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1''[[https://roosterteethcomics.com/ Rooster Teeth Comics]]'', written by Griffon Ramsey and drawn by Luke [=McKay=], is a finished {{Webcomic|s}} series about the daily lives of the Creator/RoosterTeeth staff (also known as the guys who brought you ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' and ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''). It is slightly fictionalized (Matt is not, in fact, dead and revived for helping the Devil with his marital problems) and makes topical, gaming and dick jokes. It ended on August 20th, 2011.
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3After some time being a missing series since RT pulled it from their website, it now has a new home linked above, however, all the links down below haven't been fixed yet.
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6!!This comic provides examples of:
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8* AbnormalAllergy: One strip features Gus taking an allergy skin test at his doctor's office. When he reacts to every single allergen, his doctor concludes that he is "allergic to life".
9* AdaptationalAttractiveness: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=190 Burnie demands to not be drawn fat]].
10* ArtEvolution: The later artwork has more color depth compared to the earlier.
11* TheBet: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=202 Geoff gets a new puppy, Burnie and Gus don't expect it to stay for long]]. It got puppy... cancer.
12* BandwagonTechnique: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=232 Geoff's methodology toward cheering in the World Series]].
13* BestialityIsDepraved: Apparently how swine flu jumped the species barrier to humans. Jason had sex with a pig.
14* BigDamnKiss: The comic ends with Griffon and Luke drunkenly making out and an above graphic noting that the comic is their lovechild.
15* BigEater: Burnie. [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=233 Sometimes he gets carried away]].
16* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=5693 Ben isn't two steps ahead of you, he's three panels ahead of you]].
17* ButtMonkey: Burnie while going on airplanes.
18* {{Crossdresser}}: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=192 Burnie and Geoff lose their luggage in Scotland and go with wearing skirts-er, kilts]].
19* DeadlyPrank: Apparently inspired by ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' TheMovie 2 [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=212 by Geoff and Jason]]. Not that they seem to know.
20* DysfunctionJunction: If Rooster Teeth was anything like how they're portrayed in these comics, [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=213 they wouldn't be alive]], [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=217 let alone having made numerous machinima series]].
21* EasyRoadToHell: All Mac users go to hell. No exceptions.
22* EscalatingWar: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=213 Between Geoff, Jason, Matt, Gus and Burnie]]. ''[[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=214 Really]]'' escalating.
23* GroinAttack: Lil' Vince Young is fond of this.
24* TheFaceless: Nathan, as a RunningGag about his height.
25* FreudianCouch: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=194 Used here]].
26* TheFunInFuneral: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=198 When your friend dies]] [[MustHaveCaffeine because his coffee was secretly switched to decaf]], tell everyone you beat ''VideoGame/SuperPrincessPeach'' and receive a high-five!
27* HomoeroticSubtext: Pops up among the RT staff, mostly between Gus and Geoff.
28* AHellOfATime: [[MustHaveCaffeine Matt]] went there when he was switched to decaf. He visited the gift shop on the way out. [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=201 "It was alright. No sales tax!"]]
29* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Geoff gets stopped by one while playing ''VideoGame/LANoire''.
30* ItsAllAboutMe: Gus is so self-centered, he has a cardboard cutout of himself and a large arrow with lights pointing to him in his office.
31** [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=5701 He later got a camera and TV]] for the sole purpose of both focusing on him at his desk.
32*** Then he became a cam whore. Er, cam ''[[InsistentTerminology gigolo]]''.
33* MustHaveCaffeine: When they switched Matt to decaf, [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=198 he died]]. [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=199 He came back to life for the coffee the gravedigger dropped on his grave]].
34* NotHelpingYourCase: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=210 Burnie points out that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is useless to discern terrorists who could just memorize it while he's a suspected terrorist]].
35* NoYou: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=234 Geoff articulates not trying sushi further]].
36* PalsWithJesus: Inverted. Matt is pals with {{Satan}}.
37* RunningGag: ComicBook/IronMan ground-pounding Burnie whenever someone says his name.
38** Nathan's face always being cut off by the frame of the comic.
39** The issue of cake versus pie represented by Gus and Geoff respectively comes up multiple times.
40* {{Satan}}: A major character. Apparently he wears khakis and a tie.
41** TheDevilIsALoser: And a HenpeckedHusband.
42* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=209 Being a suspected terrorist]].
43* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Subverted with Geoff and Gus. Gus, the scrawny one, is angry and violent while Geoff, the veteran loaded with tattoos, gets facials and pedicures.
44* SeriousBusiness: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=215 Cake... or pie?]]
45* ShoutOut: To movies, games and anything else they like. Often ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' and ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'', naturally, but there have also been comics about ''VideoGame/BioShock'', ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', and ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.
46* TakeThat: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=199 Matt's tombstone]] (long story) gets the epitaph (I would have used a different font, but I'm dead) under his name.
47* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cake for Gus, pie for Geoff, coffee for Matt.
48* UnexplainedRecovery: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=201 Matt died and went to hell, but he wanted to rework the cover art for the Season 3 DVD]].
49* WithFriendsLikeThese: The portrayal of the Rooter Teeth staff in general. For example, [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=219 Geoff taking care of Gus' cat]] [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=226 and thus having the keys to his apartment]].
50* YaoiFangirl: [[http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=2070 Griffon]], after after finding out ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' will allow [[GuyOnGuyIsHot guy-on-guy relationships]].

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