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THE REVEAL

2023-09-26 · letter vlog · Hank, Katherine Green · 3:53 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Projects, Personal life) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: calendar ritual, community lore, guest or collab, self promotion

For Pizzamas 2023 Hank picks up his Pizza John box from the DFTBA warehouse, says going bald and regrowing hair and a beard has made him confident about changing his look, then shaves his first beard down through a goatee to a Pizza John mustache.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Trip to the DFTBA warehouse for the Pizzamas box; the team's work, the Pizza John Chia Pet; a pretty day in Missoula

  • ★★ Hank says the DFTBA team worked for months to get ready for Pizzamas and pulled off things he doubted, like a Pizza John Chia Pet he thought could not be made. — 00:00:15 · DFTBA Records, Pizza John, Pizzamas
  • ★ Hank says it is a very pretty day in Missoula, Montana; if every day were like this everybody would live there, he jokes, then says just kidding. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Missoula, Montana

00:00:46 — Box in hand; going bald, regrowing hair and a beard, and the confidence of changing looks

  • ★★ Hank says enthusiasm for Pizza John never decreases; with his Pizza John stuff in hand, it is time to go home and give himself a mustache. (playful) — 00:00:49 · Pizza John
  • ★★★ Hank says going bald, then having his hair grow back and suddenly getting facial hair, has shown him his face in many different ways, as if he were a different person. — 00:00:58
  • ★ Hank recalls a TikTok comment saying he went from enthusiastic TA to grizzled tenured professor in two months, and says he feels that. (playful) — 00:01:06 · TikTok
  • ★★★ Hank says the changes have made him very confident: after looking one way for so long, he does not have to look one particular way. — 00:01:16
  • ★★ Hank says he has had looks over the years he does not feel great about, had a mohawk for a while, and is now going to have a mustache, with no way to know how it will go. — 00:01:22
  • ★★ Hank says goodbye to his first beard and shaves it down to a goatee; of that look he says some people could have it, but he is honestly excited not to: there was so much hair. — 00:01:32

00:01:35 — Shaving the first beard: goatee, Walter White, a classic Pizza John, and the mustache reveal to Katherine

  • ★★★ Hank says his shaving has reached a classic Pizza John, the mustache running down for peak ridiculousness, but he will clean his up: that one is John's, so what is his? (playful) — 00:02:15 · Pizza John, John Green
  • ★ Katherine Green: Asked by Hank whether his new mustache is good, Katherine answers that it is a look. (playful) — 00:02:32 · Katherine Green

00:03:33 — Mustachioed sign-off from whoever the heck this guy is

  • ★★ Wearing his new mustache, Hank wishes John a happy Pizzamas from whoever the heck this guy is, saying he does not recognize himself. (playful) — 00:03:33 · Pizzamas

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description wishes everyone a happy Pizzamas and plugs the 'Johnough' shirts (the He's Just John shirt). — video description · Pizzamas, Pizza John
  • ★★ The description says you are a story you tell to yourself, and sometimes that story has a mustache. (playful) — video description

Humor (significant)

  • Hank quotes a TikTok comment on how his looks changed after his hair grew back. — 00:01:06

    “Hank Green went from enthusiastic TA to grizzled tenured professor in two months.”

  • Shaving his beard down to a goatee, Hank sees Walter White in the mirror and borrows the character's famous line. — 00:01:51

    “I think I may be the one who knocks!”

  • Midway through shaving, Hank is wearing a classic droopy Pizza John mustache and decides that one belongs to John. — 00:02:15

    “I think that's yours John, but what's mine?”

  • With his finished mustache Hank signs off, unable to recognise the man in the mirror. — 00:03:33

    “He's that guy!”

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Mentioned

Central: moustache · Pizza John · Pizzamas

Also: Chia Pet · Katherine Green · Missoula, Montana · mohawk · TikTok · Walter White

Only in the description or credits: DFTBA Records

Also centred on moustache: A PIZZAMAS MIRACLE

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