[rock music playing in the background]
SIMMONS: Slow down, what's the hurry?!
GRIF: I can't slow down, there's no time!
SARGE: Grif, I want an explanation for this reckless driving
this instant!
Why is the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car?
SIMMONS: Wait.. You mean you don't know
where we're going either?
SARGE: I merely assumed a bomb had been planted
inside the warthog, and that said: "explosive
would detonate if we drop below fifty miles per hour."
Makes sense to me and Lopez.
GRIF: Will all of you shut up?!
I'm trying to focus!
SIMMONS: Focus on what?
Where are you taking us?
CABOOSE [on radio]: Ah, yeah. Hey, uh, red guys?
Yeah, I just wanted to let you know that the power
is still out at your base, and your ice cream is getting pretty melty.
GRIF: Nooooo!
SIMMONS: Ice cream?
You're driving like a lunatic to get to fucking ice cream?
GRIF: It's not just ice cream, it's rocky road, Simmons.
SARGE: Red base doesn't have power?
That means we're completely defenseless!
Step on it, dirtbag!
SIMMONS: What about Donut?
SARGE: Oh, good. I sent him to the store to get some me parts
to fix the warthog's power steering.
GRIF: Uh...
Speaking of rocky road, um...
SIMMONS: Crap, we're going to crash, do something!
GRIF: I don't know what to do! The steering's not working!
SARGE Then this car bomb could go off at any second.
SIMMONS: Uh, all in favor of abandoning ship say "aye."
[ALL]: Aye!
SARGE: Tuck and roll, Lopez!
SARGE: Aw, dang nabbit.
BURNIE: Welcome to a very special Red vs. Blue
Immersion.
We've come out here to our Rooster Teeth
test canyon
to run an experiment with one of the most
iconic and beloved video game vehicles of all time:
the Halo Warthog.
Now, if you've ever played the game Halo before,
the players can often drive the jeep in such a way
that it ends up on its roof.
To get it back on its wheels,
all the player needs to do is press a button,
and it'll turn itself over in less than three seconds.
As you can see behind me, we have placed
a real life Warthog very delicately on its roof,
and we're going to find out what it takes
to flip a Warthog in real life.
And to help me conduct this experiment,
I have recruited a very special lab rat:
Mr. Miles Luna.
MILES: Y'know, I can't help but feel like I was a little
more forced than recruited.
BURNIE: Well, forcing is a very important part
of the Immersion recruitment process, Miles.
You should know that by now.
MILES: Yeah...
BURNIE: So, would you say you are familiar with
the Halo franchise?
MILES: I would say that I'm mildly to moderately
familiar with Halo.
BURNIE: Okay, well then I'm sure you've seen this
scenario before, then?
MILES: Oh yeah, a thousand times!
BURNIE: Okay, how would you handle this in the game?
MILES: Oh, well, I'd, y'know, just walk up
hit that little X button,
and then we'd be right as rain.
BURNIE: Alright, well, since we can't do that in real life...
Our control today, and every good experiment
has a control, is that Miles is going to attempt
to flip the warthog back over
using just his brute strength.
MILES: Just me?
BURNIE: Just you.
MILES: Really?
BURNIE: Yep.
MILES: And ya think that might work?
Burnie: Oh yeah, I think it will be great.
MILES: We're going to go through that whole song
and dance where, "ohhh, he might do it,
who knows?"
BURNIE: Why do I care?
I'm not the one wearing the armor.
I'm going to go work on my tan.
MILES: Great.
BURNIE: Alright, Miles. You ready?
Want you to flip it in...
Three...
Two -
I don't know why I'm timing this.
Just flip it!
Go!
BURNIE: Miles, lift with your back, not with your legs!
Come on!
MILES: Whooooooooooo's
your daddy?
God damnit!
Spartans never die!
They're just missing in action or on their back.
Get in with the hips.
Be forceful with it,
just be forceful!
Don't be afraid,
there you go, good hustle!
BURNIE: Alright, well, that's disappointing,
but predictable.
Alright, come over here!
C'mere, c'mere, c'mere.
Get in here.
But clearly that didn't go very well.
MILES: What did you expect?
BURNIE: Well, I don't know,
I thought maybe you'd flip it over,
or you'd get hurt and that'd be funny or something.
I had heard you'd been working out,
what happened with that?
MILES: Not enough to lift two tons!
BURNIE: Alright.
Well,
clearly since one person cannot flip the Warthog
on his own...
We don't want to give up,
what would be the fun in that?
Why don't we head back into the shop
and figure out what it's going to take
to flip this bad boy over?
We've come out to the Rooster Teeth workshop
to show you exactly how we're going to get
this enormous beast back on its wheels.
In order for us to do that,
we brought in our newest scientist,
Mr. Marcus Laporte.
Marcus, what are our challenges in getting this
bad boy back on its wheels?
MARCUS: Okay, well first and foremost, we had to make this thing
structural. When we first got it, it was really
more decorative.
First, the Rooster Teeth effects team
will use steel plates to reinforce the truck frame
so the Warthog can actually sit upside down,
essentially creating a roll cage.
We will also weld large metal rings
to the body of the truck, which will then be
connected by cable to pneumatic ram.
The pneumatic ram will use compressed nitrogen
to pull our vehicle back onto its wheels.
BURNIE: In Halo, players flip the Warthog in mere seconds.
To do that in real life, [it] will require between
a thousand and fifteen hundred PSI.
That's more than thirty-seven thousand pounds of force.
BURNIE: Okay, so if this goes according to plan,
we should go from this
to that!
MILES: Yeah, no, I get it.
BURNIE: I know, I just wanted to show you the model.
So, Marcus, how are we going to set this thing off?
MARCUS: Alright, so here is...
BURNIE: Oh ho oh!
We have an X button, that's awesome!
MILES: Why does he get an X button?
BURNIE: Because I'm a scientist.
What do you care?
Alright, I'm afraid to touch it...
So I hit this,
and then that Warthog flips?
MARCUS: That's what we're hoping for.
BURNIE: Alright, let's count it down.
Three...
Two...
One...
MILES: Oh, shit!
BURNIE: Hey, congratulations! That was awesome!
MILES: That was fucking cool.
BURNIE: Wow, that worked a lot better than you did, Miles.
No offense.
MILES: Thanks, no. Yeah, thank you.
BURNIE: Well, since Miles obviously
could not flip it over on his own
but science could
our winner for today is science.
And Marcus.
MILES: What do I get?
BURNIE: You get to keep the suit of armor.
You get to wear it home.
GRIF: Jesus!
Could you guys have taken any longer?
There's going to be nothing left at the base
but ice cream soup!
Which...
I guess I'm actually okay with when I say it out loud.
SIMMONS: You're fucking disgusting.
SARGE: Heh heh heh.
Well, I never thought I'd say this,
but that was the best damn episode of
Red vs. Blue I've ever seen.
The only way they could possibly make it better
would be a larger than life
completely unnecessary
gratuitous explosion.
SIMMONS: Yeah, but there's no real need for anything to explode.
It would be just like shoe-horning it in
for a spectacle at this point.
SARGE: Well, what about that bomb in the jeep?
SIMMONS: Huh.
Guess there was a bomb in the jeep.
SARGE: Told ya.
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