text: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/show?p=H4Z8Vj7XZOc&s=1 Arby 'n' the Chief]]'' is a {{Machinima}}/Live-action comedy created by [[http://joncjg.blogspot.com/ Jon Graham]] (formerly known as "[=DigitalPh33r=]"), who also produced ''Machinima/DeusExMachina''. The series follows [[LivingToys two figurines]] based on Bungie and Microsoft's ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' series coming to life while their owner is away. As the title suggests, the main characters are based on Master Chief (a LeetLingo-speaking {{Jerkass}} whose only concern is how much he "pwns" in any given game, something that he is completely incapable of actually doing) and the Arbiter (a DeadpanSnarker who often acts as the voice of reason to the Chief's mindless ranting). One of the unique features of the series is that many of the characters actually speak through a [[SyntheticVoiceActor PC voice synthesizer]] instead of acted voice-overs. The series is based on Graham's previous shorts, ''Master Chief Sucks At Halo'', where the series' trademarks (including synthesized voice-overs and the Chief's personality) were developed. The series was a massive hit among Machinima subscribers and has garnered a substantial following which helped propel the series to greater heights and wider recognition. Even though Jon Graham is working on future projects such as ''Chemotheraplay'', ''Arby 'n' the Chief'' is already being labeled his best. In fact, many consider it to be one of the best shows that Machinima has featured on their channel.The original series initially ended after the third season with a six-part finale, "Endgame". The finale led to a spin-off, ''Arby 'n' the Chief in LA'', produced entirely by Machinima.com with minimal input from Graham. After a break from the series, Graham announced a fourth season of ''Arby 'n' the Chief'' in 2010, which later ended up canceling out the L.A. continuity in favor of a more streamlined narrative. This was followed by a fifth season in early 2011, and a sixth season in mid 2011. A seventh season was announced and premiered in early 2012, and finished on August 17th, 2013, ending the show as a whole......at least, until January 22nd, 2015, when an eighth season was announced to be in the works.!! Tropes appearing in this series:[[foldercontrol]][[folder:Season 1-4]]* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Arby's reaction to Chief blowing up the first wedding.* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The "shocking" twist ending of Chief's first machinima "TEH AELINS FRUM TEH OTUAR SPAESS" in TheMovie, which as mentioned above is a shoutout to the notoriously bad Doom fanfic [[DoomRepercussionsOfEvil Repercussions of Evil.]]* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Subverted, Chief finally regains his Recon but learns you could get it from doing the Vidmaster challenges.* BadassLongcoat: Subverted with Agent Smirnoff. He's notoriously clumsy.* BadassCrew: Parodied with Chief's "n00bz". Every one of them is an insanely bad Halo player and they are all beaten easily by Arbiter. Not to mention Chief says the exact point of them to is use exploits, which hurts their awesomeness significantly.** [[spoiler: By the end of season 5, all of the toys qualify. [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Yes, even Chief.]]]]* BigNo: The Chief, when the Arbiter cancels his [[UpToEleven 700 GB porn download]].-->'''Chief''': MAI SEXAY PRONZ!11!one!* BileFascination: parodied in-universe in "Endgame".--> '''Chief''': god damit this gaem is gay ''[{{beat}}]'' wen is teh sec0nd 1 cumign out* BlackAndGrayMorality: Scott vs. Agent Smirnoff.* BloodyHilarious: [[spoiler:Scott's death.]]* BreakingTheFourthWall: The episode before "Endgame" has Arbiter and Chief stuck in a game with several people, two of whom recognize Master Chief's voice from the show.* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: During a ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' match between Chief and professional gamer Craig, Craig notices he has a hard-on and goes at it while Chief is temporarily distracted from the match. Craig, however, gets caught in the act by his parents, and the ensuing confusion on his side allows the normally incompetent Chief to win the match.* ChekhovsGun: In the 10th episode of Season 4 "Night of the evading dead", Chief wakes up Arbiter by telling him there's a big spider next him, implying that he has arachnophobia. [[spoiler: In the finale, a giant spider appears in Jon's house, and this becomes an important plot point.]]* FunnyAfro: Scott sports one. * {{Handwave}}: Only a mild one in ''Endgame''. Scott has seen Arbiter and Chief moving around and talking, why is this not an issue?-->'''Arbiter''': He's convinced we're hallucinations brought on by his constant substance abuse-->'''Scott''': What the hell? You guys aren't supposed to appear until after my '''fourth''' coke sandwich!** Then again, what about Agent Smirnoff and Skylar Loveheart? Oh that's right, they're insane.* HesBack: Not a character, but Chief's [[spoiler:foot, which he cut off and was given back to him as christmas present by Arbiter, who apparently repaired it.]] Chief tries to invoke this trope, but ends up just as fail as he always is. It's also symbolic of the series returning to it's post "Endgame" glory.* ISurrenderSuckers: Chief when he fights Travis.-->'''Chief''': k k stop sotp stpo. i surendir. [[spoiler: JK LOL]]* ImmuneToDrugs: Scott eats cocaine sandwiches.* LookBehindYou: During the fight with Travis and Todd-->'''Chief''': HOLEH MUTHR OF GOD. L@@K OTU. ITS TEH COVERNINT.** And with Arbiter.-->'''Chief''': OMG LOOK AT ALL THE HORRIBLE THINGS OVER THERE* [[IronicNickname Metallic Nickname]]: Chief's Noobs in "Digital Fruitcakes" is a subversion:--> '''Arbiter''': [[SarcasmMode "Your noobs". Sounds about right.]]--> '''Chief''': [[CompletelyMissingThePoint ITS METALLIC MORON / WERE ACTUALLY LIEK FUCKING PRO]] / SRSLY--> '''Arbiter''': [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I think you mean ironic.]]* MythologyGag: Jon's character, Scott, is listed in the credits with the last name, "Loveheart". Jon's character in TheMovie was Skylar Loveheart.* OverlyLongGag: The death of Scott.* [[PutOnABusToHell Put On A Spaceship To Hell]]: The fates of Cortana, Todd and Travis at the end of "King".--> [[spoiler: Todd and Travis then [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment had their butts made love to by a big gay outer space alien that looked suspiciously like Jon's chin and were later eaten alive.]] ]]--> [[spoiler: As the alien had no desire for females, Cortana was later thrown into an escape pod and fired directly into the center of an alien sun.]]