The BEST SELLING toys for Christmas every year

[@FuzzyStripetail]

It was unbearably uncanny that Dan's first performing experience was with Teddy Ruxpin while Arin's first sexual experience was with a Care Bear.

[@suchnothing]

Nah, they're bearly related

[@EternalBooda]

It’s like that one time they went to bear college.

[@mayamayhemmusic]

B Club.

[@shadowking278]

@Suchnothing nice.

[@zachm9921]

Take the shot!!!

[@temporarycompliance]

I can’t believe that Dan’s first performances were with a Teddy Ruxpin doll, and Arin was named after a Teddy Ruxpin character… what an influential little bear

[@justgracetbh]

The fact that those were their origins, and they're here together now, all feels so serendipitous.

[@Leo0718]

That was the most adorable childhood tale ever told on GameGrumps.

[@dondoesdoodles9726]

@@Leo0718 I kind of like the one where Arin was 4 and Dan was 78; and shit himself 17 times in a Wendy's parking lot.

[@exzyyd392]

@@dondoesdoodles9726 Shortly after committing multiple still unsolved murders too

[@Ilicia16]

It all comes full circle

[@ladywithpinkglasses]

The fact that Arin is named after Teddy Ruxpin's character is the biggest trivia I've learned this year

[@itsmikehayden]

I have the unfortunate habit of looking at the top comments while the intro plays. I know I'm a kid 30s "old" but it sounds like some fracking lore is gonna drop in this bitch. Thank you!

[@ferociousfeind8538]

Game Grumps deep lore

[@dbzdanman]

Prince Arin 6:27

[@ratsbelike]

arin lore

[@indicouch1008]

Honey wake up, new Arin Lore just dropped!

[@Charuchii]

Imagine saving a doll for forty years, keeping it in the package, taking care of it until the time is right until you finally decide to put it on ebay, it gets sold, you turn into game grumps and see the box of your doll getting destroyed and then the doll being literally tossed aside

[@galastromboli5603]

That would be an honor 😂

[@FlurarInuyi]

Got that bag tho

[@compassrose1466]

As someone wanting to collect more Barbie’s honestly I’m glad they did. Collecting is becoming overrated with people being so stuck up with specific prices :/

[@englishatheart]

@@compassrose1466 Barbies* Apostrophes aren't used to make plurals.

[@micropsia1]

@englishatheart name checks out

[@writeasrayne]

I love that Dan measures time by Rush album releases.

[@tommurphy5425]

Am I crazy? Feels like he kept saying "Russia" released... I was like "who?"

[@johnangelle5975]

@@tommurphy5425I think it’s because he was saying “Rush had just released _____” so saying together fast just sounds like “Russia released”

[@aynDRAWS]

"This was the year 2000!" ".... Rush didn't release an album that year." He sounded so sad!

[@Vib_me_is]

@@aynDRAWSSad for a good reason. Rush had halted albums and concerts in 97 due to the tragic back to back losses of Neil Peart’s wife and daughter. They began writing again in 2001 and in their final 3 albums Mr Peart wrote many beautiful lyrics about life, grieving and finding yourself. I can’t recommend them enough! “Ghost Rider” and “The Garden” are phenomenal

[@aynDRAWS]

@@Vib_me_is really? I had no idea. I haven't listened to Rush in years and never did any research into the members of the band (the Beatles and Queen are the only bands I ever researched deeper into). Very interesting

[@Limpurtikles]

1:21 "That's the year I was born!" Arin's empty stare of disbelief and Dan's "I was seventeen..." felt so, so, sooooooooooo relatable to old farts like me. It's like when someone tells you that they were born in 2005 and you realize that they'll be old enough to vote next year...

[@graphicsgod]

Ditto being the same age as Dan..

[@KingJohnMichael]

Oh God no

[@aksprkl6594]

As someone born in 1996, it still boggles my mind that there are 40-something year olds watching Game Grumps on youtube XD Yesterday, I came across someone on reddit who said they were pushing 80. Like, what?!

[@ellarose1186]

I feel this too hard bc I mentioned 2005 to a friend the other day and she told me she was 4 that year. I just felt full horror wash over me bc I was already halfway through secondary school and entering my emo phase...

