Brotherhood 2.0: May 24: How to Happy Dance
2007-05-24 · John · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update
From the Netherlands, John shows a visit with attentive kids, bitterballen with mustard and his happy dance, which he says is huge there: his Dutch publisher in Rotterdam asked him to perform it outside a restaurant.
What is said
00:00:00 — Greeting; attentive kids; standing on a sign despite fear of heights; German tourists in camo; windmills blocked by a truck
- ★★ John says the kids shown were quite attentive, and some of them seemed to speak English better than he does. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:03
- ★ John stands on a sign for a photo, which scares him because he is afraid of heights, even of four feet. (playful) — 00:00:03
00:01:20 — Eating a bitterbal with mustard; a happy dance
- ★★ At a café John eats a bitterbal with mustard, which amuses everyone there; he finds it delicious. (playful) — 00:01:20
00:01:47 — The happy dance is huge in the Netherlands: the Dutch publisher in Rotterdam asks for it outside a restaurant
- ★★★ John says his happy dance is huge in the Netherlands: people from his Dutch publisher in Rotterdam asked him to do it outside the restaurant where they took him to dinner. (playful) — 00:01:47 · Happy dance, Netherlands
- ★ John calls his Dutch publisher the best publisher in all of Holland and says he never turns down its requests. (playful) — 00:01:47
00:02:22 — Police stop to watch; the Yeti's response to Hank's song must wait until Monday; sign-off
- ★★ John says the Yeti's response to Hank's song will have to wait until Monday. — 00:02:22 · Sarah Urist Green
Humor (significant)
- John's interesting fact about the Netherlands: German tourists are easy to spot because they always wear camo pants. — 00:00:03 > «Even the babies.»
- John tries a bitterbal with mustard and describes the taste. — 00:01:20 > «It tastes like if you took meat and flour and hope and you fried it.»
- John does his happy dance outside the restaurant for his Dutch publisher. — 00:02:22 > «The police stopped because I think they were trying to figure out if that was illegal.»
Threads in this video
- update · John and Sarah's trip to the Netherlands for An Abundance of Katherines (2007) — John's Netherlands trip continues: attentive kids, bitterballen, and happy dances requested by his Dutch publisher in Rotterdam. (00:01:47)
- callback · John's wife Sarah as 'the Yeti' (2007) — John refers to Sarah as 'the Yeti' when deferring her response to Hank's song. (00:02:22)
Replies to
- May 23rd: Miniature Soccer Team — «Hank the Yeti's response to your brilliant song will have to wait until Monday.»
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