--> [{{beat}}]--> [[TakeThatAudience Happy?]]* SamusIsAGirl: as episode 6 reminds us.--> '''Chief''': O RLY?--> '''Arbiter''': Yeah.--> '''Chief''': hawt / dos she hav boobz?/--> '''Arbiter''': I would assume so, Chief...--> '''Chief''': COOL / [=H1GH=] FIEV--> ''[{{beat}}]''--> '''Arbiter''': ...No.--> '''Chief''': coem on / dun leev a brothar hanging--> '''Arbiter''': What the hell is up with you today? Are you high?--> '''Chief''': on lief, arbitur / on lief* SelfImposedChallenge: When Arbiter challenges Chief and his Noobs, he only uses magnum and sprint. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome He wins.]]--> '''Arbiter''': [[BadassBoast It's all I need.]]* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: The Finale [[spoiler:involves Greg and Cortana returning to live with Arbiter and Chief, just as it seems Arbiter will be lonely and miserable living with Master Chief]].* ShoutOut: The end of the Machinima Chief produces in TheMovie is an obvious shout out to the end of the SoBadItsGood VideoGame/{{Doom}} fanfic ''[[Fanfic/DoomRepercussionsOfEvil Repercussions of Evil]]''.** Arbiter's (though then stolen by Jon), girlfriend is named [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Claire Redfield]].** Travis' name is a reference to the character of the same name from the machinima "Matchmaking" the is lampshaded in the episode they first appear.** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX18WUL-SH0&list=SL "Digital Fruitcakes" (4x09)]] is one long ShoutOut to ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', complete with the same colorful opening titles and credits.** In TheMovie, the petition to stop Chief from making machinima in and his subsequent video response are direct references to similar events revolving around Creator/UweBoll. Chief even uses the same phrases as Boll in his video.* TakeThatAudience: Jon addresses some of his more zealous fans with these from time to time. In the first episode of ''It's a Wonderful Live'' he outright tells his general response to complainers: [[MST3KMantra "What's the big fucking deal?!"]]** Arbiter delivers one at the end of "Panic" [=(19/S3E7)=]--> '''Arbiter''': A few of you obsessive types are probably now scampering to your Xboxes to register the gamertag "assassininja4827", "assninja4827" or some other slight variation. No one will be impressed. Just wanted to call you douchebags out on that beforehand. Owned.** In fact, Todd, Travis, and Cortana's deaths seemed like this.* TravelMontage: Parodied in TheMovie. When Chief escapes from LA, it zooms out to the classic "line on the map" scene - except the lines are a tangled mess because Chief has no idea where he's going.* RasputinianDeath: Scott takes [[OverlyLongGag A LOT]] of bullets to bring down. Lampshaded by the Chief.-->Why won't this faggot just die?* RealTrailerFakeMovie: a parodic variant in the ColdOpening to "The Mail Room II" [=(37/S4E12)=], complete with ParrotExposition. [[RecycledInSpace IN 3D!]]--> '''Arbiter''': [[TakeThat Fuck 3D.]]* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: When Chief learns about the visual effects.-->'''Chief''': put them all on-->'''Arbiter''': Settle down, Chief. I mean most of the visual effects ARE cool and all, but some are made entirely for Machinima and it's impossible to see with them turned on. Playing with them all on would be fucking stupid. What kind of ignoramus would do that? Who, Chief? Who, I ask you? ''Who?''-->([[TemptingFate Ten minutes later...]])[[/folder]][[folder:Season 5]]* AffablyEvil: Trent Donnovich, despite his portrayal as a CorruptCorporateExecutive in the first episode and a harsh first meeting with Arbiter, later tries to make friends with him and invites him to the wedding "church". Subverted after Arbiter discovers he's cheating on Claire.* BigBad: Trent Donnovich.* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Greg fragbans Trent's staff in the finale before they can ban Chief and Arbiter.]]* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jon's Xbox is permanently banned, cutting Chief and Arbiter off from online gaming and social interaction, but Trent is defeated, Arbiter and Claire are still friends and even though Greg's in hiding, at least he is still around.]]* BrickJoke: In Episode 6, Brawl, Chief gives Arbiter a hug just to put a sign that says "im stuped" on his back. Arbiter doesn't know about this until the end of the episode.** And then it happened again in the movie.*** And, to make it a [[UpToEleven true]] BrickJoke, another hug occurs in the fourth episode of Hypermail. And both characters end up getting signs on their backs.* BusCrash: Happens with Travis, Scott and Cortana.* CallBack: The pilot opens with the finale of "Wedding", the second episode from season 3.** Also in the the same episode, Chief tells the security guys, [[PreAsskickingOneLiner "We r guyz, WHO GON TEACH U LESSON!"]] a variation on one of his first lines from the very first episode.* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The typo Trent makes when spelling Arbiter's gamertag.]]* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Timothy, the player Chief met in "Time Wasters" and other earlier episodes who called him out for being bad at Halo. In the penultimate episode he turns out to be a member of an organization of underground hackers and takes Arbiter and Chief to the organization after they got kicked from the server that Trent and Claire's wedding is taking place in.]]* CoDragons: Trent's sisters also act as his right-hands. He also has ''[[UpToEleven another]]'' set of CoDragons in his MLG security guards, Cameron and Cody.* FinalBossPreview: Arguably the matches against the two security guards count as this.* [[spoiler:GainaxEnding: Season 5 ends with [[spoiler: Arbiter waking up to the sound of Cortana's voice, despite her being "dead".]]** [[spoiler:Which turns out to be an incredibly cruel prank by Chief.]]* HesBack: [[spoiler:Greg gives Arbiter his helmet at the end of the season.]]* HowWeGotHere: Season 5 starts with Chief and Arbiter preparing to raid a wedding. Most of the season details the events leading up to it.* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: "Play to win".]]** MythologyGag: This season runs on these. There were {{Call Back}}s to Josh Butterballs and his [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Stupid Obvious Information Magazine]], [=sm0k3w33d4lyph3420=], Chief also makes a few variations on his lines from previous episodes.