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General

• The Running Gag of knocking the cup and the two dinosaur toys off the table.

Jurassic Make Off (w/ the Yogscast)

Part 1

• The cup comes to life to warn us about MKUltra.
• The Grumps take their shirts off for no reason. They do this in Parts 2 and 3 as well.

Part 4

• Arin discovers he can make a milkshake by pouring sugar into the cream. Followed up by him insisting everyone try it; they all grimace, but also admit that it's good.
• After the Grumps are declared the overall winners of the Jurassic Make Off, Danny's victory speech must be seen to be believed. He somehow mostly keeps a straight face and earnest voice throughout most of it, even as everyone else present tries and fails to hold back their laughter.
  Dan: Thank you so much to the Yogscast. Thank you so much to Rhys, the paleontologist. Thanks so much to, to Ben, the cooking guy. Thanks so much to Turps, the man standing between Ben and Rhys. Thank you so much to Lewis, Sips's friend. Thank you so much to Sips, Lewis's friend. Thank you to my dad. Thank you to God, all the glory to God.
  Arin: Who the hell—what'd your dad do?!
  Dan: He shot me out of his balls. [giggles] Which, I mean, is the greatest gift...I was the greatest load my dad ever shot. [EVERYONE starts laughing] Don't fuckin' laugh during my speech! [something falls over behind the counter] Whoa! I'd like to thank my sister, the distant second best load my dad ever shot. [Everyone laughs even harder] And thank you America! Thank you Britain. Thank you America. Thank you. [Everyone claps]

Season 1

Grown Men Playing w/ Legos

• Arin declares that no matter who wins or loses he gets to fart directly into Dan's mouth.
• Dan seems to forget how Star Wars works.
  Dan: I'm gonna create an incredible X-Wing—or the bad guy version of that. No, the bad guys do fly the X-Wings right? No, they fly the… the ones that look like hair dryers.
  Arin: Have you even seen Star Wars?
  Dan: Of course I have! It's with Captain Kirk and Falkor the Luck Dragon.
  • Which becomes even funnier a minute later when Dan displays more knowledge of Star Wars than Arin:
    Arin: I think Wedge died.
    Dan: Wedge didn't die!
    Arin: Wedge died in one of them, didn't he?
    Dan: No, he survived. That's the whole reason people love Wedge, cuz they're like "Why did this guy live?"

Piloting The Perfect Paper Airplane

• The opening has Dan and Arin continuously ask Tucker if the film is rolling.
• Arin’s many failed attempts at flying his paper airplane. Especially after he brags about how one will go far.
• Arin doesn’t like stuff near his butt, apparently.
• Although Played for Laughs, Matt’s performance as a struggling worker and an especially tense scene between him and Arin is quite serious... and for Mood Whiplash, the camera turns to show Dan masturbating furiously. Ewww...

Fighting with Robots

• Dan interrupts Arin's intro. Twice.
• "This isn't good for zero to three sperms with sad faces. Keep that in mind."

Magical Manic Makeup Monday

• Arin has a ticklish face. Dan takes advantage of it constantly.

Just Married!

• Arin throws himself onto the table due to there not being something to slam onto it.

Making Balloon Animals

• Dan tries to recreate the M in the McDonald's logo with a yellow balloon... then one of the curves in said balloon comes up and smacks him in the face.
  • After that, Dan uses the same balloon to impersonate Lt. Geordi LaForge, but the balloon screams into both of his ears at the same time. Oops...
• Arin brings in Leighton, a self proclaimed “balloon animal master”. She sucks.
• “IT’S RORY!”
• At some point, the camera directs itself to a nude Matt, propping his nude body in front of a monitor of the episode. Arin just brushes it off.

Escaping a Room of Terrors

• Tucker makes the dinosaurs go away.
• Arin ponders flashlights and ice cream bars.
• Ryan farts in the midst of some puzzle solving.

Watch Your Mouth

• Arin invoking Whole Episode Flashback to get rid of the cup and dinosaurs.
• In this game, you have to wear an oversized mouthguard and read a phrase off a card, while your partner has to guess what you are saying. Ryan is able to articulate everything decently, while Arin sounds like a gibbering loon.
• At the end of the video, Arin attempts to eat while wearing the mouth guard (see page image), getting increasingly manic while doing so. It's one of the grossest and funniest things to come out of Game Grumps.

Trivia Time

• The episode guest-stars "Trivia Boy" (a.k.a. Jacksepticeye with bag over his body, a red felt sack over his face, googly-eyes taped on it, and a sticky note with a smiley face drawn on it).
• The Grumps declare that, if you get the trivia question wrong, you get a kiss from Trivia Boy. After Dan finally gets the first correct answer, he starts to say that getting questions right also earns a kiss from Trivia Boy...only for the latter to pretend to give him a blow job instead. Dan's O_O face afterwards just sells it.
  Dan: Thanks. Thanks for that future GIF. (It was, indeed, later made into a GIF◊ that directly references this line.)
• The Running Gag of the Grumps changing the sticky note on Trivia Boy's face to give him different facial expressions.
  • After the first time Arin yells "Fuck you, Trivia Boy!", Dan turns the smiley sticky note upside down to give him a frown instead, immediately resulting in both of them (and Tucker, the camera guy) Corpsing. When they turn it back to a smile, Trivia Boy notes that his mouth is now on his chin.
  • After the above moment where Trivia Boy pretends to give Danny beej, they draw him licking his lips.
    Danny: [while Arin laughs] Yum. Yum yum yum. Sure loves the taste of that trivia dick.
  • The facial expressions get increasingly ridiculous, until, after Arin gets his third question in a row wrong, Danny eventually just straight-up makes one that says "Arin sux Dan rulz". Arin then crosses out the last word so it says "Arin sux Dan", at which point Danny quickly removes it.
  • For the final round, Dan sticks all of the various sticky notes back onto Trivia Boy's face.
• After Arin gets his first question right, he and Dan start singing in unison while hugging Trivia Boy. It doesn't take them very long to mess up the lyrics to the song.
  Trivia Boy: [choked up] That was beautiful.
  Arin: Shut up, Trivia Boy, I didn't give you emotions! (Danny flicks one of his fake eyes off)
• The Grumps eventually break out pipe cleaners, and give Trivia Boy pipe cleaner hair. This soon devolves into him and "Danny Socksbang" (Dan's sock puppet from a previous episode) smoking a pipe-cleaner joint together, then both of them pretending to be frozen in place while Arin dumps all the pipe cleaners on Dan's head and laughs maniacally. As soon as he runs off and exits the room, Dan and Trivia Boy promptly unfreeze and start talking shit about him.

