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I Hung out with Snookie...Accidentally

2010-07-21 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life, Pop culture) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: community lore, punishment or challenge, song or performance, calendar ritual, self promotion

In a four-part letter, Hank tells of being recognised alongside Snooki at an airport, marks three years since Accio Deathly Hallows was featured with a mustached alter-ego skit, plays his yearly Harry Potter song's chorus, and sets John's punishment: a nerd workout video.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Part one: at the airport home from VidCon, Hank sees Snooki and her entourage; a fan asks Hank for a photo too, confusing Snooki

  • ★★ At the airport going home from VidCon, Hank saw a small, heavily made-up woman with a four-man entourage; people readied cameras, and he later identified her as Snooki from Jersey Shore. — 00:00:00 · VidCon
  • ★★ After someone took a photo with Snooki, another person asked Hank if he was Hank Green and wanted a photo with him, leaving Snooki confused: 'when worlds collide'. (playful) — 00:00:29

00:00:52 — Part two: three-year anniversary of Accio Deathly Hallows on YouTube's front page; skit with a mustached 'evil' Hank mocking recent honours

  • ★★★ Hank marks roughly three years since Accio Deathly Hallows was featured on YouTube's front page, the first time many people watched the brothers' videos. — 00:00:52 · YouTube
  • ★★ Hank says, as John noted in a recent Skype conversation, this marks three years of 'one of the coolest, weirdest, most awesome lives ever'. — 00:00:52 · John Green
  • ★★ Via a sarcastic mustached alter ego, Hank lists recent honours: a character in a major Russian film did the Nerdfighter salute, an idol said he respects Hank's work, and John won a literary prize in Germany. (playful) — 00:01:22 · John Green
  • ★ The alter ego, 'the voice inside your head', tells Hank he is not his achievements and that his accomplishments are all luck or cheating. (joke) — 00:01:22

00:02:04 — Part three: Hank's yearly Harry Potter song on the Deathly Hallows anniversary; he plays the chorus ('this is not Harry Potter')

  • ★★ Every year on the Deathly Hallows anniversary Hank writes another Harry Potter song; he has written this year's (2010) but plays only the chorus for lack of time. — 00:02:04 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ The chorus laments that however much young adult fiction Hank reads, he keeps coming up dry: whatever he reads, it is not Harry Potter. (playful) — 00:02:04 · Harry Potter (book series) · also in: HARRY POTTER SONG!

00:02:34 — Part four: John's punishment, a 10-minute nerd workout video in an eighties workout outfit; the phrase 'in shape'

  • ★★★ Hank sets John's punishment, first suggested to him at VidCon: a 10-minute workout video working 'the whole nerd body', since John is doing well on his fitness plan. — 00:02:34 · Punishment, VidCon, John Green, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ The punishment outfit must include a sweatshirt cut off at the ribs and a headband, preferably leg warmers, and possibly a whole-body leotard. (playful) — 00:02:34 · Punishment
  • ★ Hank finds the phrase 'in shape' weird: he is in the shape of a skinny guy with a high percentage of body fat and no muscle. (playful) — 00:03:13

00:03:40 — Hope John enjoys Germany; link to John's event in the description; sign-off as the mustached alter ego

  • ★★ Hank hopes John is enjoying Germany and points viewers who want to see John there to information linked in the description. — 00:03:40 · John Green, doobly-doo

Humor (significant)

  • Hank identifies the woman at the airport as Snooki from Jersey Shore, for anyone who doesn't know her. — 00:00:29

    “if you don't know who Snooki is, as far as I'm concerned, you win.”

  • A fan asks Snooki for a photo, then another asks Hank Green for one, while Snooki watches. — 00:00:52

    “was confused. And that is what it's like when worlds collide.”

  • Hank's mustached alter ego mocks his recent honours and hands him a 'pony' as a prize. — 00:01:22

    “Um, this isn't a pony. It's a squirrel.”

  • The mustached alter ego signs off by calling John a phony whose success is luck and cheating. — 00:03:40

    “and half of my mustache just fell off.”

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Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Accio Deathly Hallows · Harry Potter (book series) · Punishment · Snooki

Also: Projects: VidCon

Works: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows · Jersey Shore

Organizations: Skype · YouTube

Rituals: Nerdfighter gang sign

Terms: doobly-doo · in your pants

Concepts: young adult literature

Places: Germany

Also centred on Accio Deathly Hallows: July 20: Green Mohawk · Re: July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows · Book Eight...Another Harry Potter Song · Hank Vlogs (and a String Quartet) · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall · Accio Decade Hallows

Also centred on Snooki: Grammar School with Snooki

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