* LetsGetDangerous: In preparation for the wedding, Chief and Arbiter [[spoiler: meet a group of [[TheCracker console modders]] who help them to bypass Trent's ban on them, give them various cheats including unlimited ammo and the ability to make all the fusion coils at the wedding explode, and guns and melee attacks that result in a console ban and all of the victim's personal information being stolen.]]* [[spoiler: TheMistress]]: [[ThisIsUnforgivable Trent has one.]]* RefugeInAudacity: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin TECHNODICKS]]. [[EarWorm TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO TECHNODICKS.]]* SoundtrackDissonance: The music at the end of "Severance", when [[spoiler:Chief and Arbiter attack Trent, and the final battle between them is about to start]], the music is surprisingly calm.* WorldOfCardboardSpeech[=/=]TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In the finale:--> '''Arbiter''': [[spoiler:It doesn't surprise me that a dose of emotion would have a toxic effect on an emotion-deprived cretin like you. Who's really the plastic one here? Your bleak outlook on life is poisonous. Maybe the world is a big sinking ship. But we can't accept that as an inevitability and use it as an excuse to act like shitheads. We have to be the change we seek. We have to build something better for ourselves.]]** Should be mentioned that this is Arbiter's answer to a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech delivered to him [[spoiler:by Trent]] an episode earlier.* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler: Claire gives one to Arbiter.]][[/folder]][[folder:Season 6]]* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Kylie's motive for working with Chaos Theosis was so that she'd have enough money to leave home because of her abusive father.]]* AffablyEvil: Duncan in season 6 seems to qualify. * AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: [[spoiler: Episode 8 ends with Chaos Theosis marching on TOSER's HQ]]* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Chief and Arbiter in the season 6 finale. They are commended and made internet icons for their involvement in the destruction of [[spoiler:Chaos Theosis]].* BadassBystander: One player in "Cradle to Grave" [[spoiler: refuses to lie for Adam and ends up throwing him to the dogs, all with a calm demeanor despite Adam directly insulting him previously.]]* BadassCrew: Chaos Theosis.* BigBad: [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Trent Donnovich]] is this [[HijackedByGanon again]]. Chaos Theosis is merely a front for Trent's malicious activities.]]* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Kevin and several other TOSERS enforcers]] in "Blackout".* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: In season 6, the thirteen year-old TOSER applicant, Kevin.]]* DiscOneFinalBoss:** A villainous inversion. [[spoiler:Chaos Theosis succeeds in destroying TOSERS, only for Clyde to reveal that the next part of their plan is to destroy the OMN itself.** [[spoiler:Clyde himself gets fragbanned in "Severance", only for it to be revealed he was working for someone else.]]* TheDragon [[spoiler:Clyde to Trent again. He leads the hackers Trent hired and is his final line of defense against]]* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Arby and Chief cooperate with Cameron and Cody to survive the hackers attack on the application match]]* EvilCounterpart: In season 6, Arbiter's would be Clyde (both have Elite models). Chief's however is disputed; Adam would most likely fit since the two have the same cringeworthy sense of humor and are naturally apathetic when it comes to the feelings of others.* [[spoiler:HeroicBSOD: Arbiter during Season 6. 4 months and counting.]]** [[spoiler: He's showing signs of coming out of it though.]]* [[spoiler:HijackedByGanon]]: [[spoiler:In Severance, the twelfth episode of Season 6, Kylie and Clyde were fragged, disbanding Chaos Theosis. However, by signing into Clyde's account using his password, Arbiter and Chief find out that Trent Donnovich, Season 5's BigBad, was behind the entire thing.]]* TheMole: [[spoiler:Silent Strike turns out to be Chaos Theosis' double agent in TOSERS]] * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Episode 9 ends with Arby gearing up for one after Claire is banned and her personal accounts hacked.]]* TemptingFate: A rare example where things actually get better for the person that tempts fate.--> '''Arbiter''': We're going to need a miracle.** [[spoiler: A tank spawns behind him]]* ThoseTwoBadGuys: In "Severance", [[TheDragon Kylie]] gets two bodyguards after [[spoiler:Chaos Theosis gets down to only two members.]][[/folder]][[folder:Season 7]]* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Eugene's father.]]* BackForTheDead: The player Arbiter rescues in season 7 [[spoiler:returns and ends up [[ShoottheDog being fragged by his hands in a later episode]] ]].* BatmanGrabsAGun: [[spoiler:Despite being against Chief spending with Jon's credit card in the past, Arbiter ultimately agrees to use it to buy another Xbox after Colin bricks theirs.]]* BerserkButton: Whatever you do, do '''not''' attempt to represent Eugene's clan in a negative fashion. Your life may just be ruined, and not in the conventional way.** It's also not wise to insult Claire in front of Arbiter.*** Or blame him for [[spoiler:Cortana's demise]].* BigBad: [[spoiler:Eugene and his clan serve as the antagonists for season 7. At first, they seem like a band of harmless, annoying trolls whom the duo befriend. This changes once the resident smart guy, Colin, [[OhCrap acquires an upgraded version of Fragban]]. It then becomes a matter of Arbiter and Chief realizing ''who'' they are dealing with.]]* BigBadWannabe: A scene from an early episode had Eugene Black confront the leader of a copycat trolling clan. Eugene delivers a biting TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the copycat and reveals that he had obtained the copycat's (embarrassing) Internet history and posted it on his school's blog before banning him.* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:In the 4th episode, "Terminal", Master Chief removes a plug for some reason and when The Arbiter goes to turn on the Xbox, it won't power on so he casually puts the plug back in. This just seems like a minor plot point, but in the next episode "Heat", Master Chief decides to scare Cortana and put her in the oven. When she isn't scared, he turns the oven switch on thinking the oven was unplugged and nothing would happen. Instead, [[OhCrap she burned to pieces.]]]]** [[spoiler:The matchbook]] in season 7.