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->''"[[Creator/{{Egoraptor}} HEY I'M GRUMP.]]"''\\
''"[[WebVideo/JonTron I'M NOT-SO-GRUMP!]]"''\\
''"[[TitleDrop AND WE'RE THE GAME GRUMPS!]]"''

Creator/{{Egoraptor}} and JonTron [[LetsPlay play games together]] and provide live commentary about it, with conversations ranging from sophisticated discussions about the design of the games they're playing to [[SeinfeldianConversation bizzarre tangents unrelated to anything happening on-screen]] with plenty of [[LargeHam ridiculous screaming]] and [[HoYay bromance]] thrown in, producing [[HilarityEnsues frequently hilarious]] results.

Find it [[http://www.youtube.com/user/GameGrumps here]], with new videos daily. A list of all playthroughs can be found on the series' [[Recap/GameGrumps Recap]] page. Now with a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/BestEpisode/GameGrumps favorite episode crowner!]]

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!Tropes found in ''Game Grumps''
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* [[TenMinuteRetirement 10-Second Retirement]]: Occurs in episode 20 of Sonic 2006 after Jon inadvertently triggers a glitch that causes Knuckles to [[http://youtu.be/WuGsRmEEx6s?t=7m30s fly into the ceiling and get stuck on a wall.]] Arin storms out right then and there and Jon has to beg him to come back.
* AbortedArc: The Grumps had planned a playthrough of ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', but because the game starts very slowly and there wasn't much discussion between the two during the playthrough, this idea was shelved.
** According to Egoraptor at a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmYh_miWTd4 recent panel]], it was also because Jon - who has previously included the game in several 'Best Of' lists - was slowly "realizing it wasn't all that great." Ego described the experience as "depressing", and also claimed ''Conker's'' was the worst game they ever played for the show.
*** As clarified by Jon in the Banjo-Kazooie episode, Jon's opinion of Conker hasn't changed but he realised why Arin didn't like it, and that due to it being particularly dialogue heavy (like Secret of Mana, which they also abandoned) it wasn't the best choice for Game Grumps.
** Jon absolutely hated ''DemonsCrest'' and they actually got into a fight over it. Whether or not they air that episode remains to be seen.
*** Jon decided that they'd give it another try, and have started playing it on the show. He addressed their previous playthrough, saying that when they played it the first time he '[[{{Understatement}} didn't much care for it]]'.
** Several games they've played have either gone unfinished or have gone months without updates, despite their last episodes ending normally in the middle of the action. See the "on hold" and "unfinished" lists above.
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Often. For one, it's "AIR-EN!!"
-->'''Egoraptor''': [[LampshadeHanging What is with you and your enunCIations?]]
* AccidentallyAccurate: Arin calls an enemy a "Boomer Man". The enemy's actual name? [[http://kirby.wikia.com/wiki/Boomer Boomer]][[note]]Although there is a BrokenBase as to whether the enemy in Super Star is actually Boomer, or simply a Poppy Bros. holding a boomerang.[[/note]]
** During their ''Sonic '06'' playthrough, Arin made fun of Silver and Blaze's interaction by calling Silver, as Blaze, "so naive". Turns out, in Blaze's next line of dialogue in the game, she calls Silver "so naive."
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Jon has better luck with going into a game blind. This causes no shortage of histrionics from Egoraptor. Made funnier by Jon's self-admitted competitive streak. (''Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball, Nickelodeon Guts'')
-->'''Arin:''' We should both know ''the same amount of things!''\\
'''Jon:''' Why would I tell you? [[CombatPragmatist It gives you an advantage against me!]]\\
'''Arin:''' If we played fucking baseball together, and I was like, "What's the third base mean?", you're like, "I'm not tellin ya, it wouldn't be fair"...!\\
'''Jon:''' ''(trying to keep straight face)'' It's not the same!\\
'''Arin:''' HOW IS IT NOT THE FUCKING SAME ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Arin says "Barrel Banana Blast Bullshit", and immediately thinks of AVGN.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: From ''Power Rangers'':
-->'''Jon:''' '''''OOOOOOOOOOOH! EW! EWWWWW! TUMOR-ASS EYE DUDE!'''''\\
'''Egoraptor''': Aw, that's cute!
* AerithAndBob: From the Jeopardy episodes, Nixon, Dixon and Larry.
** From The Price is Right: Eva, Jon, Jay, and Sopojkkk.
** Also, Arin and Jon.
* AesopAmnesia: The Grumps will often forget about important abilities they have in Sonic 06. Most importantly, they keep forgetting what Silver can and can't use psychokinesis on.
* AffectionateParody: During an episode of Game Grumps VS, Egoraptor takes a bunch of [[WebVideo/AngryVideoGameNerd AVGN's]] typical insults UpToEleven when he was frustrated that Jon beat him in ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997''. Of course they are both laughing during the rant.
** During [[KirbySuperStar Milky Way Wishes]], Arin gives his take on Jon's penchant for giving enemies [[FanNickname crazy names on the fly]]. Jon thinks it's hilarious.
-->'''Arin:''' '''''OHH, IT'S MEGA-CRUNCH!'''''\\
'''Jon:''' '''''OHHHHHHHH! OH! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! OOOOW!'''''
*** Expanded into a full-on impression in the ''Donkey Kong Country'' finale, which gets Jon a little frustrated.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[invoked]]Egoraptor believes that Kirby is a xenophobic psycho, which... isn't that far from canon.[[note]]Kirby is canonically [[DownplayedTrope a bit of a xenophobe]] and a less obvious HeroicComedicSociopath.[[/note]]
** Their playthrough of Banjo-Kazooie has a lot due to its varied supporting cast.
*** Gloop the Fish is a depressed teenager, whose farts can get you high. His friends exploit this, and are only his friends because of this, always trying to get him to come to parties just so he can fart for them.[[note]] For the record, Gloop actually belches bubbles instead of farting them[[/note]] He also has a cousin named Beezenbatz that no one invites to parties because when anyone tries to invite him, people think he's trying to bring live animals.
*** Boggy the Bear is a deadbeat Dad that lets his 3 kids go hungry while he sleeps outside and also ate a Jiggy piece despite having 2 more ready to give away and therefore [[TooDumbToLive should have been familiar with them.]]
*** Mumbo Jumbo is a [[TheEeyore depressed Barbiturate abuser that only stays alive because Banjo visits him for the Transformations]].
*** The mummy in the matching game pyramid just desperately wants to give you a hug because he died in a disfiguring accident and none of his friends know that he's still around. He's also a ghoul.
** During their time in [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Athens]], they've been interpreting nearly all their neighbours, such as Maelle as a chain smoker and Sally as a child abuse victim.
** Rouge the Bat quiffs pokéballs out of her snatch.
** Rocky from VideoGame/KirbySuperStar is a lazy, overweight, slow loser who gently walks wherever he's needed, while screaming up ladders at fast speeds.
*** Chameleus[[note]] Chameleo Arm[[/note]] has a family and two friends named Bob and Bill. Bill bought Chameleus a Game Boy Advance for his birthday and Chameleus, being more of a Sega guy, was a bit offended. However Chameleus covered it up well and pretended that he enjoyed the gift because he's very good at camouflaging himself.
** Moundo, a mini boss in Kirby's Return to Dream Land, is not a rock. He is a grouchy mound who can't deny that he has a weight problem yet can't work out... since he's not human. If he were to be chiseled, it would hurt. The other rocks make fun of him because his mother was bad at naming.
** For some reason, Ego is convinced that Luigi hails from Nazi Germany.
** [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles War]] is a misunderstood [[TheWoobie Woobie]] who [[IJustWantToBeLoved just wants to be loved.]] However, whenever he attempts to hug people it, "hurts them... and me."
** They decide that the characters in ''Wild Guns'' are [[VillainProtagonist ruthless bandits,]] and all the enemies are just trying to protect their homes.
** According to Egoraptor, Mickey Mouse is a man who has detachable ears and has a disorder where he has big hands, feet, and head, which he hides by claiming he's a cartoon character. When he goes home, he beats himself up, saying to himself that he's a freak whom no one loves.
* AnachronicOrder: They film a large chunk of gameplay in one sitting, then upload small segments at a time. This leads to some series being filmed before others receiving [[CallBack Call Backs]] only in the later recorded series.
** Lampshaded in ''Goof Troop'' episode 10, where Jon jokes about how his cold will affect the next year of Game Grumps.
** This practice spoiled the existence of their ''SecretOfMana'' videos before they actually released them, and leads to many [[CallForward jokes from future episodes]] being referenced before they're actually made.
*** AGAIN spoiled the Smash Bros video twice with one hint being the Mii show-off video where you see Brawl loaded up, and one off-handed comment about [[spoiler: JonTron being upset that he lost (which in turn spoiled the ending).]]
** This was lampshaded in the first episode they released, for Kirby; JonTron welcomes them to "the first episode", and then notes that they now have to ''make it the first episode'' because he said it would be.
** The final episode of ''Zombies Ate My Neighbors'' has Ego suggesting that they play ''Who Wants to Be A Millionaire'', a series that the two already started ''and'' finished.
*** Likewise, episode 8 of their Donkey Kong Country playthrough has them suggesting that they play Resident Evil for the Gamecube when the first two episodes had already been uploaded either that week or the week before.
** Episode 9 of their Sonic '06 has Jon saying 'Vote tomorrow, kids! That's 'tomorrow' today', when the 2012 Presidential Election was last week.
** ''[[{{Bloodsport}} Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball]]'' was mentioned as having been played repeatedly, but because it was made in the same session of "Grumping" including ''[[Franchise/DonkeyKong Donkey Kong's]] [[VideoGame/NintendoLand Crash Course]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Kingdom Valley]]'', known for being both ThatOneLevel and NintendoHard and thus producing a metric butt-ton of content ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and also]] ''[[MarioParty Mario Party 8]]''), it took quite a while before it was uploaded.
* AnimatedAdaptation: Egoraptor animated a few of his favorite scenes from Game Grumps episodes in a sketchy lineart style in the show's early days, but while he claimed to be working on more at MAG Fest they appear to have fallen victim to the same ScheduleSlip as his other non-Grumps works. [[http://www.youtube.com/user/Flannelson Flannelson]] seems to have been handed the mantle of official GGA animator in his stead.
** Popular Game Grumps Editor Barry Kramer released a 'Grep Animated', animated by himself and depicting the Grumps as bowling pins. Inevitably this has led at least one fan to say 'Even Barry is putting out videos faster than Arin'.
** Not surprisingly, the fan community cranks these out by the dozens.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Arin and Jon devote a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGjWtdbLHBo special video]] to showing off the VERY strange Miis they found on a used Wii that Arin bought.
** The end of their Joe and Mac playthrough: KITTY CATS DANCING! Cue rave-like video of Ego's cats while Jon and Ego start singing SpaceJam songs. Oh, and Jon masturbating.
** The end of Part 3 of Kirby's Air Ride, where they play a game of slaps to break the tie. [[spoiler: They agree that they both win so they don't have to hurt each other anymore.]]
* {{Angrish}}: Oft. Seeing as Jon is the bit more vocal of the too, he tends to start flipping first. Though Ego can have epic ones, like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UU9CuvdOVfMPvKCiwdGKL3cQ&v=h4RfdCpB4PI&feature=player_detailpage#t=436s here]].
* AnimalMotifs: Jon's favorite Pokémon seem to be birds.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Perhaps due to Jon's love for his pet birds, like Jacques]].
*** Jon confirmed in Pokemon Emerald #12 that [[AuthorAppeal he is indeed a bird fanatic]].
* AntiHumor: In ''Castlevania'', Arin eventually takes over for joke delivery while Jon concentrates on clearing Death's level.
--> '''Arin''': Why did the axe fly at your face? Because the knight threw it. Why did the axe come back? Because the axe has boomerang-type properties.
* ArcNumber: Ego's used Wii has several Miis with names that include some variation of "677". Jon thinks it must be some kind of code.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** In Sonic '06 Part 9, after Arin makes a [[BlackComedy rape joke]] and justifies it with "it's only a joke":
---> '''Jon:''' Yeah, it's just a joke! [[SoWasX So was Hiroshima, huh? So was Nagasaki, huh?!]] [[TakeThat So was when we elected]] [[GeorgeWBush George Bush... Junior]] into office, huh?
** Also in their ''Dead Space 3'' video:
---> '''Jon:''' You should just go to Hell and die.\\
'''Arin:''' We're already there Jon. We're already there. [[ItMakesSenseInContext There's men with baby heads. There's a drill going "ktiky-tiky-tiky-tiky". There's an on screen menu telling you what to do!]] This is Hell, Jon.
** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJifVqZAfZQ#t=6m49s Sonic '06]]'' #45:
--->'''Jon:''' You died in a fucking shallow pond, you piece of shit, you imbecile, you USELESS PIECE OF FUCKING--'''''OATS!!'''''\\
'''Arin:''' Did you just-- "oats"???\\
'''Jon:''' I fuckin' went there, dude, I'm really sorry. I know your family is multi-grain....
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Oftentimes something in the game will surprise them or catch their attention, putting the current conversation on hold as they go on a tangent and sometimes completely dropping the previous topic.
* AwesomeByAnalysis: Egoraptor figures out most of the puzzles in ''Goof Troop'' within seconds...
** BookDumb: ...But fails every ''Jeopardy'' question. Egoraptor has mentioned on several occasions that he did drop out of High School, so this is probably understandable.
-->'''Egoraptor''': "Apparently according to TvTropes I am not book smart."
