October 25th: Down Memory Lane

[PytD]

Ha, my childhood teddy was a teddy goat. With all the originality I could muster, named Billy. My ex girlfriends was a hand made bunny named Bebe, same as John's blanket, coincidences make the world seem like it is going round.

[PolarSquid]

I think the Let's Go to Mars article has been removed from the internets :(

[Ignelux]

When I was groing up, my blanket (we called it a woobie...I still cannot say that without laughing XD) went with me wherever I went. But, when I was about 8, I was snooping around and found an exact copy of it. Apparently my mum would slip me the second one so she could wash the original one...And then I stole the second one and layed both of them out on the floor, staring at them, very confused. My life felt like a lie XD

[KatetheMotorMouth]

I grew up with a teddy-harbor seal! His name is Harbor (I thought Harbor the Harbor Seal was the most clever name ever at the time. I was 8. Let's not judge).

YAY FOR UNCONVENTIONAL TEDDY-ANIMALS!!!

[KrypticSalamander]

The first video in which the fact that Hank's name is not actually Hank is hinted at.

[AlyReality]

My blankey was named Dumbledore because it was old and white. (my parents ready Harry Potter to me while I was an infant)

[chexmixultimate]

MAGGIE'S NOSE

[OmgItsCHEEZ]

My Dexter is a stuffed Power Ranger. Tommy, the white one from the first movie. I got him on my third christmas and I still think that it is one of the best presents I ever have received and I took it to college Toy Story 3 style. I have been a nerd for a very long time.

[AlwaysPotter]

I will pay you $7 for your unopened yoda

[FlargTheKitty]

OH MY GOD MAGGIE IS AN ADORABLE DOG.

hehehe I appreciate your nerdiness :D

[Rockid9040]

Oh my god! I was a Nerd Fighter before Nerd Fighters existed! When I was like, 5, I got a Lego Kit that was a re-configurable and programmable Mars Lander with a camera and mission control software. It came with a sticker. A Mars Society Membership Sticker! Rock!

[hmshark]

OHMYGOSHILOVERHPS!!!!!!

[crazycookie76]

When did you write that essay about Mars? 'cuz that was really good!

[CountryGirlColby]

This was my twelfth birthday = D I feel special XD

[MrILikeTheInternet]

yep, calc 2 is hard.

[FlyAwayRen]

Hmmm, I may have just gotten an idea for a possible punishment since you didn't post a video of Friday. Rocky Horror Picture Show dress up?

[sighcantthinkofaname]

I live in Orlando, and I do hate I four xD

[jemmerzem]

There's 'sly kex' as an anagram of skylex (a kex is a dry hollow plant stem)

[singlexfilexisxlove]

3:30 !!!!

[cmccrzy]

When I was in Elementary School our writing teacher gave us the opportunity to submit our best poems to this company...contest...thing...wh­ich basically stuck some the best ones in this giant book of young author poems. And I did it twice. And got the book. And by giant I mean hardback and weighs five pounds. And I've got two of them. One poem each. Amid like...five hundred from other kids.

I get where you're coming from. Unfortunately, I'm not really proud of the poems so...yay for you! :D

[shannonheart1]

I've seen Rocky Horror 8 times. That was in a 6 month time period, and that ended about a year ago. Then the theatre in which it was being shadow-casted shut down.

But it is reopening! Huzzah!

Only bad thing? I'm a teenager, and the adults there are going to think I'm only there because of Glee.

God I hate Glee :(

[Sloppyjoemess]

1:50 No way... XD

[xnikkilockheartx]

dexter is so cute!

[ShaneLupin]

Skylex anagram = lyk sex

-_- seriously it's the only one

[cmwqt]

please tell me Dexter's named after Dexter's Laboratory...

[Bamberellala]

Teddy black-footed ferret?! I WANT ONE.

I heart ferrets... I had a real one once and it was albino. :D

[ChrysanthemumHeart]

AWWWW I WANT ONE!! (a dexter that is)

[lilylpotter3]

is dexter a panda?

[TheScreamingReviewer]

omg. I went to atantic city and went to an aquarium there and named two baby sting-ray-looking-swimmers John and Hank and named one of the actual sting ray babies Dexter!!!!

NERDFIGHTER COINCEDENCES! (check out my videos for living proof!!)

[aquadrop25]

I never named my blanket, but I still take it everywhere. :P

[Gaskinator123]

Pause at 0:54 and 1:07, Hank looks so adorable

[barbie88888888]

when I was younger I named all my stuff animals names of what they were. Like, my bear was called Bear and my stuffed duck was called Mr. Duck. Real original...