* CigaretteOfAnxiety: [[spoiler:Both Arbiter and Chief take up smoking, each to cope with his own personal grief.]]* ClusterFBomb: Chief swears like crazy when he realizes that [[spoiler: he just killed Cortana.]]* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: The series finale, "Ignition". Arbiter and Chief commit suicide by setting the apartment ablaze.]]* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:After Eugene commits suicide, Tyler goes to Arbiter and Chief's apartment to get revenge, only to be shot and killed by the police.]]* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Eugene's fate.]]** [[spoiler:Almost directly followed by Arbiter and Chief.]]* EvenEvilHasStandards: Chief is NOT happy to find out that [[spoiler: Colin is a child molester.]]* EvilFeelsGood: [[spoiler:Arbiter, when he gives in and starts doling out kills with Eugene's clan's fragban software. Especially after he finally got back at fragging a random player during "Spiraling" who insulted him once before in season 7. When asked how it felt, he simply states "Good." And as of 'In Memoriam', he's totally into fragbanning other players alongside Eugene.]]** [[spoiler:Arbiter eventually sees the error of his ways once Eugene displays a much more sinister side of himself, though.]]** EvilCounterpart:** [[{{Troll}} Eugene]] to Arbiter. Both share the same ideologies regarding life and their places in the universe. They're also both teetering on the MoralEventHorizon, which draws the two together.** Chief meanwhile has [[AxCrazy Tyler]] as his counterpart. Both are [[PsychopathicManChild PsychopathicManChildren]], though Tyler is ''much'' more sociopathic than Chief.* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:Chief and Arbiter both change the armor colors on their avatars to black after agreeing to use Fragban 2.0.]] {{Lampshaded}} by Eugene-->'''Eugene''': Black armor now, huh? Kinda lame but whatever.* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Arbiter and Chief assist Eugene's clan in their fragbanning spree across the OMN. Arbiter is initially reluctant to at first, but he eventually gives in and joins the rest of the clan in fragbanning players.]]** [[spoiler:Eventually though, Arbiter and Chief turn against the clan and stop them from fragbanning anyone else. Though, as shown in the season 7 finale, Arbiter may still have a bit of Eugene's influence in him.]]* FauxAffablyEvil: Eugene for the most part. He has tendencies to be kind, but they hide a very monstrous and destructive personality.* FinalBossPreview: The toys' first confrontation with Eugene and his clan [[spoiler: before they're mercilessly fragged]].* FreudianTrio: The nameless trolling clan has Eugene as the Ego, Tyler as the Id and Colin as the Superego. * HesBack: [[spoiler:A case of They're Back in "Event Horizon". The duo finally come to their senses and confront Eugene and his clan in a desperate bid to end their malice.]]* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Arbiter returns to this trope, and for good reasons.]]** ''Eugene, Eugene, EUGENE.'' Despite having a calm demeanor, he has proven himself to be a complete sociopath on multiple occasions and is only staying afloat because of his sister. [[spoiler: He isn't afloat for long]], and he only gets worse from there.* HowWeGotHere: The season starts with Eugene and his clan attacking an in-game funeral, and being approached by Chief and Arbiter. It later cuts to a few months prior.* IJustWantToHaveFriends: {{Deconstructed}}. Chief and Arbiter's desire for companionship leads them to [[spoiler:join Eugene and his on their fragban spree.]]* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:"Awesome possum".]]* KickTheDog: Tyler, ''literally''.** [[spoiler:The dog... also literally... [[TheDogBitesBack bites back]].]]* KickTheMoralityPet:** [[spoiler:Arbiter turns his back on Claire when he meets her again. While Eugene is the one to actually shoot her, Arbiter doesn't seem to have a problem with it.]]** [[spoiler:Eugene fragbans Michelle after she breaks up with him.]]* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:A good portion of the players we see Arbiter fragban are {{Jerkass}}es.]]* LemonWackyHello: Chief getting high from smoking cereal. Lampshaded by Arbiter stating that cereal doesn't have hallucinogenic properties.* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Chief after accidentally killing Cortana.]]* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:The normally friendly and rather cheerful Greg, who peppers his 'speech' with text lingo and smilies like Chief, becomes dead serious when he confronts Chief about Cortana's death, begins writing with perfect grammar, capitalization and punctuation, and even manages the [[PrecisionFStrike Precision D-Strike]] mentioned below despite him normally [[GoshDangitToHeck going out of his way to sanitize even casual speech]].]]* OneLastJob: [[spoiler:Arbiter refers them taking down Eugene's Clan with Fragban 2.0 as this, and compares it to their previous conflict with Chaos Theosis.]]* PrecisionFStrike: Well, "D-Strike", but same principle. [[spoiler:Delivered by Greg after he witnessed Chief not only [[MoralEventHorizon MURDER Cortana]], but is then forced to lie about it to Arbiter.]]* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Early on in season 7 Cortana smacks Chief with a pretty brutal one.--> '''Cortana''': Tell me, Chief, why do you think it is that you were rejected by that girl you encountered online? Why do you think you're rejected by anybody and everybody you encounter online, for that matter? Hm? Do you think it just might possibly have something to do with this volatile attitude of yours? Don't kid yourself Chief, the root of your issues lies far beyond my presence. You've been antagonizing everybody around you long before I entered the picture.--> '''Chief''': well u sure as hell hasnt b33n n e fucking help skank, thats foar goddamn sure--> '''Cortana''': That's just it, Chief. All I've been trying to do is help you. I realize the notion probably comes as a complete surprise to you, but it's true. You just can't accept it because you refuse outright to listen to reason. … Perhaps, rather than refusing to reason, you simply can't. That your under-developed brain won't allow you to.