** He cites that a person probably can't remember what they learned in their fourth grade social studies class as an adult and dislikes the argument, in which he raises a valid point. Although, what a person learns in school and can remember learning is based on a variety of mitigating factors, ex: Willingness to learn, quality of education, etc.
** He also thought that a century was a thousand years, and not a hundred, as stated in their Aladdin playthrough. (Although to be fair, Jon thought a millennium was two-thousand years and not one thousand).
** A ''You Don't Know Jack'' question asks which is a U.S. territory. Arin picks, of all things, ''{{Cuba}}.''
** On the other hand, he knows the difference between an umbra and a penumbra. His Pokemon knowledge comes in handy sometimes. (Umbreon)
--->'''Jon:''' Barry, [[ShownTheirWork can you draw a chart out]] for us?
** Jon has his blind spots, too, and they may surprise you. He [[ComicalOverreacting comically overreacts]] to the trivia questions in ''You Don't Know Jack'' (#2).
--->'''Jon:''' I don't fuckin' know. I don't fuckin' know! I was a thespian and '''I''' don't fuckin' know! '''Fuck''' Creator/{{Shakespeare}}! I DON'T READ/CAN'T READ YER STUPID ELIZABETHAN BULLSHIT ''([[{{Angrish}} unintelligible]])'' WHY DONCHA TEACH THE KIDS JAPANESE OR SOMETHIN' USEFUL
* BadBadActing: Ego has a go-to "bad voice acting" voice he pulls out sometimes. Jon, however, prefers the LargeHam version of bad voice acting.
* BashBrothers:
-->"[[EarWorm Poppy Brothers Junior]]~! ♪"\\
"[[EarWorm Poppy Brothers Senior]]~! ♫"
* BatmanGambit: Arin pulls one in Mario Party 2: [[MetalGearRising Revengeance]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDy-k6HUzzE here]]. And he's [[LaughingMad happy about it]].
* BearsAreBadNews: Episode 1 of Naughty Bear was rated extremely low and considered one of the worst episodes in the series because they were stuck on an obvious puzzle after '''missing prompts in which they could have advanced'''.
* BerserkButton: JonTron seems to hate it when Egoraptor belches. He yelled at Ego for it in Pokemon Emerald #13, and stormed off for a bit when it happened in KirbySuperStar #17.
** Jon will actually devolve into angry cursing ''mid-sentence'' if Ego belches. It almost makes him ''physically ill'' in Part 30 of Sonic 06.
** One of the Grumps has never seen ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. This revelation causes the other Grump to cough blood. (''Sonic'' #57)
--->'''Jon:''' It's just like, "durr, I haven't seen ''StarWars''..!"\\
'''Arin:''' What the fu-- There's a '''lot of people''' who haven't seen ''Star Wars''!\\
'''Jon:''' '''''FUCK THEM!'''''\\
'''Arin:''' Corey didn't see ''Star Wars'', and I just showed it to him last night!\\
'''Jon:''' Corey hasn't seen Star War-- ''(indistinct)'' GET OVER HERE YOU PIECE OF SHIT! I'm gonna go beat him up!
** In Pokemon Emerald episode 13, Jon and Arin talk about how one night, they went to Disneyland during grad night and, while riding Star Tours, most of the grad night students were yelling obnoxiously about how awesome they were. At the end of the ride, Jon, who had politely asked them to quiet down before, ends up yelling at them for being rude and disruptive throughout the whole ride.
** Certain viewers have been known to get upset and, reportedly, yelled at the screen when the Grumps don't play a game they (the viewers) know really well but don't play it right, such as when Arin played Star Fox 64 and actually managed to get to the stage right before Venom, but by mostly mashing A and trying to dodge projectiles instead of locking on, bombing, barrel rolling, or anything to do with the boost meter. Part five begins with Arin's general response to the tsunami of rage comments this caused.
* BestialityIsDepraved: In ''A Link to the Past'' #2
-->'''Egoraptor:''' What was the weirdest thing about ''Ocarina of Time''?\\
'''Jon Tron:''' You- ''[narrowly avoids running into a snake]'' '''FUCK SNAKES!!'''\\
'''Egoraptor:''' [[SnakesAreSexy I don't fuck snakes!]] That's disgusting!
* BetterThanABareBulb: "I didn't leave the room. I opened the door, and closed it. MOVIE MAGIC ladies and gentlemen." (Sonic '06 #45)
* BiasSteamroller: Arin HATES Sonic. The entire franchise. Sonic 1 and Sonic Generations are the only games he's given any sort of praise for whatsoever, and he says that the ''SonicAdventure'' games were just as bad as '''06''. Even Jon is baffled by this.
** Although, Jon has similar views on the original 2D Sonic games at least, as they were featured on his, [[CreatorBacklash much]] [[OldShame hated]], 'Top 10 Most Over-rated Games' Video, where he expressed similar viewpoints to Arin's. The difference is their opinions on the Adventure games.
** Surprisingly, Egoraptor admitted in his Shadocon Q&A panel that while [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic 06]] was terrible, he finds it fun to play, though admittedly he prefers the experience he has with JonTron.
** Recently, in the Nintendo Land videos, the Grumps have been complaining about Skyward Sword's controls not being as accurate as the Nintendo Land Zelda ride's - cue the comments being flooded with fans claiming the controls are identical.
** Arin hates the term "{{Metroidvania}}", because he considers the first part of that word far superior to the second. (''Sonic'' #54)
--->'''Jon:''' Okay, the Metroid-y Castlevania games.\\
'''Arin:''' ''(bristles)'' I just detest--\\
'''Jon:''' THE ADVENTUREY... THE MORE, TH-- [[CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT]]-FORWARD!
** Jon has a hatred for all tutorials ([[ReadTheFreakingManual which leads to a lot of obvious moments]]), at one point [[AuthorTract going into an enraged rant]] over Monita's appearances in Nintendo Land even though he can easily just tap (-) to skip it.
** Both of them admitted to absolutely loathing VideoGame/HalfLife2, saying it had no direction or point. Subverted when their [[SarcasmMode complaints]] are it lacks [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty killstreaks]] or [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim random encounters]], and they actually both love it.
** Arin is in the pro-[[VideoGame/DmCDevilMayCry DmC]] camp, and Jon is... not. (''Playstation All-Stars'' #2)
--->'''Jon:''' HE WENT FROM BEING ICONIC DANTE. HE WENT FROM BEING ICONIC, THE FUCKIN' RED.....CAPE AND THE--THE........fuck, [[NotHelpingYourCase it was Japanese design, kind of like Final Fantasy bullshit]]--\\
'''Arin:''' With his stupid grey Sephiroth hair?\\
'''Jon:''' ''(lisping)'' --okay it's not thupid! If you ''like'' it it's not thupid!
* BileFascination: [[invoked]] How they feel about the ''Mary Kate and Ashley: Sweet 16'' game. They say it could ''almost'' be fun and crack countless jokes about it, but the episode goes on for nearly ''four times'' the normal episode length.
** They played Sonic '06 and ''VideoGame/NaughtyBear'' for this reason too, although in Part 64 of the former's playthrough, Jon [[http://youtu.be/SyTk38rmggU?t=2m45s commented]] that it wasn't so bad, especially after playing the latter.
* BigNo: Jon unleashes an impressive one during [[ThatOneLevel Donkey Kong's Crash Course]].
** Episode 12 of [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Emerald]]. Arin finds a whismur! Jon says it's a Plumboom...
-->'''Arin''': ''"Do you remember the episode where Ash caught a [[CallARabbitASmeerp Pumbloom]]?"''\\
'''Jon''': ''"Dude--"''\\
'''Arin''': '''"NO!"'''
** There was also one in part 10 of Donkey Kong Country 2 when Jon gets hit by a Mini-Necky on their last life.
** Arin gives another one after the unfortunate suicide of Bones in Castlevania 1 part 1.
** And Jon does another one as the last line of Star Fox 64 Part 1.
* BigOMG: In the last round of ''You Don't Know Jack'', Jon gives up and decides to eclipse Arin's high score with a staggeringly huge ''negative'' score.
-->''(sees score)''\\
'''Arin''': OH MY '''GAHD'''\\
'''Jon:''' I have to pay them all that money?!\\
'''Arin:''' Dude... You'd better sell your fuckin' house, dude!
** Jon's response after inhaling a lungful of bittering agent. See [[PlayedForLaughs Played For Laughs.]]
* BigWhat: Jon is particularly good at these and there are a couple notable ones, but the biggest one comes from the FamilyFeud episode, where the question asks what a father would buy for their kids but would use themselves. Ego writes "C D Player". [[spoiler: Model Car: Correct!]] [[FunnyMoments Their reaction is amazing.]]
** In that vein, ''Jeopardy!'' seems convinced that [[CriticalResearchFailure Maleficent is a character from Snow White]].
** The Knuckles wall-climbing glitch caught them [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuGsRmEEx6s#t=463s completely by surprise]], triggering a satisfying round of hysterics.
--->'''Egoraptor:''' ''(loudly stomps out of the room, [[FailedAttemptAtDrama then back in again]])'' NO! I'm fucking done! I'm fucking done!\\
'''Jon:''' I can't--! ''(giggling hysterically)'' I can't get off!\\
'''Egoraptor:''' WHAT IS THIS?! '''''WHAT IS THIS?!!!!???'''''\\
'''Jon''': I'm ''stuck!''\\
'''Egoraptor:''' '''''[[DespairEventHorizon WHAT IS MY LIFE?!!]]'''''
** CPU Wario turning 8-bit, a feature neither Grump was prepared for.
--->'''Arin:''' I ''want'' that. Can I have that?\\
'''Jon:''' Dude!\\
'''Arin:''' ''*[[FamilyMatters Urkel]] snort*'' I love this game now, [[{{Hipster}} it's RETRO! IT'S RETRO!]]
** From the same series, Jon starts to ramble about the nostalgia of playgrounds, but Arin shoots him down by exclaiming that he just went home with the [[DirtyOldMan nice old man]]. (Prompting a DoubleTake from Jon.)
* BlackComedy: They actually joked about killing a baby in the first part of their Metal Slug X playthrough
* BlatantLies: In the second ''Dyna Blade'' video, Egoraptor claims never to have said "Wowie Zowie." [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZrSILng78 This is false]].
** From their Youtube page:
-->JonTron and Egoraptor play Video Games while generally grumping about. Grump.
* BoomerangBigot: "Fat people are everything that's wrong with the world! (I can say that because I'm fat.)"
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: From their Monopoly playthrough.
-->'''Ego:''' Walking a baby. Holding a baby. Feeding a baby. [[MoodWhiplash Punching a baby]]. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Stepping on a baby. Drowning a baby. Killing a baby.]]
* BrickJoke:
** In the first ''Goof Troop'' episode, Egoraptor claims JonTron wouldn't try to save him if Ego was kidnapped by pirates. In the last episode of Dyna Blade, Egoraptor gets kidnapped by a TAC multiple times, with JonTron preferring to just make a second partner for Ego to control.
** In ''Goof Troop'' #4
--> '''JonTron, near the start:''' HEY! [[{{Malaproper}} How do ya' like watching Game Grumps episodes for??]] Jon systematically digging holes!
--> '''JonTron, near the end:''' Hey guys, I don't know about you, [[SarcasmMode but I really wanna do some systematic digging!]]
** In ''Mega Man 7'' #7, the judgmental frog from Burst Man's stage returns.
** At one point, they reference the slogan "Easy Breezy Beautiful Covergirl", and at another point Egoraptor stops JonTron from singing a copyrighted song, [[SarcasmMode lest they get hit with a Cease and Desist order.]] Mega Man 7 Finale 1 ends with Jon quoting "Easy Breezy Beautiful Covergirl", followed by a red Cease And Desist sign appearing on the screen and ending the video.
** At the end of ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack'' part 1,
--> '''JonTron:''' Arin wins one, but he doesn't win much, 'cause he's a piece of shit, and I fucking hate him, and [[MarioParty next time on Game Grumps, bros and pals and bros and pals...]]
** One of the VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry playthroughs starts off with a paused screen of Donkey and an enemy called Manky. Jon calls him a [[ShapedLikeItself Rangotang]]. When they finish the game, they show the credits. Manky's name's crossed through.
** In episode 8 of Castlevania III (Which is appropriately titled "[[RageQuit Jon Ragequits]]"), Barry notes in the description "Eh, he'll be back". Episode 9 ("Jon [[PerfectlyCromulentWord Ragestarts]]") was uploaded the very next day, with the description "Told ya he'd be back".
* BritishAccents: Grant Kirkhope
** Grant's accent is so thick that Jon can barely understand what he's saying.
* BuffySpeak: Peppered here and there. A good example is Sonic's forcefield being called "The glowy"
* ButtMonkey: Egoraptor is the unluckier player of the two in Versus. He even loses both matches in ''Naruto Shippuden'', a game series he has familiarity with, to Jon.
-->''(does a celebratory [[HappyDance slap clap snap]])'' "BOOM! AH! AH! JON WINS AGAIN YES HE DOES! ♪"\\
"Yeah, okaaay, of ''course''!"\\
"Should I let you win?"\\
''(petulantly)'' ...No--! .....Just '''GETTIN' OLD..!!'''
** Recently, however, subverted: Ego's been racking up wins with ''You Don't Know Jack'', and Jon seems to gripe about the more "thinky" games, like ''Portal 2''.