Yeti In My Spaghetti

• Arin specifically tells Danny not to have Finn, Matt, or Jack on the show. Cue Danny greeting each of them.
  • He also tells Danny not to open up Yeti in my Spaghetti, since he found out he could sell it at a high price as long as it remains boxed. As you can tell from the title, Danny didn't listen.
• Finn makes his entrance by slapping the dinosaurs and cup off the table as hard as he can.
• "Yo, that yeti's movin' dog!"
• Matt headbutts Jack in the neck and begins to cry because he gave Danny the win.
  • "Who's my IKEA Waldo?"
• "I miss Arin."
• The Ryan Magee Power Hour

Games of Chance

• While playing Pie Face!, Arin spins a 4 and begins cranking the lever, only for the hand to gently lift the whipped cream into his face.
  Arin: That was stupid!
  Danny: It was overwhelmingly awesome!

Distinguished, Very Classy Board Games

• Literally every time the fart noise is short and concise.
• Danny’s Running Gag of “X was/were the farter!”
• Arin opens his mouth as if to speak and presses his button, causing it to play a perfectly cut fart.
• A short dance break ends with Arin abruptly vomiting.
• Arin has a secret for Dan.

ASMR Torture (and the sequel, "When ASMR Goes Wrong")

• "Bad news, Ross, I'm feeling very gassy today."
• Danny announces that he thinks one of the items they're using (a spray bottle) is full of pee. A bit later, Arin accidentally snips off a part of the mic, so he sticks it back on with what has now been dubbed "the Pee Spray".
  Arin: Urine is a natural adhesive.
• “The Jews faked the moon landing."
• Arin and Danny soothe Ross with the relaxing sound of balloons slowly deflating.
• The sequel video has Arin and Danny taking Ross through a whole day, starting with waking up...via an alarm filled with screams and howls. They later Call-Back to it at the end of the video when they're simulating him going to bed by singing him a lullaby...and then playing the screams and howls again.
  • Making "breakfast", which consists of: crumbling toast, squeezing bacon, dropping full eggs onto the griddle without cracking them, and Dan accidentally burning Arin's hand. The pain on Ross's face the entire time is palpable.
  • When they simulate Ross going to a comic book store, Dan, who plays the role of Ross, tries to correctly do it ASMR-style by whispering, clinking coins together, and flipping comic book pages near the mic (only to accidentally tear the pages several times)...while Arin, playing the store owner, insists on talking at normal volume for the sake of "realism", to Danny's increasing irritation.
    Dan: Have you ever taken a fuckin' improv class in your life?
• In the sequel, Arin and Dan also take turns with the headset while Ross gets to help make noises. When it's Arin's turn on the headphones, Ross gleefully takes the opportunity to get revenge by doing the following right next to his microphone: revving up a leaf blower, turning on a drill, and hitting the metal part of a hammer with the metal part of a screwdriver.
• The guys activate Rice Krispies to make noises into the mics (using water and/or LeCroix, though, rather than milk), and they prove quite effective.
  Dan: [To Arin wearing the headphones] Snap, crackle, pop, biiiiiitch.
  Arin: [To Dan wearing the headphones] That's the sound of your body burning in hell.

Thanksgiving Cocktail Leftovers!

• "I wanna say..."blep.
• "I DON'T WANT IT!"

Building the TALLEST Gingerbread House!

• Dan butchering the lyrics to "Sleigh Ride".
• Arin swapping his shitty house with Dan’s tower while the latter is out of the room.
• “What’s more in the spirit of Christmas than eating ass?”
• Suzy acts as judge to determine the winner. She acknowledges that Dan has the taller house, but Arin's looks more Christmas-y, so they ask her to choose based on her personal preference. Just as she is about to state her decision, Dan reaches over and smashes Arin's house with a hammer; when Suzy declares Arin the winner, Dan hits it with the hammer several more times until it's completely destroyed. They then start to sing together, only for Dan to abruptly cut it off by hitting the remains of the house some more. Followed by:
  Arin: Dan, I would never do that to you! [Promptly smacks Dan's tower with his arm and breaks it into pieces]

We Try the HOTTEST Weight Loss Products!

• Their experience with the Six Pack EMS^note Electrical Muscle Stimulation — or, as Danny calls it, "Six Pack'ems". Especially when they crank the juice up as high as it will go.
  Arin: You gotta try this, dude, it sucks!

Weird Board Games!

• Literally everything involving the frog tongues.
• The moment Danny introduces Yeti, Set, Go, Arin immediately snatches the board game from his hands and starts beating the everloving crap out of it with his bare fists!
  Danny: Arin, be careful! It includes four meatball-kicking Yetis!
  • Danny yelling this makes Arin immediately keel over laughing, forgetting to beat up the game for a moment.
  • Soon after, the game almost falls off the table, only for Arin to pick it back up and start beating the hell out of it again.
    Arin: YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY THIS EASY!

