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* MemeticMutation: ""ANAL SPHINCTAH""

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* MemeticMutation: ""ANAL SPHINCTAH""'''''ANAL SPHINCTAH'''''
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* AdultFear: The game in the Barf section, Dr. Sleuth, is a doctor simulation where you diagnose various sick patients, including young children. Imagine being a parent with a healthy kid who ends up vomiting out of nowhere, and you don't know why they're doing it. This trope especially applies to the ones who are vomiting because of poisoning, such as from ingesting strange berries or cleaning chemicals.
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* VerbalTic: Rocky has the tendency to punctuate his sentences with "man".

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* VerbalTic: Rocky has the tendency to punctuate his sentences with "man"."man", man.
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* GettingSickDeliberately: [[DefiedTrope Defied]]; Ralph Alloverem says that you should never force yourself to vomit because it'll cause several complications, such as [[TheToothHurts tooth decay]] and throat pain.
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* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Ralph Alloverem is this.

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* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Ralph Alloverem is this.Alloverem.

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* CatchPhrase: "AYYY MAN!"


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* VerbalTic: Rocky has the tendency to punctuate his sentences with "man".
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Shirley Snotgrass, who has a GagNose and speaks in a stereotypical Jewish-American accent.


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* ProneToVomiting: Ralph Alloverem, [[MeaningfulName as his name suggests]]. Ginger mentions he holds the record for puking in class the most, and he vomits as an animation.


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* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Ralph Alloverem is this.
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* TheFoodPoisoningIncident:
** Prissy got kicked out of pageantry after eating bad sushi and...well, you probably know the rest.
** Food poisoning is also touched upon in the Dr. Sleuth game.
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* PottyEmergency: The ExcusePlot for “Don’t Pee Your Pants”...
* PottyFailure: ...and if you lose the game, the instructor will suffer this.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Paul Plumber speaks in what is quite obviously a very cartoonish New York accent, but his bizarre pronunciation of certain words tend to invoke this in most players.
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''Grossology'' is a PC game created by Appaloosa Interactive Corporation and released in 1997. It's an educational science game that focuses on the grosser, and presumably more fun, aspects of biology. You follow [[ExcitedKidsShowHost Ginger Vitis]] as you jump from different bodily-related topics, ranging from poop, to farts, to puke, to B.O., to scabs, each with their own unique instructor and even minigames to play. The game is notable for being much more crass compared to other children's games back in the 90's and dabbling in topics that edutainment games normally wouldn't touch.

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''Grossology'' ''Planet Dexter's Grossology'' is a 1997 PC game created developed by Appaloosa Interactive Corporation and released in 1997.published by [[Creator/{{Sega}} SegaSoft]]. It's an educational science game that focuses on the grosser, and presumably more fun, aspects of biology. You follow [[ExcitedKidsShowHost Ginger Vitis]] as you jump from different bodily-related topics, ranging from poop, to farts, to puke, to B.O., to scabs, each with their own unique instructor and even minigames to play. The game is notable for being much more crass compared to other children's games back in the 90's and dabbling in topics that edutainment games normally wouldn't touch.
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Not to be confused with the [[WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}} Canadian cartoon series]] of the same name, though they both have the same basic concept.

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Not to be confused with the [[WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}} Canadian cartoon series]] of the same name, though they both have the same basic concept.
concept, and are both based off the same book series.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Greatly averted with Prissy. Despite being a beauty pageant queen before being a UR Gross instructor, she's a relentless BigEater and her image as a beauty queen was ruined after she ate some bad sushi and barfed all over the judges, and after the league of judges found out about her late-night gorges.

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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Greatly averted with Prissy. Despite being a beauty pageant queen before being a UR Gross instructor, she's a relentless BigEater and her image as a beauty queen was ruined after she ate some bad sushi and barfed all over the judges, and after the league of judges found out about her late-night gorges.gorges, she was kicked out of the pageant circuit.