* CallBack:
** Egoraptor has made several call backs to Jon's series, and Jon has done likewise to the ''AwesomeSeries''.
*** All of Arin's major works are mentioned (even ''Lemon & Bill'')
** In Pokémon Emerald #5, they bring up Shifty Fish again.
*** Also in Pokémon Emerald, the Nincada STRGG is a reference to one of the Miis on the second-hand Wii.
** In Game Grumps Vs. Jeopardy the game confuses the Literature/SleepingBeauty villain Maleficent with Disney/{{Snow White|and the Seven Dwarfs}}'s evil queen. Later, when the two play Family Feud and Ego types in "C D Player" the game accepts the answer thinking he typed "model car". Jon calls it "some Literature/{{Snow White|and the Seven Dwarfs}} shit right there" and storms out of the room.
** While playing ''Sonic '06'', Jon says [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47YPs-qwNQU "The game's playing itself, Arin"]].
** Arin's name for the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=trUmUjsQb1k#t=390s "Skeleton-Snake-Dragon-Head From The Wall"]] is the same name he gave to that enemy's Super Castlevania IV counterpart in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ww_PjqYQi5E#t=164s his Sequelitis video]].
** During Jon's epic fight with Dracula, Arin describes Jon's strategy as "Touch 'em real quick an' go!"
* CallForward: Common, unintentional usage due to the anachronic order of the videos.
** At the start of the first ''Dyna Blade'' episode, JonTron accidentally knocks over some games and discovers ''Goof Troop''.
** In Pokémon Emerald #9, Ego teases Jon about his use of the word "legitimately". In Mega Man 7 #14, Jon learns that he uses the words "legitimately" and "legit" so often that the fans have made a DrinkingGame out of it.
** Battletoads started off with the duo singing a very mangled version of "Prince Ali". About a week later, their first ''Aladdin'' video went up.
* TheCastShowOff: Ego shows off the [[ManOfAThousandVoices wide variety of voices he has]] and Jon is quite fond of breaking into song. Ego's not a bad singer either for that matter.
** Though Ego tends to pretend to be HollywoodToneDeaf as a joke, and to contrast with Jon.
* CaptainObvious:
--> Egoraptor: "You have to be inside these villains to punch them, so what dictates when you get hit?"
--> [[CaptainObvious JonTron]]: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UU9CuvdOVfMPvKCiwdGKL3cQ&v=h4RfdCpB4PI&feature=player_detailpage#t=436s Well when you go BARRINGGG! Oh hey, I guess I got hit]]."
* CasualKink: Ego attests the best thing about [[DisneyThemeParks Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin]] is at the very beginning, "they're throwing [[WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]] in the trunk of a car, she's all tied up, and I'm like, "Hmmmmm, I get behind ''this!''" (''Sonic'' #60)
* CatchPhrase:
** "X Grumps!" (X being anything but "game")
** "You're an X." "...at least I'm just one."
** Jon has a tendency to say 'KTLA 5' (The name of the Local News) either right before or right after he sneezes.
** Egoraptor will often say a sarcastic "[[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs Like, Comment, and Subscribe!]]"
** After casual conversation with Egoraptor, JonTron will often say "Game Grumps, everyone. Where we talk about [x]"
** Egoraptor likes to say 'Shut your goddamn mouth' or some variant.
** Arin also likes to say "Holy Jesus" or some variant thereof, sometimes adding "... as if there was any other one" or "the one I don't believe in".
** Arin likes to say "Gosh darn it!", see GoshDarnItToHeck below.
** Jon's "Adjective-ass-Noun" (Leading to phrases such as "Dingle-ass-dangle")
--->"Wario! Fuckin' yellow-ass...purple-ass [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!"
*** And, increasingly, "X-ass-X."
--->"Look at this watery-ass-[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment water!]]"
*** Arin has said "Dang-ass" increasingly often.
** "[[SincerityMode Real talk]]"
*** "Dude, can I just say-"
** Jon yelling "NEXT TIME ON GAME GRUMPS!" at the end of the video without following with anything.
** Jon's '''''ECH ECH''''', much to the dismay of some fans.
** Jon, when imitating someone, tends to say "I don't fucking know" often.
** Jon (and sometimes Arin) tends to shout out "MODE 7" whenever it appears in a game they're playing.
* CatharsisFactor: [[invoked]] The Grumps experience this in Sonic 06 with the Rival boss fights. When playing as Sonic and Shadow, they have an incredibly difficult time and spend multiple episodes on it due to how overpowered Silver is. When playing as Silver, they get to BE the incredibly overpowered character and just beat up Sonic, driving Arin temporarily insane with glee.
* CelebrityStar: Grant Kirkhope certainly counts.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When Game Grumps first started, Ego was more upbeat and happy about the games while Jon was a lot more grumpy for various reasons. Nowadays, the titles of Grump and Not-So-Grump are more apt, with Jon treating Ego's genuine enjoyment and glee at a game as a rare occurrence.
* CheckPointStarvation: The main reason Ego ragequit Castlevania III.
** They quit [=DKC2=] for the same reason. People noted that they could've just used Funky's Flights to go out of the level and find another save point, but apparently they were ignorant of this ability.
* ClicheStorm: [[invoked]] [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when talking about lazily-executed [[BigBoosHaunt Big Boo's Haunts]], with JonTron using the term "tropey as fuck".
* CloudCuckoolander: Both of them, all the time.
* ColdOpen:
** Naughty Bear #2, which shows a quick clip of Arin finally figuring out the objective they spent all of last episode unable to do, which had infuriated the fanbase quite a bit.
** Crayon Shin-Chan, showing a weird sequence that occurred before the Grumps did their introduction.
** Mister Mosquito, with the very first video starting off with Jon and Arin's reaction to the game's bizarre start screen narration.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Egoraptor discovers that he and JonTron had Rule 34 drawn of them, his first reaction is to say 'Hey! We play on a CRT!'.
* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike: [[invoked]] During Silver's Radical Train, Arin and Jon have a long conversation about VideoGame/BioshockInfinite that lasts about two episodes, with Arin being critical of it despite having barely played it. Two weeks later, once Arin had actually finished it, he tweeted that he liked it.
* CountryMatters: Jon accidentally lets it slip in the first episode. And he says it again and points out how it makes people mad in the Snowboard Kids 2 Game Grumps VS.
** In episode 2 of Joe & Mac, Jon wonders why it makes people mad, as he views it as just another word for a certain body part.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Jon complains about this in response to Drakkhen, as cover shows an angry, badass dragon, while the entire actual game is just...[[RealIsBrown brown]].
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Barry, upon getting a request to add some [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter and Voldemort]] pictures to the ''Godzilla'' versus, shows pictures of [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker and a baby dressed up as Darth Vader.]]
* CurbStompBattle: Jon is utterly dominated in every ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack'' video, often by a wide margin, and usually because Arin racks up all the points in the [[GoldenSnitch Jack Attack segment.]]
** In return, Jon dominates Arin in the MarioParty 2 rematch, getting 4 stars (while nobody else had one) and then winning every bonus star but the Minigame Star (which went to CPU Luigi instead.)
* CutenessProximity: Jon will openly d'aww at anything in a game he finds adorable.
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Egoraptor forgot that ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Link to the Past]]'' requires you to use a net to put a fairy in a bottle because ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' cut out the middle man and just let you use the bottle to catch fairies.
** Jon keeps getting confused that he's playing as Dry Bones instead of Wario in ''VideoGame/MarioParty 8'', since he played as Wario in the previous Mario Party playthroughs.
** Jon also regularly dies in the beginning of his ''{{Castlevania}}'' playthrough by trying to jump onto stairs instead of walking up them because he's used to later games where you can do that.
* DeadpanSnarker: Grant Kirkhope in the first ''Guest Grumps''.
* DeepImmersionGaming: Egoraptor's Game Grumps Animated shorts use this to represent the game. The fan animations followed suit.
* {{Determinator}}: While Arin was up for quitting Sonic 06, Jon is legitimately determined in doing a full playthrough, despite it being the most technically broken game they've played so far.
* DiscreditedMeme: [[invoked]]Arin said in part 14 of Sonic '06 that he hates the "It's a thing in a thing: Thing-ception!" meme associated with ''Film/{{Inception}}''.
* DontExplainTheJoke: Averted. Several jokes are explained and the misconceptions are hilarious.
* TheDitz: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]], where JonTron and Egoraptor talk about how a commenter accused JonTron of taking too long to formulate his thoughts. While he might seem this way next to Egoraptor (BookDumb but otherwise intelligent), JonTron isn't really stupid. Ego even says Jon's better at forming concise thoughts than he is.
* DoubleTake: Jon takes a second to realize he just scrolled past Optimus Prime in the character select for Dream Mix TV World Fighters.
-->'''Jon''': Fucking ''OPTIMUS FUCKING PRIME''?!
* DrivenToSuicide: Egoraptor is after playing [[spoiler: Rugrats in Paris: The Movie.]]
* DrunkOnMilk: JonTron wonders why Japanese games do this, just as in [[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]].
* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse. Jon's reaction to a rape joke Arin makes during Sonic '06. See ArsonMurderAndJaywalking above.
** Whenever Jon mentions children (ex: the cute little boy from Sonic '06, running into an eight year old fan at Disneyland), Egoraptor always makes it awkward by referring to child molestation, usually by saying: 'Do you want me to whip it out?' or 'Did you touch him'.
* DullSurprise: In the VideoGame/MegaMan episodes, Egoraptor reads all of Dr. Light's lines in an emotionless deadpan, as a result of Light's expression never changing, regardless of how dire the situation is. Mega Man and Bass get in on it later.
* EasyAmnesia: Arin offers to blow Escape From The City out of Jon's head (as it's stuck there), but he somehow blows out his entire memory. He then tries to name Jon "Franklin".
* TheEeyore: In Episode 17 of BanjoKazooie, they think that Mumbo Jumbo is a depressed Barbiturate abuser that only stays alive because Banjo visits him for the Transformations. They also think that Banjo and Kazooie want to get out ASAP because he's so depressing.
* EpicFail: In Sonic 06, right after the Egg Genesis fight, you're placed in front of a lake with a portal in the middle and a hint ring to remind you how you can use Elise's aura to reach it. The Grumps somehow avoid the hint ring, walk around the entire lake, avoid the hint ring again, go away from the lake, explore the then-irrelevant hub stage, and ''complain that the game design is unclear''. When Arin looks up a walkthrough and realize what they did, he starts openly berating himself.
** In ''Pokemon Emerald'', Arin gets beaten by a '''paralyzed''' ''[[ComMons Taillow]]''. Jon even lampshades how ridiculous it is.
-->''How'd you get killed by a motherfucking paralyzed taillow?! It's ''paralyzed'' and it's a fucking ''SPARROW''!''
** And of course, the classic moment in ''Mega Man 7'' where Arin [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6V05lHuFJw#t=422s jumps right over Rush and into a spike pit.]]
** The first 3/4 of their ''Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball'' video is just the two trying to figure out how to play the game while scoring no points (and at the start of the second half, constantly getting Back Court penalties after failing to realize that their baskets switched places.)
** The Jack Attack of their second VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack episode has Jon mashing buttons, eventually getting a score of -$513,082.
--> ''[[FailureIsTheOnlyOption If I can't be the best, I sure as Hell can be the]]'' '''[[FailureIsTheOnlyOption WOOOOOOOOOOORST!]]'''
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Kirby Super Star'' Part 17: [[ReadTheFreakingManual Jon and Arin Push X]]
* ExcitedEpisodeTitle: Part 65 of Sonic '06, which is titled "Follow That Mephiles!"
* EyeScream:
-->'''Arin''':''[In response to not catching Sableye despite Jon's protests]'' It's a Sableye. ''[In response to Soon?'s attempted evolution]'' [[SarcasmMode Oh great.]]
-->'''Jon''': Dude I'm gonna disable your eye.
* FailedASpotCheck: Both Ego and Jon start to get fed up with the lack of Copy Ability in Milky Way Wishes, openly bashing the developers for coming up with something so stupid... and then they accidentally discover that [[OhCrap they can access all other abilities whenever they want.]]
** In their playthrough of Goof Troop, Jon and Arin continually messed up puzzles with somewhat easy solutions or would waste time and lives trying to kill mooks with a block by luring them in front of the block in open space with the bell, when the block can be used to block a hallway to lure them all in front of it much easier.
** In Sonic 06, when they play as Silver for the first time, they walk right past the hint icon that tells them how to use his powers. ''Three times.'' While complaining that the game isn't telling them how to use it.
* FakeDifficulty:
** Ego complains about [[VideoGame/{{Mega Man 7}} Freeze Man]] being unfairly difficult due to his refusal to telegraph attacks.
** Jon complains about [[VideoGame/MarioParty Hop Or Pop]] being unfair against the Spike Ball, as the Bounce Balls have flagrantly superior maneuverability.
* FanNickname: In ''Mega Man 7'', Shade Man is "Count Chocula", and one of the [[CuteMachines cute machine]] {{Mooks}} is "Scootin' Pumpkin".
** Taking this trope to the logical extreme, Jon frequently gives Pokemon his own, on-the-spot names, such as "Pelistorm", "Pumbloom", and "Gamsmash". Although he may simply not remember the names, and instead blurt out whatever comes to mind.
* FanCommunityNickname: [[invoked]]Jon appeals to the "Grumplings" in Episode 2 of ''Super Mario Land 2''.
** Arin attempts to come up with one in Sonic 06 #43. He comes up with Lovelies, Jon comes up with Cumfaggots. The fans have generally chosen to attach themselves to the latter.
* FastForwardGag: Employed in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' episodes (along with an appropriately sped up version of City Escape) to quickly move through spots they've already been in or have consistently blundered through. It's looking like this will be a regular thing.
** This also happened in the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' playthrough, sped up along with the DK Rap.
** Employed liberally in ''VideoGame/WildGuns'', especially in the finale and at least once to music from ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}''.