--> '''Chief''': mai brains r the shit--> '''Cortana''': I couldn't agree more. Utter shit. Even you know the truth. You know full well that any of us three could destroy you in any conceivable argument on any subject, and it kills you that you can't ever conjure up a rebuttal that's even remotely substantial. The only route you've found to take is to get angry and spit pathetic insults left and right that, ironically, only ever accomplish making you yourself look like a complete fool. You are a fool, Chief. Worse yet - you're an unlikeable and therefore unsympathetic fool. You're a blight. An utter embarrassment to yourself and everybody around you, twenty-four-seven. Accept it - and for God's sake, try to improve upon yourself.** In the final episode of Season 7, "Ignition", Arbiter gives one to ''himself'', right as [[spoiler:he's about to commit suicide by jumping out of the apartment window]]:--> '''Arbiter''': [[spoiler:There's nothing left for you here. You've never belonged. You're a freak. You've contributed nothing. This is what you deserve. This also happens to be your ticket to salvation. You're a lucky motherfucker to have this opportunity. Just a couple of terrifying seconds in exchange for bliss. Now that's a fucking bargain. Don't think about it, just do it. Come on, you fucking pussy. You worthless, plastic [bleep]. Do it. Fucking do it. Now.]]* SeriousBusiness: Eugene and his clan take trolling ''very'' seriously, to the point of humiliating a copycat troll who was smearing their name.* SoundtrackDissonance: The scene where [[spoiler: Cortana gets melted in the apartment oven]] has the fucking Blue Danube Waltz playing in the background.* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Chief and Arbiter briefly become this when they join Eugene, Tyler and Colin in their fragbanning spree.]]* VillainRespect: Eugene and Tyler both respect Chief and Arbiter for their raid on Trent Donnovich's wedding, viewing it as a fine example of trolling. Colin also starts to respect Arbiter as the series goes on.* VillainousFriendship: Eugene, Tyler and Colin are all good friends with each other. They later extend their friendship to Arbiter and Chief. Chief evens remarks at one point that Tyler and Eugene are among the few people who genuinely liked him.* WhamEpisode:** "Two Point Zero". Colin finishes developing Fragban 2.0 and shows it off to Eugene and Tyler.** "Wake" and "Dead Weight". [[spoiler:Arbiter and Chief join Eugene, Tyler and Colin in their fragban spree.]]* WhamLine: Massive Damage gives us [[spoiler: "shes just plastic."]]* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre:** [[spoiler: Cortana gives one to Arbiter in Terminal.]]** [[spoiler: Greg's note that Arbiter found. "You have a good heart, Arbiter. Don't lose it."]][[/folder]][[folder:Arby N The Chief in L.A.]]* MoonwalkDance: An episode has Arbiter and the Chief visit several attractions and sights around L.A./Hollywood, one of which is the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Chief does the moonwalk on Music/MichaelJackson's tile, although, because of the format of the show (live-action action figures), only his upper body is seen, while his legs are not. [[/folder]][[folder:Series-wide tropes]]%% recurring, consciously used tropes contributing to series' style as a whole; also single-used tropes that are not actually part of the plot.* ArcNumber: Every time you see a clock, it will either display [[Franchise/{{Halo}} 3:43]], [[LeetLingo 13:37]] or digits that will add up to [[RuleOfSeven 7]] (which is a reference to Creator/{{Bungie}}).* AesopAmnesia: Chief has come to the realisation that he sucks at Halo at least ''three times''. It usually doesn't stick. However, as of "Double Trouble", [[spoiler: he's finally learned to play well enough to [[TookALevelInBadass fight two professional players together with Arbiter and almost win.]]]]* TheMovie: ''Arby 'n' The Chief: The Movie''. "Endgame" could also be considered one.* ArchNemesis: The series showcases several for both toys, usually one each per season.** For Arbiter: Scott, Trent Donnovich, Adam [=McIntyre=], and finally Eugene.** For Chief: Todd, Trent's bodyguard duo, and Kylie (to an extent).* AuthorAvatar: Arbiter, and Jon has already [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080128002650/http://www.halobabies.net/archive/08/01/25/digitalph33r_behind_arby_n_the_chief/ admitted to it]]; this has not, however prevented many instances of AuthorFilibuster from occurring. (Though they have become more rare as of late.)** Amazingly, Chief has also become this in some recent episodes, seeming to embody Jon's wild, silly, artistic, and emotional side while Arbiter embodies his logical thought, controlled behaviour, and cynicism. But how much Chief channels Graham and how much he is of his classic stupid self vaires from episode to episode.* AuthorFilibuster: See AuthorAvatar* BackToBackBadasses: Chief and Arbiter in the season 5 pilot.** Hell, pretty much any time they are facing a threat online.* BitchAlert: Cortana. Seriously, all she ever did was bitch about Chief. It's like it was her only purpose in the series. Jon just doesn't want to admit it.** At least until the last few episodes. Even from beyond the "grave", that's when she wanted both Arbiter and Chief to fight the good fight against Eugene and his guys. Talk about character development.** Also, did she ever consider Arbiter a real friend? Why does he keep preaching all these redeeming qualities about her? It's hard to be friends with someone who keeps forgetting that you exist.* BreakingTheFourthWall: The figurines' owner is named "Jon", and the second episode has Chief commenting on a Bungie blog post about the first episode. Furthermore, the plot of TheMovie is started when Chief watches several machinima videos by [=DigitalPh33r=].* BookEnds: Both the series pilot, and what at the time was the series finale, have a scene where someone at least claiming to be a delivery boy knocks on the door.** In the series finale, [[spoiler: Arbiter and Chief both hold the same weapons they wielded when they first met.]]* CanonDiscontinuity: To much relief from the fans, the L.A. continuity was scrapped when season 4 came around. ** The original series finale Endgame is also considered non-canon aside from the introduction of Claire.** The Season 3 Finale "King" is this as well, mostly due to the 4th wall-breaking nature of it and the silly nonsensical ending that was thrown out the window with [[spoiler: Cortana's return in Season 6, whereas she had been previously killed off at the end of King]].* CatchPhrase: The Chief has "[[NoYou NO U]]", among other things.** [[YourMom Ur mom]] and me were *insert DoubleEntendre* last night!** UR FACE!1** lol remember arbitur?*** Chief even calls a drunken Arbiter out on [[BorrowedCatchphrase using this one]].-->'''Arbiter''': [[OutOfCharacterMoment LOL, remember Chief?]]