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Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!!

2020-10-05 · announcement · John · 3:55 · watch on YouTube

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

John opens Pizzamas 2020, freed from the All Star titles, by unboxing this year's Pizza John merch (all profits to charity for child and maternal mortality and COVID relief) while mocking his mustache; a P.S. credits Maddie's YouTube comment with inspiring the All Star title project.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Free of All Star titles; Pizzamas begins: two weeks of daily videos and mustache merch

  • ★★ John celebrates that he can finally title his video anything he wants, having unhitched his wagon from All Star. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ John announces Pizzamas: for two weeks the brothers trade videos every weekday as in 2007 and sell stuff with John's mustachioed face, a reference to something from 2008 he doesn't remember. — 00:00:00 · Pizzamas, Hank Green, Pizza John

00:00:29 — Proceeds to charity; unboxing of this year's Pizza John items, bundle discounts, mask; pizzamas.com for two weeks

  • ★★★ The Pizzamas items are sold only during this Pizzamas, and all profits and royalties go to charity to reduce child and maternal mortality, plus international COVID relief for a couple of items. — 00:00:29 · Pizzamas, child mortality, maternal death, COVID-19 pandemic
  • ★★ John unboxes this year's (2020) items, starting with Circles Pizza John, which combines two of his favorite things, drawing tiny circles and having a mustache, then shirts, a hoodie, a tote, socks, pins, wrapping paper. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Pizza John
  • ★ John says his returning mustache is real bad, even catastrophic, and smiling makes it worse. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Buying all the t-shirts gives a discount and buying all of this year's (2020) Pizzamas stuff an even bigger one, to wrap as gifts that help friends through what may be a difficult winter. — 00:01:54 · Pizzamas
  • ★ John says he can't wait to go on tour again so he can meet people wearing the shirt. — 00:01:54
  • ★★ John says it wouldn't be 2020 without a Pizza John mask, joking that wearing it makes people keep their distance. (playful) — 00:02:28 · Pizza John, COVID-19 pandemic
  • ★★★ John asks viewers to head to pizzamas.com now: the items are available only for the next two weeks, and all proceeds go to charity. — 00:02:56 · Pizzamas

00:03:18 — P.S.: the All Star title project was inspired by Maddie's YouTube comment; thanks

  • ★★★ In a P.S., John says Hank's video on the All Star project left out that it was inspired by YouTube comments, especially one from Maddie. — 00:03:18 · Hank Green
  • ★★ Five months ago, on John's video Hey Now, Maddie commented that Hank should title his next video You're an All Star and use the rest of the lyrics as titles, calling it Vlogbrothers 2.0 nonsense. — 00:03:18 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John thanks Maddie and the others who made similar comments, adding that you never know when you will change the world with a YouTube comment. — 00:03:18

In the description and comments

  • ★ In a channel comment John explains that 'three John moon' references the old internet meme Three Wolf Moon. (playful) — creator comment · Three Wolf Moon

Humor (significant)

  • Inspecting his returning mustache, John wonders whether smiling helps. — 00:01:13

    “Maybe it'll be better if I smile, like... Nope. Nope, nope, that's, uh, that's, that's, that's worse.”

  • Unboxing a shirt with three Pizza Johns howling at the moon. — 00:01:54

    “It's three me's howling at one moon. It's three John Moon.”

  • Showing the Pizza John mask in 2020. — 00:02:56

    “the great thing about wearing this mask is that people will keep their distance.”

  • After urging viewers to buy within two weeks, John names the tactic. — 00:03:47

    “False sense of urgency.”

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Mentioned

Central: Pizza John · Pizzamas

Also: All Star · child mortality · COVID-19 pandemic · maternal death · moustache · Three Wolf Moon (“three John Moon”) · Winner, South Dakota · YouTube comments

Only in the description or credits: Maddie

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