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Demon Four Year Old

2010-07-30 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · comedy performance

Hank describes visits from Katherine's offline parents and her family's exhausting four-year-old son, concluding that children's slow development is the price of humans relying on cultural rather than genetic evolution.

What is said

00:00:00 — Hank forgets most Americans don't live online: dial-up, never streaming, thinking LOL means 'lots of love'

  • ★★ Hank says he sometimes forgets that not everyone in America is like him and most people don't live their lives online; many Americans still have dial-up, have never streamed a video, or think LOL means 'lots of love'. (playful) — 00:00:01 · United States

00:00:31 — Katherine's parents, who have never had high-speed internet, visit and are kind about Hank's job

  • ★★ Katherine's parents, who have never had high-speed internet, are visiting; they are interested and supportive but don't really understand what Hank does. — 00:00:32 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank thanks Katherine's parents for being nice about his job even though they don't get it. — 00:01:00 · Katherine Green

00:01:05 — Katherine's brother's family visits; their four-year-old son: 'brain damage', demon threats over Go Fish, 6 a.m. wake-ups, perseverance and relaxation, poop

  • ★★ Katherine's brother, sister-in-law and their four-year-old son, Hank's nephew, are also in town, making a big group. — 00:01:05 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Hank jokingly warns John to prepare before a child of the brothers turns four, citing Bill Cosby's 'brain damage' routine about young children. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • ★★ Joking aside, Hank says his nephew is fun, funny and cute; the boy wakes at 6 a.m. every day, so Hank has been going to sleep much earlier than usual. — 00:01:51
  • ★★ Hank tries to teach his nephew the meaning of perseverance and relaxation, but the boy grasps neither idea. (playful) — 00:02:12
  • ★ Hank says his nephew is obsessed with the size of his poops and assumes everyone else is interested too. (playful) — 00:02:47

00:02:59 — Slow child development as the cost of relying on cultural rather than genetic evolution; asking viewers about their poop; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank says the slow development of human children is a side effect of relying on cultural rather than genetic evolution, which is what makes people amazing, so complaining would be foolish. (hedged) — 00:02:59
  • ★ On behalf of his curious nephew, Hank asks everybody how their poop has been lately. (joke) — 00:03:13

Humor (significant)

  • Hank imagines a condolence email about a dead golden retriever from someone who thinks LOL means 'lots of love'. — 00:00:20 > «Lol, Margaret.»
  • Hank imagines his own daughter marrying a man who skips lunch because he has to talk to a camera and flail his arms, and says he would not be friendly to that guy — 00:00:53 > «and I have a 10 megabit per second download.»
  • After happily agreeing to play Go Fish, five minutes later the nephew turns on Uncle Hank in a demon voice. — 00:01:36 > «I will torture your soul for an eternity of hellfire.»
  • Hank closes by passing on his nephew's fixation to the audience. — 00:03:13 > «how has your poop been lately?»

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