The series was very difficult to produced compared to Rooster Teeth's more popular machinima series
Red vs. Blue (2003). While the Halo characters could be directly controlled by the animators, actions had to be manipulated out of the Sims characters, and it could take hours to get the right take of even a simple action. While a season of Red vs. Blue took little under a year to make, The Strangerhood and its bonus videos took a full three years to produce. The show was so difficult to work on and the Sims characters so annoying to deal with that it was decided halfway through the show's run that the first season would be its only season. A few years later Rooster Teeth's Achievement Hunter division was joined by
Ray Narvaez Jr. who was a fan of The Strangerhood and would make references to the series in their Let's Plays and push to make a second season, often just to annoy Rooster Teeth veterans who didn't look back on the show fondly. During the fundraising for Rooster Teeth's first film
Lazer Team (2015), one of the promised rewards donators for reaching a goal was that Rooster Teeth would make a second season,
The Strangerhood 2 (2015). Much to the surprise and annoyance of
Burnie Burns the goal was met, and the second season was produced.
