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HANKLERFISH!

2011-08-15 · letter vlog · John, Hank · 3:52 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life, Projects) · mode: Announcements · tags: punishment or challenge, self promotion, community lore, guest or collab

Visiting Hank in Missoula, John plugs their 'Hank and John play FIFA 11' series on HankGames, says gallbladder surgery rules out his sandwich punishment and asks for alternatives, and announces Hank's punishment: drawing anglerfish ('Hanklerfish') on 5% of the signed TFIOS sheets; all pre-orders will be signed.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Green-screen bit: John 'transports' himself into Hank's Missoula office, removes the annoying GLaDOS, breaks things and changes a poster

  • ★ Using what he calls a green screen, John 'transports' himself into Hank's Missoula home office to remove GLaDOS, who annoys him, and breaks things along the way. (joke) — 00:00:00 · Missoula, Montana

00:00:52 — 'Hank and John play FIFA 11' on HankGames: a terrible Liverpool-Arsenal match, 19 missed penalties tomorrow, more HankGames videos to come

  • ★★★ John says he flew to Montana to be in a HankGames video, "Hank and John play FIFA 11"; they play very badly, and the second episode, out tomorrow, shows them missing 19 consecutive penalties. — 00:00:52 · HankGames
  • ★ John jokes that he and Hank played perhaps the worst match Liverpool and Arsenal have ever played. (joke) — 00:01:10
  • ★★ John points viewers to the series at youtube.com/hankgames, with a link in the doobly-doo. — 00:01:19 · HankGames
  • ★★ John says he will make more HankGames videos with Hank: he is really bad at video games but passionate about them, as he was about skateboarding at ten. — 00:01:24 · HankGames

00:01:35 — John's punishment: gallbladder removal rules out the sandwich punishment; haiku; viewers asked for alternatives

  • ★★★ John says he owes a punishment but cannot do the sandwich punishment, because his gallbladder was recently removed; he declines to show the scars. — 00:01:35 · Punishment
  • ★ John recites a haiku he wrote for his gallbladder's removal. (playful) — 00:01:54
  • ★★★ John asks viewers to suggest a different punishment for him; Hank will pick one. — 00:02:09 · Punishment

00:02:15 — Hank's punishment: Hanklerfishing 7,400 TFIOS signature sheets (5%); the word Hanklerfish defined; all pre-orders signed

  • ★★ John announces a punishment for Hank: besides his family, John brought to Montana one box of signature sheets for The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:02:15 · The Fault in Our Stars, Punishment
  • ★★★ Hank says the box holds 7,400 sheets, 5% of the total, and he will draw an anglerfish on every one, so buyers have a 5% chance of a 'Hanklerfished' copy. — 00:02:23 · The Fault in Our Stars, Hanklerfish

  • ★★ both: Hank coins the verb 'to Hanklerfish'; John sums up a Hanklerfish as an anglerfish drawn by a Hank, Hank agrees any Hank can make one, and John offers Hank Williams III. (playful) — 00:02:40 · Hanklerfish

    “So a Hanklerfish is an anglerfish drawn by a Hank.”

  • ★★★ John says he brought the sheets because he cannot take a week off from signing: everyone who pre-orders The Fault in Our Stars gets a signed book, and 5% will be Hanklerfished. — 00:03:00 · The Fault in Our Stars

00:03:18 — Sign-off; Hank's 'forks' T-shirt from an old Vlogbrothers video, made by Ningmaster Tom; inside jokes

  • ★ Hank's shirt reads 'Don't talk to me about my shirt or I will put forks in you', a line from a really old Vlogbrothers video, made by Ningmaster Tom; John says they have inside jokes even he doesn't get. (playful) — 00:03:24 · Ningmaster

Humor (significant)

  • Claiming to be on a green screen in Hank's office, John wishes he could remove the annoying GLaDOS, then reveals he really is there. — 00:00:15

    “Oh, wait, it's not. Goodbye GLaDOS.”

  • John previews the next episode of their FIFA 11 series. — 00:01:03

    “when you will see us miss nineteen consecutive penalties.”

  • John offers a haiku written for his gallbladder surgery. — 00:01:57

    “Stupid gall bladder. Not performing properly. I will kill you now!”

  • Hank turns his name and 'anglerfish' into a verb for drawing on the signature sheets. — 00:02:40

    “I made up a word and I verbed it.”

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Mentioned

Central: HankGames · Punishment · The Fault in Our Stars

Also: anglerfish · Arsenal F.C. · FIFA 11 · GLaDOS · Hank Williams III · Hanklerfish · Liverpool FC · Missoula, Montana

Only in the description or credits: Ningmaster Tom

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