[hatmanmedia]

hankgreen . com / ihatei4 / It still exists!

[violinchick89]

I love that ferret.

[hello2656]

TEDDY BLACK FOOTED FERRETS!

[EmilyCatherine88]

When he was talking about "I hate I4", I definitely paused the video and went to go look for it. . .then I played the video again and heard the next sentence. Yeah, I fail.

[alikidry]

I HATE I-4! Hate it hate it hate it!!!

DFTBA!

[williusethis]

dexter ftw.

[FrenchieLeToast]

Correction, my blankey was named "Blankey".

[RainbowSquidCo]

OH MY GOD! MY COMMENT IS TOP RATED!!!! WINKITTY!

[beckerbabe95]

YES ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW KICKS BUTT! I LOVE IT!

[2012Ravenclaw]

I, still, sleep with a clown named -get this- Clowney.

Oh, I was so original when I started naming things.

My dad bought it for me on the day I was born. From the drug store. It's now falling apart. Ah, well.

[juhesihcaaa]

I never had a blankie. I had a teddy bear that smelled like cookies and his name was Cookie Bear.

[ScienceMusicLove]

Ha! I would like to see a stuffed ferret work as a forensic detective while ritualistically murdering serial killers on the side.

[dragonfly876]

Your Best Dancer Award suddenly made me think of Napoleon Dynamite, and considering you seem to have dressed up as him in the past, I guess that isn't all that surprising.

Still. An intriguing parallel.

[IAMNETT]

YES! ROCKY HORROR!

[NothingChild]

My Blankie was called Blankie. Yay!

[ToyletGnome]

I have a teddy-tiger, viciously cute!

[guinivereXbloodgood]

I go to see Rocky Horror regularly, but not as much as I used to. It's nostalgic for me.

[iceteabeingstirred]

You're blanket looks much more like a blanket than my does....

[nickybcrazy97]

My mum used to go see the rocky horror show every saturday. =)

[flyingicecream]

Wow. Just, wow.

Best Dancer. Yeah.

[nerdfight4awesome]

dexter =D

[RainbowSquidCo]

Oh my : ]

My name is Skylar. And my most precious childhood teddy-thing was a bear named Kaylex

That's why I was uber pumped when you said SKYLEX !!!! Skylar + Kaylex = SKYLEX !!!!!!!!

NERDFIGHTERS!!!!!!

[MogalyBogal]

@RainbowSquidCo sweet lord that is a fantastic name

[Pumpkie234]

Just read "Let's Go to Mars". It's... pretty =D haha

[dEbBiElOnGxthatsxme]

ROCKY HORROR!!!!!!!!!!

yay!

[nymphadora396]

ROCKY HORROR!!!

[AliviaNaomi]

PIGFARTS IS ON MARS

[EmmyBea]

@AliviaNaomi I have not yet watched the video and therefore do not know what relevance the comment has to the video, but I thumbed it up anyway. Why? Because starkid nerdfighers are MADE OF AWESOME!

[D3athlyHollows]

@AliviaNaomi I'M NOT THE ONLY NERDFIGHTING STARKID!

[LordFerret920]

Yay black footed ferrets. i had one of those as a pet once.

[camro55]

i do live in orlando...and i do hate I-4 and orlando driving in total

[JustAPrayer]

Dexter rules! You own for having a stuffed ferret as a child. As for me, I had too many stuffed animals. I did have a blanket though. Called it Blankie. But I was two years old when I got it so as I was still learning how to talk so I think I cna justify not giving it a more interesting name. And I still have it. Don't sleep with it anymore, but it is on display!

[FerreThoughts]

Black footed ferrets are my absolute number one favorite endangered mammal ever! You have reached supernova levels of awesome radiation.

[writerAngel7]

i've always wanted a pet ferret, so i find it incredibly nerdfightastically awesome that you had a stuffed ferret as a child.

*happy dances* NERDFIGHETRS!!!

[cookie4monster4]

When did you stop sleeping with Dexter? And why? Poor, poor thing :(

[Frunobulaxian]

What is /aam 7.77?

At least i think that's what it says at 2:45

[senorsqueakydesk]

I love memory boxes. It is fun to look back at the things you thought you would care about for the rest of your life.

[2teensXwithXcamera]

I loved the end. I believe that is all i have to say.

[knevelchen]

You did a paper on Cytokines and dendritic cells! That's totally cool.... or rather SO JOKES!

[ImArielle]

Hank, I dont know know if you check these comments, but when you went to see Rocky Horror, did you happen to see it with the Rich Weirdos at the movie theatre in City Walk because I saw it there a few weeks ago and now can't wait until I can once again have a free place to stay in Orlando so I can drive down to see RHPS again! Now I'm wondering if Rich Weirdos were around back when you were in high school...

