Friends without Benefits
Friends without Benefits (FWOB) is a YouTube let's play show created by Jacob "Alpharad" Rabon IV and Davis Don "Dad_as Heck" Walker on May 16th, 2016. Currently it is hosted by Alpharad, Dad_as Heck, Major Duncan, Dillon "Deezus" Downing and Cade "WEEGEE THE GOD" McKown, with 3 guests being Eric "ESAM" Lew, Fio Zoll and Jesse "MVD" Negron, who only appear during the Mario Party series. The channel currently has 139K subscribers and 27 million views.[1]
Format[edit]
The channel uploads three episodes per day at 2pm, 4pm and 8pm CST.[2] The 2pm time slot is known as the Party Game Time Slot, which usually has Mario Party in it with 4 of the members of the show including the guests. The other two slots have some other game typically with 2-3 of the full-time members. The hosts of each episode talk over the gameplay of a related or unrelated subject. The show is often compared to Game Grumps, which the hosts use to joke about.
History[edit]
Beginning[edit]
FWOB's first video was an episode of Super Mario 3D World uploaded on June 24th, 2016 hosted by Alpharad and Dad. Every episode was hosted by Alpha and Dad until March 14th 2017 where Weegee, Major, and Deezus were introduced in an episode of Jackbox.[3] Arguably the most important series in FWOB history is Mario Party, which first premiered on June 12th 2017. It was the start of their longest running series currently with 300 episodes, and is the only series to be in its 2nd season.
Travis[edit]
Travis "Turvis" Roland was introduced in an arc of Mario Party 4 uploaded on September 7th 2017, he was apparently hesitant to join and it took Alpharad months to convince him into doing it. He joined mainly due to feeling like his friends at home were leaving him, loving the time he spent with the FWOB crew at Smashcon, and being fired from his job while he was away.[4] But on November 1st 2017, Alpharad announced that Travis had left the show.[2] It was originally planned to be a temporary departure, so Travis could be with his brother for their back surgery and take care of him for a while. However the problems that made Travis leave his home in the first place were solved while he was at home. He rekindled his friendships, and because the surgery took a long time to start he decided he needed to have money for the while he was there and got a job.[4]
Guests[edit]
The first guest on the show was MVD who appeared in an arc of Mario Party 8, and later appeared more often along with ESAM, who first appeared in a doubles arc of Mario Party 6. They continued to appear often in the Party Game Time Slot until some fans began to speculate about whether or not they would become full-time members of FWOB,[5] but it was announced on Twitter that they would be joining the show along with Fio, Alpharad's fiancée, will be joing the show for Mario Party.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Friends without Benefits" YouTube
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "ANNOUNCEMENTS: They're pretty cool but one of them really isn't all that cool honestly". YouTube.
- ↑ "Jackbox Games: The Only Show On The Internet - EPISODE 1 - Friends Without Benefits" YouTube
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Why I Decided To Leave Friends Without Benefits". YouTube.
- ↑ "MVD and ESAM could join FWOB?" Reddit
- ↑ "Friends without Benefits Twitter" Twitter
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