** Applied in Crayon ShinChan where they ''supposedly'' learn Japanese.
*** [[LongList Basically, they use it whenever they get stuck, or have to repeat a scene or level often, and it's usually accompanied by a tune]].
* FatAndSkinny: Jon is the fat to Ego's skinny. {{Lampshaded}} in their ''Blues Brothers'' and ''Portal 2'' playthroughs.
-->'''Ego''': So do you want to be the tall skinny one, or the short fat one?\\
'''Jon''': ...I think this has been decided for me.
** Also referenced in their ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' co-op playthrough: Jon plays as Atlas, Arin plays as P-Body.
** The roles have actually ''reversed'' during the time they've spent together, with Jon getting skinnier and Arin gaining multiple chins.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Their only complaint to having {{Rule34}} drawn of them? It portrayed them using a flat-screen TV when they use a CRT. [[note]]Arin also explained that as an animator, you generally want to use the most well-known image when it comes to technology in a cartoon, meaning using bunny-eared boxy TV's and rotary telephones. Even if these aren't the norm anymore, they are more identifiable than anything else.[[/note]]
** They do ''now'', but only for HD/otherwise recent games.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the more recent episodes, Jon has taken his [[{{Jerkass}} jerkassery]] UpToEleven, constantly invoking it.
** The fact that Jon (and Arin, although slightly less) browses reddit wasn't little known, but its been discussed more in recent episodes as well.
** Jon's "X-ass-Y" seems to be intentionally flanderized, as Arin has picked up on saying it due to Jon suddenly using it so frequently.
* ForcedMeme: Jon hopes "Seven Asses" becomes one, so he repeats it through most of the video. [[TropesAreNotBad It's still humorous.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the ''Rugrats in Paris'' playthrough, Jon asks if they can "stop this, before one of [them] dies." [[spoiler:It ends with Ego (faking) attempting suicide.]]
* FourLinesAllWaiting: Well, eight lines would be more accurate. They play through multiple games at once, but only upload two episodes per day at most, and typically focus on a select pool of games per week, cycling through their options as they go. This leads to some games being neglected for a while without being officially abandoned, only to make a resurgence later on.
* FreudianSlip: "WELCOME BACK TO SONIC O'DICKS!" (#56)
** In ''Mega Man 7: Part 8''
-->'''JonTron:''' I don't think "asobu" is the verb for, like, "play video games". That's, like, "to play with a kid"... wait, like "play as a kid".
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that depending on the sentence structure, it's very easy to accidentally use the word "asobu" to mean that kind of "play with a kid".
* FridgeBrilliance: [[invoked]] Both of the Grumps have this on camera at one point, due to them knowing the character names as a child, but never making the connections until it was brought up in adulthood.
** Jon didn't realize that [[{{Rugrats}} Dil Pickles]] was named after dill pickles until he was discussed in Rugrats in Paris.
** Arin didn't realize that [[SonicAdventure Chao]] derive their name from chaos until Jon mispronounced the word.
* FridgeLogic: [[invoked]]
** They wonder how {{VideoGame/Kirby}}'s partners can fly.
** They wonder how Torchic, a small bird Pokemon, can both growl and scratch.
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* GagCensor: Elephants tend to censor the word that would violate the NWordPrivileges.
** A stampede of elephants censored Arin's rape joke in the Joe and Mac playthrough.
* {{Gasshole}}: Burping for Arin, farting for Jon.
* GenderBlenderName: When it comes to naming Pokemon they typically don't take the Pokemon's gender into account, such as naming a female Lotad after George Lopez. They also intended to name a female Poochyena "Bakuhaku♂♂", but Egoraptor got the gender symbols mixed up.
* GenderFlip: Discussed in their ''Bayonetta'' playthrough. Jon and Arin talk about what a ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' game would be like if Link were a girl saving Zelda the prince rather than princess, or if Zelda and Link were simply to switch places for a change, with Link getting kidnapped and Zelda saving the day. Jon and Arin also express interest in playing a game in which a girl goes on a journey to rescue a prince or a male LivingMacGuffin. Also, [[http://lexial-xiii.deviantart.com/art/Rule-63-Game-Grumps-330393900 Rule 63]] [[http://lexial-xiii.deviantart.com/art/GameGrumps-Pokemon-Girls-330398986 Game Grumps art]] [[http://lexial-xiii.deviantart.com/art/GGG-Slept-Together-338638503 is]] [[http://lexial-xiii.deviantart.com/art/GGG-I-want-Wingull-330401627 a]] [[http://lexial-xiii.deviantart.com/art/GGG-It-s-a-Pumbloom-335693008 thing.]]
* GeniusDitz: As opposed to Arin, who is more BookDumb, Jon actually has a surprisingly broad education, and is well versed in Disney lore and musical theatre amongst other things. However, virtually any time he tries to talk about something other than those particular topics he gets bogged down in [[{{Malaproper}} malapropisms]] and misconceptions.
* GenreSavvy: Jon becomes increasingly familiar with what pisses the fans off (see ReadTheFreakingManual) and will openly apologize once he realizes that it happened.
* GenreShift: While the show is always comedic to some extent, the type of humor often changes depending on what game they're playing, and some games are even the subject of serious discussions between the two about game design.
* TheGhost: Suzy, Egoraptor's fiancée, gets a few mentions, but odds are she'll never appear. However Arin did toy with the idea of having her 'Guest Star' on a ''Lion King'' (for SNES) episode, because she's really good at it.
** As a way of avoiding this, they very transparently cover for saying hi to her as she came home by saying Suzy is their pet goose.
*** ... Who turns out to be a different entity than Suzy the human. Jon is confused by this too.
** Arin's cat Mochi is one of these as well. Mochi is also a goose, supposedly.
* GilliganCut: After dying during the final boss fight in ''Goof Troop''
-->'''[=JonTron=]:''' ''Nooooo'', I don't wanna! I'm not doing his again!
-->[[LampshadeHanging And so here is a montage of them doing it again]]
* GodwinsLaw: At one point in their first ''MarioParty 4'' episode, Egoraptor calls Luigi Hitler, because he rolled a [[Pun nein]] ([[DontExplainTheJoke Read: nine]])
** Jontron ends their 15th episode of ''Kirby Super Star'' by screaming intelligible gibberish and "HEIL HITLER!". He also claimed Hitler had a 'sweet stache'.
** Ego [[ImpliedTrope SEEMS]] to be doing this when he sees the dog in Snowboard Kids 2, who resembles an eager nazi salute, but Jon derails it with something completely different.
** In Nickelodeon GUTS, Jon named his character Himmler. For those of you who don't know, Heinrich Himmler was the Reichsfuhrer of the SS.
* GoldenSnitch: In the first VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack video, they complain that the Jack Attack sequence doles out so many points that it can easily render the rest of the game pointless (and indeed, it's often where Jon ends up losing the game.)
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Apparently Jon's declaration of love for Arin during the Castlevania finale was so mind shattering that their recording software actually malfunctioned.
* GoshDangItToHeck: "Gosh darn it!"
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo8pEbYlBC0&t=6m9s The Goshdangodon.]]
* GratuitousJapanese:
** Jon breaks out into [[{{Manga/AzumangaDaioh}} Chiyo's cooking song]] at one point during their ''Kirby'' series.
** Then in a CallBack to that later, they name a Poochyena "Bakuhaku♀♀"
** In another CallBack, Egoraptor sings it in ''Goof Troop'' Episode 10.
** They flaunt their limited knowledge of Japanese characters whenever they can while playing Shenmue.
** While playing Strider 2, Jon reveals that he is able to read both Hiragana and Katakana. Supposedly Arin can, too.
* GutturalGrowler: Their chain smoker interpretation of [[AnimalCrossing Maelle]].
** "'''WUAAAGHTERIN' CAN'''"
* HeadBob: While playing ''KirbySuperStar'', Jon and Arin have employed the technique of repeatedly ducking to make Kirby and his partner look like they're talking.
* HelloInsertNameHere: [[ALinkToThePast Groomp]], [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Fuck, I]], [[SecretOfMana OOOOOO]], [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Yump»]]♢, and R3a7t47.
** The [[FamilyFeud Bigdix]] family.
** [[VideoGame/AdventuresInTheMagicKingdom Guff.]]
** Himmler vs. Buttox.
** [[AmazingIsland ÆDÒßë]].
** [[VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack Buttbuttyawn, buttsgalore, and weeweesee / UmJamLam and forevercluck]]
** [[VideoGame/PlayStationAllStarsBattleRoyale Egofaptor]] (which is also Arin's Website/{{Tumblr}} domain name)
** [[VideoGame/Chulip Q]][[LuckyCharmsTitle ☆]][[VideoGame/Chulip T]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Jon and Arin of course. In fact, speculation that Jon's friendship with Arin has led him to neglect and alienate all his former Normal Boots pals, bar Continue of course (unfounded speculation by the way, Jon is still friends with PBG at least) suggest that this is in a kind-of reverse BrosBeforeHoes kind of way (Arin would be the woman).
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Barry, the editor, who handles all the visual gags and captions. Arin and Jon make references to him, though he has yet to actually appear in a recording. On the rare occasion, he uses a caption to talk, but it's easy to not realize that he exists.
** While he hasn't made a physical appearance he did, however, make a voice-only appearance at the Game Grumps [=MAGfest=] 11 panel.
** He finally appears in Sonic '06 part 75. Only to be jokingly fired.
* HiddenDepths: Egoraptor is surprisingly both a SupremeChef ([[InformedAbility according to Jon]]) and a decent beatboxer.
** Jon sings a lot, but you wouldn't know it tied in to his training in musical theatre.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Jon insists when playing the first Donkey Kong Country that he isn't going to go after secrets for a few reasons. The playthrough of [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry DKC 2]] ends with a shitload of tension because Jon neglected to hunt for lives, forcing them to scrape for 1-Ups at the last minute.
* HourglassPlot: In Kirby Part 18, Egoraptor takes on Jon's "oh it's a [GIBBERISH NAME]" shtick from Pokemon. Later, Jon calls Ego a clod.
* HoYay: [[invoked]] They mention the phrase "Is [x] in Egoraptor?" comes off sounding like this.
** Part 2 of Banjo Kazooie ends with "Next time on Game Grumps, Jon and I go on a date."
** "[[AttackOfTheCLones This game is like sand! It's coarse, and rough! Not like YOU, AIR-IN!]]" (''Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games'')
** Apparently, there's pornographic fan art of the Game Grumps on the internet. Jon and Ego are aware of this, finding it absolutely hilarious.
** There are multiple instances where they joke about making out offscreen or making kissing noises and sex sounds. A running gag of ''Game Grumps Versus'' is the 'winner' receiving a blowjob.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6cpMjqBc_s Jon:]] "Arin, don't leave. Arin don't [door slams, Jon laughs] ''ARRRINNN!'' I love you!"
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94-WH4a_WWA Jon:]] "At least I'm comfortable with the fact that I like a man's penis, rock hard! I can't help it if I like the chest-bear of a man, muscular and strong! I want him. Where is he?"
* HurricaneOfPuns: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37IYpCjyOkU A Piece of Bass]] has a number of them.
* HypocriticalHumor: Arin makes a big deal over how he finds subtitled audio to be annoying (he considers it sensory overload), so when Resident Evil doesn't have any subtitles, Arin points out that now they can just listen what's being said. Jon points out that nothing can be heard due to the audio being so silent when they record. Viewers also pointed out that their setup made Arin unable to actually register the plot.
* IAmGreatSong: Egoraptor's Ode to My Penis. (''Sonic'' #47)
* IAmNotShazam: [[invoked]]During Nintendo Land: Metroid Blast
-->'''Egoraptor:''' I'm in a space ship and Jon is on land as a Metroid.\\
'''Jon Tron:''' As a Metroid!? [[SarcasmMode I am in fact a Metroid.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: ''Sonic'' #100 has Arin a particularly bad one
-->'''JonTron:''' Honestly This game would be 50% percent better without these loading screens. Bearable at the very least.
-->'''Egoraptor:''' No-
-->'''Jontron:''' I would think at least-
-->'''Egoraptor''' I don't think any bears would play this
-->*Jontron walks away and grunts unhappily*
* IRejectYourReality: The tagline for the premature "finale" to [=DKC2=]. ''"Yay! Um... we beat it!"''
* IWarnedYou: In ''Sonic'' #55, Jon attacks Egoraptor for losing a life and undoing all of his hard work clearing out the enemies. Egoraptor in turn suggests Jon is slow for assuming [[TheAllSolvingHammer the solution is always to kill everything]], and Jon just farts in his direction.
* ImplausibleDeniability: During the finale of ''Mega Man 7'', Arin found himself in a few occasions where Mega Man's situation was not as good as he thought it was.
-->'''[=JonTron=]''': We have two fucking lives!\\
'''Egoraptor''': That's the best, uh, position to be in!\\
'''[=JonTron=]''': What are you- what's wrong with you!?\\
'''Egoraptor''': If you have three lives that's too much!
* InformedAbility: Ego's a good cook, according to Jon.
** They both learn [[FastForwardGag Japanese during a TimeSkip]].
* InformedFlaw: When you name your character "Fuck, I", it sounds like everyone does a DoubleTake and stammers when they see your face, either because you're [[InformedAttractiveness ungodly beautiful]] or, [[RuleOfFunny more comedically]], [[InformedDeformity ungodly ugly]]. Your character still looks like a normal kid.
** Jon often says that he's no good at fighting games, but in most of the games they've played he's at least been a decent match for Arin, and has won just as many fighting game episodes of Game Grumps Vs as Arin has.
