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Stock Adviser (Via Britney)

2009-01-28 · song · Hank · 3:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Economics · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, recurring series, community lore, guest or collab, timely hook

For Song Wednesday Hank lip-syncs 'Stock Advisor', his parody of a Britney Spears song sung by Katherine, in which a narrator who trusted a stock advisor loses half their savings in a market crash.

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; Song Wednesday; first song made on his new MacBook Pro with Final Cut Express; the song is a parody outside his range

  • ★★ Hank says this is the first song he has recorded on his new MacBook Pro, edited with Final Cut Express, both new and confusing to him. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Because the song is a parody of a song far outside his range, Hank got Katherine to sing it and lip-synced over her vocals. — 00:00:00 · Katherine Green

00:00:32 — Katherine sings, Hank lip-syncs; John okayed parodies on Song Wednesdays; the parody song 'Stock Advisor'

  • ★★ Hank says John agreed it is perfectly okay to do parodies on Song Wednesdays, though John did not say Katherine could sing. — 00:00:32 · Song Wednesday, John Green, Katherine Green
  • ★★★ In the song 'Stock Advisor', the narrator trusts an advisor who said stocks always go up; after a market crash half their savings are gone and they cannot retire until 85. (parody) — 00:01:01

00:03:54 — Sign-off

Humor (dominant)

  • The chorus of the Britney Spears parody swaps in a financial word. — 00:01:01

    “Stock Advisor, you are my investment analyzer.”

  • The narrator sums up what the advisor's promises led to. — 00:01:34

    “I will not retire until I'm 85.”

  • The advisor said stocks would always go up. — 00:02:04

    “Now I look at you and it makes me want to throw up.”

  • The narrator concedes the advisor could not have guaranteed anything now. — 00:03:02

    “Maybe if we still lived in 2003. You could have given me some kind of guarantee”

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Mentioned

Central: Womanizer

Also: 2007–2008 financial crisis · Final Cut Express · MacBook · Song Wednesday · Stock Adviser

Only in the description or credits: Britney Spears · DFTBA Records · Katherine Green · So Jokes

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