June 27: Good Morning John, it's Wednesday

2007-06-27 · song · Hank · 2:39 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, community lore

Hank opens with a song-and-dance made of the greeting 'Good morning, John, it's Wednesday', then, punning on 'in my pants', reports that he has cleared spam from the Brotherhood 2.0 forum and asks viewers to report any more.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Song and dance: 'Good morning, John, it's Wednesday' repeated over music

00:01:49 — 'Something going on in my pants': spam; forum spammers cleared, report more; thanks; birthday shout-out; sign-off

• ★ Hank jokes that after the dancing something is going on in his pants: it is spam, playing on 'in my pants' to introduce the forum spam. (playful) — 00:01:49 · in your pants, Brotherhood 2.0 forum
• ★★ Hank reports that spammers bombarded the forum and that he thinks he has deleted all the extremely gross posts, so the forum should be spam-free. (hedged) — 00:02:11 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum
• ★★ Hank asks viewers to tell him about any remaining spam by email, in the comments or in the forum. — 00:02:11 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum
• ★ Hank thanks everyone who reported the initial spam bombardment. — 00:02:11

In the description and comments

• ★★ Hank opens with a song, which he wrote but does not really sing, built on the greeting 'Good morning, John, it's Wednesday', with dancing. (playful) — video description

Humor (significant)

• Hank dances while a song repeats nothing but the daily greeting. — 00:00:16

  “Good morning, John, it's Wednesday.”

• After all the dancing Hank feels something going on in his pants and checks. — 00:02:11

  “It's spam! Well, thank God there's not any more spam in my pants.”

Threads in this video

• first use · Hank's 'Good morning John, it's Wednesday' song and dance (2007) — Hank's song-and-dance repeating 'Good morning, John, it's Wednesday', the video's title. (00:00:16)
• callback · 'In your pants' suffix game (2007) — Hank finds 'spam in my pants' after dancing, a play on the 'in your pants' suffix. (00:02:11)
• asked · Hank asks viewers to report remaining spam on the Brotherhood 2.0 forum (2007) — Hank asks viewers to report any remaining forum spam by email, comments or the forum. (00:02:11)
• setback · My Pants: the Brotherhood 2.0 forum (2007) — Hank reports that spammers bombarded the forum and that he thinks he has deleted all the extremely gross posts, so the forum should be spam-free. (00:02:11)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• Hank's 'Good morning John, it's Wednesday' song and dance (2007) — short bit (2007); last: callback, 2007-06-29
• My Pants: the Brotherhood 2.0 forum (2007) — last documented in 2009 (looked back on in 2011)

Mentioned

Central: Brotherhood 2.0 forum

Also: Good morning greeting · in your pants (“spam in my pants”) · spamming

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