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Contra Force
- The opening cinematic has an odd phone call.
- Dan becomes a Grammar Nazi when Arin kills forts.
- Arin dances the dance of the forklift.
- Dan notes that the game runs much faster with only one player, only to get interrupted by an unexpected obstacle:Dan: It's like a totally different game. [Barrels roll at him] It's Donkey Kong all of a sudden!
- Dan nails a super jump.
- Their continuing to die over and over in the first level in Part 2 just gets more and more hilarious, especially when Danny brags about having not died as much as Arin has, then immediately falls off a ledge.
- Arin states the Fake Difficulty entering this game's Konami Code.
- At a certain point, the game makes Dan its Butt-Monkey.
- Burns & Beans the routine.
1001 Spikes
- If Arin doesn't complete the level, his parents die.Danny: Oh no! I'll make the proper arrangements.
- Their impressions of Smash Mouth.
- Part 2 has Dan scream with Arin, not at him.
- Say Dan unzips his pants...
- Arin: This time, I'm not gonna die once. That's how confident I am in my abilities.Danny: There's one.Arin: Okay, after that time...
- Dan's story of almost breaking his arm.
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
- Arin shows how the game tricks with double jumps.
- Imagine a dance party as a cult.
- Dan hilariously fails to save himself.
- Imagine the first level as the only level.
- Part 3 shows the Grumps estimating the series length.
- WHEEE!YAY!
- Arin gets better armor before a jump.
- Poor Danny.
- Their shock at professional mode.
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
- The thumbnail features the frowning Simon from Arin's Sequelitis.
- The series begins with a NPC setting the tone.
- Young Danny walked like the hero.
- Raptor Pro Tips the audience. Immediately followed by a "Cotton-Eyed Joe" mention.
- Followed by a Sexbang Pro Tip. Which starts a Running Gag of them referring to the walkthrough they're looking at as their "memory".
- Part 2 shows the wolves teaching the demon techniques.
- Muchos Muchoes Choco-Lattes!
- Dan spends Part 3's start down an unneccessary path.
- When night descends, the Grumps sing Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida.
- Dan's anger over the salesman's odd placement.
- Part 4 has fun with the silent R.
- Arin makes a salesman sound like JonTron.
- Get there...get there...NO!
- Okay, bye. *Smooch*
- Arin: Equip the blue crystal, and kneel for five seconds.Danny: Are. You. Serious. Are you serious?
- Followed by Arin warning Danny not to fall.
- Steve, Frank, and Alibabamookatoot
- Part 6 gives a Green Giant invasion.
- Dan crosses Hazardous Water.
- Part 7 lands Danny a silk bag.
- WHEEE!
- Followed by believing in magic!
- A Rare Sentence stops the Grumps where they stand.
- The Douchetron 5000.
- Part 8 shows Arin talk behind the scenes of Sequelitis.
- Dan arrives at a goblin party.
- Danny fights Death.
- Dan kneels with the red crystal.
- The Running Gag in Part 9 of Arin getting fucked.
- Dan hopes for help climbing a high platform.
- Dan repeats a mistake.
- Dan meets two of the same person.
- Barry's description for Part 10.
- Arin & Dan's skit about math class.
- Dude, don't blow this!
- SIMON RAVE PARTY!
- Part 11 has Dan & Arin sing a nasty tune.
- Whoever states it's a horrible night?
- Part 12 starts on Artificial Stupidity.
- TAKE A SLEEP! OH GOD NO!
- Dan desires more Laurels.
- The finale shows Dan wondering where to go.
- A running start to Dracula!
- Followed by such a dramatic fight!
- Witness the endings, bad, good, and average.
Power Blade
- The intro's lack of facial movement.
- They meet their first contact.
- Why do you cry?
- Part 2 introduces floaty waffles. And bubble barfers.
- Arin dies surprised.
- Really odd place to meet a contact.
- Young Dan's hurricane survival story.
- One shirtless contact's waits in a freezer.
- Part 4 begins on Toilet Humour.
- Followed by Doctor, why asses?
- Nova talks with Dan.
- The Grumps nickname a boss.It's raining men!
- And now a subliminal flash!
- Grape picking has reached the fandom.
Trauma Center Second Opinion
- In the first episode, Mary Fulton arrives on scene and immediately clocks Arin and Danny as murderers.
- Arin tries to carefully read the instructions to the surgery, only for Danny to interrupt with Derek's loud "LET'S BEGIN!"
- Their Lampshade Hanging how amateur they're at surgery.
- Meet Dr. Alzheimer's!
- Arin voices Derek's thoughts on Angie.
- The doctor's drunk making laser sounds.
- The Grumps guess why a doctor has gone missing.
- Arin remembers how to heal the patient after flailing wildly.
- Arin points out how the center of a tumour looks like a skull.Arin: (As Derek) Whoa Angie, check it out! Are you seeing this shit?Danny: (As Angie) I agree. That is badass, Doctor.
- Life juice for everyone!
- Followed by an odd set of demands.
- At the end of Part 4:Arin: Okay dude, it's time to prove yourself!Danny: But I hate doing that!
- Part 5 gives an epic Shout-Out.Arin: Pirates of the Caribbean 6 will be playing in our local theater.Danny: You'll never believe what happens! Johnny Depp wobbles around like he's drunk!
- Satan saves the day!
- Their Rapid-Fire Comedy with the Z chapter.
- Arin's incredible attempt repairing a broken arm.
- The Grumps Call-Back a certain impression.
- The hospital has a house band during operations.
- Part 8 gives the Grumps their first laparotomy.
- Dr. Hoffman falls asleep in conversation.
- Upon starting up 17-year old Linda Reid's operation...Arin: Awww, they covered up her boobles.
Danny: *starts chuckling* Ye- well Jesus, Arin, get your priorities straight! *Arin laughs* - Arin panics during Linda Reid's operation, and fails to suture the wounds in time. His scream upon getting a Game Over is excellent.
- Arin gives the protagonist his voice.
- Followed by Arin singing dialogue to the background piano.
- Dan rollercoasters around the menu screen.
- Arin takes Dan's dialogue seriously.
- Followed by a Black Comedy World of Ham.
- The sheer Epic Fail of Part 11, after they'd been reasonably good at the game until then.
- One moment has Arin interrupt Dan reading the dialogue.
- The Grumps' emphasis on the word "Guilt."
- The operation's objective: HAVE FUN!Arin: Don't forget to give her a good review on Yelp!
- Arin fails at the defibrillator.
- During an operation, the Grumps desire pizza.
- Part 14 gives an incredibly painful insight by the protagonist.Arin!Derek: Diseases are painful....Trucks are weird.
- The Grumps make the female protagonist haughty.
- Arin makes an incision.While saying "Whoop. Whee!"
- Part 15 ends with a nice little Shout-Out.
- Dr. Hoffman says hello to himself.
- Arin voices a fat character.
- Part 16 introduces a stoner doctor.
- ...But we gotta be serious here. All right, zap the aliens.
- Arin and Danny have no time to concentrate on a dramatic scene in part 17 when they discover that the floor is made of Jell-O.
- We revisit it in Part 22.
- Once again in Part 31
- A fourth time's a charm!
- Such squishy Mood Whiplash.Danny: Why's the exit sign on the floor? Who's that for? People who are neck up in Jello?
- Part 17 has a doctor show something.Danny: I don't know if you can hear my zipper unzipping.
- Danny pretends to rip a bong again...this time he nearly chokes on his water.
- That's horrible.
- Dan nicknames the tumors Tum-tums.
- Part 19 gives a sinternational conference.
- What's playing on Derek's headphones?
- What's with the empty conference hall?
- Meet a doctor with his own rapper's posse.
- Dan voices the PA system.
- Arin has fun defusing a bomb.
- A doctor picks a bad time to reminisce about her ex-boyfriend.
- Arin misses a moment to complete an operation.
- Watch our hero leave the airport!Danny: This cursor is headed for great things!
- Arin voices a mumbling military man.Arin: I'd love to see a Game Grumps animated of this.
- Look, Black Comedy in trying to kill a kid!
- Part 24 shows Arin losing his mind.
- After using the healing touch, he fails, Tantrum Throwing as a result.
- Arin's impression of Bill Cosby.
- Part 26: everyone is George Clooney.
- Part 26 has Angie comment stupid.
- Blah! blah! fucking blah!
- Tumor removal has a theme song!Pop goes the weasel!
- The Grumps wish the GUILT had a different name.Arin: This one is hyper AIDS, and this one is super AIDS.Danny: And this one is CRAZY AIDS!
- A character wishes to be a guinea pig, complete with squeals.Time to cut into the bitch tits!
- What a difficult operation. WTF.
- The Logic Bomb in prematurely stitching up a patient.
- The two funniest voices of the Grumps meet!
- Arin's frustrated solving a puzzle.
- "Derek, Derek, he's our man, also making funeral plans!"
- Is he gonna wake up?Yes, child. Puts pillow over her mouth
- Danny butchers medical terms.
- During an operation, a wild kidney appears!
- The Big Bad has a little kid's voice.
- Part 33 presents Hoffman as the new Caduceus director.
- Arin believes a patient can be fixed in post.
- Part 35 inspires a Ben Stiller film.
- Arin meets an old friend. Hilarity ensues.
- Danny kills a patient with negativity. According to Arin.Danny: Nurse, on the report I'm going to say this patient died from backchat?
- As Dr. Stiles operates, a doctor moves on to Taco Bell.
- Danny channels a certain side of Arin.
- Danny narrates an airline annoucement.
- Arin channels Joe from Family Guy. While standing on jello.
- One line turns the series into Sakura Spirit.
- Part 38 demonstrates Arin & Danny pointing out the bad, ''bad'' dialogue.
- Near an operation's end, Arin remembers the Healing Touch.
- One of the nurses finds the bad guy handsome.
- Angie's given up on the plot.
- Once more unto the Hoffman!Got your nose!
- Dan notes an error with Dr. Stiles uniform.
- Part 40 has Dr. Hoffman interrupt a news broadcast.
- The worst kind of GUILT: Jewish Mom Guilt!
- They attack the Final Boss.Why are we doing this in a church?
- Arin guesses the final boss isn't the creator of GUILT, but God.
- The last part of Part 41 is both high stakes surgery and hilarity in Arin's suffering.
- Arin lampshades the Salvato's repetitious behavior.
Mega Man 6
- The funny arrives with the Grumps talking pet & human names.
- The possibility of Rainbow Man becomes an Imagine Spot of Dan laying erect in a field awaiting a stiff breeze.
- Part 2 imagines the Grumps Literal-Minded.
- The fish from Centaur Man's stage getting their lines cut off the instant they die.
- Meet Saul Centaurman!
- The Grumps don't have their usual timer for keeping track of the length of their episodes and have to judge it on their own. As a result, Danny's done the "Next time on Game Grumps!" a minute too early three episodes in a row.
- Part 4 has Dan confused about a boss fight.
- Dan dirty names all of Mega Man's weapons.
- Having to improvise some of them, "Silver Touch" ends up being an Odd Name Out. Discussing other options for "Silver T." results in Dan's Daily Tush story.
- Dan explains to Arin Big Johnson shirts.
- Arin's spelling...belt? beft? boot? Burgie?
