Travis McElroy

"I love trans people!" - Travis McElroy

Travis "Scraps" Patrick McElroy is a co-host of My Brother, My Brother and Me. He is the middlest brother of Justin McElroy and Griffin McElroy. He is married to Teresa McElroy. He is the only one of the three MBMBAM brothers.

Early Life
Born to Clint McElroy and Leslie McElroy in 1983, Travis McElroy grew up in Huntington, West Virginia with his two brothers, Griffin and Justin. Some fans have theorized that his mother is actually a descendant of George Michael. Current lore posits that Travis is the eternal brother, though others claim that the hieroglyphs transcribed upon the fated McElroy obelisk were mistranslated, and Justin is in fact the eternal brother. Whatever the case may be, Travis was present at Justin's birth, which Travis described as "sick."

Travis was born as “Steve(n) Johnson”, who’s so fucking cool, chill, and fun, and likes to ride a motorcycle and watch r-rated movies and super violent anime, but at the age of approximately six, he abandoned this persona in order to cultivate his current personality. This was done because Griffin, then like three, was “so annoying”. Griffin acknowledges that this was for the best, since he “would bug the shit out of [Steven Johnson].”

In high school, his fashion sense was "button up shirts and tear-away pants."

One time, he was on a trip with his choir to New York in high school, and they saw David Spade getting into a car, and he turned to them, looked at them, smiled, flipped them all off, like, gave them the finger and a kind of, like, wave, and got into his car, and his driver drove them away. There was no malice in it, he doesn't think.

Personal Life
Travis has been involved in theater since a young age, often describing his participation since high school. He worked as Technical Director at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company from 2009 to 2014. He attended University of Oklahoma for Acting, where he received his BFA.

He has been co-host of MBMBAM since its founding in 2010, though many goofs have pertained to the fact he is simply a guest on the show and not actually a brother. Based on the popularity of the podcast, in 2017 they were able to produce a television show. During that show it is shown that he may in fact be a robot To build on this fact, steam pours out of Travis' ears when he's coming up with a poor idea.

His past employment includes PetSmart where his tasks included "squeezing dog-buttholes," and was a self-described master at it.

During college, Travis was roommates with internet personality Brent Black (brentalfloss), who wrote a song about Travis, "The Roommate Song".

Tattoos
Travis has 12 tattoos (as of June, 2020). They are, in order of acquisition:
 * 1) Unknown: Travis's very first tattoo didn't come out too well, so he doesn't show it off.
 * 2) Left upper chest: The Triforce of Power from The Legend of Zelda. The brothers and Clint got matching Triforce tattoos after their mother passed away. Justin has Wisdom, Griffin has Courage, and Clint has all three.
 * 3) Right inner wrist: A pineapple. His mother loved pineapples.
 * 4) Left ribs: The Loch Ness Monster. For his childhood dog (a Scottish terrier named Nessie), who passed away when he was 25.
 * 5) Right ribs: A horse rearing up with the word "Middlest". For MaxFunDrive 2015, to denote his pride in being a middle brother.
 * 6) Left inner bicep: A d20 with the phrase "I do that." For MaxFunDrive 2016, for his love of TAZ/Magnus.
 * 7) Right shoulder: A microphone covered in flowers. For MaxFunDrive 2017, a celebration of his podcasting career.
 * 8) Left forearm: A pocket watch set to the date and time his first daughter, Bebe, was born.
 * 9) Right breast: A sheriff's badge with a quote from Blazing Saddles: "You know, morons." After being diagnosed with depressive episodes "to remind [himself] the importance of talking to friends when going through tough times."
 * 10) Right shoulder: Two champagne flutes. A tribute to his wife Teresa, "because every day with her is a celebration."
 * 11) Left back calf(?): "Harumph!"
 * 12) Right forearm (radial): "all you can do is all you can do" in his mother's handwriting. He pieced the words together from her cookbook.

Recurring Segments

 * Sad Libs
 * Riddle Me Piss
 * Reach for the Stars
 * Play Along at Home!
 * Under the Table and Phishing
 * Work of Fart

Religions
In Episode 207, Travis sings a hymn praising himself and expressing thankfulness for his own existence, called "Thank Travis for Travis."

In Episode 242, in response to a Yahoo, Travis makes a hypnotic and unintelligible speech, starting a Mango Cult.

