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List of Game Grumps serials

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Created by
  
Arin Hanson

No. of seasons
  
2

Original language(s)
  
English

No. of episodes
  
9

Genre
  
Let's Play Improv comedy

Presented by
  
Ross O'Donovan Arin Hanson Barry Kramer Suzy Berhow Leigh Daniel Avidan

Game Grumps is an American Let's Play webseries created by American comedians and Internet personalities Arin Hanson and Jon Jafari. The show premiered on video hosting service YouTube on July 18, 2012. Game Grumps features the hosts playing console-based video games, with series of gameplay being serialized across an episode-a-day basis in 2 hour intervals, the first one at 10:00 AM, the second at 12:00 PM, and the third at 2:00 PM (all times in the Pacific Time Zone). Episodes on average last approximately 10–15 minutes, with some episodes lasting 20–60 minutes on special occasions.

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The show has, as of September 2016, produced 181 serials, 134 "one-off" episodes, and 2,694 total episodes, spread across two distinguishable series; the first series, featuring hosts Hanson and Jafari, lasted from July 2012 to June 2013, and produced 61 serials and 32 "one-offs". The second series, featuring hosts Hanson and Dan Avidan, premiered in June 2013, and as of September 2016, has produced 120 serials and 102 "one-offs".

Season 1 (Arin and Jon)

Game Grumps originally premiered in July 2012, hosted by show creators Hanson and Jafari. Jafari co-hosted the show with Hanson until his departure from the show in June 2013. His last episode aired on June 24, 2013, under a year after the show first aired. The series spanned 61 serials of gameplay, with 32 "one-offs" lasting a single episode. Episodes were released in a daily format. Occasionally, two or three episodes were uploaded on a particular day.

Season 2 (Arin and Danny)

Co-creator and original host Jafari officially left the show on June 25, 2013. He was replaced by Dan Avidan, of the American comedy group Ninja Sex Party. Avidan's tenure on the show immediately started on June 25. As of February 14, 2017, 141 serials of gameplay, plus 111 "one-off" episodes, have been released with Avidan. Episodes are released in a two-episodes-a-day format, with a third slot reserved for episodes of Steam Train or Grumpcade. As of January 6, 2017, the "middle slot" videos (12:00 PST) have been temporarily postponed in order to focus on new projects.

Game Grumps VS

Game Grumps VS is an American Let's Play webseries created by American comedians and Internet personalites Arin Hanson and Jon Jafari. The show, a spin-off of Game Grumps, also created by Hanson and Jafari, follows a similar format to Game Grumps, where the hosts play console-based video games, however, games played on Game Grumps VS are competitor-based, with the hosts of the show battling each other in various video game formats, such as puzzle games, fighting games, racing games, party games, sports games and many others. Game Grumps VS originally premiered on YouTube on August 22, 2012, over a month after the premiere of Game Grumps. Unlike Game Grumps, however, the show is not aired on a consistent basis, with episodes being released on occasions and series of gameplay being serialized across a daily basis for the length of the serial.

The show closely relates to Game Grumps, with hosts being shared across shows. Hanson and Jafari, hosts of Game Grumps from July 2012 to June 2013, also hosted the show from August 22, 2012 with the Super Smash Bros. Brawl serial to June 23, 2013 with the World Driver Championship episode. After Jafari left Game Grumps in June 2013, the show returned with new Game Grumps host Dan Avidan, with Hollywood Squares on July 15, 2013. The show, as of March 2016, has produced 52 serials and 55 "one-off" episodes. Hanson and Jafari hosted and produced 18 serials and 28 "one-offs" from August 2012 to June 2013, whereas Hanson and Avidan have produced 34 serials and 27 "one-offs."

Guest Grumps

Guest Grumps is a spin-off of Game Grumps, in which each episode features a special guest star playing and commentating alongside the hosts. The series launched in March 2013, and went on hiatus until April 2016. Jafari has only been featured on the first episode, due to his departure from the Game Grumps channel in June 2013.