Bootleg BEYBLADE Battle!

• Arin and Dan ordered a series of bootleg Beyblade tops that are extremely dangerous. When Dan sees one of the beyblades about to spin off the table, he lays his hand out for it to spin on it, only for it to literally stab him in his finger. Dan screams, then cuts to him and Arin stating it was a bad idea.
  Arin: Why did you fuckin' try to catch the spinning metal blade from another country?!
  Danny: I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE A DREIDEL— yeah I should disinfect this immediately.
  • Given their sense of humor, the confused look on Arin's face almost makes it seem that he at first thinks Danny is only pretending to be hurt.

How to ACRYLIC POUR

• When Arin starts putting supplies on the table for acrylic pouring, he starts with a plastic cup meant for water/rinsing/paint mixing, prompting Danny to joke that they're giving pee samples.
• Arin encourages Dan to add some pink paint to the canvas:
  Arin: How 'bout a little pink in there, buddy?
  Dan: All right, well—don't ever say that to me again. [Arin cracks up]
• After Dan does so, we get this:
  Arin: That reminds me of a dream I had, where I was kissing y— [Long Beat of silence as Dan turns to stare at him and chuckles] ...a girl.
  Dan: Uh huh. Good save.
  Arin: And she was really pretty, and tall, and had curly hair, and she—
  Dan: "And totally not you."
  Arin: —and was my co-host. [Dan laughs]
• Trying to sing "A Whole New World", only to promptly mess up the lyrics, eventually just segueing into "Under the Sea".
• "GREEN!"
• "Please don't fear-fart right now."
• When they start a fresh canvas, Danny promptly makes a paint-handprint on it before Arin can stop him. Arin's protest ("No don't, Dan, fucking, god damn it!") sends Danny into a fit of laughter, complete with collapsing sideways onto Arin's shoulder for support.
  Arin: [poutingly] It's fine, it's not a big deal.... [Dan just laughs harder and leans against his shoulder]
  • Dan's laughter eventually causes Arin to start laughing really hard too.
    Dan: That was the most legit anger I've heard out of you in so long.
  • And after they've both finished laughing hysterically, the icing on top:
    Arin: [Still laughing] I've gotta pee!
• Arin accidentally gets paint on his shorts, and complains that he keeps wearing clothes he likes on the (often-messy) Power Hours.
• As they mix paints together:
  Arin: Dude, y-you're gonna cry. You're gonna piss your pants, maybe.
  Dan: I don't wanna.
  Arin: You're gonna maybe shit and cum.
  Dan: Okay, fuckin'...that's too many options!
• The second canvas becomes more and more of a hot mess, while the table just keeps getting dirtier. It eventually reaches its logical conclusion when the guys press the paint-covered canvas face-down onto the table and admire the paint imprint it makes.

We swap our HAIR!!

• The comments for the much-anticipated hairstyle swap episode: Dan's almost universally agreed to look great with straight hair, while Arin with a perm looks... eye-catching.
• Arin starts saying things like he's recording a tourism ad for Burbank, where the episode is shot (he lives in Glendale, another part of metro LA only a few miles away that has a mild rivalry with Burbank)—except everything he says is instead him dunking on the city.
  Where our skyline consists of two Holiday Inns: Burbank, California!
  • Now a video.
• Arin starts talking like a gossipy white-suburban mom. Dan, who is currently head over heels while the hairdresser works over his rather long hair, wants no part of it.
  Arin: So what did Stacy say yesterday?
  Dan: Arin, I'm not really in the mood to talk right now.
  Arin: Oh, you're just being coy.

Painting on Thriftstore Paintings

• During the intro, Dan reveals that he was keeping actual spaghetti inside of a pizza-shaped pouch. Without anybody else in the room knowing up until that point.
• The Grumps' unusual obsession with top hats and acid rain plinking off of them.

Pirate Papercrafting!

• Boruff and Tucker are constantly bashed throughout the episode for labeling their supplies.
  • Boruff: IT'S NORMAL! IT'S NORMAL! YOU NAME THINGS AFTER YOURSELF AND THEN YOU HAND 'EM TO PEOPLE! THAT'S NORMAL!
• Arin finally trimmed his nosehairs!
• About half way into the episode for whatever reason, Dan stops his work on the papercraft, leans in to look at the overhead camera, and screeches like a pterodactyl.
  Dan: I'm helping.
• Arin referring to Jojos Bizarre Adventure causes the comments to erupt.
• At the end of the episode, Dan ends up smashing the papercraft with a pillow.

Can you gold leaf while blindfolded?

• Dan uses Ike as a patsy to grill Ben Parry over the whereabouts of the Reptilian headquarters.

Mind BLOWN by Kid's Magic Kit

• Dan performs the rope trick for Arin by not-so-subtly cutting the ropes with scissors.
• Arin sabotages Dan's plans to perform the ball trick by trying to swallow the instructions. Emphasis on ''trying''.
• Everyone's astounded reactions (especially Andres's) to Arin legitimately mastering the dice trick. Also doubles as a CMOA.
  • Which is immediately followed by Dan performing the ball trick.

WHO DONE IT?!

• Arin constantly derailing the episode to talk about how bad almonds are for the environment, much to the confusion of everyone else.

