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REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John!

2013-11-29 · Q&A · Hank, John · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Books & writing, Global development) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: guest or collab, recurring series, self promotion, community lore, timely hook, calendar ritual

Together at their parents' home for Thanksgiving, Hank and John answer viewer questions in a Question Friday: rereading TFIOS, favorite book series, an arm-wrestling match, catchphrases, family photos, pie and the last turkey, drawings of each other, DFTBA.com's Black Friday shipping and how to make a good P4A 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 — Greetings; Question Friday with real questions from real Nerdfighters

00:00:05 — How often they have read The Fault in Our Stars; favorite book series

00:00:27 — Arm-wrestling match; crying at John's books; catchphrases for each other; eggs

  • ★★ both: Asked who would win at arm wrestling, the brothers arm-wrestle; John concedes, saying he could have kept going but was laughing too hard, and Hank claims he won with his wit. (playful) — 00:00:27
  • ★ both: Both brothers say they have cried at one of John's books, Hank joking that he looked at it and cried. (playful) — 00:00:43
  • ★★ both: Giving each other catchphrases, Hank gives John 'Imagine complexly!' and John gives Hank 'fart fart fart'. (playful) — 00:00:52 · imagine others complexly

00:01:04 — Childhood family photos; who is hotter; dance montage

  • ★ both: They show childhood family photos from the albums in the room they are in, including John giving Hank a bear hug. — 00:01:04

00:01:28 — Thanksgiving: turkey not pizza, one pumpkin pie, eating the last turkey on Earth

  • ★★ both: They have turkey, not pizza, for a normal Thanksgiving; both prefer pumpkin pie, and there is only one pumpkin pie this year (2013). — 00:01:28
  • ★★ both: Hank would not eat John if John were the last turkey on Earth; John is amused that anyone would eat the last turkey on Earth, which Hank likens to eating the last ivory-billed woodpecker. (playful) — 00:01:48

00:02:14 — Drawings of each other; worst candy; bad jokes

  • ★★ both: They show drawings of each other: Hank's on sparkle-pen paper, apparently with a Hanklerfish earring for John, and John's of Hank as a beaver playing the guitar. (playful) — 00:02:14 · Hanklerfish
  • ★ John recalls a contemporary art performance where the Chinese artist handed out hard candy that tasted like crabs, very bad candy. — 00:02:37

00:02:57 — DFTBA.com Black Friday: $3 shipping on all orders, even international

  • ★★★ both: For Black Friday DFTBA.com has $3 shipping on all orders, no matter the size, even international. — 00:03:00 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★ Hank suggests viewers tell friends and family looking for Christmas presents for them about the offer. (hedged) — 00:03:10 · DFTBA Records

00:03:13 — How to make a good Project for Awesome video

00:03:42 — Have they always been close; sign-off

  • ★★ John: Asked if they have always been close, John says no, but they have always liked each other. — 00:03:42

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says the brothers are in North Carolina visiting their parents for Thanksgiving and are thankful for each other, their families and viewers. — video description

Humor (significant)

  • Asked how many times he has read The Fault in Our Stars, John checks that it means the finished hardcover. — 00:00:13

    “Zero.”

  • There is only one pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving and both brothers want it, John says, almost like The Hunger Games. — 00:01:44

    “in that one of us is gonna be hungry and the other of us is gonna be dead.”

  • A viewer just says 'bad jokes', so John offers a physics joke. — 00:02:51

    “I'd tell you a physics joke but you'd probably find it BOHRing”

  • Hank follows with a literary joke. — 00:02:54

    “But, you know, jokes about Dorian Gray, they never get old.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

People: Niels Bohr (“BOHRing”)

Projects: DFTBA Records · Project for Awesome

Works: Divergent · Gunnarolla's Comic Sans song · Hanklerfish · Harry Potter (book series) · The Fault in Our Stars · The Hunger Games (book series) (“The Hunger Games”)

Rituals: Question Tuesday

Terms: imagine others complexly

Concepts: ivory-billed woodpecker

Events: Black Friday · Thanksgiving

Characters: Dorian Gray

Only in the description or credits: Gunnarolla · North Carolina · Reunion video · Slaughterhouse-Five

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