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July 10: Embarassing Photographs

2007-07-10 · challenge / punishment · Hank · 3:36 · watch on YouTube

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

Wanting matching punishments for their simultaneous infraction, Hank pairs his own goth-picture punishment with embarrassing high-school pictures of John and sets John's punishment: recreate either the golden-bow-tie academic decathlon picture or the shirtless happy-dance picture.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Greeting; the goth picture is back; Hank wants a simultaneous punishment for the simultaneous infraction

  • ★★ Hank greets the return of his goth picture, which he knew would come back. (playful) — 00:00:11
  • ★★★ Since the brothers broke the rule more or less simultaneously, Hank wants a simultaneous punishment in which each does a similar one. (hedged) — 00:00:11 · Punishment, No textual communication

00:00:34 — Mohawk / inverse-mohawk idea vetoed by the Yeti; John's punishment must play off Hank's, so Hank produces embarrassing high-school pictures of John

  • ★★ Hank liked the idea of himself getting a mohawk and John an inverse mohawk, but accepts 'for now' that the Yeti doesn't want it, warning it might still happen. (playful) — 00:00:34 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★★ Because John has already settled Hank's punishment, Hank must make John's play off it, which needs an embarrassing picture of John; he has several, all from high school. — 00:00:34 · Punishment

00:01:21 — The pictures: academic decathlon meets with a maroon buzz cut, and a shirtless happy-dance picture

  • ★★ Hank describes the pictures: two from academic decathlon meets, where John had a maroon buzz cut and seems to have done very well, and one of John shirtless in falling-off pants doing a version of his happy dance. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:21 · Happy dance (practice)
  • ★★ Hank says he wouldn't mind seeing John recreate the dance picture: black-and-white video, really big pants, no shirt, happy dance. (playful) — 00:01:21 · Happy dance (practice)

00:02:04 — Side-by-side comparison of the most embarrassing parts of Hank's and John's pictures

  • ★★ Comparing the pictures, Hank judges the faces most embarrassing (his goth makeup; John's glasses and maroon buzz cut), then his own limp wrist and John's golden bow tie. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:04

00:02:58 — John's punishment set: recreate the golden-bow-tie picture or the dance picture; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank sets John's punishment, unless John adds to Hank's: recreate one of two pictures, the one with the golden bow tie or the one with the dance. — 00:02:58 · Punishment
  • ★★ Hank offers the choice only because he is not sure John can find a golden bow tie, without which that picture won't work. (hedged) — 00:02:58
  • ★★ Hank hopes to see John's recreated picture by Friday (13 July 2007). (hedged) — 00:02:58

Humor (significant)

  • Hank wanted matching punishments: a mohawk for him and an inverse mohawk for John. — 00:00:34

    “so together we would have one normal haircut.”

  • Needing an embarrassing picture of John, Hank discovers he has one. — 00:00:34

    “Oh, I do. Apparently I have several really embarrassing pictures of you. How did that happen?”

  • Hank explains why John's face is the most embarrassing part of his picture. — 00:02:29

    “Because of your cute little face, and your cute gigantic glasses, and your amazing maroon buzz cut.”

  • After faces and wrists, Hank moves on to a final point of comparison. — 00:02:58

    “And finally, I think that we should discuss our left eyes. Here's mine, and here's yours. Wow.”

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Central: Punishment

Also: Happy dance (practice) · No textual communication · Sarah Urist Green · United States Academic Decathlon

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