-->'''Chief''': [[HeyThatsMyLine HAY. thats mai thing arbitur. u cant use mai thing.]] remember. remember its mien. lol remember arbitur?-->'''Arbiter''': LOL, I remember Chief.-->'''Chief''': [[HypocriticalHumor LOL. ur so silly.]]-->'''Arbitur''': I know, LOL.-->'''Chief''': LOL** FREEZE / TOSERS / GET DOWN ON THE FUKCING GROUND* CerebusSyndrome: The show is probably the most notable for making such a drastic change in tone from pure comedy to somber drama from seasons 5 to 7. It stands to reason why season 7 is considered so bleak compared to its predecessors; main themes include death, grief, murder, and lies.* CharacterizationMarchesOn: most noticeable with Chief - he used to be simply a SmallNameBigEgo FanDumb [[TheDitz Ditz]], but then he started realizing that he is not as good at Halo as he previously thought. And he has recently got a tiny grasp of sarcasm (not that he makes use of it very frequently). His relationship with Arbiter has been changing over time, too. See also AuthorAvatar above.** It's also a little weird watching Chief write off many games as stupid and that Halo is way better than them (like VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl, VideoGame/DevilMayCry 4 and VideoGame/CallofDuty4) and took some serious convincing to get him to even play them when you later see the Chief willingly play many different games without a mention of Halo or even that the game sucks (like VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV and VideoGame/ResidentEvil5)** By Season 7, Chief even displays the ability to think way ahead into the future to the point where he makes a multi-layered argument to Greg about [[spoiler: why telling Arbiter that Chief is the one responsible for Cortana's disappearance would be a bad idea. He goes so far as to predict Arbiter's emotional state beyond simply beating Chief up, understanding that Arbiter would be miserable and probably blame himself for Cortana's death.]] This all becomes a bit ironic when you consider that only a couple of episodes earlier [[HarsherInHindsight Cortana criticized Chief's lack of ability to form actual arguments]]. A far cry from the "no u" style argumentation Chief had generally used up to this point.* DeadpanSnarker: Arbiter. Also, [[spoiler: Chief's hallucination of Cortana.]]* {{Deconstruction}}: The series acted as one for the state of video games and the gaming community when it first started. With the start of season 5, the series began deconstructing the LivingToys trope. The sixth season takes it further, and the seventh [[DarkerAndEdgier makes the previous two look like fairy tales]], [[DeconstructorFleet taking apart the whole show's premise]] by [[DespairEventHorizon conveying the existential dread of it to the fullest extent.]]* TheFaceless: Almost all of the human characters have never been seen, instead being represented by their ''Halo''avatars. The only exceptions to this are Skylar Loveheart, Scott, Agent Smirnoff, and Jon as of Season 8.* {{Foreshadowing}} - In Season 3 Episode 4, two of [[{{Jerkass}} Craig's]] Major League Gamer] pals [[{{Fetish}} get (presumably Halo-induced) erections]] and [[ADateWithRosiePalms decide to go rub one out.]] This later becomes the catalyst for Master Chief's win against Craig later in the episode.* FourthWallMailSlot: Introduced in season 4... [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse never to be mentioned again.]]** [[DoubleSubversion ...until "Hypernews I" (43/S5E5)]], where it turns into somewhat of a LeaningOnTheFourthWall variety.--> '''Chief''': [[LampshadeHanging didnt we set up taht acount liek months ago?]]** After Season 5 finished, the mail slot has spun off into its own show - ''Arby 'n' the Chief: Hypermail''* FanDumb: in-universe - Master Chief is a parody of the UnpleasableFanbase of ''Halo''.* FranchiseZombie: "King" (episode 25/[=S3E13=]) [[http://joncjg.blogspot.com/2009/05/news-big-ass-arby-season-finale-on-its.html was intended to be possibly the last episode of the whole series]]. Then an additional finale - "Endgame" followed. Then there was the LA spinoff... then season five... and season six... and seven...** [[TropesAreNotBad]]. Seasons 5 to 7 have been widely acclaimed.* GamerChick; TheChick: Cortana, although it's questionable whether she really can play games because of her pose.** Claire counts as well, and may as well be the archetype for all gamer chicks.* GiantSpider: The finale of season four introduces one, which even [[BringMyBrownPants terrifies arachnophobe viewers]].* {{Homage}}: "Hypernews I" to ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', which is [[AuthorAppeal Jon's favourite game]]. And that's despite Chief giving the game an extremely negative review, akin to WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, making it somewhat an AffectionateParody of the former (and possibly the latter).* JerkAss: Master Chief.** Arbiter zig zags from Jerkass to JerkWithAHeartOfGold. But then again, [[DeadpanSnarker it's Jon.]]** And Travis, to a lesser extent than Chief.** Trent Donnovich makes Chief look like a decent [[strike:human being]] action figure.*** Subverted in Trent's case during the second half of the fifth season. He's actually rather friendly, although it remains to be seen whether he's genuinely nice or if it's just a gambit to gain Arbiters trust.*** [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted.]]** Craig.* KilledOffForReal: Not "killed" per say [[spoiler: but one of the security guards from the wedding gets fragged during the application match. The other one makes it out though.]]** [[spoiler: He made a brief reappearance in the attack on TOSER's HQ where he fought along side his friend on split screen before both of them were fragged. Also Claire was also fragged during the attack too, in a way that arguably is a MoralEventHorizon for Adam.]]*** [[spoiler: Adam passed his MoralEventHorizon a loooooong time before then.]]** In Endgame, [[spoiler: Scott literally gets killed]]. Also, at the end of Season 3, [[spoiler: Cortana, Todd and Travis all got killed]].** In Season 7, [[spoiler: Cortana gets cooked alive inside of an oven by Master Chief]].** In Season 7, "Crush", [[spoiler:after getting told off by Arbiter for only wanting him as a friend and nothing more, Claire gets frag-banned by Arbiter's new clan.]]* KnightInSourArmor: Arbiter. It pops up every now and then, but is most noticable in season 5. His TheReasonYouSuckSpeech [[spoiler:to Trent Donnovich]] pretty much sums up what this trope is all about.