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*Elizabeth Carr-Ernst
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|release = June 2, [[2007]] - August 17, [[2013]] <small>(Main Series)</small>
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|runtime = 15 Minutes <small>(Average)</small>
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'''Arby 'n' the Chief''' is a Live-Action Machinima Hybrid series created by Jon Graham, credited as Jon CJG, about the lives of figurine versions of the [[John-117|Master Chief]] and [[Thel 'Vadam|the Arbiter]]. It is mainly based around the two playing ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' and ''[[Halo 3]]'', and doing things related to ''[[Halo universe|Halo]]'', but also will occasionally focus on the duo playing other games such as ''Call of Duty 4'' and ''Devil May Cry 4'', whilst spending the remainder of their time pulling off various shenanigans.
'''Arby 'n' the Chief''' is a Live-Action Machinima Hybrid series created by Jon Graham, credited as Jon CJG, about the lives of figurine versions of the [[John-117|Master Chief]] and [[Thel 'Vadam|the Arbiter]]. It is mainly based around the two playing ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' and ''[[Halo 3]]'', and doing things related to ''[[Halo universe|Halo]]'', but also will occasionally focus on the duo pulling off various shenanigans. In the first four seasons, episodes usually revolve around the duo . By the fifth season, there is a central plot that develops throughout the season, while episodes that address current events are more rare. By the sixth and seventh seasons, each episode is devoted to detailing the plot.


==Background==
==Background==
''Arby 'n' the Chief'' is a live action internet video series created by [[Jon Graham]], also known as Jon CJG (who was in turn known as DigitalPh33r when the series began production), about the lives of figurine versions of [[John-117|Master Chief]] and the [[Thel 'Vadam|Arbiter]]. Originally, it was about the two playing Halo 3 and getting into trouble, and each season (starting with 4) has its own plot. Currently the series has 6 complete seasons, with a seventh one in production.
''Arby 'n' the Chief'' is a live action internet video series created by [[Jon Graham]], also known as Jon CJG (who was in turn known as DigitalPh33r when the series began production), about the lives of figurine versions of [[John-117|Master Chief]] and the [[Thel 'Vadam|Arbiter]]. Originally, it was about the two playing video games and encountering common phenomenons such as hackers or DLC releases in the Xbox LIVE community, but by the fifth season, each season has its own plot. The series has eight complete seasons.


Usually, the duo plays ''Halo 3'', or ''Halo: Reach'' as of Season 4, on Xbox LIVE although Arbiter also enjoys playing other games such as ''Grand Theft Auto IV'', ''Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'', and ''The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'' on Wii. Chief is typically seen expressing scorn and dissent whenever someone chooses to play any game that is not Halo related, and as such, Chief stays away from such games. However, he does venture out of his normal way to try those games, though his performance is terrible, and what time he does devote to the playing of different games always results in an increase in Chief's hatred for that game. Later on in the series, however, Chief becomes more tolerant of non-''Halo'' games, such as ''Resident Evil 5'', despite later on joining a protest against the game itself because of its alleged racism.
Usually, the duo plays ''Halo 3'', or ''Halo: Reach'' as of Season 4, on Xbox LIVE although Arbiter also enjoys playing other games such as ''Grand Theft Auto IV'', ''Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'', and ''The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'' on Wii. Chief is typically seen expressing scorn and dissent whenever someone chooses to play any game that is not ''Halo'' related, and as such, Chief stays away from such games. However, he does venture out of his normal way to try those games, though his performance is terrible, and what time he does devote to the playing of different games always results in an increase in Chief's hatred for that game. Later on in the series, however, Chief becomes more tolerant of non-''Halo'' games, such as ''Resident Evil 5'', despite later on joining a protest against the game itself because of its alleged racism.