[ScottishAtHeart]

'And apparently I'm allergic to it"

Hahaha!

Your happy dance could win any dance competition.

[unsightlyboot]

black footed ferrets were my favorite animal for a very very long time when i was young. awesome.

[ChameleonToes]

OMG! a black-footed ferret--?! NERDFIGHTERS!!

[DittoFreak]

Comment 208:

Dexter the Black Footed Ferret....

HANK! You were a NerdFighter at such a young age!

[wrex2468]

I had a pound puppy =x

[Varish73]

Skylex is a freaking jokes name!!

[reallystupid78]

I had a small pillow i slept with, and I named it Pillow. Yes, I AM that creative.

[ThePsychoticRaccoon]

I had a bear named Snuffles!

actually, i kind of still have him.

[whitefluffyhat]

That's not how Dexter talks!

[NpPro93]

i have a pink monkey on my bed

[legzandherpiano]

Irony: I was just researching black-footed ferrets for my repro paper. :P

[Director705]

I didn't have a bear either, I had a dog. Because I could never get a real one.

Best dancer? Wow. Whatever works.

But Rocky Horror Picture Show is a good movie. You shouldn't be ashamed of liking it.

[Blue421]

"I was a founding member of the Mars society. Ow, I hit myself in the head."

[Amiryfey]

Dexter is adorable

[TobiSkye]

I had just opened a new internet window to search for that I hate I4 website thing, and then you said it didn't exist anymore, and not to bother searching for it. How did you read my mind!?

[Ichbinblod]

I googled it, I haven't read the article and probably won't, but it was exciting to find it! lol and I LOVE Rocky Horror :D

[tyson3cobb]

did your nickname used to be spank??

[dougiedannyluv]

Kids name their blankies??? LOL. Youtube? Dexter? C in Calculus? *Gulp*... that just made me really nervous about my calculus class next year. Thanks Hank. =D

[bakerybabe29]

I had a stuffed elmo doll

and my blanket was blankie

[JayTigris]

...I had a bunny, by the name of, freely translated from German, "Bunny".

This is curiously interesting. Makes me want to go through my childhood stuff...

[BogapeJane]

Just about the only thing good I find about the schedule my high school just switched to, is that I can take both Calculus 1 and Calculus 2 in one year, 1st term then 2nd term. I'm a junior. :P That makes me feel really geeky because you got a C in Calculus 2. Assumably in college, though not necessarily. But feeling geeky feels good.

Nerdfighters!

[rymar707]

I didn't have a bear, I had a mouse... Thingy...

He is called Baby.

[Classfreak]

Your blankets name isnt weird... when i was a kid my blankets name was woogie...

[jetaime263]

i hate I4 too!!!!!

[astro491b]

Hank..........cursed??????????­???????????

[kimxinoxrox]

The rocky horror picture show is the best movie ever xDDDDD

did you ever dress up as any of the characters.. or do any of the heckles*

[socialcasualty22]

I find it so awesome that you went to the rocky horror picture show. I go to it all the time and I plan on being in it when I'm 18. It's probably the highlight of my errrr...ever other saturday =]

[tokyosweetheart]

I HATE I-4!!!!!

im on it on a weekly basis now X_X

until september

BAH

i wish that site was still up, lol

[yhelotharqtpi]

Oh. I miss this intro. I remember learning it on piano.

[moj125]

best dancer?koolness,wuz there an actual competetition?

[mcflyloveme]

bless you hank

[Esylie]

You said coincidentally five times in one sentence in the article that you wrote. Shouldn't there be laws against that...? Haha, great video, though. :D

[TEZKesquire]

my lord he looks young here!

[pixiidust]

it says W.H Green

does that mean his name IS william hank ,as i was suspecting?

DUM-DUM-DUMMMMM

[oohdear1397]

@pixiidust Though your comment was 2 years ago, I think it's William Henry :D

[Hermione5598]

I'm totally with you on the I-4 thing. Not only do I hate that highway, I'm also deathly afraid of being on it. We've nearly been in too many wrecks to count. I-4 is the devil of Florida. :(

[showersinger34]

was it the award for best HAPPY dancer? i bet it was...

dexter the teddy ferret is stuffed with awesome, not fluff.

[nannon94]

the site exists!

[obliteratexme]

I have a box like that too.

And OMGROCKYHORRORPICTURESHOW. You are now 10x more awesome than you were before this video.

[AliceInWorthlesstown]

Rocky Horror Picture Show for the winz!!