- What If? Video Game Grump Dan makes Arin laugh?
- Part 6 opens up with Arin telling a story about his childhood years with Danny in Kansas... in 1942.
- It's made funnier by Arin constantly altering the age gap between the two of them, starting with Dan as twelve and him as seventeen and ending with Dan as two and him as 77 (still a kid, though). Extra hilarious knowing that Dan is a good six years older than Arin in real life.
- And then there's another story of when they moved to Oklahoma City. Their age gap was changed yet again, with Dan as 7 and Arin as 7800.
- Part 7 has stories of Dan & Ross experiencing food poisoning.
- Arin discovers Mega Man can fly enemies away.Whee!
- During the Boss Rush in Part 8, they encounter Plant Man again.Danny: Plant Man's like that ugly baby that you don't want to tell your friend their baby's ugly. Like "Oh! Plant Man! He's very alert!" Like you're just making up things that sound like compliments.Arin: Oh wow! He has two eyes.
- The Grumps lampoon Guy Fieri.
- The Grumps roleplay a drunk scientist.
- As usual, the Grumps riff on the ending credits.
- When someone named Yoshinobu Suda appears on-screen, Dan makes a pun wondering if the guy ate a lot, he'd be "Sudafed", followed by the most sheepish laugh ever heard from Dan (which of course causes Arin to lose it).
Godzilla Monster of Monsters
- The series begins with the slowest text crawl.
- Arin's WTF when the game interrupts a boss battle.Danny: Even the game got bored.
- Arin gets indignant when Gezora would rather fight Dan's Godzilla than continue again his Mothra. Cue curb-stomp battle since Gezora was almost dead.
- The game pushes the NES.It's thinking.
- Dan insults Arin's mom.
- Arin plays as Mothra on Mars.Like a pretty, pretty princess!
- Part 3 opens with Godzilla's poetry.
- Arin's shock over an unexpected Boss Rush.
- Dan reacts to Arin's Mothra flying over minibosses.
- After Dan's Godzilla barely surivives Varan, Varan forces a rematch. With Godzilla possessing full energy with a breath weapon.
- Arin narrates Dan's disgusting Hedorah.
- The Grumps remember SNL ridiculing juggalos.
- Danny realizes he can fight the little doggy guy.
- Arin remembers sumcon.
- Barry gets a new Fan Nickname.
Castlevania 64
- Arin & Dan narrate the opening text crawl.
- The game throws the Grumps' female PC into the gameplay without explanation.
- A skeleton jiggles hello!
- Opening the games brings sudden Mood Whiplash.Arin: Oh my God! What the fuck! Jesus Christ Dude!
- Danny deduces Arin finds a moon card.
- Arin's phone interrupts the show.
- After drowning in poisoned water, the Grumps badly play violin.
- The Grumps discuss discovering food & money in tomb coffins.
- Arin tests a shortcut to get down a cliff faster.
- Danny gives the game an alternate title.Danny: When did Castlevania become Switchmaster 5000?
- The Grumps not only refight the first boss, but meet skeletons riding motorcycles.
- Dan notices problems related to a Video Game 3D Leap."Wave the foot flag."
- After four episodes, the Grumps finally make some progress.Arin: Maybe after four episodes of the outer walls, we'll get to the inner walls, and then we can get to the actual castle.
- "This game sucks."
Little Samson
- The fact this game's expensive & rare with such an Excuse Plot.
- Dan sat on his own balls.
- The Grumps realize they can climb walls.
- Arin lies to Danny.The jig is up!
- The Grumps fight the Starbucks mermaid.
- Danny hilariously names the four characters.
- Arin's a fucking garbage factory.
- Dan likes the butt.Arin: AHHH! Why me?!Danny: Oh God! Even the tail is way too big!
- The Grumps discuss 60fps porn.
- Arin deduces a lightning wizard uses lightning.
- Arin's Atomic F-Bomb meets Dan the Deadpan Snarker.
- Followed by Arin & Dan debating spiderman movies, with the Reveal Ross has taste!
He likes vegemite! He likes terrible movies!
Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril
- They realize Timmy's a One-Hit-Point Wonder.
- Dan takes a story about wearing pajamas to its natural completion.
- Dan asks Arin if they played games without truly progressing.
- Danny doubletakes at an empty screen.I mean, come on, Sivak Games. Does this have to be a screen?
- The Grumps introduce a new game, Rage Quit.
- The game breaks Arin where he wants to make a blanket fort.
- The entirety of part 3 (starting with the thumbnail), in which Arin discovers he does better while improvising stories, then spends the entire episode repeatedly failing to defeat the same plant monster while making up stories.Arin: I knew a guy named Jesus. I asked him, "Hey, isn't your name pronounced Jesús?" And he said, "No! My mom is very religious!" And I said, "Wouldn't that have PREVENTED you from having the name Jesus?!" And he said— (Battle Kid dies) FUCK!Arin: Register now at your local supermarket for the rewards card. It will save you 10% on FUCKING GODDAMN BULLSHIT, FUCK!
- Whenever Arin dies, Dan suggests a Drinking Game.
- When the door closes, Timmy's face is like, "Oh Fuck."
- One attempt's done in total silence.Arin: (dies again) NO! NO! GOD DAMMIT! I didn't even do well that time! It is the improv skills!
- One of Arin's stories is just "Jennifer dumped me", then dies immediately.Dan: That was your shortest, saddest story, yet.
- In the middle of an improv rant about voter registration, Arin finally gets the plant up to critical health. Arin gets beaten again summarily and has an ATOMIC Rage Quit. Danny is reduced to a wheezing fit of laughter.Arin: Gerrymandering politicians always get their way unless you veto their vote in a voting BOOTH. You have the power as a citizen of the United States! Register to vote at your local DMV, so that you can control the fate of your country at least somewhat! I mean, there's the electoral college and everything but, I don't know, I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HOW POLITICS WORK! (dies) GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!! I'M DONE! I'M FUCKING DONE! THIS IS BULLSHIT! RED PLANT! PURPLE PLANT! BLUE PLANT!
- Other miscellaneous screaming:Arin: I. AM. NOT OKAY!Arin: However, I have to say... I'm very close *Arin dies* TO BEATING THE GODDAMN PLANT MONSTER. BUT HE'S NOT DYING! We're not stopping! This is happening! I am SOOO close! I'm like a GOD. DAMN. GIGOLO. Ready to burst! And she's saying, "No, three more minutes, at leeeast."Arin: The green needles will NOT be the death of me!Dan: They've been nothing BUT the death of you! They've been exclusively the death of you.
- After Arin fails again, Ross inspires one more attempt, only for Arin to accidentally quit the game, losing all of his progress. Cue the ultimate freak out, unseating "WHAT IS THIS?!?" for white-knuckle levels of legit anger.Arin: NO! I hit end! (Dan starts laughing) I HIT END! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! FUUUUCK!! FUCK EVERYTHING!Dan, in hysterics: Next time on Game Grumps...Arin: BATTLE KID, FUCK YOU! SIVAK GAMES, GO SUCK MY GODDAMN DENSE CHODE! YOU PIECE OF HAIRY GARBAGE! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOUR WHOLE FAMILY!Danny: Oh, that is such legit rage...Ross: Didn't go well?[Danny starts laughing]
- What's even better? That was the first level. The plant monster is just the Warm-Up Boss.
- It received two official Game Grumps animated videos! It's noteable that the latter video is the most viewed purely Game Grumps video, involving 82 different animator groups animating the entire 14 minute episode.
* Arin's improved stories. ALL OF THEM. We've gathered them all here for you to enjoy. - Story 1
Arin: Alright, this battle. Is. For. Real. I have a good feeling about this one. I'm-I'm bringing it downtown, y'know? I'm playing music on the street. I'm getting a noise complaint, but you know what, I don't even care! Because this is my art. (died) And n— FUCK!
Story 2Arin: One day, I was walking down the street, I met a guy named Carl! Carl was nice because he gave me some ICE CREAM! (Brief Beat) And... (died) AAAAAGH, DAMN IT!
Story 3Arin: Mark mistakenly ordered me nine pizzas! I wasn't sure weather I should keep them or not because I really enjoy pizza! But when I opened them up, it was pineapple and ham! AND I DON'T LIKE HAM, (died) AND I'M ALERGIC TO—FUUUUCK!!
Story 4Arin: Rocket the Hedgehog, was a lonely young hedgehog in the Sonic the Hed—DAMN IT!!
Story 5Arin: I knew a guy named Jesus! I asked him, "Hey, isn't your name pronounced Jesús?" And he said, "No, my mom is very religious," and I said, "Wouldn't that have prevented you from having the name Jesus?" And he said— (died) FUCK!note
Story 6Arin: Radical Republicans really wreck...my...rectal...(died) rrrAAAAAAAAGH!!
Story 7Arin: Purple plants make me feel uncomfortable when I walk towards them! They say "Hey, Arin, how's it going?" and I say "It's going okay!" But it's not really going okay, I just didn't wanna share my emotions with the purple plant!! 'Cause FUCK! I don't know him!! He's not— (died) DAMN IT!! GAAAAGD, FAAAACK!!
Story 8Arin: Jerry wrestled bears for a living, but he wasn't happy with it! So, instead, he changed his profession to golfing! He wasn't happy with that either! He just realized he was an unhappy dude in general! So he saw a psychiatrist, (died) and the PSYCHIATRIST—FUCKING, GOD DAMN IT! note
Story 9Arin: Jennifer dumped me.
Story 10Arin: RECKLESSLY! I touched a car that didn't belong to me! It was a very nice car! A 1978 Bugatti! THAT'S NOT EVEN A REAL CAR MODEL! I MADE IT UP. AND I— (died) DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!! DAMN!
Story 11Arin: Register now at your local supermarket for a rewards card! It will save you ten percent on (died) FUCKING GOD DAMN BULLSHIT, FUCK!!
Story 12Arin: My mom's a nice lady, but sometimes, y'know (died) AAAAAAGH! YOU'LL NEVER KNOW THE END OF THAT STORY! I'M MOVING ON!
Story 13Arin: I was caught murdering some man named STEVE. I talked to the police and I REFUTED that I had anything to do with the murder. The police said: "Wait. WAIT. THEN WHY ARE YOU (died) STANDING ABOVE THE DEAD BODY!!?"
Story 14Arin: My dad...really likes that I'm doing music right now. BUT HE'S KINDA DISAPPOINTED THAT I'M NOT GOOD AT IT. BECAUSE...HE SPENT HIS WHOLE LIFE WRITING MUSIC...AND I'VE ONLY SPENT A COUPLE (died) FU—GOD—I! I....AM.......NOT OKAY.
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase
- Any time Arin does the Shaggy voice.
- The commentary on the poor animation.
- Danny wants a threesome with Velma and Daphne.
- A ninja throws the slowest shuriken ever...... while never hitting Scooby even close!
- Dan ridicules Hollywood Hacking.
- He discovers Arin's computer's name is Ego Raptor Weiner Barf.
- What If? the game played out at visiting Scooby Doo's funeral?
- Shaggy's neck moves like a chicken.
- The sheer ridiculousness of ninjas dying by thrown pies.
- The Overly Long Gag of Scooby Doo running before ninjas can finish their threats.
- Dan describes Arin's visual disgust for this game.
