Brotherhood 2.0: Earwax
2007-02-26 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:56 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Personal life (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: punishment or challenge, community lore, song or 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
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
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)
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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.”
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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.”
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Watching the earwax emerge on the irrigation footage, Hank narrates it like a delivery. — 00:02:37
“Oh, look at the birth.”
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Hank warns squeamish viewers as the footage gets grosser. — 00:02:37
“We are reaching the penultimate grossness.”
Threads in this video
- told · Hank's weekend haircut and earwax removal at the doctor, filmed (2007) — Hank tells of his weekend haircut and having a large mass of earwax flushed out by ear irrigation at the doctor's, which he filmed. (00:01:35)
- result reported · John asks Hank and viewers to suggest new challenges after the Strawberry Hill Challenge (2007) — Hank suggests a new challenge, giving John one. (00:03:15)
- set · John: wear a hat like Miss Susie's, eat a teaspoon of horseradish and sing the Blossom theme (2007 challenge from Hank) — Hank challenges John to wear a hat like Miss Susie's, eat a teaspoon of horseradish and sing the last two lines of the Blossom theme song. (00:03:42)
Where the stories that moved here went next
- John asks Hank and viewers to suggest new challenges after the Strawberry Hill Challenge (2007) — reported back; last: result reported, 2007-02-26
- John: wear a hat like Miss Susie's, eat a teaspoon of horseradish and sing the Blossom theme (2007 challenge from Hank) — performed
- Hank's weekend haircut and earwax removal at the doctor, filmed (2007) — told 1×; last: mentioned, 2007-03-01
Mentioned
Blossom · earwax
Later videos replying to this one
- 2007-03-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 1, 2007: Sophistication. And balls. (John) — continues (origin on John's 'world's largest ball of earwax' proposal for Hank (2007)) — John proposes Hank accrue the world's largest ball of earwax by the end of 2007 with viewers' earwax. (00:01:22)