Series synopsis
Red vs. Blue is an American animation comedy sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on YouTube on April 1, 2003. It ended on December 29, 2021. It was created by Burnie Burns. It stars Elijah Wood, Shannon McCormick, Matt Hullum and Jason Saldaña.
In the distant future, two groups of soldiers battle for control of the least desirable piece of real estate in the known universe: a box canyon in the middle of nowhere.
Premise
In the distant future, two groups of soldiers battle for control of the least desirable piece of real estate in the known universe: a box canyon in the middle of nowhere.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Elijah Wood as Sigma
- Shannon McCormick as Agent Washington / Lopez dos.0 / Agent Iowa
- Matt Hullum as Sarge (voice)
- Jason Saldaña as Pvt. Lavernius Tucker (voice)
- Burnie Burns as Pvt. Leonard Church / Lopez the Heavy / Epsilon
- Gustavo Sorola as Pvt. Dick Simmons
- Jen Brown as Carolina
- Joel Heyman as Pvt. Michael J. Caboose
Supporting cast
- Geoff Ramsey as Pvt. Dexter Grif
- Dan Godwin as Pvt. Franklin Delano Donut
- Kathleen Zuelch as Freelancer Agent Texas
Guest cast
- Dan Avidan as Soldier (voice)
- Arin Hanson as Soldier (voice)
- Ross O'Donovan as Soldier (voice)
- Suzy Berhow as Soldier (voice)
- Barry Kramer as Soldier (voice)
- Rahul Kohli as Male Tex (voice)
- SungWon Cho as Atlus Arcadium Rex (voice)
- Anthony Padilla as Gun Guy #2 (voice)
- Ian Hecox as Gun Guy #1 (voice)
- Lydia Mackay as Kalirama (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 20 seasons with 631 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 280 | May 7, 2024 | |
| Season 1 | 19 | April 1, 2003 | September 28, 2003 |
| Season 2 | 20 | January 3, 2004 | July 11, 2004 |
| Season 3 | 20 | October 12, 2004 | May 18, 2005 |
| Season 4 | 20 | August 29, 2005 | April 1, 2006 |
| Season 5 | 23 | September 30, 2006 | June 28, 2007 |
| Season 6 | 19 | May 26, 2008 | October 31, 2008 |
| Season 7 | 19 | June 16, 2009 | October 26, 2009 |
| Season 8 | 20 | April 1, 2010 | September 13, 2010 |
| Season 9 | 20 | June 14, 2011 | November 14, 2011 |
| Season 10 | 22 | May 28, 2012 | November 5, 2012 |
| Season 11 | 19 | June 15, 2013 | November 11, 2013 |
| Season 12 | 19 | April 28, 2014 | September 29, 2014 |
| Season 13 | 20 | April 1, 2015 | September 7, 2015 |
| Season 14 | 24 | May 8, 2016 | October 16, 2016 |
| Season 15 | 21 | April 2, 2017 | August 20, 2017 |
| Season 16 | 15 | April 15, 2018 | July 22, 2018 |
| Season 17 | 12 | March 9, 2019 | May 25, 2019 |
| Season 18 | 8 | November 9, 2020 | December 28, 2020 |
| Season 19 | 11 | October 20, 2021 | December 29, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Red vs. Blue Preview Trailer Church narrates the events of the first Halo game, and explains that in between the first and second covenant invasions there was a civil war of Red vs. Blue, until the person typing his captions takes it in another direction. |
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| 2 |
Episode 0 - The Cast Another early trailer released on drunkgamers.com, episode 0 only has a partial list of season 1 characters and features extensive combat and violence. Set to Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff", this episode could not be included on the season 1 DVD for copyright reasons. However it is now included in the Bonus Features DVD, but again, for copyright reasons, it's not the Limp Bizkit song, but instead, it is set to Hollywood Undead's "Undead". |
November 1, 2003 |
| 3 |
First Recording Session Extra from Season 1 DVD of Geoff and Gus reading Lines |
November 1, 2003 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Why Are We Here? The first episode of Red vs. Blue introduces the main characters, and poses the all-important question, why are we here? |
April 1, 2003 |
| 2 |
Red Gets A Delivery The Reds get a new piece of equipment, and Grif has a problem with its name. |
April 20, 2003 |
| 3 |
The Rookies The Red and Blue armies get new recruits. |
April 27, 2003 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Everything Old Is New Again Episode 20 introduces the character Doc to the Blood Gulch, and to the Blues. |
January 3, 2004 |
| 2 |
Motion To Adjourn The Blues fend off an attack from the Reds, the Reds fend off themselves. |
April 1, 2004 |
| 3 |
Red vs Bleu The Blues surrender and sacrifice Doc, the Reds sacrifice Grif’s self-esteem. |
April 1, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Best Laid Plans In the first episode of season 3, the Reds and Blues find themselves scattered across the universe as they attempt to hunt down evil mastermind O'Malley. |
October 12, 2004 |
| 2 |
Visiting Old Friends Sarge and Caboose try to escape from a bizarre battle between two groups of unknown Red and Blue soldiers. |
