50 Fun Facts About Rooster Teeth

Red vs. Blue, Rooster Teeth's first series, is voiced over gameplay footage from which Xbox shooter franchise?

Halo was the game Burnie Burns was already narrating in comic gameplay videos, and the series was meant to last only six to eight episodes.

Gavin Free launched which YouTube science series with friend Daniel Gruchy, partly to qualify for a US work visa?

The Slow Mo Guys gave him the standout body of work an O visa demands, since he had no university degree to apply with. The pair had met while working at a Waitrose supermarket.

Which film star voices lead Julian Chase in gen:LOCK and co-produced the mecha series through Outlier Society?

Michael B. Jordan signed on in 2018, and the news sped up the casting of co-stars Dakota Fanning and David Tennant.

Red vs. Blue grew from its creators' debate over whether the game's Warthog jeep looks like which animal?

A puma was the comparison the crew argued over, and the conversation was re-created in the show's second episode.

A 2014 Rooster Teeth Podcast hypothetical about which immortal creature became a recurring social media meme?

A snail was the star of the scenario, and TikTok videos discussing it had passed 230 million views by late 2021.

Which animator, hired to choreograph Red vs. Blue's fight scenes from its eighth season, went on to create RWBY?

Monty Oum was told he could do whatever he wanted once season 10 was finished, and the first RWBY trailer was done within two weeks.

Rooster Teeth's 2024 shutdown was ordered by which parent company, formed two years earlier in a media merger?

Warner Bros. Discovery inherited the studio in the 2022 merger, a year after reports that AT&T was trying to sell it.

Burnie Burns and Ashley Jenkins finished fourth on the twenty-eighth season of which reality competition?

The Amazing Race paired Burns with Ashley Jenkins, host of Rooster Teeth's news show The Know; the couple married in 2019.

Ten Little Roosters, a murder mystery set at a Rooster Teeth banquet, is modeled on which Agatha Christie novel?

And Then There Were None supplied the plot of ten guests killed one by one, and viewers could vote on the killer and the next victim to win prizes.

RWBY's four heroines share a two-part 2023 animated film with which DC Comics superhero team?

Justice League x RWBY grew out of two crossover comic series, and its halves were later joined into a single film, The Complete Adventure.

Rooster Teeth was headquartered in which Texas city, where its RTX convention drew tens of thousands of fans?

Austin hosted the first RTX in 2011, planned for 200 people until more than 500 tickets sold within minutes by accident.

Which term describes the technique behind Red vs. Blue, in which video game footage is synced to recorded dialogue?

Machinima was news to the crew when they started: they thought the idea was original and had never heard of the wider movement.

Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo founded which gaming division in 2008 as an outlet from making Red vs. Blue?

Achievement Hunter began with guides to unlocking in-game rewards and Easter eggs, then found its biggest audience with comedic Let's Play videos.

Rooster Teeth's gaming crew built a weekly Let's Play series, released on Fridays from 2012, around which game?

Minecraft held the Friday slot, while a second weekly series built on Grand Theft Auto games usually went out on Mondays.

RWBY's title comes from its four heroines' theme colors: red, white, yellow and which fourth color?

Black completes the set, and the color-coded names were the hook the show's creator devised while still animating another Rooster Teeth series.

Lazer Team, Rooster Teeth's first feature film, raised over $2.4 million from fans through which crowdfunding site?

Indiegogo saw the campaign pass its $650,000 target on the first day, and the extra money scaled up the cast, effects and props.

Which restaurant chain sold an official Rooster Teeth Podcast menu item in 2014 as part of a brand campaign?

Pizza Hut saw the tie-in earn a Streamy Award nomination the next year, and the chain came back in 2016 to sponsor several episodes.

Red vs. Blue's two teams guard bases at opposite ends of which desolate battleground?

Blood Gulch is a real multiplayer map, and the show's first five seasons were mostly recorded there and on its sequel counterpart, Coagulation.

Which Los Angeles-based Rooster Teeth division was launched in 2015 by the former cast of the show Inside Gaming?

Funhaus hosts returned to the Inside Gaming name in 2019, when Rooster Teeth revived the brand for its gaming news channel.

Rooster Teeth teamed with Hasbro on a 2020 Netflix animated series based on which of the toymaker's lines?

Transformers: War for Cybertron was announced in February 2019 as a trilogy tied to a toyline of the same name.

Rooster Teeth's flagship podcast launched in 2008 under which original name, later dropped to attract advertisers?

The Drunk Tank revived a feature from the founders' earlier site Drunk Gamers, which itself became Rooster Teeth because sponsors avoided the word drunk.

Ed Robertson, who starred in Rooster Teeth's Captain Dynamic and voiced a Red vs. Blue captain, fronts which band?

Barenaked Ladies kept the friendship going both ways: Matt Hullum directed four of the band's music videos, and the band commissioned videos for its concerts.

In RWBY, young Huntsmen and Huntresses train to protect their world from which shadowy monsters?

Grimm pushed humanity to the brink until people discovered Dust, a mysterious element that let them fight back.

Barbara Dunkelman, a fan hired as Rooster Teeth's first community manager, voices which RWBY heroine?

Yang Xiao Long was offered to her by the show's creator as a tough Goldilocks character, before she had done any voice acting.

Which Rooster Teeth series tests video game logic in real life, such as whether heckling throws off real soldiers?

Immersion began, its host joked, as an elaborate way to do fun things and get paid, and its pilot tested driving a car from a third-person view.

