"Meg Turney and Ryan Haywood bring you a fun dose of outrageous Internet videos, gaming news, and zany challenges. Plus, interviews and exclusive clips from Rooster Teeth's latest projects."
Free Play was a series starring Ryan Haywood and Meg Turney, covering gaming news and some behind the scenes clips from Rooster Teeths' latest projects, while competing each week to best one another in a host of different challenges.
On certain weeks, Meg and Ryan will also challenge Mariel Salcedo and Tyler Coe.
The shows followed a rather irregular schedule, with some weeks having 2 or 3 episodes.
The was essentially fantastic variety show hosted by Meg Turney and Ryan Haywood. The show started its first season as an RT site exclusive and wasn’t published on YouTube until its second season. The show’s main cast were Ryan & Meg with Tyler & Mariel being their secondaries plus anyone else they had as special guests doing skits, challenges, and activities that were always fun to watch. The show was lit up by Meg’s upbeat personality and really showed us Ryan’s “silly dad” side. Free Play had guests such as Alan Ritchson and Johnny Mundo from Lucha Underground who each performed various challenged and taught Ryan and Tyler how to wrestle. The show was always fun and everyone on it seemed to enjoy the whole production.
On June 27, 2016, after two full years of employment and with the beginning of RTX 2016 only 4 days away, Meg Turney, the main co-host officially announced her departure from Rooster Teeth in this video (subreddit discussions here and here). But with Meg’s departure from RT due to scheduling issues (and her own career pursuits which violated and terminated RT company policies, resulting in her dismissal, but in a friendly way and no bad blood between both parties) it was confirmed to be cancelled, ended and is not forecasted to return. Subreddit discussion can be found here. The last episode was #65 and released on July 8, 2016.
Season 1
| Episode | Competitors | Challenge | Winner(s) | Special Guest(s) | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 - New Site Special | N/A | N/A | N/A | Adam Baird | 0 | |
| 1 - RTX Special | Meg vs Ryan | Bingo Scavenger Hunt | Ryan | Ashley Jenkins | August 12th 2015 | 1 |
| 2 - Pajama Races & Bobbing For Cereal | Meg and Ryan vs Gray and Lindsay | Find the letters XRAY or &VAV in the bowl of cereal. | Gray and Lindsay | Gray Haddock, Lindsay Jones | 2 | |
| 3 - Four Little Roosters | Meg and Blaine vs Ryan and Josh | Navigate the laser maze, complete the challenge with the lowest time. | Ryan and Josh | Blaine Gibson, Josh Flanagan | 3 | |
| 4 - Turney Takes a Tumble |
Ryan vs
Tyler vs Joel |
Score 3 points in child's Basketball while wearing sumo suits. Guess the obscure sporting terms. |
Ryan
Tyler |
Tyler Coe, Joel Heyman |
August 20th, 2015 | 4 |
| 5 - Blaine Get Weird | Meg vs Ryan | Catch "Million dollar bills" in a punch bowl. | Ryan | Blaine Gibson | August 26th, 2015 | 5 |
| 6 - Gross Beer Pong | 6 | |||||
| 7 - Meg and Ryan Go On a Hot Date | 7 | |||||
| 8 - RvB Relay | 8 | |||||
| 9 - Social Disorder Plays Twisted Twister | 9 | |||||
| 10 - Ryan and Meg Smash a Pinata | 10 | |||||
| 11 - Things Get Hairy with Funhaus | 11 | |||||
| 12 - Pokemon Challenge | 12 | |||||
| 13 - Stick It Where The Sun Don't Risinger | 13 | |||||
| 14 - Gotta Get Down On Pie-Day | 14 | |||||
| 15 - Mac and Cheese Mayhem | 15 | |||||
| 16 - Pumpkin Puzzle Race | 16 | |||||
| 17 - Iron Cosplay | 17 | |||||
| 18 - A Real Shocker | 18 | |||||
| 19 - Pumpkin Spice Nightmare | 19 | |||||
| 20 - Mariel Takes the Gallon Challenge | 20 | |||||
| 21 - Miracle Berry Taste Test | 21 | |||||
| 22 - Balloon Lunacy | 22 | |||||
| 23 - Smashing Pumpkins | 23 | |||||