I watched that movie ever single day all last summer :]

Nerdfighters!!

[AClownNamedMarie]

OMG!!! I have a stuffed blackfooted ferret!

[SaskatoonyJack]

The Rocky Horror Picture show... that could explain your use of make-up when you were younger... or it could not. lol. NERD FIGHTER!

[blath]

Nice job on doing well enough in Calc 2 to pass...it was my bane back when I had delusions of being an Energetic Materials Engineer.

[spikedanstudded]

Prossibly.

Kind of like starting to say "don't" but combining it with "do not" to make "doh naut".

[ishallcallyounarfba]

omg! Dance for us! What kind of dancing was it that you did, anyway? Just regular party-dancing? Ballet? (oh, dear. That would be funny.) Show us sometime! Oh, and my teddy bear's name was.... is Pinky. Hey, I'm only sixteen. I'm allowed to still have a teddy bear.

[corebore13]

my mom never gave me a blanket but i had a stuffed animal that was named patch

[shmaller]

"Ow I hit myself in the head" was the best, nerdiest moment I have ever seen on this videoblog.

[willowtreephoto]

blankies to college, whoa.

[CoffeeShopPunk]

That was an adorable ferret.

[rachelallencamus]

uhhh..... lol.... hank. that essay was INCREDIBLY hilarious. I highly recommend that everyone go read it.

[padfootsdaughter]

your chemistry paper says you tube because the U-tube is part of a manometer which measures the pressure of a gas versus the pressure of the atmosphere.

-hallie olivia

[SunFire1051]

Okay... I just had a thought... who writes the discriptions to these videos... do ya'lls wives type them for you? I guess even if that's not the case it's not actually text communication between the two of you, because it's for us people on YouTube. So, never mind me... that was just something I wondered since about the 1/4th of the way through watching ya'lls videos.

Laters.

[o0Theresa0o]

My blankie was named Gigi (sounds like key key but with a G).

I don't remember every having a teddy bear that was important to me. It was just Gigi.

[padfootsdaughter]

my blakie was called "ducky bankie" b/c i couldn't say L's and it had primary colored duck's on it.

~hallie

[Phobic42]

yay dexter!!

[stenforthewin]

My first stuffed animal was a zebra. It was, very appropriately, named Zebra. Apparently I lacked that youthful creativity that you possessed in abundance (Skylex? seriously?).

[Briellesabop]

3:24 hank has a very maniacle face 0.o

[regularguy5mb]

Let's go to Mars! My bags are packed. I'm ready to go.

[Halster310]

Wait...do ur parents live in Asheville or Fairview?

[brookez09]

I had the same stuffed ferret! Crazy haha

NERDFIGHTERS!

[emmetgirl]

i had/have a dinosaur.

and my baby blanket sustained more injuries being dragged around to festivals with me last summer and then to college in the fall than it did throughout my entire childhood.

[robodork220]

my first stuffed animal was a skunk...i named him skunky

i also had a blanket...i called it blankie

i lost the skunk around the age of 4 and got a dog...i named him puppy

as you can see i was very good at coming up with cool names for my toys ^_^

[EmoKidsNeverProsper]

Dude... I hate I4... I traveled upon that treacherous road nearly every day from birth until I moved...

[WalkInTheMoonlight]

i use to sleep with a teddy kitten.

I never named my blanket, but i brought it with me everywhere.

cancer cured from pinecones?

He was a dancer....

wet nose

[DiscoHardwood]

hi dexter!

maybe you won the best dancer award because you were ostensibly the best at doing the time warp..?

[kingpolaris]

cute doll

[ineedaherosakura1]

i didnt have a teddy, i had a WEASEL!!! and i still luv it!

[kushya]

I never haf a blanket.... nor a teddy bear... (or something..) i guess that's why i'm bitter.... but hey.. i'm not that old!

[Thaliasta]

yay RHPS!!!

Not only did I just go to it, we dressed up as Transylvanians and brought a printed MANUSCRIPT of the audience participation lines with us. (After watching the movie and practicing beforehand).

Does this make me a nerdfighter?

[tinaliciousxo]

you shouldnt need a manuscript for rocky horror picture show, you should just know the audience participation lines. it is just something you live and breath.

[spirytxsong]

lol. my blanket's name was blankie. really original kid, huh? lol "skylex." nftba

[ChristenLeager]

whose nose?

[whitneyofgreatness]

hi dexter.

i LOVE the rocky horror picture show!

[paradisepictureshow]

That is the coolest name for a blanket ever!

Now I'm going to collect all of my ticket stubs from Rocky Horror.