October 24, 2004 |
| 3 |
Let's Get Together O'Malley sets his evil plans in motion, while the Reds and Blues debate their next move. |
November 8, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Familiar Surroundings Grif has a hard time coming to terms with the Red team's unexpected return to Blood Gulch; meanwhile back on Zanzibar, Church gets scared out of his own body. |
August 29, 2005 |
| 2 |
Hunting Time Tex, Tucker, and Church search for the big thing while Sarge tries a new strategy to get Grif down from the ledge. |
September 5, 2005 |
| 3 |
Fight or Fright Simmons is frustrated that Sarge won't believe he saw a tank while the Blues send in bait to lure the alien into a trap. |
September 12, 2005 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
You Can't Park Here It’s the happy day for the Blood Gulch crew as new arrivals upset everything. |
September 30, 2006 |
| 2 |
Got Your Back As Church argues with Simmons and Grif, a tapping noise begins to sound from the ship. Sheila abruptly leaves, forcing Church to retreat to the base. |
October 6, 2006 |
| 3 |
Baby Steps Church attempts to call Vic for reinforcements, but is stalled by an elaborate answering machine system. Meanwhile, the back door of the ship opens, and an unseen entity emerges. |
October 13, 2006 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Reconstruction (1) Project Freelancer sends a Recovery Force to Outpost 17-B in hopes of finding out what happened there. |
May 26, 2008 |
| 2 |
Reconstruction (2) Agent Washington arrives at Blood Gulch and is greeted by some familiar faces. |
June 2, 2008 |
| 3 |
Reconstruction (3) Wash searches out Caboose hoping for his help in finding the Meta |
June 9, 2008 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Don't Get Me Started Sarge tries to make contact with someone from Blue Base. |
June 16, 2009 |
| 2 |
Free Refills Simmons uses the holo-room to continue his design work while Caboose continues his own mysterious project at Blue Base. |
June 23, 2009 |
| 3 |
Visiting Hours Caboose gets a visitor while the Reds look for their missing teammate. |
June 30, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
For Those Of You Just Joining Us... Medical Officer DuFresne (Doc) arrives at Valhalla after Simmons had requested a medic from Command. Doc is initially happy to meet Simmons again, but Simmons says that Donut needs his help. Doc notes that Donut is dead, and that nothing can be done for him. Simmons says he is sorry, and admits that he sent the request because "they" forced him to, needing someone with medical training. Doc turns around to see Washington and The Meta, who knocks him unconscious. In the desert, Epsilon Church is enjoying his new status, making up speeches while being worshiped as a deity by the aliens. While delivering a eulogy for C.T. and the human members of his team, Epsilon Church trails off when he sees a dark figure in the distance. He follows the figure; as it walks into a building, he finds himself at the Valhalla installation. When Tucker gets his attention, Epsilon Church again finds himself back in the desert. Realizing that Epsilon Church has just had another flash of memory, Tucker tells the Reds that this has been happening with increasing frequency. When Epsilon Church recalls seeing a waterfall, Grif and Caboose say that it sounds like the Valhalla bases. |
April 1, 2010 |
| 2 |
Drink Your Ovaltine As Sarge makes preparations to call Simmons to get his take on Epsilon Church's visions, Doc recovers and wakes up at the base with Simmons, who explains the details of Washington and the Meta to him. After hearing that Doc had experience with Omega previously, Washington tells him to examine the Meta, who is suffering from armor problems. Back in the desert, Sarge uses Epsilon Church to boost the Warthog's radio and contacts Simmons, but receives a forced message from him under Washington's supervision. Fortunately, using nothing more than his knowledge of his teammates and Simmons' communication, Sarge instantly deduces the situation at Valhalla. As he and Grif set off to rescue them, an intrigued Epsilon Church follows. |
April 13, 2010 |
| 3 |
