History WebVideo / VlogBrothers

** SciShow

** "I am a giant squids of anger!

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Why are Barns Red and Kardashians Famous":

* CaptainObvious: In "Famous Last Words" when John is reciting the last words of Lady Astor:

* ArtifactTitle: The "Hankgames" channel is as of now converted into John's [[VideoGame/FIFASoccer FIFA]] channel starring the AFC Wimbly Womblys.
** Eventually, Hank decided to make a new gaming channel for himself called "Games with Hank".

** Hank has a RunningGag of using "because s/he's dead" as a punchline to jokes about deceased people.

* ARareSentence: In "Top 10 Animal POWER MOVES", John describes how baby potato beetles compensate for their lack of a shell (which makes them easier targets) and ends up saying, "Fortunately, they have poisonous poop." He immediately lampshades the strange nature of the sentence afterwards.

-->'''John''': Telling me it’s selling out to try to share my books with an audience is like telling Derek Jeter it’s selling out when he tries to hit balls hard. Or telling your mom it’s selling out if she [[DoubleEntendre hits balls hard]]. I guess "your mom" jokes don’t really work when your [Hank's] mom is also my mom.

* EpicFail: Hank made a video recounting the top 7 epic-est fails in history, with most of them being about people getting revenge on the ItWillNeverCatchOn trope.

* PokeThePoodle: In "[[http://youtu.be/2O9BkGxWBVY Positive Prank Calls]]"
-->''Hi, this is Hank Green of the Vlogbrothers, and I just wanted to let you know that global poverty rates have dropped 30% since 1990, and they're on track to drop another 10% before 2015. She was talking and I just hung up on her. Ha! Ha, ''pranked!''''

* AsianAndNerdy: Deconstructed by Hank in his "Why are Barns Red and Kardashians Famous" video (he's answering Google's top most-asked questions starting with "why are [insert letter of alphabet here]") by explaining that Asian-American culture has been shown to value intelligence. In spite of this, he still says that "positive stereotypes are still stereotypes, so you should be ashamed of yourself."

* PantsFree: * In the episode aptly titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkKLANmUbF4 "Nerdfighter MARRIAGE PROPOSAL"]], John was asked by a fan to propose to the fan's girlfriend for him. He decided that an occasion like this necessitated nicer clothes than the t-shirt he started the episode in, then jump-cut to him adjusting himself in his seat, wearing a nice suit jacket and a dress shirt. When he called the girlfriend, did the proposal, and she said yes, John began cheering, and sprang out of his seat to reveal that he was still in his boxer shorts.

** They have, however established a rule that videos CAN be longer than four minutes as long as they are educational videos, videos with montages, or videos that are exactly 4:01 long[[labelnote:*]]since Youtube adds a second at the end[[/labelnote]]. For example, John's video on the history of the political situation in the Ukraine and Hank's video on the Egyptian coup and history of Egypt's political parties.

* YourMom: Used on several occasions in Hank's jokes.

* PsychoticSmirk: At the start of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8sM_9wSul0 this video]], John does one for a half-second after ramming Hank out of frame with his chair.

->''DFTBA!''[[note]]Don't Forget To Be Awesome. Or, if John is sick of people asking what it means, it's Dinosaurs Fail To Beat Asteroids.[[/note]]

** "It's Question Tuesday[[note]]despite the name, just over half (24) of the videos in the Question Tuesday playlist took place on a Tuesday. Friday came second with 11, followed by Wednesday (7), Saturday (2), Monday (1) and Sunday (1). No Question Tuesdays have taken place on a Thursday.[[/note]], the day that I answer real questions from real nerdfighters. Let's get right to it."

** ''AnAbundanceOfKatherines''

** "In a stunning turn of events" may or may not be one, considering how often John uses it.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Basically the gist of the punishments. For example, going two seconds over the time limit will score you a ''15-hour'' stay in a local Target.

** The thumbnail to "This Video Makes No Sense", which has Hank doing an [[DissonantSerenity all too happy]] [[SlasherSmile smile]] with his face pressed up to the camera.

--> '''Hank:''' [21] CarlSagan. [22] AutoTune. [23] Auto-tuning Carl Sagan.