Unpacking our show in OUR NEW OFFICE

• The way the whole episode is framed as a recap of 10 Minute Power Hour in general, complete with tinkling flashback music.
• The result of "David Cheeseman" (a block of cheese that Arin had carved into the shape of Dan's head) staying in a hot storage unit for four months - as soon as it's brought out, everyone within the vicinity starts audibly gagging. And though the block itself is covered in mold and hard as a rock, for extra cursed energy points it still looks like a guy's head.
  Dan: [takes one whiff of David Cheeseman] I feel like I just got a disease.

Season 2

Uno Anus (feat. Unus Annus)

• The very premise: Uno, where wild cards have dares on them all themed around butts, featuring Mark and Ethan (Markiplier and CrankGameplays, of course).
• Mark pretends to explain the rules by poorly mouthing Allie's words as she explains them.
• Ethan gets into an argument with Dan and Arin over what words you can and can't say on YouTube that ends in a hilarious bit of Corpsing.
  Ethan: Can you say "cum"?
  Dan: No!
  Arin: You can say it in the context of, like, you're going somewhere.
  Ethan: "I'm going to cum"?
• The first dare: Arin has to either receive an enema or draw four cards. He chooses the latter and uses the enema to drink a rather piss-looking liquid for the rest of the episode.
• Mark attempting to break a chopstick with his ass cheeks.
• Allie brings out the Yaoi Paddle. Yes, it's a paddle with "YAOI <3" written on it.
  Dan: Is that a yaoi paddle?
  Allie: (indignant) Don't WORRY about it, Dan!
  Dan: No! That is not a proper response!
• Ethan is dared to take off his underwear without removing his pants. After some thought, he gets a pair of scissors and cuts them off.
  Ethan: It didn't say anything about using scissors, now does it? I'm not removing my pants; I'm taking my underwear out of the equation!
  Dan: I feel like I'm gonna be drifting off to sleep tonight and I'll hear Ethan's voice, "I'll remove my underwear from the equation!"
  • And Mark's response to how Ethan will do said dare?
    Mark: Oh, just watch...
• Ethan is dared to draw cards until he draws a 9, then receive that number of spanks from the yaoi paddle. He draws 19 cards before finally getting a 9, leaving him stuck with way too many cards and a painful punishment of 19 spanks. Arin gives the last spank a LOT of buildup.
  Ethan: (stilted) Don't hit too hard.
  Dan: (through laughter) Wouldn't want me to CUUUUUM!
  • While Ethan is drawing cards, we can hear Allie, through tears of laughter, remind him that he COULD just have drawn four.
• Dan: "Arin, the guy with the thick ass is yelling at the guy with no underwear!"

Introducing...Smurf Nut

• The Grumps make their own hand sanitizer. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
• After struggling to put sanitizing gel into the bottles, they end up using a cone to funnel it in. Arin tries squeezing the cone to get the gel in, but it keeps sliding up his hand with every squeeze.
  Dan: It's like you're milking an invisible Picasso cow. (both laugh)
  Arin: It's like, "Moo", question mark? (Dan laughs harder)
  • One of the producers suggests that someone blows through the wide end of the cone, so Arin tries it...and it actually works, much to the shock and amusement of everyone in the room.
• Allie tries their second bottle of hand sanitizer.
  Allie: This looks like... (tries to hold back a laugh) this looks like...
  Arin: It looks like cum. You can say it looks like cum.
  Dan: No...
  Allie: What's blue and...nuts?
  Arin: Ah, smurf nut...
  Dan: That's what- that's the name of our hand sanitizer!
• Arin and Dan decide to combine all the scents for their next bottle. How does it smell? Dan's face says it all.
• Dan: "You filled the whole sample jar like a good boy."
• Everything involving the "Stinky Ass" hand sanitizer.

we played the WORST game of Guess Who

• Arin and Dan both get GoPros for the viewers to see their boards and the things each Grump has to guess. Arin gets a headband, while Dan gets a chest harness.
  • Dan keeps showing the main camera his characters and Arin has to keep reminding him to show them to his GoPro.
  • Later, Dan says:
    Dan: (while pointing at his GoPro) This is how they film the pornography.
• Arin asks if Dan's character (Yoshi) is someone Arin has said he wants to bang.
  Dan: That could be a 'yes' for everyone on here. I think yes.
  Arin: Aw man. Now I gotta go through each one. No, no, don't think so, (reaches Jamie Lee Curtis) Definitely yes... please don't show this to her. No, no, (reaches the Wendy's logo girl) yes.
• Dan asks if Arin's character (Princess Zelda) is female and starts flipping down male characters until he reaches Yoshi.
  Dan: Boop a dee-dah... Uhhhhhh... (flips Yoshi down anyway) dooda ba-deedle doodle daddle.
  • Arin asks "Girl question mark?"
    Dan: I think no.
• In round two, Dan's character is Sayaka from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Arin asks if his character is Italian and Dan says no, so Arin flips down Sayaka and guesses Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club! (who isn't Italian, either). Described as "the most Arin thing he could do" in the comments.
  Arin: You said no, she wasn't Italian!? (in Italian accent) She's an Italian! Come on, ah! Sayaka Maizono!
  Allie: It's Sayaka. She's not Italian.
  Dan: She's Japanese.
  Arin: Yeah, but, jushuba, in our playthough, she's Italiana! Mamma mia!
  Dan: Just because you gave her an Italian voice doesn't mean she's Italian!
  Arin: Oh come one! You know she's Italian! She says she's going to invite you make a meatballs!
  Dan: Is this really the controversy we're going to have over this?

