues — Hank is upset that John called John Edwards a schmuck: John favors honest discussion yet treats a gut feeling about a candidate as more important than what the candidate plans to do. — 00:00:10
- 2007-10-09 · October 9th: The Feud Continues — Hank: Remembering they are feuding, Hank repeats his point in a shout, then says feuding is not healthy. (playful) — 00:01:47
- 2007-10-09 · October 9th: The Feud Continues — Hank would rather meet a unicorn than a zombie in an enchanted forest: zombies can only make more undead by killing the living, and he prefers something whose mission is not to kill him. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:47
- 2007-10-09 · October 9th: The Feud Continues — Hank adds that unicorns are a mix of horses and narwhals, and he is a big fan of narwhals. (playful) — 00:02:29
- 2007-10-10 · October 10th: A Spoilerific Attack on Unicorns — John likes John Edwards and is now equally for Edwards and Barack Obama, conceding that Hank has won that part of the feud. — 00:00:39
- 2007-10-10 · October 10th: A Spoilerific Attack on Unicorns — John says Hank will never win the zombies-versus-unicorns part of the feud, and offers a 'foolproof' argument against unicorns only for those who have read Harry Potter 7. (playful) — 00:01:24
- 2007-10-10 · October 10th: A Spoilerific Attack on Unicorns — John's argument 'Why do you guys hate Tonks so much?': Voldemort survives by drinking unicorn blood, so unicorns saved him, and his war killed Tonks; if you like unicorns, you killed Tonks, and Hedwig. (playful) — 00:01:53
- 2007-10-10 · October 10th: A Spoilerific Attack on Unicorns — John is not defending zombies, which are disgusting, but zombies didn't kill Tonks; in Narnia unicorns only impale people and in Harry Potter they save villains, so unicorns kill while zombies only make people undead. (playful) — 00:02:22
- 2007-10-11 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — Hank: In the feud, Hank says he may be ready to accept that zombies are more awesome than unicorns, though not for John's reasons, but will not give up his place on Team Unicorn. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:57
- 2007-10-12 · October 12th: Carbon Re-Neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0 — John reports that Al Gore, whom he calls a noted American nerdfighter, just won half the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change. — 00:00:14
- 2007-10-12 · October 12th: Carbon Re-Neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0 — John jokes that his first pick for the Nobel Peace Prize would have been the brothers themselves, his second Oprah, and his third Al Gore. (playful) — 00:00:14
- 2007-10-12 · October 12th: Carbon Re-Neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0 — announcement: John: In honour of Gore's prize, John proposes that the brothers end their feud and return to Brotherhood 2.0's real business, decreasing world suck. — 00:00:14
- 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… — Hank says he isn't especially proud of heading Team Unicorn, but is quite proud of being on Team Science. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:04
- 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… — Hank assumes this is what John meant by calling young-earth creationism anti-intellectual in the comments, and says that, unlike on zombies and unicorns, he agrees with John. (hedged) — 00:02:40
- 2009-04-25 · Saturday Video?!?!?! — John: Asked whether his opinion on zombies vs. unicorns has changed since 2007, John says only in that he hates unicorns more than ever. (playful) — 00:01:34