The brothers' 'movie magic': footage shot on another day presented as today's (2007)
running joke · status: running joke (last seen 2014) · last event: callback (2014-11-17)
In January 2007 Hank revealed that footage he presented as today's had been filmed days earlier and called it 'movie magic'; the brothers kept using the phrase for faked days and places through Brotherhood 2.0 and as late as 2013.
Told alongside: Hank and Katherine's yearly trip through the southeastern United States (2007)
About: Montana, Little Pisgah Mountain, Athens, Georgia, Florida
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-01-29 | first use | Standing on Little Pisgah Mountain 'just like' John did, Hank reveals the footage was filmed three days earlier and calls it movie magic. (playful) | Brotherhood 2.0: January 29th 00:00:11 |
| 2007-01-31 | variation | In keeping with 'the tradition of movie magic', Hank opens with bulldog footage filmed on the day of his last video, not today. (playful) → refers to Brotherhood 2.0: January 29th | Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st 00:00:00 |
| 2007-02-02 | variation | Hank shows his morning running forward in time, the opposite of his backward-running 'Movie Magic' videos. (playful) | Brotherhood 2.0: February 2nd 00:00:29 |
| 2007-02-12 | variation | Hank claims to be back in Montana over footage he made early in Florida, since the video is posted while he flies home. (playful) | Brotherhood 2.0: February 12th 00:00:00 |
| 2007-02-13 | callback | Asking how he gets from airport to airport, John rules out a hovercraft and 'movie magic': he uses airplanes. (playful) | Brotherhood 2.0: February 13, 2007 00:00:40 |
| 2007-02-14 | callback | Hank says he is back in Montana 'for real this time', after claiming to be back over Florida footage in his previous video. (playful) | Brotherhood 2.0: February 14th 00:00:04 |
| 2007-10-16 | callback | John blames 'a lot of movie magic' for having shown only an abridged library tour earlier. (playful) | October 16th: John's Library Pwns 00:00:42 |
| 2007-12-26 (said on 2007-12-25, implied) | callback | John admits his greeting's day and time are false (it is Christmas afternoon and he will have left Asheville by upload) and calls it 'Movie magic!'. (playful) | Dec. 26th: Christmas, Manga, and Goat Poop 00:00:10 |
| 2013-07-30 | callback | John promises the story 'in California' and cuts to his hotel: 'Movie... Magic!', a joke six hours in the making. (joke) | Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… 00:00:57 |
| 2014-11-17 | callback | The title names the brothers' "movie magic". (playful) | Combines and Movie Magic: Pizzamas Day 6 video title |
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
3 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Hank: In keeping with 'movie magic', the bulldog footage was filmed on the day of his last video, whose intro he had already shot in Asheville; he is now in Orlando. (playful) — 00:00:39
- 2007-10-16 · October 16th: John's Library Pwns — John confesses that his earlier tour of his catalogued home library used 'movie magic' and was very abridged, and offers the full tour. (playful) — 00:00:42
- 2007-12-26 (said on 2007-12-25, implied) · Dec. 26th: Christmas, Manga, and Goat Poop — John says he is back where it all started, at Mom and Dad's house in Asheville, admits he is filming on Christmas Day rather than the 26th, and marvels it has been 361 days. (playful) — 00:00:10