Upon Further Review Doc informs Washington that the Meta is physically healthy, although having serious problems with his armor. In the desert, Tucker searches for the Reds and Epsilon Church, and guesses they must have taken off. Caboose warns Tucker not to say anything about Epsilon Church missing, as the aliens would become hostile if they knew he was gone. Meanwhile, Sarge arrives in Valhalla to help out Simmons and Doc, and attempts to lure Washington to the center of the canyon. Washington moves to out to intercept him after telling The Meta to kill the prisoners if Sarge caused him any problems. With Washington gone and the Meta distracted, Simmons and Doc plan to short circuit the Meta's suit using an overpowered charge on Doc's medical scanner. Washington confronts and disarms Sarge and demands to know where Epsilon is, but at Sarge's signal, Grif bursts through the canyon wall in the Warthog, landing on Washington and pinning him under the car. With the Warthog still moving at a high speed, Wash climbs from under the Warthog and onto the front, and attempts to shoot Grif. Grif slams on the brakes and Wash is thrown into the opposite cliff alongside explosive barrels as Sarge reclaims his shotgun. He fires at the barrels to ignite them, attempting (but failing) a one-liner, and Washington is engulfed in the resulting explosion. As the episode ends, the Meta sees the explosion and readies to execute Doc just as Doc charges his "scanner." |
April 19, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Rounding Error The episode begins with Church giving another monologue which is repeatedly interrupted by Tucker's callings. Church goes to the cliff where Caboose and Tucker are already waiting to spy on the Reds who are making modifications to their warthog. As the Blues argue about what the modifications are, the Reds fire a rocket from "Chupathingy" at them. Church then hears Donut giving orders to Simmons, as if he was Sarge! Mad about how everything is so different he begins to go down to Red Base to set things straight saying "If we're gonna do this, it has to be done the right way or there's no point in doing it at all." The scene goes to many years earlier with the Director and the Counselor arguing. |
June 14, 2011 |
| 2 |
The Twins The episode begins where the last one left off, with the Director and the Counselor discussing the system. The view then goes to two UNSC soldiers patrolling. One of the soldiers is killed causing the other to look for him and panic. When he finds him Agent South kills him. North and South start talking which turns to arguing about turning South's motion sensors on. South then sneaks into the main part of the base and sneaks past a dozen guards. She begins to download data but as that happens a soldier bringing coffee walks in on her. He goes for the alarm only to be shot but his body lands on the alarm. South takes the data and runs out of the facility. North does the same and they meet up in front of the helipad. As they go into the helipad they are surrounded by guards. |
June 20, 2011 |
| 3 |
Number One North and South are saved by "Number One," and North gets wounded. In the meantime, Church gets shot by the Reds in order to say what he needs to say. |
June 27, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Revenants As York and his A.I., Delta, attempt to pick a lock, Caboose and Sarge bring Epsilon up to date on recent events that led up to his escape. |
May 28, 2012 |
| 2 |
Heavy Metal Due to York's failure to open the "Ieader's hangar", Carolina and her team, consisting of: Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota, and C.T., infilitrate the main hangar of an Insurrectionist spacecraft full force. |
June 4, 2012 |
| 3 |
Follow the Leader As Carolina regroups the Reds and Blues, C.T. negotiates with the enemy. Meanwhile, the Freelancers travel to a new location, in order to locate the leader. |
June 11, 2012 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
One-Zero-One In an unknown location, Washington is heard creating a journal entry. Admitting that it has been a while since doing one, Wash decides to get up to speed: he recalls the corruption of Project Freelancer, its demise, his job as a Recovery agent, and Project Freelancer's misuse of the Reds and Blues as cannon fodder for their Freelancer agents. The only people Wash could trust was the Reds and Blues and together, they succeeded in bringing down Project Freelancer and the Director once and for all. Wash then mentions the fact that they became shipwrecked while on their way home, and fears that if help doesn't come soon, someone else may find them. Wash talks to the group - Comm tower S11 Finishing his entry, Wash hears the tank fire and sees that Sarge and Simmons are using it on their own base, with Grif still inside. Wash asks why Sarge has the tank, but quickly realizes Caboose gave it to the Reds. |
June 15, 2013 |
| 2 |
Get Your Tucks in a Row Wash and Caboose leave for Blue base to confront Tucker. Meanwhile, the Reds discuss a dilemma about their base. |
June 24, 2013 |
| 3 |
Barriers to Entry Sarge lays down a few ground rules regarding his personal space, while Wash comforts a sad Caboose. |
July 1, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Oh Captains, My Captains The infiltration of a mining facility goes haywire for the New Republic. |