| 24 - Halloween Spook-tacular | 24 | |||||
| 25 - William Tellin' It | 25 | |||||
| 26 - Safe for Work Russian Roulette | 26 | |||||
| 27 - Pokemon Snap | 27 | |||||
| 28 - The King's New Shoes | 28 | |||||
| 29 - Quest to the Renaissance Fair | 29 | |||||
| 30 - The Newlywed Game | 30 | |||||
| 31 - 50 Charades of Grey | 31 | |||||
| 32 - Thanksgiving Special | 32 | |||||
| 33 - Shot Roulette | 33 | |||||
| 34 - Dead Pets and Wet Heads | 34 | |||||
| 35 - Pie To The Face-Off | 35 | |||||
| 36 - Don't Wake Daddy | 36 | |||||
| 37 - Fan Art...Wednesday? | 37 | |||||
| 38 - Season Finale Special | 38 |
Season 2
| Episode | Competitors | Challenge | Winner(s) | Special Guest(s) | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 - Season 2 Premiere | Ryan vs Meg |
Various challenges in Australia Lawn Bowls, "Native" Tourist Challenge and Sand Sculptures |
Meg | Chris Demarais | February 3, 2016 | 39 |
| 40 - Koala Craziness | Ryan and Meg vs Tyler and Mariel | Meg and Mariel throw Koala Cookies (while blindfolded) to Ryan and Tyler, who have to catch as many as possible in 3 minutes | Meg and Ryan | None | February 5, 2016 | 40 |
| 41 - RTX Hide-n-Seek! | Ryan vs Meg | Find the Tiger somewhere among the RTX Australia booths | Meg | None | February 10, 2016 | 41 |
| 42 - RWBY Extravaganza | Team Ass Play (Meg, Ryan, Mariel & Tyler) vs Team RWBY (Miles, Kerry, Gray and Lindsay) |
A sort of visual "Chinese Whispers" One Person from each team is given an "item prompt", they then have to draw that item and show it to the person in front of them, the second passes to the third, and the third passes it to the front, who has to write what they see. |
Team RWBY | Miles Luna, Kerry Shawcross, Gray Haddock, Lindsay Jones | February 12, 2016 | 42 |
| 43 - Ryan and Meg Run the Big 5 | N/A | No Challenge | N/A | None | February 17, 2016 | 43 |
| 44 - Zombie Hunt | Meg & Ryan (Co-op) | Navigate the "House of Torment" with a supply of 300 bullets |
House 1 - Would be dead House 2 - Passed |
None | 20th February 2016 | 44 |
| 45 - Food Bingo! | Free For All (Tyler, Mariel, Ryan, Meg) | Food Bingo - Getting a Bingo is a loss, the losers have to drink a blend of the items that got them a Bingo. | Ryan, Meg | Jon Risinger | 24th February 2016 | |
| 46 - Ryan Gets Erotic | Meg & Ryan vs Tyler & Mariel | Meg and Mariel have to dress up Ryan and Tyler for a Red Carpet, they will be judged by Jon and Barbara on their "Fashion, Walk and Fuckability" |
25 - 25.75 Ryan and Meg |
Jon Risinger, Barbara Dunkelman | 26th February 2016 | |
| 47 - Lucha Libre with Johnny Mundo | La Flama Blanca (Ryan) vs Paloma Rojo (Tyler) | Lucha style wrestling match/lesson | La Flama Blanca (Ryan) | Johnny Mundo | March 2, 2016 | 47 |
| 48 - Fan-Fic Friday | Ryan vs Tyler vs Mariel vs Meg (In that order) | Each person will be given a prompt and a line from a fanfic about them, they will then read that line to the other 3, if any one of them laughs before the line has been read, they get sprayed or covered in "something useable in the bedroom", if multiple people laugh, the first person to laugh gets the punishment of Lube, Chocolate sauce, Silly String, Whipped cream or strawberry jelly. |
(Laughs) Ryan - 0 Tyler - 2 Mariel - 2 Meg - 5 Ryan |
None | March 4, 2016 | 48 |
| 49 - Mystery Oreo Challenge with Greg Miller | Meg vs Ryan | Greg Miller (with his extensive Oreo knowledge) tests Meg and Ryan on their Oreo knowledge, they both try 5 different Oreo flavours while blindfolded - going on smell and taste alone, they must guess the flavour. |
4 - 1 Meg |
Greg Miller | March 9, 2016 | 49 |
