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Arin
Mega Man X
- The new introArin: Hey, I'm Grump![Danny's grumphead doesn't appear and his line is replaced with silence]Arin: Aaaaaand I'm the Game Grump!
- Arin decides to make his run more interesting by avoiding all upgrades and using only the Buster Cannon. Hilarity ensues.
- In Part 4 Arin decides to go after Sting Chameleon - again, using only the Buster and with no health boost or reserve energy. It does not go well.
- Part 6 has Arin returning to face Sting Chameleon. He gets overcome with frustration and rage very quickly while still trying to discuss his experiences with acting lessons. After finally winning the battle, the video immediately swaps to the closeout panel with this gem:Arin: I was a comedian, you know. I did comedy.
Chrono Trigger
- After speaking reverently about this masterpiece, Arin names the main character
DUNKS & gives every main female character the most over exaggerated voices.- The personality he gives the Princess, Oh God.
- The personality he gives the Princess,
- Part 3 begins with Arin retelling why he’s sick between episodes.He challenged another Arin behind the Sonic twitter to a cupcake eating contest. The end result? Grump!Arin stopped after 12 out of 270, leading to a wondrous belch.
- Part 4 shows Arin’s justified reaction to Lucca’s wariness of Frog due to his appearance. Despite experiencing blue imps & mushroom people earlier.
- Followed by Arin’s unbridled glee at Frog joining his party.
- Followed by Arin’s unbridled glee at Frog joining his party.
Super Mario Bros. 2 (Original Japanese)
- Arin plays this game on Nintendo Switch, and is able to use the "Rewind" function to re-do various parts. However, there's several moments where the Rewind function ultimately becomes a hazard for Arin as he'll sometimes rewind back to a spot that puts Mario in a very dangerous spot, resulting in Mario dying again.
- Arin complaining about the lack of new enemies. Perhaps foreshadowing Arin's descent into madness, Arin trips over his words with, "If this is the sequel to Mario, why don't there any enemies... that are new?"
- In World 1-2 he finds the secret route to the warp zone, but jumps the gun, and lands on a piranha plant instead. "This is a Warp Zone over here... oh, it's not. It's just more death."
- Arin's repeated frustrations over the bounce platforms that fail to cooperate properly.
- Coming across a tricky platform jump in 2-2 leads to him lashing out at Shigeru Miyamoto.
- Generally cited as the best moment in the Youtube comments: Arin getting excited upon finding the secret Warp Zone in World 3-1, only to realize it's a backwards warp to World 1. He completely loses it at this point.
- His deadpan reaction to Toad's message in 4-4. "Yeah thanks Toad. Well, you're at weiner level, so..."
- His one-word reaction to the sudden dead end in 5-1. "Cruel."
- In 5-2 he positions Mario on top of the screen, in front of the coin counter, and makes it look like Mario is pooping.
- He's also at first disappointed at missing a Warp Zone in 5-2, but then decides it'll likely be another backwards warp to "Negative 1".
- In 5-3 he's taken aback by a Blooper swimming around through the sky."You're supposed to be in the ocean, dude! This is the sky! The sky is the ocean of the sky..."
- After his long rant that there's nothing new in this game, he comes across the wind mechanic."Oh, wind. That's new... oh, hey that's new!"
- While getting through 6-4, Arin talks about how much he likes hot dogs. At that moment, an effect is added showing the Hammer Brother throwing hot dogs at Mario.
- After Suzy has brought Arin his hot dogs:
Arin: "That is Grade A pig parts!" - Suzy at one point comes in and asks if he wants anything to drink. Arin tells her he has his tears.
- Failing to figure out the maze routes in World 6-4, Arin consults a video walkthrough. He's depicted as having a Hello Kitty phone. Later in the video, he consults the same walkthrough for 8-2, and grows impatient when he realizes the walkthrough is for a 100% kill run.
- Towards the end of 8-4, while struggling with the maze feature:"You're making video games, not waterboarding people!"
Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts
- Arin explains he'll have the game set for only 3 lives. "Why? Because I'm stupid."
- While rambling, he yells at the zombie enemies and utters this:"Arise from your slumber, so I may... re-slumber you!"
- "If I were to give anyone advice on how to play this game, it would be don't."
- "I am like He-Man. Except much handsome-er."
- During the ocean part of level 2, Arin boasts how he'll kill all the enemies with "The seaman will be mine!" He then snickers once he realizes what that sounds like.
- A lesser-effective weapon appears within some death spikes that would be impossible to get without harm. Arin believes the game did that on purpose to help him. Of course he gets hit by an enemy immediately afterwards.
- In level 4, where the caves flip and go upside-down, Arin begins singing the theme to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
- He briefly talks about how when he was a kid, the phrase "running errands" used to confuse him, because he would think they were saying "running Arins".
- Just before reaching the checkpoint of the snow level, Arthur is in his underwear, and a devil is perched nearby. Arin decides to use a save state, but promptly screws it up, by having Arthur jump upwards and get killed by the stalactites.