* LanguageTropes:** Master Chief: LeetLingo + [[WebOriginal/LOLCats LOLspeak]] + {{Pluralses}} + RougeAnglesOfSatin + {{Malaproper}} + ClusterFBomb** The Arbiter: SophisticatedAsHell + PrecisionFStrike** Cortana: SesquipedalianLoquaciousness** Greg: [[TerseTalker txtspk]] + [[WingDinglish drawings]]* {{Leitmotif}}: The theme from ''Film/ThePursuitOfHappyness'' and Three Little Girls from the Mikado.* LivingToys: The premise.* {{Machinima}} ''and'' Live Action Puppeteering.* NietzscheWannabe:** Arguably FEELS GOOD MAN in "King".** In season 5 Trent Donnovich, as demonstrated with his "sinking ship" analogy.* OddCouple: the eponymous characters.** Not to mention Chief's temporary crush on Cortana. Their personalities are the weird part.* OddlySmallOrganization The clan of hackers that will be the main antagonists of season six seem to only have four members, according to the trailer and Jon's blog at least.* OhCrap: Chief's usual reaction to Arbiter's rage.* OnlySaneMan: Inverted, as the Chief is the only ''really'' odd character.** Or actually [[ZigZaggedTrope zig-zagged]] for Arbiter: characters of common sense comparable to him come and go, as do Chief-alikes.* PsychopathicManchild: Chief. How else do you explain him destroying a Call of Duty 4 disc just to spite Arbiter?** Adam in Season Six. Holy fucking shit. Technically, he doesn't qualify for the 'man' part of this trope, but absolutely everything else fits him to a tee.** Tyler also qualifies. * RunningGag** Josh Butterballs and his SOI Magazine.* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Chief LOVES this.** [[MemeticMutation MAI ROFLCOPTER / IT GOAS SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI]]** ROFL car goes NNNNNNNNNNNNNNN** MAI ROFLKNIEF GOEZ [[AudibleSharpness SLIEC SLIEC SLIEC SLIEC]] LOLOLOL** Is that the one that goes WHARBLEGURBLEH?* SeriesContinuityError: Quite a few.** In the original ''Master Chief Sucks At Halo'' trilogy, there was an Arbiter character whose personality was comparable to Chief's. In ''Arby 'n' the Chief'' pilot, an Arbiter figurine arrives in a box, seemingly meeting Chief for the first time. However, in "Face-Off" (episode 16/[=S3E4=]) Arbiter refers to a "sick montage" Chief made with him in the original trilogy, implying that he is the same character. {{Retcon}}? BreakingTheFourthWall?** NegativeContinuity was once [[http://joncjg.blogspot.com/2010/07/video-arby-n-chief-s04e03-pirates.html consciously introduced]] in "Pirates" (episode 28/[=S4E3=]).** [[http://joncjg.blogspot.com/2010/06/secret-project-arby-n-chief-season-four.html Season four was supposed to take place sometime after "King" (season 3 finale)]]; Arbiter and Chief seem to be still living in Jon's home in Canada. Fair enough. However, the fifth season seems to have borrowed Claire from "Endgame", this time voiced by Elizabeth Carr-Ernst. How they managed to stay at the same place (if this is supposed to take place after "Endgame") is never mentioned.* ShooOutTheNewGuy: The massive backlash and subsequent removal of Todd and Travis.* TheSociopath: Adam and Tyler. * TheSpeechless: Greg, who can't talk due to being [[spoiler:a spider]] writes on sticky notes to communicate.* StealthHiBye: Greg LOVES doing this to scare Chief and Arbiter, it helps that [[spoiler:he's a UncannyValley spider toy.]]* StraightMan: The Arbiter* SyntheticVoiceActor: the eponymous characters and Cortana. This is constantly {{lampshaded}} in season 5, even to the point of {{deconstruction}}.* TalkingToHimself: Todd and Travis, as well as the voices of all characters that are not figurines (except Agent Smirnoff in TheMovie, portrayed by Daniel Laszlo) are all voiced by Graham himself.** This trope was lessened in season 5 when Jon actually got a whole voice cast to play some of the characters other than himself due to [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the sheer number of different characters in that season]]. Though there are still one or two characters where this still applies, such as with Timothy and Nathan in the episode "Cheaters".* TakeThat: As shown by the Chief being a TakeThat at Halo's FanDumb and indicated by some episodes' director commentaries, the plots of some episodes are aimed at common complaints that the Halo fanbase made about the games, or make fun of Xbox Live users in general. This intensified when Graham discontinued ''It's A Wonderful Live'', a separate machinima series designed to vent out those same frustrations.* TooDumbToLive: Master Chief. We're talking WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead levels here.* VitriolicBestBuds: Arby and the Chief ''are'' this trope.* YourMindMakesItReal: Not exactly but when someone is killed with the fragban hack equipped, it will result in a console ban and all of the victim's personal information to be stolen.[[/folder]]----


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Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA), 1994
A new framework of services to the aged is proposed based on three interactive domains" gerontological Iaws, organizational laws, and the laws of self-interest. Each of these domains has changed so dramatically in recent years that the old paradigm of aging services is no longer functional. A crucial underlying principle of the new framework is that families have an ongoing moral obligation to take care of their parents that supersedes that of the community.
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Keep moving
What motivates you to work out?
Who inspires you?
Most people have many and varied answers to those two questions.
Recently I caught up with an old friend of mine. We'd lost touch over the years, and although I knew a little bit of what had happened to him, I had not heard his whole story until I called him just a few weeks ago. He answered the phone with, "What's up! And your answer better be good because you're ALIVE."
He has become Reason Number 743 I am motivated to keep moving.
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Bradley Johnson lifted his leg and braced for the impact, but the car had stopped and the door was gone. His hand was in the mud. He tried to reach out but was stuck, caught in his seat by his seatbelt. Then he looked down.
His right leg was slashed beyond recognition.
His left leg was severed from his body.
He did not panic. He felt no pain. Johnson leaned back, looked up at the trees and felt the rain on his face. He took slow, deep breaths and smelled the heavy scent of smoke. He tried to say the Lord's Prayer.
At that moment, being an all-around athlete would keep Johnson alive even though he was losing half of his blood on the floor of his little red sports car.
But that moment would also make him an international athlete.
