When he finally did die, he tossed the controller down, insulted the game and stormed off to complete the image. He proceeds to speedrun the game all the way to 8-4, the final level in the game, without getting hit.
After approaching a setup with the full game active for anyone to play, he decides to goof around and act like a stereotypical new-age gamer, calling it too easy. Arin mentions doing something even more phenomenal with the original Super Mario Bros.He accidentally resets the game on the last world, though. Jon tearing through Super Mario Land with little difficulty.Brawl with new controllers- Jon shows that he is actually consistently better than Arin at that game. Cue the second Game Grumps VS when they play Super Smash Bros. For a while after the channel started, many of the fans believed that Jon was worse at video games than Arin.It's also a form of Damn You, Muscle Memory!, as many of the rules of Pokemon weren't really established until the 3rd gen, which meant that pure luck as Arin had was a viable strategy back then.Jon, self described as being ignorant of the rules of Pokémon, actually managing to very nearly defeat Arin in Pokémon Stadium, who is much better versed in the rules.Jon, a generally nice guy, flipping the fuck out on some Grad Night kids at Disneyland.Notably, they didn't even use Wily's actual weakness. Defeating Wily within a couple of tries in Mega Man 7, a notoriously difficult boss that the developers even apologized for.