[jawbag]

you're right,i do hate i-4.

i almost die every time i drive on it.

[Puck78]

OMG no way - I'm going to Rocky Horror in Seattle for my first time on Saturday. That's crazy.

The experience of Rocky is sort of like NerdFighting, if you think about it. It brings people together from all walks of life...doing really embarrassing things they couldn't tell their parents about/their parents have also done o_o...

[dermiker]

I hate 1-4 too. In fact, I refuse to drive on it unless absolitely necesarry.

Go nerdfighters!

[kiyoshi85]

... feret stuffed toy X3

who... names their blankets? O__O;;

I DIDNT NAME MINE....I THINK.... i dont remember....

[LiLolME]

you are hilarious!!!

im subscribing :D

[pandasrmylife]

Hanj.... Every name is a weird name for a kid's blankie.... NERDFIGHTERS!

[dn2021]

I love you Hank. This video was amazing. Please make more.

[oxford152]

i am willing to buy yoda for $15 plus postage, seriously.

[perogieluver]

A black footed ferret,

and the rocky horror picture show?

You're the greatest.

[KitinupNengin]

the last few seconds of the videos is an awesome treat just when you think the video is over BAM some cuteness if your face! **le sigh** animals are too adorable!

and skylax (spelling???) for a blankie name....most original blankie name EVER! you can not tell me otherwise!

[KitinupNengin]

P.S. I loved loved loved Rocky HOrror Picture show! I was really young when I first watched it...and I was really confused about the guy wearing ladies clothes! heh

[gurditnaruoy]

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW!

Come to connecticut next year on october 28th and you can see it replayed on the big screen at the bethel cinema and everyone dresses up as characters and there is a best drag costume contest. it's amazing

[azariamiller]

i live in nc visitemus

[actressluv]

Those are some pretty awesome names. Dexter and Skylax(however you spell it.) Lets go to Mars Hank!

[Larryk12308]

Hank : R u a member of the planetary society?

Which is oh so so soooo full of awesome!

[shimobe94]

My blankie didn't have a proper name, but it was my "plumpleem." My mainstay blankie for many years was white, but the previous one was my "lellow plumpleem" (yellow blanket). Awesome.

Oh, also, someone might have outpointed this months ago, but "communication" is misspelled in your video intro. :)

[SirHotbodHandsomface]

i love the thing that says "zoom" at the top of it at 2:45

[KattinW]

i lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelo­ve dexter!! thats so great.

awesome vid! =D

[dec7194]

whats at the top of the screen at 2:45?

[katgirl21]

my blankie's name is "blankie". How original. lol

[AlainaAvalanche]

OH MY GOD HANK RHPS IS AMAZING. I used to go a lot before the place got shut down that showed it ]: now I just have to sit in my room and yell shit at the tv. lol

[tionalgrl0]

My security blanket's name is Beppo.

I still sleep with it even though I'm 16 years old. <<;

[maryrose3105]

lol! my son's blankie is named 'nigh night'

[pclarice]

How fun that you are in Fairview. I live in Weaverville (bet you didn't know that any nerdfighters lived in the big town of Weaverville, NC!)

[kristanova]

hah, not really in fairview, but not too far off-- heard of monroe?

[pclarice]

kind of near Charlotte?

[andre3000foo]

maggie's nose!

[spacekicker]

woah woah...where the heck is that dancing tape of you winning the dance award? I wanna see it!

[culbrethcow]

HANK! GET YOUR ECO GEEK BUT IN TO CHAPEL HILL/RALEIGH NOW!

Sorry, I just really want to meet you

[tfdmgurl]

Hey! There is nothing wrong with winning the best dancer award! Even if you are a guy!

[gidgetblogs]

OMG..I totally loved this. How bloody AWESOME was this video? A stroll down Hanks Memory Lane. This should be a highlight in lots of your video's of your past's. How interesting is that? Would love to see John's as well. I remember a friend mentioning the Mars Society to me many years ago when he claimed he was from mars. The yoda sure would be great for your SON (cough) to have as a lil boy (hint). Thanks for sharing Hank!

[gidgetblogs]

PS ..he too is from North Carolina. I wonder if there is something in the water there. lmbooo

[fallingstar555]

OMG I have a little ferret in my room. I have a pet ferret! They are so cute and cuddly.

[dedicatedrr]

I love it when Hank gets all dramatic. XD I went to look for the website even before he said not to. XD

[XBasketCase1039X]

you and john need to come back to NC sometime so all us NC Nerdfighters can hang out!!

much love!

[kristanova]

:O?

come visit me in north carolina :D! or at least come enjoy union county!