- After dying, Arin boasts how he's the best. Then dies.
- Followed by a Flash Back of Dan betting Arin a $100 he's an idiot.
- Arin requests inspirational music as he succeeds...in falling twice to his death.
Alien 3
- The game immediately demonstrates its difficulty.
- Arin & Danny argue how to play the game. Aw.
- Imagine blink-182 covering 867-5309.
- Becoming a Running Gag thru the episodes.
- The game demonstrates the explosiveness of Mexican food.
- The one positive about LJN Games?Danny: I like their rainbow logo.
- Part 2 shows Arin hilariously invested in the game.
Super Adventure Island
- Episode 1:
- Early in episode one, the Grumps have fun at Master Higgins expressions and positions when he throws his axe and when he ducks. They also remark that parents must love this game since Higgins gets all the padding and gear when he gets on the skateboard.
- What are people from Kansas City called? Kansanians? Kansie Asses?
- The Grumps channel Yoda for fun and sexism.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
- Danny's impression of the title screen:Danny: Hello, and welcome to "Too Many Fonts"!
- "If ducks were a person, they'd probably be Hitler."
- When they reach the first boss, which turns out to be a seal, they launch into a rendition of "Kiss from a Rose", with Arin making up new Donkey Kong related lyrics and Danny throwing in "yeahs" at the wrong times. Danny really commits to it by doing one at the end of the next episode.
- Their entire string of continuous deaths in episode 5, due to their failure to learn that the platforms fall after they land on them, even after they specifically make note of that fact.
- The song "Shine" as sung by Joe Swanson. Arin's spot-on impersonation of Patrick Warburton is what really makes it hilarious.
- Mild speech impediment Seal
We Love Katamari
- During the underwater level, Danny remembers the "craffs". He gives them and the audience an acknowledging whisper.
- Danny mistaking a wooden box which reads "↑ UP" and "FRAGILE" as saying "TWAT FRAGGLE".
- Part 9: Danny shares a Long List of rejected Ninja Sex Party song titles, each more ridiculous than the last. Highlights include "Did I Fucking Say You Could Stop Partying?", "You Say Tomato, I Say 'What Are You Doing in My House?'", "Public Masturbation Is So Much Fun It Should Be Illegal," and "I Bet I Can Eat More Pancakes Than You."
- Part 13 has Kevin and Barry's texts dueling with Barry winning, due to Kevin being on Christmas vacation.Kevin: (normal size) Yo yo!
Kevin's puny text is promptly knocked off the screen
Barry: (scrolling across the entire screen in massive allcaps) THE KING HAS RETURNED- After Barry's yellow text wins the duel, it twirls as if Barry is holstering it like a pistol.
- Part 14: Arin stops the episode because he has to take a shit. And makes sure Danny and everyone listening not only has advance warning about it, but vivid details about the poo jamming up his asshole and how it got made thanks to yellow curry and the subsequent post-shit burning sensation caused by capsaicin.
- Part 15: Danny gets into a conversation with Arin over always saying he would fuck male celebrities whenever he mentions them.
- The Grumps crack up at the cutscene with the Grandfather of All Cosmos pulling a thumbs up Terminator 2-style, then passing out, which they mistake as him dying before it's revealed he just fell asleep.
Pokémon FireRed (2015)
- Part 72 starts with Arin and Danny freaking out over finding a Dratini in the Safari Zone. Naturally, it runs away. After the intro plays, Arin explains to the audience that he succeeded in catching one, only for Danny to explain that he caught a Goldeen and named it "Dratini".
- This is even proven in a later episode
- Part 77. Arin's heading to a poke-center, when a trainer challenges him.Swimmer Nora: My boyfriend gave me big pearls.
Danny: I bet he did. (Cue collapsing laughter.) - Episode 80 continues Arin battling the dojo and a Primeape takes down his Psyduck.Arin: That's it! Time to bring out the big guns! *Clearly referring to his level 50 Articu-brings out Beedrill.*
Danny: *laughs*- That one was clearly a stab at all the people riffing Arin for relying on Beedrill (to his credit his favorite Pokémon, as evidenced by his reaction to its Mega Evolution announcement), which he had earlier expressed sarcasm and annoyance at.
- 6min into part 82 has Arin imagining a really hardcore military style raid on underground Pokémon battles.
- In episode 83, Arin needs to delete one of Sch's moves to make room for Wing Attack, and accidentally deletes Flamethrower instead of Scratch. There is zero laugher between them as Danny then speaks for the entire audience:Arin: (Genuinely panicking) No, NO! NOT FLAMETHROWER! OH, FUCK!! NO!! NO!!!
Danny: (In disbelief) ...Did you fuck it up...?
Arin: (Still mid-freakout) NO!!!!
Danny: ...Did you really fuck it up...?
(Beat)
Danny: What is wrong with you? How do you fuck up a menu?- And the comments didn't disappoint.Comment: Arin, I've seen better menu skills from Twitch Plays Pokémon. What the actual fuck man?
- And the comments didn't disappoint.
- Part 84: The Grumps discover the Idiot Ball text for the telephone in Silph Co.Arin: "It's a telephone. Better not use it."
(Arin and Danny laugh)
Danny: Who knows what this thing might be capable of?
Arin: (bursts into uproarious, guffawing laughter so hard it soon dissolves into coughing) - Part 85: Lenny Kravitz vs. the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. Complete with photoshopped picture.
- Parts 86 & 87. If you thought Arin's lovely poo rant in We Love Katamari was bad, then get ready- the Fire Red playthrough ends up with a poopy encore: two episodes in a row about poop. Part 86 recants that notorious MythBusters episode where Adam and Jaime learned that no matter how much you try to clean a toothbrush, there's microscopic fecal bacteria located just about everywhere. In Part 87, Arin has another long talk about shitting in gratuitous detail after another Potty Emergency.
- Part 89 sees the long-awaited return of Knurttt... for all of three minutes. She's become level 31 (22 levels more since she was last seen way back near the start of the playthrough). Arin has her fight one Oddish and promptly dumps her back in the Daycare. Then he starts to wonder how miserable Knurttt will be cooped up in crappy living conditions. And shows sadistic pleasure from thinking about it.
- The amount of time that passed since the episode where Knurttt was put in the Daycare to the episode when she returned? 325 days. (Mar 2, 2014 - Jan 20, 2015)
- Danny's sheer excitement over catching a Ditto.
- In part 92, Arin's story about meeting some fans at the Last Unicorn tour:Arin: He came up to me... well, he came up to you, with his friend, and clearly didn't give a shit about me. And then he was all, like, "Oh man, you're great, Dan! You're the best! Ah, you're the coolest!" And you were like, "Ah, thanks man." And I was like, "Ah, that's nice." And then he took a picture with you, and then he like walked away, and then his friend walked up to me and was like, "Fucking Beedrill, man, what?"
- In part 96, another pointless in-game comment appears when Arin checks the photo in Blaine's room at Cinnabar Gym. At first, he giggles because it mentions "Mr. Fuji", misreading it as "Mt. Fuji" before Danny corrects him. Arin then claims it is Mt. Fuji and is just a literal translation, Then they both go into hysterics over the detailed description of the photo, which is nothing but a cluster of tiny, chunky, and painfully incoherent pixels from the Grumps's perspective (which Arin claims could look like a mountain), but makes a point to clarify that Blaine and Mr. Fuji are two people standing shoulder-to-shoulder, as if to specifically prove Arin was wrong.Danny: It's like one step away from, "You can see all the facial features on his human face!"
Arin: "It's weird that his name is Fuji when the mountain is also called Fuji!"
Danny: "He's standing on top of Mt. Fuji!" - Danny's reaction of utter revulsion upon seeing Weepinbell for the first time.Danny: JHH-EESUS CHRIST, WEEPINBELL.(Arin sniggers)Danny: Are you fuckin' kidding me with that!? That's what he [Bellsprout] turns into!?Arin: (still sniggering) It gets worse...! [Victreebel]Danny: Ohhhh my Gaahd!!(Arin's sniggering intensifies)Danny: He doesn't look finished!!(Arin's sniggering mutates into amused laughter)Danny: Woooff!Arin: Doesn't he kinda look like a clown, like Krusty the Clown- he looks like fucking Krusty!!Danny: He looks like a child's art project that doesn't want to be alive. Like, "Help. Help me..."(Arin squeaks with laughter)Danny: "Put me back in the kiln..!" (Arin keeps laughing) Ughhh... Wow!Arin: (laughing) He really does have this look like, "Oh, God..."Danny: "Ohhhh..."Arin: "Please..."Danny: ...Yeah."End me..." (both Grumps laugh) Hoo, boy!Arin: No wonder he's weepin', dude!Danny: Yeah. Wow!(Weepinbell is defeated and faints)Danny: He's like, "Thank youuuu!!"Arin: "Sweet release...!"Danny: "When I'm fainted is the only time I'm truly happy..!" (Arin is still giggling) Wow!
- In episode 99, their airplane/airport stories.
- According to them, there were thousands upon thousands of babies on the plane. After they took off, it was just nonstop screeching and wailing. Danny described it as "a chorus of human suffering".
- Arin repeatedly stating that if he had a kid, he'd kick it.Arin: Yeah, if I had a kid, I'd probably kick it a bunch.
Danny: Right, as we all would, but-(Giggles)
Arin: Yeah, cause I'd be like "Shut up!" And then I'd kick it.
Danny: Yeah. (Laughs) While no one would actually kick a baby, though I'm pretty sure that every parent, no matter how much they love their baby, has wanted to kick it.
Arin: I'd definitely kick my baby.
Danny: I'd probably- yeah, cool. So, anyway, like the other-
Arin: Right in the face. - Arin sends Danny a text mocking a guy sitting across from him at the airport.Arin Text #1: Motherfucking fat Tim Robbins over here, look at this guy."
Arin Text #2: That was actually Tim Robbins.
- Arin laughs so hard at Bill and his friend, he starts to sound like a poodle.
- The randomness of Pokemon battles.
- Danny's resigned frustration at Arin when he accidentally makes Moltres faint, forcing him to do a Soft Reset.Danny: Goddammit, Arin! (trails off into laughter)
- Episode 105 has a tired-as-hell Arin freaking out after he realizes that he has no idea how to escape One, Two, and Three Island. It also leads to some requisite Ho Yay.Arin: I don't know how to -fuck- I don't know how to get out of here. Well, I know how to fuck. I just don't know how to get out of here.
Danny: (slyly) That's debatable.
Arin: I-well, all right. Dude, come on. You know wha-really? You gonna do that? You gonna do it... with me? You gonna do me a little doogal?
(Danny breaks out into laughter)- This then immediately leads to them finding a digger in a random cave.Arin: Maybe if I go through this cave. (Sees that it's a dead end with just the digger) What the fuck is going on here?
Danny: (imitating the digger) Hey! You found my secret cool person cave. You want to join my 'cool club'? Both those words start with a "K". Okay, see you later! - When they encounter a wild Ponyta, Dan begs Arin to catch it. Arin begrudgingly does so...then names it DANSSTUPID.Danny: But dancing isn't stupid...
- Arin and Danny pledge to go catch Zapdos and name it "Jinkwad", but almost as soon as they do, Danny admits they'll probably forget by the time they reach Zapdos.
