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Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!)

2016-02-26 · Q&A · Hank, John · 3:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: recurring series, guest or collab, community lore

Together for a reunion 'Question Tuesday' on a Friday, Hank and John mark nine years of vlogbrothers by answering viewers' Twitter questions about themselves: childhood ambitions, petty arguments, ears, baths, favourite works and their biggest accomplishments.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Day mix-up greetings; reunion video

00:00:15 — Nine years of vlogbrothers; a Question Tuesday of things people don't know, from Twitter

  • ★★ Hank marks nine years of making vlogbrothers videos with a Question Tuesday of things people still don't know about the brothers, using questions he gathered on Twitter. — 00:00:18 · Vlogbrothers, Question Tuesday, Twitter

00:00:30 — Girlfriends, childhood ambitions, the pettiest argument, casting movies

  • ★ John claims he had more girlfriends growing up, including long-term relationships in elementary school. (playful) — 00:00:34
  • ★★ Hank thought as a kid that he wanted to be an oceanographer, but it turned out he doesn't like boats. (playful) — 00:00:51
  • ★★ John wanted to be a writer as a kid but never thought it was a realistic job, likening it to wanting to be an astronaut. — 00:00:56 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
  • ★★ Hank says their pettiest ongoing argument, from the day before, was about which part of the human body would take the longest to eat. (playful) — 00:01:05
  • ★★ John recalls the argument instead as being about which part of the human body would make the largest contiguous steak. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:12

00:01:22 — Measuring ears, fart noises for Henry, bubble baths, Nerdfighter emoji, Hank's 20-year goal

  • ★★ John: Asked by a viewer, John says he does not cast movies. — 00:01:22
  • ★★ John: Measuring their ears against the Goonies, the brothers find John has the bigger ears, which John puts down to being older. (playful) — 00:01:33
  • ★★ Hank calls bubble baths a boiling cesspool, saying a bath feels like putting his entire body on every other part of his body. (playful) — 00:02:04
  • ★★ John defends baths as wonderful, calling this the pettiest argument the brothers have ever had. — 00:02:09
  • ★ Asked for a Nerdfighter emoji, Hank shows the one he uses, the gesturing lady. — 00:02:21 · nerdfighter
  • ★★ Hank's 20-year goal is still to have a colon when he is 55. (playful) — 00:02:28

00:02:35 — Dave Green is 'living the dream'

  • ★★ Asked how Dave Green is, Hank says he is fine and doing good. (playful) — 00:02:35 · Dave Green

00:02:49 — Seeing each other poop, John's rapid-fire favourites, biggest accomplishments

00:03:48 — Sign-off day mix-up

Humor (significant)

  • Hank's childhood dream of being an oceanographer — 00:00:51

    “but it turns out that I don't like boats.”

  • Their pettiest argument: which body part would make the largest steak — 00:01:18

    “It's all petty until you're a cannibal. And then it's suddenly very, very real.”

  • Hank explains why he hates bubble baths — 00:02:17

    “It feels like putting my entire body on every other part of my body.”

  • Hank states his 20-year goal — 00:02:30

    “when I'm 55, I want to still have a colon.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

People: Henry Green

Works: Hamilton (musical) · Hatchet · The Goonies · The Second Coming (poem)

Organizations: FTD Companies · Twitter

Rituals: Question Tuesday · Reunion video

Terms: nerdfighter

Characters: Dave Green

Only in the description or credits: Gary Paulsen · W. B. Yeats

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