We cook as if it was a DND campaign

• Dan and Arin participate in a D&D-style cookie baking contest led by Matt Mercer, with everyone wearing dino pajamas.
• Matt brings his large, hefty d20 die for the Grumps to use, which leads to some funny moments:
  • Dan introduces said die and it already leaves a dent on the table.
    Arin: I feel bad throwing around your stuff.
    Matt: I can guarantee you: the table is going to fare worse than the die.
  • All the guys tensing up whenever the die is cast.
  • Arin ends up accidently knocking Dan's bowl over with the die, causing the latter to start over.
• Dan wins the first roll off and gets dibs on his choice of mixing utensils. He expectantly picks up the d20 to roll again, only to visibly deflate when Matt tells him he has to roll a tiny d8 in order to choose.
• Arin gets a "tiiiiiiiiiiiiiny" whisk to mix his ingredients.^note Matt mentions that he wrote a lot of "I's" for emphasis.
• Dan gets a glass bowl to mix the ingredients in. However, due to an incident while prepping the ingredients, the bowl he receives has butter already in it.
  Matt: Look at that. You get free ingredients!
  Dan: Couldn't we have a second incident where someone washed out the butter?
  • Meanwhile, Arin gets a red castle as his bowl and is concerned that it doesn't look clean, to which Allie says that they did wash it. Dan immediately calls her out for washing the castle but not the glass bowl.
• Dan realizes that his mixing^note a rake and measuring^note a detergent cup tools look like a menorah and dreidel respectively.
• Arin has to guess how many eggs he needs to incorporate into his dough. He mixes in three eggs, and is horrified when Dan, who knows the correct answer, chooses one.
• Arin asks whether or not he drew blood after breaking his whisk, prompting Dan to wonder whether or not anyone who has ever baked anything has asked themselves that question.
• Matt has something to say before the judging:
  Matt: I just want you both to know: no matter the outcome, no matter who wins and who loses, I'm extremely disappointed in both of you.
  (everyone laughs)
  Dan: We have all lost here today...
• Matt ultimately chooses Dan as the winner, as his cookies were more "cookie-like" than Arin's. Arin immediately tries to convince Matt to change his mind by having him taste the cookies again. Matt's response afterward?
  Matt: You know what? This changes nothing.

First grade science experiments are RIDICULOUS

• After making a small baking soda volcano, Dan and Arin do Mentos and Diet Coke in their studio.
  • Arin is understandably worried for their filming equipment, but luckily Allie has a solution:
    Allie: If shit goes down, put the colander over it.
    Arin: (while picking up said colander) Oh, the one with all the holes in it?
    • Considering the size of eruption that followed and the only thing protecting their equipment was that colander, he had every right to be concerned.
  • Afterwards, Dan had this to say:
    Dan: Oh, man! That was instantly so crazy! I shaved my balls for this?^note In an earlier episode of Game Grumps, Dan mentioned that he wanted to wear his "I shaved my balls for this?" t-shirt when they went back to filming the Ten Minute Power Hour, which is the t-shirt he's wearing in this episode. This was also the first episode they recorded post-pandemic.

We grew bacteria from our WHAT?

• Arin and Dan swab surfaces around their studio to grow bacteria from them.
• They are both given lab coats to wear and Dan is saddened that the viewers won't get to see his Gundham × Sonia t-shirt.
  • They both swab themselves first: Dan swabs the inside of his mouth, and Arin decides to swab his crotch.
  • While Dan is swabbing his mouth:
    Dan: What if my mouth and your nuts yield the same the thing, and they're like, "Wait a minute!"
• They also decide to swab Dirty Sonic^note A large Sonic the Hedgehog plushie that is rather dirty, Ethan's underwear^note from the Uno Anus episode, and David Cheeseman. Yes, they still kept him after all this time, he still looks like a face, and has only gotten moldier.Everyone in the studio can't help but gag at the smell.
  • One of the crew members offers Arin some hand sanitizer as a "palate cleanser" after dealing with David Cheeseman. As it turned out, it was the Stinky Ass Smurf Nut hand sanitizer that they made a while back.
• They return after two months to check their results:
  • Dan's mouth only grew a small colony of bacteria.
  • Arin has a lot of yeast growing in his crotch.
  • Dirty Sonic is pretty dirty.
  • Ethan's underwear is way cleaner than Arin's crotch.
  • David Cheeseman has life-threatening bacteria growing on it.
• Dan and Arin decide to send Ethan a video showing him what they grew from his underwear, and what they found in Arin's sample. Ethan then texts them back:
  WHAT THE FUCK IS IN YOUR BALLS
  that's hilarious haha
  I'm so glad that my undies are getting some good use!!
  • They do gift Ethan some new underwear in the following episode to make up for the one he lost.

Will scary stories raise our body vitals?!

• Since Dan is more scare-prone than Arin is, he goes first, and is hooked up to 2 electronic blood pressure cuffs, 5 finger pulse oximeters, a fitness tracker, and a temperature probe for pets.
• Arin then tells him two scary short stories: "Daddy's Home" and "Puppy in the Basement". And at both stories, Dan's heart rate ends up going down.
  Arin: These things must be broken, 'cause these stories are really scary.
  Dan: I don't know, it's got, like, peaceful lighting in here, and it's relaxing, and you're telling me stories.
  • Then Arin tells him a two-sentence horror story... and Dan's heart rate actually ticks up from that because the story made him laugh so hard. (It was likely found through the "Bad Two Sentence Horror" twitter.)
    Arin: (reading the story) "Ah, finally, I'm all alone," I said to myself as I sat in my bedroom at midnight. "No, you're not," said knife guy.
• Arin gets hooked up next and after Dan's first attempt of trying to scare him, he shows him the infamous webcomic of the Bongcheon-Dong Ghost which genuinely causes Arin's heart rate to soar while reading it.
• They both agree that anticipation of being scared is worse than the scare itself, so Arin decides to test it while he's still hooked up.
  Arin: Say you're going to scare me. In an indeterminate amount of time.
  Dan: Alright.
  (beat)
  Dan: You ready?
  Arin: Yeah.
  (another beat)
  Dan: ...You're already up to 80. [both break into laughter]
• Dan is about to reveal the password to Arin's (alleged) Pornhub account before the video cuts to a negative colored-corrected version of the end sequence with a steady monotone hum replacing the usual end music.^note When the video first premiered, it was 17 minutes long and the episode ended around the 11:43 mark, leaving around 5 minutes of nothingness before the video actually ended. This led some commenters to believe that the Grumps had actually planted a jumpscare within those 5 minutes. Turns out that was an editing mistake and it has since been corrected.