- This then immediately leads to them finding a digger in a random cave.
- Part 106: Since the Grumps are getting ready to face the Viridian City gym, Arin opens the episode by doing a glorious autotuned rendition of "I'm on the Road to Viridian City" from the 4Kids English dub of the Pokémon anime.
- Danny making an assessment of Rhyhorn's appearance:Danny: His head is weird.
(The sheer lameness of Danny's quip makes Arin lose it; then Danny ends up snickering at Arin's reaction)
Arin: After one and a half yearsnote - (starts laughing again) -that's where it's come to- (barely holding back his laughter while Danny starts laughing, too) -that is the pinnacle of Game Grumps right here! "His head is weird."
Danny: "His head is weird." ...Buy our SHIRTS.
(Arin starts wheezing with laughter)
Danny: We're so talented!
Arin: I feel like we should just stop while we're at our peak.
Danny: Yeah. Well...
Arin: You know, you can't be remembered for the bad times if there are none.
Danny: No, I just- it was all indented- it looked like you'd pour like something into it like- it's like a mold and you can make another Rhyhorn out of it.
Arin: (more laughter with Danny snickering) Like a Play-Doh mold?
Danny: Yeah, exactly.
Arin: (even more laughter with Danny still snickering)
- Danny making an assessment of Rhyhorn's appearance:
- Part 107: Arin, still zonked out from MAGFest '15, notices his normal laugh has been reduced to a smoker's cough. Then Danny goes and makes a joke about a sassy Nidorina dying (really just fainting) almost immediately after Arin makes this observation and sets off a very hoarse, hacking, and awful-sounding laugh from Arin.
- Danny realizes what he really wanted to say about Rhyhorn's head- it looks like a staple remover. Which quickly turns into a discussion about the most humorless corporate crony taking a staple remover and pretending it can talk, mocking his boss, who actually has a staple remover for a head and all the way fires him. Also, stapler remover removers are apparently giant noses that suck the things into their nostrils.
- THIS... just this. The noise... that Arin makes after Danny teases two Starbomb albums... HOLY SHIT.
- Part 109: The Grumps extend some "Love" to Jon, mentioning him for the first time since he left.
- Part 112: Danny being so tired he butchers the name of Arin's mother. Then, immediately afterward, Lorelei sends out Jynx:
- Danny's reaction to Jynx is priceless.
Danny: OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THAT!?![...]It looks like a bird that wants to be an opera singer, and also... mutated, horribly."- Arin starts coughing from laughing too hard, thanks to his still jacked-up sinuses.
- The Stinger at the end of the episode, where Danny advertises a link to a Ninja Sex Party song animation while eating Rold Gold pretzels and staring at the viewers weirdly. It starts derailing the moment he chokes on pretzel bits, and then Danny starts Corpsing when he notices Arin's look on his face off-camera blatantly suggests he wants some pretzels, causing Danny to let him dig in.
- Part 113 gives us more gems from Danny's dad, such as what he thinks YouTube's most popular user is called, which Danny sums up hilariously at the end of the episode:Danny: God, I often think, like, whenever I'm watching PeeWeeDidi, it's so nice to have a place where I can decompose and just think about my extrismism.
Arin: That's very extrismistic of you.
Danny: My dad is slowly but surely creating his own language. - Part 114: Arin runs into an Electabuzz, captures it, and names it PEEWEEDIDI. As Arin starts typing the nickname out, Danny catches on immediately.
- Right before confronting Zapdos, literally next to the bird and about to press A to enter battle with it, Arin runs into another Electabuzz.
- When trying to catch the legendary 'Mon, Arin uses TurntSNACO's Explosion move for the first time, and it promptly knocks out Zapdos, which leads to another Soft Reset on a legendary bird.
- Arin nearly has another hideous blunder with the menu screen cursor when trying to throw a Great Ball at Zapdos.
Arin: (unnerved) Not the Master Ball.- Danny was expecting that they'd have to make Kevin cut to the moment Arin finally bags Zapdos. But Zapdos doesn't take two episodes to capture. Instead, he stays put in a Great Ball without even being put under a status ailment (granted, after Arin burned through his stash of Ultra Balls and a good chunk of his Great Balls).
- Arin names Zapdos "GREG", proving that the Grumps forgot all about Jinkwad as they said they would.
- Which becomes Hilarious in Hindsight if one remembers the Sonic '06 playthrough joke "God of War: Legend of Greg". The protagonist was a Zapdos all along!
- From the StarTropics playthrough. We'll call this one Part 114.5- Arin decides to take time off from the Fire Red playthrough to level up offscreen so he can hold his own against the Elite Four and announces it by taking the leftover footage for Part 114 and suddenly jumping over to play StarTropics in the middle of the episode.
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (FINALE)
- After nineteen months of training to beat Mike Tyson, Danny prepares to face the brutal final boss... and is immediately knocked out on the first rematch. Both of them proceed to crack up, even bringing Kevin into it.Danny: Kevin, put up a "Danny Wins". *Danny and Arin laugh**Kevin puts "Danny Fails!" on the screen before quickly changing the last word to "Wins!"*
- Danny lampshades how long it's been since they last had an episode of this series, is aware it was the first playthrough he ever did on the channel, and decides that his reward for completing the game will be that this episode is uploaded on his birthday.
- Meta CMOF: Danny also mentions his hair is now twice as long and he's grown a beard. Since his skills at the game are now substantially better since June 2013, and he's a lot more beloved by the fans than when he started off on Game Grumps, he unintentionally invoked the Growing the Beard trope!
- Danny getting really pissed at Arin distracting him when he needs unwaivering concentration to avoid getting his ass handed to him by Tyson.
- Arin and Danny miming Doc Louis's mouth flapping animations, and noticing how Mike Tyson doesn't show so much a scratch on his face during the in-between round resting screens while Little Mac looks absolutely destroyed.Arin: (imitating Mike Tyson) My entiuh skuwl is a micwofwactuh.
- Danny showing fear at Arin dissing Tyson in the game, thinking that the real Tyson will overhear it and come after him.
- Kevin's snarky edits- first when Danny is defeated and asks for him to put up a "Danny Wins!" but Kevin puts up "Danny Loses!" for a split-second. Then, Kevin choosing not to cut out any footage when Danny resets the game to play again.
- Danny's explosive joy when he finally, finally, finally wins against Mike Tyson by decision. And then decides to fight him again until he gets a TKO. When it at last looks like he's got it in the bag, the round clock runs out with Tyson just about to get TKO'd. And just to add insult to injury, the match is ruled in favor of Tyson's victory. Which prompts an enraged outburst of intense anger and disappointment from Danny and the demand for a fast-forward from Kevin until he gets his coveted TKO. His reaction to it is pure poetry:Danny: THANK YOU, BOXING JESUS!!!
- After at last accomplishing what he set out to do many moons ago, Danny makes a huge mistake by bringing up the matter of the other Punch-Out!! playthrough for the Wii that he has yet to fully complete, with Arin knowing that's going to be the next thing on the viewers' minds since he talked about it. Guess what? The top YouTube comments for that episode's are from people trolling him to the tune of "Now do it for Wii".
Super Bonk
- As neither of the Grumps played the game before, they are repeatedly taken off-guard by how weird it is. Their reactions go from shocked to speechless, to amazed, then back to shocked again at several points.
- Arin and Danny see a creepy fish enemy. As Danny utters a Big "OMG!", Arin simply screams in shock.
- Danny mentions how he learned the term "cross-fading" from Barry. By which he means Barry Obama, the drug-dealer.Arin (Impersonating Barack Obama): My fellow American, please do not tell any other fellow Americans, unless they might be potential clients.
- Bonk gets squished by a ceiling and instead of dying, somehow turns into a crab. Arin's mind just breaks from this.
- Immediately after this, while still in the same form, they get transported to an incredibly bizarre bonus stage that can best be described as crab Gradius. Their reaction has to be seen to be believed.
Ninja Gaiden
- The brief panic attack over the game suddenly glitching out in stage 5-2, including a Game Over screen covered in random text.
- Arin reaching the point of frustration where the only things he can say are "milquetoast, Midwestern curses".
- "If like a really good friend called me right now and was like, 'Dude, she said yes!' I'd be like, now's not the time."
- Arin goes into some impressive rage fits as he tries multiple times to get through the final stage, Act VI. Largely this is due to the fact that a Game Over puts you back at stage 6-1, regardless of progress. Then the Grumps discover that just a single death during the final boss rush puts you back at the start of 6-1 regardless of how many lives you had left.Arin: Wait...
Danny: Oh dear...
Arin: What...? - From Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Arin decides to try shooting the female NPC they have to protect, assuming that it wouldn't actually have any effect, only for her to actually die and the game gives them a Game Over. The entire exchange between him and Danny is hilarious.Dan: (as Arin shoots her) Arin!
Arin: (as screen fades to "Game Over") OH MY GOD!
Dan: ARIN! You dumb bastard! What are you doing?!
Arin: (laughing incredulously)I didn't mean to!
Dan: (also laughing) Oh, my god!
Arin: I didn't think it would actually do anything!
Bloodborne
- Continuing the great Grump tradition of bizarre character names, Arin's hunter is named "Itta Pupu." Only after several episodes of "Itta Pupu" jokes do they reveal that the name is a reference to an online video of an extremely homophobic religious leader railing about the alleged (and bizarrely specific) activities of gay men.
- The joke culminates in Episode 3 with them rewriting the lyrics of the Village People's "Y.M.C.A." in the accent of said religious leader.Danny: Young man, there's no need to feel sass. I said young man, stick your hand in my ass. I said young man-
[Dan and Arin crack up]
Arin: Eat the poopoo you see.
Danny: Eat da poopoo! It's a sickness you see!
Arin: We do not want it!
Danny: Here in Uganda.
Arin: In YMCA! We do not want it in the-Both (singing): Y-M-C-A!Danny: It's a sickness in the [singing] Y-M-C-A!Arin: They stick their hand in the anus! [Both lose it again.]Danny: They use their dicks like big toys! You can hang out with all the boys!
- The joke culminates in Episode 3 with them rewriting the lyrics of the Village People's "Y.M.C.A." in the accent of said religious leader.
- Arin losing his first battle with the Cleric Beast by getting trapped in nothing.
- In an early episode Danny brings up someone and Arin adds he finds that man sexy. At first Danny ignores him but when Arin goes on about how much he'd happily poke him. Danny finally asks why Arin has to bring up sex when discussing a man and just say he finds him handsome and stop there.
- In Episode 6, Arin tells Dan the story of the time he and Tom Kenny took a selfie together in front of a burning garage.
- Arin and Danny reading YouTube comments in the voice of Dale Gribble.
- Arin explains to Dan the strategy to fight Eileen the Crow and insists there's no peaceful alternative when Dan asks. Only to enter a conversation with her immediately after and realize he missed out on a couple of gifts.
- Arin smashing random pottery in the game for no other reason than he can. His sheer joy in doing so just makes the whole thing even funnier.
- As Arin and Danny depart after first meeting with Alfred, Danny begins improv-ing a bunch of parting lines as Alfred, ending with, "Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya." Arin is incredibly impressed by this supposedly made up, on-the-spot line but is laughing so much he swears he probably won't remember it the next day.
