For those of you hardcore geeks who aren’t watching “Red vs Blue” you need to get right over there and start watching!

“Red vs Blue” is the machinima comedy series set in the Halo universe.  And hoo boy is it funny!  As geeks, we love funny stuff, inside jokes, and quotable quotes, and “Red vs Blue” has all of that aplenty!  The premise is that there are two sides warring it out in this canyon, one side is the Reds, and their armor colors bear that out, and the other side is the Blues, ditto armor color.  They pretty much hate each other for two reasons: one, because they’re told to, and two, because they’re exactly alike.ADHERER

Now in its fifth season, there have been allusions over the course of the series that the Reds and the Blues are really on the same side.  Why they’re fighting is a mystery, but they both get their orders from the same guy: Vic.  And those orders typically consist of, “okay, try to do better than you are currently doing.”

There was an inside joke about the move from Halo to Halo 2… it’s in the future, where everything is shiny!  Almost the entire third season was devoted to Church (the self-described leader of the Blues) time traveling forward and back to try and fix the problems that they encountered in the first two seasons, like his death and the death of his Freelancer (special forces mercenary) girlfriend.  The continuity is amazing throughout the show, as can be seen in all of the third season where Church is reliving various events, and in some cases apparently causing them.  Come on, now… what can be more geeky than a humorous show about a video game that uses time travel?

The Red team consists of Sarge (the leader, hates Grif, wears regulation red), Grif (the lazy ne’er-do-well, wears orange), Simmons (brown-noser extraordinaire, wears crimson), and Donut (effeminate, wears pink… er, slightly-less-red).

The Blue team consists of Church (the mean one, wears a palish blue), Caboose (the stupid one, wears regulation blue), and Tucker (the lazy self-described womanizer, wears teal… I mean aqua; teal is so last season).

There are a host of other characters that weave in and out of the storylines including a robot that only speaks Spanish, freelancers that either want to help or kill the teams’ members, an AI that is basically a mad evil antagonist that can jump from person to person in their suits of armor, a purple medic, a moody tank, and the warthog (not really a character, but there all the same).

All 85 episodes are available for download or to watch on Google Video or on YouTube, but I suggest that if you like the show to go to the website and buy their DVDs.  They’re chock full of extras and you’ll be financially supporting the team who makes this wonderful show.

By the way, the language is somewhat adult, even though the situations are completely childish, so young’uns ask your parents before downloading and watching.