[@supper-girl7405]

I was born in 2003 and in technically an adult :)

[@KhanaHatake]

Dan's obsessive knowledge of Rush release dates will always be impressive

[@augustthacker5704]

It's the neurodivergence in him lmao

[@actualcmen]

It’s honestly insane

[@celestestork5171]

I’m glad I found this comment, I was wondering why he kept referring to Russia

[@mayvalley]

@@celestestork5171I was thinking Russia was a band I’d never heard of

[@unidentified2026]

@@mayvalley same here until the scooter.

[@nerdypenguin9164]

Two things I love. 1: Dan relating all these dates to Rush albums, and 2: them opening some most likely collectable toys that are mint in box.

[@BeeTeej03]

For anyone reading this comment (and the many others mentioning this): all hardcore Rush fans do this and I have no idea why. We have an encyclopedia of every random fact about that goddamn band branded on our brains. I’ve never met another band fandom where the nerd factoids are THIS in sync. It’s a little creepy admittedly 😅

[@nerdypenguin9164]

@@BeeTeej03 I absolutely love it. You all make my life a little brighter with this random knowledge because it never fails to put a smile on my face.

[@kayleebell2854]

I THOUGHT HE WAS SAYING RUSSIA THE WHOLE TIME I WAS SO CONFUSED

[@BamfIamone]

@@kayleebell2854 S A M E

[@HunterSentinel]

Yeah..... that sounds like typical game grumps.

[@magnitude10199]

The raw emotion in Dan's eyes as he says "Rush didn't release an album that year" at 15:57 is somehow unreadable and also upsettingly relatable.

[@Oldrockking93]

Dan's "Rush didnt release an album that year" HAD ME FUCKING DYING WITH THE LOOK ON HIS FACE

[@KeepnbizzyCrow]

The 10MPH is just devolving into Arin and Dan using their power to experience childlike wonder again. And like with any story of returning to the past, it inevitably delves into madness before we're halfway through. Merry Christmas boys!

[@somethingalsonotimportant9095]

You mean it wasn't that from the start?

[@protowave]

and shorter and shorter intros... people clearly put time and effort into filming that intro, only for it to be cut down to less than one second. it's really annoying and unnecessary

[@PhantomPinetree]

My dumbass read this as 10 Miles Per Hour and was extremely confused for half a minute

[@kelleyreeves965]

@@PhantomPinetree I don't know how many times I've seen 10MPH in the comments on these videos yet every time I still think 10 miles per hour

[@seal8092]

The Power Hour, also known as, *and excuse to use glitter glue and break plastic toys-*

[@StandardX]

"This one's name is... machine washable" has me absolutely laughing like an idiot right now. Got me good.

[@rorywatt9752]

The half dead corpse of elmo maniacally laughing whilst his insides are being surgically removed is honestly terrifying

[@uelsam4774]

The look on Dans face after Ethan goes “That’s the year I was born :D” The Devastation 1:24

[@anobliviousnpc1586]

Dan and Arin dancing with Teddy Ruxpin at 6:54 gave me such feels. Such a wholesome moment and reminds me of how I would dance with my barnie doll as a little one.

[@TJM_PlayByPlay]

Then Dan proceeds to kiss Teddy and immediately regret it 🤣

[@niapinkney4603]

6:59-7:02 Two questions. 1. Have you heard of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood? 2. Do you know what a fuzzy kiss is?

[@belgrifex]

"Rush didn't release an album that year" got me so good lmao

[@Ram-2112]

However Geddy Lee did, I wish he would have thought of that cause I know he knows

[@alanheyes694]

@@Ram-2112 Probably slipped his mind. But that would’ve been super funny.

[@packrat8699]

When he said that I realized he wasn’t talking about Russia

[@shadowking278]

The sadness. 🥺

[@sennakain6899]

It was his delivery of the line that killed me XD

[@muddbath9522]

“This one’s name was… machine washable” killed me and I don’t know why nobody is talking about it 😂

[@irkenpony17]

I seen a few mention, make some friends with that shared laughter bro q3q

[@emmaginative]

SAME - it absolutely killed me and I had to pause the video!

[@perso2014]

"I was brewing in the nutsack of an older man" is the best thing I've heard all day

[@surblechev278]

Well he's 1/2 right, given it was 1/2 him there Take a guess where his other 1/2 was brewing in (he said sarcastically)

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

@@surblechev278 what compelled you to need to point that out?

