History TabletopGame / Operation

[[caption-width-right:350:"Is it water on the knee? OPERATION!"]]

* LicensedGame: There was a PC game released in 1998 based on the board game that had a rather heavy amount of AdaptationExpansion, right down to the gameplay on a concept level; the game was still about performing surgery to retrieve humorously named ailments, but to get the ailments you would have to guide the tweezers through a maze and avoid obstacles.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The mad scientist-looking doctor on the left side of the cover art isn't wearing shoes for some reason, unlike the doctor on the right side of the box.

Operation is a board game from Creator/{{Hasbro}} (albeit originally from Milton Bradley in 1965), developed by John Spinello in 1964. The game is supposed to test a player's eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills. The game board depicts the patient, Cavity Sam, on the operating table with holes that are filled with pun-oriented ailments made of plastic that need to be removed. In order to cure the patient, the player must use the tweezers attached to the board and retrieve the pieces from their holes. If the player hits the metal edges on the board, the patient's red nose will light up and buzz, thus making it the next player's turn.

* PainToTheAss: The ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' edition has the player remove an ailment of Donkey named "Pain in the Butt", referring to the fact that Donkey is indeed a [[ADogNamedDog literal]] [[ParentalBonus ass]] himself.

* ThemedStockBoardGame: One of ''the'' most popular board games to use this trope. Variations include ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', and ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', each with their own special ailments.

** The original cover features a little boy and girl assisting the surgeons, something that wouldn't pass in RealLife due to child labor restrictions.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** The Ankle Bone Connected to the Knee Bone is the only ailment in the game that is a rubber band rather than a piece of plastic. What's more, though, you have to put it ''in'' the board rather than pull it out.
** In "Silly Skill Game", the Burp Bubbles, Runny Nose, and Frog in the Throat are the only non-plastic ailments aside from the leftover rubber band, instead being of a green color and squishy texture.

* BackwardsFiringGun: One of the ailments in the modern revamp is known simply as "Burp Bubbles" - in this case, ''literal'' bubbles inside the stomach causing uncontrollable belching. And this is something that can only be treated via operation...

* UncattyResemblance: ''Operation: Pet Scan'' has players operate on Cavity Sam's dog, Rex-Ray. The dog's ears resemble his owner's hair, he wears a bandanna with the same pattern as Sam's underwear, and of course, he has the same big, red , glowing nose.

* PainToTheAss: The ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' edition has the player remove an ailment of Donkey named "Pain in the Butt", referring to the fact that Donkey is indeed a [[ADogNamedDog literal]] [[ParenralBonus ass]] himself.

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: More recent versions of the game show Sam wearing his polka-dot underpants on the table. Some other versions of the game, such as ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' omes, invoke this trope too by having the character from the respective franchise in their undergarments as well.