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* TwistingTheProphecy: It is prophesied that Old King Fudd will die in seven days. When the time arrives Fudd faints, but later awakes and declares that he's free of the villain's mind control and thus it's his old self that died, not his true himself.
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** The local knights are called the [[KingArthur Knights of the Rhomboid Table]]. One of the game's bards also sings a song about "a knight's chaste love for the wife of the king".
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* ShoulderSizedDragon: Eric slays a dragon, who then deflates to the size of a cigarette lighter and can be obtained as an item.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Quite a few scenes have detailed reactions for any obscene input from the player, ranging from attempts to consume fecal matter (formulated in any level of vulgarity the player chooses) to attempts at copulating with any female whom Eric encounters.
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** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' gets parodied with a mini-game: Swamp Trek has you leading a raft through swamps. Your crew includes Scottie the Scotsman, Speck the Vulcan, Bones the Skeleton and other caricatures of the original series' crew. Your mission? Free the Kirk expy from the Khan expy... except that Khan is also the split personality of Roarke, the proprietor of Series/FantasyIsland, in a brilliant ActorAllusion for Ricardo Montalban.
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** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' gets parodied with a mini-game: Swamp Trek has you leading a raft through swamps. Your crew includes Scottie the Scotsman, Speck the Vulcan, Bones the Skeleton and other caricatures of the original series' crew. Your mission? Free the Kirk expy from the Khan expy... except that Khan is also the split personality of Roarke, the proprietor of Series/FantasyIsland, ''Series/FantasyIsland'', in a brilliant ActorAllusion for Ricardo Montalban.
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* CurseEscapeClause: A GenreSavvy farmer applies for a knight's help in invoking this for his daughter, whom the local witch has apparently turned into a pig. Sir Eric steps up to the challenge. [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] when it turns out the girl was gone shopping. The pig enjoyed the kiss, at least.]]
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* CurseEscapeClause: A GenreSavvy farmer applies for a knight's help in invoking this for his daughter, whom the local witch has apparently turned into a pig. Sir Eric steps up to the challenge. [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] when it turns out the girl was gone shopping. The pig enjoyed the kiss, at least.]]
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* IncrediblyLamePun: You can hardly go for five minutes without tripping over one. Some character names fall into this as well, most prominently with Bud (the) Wizard.
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[[caption-width-right:256:[[MonsterIsAMommy Oh yes, you did it! You got the beast! Now what will you do about the mommy?]]]]
An InteractiveFiction game by Steve Meretzky, released by Creator/LegendEntertainment in 1993.
As TheKlutz knight Sir Eric the Unready, you must embark on a quest to end all quests — save the princess from an evil plot to take over the kingdom! And, of course, earn some respect for yourself, you unlucky buffoon, you.
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This game contains examples of the following tropes:
* AffectionateParody: Of knighthood in general and every fantasy trope even remotely applicable to it.
* AllThereInTheManual: The authors' preferred form of CopyProtection.
* AnachronismStew: Bud the Wizard watches satellite TV in his tower. Hey, [[AWizardDidIt he's a wizard]]!
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Princess Lorealle's fate if you fail to rescue her in time.
* BatmanColdOpen: The game's actual gameplay starts off with a short story about a CurseEscapeClause, see below.
* BlackKnight: The Dreaded Knight of the Black Pauldron.
* BlandNameProduct: Quite a few of these.
---> "Welcome to Baskin Bobbin's!"
* Boris Vallejo: Provided the awesome cover art!
* ButtMonkey: Eric The Unready himself and, by proxy, the player.
* CopyProtection: You have to buy a new suit of armour once the game starts proper, and the copy protection codes are your armour element sizes, which is AllThereInTheManual.
* CurseEscapeClause: A GenreSavvy farmer applies for a knight's help in invoking this for his daughter, whom the local witch has apparently turned into a pig. Sir Eric steps up to the challenge. [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] when it turns out the girl was gone shopping. The pig enjoyed the kiss, at least.]]
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Do you want to deflower a sacrifical virgin? You can try, but unfortunately, you have to be THIS TALL to do so, and you are not.