- Part 23: The description says it all: TMNT is Serious Business.
- Part 24: Arin tries to bitch about Dan not appreciating his musical abilities... which falls apart immediately.Arin: Dude, I gotta tell you, man, y'know, you're always like, "You don't have any musical talent, why the fuck would we ever let you write a song."Danny: What?! When have I ever said that? I have never said that.Arin: No, you totally said that, all the time you said that.Danny: That is something Brian would say.Arin: You're like, "Arin, look, y'know, you're only in the band because, well, I don't even know, honestly..."Danny: How could you possibly say that when we have a band without you that's exactly the same and we started a new band just so you could join it?Arin: ... Well see, the... you gotta, I mean... in theory... Man, why you gotta step on my jokes?Danny: "Why you gotta make me feel bad by makin' me feel good?"
- In episode 34, after curbstomping the Shadow of Yharnam, Arin tries to pull the old "henway" gag on Dan, who refuses to fall for it. Dan mentions that he's learned better from Arin getting him with the "updog" prank back in Goonies.
- In episode 57, Arin has to buy some more blood vials if he's going to stand a chance against Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos. He goes off to Hunter's Dream, buys some more vials, then begins selling items to get more echoes to buy more vials...then he sells the blood vials he just bought.Arin: ...I just sold my blood vials...GODDAMMIT! OH, I'M SO STUPID! I bought them and sold them and now I have less!
Dan: (Laughing at Arin's misfortune)
Arin: God, I wish sometimes I would stop being so dumb! It really bothers me!
Dan: It's stunning, actually.
Arin: I'm just going to do the old-fashioned trick and get some in one fucking go. So, what did you do today, Dan?
Dan: No, how much did you have that you lost?
Arin: I had ten, and I would've been able to buy an extra, like, four, and now I have six.
Dan: (Laughs)- After Arin dies because of Ebrietas, they then tack on an extra video in which the two of them attempt to split and eat a five pound gummy bear. A large portion of this extra segment is Danny attempting to cut it in half. A particular method is him picking it up, yelling "Ebrietas!", shaking it around, then violently slamming it down on the table.
- Then, in part 75, Arin sells his blood vials again.Arin: Ah shit, I fuckin' did it again! I sold my remaining blood vials...
Dan: (Giggles)
Arin: Such an idiot. God... what the fuck is wrong with me? I was just- I can't...I just-
Dan: Always when I take a sip of a beverage. You and your atrocities.
- Still in episode 57, the live-action clip of Arin and Danny struggling to cut and eat a giant gummy bear given to them by a fan, later released as a standalone video.
- Part 65 begins with Arin and Danny conjecturing that hell is like a subway train, finishing with a claim that "we are the Stephen Kings of stupid."
- The end of part 68 has them return to the Hunter's Dream to find the Workshop covered in flames and the Plain Doll just standing there. They are utterly flabbergasted.Arin: OH MY GOD.
Dan: Um, Doll, what did-explain yourself.Arin: *running up to the doll* WHAT DID YOU DO?! WHAT DID YOU DO?Dan: She's just like "Good hunter, the house is on fire". Wow, she's just not even gonna mention it.Arin: Yeah, totally.Dan: She's one of those people. *hysterically* "This is fine! Everything's fine!"Arin: "Yeah don't worry about it". - The Finale. They went out of their way to get the items to unlock the 'good' ending, finally defeat the final boss, and then realize that Arin didn't USE the items to get the ending, making all that extra effort pointless.
- And after that realization, Arin planning to do it again right with a tone of nervousness that bounces between having to refight the final boss and whether or not it's even possible to have a rematch. It's not.
- Danny asks if Arin can call him "daddy" from now on. "But not in, like, a sexual way." Arin suggests instead calling him "father". Upper-Class Twit and Hilariously Abusive Childhood ensues. "Father, will you fetch me the water bucket?" "NEVER!" "I'M NOT YOUR SLAVE!"
- The end of episode 101. After narrowly escaping a giant fishman by climbing down a ladder, Arin heals up and ends the episode... and is immediately attacked by another giant fishman.Arin: "Is he still hangin' out up there?"Dan: "Wow. Alright, y'know what, next time on Game Grumps-"(the second, anchor-wielding fishman attacks)Both: *scream, then bust out laughing over the end card*
The Munchables
- Let's get this out of the way: The Munchables' premise involves eating food-shaped enemies and turning them into "magic orbs," i.e. poop. Danny and Arin have a field day with this, depicting the mentor character as a Dirty Old Man who gets off on collecting poop from the player characters.Danny: Call me scum! Ohhh, god, I deserve this!
- That's when they're not playing him as (A) senile, (B) a bloodthirsty tyrant using the player characters as enforcers to maintain his grip on power, or (C) both.
- Calling the opening cutscene "trippy and frenetic" would be an understatement.Danny: Um—uh—look at the poo! It's sacred poo! (as the Elder) You'll never get my poo!
Arin: I still haven't—haven't watched this, what the fuck is hap-
Danny: It's my poo and they're laughing at me! Look out for the lasers! - Almost immediately after the actual gameplay starts, the Grumps start to interpret Star Ving as a Crapsaccharine World.Arin: Is this like a Hansel and Gretel situation? "Keep eating..."
Danny: "Get nice and fat! But make sure to move around, so you'll be full of lean muscle."
Arin: "Hey, could you marinate— I mean, take a bath in this—"
Danny: "In butter?"- After progressing into an area with a burning village:Danny: I think you might be the villain, actually!
Arin: They really frame this in a way that's like, "Oh, you've eaten all of the villagers."
Danny: Oh yeah, the quote-unquote "pirates"... "Burn the Great Tree of Knowledge to the ground!" - When the first "Leader Pirate" miniboss shows up, the Grumps immediately peg him as too cute to be villainous.Danny: Remember what he did to you! ...Nothing.
- After progressing into an area with a burning village:
- After the introduction of "Vacuum Mode":Danny: Did I ever tell you the first band I was in was called Vacuum? Because we sucked?
- Arin admits that the game is making him hungry for vegetables.Danny: I just stuffed my mouth full of Skittles, so... it's making me yearn for the flavors that only a chemical plant can provide.
Arin: A guy in a lab coat, with a beaker and an eyedropper...
Danny: Yeah. "I just need to add more cadmium, and boom! Strawberry." - In episode 3, they lose patience with the Elder's long-winded exposition:Arin: I'm gonna give you a Cliffs Notes version: eat the fuck out of everything, bye.
- During the Great Grapy (sic) boss fight in episode 6, both Grumps show some unexpected self-awareness.Arin: I don't read, Dan!
Danny: I know, I know. You like reading about as much as I like going to the gym.- On that note, Arin's story about eating at a McDonald's in Japan.I got my cup, and I was like "Aw, man, I ordered a large! ...Wait a second."
- On that note, Arin's story about eating at a McDonald's in Japan.
- The game's Big Bad is either in denial, or just plain clueless about his underlings getting eaten by the player character.note Big Bad: Did Great Grapy run off somewhere when it has a job to do?
Danny: This guy's a very optimistic-scenario-creator in his head... "And here's his severed arm! He's gonna need this wherever he's hanging out with his friends!"
Arin: "How else is he gonna put a cold drink into his mouth? I suppose he could use his other hand. Well, that's fine then, I'll deliver it to him later."
Punch-Out!! (Wii Title Defense)
- The simple fact that, due to the increased difficulty, it takes Dan an entire episode to simply defeat Glass Joe. Likewise for Von Kaiser.
- The Grumps get increasingly frustrated with Doc's less than helpful 'advice' between rounds, such as asking Mac what his favorite flavor of protein shake is.
- Special mention to part 13, where we get this gem:Dan: Doc, I would like to revisit what the fuck you just said. I am getting the shit beaten out of me by a crazed German man, to the point where one of my eyes may never be the same! That looks like a detached retina. AND brain damage. And you are NOT telling me about a chocolate bar, by itself, but then laughing afterwards.
- Followed by the Grumps theorizing Doc is actually giving Little Mac great advice, but Mac's brain damage is butchering it:
Arin: Doc's there like, "Okay, listen up. When he comes in in the third round, watch out for that left, and hang out for that jab. All right? He always follows up with the jab."Danny: Yeah, and Little Mac hears it as, "PEANUTS ARE FUNNY!" - Special mention to part 13, where we get this gem:
- While fighting Disco Kid in Part 15, Danny successfully lands a Three-Star punch. Danny is ecstatic... then promptly gets floored by Disco Kid's next punch.
- Their take on Doc's advice in part 18. It must be seen to be believed.
- The kicker? As Dan was singing, he was doing better against Piston Honda! And went right back to losing after he finished singing. People have taken to calling this form of Dan "Rhythmic Avidan" or "Hip Hop Dan".
Kirby And The Rainbow Curse
- Arin's reaction to Elline.
- On Episode 1, Arin tells a story about how a fan sent him a foam replica of Nickelodeon Guts' Aggro Crag (probably back when Jon was still on the show, since Arin played the SNES game with him). Since he had nowhere to put it for the longest time, he decided to throw it away. However, when he was about to do so, he stumbled upon some kid that always hangs out outside his house after school. He then invited him to beat the crap out of the replica, and, as Arin puts it.
Arin: He had this look on his face, that's like ""I would like nothing more than to do that".- When Arin first states that he originally had no idea what to do with the thing, Danny states "It's like my granddad used to say: if you can't eat it or dance with it, fuck it or throw it away." Danny then tells a speechless Arin to continue his story.
- The intro cutscene has the villain suck out all of the color in the world. Arin quips "Now there will be no more racism." Danny replies "Because everyone's dead. That's the only way racism is stopping. I hate to break it to you people."
- In Part 6, they discover Garfield in a cavern.Dan: He must be smiling 'cause it's not a Monday.
- Part 13: The Grumps offend a very specific set of people.Arin: I'm sorry if anyone in our audience has SARS.Dan: Yeah, I'm SARSy.Arin loses it
- Part 17: Arin improvises a song about being a rocket ship, which ends up answering deep questions with deceptively simple answers.
- Part 18: Arin sees a switch and a sign that says "do not press" and hits it immediately. Both of the grumps go into hysterics at how blase he was about it.
- The two take on exaggerated impressions of Merida from Brave, followed by Arin calling a uterus a "Baby Hole".
Dan: Hard to believe you've never had kids, Arin. - Part 19: Arin and Danny discuss what it would be like if Pepsi was pronounced "Peep-see." Followed by the discovery of Clay Aiken's Sea of Fire.
- Also, "Infiltrate the Junk Factory!"
Friday the 13th
- While finding a way out of the cave, Danny comes across a potion which accidentally causes him to miss the platform, sending Crissy to her death.Danny: Whoops.
Arin and Danny laugh
game returns to character select screen
Danny: Oh, sorry Crissy!
Arin collapses in laughter - After Danny gets a game over, Arin takes the time to look up a walkthrough. After reading a strategy involving a long, tedious grinding session for knives, Danny suggests Arin play instead. This leads to Arin's shortest playthrough ever.Arin: "Use the torch to light the fireplaces." Do we have a torch?
Danny: No you get that-*game crashes* Whoops.
Beat
Arin: Next time on Game Grumps...
