John Green's Legendary High School Prank

[SuperChocolatefrog]

John, this is so good, you should turn it into a book! Oh, wait.....

[1234tche]

this is truly epic i love it!!!!!!

[milkyway531]

Lol john. You were hot when you were young/

[theegopunk]

THIS john green is the Augustus Waters John Green

[FlobotsFan101]

JOHN IS THE MOTHERFUCKING FOX.

[NatashaMaryWard]

He is so aloof and charming.

[hannahbackyards]

The tw topcomments are 1 month ago and 4 weeks ago. Isn't that the same thing?

[devonhayley]

The Puff even existed in 2001.

[xperiment17]

Raol Meyer, the person who writes the script for Crash Course. This will forever be how I think of him.

[Tarantallegra2]

I didn't know this was a true story! :D Bahaha.

[thisisnotHolly]

That is the best story ever! and yes John is hot.

[noosaho]

he was always a good story teller...

[AubreyJeanette]

whoaaa

[idratherbedancing7]

He's so hot... no wonder the Yeti fell for him

[ElectricMudPuppy]

That is absolutely incredible!!

[LoveiElla]

Whenever i see this, i always think of the advice john gives young writers - learn the stories your friends are interested in; learn how to tell good stories.

Mission Accomplished.

[jamesinburiton]

john swearing sounds strange :/

[suzanneWHOOPxx]

hot..so hot. omg hot. Like...fire hot.

he's kinda hot

[Aidan52]

John?

Swearing?! O_o

[joomoo123]

The puff levels are dangerously high.

But... it's kind of hot.

[bmas44]

did she get arrested or something!? 

[Pinee4]

dang i mean he looks the same but hes changed SO MUCH

[themanwhocan2kx]

DAT PUFF

[KeleneLalaland]

Man, that puff!

[youthnovels13]

I think John is hot now...

[tila130]

@youthnovels13 yes!!! finally. me too haha

[hprocks11]

I don't know why, but when he says, "quarter stick of dynamite," it's just about the hottest thing I've ever heard. Holy crap I would jump college John. 

[CrazyStalkerPerson]

There is something awesome about this being in black and white.

[MsJennyMey]

Puff levels were high.

[onlymargi]

John Green is very hot

[tila130]

puff levels are incredible high!!!

[BlobOfChaos]

I love how the prank from Looking for Alaska is pretty much this exact story.

[RAHHicecream]

:o

[RAHHicecream]

i mean WHOOPDIDO...

[jaytummy]

@RAHHicecream My favorite part of the entire video.

[danman2401]

Best prank evaaaaa!!

[commenter2498]

Nothing will ever compare to this.

[xdropdeadjamiex]

Omg he is blinking............

[sparkydoodle96]

@xdropdeadjamiex ...the end is near....

[TheSarahSideofThings]

Oh my god that part in Looking for Alaska actually happened! XD

[SuperSamVlog]

BEST STORY I EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE..... john was such a bad ass

[ariearenonagela]

Oh god I'm dying!!!! Ahahahahaha!!!

[TheANBart]

I shouldn't have eaten while watching this.. pffftt. Best prank ever.

[midnightsun2010]

The puff existed even then!!!! Haha! :D

[LeahCity]

john sounds HIGH

[FrostingChocolate]

4:33 - 4:39 best part :D

[26Staples]

oh my god, john is HOT.

[DulcetCT]

Did anyone else notice that he blinks? lol

[sweetyamz09]

woa he was cute...

[freidiable]

and that's how Looking for Alaska came to be... well, at least parts of it

[lukesmall1]

He seemed worryingly disappointed about not getting a male stripper

[mischamuffers]

i don't know what you all are talking about, john is STILL hot.

[sk8rKim]

@mischamuffers Exactly. Glad i'm not the only one who thinks so...haha

[mischamuffers]

@sk8rKim no no. you are definitely not alone in your thoughts. ha

[gemmablvsu]

omg john swore :O

[calliegirl353]

John Green... young, cool, and attractive?? :O

[wolfiegirl81]

Ugh John you're too attractive.

