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GameGrumps
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Created By:	Game Grumps
Associated Channel(s):	Egoraptor (Arin's Channel); RubberNinja (Ross' Channel); Ninja Sex Party (Danny's Channel); JonTron (Jon's Channel); Mortem3r (Suzy's Channel)
Creation Date:	July 10, 2012
Other Names:	Game Grumps
Video List:	Video List:GameGrumps

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GameGrumps, more commonly known as Game Grumps, is a video game playthrough channel that features videos that contain anywhere from two to four people playing a game.

About

The most famous and oldest series is Game Grumps, where Arin Hanson and Daniel Avidan, formerly Jon Jafari, play console games.

The second series is Game Grumps VS

The third series is Steam Train, where Ross O'Donovan or Avidan plays PC games with any one or more than one of the following: Hanson, Avidan, Barry Kramer, Suzy Berhow. Berhow has never appeared in a two player Steam Train.

The fourth series is Steam Rolled, where four of the Game Grumps play video games.

The fifth series is Table Flip, where Kramer and Berhow play non-video games with guests.

History

The Game Grumps began as a result of an argument between Hanson and Jafari. They were playing Super Smash Brothers Brawl with friends and had an intense debate about whether the characters Wolf and Fox were clones or not. When someone complained that the two should stop being so grumpy over the game, Hanson suggested he make a podcast called, "Game Grumps", and the idea evolved into the creation of the channel.

The channel was created on July 10, 2012, and the first video was uploaded on July 18. Since beginning the channel, the channel has accumulated a huge fan following from Egoraptor fans, JonTron fans, and gamers in general. The Game Grumps play games and commentate them in the same vein as a "Let's Play" channel, though they usually insist they aren't a Let's Play channel (there has been at least one occasion where Jafari refers to GameGrumps as a Let's Play channel). Given the fact that the Grumps do not complete most games they begin, this holds true. The Grumps discuss various topics, usually revolving around the game they are playing, game design, their channels, social lives, and pop culture. Currently, the channel has over 1,750,000 subscribers and over 750,000,000 total video views.

Early in Game Grumps, Jafari and Hanson generally played games that one had played before, and wanted to share with the other, such as Jafari's Banjo Kazooie, and Hanson's Mega Man 7, or both had played and enjoyed, such as Kirby Super Star. In September 2012, the Game Grumps began receiving games in their PO Box from fans, and even more as time went on. Their variety of games became more diverse, and the amount of time spent playing each game generally decreased; many games played were only one-offs, or series only lasting about three episodes.

Since the beginning of GameGrumps, the channel has had a strong and creative fanbase. Their fans have made a lot of Game Grumps-related content. Game Grumps fans have made a lot of fanart for the Grumps. The fanart is generally either an illustration of a moment from an episode, or simply drawings of Jafari and Hanson. The fans have also made a notable amount of Rule 34 fanart of the Grumps, which they have acknowledged. Some fanart has been posted on the Game Grumps Facebook page. Another form of fan content is remixes. The remixes are generally created by editing audio from Game Grumps episodes. The first notable example of a fan remix is Waterflame's pause balls remix, which was mentioned and sung in an episode of Game Grumps. Fanmade Game Grumps Animated have become a very common creation among fans. These animations show parts of the Game Grumps' playthrough, generally either placing Hanson and Jafari inside the video game, or showing them on their couch playing the game. These animations were done even before Hanson had made some for the Game Grumps channel, although they became more common afterwards.

When Game Grumps began, Jafari edited the videos, and he and Hanson shared management of the GameGrumps channel. Late in September 2012, Kramer took over the role of editor of GameGrumps, as well as every role besides the actual recording, including uploading videos and managing playlists. This was done to allow Jafari and Hanson to focus more on their main channels. Kramer copied Jafari's style of editing to keep his role a secret, in fear that fans would not feel comfortable with somebody else editing the videos. Fortunately, fans responded positively to Kramer, and he has become as popular as Jafari and Hanson.