==Characters==
==Characters==
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*Master Chief
*Master Chief
*The Arbiter
*The Arbiter
*Cortana <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Cortana
*Greg
*Greg
===Xbox Live===
===Xbox Live===
*Trent Donnovich
*Trent Donnovich
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*TOSERS
*TOSERS
===Chaos Theosis===
===Chaos Theosis===
*Clyde
*Clyde <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Kylie
*Kylie <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Duncan
*Duncan
*Adam McIntyre
*Adam McIntyre <small>(Deceased)</small>
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{{col-2}}
===Season 7 antagonists===
===Season 7 antagonists===
*Eugene Black <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Eugene Black <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Tyler King
*Tyler King <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Colin Hunt
*Colin Hunt <small>(Deceased)</small>
 
===Other===
===Other===
*Scott Loveheart <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Scott Loveheart <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Agent Boris Smirnoff
*Agent Boris Smirnoff <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Skyler Loveheart <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Skyler Loveheart <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Todd <small>(Deceased)</small>
*Todd <small>(Deceased)</small>
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|Martyrdom
|Martyrdom
|9:02
|9:02
|Unable to understand how his 714 GB pornography download would cause severe lag, Master Chief stops playing Halo 3. Accompanying the Arbiter in a game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, he is explained by his friend about the "Martyrdom" perk.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcfgvsCScsA&feature=channel '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief: Episode 5 - "Martyrdom" (Halo 3 Machinima)'']</ref>
|Unable to understand how his 714 GB pornography download would cause severe connectivity issues, Master Chief stops playing Halo 3. Accompanying the Arbiter in a game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, he is explained by his friend about the "Martyrdom" perk.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcfgvsCScsA&feature=channel '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief: Episode 5 - "Martyrdom" (Halo 3 Machinima)'']</ref>
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|6
|6
|Brawl
|Brawl
|8:32
|8:32
|After failing to grenade and rocket-jump over a nearly-impossible gap in the level "[[Halo (Halo 3 level)|"Halo"]], Master Chief and the Arbiter decide to play ''Super Smash Brothers Brawl''.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbbRpN2FNmw&feature=channel '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief: Episode 6 - "Brawl" (Halo 3 Machinima)'']</ref>
|After failing to grenade and rocket-jump over a nearly-impossible gap in the level "[[Halo (Halo 3 level)|Halo]]", Master Chief and the Arbiter decide to play ''Super Smash Brothers Brawl''.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbbRpN2FNmw&feature=channel '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief: Episode 6 - "Brawl" (Halo 3 Machinima)'']</ref>
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|Evil
|Evil
|10:18
|10:18
|After playing ''[[W:C:Resident Evil:Resident Evil 5|Resident Evil 5]]'', Master Chief returns to Halo 3 and joins a protest against the game - the protesters believe that Africans being featured in gaming is somehow racist. After seeing their point with the current events happening in the continent, the Arbiter leaves to think about it. Returning the next day, he has the group disband, citing that Capcom's want for the game to take place in Africa was not racist or insensitive, but because it was important to the story. Back in the apartment, Chief begins to annoy the Arbiter with his constant [[W:C:Resident Evil:Albert Wesker/Quotes|Wesker quotes]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhTz3ZMj-us&list=SL '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief S3E12: "Evil" (Halo Machinima)'']</ref>
