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PEEPS Eating Contest Is Peepstacular, Painful

2008-03-27 · challenge / punishment · John · 5:26 · watch on YouTube

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

John challenges Hank to a three-minute Peeps eating contest, asks Nerdfighters to suggest what the winner and loser should get, and eats 12 Peeps himself, regretting it.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Too-tight gas-station sweatshirt; John's Peeps merchandise and the Peeps puzzle

  • ★ John's gas-station sweatshirt from Kentucky, bought because only mediums were left, is far too tight; he says he is not a medium. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★ John has lately come to own a lot of Peeps merchandise, such as a Peeps puzzle. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Peeps

00:00:42 — Peeps from a Nerdfighter; John challenges Hank to a Peeps eating contest, rules, ask for prizes; eating begins

  • ★★ A Nerdfighter gave John the Peeps in South Carolina weeks ago; though some say not to eat Peeps after Easter, their expiration date is November 2009. (playful) — 00:00:42 · Peeps, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ Though Peeps hurt Hank's sensitive gut, John challenges him to a Peeps eating contest, the winner to get some magnificent prize. — 00:00:42 · Peeps
  • ★★★ John asks Nerdfighters to suggest in comments what the winner and/or loser of the contest should get. — 00:01:09 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ The contest has two rules: three minutes of Peeps eating, and no cheating. — 00:01:09 · Peeps
  • ★★ Since watching someone eat Peeps for three minutes is boring, John intercuts his eating with pictures of Nerdfighter awesomeness from the Ning. — 00:01:09 · Nerdfighter Ning, Nerdfighteria, Peeps

00:02:20 — Eating footage intercut with Nerdfighter photos from the Ning, set to a song (Distemper, per description)

00:03:57 — Result: 12 Peeps in three minutes; John feels awful; reminder to suggest prizes

  • ★★★ John ate 12 Peeps in three minutes, four of each kind, half a Peep fewer than a year ago, and nearly threw up 30 seconds in. — 00:03:57 · Peeps
  • ★★ John regrets it: he thought it would be funny but it just hurt, and he goes to lie down. — 00:05:06

In the description and comments

  • ★ In the description John suggests the photo montage lets him go over the usual length, i.e. past the four-minute rule. (playful, hedged) — video description · Four-minute rule

Humor (dominant)

  • John, surrounded by Peeps merchandise, answers Hank's imagined question. — 00:00:00

    “I'm just, you know, chilling with my peeps.”

  • John's gas-station sweatshirt came only in medium. — 00:00:00

    “And as we've learned from the Haiku shirt, I am not a medium.”

  • John takes off the too-tight sweatshirt. — 00:00:00

    “I can't tell you how good it feels to be swimming again in the ocean of large.”

  • Some say not to eat Peeps after Easter because they might go bad, but Peeps are not milk. — 00:00:42

    “The expiration date on those Peeps that Nerdfighter gave me several weeks ago? November of 2009.”

  • John reports his count of 12 Peeps in three minutes. — 00:03:57

    “meaning that I'm actually half a peep less good at eating peeps than I was a year ago.”

  • John, in pain after the contest, reflects on the stunt. — 00:05:06

    “Why did I do that? I thought it was going to be so funny, but it just hurt.”

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Mentioned

Central: Peeps

Also: Easter · Just Born · Kentucky · South Carolina

Only in the description or credits: Distemper · Four-minute rule · Nerdfighter Ning · Omnictionary (website) · Paper Towns

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