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September 11th: Floorcats, Recycling Bins and Memories

2007-09-12 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · comedy performance

Hank finds his cat hiding in the basement ceiling, shows a fan-made Brotherhood 2.0 recycling bin, and on the anniversary recalls learning of the September 11 attacks in his dorm room, asking John and viewers where they were.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting on September 11th; Hank searches the scary part of his basement for 'a very important thing': the cat hiding in the floor (in-floor cat joke)

  • ★ Hank notes the date, September 11th, will never sound the same; he is filming late on a busy day. — 00:00:10
  • ★★ Hank searches the scary part of his basement for 'a very important thing' and finds his cat in a hole in the floor, where she goes when she wants to be away from them. (playful) — 00:01:13

00:01:48 — A Nerdfighter's Brotherhood 2.0 recycling bin (EcoGeek, John's books, World Suck Index) and her polka-dot sunburn story

  • ★★ Hank shows pictures of a Brotherhood 2.0 recycling bin someone made: Brotherhood 2.0 on top, notes about EcoGeek and John's books on the sides, the World Suck Index on the front. (playful) — 00:01:48 · Brotherhood 2.0, EcoGeek, world suck
  • ★ The person who sent the pictures also told a story: friends painted her arms and face on a hot day, and she sunburned except where painted, a polka-dotted Nerdfighter. (playful) — 00:01:48 · Nerdfighteria

00:02:18 — September 11th: Hank remembers waking in his dorm room to the news, and asks John and viewers where they were; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says September 11 has not stopped affecting the world; as older adults recalled where they were when Kennedy was shot, his generation has the morning of September 11, 2001. — 00:02:18
  • ★★★ Hank was asleep in his dorm room when his roommate woke him; he first thought a small plane like a Cessna had hit the World Trade Center, and long didn't believe it. — 00:02:18
  • ★★★ Hank asks John, who he thinks never told him, and everyone else where they were on September 11. (hedged) — 00:02:46 · John Green

Humor (significant)

  • After a suspenseful search of his scary basement for 'a very important thing', Hank finds the cat inside the floor. — 00:01:13 > «Some people have indoor cats. Some people have outdoor cats. We have an in-floor cat.»
  • Hank shows a fan-made recycling bin decorated with Brotherhood 2.0 slogans. — 00:01:48 > «Brotherhood 2.0, helping to recycle and making garbage men extremely confused.»
  • A fan painted by friends got sunburned everywhere except the painted spots. — 00:02:18 > «so now she's red and white polka-dotted Nerdfighter.»

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