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** In the Spanish version, Botley is known as "Latoso" (also a pun due to the word also meaning "Annoying" in Spanish) and Polly Sparks becomes "Pilar Chiribitas" (it would mean "Sparks" or "Parsnips").
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** In the Spanish version, Botley is known as "Latoso" (also a pun due to the word also meaning "Annoying" in Spanish) and Polly Sparks becomes "Pilar Chiribitas" (it ("Chiribitas" would mean "Sparks" or "Parsnips").
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The game was released as ''Flygande Start 3:e Klass'' ("Flying Start 3rd Class") in Sweden and as ''Alkupolku Kolmas Luokka - Vaarojen Vuori'' ("Starting Path Third Class - Mountain of Dangers") in Finland. These appear to be the only releases it received outside of North America.
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The game was released as ''Flygande Start 3:e Klass'' ("Flying Start 3rd Class") in Sweden and Sweden, as ''Alkupolku Kolmas Luokka - Vaarojen Vuori'' ("Starting Path Third Class - Mountain of Dangers") in Finland.Finland, and as ''La Montaña Misteriosa'' ("The Mysterious Mountain") in Spain. These appear to be the only releases it received outside of North America.
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** In the Spanish version, Botley is known as "Latoso" (also a pun due to the word also meaning "Annoying" in Spanish) and Polly Sparks becomes "Pilar Chiribitas" (it would mean "Sparks" or "Parsnips").
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some of Ms. Winkle's responses (when they are rigged, at least) depict her chuckling at the CoolButStupid answers, [[HaHaHaNo but]] [[RealityEnsues she still marks Polly incorrect.]]
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some of Ms. Winkle's responses (when they are rigged, at least) depict her chuckling at the CoolButStupid answers, [[HaHaHaNo but]] [[RealityEnsues but she still marks Polly incorrect.]]
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* RefugeInAudacity: Averted - Polly gets the questions wrong on purpose and makes up such ridiculous answers that she wanted Ms. Winkle to laugh. Ms. Winkle [[ActuallyPrettyFunny chuckles at a few]], but [[RealityEnsues tells Polly not to be so silly and marks her incorrect]].
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* RefugeInAudacity: Averted - Polly gets the questions wrong on purpose and makes up such ridiculous answers that she wanted Ms. Winkle to laugh. Ms. Winkle [[ActuallyPrettyFunny chuckles at a few]], but [[RealityEnsues tells Polly not to be so silly and marks her incorrect]].incorrect.
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* SicklyGreenGlow: Not shown, but Botley worries this may be the case after Polly declares that radium's glow is battery-operated and [[ScienceMarchesOn is complimented as correct]] even though people who handle it [[RealityEnsues still get radiation sickness]].
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* SicklyGreenGlow: Not shown, but Botley worries this may be the case after Polly declares that radium's glow is battery-operated and [[ScienceMarchesOn is complimented as correct]] even though people who handle it [[RealityEnsues still get radiation sickness]].sickness.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some of Ms. Winkle's responses (when they are fixed, at least) depict her chuckling at the CoolButStupid answers, [[HaHaHaNo but]] [[RealityEnsues she still marks Polly incorrect.]]
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some of Ms. Winkle's responses (when they are fixed, rigged, at least) depict her chuckling at the CoolButStupid answers, [[HaHaHaNo but]] [[RealityEnsues she still marks Polly incorrect.]]
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* ConstellationsAsLocations: The observatory MiniGame has you figuring out which constellation Polly sent her father's spaceship to.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Zigzagged; on the one hand, Polly has free reign of the mountain laboratories because her father went away on a business conference. When Professor Spark does return however, he puts Polly in her place and saves Bottley's robot life before Polly compels him to use the time machine. He explains to them that he was actually trying to get home sooner, but due to the changes she caused, including pogo sticks used as a mode of transportation, he was unable to do so until Bottley and the player fixed all the problems.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Justified. Professor Spark was trying to get home earlier, but due to Polly changing the timeline, she inadvertently impeded his journey. Once the player and Bottley fix things, he returns home in a matter of seconds to save Bottley and chide his daughter for trying to kill her robot babysitter.
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* HeroicWillpower: Bottley in the end refuses to [[spoiler:obey Polly's order to jump in the time machine and commit suicide by going to the Big Bang. It's partly LovableCoward and self-preservation, since he points out that a robot going to the Big Bang would be spelling their death. Nevertheless, it is awesome that Bottley is the ''only'' robot that refused to obey her orders. He then stands his ground as Polly reminds him that Bottley is programmed to do everything she says. Fortunately, Professor Spark walks in and saves Bottley]].