We learn how to be Pirates at PIRATES ADVENTURE

• Before the Grumps can get on the ship, they have to dress the part, so they go into the changing room to put on their respective outfits.
  Ethan: Do you want us to leave?
  Dan: "Leave?" You're just about to see the pirate's treasures!
• Dan gets a prop axe to hold while Arin gets a holster of guns...which the latter has trouble pulling them out of.^note They're actually attached to the holster.

• Austin (aka "Benjamin Blue") has Arin and Dan swing onto the pirate ship.
  Arin: But there's a bridge over there.
  Austin: Yeah, but this is more pirate-y.
  • After Arin makes it on, Dan prepares for his turn while Austin shows him the ropes. Arin comments on how sinewy Austin's muscles are compared to Dan's, to which the latter retorts:
    Dan: I'm 43 years old, man! Like, sometimes I injure myself sleeping.
• Treasure shows the Grumps the bell, which they ring whenever anything happens.
• They watch one of the actors perform a circus ladder routine to Drunken Sailor, which suddenly cuts to Arin and Dan yelling:
  Grumps: OH MY GOD, HE'S DEAD!
  Dan: (in normal tone) Wow, we coordinated that! (Arin rings the bell as Dan laughs)
• They then sign waivers to try the riskier stunts.
  Dan: (to the tune of Drunken Sailor) What do we sign so we cannot sue them?
  • Dan is more eager to try the stunts than Arin is, so he ends up doing the higher rope swing while the latter watches.
    Arin: (after being asked about what he thought about the rope swing by one of the actors) I'm thinking that was great! Good for Dan!
• They try out the trampoline on the stage, which leads to some funny moments:
  • Dan flops on it like a dying fish and the pirates commend him for his excellent form.
  • They then try to do a seat drop. Arin ends up nailing it on the first try. Dan, on the other hand...
  • Ethan gets the chance to show off some of his gymnast skills.
    Ethan: Hey, Dan.
    Dan: What's up, Ethan?
    Ethan: (does a backflip on the trampoline) Go fuck yourself.
• Finally, they try doing suicides from a platform:
  Dan: Great.
  Arin: Oh, that's awesome. Sounds great. So what we call this is the, "bloody stain on the street".
  • After Dan's turn, Arin goes next...though it takes him a little bit he before he goes through with it. He jokes about himself chickening out and his dad finding out about it.

The weirdest egg products we can find

• Dan instantly misreads a cursive "Arin" as "him", leading to:
  Dan: How many eggs can him eat?
• The first weird egg product is the Negg, a plastic thing you put an unpeeled boiled egg into and shake so the shell comes off. It works, leading Arin to comment how unfortunate the lesson is: negging works.
  Dan: You could be a model if you were a little taller.
• Arin lets out a very long series of egg farts that take a second to hit Dan, who gets up and leaves, citing a hostile work environment.

we fail circus school

• The Grumps try their hands on some circus equipment. Arin was more prepared for this dress-wise wearing a tank top and shorts, compared to Dan who wore jeans and his Gundham Tanaka t-shirt.
• Their instructor, Aloysia, has them practice mermaids on the lower trapeze before showing them how to do the bird's nest to dismount.
  Arin: (referring to the trick's name) Why?
  Aloysia: Because you make a little-
  Dan: Because it's easy to fall out and die?
  • When Dan successfully does a "Bird's Nest", Aloysia tells him to lift his head. Dan responds that he is, but you can't see it because of his long hair.
• Every time Dan dismounts from an apparatus, he ends up plopping onto the ground.
• Dan says that he channeled the powers of Gundham and his Four Dark Devas of Destruction to do the tricks on the higher trapeze, to which Arin quips that he just did it without the power of hamsters. Dan's response?
  Dan: Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize we were at JERK de Soleil.
• They practice juggling, and Aloysia is surprised to find out that Arin doesn't know how to juggle two balls despite knowing how to juggle three.
  • Dan then gives Arin helpful a tip:
    Dan: It helps me to do it right if I imagine that every time a ball hits the floor, a family member dies.
  • Arin then practices two person juggling with Aloysia and does fairly well with her, but when he partners with Dan...
  • Aloysia encourages them to calmly communicate with one another since two person juggling is a collaborative effort, so Arin and Dan proceed to calmly shit-talk each other.
• While climbing the aerial fabrics, Dan gets his belt caught on it, leaving a noticeable tear in the curtain.
  Dan: (while Arin inspects the tear) I know, I know. I know.
  Arin: Dude!
  Dan: I know, I know.
  Arin: We're their guests!
  Dan: I know! It's coming right out of Ethan's salary.
  Ethan: I get paid?
  Dan: Not anymore.
• Finally, they try some partner balancing exercises.
  Aloysia: We're gonna start with something you probably did as a child-
  Arin: Acid.
  • While balancing Arin on her legs, Aloysia firmly tells him to not spit on her.
• The three of them do a spiral out handshake to end the day, and Dan notices that there was something in Arin's teeth and notes that they would have to restart everything. Aloysia lets out a quiet, "Oh, no" and immediately walks away.

truth, dare, or BEAN?!