* DistressedDamsel: The princess Lorealle The Worthy, who Eric is supposed to be saving.
* DoubleEntendre: Used repeatedly.
--> "She's a typical farmer's daughter with great-looking apples."
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: One of the many [=McGuffins=] Eric has to procure are The Bolt Cutters Of Doom!
* EdibleBludgeon: How Sir Eric (unwittingly) wins his fight against the dreaded [[BlackKnight Knight Of the Black Pauldron]].
* GameShow: Eric will have to go through one during his adventures. As tradition holds, it's a mini-game!
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Quite a few scenes have detailed reactions for any obscene input from the player, ranging from attempts to consume fecal matter (formulated in any level of vulgarity the player chooses) to attempts at copulating with any female whom Eric encounters.
* GrumpyOldMan: There are several old knights in the Knight Hall indulging in this.
---> "In our day we didn't have lances. We had long sticks that we sharpened with our teeth!"
* HolyGrail: Parodied with the Holy Grill.
* IncrediblyLamePun: You can hardly go for five minutes without tripping over one. Some character names fall into this as well, most prominently with Bud (the) Wizard.
* KnightErrant: Eric would very much like to consider himself one.
* KnockKnockJoke: There are several to be heard, all of them equally [[IncrediblyLamePun cringe-worthy]].
* LoveGoddess: You can meet the Goddess of Beauty among the many other expies of the Greek gods and goddesses you encounter. Good luck actually getting her to make love to you!
* NonSequiturThud: Used as a RunningGag, Eric ends up losing consciousness at the end of every day/chapter.
* NoodleImplements: Until you get around to using them, the [=McGuffins=] Eric is supposed to collect feel like a pointless assortment of random (if awesome) items. A pitchfork, a steak, a pair of bolt cutters, a crowbar and a crescent wrench? [[FlatWhat What?]]
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Parodied with the Banana In The Stone.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Follows the Western version of the dragon, obviously, with the simple addition of AttackItsWeakPoint, which conveniently takes shape of a huge target visible on the dragon's body.
* PhysicalGod: The Greek mythology is present in the setting, except that, well, it's an obstructive bureaucracy.
* PoorMansPorn: There are some tittilating woodcuts of the famous singer Lily on sale at the fair.
* RapePillageAndBurn: One of the examples from GrumpyOldMan talk.
---> "...so the rest of us could rush in to kill all the livestock and rape the women. Or was it the other way around?"
* RedHerring: The Wavenous Waven of Wangoon is set up as a monster you might have to defeat in your adventures. It's never mentioned again after the first time.
* RobeAndWizardHat: Every wizard in the game has these. It's a fantasy parody, what did you expect?
* ShoutOut: As usual with Legend games, these are numerous.
** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' gets parodied with a mini-game: Swamp Trek has you leading a raft through swamps. Your crew includes Scottie the Scotsman, Speck the Vulcan, Bones the Skeleton and other caricatures of the original series' crew. Your mission? Free the Kirk expy from the Khan expy... except that Khan is also the split personality of Roarke, the proprietor of Series/FantasyIsland, in a brilliant ActorAllusion for Ricardo Montalban.
** You get mistaken for the famous missing bard [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis Priestley]] during your adventures.
** One of the chapters replicates the setting of ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}''... in a ThemeParkVersion of its setting.
** Look out, [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland a four-headed monkey]]!
** During the Swamp Trek sequence, you also visit [[Series/GilligansIsland Milligan's Island]]. Complete with a hefty supply of [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Funny Background Events]] based on the GilliganCut.
** The local knights are called the [[KingArthur Knights of the Rhomboid Table]]. One of the game's bards also sings a song about "a knight's chaste love for the wife of the king".
** The entire library in the Agora sequence is full of literary ShoutOut material, though the main offender is [[TheJoyOfX The Joy Of Hex]].
** A subtle one: the guy running Baskin Bobbin's is called Bobbin. One of the things Eric can say to him is that he [[VideoGame/{{Loom}} "saw his mother out on the duck pond."]]
