August 13: The Fair!!!!

2007-08-13 · documentary visit · Hank · 3:46 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Internet & YouTube, Nerdfighteria) · mode: Documentary visit · tags: on location, punishment or challenge, community lore

Hank gives a dizzy montage tour of the Western Montana Fair, says Stephen Colbert probably didn't steal his presidential anagrams and that comedy should be free anyway, and softens John's punishment to a blenderized Happy Meal, one waxed leg and licking a cat.

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 from a spinning ride; Hank can't say what day it is; nausea; 'We went to the fair'

★ Dizzy from spinning on a ride, Hank can't work out what day it is and has to keep his eyes off the camera to avoid feeling sick. (playful) — 00:00:09
★★★ Hank reports that he went to the fair (the Western Montana Fair, per the description). — 00:00:09 · Montana

00:00:43 — Fair montage: flower arrangements, dressed-up zucchinis, sheep showmanship, livestock, llamas, rides, funnel cake, the 'Man of Galilee' General Lee car; Hank loves the fair

★★ Hank tours the exhibits: flower arrangements, zucchinis dressed up like Mussolini, a pig and penguins, carved zucchinis, giant zucchinis, pumpkins and white eggplants. (playful) — 00:00:43
★★ Hank and Katherine watched sheep showmanship; a named exhibitor and her gigantic lamb won first prize in the professional sheep showmanship class. — 00:00:43 · Katherine Green
★ The animals included cows, goats, chickens, turkeys, bunnies, llamas (one really ugly), tiny horses, shaggy cattle and buffalo. (playful) — 00:01:12
★★ Hank calls the giant rides horrible, nauseatingly gross and evil, and doesn't understand how anybody gets on them. (playful) — 00:01:36
★★ The fair features the 'Man of Galilee', a 1969 Dodge Charger made up like the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard that is actually an evangelistic tool. — 00:02:07
★★ Hank loves the fair, looks forward to it all year, and it always lives up to his expectations, mostly that there will be fried food. — 00:02:07 · Montana

00:02:28 — Forum discussion: Stephen Colbert did presidential anagrams on The Colbert Report the same day as Hank; probably not stolen; comedy should be free

★★ Hank reports forum discussion that Stephen Colbert did presidential anagrams on The Colbert Report the same day as Hank's video, a couple exactly like his. — 00:02:28 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum
★★★ Asked whether Colbert stole them, Hank says maybe but probably not: he and John are pretty sure the show is filmed well before Hank put his video online. (hedged) — 00:02:57
★★★ Hank says comedy should be free; if Colbert did borrow it, that is more a gigantic ego boost than something to feel bad about. — 00:02:57

00:02:57 — John's punishment: any Happy Meal and drink but blend and eat it; wax just one leg and lick a cat; sign-off

★★★ Hank doesn't care which Happy Meal or drink John gets, but John must blend it and eat it. (playful) — 00:02:57 · Punishment
★★★ Calling John a good sport, Hank offers, if John agrees, to cut the waxing to one leg; with licking a cat, John will be done. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:26 · world suck

Humor (significant)

Spinning on a fair ride, Hank tries twice to say the date. — 00:00:09

“It's Monday and I don't know what day it is.”
Hank rattles off the vegetable exhibits, zucchinis dressed as Mussolini, a pig and unknown things. — 00:00:43

“And zucchinis dressed up like penguins! And inappropriate messages for children!”
Hank lists the llamas one after another. — 00:01:36

“A really ugly llama.”
Hank says the fair always lives up to his expectations. — 00:02:28

“Especially because mostly my expectations are that there will be fried food.”

Threads in this video

told · Hank and Katherine visit the Western Montana Fair (2007) — Hank (with Katherine) goes to the fair and shows a montage of exhibits, animals and rides. (00:00:09)
looked back · Hank's Anagramming Guide to the presidential elections (2007) — Hank addresses forum talk that Stephen Colbert did similar presidential anagrams on The Colbert Report the same day as Hank's anagram video (9 August 2007); probably not stolen. (00:02:28) → refers to August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections
restate · Should ideas be ownable, and is copyright law working? — Hank says comedy should be free: a possible borrowing of his jokes is an ego boost, not a wrong. (00:02:57)
changed · John: eat a blenderized Happy Meal, wax a leg and lick a cat, for a textual communication (2007) — Hank leaves the Happy Meal and drink to John (blend and eat it) and, since John was a good sport, cuts the waxing to one leg plus licking a cat. (00:03:26)

Where the stories that moved here went next

John: eat a blenderized Happy Meal, wax a leg and lick a cat, for a textual communication (2007) — performed

Mentioned

Central: Presidential anagrams · Punishment · Stephen Colbert · Western Montana Fair

Also: People: Benito Mussolini · Katherine Green

Projects: Brotherhood 2.0 forum

Works: The Colbert Report · The Dukes of Hazzard

Terms: world suck

Concepts: intellectual property

Places: Montana

Characters: General Lee

Products: Dodge Charger · Happy Meal

Also centred on Western Montana Fair: The Fair: Testacular!

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