[@surblechev278]

@@miguelnewmexico8641 Keeping biologically accurate

[@thefinalfrontear]

arin going “are they scented?” about the care bares had me actually yell at my phone OF COURSE THEYRE SCENTED!! also the strawberry on the back of the bear is pointing right at the camera as he says it 😂

[@kylaw2593]

That Rubik’s cube editing was SO good. I just want to let the editors know how much I appreciated that 😅

[@pugwithagun8121]

i really, REALLY hope the pencil cup is bent for every single future episode.

[@officerbanana9096]

they had kept David Cheeseman, Ethan's underwear, can't imagine them not keeping the cup lol

[@StarSearcher117]

Lol it'd be hilarious if it was fixed perfectly next episode. Like how tf they do that 😂

[@requiemforameme1]

They should sell a 10MPH-branded pencil cup. I’d buy one in a heartbeat.

[@jbwarner8626]

@@requiemforameme1 Each one lovingly hand-punched by Arin 😁

[@Namisar]

I love how Dan's brain works. It's all Rush. It's just Rush all the way down. Imagine Dan as a historian: "These are the Great Pyramids of Giza, built somewhere between 4,526 to 4,466 years before Rush's fourth studio album, 2112, or as we say in the Rushstorian world: almost 5,000 B2112"

[@EldritchDoodler4828]

0:36 You can literally hear the sheer power as Arin permanently warps the pencil-holder with his meaty fists

[@L0nely.Littl3.Mushr00m]

Yes LMAOXD

[@nunaparu1508]

I wish that were me

[@Random_Üser-z1y]

@Alkalez i mean he did dent it he definitely went hard on it

[@bahamut_the_warrior]

Am I the only one whose actually upset that they destroyed that beautiful pencil holder

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

@@bahamut_the_warrior depends how upset.

[@thecosmicradiation]

Dan's "I was seventeen" is so relatable to anyone who has friends younger than themselves

[@liolatte]

14:30 they fuckin blood eagled the tickle me elmo

[@kiwidook]

I love how Dan has measured his life by Rush album release dates. Side note: I didn't realize how long Rush was releasing new music.

[@Bailer86]

All the way up to 2012

[@way2dead4u]

oh god that makes so much more sense. I was watching with auto-captions and it kept saying Russia. I was so confused

[@emmabales3468]

Arin's reaction to the cabbage patch box makes me want them to go to the Cabbage patch museum so that they can watch that weird tree give birth.

[@maggs131]

Whaaaat? 🤨

[@breannastrickland2393]

EXCUSE ME!!???? 😂

[@hannatude]

Oh, y’all don’t know about The Birth Tree?

[@_lexi]

the what, emma? the fucking what?

[@Suckassloser]

Ten minute power hours that have them going to weird museums like that would be a blast!

[@Phasmania]

Elmo laughing like the Joker while Arin eviscerates him is unexpectedly hilarious

[@stzcolsef]

Literally want to go get my Elmo because I 1000% doing the same with mine as a kiddo 🤣

[@astrowolvez]

@@stzcolsefme too! Would throw it against the wall and died laughing as it laughed in pain. 😂

[@johnworkman3950]

14:56 Arin savors the peelies

[@RocotacoPerposterown]

7:55 My cat we had growing up loved playing with Koosh balls. We had a special koosh ball launcher for her.

[@JtotheMeezy]

Whoever was operating the camera and tracked the goo drip off the action figure's grundle, I salute you.

[@michelle6337]

Ethan Crankgameplays Nestor is always game for the grundle shot.

[@highvoltage988]

Dan's encyclopedic knowledge of Rush's album releases is honestly so endearing.

[@ebinecksdee9872]

He always looks so proud of himself

[@6447912]

5:11 "so this one's name was... Machine washable" killed me. Such an off handed bit!

[@TheJege12]

2:35 "Rubik's Cube has been involved in severe beatings" was what I heard while not paying attention

[@BearlyBearing198]

I heard "Rubiks Cube has been involved in divorce meetings!"

[@isabellastokes5099]

1:20 their disbelief at someone being born that year killed me

[@PazWasHere]

Arin being named after Prince Arin from Teddy Ruxpin is probably the best piece of GG trivia I've learned to date.