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** Professor Spark programmed the robots so that they can't technically do the main puzzles -- aiming the laser blasters at asteroids and such -- or uses simple Simon and arithmetic questions to keep the doors locked to the kitchen and music room. But if another human were to navigate the puzzles, using Bottley for assistance, then they can give Bottley the access he needs.
** Bottley explains in the beginning that technically he's not supposed to be telling outsiders about Professor Spark's secret. Professor Spark, however, gave him an override in the case that Polly would go off-the-rails so he could get help from anyone in her school. Bottley uses this to explain to the player, ostensibly a new student to the school, that he needs their assistance.
** Professor Spark programmed the robots so that they can't technically do the main puzzles -- aiming the laser blasters at asteroids and such -- or uses simple Simon and arithmetic questions to keep the doors locked to the kitchen and music room. But if another human were to navigate the puzzles, using Bottley for assistance, then they can give Bottley the access he needs.
** Bottley explains in the beginning that technically he's not supposed to be telling outsiders about Professor Spark's secret. Professor Spark, however, gave him an override in the case that Polly would go off-the-rails so he could get help from anyone in her school. Bottley uses this to explain to the player, ostensibly a new student to the school, that he needs their assistance.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Professor Spark is this, compared to his daughter, and he's a calming influence on her. [[spoiler:He figured out that she rewrote the timeline but couldn't get back home to fix things due to the changes she made, like transportation on pogo sticks. When Bottley and the player fix the timeline, he makes it home in record time and nullifies Polly's orders to Bottley to travel back to the Big Bang. Professor Spark gives her a moment to explain herself; when she lies, Professor Spark reveals that he already contacted her teacher and found out the whole story. Ms. Winkle and he agreed that a fair punishment to Polly would be she could retake her test, but since she failed the first one out of boredom, this one will be in Latin to challenge her. Polly goes AnythingButThat while Professor Spark commends Bottley for finding a loophole to recruit the player]].
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* BrickJoke: As easy to miss as it is, you can witness this if you return to the front door. The rocket Botley had inside him will reappear and still be flying.
* BrokenBridge: This game goes out of its way to discuss why doors are inexplicably locked. The front door being opened by door chimes might be thought of as silly, but apparently Professor Spark doesn't want unauthorized personnel unrestricted access to his time machine, he put a lock on his kitchen months ago because his robots are not only [[EatingMachine eating machines]] but are gluttonous, and the door to the music hall is guarded by a constantly reset password so less musical robots don't pound too hard on the piano. Botley lampshades this and rhetorically asks why no one keeps the doors unlocked.
* BrokenBridge: This game goes out of its way to discuss why doors are inexplicably locked. The front door being opened by door chimes might be thought of as silly, but apparently Professor Spark doesn't want unauthorized personnel unrestricted access to his time machine, he put a lock on his kitchen months ago because his robots are not only [[EatingMachine eating machines]] but are gluttonous, and the door to the music hall is guarded by a constantly reset password so less musical robots don't pound too hard on the piano. Botley lampshades this and rhetorically asks why no one keeps the doors unlocked.
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** As easy to miss as it is, you can witness this if you return to the front door. The rocket Botley had inside him will reappear and still be flying.
** Botley went into a summary of the BadFuture that Polly created, including that people are using pogo sticks to travel. Professor Spark at the end appears to stop Polly, and apologizes to Botley because apparently due to Polly's meddling, it took a long time to get home thanks to the new form of transportation.
* BrokenBridge: This game goes out of its way to discuss why doors are inexplicably locked. The front door being opened by door chimes might be thought of as silly, butapparently apparently, Professor Spark doesn't want unauthorized personnel unrestricted access to his time machine, he put a lock on his kitchen months ago because his robots are not only [[EatingMachine eating machines]] but are gluttonous, and the door to the music hall is guarded by a constantly reset password so less musical robots don't pound too hard on the piano. Botley lampshades this and rhetorically asks why no one keeps the doors unlocked.
** As easy to miss as it is, you can witness this if you return to the front door. The rocket Botley had inside him will reappear and still be flying.
** Botley went into a summary of the BadFuture that Polly created, including that people are using pogo sticks to travel. Professor Spark at the end appears to stop Polly, and apologizes to Botley because apparently due to Polly's meddling, it took a long time to get home thanks to the new form of transportation.
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* MovingTheGoalposts: Polly says she'll award a mission clue if Botley accesses the work of art she wants from the Virtual Collection. After finding the right artwork, Polly butts in saying that didn't count because she thinks you only got it right through a lucky guess, and sends another puzzle to solve before giving up the clue.