|After playing ''[[residentevil:Resident Evil 5|Resident Evil 5]]'', Master Chief returns to Halo 3 and joins a protest against the game - the protesters believe that Africans being featured in gaming is somehow racist. After seeing their point with the current events happening in the continent, the Arbiter leaves to think about it. Returning the next day, he has the group disband, citing that Capcom's want for the game to take place in Africa was not racist or insensitive, but because it was important to the story. Back in the apartment, Chief begins to annoy the Arbiter with his constant [[residentevil:Albert Wesker/Quotes|Wesker quotes]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhTz3ZMj-us&list=SL '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief S3E12: "Evil" (Halo Machinima)'']</ref>
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|25
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|Part One
|Part One
|6:07
|6:07
|An international drug smuggler and cocaine addict on the run from the Russian government responds to Jon's need of a roommate to pay his bills.
|An international drug smuggler and extreme cocaine addict on the run from the Russian government responds to Jon's need of a roommate to pay his bills.
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|Part Two
|Part Two
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|Part Six
|Part Six
|11:19
|11:19
|With Scott's cocaine-covered corpse and blood coving Jon's apartment and the remainder of his money taken by Scott, the figures consider the possibility of them being sold to pay for Jon's living. Luckily, Claire; who had overheard the events of the previous episode on her headset, learns the truth about the two titular characters. To make it up for saving Xbox live, she offers Jon to share her apartment in California so that he doesn't end up homeless.
|With Scott's cocaine-covered corpse and blood covering Jon's apartment and the remainder of his money taken by Scott, the figures consider the possibility of them being sold to pay for Jon's living. Luckily, Claire; who had overheard the events of the previous episode on her headset, learns the truth about the two titular characters. To make it up for saving Xbox live, she offers Jon to share her apartment in California so that he doesn't end up homeless.
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===Season 4===
===Season 4===
Jon revealed via his blog that he will be producing a fourth season of ''Arby 'n' the Chief''. This is not a continuation of ''Arby ‘n’ the Chief in LA,'' but of the original series, taking place after the events of “King” but before those of ''Endgame''; unlike ''Arby 'n' the Chief in LA'', Jon is creating these episodes entirely on his own, with no outside involvement from Machinima.com. Jon has described the new season as having, “No melodrama, no crazy plots, no new characters, just classic ''Arby 'n' the Chief'', back-and-forth banter and wacky around-the-house antics.” The first two episodes, which were premiered at CanWest 2010, center around the [[Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta|''Halo: Reach'' Beta]], while the rest of the episodes will be based around other popular Xbox 360 games or other plots that do not relate to video games. A trailer is available on YouTube, and the first episode is scheduled to be released on Saturday, June 26, 2010.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mAqbxNe98I '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief: Season 4 - Trailer'']</ref>
Jon revealed via his blog that he will be producing a fourth season of ''Arby 'n' the Chief''. This is not a continuation of ''Arby ‘n’ the Chief in LA,'' but of the original series, taking place after the events of “King” but before those of ''Endgame''; unlike ''Arby 'n' the Chief in LA'', Jon is creating these episodes entirely on his own, with no outside involvement from Machinima.com. Jon has described the new season as having, “No melodrama, no crazy plots, no new characters, just classic ''Arby 'n' the Chief'', back-and-forth banter and wacky around-the-house antics.” The first two episodes, which were premiered at CanWest 2010, center around the [[Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta|''Halo: Reach'' Beta]], while the rest of the episodes will be based around other popular Xbox 360 games or other plots that do not relate to video games. A trailer is available on YouTube, and the first episode is scheduled to be released on Saturday, June 26, 2010.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mAqbxNe98I '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief: Season 4 - Trailer'']</ref>