[Bellazers]

Oh hello there hot young John Green...now I really see what the Yeti saw... ;D

[allysuffyrox]

John is really hot in this video...

[WKUKPython]

he's...talking...so...slowly..­.

[MusicSavesMySoul022]

he looks kinda hot. O_O.....i don't know how i should feel about this.

[WKUKPython]

@MusicSavesMySoul022 i think so too. i've resorted to feeling giddy. "TEEHEE JOHN GREEN'S HOT!" yyyeah...>.>

[TheHawkMirage]

John is such a boss.

[marriyumh]

Haha, he's so good looking!

[duckiegoesquackie]

PUFF LEVALS SO HIGH

[Monicah177]

Young John Green seems like he's trying to be super chill but every now and then you see the John we know today. :-D But seriously. That prank is awesome.

[tmoney12346]

This guy? The same John Green that taught me about imagining others complexly and stuff? Really? This guy is so much more of a badass

[namedropper101]

young john green doesn't seem like a nerd at all :O he seems like hot jerk...kinda like the guys i hate at my school now... but it doesn't matter because i love current john green and his infinite nerdiness

[jenlaawesome]

young john greens puff looks super sexy...

[Izzybellxoxo]

I want him so bad rn.

[SierRawrMarie]

The barn night <3

[superzombiepower]

this video has effectively made my day

[gotja]

WHAT THE FUCK! ITS MIDNIGHT! YOU SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME!!!

... it was very scary.. lol

[deedeerh12]

Wow. Well now that I just started reading looking for alaska, I thought he would be a middle aged guy. But he's pretty sexy...just saying. ;)

[Pestington]

@deedeerh12 This was when he was in college :D Check the Vlogbrothers youtube page for him now and become a Nerdfighter! DFTBA! (Don't forget to be Awesome!)

[deedeerh12]

...He's cute...

[birdizzle]

WHY DIDN'T YOU FILM IT? AND WHERE ARE THE PICTURES?

[lovelycreeep]

Young John is actually super hot! ._.

I'm not sure how I feel about this.

[tila130]

@lovelycreeep now john is actually super hot!!!

[masterjoeykancho]

He wasn't lying when he said he always had the puff.

[SuperChalek]

It was...REAL. HOLY JSAKLHFAKLHF. I wondered how John got SO many details down in Looking for Alaska...it's because it happened. John Green: nerdfighter, author, and prankster extrordinaire.

[HariSlate]

Hello Alaska Younge

[BlueSkyDaisukiAyumi]

"me and my friend"... HALT!!!! John, you are an AUTHOR

[CarpeDiem262]

YOU WIN. YOU WIN AT EVERYTHING. THAT WAS AMAZING.

[2gigapuppies]

He looks and sounds like that awkward-but-trying-to-be-cool young man that present day John is always telling the Nerdfighters about, but I'd be lying if I said that college John isn't hot.

[PAPthebunny]

Oh my god your roommate Todd sounds just like my uncle Todd. XD

[gsutke458]

cool story, except, you cant buy fireworks in Georgia. They are illegal.

[TheJollynerd]

@gsutke458 this was a very long time ago.

[BlackyChan963]

I like the prank but I have to disagree on you!! Dying the Lake and placing a car in the library is WAY more interesting and creative than just wrapping yourself with an american flag and run around the school.

[bookwormwen]

John: BRILLIANCE.

[KayeleeX35]

That. Was. Awesome.



[AdmiralJef]

How do you dye a whole lake orange?

[Asideoftape]

....John?

[dob1997]

O.o oh

[DarkAvenue667]

Oh my God he doesn't even sound like John Green. Just the way he's talking and even his voice makes him sound/seem like a totally different person.

[maddyandthelions]

Whoa...

[dra900nka1n]

$500-600?

