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DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants

2009-06-01 · announcement · Hank, Maureen Johnson · 2:40 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Projects) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: punishment or challenge, self promotion, community lore, guest or collab, civic or action cta

Hank tells John he will be punished for missing his video despite his excuses and asks for punishment ideas, announces a DFTBA Records street team with an iPod Shuffle prize and Chameleon Circuit's new album, then plays a LeakyCon clip of Maureen Johnson telling how the 'in your pants' game began with John's cream-cheese bagel.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Hank declares John punished for missing his video, whatever his excuses

  • ★ Hank notes that John is jet-lagged and sick, his wife is sick too, and he is working 15 hours a day. — 00:00:00 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank tells John that, whatever his excuse, he should have made his video and is being punished, which Hank says is overdue and he looks forward to. (playful) — 00:00:00 · John Green, Punishment

00:00:17 — DFTBA Records street team, mission one and iPod Shuffle prize; Chameleon Circuit's new album

  • ★★★ Hank announces DFTBA Records is forming a street team anyone can join to promote its releases for prizes; mission one is collecting email addresses with ReverbNation widgets. — 00:00:17 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to post punishment ideas for John in the comments. — 00:00:44 · Punishment, John Green
  • ★★ Whoever collects the most addresses wins an iPod Shuffle inscribed 'DFTBA Records', preloaded with five DFTBA releases including So Jokes, the DFTBA compilation and Chameleon Circuit's new album. — 00:00:44 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★ Hank asks interested viewers to join the DFTBA Records street team. — 00:00:44 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★ Hank says Chameleon Circuit's new album came out today; the description sells it for $12 at DFTBA.com. — 00:00:44 · DFTBA Records
  • ★ Rather than only plug his label in the gap John left, Hank shares a clip he took at LeakyCon of Maureen Johnson explaining where the 'in your pants' phenomenon began. (playful) — 00:00:44 · Maureen Johnson, in your pants, John Green
  • ★★ Maureen Johnson says she, John and E. Lockhart used to write together every day in a café. — 00:00:44 · John Green, Maureen Johnson

00:01:05 — Hank introduces his LeakyCon clip of Maureen Johnson and repeats his asks

00:01:25 — Maureen Johnson's account of how the 'in your pants' game began with John's bagel

  • ★★ Maureen Johnson: Maureen says John, on Weight Watchers and complaining about points, flailed with his cream-cheese bagel and dropped it cream cheese down into his lap, filling his corduroy's grooves. (playful) — 00:01:30 · John Green
  • ★★★ Maureen Johnson: As E. Lockhart sought a title for what became The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, Maureen, staring at John's cream cheese, proposed adding 'in your pants' to any title; Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines came first. (playful) — 00:02:00 · in your pants, Looking for Alaska (novel), An Abundance of Katherines
  • ★★ Maureen Johnson: Maureen says they played the game for the rest of the day and got nothing else done, and that is how the movement started, because John doesn't know how to eat. (playful) — 00:02:23 · in your pants, John Green

Humor (significant)

  • Hank lists John's serious excuses (jet lag, illness, a sick wife, 15-hour days), then dismisses them. — 00:00:00

    “We don't care what your excuse is. You're being punished.”

  • Hank introduces the clip on where the in-your-pants phenomenon began. — 00:00:44

    “Turns out it has nothing to do with John Green's genius and everything to do with John Green's bagel.”

  • Maureen ends her story of how the 'in your pants' game started over John's dropped bagel. — 00:02:23

    “and that's how a movement starts all because John Green doesn't know how to eat”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: DFTBA Records · in your pants · Maureen Johnson · Punishment

Also: People: E. Lockhart

Works: An Abundance of Katherines · DFTBA Volume One · Looking for Alaska (novel) · So Jokes · The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Organizations: ReverbNation · Weight Watchers

Groups: Chameleon Circuit

Events: LeakyCon

Products: iPod Shuffle

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