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Cody completes Hate Machine for Adam, a cyber-weapon of mass destruction in the form of a program. Arbiter and Chief make an effort to stop him, paying a price they're not prepared to, and make discoveries there's no turning back from.

Apocalypse

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.

Alt-Right-Delete

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.

No Purpose

Master Chief and the Arbiter, having pinned up mugshots of each member of the Chaos Theosis clan on the apartment's front door (their "hit list"), label each with their gamer tags and settle on tracking and taking out the youngest member of the clan first, Claire's killer -- Adam.

Cradle to Grave

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.

Possesion

Arbiter learns the truth about Cortana's fate and confronts Chief.

Ignition

With a list of 'leet hacks' at the ready, Arbiter and Master Chief prepare to take down the Donnovich wedding and stop Claire from making the biggest mistake of her life.

Collapse

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.

Play to Win

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 cyber-weapon.

Zero Hour

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.

Warhead

While playing a game of grifball online Arbiter and Chief are invited to the Halo in-game wedding of a grating player couple.

Wedding

Master Chief wakes himself up early in the morning while the other toys are still asleep in order to go through with his mysterious plan previously interrupted by the Arbiter.

Heat

More is revealed from the fast-forward 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.

Zeroes

As the toys continue to seek their purpose, an enemy approaches.

Hello, World!

After forfeiting their lives to fiery oblivion, two action figures of the Halo series of games' principal characters 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.

Fatal Exception

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.

Future Shock

Master Chief and the Arbiter target the remaining Chaos Theosis members on their hit list.

Severance

After a long absence, Claire returns online, eager to reconnect with the Arbiter. Eugene obtains dirt on Brody via Tyler.

Crush

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.

Bad Dream

After PAL proves itself to be extremely dangerous, Arbiter takes drastic measures to disable the robot.

Triple Fault

Master Chief and the Arbiter face off with Trent Donnovich, who has been revealed to be behind Chaos Theosis and their attack on the network.

The Reunion

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.

Party Time

Cortana makes the executive decision as the mission's Captain to deactivate PAL, believing the assistant artificial 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.

Reentry

Arbiter attempts a life-or-death negotation with PAL.

Lockout

A typical uneventful day for Master Chief and the Arbiter, a chronic arachnophobe, is turned upside down when a large tarantula finds its way into Jon's apartment.

The Spider

Four months after the wedding crash that ended season five, the toys are still banned from Halo online. Master Chief passes the time by doodling on walls and burning holes in the carpet. The Arbiter, estranged from Claire, has sunk into alcoholism and self-loathing. Greg has vanished without a trace. Meanwhile, the OMN (Online Multiplayer Network) forms the TOSERS—Terms of Service Enforcement/Response Squad—to combat cheating and hacking. In retaliation, a ruthless hacker clan called Chaos Theosis emerges, unleashing FragBan, an illegal patch that lets players permanently ban and steal data from anyone they frag—unless the TOSERS are disbanded once and for all.

Genesis

Master Chief follows through with his decision to apply to the TOSERS in-game police organization to have his online multiplayer access reinstated. Arbiter refuses to join him, unable to shake himself out of his depressive funk.

Hard End

Master Chief and the Arbiter are in the belly of a private hacking server at severe risk of having their console irreversibly banned and must find a way out, but not without the hack files they came for.

Blackout

Master Chief broadens his horizons by playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl with Arbiter.

Brawl

Master Chief, the Arbiter, and Greg tape their first episode of their time traveling gaming news show, Hypernews, in which Master Chief reviews The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Hypernews I

With the help of cameraman Greg the spider, Master Chief and the Arbiter tape and air their second episode of their time-traveling gaming news show, Hypernews.

Hypernews II

Arbiter makes a last-ditch effort to retain the toys' positions on the TOSERS moderation force.

The Storm

Chaos Theosis attacks the TOSERS main operations server, killing every moderator in sight. Meanwhile, the toys are still stuck in a power outage.

Remission

Kylie confronts Duncan regarding his avoidance of the tasks assigned to him by Clyde, and the toys bicker over who to make their next target.

Femme Fatale

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.

Nervewreck

The Arbiter and Master Chief begin their duty as level negative one TOSERS in-game moderators. Meanwhile, the Chaos Theosis clan continues its merciless rampage throughout online matchmaking.

Chaos Theosis

Chief challenges the Arbiter to a drawing contest.

Aces and Spaces

Master Chief challenges the Arbiter to a competitive match in Halo: Reach, Chief teamed up alongside his team of "noobs", who all exploit anything they can to win.

Digital Fruitcakes

The Arbiter and Master Chief answer another batch of fan-mail.

