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Accidentally Correct Writing: In their playthrough of Super Mario Maker, when Arin does terrible Star Wars puns in-character as Yoda, one pun is Yoda's car being a 'Toyoda'. Toyota was founded by and is owned by the Toyoda family, who changed the spelling to present a modern appearance.
Acclaimed Flop:
- Barry and Ross' playthrough of EarthBound got low views, but high praise from fans of the game (minus complaining about moments where Ross is inattentive or doesn't match Barry's levels of Squee!).
- The Devil's Third playthrough got unimpressive view counts and thus was discontinued, but it's also a favorite for fans that did watch it. It frequently got requests to be finished, and finally was in the Spring of 2019 via Twitch streams.
Approval of God: Hayley Westenra was quite favorable of Arin and Danny's lip-syncing and dancing to her song 'Prayer' at the end of Endless Ocean, so much so that she says 'performing that song will never be the same again.'
Ascended Fanboy: The Grumps are fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000, with Arin describing Game Grumps as them MSTing video games. Arin, Danny and Brian were interviewed by Joel during the Bring Back MST3K telethon, and they even played the video game version of Manos: The Hands of Fatewith Crow!
Ascended Fanon:
- A few of the specials came from common requests and ideas that circulated the Game Grumps subreddit.
- A redditor originally wrote what eventually became the Jingle Grumps jingle.
- Fans had been demanding a Valentines special where Suzy and Arin play through the Lion King on SNES together, since Arin once mentioned it was Suzy's favorite game. Lo and behold, on Valentines Day 2014, they did a special which was just that, and acknowledged the fandom demand for it.
- Fans also had the idea for Ross and wife 'Commander' Holly Conrad to do a Valentines special, with Danny and Barry doing a 'bachelor pad'-style episode, knowing they were both single. While Ross and Holly ended up doing a Valentines show for FriendZone on Polaris, Danny and Barry indeed did a Steam Train special called 'Singles Train'. Ross and Holly did a Steam Train special called 'Love Train' the following year.
Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: They always have multiple playthroughs being posted at once, and many are put on indefinite hiatus before completion for various reasons.
Beam Me Up, Scotty!:
- They somehow manage to pull this off on themselves, where they quote the Pause Balls meme as Freeze Balls in early Goof Troop episodes.
- In Chuck Rock, they say the game reminds them a lot of 'Pinicchio', their name for Pinocchio. This is immediately lampshaded by Dan, who acknowledges that he never actually called it that in the video.
Colbert Bump: Or, the 'Grump Bump'.
- For Goof Troop. Just type 'Goof Troop' into Google and see what the top search is. Additionally, most Goof Troop videos on YouTube have many people making references to the Game Grumps playthrough in the comment section.
- Generally, anything they mention that you can find online will have a string of comments mentioning how Game Grumps alerted them to it. Ex: This link
- Jon himself. While he did have his own following prior, Egoraptor's was significantly larger and many people discovered Jon through Game Grumps.
- Continue is mentioned several times by Jon, perhaps in an attempt to invoke this trope, considering how he did this sort of thing in his own channel once or twice.
- Ninja Sex Party experienced a significant boost in popularity thanks to Danny's inclusion on the show (as well as co-hosting Steam Train). It took NSP's Youtube channel 4 years to reach 40k, and they reached 90k in a month after Danny joined the Grumps. Now they're sitting at well over a million subscribers.
  - Tupper Ware Remix Party also got a significant boost after Danny shouted out to them...to the point where not only did they get Ninja Sex Party to collaborate on their song 'The Hit', but now they also double as Ninja Sex Party's backing band. When they play together. You can check them out here.
- Acknowledged in part 14 of their The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD playthrough, after finishing a quick singalong of 'Let Her Cry' and 'Hold My Hand' (which leads to them agreeing that they both sound the same).
  Danny: You're welcome, Hootie & the Blowfish, you just got the Game Grump Bump.
- Hayley Westenra's song 'Prayer' got a boost in popularity after it was featured in the ending of the Endless Ocean video. Most of the comments on any given video of the song are Grumps-related.
- The Northern Hues and Skyhill have gotten almost all of their attention nowadays from the fact that Danny was in both of them (this was before NSP and Grumps and all that jazz).
  - In the summer of 2015, Skyhill reunited and recorded their first original song in nearly ten years. As a single on Amazon, it topped the Amazon best seller list for October 8. Not bad for a serious music duo whose singer is much better known for his comedy music and video game show.
- During the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Part Four review, Danny raves enthusiastically about an obscure pirate-themed children's singer called Sharkman Frank, whose album he and Brian discovered by accident on YouTube. At the time they discovered Sharkman Frank, his video had one view—theirs (meaning even the uploader hadn't bothered to watch it). Within ten days of the GG episode going up, all of Sharkman Frank's videos had bumped up between 7,000 and 35,000 views.
Defictionalization: In Pokémon FireRedPart 62, Arin talks about YouTube commercials and makes up a fake, sell-out YouTuber named FartMcgee28, who makes video game music covers using spoons. The exact same day, the actual page was created.
Development Hell: The Guest Grumps with Justin Roiland of Rick and Morty fame was a victim of technical issues they weren't aware of until after they finished recording and the whole episode was lost. They tried 'like 4 more times' asking Justin if he could come over to redo it, but Justin reportedly 'keeps making excuses not to', like getting a trick back.
Distanced from Current Events: During a series of protests from the Black Lives Matter Movement, Arin acknowledged the show's history of racist humor and deleted several older episodes that contained racist jokes and slurs (particularly the N-bomb), including both A Link to the Past playthroughs^note and the Bayonetta playthrough.
Fan Community Nickname: Danny calls all of the fans 'the Lovelies'.
Fan Nickname: The fanbase came up with 'Kinda Grump' for Danny, half out of wanting Jon to keep his title and half out of his temperament being somewhere between Arin's and Jon's. This has since died out.
In Memoriam: The first video of the Game Grumps' Intellivision series is dedicated to fan Ryan Mitchell, who had been put on hospice care due to complications from cystic fibrosis. He passed away the day after the video was uploaded.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: In June 2020, following protests to the murder of George Floyd and renewed sensitivity to racism, many older Game Grumps episodes were privatized that contained 'edgy' race-related jokes (often featuring Jon). This also included both Jon's and Dan's full The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past series and the whole Bayonetta playthrough. A few other videos that contain pedophilia related jokes, like Part 5, the Sad Hoshi episode of Journey to Silius and part one of Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey were privatized later. On May 28, 2021, Dan's playthrough of A Link To the Past was un-privatized, making his playthrough available once more, but the other videos remain privatized.
Missing Episode:
- In Episode 8 of Super Mario Maker, Arin mentioned that he and Dan recorded a Grumpcade episode with Justin Roiland (of Rick and Morty fame), but the footage was lost.
- In April 2019, due to the scandal surrounding ProJared, every episode of Grumpcade featuring him was made private.
- The original commentary for the last leg of the A Link Between Worlds playthrough got deleted by accident. Dan and Arin couldn't replay the game due to complications caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, so they just re-recorded commenta

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