13:10, Dan is fully awake. 13:20 Dan sleepily congratulates Arin. 13:28 Thank God fish aren't into cash. He was asleep for a maximum of 8 seconds.

"Thank god fish aren't into cash" Has "The Carbuncle ate itself" Energy.

13:05 Arin: "Dude, I'm gonna need you to calm down" Dan: "I'm extremely calm!" *Proceeds to actually fall asleep*

Arin "Yes, and..."-ing Dan's fish dream talk destroyed me, that whole section was great.

Dan just did the out-loud equivalent of when you wake up in the middle of the night and frantically type a note into your phone, then find it the next day and have no idea what the heck you were talking about 😂

Even in hell, sleeply time junction is just around the corner for Dan

Legit props to Arin for "yes, and"-ing Dan about the fish. A lesser comedian would have gotten confused and drop the ball. But Arin just rolled with it. Good job.

13:15 so you can get the full effect. Arin playing, Dan still awake and coherent. Then a few seconds later the funniest GG bit of 2023

If anyone just said "Thank god fish aren't into cash" out of nowhere and didn't elaborate, I'd probably be thinking about it for the rest of my life.

How the fuck does dan fall asleep sounding so awake, have a whole ass dream, and then recollect all in like 1-2 seconds STILL sounding awake as hell??? When the fuck did he pull that off lol

Man, that "random sentence out loud after a 5-second dream" experience is so relatable. 😂

The dream thing is really funny to me, but what cracked me up just as much was: about 2 minutes later when the subject is almost changed, Arin's "you uh, you wanna head back to Dreamland? Report back?" god that got me good

the fact that Arin's "yep" at 27:23 exactly times to the break in the music just before the beat drop is so satisfying

I can't wait for the Grumps Animated of Dan's fish dream.

Arin responding to a dream talk like it’s part of what’s going on is so hilarious!

I imagine Dan closes his eyes at 13:10, reacts to Arin's energy by saying "nicely done" at 13:20, and then promptly dozes off

“Thank god fish aren’t into cash?” Make that phrase a shirt or better yet a pin, I gotta ward of dream fish Also Arin’s Japanese has progressed so much over the years and I condemn him considering I have yet to feel confident enough to go to the second section of my Duolingo lessons

Dan falls asleep to hellscapes, now, we've broken our boy!

i've done the SAME THING before, just had a weird half-dream, then quietly asked my partner "why is there speech-to-text in the sims..." - i don't even remember what the dream was about anymore. just the words. why is there speech-to-text in the sims.

The non-mentioned humor of the editors, changing the music around to what they say, will always be the funniest part of videos like this, to me!

i cant be the only one who hoped for one of their late night filming sessions, like them sitting on front of the screen at 3am, and Dan actually falling asleep and Arin just going with it....?

I immediately forgot that they had to dub music over the episode, and then spent the entire episode confused at why our boys weren't commenting on how disjointed, but super chill, it all felt.

this is one of the first times i laughed to tears in a regular gamegrumps episode, thanks Dan, that 2 second dream moment was fucking hilarious.

Oh man, I've had half-asleep hallucinations that stop making sense the moment you say them out loud, but it's amazing that Dan experienced that on video. He's truly entered his old-man era if he's randomly falling asleep in the middle of things.

I hope that any and every person who makes those “game grumps sleep aid” comps adds this to whatever their next one is Like, I feel it is necessary on principle

so i looked up the soundtrack for this game. it's exactly what the visuals would lead to to expect. heavy industrial techno with strong vibes of grunge and death metal.

So I looked up Screaming Mad George, and this guy is cool as hell! He is mainly known for his special effects work in movies; he did the effects on "Big Trouble in Little China" and two "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies, to name a few. He also made some of the masks for Slipknot!

Me: oh man, I'm upset I somehow slept a full hour past my alarm but I do get to watch some grumps with breakfast at least Paranoiascape: is all pulsing sph1ncters and squishy meat textures Me: *slowly silently eats cereal*

I've micro slept like that while on a long drive on the highway going 80mph at night. I am so lucky i didnt get obliterated into a fine mist

Once, I dreamed that Garth Brooks was riding a carnivorous dinosaur, leading a rampaging army of other dinosaurs right at me, and I - the Lone Defender against these scaly beasts and their Country-crooning Master - let out a Roar Of Defiance! RAAAAAAWR!!! I woke myself up with my own roar and sat straight up in my bed. In doing so, I also terrified the crap out of my fiancé, lying in the bed next to me. I looked right at her and said, "That wasn't for you. That was for Garth Brooks." and immediately rolled over and went back to sleep. I did not remember this interaction the next morning and only vaguely recalled it when my fiance (who was up all night, wondering wtf happened) reminded me. It happens to the best of us, Dan.