Danny laughs
Deadly Creatures
- The first episode sets the tone for the entire playthrough; The Grumps start off expecting the game to thoroughly suck, ignoring the intro cinematics and wondering why Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Hopper would agree to voiceover roles. However, the second they realize that they don't play as the humans versus the titular creatures, but as the creatures themselves, they practially become instant fans of the game.
- All of Danny and Arin's reactions that the game is actually fun and interesting (when they were expecting it to be god-awful) to the point that they continue playing it after the supposed last episode is simultaneously funny and a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming / Crowning Moment of Awesome.
- Arin has a stand off against a beetle that repeatedly defends itself from attack, to which Arin defends himself as the scorpion, waiting for the beetle to strike first, they standoff for a moment before a random cricket scurries between the two prompting Danny and Arin to lose it.
- Arin later gets sweet revenge when he finds out about the finishing moves the Scorpion can do to enemies.Danny: Dude, I'm just watching your face while you're doing these finishing moves and you are just having a fucking blast right now.
- The grumps repeatedly bring up the animation's Narm qualities:
- The walking animations of the tarantula being both determined and nervous-looking
- How the tarantula reels back to slap her opponents with her legs.
- The tarantula hanging in the air for a brief moment when she jumps.
- The blocking pose for scorpion looking like he's bashfully covering his face.
- Arin and Danny constantly Lampshading the fact that the crickets are the Butt-Monkey race of this universe.
- The spider, when jumping stays a while in the air. Arin, as the spider, has this to say:Arin: Party up in here! Turn that music up!
- Arin points out the problem with the spider eating as many grubs as it does, Danny, as the spider, responds;Danny: Was that a fat joke? Arin, really?
Dead Rising
- Danny mocking Arin not knowing how to zoom out, something the fans have been waiting quite a while for.
- The second Carlito shows up, we get a barrage of jokes playing up his ethnicity, whatever it is.
- Part 7:
- Arin forgot to save, as he thought the game autosaved. And the whole six episodes it took to get to that point? Him getting back there took less time than a single episode. This friends, is what Arin is like when he doesn't fuck up.Danny: Doesn't that tickle your fancy?
- Arin begins describing the way the moon rotates around the earth. Meanwhile, a zombie faceplants into a flowerbed.
- This line from Danny:
Dan: I say drop the gun and pick up another OJ. The gun's useless. - Arin forgot to save, as he thought the game autosaved. And the whole six episodes it took to get to that point? Him getting back there took less time than a single episode. This friends, is what Arin is like when he doesn't fuck up.
- In part 9 when the pair encounter the convicts and during the fight, Danny possibly makes the whitest rap known to man. Afterwards, they frantically run to shelter in order to save while also poorly rapping on the way back to the fight.'Danny: My name's Danny Sexbang, voice smooth as silk. I like to drink lots of chocolate milk.
- Parts 9 and 10 show Arin's struggle to save Sophie Richards in the middle of the night when zombies are stronger, and while he's running low on weapons and equipment. Between the hard odds and her Artificial Stupidity, he's struggling to escort her.
- Made funnier by a call from a certain Janitor.Arin: WHAT DO YOU WANT, OTIS!?
- Made funnier by a call from a certain Janitor.
- In Part 18 when Jessie is looking over the hurt Brad, Danny says in a comforting doctor voice, "I'm sorry, he's going to be black forever". The two of them burst into uncontrolled laughter as Danny tries to say, "I'm sorry all, I just said it without thinking!"
- And, beginning in part 25 but coming back with a vengeance in part 27, we now have the Whap Demon / Whap Goblin.
- Later they agree when he has a blunt weapon, he's the Whap Goblin. With a knife, he's the Slice Demon.
Arin: It’s WHAPPIN' TIME!!- Later, the Whap Goblin puts on a snazzy suit.Arin: He's goin' on a whap date.Danny: Time for his waaap mitzvah!*both Grumps lose it*
- In the plotline mini-mission "The Last Resort", (Part 32) Frank/The Whap Goblin is sitting in a chair, and slowly turns towards Isabela. Danny comes up with this gem:Danny: So I hear you've become interested in our whapping business...
- In Part 32, there's the perfect kick.Danny: I mean, look at all the katanas we have.*Arin kicks a soccer ball*Danny: Next we should head to the garage... (Arin's soccer ball takes out several zombies) Nice ki-*Arin gets a zombie kill bonus*Danny: Damn, dude! Nice kick!
- In Part 38 they finally get to Carlito's hideout.Arin: Nice place. Shame if someone were to take a shit in the middle of the floor.
- In Part 42, the following exchange takes place*Arin is crossing the courtyard with a helicopter hovering around taking pot shots at him*Danny: You're gonna wanna hop in that um, in that mall dude.*Arin gets shot by the special forces helicopter*Arin: Yeah well I'm trying.Danny: Isn't it to the left?Arin: Yeah but I gotta get to the fucking heliport dude. Who knows how much time I'll have.Danny: I would say go in the mall first.Arin: Yeah but then I gotta, nuh!Danny: That's where a helicopter is not!Arin: Yeah but...Danny: And all the weapons are.*Danny snorts*Arin: Look at it, the helicopter's way over there! Oh God.*Arin sees helicopter and backtracks behind the trees and into shadow*Arin: No, it's dark over here. He can't see me. Check it. He, he can't see me.*The helicopter shoots a missile through the trees and blows up Frank*Arin: OH MY GOD!Danny: *fit of laughter*Arin: Holy fuck!Danny: *still laughing**scene switches to Frank being captured by a special forces helicopter*Arin: Jesus!Danny: *gets over laughter* You've been captured, with napalm.
- The finale has Arin running frantically through a grocery store, screaming in a panic as he tries to regain more than one peg of health, while being pursued by special forces units.
- In the finale, the difficulty curve becomes so difficult that Danny just suggests that they end the series by watching someone else's playthrough of the game and providing commentary.
Cursed Mountain
- Danny's epic high-pitched scream at the game's first Jump Scare. Even better is that right before it occurred, a message popped up instructing them how to run, and a warning not to alert any ghosts while running.
- Their reaction in the cutscene where a monk fights a ghost:The Character: This can't be real...
The Monk: [turns to face the character] "Real"?Dan [as the monk]: It's real as fuck, yo!
Endless Ocean 2 Blue World
- The whole first episode can be considered a Crowning Moment of Funny. So much so that it went from a one-off to a series by popular demand, doubling as a Moment of Awesome.Oceana: "Incredible! I've never seen so many (whales) in one place!
- Every time someone mentions Jean-Eric's dead son Matthias, you can count on Danny or Arin to say some variation of "Thanks for bringing that up" in the character's voice. They bring up Matthew's death so often with different, twisted variations, it turns into straight Black Comedy.
- The crowner is when Jean-Eric gets mad at himself for bringing up his son.
Danny!Jean-Eric: He's dead? Who did it this time? It was me. Fine! I'll give you a pass this one time, me...Arin!Jean-Eric: The next time you bring up my dead son- DAMMIT! - Danny and Arin riffing on the tutorial for the game , including giving Jean a robotic monotone voice whenever something he says is highlighted in the text. Not surprisingly became animated.Jean: Welcome to Nineball island!
Danny: You do not want to know how it got that name.
Arin: There's four dudes here, and one dude who had a major accident!
Danny: We call him 'The Cyclops'!
Jean: Everything you need for your work is here on the TABLE. Sorry about the mess. We leave our soda and OJ here.
Arin: We don't drink water, we don't believe in it.note
Danny: We subsist entirely off of soda. And OJ.
Jean: Stop by this CAMERA to develop any photograph you take.
Arin: Yeah, take a ride on the wild side by taking a trip to the camera. It's only 40 miles from here.
Danny: Why don't you swing by this OJ!
Jean: Of course, we have a RADIO to keep in touch with the outside world.
Danny: I feel like I'm at the showcase showdown of The Price is Right. "And...A new car!"
Arin: And here is your bucket in which to shit.
Jean: There is also the DIVE LOG, which records your progress. As well as the NOTEBOOK to write down information, places you've been and other...well...notes!
* cue a solid few seconds of laughter from the grumps*
Arin: You should know, you wrote them!
Jean: And last but not least, we have your COLLECTION. It's a nice record of all the items and coins you've [French accent] "sal-vaged".
Arin: They're useless.
Danny: It's a nice record of all the shit you've stolen. Don't touch my OJ! I swear to Christ if that ends up in your collection, you are dead!
Jean: Go to where you see that wetsuit to CHANGE CLOTHES AND EQUIPMENT!
Arin: We didn't bother putting shades up. Go on, try it out! I swear I'll turn around!
Jean: And head inside the cabin to rest for a while and ADVANCE TIME if you need to!
Arin: It's a magic cabin. - When Arin names the local dolphin "Jumpsalot", Danny chimes in as Jean:Jean!Danny: I see you've chosen "Jum P. Salot".
- While voicing Jean-Eric, Danny has him go into a bizarre tangent about his sagging genitalia. Cue both Grumps losing it for a solid thirty seconds.Arin (laughing his ass off): It's just that...the more I picture it...the funnier it gets!
- When they dive in shark-infested waters.Jean: What? There are a lot of sharks?Danny: (as Jean) Ha ha ha, that sucks. Don't be scared, those are just hammerhead sharks.Arin: (as Jean) The most viscous of them all.Danny: They kill quickly and painlessly. They can be a bit unpredictable, but there are almost no reports of attacks. Almost. As long as you don't startle them, you should have nothing to WORRY ABOUT!
- "When you get too close to them, they will disappear. Be very careful and terrified if this happens. That means they are ghost sharks. And they will haunt your life."
- "Can't believe I'm getting fucked while eating out my own pussy. Feel like I'm going crazy!" note
- "Wait, I'm getting a crucial transmission from Grandpa!"
Dan-as-Jean-Eric: Krrzt...Can't believe..krrzt...getting fucked while eating out my own pussy...krrzt...feel like I'm going crazy... - Dan wonders if all sharks lay eggs or if some have live birth, so he looks it up, typing "Do some sharks give..." and Google finishes it "Do some sharks give good head."Danny: What is going on with my search history."
Youtube commenter: Wolfjob wasn't enough for Dan. He had to upgrade that shit to SHARKJOB. - After Gaston Grey introduces himself as "GG" for short, Jean-Eric asks, "Is one of you Grump and the other Not-So-Grump?"
- The Grumps turn Jean-Eric's explanation of the perilous Deep Hole ("a narrow, shallow channel with a forest of kelp growing around it") into Jean-Eric getting off while thinking about the cavern.Jean-Eric: [to the sound of furious masturbation] The dense kelp makes it inaccessible by boat...Arin: But that just makes it more attractive!Dan: I prefer no kelp...any port in a storm, am I right?Arin: I'll park my boat anywhere!Dan: Just like my dead son Mattias used to say!
Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek
- Arin begins part 1 asking Dan a very important question.
- Danny and Arin's confusion in Part 2 when the plot stops to turn into a cooking game reminiscent of Cooking Mama.
- In part 3, Danny and Arin come across a rude ski competitor while going through the Lodge. The competitor threatens and insults them, and when they leave, he...tells them to come back anytime.Danny and Arin: What?!
