15 Hours in Target!
2010-01-06 (said on 2010-01-05 — implied: date said in the video; uploaded 1 day later) · challenge / punishment · Hank · 3:36 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: punishment or challenge, community lore, on location
Hank documents serving his punishment of 15 hours inside a Target: boredom, visiting Nerdfighters, shelving oddities, and a candy-calorie investigation with Katherine; he then assigns John's punishment: a full Frog Hopper ride while telling Hank he loves him.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — Starting 15 hours in Target; bored after five hours; Nerdfighters visit; yogurt in the workout section; balaclava labelled 'baklava'
- ★★★ Hank, tired and unwell, starts his punishment inside a Target with 15 hours to fill; five hours in, he is really bored. — 00:00:00 · Punishment
- ★ Hank says Nerdfighters came to see him in the Target. — 00:00:45 · Nerdfighteria
00:01:27 — Aside to John: his root canal today and the yearly toothbrush from Mom
- ★★ Hank feels a bit of a jerk complaining when John did nothing and has a root canal today, though John did break the rules of dental hygiene despite Mom buying them a toothbrush every year. (playful) — 00:01:27 · Sydney Green
00:01:43 — Twelve hours in; with Katherine, finding the candy with the most calories per gram; a last heaping spoonful
- ★★ Twelve hours in, Katherine joins Hank and they do math in the candy aisle to find the candy worst for you, measured by calories per gram. — 00:02:13 · Katherine Green
- ★★ Hank reports that, after Reese's and Dove peanut butter cups, the Lindor Peanut Butter Truffles came out highest at 5.9 calories per gram, and cost more. — 00:02:25
- ★★ Near the end of his 15 hours in Target, Hank eats 'one last heaping spoonful', coughs, and calls it a horrible idea. (playful) — 00:03:09
00:03:17 — John's punishment: a full Frog Hopper session and 'tell me you love me'; sign-off
- ★★★ Hank assigns John's punishment: face his fear of heights with a full session on the Frog Hopper, and tell Hank he loves him while up there. (playful) — 00:03:17 · John Green, Punishment
Humor (dominant)
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Hank finds yogurt stocked in Target's workout section. — 00:01:11
“Nice, warm yogurt. Good job consumer.”
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Hank models a balaclava, good as a ninja mask and for the Montana winter, and reads its label. — 00:01:18
“However, they didn't call it a balaclava, they called it a baclava.”
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The calorie-densest candy, Lindor truffles, is also more expensive: you get what you pay for. — 00:02:37
“which is chubby.”
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Hank sets John's punishment: face his fear of heights on the Frog Hopper. — 00:03:17
“and while you're up there, I want you to tell me you love me.”
Threads in this video
- performed · Hank: 15 hours in the Missoula Target for his 4:02 video (2009) — Hank serves his punishment, spending the day (15 hours) inside a Target and filming it. (00:00:07)
- update · John's toothache and root canals (2010) — Hank notes that John has to get a root canal today, having broken the basic rules of dental hygiene. (00:01:30) → refers to It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules
- set · John: ride the Frog Hopper, punishment for Nerdfighters finding Gus Is a Bug (2009) — Hank sets John's punishment: face his fear of heights with a full session on the Frog Hopper, and tell Hank he loves him while up there. (00:03:17)
Where the stories that moved here went next
- John: ride the Frog Hopper, punishment for Nerdfighters finding Gus Is a Bug (2009) — performed
- Hank: 15 hours in the Missoula Target for his 4:02 video (2009) — performed; last: looked back on, 2014-07-18
- John's toothache and root canals (2010) — followed over 3 videos (2010); last: update, 2010-02-15
Mentioned
Dove Peanut Butter Cups · Frog Hopper · Katherine Green · Lindor Peanut Butter Truffles · Punishment · Reese's Peanut Butter Cups · Sydney Green · Target Corporation
Replies to
- answers · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — “Though as you pointed out, you did break the basic rules of dental hygiene.”
Later videos replying to this one
- 2010-01-08 · GUS HAS NO FUZZ! (John) — answers (perform on Hank: 15 hours in the Missoula Target for his 4:02 video (2009)) — John congratulates Hank on completing 15 hours in Target without going insane or getting arrested. (00:00:29)