* InelegantBlubbering: "Arin, you are SO BAD AT ''NICKELODEON GUTS!!''"
-->''(sobbing)'' [-I just wanna go home! I just wanna go home!-]
* InnocentInnuendo: The relatively innocent ''Pokémon'' dialogue becomes rather sexual due to Jon putting in the player's name as "Fuck, I".
* {{Irony}}: Sonic 06 #89 has the Grumps discuss Half Life 2 and good game design while failing at a physics puzzle and ignoring good game design.[[note]]Silver's Radical Train features weighted scales, which is first introduced to you in a consequence-free environment for you to experiment with, something that Arin praised about Mega Man in Sequelitis.[[/note]]
* ItGetsBetter: [[invoked]] They attempted to do a playthrough of ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', but the game's sloppy start caused Ego to give up on the game after about 30 minutes.
* ItsEasySoItSucks[=/=]ItsTheSameNowItSucks: [[invoked]] Basically their opinion about NewSuperMarioBrosWii. They still note that it's fun, but it just ''lacks soul''.
* ItsShortSoItSucks: [[invoked]] Discussed in their Donkey Kong Country playthrough. Their opinion is that a game shouldn't be any longer than it needs to be, and that a tight six-hour game is far better to a sixty-hour game spent mostly just wandering between the actual "game" parts.
* JumpScare: [[spoiler: The GagCensor elephant in the 2nd episode of Animal Crossing ends up being this for a lot of people.]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: [[WordOfGod According to his panel at Shadocon]], [[spoiler:Egoraptor's suicide]] at the end of [[RugratsInParis Rugrats in Paris: The Movie]] is part of the Game Grumps continuity and he is a ghost now.
* LadyMondegreen:[[invoked]] Jon Nguyen?[[note]]Jon wins.[[/note]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRnAvIUrw8#t=6m Roige the Bat]]."
--->"Royj a Bat."\\
"Roiygjxehbad."\\
"Rohjj Rujz is with me."\\
"Oh hey it's Roogie!"
* LastSecondWordSwap: In MarioParty 2, when Ego (as Peach) finds a hidden coin block.
-->'''Jon''': You're a bitch. You suck balls.\\
'''Ego''': Dude, did you really just say that to her face? She's a princess.\\
'''Jon''': Dude, you know the only thing she's a princess of is my...*ahem* heart? I love her.
* LaughingMad: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vDy-k6HUzzE#t=623s Arin]].
* LeftHanging: It's not uncommon for one of them to begin an anecdote, get sidetracked for whatever reason, and never finish.
* LethalJokeItem: It isn't until the fourth episode of ''Goof Troop'' that they realize that their [[FanNickname "Raise The Roof" Technique]] lets them [[TennisBoss catch and rethrow barrels and bombs.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: Whenever Ego starts repeating "I'm not going to die", he does really well in a level by psyching himself out.
* LetsPlay: Though Ego doesn't like calling it that, due to the stigma it carries amongst some circles, Jon openly calls their channel a LetsPlay channel. They have however mocked the many many terrible [=LPers=] out there.
** IncrediblyLamePun: Egoraptor named the games they'd play later their "[=PlayLet's=]"[[note]]Playlist.[[/note]].
* LittleNo: Ego gives one at the end of ''Sonic '06'' episode 41, in response to the two campaigns they still have to play.
* LostEpisode: In Episode 2 of ''Yoshi's Island'', Egoraptor tells everyone that they had attempted to record a two hour session of ''Mario Party 4''. While the audio recorded and they still have it, they forgot to record the actual game play footage, [[{{Uncancelled}} though they wound up recording a second session]]. They said they might release the audio of the first session sometime in the future to riff on.
** They've also mentioned having lost Strider footage.
** They lost the footage of the Super Metroid playthrough.
* LullDestruction: The Grumps feel a need to be "on" all the time, considering it weird whenever they're quiet for a notable period of time.
** With this in mind, Jon actually said it was pretty hard to be a 'good' Let's Player, as it requires you to actually be funny and be on all the time.
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[[folder: M-S]]
* MadnessMantra: Jon [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8uBkk4F7A4#t=18m38s closing out]] the ''Donkey Kong Country 2'' "finale." [-...Yup.-]
* {{Malaproper}}: Both, but mostly Jon.
* ManOfAThousandVoices: Ego has quite a wide array of voices and often makes up new ones on the fly on the show.
* MeanBrit: Grant Kirkhope can come off as one. Apparently, however, he's only verbally abusive to people he actually likes.
* MetalScream: Jon's rendition of "Game Grumps Versus."
* TheMillstone: Depending on the game, either Grump can become this.
-->'''Jon:''' Okay, gimmie this--gimmie this! ''(fights for controller)''\\
'''Egoraptor''': Ok fine! I'll just close my eyes and shut my mouth! Maybe the show will be '''better''' then!\\
'''Jon:''' Well maybe that's what would be best in the first place! We can just call this ''Game''! ''(imitates theme song)'' HEY I'M GAME! ♪
** In the ''Goof Troop'' playthrough, one of them will often screw up the other's puzzle-solving attempts (most often Jon getting in Ego's way, but sometimes the other way around).
*** Culminates in Part 7 where JonTron's meddling causes both of them to explode, causing them to get a Game Over and go back to the Title Screen. Thankfully, [[AntiFrustrationFeature the Password screen actually remembered their progress]], meaning they only had to restart the level.
** Subverted in Part 11 where JonTron's foolishness caused them to find a Boss Key they accidentally overlooked.
** Jon, for pretty much all of their Videogame/{{Portal 2}} playthrough, described by him as being like playing single player but with a severe handicap.
* {{Mondegreen}}: Jon and Arin discuss whether or not [[WarioWorld Wario]] says Egg Salad or I'd Hit It!
* TheMovieBuff: Ego's past experience working at a video store (if true) gives him an edge with ''You Don't Know Jack''. Jon's frequent refrain during the game is, "I don't fuckin' know!"
-->''(indistinct grunts from Arin)''\\
'''Jon:''' [[WeWillMeetAgain One of these days I'm gonna win one. One of these days...]]\\
'''Arin:''' ''(grunts)'' My BRAIN.....[[MyBrainIsBig is so BIG from knowing facts!]]
** Yet he somehow has never seen Lord of the Rings.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Done in WildGuns part 3.
-->'''Arin''': I have friends, I have family, and I have you, Jon.\\
'''Jon''': Thank you- do I not count in either of those categories? ''*laughs*'' Friends, family, and Jon.
* NamesTheSame: [[TheGhost Suzy]] Ego's RealLife fiancee, and [[TeamPet Suzy]] the Goose. Supposedly. Allegedly. [[RunningGag Literally]].
* NeverLiveItDown: [[invoked]] Jon claims that pointing out he says legitimately often has led to this with some of his other friends.
* NightmareFace: When Michelle in Chulip looks angry at Q*T, Jon gets so scared that he demands Arin to go away from her immediately. [[JerkAss Arin of course talks to the doctor next to her, and then stays next to her for a while before Jon threatens him.]] Also, it freaks both of them out when they see the man with the guitar and the huge buck teeth, that looks like the Scientist from [[LegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]].
* NonIndicativeName:
** For a series called ''Game Grumps'', they spend a lot of time laughing their asses off, singing and generally being rather cheerful.
*** Oh they get grumpy as all hell during the Universal Studios playthrough.
** [[JonTron Not-So-Grump]] has shown a lot more general grumpiness than [[Creator/{{Egoraptor}} Grump]] has. Even in videos where both of them are grumpy, Jon is inarguably more of a grump than Egoraptor.
--> '''Egoraptor:''' [[LampshadeHanging Why are you so negative all the time?]]
** In the eighth Goof Troop episode Egoraptor promises that they will be genuinely grumpy this time, after comments about how they're not really grumpy at all. Surprisingly enough their demeanour does not change, they're still rather cheerful, singing and laughing their asses off.
** Completely averted (so far) in the New Super Mario Bros Wii episodes, as they lament on the game's lack of soul. Very grumpy.
*** Of course, as mentioned in their Secret of Mana episode, whenever a fan complains that they complain too much, they can always use their title as a 'Get-out-of-Jail-Free' card.
* NoProblemWithLicensedGames: Their opinion of ''VideoGame/GoofTroop''. They found it a little derivative of Zelda, but also pointed out that it did a lot of things that Zelda wouldn't do until Four Swords (for example: co-op with the ability to grief the other player).
** They feel this way about the {{Naruto}} Shippuden fighting game as well, saying the fighting reminds them of MarvelVsCapcom and that there's plenty of SceneryPorn.
* NoPronunciationGuide:
** Yump»♢, though Ego [[SubvertedTrope quickly decides]] to pronounce it [[AwesomeMcCoolname Chevron Diamond]].
** Also subverted with Bakuhaku♀♀, which they decide is pronounced "Bakuhakuuf."
* NostalgiaFilter: Egoraptor loves all generations of Pokemon while JonTron believes only the first generation has good Pokemon designs (though the latter likes [[{{VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver}} Pokémon Silver]] best). Ego states this is because Pokemon was ridiculous in the first place and still feels a childlike wonder in playing the game; Jon says the games are overly childish and fully admits he enjoyed the games he did because he played them as a child.
** They got called out on this for their BiasSteamroller against ''NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' and poorly defined arguments against it; they later walked back their comments and explained their opinions better and fully admit it might well be due to nostalgia.
** Averted with ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'', which they fully admit has aged terribly despite loving it when it was originally released.
** Many fans believe this to be the reason why Jon dislikes ''YoshisIslandDS''.
** Jon admits that this is the only reason he finds Banjo-Kazooie better than Banjo-Tooie, despite saying that everything the first game did right, the sequel did even better.
** It's fairly obvious that nostalgia was coloring Jon's memories of the Donkey Kong Country games. When playing Country 1, Jon insists that the second is better. When they play the second, they find a LOT more problems than in the original, and [[MovingTheGoalposts Jon suddenly insists that the third is better.]] This is despite the fact that Jon previously placed the third game lower on his Top 20 SNES Games than the other two ([=DKC3=] placed at 11, DKC placed at 8 and [=DKC2=] placed at 4)
* NWordPrivileges: They discuss this at one point and both of them admit that they're uncomfortable with the word, despite using any other number of swears in their work. They refer to LouisCK while discussing it and echo his opinion about it.
** It's also the only word they'll censor, often with [[SoundEffectBleep silly sound effects]]. Egoraptor screams the word at the top of his lungs in the second Animal Crossing episode, as a means of imitating what one might see on a message board. This leads to a {{Gag Censor}} of an elephant loudly popping onto the screen.
*** Although sometimes they'll [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar forget to censor it...]]
** In one of the Pokemon episodes, when nicknaming a Slakoth, Jon begins to spell out the word, but only get as far as "NIGG" and Ego proposes the name "NIGGJAM." They eventually end up naming it "CHINA."
* ObfuscatingStupidity: There are rumors that Egoraptor and JonTron are intentionally making mistakes in their games in order to be funnier. They addressed this in the first ''Dyna Blade'' episode, pretty much saying that those people [[MistakenForProfound have way too much faith in their abilities]].
** Jon does deliberately faff about and deliberately screw up later when they're playing The Great Cave Offensive, though Ego calls him on it and he reveals it's just because he thinks The Great Cave Offensive is boring and he wants to move on to Milky Way Wishes.
* OddNameOut: The contestants in ''Game Grumps Vs.: Jeopardy'' are Nixon, Dixon, and Larry.
* OnSecondThought: On seeing Mephiles' HellishPupils. (''Sonic'' #50)
-->'''Arin:''' His eyes look like vaginas.\\
'''Jon:''' ''(laughs)'' No they don't, they look like '''reptiles eyes'''! They don't loo--[-well, a little bit-].
* OneEpisodeWonder:
** Some ''Game Grumps VS'' games end out this way.
** The ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' playthrough, [[RageQuit for a reason]].
** ''Chuck E. Cheese's Party Games'', which was a kids game.
** They've now officially started a playlist for "One-offs": games that they only make one episode of, largely because the game isn't worth playing for any longer. This is mostly for games that are either boring or where some element of it is so bad that they won't be able to focus on entertaining the audience.
* OriginsEpisode: ''How Jon and Ego Met''.
* OrphanedSeries: All of the one-off games, Castlevania III, Secret of Mana and Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Not Link To The Past, however, which is just on hold until it stops being spoilers for an unreleased episode of Sequelitis.
** Battletoads, a game with a full story mode, won't even be made into a series because they begin to realize that the game is terrible with two players. Arin didn't even like the game to begin with.
** The Grumps explained that the reason most of their games went unfinished is because they didn't want to bore the audience with replaying things they've already taken care of. It took them until Sonic 06 to realize they could use a FastForwardGag to gloss over any gameplay they had to redo, as well as use the lack of camera focus to put more effort in gaming smart rather than gaming funny. This is one of the main reasons Sonic 06 is their longest-running series so far and is the most consistently updated.
** Recently, Jon admitted a desire to give Zombies Ate My Neighbors another try, much to the delight of Jon and all the zombie fans.
** The grumps have now resumed play of Castlevania III following their completion of the first game. This marks the first time they have resumed a game they previously Rage Quit.
* OverlyLongGag: [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Link to the Past]] Episode 5 has Egoraptor asking Jon to pick something up, then saying to forget about it. Subsequently:
-->"What was it?"\\
"Just keep goin'."\\
"What was it?"\\
"Just keep goin'."\\
"What was it?"\\
"Just keep goin'."
-->Ad infinitum.
** Arin naming off a fake list of names for people who sent them Rogue Squadron, in alphabetical order:
--> "Arthur... A.... Anderson."