- Dan mocks the rude ski competitor, who scorns Nancy Drew as a guest before she explains she's the new cook and maid.Ski Instructor: Forgive me. Allow me to begin again.Dan: Allow me to start over. Oh no, a new maid and cook!
- No less than 10 seconds later:
Arin: By the way, I am a pyrotechnician expert. I create bombs. I set one off in a lodge. Mystery solved. Also that's my pet wolf.- What makes this funnier is that this is the actual plot of the game.
- Danny and Arin meet up with a man who thinks that the wolf is the one causing all of the problems. Danny and Arin, of course, play up his crazy.Nancy: You think the wolf is causing the accidents?
Arin: I love her voice for some reason...
Danny: Yeah it's great.
Guy: Not a doubt in my mind. Everything was A-OK 'til it showed up-
Arin: (as Guy) 'Til it showed up and started blowing up buildings left and right.- Really play it up...Guy: And something's protecting it. Something... unnatural.Danny: (as Guy) He's doing it... on paw-pose!Nancy: Why do you say that?Arin: (as Guy) Look, here's a letter from- here's a letter from it! He says he's going to take us down... "mark my woof"!
- Danny and Arin also make fun of the guy's hunting story, and it ends up with them in stitches for a good thirty seconds.Guy: So I fired again. And I missed. And then I missed again.Danny: (as Guy) And then I fired again. And then I missed. And then I fired, and then I fired, and I missed. I missed both times. And then I fired. And I missed. This went on for several hours. And then I fired. And then I missed.Arin: (as Guy) And then I was out of bullets. And then I got sad. I had a Popsicle. And then I passed out in the snow.Danny: (as Guy) And then I woke up. And then I reloaded. And then I fired. And then I missed.Arin: (as Guy) I missed again. I fired. I hit something. But it wasn't what I was going for, so I guess I missed. I passed out again.Danny: (as Guy) Had another Popsicle.Arin: (as Guy) I had a dream that I was firing at something—I missed.
- Really play it up...
Portal 2
- Poor Danny repeatedly getting his mind blown by the way the portals work and the ways they can be used. He outright admits he's absolutely terrible with this spatial nonsense.
- Part 3 has a remix of "Blue".
- After figuring out the solution to a puzzle in Part 10, Danny finds himself going in circles, thinking he's following Arin, only to discover that he's following himself as seen through the portals.
- In Part 12, Arin jumping on a faith plate and bashing his head on the ceiling repeatedly. Then Danny does it as well.
- In Part 24, Arin pretends the CD he is carrying with the portal gun is a tiny UFO.
- Arin's methods to solving the levels can sometimes get needlessly complex. For instance, in Part 24, he tries to make a big jump so he can place a portal, when Dan points out he can stand in a different spot to get a line of sight.Arin: I feel like I'm doing this wrong, but doing the right thing. Like, just the right thing in a really wrong way.
- The Stinger to Part 28:
- While watching the credits during the finale, they crack up at the sight of the name "Tobin Buttram" and decide they have to remember that for the next time they name a character.
Shovel Knight Co-Op
- Arin and Danny defeating Black Knight by doing Monkey-In-The-Middle.Danny: Stop shoveling yourself! Stop shoveling yourself!
- "I said...mep."
- Part 6 features (presented out of context): discussions about whether Snuffleupaguss was Big Bird's acid hallucination, Arin's hatred of cake, and the pair accidentally writing a Nine Inch Nails song.
- Episode 9 features Danny having WAY too much fun with the Infinidagger. HELLO-O-O!
- Danny talking about Ninja Brian's crazy ex-girlfriend who didn't really get the concept of "alone time." To quote: "I just don't understand why you can't spend your alone time with me."
- Vocal exercises
- Episode 18 opens with Epic Fail for the first 5 minutes.Danny: [out of breath from laughing] We have a video game show that we do for a living!
Petz Horse Club
- Danny demanding (DEMANDING!) upfront a minimum of seven episodes of this game.
- The Grumps have a grand old time with the main character, Lily, narrating about getting invited to a horse reserve by her friend Liam:Arin: "He's invited me over, and his parents aren't home!"Danny: "He's episcopalian though, we're going to have to fuck through a sheet!"Arin: I just love how straightforward she is. "He's invited me over! I can't wait to get fucked!"Arin: She comes over and he's just like "Lemon squares?" and she's like "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
- Liam leaves, and then almost immediately calls Lily to inform her he needs her help.Liam: Oscar's been injured, I managed to follow him up the plateau!Danny: Wh—It's been like eight seconds!Lily: Oscar?Danny: The Grouch!
- "Get up on Altaï."
- "Here's the water. Where the fuck is Altaï?!"
- They meet a man named Grant and in true Grump fashion, make him a murderer.Lily: Grant? What are you doing here?Danny: "Uh...I moved in! ...Oh, this is your house! That's weird!"Arin: There's like a pool of blood growing from out under the house... "Uh...I moved in! I'm redecorating though."laterGrant: She's waiting for you over by the paddock!Arin: "Away from here! Don't mind the chemical smell."Grant: Wait, take these notes. They contain lots of information about all the mustangs on the reserve.Danny: You look at it and it just says "I am the Zodiac Killer."
- Continuing from above, the game gives a very detailed description of where exactly you need to go.Grant: Now get a move on. Sarah's waiting for you at the paddock. Cross over the arch near the well. Go down the slope. And you'll see Sarah and Liam standing in front of the paddock, with the horses behind them.Danny: Oh my god, I get it! I'll follow the arrow! "The horses will be about two feet behind them, splayed at a 35 degree angle."Arin: "The chicken will meander to the left, and then back to the right."
- In Part 2 the game's characters present some questionable ideas about horses' capacity to self-heal.Liam: Even if we have to help them out sometimes, horses can generally cure themselves.
Danny: What, really?
Arin: Yeah.
Lily: They can cure themselves?
Danny: No, that's the stupidest shit I've ever heard! Are you kidding me? What're they-they don't even have hands! The fuck are they gonna-
Arin: Oh look at me, a horse first-aid kit! [weird nasal grunt] I'm just gonna put a horse Band-Aid on it!
Danny: (as Liam) You know, horses can perform minor surgery! Fucking, this dumb broad.
Sarah: They also rely on their incredible healing powers.
Danny: Like Wolverine!
(Arin giggles like a demon-possessed dolphin) - Sarah asks them to find "some of the plant that's found in the woods".
- Danny spends 3 minutes in Episode 2 cleaning the gunk out his horse's hooves.
- After Dan figures out he can move the shampooing glove anywhere on the horse, he heads straight to the nether regions. At the exact same time that the horse yawns.
- The entire conversation with Mr. Haussman, especially Danny and Arin's list of reasons to dislike Carla van Guinness.Lily: But, but she beats her horses, she's arrogant, she's a real pain.
Danny: I don't like her hair, she smells weird, her vag is tight.
Haussman: I know that you've had your differences in the past, and that her training methods are particularly brutal.
Danny: She killed a guy. She likes cheese. She eats all her sandwiches one ingredient at a time.
Arin: She cuts people at Starbucks!
Danny: She hits dogs with other dogs! She eats cats! She juggles hamsters! She tears down houses! She eats Lamborghinis!
Arin: She shits rainbows!
Danny: She'purple! She doesn't like the Smurfs! She swims funny!
Arin: She's not a fan of the fourth Chipmunks movie!
Dark Souls III
- In Episode 2, Danny makes a Double Entendre out of the Homeward Bone item. He then suggests that "Homeward Bone" is the third Homeward Bound film, in which the characters are old enough to mate.
- After reminiscing about the movie, they finally meet Shadow, having come back from the dead. He promptly jumps off a cliff.
- This is the beginning of a Running Gag of Danny making a Double Entendre out of numerous locations and items in the game.
- Also in Part 2, a tangent on George W Bush's infamous axis of evil speech leads to this exchange:Arin: I need to get all my shit back. But I don't wanna deal with that fucking guy, so I'm gonna like sneeeak.
Danny: They form the Axis of Kind of Jerky.
Arin: Kind of jerky? [laughing] That's what you buy at a truck stop.
Danny: Yeah.
Arin: It's Kind of Jerky! [Dan laughs] It's not quite meat. It's mostly preservatives, but it's kinda jerky.
Danny: I'll buy some synthetic marijuana and Kind of Jerky, please. - "Please, pose me in a really cool way when I die!"
- In Episode 5, Arin is getting ready to kill an enemy that's climbing sloooowly up a ladder. As the mook gets close to eye-level, Arin lunges forward...misses by a mile, sends his character flying from the roof and subsequently gets killed from the fall damage.Danny: [cackling] Arin, are you serious? Did you try to do a dramatic anime jump and you fucking died because you shattered both your feet?
- Episode 6 starts with a failure of similar caliber. Arin sneaks on a dog monster down the stairs. He charges a fireball to launch at the monster, only for it to plaster against the door frame right next to him ignite a stack of explosive barrels, and set off a massive explosion in his face, launching him away and taking a lot of damage and alerting the dog monster, who gives chase to Arin, corners him, and mauls him to death.
- Still here? It gets better. Near he end of the episode, Arin fails to kill a transforming enemy in time, which forces him to bail as fast as possible, trying to get past everything getting thrown at him. He barely manages to escape the beast and get on the elevator... only for ANOTHER DOG to appear and push him off the elevator, killing him.
- Episode 7: Ironic hilarity ensues when Arin points out he never finished high school and then can't remember the word 'sophomore'.Danny: I had already completed my 2th year of high school!
Arin: My secondth.
(they both cackle) - After Danny discusses pointless extensions of common sayings, Arin comes up with his own amusing variant.
- WARNING: CRINGEWORTHY PUN AHEAD. CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK.
- Arin's story about organizing the Guest Grumps episode with Steve-O is cool and interesting, but there is one amusing part. The days in which Steve-O could meet were limited, not because of family or job commitments, but because he was going to jail.
- After Steve-O got out of jail, Arin happily greeted him. Unfortunately, he forgot that they never met in person, so he didn't introduce himself. Awkwardness ensues.
- After fleeing a Darkwraith, Arin mistakenly believes that it gave up on chasing him. Not quite.
- "I'm gonna jizz on you, you, you, you, you, yeah!"
- Meet Larry and the column skeletons.
- The Bonewheel Skeletons inspire Bond One-Liners.
- Arin and Danny are comedy professionals.
- In Part 31, Arin and Danny do spot-on impressions of Viserys.
- The Grumps discovered while filming "Stout Train" that their Irish intern Jack switches back and forth between nice and abrasive.Jack (drunk): I love you guys yer my mates but FUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOU.
- In Part 33 the Grumps somewhat oversimplify Ireland-UK relations.Danny: It's just—People are mad at each other. It's been going on for a long, long time. And that's it.
Arin: I think people being mad at each other has been happening since there were two people.
Danny: Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much.
Arin: Just, "You're not me! WHOOAAAA" (they both crack up) - Part 47: Danny discusses the potential uses of clown masks during sex (read: to ruin sex).
- In Part 54, Arin gets invaded by a player and their duel is suddenly interrupted when Danny actually presses a button on Arin's computer that opens the computer's calculator, minimizing the game in the process. Panic ensues.
- After Arin loses the duel, Danny abuses his new power by spawning 11 additional calculators. Unimpressed, Arin opens the tab menu and fishes for Dark Souls among the sea of calculators.