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===Season 5===
===Season 5===
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This season is much darker in tone than the previous ones; death and despair are prominent themes, and relationships between the main characters are more strained than ever before. The soundtrack is minimal, incorporating elements of noise, ambient music and dubstep; scenes with little dialogue are frequent. Title cards are discreet, and credits usually roll silently.
This season is much darker in tone than the previous ones; death and despair are prominent themes, and relationships between the main characters are more strained than ever before. The soundtrack is minimal, incorporating elements of noise, ambient music and dubstep; scenes with little dialogue are frequent. Title cards are discreet, and credits usually roll silently.


In late 2012, the season was put on a hiatus, as Jon stated to be overwhelmed from both school work and work on the show. The season has been suggested several times to be the last one of the series, for example in the director's commentary for "Terminal", Jon pondered the idea of ending the show on its seventh season as a nod to Bungie's favorite number, which is also seven. On March 2, 2013, a new trailer detailing season seven's second half was released, with the announcement confirming that it will be indeed be the last one in the main continuity of the series. Episodes resumed on March 30, 2013 and have since been uploaded weekly.
In late 2012, the season was put on a hiatus, as Jon stated to be overwhelmed from both school work and work on the show. The season has been suggested several times to be the last one of the series, for example in the director's commentary for "Terminal", Jon pondered the idea of ending the show on its seventh season as a nod to Bungie's favorite number, which is also seven. On March 2, 2013, a new trailer detailing season seven's second half was released, with the announcement confirming that it will be indeed be the last one in the main continuity of the series. Episodes resumed on March 30, 2013 and have since been uploaded weekly until the series finale.


