50 Fun Facts About Game Grumps

Which Nintendo platformer did Arin Hanson and Jon Jafari play in the first Game Grumps video, uploaded in July 2012?

Kirby Super Star opened the channel on July 18, 2012, eight days after Arin Hanson and Jon Jafari created it.

Dan Avidan was already the singer of which comedy rock duo when he joined Game Grumps as co-host in 2013?

Ninja Sex Party formed in New York City in 2009, pairing Avidan with keyboardist Brian Wecht. Wecht later followed him onto the channel.

Brian Wecht gave up which academic career in 2015 to join Game Grumps and focus on music with Dan Avidan?

Physicist Brian Wecht researched string theory and held posts at Harvard and MIT before retiring from academia in 2015.

Before it became a Let's Play video series, Game Grumps was first conceived by Arin Hanson as what?

A podcast was Hanson's plan after a friend pointed out how grumpy he and Jon Jafari got with each other over video games. It launched as a video series instead.

Which fast-food chain did Ross O'Donovan call out in 2020 for using Twitch donation messages on his stream as adverts?

Burger King and ad agency Ogilvy donated small sums on Twitch so that streams would broadcast unsolicited adverts. O'Donovan's criticism was reported by the BBC, Kotaku and PC Gamer.

Which Hollywood actress appeared as a Guest Grump on Game Grumps alongside her daughter, Ruby?

Jamie Lee Curtis and Ruby joined a Guest Grumps roster that also features Steve-O, Finn Wolfhard and Weird Al Yankovic.

In which Nintendo title did Ross O'Donovan spend five years building custom levels for the Game Grumps hosts to play?

Super Mario Maker made O'Donovan the channel's credited level producer from 2015 to 2020, the year he left on good terms to make his own content.

Arin Hanson fought Harley Morenstein of Epic Meal Time in which sport at the 2022 charity event Creator Clash?

Boxing brought Hanson a second-round TKO loss to Morenstein in Tampa, but he returned in 2023 and stopped Jarvis Johnson in round two.

Animator Ross O'Donovan, born to Irish Catholic parents, grew up in which country before joining the Game Grumps crew?

Australia is home: O'Donovan was born in Perth and studied animation in Fremantle before making his name with web cartoons.

Dream Daddy, the dad dating simulator from Game Grumps, was originally planned to launch in time for which holiday?

Father's Day 2017 was the target after roughly nine months of work, but that proved too tight and the release slipped to July 20.

Under which online alias did Arin Hanson build a following as a Flash animator before co-founding Game Grumps?

Egoraptor is the handle Hanson registered in 2001 as a teenager, and it remains the name of his personal channel.

Which Game Grumps spin-off, announced the day Jon Jafari left, was first hosted by Dan Avidan and Ross O'Donovan?

Steam Train took its name from the PC store Steam, and it lifted the channel's output to three videos a day.

In the charity miniseries Guild Grumps, the hosts raced from level 90 to 100 in which online role-playing title?

World of Warcraft was the race track: each host staked $1,000 for a charity of their choice, to be paid if they reached level 100 within the five days.

The esports comedy Good Game, starring Arin Hanson and Dan Avidan, premiered in 2017 on which subscription service?

YouTube Red ordered the six-episode comedy, executive produced by Dan Harmon, then cancelled it after one season over low viewership.

Which gaming YouTuber guested on the Game Grumps show Grumpcade and has appeared in Starbomb music videos?

Markiplier played alongside the hosts on Grumpcade, and Arin Hanson later returned the favour as an alien in A Heist with Markiplier.

On which Flash animation portal did Arin Hanson post the video game parody cartoons that first made his name?

Newgrounds signed Hanson up in 2001, and future colleagues Ross O'Donovan and Jon Jafari posted their own early animations there too.

Arin Hanson voiced a cyborg photographer in a wedding-themed episode of which Adult Swim animated series?

Rick and Morty cast him in The Wedding Squanchers, one of many voice credits that also include Dragon Age: Inquisition and Cyanide & Happiness.

In the parody trio Starbomb, Dan Avidan sings and Brian Wecht plays instruments, so what does Arin Hanson do?

Hanson raps and supplies the video game humour, while Avidan and Wecht bring the musical style of their own duo.

Which Nintendo character did Rachel Bloom voice in the music video for the Starbomb song Luigi's Ballad?

Princess Peach got Bloom's voice in a video for the trio's self-titled 2013 debut, an album that topped Billboard's comedy chart.

Barry Kramer joined Game Grumps in September 2012, two months after launch, in which behind-the-scenes role?

Editor Barry Kramer went on to co-host spin-offs of his own before leaving in December 2017 to focus on his own pursuits.

What kind of animal is Jacques, the robot-voiced sidekick in the solo reviews of Game Grumps co-founder Jon Jafari?

A parakeet of the green-cheeked kind, Jacques talks in a robotic voice while his eyes glow red.

Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht made their live television debut as a band in 2018 on which late-night talk show?

Conan had the duo play a cleaned-up version of one of their songs on September 17, 2018, with their costumed backing band behind them.

What is the defining trait of the masked stage character that Brian Wecht plays in his comedy duo with Dan Avidan?

He never speaks: Wecht's character is non-verbal and homicidal, and he once sat through an entire hot-pepper review staring silently at the camera.

An argument over whether Wolf was too similar to Fox in which fighting title sparked the idea for Game Grumps?

Super Smash Bros. Brawl set Arin Hanson and Jon Jafari bickering over the two characters' fighting styles, the kind of grumpy squabble the channel was built on.

