#back to phil— i LOVE 2011 phil. he's so cute and his humor while not my thing is just endearing

[danielhowellscurls]

been rewatching old videos all day

[alittledizzy]

:08 - Dan is proud of how bleak they are. (Later tweets that their style is darkfuzz core.) 1:05 - Phil brings out the reward and Dan shames him into eating a marshmallow just because. 1:57 - Dan making Phil laugh in the middle of a sentence. 2:28 - Phil says the next one is Dan - the next one is a crying man. Really adorable sheepish (?) grin from Dan, while Phil just unashamedly laughs. Phil being able to joke about Dan and Dan being depressed now is such a nice transition from the awkwardness when Tom joked about Dan being depressed in the Truth Bombs video. I definitely feel like this is more the humor Phil uses with Dan when it's just Dan. 2:47 - Painful virginity losing part - full on repressing priss face Dan smile there, what kind of recall was going through his head? 3:48 - Phil immediately declaring the couple in the picture as not old, lmao. Feeling that recent birthday, eh? 3:58 - And clearly on date night what they do is "have a few drinks and just... chat over the breeds." (Further proof: Dan says they can relate, with the Ribena on ice.) 4:38 - Phil dismissing the entire 'how to be an educated man' wikihow as boring, because those aren't things Phil does. 4:44 - Phil says one of the drawings is Dan. Phil is correct, total throwback to 2009-2011 Dan with the festival bands and the straight emo fringe. 5:21 - Meme pop quiz; Phil demostrates how to block out the haters. 5:44 - Dan demonstrating his makeup knowledge by talking about highlighter to make 'anime eyes.' 6:00 - Dan ignores his own gut and goes with Phil's gut, which is wrong. Phil growls and bites the nearest object; I mean, I guess it wasn't his slipper at least? Or Dan's slipper. 6:28 - Phil had an interesting reaction to the gay and lesbian part. He seemed nervous but unlike most other moments in videos where something kinda gay is happening, he actually looked like he was trying to think of something to say instead of just going full poker face. It was nervous, but not uncomfortable-nervous, and he did actually say something. ("Wow. Yeah. That's how to understand it.") I think if Dan hadn't moved on Phil might have actually made a second comment? And he's got a tight but obvious smile even after Dan moves on, too. 6:38 - Cute little Dan voice asking Phil how he dances in a night club. Phil never wants to go to a nightclub ever again in his life. 6:56 - Dan calling Phil out for stalking Joe Sugg's instagram story. I love that mocking tone from Dan, and it definitely makes me think Phil's made comments about Joe Sugg (privately, to Dan) before. 7:06 - Phil is afraid of the sad questions, pulls his shirt over his mouth - then lets his shirt drop when he realizes it's not actually a sad one. 7:29 - I want to shoot this moment right into my veins, it's so fucking cute. It's nonsensical and Dan and Phil are their weird brain-twin best. I also love how natural Phil's voice and hand gestures are here. (ba-ba-ba-badook) 8:30 - Dan and Phil contemplate 'how to touch a girl.' 8:41 - Phil is offended by Dan's chest poke and how it lacked passion; nipples are apparently now fully safe territory for them to go after? 8:42 - Dan's office stare right after is great, too, since he's got the tiniest of little smiles happening. Yes, he did just poke Phil in the tit, and there's nothing we can do about it. 8:49 - Dan quotes Aristotle. 9:03 - How to Draw Art for your Dan and Phil Fanfic: the wikihow article someone is definitely gonna write now. 9:15 - Dan makes a brief attempt at arguing that the answer could be phone sex. Phil is firm: this is not phone sex. 9:34 - Dan slamming every redditor for their internet history re: how to be the type of nerd that girls love. 9:50 - Dan offering genuine advice. So many jumpcuts here. 10:11 - Dan says roleplay as Pinocchio; Phil goes back to the mpreg place even though this question has nothing to do with actual babies. 11:23 - Phil goes straight for the sex joke, talking about throwing bombs all over the bedroom - while looking directly at Dan, who has a momentary wide eyed panic look (11:25) before he recovers smoothly. 11:29 - And oh my god! This part! I think I've watched it like 20 times. Because in recent history what we've had is Phil making innuendo while looking at Dan or talking directly to Dan, and Dan ignoring the innuendo. To me this says that Dan usually just isn't prepared or doesn't know quite how to meet Phil's boldness head on. But here! He fucking! Does! There's a span of about 2-3 seconds of silence and he gives the explosive oral line. Phil immediately says "Stop." while still grinning. 11:46 - Dan says shoot a cheating boyfriend. Mmm you sure bout that. 11:53 - Phil singing Lion King. 12:00 - Brief moment of their voices sounding really good together. 12:18 - Phil says the next picture represents him. Dan's already got the same sheepish smile from earlier when Phil did the same thing for Dan and got the crying man? I think he saw the cat with the moustache picture and his mind went to furry RIGHT away, and was doing that repressed smile at Phil being a furry. Genuine Phil smiling too, not covered with his hand. 12:22 - They jump cut past the first answer (how to spot a catfish) only to include the second one (how to accept your boyfriend's interest in pornography) and don't bother even reading the rest of the answers out loud. What a statement that is? Dan says "FURRY" and then won't make eye contact with the camera.