I just wanna thank the editor for carrying this episode with your wonderful music

13:35 That brief silence when Dan realizes he had dreamt about the fish thieves is almost as hilarious as his explanation of the dream itself 😂

What happened to Dan happens to me if I get horrible sleep and I'm just on the verge of passing out in the middle of the day. My brain decides to check out for a sec, I have some kind of hallucination and afterwards when it snaps back on I'm just there thinkin "where in the hell did that just come from?"

When you stop thinking about the textures being gross body parts, this game honestly gives off a charm similar to the original Wolfenstein or DOOM games (at least from what I remember of them). I can completely understand Dan falling asleep while watching Arin play this game.

Dan experiencing this made me feel a lot better about the one time I absolutely mortified my friend at a sleepover tiredly asking her why the cops were coming. based on a .3 second dream I'd just had.

20:14 Arin in a chipper tone, “That’s kinda nice” Dan immediately, _completely_ deadpan, “I’m gonna throw up.”

Weirdly fell asleep watching and woke up just in time to hear Dan proclaim fish were trying to steal his valuables. Can certainly relate.

I like how Dan was clearly trying to figure out how to explain it in a way that made sense or to waive it off but then realized he just couldn't get out of it unless he told the honest to God truth about the fish

I had to actually look up what this game really sounds like & it's like... 80s synth mixed with random, badly compressed moans of pain & striking sounds... Yeah, I think I prefer this way a lot better. Lol

As someone with pretty bad narcolepsy, I get exactly what happened to Dan alllll of the time. I feel very seen right now lol

13:22 Is when Dan has a micro sleep, in case anyone’s wondering.

16:37 Dan probably should get it checked up. That’s how I found out that I had sleep apnea that was slowly killing my brain…

13:28 "Thank God fish aren't into cash" Dan Avidan 2023

Okay, legit I've had two experiences like that. Once when I was on the bus going to school, I guess I was snoozing, but I suddenly turned to my friend sitting next to me and said, "You know, I feel sorry for midgets," (this was years ago and I was young) and she said "why?" and I could. not. answer her. I had no idea what I was dreaming about I just looked at her dumbfounded because I said something I couldn't explain. Another time I was falling asleep while doing homework, and I felt myself say, "Like and ape..." and it woke me up. No idea what I was dreaming about.

Arin, after losing 10 balls in like 10 seconds: What am I doing wrong? How am I LOSING?

Whoever edited this was brilliant 😂😂 that hyper fast jazz was fever dream material 😊

I never fell asleep while talking to someone like that, but i defintely did fell asleep for like 10 second and dreaming something completely different than what i was just doing, lol

Sometimes I dream I'm covered in hungry spiders and wake up from a micro sleep screaming, and boy does that scare the shit out of people.

You can tell the dream hallucination was genuine from the tone in "nicely.. done" and the inhale right before "thank god.. Fish aren't.... Into cash" So fricking funny

If the thing Dan said wasn't absolutely insane I wouldn't have even realized he fell asleep.

HEY this guy did the special effects for that “Society” movie Dan has mentioned! Everyone should/shouldn’t look that movie up lol

It was just another day at the orifice until Dan found out how many holes he had in his body (presumably while eating food that never really went inside him).

Ya know, I thought Arin was gonna talk about that Doctor Who episode with the face stuck on a square tile instead of Cassandra

13:07 "I'm gonna need you to calm down" Dan calmed down so much he fell asleep oh my god XD

went from Barry, to Matt and Ryan, Kevin was there for a hot minute. And now it is just, "editor"

Fish actually love cash! They love to work with fin-ancials.

This is such a trippy episode. Mixing a sudden mention of Screaming George (someone who I’m kind of a fan of) this weird ass game, and Dan falling asleep

I have idiopathic hypersomnia so I have ONE HUNDRED PERCENT commented on a dream I had for 2 seconds. It is so disorienting but almost always hilarious.

I thought I was the only one who experienced the dream world that happens only when I start to doze off. I immediately try to recall what I was thinking and dreaming about. 85% of the time I have no idea what it was, but it was something wild and had nothing to do with what I was thinking when falling asleep.

13:35 I did this during D&D once XD I had like a microdream and hallucinated a completely different scenario than what was going on. Caused a biiiiiit of confusion when I chimed in XD

Screaming Mad George made a game!? That’s wild. He worked on the effects for a lot of horror films (I know he worked on a couple Nightmare movies).

I can absolutely relate, I remember waking up once because a mosquito was buzzing around my ear and thinking "Oh well, it's only doing its job, just say no thank you and keep walking"

Aww.. little sleeping Dan on the thumbnail 😊

Shoutout to the editor for the chill music. Made this nightmare of a game oddly soothing to watch. And speaking of nightmares; this actually is very close to the stuff I actually see in my dreams, so that adds extra comfort.