- Arin was not aware of the Ghosts N' Goblins tradition of having to play through the game twice. After defeating the two final demons, and being sent back to Level 1, his reaction is a mixture of confusion and anger.
Monopoly (w/ Matt Mercer)
- Throughout the entirety of the game, Matt frequently doubles down on his hatred of Monopoly, while Arin tries to convince him that it's fun.
- Part 1:
- Arin's comedic timing strikes once again while Matt rants about how much he hates Monopoly.
- Matt learns about Gamer Goo from Arin.Arin: Gamer Goo? It's- Here's what you do, here's the instructions: "Slather it on your hands... 'Domintate'". [Matt lets out a chuckle] It's actually a typo on the bottle.
Matt: [through shocked laughter] Oh no! - Arin chooses two AI's for the game: Felipe on 'Very Easy' and Fabricio on 'Hard', with Matt taking that opportunity to say, "I like making Fabricio hard."
- Matt: "If you make like Monopoly by the end of this, this would've been, like, the greatest villain turn I've seen in media in a while."
- On one of Arin's turns, he hopes that he doesn't land on the property Matt just bought. He then proceeds to do exactly that.
- On one of Matt's turns, he rolls a 9 but calls it an 8, and Arin initially agrees with him before they both realize Matt's mistake.Arin: You play D&D! You're a fuckin' DM!
Matt: [as Arin laughs] I don't play with dice that have points on them, they have numbers on them usually! I'm not used to little... sh-shut up. - Matt thinks that Fabricio and Felipe are secretly in cahoots with each other due to them having similar names.
- When both AI's end up in jail, Arin imagines the two conspiring with one another while Matt wonders if someone can get assassinated in Monopoly.
- Arin's comedic timing strikes once again while Matt rants about how much he hates Monopoly.
- Part 2:
- Near the beginning of the episode, Matt notes the his hands feel very dry from the Gamer Goo, leading Arin to muse about a potential Power Hour idea with it before yelling, "GODDAMMIT!" after landing on a Luxury Tax space.
- Not even a minute later, Arin lands on an Income Tax space on his next turn, leading him to interrupt his train of thought again and losing the $200 he got from passing "GO".
- Matt ends up rolling 3 doubles in a row, causing him to go to jail, which he then notes as the most unrealistic part of the game.
- Matt continues to build on the narrative of the two AI's: Felipe is in a toxic relationship with Fabricio and encourages them to leave him for better friends.
- He and Arin spend the rest of the episode cheering on Felipe and showing their disdain toward Fabricio.
- Matt notices that the dice tends to knock Felipe's piece over.Matt: [as Felipe's piece gets knocked over for the third time] No, but like look at that! Like, I have not seen any other piece that just gets like, flung. Like the entire physics engine is designed to just abuse this poor thing!
- As Arin's turn comes around again:Matt: You're up.
Arin: That's my favorite continent.
- Near the beginning of the episode, Matt notes the his hands feel very dry from the Gamer Goo, leading Arin to muse about a potential Power Hour idea with it before yelling, "GODDAMMIT!" after landing on a Luxury Tax space.
- Part 3:
- Matt and Arin's disdain toward Fabricio reaches new heights this episode:Matt: I hate this. I hate this so much. Ruin him! RUIN HIM, ARIN! [...] Show him the depths of your hatred.
- Arin lands on a vacant yellow property and decides to trade it off to Felipe, giving them a monopoly. What does Felipe do next? They declare bankruptcy after landing on one of Fabricio's properties and cede their properties to him, including monopoly they just got from Arin. Cue Big, "NO!"s from both men, especially from Matt.
- Some commenters even compared Matt's rage-enduced "NO!" to Arin's scream from the end of their Battle Kid finale.
- Some commenters even compared Matt's rage-enduced "NO!" to Arin's scream from the end of their Battle Kid finale.
- Their shit-talking of Fabricio drastically increases after the above moment, to the point where Matt jokingly threatens to punch anyone named Fabricio in the face if he ever meets them.
- Arin: Dude. I'm sucking, I'm sucking Fabricio dry! ...Don't take that out of context.
- Arin suggests that Matt make Fabricio the final boss of the next Critical Role campaign.Matt: Oh, don't think I haven't thought about that already! There are layers to my loathing right now.
- It takes them a while to get back at Fabricio since he keeps narrowly avoiding their trapsnote , but they finally got Fabricio to declare bankruptcy after he lands on a magneta property. Cue Big, "YES!"s from both men.
- And it was Matt who defeated him, ironically.
- At the end of the episode, Arin jokingly declares that he'll replace Dan with Matt.Matt: Yeah... Don't do that, I like Dan. [Matt laughs]
Arin: No, no, it's fine! He won't mind.
Matt: Okay. Alright, fine.
Arin: Nah, he's- he'll just take over Critical Role. He loves D&D.
Matt: Hey, man. Good luck.