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|Episode 90: Ignition
|Episode 90: Ignition
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|25:09
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|Arbiter confronts Chief to learn of Cortana's true fate after discovering her base plate buried in the box of junk at the bottom of the hallway closet, where Chief had hidden it after accidentally incinerating her. The apartment receives unexpected visitors.
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===Season 8===
The eighth season of Arby 'n' the Chief premiered on November 5, 2015. This season wasn't premiered on Machinima but Jon's YouTube channel instead and it's an independent job for a story Jon conceived.
 
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|Episode 91: Fatal Exception
|1:17:25
|After forfeiting their lives to fiery oblivion, the Arbiter and Master Chief having inexplicably come to life in 2008 find themselves in a parody of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" -- a cargo ship traversing deep space, somehow taking place on the multiplayer stages of Bungie and 343 Industries' Halo: Reach for the Xbox 360. Chief, believing himself to be the ship's artificially intelligent robot PAL-9001 in a mission to discover the purpose of life, awakens the Arbiter, who suffers from amnesia and disturbing images of past tragedies.
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|Episode 92: Nervewreck
|36:01
|Recently awakened aboard the Cargo Ship Truth and Reconciliation, Arbiter and Cortana look to PAL for answers as to why exactly they're on board.
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|Episode 93: Party Time
|39:53
|In spite of PAL's unfounded misogyny, Cortana attempts to befriend the robot for the sake of the success of the crew's mission. With the two often at odds, Arbiter struggles with keeping the peace as well as his paranoia in light of the lethal contents of the ship's cargo bay and hallucinations of a mysterious stalker.
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|Episode 94: Bad Dream
|36:00
|PAL reveals the cause of the ship's high alert status to be the imminent failure of a critical component of the ship's communications system.
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|Episode 95: Reentry
|25:07
|Cortana makes the executive decision as the mission's Captain to deactivate PAL, believing the assistant artifical intelligence system to be a significant risk to the lives of the crew. Arbiter's torn between his odd-couple friendship with the robot and his respect for Cortana as his friend and superior. Meanwhile, PAL may have other plans.
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|Episode 96: Lockout
|27:19
|Arbiter attempts a life-or-death negotation with PAL.
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|Episode 97: Triple Fault
|39:07
|After PAL proves itself to be extremely dangerous, Arbiter takes drastic measures to disable the robot.
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|Episode 98: Warhead
|31:04
|With the ship hijacked by deadly Space Allen soldiers obsessed with violating the rear ends of all lifeforms throughout the universe to death and led by the terrible alien king Xanthar, Arbiter is forced to fight or die.
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|Episode 99: No Purpose
|16:17
|The '2001: A Space Odyssey' arc is over. Having awakened from their dream states, the toys find themselves alive and together once again within the confines of their owner Jon's bedroom. Chief's happy. Arbiter, on the other hand...
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|Episode 100: Future Shock
|33:54
|The toys are back inexplicably in Jon's room after being dead for four years. While Chief searches for Jon's copy of ''Halo: Reach'' so he can play it and troll people online, Arbiter uses Jon's computer and internet connection to catch up on current world affairs.
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|Episode 101: Zeroes
|46:51
|More is revealed from the flashfoward in time seen in the first episode of this season. In the present day, Arbiter continues his search for purpose while Chief seeks means of obtaining the Xbox One X and the Master Chief Collection.
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|Episode 102: Hello, World!
|1:05:04
|As the toys continue to seek their purpose, an enemy approaches.
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|Episode 103: Alt-Right-Delete
|1:44:03
|Master Chief gets he and Arbiter into big trouble with the Terms of Service Enforcement and Response Squad. A formidable new foe performs a field test of an extremely dangerous malware tool.
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|Episode 104: Play to Win
|1:18:21
|Adam and Kylie form an uneasy alliance in leadership of both Kylie and Clyde's hacker armies, the latter leader now having been taken out of play. Feeling that TOSERS has ruined the Halo Reach online experience, Chief decides he's had enough with the confines of Jon's bedroom.
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|Episode 105: Possession
|1:15:07
|The Arbiter and Master Chief deal with a disturbing turn of events since Jon's return to the house. Adam moves forward with a secret and terrible plan. Claire recalls her last meeting with the Arbiter.
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|Episode 106: Zero Hour
|1:33:14
|Kylie wrestles with the loss of her clan and relationship with Adam in handling her partnership with him gone awry. The toys discover that Claire's hosting an online event on Halo Reach in memorial of them, believing them to be dead.  Adam, now one of the world's most powerful crime lords, plots a number of attacks, one involving a devastating cyberweapon.
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|Episode 107: Apocalypse (Season Finale)
|2:02:17
|Adam's hired programmer Cody completes for him Hate Machine, a cyberweapon of mass destruction in the form of a program that steals data, lethally destroys power supply units and duplicates and re-executes itself using bots as hosts to spread exponentially, resulting in the deaths of up to hundreds of thousands of people. Arbiter and Chief make a last-ditch effort to stop him, paying a price they're not prepared to, and make discoveries there's no turning back from.
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==Out of Context-Episode Guide==
==Non-canon episodes==