** Prissy Polly, whose stated to be not so prissy when it comes to food. Her game even revolves around eating.

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** Prissy Polly, whose who's stated to be not so prissy when it comes to food. Her game even revolves around eating.

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* ExtranormalInstitute: UR Gross seems to be a university of some sort, but it seems to only focus on gross anatomy-related stuff in a fashion more unconventional than your typical medical school.

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* ExtranormalInstitute: UR Gross seems to be is a university of some sort, university, but it seems to only focus on gross anatomy-related stuff in a fashion more unconventional than your typical medical school.



* VomitIndiscretionShot: The game actually shows the vomit when characters throw up, unusual for a children's medium.

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* VomitIndiscretionShot: The game actually shows the vomit when characters throw up, unusual for a children's medium.medium.
* WorldOfHam: Pretty much all the characters have LargeHam tendencies. Some are more hammy than others.
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->''"And which eruptions stinks the most"''

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->''"And which eruptions eruption stinks the most"''
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->''"And everybody knows that's rude"''

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->''"And everybody knows every body noise that's rude"''



->''"And which eructions stinks the most"''
->''"We hope that you don't lose your lunch"''

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->''"And which eructions eruptions stinks the most"''
->''"We hope that you don't lose your lunch"''luncheon"''
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* MotorMouth: Ginger talks ''a lot''.

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* AdultFear: The game in the Barf section is a doctor simulation where you diagnose various sick patients, including young children. Imagine being a parent with a healthy kid who ends up vomiting out of nowhere, and you don't know why they're doing it. This trope especially applies to the ones who are vomiting because of poisoning, such as from ingesting strange berries or cleaning chemicals.

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* AdultFear: The game in the Barf section section, Dr. Sleuth, is a doctor simulation where you diagnose various sick patients, including young children. Imagine being a parent with a healthy kid who ends up vomiting out of nowhere, and you don't know why they're doing it. This trope especially applies to the ones who are vomiting because of poisoning, such as from ingesting strange berries or cleaning chemicals.



* GreenAroundTheGills: All the patients in the Barf game appear a sickly color, usually green.

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* GreenAroundTheGills: All the patients in the Barf Dr. Sleuth game appear a sickly color, usually green.



** The Zit game is VideoGame/{{Tetris}}, where you must prevent the playfield from filling up with oil, resulting in a zit.
** The Body Odor game is Concentration, where you match the different pictures of different odor-related objects like shoes, armpits, and feet.
** The Booger game is VideoGame/{{Kaboom}} where you have to prevent snot from dripping out of Shirley's nose into her mouth making her sick.
** The Poop, Diarrhea, & Farts game is a toilet and poop-themed pinball game.
** The Pee game is Pipe Dreams where you must connect the urethra to the bladder.
** The Scab game is Othello where your goal is to help white blood cells heal a wound.
** The Saliva game is a typical game show-type game where you find out what foods make Prissy's mouth water.
** The Burp game is Simon Says, but with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin burping]].
** The Barf game is a watered-down version of ''VideoGame/LifeAndDeath'', where you must diagnose patients with various vomiting-related illnesses.

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** The Zit game is Attack - VideoGame/{{Tetris}}, where you must prevent the playfield from filling up with oil, resulting in a zit.
** Something Special In The Body Odor game is Air - Basically Concentration, where you match the different pictures of different odor-related objects like shoes, armpits, and feet.
** The Booger game is Block - VideoGame/{{Kaboom}} where you have to prevent snot from dripping out of Shirley's nose into her mouth making her sick.
** The Poop, Diarrhea, & Farts game is a Poo-Poo Pinball - A toilet and poop-themed pinball game.
** The Don't Pee game is Your Pants - Pipe Dreams where you must connect the urethra to the bladder.
** The Scab game is What A Wound - Othello where your goal is to help white blood cells heal a wound.
** The Saliva game is a Drool Show - A typical game show-type game where you find out what foods make Prissy's mouth water.
** The Burp game is Burp-O-Rama - Simon Says, but with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin burping]].
** The Barf game is a Dr. Sleuth - A watered-down version of ''VideoGame/LifeAndDeath'', where you must diagnose patients with various vomiting-related illnesses.



