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Stock Adviser (Via Britney)

2009-01-28 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Economics · comedy performance

For Song Wednesday Hank lip-syncs 'Stock Advisor', his parody of a Britney Spears song sung by Katherine, in which a narrator who trusted a stock advisor loses half their savings in a market crash.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; Song Wednesday; first song made on his new MacBook Pro with Final Cut Express; the song is a parody outside his range

  • ★★ Hank says this is the first song he has recorded on his new MacBook Pro, edited with Final Cut Express, both new and confusing to him. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Because the song is a parody of a song far outside his range, Hank got Katherine to sing it and lip-synced over her vocals. — 00:00:00 · Katherine Green

00:00:32 — Katherine sings, Hank lip-syncs; John okayed parodies on Song Wednesdays; the parody song 'Stock Advisor'

  • ★★ Hank says John agreed it is perfectly okay to do parodies on Song Wednesdays, though John did not say Katherine could sing. — 00:00:32 · Song Wednesday, John Green
  • ★★★ In the song 'Stock Advisor', the narrator trusts an advisor who said stocks always go up; after a market crash half their savings are gone and they cannot retire until 85. (parody) — 00:01:01

Humor (dominant)

  • The chorus of the Britney Spears parody swaps in a financial word. — 00:01:01 > «Stock Advisor, you are my investment analyzer.»
  • The narrator sums up what the advisor's promises led to. — 00:01:34 > «I will not retire until I'm 85.»
  • The advisor said stocks would always go up. — 00:02:04 > «Now I look at you and it makes me want to throw up.»
  • The narrator concedes the advisor could not have guaranteed anything now. — 00:03:02 > «Maybe if we still lived in 2003. You could have given me some kind of guarantee»

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