I fully understand what Dan means with the dream thing lmao. you close your eyes for a moment, have a really clear dream that feels longer than it is and remember the weirdest things about it when you come back to reality again lmao. Gawd I get those myself it's the wildest thing, feels like it actually happened irl sometimes but was just a dream.

I had the worst day, but "thank god fish arent into cash" has turned my whole day around lol!

Oh my gosh, Dan, I've totally done a similar thing. One time, my friend was over, and I fell asleep, but when I suddenly woke up, I turned to him as he was using my computer, and I was like, "Q reminds me of olives." He was like, ".... Huh?" I was referring to the Street Fighter character's color scheme, I THINK.

There is hope for a Girraffe Town continuation??

Oh my, this made my day.. I want a "Thank god fish aren't into cash" Game Grumps shirt! lol!!!

13:28 The aforementioned "falling asleep" fuckin' clickbait. I WANTED TO HEAR DAN'S SWEET "MIMIMI'S"!

LMFAOOO Dan dreaming for 2 secs talking about fish being into cash. I can't BREATHE

"Thank God fish aren't into cash" better become a sweet new shirt I can buy

"thank god fish aren't into cash" Dan 2023

I would like to see them finish Giraffe town lol

I've literally had a moment while streaming on Twitch where I nodded off for a second during a game and then commented on what I dreamed completely with no context. I know exactly how Dan feels.

13:28 is where the magic happens

Love the editor chasing the music as the Grumps comment on it.

The editor needs to make a super cut of all the fake songs that Arin and Dan sing as examples of what type of royalty free music they'd like filled in .....and then just play that every time

I always wondered where the stuff that gets in my eyes goes. Stuff gets in them but I don't usually confirm that it actually came out, so in my mind I imagine the inner rims being like how when you move a fridge and there's a bunch of crud underneath it

I can imagine the mountain that's gonna be made on the video playback graph, lol. Made even better by the fact that this episode is hard to watch, both because it's gross and because there's shit happening all over the screen like crazy. For the record, Dan's last word before dozing off was at 13:20 and then he came back with the fish remark at 13:28.

I can't wait to see someone animate Dan's fish dream.

Just proof that Dan has done this so long he can do it in his sleep.

13:15 Arin says "Hitting those fish things" right as Dan falls asleep.

Dan is such a put-together dude (the calm, cool and collected counterpart to Arin’s rabid florida man) so when he just even slightly slips up it’s so fucking funny (this, the Smashing Pumpkins bit, ghoul grumps)

Dan, welcome to the life of a Narcoleptic. I do this multiple times a day, and wow, the thing that I say are equally garbage.... yet somehow meaningful at the time 🤣 I like to think there's a parallel universe out there that I slip into sometimes. I guess in yours, fish don't want cash!

Daaaaan 😂😂😂 When you zoned out that hard I really just heard your song “I don’t know what we’re talking about and I haven’t for a while “ 😂

31:18 Props to the editor for choosing an impromptu banger for the last minute of gameplay.

13:25 This used to happen to me everytime back in school it's like a small trip for a few seconds you know you are awake but you feel so braindead that you give in to the sleep and the dream So you just end up tired af confusing real life with dream with all of your thoughts being chaotic for a few seconds

I could listen to Dan wake up mid-fish sentence all day

The pause after Dan realizes he crossed wires with his dream and reality 😂😂😂😂.

Dan having a microsleep dream is both hilarious and reassuring I've gotten those experiences a bunch so its great to hear what it naturally sounds like from the outside

omg i did the same dream thing yesterday. i dreamt that i was playing metroid dread, and the emmi’s were disney characters. i was with my sister and i just said, “i killed anna and olaf” and my sister was like “….what???” 🤣

I love paranoiscape, it's such a unique game and now experiencing it without the grating hard rock and instead chill music is really a whole different vibe and the grumps' zany dialogue. So good

Somehow this has taken place as one of my favourite game grumps episodes, the weird skeleton pong with the random assortment of music, Dans 6 second fish dream, the two winged skeletons with bone clubs Ive grown strangely fond of makes this episode one of the best

Props to the editor for the improvised soundtrack based on Dan and Arin's random requests 😂

Arin not realizing he has a limited number of balls for 7-8 minutes is totally on-brand

I can not wait for someone to make a cartoon about the fish part. SOMEONE MAKE IT HAPPEN

I love those little microsleep moments where you wake up as soon as you have a thing to bring back into the world.

Y’know, Carl Jung’s Theory of Dreams alleges that you aren’t just YOU in your dream - you’re EVERYONE in your dream. So, Danny is himself, AND the fish, and maybe EVEN the cash being stolen! This is an exhaustion dream, FRFR.

i do miss the era of weird, hellscapey video games from japan with a very distinctive grungy art style. it's my favorite genre 😔