* VideoGameCaringPotential: The Barf game gives you the opportunity to diagnose patients' illnesses and watch them recover happy and healthy...

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* VideoGameCaringPotential: The Barf game Dr. Sleuth gives you the opportunity to diagnose patients' illnesses and watch them recover happy and healthy...

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* {{Expy}}: The Scab and Wounds instructor is fittingly a [[Film/{{Rocky}} Rocky Balboa]] expy.



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Scabs and Wounds instructor is obviously based on Creator/SylvesterStallone.

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''Grossology'' is a PC game created by Appaloosa Interactive Corporation and released in 1997. It's an educational science game that focuses on the grosser, and presumably more fun, aspects of biology. You follow [[ExcitedKidsShowHost Ginger Vitis]] as you jump from different bodily-related topics, ranging from poop, to farts, to puke, to B.O., to scabs, each with their own unique instructor and even minigames to play. The game is pretty notable for being much more crass compared to other children's games back in the 90's in dabbling in topics that edutainment games normally wouldn't touch.

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''Grossology'' is a PC game created by Appaloosa Interactive Corporation and released in 1997. It's an educational science game that focuses on the grosser, and presumably more fun, aspects of biology. You follow [[ExcitedKidsShowHost Ginger Vitis]] as you jump from different bodily-related topics, ranging from poop, to farts, to puke, to B.O., to scabs, each with their own unique instructor and even minigames to play. The game is pretty notable for being much more crass compared to other children's games back in the 90's in and dabbling in topics that edutainment games normally wouldn't touch.


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* TooMuchInformation: Ginger is prone to this. Then again, it ''is'' a gross-out game.

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* AdultFear: The game in the Barf section is a doctor simulation where you diagnose various sick patients, including young children. Imagine being a parent with a healthy kid who ends up vomiting out of nowhere, and you don't know why they're doing it. This trope especially applies to the ones who are vomiting because of poisoning, such as from eating strange berries or cleaning chemicals.

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* AdultFear: The game in the Barf section is a doctor simulation where you diagnose various sick patients, including young children. Imagine being a parent with a healthy kid who ends up vomiting out of nowhere, and you don't know why they're doing it. This trope especially applies to the ones who are vomiting because of poisoning, such as from eating ingesting strange berries or cleaning chemicals.



* ExtranormalInstitute: UR Gross seems to be a university of some sort, but it seems to only focus on gross anatomy-related stuff.

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* ExtranormalInstitute: UR Gross seems to be a university of some sort, but it seems to only focus on gross anatomy-related stuff.stuff in a fashion more unconventional than your typical medical school.

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** The Poop & Diarrhea game is a toilet and poop-themed pinball game.

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** The Poop Poop, Diarrhea, & Diarrhea Farts game is a toilet and poop-themed pinball game.
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* VideoGameCaringPotential: The Barf game gives you the opportunity to diagnose patients' illnesses and watch them recover happy and healthy.

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* VideoGameCaringPotential: The Barf game gives you the opportunity to diagnose patients' illnesses and watch them recover happy and healthy.healthy...

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[[caption-width-right:350:If you get squeamish easily, then this game is not for you.]]
->''"It's time to learn about secretions"''
->''"And what the stomach does to food"''
->''"We will examine our excretions"''
->''"And everybody knows that's rude"''
->''"It's time to learn our body functions"''
->''"And which eructions stinks the most"''
->''"We hope that you don't lose your lunch"''
->''"It's time to learn what's gross"''
-->'''-- [[ExpositoryThemeTune The opening theme of the game]]'''

''Grossology'' is a PC game created by Appaloosa Interactive Corporation and released in 1997. It's an educational science game that focuses on the grosser, and presumably more fun, aspects of biology. You follow [[ExcitedKidsShowHost Ginger Vitis]] as you jump from different bodily-related topics, ranging from poop, to farts, to puke, to B.O., to scabs, each with their own unique instructor and even minigames to play. The game is pretty notable for being much more crass compared to other children's games back in the 90's in dabbling in topics that edutainment games normally wouldn't touch.