The Mail Room II

Master Chief and the Arbiter form an uneasy alliance with Cody and Cameron, fellow TOSERS applicants and once bodyguards of Trent Donnovich at his wedding, to fight off the hacker clan Chaos Theosis.

T.O.S.E.R.S.

Following his first taste of rejection by a girl he fell in love with online, Master Chief falls farther into a downward spiral. Meanwhile, Cortana and Greg confront Arbiter about his excessive drinking.

Terminal

The Arbiter, upset with Greg -- believing him to have helped Cortana mail herself away to a children's charity -- turns down his company in favor of playing online with the Chief and the duo's new friend, Eugene. The Chief struggles with nicotine withdrawal. Eugene and his trolling clan's co-moderators Tyler and Colin, now in possession of a new iteration of the Fragban software patch -- with the capability of issuing a console-level ban upon a fragged player -- begin wreaking havoc throughout the gaming network.

Blast Radius

Eugene decides to confide in The Arbiter and Master Chief and reveal to them a secret, after which tension rises greatly between the toys. Greg, clueless what do with his knowledge regarding the truth of Cortana's demise, makes a radical decision. After throwing himself a party, the Chief experiences a traumatizing sight.

Broken

Brody, the bullied online role-player who attends the same high school as Eugene and Tyler, approaches his friend Kyle in the pair's frequented server and offers a concerning proposition. Eugene and Arbiter chat privately; Eugene apologizes for he and Arbiter's earlier conflict over the use of the Fragban software patch, and an in-depth discussion follows revealing of the two's troubled lives and personal beliefs.

Black

Things are heading downhill at the apartment. During a game of Halo 3, the Arbiter discovers he's falling to pieces and begins suffering from a mid-life crisis, and he along with Master Chief, they begin examining their lives. On top of that, Jon's failure to pay rent has forced him to rent out his spare room to another tenant, specifically Scott, a disgusting man with a giant black afro to match the blackness of his heart who, unbeknownst to Master Chief or The Arbiter at first, is wanted for hacking on online games in addition to smuggling cocaine between Canada and Russia for sixteen years, and is also being pursued by a Russian agent of the KGB determined to settle a personal score with him.

Endgame

Master Chief and the Arbiter answer a handful of e-mails from fans.

The Mail Room

Xbox Live has fallen into a chasm of utter chaos; an intermittent game glitch is causing players' Katana body pieces and Security shoulders to vanish, as well as denying players the ability to unlock certain achievements, and Master Chief has now fallen victim to it. Master Chief throws the Arbiter, who couldn't care less about the situation, into the middle of the chaos in the hopes that he'll realize just how big of a deal it is, and somehow put a stop to the madness.

Glitch

In a glimpse of the future, a mysterious attack a Halo funeral, and are later to be found out accompanied by unexpected partners. Meanwhile in the present, Arbiter undergoes a traumatic event.

Reapers

Master Chief secretly orders and collects a mysterious package. Meanwhile, the personalities of the trio of trolls depicted in the glimpse of the future in the premiere episode slowly begin to unravel.

Barbie 'n' the Chief

Arbiter further searches for ways of coping with his deterioration. Meanwhile, Master Chief pursues the woman of his dreams, Emma -- who merely spoke to him for thirty seconds and sent him a clan invite -- and Eugene punishes a player unfamiliar to him who has been trolling matches and forums poorly, falsely claiming to be a member of Eugene's clan in the process.

Massive Damage

Bungie has given Master Chief the secret Recon armor thanks to the Arbiter, but the Chief has developed a terrible attitude as a result, and unleashes it by doing something terrible.

Attitude

Master Chief has another online encounter with Cody, elite Reach player and future wedding security team member, and Chief challenges he and any teammates of his to a private match. The Arbiter tries to swallow the news that Claire is the bride of the upcoming wedding, as well as plenty of booze.

Rock Bottom

After discovering Trent Donnovich is being unfaithful to Claire (who is to be his bride in less than 24 hours), Arbiter and Master Chief are banned from the ceremony's server and blocked from communicating with Claire in any fashion. The toys must find a way to re-enter the server and stop the wedding before it's too late.

Cheaters

Master Chief collapses from exhaustion after a full day of moderating duty. The Arbiter can't sleep and decides to resume play through the night -- and a newly promoted Claire is assigned as his supervisor.

Fired Up

The action figure Master Chief has become a lonely drunken alcoholic who spends his time playing Halo 3. He finally gets some company when an Arbiter action figure gets delivered to Jon's house.

Pilot

Master Chief devises a plan to get the prized Recon armor.