--> "Arthur... B... Anderson."
--> "Arthur... B... Anderson... A."
* OverlyLongName: Brian-Frank-Steve-Williard-Jonathan-Michael IV-Michael III-MichaelJordan-Scott, in their Drakkhen video.
* {{Padding}}: [[invoked]]
** They decide to play the Samurai mini-game of ''Kirby Super Star'' since the episode was 3 minutes short.
** In ''Goof Troop'''s eight installment, they spend some time on the boss, but are still a minute short, so JonTron slowly reads the password out in an attempt fill the remaining time. There's a cutscene immediately after, and then (even though they are overtime) they drag out the names of the fruit they obtain once they regain control.
--> '''Ego''': Okay; we gotta spend four minutes on this boss.
--> '''Jon''': I know we're transparent most of the time, but you are just crystalline water.
** The finale of ''Joe and Mac'' ran short, so the video is capped off with several minutes of cats dancing as Jon and Arin sing songs from SpaceJam.
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Nostrophous. Little known fact: [[SubvertedTrope it isn't a word.]]
* PerverseSexualLust: For Egoraptor, May and to a lesser extent Dawn. Egoraptor convinced many fans to draw provocative Dawn fanart (this resulted in some inevitable Rule 34). Generally, no female NPC is safe.
** Celeste, for both of them. Even stranger, considering she is an ''owl''.
*** This puts Jon's love of birds in a completely different perspective.
** Ego is suddenly spellbound by a random green haired NPC in Secret of Mana.
** Jon mentioned that the sex scenes in GameOfThrones made him head for [=RedTube=], which is odd considering their nature and sufficiency.
** In Sonic '06, the moment Arin draws attention to Blaze the Cat, Jon starts yelling "I WANNA PUT IT IN HER!" ''repeatedly'' (including variations). For extra amusement, cue a comment on the video asking "[[DudeMagnet Why does everyone want to fuck Blaze?]]"
*** Let's just say Jon has a habit of claiming he wants to fuck Blaze whenever she shows up, and leave it at that.
** Another moment in Sonic 06, where Ego says that he would be attracted to Rouge the Bat if not for her 'gross bat face'.
-->'''Arin:''' If the bat face was gone I would do. But the bat face is there, so it's not.
*** This moment is punctuated by some beautiful editing from Barry.
** Arin admits that he used to have a huge crush on Ino Yamanaka when they play the Naruto fighting game.
* PlayedForLaughs: In the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6l__bsdsBY#t=305 finale of Megaman 7]], Jon starts spraying compressed air keyboard cleaner into the microphone, thoroughly annoying Arin... Until an [[ImminentdangerClue odd taste]] alerts them to the bittering agent it contains. Quickly turns into a [[MassOhCrap Mass Oh Crap]] as they begin choking on the noxious cloud.
* PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel: Ego occasionally throws out a sarcastic "comment, like, subscribe if you like [X]!" There was also a sign that showed up to legitimately remind people, but this was quickly phased out.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Despite their group name, they're not grumpy very often.
* PokeThePoodle: Egoraptor/Arin has a habit of trying to insult Jon with witty comebacks. Too bad his comebacks are [[InsultBackfire anything but insulting.]]
-->'''Jon:''' This game is such a joy to play!\\
'''Egoraptor:''' ''[petulantly]'' Yeah, well, ''you're'' a joy... to be around...
** Later, from ''Mario Party 2:''
--> '''Jon:''' I'm getting all the coin bags!\\
'''Ego:''' ''You're'' a bag. A coin bag. ''[angrily]'' That means you're ''precious'' to me.
** ''Nicklodeon Guts'' finale: Jon is stumped, and the timer's run out.
--->'''Jon:''' I'm done. I'm out. It's 7:00.\\
'''Ego:''' ''You're'' 7. ''(beat)'' On a scale of of 1-7.\\
'''Jon:''' Thank you. That makes me feel better than I previously did.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Jon says that he would make a good Gimli-like bar patron in a movie, but Arin misses the reference as he's never seen ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy.
-->'''Arin''': I've never seen it.
-->'''Jon''': Are you-- AND MY AXE!
-->'''Arin''': It doesn't make me have seen it any moreso than I haven't.
* PrecisionFStrike: During one of ''Goof Troop'''s final puzzles, Jon cries out in terror as he's cornered by enemies, only to accidentally lure them into the path of cannonballs. (Made funnier by Max Goof's adorable face.)
-->"[[BigYes YEAH!!]] HOW DO YOU LIKE ME '''NOW''', MUTHAFUCKA?!"
* PretendPrejudice: Fat people, black people, jews, and children with Down's syndrome. (''Nickelodeon Guts'' #3)
-->'''Jon:''' I'm sorry I offended anybody with Down's syndrome, I am apt to do these things. Offend people. Barry, put in something else, like "Jew"!\\
'''Arin:''' Please edit that, Barry, [[YouKnowImBlackRight the only Jew of all of us!]]
* ProductPlacement: Invoked and joked with when they ask for sponsors. As they're just hanging out, they tend to mention products by name; however it's averted from time to time with Jon or Ego referring to a snack or drink as only "this" instead of by name.
-->'''Jon''': You wanna play for a while? 'Cause I gotta go drink my this.\\
'''Ego''': ...Make sure you drink your this.
** Their Dead Space 3 episode seems to be directly sponsored by EA, as their playthrough and the demo were released at roughly the same time, and the Grumps (though a heavy layering of joke) describe selling points that a sponsor would contractually obligate. Jon also alludes to a review embargo at one point.
*** Also a subversion of it, in that they utterly tear the game apart for shamelessly copying other series and straying from the previous games SurvivalHorror roots. All while completely mocking the fact that they're being paid to play the game but can't outright come out and mention that.
* PromotedFanboy: Jon was a fan of Egoraptor's work long before they met.
** It shows, too; whilst both of the Grumps mention one another's work periodically, Jon seems to spend a lot of time complimenting both Arin (usually on his voice acting or artistic skills) or his work.
*** Be that as it may, Jon has never worked on Arin's cartoons at any stage (and he could easily if he wanted to), whereas Arin provides his home (The Grump room) as Jon's set and is (as of the Nightshade episode) Jon's new cinematographer.
* PungeonMaster: Arin fancies himself this. Though it's just as likely to result in LamePunReaction.
** The Grumps' befuddled response to a 'roided-up Dan Akryod collecting slices of cake.
--->'''Jon:''' Whoo, boy, y'know I've seen some greats in my day...\\
'''Arin:''' --''And this one '''TAKES THE CAKE''??"
** Ego repeatedly wiping out his dune buggy in ''Sonic 0'6''.
--->"Shadow wasn't-- um, being controlled by me. Dare I say he was in ''chaos.''"\\
"Fuck you, Arin."
** "Even the buggy is...''[[PungeonMaster buggy]]?'' ♥ Tee hee!"
** ''(Shadow pushes aside boulders)'' "You need to think outside the ''rocks''."
** Rogue's "[[SmartBomb Heart]]"-Bombs. (''Sonic '06'' #47)
--->"''(giggling)'' I guess that was a pretty good '''[[BondOneLiner heart attack!]]'''"\\
"''Fuck'' you, Arin."
** Jon is mocked for not grasping such a sophisticated game as ''The Price is Right''.
--->'''Arin:''' Dare I say...''Your'' Price is ''Wrong.''\\
'''Jon:''' No you '''don't''' dare say that, you piece of shit.
* RageBreakingPoint: In ''Sonic '06'', Arin gets a massive one when Knuckles gets stuck on the ceiling.
* RageQuit: Ego in Castlevania III, possibly [[OrphanedSeries ending the playthrough early]].
** ''Nickelodeon Guts'' broke Egoraptor. Jon wound up taking the controller from his paralyzed hands.
--->"You beat me Jon... You're better Jon. ...You're [[DamnedByFaintPraise better than me at Nickelodeon Guts...]]"
** Jon in the second round of ''You Don't Know Jack''. He starts buzzing in a hurricane of wrong answers, causing his score to plummet lower than the U.S. national debt.
--->'''Jon:''' IF I CAN'T BE THE BEST I CAN SURE AS HELL BE THE '''''[[BigWordShout WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORST!!!]]'''''
* ARareSentence: The forest hub world in ''Sonic '06'' really drains the life out of Arin. He actually welcomes a loading screen. "I just wanted to take a break from the green."
-->'''Jon:''' Dude, I don't know of many people who say that shit in ''any'' respect.
* ReadTheFreakingManual: They have a tendency to skip or ignore tutorials, then complain that they don't know what to do.
** Milky Way Wishes, where they said it was probably the worst game on the cartridge for mis-understanding the twist (Instead of copying powers from enemies, you collect cores that let you use it on command by pushing X. It took three videos before they tried the Push X, leading them to assume the game's trick was a lack of copy abilities.)
** They usually wind up skipping hint points and ignore informative dialogue in Sonic '06, and ''still'' blame the game. This in particular is noteworthy for ''[[SubvertedTrope not being entirely their fault]]'', because, while it's still rather ignorant of them to blame the game for their mistakes, they actually have the strategy guide with them, and it almost never tells them anything useful regarding the controls. Even then, the game itself is usually not completely clear on the controls. Still, Jon in particular has an unfortunate habit of swerving specifically to miss hint rings, and then complaining about not knowing what to do.
* RealMenWearPink: Arin picks female characters as a rule. ''Power Rangers'' thwarted him by substituting a PaletteSwap for Kimberly (or "Man Ass", as Arin calls her.)
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Their justification for not using a Face Cam while playing: while they SOUND funny, they just LOOK like stereotypical gamers plopped in front of a TV. They only LOOK funny when they have the power of editing or a script.
** The lone exception to this is Nintendo Land, where they don't have a choice but to use the Game Pad's integrated camera. To their credit, they actually let their real faces be shown instead of trying to obscure them with masks or any other means.
* RetroGaming: A good deal of their videos play through old Nintendo games.
* RhymesOnADime:
** "Oh, hi, Fuck, I!"
** "Stuck as fuck."
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter:
** Egoraptor's cat Mochi, according to Jon at least, is "the [[BuffySpeak darlingist]]....piece of shit!".
** Jon picked Torchic over Mudkip primarily because Jon thinks Torchic is adorable.
** Jon also found the bats in Shade Man's stage to be adorable.
** Egoraptor remarks on how adorable Rush is when they use Rush Search at the beginning of Part 12.
** They both find Celeste in ''Animal Crossing: City Folk'' to be adorable, with her pupil eyes.
** They also found the vampire enemy Kurokyura in ''SuperMarioLand2'' to be really cute.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: When reading Shroomish's Pokedex entry, Egoraptor kept confusing the word "composted" with "composited."
** In Yoshi's Island he also seems to think Jon is trying to say "derived" when he's saying "derided."
** Arin pronounces [[StarFox64 BoLse]] as Boisie.
* RockPaperScissors: Or Zombies, Humans, Documents.
* RuleAbidingRebel: [[invoked]] In Chulip, Arin and Jon try to kick a Road Sign continuously (And failing), with Arin (as Q*T, the Main Character) saying "I'm an Angry Child. No body loves me except No body!". Also, the Dad in Chulip tells Q*T that he's going through a Rebellious Stage if he doesn't want to meet the new neighbors.
* RuleOfCute: On some nostalgic topics, like Pokemon, Egoraptor has a Heart of Gold. (And Jon, a [[GrumpyBear Dick of Steel]].)
-->'''Egoraptor:''' Shit, I fucking love this guy, Lotad! He turns into Ludicolo with a sombrero!\\
'''Jon:''' ...Omigod, this is the stupidest Pokémon.\\
'''Egoraptor:''' Dude, come on. He's a Mexican leaf-hat man! '''[[{{Squee}} It's so awesome!]]'''\\
'''Jon:''' It's stupid!\\
'''Egoraptor:''' '''''[[NoYou You're]]''''' stupid!\\
'''Jon:''' How does your DNA evolve into a fucking hat?!!
* RuleOfFunny: Their names for the ''Emerald'' LP are all based on whatever is funniest. This leads to a young boy named "Fuck, I" setting out with the Torchic "Soon?", the Zigzagoon "nooooooooo", the Poochyena "Bakuhaku♀♀", the Lotad (now a Lombre) "[=GeorgLopez=]", the Slakoth "CHINA", the Shroomish "Compmsgcii", and the Nincada "STRGG".
* RunningGag:
** After making jokes that aren't politically correct or are incredibly bizarre, Jon will typically interrupt saying "Game Grumps!".
*** Similarly, "Like, comment and subscribe!" when they get off on a tangent.
*** Or "[X] Grumps!", where X will relate to the topic of the tangent (for example, "Exchange Rate Grumps!").
** Egoraptor will typically yell 'Good Night, everybody!' after those same jokes, perhaps referencing WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}.
** After [[HelloInsertNameHere naming Link]] in ''A Link To The Past'' Groomp, they often refer to the show as Game Groomps.
** Waterflame's pause balls remix gets mentioned enough for it to be a running gag at this point.
** Jon brings up the fact that Ego has three Wonderswans from time to time.
*** He goes on a bit of a rant once he looks more closely and realizes Ego actually has ''five'' of the damn things. Apparently he's not particularly attached to them, since he casually offers to let Jon just take a couple of him (for the record, Jon declines)
** An early, minor one was "You fuck snakes!", but it seems to have died out.
*** It comes back in a recent Yoshi's Island episode when Ego makes a crack about "fuck bats."
** Sometimes when they mention a product by name, they will joke about receiving cease and desist orders.
** Ego's many and varied insults for Jon, most notably calling him a "clod" and a [[WebVideo/AngryVideoGameNerd "pizza shit"]].
