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Hang on tight, spider monkey, it's the P4A 2024 MEME REVIEW!!

2024-05-20 · review / recommendation · Hank · 20:22 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: calendar ritual, community lore, recurring series, self promotion

In his belated P4A 2024 meme review, Hank goes through over 200 fan memes and artworks in submission order (Jared the cryptocurrency-vampire mascot and the rival possum, honking, Banana Loca foods, bean desserts, wigs, Old Trashwater), thanks viewers for a ridiculous and wonderful P4A, and plugs the Turtles film and the first Crash Course Pods episode.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Welcome to the very belated P4A 2024 meme review, sorted by submission order

  • ★★ Hank opens the very belated Project for Awesome 2024 meme review of things people made and sent in; he picked over 200 images to share. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ Hank finds it interesting to review the memes late, because the P4A is a weird time when your brain doesn't work normally, and wonders if he remembers it all. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome

00:00:29 — Early memes: mascot pattern, honking, Banana Loca, ketchup milk, Project for Quasim, Jared's tagline, mouth moth, Forg

  • ★★ In a fan pattern of P4A creatures (Crank Green, the T-Rex, Dave the Fish), Hank points to Crank Green as last year's (2023) mascot and says they should do something with the design. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Crank Green, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says he honked throughout the entire Project for Awesome, whenever he thought maybe he should. (playful) — 00:01:27 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ A meme shows the mouth coil Hank did like a stage magician as part of his comedy show. — 00:01:27
  • ★★ A meme shows Katherine's art going on sale and selling out at once; Hank thinks that was later in the P4A and doubts his chronological order. — 00:01:49 · Katherine Green, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says he likes when actual moments of the Project for Awesome are turned into memes, besides existing memes being used. — 00:01:49 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ On a meme about making art to make the world better, Hank says if only that were how it worked, but sometimes it is, for brief moments like the P4A. — 00:02:19 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says he got into the Banana Loca fast on the stream, because there is always fun in the Banana Loca. (playful) — 00:02:19
  • ★★ A meme shows Hank with straight hair in Old Trashwater's hat, from a stretch when he danced to music no one could hear. (playful) — 00:02:19
  • ★★ Hank says a couple of his Banana Loca foods were bad, but most were unexpectedly delicious. — 00:03:05
  • ★★ Hank says ketchup milk might be the worst thing he ate this P4A, though heated up it could almost have been soup. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:34 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ At the start of the P4A John typed a Q in front of the P ('Project for Quasim'), so they hoped the Q would be this year's (2024) mascot, but they weren't that lucky. (playful) — 00:04:33 · John Green, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank explains Jarrod's tagline 'invest in the present': it wasn't all about future money, since value sitting in markets is not value used by people. (playful) — 00:05:31
  • ★ Answering complaints about the jelly in his Banana Loca banana, Hank says they go all the way in during the P4A: a lot of jelly is the only acceptable amount. (playful) — 00:06:13 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ When Tyler Thrasher gave Hank terrible would-you-rathers on the stream, Hank chose a mouth moth over the less appealing alternatives. (playful) — 00:06:43
  • ★★ Hank spelled out 'I am an ant' in confetti on his floor to show Katherine, so he would be rescued from being an ant; a fan illustrated it. (playful) — 00:06:43 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Hank says 'Forg' with a picture of a frog could easily be the mascot of a whole million-person community. (playful) — 00:06:43

00:07:12 — Jared's sponsor read for the Turtles All the Way Down movie

  • ★★ Hank suggests the possum, which lost the mascot race, should come back and win next year (2025). (hedged) — 00:07:12
  • ★★ Jarrod: In a clip, Jared reads the sponsor message: the video is brought to you by the Turtles All the Way Down movie, out May 2nd on Max or HBO Max, depending on country. (playful) — 00:07:12 · Hank Green

00:07:53 — Later memes: the mascot-poll donation, Club P4A, possum facts, alignment chart, patron saint, Old Trashwater, cryptid Jared, Twilight

