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Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007

2007-01-25 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

John answers the first part of Hank's survey to a puppet (knowing Hank and Katherine, a Wii, his books and the video project, his untitled third book, The Book Thief), then applies the 'in your pants' rule to books from his library and adds an addendum: sometimes 'from your pants' is funnier.

What is said

00:00:00 — Two-part plan; survey part one, asked by a puppet: knowing Hank and Katherine, a Wii, writing books and the video project, the untitled third book, best book The Book Thief and a sticker under Zusak's name

  • ★★ Answering the survey, John says he has known Hank since Hank was born and Katherine since, he believes, 1999. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Hank Green, Katherine Green
  • ★★ Asked what he wants from them, John calls it a 'question wrongly phrased': the question is what his brother wants from him, a Nintendo Wii, which John also wants from Hank. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John says he is writing books for teenagers and doing 'this weird video project' with his brother; his answer to why he writes is cut off mid-sentence. — 00:00:38 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★★★ John says the major next thing is finishing his new and as yet untitled third book. — 00:00:59
  • ★★★ Asked for the best book he's read this year, John names the best he read last year: probably The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. (hedged) — 00:00:59

00:01:24 — Congratulations to Zusak; books from John's home library with 'in your pants' (Getting the Girl to The Echo Maker)

  • ★★ Placing a sticker right beneath Zusak's name on the book (the description calls it the Printz Honor), John congratulates him: 'Definitely deserved.' — 00:01:24
  • ★★★ John applies the 'in-your-pants rule' to books from his home library: Getting the Girl, The Mystery of the Golden Spheres, Rabbit at Rest, The Cheese Monkeys, Everyman, The Stranger and more. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:24 · in your pants
  • ★ In passing John calls The Mystery of the Golden Spheres 'unfathomably bad'. — 00:01:24
  • ★★ The list continues with The Little Drummer Girl, The Sun Also Rises, The Thin Man, The Echo Maker and Everything That Rises Must Converge. (joke) — 00:01:46

00:02:31 — Everything That Rises Must Converge; addendum to the rule: 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone… From Your Pants', sung as a Carter Family tune; sign-off

  • ★★★ John adds an addendum to the rule: sometimes 'in your pants' isn't the funniest addition; funniest is 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone… From Your Pants'. (playful) (hedged) — 00:02:31 · in your pants
  • ★★ John says he believes 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone' is an old Carter Family tune, and sings it with 'from your pants'. (hedged) — 00:03:00

Humor (significant)

  • Asked what he wants from Hank and Katherine, John reframes the question as what his brother wants from him. — 00:00:38 > «a Nintendo Wii. That's also what I want from my brother.»
  • Adding 'in your pants' to the title The Sun Also Rises. — 00:01:46 > «which is actually what The Sun Also Rises is about.»
  • After 'Rabbit at Rest in Your Pants', something is hopping. — 00:01:46 > «Man, I sure am glad you stopped hopping.»
  • John's addendum: the funniest variant of 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone' is… — 00:03:00 > «From your pants.»

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