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Funhaus (pronounced "Funhouse"), is a division of Creator/RoosterTeeth that features members of the former Creator/{{Machinima}}.com division ''Inside Gaming''. The channel focuses on both gaming news and gameplay, similar to ''The Know'' and ''[[Creator/AchievementHunter Let's Play]]'' respectively.

Funhaus is based in the Los Angeles, California offices of Rooster Teeth Productions. The channel officially launched on February 16, 2015. With the disintegration of Machinima in early 2019, Rooster Teeth bought the Inside Gaming label, and the show now runs concurrently with Funhaus, starring the same (and [[TheOriginalDarrin original]]) cast [[note]] as of 2021, Inside Gaming consists mainly of Brian Gaar after the rest of the cast joined Funhaus[[/note]]. [[note]]In essence, Funhaus is for more laid back content like Let's Plays and podcasts, while Inside Gaming is for more constructed content like news segments, features, and reviews. Since both channels are run out of the same building by the exact same people, Inside Gaming content will be listed here for the sake of convenience.[[/note]]

Funhaus produces many shows such as "Open Haus" (Q&A), "Art Haus" (a fanart showcase), "Filmhaus" (film discussion), "Funhaus Podcast" (a podcast, also formerly named Dude Soup), and gameplay series such as "Demo Disk" (gameplay of video game demos sent by fans) and "Wheelhaus" (gameplay of Steam games randomly chosen from a spinner). They even produced several comedy series, ''Arizona Circle'', ''No Idea Ikea'', and ''Last Laugh''.

Core members include James Willems, Elyse Willems and Matt Peake. Members of the production team--Omar de Armas, Jacob Fullerton, Daniel Schneider, Don Casanova, Adam Brouillard, Ryan Hailey, Lindsey Washburn, John Holland, Jon Smith, Patrick Brown, Charlotte Avery, Rick Reveche, and Armando Torres--also make regular appearances. Former members include Sean "Spoole" Poole (who left in February 2016 to move to Seattle), Joel Rubin (who left in April 2016 to work at WebVideo/SourceFed), Bruce Greene (who left in September 2019), Lawrence Sonntag (who left in December 2019), Adam Kovic (let go October 2020), and Alanah Pearce (left in November 2020 to write for Sony, but remains a regular guest).

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Funhaus (pronounced "Funhouse"), is was a division of Creator/RoosterTeeth that features featured members of the former Creator/{{Machinima}}.com division ''Inside Gaming''. The channel focuses focused on both gaming news and gameplay, similar to ''The Know'' and ''[[Creator/AchievementHunter Let's Play]]'' respectively.

Funhaus is was based in the Los Angeles, California offices of Rooster Teeth Productions. The channel officially launched on February 16, 2015. With the disintegration of Machinima in early 2019, Rooster Teeth bought the Inside Gaming label, and the show now runs concurrently with Funhaus, starring the same (and [[TheOriginalDarrin original]]) cast [[note]] as of 2021, Inside Gaming consists mainly of Brian Gaar after the rest of the cast joined Funhaus[[/note]]. [[note]]In essence, Funhaus is for more laid back content like Let's Plays and podcasts, while Inside Gaming is for more constructed content like news segments, features, and reviews. Since both channels are run out of the same building by the exact same people, Inside Gaming content will be listed here for the sake of convenience.[[/note]]

Funhaus produces produced many shows such as "Open Haus" (Q&A), "Art Haus" (a fanart showcase), "Filmhaus" (film discussion), "Funhaus Podcast" (a podcast, also formerly named Dude Soup), and gameplay series such as "Demo Disk" (gameplay of video game demos sent by fans) and "Wheelhaus" (gameplay of Steam games randomly chosen from a spinner). They even produced several comedy series, ''Arizona Circle'', ''No Idea Ikea'', and ''Last Laugh''.

Core members include included James Willems, Elyse Willems and Matt Peake. Members of the production team--Omar de Armas, Jacob Fullerton, Daniel Schneider, Don Casanova, Adam Brouillard, Ryan Hailey, Lindsey Washburn, John Holland, Jon Smith, Patrick Brown, Charlotte Avery, Rick Reveche, and Armando Torres--also make made regular appearances. Former members include included Sean "Spoole" Poole (who left in February 2016 to move to Seattle), Joel Rubin (who left in April 2016 to work at WebVideo/SourceFed), Bruce Greene (who left in September 2019), Lawrence Sonntag (who left in December 2019), Adam Kovic (let go October 2020), and Alanah Pearce (left in November 2020 to write for Sony, but remains remained a regular guest).
guest up to its closure).