===Hypermail===
===Hypermail===
A new segment to season six is a show known as "Hypermail," (formerly known as "Hypernews" from season five.) A fanmail show that will rotate weekly between season 6 and it until the season's end. The segment is non-canon and displays the characters in their usual attitude, as well as addresses more real-life and/or pop culture events from the perspective of The Arbiter iand Master Chief, thereby breaking the 4th wall in the series.
A new segment to season six is a show known as "Hypermail," (formerly known as "Hypernews" from season five.) A fanmail show that will rotate weekly between season 6 and it until the season's end. The segment is non-canon and displays the characters in their usual attitude, as well as addresses more real-life and/or pop culture events from the perspective of The Arbiter and Master Chief, thereby breaking the 4th wall in the series.
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|Dukes of Dongs
|Dukes of Dongs
|5:51
|5:51
|Reading hypermail from Jon's Kitchen, Master Chief continues to try and beg money from the audience with little success (To Arbiter's notification.) When Chief recieves a phony message from a Canadian Hospital stating he has Testicular Cancer, Chief cries, leaving Arbiter to "comfort" him.
|Reading hypermail from Jon's Kitchen, Master Chief continues to try and beg money from the audience with little success (To Arbiter's notification.) When Chief receives a phony message from a Canadian Hospital stating he has Testicular Cancer, Chief cries, leaving Arbiter to "comfort" him.
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|A Vereh Scareh H4110w33n
|A Vereh Scareh H4110w33n
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|Suspense!
|Suspense!
|4:47
|4:47
|Brace yourself for another action-packed episode of the Arby 'n' the Chief - Bytes mini-series, now with an epic replay of past events and a glimpse of events to come, just like your favorte televised drama series!
|Brace yourself for another action-packed episode of the Arby 'n' the Chief - Bytes mini-series, now with an epic replay of past events and a glimpse of events to come, just like your favorite televised drama series!
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|A Pirate's Life
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===Behind the Scenes===
====Season 3====
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|Stars Force: The Darkness Awakened Review
|6:28
|Master Chief's review of Stars Force: The Darkness Awakened directed by Jar Jar Abrahams.
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|Jams Bonk (Part 1)
|8:31
|With the help of Arbiter as his first assistant director, cameraman and essentially every other role besides director, Chief writes, directs and stars in his own spy movie as secret agent "Jams Bonk".
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|Jams Bonk (Part 2)
|11:52
|Arbiter acts as first assistant director and camera operator among every other necessary production role to Master Chief, who's directing and starring in his own James Bond spin-off film.
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|Jams Bonk (Part 3)
|12:40
|Part three of the Jams Bonk story in which Arbiter helps Chief film a James Bond parody film starring Chief himself.
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|Franchise XXX
|11:59
|Arbiter and Master Chief drink a couple of beers as they watch a live broadcast, and coverage featuring Chip Gayman, of the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California.
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|Master Switch
|12:31
|The toys finally discover a couple of video game consoles of the latest generation. Chief, repulsed by the Switch, learns it can be hacked.
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|That COPPA Feel
|21:03
|Arbiter reads about YouTube's new content submission guidelines following their fine from the FTC. Meanwhile, coincidentally, Master Chief decides to make a new show.
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|Your Mom's House
|18:40
|Jon packs to go to his mom's house for the holidays. After years of not seeing Santa deliver any gifts to his apartment, Chief, with reason to believe that Santa regularly goes to Jon's mom's house, and wanting ''[[Halo Infinite]]'', decides to stow away in one of his bags and go along with him.
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|Agnryfaic
|17:10
|Chief starts his own business.
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|Outbreak Breakout
|19:55
|Chief wants to go to a massive spring break beach party in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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|Doom Guys
|19:20
|On the day [https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_Eternal ''Doom Eternal''] and [https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Animal_Crossing:_New_Horizons ''Animal Crossing: New Horizons''] are released simultaneously, Master Chief curiously reveals himself to be a fan of the former.
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|Soiboi
|18:39
|Chief calls a doctor after suffering a serious disease from a Nintendo Switch.
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|Better Call Chief
|26:31
|Chief finds Arbiter playing ''The Last of Us Part II'' and takes action.
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|The Xboxorcist
|42:32
|It's Halloween, Chief finds Arbiter playing ''Fall Guys'' and decides to toy with an ouija board.
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|Noelf
|30:37
|Master Chief decides to pass the time waiting for Santa to bring him the [[Xbox Series X/S|Xbox Series X{{!}}S]] by annoying Arbiter, who informs Chief that he's being surveilled and won't get the console if he's put on Santa's naughty list.
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|Second Onion
|18:02
|Arbiter is sad and can't shake it. Chief tries to help.
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|E3 2021 Special
|35:33
|The toys watch the E3 2021 developer and publisher streams together.
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===Production notes===
In these two videos, Jon Graham tells and shows viewers the process of creating an episode of Arby 'n' The Chief.
In these two videos, Jon Graham tells and shows viewers the process of creating an episode of Arby 'n' The Chief.


