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Brotherhood 2.0: January 12, 2007

2007-01-12 · list · John · 2:13 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: community lore, punishment or challenge, recurring series

John, drinking light beer because of Weight Watchers, offers comic uses for Hank's misprinted business cards and punishment ideas for a missed update, ending with a happy-dance idea (70 five-second clips, he calculates) that he suggests might be a joint project instead.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Recording after midnight; light beer and Weight Watchers; misprinted business card utilization ideas

  • ★★ John says he is recording at 12:15 a.m. because he must get up early, and drinks light beer because he is doing Weight Watchers, which he dislikes: not enough points. (playful) — 00:00:14
  • ★★ John offers ideas for Hank's misprinted business cards: make Katherine a dress with a hole punch and dental floss, eat them while discussing Kenya, write tiny wedding thank-you notes, wallpaper his dollhouse. (playful) — 00:00:14 · Katherine Green

00:01:01 — Punishment ideas for failing to update, picked from the living room: an 1100-page book, a Christmas card with someone else's baby, knitting a scarf, a styrofoam peanut, a happy dance in 5-second clips

  • ★★★ John proposes punishments for failing to update, taken from his living room: the 1100-page Continuum History of Apocalypticism, a Christmas card with someone else's baby, knitting a scarf, eating a styrofoam peanut. (playful) — 00:01:01 · Punishment · also in: Week 2 Condensed Highlight Reel
  • ★★★ John's last punishment idea: do your happy dance for 3 minutes 30 seconds, but only in 5-second clips; unable to phone Daniel this late, he works out 70 dances in 70 locations. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:27 · Happy dance (practice), Daniel Biss, Punishment

00:01:50 — Counting the clips (70, he thinks) and proposing interspersed happy dances as a joint project, 35 each

Humor (significant)

  • After suggesting Hank wallpaper every room in his dollhouse, John notes the consequence. — 00:00:14

    “Everybody thinks you have a dollhouse now.”

  • One use for the misprinted cards recalls the toilet-paper-and-Nepal challenge. — 00:00:14

    “You could eat them while discussing the political situation in Kenya.”

  • John holds up a book from the living room as a punishment: the 1100-page Continuum History of Apocalypticism. — 00:01:01

    “It's pretty punishing.”

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Mentioned

Central: Happy dance (practice) · Punishment

Also: Daniel Biss · Katherine Green · Kenya · The Continuum History of Apocalypticism · Weight Watchers

Later videos replying to this one

Part of an exchange of 3 videos, 2007-01-12 – 2007-01-16.