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A HORRIFYING OVERSIGHT!!!!

2008-05-05 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

John comically confesses that he and the Nerdfighters failed to make Hank something awesome for his birthday, asks viewers for birthday wishes and ideas, and promises to announce a plan the next day.

What is said

00:00:00 — Forgot Hank's birthday: no cognitive-surplus gift, unlike the blenderized birthday cakes for John; Hank might quit ('Vlog Brother')

  • ★★★ John admits he and the Nerdfighters forgot Hank's birthday: some Nerdfighters remembered, but they did not pool their cognitive surplus to make him something awesome. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Hank Green, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John contrasts this with Hank getting many people to blenderize birthday cakes and eat them for John's birthday. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Hank Green

00:00:49 — Hank the more popular brother; no ideas; party-blower solo and the Atlanta concierge; fancy Atlanta hotel with a twin bed

  • ★ John is staying in a very fancy hotel in Atlanta whose only shortcoming is a twin bed. (playful) — 00:00:49

00:01:18 — Plan: wish Hank happy birthday in comments, suggest ideas better than blenderized cakes; back tomorrow

  • ★★★ John asks everyone to wish Hank a happy birthday in the comments, then to suggest a really good idea, distinctly better than blenderizing birthday cakes. — 00:01:18 · Hank Green, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John will post again tomorrow, his first back-to-back videos in 16 months, and announce what they will do for Hank and when. — 00:01:18

00:01:47 — Back-to-back videos; punishment settled; Grand Rapids library event with Maureen Johnson and Hank; apology and birthday song

  • ★★ John thanks Nerdfighters for their punishment suggestions and says he thinks they have settled on one. (hedged) — 00:01:47 · Punishment, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ Nerdfighters in or near Grand Rapids, Michigan can hear John, Maureen Johnson and Hank talk at a library on Thursday at 6:30. — 00:01:47 · Maureen Johnson, Hank Green

Humor (significant)

  • If the Nerdfighters don't make something awesome, Hank will drop out of the channel. — 00:00:00 > «We're going to have to call it Vlog Brother.»
  • John asks his Atlanta hotel concierge where to get party blowers for a solo. — 00:00:49 > «sir, I'm not legally allowed to answer that question.»
  • After boasting of his very fancy Atlanta hotel, John reveals its one shortcoming: a twin bed. — 00:01:18 > «What is this? the brothers' grandparent's house?»

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