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August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing)

2007-08-14 · challenge / punishment · John, Sarah Urist Green · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

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

John performs his punishment on camera: in a mock 'cooking with John Green' segment he blends and eats a McDonald's Happy Meal, then waxes a leg; the cat licking is put off to Thursday.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Intro music; John asks people whether they own a cat and puts the cat licking off to Thursday

  • ★★ Looking for a cat to lick, John asks people whether they own a cat or have close friends who do; he tells Hank the cat licking will have to wait till Thursday (16 August 2007). (playful, hedged) — 00:00:09 · Hank Green

00:00:24 — Greeting (day of the punishment); ordering a Happy Meal with an orange drink ('boy or girl?'); Sarah predicts the waxing pain

  • ★★ John announces that Tuesday, August 14th, is the day of his punishment. — 00:00:24 · Punishment
  • ★ Sarah Urist Green: Sarah predicts the punishment will go better than the chin wax and rates the coming pain a five on John's one-to-ten scale. (hedged) — 00:00:41 · Sarah Urist Green, Punishment

00:00:56 — 'Cooking with John Green': blending the Happy Meal and eating it spoonful by spoonful to Jonathan Coulton's 'Kenesaw Mountain Landis'

  • ★★★ Presenting it as 'cooking with John Green', John blends a Happy Meal (orange drink, French fries, hamburger), keeping some drink to wash it down. (playful) — 00:00:56 · Cooking with John
  • ★★★ John feels like puking after one spoonful and retches, but eats the blended Happy Meal spoonful after spoonful until it is finished. — 00:01:58
  • ★ John is glad he didn't say he would eat a McDonald's extra value meal, which he says would have killed him. (playful) — 00:02:50

00:03:02 — Finished; waxing a leg strip by strip ('not a five'); the Happy Meal was worse; sign-off

  • ★ John says that if he'd been told on January 1st, 2007, that they would be doing this, he would not have believed it. — 00:03:10
  • ★★★ Before waxing a leg strip by strip, John tells himself it can't be as bad as the Happy Meal; the first strip hurts far more than Sarah's predicted five. — 00:03:16 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ John says he would rather wax his entire body than ever eat a blenderized Happy Meal again. (playful) — 00:03:37

Humor (dominant)

  • Ordering a Happy Meal, John is asked whether it is for a boy or a girl. — 00:00:36

    “We have gender-specific happy meals now. I don't think this represents progress, Hank.”

  • John looks at the Happy Meal after blending it. — 00:01:30

    “Like all the best parts of food plus all the best parts of liquid.”

  • Sarah predicted the waxing would be a five out of ten; John rips the first strip. — 00:03:21

    “That was not a five. That is not a five!”

  • Between wax strips John compares the two halves of his punishment. — 00:03:37

    “I would rather wax my entire body, head to toe, than ever eat a blenderized Happy Meal ever again.”

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Central: Punishment

Also: Cooking with John · Happy Meal · McDonald's · Sarah Urist Green

Only in the description or credits: Jonathan Coulton · Kenesaw Mountain Landis

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