Fictional hosts Wiz and Boomstick narrate which animated series that Rooster Teeth took over from ScrewAttack in 2019?

Death Battle outlived its publisher: after the 2024 shutdown its creators bought the rights and raised $740,000 from fans to keep it going.

Co-founder Joel Heyman voiced which dimwitted Blue Team soldier in Red vs. Blue from 2003 until 2020?

Caboose shared his actor with the character O'Malley, and Heyman later voiced Bartholomew Oobleck in RWBY.

Co-founder Matt Hullum voices which hotheaded Red Team soldier, the only one in Red vs. Blue keen to fight?

Sarge is the one soldier motivated to attack the other side, and Hullum also voices Doc, the teams' somewhat incompetent medic.

In 2013 Rooster Teeth released six-second Shorts mini-episodes exclusively through which video-sharing service?

Vine capped every clip at six seconds, and Rooster Teeth published four sets of the tiny sketches between August and November.

Project Freelancer's elite agents in Red vs. Blue, such as Agent Washington, take their code names from what?

U.S. states name the agents, while the artificial intelligences that work alongside them are named after Greek letters.

Rooster Teeth Shorts, a live-action sketch comedy begun in 2009, parodies everyday life in which setting?

The company's offices were the set, with staff playing caricatures of themselves in the style of the Rooster Teeth webcomic; the first season ran for twenty episodes.

The Strangerhood, Rooster Teeth's 2004 parody of sitcoms and reality television, was made inside which computer game?

The Sims 2 caught the team's eye at the E3 convention, and its publisher Electronic Arts let them build a show about eight strangers with no memories.

Which game studio contacted Rooster Teeth after Red vs. Blue's second episode and waived license fees for its footage?

Bungie staff enjoyed the videos and backed them, though the crew had feared the call would mean the end of the project.

RWBY takes place in which fictional world, divided into the kingdoms of Vale, Mistral, Atlas and Vacuo?

Remnant has four kingdoms, and each one's combat academy secretly conceals a magical relic.

Besides Texas and London, Rooster Teeth's RTX convention was also staged in which Australian city?

Sydney joined the calendar as the convention grew from a 600-person gathering in 2011 to an estimated 62,000 attendees in 2017.

Rooster Teeth's yearly streams raised over $1 million for a children's hospital through which gaming fundraiser?

Extra Life streams sent the money to Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, and the 2018 broadcast alone raised more than $1.4 million.

Rooster Teeth hired Michael Jones after his Crackdown 2 video went viral, asking him to make which show?

Rage Quit turned his fury at difficult games into a series, and its success led to a full-time job in August 2011.

Winners of Rooster Teeth's improv game show On the Spot were promised a golden trophy modeled on which co-founder?

Gus Sorola inspired the statuette, nicknamed the Golden Gus, which broke so often that it stopped leaving the host's desk.

Which media company bought Rooster Teeth in November 2014, then distributed Lazer Team through its new film division?

Fullscreen gave the studio the resources to take on rivals it named as Netflix, HBO and Amazon, and a Los Angeles base followed within months.

RWBY's ninth volume premiered in 2023 under a one-year exclusivity deal with which anime streaming service?

Crunchyroll had simulcast the show since its first volume in 2013, a decade before it became the exclusive home of Volume 9.

Which band, named after a Paris subway stop, sent Rooster Teeth the song that became Red vs. Blue's opening theme?

Trocadero bandleader Nico Audy-Rowland discovered the show in 2003 and submitted a song about it, and the creators promptly asked for more.

A Red vs. Blue joke about inflicting pain on one lazy soldier inspired which game variant later featured on Xbox Live?

Grifball takes its name from Dexter Grif, the lazy captain voiced by Geoff Ramsey, and began as a fourth-season threat aimed at him.

Michael Jones, later a Lazer Team star, spent almost five years in which trade before Rooster Teeth hired him?

Electrician was his job after high school, until one angry video reached the front page of Reddit and drew an email from the company.

Which piece of Lazer Team's four-part alien battle suit does Gavin Free's character Woody wear?

The helmet raises Woody's intelligence over time and adds extras such as X-ray vision, and each piece locks genetically to its wearer.

Which Lord of the Rings film actor is among the celebrity guest voices heard in Red vs. Blue?

Elijah Wood shares the show's guest list with YouTube stars Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox and Game Grumps hosts Arin Hanson and Dan Avidan.

A Lincoln Center film society official once called Red vs. Blue as sophisticated as the work of which playwright?

Samuel Beckett was Graham Leggat's comparison, and he described the comedy as part locker-room humor and part absurdist tragicomedy.

Rooster Teeth Shorts opened its third season with four episodes made alongside which video game comedy troupe?

Mega64 teamed up with the staff shortly before season two wrapped, and the four joint sketches then kicked off the next season.

Which 2019 Stephen King film adaptation fills Abra Stone's bedroom with RWBY posters and a character statue?

Doctor Sleep added the references at the suggestion of Kyliegh Curran, the young actor playing Abra, who is a fan of the show.

After Rooster Teeth closed, which manga publisher bought the RWBY franchise in July 2024 and pledged to continue it?

Viz Media, which had already published RWBY manga and an art book in English, said it would carry on with showrunner Kerry Shawcross.

Barbara Dunkelman, who co-hosted the fan event RvBTO before Rooster Teeth hired her, comes from which country?

Canada is home: she was born in Montreal, raised in Ottawa, and joined the fan site in 2004, seven years before she was hired.