[@bubblinebee]

The 10MPH cup being destroyed by Arin punching the shit out of a box is game grumps poetry.

[@BasicGeometry]

Dan's encyclopedic knowledge of RUSH continues to fascinate me

[@Rahzma]

To think, there's an alternate universe where Aruzia constantly picks the biggest most macho buff boy character in any game and Danni is looking over thinking, "That's my small dog."

[@faithlmao5082]

11:01 the way arin goes full nerd mode is adorable

[@Michael-kp4bd]

Just in case anyone’s confused, Dan keeps saying what albums *Rush* had released that year. Because the way he kept saying “Rush had released” sounded like “Russia released” and it even confused the Closed Captioning 😅 I’m sure most of you understood, but who knows, maybe Closed Captioning is reading this and learned something today 🌈

[@CatComixzStudios]

I literally tried searching Wikipedia halfway through the episode for a band named Russia with no results because I was so confused. Thank you.

[@madalen532]

I was so confused. Bless u

[@NWolfsson]

OOOOOOH! Dan knows some pretty obscure bands, I assumed it was one of them XD

[@RichardCox0]

Thank you

[@MineScapeCreations]

I did realise but it's a fun bit so i'm running with russia

[@Aquanex2]

"I was brewing in the nutsack of an older man" is such a grumps thing to say and will now be my go-to phrase for "I wasn't born yet". 😂

[@Patterrz]

Serial killer Elmo is what I want for Christmas this year 14:10

[@jshultz7699]

“So this one’s name was… machine washable” made me laugh more than it should have

[@dreaminginnoother]

7:22 Iove the djent edit. That's what I heard too.

[@Samantha_Lynn]

Each year being punctuated by a Fun Rush Fact by Dan really made this video

[@The_hills_have_eyes]

as a fan of rush I love it when he makes rush refrences, hopefully it might make more people to check out there music

[@djfeole]

"I was brewing in the nutsack of an older man" top tier arin quote

[@TheSkullivan12]

It's legitimately charming how Dan marks the passage of time with Rush albums.

[@sandclover]

"I was brewing in the nutsack of an older man" is officially my new favorite Arin quote.

[@boogieboo2164]

The fact that Dan’s coffee didn’t go flying with everything else too is impressive😂😂😂

[@BlindTomoe]

When Arin hugged the carebear was so wholesome 🥺🥺 5:09

[@Mithriya]

It was so adorable 😫

[@gibbons658]

“Did you know care-bears were my first sexual experience” - Arin

[@kayEnt3rtainm3nt]

@@gibbons658 Given the lurid nature of the songs released by one of the voice actresses on that show, that totally works.

[@ablindkid5014]

@@gibbons658 watching dan's hands recoil from the carebears at that comment made this video for me

[@YoutubePizzer]

@@gibbons658 i cannot believe they didn’t have him elaborate

[@micahphilson]

15:55 Out of every "out of context gold" moment in this episode, Danny's dejectedness here has to be the best moment of the video!

[@graphicsgod]

Best line, "Rush didn't release an album this year.." With empty disappointment.

[@stephenholt6956]

I'm glad someone else was as tickled by that moment as me

[@leatherbacksam7279]

When I first watched the Rubik's Cube bit, I legitimately thought Dan solved it. Shoutout to the editors for making the transition so goddamn smooth!

[@strangewatermelon97]

I rewatched it a couple times to see if I could spot the transition, and I couldn't. That's really impressive by the editors

[@tonyjones1]

What do you mean transition? They just played it in reverse

[@allpackagaming9811]

dan's high pitch scream killed me. acttually that entire part killed me.

[@NoriMori1992]

0:03 This sounded like that "Jump Around" scream.

[@tiffanypoulsen9215]

7:23 I had no idea that sound could come out of Danny 😂😂

[@TheIncredibleHulk96]

Arin beating the life out of the game grumps merch box killed me for no reason 😂😂

[@mossysnail6857]

Help LOL

[@graphicsgod]

Ditto! LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dragonfye1]

Glad Im not alone in this. WHY WAS THIS SO FUNNY!? 😅 its not like its an UNEXPECTED TWIST or something.

