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Question Tuesday: The Goat Edition

2015-08-25 · Q&A · John, Hank · 3:50 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: recurring series, guest or collab, community lore

John and Hank, together in person, run a Question Tuesday made almost entirely of goat questions that Hank solicited on Twitter, answered mostly for laughs.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Question Tuesday opening; Hank 'goatobombing' John, a nickname from dinner the night before

  • ★★ both: Hank interrupts John's Question Tuesday; at dinner the night before he made a dumb face in a photo that everyone decided was 'goatobombing', photobombing while looking like a goat. (playful) — 00:00:05 · Question Tuesday

00:00:17 — Goat questions: fight a John-sized goat, goats in sweaters, goats' rectangular pupils

  • ★ Hank: Asked whether he'd rather fight one John-sized goat or three goat-sized Johns, Hank picks the John-sized goat: John is crafty, and as a goat he'd be easier to fight. (playful) — 00:00:17 · John (name)
  • ★★ John says goats have rectangular pupils. — 00:00:55
  • ★★ Hank says goats' pupils are horizontal rectangles, probably for seeing in more directions (John: peripheral vision); he'd like to know what that's like, maybe via the Oculus Rift. (hedged) — 00:01:00 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

00:01:15 — Why all the questions are about goats: Hank's tweet 'Goat questions preferred'

  • ★★ both: John asks why all the questions are about goats; Hank admits he asked for questions and also asked people to ask about goats, and John finds his tweet 'Goat questions preferred'. (playful) — 00:01:15 · Twitter, Question Tuesday

00:01:28 — Goat impressions, John's goat-mating video, eating a goat's ear, iPhone passwords

  • ★★ Defending his goat knowledge against Hank, John says he made the internet's number one video about goat mating and has seen goats do it. (playful) — 00:01:46

00:02:32 — Goat etymology, favourite breed (The Mountain Goats), seven goats, goaticorn vs unigoat, what gets Hank's goat

  • ★ Asked where the word 'goat' comes from, John says it comes from Old English. — 00:02:32
  • ★ both: Asked their favourite goat breed, Hank picks the American mountain goat; John says The Mountain Goats too, specifically John Darnielle. (playful) — 00:02:37
  • ★★ Hank: Asked what really gets his goat, Hank answers: when awful people succeed. — 00:03:22

00:03:38 — Thanks, John's birthday the day before, sign-off

  • ★★ Hank notes it was John's birthday the day before and asks everybody to wish him a happy birthday. — 00:03:40 · John Green

Humor (dominant)

  • Hank appears behind John at the start of Question Tuesday, pulling a goat face. — 00:00:05

    “It's a wild Hank, and he's goatobombing me.”

  • Asked about goats in sweaters, Hank slips and says 'a sweater wearing a goat'; John seizes on it. — 00:00:53

    “A sweater wearing a goat is a fantastic idea!”

  • Asked how they'd split seven goats, John insists he gets four; Hank offers him all seven. — 00:03:02

    “Wait, I've rethought my answer. I would like to give you the seven goats.”

  • John distinguishes the goaticorn (a goat with a unicorn horn) from the unigoat (a unicorn with a goat head). — 00:03:18

    “Or as I like to call it, a horse.”

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Mentioned

Central: Question Tuesday

Also: goat · iPhone · John Darnielle · Oculus Rift · Old English · Siri · The Mountain Goats · Twitter

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