• At the very beginning, Arin picks up a box of jelly beans in the exact wrong way, causing them all to spill into a prop hat on the table.
  Dan: That's the fastest you have ever fucked up a power hour.
• The gimmick: Arin and Dan play Truth or Dare, but they can refuse either to eat a jelly bean that is either a nice regular flavor or a really, really gross one. Dan takes a chance on either Birthday Cake or Dirty Dishwater.
  Arin: Does it taste like dirty dishwater?
  Dan: It doesn't taste like birthday cake, that's for damn sure.
• Arin takes a dare for Dan to text his mom something embarrassing, revealing that his last conversation with his mom was talking to her about being bisexual. Dan immediately ruins it. The following text exchange leaves the entire crew in hysterics:
  Mrs. Hanson: Again it isn't any of my business. As long as you are happy and good person, I don't care what you do.
  Dan, using Arin's phone: Good because my genitalia craves that sweet sweet sack
  Mrs. Hanson: Arin, really?
  Mrs. Hanson: That was rude
  Arin: I'm sorry Ma
  Arin: I goofed up
  • Later, Vanessa goes to get some chips for another dare and says she nearly collapsed going up the stairs just thinking about Arin's replies.
• Dan takes a dare for Arin to write on his back with a marker. Arin proceeds to write "Property of ARIN" and "Daddy's lil slut". Dan attempts to read it in a mirror, leading to this:
  Dan: It was all backwards in the mirror and I couldn't understand it. But it definitely says "Property of Arin", which I DON'T like.
  Arin: Okay, Daddy's little slut.
  Dan: (after hysterical laughter) ...I think I'm gonna go with Truth from now on.
  • This becomes a running gag through the rest of the episode. Dan accepts a dare to talk in a British or Australian (with him, there's no difference) accent for the next ten minutes immediately before Arin accepts one to impersonate Dan for two rounds:
    Arin: (Cockney) I'm Daddy's little slut!

trying uhh... flavored SPAM w/ Gina Darling

• Dan, Arin, and Gina attempt to try a lot of different flavors of Spam...because Gina will, supposedly, eat anything.
• Gina is rightfully horrified by some of the flavor options.
  Gina: What is "mezclita"?
  Vanessa: (off camera) It's a spread.
  Gina: ...of what?
• Arin asks whether Gina would eat a human if she was allowed to. Her response? An emphatic, "I am SO glad you brought this up."
• Dan cooks up some regular Spam and hands some to Arin, who says that part of it still feels cold, but another part is "boiling lava hot". Gina then notes that Dan cooks like a microwave.
• While cooking up some bacon-flavored Spam, Dan tosses it in the air and catches it in the pan. Gina is genuinely impressed by this and wonders if the producers lied to her about Dan's cooking abilities after they told her that he had burned cereal before.
• Dan opens up the Hot and Spicy Spam, and Gina notes that it looks very "Trump orange", which prompts Dan and Arin to do a Trump impression:
  Dan: (in Trump's voice) Everyone loves my Spam.
  Arin: (in Trump's voice) My Spam, orange Spam. The best Spam.
• Arin is annoyed by Dan using metal knife to cut the Spam in the non-stick pan and later complains about how his parents constantly use metal utensils on all the non-stick cookware he buys for them. Dan then quips back:
  Dan: Arin, what you're experiencing right now is a psychological phenomenon known as "Transference". I'm not your dad.
• Dan finds some KoЯn.
• Gina wonders if she would've avoided this situation if she had went to college.
  Dan: (shrugs) I went to college, and I'm here.
• Dan opens the Tocino Spam and its smell immediately fills the room.
  Gina: My nose is like what the Capitol Building―on January 6th.
  Arin: As it was being invaded?
  Gina: Yeah, dude, yeah.
  Dan: These flavors are a threat to democracy.
• Gina blows the smell of the Cheese Spam towards Dan and accidentally blows a hot chunk of it on him.
  • He ends up inadvertently getting even with her after he tries to open a bottle of vegan instant eggs.
    Gina: (with literal egg on her face) I was promised that I didn't have to do this on camera any more, you guys!
• They end up mixing the vegan eggs with Turkey Spam which they made quite a mess with.
  Dan: (while offering a spoon to Arin) Would you like to try my problematic meal?
  Gina: (while laughing) The "Struggle Meal"?
  Arin: (with fake enthusiasm) Mmm, big oof!
• They try the mezclita spread, but Arin and Gina don't seem to like it. Arin is curious as to what Gina thinks it tastes like because he feels like he knows what it tastes like.
  Gina: It tastes like a divorce in your mouth. (everyone laughs)
  Arin: ...That's what I was gonna to say!
  Dan: Like a contentious divorce.
• Finally, they try the Figgy Pudding Spam.
  Gina: I don't even know what [figgy pudding] is.
  Dan: It's my rap name.
  • Dan tries to toss some in the pan, but he keeps missing.
  • Gina notes that the cooking Spam smells like Christmas morning, prompting Dan to ask her what "Vietnamistmas" is like for her.
    • She later clarifies that it smells like Christmas and "the herbal corner in a Chinese supermarket", and Arin says that it tastes like Spam but if someone "sprinkled half the spice drawer on it."

Making tiny food with our WORST guest ever

• They're joined by a Rules Goblin (Ike in a costume) which either blows a vuvuzela, uses an air horn, pops confetti, or uses hair color spray when they say certain things.
• Dan scans a recipe from the back of a "Popinfresh" box and his phone starts acting weird and Arin says jokes that it's taking over his phone and "Your phone is now mining Bitcoin", which causes Dan to laugh.
• A telemarketer calls Arin during the filming, and the Rules Goblin blows his vuvuzela into the phone, which causes everyone, including the crew to crack up for an extended period.
• They offer to feed the Goblin some of the food, and Ike spreads the lips of the goblin mask, prompting Dan to say "That is the most upsetting thing I think I have ever seen."

