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Hank in FAMY

2009-11-22 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

John declares Hank's four-minute-two-second video a rule breach worth punishing, using Thierry Henry's handball in France's World Cup qualifier to argue that rules must be enforced even when people think breaking them only counts if caught; he asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas.

What is said

00:00:00 — Fake opener about a Marxist revolution in Benin ('Are the new viewers gone yet?'); today is a day that will live in 'fummy'

  • ★ John opens by pretending the video is about a Marxist revolution in Benin, asks 'Are the new viewers gone yet?', then admits he made it up. (joke) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John declares November 22nd a day that will live in 'fummy' (famy), which he explains as the opposite of infamy. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — Nerdfighteria has waited to punish Hank, who keeps the rules; his seven-minute Severed Hands of Star Wars upload and last week's 4:02 video with its 'subscription screen' excuse

  • ★★★ John says Nerdfighteria has long wanted to punish Hank, but Hank keeps the rules: a video every Wednesday, a song every other Wednesday, never more than four minutes. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Nerdfighteria, Punishment, Song Wednesday, Four-minute rule, Hank Green
  • ★★ John says that when Hank does break the rules, as when he briefly uploaded a seven-minute version of his Severed Hands of Star Wars video, he argues he broke the letter but not the spirit of the law. (playful) — 00:00:59 · Hank Green, Four-minute rule
  • ★★★ After Hank posted a video of four minutes and two seconds last week, he called John saying the overrun was only the subscription screen and that he is on tour. (playful) — 00:00:59 · Hank Green, Four-minute rule

00:01:28 — Thierry Henry's handball sends France to the World Cup; people think breaking rules doesn't count until caught; so Hank is getting punished

  • ★★★ John recounts that in a closely fought match Thierry Henry handled the ball and passed to a teammate who scored, so France went to the World Cup by cheating. — 00:01:28 · France
  • ★★ John says that is what happens in a world without enforced rules; he may have to live with it in real life but will not stand for it in Nerdfighteria, and is still mad about the handball. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:28 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John argues that people, in sports and in life, tend to think breaking the rules isn't really breaking them unless and until they get caught. — 00:01:57
  • ★★★ John announces that Hank is getting punished, and says he doesn't mind his own punishment since Hank is being punished too. (playful) — 00:01:57 · Hank Green, Punishment

00:02:27 — Asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas in comments and to thumbs-up the best; sign-off and beard coda

  • ★★★ John asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas in comments and to read through them and thumbs-up the ones they like most. — 00:02:27 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ In a coda John says his beard has become very beardy but still cannot grow over one area. (playful) — 00:02:27

Humor (significant)

  • Announcing Hank's punishment day, John inverts 'a day that will live in infamy'. — 00:00:00 > «is a day that will live in fummy.»
  • John opens with a grave news topic, the Marxist revolution in Benin, to see if new viewers leave. — 00:00:00 > «partly because I made it up.»
  • John complains that Hank reliably keeps every rule of the vlog. — 00:00:29 > «They're never more than four minutes long. It's incredibly annoying!»

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