** The Classifieds section of the newspapers is devoted entirely to this:
*** [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet "SWF, Capulet, seeks handsome and daring partner for life. Must have good balcony climbing skills. <...> No Montagues please."]]
*** [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "Bilbo. Come home. All is forgiven. P.S. I sold the ring. Frodo."]]
*** Other Classifieds [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] include Literature/PeterPan, Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin and NorseMythology.
* SpeechImpediment: ZigZaggingTrope. The famous singer Lily sings normally, but slurs her Rs into Ws when speaking, which is responsible for the Wavenous Waven of Wangoon being... mispronounced. The game later [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this with one of its many TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything moments.
--> "As Lily may have sung, "[[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Hit the woad, Jack, and don't you come back no mow!]]"
* SpinningPaper: Readable newspaper issues covering the publicized (and grossly misrepresented) events of the previous chapter serve as chapter breaks.
* {{Unicorn}}: Played straight, there are unicorns and they only tolerate the presence of female virgins. And therefore it's used as a non-virgin detector.
* WorstNewsJudgementEver: Used in conjunction with SpinningPaper, see above.
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Almost everyone speaks like this and this is used to provide the occasional NoCelebritiesWereHarmed name switch.
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[[caption-width-right:256:[[MonsterIsAMommy Oh yes, you did it! You got the beast! Now what will you do about the mommy?]]]]
An InteractiveFiction game by Steve Meretzky, released by Creator/LegendEntertainment in 1993.
As TheKlutz knight Sir Eric the Unready, you must embark on a quest to end all quests — save the princess from an evil plot to take over the kingdom! And, of course, earn some respect for yourself, you unlucky buffoon, you.
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This game contains examples of the following tropes:
* AffectionateParody: Of knighthood in general and every fantasy trope even remotely applicable to it.
* AllThereInTheManual: The authors' preferred form of CopyProtection.
* AnachronismStew: Bud the Wizard watches satellite TV in his tower. Hey, [[AWizardDidIt he's a wizard]]!
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Princess Lorealle's fate if you fail to rescue her in time.
* BatmanColdOpen: The game's actual gameplay starts off with a short story about a CurseEscapeClause, see below.
* BlackKnight: The Dreaded Knight of the Black Pauldron.
* BlandNameProduct: Quite a few of these.
---> "Welcome to Baskin Bobbin's!"
* Boris Vallejo: Provided the awesome cover art!
* ButtMonkey: Eric The Unready himself and, by proxy, the player.
* CopyProtection: You have to buy a new suit of armour once the game starts proper, and the copy protection codes are your armour element sizes, which is AllThereInTheManual.
* CurseEscapeClause: A GenreSavvy farmer applies for a knight's help in invoking this for his daughter, whom the local witch has apparently turned into a pig. Sir Eric steps up to the challenge. [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] when it turns out the girl was gone shopping. The pig enjoyed the kiss, at least.]]
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Do you want to deflower a sacrifical virgin? You can try, but unfortunately, you have to be THIS TALL to do so, and you are not.
* DistressedDamsel: The princess Lorealle The Worthy, who Eric is supposed to be saving.
* DoubleEntendre: Used repeatedly.
--> "She's a typical farmer's daughter with great-looking apples."
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: One of the many [=McGuffins=] Eric has to procure are The Bolt Cutters Of Doom!
* EdibleBludgeon: How Sir Eric (unwittingly) wins his fight against the dreaded [[BlackKnight Knight Of the Black Pauldron]].
* GameShow: Eric will have to go through one during his adventures. As tradition holds, it's a mini-game!
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Quite a few scenes have detailed reactions for any obscene input from the player, ranging from attempts to consume fecal matter (formulated in any level of vulgarity the player chooses) to attempts at copulating with any female whom Eric encounters.
* GrumpyOldMan: There are several old knights in the Knight Hall indulging in this.
---> "In our day we didn't have lances. We had long sticks that we sharpened with our teeth!"
* HolyGrail: Parodied with the Holy Grill.
* IncrediblyLamePun: You can hardly go for five minutes without tripping over one. Some character names fall into this as well, most prominently with Bud (the) Wizard.