| 50 - Screwed by Screwball Scramble | Free For All (Meg, Ryan, Tyler, Mariel) | Play Screwball Scramble, try to complete the course without failing, if the ball falls, the person who failed has to take a shot of Hot Sauce. If anyone completes the course, they are exempt from taking any more shots, but they can pass it on to any of the others. Ryan starts with a 1 shot hanicap for being 30 minutes late to the shoot. |
Meg - 3 Mariel - 4 Ryan - 4 Tyler - 9 Meg |
None | March 11, 2016 | 50 |
| 51 - Pi Day with the cast of Crunch Time |
Elimination VS (Ryan, Tyler, Meg, Mariel and Nick) |
Jon draws two names out of a bowl - those two people will then face off solving simple algebraic equations - whoever gets an answer wrong gets a pie in the face and is eliminated |
Ryan |
Kirk Johnson, Avery Monsen, Nick Rutherford, Jessy Hodges, Jon Risinger, Patrick Salazar | March 16, 2016 | 51 |
| 52 - Ball Is Life |
Team Free Slay (Meg and Ryan) vs Team Ball Stars (Tyler and Mariel) |
In this March Madness themed episode, the Free Players play HORSE with a twist, instead of playing to HORSE, the game is played to ASSPLAY, each team will have one person demonstrate a basketball shot, which the other three must then replicate, if everyone succeeds, the shot is passed and there is no penalty, but if any one person misses a shot, they get a letter toward ASSPLAY and have to chug a glass of sweet tea. Later the rules were changed to Sudden Death - if the opposing team to the ones who set the shot succeed in performing the shot, the team that demonstrated it get a letter and a glass of sweet tea. |
Team Free Slay | None | March 18, 2016 | 52 |
| 53 - VR Scream Fest | N/A | No Challenge | N/A | None | March 23, 2016 | 53 |
| 54 - Confetti Egg |
Free-For-All (Meg, Ryan, Mariel, Tyler) |
"Operation Confetti Egg" - Meg, Ryan, Mariel and Tyler take turns playing Operation, as with normal rules, complete the game without touching the sides, however, they only have 5 seconds to extract the item from the body, if at any moment the sides are touched or the item is not removed within the 5 seconds, the person who did so must draw a number out of a bowl - they must then crack the corresponding egg on their head, some of the eggs are raw, some are hard-boiled, and some are filled with confetti. |
Meg - 3 Ryan - 4 Mariel - 2 Tyler - 6
Mariel - 2 Eggs, 0 Raw, 1 HB, 2 Confetti |
None | March 25, 2016 | 54 |
| 55 - The Free Play 500 |
Team Name (1st Racer & 2nd Racer) Team Screw Attack (Craig Skistimas & Sam Mitchell) Team Kinda Funny (Greg Miller & Andy Cortez) Team Gluten Free Slay (Meg & Jon) Team Ass Play (Mariel & Tyler) Team Achievement Hunter (Geoff & Lindsay) Team Blaine and Chris |
Screw Attack's "Don't Drink and Drive" gets real this week, like the original, the racers must finish an entire beer before the race is completed, but they cannot be moving while drinking, if any racer is caught drinking and driving "Police Officer Dunkelman" will send them back to the start of the lap. Teams are scored on where they finish in the race - which determines the starting order for the next race. The team with the highest number of points at the end of the race wins. |
Team Screw Attack - 22 Team Gluten Free Slay - 20 Team Ass Play - 28 Team Blaine and Chris - 20 Team Kinda Funny - 14 Team Achievement Hunter - 22 |
Craig Skistimas, Sam Mitchell, Greg Miller, , Andy Cortez, Jon Risinger, Lindsay Jones, Geoff Ramsey, Blaine Gibson, Chris Demarais, Barbara Dunkelman | April 16, 2016 | 55 |
| 56 - Meg and Ryan REALLY Run the big 5...With Zombies | 56 | |||||
| 57 - Butts and Boats | 57 | |||||
| 58 - RWBY Chibi Bake-Off | 58 | |||||
| 59 - Grimm Eclipse Shootout | 59 | |||||
| 60 - Real Man's Jingle Jam | 60 | |||||
| 61 - Iron Cosplay: X-Men Edition | 61 | |||||
| 62 - Piñata Payback | 62 | |||||
| 63 - Face S'more Showdown | 63 | |||||
| 64 - FrE3 Play! | 64 | |||||
| 65 - Goodbye Free Play! | 65 |