- The Game Grumps Drive-Thru
- In Part 69, they discuss the guy who performed the aboriginal chanting in the song "Return to Innocence" by Enigma, dubbing him "Craig Penderson"note and theorizing that he feels a compulsion to break into the chant whenever he says a word with a long I sound. In the tradition of Crash Man and Emperor Palpatine, it just gets funnier the longer they go with it. The animated version makes it even better.
- The first five minutes of Part 75 are a sight to behold. Arin scales up a tower to perform a plunging attack on an Ancient Wyvern, skillfully killing and evading every enemy on the way up without dying. He finally reaches the top, performs the plunging attack...and misses completely. His character dies from the fall damage.
- As another gaming YouTuber would say, "I don't even have this game."
- Arin teaches a wolf to fly.
- Arin tells an intriguing story about barfing.
- Two Words: "Oh no!"
- For a brief moment, you can see a wolf follow him off the edge of the cliff.
- Episode 89 opens with Arin singing about sucking off a dude. You know, the usual.
- Matt and Ryan give a giant fly some dialogue.
- Sneezy Anus. and his Heel–Face Turn.
Doom
- Danny spends a fair amount of time punching (and shooting) a red lever beside the first locked door... only to discover that the "lever" is a fire extinguisher.
- In Part 1, Danny asks one the skinned corpses hanging from the ceiling for help with the level.Arin: Why won't he answer?!Danny: Oh, the silent type, huh?
- In Part 3, Arin summarizes Doomguy's motivation.Danny: I don't remember the plot of Doom. Did he just unleash demon hell, or some shit?Arin: Oh, yeah, like, a portal to hell opens.Danny: Oh, bummer.Arin: And then one of the demons killed his bunny, and he got really pissed off, so he went and killed all the demons.Danny: His bunny?Danny: Who, the Doom guy, the main Doom guy?Arin: Yeah, the Doom guy.Danny: They killed his bunny?Arin: Yeah.Danny: That's the reason?Arin: Yeah!Danny: ...wow.Arin: You never beat Doom and saw that portrait of him, like, holding up the bunny head◊?noteDanny: No!Arin: Yeah, that's the plot of Doom!
- In Part 4, the Grumps parody the messages from the UAC's holographic man.Arin: Hello. Welcome to Disneyland. If there are monsters walking around, fucking run.Dan: Hello and welcome to Disneyland. Feel free to move to the line to the left and PANIC!
- In Part 5, Arin points out that Danny is getting a lot of Glory Kills.Danny: It's fun. I mean they definitely like, want you to do it, cuz they just made it so easy and fun. (crushes the head of an imp into pudding and gives a childlike giggle) Yay!
Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Fortune
- Arin pretends not to understand relationship boundaries in Part 3:Danny: Hey lovelies, we got a question for you.
Arin: Does it really count as cheating if it’s in the butt. [Dan guffaws] Cuz it's not actually intercourse.
Danny: It kind of is.
Arin: It's like uh, it's like, outercourse?
Danny: It's not outercourse, you're in the—you're in the butt.
Arin: Enhhh...
Danny: Dude, if kissing is cheating I think anal sex probably qualifies.
Arin: [high-pitched voice] Kissing is cheating??
Danny: Yeah.
Arin: Ohhhh shit!
Danny: Some girls consider flirting cheating.
Arin: Whooooaaaaa.
Danny: I know. That's really, that's a really grey area.
Arin: Define "flirting".
Danny: I dunno. Anal sex? [cracks up] - Also from Part 3: Arin plays roulette. He keeps putting his bets on and around 23 Red. Hilarity ensues. Arguably, the best part is at the end where it pays off BIG TIME.Arin: No, I haven't lost, because I haven't quit playing yet.
Dan: Oh yeah, that's healthy.- This becomes even funnier when Arin admits later that he spent all his money on gambling when Danny wasn't around to rein him in. Danny immediately cracks up.
Mad Dog McCree's Gunslinger Pack
- Throughout the series, they take enjoyment out of impersonating the mortician that appears after every death. Each time he appears, they further and further exaggerate his Deadpan Snarker attitude. By the end of the first episode, he either repeats the last thing one of the Grumps said or gives very obvious and useless advice.Arin: That was a different guy, you lied to me!
Dan!Mortician: He lied to you! (Both laugh) - Throughout the series, they make fun of the stilted acting, with them guessing they were "Minnesota Funtime Players".
- They also point out how Nintendo Hard it is and Dan says it was a "quarter-eater" when he'd play it back when it was an arcade game (which isn't helped by the poor hitbox detection).
- Arin's first instinct when the game starts is to shoot the girl who tells him that he should do target practice.
- When they get into the first level, the bank, Arin doesn't realize that he doesn't have any bulletsnote . This results in the following exchange between Arin and the first robber.
- Arin is surprised that one hit kills you. Dan responds "That's what bullets are, Arin."
- After many deaths, Dan points out the jingle that plays for every showdown, and results in Arin scream-singing it.
- In the second episode, one scene in the second game puts the player in front of a boarding house. Arin shoots the first two people at the top of the stairs and they both fall off of them in the same place. A third one appears at the base of the stairs, and Dan brings up how funny it would be if, after you shoot the third guy, he runs up the stairs and jumps off of them just like the first two.
- One of the game-over mortician scenes that they watch is of him hammering a cross into the ground next to (what is presumed to be) the player's grave. They jokingly misinterpret it as him doing it just because he likes the letter T.Arin!Mortician: Ah, my favorite letter...T!
Dan!Mortician: Would you like some tea? It's delicious
Arin!Mortician: I made it with my hat! I'm always brewin' it!
Dan!Mortician: It's Hat-tea. Named after my girlfriend, Hattie May.
Arin!Mortician: She sure could make good tea in a hat.
Dan!Mortician: In May. - After saving Shooting Beaver, one of the scenes begin with a spear flying from offscreen and landing right in front of the player. Dan interprets this as Shooting Beaver accidentally throwing it at them.
- They joke that the Native Americans that are getting killed are family of Shooting Beaver, rather than members of a rival tribe.
Arin!Shooting Beaver: Well, one less cousin at Thanksgiving... - In the third episode, when they begin the third game, they decide to go after Nasty Dan. The way that the first scene in the level goes from 0 to 100 causes them to be taken completely off-guard.
- When raiding Nasty Dan's camp, Arin makes the same mistake of shooting the sheriff twice, using the excuse that the game teaches you to shoot gun wielders.Arin: Everything this game has taught me is to shoot people with guns!
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Arin: He led with the gun! - After viewing the ending scene of Nasty Dan's level where he says "even though I'm captured, I can still be very, very nasty," they think that every other level ends with its antagonist name dropping themselves in the same way, causing them to laugh progressively harder.Arin!Cactus Kid: Just because I'm captured doesn't mean I can't still be a cactus!
Dan!Handsome Harry: Just because I'm Handsome Harry doesn't mean I can't be hairy...
Dan!El Loco: Just because I'm El Loco doesn't mean I can't be a train!
Devil's Third
- The entire playthrough consists of making Ivan into a Memetic Badass (while at the same time a Cloudcuckoolander of the highest order), with hilarious results.Danny!Ivan: There is no living or dead. There is only people who will or won't be bothering Ivan again.
- Every single scene involving Arin and Dan's imitation of the protagonist's Russian accent.
- The Grumps' Alternate Character Interpretation of Ivan in general.
- In Part 3, after a particularly off-kilter cutscene, Dan takes a moment to point out its absurdity.Dan: (suddenly laughs) Ju-what the fuck? They were like "We're flying over Panamanian airspace!" and you're like, "Panama GOT IT!" and just like out the window!
- The stream-of-consciousness discussion of Ivan's favorite things in Part 6.Dan: (after throwing an enemy into a canal lock) Hope you can swim while dead.
Arin: The death stroke. That is fevorite swim technique. Also fevorite DC superhero.
Dan: Deathstroke the Terminator! Also the Terminator is fevorite movie. It all come full circle for Ivan.
Arin: Also movie is fevorite art medium. Also art medium is fevorite way of expressing emotion.
Dan: Also medium is fevorite cooking of steak. (they both crack up) - "No, germs."
- Landing headshots will cause the enemies' brains to pop out of their heads in a goofy fashion.Arin: (imitating Ivan) This man is dead. Bang.
Pokémon FireRed (2016)
- The Grumps finally return to the game after a year of having Dan's friend Mariah level grind for them. Arin however, is shocked to find out instead of leveling up the whole team and focusing on Beedrill, she ONLY leveled up Beedrill. To level 83.
- Danny is quick to remind him that he told her he wanted to be able to beat the entire Elite Four with Beedrill alone.
- At the beginning of Episode 115, Arin and Dan play up the open slot in their party, expecting the Rattata they placed in the Day-Care long ago to have grown considerably stronger. Their reaction when they realize that Rattata has only raised its level by 14 is priceless.
- They still bring Knurttt along to face the Elite Four, because why the hell not at this point? Hell or high water, Knurttt's getting her day in the sun.
- Arin decides to live up to his promise to take on the Elite Four only using Beedrill...and neglects to buy any Full Restores, Full Heals, Revives, or anything that will restore Buntd's moves in-between battles so he can actually do this. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
- And then Buntd faints halfway through Episode 116. Along with Blupl, who Danny identifies as The Heavy of the group. This Is Gonna Suck is in full effect. When Buntd is bodied by Agatha's Golbat Arin starts rapid fire cussing. Danny just reminds Arin that he had JUST told him that he should have healed and now he's screwed.Arin: Uhhhh...should I heal? Cause he has Supersonic...Danny: Yes.Arin: He doesn't have any rocks or anything. I'll go one more attack.Danny: Okay. You just don't want to be surprised and die.*Bundt is immediately knocked out by a critical hit super effective attack.*Arin: WHOOOOOA!!!Danny: What did I just fucking tell you?Arin: WHAT THE FUCKING GODDAMMIT SON OF A BITCH FUCKING ASS! ASS!! ASS!!!Danny: I told you. You're stupid. Now you're fucked.
- And then Buntd faints halfway through Episode 116. Along with Blupl, who Danny identifies as The Heavy of the group. This Is Gonna Suck is in full effect. When Buntd is bodied by Agatha's Golbat Arin starts rapid fire cussing. Danny just reminds Arin that he had JUST told him that he should have healed and now he's screwed.
- In Episode 118, the Grumps finally defeat the Elite Four and get to face their final challenge: Champion Claarff. After a back and forth match, Arin comes down to his last Pokémon, Bundt, who's at half health and is facing Claarff's last Pokémon, Alakazam. Arin decides to use Pursuit against the Psychic Type. While Bundt is faster and manages to land two Pursuits in a row, Alakazam hangs on with a scrap of health and finishes off Bundt with Psychic, unleashing a massive Cluster F-Bomb from Arin. Arin then looks up if he chose the correct attack, and discovers if he had chosen Twineedle, they would've instead been strolling into the Hall of Fame instead of the Hall of Shame.
Inside
- "Is that a child?!" Arin's voice whenever he says it or something like it is absolutely hilarious.
- "Let's go on an butthole sniffin' adventure!! COME OOOOOOOOOOOON!!!"
- "I am a strong, independent nutsack who don't need no balls!"