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PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!

2019-10-28 · announcement · John · 3:38 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Announcements · tags: calendar ritual, self promotion, community lore

John grows his Pizza John mustache to open Pizzamas 2019, two weeks of weekday videos, and unboxes the DFTBA Pizzamas merch (mug, scarf, shirts including None Pizza with Left John, bandana, map, pineapple pins, pennant), plus pizza-slice watercolors he made with Sarah.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — The returning mustache, Pizzamas explained, the first mustache unsure whether it was ironic

  • ★★ John jokes that he might need to grow a mustache, and one appears on camera; he calls it terrible, worse for being subtle. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ John announces Pizzamas, the most magical time of year in Nerdfighteria, when for two weeks they make weekday videos as in 2007. — 00:00:00 · Pizzamas, Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John claims the mustache that inspired Pizzamas was the first mustache not to know whether it was ironic, now a widespread phenomenon. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Pizzamas

00:00:29 — Unboxing: mug, sweatshirt, scarf, shirts, the brickhead shirt and None Pizza with Left John

  • ★★ John says Hank once made a video on Pizzamas' backstory; every year DFTBA.com commissions items themed on his mustachioed face, sold only during Pizzamas, which he unboxes unseen. — 00:00:29 · DFTBA Records, Pizza John, Hank Green, Pizzamas
  • ★★ John presents a Pizza John mug, for drinking coffee in a classy, sophisticated and slightly mustachioed way. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Pizza John
  • ★★ John presents a 'magnificently subtle' Pizza John sweatshirt. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Pizza John
  • ★★ John presents a football scarf for Pizza John and finds it surprisingly comfortable. — 00:00:29 · Pizza John
  • ★★ John says this is shaping up to be the best Pizzamas ever and the Pizza John shirts are now like high art. — 00:00:29 · Pizzamas, Pizza John
  • ★★ John presents a 'brickhead' shirt showing a deconstructed pizza with his face on it, which he says will make wearers feel awesome. — 00:01:15
  • ★★ John presents, last but not least, the None Pizza with Left John shirt. — 00:01:15 · None pizza with left beef

00:01:41 — Stickers, the bandana, the Vespa shirt, the buy-now ask and the underground pizza map

  • ★★ John says nothing in 2019 has made him as happy as None Pizza with Left John, and calls Pizzamas beautiful and stupid. — 00:01:41 · None pizza with left beef, Pizzamas
  • ★★ John presents a sticker collection for adorning a phone, laptop or other surface with his mustachioed face. — 00:01:41
  • ★★ John says they finally made a Pizzamas bandana, and puts it on. — 00:01:41 · Pizzamas
  • ★ John says he learned to tie a bandana at summer camp 30 years ago and bets he can still do it. — 00:02:09
  • ★★ John puts on a shirt showing him on a Vespa and calls the shirts amazing. — 00:02:09
  • ★★★ John says everything is available only during Pizzamas at DFTBA.com and urges viewers to go right now, admitting a false sense of urgency. (playful) — 00:02:09 · DFTBA Records, Pizzamas
  • ★★ John says that now their profits go to charity, he has become a much harder seller. (playful) — 00:02:09
  • ★★ John presents a Pizzamas underground map whose stations are all different kinds of pizza. — 00:02:09 · Pizzamas

00:02:46 — Pineapple pins, thanks, the pennant, Mystic Pizza watercolors and sign-off

  • ★★ John presents two pins, 'pineapple pizza forever' and a crossed-out pineapple saying 'nope'; whichever sells more will be declared Nerdfighteria's collective opinion on pineapple on pizza. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:46 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John thanks everybody at DFTBA and all the designers who took part in this weird project. — 00:02:46 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★ John presents a Pizza John pennant, so buyers can brag about having gone to pizza college. (playful) — 00:03:15 · Pizza John
  • ★★ John says he and Sarah have been making watercolor paintings together. — 00:03:15 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ John says a few pizza-slice-shaped watercolors, called Mystic Pizza by John and Sarah, are also available. — 00:03:15 · Sarah Urist Green, Pizza John

In the description and comments

Humor (significant)

  • John decides he needs a mustache for Pizzamas and grows one on camera. — 00:00:00

    “Oh, God, it's terrible. Somehow it's worse because it's subtle.”

  • John boasts about the mustache that inspired Pizzamas. — 00:00:00

    “my mustache that inspired Pizzamus was the very first mustache not to know whether it was ironic”

  • The last shirt riffs on the 'None pizza with left beef' meme. — 00:01:15

    “it's none pizza with left John.”

  • After telling viewers the merch is sold only during Pizzamas, John urges them to go right now. — 00:02:09

    “False sense of urgency.”

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Mentioned

Central: Pizza John · Pizzamas

Also: DFTBA Records · Hawaiian pizza · irony · Mystic Pizza by John and Sarah · None pizza with left beef (“none pizza with left John”) · Sarah Urist Green

Only in the description or credits: Paul DeGeorge

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