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Because of bad fan reception for the first two episodes, on November 24, 2009, much to his dismay, Jon Graham stated on his blog that he was asked by Machinima to fly to L.A. and help them with the third episode to "give the new crew a running start." However, he was detained by US Homeland Security as a Canadian citizen and was denied entrance to the United States; the new arrangement is for Jon to simply write the scripts and manage the voices, while a film crew in LA does all the actual production. Jon stated on his blog that he still doesn't consider the series his anymore.[http://joncjg.blogspot.com/2009/11/news-helping-produce-next-episode-of.html]
Because of bad fan reception for the first two episodes, on November 24, 2009, much to his dismay, Jon Graham stated on his blog that he was asked by Machinima to fly to L.A. and help them with the third episode to "give the new crew a running start." However, he was detained by US Homeland Security as a Canadian citizen and was denied entrance to the United States; the new arrangement is for Jon to simply write the scripts and manage the voices, while a film crew in LA does all the actual production. Jon stated on his blog that he still doesn't consider the series his anymore.[http://joncjg.blogspot.com/2009/11/news-helping-produce-next-episode-of.html]


It is unknown whether the series will continue, due to it's unpopularity compared to the series made by Jon Graham.


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|Episode 7: The Dark Side
|Episode 7: The Dark Side
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|Mario reluctantly allows the Arbiter to stay because of his intelligence. However, he refuses to let the Master Chief stay and the Arbiter can only remain as long as he sells out the Chief, thus is torn between Toad's insistance on doing so and Luigi's persuasion against doing so. Meanwhile the Chief has found the Halo 3 disc inside a ''Tony Hawk’s Ride'' game case, to his delight.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6goM2bq9VIY&list=SL '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief in LA: Episode 7: The Dark Side'']</ref>
|Mario reluctantly allows the Arbiter to stay because of his intelligence. However, he refuses to let the Master Chief stay and the Arbiter can only remain as long as he sells out the Chief, thus is torn between Toad's insistence on doing so and Luigi's persuasion against doing so. Meanwhile the Chief has found the Halo 3 disc inside a ''Tony Hawk’s Ride'' game case, to his delight.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6goM2bq9VIY&list=SL '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief in LA: Episode 7: The Dark Side'']</ref>
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|Episode 8: Two Betrayals
|Episode 8: Two Betrayals
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|4:48
|Master Chief tricks Sonic into going to see Mario so that he can play Halo 3 by himself. The Arbiter and Toad arrive, with The Arbiter accepting Mario's offer to allow him to stay on the condition that the Chief be kicked out. At that moment, Chief is heard complaini about the map [[Boundless]] (another version of [[Snowbound]]), Mario storms into the room and, after a brief argument, throws the Chief out while the Arbiter looks on. The episode ends with a shot of the sad Master Chief sitting outside the door of the shop.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqwFY6zDu_c&list=SL '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief in LA: Episode 8: Two Betrayals'']</ref>
|Master Chief tricks Sonic into going to see Mario so that he can play Halo 3 by himself. The Arbiter and Toad arrive, with The Arbiter accepting Mario's offer to allow him to stay on the condition that the Chief be kicked out. At that moment, Chief is heard complaining about the map [[Boundless]] (another version of [[Snowbound]]), Mario storms into the room and, after a brief argument, throws the Chief out while the Arbiter looks on. The episode ends with a shot of the sad Master Chief sitting outside the door of the shop.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqwFY6zDu_c&list=SL '''Youtube''' - ''Arby 'n' The Chief:  Arby 'n' the Chief in LA: Episode 8: Two Betrayals'']</ref>
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|Episode 9: Exile
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*Though distributed by http://www.Machinima.com, the series is technically not a machinima, with the majority of each episode filmed live-action and video games simply being a plot device.
*Though distributed by http://www.Machinima.com, the series is technically not a machinima, with the majority of each episode filmed live-action and video games simply being a plot device.
*In the second episode of the series, the Arbiter wrote Bungie a letter asking to give the Chief Recon armor, which was granted by the beginning of Episode 3. Bungie, of course, actually did give Jon Graham the Recon armor; many viewers of the video thought that Jon was given the armor because of the email that the Arbiter wrote, leading many of them to write their own emails to Bungie asking for the armor themselves. Jon, however, has revealed that he did not actually send the email that he wrote for Episode 2, and that Bungie gave him the Recon purely because they admired his videos.
*In the second episode of the series, the Arbiter wrote Bungie a letter asking to give the Chief Recon armor, which was granted by the beginning of Episode 3. Bungie, of course, actually did give Jon Graham the Recon armor; many viewers of the video thought that Jon was given the armor because of the email that the Arbiter wrote, leading many of them to write their own emails to Bungie asking for the armor themselves. Jon, however, has revealed that he did not actually send the email that he wrote for Episode 2, and that Bungie gave him the Recon purely because they admired his videos.
*Despite the name of the title, Arbiter is rarely called "Arby."
*Humorously enough, the runtime of Season 7 equates to roughly 343 minutes.
*Greg the Spider and Mario are the few non-Halo toys in the series.


==Sources==
==Sources==
{{Reflist|3}}
{{Ref/Sources|3}}
 
==Links==
===Internal===
*[[Jon Graham]]
*[[Machinima]]
 
===External===
*[[w:c:arbynthechiefbeta|AntC Wiki, Arby 'n' the Chief Wiki]] - An External Wiki
*[http://www.youtube.com/show/arbynthechief YouTube's Show Page]
*[http://www.youtube.com/machinima Machinima's YouTube Channel.]


{{Fan Works}}
{{Fan Works}}


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