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50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter

2013-06-18 · Grace Helbig · watch on YouTube · Everyday life · comedy performance

Guest host Grace Helbig (DailyGrace), filling John's Tuesday during his paternity leave, says she is not as smart as the Vlogbrothers and delivers a comic list of ways to trick people into thinking you are smarter or more sophisticated than you are.

What is said

00:00:36 — Filling in for John on paternity leave; the Vlogbrothers inspire her; stressful; she is not as smart as them

  • ★★ Grace Helbig (DailyGrace, daily videos five days a week) fills in for John Green while he is away with his new baby. (playful) — 00:00:36 · John Green, Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ Grace says the Vlogbrothers inspire her (very smart, articulate, nurturing, progressive, community-driven) and that filling in for one of them is stressful. — 00:00:36 · Vlogbrothers

00:01:19 — The list: ways to seem smarter or more sophisticated (art words, Basquiat, On the Road, Moleskines, cheese, Whole Foods, NPR, Wes Anderson, Rosetta Stone, Prius ... sarcasm)

  • ★★★ Concluding she is not as smart as the Vlogbrothers, Grace offers to teach how to trick people into thinking you're more intelligent, cultured or socially sophisticated than you are. (playful) — 00:01:19
  • ★★ Grace's list, first part: call art 'derivative', mention the film Basquiat, carry On the Road, say you watch Bill Maher and love soccer, carry a Moleskine, French-press coffee, a leather messenger bag, smudged glasses. (satire) — 00:01:19
  • ★★ Grace's cheese and food markers: know a cheese besides mozzarella or cheddar, own a cheese board or knife, shop at Whole Foods and quiz its cheese counter, Gruyere mac and cheese, truffle oil, scones, a wine decanter; 'a lot of this is about cheese'. (satire) — 00:02:35
  • ★★ Grace's media markers: NPR as a car preset, a specific favorite Simpsons episode, finding the new Arrested Development season more nostalgic than groundbreaking, reblogging the New Yorker, Wes Anderson, Ira Glass, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ken Jennings on Twitter, Alanis Morissette's misuse of 'ironic'. (satire) — 00:03:15
  • ★★ Grace's possessions and habits: a typewriter, a telescope, one architecture book, unused Rosetta Stone, a friend with a Prius, whittling, leather furniture, pipes, museum plans, talk of Ethiopian food, a bike on the wall; finally, understanding sarcasm. (satire) — 00:04:19

Humor (dominant)

  • Grace opens with 'Good morning, Hank. It's Tuesday,' swears, and apologizes that this is not her channel — 00:00:01 > «Oh, what a terrible first impression.»
  • You also love watching soccer, Grace advises — 00:01:48 > «FIFA isn't... Paris Hilton's dog's name.»
  • Specific cheese knives would blow cavemen's tiny minds; they cut cheese with rocks — 00:02:35 > «You know what they didn't have? Cheese.»
  • A sophisticated person knows about retirement accounts — 00:02:35 > «You don't think the words Roth IRA are just me naming a member of Congress with a speech impediment.»
  • Signing off to Hank, Grace says she worked hard on the video while John's wife just gave birth — 00:04:49 > «I labored over this, but not like John's wife. Hey-oh!»

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