Worth it.

[Shellewell]

@dra900nka1n well, easily worth it for him since he's now made easily more than that from Looking for Alaska book sales which draw heavily on this

[dra900nka1n]

@Shellewell Even if you put Looking for Alaska aside, the fun of this prank must have made up for this ingenious hilarity.

[Shadowfax913]

puff levels are incredibly high :D

(DFTBA)

[LoinAndTheLamb]

This is pure brilliance.

[brenna963]

John Green is a freaking genius. Funny that looking for Alaska's prank is like exactly the same. I never knew he was such a badass! Hearing him cuss was really weird though...

[AlyInk]

My first reaction: SO MUCH LESS OF HIM!

[stanlim1]

God he's my school's alumni... GO SPRINGS!

[myleblue]

I live in birmingham.... ENGLAND!!! Whoop

[stude444]

It's crazy weird hearing John cuss XD

[LMNOP1214]

@stude444 Haha not if you read his books :DDDDDD

[stude444]

@stude444 I do read his books, I just never Imagine hearing him reading them aloud. XD

[LauraDaysSmiles]

John was so handsome! (not that he isn't now) But he's extremely good looking in this video

[LauraDaysSmiles]

I've heard this story on John plays FIFA :) Love it

[SuperDusso]

hahahha "WHAT THE FUCK DO THINK YOU'RE DOING ITS MIDNIGHT YOU MOTHERFUCKER" ahahah

[SwampThing48]

John Green, how on Earth did you and your friends come up with all these brilliant evil plans for pranks and yet forget to wipe off the goddamn black face paint?

[iwasalllikeomg]

While watching this video I suddenly realised that I read that book... It sounded so familiar.

[kathleensezhai]

This is Looking for Alaska. Young John is very James Potter. So. Amusing.

[ImagineMarvelous]

ITS LIKE IN THE BOOK

[ImagineMarvelous]

his voice has CHANGED

[luluellz]

Dear Harry potter directors

Why didn't you use john green as james potter?

[italiamiamore]

John Green just got a lot more epic. I was wondering how he came up with the prank in Looking for Alaska, but they saw authors should write what they know.

[nalalul]

Young John Green.. I like :P

[mooitsachristina]

Pretty much exactly like Looking For Alaska...

[ImperialGeorge]

@mooitsachristina

I watched this before I finished Looking for Alaska, and it ruined the plot for me. :(

[IckabodFrunkyn]

Damn, he was even rocking the Puff back then, DFTBA

[mootEp8pui8Vw2]

It was even better in real life than in Looking For Alaska.

[123456789robbie]

i want more of these stories!

[ummmcookiesRAWR]

Epic Hair!!!!! :O

[outfitmadeofawesome]

slaaash I don't find this john particularly full of himself.

[outfitmadeofawesome]

waaait. so what about THIS version of the prank isn't true.... the parts where that was just the pre-prank? confused...

[HorsesCanRunFree]

This story is quite different from theo one he told yesterday...

[MrGaberthegamer]

@HorsesCanRunFree yea the other one is true this one is when John Green is young and wanted to make himself the star he said that on his tumblr

[vadetatimus]

i feel like my parents deprived me of a very good experience by not allowing me to go to a boarding school.

[106141214]

@vadetatimus Nah don't worry, it has a lot of downsides too (:

[alienwrksh0p]

haha its so interesting to see the differences between the first story and the one he told today watch?v=Grp9xEwFAiA&feature=fe­edu

[TotzthePlaid]

We didn't have a class prank in my senior year of high school. People ruined it the year before by spreading rumors that someone was going to put laxatives in the ketchup dispenser, so anyone caught doing any sort of prank would face instant expulsion.

That said, we did have a few neat ideas like filling the pool with 2,007 rubber ducks or putting weirds smelling stuff in the ventilation shafts.