In January 2013, the Game Grumps attended their first convention together, MAGFest 11 (Hanson had gone to conventions before, without Jafari). They held their first Game Grumps panel, where they answered many questions about the show and announced many upcoming events.

Shortly after MAGFest, the Game Grumps had their first guest star on the show, Grant Kirkhope, a composer for many Rareware games, in a new series called Guest Grumps. The episode was released on March 25, 2013.

On June 25, 2013, it was announced that Jafari was leaving the show, and that Avidan of Ninja Sex Party was taking his place. On the same day, the Game Grumps channel received a spin-off show, Steam Train, starring Avidan and O'Donovan.

The original trailer for Steam Train was uploaded (but taken down shortly after) on RubberRoss.^{[Citation Needed]} In this trailer, it was revealed that Avidan was originally only supposed to appear on Steam Train with O'Donovan, while Hanson and Jafari continued Game Grumps. However, when Jafari left the channel, Danny was asked to fill in as the new Not-So Grump. Jafari stated on his own channel that he left to concentrate on his main channel as his video schedule was very slow during his time on GameGrumps. Jafari has confirmed several times that he will not be returning to GameGrumps.

On August 23, 2013, Steam Rolled was launched. Originally a competitive version of Steam Train, similar to Game Grumps VS, the first episode featured Quake III Arena, with Hanson, Avidan, O'Donovan and Kramer as players. Suzy Berhow also joined Steam Rolled shortly after this episode, replacing Avidan, on August 26, playing Mario Party 4.

On October 25, 2013, a temporary Halloween themed Game Grumps and Steam Train series called, "Ghoul Grumps" and "Scream Train" began. This saw the beginning of several holiday-themed spin-off shows. On December 22, 2013, another spin-off series was aired; Jingle Grumps and Steam Sleigh. There has been similar spin-off series on Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day, suggesting that there will be other holiday-themed series as well.

In January 2014, the Game Grumps attended MAGFest 12. Hanson, who had previously expressed uncertainty about another convention, hosted a Game Grumps panel with Avidan. There was also a Ninja Sex Party/Steam Train panel with Avidan, O'Donovan, Kramer, Berhow and Ninja Brian.

On February 7, 2014, Table Flip (which was previously hosted on the Polaris website) began on the Game Grumps channel. Table Flip is a series featuring Kramer and Berhow playing board and card games. With every game they play, they have several guests with them, such as the other Grumps, Mark Fischbach of Markiplier, Jordan Maron of CaptainSparklez and Michael Barryte of Belated Media.

Series

Game Grumps

Main article: Game Grumps (series)

Game Grumps is a series of videos where Hanson and Avidan, formerly Jafari, play video games on consoles. The consoles are both old and modern consoles from all of the companies, mostly Nintendo.

Ghoul Grumps

Ghoul Grumps is the Halloween version of Game Grumps that occurs the last week of October. It was started in 2013 and has continued since.

During this week the Avidan and Hanson play Scary or Halloween-based games.

For these videos, their nicknames are changed to: Frankenraptor for Hanson and BLEHnny for Avidan.

Each of these videos contains a different message that has been reversed. Backwards these messages are:

