The Rooster Teeth Shorts are a series of live-action shorts that chronicle the adventures of Rooster Teeth studios (a.k.a the guys who make Red vs. Blue). There are currently two complete seasons. The first having twenty episodes, and the second having twenty-two, as well as three episodes of 'Captain Dynamic'. The second season recently finished followed by the immediate start of the 3rd season. The episodes have varying sizes, themes and aesthetics, ranging from the "mockumentary" short Dress Rehearsal, taking place entirely in one room, to Hotel Buddies taking place in a hotel in California and using some chickens, metal bits, and mysterious lights.
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Actually Pretty Funny: Burnie doesn't mind Joel's portrayal of him in Super Gus, where he's a greedy bank-robber.
Ben: Geoff, somebody thought that you were hobo that had wandered onto the set, they didn't think you were acting.
Bad Boss: Burnie leans towards this most of the time, coming up with convoluted schemes or just downright abusing his workers. Examples include stealing Gus's beard (somehow) and attempting to fire a worker for no other reason than to get his sandwich.
Big "NO!": Steve Rogers lets out an anguised one in the Captain America: The First Avenger (Parody), after getting friend-zoned.
Burnie: Yeah, we can't really tell you guys apart 'cause you both have the same pompous-ass British accent. I can't even tell what you're saying half the time.
Gavin: What are you talking about? We don't sound anything alike, I'm from Oxford and he's from Nottingham.
Joel: See, first you say the name of the food, then you throw it at your opponents face, if the food crosses the line and hits your opponent in the face you get a point.
Gus: Unless the opponent catches it in with their mouth in which case you don't.
Joel: That's when you enter the double peril zone. In the double peril zone, the point values are doubled, but instead of saying the name of the food you say-
Gus:FOOD WAR! Then you get a chance to fire it back at your opponent.
Joel: Right, but if you're able to catch that with your mouth you can put your opponent into double danger overtime, I once took Nathan into a fifth round overtime with a dollop of ketchup, but he swallowed it so he was disqualified.
Gus: Normally condiments aren't allowed but we were playing by Aussie rules that day.
Gus: Oh fuck, We need to keep the original out here so we can make another clone.
Burnie: Oh right, gotta go from the source otherwise the copy DNA gets bad.
And then they grab Ben instead of Gavin.
Cloning Blues: Geoff, Gus and Burnie found a way to clone Gavin on craigslist.
Cloud Cuckoolander: Geoff and Burnie are probably the most consistent ones, but Joel and Gus get a fair bit of it, too.
Completely Missing the Point: Chris spends the entirety of the Picture Perfect episode not realizing that Matt does not want dogs having sex at all in the photos of Burnie.
Gag Penis: In the Captain America: The First Avenger (Parody) video, after being told that the super serum will enlarge the rest of his body by displacing the part of his body he won't use for fighting (his penis), Steve suggests they reverse the concept and shrink the rest of his body to make his penis really big so he could fight with it "like some sort of battleaxe". The idea is declined.
Hey, It's That Voice!: If you listen closely you can hear the cast's Red vs. Blue voices coming through. Also particularly recognizable is Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies fame, who plays the titular character in Captain Dynamic.
Hot Mom: Griffon Ramsey, who has appeared in several shorts so far. While it's never mentioned in the shorts, she is a mother and, well, damn.
Ho Yay: The Stand Alone episode culminates in Burnie, Geoff and Joel all apparently falling in love with the Gus cardboard cutout, leading to an argument. Gus is revealed to have spent his time away from work creating cardboard cutouts of them also, and promptly throws off his shirt asking "Who wants to play strip poker?!".
Ironic Hell: Shown in Will killing in video games stop you from getting into heaven?, Geoff falling into hell for all the deaths he committed in video games keeps falling due to Loads and Loads of Loading.
Missing Episode: The DMV Episode has mysteriously disappeared from the website. Word of God says the Texas DMV complained.
Mood Whiplash: In Super Strength, Chris goes crazy with happiness upon gaining the glowing Orb. Cut to his tombstone after the Orb gave him cancer.
Additionally in Starry Night, where Gus goes out late at night to bury a dead body. He runs into another guy doing so, and the two get married.
Mundane Wish: One short has Geoff catch a magic fish that grants him three wishes. His first is for two strawberry milkshakes. When he spills one of those two milkshakes, his second is to unspill it. His last is to wish it wasn't against the rules to eat a magical fish sandwich.
Noodle Incident: The "ritual" that Joel performs in Hotel Buddies.
Sidetracked by the Analogy: Upon finding the Orb in Super Strength, Chris and Marshall's argument about the Orb's true power deviates into whether Sonic the Hedgehog's superpower is super-strength or super-speed.
Chris: "He's fast, yes, but in order to be fast you must be strong."
Marshall: "You're telling me that if you went up to Sonic the Hedgehog, you would much rather race him than try a squat competition?"
Smoking Hot Sex: Brandon is smoking a cigarette after he has sex with the fax machine.
Squick: Apparently, how Chris gets the dogs having sex in all of his photos in the Picture Perfect video involves peanut butter. That was Matt's. And he put it all back before Matt realized this and had the peanut butter for lunch.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: In the Will killing in video games stop you from getting into heaven? short... Unfortunately for gamers, heaven seems to not discriminate on the matter and will declare you a murderer for all that video game violence.
are a series of live-action shorts that chronicle the adventures of Rooster Teeth studios (a.k.a the guys who make Red vs. Blue). There are currently two complete seasons. The first having twenty episodes, and the second having twenty-two, as well as three episodes of 'Captain Dynamic'. The second season recently finished followed by the immediate start of the 3rd season. The episodes have varying sizes, themes and aesthetics, ranging from the "mockumentary" short Dress Rehearsal, taking place entirely in one room, to Hotel Buddies taking place in a hotel in California and using some chickens, metal bits, and mysterious lights.
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