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Pumpkin Slashing, Sexy Watermelons, and Zombie Tools with Jayne

2011-10-31 · letter vlog · Hank, Katherine Green · 3:46 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Pop culture (also: Personal life) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: timely hook, on location, song or performance, guest or collab, civic or action cta, self promotion

For Halloween Hank reveals that he is dressed as Firefly's Jayne Cobb, with Katherine as Kaylee. He challenges Nerdfighteria to make a sexy Marie Curie costume and shares a short music video of slashing pumpkins with swords at Zombie Tools, a maker of zombie-killing weapons in his hometown.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Halloween costume reveal: Hank as Jayne Cobb, Katherine as Kaylee; Halloween sexifies everything; sexy Marie Curie costume challenge

  • ★★★ Hank reveals his Halloween costume: he is Jayne Cobb from the TV show Firefly. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank tells viewers who do not know who Jayne Cobb is to go watch Firefly. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Katherine is dressed as Kaylee, Firefly's mechanic; Hank says they are exploring an alternate future in which the two characters got together. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank is out of town at a friend's wedding on Halloween. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Saying Halloween can sexify anything, Hank playfully challenges the world and Nerdfighteria to create a sexy Marie Curie costume for him; he has not found one yet. (playful) — 00:00:20 · Nerdfighteria

00:00:42 — Halloween special: visit to Zombie Tools, a hometown maker of zombie-killing tools; its founders are martial artists who take pumpkins as payment

  • ★★★ As a Halloween special, Hank visited a company in his hometown, Zombie Tools, that makes tools specifically for killing zombies, brought them pumpkins and made a mini music video. — 00:00:42 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ Hank says Zombie Tools' founders did not start out as metalsmiths but as martial artists, and they love to hit stuff with swords. — 00:01:03
  • ★ Hank jokes that Zombie Tools lets visitors watch them work in exchange for payment in pumpkins and other things to slash with swords; he brought them pumpkins. (playful) — 00:01:03

00:01:25 — Mini music video of pumpkin slashing at Zombie Tools, set to Dr. Noise's 'Little Soldier'

00:02:25 — Hank on weaponry: empty holsters, unease about weapons for hurting people, fun of bisecting a pumpkin; credit to Dr. Noise

  • ★★★ Hank says he is not into weaponry and feels funny about weapons in general, which are intrinsically not awesome because they are for hurting people. These are mostly for zombies and pumpkins, and bisecting a pumpkin was pretty fun. — 00:02:25
  • ★★ Hank's mini music video of slashing pumpkins at Zombie Tools uses Dr. Noise's song 'Little Soldier', which Hank thanks him for letting him use. — 00:02:51

00:03:13 — Thanks for the hat and to Zombie Tools; plugs for Zombie Tools' site and calendar and a zombie Truth or Fail; John's signing and TFiOS; sign-off

  • ★ Hank points viewers to Zombie Tools' website and, for those not buying an edged weapon, its zombie apocalypse calendar. — 00:03:13
  • ★ Hank points viewers to a zombie Truth or Fail at youtube.com/truthorfail. — 00:03:13
  • ★★ Hank tells John he is excited about John being done with signing, and even more excited about The Fault in Our Stars coming out. — 00:03:35 · The Fault in Our Stars

Humor (significant)

  • Hank lists what Halloween is for: carving gourds, frightening each other, stuffing children with candy. — 00:00:00

    “Stuff children full of candy and dresses sexy watermelons.”

  • Hank admits Jayne and Kaylee were never together on Firefly. — 00:00:20

    “I feel like they probably would have been, at least for like a one night stand or something at some point in the series.”

  • Hank praises the zombie-weapon makers as a small business, the lifeblood of America. — 00:00:42

    “These guys are the embodiment of the American dream, and also the embodiment of some other much weirder dreams.”

  • Hank says he is not into weaponry, though he is festooned with holsters. — 00:02:51

    “None of them have anything in them, except this one has my eyeglasses in it.”

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Mentioned

Central: Halloween (holiday) · Jayne Cobb · Zombie Tools

Also: People: Katherine Green · Marie Curie

Projects: Truth or Fail

Works: Firefly (tv series) · The Fault in Our Stars

Places: Missoula, Montana

Characters: Kaylee Frye

Products: Apokatana

Myths: zombie

Only in the description or credits: Bill Martin · Little Soldier · Silent Echoes

Also centred on Halloween (holiday): SPWNING Halloween · Truth or Fail: Halloween!

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