DEMOLITION DERBY!

2009-08-26 · song · Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Sports · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, self promotion

Hank, prompted by commenters who thought demolition derbies were fictional, performs a comic song about the demolition derby as the best part of the county fair, then plugs This Is Not Tom and a Friday Truth or Fail.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — False start with the tripod; commenters on the county-fair video thought demolition derbies were fictional, so Hank introduces them with a song

• ★★★ Hank says commenters on his county-fair video thought demolition derbies were fictional, so he wants to introduce people to them with today's song. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Hank says the heyday of demolition derbies is long gone and there will never again be a real professional demolition derby circuit. — 00:00:28

00:00:57 — The Demolition Derby song: fair food, cash for clunkers, crashing cars, see you next year

• ★★ In the song Hank says the demolition derby, with its mangled metal and flaming exhaust, is the reason he goes to the county fair. (playful) — 00:00:57

  “the demolition derby is why I'm there”

• ★★ The song jokes that old cars shouldn't let a 'death panel' choose how they die; Cash for Clunkers pays four thousand bucks, but the demolition derby is a more exciting way to ditch them. (joke) — 00:01:23 · Death panel

• ★ Hank judges his performance not very good, but maybe just good enough. (playful) — 00:02:53

00:03:18 — Song co-written with Nerdfighters on Etherpad; This Is Not Tom continues; Truth or Fail on Friday with John and Jory from the Microwave Show; sign-off

• ★★ Hank says he wrote the song collaboratively on Etherpad, where Nerdfighters filled in lines, so several lines are from Nerdfighters. — 00:03:18 · Nerdfighteria
• ★★ Hank announces that This Is Not Tom is continuing and says the story continues to be amazing. — 00:03:18 · This Is Not Tom
• ★★ Hank announces a Truth or Fail going live Friday with John and Jory from the Microwave Show, which he finds hilarious while editing. — 00:03:18

Humor (dominant)

• Hank opens by running into his tripod with demolition-derby footage, then notices a second mistake. — 00:00:00

  “Also, I'm not talking into my mic! God damn it.”

• Hank puts on a nice shirt and jackets because at a demolition derby you should wear nice clothes. — 00:00:57

  “No, you shouldn't. I don't know why I am. It just feels right.”

• Singing that old cars are ready to say goodbye, Hank borrows the 2009 health-care catchphrase. — 00:01:23

  “But we can't let a death panel choose how they die”

• The song describes the derby as church and the smashing cars as prayers. — 00:02:23

  “One car left running, I shed a single tear”

Threads in this video

• launched · Hank's song 'Demolition Derby' (2009) — Hank introduces and performs his Demolition Derby song, written collaboratively with Nerdfighters on Etherpad. (00:00:28)
• milestone · This Is Not Tom: John's story told through weekly online riddles (2009) — Hank announces that This Is Not Tom is continuing and says the story continues to be amazing. (00:03:18)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• Hank's song 'Demolition Derby' (2009) — last documented in 2009; last: milestone, 2009-09-01

Mentioned

Central: Demolition derby (concept) · Demolition Derby (song)

Also: Car Allowance Rebate System · Death panel · Etherpad · Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This? · This Is Not Tom · Truth or Fail

Replies to

• continues · The Political Situation at the County Fair — “in my last video that wasn't your birthday, I talked about the county fair, and I mentioned the Demolition Derby”

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