April 28, 2014 |
| 2 |
Hit and Run Felix and Tucker take a group of Republic soldiers to blow up a Federal Army outpost. |
May 5, 2014 |
| 3 |
Something Else Entirely Kimball makes a deal with the Reds and Blues to assemble a small team in five days to go rescue their friends before they are moved to the capital. |
May 12, 2014 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Prologue The space pirates raid the UNSC Tartarus for prisoners to recruit into their ranks |
April 1, 2015 |
| 2 |
Capital Assets Grif searches for Kimball in the crowded city of Armonia, showing off just how much life has changed on Chorus since the civil war ended. |
April 6, 2015 |
| 3 |
What's Yours is Ours The Blood Gulch Crew seek help from Dr. Grey in order to gain more information on the alien temple. |
April 13, 2015 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Room Zero A team navigates a perilous, kilometer-long tunnel. Their mission: rescue Sarge and Tex from captivity, but Room Zero presents unexpected challenges. |
May 8, 2016 |
| 2 |
From Stumbled Beginnings Basic training gets chaotic as three recruits face unexpected challenges. Their insubordination leads to a dangerous recon mission. Will they learn to cooperate and complete their objective? |
May 15, 2016 |
| 3 |
Fifty Shades of Red Several Red soldiers compete for Sarge's position. A series of intense tryouts tests their communication and leadership under pressure, including a bomb defusal exercise. |
May 22, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Prologue In the wake of a violent assault on a UNSC supply depot, one reporter is determined to find out the true motivations of its colorful attackers: a villainous gang known as the Reds and Blues. |
April 2, 2017 |
| 2 |
The Chronicle IDA Reporter Dylan Andrews begins her search for the Reds and Blues in Blood Gulch Canyon with the help of a new cameraman. |
April 9, 2017 |
| 3 |
The Mother of Destruction The search for the Reds and Blues takes Dylan and Jax to the crashed remains of Project Freelancer. While Dylan struggles to justify her continuing search against a lack of progress, a break in the story finally comes in unexpected visitors. |
April 16, 2017 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Shisno The beginning of a new adventure for the Reds and Blues picks up right where the last one left off - a conversation about where to get lunch. Unbeknownst to our heroes, powerful forces have taken an interest in their debate. |
April 15, 2018 |
| 2 |
Incendiary Incidents The gang goes out for pizza. Grif attempts to stop the plot from moving forward. The return of a deceased teammate throws all their plans in peril. |
April 22, 2018 |
| 3 |
Lost Time Adrift in time and space, the Reds and Blues attempt to make sense of Donut's cryptic message. Sarge reopens old wounds. Caboose has a time machine. |
April 29, 2018 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A Stitch in Time After the paradox destroys time, The Reds and Blues are forced to relive their pasts on loop while Genkins tries to create more paradoxes to help Chrovos escape her new confinement by Donut. |
March 9, 2019 |
| 2 |
Everwhen Donut travels through time to try and save his friends from being trapped in the Singularity. |
March 16, 2019 |
| 3 |
Schrödingin' After tracking down Washington's location, Donut tries to recruit him into helping him save the other Reds and Blues. |
March 23, 2019 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Viper Before Washington can secure a strange alien artifact, a mysterious syndicate known as Viper attacks his base. Meanwhile, Shatter Squad races to pick up a new recruit. |
November 9, 2020 |
| 2 |
Recovery Carolina acquires a new team in Shatter Squad; do they have what it takes? Zero and Phase track the coordinates to an ancient temple. What lies inside? There's only one way to find out. |
November 16, 2020 |
| 3 |
Duo While investigating the incident at Falcon Base, West and Raymond encounter a formidable foe. Shatter Squad prepares to go head to head with Viper. |
November 23, 2020 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Shatter Squad Needs a Pet Agents Raymond and One call the team together for a very important meeting to discuss bringing in Shatter Squad’s newest member: a pet. |
October 20, 2021 |
| 2 |
Night of the Living Dad The Squad stages an intervention with spooky results. |
October 27, 2021 |
| 3 |
Walk & Talk Remember when this show was about a bunch of ragtag misfits walking and talking about life's greatest mysteries? |
November 3, 2021 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | YouTube |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 1, 2003 |
| Last aired | December 29, 2021 |
| Runtime | 8 minutes |
| Status | Canceled |