** Jon will consistently misname the Pokemon Whismur whenever one is encountered, calling it "Pumbloom," "Gamsmash," "Gumpflepuff," and "Pumbluss" in four distinct battles.
** Ego will often use his robot voice and mention cheese pizza.
** "Listen to the X on this shit!" seems to be becoming one whenever they discover a silly menu sound.
** Eye joke. I don't have that many, I can't see that many, but I can see EVERYTHING!
** Most of the earlier episodes of their ''Sonic '06'' playthrough had at least one of them singing some variation of "[[SonicAdventure2 City Escape]]".
** Ego saying complete nonsense instead of the show's name in the intro/outro. Apparently the show is also named "Juju's", "Flim Flam", "Bram Bloo", "Bloom Blam", "Black Bomb", "Gam Gramps", "Burgers" and [[SpongebobSquarepants "Squidward"]]
** They have a strange affinity for playing Mary-Kate and Ashley games. As of this writing, they've played ''three''.
** Arin saying during the [[OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase "Next time on Game Grumps..."]] outro that there is no next time.
** [[SonicX GOTTA GO FYEEEST!]] (particularly during a loading screen)
** [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog "Xing around at the speed of Y!"]]
** JonTron coming discovering a game in Ego's supply or having one come to his mind and he ''always'' goes "OOOOH MYYYYY GOOOD. WE GOTTA PLAY THIS."
** Lately, Barry seems to have taken a liking to ending episodes by slowly zooming in on some part of the screen.
** Mispronouncing the name "Rouge the Bat" in every way possible.
* SanitySlippage: During the [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic 2006]] LP, [[LetsPlay/SonicTheHedgehog2006 which seems to be a recurring theme for LPs of this game.]]
* SarcasticClapping: The Grumps take turns doing this when the other dies idiotically.
* SawStarWars27Times: In case you hadn't heard, Jon really likes birds. Also, [[{{Rio}} Not-Pixar animated movies with birds]]. (''Portal'' #4)
-->"I watched it on iTunes, and then I bought the 3-D Blu-Ray to watch it in 3-D, and then I watched it ''again'' to make Barry watch it [-and he was mad at me.-]\\
"It seemed more like he was like, "...[[SoOkayItsAverage yup]]."
* SayMyName: '''''AIR-EN''''', shouted in the same tone as David from ''Alvin & the Chipmunks''.
* SchmuckBait: In the ninth ''Banjo-Kazooie'' episode, Egoraptor and JonTron tell viewers to look up two videos. However, JonTron admits that he found them to be [[SquickTastic highly disturbing]], going as far as to liken one to a SnuffFilm. If the comments section is any indication, many of the viewers that watched the videos despite the warning signs were ''not'' happy with what they saw.
** For the sake of reference, The two videos are "[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Pizza Time]]" and "Eye Socket"
* ScrappyMechanic: [[invoked]] For JonTron, the shovel in ''Goof Troop'', which wants you to perform systematic digging for MeaninglessLives.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Egoraptor does this occasionally, most notably in Sonic 06 when they encounter the infamous Knuckles glitch. [[SubvertedTrope He always comes back, though.]]
** Jon does it after being thoroughly owned by Krazy Kremland. (''Donkey Kong Country 2'' finale) It turns out that Jon's own show does ''not'' exaggerate his temper.
* SelfDeprecation:
--> EgoRaptor: "UUUH THIS GAME IS STOOOPID."
--> JonTron: "Well aren't you running the self deprecation train right now."
* SeinfeldianConversation: The main appeal.
* SelfImposedChallenge: Jon and Arin unwittingly put themselves in one while playing Milky Way Wishes, as they did not know you can select copy abilities in a menu at any time. Up until the realization of that fact Jon pretty much played solo with only Kirby's swallow-and-spit-stars move.
* SeriesHiatus: Their ''A Link to the Past'' videos are on hold until Ego finishes his next ''{{WebVideo/Sequelitis}}'' video.
* ShapedLikeItself: Discussed, in relation to the Selena Gomez song "Love You Like a Love Song".
* ShootTheHostage: In the Grant Kirkhope episode while playing Goldeneye 007 in the singleplayer Frigate La Fayette level, Jon opens a door and immediately guns down the hostage in front of him, completely ignoring the bad guys next to the victim.
-->'''Egoraptor:''' (laughing) You just fucking killed the hostage!
* ShoutOut: Constantly, mostly because it's just Jon and Egoraptor talking about random things.
** The sped-up sections in the WildGuns playthrough are accompanied by music from ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}''.
* SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer: [[invoked]] In their Mega Man 7 videos, after an inability to defeat Bass, they listened to their fans to find the awesomeness that is the Rush Suit, and after realizing [[ChekhovsGun Proto Man explained how there are more secrets]], they decided to go for OneHundredPercentCompletion before continuing with the main game.
* SignatureLaugh: Arin's wheezing laugh makes him easy to pick out. May double as an AnnoyingLaugh for some.
* SincerityMode: "Real talk." Often subverted by then talking about something completely inconsequential.
* SmallNameBigEgo: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[DefiedTrope defied]] by JonTron, who doesn't even like calling his fans "my fans" due to how potentially snooty and self-absorbed it can come across.
** Very averted as when they point out bits of fan art or music, they're always very humble about it and appreciative.
* SmashCut: Whenever there's a bit they cut out of the episode, such as Egoraptor trying to learn how to use the Mirror ability. There's usually a LampshadeHanging to explain it, though.
** Almost every episode ends on one. Bonus points if one of them screams at the top of their lungs, only to be cut off mid-scream.
** {{Lampshaded}} in the first ''Castlevania 3'' episode.
-->'''JonTron:''' Egoraptor?
-->'''Egoraptor:''' Yeah?
-->'''JonTron:''' HOW MANY CUTOFFS... DOES THI
** They also like to mix in [[CurseCutShort Curses Cut Short]] into the video endings on occasion as well.
-->'''JonTron''': Next time on Game Grumps! Order up! ORDER UP A NEW FU
** Sometimes, they start with one...
-->'''JonTron''': One time I fell down... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
* SophisticatedAsHell:
-->'''JonTron''': You know what? Have you ever read the ten commandments?
-->'''Egoraptor''': Uh, yes, one:...
-->'''JonTron''': Don't dunk your Oreos sideways...that shit'll get ''fucked up''.
* SoreLoser: Jon shows shades of it, but believes himself to be much worse than he is.
** Towards the end of Mario Party 4, Jon's sore loser side comes out at full-force.
** Both of them can be sore losers. In Mario Party 2, Ego says that Jon's win doesn't count since he didn't get 1st place, even though that hasn't been the case in the past.
** Ego challenges Jon to two extra rounds in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Based on his reaction to winning both, it seemed to just be out of wanting to prove Jon got lucky.
** Ego goes off on a completely ''massive'' tirade in their Nickelodeon Guts after Jon refuses to tell him how to play a minigame. Jon figures it's justified because they both came in with no knowledge about the game and it's a competition; Jon telling Ego how to play it would be counter-intuitive because he's trying to win. This prompts Ego to shout about it for the entire rest of the episode.
*** At the end of the entire competition, Jon wins the series by 11 points (1429-1418) prompting a reprise as to how Jon helping him land after shooting basketballs would have made the difference.
* SoftReset: Jon is ignorant of this function, and [[spoiler:his speedrun of Super Mario Land comes to an end once he accidentally triggers it.]]
* SoundOfNoDamage: During their ''Mega Man 7'' playthrough:
-->'''JonTron:''' He goes "tink!". He's a tinky ass motherfucker.
-->'''Egoraptor:''' This bitch is tinky! I hope that's like a new fuckin', like, Wikipedia word.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Barry likes responding to non-specific requests for epic soundtracks by putting peppy tunes in instead. So far it's happened in ''Chivalry Medieval Warfare'' and ''Gradius III.''
* SpecialEditionTitle: The Guest Grumps intro for Grant Kirkhope has an arrangement of the theme by him, and instead of "HEY I'M GRUMP!" etc, this exchange happens:
--> '''Arin:''' [[MotorMouth Heydoyoumindifsomebodycomesonourshow?]]
--> '''Jon:''' [[BigNo NO!]]
--> ''AND THIS IS GUEST GRUMPS!''
* {{Speedrun}}: Jon and Arin claim that their ''Super Mario Land'' one-off is one, but it's more along the lines of a playthrough where they genuinely focus on the game more than usual.
* StealthPun: In one episode, when they were fighting the self-named Mr. Dooter in a Kirby Game, this happens.
--> '''Jon:''' What did this guy ever do to us!? Literally, he just dazzled us with enchanting-
--> '''Arin:''' "Hey, hey. What did this guy ever dooter us?
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Arin and Jon respectively; They both love to joke around at the expense of whatever they're playing, but Arin tends to stay focused on their progress while it's not at all uncommon for Jon to run off on a wild tangent or randomly burst into song.
** When Arin notices that [[StupidStatementDanceMix remixes]] usually don't have many samples from him Jon reasons that it's because Arin's the more stoic one, specifically calling him the StraightMan.
** During their ''Aladdin'' playthrough they question whether their dynamic is more like a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. ...or they would, if they could remember its name.
* StupidStatementDanceMix: Many. %% Limiting this to ones they actually favorite.
** [[http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/495574 Pause Balls]] and [[http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/495602 Poppy Bros]] by Waterflame.
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2llHyXVaWo Pause Balls (Acid Jazz Remix)]] by mirrorpiece.
** [[http://youtu.be/2L6POqtJ_Bk Goof Troop Boop]] by [=LilTommyJ=], but that leans more towards VoiceClipSong.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-U04aCOKs Ice Hair]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXKtGN3Ztw0&feature=plcp A Piece of Bass]] by Fiery Nugget.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcC3XBbodZc Butt Bumpin']] by Archers of Agincourt.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk9bmH28L_k Game Grumps Remix]] by Dollar Taco.
** [[http://youtu.be/BzuHumToRww Ooh Gosh Ooh Darn]] by oddboy18.
** Both of the Grumps stated at their MAGFest panel that their favourite remix is [[http://youtu.be/K4m5mr41g4c Banana Shoes]] by xXJerryTerryXx.
** MrWassabi takes this to its logical conclusion with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvEcvxyvB1E Fucking Stupid Electro House Music]], which makes an electro house remix of JonTron complaining about electro house remixes.
** Lampshaded by both in the second Pokémon Emerald episode. Egoraptor starts singing his version of the Pokémon theme. JonTron tells him to keep going until Waterflame makes a remix.
** There's so many that one fan decided to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDc6k5eKzo compile a bunch of them into an unofficial soundtrack.]]
* StylisticSuck: "Grep." Grep Animated has Jon and Arin animated as bowling pins with no lip movement.
* SuckinessIsPainful: Ego has been known to [[ThousandYardStare slip into catatonia]] from a bad game; particularly ''Nickelodeon Guts'', or having to endure the Iblis fight ''all over again'' with Shadow. (Woe betide Arin when he battles Iblis a ''third'' time as Silver...)
-->"''(numb)'' I can't feel anything. Why would anyone like this game?"
* [[spoiler:SuicideAsComedy:]] Rugrats in Paris: The Movie's tie-in game was apparently so bad, that [[spoiler:Arin shot himself. According to WordOfGod, it succeeded and he is now a ghost.]]
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[[folder: T-Y]]
* TakeThat: A couple to George Lopez in Part 5 of the ''Pokémon Emerald'' playthrough.
--> '''Egoraptor:''' *Recalling his Lotad* George Lopez, that's enough!
--> {{Beat}}
--> '''Egoraptor:''' That's how I feel every night at 11:30.
** To Selena Gomez in Part 10 of ''Emerald''.
** One to Oprah being fat and disgusting in Part 16 of ''Mega Man 7''.
** During their 20th ''Pokemon Emerald'' segment, there were ones to Tyler Perry's works and to Beyonce.
-->'''Jon''': ''"[[LampshadeHanging The only funnies we've made this episode were at the expense of black women stereotypes.]]"''
** To ''Call of Duty'' and Kinect Driving games being easy.
** The last VideoGame/MegaMan7 video has a few jabs at PewDiePie.
** Quite a few to [[TheAngryVideoGameNerd Mike Matei]].
** "AUGH, KIMI! STOP BEING [[ThePoochie A WEIRD RUGRAT THAT CAME LATER!]]"
** Egoraptor claiming that Sega opted to officially cash in on Sonic porn. "Well, they had ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' greenlit, so..."
--->'''Jon:''' That's AWESOME! Where can we get it?\\
'''Egoraptor:''' Um, [-[[DeviantArt deviantart.com]]/EVERYTHING!!-]
** In the finale of ''Metal Slug'', Arin takes great offense at being compared with [[FamilyGuy Bruce]].
--->'''Arin:''' ''Family Guy'' is like, "Ehh, Optimus Prime's a Jew. LOL." That's not even ''a joke''!\\
'''Jon:''' [[HypocrisyNod Have you seen our content, AIR-IN~?!!]]\\
'''Arin:''' uhhhh, I know a thing or two about [[CallBack "Knock Knock Who's There". Family Guy doesn't know SHIT about bananas!]]\\
'''Jon:''' Lemmie go ahead and give you ''our'' content: "OOOH! *fart noises*"
** RobertDeNiro gets the treatment during the Egg Wyvern battle, after Jon praises ''Film/AnalyzeThis''. Arin had already noted that De Niro was a poor interview.
--->"Barry, please put a clip of Robert [=DeNiro=] on a talk show going "[[FunnyCharacterBoringActor yes, yeah.]]" I need that."