"The color purple makes me horny. No joke.", said by Hanson in Silent Hill: Play Novel - Game Grumps.
"I said, 'you are smelly', backwards.", said by Hanson in Luigi's Mansion: Goofy Ghosts - PART 7 - Game Grumps. It is then proceeded by Hanson clearly saying "You are smelly" when the audio is not reversed.
"The best class in Dunces and Dragons is Cleric.", said by Avidan in Alien 3: Aliens Exist - PART 2 - Game Grumps.
"Butts said backwards is 'tubs'.", said by Avidan in Luigi's Mansion: Bamboozled - PART 6 - Game Grumps
"Looking at horns makes me purple. Seriously.", said by Avisan in Alien 3: Life and Gun - PART 1 - Game Grumps.
"My father wanted to name me Roger.", said by Hanson in Luigi's Mansion: Ghost in the Sack - PART 5 - Game Grumps.
"Game Grumps fun fact: I actually have peed in Dan's tea.", said by Hanson and then Avidan's response is "What?", in Werewolf: The Last Warrior - Game Grumps.
"Four score and seven years ago, in order to form a better union, our forefathers touched my take", said by Avidan in Luigi's Mansion: Can't Be Tamed - PART 4 - Game Grumps
"He's a real cool, real cool, radical rex. He's a real cool radical rex. Radical rex.", said by Hanson in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase: Shaggy Time! - PART 3 - Game Grumps
"Everything sounds scary when its backwards. [grunt noise]", said by Avidan in Luigi's Mansion: Droppin' Pearls - PART 3 - Game Grumps
"No mayonnaise please. I am allergic to white people!", said by Hanson in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase: Horrible Ninjas - PART 2 - Game Grumps.
Avidan sings the Barry Song backwards in Luigi's Mansion: Clear the Room! - PART 2 - Game Grumps.
"My favorite color is potato.", said by Avidan in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase: Air Burgers - PART 1 - Game Grumps.
"One, two, three, I'v gotta go pee.", said by Hanson in Luigi's Mansion: Give Me a Sign! - PART 1 - Game Grumps.
"God dammit Ross.", said by either Hanson or Avidan in Castlevania Dracula X: Cities on Flame - PART 1 - Game Grumps. At this time, it is unknown which it is because they also used a voice modification to change the voice. It is most likely Avidan because this is his catchphrase.
"Get outta here.", said by Avian using a stereotypical mob boss accent in Castlevania Dracula X: EXtreme EXcitement - PART 2 - Game Grumps.
"I wish I could go back to pooping regularly.", said by Hanson in Castlevania Dracula X: I Believe in You - PART 3 - Game Grumps.
"Oh. Hey. How's it going?", said by Avidan in Castlevania Dracula X: Wall of Spear - PART 5 - Game Grumps.
"And we're the Grumps." said by Hanson, Avidan responded with "Nailed it.", in Castlevania Dracula X: Where's the Wolf - PART 6 - Game Grumps.
"This is what a fart sounds like backwards. [Makes fart noise]", said by Avidan in Castlevania Dracula X: Finale - PART 7 - Game Grumps.
"I'm into some weird butt stuff.", said by Avidan in Maniac Mansion: Slinking in the Kitchen - PART 1 - Game Grumps.
"Mike Aruba. Dunna nunna nunna.", said by either Hanson or Avidan in Maniac Mansion: Tentacle Trouble - PART 2 - Game Grumps. At this time, it is unknown which it is because they also used a voice modification to change the voice.
"Do you guys like football. I kinda like football.", said by either Hanson or Avidan in Maniac Mansion: New Kid - PART 3 - Game Grumps. At this time, it is unknown which it is because they also used a voice modification to change the voice.
"Barry says the things I am saying are getting too long. Do you think so? Like, comment, and subscribe.", said by either Hanson or Avidan in Maniac Mansion: Special Delivery - PART 4 - Game Grumps. At this time, it is unknown which it is because they also used a voice modification to change the voice. It is most likely Hanson, as he says this more often than Avidan does on the show.
"Angie was the best ghost of Batman."^{[Citation Needed]}, said by either Hanson or Avidan, the other then replies, "No, he wasn't.", in Maniac Mansion: Finale - PART 5 - Game Grumps. At this time, it is unknown which it is because they also used a voice modification to change the voice.
"Bananas are Delicious", said by either Avidan or Hanson in Goosebumps HorrorLand - Game Grumps. At this time, it is unknown which it is because they also used a voice modification to change the voice.
"I'll take my pants suit salmon medium-well.", said by Avidan in Castlevania Dracula X: This is Boss - PART 4 - Game Grumps.

There is one in The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt - Game Grumps, but it needs to be deciphered. If you can, please help decipher it and confirm the ones that need citations above.

Jingle Grumps

Jingle Grumps is the Christmas version of Game Grumps that occurs the week of Christmas. It started in 2013 and has been going ever since.

In this week, Hanson and Avidan play winter or Christmas-themed games.

For these videos, their nicknames are changed to: Egowrapper for Hanson and Dan-ta Claus for Avidan.