Game Grumps (pre-2019)

Game Grumps is a gaming YouTube channel that produces Let's Plays. The channel is hosted by Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson and formerly Jon "JonTron" Jafari who has been replaced by Daniel "Danny" Avidan in 2013, just one year after the show began. The show focuses on playing video games and adding comedic commentary.

Why They Used to be Amazing

 * 1) The two Let's Players, Arin and Jon, had a great dynamic with each other. Danny, the successor to Jon, also has a great dynamic with Arin.
 * 2) The jokes are pretty funny and great, and often get built upon as a playthrough progresses.
 * 3) Many great and memorable playthroughs, including but not limited to:
 * 4) *mh:awesomegames:Kirby Super Star (the debut series)
 * 5) *Sonic '06 (the greatest by far)
 * 6) *Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! (the debut series for Danny)
 * 7) *mh:crappygames:Mickey Mousecapade
 * 8) *mh:awesomegames:Bloodborne (the longest playthrough)
 * 9) *Dark Souls III
 * 10) *mh:awesomegames:Shovel Knight (both normal and co-op)
 * 11) *Snipperclips
 * 12) *Portal 2
 * 13) *Sonic Unleashed (despite being the mediocre Wii version)
 * 14) *Heave Ho!
 * 15) *mh:crappygames:Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
 * 16) *Devil's Third
 * 17) *Dark Souls Remastered
 * 18) Plenty of talented people who work on the channel, such as the Grumps themselves, Ross, Kevin, and Brian.
 * 19) *Speaking of Brian, the Grumpcade episodes revolving around him and Audrey are enjoyable. It shows that Brian is a good father to Audrey in these videos, which is nice.
 * 20) *Ross, after leaving the channel, pursued his solo career and is currently making funny animation and gaming-related videos.
 * 21) They have a great fanbase that makes Game Grumps animations and remixes, which are well-animated and entertaining.
 * 22) *The animators in question are actually good people (with one exception, see BQ #6), such as Ryan Storm and Shoocharu.
 * 23) Short, sweet, and definitely memorable intro.
 * 24) Lots of funny moments, such as:
 * 25) *Arin and Dan reading the page on the mh:crappygames:Crappy Games Wiki for Zelda's Adventure during their playthrough of it.
 * 26) *Arin and Dan talking about the song "Literally My Life" in one episode, and the next episode begins with them watching the YouTube video offscreen.
 * 27) *Dan repeatedly using his Infinidagger in the Shovel Knight Co-Op playthrough, which gets him killed. He then respawns and says "Hellooooooo!"
 * 28) *Arin dying repeatedly on the final stage of Sonic Unleashed.
 * 29) *The Return to Innocence joke in the Dark Souls III playthrough.
 * 30) *Basically the entirety of the Mickey Mousecapade playthrough.
 * 31) *The Grumps creating a Sonic OC called "Plurmp McFlurtin".
 * 32) Great editing from Barry and Kevin, and later Matt and Ryan (from SuperMega).
 * 33) *On top of that, Barry often uploads videos on his own channel. He also has his own streaming channel in the form of BarryWasStreaming where he streams games too.
 * 34) Arin rages over difficult games, which is pretty funny (depending on your view).
 * 35) Spawned many great spinoffs, such as Steam Train, Steam Rolled, Grumpcade, and Table Flip.
 * 36) Led to many memorable quotes, including:
 * 37) *"At age 6, I was born without a face."
 * 38) *"If you die in the game, you die for real!"
 * 39) *"Gosh, this game sucks so much. Who designed it? Satan?"
 * 40) *"Jesus christ, Arin, fine!"
 * 41) *"Ahhhhhhhhhhh! I GUESS I'M-A GONNA GO FISHING!"
 * 42) *"Infinidagger!"
 * 43) It would go on to become the basis for similar let's play channels, some of which are improvements over this one.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) A lot of fans were displeased with the departure of Jon, causing them to hate on Danny. This is justifiable, as Dan and Arin's dynamic isn't as great as the previous duo's.
 * 2) The constant sexual jokes, swearing, and homosexual/racial slurs can be quite immature and unfunny to some people. This was common during Jon's days on the channel, where he and Arin constantly said the N-word in many episodes solely to be funny. They have since regretted doing this, apologizing in 2020 about it within the rise of the George Floyd protests.
 * 3) *Not to mention, some jokes are actually stolen from other channels (notably SuperMega) and driven into the ground.
 * 4) Although Arin's raging is funny, it happens a lot, to the point where it can easily become annoying.
 * 5) *He also has a lot of flaws in real life and is a toxic person on Twitter. Most of these problems started in 2016.
 * 6) They can repeat the same joke(s) throughout the entire gameplay without building on it. An example can be their playthrough of Sonic and the Secret Rings, where they sing parts of a random song fifty-four times in a row.
 * 7) The series has gone massively downhill since 2019 and hasn't recovered, due to the departures of Matt, Ryan, and Ross, and Arin's business decisions becoming more questionable.
 * 8) They once supported Dave Kelly (aka Shmorky), a well-known infamous furry left-wing cartoonist (who turned out to be a pedophile as well) and let him do animations for them.
 * 9) Unnecessary censorship throughout the series, especially in recent episodes. The worst offender is the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 episode, where the editor not only censored the swearing, but also censored any mention of other media due to Activision's meddling.
 * 10) In 2018, the Grumps began a new series called Ten Minute Power Hour, which is inferior to the main series and all the other spinoffs. It's at least enjoyable, though, if you like the main series.
 * 11) The editing has become awful recently, with terrible and clickbaity thumbnails, nonsensical video titles (that are also clickbait), and no numbers to indicate series, which can confuse the viewers to the point where they forget where they left off. As a result, viewership for the show has declined and the subscriber count is stuck at 5.33M.

Reception
Game Grumps currently has an 8.3/10 on IMDb. It is widely regarded as one of the best Let's Play series of all time.

Trivia

 * They wrote an adventure novel called Ghost Hunters Adventure Club and the Secret of the Grande Chateau.
 * They have produced two video games, those being Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator and Soviet Jump Game.