On which Game Grumps spin-off did hosts Barry Kramer and Suzy Berhow wear Victorian-era dress?

Table Flip was professionally produced by Polaris with seven cameras, and it ran from December 2013 until October 2016. The pair played board and card games in costume.

Which live-action Game Grumps series has Arin Hanson and Dan Avidan tackle toys, children's games and food challenges?

10 Minute Power Hour usually springs its tasks on the pair without warning, and its food episodes tend to end with an uncomfortable amount eaten.

Matt Watson and Ryan Magee, who replaced Barry Kramer at Game Grumps, perform together as which comedy duo?

SuperMega's pair worked on the channel from 2016 to 2019 while building a following of their own.

Which costumed Canadian funk-rock band became the live backing band for Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht in 2015?

TWRP perform in full costume with their real names kept secret, and they have opened for and backed the duo on stage and in the studio.

The first cartoon in Arin Hanson's Awesome series of video game parodies spoofed which stealth-action franchise?

Metal Gear Awesome landed in February 2006 and caught the eye of television producers, who asked Hanson to animate shorts for a gaming programme.

Which Arin Hanson series of animated video essays covered Castlevania, Mega Man and The Legend of Zelda?

Sequelitis mixes criticism with cartoon gags, and Hanson released its fourth and final episode in 2014. Each episode weighs a classic game against a sequel.

Dan Avidan of Game Grumps was born and raised in a town called Springfield in which US state?

New Jersey is where Avidan graduated from Jonathan Dayton High School in 1997, before leaving to study advertising at Boston University.

Arin Hanson voiced the Snaggleback and the Titan, among other characters, in which Disney animated series?

The Owl House kept Hanson busy with a recurring run of creature voices between 2020 and 2023.

Dan Avidan sang the theme song and Arin Hanson voiced Gateaux on which Cartoon Network animated series?

Mighty Magiswords creator Kyle Carrozza first approached Hanson to design characters, and cast him only after learning he was a union voice actor.

Soviet Jump Game, the second title published by Game Grumps and released free in 2020, belongs to which genre?

Battle royale play was dressed up as a lost retro find: Arin Hanson pretended to discover it on an old console a day before the reveal.

Which psychological horror title, published by Rogue Games in 2023, was the third video game from Game Grumps?

Homebody arrived on June 1, 2023, nearly six years after Arin Hanson first declared the channel a development studio.

In Dream Daddy, the Game Grumps dating simulator, the player's widowed dad moves to a cul-de-sac in which town?

Maple Bay puts him and his teenage daughter on a street where most of the neighbouring dads happen to be single.

In Dream Daddy, what job does Joseph, the only married dad among the romance options, hold?

Youth minister Joseph serves at the local church, while the other romance options include a goth, a bookworm and a hard-drinking loner.

Arin Hanson wrote the Ghost Hunters Adventure Club novels as Dr. Cecil H. H. Mills, supposedly which relative?

His uncle, a controversial literary figure by Hanson's telling, is plainly played by Hanson himself in the interviews and adverts for the books.

In 2013, Arin Hanson and Jon Jafari played trainee recruits in a promotional video for which sci-fi blockbuster?

Pacific Rim's promo, produced by Polaris, put them through training under a Lieutenant Commander played by Robert Kazinsky.

Game Grumps starred in the official 2015 reveal trailer for the amiibo figure of which indie platforming hero?

Shovel Knight's figure reveal was one of the channel's promotional jobs, following a 2013 studio film tie-in made before Jon Jafari left.

Which PC title's demo was specially modified to address Game Grumps hosts Dan Avidan and Ross O'Donovan?

The Stanley Parable's custom demo was played on the channel's PC-focused side show, speaking directly to the two men at the controls.

In late 2013 Game Grumps auctioned duplicate titles on eBay, raising over $7,000 for which charity?

Child's Play got every dollar of the proceeds, and the giving kept growing: by 2015 the channel's charity livestreams on Twitch had raised over $70,000.

Dream Daddy's creators took the idea of a dad dating simulator from which earlier offbeat visual novel?

Hatoful Boyfriend has players romance pigeons, and that oddball premise, plus a joke about dads at Disneyland, set the project in motion.

Which animator co-hosted the Game Grumps drawing show Doodle Doods with Ross O'Donovan?

Chris O'Neill joined in 2017, when Doodle Doods was one of several shows created to fill the channel's newly irregular middle slot.

Which TV network hired Arin Hanson to animate shorts for its online gaming show after producers saw an early cartoon?

MTV wanted the shorts for The G-Hole, a break that came on the strength of a single Flash parody.

Arin Hanson married Suzy Berhow, whom he met at a convention in 2002, at which Los Angeles landmark?

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County hosted the wedding on October 25, 2013, two years after Hanson proposed.

Before Game Grumps, Dan Avidan sang in which Brooklyn alternative rock duo with Peter Lennox?

Skyhill released one album in 2007 and split after a 2008 tour, yet the pair reunited for a second album in 2023.

Arin Hanson first messaged Jon Jafari after Jafari's review of which Super Nintendo title took off online?

DinoCity hit number one on Reddit, and the friendship that began with that message produced a shared channel in July 2012.

A 2016 comic based on which British sci-fi series shows an alien girl wearing a Game Grumps catchphrase shirt?

Doctor Who slipped the shirt into the third issue of its Ninth Doctor comic, one of several nods that also include references in video games.

Game Grumps was nominated in the Gaming category in both 2013 and 2016 at which social media honours?

Shorty Awards recognition came twice without a win, the first nod arriving the year after the channel launched.