Brotherhood 2.0: January 3rd
2007-01-03 · list · Hank · 2:33 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Personal life · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: community lore, recurring series, punishment or challenge
Tired of being compared to John, Hank proposes a list of ways the brothers differ, and uses it to confess that he spilled beer on his wife's MacBook and nearly derailed the project.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — Untranscribed opening footage ("That guy was having fun" follows it)
00:00:13 — Before a 7 a.m. flight after sledding at Lake Tahoe; being John's brother is frustrating (look-alikes, The Proclaimers vs Nelson); proposal of a list of differences
- ★ Hank says it is 7 a.m. and he is about to board a plane; the day before he went sledding at Lake Tahoe. — 00:00:13
- ★★ Hank says being John's brother is frustrating: people tell him he looks like John and jokes like him, only less funny. (playful) — 00:00:13 · John Green
- ★ Hank says some people even think the brothers look like the twin rock duo The Proclaimers, which beats being likened to Nelson. (playful) — 00:00:54
- ★★★ Hank proposes that the brothers make a video blog list of all the ways they are very different people. — 00:00:54 · John Green, Hank Green · also in: Week 1 Condensed!
- ★ Other listed differences: John has got kind of pudgy in recent years whereas Hank will in coming years, and Hank, unlike John, vainly obsesses about his hair. (playful) — 00:00:54 · John Green, Hank Green
00:01:21 — The list: pudginess, the beer-soaked MacBook confession
- ★★★ Through the list Hank confesses he spilled beer on his wife's MacBook, which would not boot, nearly ruining the project, until reinstalling the battery worked; he hadn't told her. (playful) — 00:01:21 · Katherine Green, Brotherhood 2.0 · also in: Week 1 Condensed!
00:01:56 — End of the list (not telling his wife, Hank's hair); performing 500 Miles: punishment, project or challenge?
- ★★ Hank says performing a version of 500 Miles on the show appeals to him and asks whether it should be a punishment, project or challenge. (hedged) — 00:01:56 · Punishment
Humor (dominant)
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People tell Hank his jokes are very similar to his brother's. — 00:00:54
“Except you're not quite as funny as him.”
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People think the brothers look like the twin rock duo The Proclaimers. — 00:00:54
“Which is admittedly better than people thinking that we look like the twin rock duo, Nelson.”
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Hank's list of differences turns into a confession about spilling beer on his wife's MacBook and hiding it. — 00:01:56
“Sorry, honey.”
Threads in this video
- asked · Hank: list with John the ways the brothers differ (2007) — Hank asks John to join a video-blog list of all the ways the brothers are very different people. (00:00:54)
- told · Hank spills beer on his wife's MacBook (2007) — Hank tells how he spilled a little beer on his wife's MacBook, which would not boot and nearly ruined the video blog experiment, until it booted the next morning; he hoped rather than told her. (00:01:21)
- proposed · Brotherhood 2.0: the 2007 year of daily video letters — Hank floats performing a version of 500 Miles on the show and asks whether it should be a punishment, project or challenge. (00:01:56)
- first use · The brothers known as each other's brother: 'John Green's brother' and 'Hank Green's brother' (2007) — Hank says being John's brother is frustrating: people tell him he looks like John and jokes like him, only less funny. (00:00:13)
Where the stories that moved here went next
- Hank: list with John the ways the brothers differ (2007) — reported back; last: result reported, 2007-01-04
- The brothers known as each other's brother: 'John Green's brother' and 'Hank Green's brother' (2007) — running joke (last seen 2025); last: callback, 2025-12-19
- Brotherhood 2.0: the 2007 year of daily video letters — completed; last: looked back, 2026-09-30
Mentioned
Brotherhood 2.0 · I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) · Katherine Green · Lake Tahoe · MacBook · Nelson · Punishment · The Proclaimers
Later videos replying to this one
- 2007-01-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: Eating Toilet Paper (John) — answers (result on Hank: list with John the ways the brothers differ (2007)) — Asked in Hank's last video to continue the list of their differences, John adds that Hank lives by his values and he does not (recycling, not voting in 2000), and that their happy dances differ. (00:00:00)