Not to be confused with the [[WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}} Canadian cartoon series]] of the same name, though they both have the same basic concept.

!!This game provides examples of:
* AdultFear: The game in the Barf section is a doctor simulation where you diagnose various sick patients, including young children. Imagine being a parent with a healthy kid who ends up vomiting out of nowhere, and you don't know why they're doing it. This trope especially applies to the ones who are vomiting because of poisoning, such as from eating strange berries or cleaning chemicals.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Paul Plumber looks more like a goblin or troll than a human. Most of the other characters would count too with their exaggerated features.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Greatly averted with Prissy. Despite being a beauty pageant queen before being a UR Gross instructor, she's a relentless BigEater and her image as a beauty queen was ruined after she ate some bad sushi and barfed all over the judges, and after the league of judges found out about her late-night gorges.
* BigEater:
** Prissy Polly, whose stated to be not so prissy when it comes to food. Her game even revolves around eating.
** Ginger could count too. The "Vomit" segment has her talk about eating 12 burritos from the cafeteria (granted she gets sick and vomits from it).
** You can also diagnose patients in the vomit game with "overindulgence" and one of the patients is even a pie-eating champion.
* CatchPhrase: "AYYY MAN!"
* CoolTeacher: Most of the instructors would count, but especially Ginger, who even refers to herself as an "all-around cool cat".
* EdutainmentGame
* ExtranormalInstitute: UR Gross seems to be a university of some sort, but it seems to only focus on gross anatomy-related stuff.
* GagNose: Lawrence Lick and Shirley Snotgrass have this.
* {{Gasshole}}: Darryl and Paul, who's specialty involve burps and farts, respectively. Darryl even belches after most of his sentences.
* GreenAroundTheGills: All the patients in the Barf game appear a sickly color, usually green.
* [[GrossOutShow Gross-Out Game]]: You think?
* InformedAttribute: In the "Zits" segment, Ginger complains about a huge zit on her nose, despite the fact that there is obviously nothing there, or at least anything noticeable there.
* MiniGame: Each lab has its own minigame, and each of them are a variation of an existing game.
** The Zit game is VideoGame/{{Tetris}}, where you must prevent the playfield from filling up with oil, resulting in a zit.
** The Body Odor game is Concentration, where you match the different pictures of different odor-related objects like shoes, armpits, and feet.
** The Booger game is VideoGame/{{Kaboom}} where you have to prevent snot from dripping out of Shirley's nose into her mouth making her sick.
** The Poop & Diarrhea game is a toilet and poop-themed pinball game.
** The Pee game is Pipe Dreams where you must connect the urethra to the bladder.
** The Scab game is Othello where your goal is to help white blood cells heal a wound.
** The Saliva game is a typical game show-type game where you find out what foods make Prissy's mouth water.
** The Burp game is Simon Says, but with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin burping]].
** The Barf game is a watered-down version of ''VideoGame/LifeAndDeath'', where you must diagnose patients with various vomiting-related illnesses.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Scabs and Wounds instructor is obviously based on Creator/SylvesterStallone.
* PunnyName: Quite a few characters have one. Examples include Ginger Vitis, Buddy O'dor, and Ralph Alloverem.
* SouthernBelle: Prissy Polly.
* ToiletHumor: As expected, the game's full of it.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: The Barf game gives you the opportunity to diagnose patients' illnesses and watch them recover happy and healthy.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: ...though on the other hand, you can also deliberately misdiagnose them and watch them lay there still violently ill in bed.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: The game actually shows the vomit when characters throw up, unusual for a children's medium.

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