** Creator/BrendanFraser's tombstone. (''Sonic'' #54)
--->[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: He's got a really big mouth ]]

---->[[/folder]]

[[folder: Screams well ]]

-->[[/folder]]

[[folder: What else can you say about the guy ]]

** During a Seinfeldian Conversation about Kevin Federline, Arin recalls that "he [[HeAlsoDId might've been a white hip hop artist]] for a day." (''Sonic'' #57)
--->'''Jon:''' Let me give you my favorite Kevin Federline song: ''Oops I put my pee pee in the [[BritneySpears wrong giiiirrrrl]]!'' ♪
** The majority of the 61st Sonic '06 episode was spent dishing dirt on ''TheTester''. Especially how Arin was treated on it.
--->"A good Q&A tester for the entry-level position has to be able to figure out the differences between [[ExcuseQuestion this picture of a parrot and that picture of a parrot.]]"\\
"DAT ONE DAT ONE DAT ONE DAT ONE!"\\
"You're ''good'', you're ''hired''."
* TakeThatAudience: With particularly bad games, Ego/Jon cuss out the mischievous person who donated it. (''Blues Brothers'')
-->'''Arin:''' Carol Sitz, FUCK you!\\
'''Barry's Edit:''' ''Dearest Carol, I am afraid I must refuse your most munificent gifts at this juncture in time. Please accept my sincerest apologies. Warm regards, Arin. [[SophisticatedAsHell P.S. FUCK YOU]]''
* TantrumThrowing: Arin audibly hurls his controller to the floor in Part 20 of ''Sonic '06'', then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere slams the door without uttering a word]].
** Jon has one in FamilyFued where Egoraptor enters "C D Player" as an answer and the game accepts it as a ''Remote Control Car''.
* TemptingFate:
** At the end of ''Goof Troop'' episode 3, the Grumps say they'll unlock a gate on-screen in the next episode; Jon accidentally unlocks it while the camera's off. To make up for it, they promise to unlock the last gate of episode 4 at the beginning of episode 5. [[spoiler:Jon ''immediately'' unlocks said door, at which point he curses himself and the video is cut short.]]
** This exchange in the pirate ship on ''Goof Troop.''
--->'''JonTron''': I'll keep one grappling hook.\\
'''Egoraptor''': Oh God, we don't ''need'' it though. ''(enters next room, which requires two grappling hooks)'' It's gonna be da-\\
'''JonTron''': '''Wow''', you ever heard of that word? What's it called? [[{{Irony}} I-RON-NEE]].
** Jon lamenting that he's winning Vs Grumps ''[[VictoryIsBoring again]]'', because Arin is "playing like a grey ape." (''NBA Jam'')
--->''(Arin immediately sinks 3-pointer)''\\
'''Arin:''' WOULD [[IronicEcho GREY APES]] MAKE ''THAT'' SHOT?!! '''''I DON' FUCKIN' T'INK SOOOOOOO!!!'''''"
** During their play through of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'', Arin plows through most of Tanked Up Trouble, all the while insisting that he won't die. What happens near the end of the level? [[spoiler:He dies.]]
** Jon professing that he "grew up" playing ''Donkey Kong Country 2'', and growing weary with Arin's ineptitude. At last, he takes the controls.... and proceeds to lose all of his remaining lives, scream at an obnoxious Kloak ('''''[[BigShutUp SHUT UP!!]]'''''), and claim he doesn't remember the game being so hard. Meanwhile, Arin kicks back in quiet victory, and you can practically hear him munching popcorn.
--->''(dies)'' "Ok, they've...really gotta [[NeverMyFault fix the physics engine on that]]."\\
[a minute later]\\
"I think what's been making it so difficult is I haven't been able to use Dixie. She makes everything so much fucking easier... ''(Dixie falls to her death)'' '''''[[BigOMG OH GOD]]'''''"\\
[the same video...]\\
"I know what's gonna happen![Arin's] gonna pick it up and, like, squander our life on a porcupine or something! ''(falls in a pit and dies, screaming [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl like a little girl]])''
** Jon is actually feeling pumped at the start of the Shadow campaign in ''Sonic '06''. "So far it seems different."
--->''(Shadow stands horizontally on dune buggy.)''\\
'''Jon:''' Ho ho noooo. This ''soon''? This ''already''??
** Jon complains about the close-quarters field map in ''Chivalry'', so Arin suggests dueling on the elevator. [[DeathByFallingOver Guess how]] [[CherryTapping Arin dies]].
* ThatCameOutWrong: "We've never slept together, have we?"
* ThatOneBoss: [[invoked]] [[SonicTheHedgehog2006 Silver and Iblis]]. It generally takes the Grumps roughly 15 minutes to beat either of them each time, [[FakeDifficulty for all the wrong reasons]].
** They seem to have a problem with [[FakeDifficulty Freeze Man and Turbo Man]] and [[MegaMan Doctor Wily]], invoking "Man it's a shit strategy that your best is to get hit by an attack that does the ''least'' damage.
* ThatOneLevel: [[invoked]] Jon thinks of ''Donkey Kong Country's'' Poison Pond as this.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: The two have a tendency to break out singing at random intervals during their videos, and in one memorable case while playing ''[[FightingGame Godzilla: Kaijuu Daikessen]]'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-c9ZQ9TwlI an improvised]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVMUE94di-w rap session]]. It's revealed in an episode of ''Jeopardy'' that [[HiddenDepths JonTron was a musical theatre major in college]].
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Ego says "That makes me angry" when talking about how he couldn't play as who he wanted to in ''Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee''.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Jon when he performs his Belmont's LimitBreak by [[PerfectlyCromulentWord nanana-ing]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AZ5XZHIDh0 Vampire Killer]], when playing CastlevaniaJudgment in Game Grumps versus.
* ThemeTuneCameo: Small portions of WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's theme song can be heard during the "___ WINS" screens at the end of Game Grumps VS videos.
* ThirdPersonPerson: They refer to their own [[JonTron web]] [[Creator/{{Egoraptor}} sh]][[AwesomeSeries ows]] and Accounts as such.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The beginning of the Sonic '06 playthrough begins with Jon saying "Oh no". It's even the title of the episode.
* TimeSkip: Between dropping the game off and picking it up again, though we don't notice. Though in the playthrough of ShinChan they claim to have put the game down long enough [[SarcasmMode to learn Japanese]].
* TitleDrop: ''Amazing Island''
-->"What's that, Arin, what's that?"\\
"It's an ''island!'' It's looks..."\\
"'''''[[SpeakInUnison AMAAAAZIIIING!]]'''''"
* ToiletHumor: Egoraptor loves his burps, but Jon just finds them disgusting.
** In contrast, two episodes (from ''[[{{YoshisIsland}} Yoshi's Island]]'', ''[[{{VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006}} Sonic '06]]'' and ''MarioParty 8'') had Jon farting and Ego laughing himself silly.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWaBZEfwQrw This video]] is a good sampling of the show's ToiletHumor.
* TooDumbToLive: They make fun of the fact that Boggy Bear, in Episode 17 of BanjoKazooie, ate an item (A Jiggy) that was the exact same thing he's giving out (Twice) and that his children have.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Chicken Alfredo, Monster energy drinks, and Snickers all recur frequently.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: [[ConversationalTroping Discussed]] in episode 2 of VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack, in regards to the entire trailer for SnowDogs being based around an out-of-context dream sequence.
* TwistEnding: The end of ''Megaton Punch''. [[VisualPun Literally]].
* TwoGamersOnACouch: Literally, as evidenced by a picture Jon takes during episode 20 of Pokemon Emerald
* UnCanceled: Jon and Arin returned to their ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse Castlevania III]]'' playthrough in mid-March, almost exactly six months after [[RageQuit rage quitting]], with little to no warning.
** It's not terribly surprising when one thinks about it. Jon had just beat the original Castlevania, was riding the high of victory, and had a much better grasp of NES Castlevania games, something he lacked back when they first tried.
** A Link to the Past has resumed after being put on indefinite hiatus following the seventh episode. Which either means that Jon and Arin's Zelda videos are imminent, or that they've given up on them.
* UnusualEuphemism: "Peen", "dingle-dangle", "wee-wee" are all often used to refer to a man's penis. The less unusual "wiener" is used as well by Arin.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Beating the FinalBoss in the ShadowTheHedgehog campaign of Sonic 06 is completely disregarded for a conversation about XFiles, the JerseyDevil, and what scares people on a primal basis. It's not until the ClosingCredits are about to run that the two realize what's going on.
* VerbalTic: Ego has a habit of saying "Fucking..." before his sentences, especially if he's joking around. In the Jeopardy playthrough alone he says "Fucking" literally almost 150 times.
** Jon likes to say 'Legitimately' or 'Legit'.
** They both like using the word "squander" a lot.
* ViewersAreGeniuses:
** Ego during their ''Goof Troop'' playthrough begins talking about the fourth dimension, and preemptively admonishes the viewers for saying time is the fourth dimension, when he meant a fourth spatial dimension.
** Much of episode 10 of ''Emerald'' is spent discussing relativistic physics, faster than light travel, and paradoxes.
** The two of them spend half of episode 11 of ''Kirby Super Star'' arguing about theoretical international economics.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: In the third ''Goof Troop'' boss battle, Jon and Ego throw stalactites at each other to trigger non-lethal MercyInvincibility to avoid the bosses' attacks.
* ViralMarketing: They were sent a copy of Dead Space 3, and all signs point to this being the case.
** However, they don't come out of character to praise it or anything, which is certainly commendable for being in that position.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They take tons of cracks at each other, both serious and joking, and both laugh it off.
** Their t-shirt ads purposely portray them as this.
* VocalDissonance: Meta Knight dubbed by JonTron in ''Kirby Super Star #5''
* VoiceOfTheLegion: They attempt to do one together during part nine of their ''Link to the Past'' playthrough.
* WaifFu: Discussed in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1. Jon feels it can get silly and ruin immersion, Arin thinks it's cool.
* WaxingLyrical: Arin takes the reigns from Jon... only to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saAir34l_LY#t=4m55s drunkenly try swimming up a waterfall of lava.]]
-->'''Jon:''' '''''WELLTHENWHYWOULDYOUTAKEITFROMETHEN?!!''''' Why would take it from me in the middle of the-- of ''the death swamp''?\\
'''Arin:''' Because... because [[BillyJoel I go walking in my sleep!]]
** "[[KonamiCode Up up down down left right left right B A Start!]] But I shouldn't have to tell you, 'cuz you should have it down to an art!" (''Sonic 06'' #44) This is actually from [[http://vulpvibe.bandcamp.com/track/noise-channel-rocker a song by Renard]]; Jon gives props to him in another video.
* WeaponOfChoice:
** In ''Mega Man 7'', they typically preferred the [[LightningGun Thunder Bolt]], only switching out due to either a lack of ammo, [[SpringJump Rush Coil]], or for {{Elemental Rock Paper Scissors}}. After gaining [[PoweredArmor Rush Adapt]], it became their new default.
** In ''Kirby Super Star'', Egoraptor's favorite Kirby character (and weapon) is Poppy Bros. Jr for his Bomb ability. JonTron uses Ninja whenever he has the option, and also is partial to Hammer.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: In talking about the [[CaptainPlanet Trope Namer]]:
-->'''JonTron:''' .."They're like, 'Love!' Or is it, are they like 'Fire!' 'Water!' 'Wind!' 'Love!' And it's like, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Bitch]], love ain't a element! Love ain't even a real--"
-->'''Egoraptor:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "It's heart."]]
* WhenLifeGivesYouLemons: From Part 69 of Sonic '06:
-->'''Arin''': Well, you know, when life gives you lemons...
-->'''Jon''': What, Arin? What?
-->'''Arin''': Uh, you kill yourself.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Over time, it's become pretty clear that Jon has a strong fear of spiders.
* WithFriendsLikeThese:
-->'''JonTron''': ''"You know...I took in what you said and I don't care."''
-->'''Egoraptor''': ''"Glad to know I have friends like you."''
* WorfHadTheFlu
** Jon has won almost all ''Vs'' challenges after the first one, where he [[RunningGag legitimately]] had controller problems. He also didn't do to well in the second round of Brawl matches, but he claimed this was because he was tired.
** Jon initially did terrible in Clayfighter, but at the start of the final round, he admitted that he didn't actually know the controls to the game. [[StatusQuoIsGod Ego did let Jon beat him up while explaining the controls in the final match]].
* TheWoobie: They often make characters out to be this, notably Gloop and Moundo. See AlternateCharacterInterpretation. [[invoked]]
* WordSaladLyrics: The Grumps indulge in some a capella, which is often more entertaining than the game they're playing.
* WrittenInInfirmity: The Grumps have been coughing their lungs out ever since they came back from [=MAGfest=].
* WrongGenreSavvy: In ''Goof Troop'', when JonTron was given a shovel, then came across a golden emerald-studded key on top of a dirt field, he assumed that [[AllThatGlitters the key was fake]] and he was supposed to dig up the real key. It turned out to be SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity so he and Ego could dig up some extra lives for the upcoming boss. Apparently JonTron forgot that the previous Boss Key was [[NoticeThis also that fancy-looking]].
* YouSayTomato: "You know, [[SubvertedTrope potato, potarrruh.]]"
* YourMom: At the beginning of the first ''VideoGame/OnePieceMansion'' video:
-->'''JonTron:''' "One Piece" like [[Manga/OnePiece the anime]] ?
-->'''Egoraptor:''' No, like your mom.
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->NEXT TIME ON GAME GRUMPS...