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Mother Pheasant Plucker - A Song

2015-04-24 · song · Hank, Katherine Green · 3:58 · watch on YouTube

Topic: History & curiosities (also: Projects) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, self promotion, guest or collab, on location

Hank presents his comic tongue-twister song 'Mother Pheasant Plucker' with an animated video by Shmorky and Weebl, then, on the road, thanks tour audiences, points to the Podcast Because Awesome tour diary and gives a last call for the Bat People shirts.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — A concert crowd shouts 'Good morning John, it's Friday!'; music intro

00:00:28 — Song 'Mother Pheasant Plucker' with an animated music video: a pleasant pheasant plucker from a pheasant-plucking family who never says the F-word

  • ★★ In the song, the narrator is a pleasant pheasant plucker at a pheasant factory, from a pheasant-plucking family in Italy, who never says the F-word. (fiction) — 00:00:28

00:02:39 — Thanks to Shmorky and Weebl; playing the song on tour; tour has been amazing; thanks to the bands; Podcast Because Awesome tour diary

  • ★★ Hank thanks Shmorky and Weebl for making the music video for the song. — 00:02:39
  • ★★ Hank says they have been playing the song on tour and it has been going poorly, which is the point. (playful) — 00:02:44
  • ★★ Hank, on the way to a friend's house, says the tour has been amazing. — 00:02:48
  • ★ Katherine Green: Asked whether the tour is going well, Katherine says it is going great. — 00:02:53 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Hank thanks everyone who came to spend time with Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers, Harry and the Potters, Driftless Pony Club, Andrew Huang and Rob Scallon, and says it has been a fantastic time. — 00:02:55
  • ★★ Hank is putting the tour's behind-the-scenes material into Podcast Because Awesome, a 20-to-30-minute-per-episode diary of what life on tour is like for a nerd band. — 00:03:02

00:03:23 — Last chance for the Bat People shirts; arrives at 'my friend Barack Obama's' house; thanks and sign-off; outtake

  • ★★ Hank says the Bat People shirts are on sale only for roughly another 12 or 24 hours: this is the last chance. (hedged) — 00:03:23

Humor (dominant)

  • The pheasant plucker insists on how pleasant his work is, the refrain built to make listeners mishear a swear. — 00:01:00

    “A pleasant mother pheasant plucker like me say the F-word”

  • The narrator's mother sang the tongue-twister song all day while plucking. — 00:01:41

    “She never, ever, ever got the lyrics wrong.”

  • Hank reports how the band has been performing this song on tour. — 00:02:44

    “It's been going poorly, which is the point.”

  • Hank arrives at the friend's house they were driving to. — 00:03:27

    “My friend Barack Obama.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

Central: Mother Pheasant Plucker

Also: People: Andrew Huang · Barack Obama · Katherine Green · Rob Scallon

Projects: Podcast Because Awesome · Tour Because Awesome

Works: We Are All Bat People shirt

Groups: Driftless Pony Club · Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers · Harry and the Potters

Only in the description or credits: Incongruent · Shmorky · Weebl

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