[@RedNayl]

It killed you because you were in the merch box

[@Abowlofnotsquashsoup]

@@RedNayl *i am the merch*

[@Pipperdude]

I love how the teddy went from playing children songs to nightmare music in second, followed swiftly by Dan’s pterodactyl screech

[@skyshunts]

If I was little and had one do that I'd probably cry and run out the room. It sounded like a demon possessing the bear

[@plantz6147]

That "gher-" at the end of 13:56 make me laugh everytime

[@humanbean4037]

As someone who was born in the early 2000s and wasn’t allowed a phone until high school, that little old game boy with a Mario cartridge and a Tetris cartridge was simultaneously the most fun and the most enraging thing in my life

[@Tragedienne404]

I would pay to see Arin and Dan experience the horrors of BabyLand General Hospital, where Cabbage Patch Kids are "born".

[@steventyler3582]

And now we all get to experience it. Thank you /s

[@aalluunaa]

oh my god

[@Salzblut]

For some reason all of this feels like a big elaborate plan to make children ignorant to the existence of sex for as long as possible and I hate it.

[@tryrelaxing]

dan bringing all the rush albums with us on this journey is a godsend

[@MrScaryJoe]

Elmo laughing while being cut open is one of the funniest things I have ever seen

[@Lisapancakes]

14:21 Best part 😂😂😂

[@DismemberedHat]

"That's the year I was born!" Followed by "WHAT?!" and astonished silence is a mood

[@daniwashington9124]

1. Allie's little laughs in the back of the videos always get me 😂 she's adorable 2. My mom was 100% one of the mom's who fought for a tickle-me-elmo when some lady stole it out of her buggy AND she won it back 😆

[@irkenpony17]

Your mom sounds like a veteran of the great Tickle-Me Elmo war

[@daniwashington9124]

@@irkenpony17 she's certainly a veteran of the og black friday

[@L33PL4Y]

@@daniwashington9124 A true warrior for rabid, mindless consumerism, what a hero

[@KatieTirrell]

My mom is a veteran of the Furby Black Friday wars. So scarred she refused to do another Black Friday but I got my Furby

[@Delta-07999]

Your mom is a fucking chad

[@Manacra13]

Dans encyclopedic knowledge of Rush never ceases to amaze me.

[@shreksdad202]

The look on Dan's face when says "I was 17"

[@kaimon23]

4:02 this edit made me laugh unreasonably hard 🤣🤣

[@davidadams4266]

2:45 So, is nobody going to talk about how Dan solved the Rubix Cube in like 5 seconds? Like legitimately solved it? Special effects? I couldn't tell.

[@davidasylum1870]

I think the the footage is in reverse and that's so clever lol just say "look I did it!" And mess around with it like a madman while you're looking directly at the camera intensely lol

[@swimsawce]

as much as i want to give Dan credit for solving the rubik's cube all on his own that fast, it's clear that the footage shown was in reverse.

[@pedrostormrage]

10:22 I know Dan's saying "Rush", but why does it sound like "Russia" every time? Maybe he's just saying "Rush had..." really fast.

[@rinpaisys]

Yeah I heard it too lol

[@darknight10000]

I think it's because he's saying "Rush had" and the way he's pronouncing it is what's causing it to sound like "Russia".

[@knightingale6966]

He was saying rush??

[@macgyversmacbook1861]

I HEARD THAT TOO

[@dimsufferer9951]

You could say that he rushed the sentence

[@evanweaver1060]

Dan’s commitment to the Rush album release dates bit somehow gets funnier and funnier

[@theslotwhisperer5513]

As a child who was born the same year as Danny, this was an incredible walk down fever dream memory lane

[@graphicsgod]

Agreed!

[@baricode]

As a child who was born in 2000, this was an incredible walk down my mothers fever dream memory lane

[@Ankaration]

The shock in their faces when he said 1996 was the year he was borned 😂 Dan is like a vampire, never aging!

[@eddiemurfitt9660]

dan using rush album releases as the metric in which time is measured is the most prog thing ever

[@WeGoblinFolk]

and in true prog fashion, there's different amounts of time between the noted points

[@eddiemurfitt9660]

@@WeGoblinFolk holy shit….

[@dom6957]

Elmo laughing as he is being brutally slaughtered is how I want to be in any stressful or dangerous situation

[@stzcolsef]

Elmo says "is that your best shot??!!!!" 🤣

[@dom6957]

@@stzcolsef Twilight zone, Talking Tina reference?

