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It's time for more pointless trivia. This time, I'll be covering the Game Grumps.
At the end of every video after a certain point, a "SUBSCRIBE" button appears at the top of the video. Sometimes, it says something other than "SUBSCRIBE" - for example, at the end of a video featuring an underwater level, it read "SUBMARINE".
Some have accused Arin and Jon of deliberately playing badly in order to be more funny. The Grumps themselves have denied this, stating that people have way too much faith in their abilities, but there is some evidence to support this theory. In the Wind Waker playthrough, Arin is playing really badly, despite all evidence saying he should be playing fine - not only is he deliberately ignoring on-screen button prompts (and then complaining that the game isn't telling him how to do things), the playthrough was filmed while he was working on a Zelda-themed episode of his show Sequelitis, in which he analysed and broke down many mechanics that were reused in Wind Waker. Jon does deliberately screw up while they're playing The Great Cave Offensive on Kirby Super Star, but he reveals in the episode that it's just because he thinks that segment is boring and he wants to move on to Milky Way Wishes.
When Jon left the Game Grumps, there were many rumours surrounding his departure. One of the most prevalent was that he and Arin had had a falling-out and there was even a malicious rumour saying that he had been kicked out because he hurt Suzy, Arin's wife. Arin has denied both of these rumours, confirming that he and Jon are still on good terms, and the reason Jon left was that he felt like he had been neglecting his Normal Boots colleagues and wanted to focus more on his own projects.
A lot of their early game playthroughs were never actually finished. The Grumps explained that the reason for this was that they didn't want to bore people by replaying things they'd already taken care of. Once they got to the Sonic 06 playthrough, they realised they could just do a fast-forward gag to gloss over any gameplay they had to redo, enabling them to actually finish games on-camera.
Despite the series being the longest series on the Game Grumps channel so far, Sonic 06 is not and will never be finished. Jon left the show before it was done, and Danny has confirmed he and Arin will not go back and finish it, with Danny saying it would be wrong to be there at the end of a journey he wasn't a part of.
The official nickname for fans of the Game Grumps is "lovelies", though "Grumplings" and "cumfaggots" have also been used.
They have given their reason for not using a Face Cam, like other famous YouTube gamers such as PewDiePie and Markiplier, as that while they sound funny, they look like just two stereotypical gamers plopped in front of a TV. They only look funny when they have the power of editing or a script. The exceptions to these are their Nintendo Land playthrough, which forced them to use the Game Pad's integrated camera, and their April Fool's Day playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, where they show themselves but not the game footage, keeping with the Game Grumps tradition of having only one thing on screen.
Arin doesn't like calling the channel a Let's Play channel, due to the stigma that term carries amongst some circles. Jon has openly used that term to describe Game Grumps, however.
A running joke in Game Grumps playthroughs is for one of them to ask Barry, their editor, to edit something (usually add, remove or change something). This has even spread to other YouTube Let's Players, such as Markiplier, though Mark himself is a fan of Game Grumps and sometimes records at the Grump Office, and has voiced his desire to be a Grump himself, or at least an honorary one.
According to his panel at Shadocon, Arin's suicide at the end of Rugrats in Paris: The Movie is part of the official Game Grumps canon, and he is a ghost now. Since he's usually only a voice, this is easy enough to pull off, though he appears as his normal mortal self whenever he appears on camera.
Arin and Jon can both apparently speak Japanese. Their level of proficiency is not known, but the ending of Jon's Takeshi's Challenge video has him narrating in correct Japanese, and Arin demonstrates knowledge of some Japanese terms in Did You Know Gaming? videos and other places. It's mentioned in one of the Game Grumps videos that they can both read hiragana and katakana too.
They love Rule 34 fanart of them, and the only complaint they have about it is that it usually portrays them playing on a flat-screen TV when in fact they use a CRT.
Arin originally planned for Game Grumps to be a podcast.
They planned to play Conker's Bad Fur Day, one of Jon's favourite games, while Jon was still on the show, but they never finished the game or uploaded the episodes for two reasons: they thought their commentary was bad, and Jon was starting to realise the game wasn't all that great (despite having included it on several "Best of" lists before that). Arin described the experience as "depressing", saying that Conker's Bad Fur Day was the worst game they had ever played for the show.
They managed to make Goof Troop for the SNES way more popular than it was originally, just by playing it on their show. Just type "Goof Troop" into Google and see what the top result is. Not only that, but many comments on Goof Troop videos on YouTube reference the Game Grumps in some way.
It even did this to Jon himself. While he did have a few fans of his own prior to being on Game Grumps, his popularity really took off after he was featured on the show.
Another popularity boost came during the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Part Four review, where Danny raved enthusiastically about an obscure pirate-themed children's singer called Sharkman Frank, whose album he and Brian discovered by accident on YouTube. At the time they discovered Sharkman Frank, his video had one view - theirs (meaning even the uploader hadn't bothered to watch it). Within ten days of the Game Grumps episode going up, all of Sharkman Frank's videos had bumped up to between 7,000 and 35,000 views.
Arin and Danny are both teetotallers, which is why no Game Grumps episodes are uploaded on St. Patrick's Day (Steam Train episodes, however, are, since Ross and Barry do drink).
