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Adorable Puppy Injury!!!!

2008-05-22 · Q&A · Hank · 3:50 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: History & curiosities) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: punishment or challenge, community lore, self promotion

Hank fills in for John, who spent the day at the vet with Willy's broken foot, holding his own 'question day': he drinks an espresso to show what caffeine does to him, then asks viewers a hyperactive string of odd questions.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — 'I'm not John': John can't complete his five-videos-in-five-days punishment

  • ★★★ Hank says John's punishment was five videos in five days, but John is not going to manage it, for a reason Hank withholds at first. — 00:00:09 · John Green, Punishment

00:00:16 — Hank's own Question Tuesday: espresso beans, avoiding caffeine, drinking an espresso

  • ★★ Hank claims his own version of Question Tuesdays: answering one question long-windedly and then asking viewers twelve, little known because they have never done it. (playful) — 00:00:16 · Question Tuesday
  • ★★ Hank says his most frequent question is how many chocolate-flavored espresso beans he ate; the answer is always none, as he religiously avoids caffeine though he loves coffee's taste. — 00:00:32
  • ★★ To show viewers what caffeine does to him, Hank drinks a shot of espresso with milk, water and sugar. (playful) — 00:00:45
  • ★ Citing Google, Hank says caffeine takes about five minutes to hit, with peak effects at thirty minutes. — 00:01:01 · Google

00:01:18 — Why John's not here: Willy's broken foot ('peg leg'); Hank asks for an eyepatch

  • ★★★ Hank explains John spent most of the day at the dog hospital: Willy is okay but has a broken foot, which is why John is excused. — 00:01:19 · John Green, Willy
  • ★★ Hank asks John to give the 'peg-legged' puppy an eyepatch, and maybe a parrot, for tomorrow's video; though on Team Ninja, he'd love a pirate puppy. (playful) — 00:01:37 · John Green, Willy, Pirates versus Ninjas

00:01:56 — Caffeinated Hank asks viewers questions: mono/uni, trivia, TV murders, airport change, anagrams in math, evil people's pets, Paper Towns giveaway, iota; sign-off

  • ★★ Since Michigan Hank has been puzzling over mono- and uni-, which he calls Latin prefixes for the same thing, and over why 'trivia' means 'three streets'. (playful) — 00:02:06
  • ★★ Hank asks whether, excluding wars, there are more murders on TV or in real life. — 00:02:27
  • ★★ Hank wonders what happens to change forgotten at airport security (he has left 35 cents four times) and thinks transportation security staff should get a tip jar because the job sucks. (hedged) — 00:02:37
  • ★ Hank also asks about anagrams in math, whether evil people like Hitler or Stalin had pets, and what an iota is. (playful) — 00:03:05 · iota
  • ★★ Hank gives away a copy of Paper Towns to one random commenter, the first time he gets to give one away. — 00:03:19 · Paper Towns
  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to leave answers in the comments to his questions and to all the questions in the world. — 00:03:39

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The video description says there is no new video from John today because John is sick, and that the punishment will be completed on Friday. — video description · John Green, Punishment

Humor (dominant)

  • John's puppy Willy appears with his broken foot in a cast. — 00:01:34

    “So that's why John's excused. Because his puppy has a peg leg.”

  • Hank starts introducing the questions part while waiting for the espresso to kick in. — 00:01:56

    “wow the caffeine has taken effect!”

  • Hank complains that mono- and uni- are prefixes for the same thing. — 00:02:14

    “"No, he's monotonous!" "No, UNotonous!"”

  • Hank asks why 'trivia' is 'tri-via'. — 00:02:22

    “That's like "three streets". Three-street pursuit.”

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Mentioned

Central: caffeine · Willy

Also: People: Adolf Hitler · Joseph Stalin

Works: Paper Towns · Trivial Pursuit (“Three-street pursuit.”)

Organizations: Google · Transportation Security Administration · United States Department of the Treasury

Rituals: Punishment · Question Tuesday

Terms: iota

Concepts: carbon monoxide (“carbon unoxide poisoning”) · Latin

Places: Michigan

Memes: Pirates versus Ninjas

Also centred on caffeine: Caffeine is Very…

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