Arin: Mm-hm.
Matt: [muttering] Those people are nuts...
- Matt and Arin's disdain toward Fabricio reaches new heights this episode:
Danny
Space Quest III
- Remember the Game Grumps intro Danny imagined with only him in it? The one from this video? You get one guess as to what they used for Danny's solo introduction, and yes, it's just as funny now as it was then.
- Arin leaving a nervous and terrified Danny alone for his very first Game Grump episode with encouraging words.Arin: You're gonna do great; don't let anybody tell you differently...Danny: I'm scared.Arin: ...because I've been hearing things around the office.Danny: What?! From who?!Arin: See ya!Danny: Jesus, NO! [door closes] Well, holy shit, thank fuck he's gone.
- Dan finds a sign.Danny: Read sign.[You're not close enough]Danny: You know what? Fuck the sign. Don't have time for the sign.
Space Quest
- Danny types in "look".[You'll have to be more specific]Danny: Great. [types in "look room"][This is one of the many hallways in the Arcada]Danny: Okay, great. [types "look self"][I don't understand "self"]Danny: Okay, we're off to a great start.
- Danny finds a room with a computer console.Danny: I don't know what the name of a cartridge would be, so I'm going to try "Dan rulz bitchhhhhh"[Title not available]Danny: Okay, we'll have to come back to this, I guess.
- Danny saves the game, despite having accomplished nothing. He titles the save file as "I have accomplished nothing".
- One of the lab techs, Slash Vohaul, enters the room, injured. Danny tells him to "hang in there, buddy", then types it in the text box.[I don't understand "hang"]
- Danny types in "look inventory"[I don't understand "inventory]Danny: Dammit!
- After crashing into the desert, Danny notes there are a lot of things that can kill you. As if on cue, a monster pops out of the sand and eats Roger.
- Danny gets to the spider, which the player must destroy by dropping a rock on it. Danny explains the game becomes Unwinnable by Design if you miss the spider. He pushes the rock over as the spider is near... and misses. He restores and tries again, hitting the spider.[It was not known that you are a Master of the Rock!]Danny: Oh, I'm a Master of the Rock, Space Quest!
- Danny comes to a grate with a foul smell. He types "inhale deeply of the stank". The game doesn't understand. He walks over the grate and is grabbed by a tentacle monster.[You've been snatched from existence by a tentacled beast lurking beneath the grate. You feel the painful sting of digestive fluids.]Danny: I know that feeling. Taco Bell.
- Danny tries to screw around and drink from a pool of purple liquid. The game doesn't understand because he didn't phrase it right, so he types in "no need to be snarky game". The game doesn't understand.
Space Quest II
- Danny types in "give finger to boss" when the boss threatens to fire him. The game doesn't allow this.
- While traversing the electrified plant maze.You see that shit? All those Magic Mike fingers going up your COOOOOOTER! Sorry, that's something Arin says, but I'm very much a fan of it.
- After getting through a maze formed by an electrified plant, Danny types "fuck you plant". The game asks if he would like his mother to hear him say that. She's heard him say that and doesn't care.
- When hanging from the rope over the cliff, Danny decides to save it as "fuck my cock", but instead types in "kuck my cock", which he only notices afterwards.
- While swimming in the tunnels, he chooses the right cavern, which leads to a whirlpool (this is the correct choice). The game tells him he can't alter course. Danny types in "alter course". The game doesn't understand "alter".Well, you just said it to me, so who's the asshole now, Space Quest II?
- Danny's game-save names continue to be hilarious. For example, one is called "THE CHAMBER OF 1000 TOOT"
King's Quest IV
- Danny describes Rosella and Genesta as his "1988 threesome fantasy."
- After the cutscenes end and Danny has control, he realises he's playing the AGI version, which he didn't want, so he backs out of the emulator and finds the SCI version, then has to wait for an ad. One of the sidebar ads (a Ben edit) is a picture of Danny reading "Hot local singles want to plunder your ass!"
- Danny saves for the first time after finding the worm, but finds an existing save file titled "John's Save". He saves over it as "Daaayn's game of worm thrones."
- Dan comes across the graveyard and types look, but misspells it.That's a "gaveyard". You know what? You can see it. It looks like a friggin' graveyard!
- Danny finds a pool, so he tries to have Rosella undress and swim. The game doesn't allow this.Well, there go my dreams. It was worth a shot.
Gabriel Knight
King's Quest VII (w/ Brian Wecht)
- Danny opens the playthrough with an interview with Roberta Williams, insisting she's in the same room, only to cut to her on a boat.
- Danny realizes he has to turn a statue's head around to show a different face. Brian describes this as "We had to give a statue head."
- When Valanice has to interact with a statue holding a cornucopia, Brian says "It's a horn of plenty, and I'm plenty horny." What makes it funny isn't so much the joke itself, but the fact that he says it three times over the course of the episode.Brian: It's called comedy school, welcome to it.