Recon

For reasons unknown to Master Chief, Halo 3 multiplayer is exceptionally laggy. Instead, he decides to give Devil May Cry 4 and Call of Duty 4 a shot.

Martyrdom

Halo: Reach has finally hit store shelves, but Jon's copy has been lost during his move to a new apartment. While the Arbiter searches for it, Master Chief plays Modern Warfare 2 and encounters a JTAG-ing hacker.

B& (Part 1)

Master Chief struggles to place his accidental incineration of Cortana out of his mind. Arbiter, under the impression that Cortana had asked Greg's assistance in having her mailed to a children's charity, attempts to come to terms with the fact that she's gone. Greg, aware of the truth, is torn between confessing to Arbiter to clear his conscience and concealing the truth to keep the peace in the apartment.

Ashes

Master Chief is forced to take action when Greg's guilt over concealing Arbiter from the truth regarding Cortana's disappearance becomes too much for him to handle. Arbiter is beckoned unexpectedly by an acquaintance for help.

Two Point Zero

Emma, the leader of a purist trash talk-free gaming clan (who shot down Chief, who believed the two of them were in a relationship), attempts to inflate the faith of her members despite the clan's modest interest to the public and recruitment figures. Tyler, at last in the possession of the perma-banning Fragban software patch, wreaks havoc online. Tensions rise between he, Eugene and Colin after Colin makes a controversial announcement. Eugene enters a heated exchange with his father. The toys are at odds over the participation in the banning of players with Eugene.

Burned

After a sickening display of Master Chief's behavior around girls on Xbox Live, the Arbiter takes it upon himself to teach Master Chief how to act appropriately around women.

Girls

With Master Chief at his side on the sofa, the Arbiter is taking refuge within Snowbound's underground cave to avoid the masses of raging rioters everywhere across Xbox Live in response to the in-game glitches causing their katana body pieces and Security shoulders to disappear. However, he is not alone; three other players are taking refuge with him, one of them obviously on the brink of insanity, but can any of them be trusted?

Panic

Master Chief resorts to watching game strategy videos on the Xbox Live dashboard to increase his Halo 3 skills and after that plan fails miserably, a hacker takes advantage of Master Chief's emotional instability and makes him an offer he can't refuse.

Cheater

Stopped by a console ban from Xbox Live, the aftermath of Master Chief's brief JTAG-ing romp on Modern Warfare 2 ensues as the Arbiter returns having finally found Halo: Reach.

B& (Part 2)

Their self-confidence rocked by the abysmal online performance of their Hypernews pilot episode, Master Chief and the Arbiter decide to celebrate their hard work regardless and dedicate the day to playing Drunken Halo.

Drunken Halo

As Arbiter continues to train Master Chief to be a better Halo player (or at least tries), he receives an invite from Trent to tour his in-game church.

Da Bomb

Master Chief continues his Halo training with the Arbiter. When Arbiter tells him (to be nice) that he's making progress, Chief decides to take action and show Trent's security duo Cameron and Cody what he's made of.

Double Trouble

The Arbiter wastes no time going forward with his idea: developing his own gaming news show; though he struggles to come up with material, a task made no easier being badgered by Master Chief.

Duck Love

After griping about Forge, the Arbiter challenges Master Chief to a one-on-one duel on Halo 3, but it doesn't last long when the Arbiter gets a kill that should have been the Chief's.

Melee

After the Arbiter plays a headache-inducing game with a few super serious Halo 3 players, Master Chief inquires about a mysterious package that has been delivered to Jon, the house owner, and discovers later that night that the contents of the package will change his and the Arbiter's lives forever.

Newcomers

Arbiter bonds with Claire in some Double Team Matchmaking games before attending Trent's online stag party the night before the wedding -- but Master Chief refuses to let him go alone.

Stag Night

After Arbiter catches Master Chief making a mysterious phone call, the two set out to moderate Halo: Reach online play as newly recruited TOSERS.

Dough Eyes

During a game of matchmaking on Halo 3, the Arbiter comes across a couple of players protesting against the release of Resident Evil 5 claiming that the game is "racist and insensitive", and to his surprise, discovers that Master Chief stands alongside the protesters despite him playing the game with the Arbiter not even a half hour earlier.

Evil

The Arbiter arranges to provide technical feedback for the Halo: Reach beta on the Bungie forums and discuss it among peers-- that is, if he can pry Master Chief from playing the beta.

Out of Reach

It's Halloween, and after a late night of playing the Living Dead playlist, Arbiter tries to get some shuteye. However, Master Chief insists he get up early to play Infection custom games with him to celebrate the holiday.

