2255: Not So Grump?

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Not So Grump?
Not So Grump.png
Made by: BlueDude, Crazy56U and Azurel (the former's strip is above; see below for the other two)


Explanation[edit | edit source]

Game Grumps is a YouTube video game playthrough series that started in 2012 and began immensely popular shortly thereafter. The series was originally hosted by Internet comedians Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson and Jon "JonTron" Jafari; the latter left in mid-2013, being replaced by fellow Internet comedian and musician Dan Avidan. One mainstay of the series is a short intro preceding each episode, wherein caricatures of the hosts (Arin and Jon/Dan) declare that they are "Grump" and "Not So Grump", respectively.

Thus, when Lubaf made a strip featuring both the odd line "Grump out, Garfield!" and Jon being mentioned by name, no less than three separate people made Game Grumps-related edits. The first two follow the same pattern - Jafari's caricature replaces Arbuckle, and Garfield "grumps out" by becoming Arin Hanson (i.e. "Grump", as mentioned before). The last one has Garfield instead become Jafari, and his final response is instead "Ech" - the written form of an odd, phlegm-y noise that is sort of a catchphrase of his.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

I saw #2230 and was immediately reminded of a certain famous YouTube channel.

Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: #2230: Grump Out! (by Lubaf)

Original strip: 2015-02-02.

(Ed: The strip and annotation above were submitted by BlueDude. Later the same day, Azurel submitted this strip:)

Not So Grump Azurel.png

(...and later that week, Crazy56U submitted this strip:)

Not So Grump Crazy56U.png

Yeah, yeah, Jon isn't in Game Grumps anymore, but I don't care, he's still a Grump to me.

(Great minds think alike!)

Transcript (for BlueDude's version)[edit | edit source]

{Garfield sits on a table, unusually cheery.}
Jon Jafari: Grump out, Garfield!
{Garfield abruptly changes his face into that of Arin Hanson, who looks appropriately grumpy.}
Jon Jafari: There we go!
Garfield: Happy now, Jon?

Fixed goofs[edit | edit source]

  • The author's note was originally taken directly from the submission email, which led to two mistakes: a redundant "Notes:" right before the text began, and a missing line break between the two original strips. These were both fixed by August 2015.