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FIRST! Green Brothers Reunited Again

2017-06-20 · Q&A · John, Hank, Sydney Green · 3:45 · watch on YouTube

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

Together for a reunion Question Tuesday, John asks Hank questions containing the word 'first' (first comments, first movie that made him cry, first book, broken bone, concert, snow, tweet), and their mom, called on the phone, reveals that the tree-house fall John pins on Hank was John's own.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Greeting, reunion, and the premise: questions containing the word 'first'

  • ★★ John introduces a special edition of Question Tuesday in which he asks Hank questions that contain the word 'first'. — 00:00:04 · Question Tuesday

00:00:12 — Writing 'first' in YouTube comments

  • ★ John says people writing 'first' in comments doesn't bother him: whenever he is first, he can't stop himself. (playful) — 00:00:17 · First post
  • ★★ Hank says writing 'first' in comments used to bother him, until he was first on a video himself and wanted to do it. — 00:00:23 · First post

00:00:28 — First movie that made Hank cry, first-aid tips, first books they loved

  • ★★ Hank says the first movie that made him cry was An American Tail. (hedged) — 00:00:31
  • ★★ Hank says the first book he fell in love with was Jurassic Park, or possibly its sequel The Lost World, which he loved. (hedged) — 00:00:57
  • ★★ John says the first book he fell in love with was Gus Is a Bug. — 00:01:10

00:01:12 — First broken bone: the tree-house fall, settled by calling Mom

  • ★★ John insists Hank's first broken bone came when he fell out of a tree house and broke his arm; Hank denies it. — 00:01:18
  • ★★ Sydney Green: Their mom, called on the phone, says it was John, not Hank, who fell out of a tree house. — 00:01:33
  • ★★ John realizes the tree-house memory he attributed to Hank is a memory of himself. — 00:01:40

00:01:45 — First concerts, first snow, and moonlight as a lost thing

  • ★★ Hank says his first concert was probably They Might Be Giants. (hedged) — 00:01:48
  • ★★ John remembers that concert: he was there and Hank was about 11. — 00:01:51
  • ★ Hank says his first concert may instead have been the B-52s, with the Violent Femmes opening. (hedged) — 00:01:56
  • ★★ Hank remembers first seeing snow on the ground in Alabama and marvelling that it was real. — 00:02:06
  • ★★ Hank says he first saw snow fall at 9 or 10 and was astonished, having thought snowflakes were like elementary-school paper cut-outs, a made-up idea. — 00:02:12
  • ★★ John says that, growing up amid streetlights, he thought moonlight was something whose time had passed, like passenger pigeons; a moon shadow made him wonder if he was a werewolf. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:44

00:02:57 — Hank's first tweet (2007) about Google buying Twitter

  • ★★ John reveals Hank's first tweet, from June 2007 on his EcoGeek handle: writing up stories for EcoGeek and wondering when Google would buy Twitter. — 00:03:06 · Twitter, EcoGeek, Google

00:03:24 — Last time doing something for the first time; death; sign-off

  • ★ Hank: Asked when he last did something for the first time, Hank says it is the first time he has had all these cells and probably the first time he has worn this outfit. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:28

Humor (significant)

  • Asked for first-aid tips, Hank says call a doctor; the answer turns to applying pressure to the wound, and, even with no wound, pressure is applied. — 00:00:42

    “I can confirm that's unpleasant.”

  • John insists Hank broke his arm falling out of a tree house; their mom, on the phone, says it was John who fell. — 00:01:40

    “It's a memory of myself.”

  • Hank's 2007 first tweet wondered when Google would buy Twitter; Hank wishes they had. — 00:03:20

    “But Google has such a successful existing social network in Google+.”

  • John asks Hank whether he knows the last time he'll do something for the first time. — 00:03:38

    “Death.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

People: Sydney Green

Projects: EcoGeek

Works: An American Tail · Gus Is a Bug · Jurassic Park · The Lost World (Crichton novel)

Organizations: Google · Google+ · Twitter · YouTube

Groups: The B-52's · They Might Be Giants · Violent Femmes

Rituals: Question Tuesday

Concepts: passenger pigeon

Places: Alabama

Myths: werewolf

Memes: First post

Only in the description or credits: Reunion video

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