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December 5th: The Adorable Cannibal (PG-13)

2007-12-05 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Everyday life · comedy performance

For his Wednesday song Hank performs a comic love song in the voice of a food-obsessed narrator whose favorite food is now his partner; he opens by noting two other YouTubers doing Song Wednesday-like projects and closes by telling John the newsletter is fixed.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; CharlieIsSoCool (Vloglovers) and Abby2R (Songs from a Hat) doing projects like Song Wednesday; song begins

  • ★★ Hank says two other people are doing projects similar to Song Wednesday: CharlieIsSoCool in the Vloglovers channel and Abby2R in her new Songs from a Hat series; he is very excited about both. — 00:00:01 · Song Wednesday, Charlie McDonnell

00:00:25 — Song: a narrator who loves food like a lover now wants to eat his lover

  • ★★★ In song, Hank's narrator confesses he loves his partner the way he should love food, and vice versa; food is still his favorite thing, but now his favorite food is the partner. (fiction) — 00:00:25
  • ★★ In song, the narrator promises not to eat his partner though he can't stop wanting to, will try to stop making out with food, and credits the partner with helping him lose weight. (fiction) — 00:02:41

00:03:26 — Final chorus; newsletter fixed, anyone can sign up; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank tells John he fixed the newsletter: anyone can now sign up, and people who haven't received the confirmation email will soon. — 00:03:26

Humor (dominant)

  • The narrator tells his partner she looks so good he wants to sprinkle her on his food. — 00:00:25 > «If I could I would eat you like a five year old eats glue»
  • Everyone loves Chinese food, the narrator sings, but his love of food went further. — 00:01:13 > «But I used to want to procreate with every plate that I ate»
  • The narrator's potatoes and carrots need stewing. — 00:01:57 > «but I want to stew you too.»
  • After promising not to eat his partner, the narrator lists what the relationship has done for him. — 00:02:41 > «You've helped me lose a lot of weight And that's pretty great»

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