The show follows a different format to Game Grumps, in that the hosts and their guest may play, and commentate over, a number of games in a single episode. The hosts make very little progress in each game, instead focusing more on conversing with and interviewing the guest. Guests have included Grant Kirkhope and Steve-O, in addition to talks of inviting "Weird Al" Yankovic and Chris Pratt.

Game Grumps Animated

Game Grumps Animated is a series of content-related animations uploaded to the Game Grumps channel. It consists of animations of notable scenes from various Game Grumps playthrough episodes. Though Hanson initially animated the shorts, fan animators have been recruited to create official animations for the channel. Animator linzb0t animated episodes 36 and 37 of the show's Pokémon FireRed serial, due to lost footage.

Animations were produced consistently for the channel during its first year. After Jafari's departure from the channel, animations became much less frequent, with "Sad Hoshi" being the only official animation created during Avidan's first year on the channel. The show began receiving new weekly animations in December 2014, with guest animators frequently providing their work. Steam Train animations were introduced to the channel on December 25, 2014 with "Dinkles the Buff Nerd". Grumpcade animations made their debut on March 12, 2015 with "Patti's Mayonaise." Animations are now scheduled to upload every Thursday.

Hunting Monsters

Hunting Monsters is an American Let's Play webseries created jointly by the Game Grumps and Polaris. The show is a Game Grumps spin-off series featuring Arin Hanson, Ross O'Donovan, Barry Kramer and Suzy Berhow providing live commentary while playing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for Wii U. The second season revolves around Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for 3DS. Avidan narrates introductory segments. The first season spanned five 13-15 minute episodes, and began on October 22, 2013 and ended on December 4, 2013, with episode 1 being uploaded to both YouTube and the Polaris website, and episodes 2-5 being uploaded to the Polaris YouTube channel only. Episodes are titled according to the monster targeted and defeated during each session.

Steam Train

Steam Train and Steam Rolled are American Let's Play webseries created by comedians and Internet personalities Ross O'Donovan, Arin Hanson, and Leigh Daniel Avidan. Steam Train, a spin-off of its sister series Game Grumps, follows a similar format to Game Grumps, featuring similar content, but exclusively plays PC games, and was originally hosted by either Avidan and O'Donovan, Hanson and O'Donovan, or all three hosts at once, but since Season 2, the show can be hosted by any combination of hosts (almost always featuring O'Donovan). The show's name references popular online game retailer Steam, through which most of the games are played. Steam Rolled is similar to Game Grumps VS, where all hosts of the show battle each other in various video game formats; however, all series hosts other than Avidan are present, as well as series editor Barry Kramer and wife of Hanson, Suzy Berhow, along with occasional guest hosts. Steam Train and Steam Rolled, as of April 2016, have respectively produced 97 serials and 81 "one-off" episodes and 7 serials and 11 "one-off" episodes.

Season 2 (Ross and Guests)

Because of Avidan's frequent absence during the first season of Steam Train, the intro was changed to show only O'Donovan's name, thus making him the only consistent host in the series. Also, the theme was changed from “we bought too many games” (implying both O'Donovan and Avidan) to “he bought too many games” (only implying O'Donovan). However, this does not mean that Avidan has left; instead, becoming a recurring member of the series.

Steam Rolled

Steam Rolled is an American Let's Play webseries created by comedians and Internet personalities Ross O'Donovan, Arin Hanson, and Leigh Daniel Avidan. It was originally conceptualized as a show where any combination of four hosts participate in a multiplayer PC game. It debuted on August 23, 2013, with Quake III Arena, marking editor Barry Kramer's first appearance as a full-time host on the show. Starting with the Mario Party 4 playthrough, the show expanded to include console games, as well as introducing Suzy Berhow as an additional host.

Steam Rolled has been used twice for paid promotions. The hosts played Rayman Legends as part of a tournament for Polaris, featuring the game's multiplayer mini-game, "Kung Foot," and later showcased Guns of Icarus Online with other YouTubers, including Angry Joe, Markiplier, and TotalBiscuit.