In Episode 290, it is revealed he has killed and he will kill again, and that his soul is the respite of a dark passenger. This happened because when he was young he died momentarily, and when he came back he brought something with him. This darkness is only calmed by the knowledge there will be another Kung Fu Panda movie.

Theories
These theories are like gravity–they're basically confirmed.


 * Travis has killed before, and he will kill again. Though, you need not worry, he kills to protect. He can see every timeline of events in a fraction of a second, kind of like Doctor Strange, and kills one to save countless lives.


 * Travis was swept up during the rapture, along with his brother Justin McElroy, and now spends his days playing chess with his old pal Jesus. Travis was retroactively voted Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" for every year since its founding. He was also recently voted the most beautiful man on any and all planets.


 * He also insists that he's a sexpert, but he's actually a sex wizard. He recently took 2nd prize in Seattle's "SNL Alumni Lookalike Expo" contest for reprising his role as Bearded Chris Kattan.


 * Unknown to most in the United States, the political maneuver known as "Travis-ing" is done when dealing with friendly nations with unstable governments by withholding aid such as financial considerations and military weapons. This was named by former Secretary of State George P. Shultz who witnessed Travis holding a slice of pizza in front of a toddler and screaming, "You want this? Well, jump, little man. JUMP!" Shultz, amazed at the display, asked his name. Travis replied, "I'M TRAVIS, GODDAMMIT. WHAT WHAT!" and threw the slice of pizza on the ground to mock the child.


 * Although all accounts of an alleged incident involving the McElroy brothers receiving "The Quickening" (Highlander style) claim that the brothers each received an equal portion of the effects, in reality Travis actually sussed a smidgen more than the others. His only remaining weakness is a deathly fear of spiders.


 * Travis can only be damaged at the end of his first attack phase, after sending out his homing missiles. He will briefly pause to reload his gun, at which point he will reveal an eyeball on the roof of his mouth. If the player successfully shoots it, he will take between 35 and 50 damage. He is weak to thunder damage.
 * Like his TAZ Graduation character Festo, Travis like to party.

Trivia

 * Travis is the all powerful brother.
 * Travis once admitted to enjoying Steve Carell's The Incredible Burt Wonderstone on the podcast. Although, it may have been Justin who said that. Their voices are, like, really similar.
 * His favorite smells are baby skin and campfires, which he calls "Cracklin'."
 * During the filming of the MBMBAM television show, he did a hit on Justin.
 * He's much smaller as a human than you would ever imagine he is.
 * He can whistle and hum at the same time.
 * All this and more will be covered in Travis' autobiography "What's That Smell?"
 * Has had a chunk of his molar break off and has confirmed that "a lot of them are more filling than tooth."
 * His daughter Barbara "Bebe" McElroy is a visionary who occasionally manages Travis's social media accounts far better than he ever could.
 * His aesthetic is hard to describe, though many have tried. Part goth, part cowboy, part dad, whatever it is, he's pulling it the fuck off.
 * At the 2018 Atlanta Dragoncon, Travis stayed 2 hours after his signing time technically ended so he could see everyone who wanted to see him. He is a Good Boy.
 * Travis was cast in cameo roles for the 2020 animated film Trolls World Tour as the Hard Rock Tear and a member of the four-headed troll Skyscraper, alongside his brothers.
 * We are currently on the third Travis. They just keep dying.
 * Travis can only eat stone, which he does once a year for 48 hours straight, without stopping. The stone provides him enough nutrition to last the year.
 * After eating salad for 21 days straight, Travis ascended and gained the powers of telepathy, telekinesis, and semantics.
 * For the duration of the year Twenty Big Dog Run (2021), Travis has become the eponymous Big Dog (woof woof!) It is currently unknown whether this will remain true into future years.

Other Shows

 * The Adventure Zone
 * Shmanners
 * Til Death Do Us Blart
 * The Kind Rewind
 * Surprisingly Nice
 * Run: A Doctor Who Fancast
 * Positiviteeny!
 * Bunker Buddies (former co-host)
 * Can I Pet Your Dog (former producer)
 * The McElroy Brothers Will Be In Trolls: World Tour (completed)
 * In Case Of Emergency (discontinued)
 * Trends Like These (discontinued)
 * Interrobang with Travis and Tybee (discontinued)
 * The Time Belt (Kid Playing)