Night of the Evading Dead

Chief attempts to buy Cold Storage with Jon's money, unaware that it's free.

Cold

The Arbiter wakes up hung over the morning after the day of the Mythic Map Pack's release. With a non-existent memory of last night and Master Chief nowhere to be found, he must retrace his steps and trigger flashbacks in order to piece together the events of the previous night and find the Chief.

Party

It's a Beta!

A previously encountered matchmaking player calls out Master Chief on his complete lack of skill, and Chief goes to Arbiter for some training. Arbiter apologizes to Claire for his drunken remarks from before.

Time Wasters

Chief introduces Arbiter to a new friend he met over Xbox Live who claims to be a professional major league gamer.

Professional

It's on; handing Chief beer after beer to help psyche him up, Arbiter stands alongside him during his showdown against Craig, a cocky MLG player. However, Arbiter has a plan to tip the scales in Chief's favor.

Showdown

The foundations of Master Chief and the Arbiter's machinima production company have been constructed as well as the script for Master Chief's film, but tempers flare when Master Chief begins to prioritize his own power and status over the important things about the filmmaking that attracted Arbiter to the project in the first place.

Company (Part 2)

The Arbiter returns home from a terrible day at university to find Master Chief pretending to be a pirate.

Pirates

The Arbiter attempts to play Demons' Souls on PS3 without Master Chief realizing and freaking out, as his allegiance lies absolutely with Microsoft and their products.

God's Work

A matchmaking game of King of the Hill on Guardian mysteriously breaks down due to an unknown error, and as Master Chief, the Arbiter and six other players refuse to leave because of fear of losing experience points or other personal reasons, they are forced to mingle with one another. Tempers shortly flare though as each player has a different favorite machinima director and ends up designating a portion of the level to himself, and it's up to the Arbiter to put everything right.

King

Master Chief and the Arbiter awaken on Christmas morning, joined by Greg the tarantula, and exchange gifts, following a jarring glimpse of events to come.

House of Cards

Arbiter catches up with Claire during a match on Halo: Reach, whom he hasn't seen in a long time. He also works hard at developing his show... as does Master Chief.

Low on Hearts

Consumed by envy, Chief seeks to end Cortana and Todd's relationship by any means necessary.

Cortana

Todd has stolen the love of Master Chief's life, and Travis has made a complete fool out of him. As a result, a disgruntled Chief approaches the Arbiter during an irritating game of Grand Theft Auto IV online and tells the Arbiter of his plans to teach Todd and Travis a lesson that they will never forget.

Conflict (Part 1)

In hopes to balance the uneven ratio of bad machinima to good, Master Chief pitches the idea to the Arbiter of founding their own machinima production company.

Company (Part 1)

Master Chief grows bored with Halo 3 and decides to play the Reach beta to kill time until its September retail release, and is choked when the Arbiter tells him the beta is now unavailable.

Giveth and Taketh

Arbiter confronts Craig after he and his friends insult Master Chief.

Face-Off

Inspired by seeing the new Forge visual filter objects in the Legendary Map Pack, Master Chief is inspired to create his own map.

Legendary

Picking up from where episode 11 left off, Todd, Travis and the Chief get into an epic rumble that eventually gets broken up by the Arbiter and Cortana. However, the next morning, Todd and Travis are nowhere to be found, and Cortana blames the Chief... but did he really have anything to do with their disappearance?

Conflict (Part 2)

It's Christmas in 2010; Master Chief, Arbiter and Greg discuss the possibility of doing a fifth season of Arby 'n' the Chief over a game of Scrabble.

Christmas Special 2010

It's Christmas, and Master Chief and Arbiter hang their stockings up for gifts from Santa.

Christmas Special 2011

Master Chief, having opened his gift from "Santa" early, a copy of Halo Anniversary, immediately proceeds to play it all the way to the new year.

New Year Special 2012

Chief continues to be haunted by visions of Cortana. Following his in-depth discussion with Eugene, Arbiter makes a rash decision.

Wake

The toys accept the gift of the Fragban 2.0 software patch (with the capability of banning players upon fragging them) from Eugene, and wreak havoc throughout online matchmaking with it after Colin gives the clan the green light to proceed with its usage.

Dead Weight

This show follows adventures of two halo toys' lives. One is a dimwitted Halo 2 Master Chief action figure and other is a brilliant and skilled video game player who is a Halo 2 Arbiter action figure.

All Episodes of Arby 'n' the Chief

Season 1

Brawl

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/14/2008

Attitude

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/2008

Pilot

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2008

Recon

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/2008

Martyrdom

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/22/2008

Melee

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/2008