  • ★★ When Jarrod wasn't winning the mascot poll, Hank panicked and donated $5,000 to put him in the lead, but forgot to actually vote; people found it very funny. (playful) — 00:07:53
  • ★★ Hank calls a meme great that shows Nerdfighteria's email-writing campaign and TB facts, with John and Danaher saying that's enough. — 00:08:22 · Nerdfighteria, tuberculosis, John Green
  • ★★ A meme of John in his P4A wigs riffs on 'Party City John Green' and 'Party City John Purple'. (playful) — 00:08:53 · John Purple, John Green, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ The Club P4A meme returns: it has everything, including possums and a cryptocurrency vampire named Jarrod. (playful) — 00:08:53 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ A 'Project for Possum' starter pack recalls when Drawfee was on the stream with the teeth and the dolphin head. — 00:09:37
  • ★★ Hank recalls that Brennan said 'I am your mortal enemy' when he first saw Jarrod. (hedged) — 00:09:37
  • ★★ A meme fact sheet says Jarrod and possums can eat up to 5,000 ticks a year, play dead up to four hours, and are not very susceptible to rabies, likely due to their cooler body temperatures. (playful) — 00:10:15
  • ★★ Hank defends vanilla yogurt with Dr Pepper baked beans as a good dessert: they're sweet beans. (playful) — 00:10:41
  • ★★ A fan alignment chart makes John lawful good, Hank neutral good, Hank and Jarrod chaotic good, and various Jareds neutral. (playful) — 00:11:11 · John Green
  • ★★ Told to crunch a lemon for wrong NYT Connections guesses, Hank took it personally: he got none wrong and solves it first try more than half the time. (playful) — 00:11:34
  • ★★ With the P4A sign behind his head Hank looked like a medieval saint with a halo, and a fan took it all the way: patron saint of awesome. (playful) — 00:12:44 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says bean ice cream was a punishment, but he kept eating it long after he had to stop and is sad he hasn't had it since. (playful) — 00:12:44
  • ★★ Hank explains that Old Trashwater was named after the first thing his mom saw after he was born. (playful) — 00:13:59
  • ★★ Hank tries to recall Jarrod's lore: dying of TB, he was saved by vampire possums who turned him into a vampire; it isn't clear in his head. (playful, unsure) — 00:14:29 · tuberculosis
  • ★★ Popping the last balloon, Hank thought it held the one task he hadn't done, but it was just another Banana Loca. (playful) — 00:14:52
  • ★★ Hank is glad he finally watched Twilight so he can enjoy the lunacy of the 'spider monkey' line, and loves how mad it makes Brennan. (playful) — 00:17:59
  • ★★ A meme congratulates Jarrod on being officially recognized, in a unanimous decision, as the P4A mascot. (playful) — 00:17:59 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank recalls they decided the UK is pronounced 'ook', with 'loondoon', 'ingloond' and 'scotloond'. (playful) — 00:18:38 · United Kingdom

00:19:07 — Fan-made P4A playing cards

  • ★★ Fans made a set of P4A cards with printable templates; Hank doesn't know if it's playable, but it's really good and they should talk to Wayward about it. (hedged) — 00:19:07 · Project for Awesome

00:19:36 — Thanks for the P4A, Turtles movie and Crash Course Pods plugs, sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank thanks everyone for taking part: the P4A was a real joy, and after a month off it is nice to look back on a ridiculous and wonderful time making the world better. — 00:19:36 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank repeats that, as Jarrod said, the video is brought to you by the Turtles movie, coming out on May 2nd, very soon. — 00:19:36
  • ★★ The first Crash Course Pods episode is up: 'The First Fraction of a Second', John and Katie Mack on the beginning of the universe, on YouTube and podcast apps. — 00:20:06 · Crash Course, John Green

Humor (dominant)

  • A meme casts Jason Statham as Hank Green, punning on the Crank Green crab. — 00:03:05

    “Jason Statham is Hank Green. Crank.”

  • Hank recalls donating $5,000 to push Jared ahead in the mascot poll, then forgetting to vote. — 00:07:53

    “i just donated the money it was fine”

  • On the Punnett square of firm or floppy Jareds, Hank vouches from personal acquaintance. — 00:08:53

    “He's never that firm. I can tell you having met him. It's always a little floppy.”

  • The Club P4A meme lists everything the stream had. — 00:08:53

    “Possum's a cryptocurrency vampire named Jared.”

  • The alignment chart's chaotic evil square shows Hank turning Jared outside in while wearing Katherine's sundress. — 00:11:34

    “I don't think I can explain this one. It's too embarrassing.”

  • Hank explains the origin of Old Trashwater's name. — 00:13:59

    “which is just some old trash water”

  • A meme of Jared and the possums reunited uses a joke Hank says non-Americans, and maybe most Americans, will not get. — 00:17:31

    “He went to Jared!”

  • Hank recalls the stream's pronunciation of the UK. — 00:18:38

    “We decided that the UK was pronounced ook.”

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Mentioned

Central: Project for Awesome

Also: People: Albert Einstein · Alexis Nikole · Brennan Lee Mulligan · Brittany Broski · Harry Styles · Jason Statham · Katherine Green · Katie Mack · Sarah Urist Green · Shia LaBeouf · Tyler Thrasher

Projects: Crash Course

Works: Beanie Sanfurbs · Connections (game) · Crash Course Pods: The Universe · The Rocky Horror Picture Show · Turtles All the Way Down (film) · Twilight (film)

Organizations: Danaher Corporation · LinkedIn · Max

Groups: Drawfee

Terms: Crank Green · John Purple

Concepts: Cryptocurrency · Opossum · patron saint · tuberculosis · Tyrannosaurus

Places: United Kingdom

Characters: Jarrod · Old Trashwater · Princess Leia

Products: Banana Loca · Dr Pepper · Furby

Myths: vampire

animal: Darcy · Dave the Fish · Potato (animal)

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