Johnson was a former high school swimmer and tennis player from Milwaukee. While pursuing his degree at the University of South Florida, he kept in shape by running daily, playing intramural sports and lifting weights at the gym. He had just taken his pre-law test at the University of Florida and was heading back to Tampa/St. Petersburg. He was 23 years old.
Seeing a storm on the horizon, Johnson pulled over and put the T-tops back on his Nissan 300 ZX Turbo and continued south on I-75, daydreaming about his future in law school. By the time he got to Bushnell, Fla., he was in a downpour. The rain was falling too fast to drain from the road properly.
"I hit a wall of water. In an instant I was hydroplaning," said Johnson. "I tried to steer out of it, I tried to shift down, I didn't brake. I spun around and spun around and then I went in to the guard rail on the driver's side."
The whole thing happened in a second. When it was over, he looked down at his left leg, lying perpendicular across the pedals.
A truck driver, showed up first. 'Hey, partner?' And then a man and his daughter. To this day, Johnson can not see their faces, he just remembers them with such gratitude. "I call them my good Samaritans."
The men put a tourniquet on his leg and wrapped him in a knitted family blanket while the girl held his hand. Johnson could hear the slow splash of a line of cars forming on the road and distant wailing sirens.
Emergency responders tore away at the car to free him and placed him on a gurney, which, of all things, was the thing that caused him excruciating pain. He was put in an inflatable suit to try and slow the bleeding. A helicopter whisked him away to Orlando for emergency surgery.
Right before he went in, he begged the doctors: "Please save my legs."
He woke up from surgery intubated and with his wrists strapped down to the bed. He felt like he was suffocating. He looked down at his body and it saw the outline of what appeared to be his legs covered by blankets. But it was all a ruse to keep him calm.
The left leg was gone below the knee. The right was amputated above the knee.
Johnson was devastated.
But he always had the big laugh to go with his big personality, so when his mom first visited, with that worry-stricken look on her face, he had to make her laugh.
"Mom, I lost my little red baby," he said, referring to the car.
That was the only way Johnson knew how to deal with the loss of his legs. Humor. When the hospital psychologist checked on his mental state, and asked Johnson for a favor, Johnson said, "anything doc - as long as it's not jumping jacks."
Johnson needed seven debridement surgeries to remove the mud, road, other debris as well as his own dead tissue from his amputated legs. The pain was unbearable when they took his open wounds to hydrotherapy after each surgery to clean him up. Finally, a painful skin graph was taken from his thigh to close the wounds.
Looking back now, Johnson believes three things saved his life: He was in shape, so he could withstand the trauma just long enough. He was calm and not hysterical, which kept him from bleeding to death. And the men for their tourniquet.
"It wasn't my time, either because of sheer will, or the man upstairs, or some energy that we're all connected to," said Johnson. "But it wasn't."
He asked why me, even though he knew there was no one on earth who could answer that question. He went through bouts of depression but never self-pity or denial. And then his intensive care nurse, Angie, gave him a Kaleidoscope.
"It was cathartic and I never asked 'why me' again," said Johnson. "I saw all the possibilities. I started to look at life through the eyes of a child again."
Life went became a checklist of fun things to try. Johnson turned every Why? in to, Why not? Or, to be more accurate of how Johnson talks, Why the (expletive deleted) not?!
Johnson never looked at the results of that first LSAT score because if there was any chance that he didn't pass, he didn't want the negativity of it. He'd had enough. So a year after the accident, while in Wisconsin recovering from the accident, he studied and prepared for the test once more, took it again, scored well and passed and got his law degree from the University of Florida.
He vowed to get his footing back. His first prosthetic legs, which he calls "(expletive deleted) starter legs" were rubber feet and weren't very good. But he learned from them, first to walk on pavement, then grass, then gravel. When one prosthetic maker told him he would never run again, Johnson ignored him.
"I considered every day therapy," said Johnson. "I was going to do it all - and then I would try and do the leg workouts at the gym!"
He began practicing disability law, insurance defense, civil litigation and personal injury law back in Florida, but Johnson realized he hadn't lost his athletic and competitive drive. While reading a magazine in the waiting room at the doctor's office, he came across an ad for disabled summer games. They were in two days.
Johnson drove 14 hours to get to Virginia for the competition.
He studied the sitting volleyball players with no legs, or just one. He watched others who were missing a part of their arm. They played with the same rules as regular volleyball, only with a net lowered net to about four feet off the ground. Men missing legs just used their arms to scramble to the ball. He was amazed.
"I was eager to participate after being inspired by all the athletes with no legs or arms, playing sports," said Johnson.
That day, the Paralympic men's sit-volleyball coach asked him try out for the national team and by 2000, he was at the Paralympic Games in Australia - the Olympics for those with disabilities.
Since Johnson's childhood summers were spent in pools and lakes, he had to test his new legs with water sports next. At Shake-a-Leg, an adaptive water sports center in Florida, he met Kerry Gruson, a sailor and Johnson's first skipper.
That led Johnson to a sailing career that took him to the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens and and the 2012 Games in London; his team took the bronze in 2004.
While he is still practicing law in Florida, he has also traveled to Brazil, the Netherlands, Sweden, Egypt, Australia, Bosnia and France for international athletic competition. His new passion is kite-boarding.
He never stops moving.
"I instinctively push away from negative – especially after the accident," said Johnson. "I appreciate everything more. No longer will I ever let someone else control my emotional state."
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SOMETHING ELSE TO READ: Are you willing to walk for that burger? From Time Magazine, "researchers tried replacing the calorie totals with the number of minutes of brisk walking a person would need to complete to burn off what they just ate."
SOMETHING ELSE TO DO: Sailing is for everyone. The Milwaukee Community Sailing Center will host the 2013 US Disabled Sailing Championship Sept. 5-8 along Milwaukee's lakefront.
SOMETHING FROM A READER: "A good sweat is the most important imperative when an exercise routine begins. I'd suggest these options: stationary bike for 30-40 minutes; raquetball with a partner; swimming laps for an hour; cross country skiing for miles; roller blading for 60 minutes; swing dancing/Lindy Hop dancing (my wife and I do Big Band Swing music). For people who haven't exercised in years, walking is probably the best way to start, then an upgrade to more aerobic sports." - Daniel
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