Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event!

2009-09-23 · song · Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books & writing (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, community lore, self promotion, timely hook

Hank presents 'Where's Margo', a song over photos Nerdfighters took of Paper Towns' Margo Roth Spiegelman around the world, arguing in song that the 'manic pixie dream girl' is more complex than she seems, and urges viewers to buy the paperback.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Margo 'got out' of John's head; Hank asked Nerdfighters to photograph her

• ★★★ Hank jokes that Margo Roth Spiegelman escaped John's head, and says he asked Nerdfighters to photograph her wherever they saw her, and they complied. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria, Paper Towns

00:00:34 — Song 'Where's Margo' over Nerdfighters' photos of Margo around the world

• ★★★ In the song's chorus, Hank sings that Margo, the 'manic pixie dream girl', is more complex than she seems. (playful) — 00:00:34

  “That manic pixie dream girl is more complex than she seems”

• ★★ The song retells Paper Towns: Margo disappears, the searchers follow her tracks, and in searching for her you find yourself instead. (fiction) — 00:00:34 · Paper Towns

• ★★ The song says to learn what happens you must buy the book, and hopes the paperback yields a Margo one can understand and love complexly. (playful) — 00:02:15 · Paper Towns

  “A Margot I can understand and love complexly”

• ★★ The song lists places where Margo was photographed, from Hawaii, Pisa and Disneyland to Kyoto, '19th century Croatia' and Florence. (playful) — 00:02:15 · Where's Margo

00:03:45 — Buy Paper Towns; free mp3 at nerdfighters.com; DFTBA

• ★★★ Hank urges viewers who don't have Paper Towns to buy it, calling it awesome and his favorite John Green book ever. — 00:03:45 · Paper Towns
• ★★ Hank offers a free mp3 of the song, with instructions at nerdfighters.com. — 00:03:45 · nerdfighters.com

Humor (significant)

• Hank tells John that Margo, his fictional character, has been busy since the book. — 00:00:00

  “I understand that you thought she was fictional, being that you made her up in your head, but she got out”

• The song warns what searching for the disappeared Margo does to you. — 00:00:34

  “you'll spend the next six months with your head up in your ass”

• The sung list of places Nerdfighters photographed Margo includes an impossible one. — 00:03:05

  “19th century Croatia”

Threads in this video

• outcome · Where's Margo: Nerdfighters photograph Margo Roth Spiegelman around the world (2009) — Hank presents the Where's Margo event: Nerdfighters' photos of Margo around the world, set to his song. (00:00:00)
• result reported · Hank asks Nerdfighters to photograph Margo Roth Spiegelman wherever they see her (2009) — Hank says he asked Nerdfighters to photograph Margo wherever they saw her, and they complied. (00:00:00)
• reminder · John asks viewers to buy the Paper Towns paperback (2009) — Hank urges viewers who don't have Paper Towns yet to buy it. (00:03:45)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• Hank asks Nerdfighters to photograph Margo Roth Spiegelman wherever they see her (2009) — reported back (the ask itself is not in the videos read here); last: result reported, 2009-09-23

Mentioned

Central: Hank's Where's Margo song · Paper Towns · Where's Margo

Also: Projects: nerdfighters.com

Concepts: manic pixie dream girl

Places: Croatia · Disneyland · Florence · Hawaii · Hollywood · Hong Kong · Israel · Kyoto · Pisa · Skullbone, Tennessee · Switzerland · Washington, DC

Characters: Margo Roth Spiegelman

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