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Sharing Presents in Westport

2008-11-19 · John, Hank · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · personal update

On the Tour de Nerdfighting, John and Hank unpack gifts from nerdfighters at a hotel in Westport, Connecticut, joking over each one; they end saying it is gratifying when imagined things become real.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; arrival at the Westport hotel; unpacking nerdfighter gifts, World's Best Grandma shirt

  • ★★★ John and Hank have just reached their hotel in Westport, Connecticut, and are unpacking the gifts nerdfighters have given them. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ One gift is an extra-large World's Best Grandma shirt; John notes it is too big in 'the book' too, and jokes about being called fat. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:28 — Gift parade: tour shirts, Culver Creek shirt, Peeps, bread, puppy-sized elephant piggy bank, Willy ornament, cereal, Fresnel lens

  • ★★ Gifts include a shirt for Culver Creek Preparatory School, the school in John's novel Looking for Alaska. — 00:00:28 · Looking for Alaska
  • ★ A speaker says no one would dance with him at a dancing school, calling it the only semi-autobiographical thing in Paper Towns. (playful) — 00:01:46 · Paper Towns

00:02:43 — Last gifts: Bubbles the nerdfighting puppy; missing Willy; imagined things becoming real

  • ★★ John misses his dog Willy while on the road; they received a Christmas ornament for Willy and a nerdfighting-puppy toy. — 00:02:43 · Willy
  • ★★ One of the brothers says that when the things you imagine become real, it is very gratifying. — 00:02:43

Humor (significant)

  • Hank holds up an extra-large World's Best Grandma shirt as the perfect size for John. — 00:00:00 > «But thanks for pointing out that I'm fat.»
  • Opening an elephant piggy bank, they warn viewers not to put too much money in it. — 00:01:19 > «It's just like the American economy. Oh, empty.»
  • A 'Team zombie' gift prompts a reason for choosing sides. — 00:01:19 > «Because I prefer the hard truths of zombies to the easy lies of unicorns.»
  • Missing Willy, the brother wonders who will pee on hotel floors without him. — 00:02:43 > «Just me. It all falls to me. I have to make the mess and clean it up.»

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