At the end of every video after a certain point, a "SUBSCRIBE" button appears at the top of the video. Sometimes, it says something other than "SUBSCRIBE" - for example, at the end of a video featuring an underwater level, it read "SUBMARINE".
Some have accused Arin and Jon of deliberately playing badly in order to be more funny. The Grumps themselves have denied this, stating that people have way too much faith in their abilities, but there is some evidence to support this theory. In the Wind Waker playthrough, Arin is playing really badly, despite all evidence saying he should be playing fine - not only is he deliberately ignoring on-screen button prompts (and then complaining that the game isn't telling him how to do things), the playthrough was filmed while he was working on a Zelda-themed episode of his show Sequelitis, in which he analysed and broke down many mechanics that were reused in Wind Waker. Jon does deliberately screw up while they're playing The Great Cave Offensive on Kirby Super Star, but he reveals in the episode that it's just because he thinks that segment is boring and he wants to move on to Milky Way Wishes.
When Jon left the Game Grumps, there were many rumours surrounding his departure. One of the most prevalent was that he and Arin had had a falling-out and there was even a malicious rumour saying that he had been kicked out because he hurt Suzy, Arin's wife. Arin has denied both of these rumours, confirming that he and Jon are still on good terms, and the reason Jon left was that he felt like he had been neglecting his Normal Boots colleagues and wanted to focus more on his own projects.
A lot of their early game playthroughs were never actually finished. The Grumps explained that the reason for this was that they didn't want to bore people by replaying things they'd already taken care of. Once they got to the Sonic 06 playthrough, they realised they could just do a fast-forward gag to gloss over any gameplay they had to redo, enabling them to actually finish games on-camera.
Despite the series being the longest series on the Game Grumps channel so far, Sonic 06 is not and will never be finished. Jon left the show before it was done, and Danny has confirmed he and Arin will not go back and finish it, with Danny saying it would be wrong to be there at the end of a journey he wasn't a part of.
The official nickname for fans of the Game Grumps is "lovelies", though "Grumplings" and "cumfaggots" have also been used.
They have given their reason for not using a Face Cam, like other famous YouTube gamers such as PewDiePie and Markiplier, as that while they sound funny, they look like just two stereotypical gamers plopped in front of a TV. They only look funny when they have the power of editing or a script. The exceptions to these are their Nintendo Land playthrough, which forced them to use the Game Pad's integrated camera, and their April Fool's Day playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, where they show themselves but not the game footage, keeping with the Game Grumps tradition of having only one thing on screen.
Arin doesn't like calling the channel a Let's Play channel, due to the stigma that term carries amongst some circles. Jon has openly used that term to describe Game Grumps, however.
A running joke in Game Grumps playthroughs is for one of them to ask Barry, their editor, to edit something (usually add, remove or change something). This has even spread to other YouTube Let's Players, such as Markiplier, though Mark himself is a fan of Game Grumps and sometimes records at the Grump Office, and has voiced his desire to be a Grump himself, or at least an honorary one.
According to his panel at Shadocon, Arin's suicide at the end of Rugrats in Paris: The Movie is part of the official Game Grumps canon, and he is a ghost now. Since he's usually only a voice, this is easy enough to pull off, though he appears as his normal mortal self whenever he appears on camera.
Arin and Jon can both apparently speak Japanese. Their level of proficiency is not known, but the ending of Jon's Takeshi's Challenge video has him narrating in correct Japanese, and Arin demonstrates knowledge of some Japanese terms in Did You Know Gaming? videos and other places. It's mentioned in one of the Game Grumps videos that they can both read hiragana and katakana too.
They love Rule 34 fanart of them, and the only complaint they have about it is that it usually portrays them playing on a flat-screen TV when in fact they use a CRT.
Arin originally planned for Game Grumps to be a podcast.
They planned to play Conker's Bad Fur Day, one of Jon's favourite games, while Jon was still on the show, but they never finished the game or uploaded the episodes for two reasons: they thought their commentary was bad, and Jon was starting to realise the game wasn't all that great (despite having included it on several "Best of" lists before that). Arin described the experience as "depressing", saying that Conker's Bad Fur Day was the worst game they had ever played for the show.
They managed to make Goof Troop for the SNES way more popular than it was originally, just by playing it on their show. Just type "Goof Troop" into Google and see what the top result is. Not only that, but many comments on Goof Troop videos on YouTube reference the Game Grumps in some way.
It even did this to Jon himself. While he did have a few fans of his own prior to being on Game Grumps, his popularity really took off after he was featured on the show.
Another popularity boost came during the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Part Four review, where Danny raved enthusiastically about an obscure pirate-themed children's singer called Sharkman Frank, whose album he and Brian discovered by accident on YouTube. At the time they discovered Sharkman Frank, his video had one view - theirs (meaning even the uploader hadn't bothered to watch it). Within ten days of the Game Grumps episode going up, all of Sharkman Frank's videos had bumped up to between 7,000 and 35,000 views.
Arin and Danny are both teetotallers, which is why no Game Grumps episodes are uploaded on St. Patrick's Day (Steam Train episodes, however, are, since Ross and Barry do drink).
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