[@locrianico6843]

As a fellow Rush fan, I love how Dan also uses album releases as a reference for time

[@johnworkman3950]

Its what we all do

[@ersonpeters3963]

The ooze drip off the sweaty rock figure had me dying of laughter

[@maggs131]

Elmo laughing while his back was sliced open and hanging by his guts killed me 🤣👍

[@AaronTharpProduction]

Ok but for real that scream at the beginning... *Chefs kiss*

[@stacia2016]

4:46 OMG! I had the greeny blue care bear with the moon and star on its tummy as a kid!!! Mine didn't have a smell, but it did glow in the dark.

[@althefunkman]

9:54 thanks for the added squidge noise. really added to the immersion of the experience. 10/10

[@Mechadyne_0]

14:38 needed a flatline noise

[@plaguedoctorspencer]

I got you gimme a week or so

[@leoking9954]

I laughed way too hard at the Care Bears name being Machine Washable.

[@ArchangelAsias]

"Rush just released Test for Echo" *my pavlovian response to expect Melon Collie and the infinite sadness to follow*

[@ElectricFortune]

4:12 Vernon jumpscare

[@Shaggy_PacMan]

I love how excited Arin got for Care Bears

[@graphicsgod]

And what he used to do to the Care Bears.. "Tell me where Arin touched you on the bear.."

[@MotoGinji]

6:30 that "don't look at me" came from such a deep dark place XD

[@GreatWightSpark]

The Screams of the Danned are always the most festive way to start the holiday season. 5:30 Arin covers "Hurt" very quickly.

[@ZimEatsStars]

watching this back (again) and the first box 0:35 Arin obliterates straight up gives of the vibe of Omni beat pummelling his first born to a pulp lol

[@the.happy.mimic6546]

6:13 WE KILLED EVERY NIGHT

[@khudnall0006]

someone is clawing their skin off in rage watching arin manhandle Glorina's packaging like that...good stuff!

[@trumpetgal98]

I love the Rush history we get as a bonus. Thanks Dan 👍

[@sandydog426]

Aw, I teared up a bit at the Razor scooter. Me and my brothers all got one for Christmas in 2000, and spent countless hours riding up and down our driveway. Still one of my favorite Christmas memories:-)

[@clearhero7487]

I had an epic one tried to jump over a chalk carrier box.front wheel caught it and I flipped forward full scorpion. Epic 10/10 memories

[@DaveYognaut]

@@clearhero7487oh my god 😮 my brain played that out like you were a Home Alone villain that fell for a trap, for some reason 🤣

[@kotaro07]

I thank GG for not spoiling the first few mins with clips from moments of the episode.

[@jackrusso4700]

Arin and Dan looking absolutely shook to the core over the 1996 bday is iconic

[@konversion]

Jesus, man, videos like this make me feel hella old because it reminds me of how young both the staff of GG and the a lot of the fans are. I'm only two years younger than Dan (I was born in March of 81) but both he and Arin crack me up like I'm a child most of the time.

[@maggs131]

Lol same bro. I'm a year _older_ than Dan and it is a punch in the gut but not as bad as walking around an antique store and seeing toys you played with. 😢I'm not an antique

[@ObscureClaw]

My parents were born in 81

[@konversion]

@@ObscureClaw haha 😅 thanks for the punch in the gut

[@Cassie-Nova-]

1996 was before I was born. So seeing someone react to someone born that year the way they did was a little extra funny to me. People born in 1996 were always (from my perspective) the big kids so someone being born in that year seems kinda old in my mind

[@DjVader112]

The monotony of being an adult really makes time fly

[@deibiz2137]

It took me way too much time to figure out that the part where Dan was "solving" the rubik cube was reversed.

[@kayles756]

12:20 Me thinking "Hey, '93, the year I was born!" * The present comes out looking like overly complicated hot garbage* "Yeah...that checks out"

[@kissmethruthaphone]

15:40 The slow pan to Dan's face and the way he said "Happy Hanukkah" made me laugh and idk why.

[@JohnJohnson-yi6jg]

i’m actually impressed how Dan guessed the majority of these. I know if i had to guess the most popular gifts of my years growing up I would probably get 0 correct