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Brotherhood 2.0: Earwax

2007-02-26 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · comedy performance

Playing teacher to an imaginary class, Hank reports his weekend 'campaign to decrease the weight of my head': a haircut and a large mass of earwax flushed out at the doctor's, shown on video; feeling he has done a challenge, he sets John one involving a hat, horseradish and the Blossom theme song.

What is said

00:00:00 — Classroom skit: Hank introduces John to Billy, Susie and Tony; the 'campaign to decrease the weight of my head'; the class guesses what was removed

  • ★★ Playing teacher to an imaginary class, Hank says that over the weekend he ran a 'campaign to decrease the weight of my head', having several thousand things, mostly hairs, removed. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:01:35 — Earwax removed at the doctor's; Hank smuggles in his camera and shows the ear irrigation with gross-out warnings

  • ★★★ Hank had a large amount of earwax removed this weekend, which he guesses outweighed the removed hair, and he can hear again. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:35
  • ★★ Hank smuggled his video camera into the doctor's office; refused at first, he got an attendant called in from the lobby to film his ear irrigation. (playful) — 00:02:05
  • ★★ On the footage the earwax pops off Hank's eardrum and works its way out; afterwards Hank says he can hear and calls it an amazing experience. (playful) — 00:02:37

00:03:15 — Hank can hear again; it felt like a challenge, so he sets John one (hat, horseradish, Blossom theme); sign-off

  • ★★ Hank feels the procedure was almost a challenge John should have given him, so he gives John one. (playful) — 00:03:15
  • ★★★ Hank challenges John to find a hat like Miss Susie's and, wearing it, eat a teaspoon of horseradish and sing the last two lines of the Blossom theme song. (playful) — 00:03:42 · John Green

Humor (dominant)

  • Asked to guess what besides hair Hank had removed from his head, pupil Susie offers her family history. — 00:01:02 > «When my mama came out of jail, she had almost all her teeth taken out.»
  • Hank presents his earwax removal as part of a campaign to make his head lighter. — 00:01:35 > «And so, indeed, was an effective measure in the fight to make my head weigh less.»
  • Watching the earwax emerge on the irrigation footage, Hank narrates it like a delivery. — 00:02:37 > «Oh, look at the birth.»
  • Hank warns squeamish viewers as the footage gets grosser. — 00:02:37 > «We are reaching the penultimate grossness.»

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