Sharing Presents in Westport

2008-11-19 · letter vlog · John, Hank · 3:37 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, community lore, guest or collab

On the Tour de Nerdfighting, John and Hank unpack gifts from nerdfighters at a hotel in Westport, Connecticut, joking over each one; they end saying it is gratifying when imagined things become real.

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; arrival at the Westport hotel; unpacking nerdfighter gifts, World's Best Grandma shirt

• ★★★ John and Hank have just reached their hotel in Westport, Connecticut, and are unpacking the gifts nerdfighters have given them. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria
• ★ One gift is an extra-large World's Best Grandma shirt; John notes it is too big in 'the book' too, and jokes about being called fat. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:28 — Gift parade: tour shirts, Culver Creek shirt, Peeps, bread, puppy-sized elephant piggy bank, Willy ornament, cereal, Fresnel lens

• ★★ Gifts include a shirt for Culver Creek Preparatory School, the school in John's novel Looking for Alaska. — 00:00:28 · Looking for Alaska (novel)
• ★ A speaker says no one would dance with him at a dancing school, calling it the only semi-autobiographical thing in Paper Towns. (playful) — 00:01:46 · Paper Towns

00:02:43 — Last gifts: Bubbles the nerdfighting puppy; missing Willy; imagined things becoming real

• ★★ John misses his dog Willy while on the road; they received a Christmas ornament for Willy and a nerdfighting-puppy toy. — 00:02:43 · Willy
• ★★ One of the brothers says that when the things you imagine become real, it is very gratifying. — 00:02:43 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

Humor (significant)

• Hank holds up an extra-large World's Best Grandma shirt as the perfect size for John. — 00:00:00

  “But thanks for pointing out that I'm fat.”

• Opening an elephant piggy bank, they warn viewers not to put too much money in it. — 00:01:19

  “It's just like the American economy. Oh, empty.”

• A 'Team zombie' gift prompts a reason for choosing sides. — 00:01:19

  “Because I prefer the hard truths of zombies to the easy lies of unicorns.”

• Missing Willy, the brother wonders who will pee on hotel floors without him. — 00:02:43

  “Just me. It all falls to me. I have to make the mess and clean it up.”

Threads in this video

• callback · 'In your pants' suffix game (2007) — A gift or its reading adds 'in your pants' to a title. (00:01:19)

Mentioned

Central: Westport, Connecticut

Also: Projects: Paper Towns Tour · Tour de Nerdfighting

Works: Looking for Alaska (novel) · Paper Towns

Terms: in your pants · puppy sized elephant

Characters: Culver Creek Preparatory School

Products: Peeps

animal: Willy

Taking part: Katherine Green

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