Brotherhood 2.0: March 21st: Put Stuff on Your Head
2007-03-21 · song · John · 1:56 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, community lore
With pink eye, John shows the guide's photographs of the abandoned Detroit theatre and then sings a comic song arguing that when you're sad and suck levels are high, the answer is to put stuff on your head.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — Pink eye; the guide's photographs of the abandoned Detroit theatre
- ★★ John has an eye complaint (pink eye in the song) and assumes Hank would rather not look at his eye for the whole video. (playful) — 00:00:03
- ★★ John shows photographs the guide shot inside the abandoned Detroit theatre, which he says show the inside better than his video did, and thanks the guide at snweb.org. — 00:00:03
00:00:33 — Song: 'Put stuff on your head' as the remedy for a bad day with pink eye; 'What's on your head, Hank?'; sign-off
- ★★ John says the simple answer to a long bad day, with a weepy eye and people looking at you funny, is to put stuff on your head. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:33 · Stuff on Heads
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★★ John sings that when you're sad with pink eye and suck levels are high, you gotta put stuff on your head; the colour doesn't matter, but don't use a plastic bag. (playful) — 00:00:55 · Stuff on Heads, world suck
“You gotta put stuff on your head”
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★ John ends by asking Hank what is on his head. (playful) — 00:01:24 · Hank Green
Humor (dominant)
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The song's only safety instruction for putting stuff on your head. — 00:01:24
“The only rule of thumb is don't use a plastic bag.”
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The song lists things to attach to your head. — 00:01:24
“Or affix a Christmas stocking to your cerebellum.”
Threads in this video
- update · John and M. T. Anderson go urban exploring in Detroit's ruins (2007) — John shows the guide's photographs of the inside of the abandoned Detroit theatre, better than his own video of the excursion. (00:00:03) → refers to Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration
- result reported · Hank asks viewers to put stuff on their heads (2007) — John takes up Hank's call himself, putting stuff on his head ('Wait, where's the camera? Where am I?') before singing about it. (00:00:33)
- reminder · Hank asks viewers to put stuff on their heads (2007) — John sings that the remedy for a bad day with pink eye is to put stuff on your head. (00:00:55)
- proposed · Stuff on Heads: viewers send pictures and videos of stuff on their heads (2007) — John sings that when you're sad with pink eye and suck levels are high, you gotta put stuff on your head; the colour doesn't matter, but don't use a plastic bag. (00:00:55)
Where the stories that moved here went next
- Hank asks viewers to put stuff on their heads (2007) — reported back; last: result reported, 2023-09-19
- Stuff on Heads: viewers send pictures and videos of stuff on their heads (2007) — completed; last: looked back, 2026-02-14
- John and M. T. Anderson go urban exploring in Detroit's ruins (2007) — told 2×, last update 2012; last: retold, 2012-06-12
Mentioned
Central: Stuff on Heads
Also: conjunctivitis · Detroit · United Artists Theatre Building · world suck
Only in the description or credits: the guide (Detroit urban explorer)
Replies to
- continues · Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration — “They do a much better job of showing what it was like to be inside than the video does.”
Later videos replying to this one
- 2007-03-22 · March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards (Hank) — continues — “it's great to see John with dumb stuff on his head” (00:03:11)