Grumpcade

Grumpcade is an American Let's Play webseries created by comedians and Internet personalities Arin Hanson and Leigh Daniel Avidan. The series focuses on any combination of the cast playing console-based games with each other, with the exception being Avidan and Hanson. This format also allows guests to appear on the show without having a Guest Grumps episode devoted to them.

Guild Grumps

Guild Grumps is an American Let's Play webseries created by comedian and animator Ross O'Donovan. The series revolved solely around the game World of Warcraft; specifically, its Warlords of Draenor expansion. It was announced at MAGFest 13, and first aired on June 8, 2015.

The 5-episode series featured Hanson, Avidan, Kramer, and Berhow playing World of Warcraft, while O'Donovan attempted to teach them the mechanics of the game. The aim of the show had been to reach the game's level cap (advancing from Level 90 to Level 100) in 5 days. Players that reached the goal were to donate $1,000 to a charity of their choice. Those that didn't would split their donation in half, and evenly distribute it to the winners. Berhow and Avidan forfeit their positions after the third episode, being replaced by Holly Conrad and Jesse Cox, respectively. The series satirizes reality television, with live-action segments and interviews with the hosts, as they detail their experiences with the game.

In the end, O'Donovan was the sole winner, and, combined with the participants' distributed funds, donated $5,000 to cancer research.

Table Flip

Table Flip is an American game show webseries created by Internet personality Suzy Berhow. The show is hosted by Berhow and Barry Kramer of Game Grumps. The show, the second spin-off of Game Grumps, premiered on gaming community Polaris on December 14, 2013. It features the hosts, along with special guests of internet culture, playing against each other in various tabletop games, such as card games, board games and tile-based games.

Table Flip is presented in a Victorian and 19th-century American setting. The set is decorated with 19th-century wardrobes, lamps, wallpaper, curtains and candlelights as a backdrop to a Victorian dinner table, with the cast of the show decorated with 19th-century clothing as well. Originally, the show would've been a standard show revolving around tabletop games without a particular setting of any kind other than a simple game show. The idea of the setting was a result of a miscommunication between Game Grumps and show producers Polaris. After Suzy pitched the idea to her husband, Arin, using Victorian times as a metaphor for the rotation of guest stars on the show, he mistakenly pitched the idea to Polaris as a show with a literal Victorian setting. Polaris then prepared and imported a 19th-century theme to the show, to Suzy and Barry's surprise. Amused by the idea, however, Suzy and Barry chose to do the show with a Victorian setting anyway. In a Reddit AMA session on December 19, 2013, Suzy stated:

"When I originally pitched the idea of Table Flip to Arin, I told him that I basically wanted to do a board game show with Barry, but we would have a revolving cast, [similar to] a Victorian dinner show ... in Victorian times, people had to bring guests over to their house each night to evoke different kinds of dinner conversations, so they would never be bored, [because] they never had TV or movies, back then ... Arin pitched the idea to Polaris, and they actually took it literally that we wanted to do it in Victorian times."

Table Flip is the first Game Grumps show to be professionally produced; both Game Grumps and Steam Train make use of simple recording and set-up with little editing involved. Produced by Polaris, the show is shot with seven cameras, and is edited heavily in post-production. Despite this, however, the show itself is improvised, much like its sister Game Grumps shows.

Serials of Table Flip were aired on the gaming community Polaris every other Saturday, until Game Grumps departed from the network. They are released in sets of three episodes, with each lasting from 15 to 20 minutes in length and the entire set lasting from 45 to 60 minutes in total. Episodes were initially aired on Polaris, and later aired on YouTube through the Game Grumps channel. The show officially ended on the 12th of October, 2016 with 31 produced serials.

On February 14, 2016, Berhow revealed on Instagram that Table Flip was coming to a close. Although she clarified that there would still be episodes released throughout the year, she later mentioned on Twitter that there would be no new episodes produced once the show had run its course, as the show is co-owned by Polaris.

Doodle Doods

Doodle Doods is an American animation webseries created by comedians and Internet personalities Arin Hanson and Ross O'Donovan. The series focuses on Hanson and O'Donovan doodling while hosting other animators as guests.

References

List of Game Grumps serials Wikipedia