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The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea

2009-04-05 · letter vlog · John · 2:56 · watch on YouTube

Topic: World affairs (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: timely hook, community lore, on location

After North Korea's failed long-range missile launch, John revives the Evil Baby Orphanage and jokingly proposes sending Kim Il-sung there so that Kim Jong-il never exists.

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: Sunday Newsday from an airport; intro

00:00:08 — Naomi's suggestion and North Korea's missile launch revive the Evil Baby Orphanage; its origin with Brooke and baby Hitler; the brothers' time-travel paradox dispute

  • ★★ John says nerdfighter Naomi suggested reviving the Evil Baby Orphanage; he hesitated until North Korea launched a long-range missile, so now it's time. (playful) — 00:00:08 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★ John recaps the Evil Baby Orphanage: invented almost two years ago (May 2007) by nerdfighter Brooke as a compromise in the debate over killing baby Hitler via time travel. (playful) — 00:00:25 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★ John explains Brooke's compromise: go back in time, kidnap evil baby Hitler and take him to the Evil Baby Orphanage, a school designed explicitly for evil babies in "like, Tibet or something". (playful) — 00:00:39 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★ John says the orphanage stalled not over building a time machine but over the brothers' continuing disagreement about time-travel paradoxes, which they should now set aside. (playful) — 00:00:55

00:01:13 — North Korea's launch: Kim Jong-il 'grandmother' gag, no nukes, epic fail but the world and even China are mad; China's imagined letter

  • ★★ John notes two differences from himself: North Korea is run by 'a crazy dude', Kim Jong-il, and has nuclear weapons. (playful) — 00:01:37
  • ★★★ John reports North Korea launched a long-range missile into the ocean; though the launch failed, the international community, even China, is really mad. (playful) — 00:01:41 · Epic fail, China
  • ★★ Via an imagined letter from China, John mocks North Korea's totalitarianism, cult of personality, refusal to let people leave and killing of political enemies. (satire) — 00:01:56 · China

00:02:10 — Put Kim Il-sung in the Evil Baby Orphanage; nerdfighters can build a time machine (317 Peeps, pond sand filter)

  • ★★★ John proposes putting Kim Jong-il's dead father Kim Il-sung in the Evil Baby Orphanage, which he says would save millions of lives and reunify Korea. (playful) — 00:02:15 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★ John says building the needed time machine is no challenge: nerdfighters do everything asked, e.g. they ate 317 Peeps for him. (playful) — 00:02:27 · Nerdfighteria, Peeps
  • ★ John cites nerdfighters' pond sand filter in Bangladesh as proof of what they can do. (playful) — 00:02:45 · Nerdfighteria

00:02:48 — Sign-off: see you Tuesday; 'the people in the airport think that I'm crazy' song

Humor (dominant)

  • John says he isn't run by a crazy 68-year-old Korean grandmother named Kim Jong-il, then is corrected off-camera. — 00:01:23

    “Kim Jong-Il is apparently a dude.”

  • China, North Korea's one crazy friend, writes a letter praising its totalitarianism and cult of personality, then objects. — 00:01:48

    “But come on! WTF? Best wishes, China.”

  • An off-camera doubter says nerdfighters can't build a time machine; John cites the 317 Peeps they ate for him. — 00:02:35

    “Get your head out of your ass.”

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Mentioned

Central: Evil Baby Orphanage · North Korea

Also: People: Adolf Hitler · Kim Il Sung · Kim Jong Il

Rituals: Newsday

Concepts: cult of personality · time travel · totalitarianism

Places: Bangladesh · China · Korea

Events: North Korean long-range missile launch (placeholder)

Products: Peeps

Memes: Epic fail

Only in the description or credits: Brooke

Also centred on Evil Baby Orphanage: May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies · Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues · The Evil Baby Orphanage Returns...for George Washington? · I Don't Have a Favorite Pony

Also centred on North Korea: North Korea: Explained · Inside North Korea · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes?

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