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Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies

2007-05-29 · John · watch on YouTube · Personal life · comedy performance

Packing up his books in New York, John finds a goth-scene guide (an 'in your pants' riff) and a book of history's most evil women, which he offers as the answer to Hank's shortage of evil female babies for the Evil Baby Orphanage; a rhymed reply from the Yeti answers Hank's soccer-team song.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; back on the odd days; scouring New York streets for moving boxes as 'conservationists'; the packed books; nerdfighters don't excel at lifting

  • ★★ John is back on the odd days, in New York City scouring the streets for free moving boxes because Hank has turned them into conservationists. (playful) — 00:00:03 · New York City
  • ★★ John says he and the Yeti have almost finished packing all their books, which he shows piled up. — 00:00:37 · Sarah Urist Green

00:01:08 — Found while packing: 'Everything You Need to Know About the Goth Scene' + 'in your pants' riff; Hank's question about the paucity of evil female babies

  • ★★ While packing, John found two books he had long been looking for; the first is 'Everything You Need to Know About the Goth Scene'. (playful) — 00:01:08
  • ★ Adding 'in your pants' to the title, John wonders which goth scene is meant: people listening to The Cure, or armies massacring each other. (joke) — 00:01:08 · in your pants
  • ★★★ Answering Hank's question about the scarcity of evil female babies, John presents his second find, a book on the most evil women in history. (playful) — 00:01:08 · Evil Baby Orphanage

00:01:46 — 'The most evil women in history': Queen Ranavalona I, King Zog I, a quote on Madagascar; enough evil ladies for the Evil Baby Orphanage

  • ★★ John is particularly impressed by Queen Ranavalona I among the book's evil women: he likes saying her name. (playful) — 00:01:46
  • ★ John says he likes that Ranavalona was 'the First' and that there was never a Ranavalona II. (playful) — 00:02:12
  • ★ Ranavalona reminds John of another favourite monarch from history, King Zog I of Albania. (playful) — 00:02:12
  • ★★ John reads Hank a quote about Ranavalona saying that if her rule lasted much longer, Madagascar would be depopulated. — 00:02:12
  • ★★★ John concludes the brothers should have no trouble finding enough evil ladies to fill out the Evil Baby Orphanage. (playful) (hedged) — 00:02:12 · Evil Baby Orphanage

00:02:44 — A note 'from the desk of the Yeti': Sarah's rhymed reply to Hank's warning song (two kids, a two-man luge team); sign-off and birthday wishes

  • ★★ Interrupted at sign-off, John receives a note 'from the desk of the Yeti' and reads it: Sarah's rhymed reply to Hank, recalling that she and John married a year ago last week. (playful) — 00:02:44 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★★ Sarah's poem thanks Hank for his warning but says one Yeti's womb can manage only two children, and that John must stop (number garbled in ASR) to stay married. (playful) — 00:02:44 · Sarah Urist Green, John Green
  • ★★ The poem says their kids needn't play soccer: the only team they will make is a two-man luge, and Sarah may someday be a 'luge team making machine'. (playful) — 00:03:11 · Sarah Urist Green

Humor (significant)

  • John adds 'in your pants' to the title of a goth-scene guide and asks which goth scene is meant. — 00:01:08 > «it's gonna be really awkward to have large armies massacring each other in my pants.»
  • John says the first thing he likes about Queen Ranavalona is saying her name. — 00:01:46 > «Rana-valona, Rana-valona, Rana-valona, Rana-valona!»
  • The Yeti answers Hank's song warning that John wants two miniature soccer teams of children. — 00:02:44 > «there's only so much one Yeti's womb can do, and that number is two.»
  • The poem says their kids needn't play soccer or be numerous to win their hearts. — 00:03:11 > «the team they'll make is two-man luge.»

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