[jcpiggy]

indian springs is the best school in the world. hands down

[musefan4]

Young John is rather attractive... xD but I would never have liked him back then because he's so full of himself lmao.

[MsShmankYou14]

Dear John,

What an idiot.

Hermione Granger

[pickletoes88]

Oh my gosh... I would KILL to have met John here before the Yeti came along... sexiest Puff EVER!!!

[TheNJerk]

I love this because he just said in one of his FIFA videos how much he lied and acted like he orchestrated the plan just to impress a girl that was off screen.

[NarCoocoobrainTeam]

In my recommended videos it said John Green's legendary high

[PapioG]

HOLY CRAP he looks young!

[NopeThatsRyan]

Oh my gosh...its Miles Halter

[maybeitsapandemic]

Even when he was younger, he really knew how to tell a story! especially the part when he explained the Dean trying to catch him!

[wickedlynatalie]

hot young John is hot :D I love how he's matured into such an awesome person!

[Ashatokka]

LMFAO

[FelizitasFelicis]

Wow he was already such a good storyteller. An oh my gosh he was good-looking 0.o

[twitch0tron]

I feel weird and creepy because present John Green is that all fatherly and awesome. But younger John Green is HOT. Can anyone say Oedipus complex?

[PKMNnerdfighter]

@twitch0tron No, because that is not what the Oedipus Complex is. Geriophile is closer, but John isn't that old, so, I guess that you're looking for is "attraction."

[twitch0tron]

@PKMNnerdfighter I'm aware of the inaccuracies. I was just pointing out that I look up to John Green as a father and therefore find it weird that he's attractive in this video.

[Royalemperorblue]

@twitch0tron But he looks almost EXACTLY the same!

[tiniihs]

he's incredibly hot :O

[FastEngine]

No video of it equals no proof

[papercutoutgirl]

John is like James Potter. A bit pompous and immature when he was young, but grew up to be someone much more intelligent and awesome.

[ramseyfirefly]

@papercutoutgirl And both have/had awesome puffs.

[Krystahlx]

Damn. John was hot

[ladylake2004]

just thinking how Henry will be if and when he see this

[HoliHallow]

It's almost reassuring to see that John wasn't the fantastic guy he is now (I'm sure he would've been a good person, if a little immature) cause it shows that we can mature into someone great. I'm close to the age he was here, and it's reassuring.

He's also such a looker. Good god, you were hot!

[BecauseJustBecause]

SO YOUNG. O_O

*sits and watches*

[makeupmayhem957]

OH MY GOD JOHN.

Hahahahahahaha. I can't even....

Is this the same John Green?

I'm just... wow.

[RickhatesScott]

He tells a beautiful story, no wonder he became a writer.

[nightlight12340]

John was a stud.

[happyintherain]

You know, it's true that he's different here, and not as nerdy or as sweet, but - even then he was good at telling stories, and he still had that same "storytelling tone".

[asiachan21]

4:33

First time I've ever heard John swear that much. >:O

[MadameMournington]

okay he was really hot.

[madeleinelily0]

Distracted by how much I like John Green's hair...

[tapdancer3450]

It's so weird to hear John cursing! ^^;;

[nerdboy32121]

Hahahaha it's Ted Mosby! #dftba

[Hatseflats89]

Soo cool! It's soo funny listening to this story after reading "Looking for Alaska"!

Does John know about this video?

[thesunsgonewibbly]

@Hatseflats89 He does! He posted about it recently on Tumblr.

[diveforsharc]

@warpedkawaii..... ditto my friend...

[HannahIsUnoriginal]

after 8:49 John ends all his sentences with a high infliction like he's asking a question?

[modazzler]

Somehow, it makes me feel better to know that John wasn't always the witty, charming, and universally likable man he is now.

[idrils]

Puff levels were high

[jacquisutherland]

OMGGGGGGGGGGG THATS THE EXACT PRANK FROM LOOKING FOR ALASKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lyndr29]

"the dorm circle is like a circle" =))))))