* KnightErrant: Eric would very much like to consider himself one.
* KnockKnockJoke: There are several to be heard, all of them equally [[IncrediblyLamePun cringe-worthy]].
* LoveGoddess: You can meet the Goddess of Beauty among the many other expies of the Greek gods and goddesses you encounter. Good luck actually getting her to make love to you!
* NonSequiturThud: Used as a RunningGag, Eric ends up losing consciousness at the end of every day/chapter.
* NoodleImplements: Until you get around to using them, the [=McGuffins=] Eric is supposed to collect feel like a pointless assortment of random (if awesome) items. A pitchfork, a steak, a pair of bolt cutters, a crowbar and a crescent wrench? [[FlatWhat What?]]
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Parodied with the Banana In The Stone.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Follows the Western version of the dragon, obviously, with the simple addition of AttackItsWeakPoint, which conveniently takes shape of a huge target visible on the dragon's body.
* PhysicalGod: The Greek mythology is present in the setting, except that, well, it's an obstructive bureaucracy.
* PoorMansPorn: There are some tittilating woodcuts of the famous singer Lily on sale at the fair.
* RapePillageAndBurn: One of the examples from GrumpyOldMan talk.
---> "...so the rest of us could rush in to kill all the livestock and rape the women. Or was it the other way around?"
* RedHerring: The Wavenous Waven of Wangoon is set up as a monster you might have to defeat in your adventures. It's never mentioned again after the first time.
* RobeAndWizardHat: Every wizard in the game has these. It's a fantasy parody, what did you expect?
* ShoutOut: As usual with Legend games, these are numerous.
** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' gets parodied with a mini-game: Swamp Trek has you leading a raft through swamps. Your crew includes Scottie the Scotsman, Speck the Vulcan, Bones the Skeleton and other caricatures of the original series' crew. Your mission? Free the Kirk expy from the Khan expy... except that Khan is also the split personality of Roarke, the proprietor of Series/FantasyIsland, in a brilliant ActorAllusion for Ricardo Montalban.
** You get mistaken for the famous missing bard [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis Priestley]] during your adventures.
** One of the chapters replicates the setting of ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}''... in a ThemeParkVersion of its setting.
** Look out, [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland a four-headed monkey]]!
** During the Swamp Trek sequence, you also visit [[Series/GilligansIsland Milligan's Island]]. Complete with a hefty supply of [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Funny Background Events]] based on the GilliganCut.
** The local knights are called the [[KingArthur Knights of the Rhomboid Table]]. One of the game's bards also sings a song about "a knight's chaste love for the wife of the king".
** The entire library in the Agora sequence is full of literary ShoutOut material, though the main offender is [[TheJoyOfX The Joy Of Hex]].
** A subtle one: the guy running Baskin Bobbin's is called Bobbin. One of the things Eric can say to him is that he [[VideoGame/{{Loom}} "saw his mother out on the duck pond."]]
** The Classifieds section of the newspapers is devoted entirely to this:
*** [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet "SWF, Capulet, seeks handsome and daring partner for life. Must have good balcony climbing skills. <...> No Montagues please."]]
*** [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "Bilbo. Come home. All is forgiven. P.S. I sold the ring. Frodo."]]
*** Other Classifieds [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] include Literature/PeterPan, Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin and NorseMythology.
* SpeechImpediment: ZigZaggingTrope. The famous singer Lily sings normally, but slurs her Rs into Ws when speaking, which is responsible for the Wavenous Waven of Wangoon being... mispronounced. The game later [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this with one of its many TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything moments.
--> "As Lily may have sung, "[[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Hit the woad, Jack, and don't you come back no mow!]]"
* SpinningPaper: Readable newspaper issues covering the publicized (and grossly misrepresented) events of the previous chapter serve as chapter breaks.
* {{Unicorn}}: Played straight, there are unicorns and they only tolerate the presence of female virgins. And therefore it's used as a non-virgin detector.
* WorstNewsJudgementEver: Used in conjunction with SpinningPaper, see above.
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Almost everyone speaks like this and this is used to provide the occasional NoCelebritiesWereHarmed name switch.
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