Game Grumps
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Current title card as of 2016, featuring caricatures of hosts Avidan (left) and Hanson (right).
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 4,415 (list of episodes) |
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| Original release | July 18, 2012 – present |
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Game Grumps is a Let's Play webseries starring animator/voice actor Arin Hanson and comedian/musician Dan Avidan. The show was created on July 10, 2012 by Hanson and comedic media critic Jon Jafari. Jafari left the show in June 2013 to focus on his primary YouTube webseries, JonTron, and was subsequently replaced by Avidan. The channel also expanded to incorporate new hosts in spin-offs, including Ross O'Donovan, Barry Kramer, Suzy Berhow and Brian Wecht.
Additionally appearing in some, but few, episodes is the primary editor of the show, Barry Kramer; Brian Wecht, who is in the band Ninja Sex Party with Avidan; as well as editors Ryan Magee and Matt Watson. Until January 2016, the webseries was part of Polaris, a network owned by Maker Studios, a subsidiary of Disney Consumer Products and the Disney Interactive division of The Walt Disney Company.
Each day, the channel typically puts out three videos that consist of varying hosts playing a video game, featuring their experiences with, and opinions of, the chosen game. Lengthy games often result in series of ongoing gameplay and commentary, until completion. Occasionally, the hosts will participate in multiplayer games, as part of their Game Grumps VS series.
With Jafari's departure on June 25, 2013, due to conflicts with his own show, Ninja Sex Party vocalist Leigh Daniel Avidan replaced him as co-host. Avidan would also join Ross O'Donovan as co-host of the show Steam Train, where both play PC games (the title references the retailer Steam). This expanded the channel's output to three videos a day: two standard Game Grumps episodes and a single Steam Train episode. Steam Train later expanded to include Hanson as a co-host at times, as well as featuring one of the group's editors, Barry Kramer, and Hanson's wife, Suzy Berhow. The expansion also introduced a new Steam Rolled series, where four-player games (not necessarily PC games) are played by the group. In October 2013, the group began a gameplay series featuring Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on the Polaris YouTube channel, titled Hunting Monsters. A second installment, featuring Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, began in February 2015.
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