Ahead of Rooster Teeth's shut down announcement, Funhaus itself closed its doors on April 26, 2024.
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* PerfectionIsStatic: Played for laughs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBv_5GcSQYU one video]] from the team's Inside Gaming days; here, during a playthrough of ''A-Train 8'', Adam, Bruce, and James go completely OffTheRails by [[VideogameCrueltyPotential bulldozing over all the buildings]] to make way for new tracks, and joke that this is the work of a supervillain called the Conductor. By the end of the Conductor's reign of terror, all signs of civilization have been obliterated except for tracks that don't lead anywhere, with all the trains unable to move anywhere because the tracks behind them have been bulldozed as well.
-->'''Bruce:''' All the trains in town will never move!
-->'''James:''' Beautiful! Frozen in time! [...] [[EvilIsHammy I HAVE CREATED A UTOPIA!]]
-->'''Adam:''' [[VideoGame/BioShock1 No gods, no kings, only]] '''trains!'''

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In their Hitman and Alekhine's Gun series, the gang has shown little remorse as they kill and maim hundreds of people, ranging from Nazis and gangsters to hookers and clowns. However, in part 7 of their Alekhine's Gun gameplay, James feigns shock at the idea of killing American sailors.
** They also refuse to even glance in the direction of Rule 34 featuring [[PaedoHunt obviously underage characters.]]

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EvenEvilHasStandards: In their Hitman and Alekhine's Gun series, the gang has shown little remorse as they kill and maim hundreds of people, ranging from Nazis and gangsters to hookers and clowns. However, in part 7 of their Alekhine's Gun gameplay, James feigns shock at the idea of killing American sailors.
sailors.** They also refuse to even glance in the direction of Rule 34 featuring [[PaedoHunt obviously underage characters.]]]]

* Main/ExpositoryThemeTune: Bruce sings one as part of a Main/CreditsGag [[https://youtu.be/E_3VtG-Gp2E at the end of a GTA race video]] explaining what Funhaus do and giving each member a character trait.
-->'''Bruce''':''"[[PermanentPlaceholder And something else about Elyse.]]"''
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* {{Mockumentary}}: As part of Rooster Teeth's 20th anniversary, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIeyRnW5Suo The Untold Story of Funhaus]]" is an origin story of how James, Patrick, Lindsey, and Jacob Sr. created Funhaus.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Lawrence gives a long story about his process of figuring out how to masturbate as a teenager during their Back in 1995 gameplay.
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* RaceLift: Lawrence's WWE persona, Lawrence Sakamoto.

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* RaceLift: Lawrence's WWE persona, Lawrence Sakamoto.Sakamoto is at least partially Japanese, sporting a slightly darker skin tone in addition to his Japanese surname.



** Benson, the resident lovable and lupus-infected dog. Specifically James and Elyse's pet, but he spends a lot of time roaming the office [[FuzzTherapy comforting stressed crew members]]. He also replaces the MGM Lion in the Funhaus Theater Mode titlecard.

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** Benson, the resident lovable and lupus-infected dog. Specifically James and Elyse's pet, but he spends who spent a lot of time roaming the office [[FuzzTherapy comforting stressed crew members]]. He also replaces the MGM Lion in the Funhaus Theater Mode titlecard.
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* ButtMonkey: Spoole.
** With his departure, Elyse has taken this role.

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** %%** With his departure, Elyse has taken this role.



* {{Cult}}: There is now the Cult of Peake.

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* FreudianTrio: James, Bruce and Adam, in that order.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Usually courtesy of Peake.

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* GayBravado: One of their most common jokes, regarding the entire office.

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* DIYDisaster: PlayedForLaughs with ''No Idea Ikea'', with James and Adam attempting to assemble IKEA furniture without instructions and other obstacles.

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* DIYDisaster: PlayedForLaughs with ''No Idea Ikea'', with James and Adam attempting to assemble IKEA furniture without instructions and other obstacles.obstacles, such as building with oven mitts on or building blindfolded.
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* ParallelPornTitle: The gang get [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlGLT7hHCsM a lot of comedic mileage]] thinking up Main/IncrediblyLamePun names for porn parody versions of WesternAnimation/ToyStory, [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the Rings]], Goosebumps, Franchise/StarWars, etc.

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* ParallelPornTitle: The gang get [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlGLT7hHCsM a lot of comedic mileage]] thinking up Main/IncrediblyLamePun names for porn parody versions of WesternAnimation/ToyStory, Franchise/ToyStory, [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the Rings]], Goosebumps, Franchise/StarWars, etc.

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