Electrocuting ourselves!

• The Grumps use a TENS^note Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator machine while doing various tasks.
• Arin explains to Dan what a TENS machine does, and the latter realizes what will be going on this episode:
  Dan: We're gonna shock the hell out of ourselves, aren't we?
  Vanessa: (enthusiastically from off-screen) Yeah!
• They decide to experience menstrual pains with the TENS machine.
  • With Dan going first, Vanessa tells him to put the electrode pads where his ovaries might be.
    Arin: ... what?
    Dan: Boruff, get me an anatomical diagram please.
  • Then Dan experiences the pain.
    Vanessa: Ready to feel that wage gap?
    Dan: Yes. What? (Dan lets out a series of pained noises as Vanessa turns on the machine) Okay, alright, alright - really? That's what it feels like?
    Vanessa: Actually, it's more like this. (She raises the intensity as Dan yelps in pain)
    Dan: No! Ah!
    • Some viewers noted that the way Dan describes the pain was the same way that he described the pain of the Six Pack'ems.
  • Arin doesn't fare any better than Dan does.
• Then Dan and Arin do a series of challenges of trying to do things with an electrode attached their arms. They are both left drained by the episode's end.
  • While playing Pictionary, Dan gets Ethan to play and join in on the pain they're experiencing.
  • Dan asks Arin to crank the machine up to 10.
  • Arin manages to successfully perform a magic trick while using the TENS machine.
  • Then they play Jenga with the machine, and Dan immediately loses the game on the first turn.

Two VERY platonic friends learn to Salsa (together)

• Both of them are dressed in tuxes, but when the camera pans down to their feet while they're learning to merengue, you see that Dan's wearing his usual sneakers, while Arin has no shoes on.
  • Later in the episode, it's revealed that he wore sandals to the dance studio.
• As Leslie, their instructor, is teaching them the basic steps for salsa dancing:
  Dan: I've never felt stiffer in my life. ...You know what I mean.
• Then they practice dancing with each other, and things get spicy real fast.
• Arin gets progressively more sweaty as the episode goes on, and Dan roasts him for it.
• Arin laments that this Power Hour would be more fun if he was doing this with Suzy. Dan looks somewhat offended by this.
  Dan: ...Thank you.
  Arin: I'm sorry. I didn't mean it...

5 Minute Crafts that will change your LIFE!

• For some unexplained reason, one of Arin's eyes is bleeding throughout the episode.

Season 3

Getting BAJA BLASTED with @smosh's Shayne and Courtney

• The Grumps kick off Season 3 of the Ten Minute Power Hour by tasting different flavors of Mountain Dew, and then drinking the combined flavors.
• After tasting the Cake Smash flavor, Courtney wonders if it has caffeine in it.
  Arin: (looking at the can) It has the caffeine content listed, and then underneath it says, "We're here to help." (everyone laughs at how absurdly ominous that sounded)
• Shayne admits that he only recently tried Baja Blast.
  Arin: What? Are you not a Taco Bell boy?
  Shayne: Oh, I am a Taco Bell boy. But I go- I order five to seven crunchy tacos, they throw them at me, and then I drive away.
  Arin: (acting as a Taco Bell employee) W-W-WAIT- Baja Blast though!?
  • Dan is surprised by how much the others like it.
    Dan: I just don't understand how you could drink the first two and be like, "Disgusting." and then drink this one and be like, "LET'S FUCKING GOOO!"
• They all agree that the king's brew is gonna be a "sludgy brown" when they combine all the flavors in. They later describe it as The Swamp of Sorrow from The Never Ending Story.
• Arin and Shayne get enthusiastic about the patriotic themed Mountain Dew flavors.
• They discover that one of cans of Mountain Dew expired in 2018...so of course they try it.
• One of Courtney's alarms goes off.
  Courtney: Oops, sorry! That's my birth control alarm.
  Dan: Actually, great news! Everyone here is now sterile!
• Dan accidentally drops his cup into the king's brew and starts to say that he won't be able to taste any more sodas...until Vanessa tosses him another cup.
• As soon as they see the bottle of Livewire Mountain Dew:
  Courtney: This tastes like illegal downloading.
  Arin: You wouldn't download a Dew, would you?
• Dan: Vanessa, why don't you just cut out the middle bit and punch us in the face?
• Upon seeing the can of Maui Burst:
  Arin: (referring to Maui statues on the can) They're all laughing at us.
  Dan: Yeah-
  Arin: They're LAUGHING at us!
  Shayne: You looking at a vending machine at an airport, you're like, "Yeah, you're laughing at me!?"
  Arin: "STOP LAUGHING AT ME!" PLEASE NO! (Arin mimes opening the can and drinking it)
  • The icing on top from this moment is that Courtney's smart watch got a loud environment warning thanks to Arin and Shayne's yelling.
• They try the Flamin' Hot Mountain Dew.
  Shayne: I've heard from our buddy that this is good. May he rest.
• Finally, they all drink the combined flavors of all the Mountain Dews they've tasted...and Dan likes it, much to his own surprise.
  Dan: I really- I like the taint one.
  Courtney: Wow, I can't believe it, guys. Danny, he loves taint!

Why are there so many poop themed toys? (we spent money on these)

• Dan's fear when the Turdle recognizes and repeats back what Arin says.
  Dan: (after a second voice repeat) Oh my GOD! Alright- it does that. Thank God- I thought it was actually possessed for a second.