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* MovingTheGoalposts: Polly says she'll award a mission clue if Botley accesses the work of art she wants from the Virtual Collection. After finding the right artwork, Polly butts in saying that didn't count because she thinks you only got it right through a lucky guess, guess and sends another puzzle to solve before giving up the clue.
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* TheNicknamer: Polly likes calls Botley names like "Snotley," "Potley" and "Dotley."
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Educational focus: Playing in the kitchen on higher levels leads to the units being used to measure not only get slightly less round, but bigger also. It's apparently not odd that Mort would ask for [[BigEater seven and a half cups of strawberries or six liters of prune juice]] to top one meal. Meanwhile, the molecular unit never goes higher than one million, which is far too few of anything to be noticeable.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Educational focus: Playing in the kitchen on higher levels leads to the units being used to measure not only get slightly less round, round but bigger also. It's apparently not odd that Mort would ask for [[BigEater seven and a half cups of strawberries or six liters of prune juice]] to top one meal. Meanwhile, the molecular unit never goes higher than one million, which is far too few of anything to be noticeable.
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* VillainBall: Polly hides clues throughout the mansion that you need in order to stop her and even sometimes explains what you need to do to find them. Justified in that it's no fun if you can't combat her, she's a kid, and she's probably having more fun screwing with Botley than anything else.
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** The whole conflict starts because Polly trolled her teacher by putting the wrong answers on a big test covering inventions. Polly is surprised that her teacher gave her a 0 instead of laughing. Rather than asking for a makeup or accepting the loss, she sends the robots back in time to incorporate the troll answers.
** Polly hides clues throughout the mansion that you need in order to stop her and even sometimes explains what you need to do to find them. Justified in that it's no fun if you can't combat her, she's a kid, and she's probably having more fun screwing with Botley than anything else.
** The whole conflict starts because Polly trolled her teacher by putting the wrong answers on a big test covering inventions. Polly is surprised that her teacher gave her a 0 instead of laughing. Rather than asking for a makeup or accepting the loss, she sends the robots back in time to incorporate the troll answers.
** Polly hides clues throughout the mansion that you need in order to stop her and even sometimes explains what you need to do to find them. Justified in that it's no fun if you can't combat her, she's a kid, and she's probably having more fun screwing with Botley than anything else.
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Judging by the songs she wants you to play in the Music Hall, Polly's favorite genre of music is "public domain."
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Judging by the songs she wants you to play in the Music Hall, Polly's favorite genre of music is "public domain."
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* HaHaHaNo: After you fix the correct answers on Polly's test, Ms. Winkle sometimes gives a brief chuckle before deeming Polly's answer incorrect.
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* CoolShades: Referenced when sunglasses are a mission clue. Monty Monitor mentions that, "Sunglasses were not invented to make you look cool. They were invented to protect your eyes from the sun."
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: The folk song "What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?" is one of the tunes you have to arrange in the Music Hall. However, the game avoids mentioning the song's title, identifying it only as "a little sea shanty from the days of sailors and pirates."
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** The "television" mission clue appears to be displaying the final scene from ''{{Film/Casablanca}}''.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some of Ms. Winkle's responses (when they are fixed, at least) depict her chuckling at the CoolButStupid answers, [[RealityEnsues but she still marks Polly incorrect.]]
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some of Ms. Winkle's responses (when they are fixed, at least) depict her chuckling at the CoolButStupid answers, [[HaHaHaNo but]] [[RealityEnsues but she still marks Polly incorrect.]]
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* MoneyForNothing: In the Wheel of Invention, you're given more invention points as a reward for getting questions right on the first try. However, the only purpose that invention points serve is to gain you access to the time machine room, and if you're playing the Wheel of Invention, you're already there. The invention points you earn from the Wheel of Invention don't even count towards your next mission, as your score is wiped after you use the time machine.
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* [[FlowerInHerHair Flower On His Head]]: Male example: Eggbert has a flower on a spring on the top of his head. Polly keeps calling attention to it, but Eggbert says he likes it.
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* BrainyBrunette: Dr. Spark, Polly's father. If you look closely, his hair is brunette and he's a genius.
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* BrainyBrunette: Dr. Professor Spark, Polly's father. If you look closely, his hair is brunette and he's a genius.genius.
* BreakingOut: The Shrinking Machine Room has you playing a version of this after you shrink down Botley. Using a magnet as your paddle, you launch him into the molecules until he breaks through enough of them to reveal the item you're looking for.
* BreakingOut: The Shrinking Machine Room has you playing a version of this after you shrink down Botley. Using a magnet as your paddle, you launch him into the molecules until he breaks through enough of them to reveal the item you're looking for.
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* ToiletPaperTrail: When you go back to the invention of the toilet, which the game attributes to the Minoans in 2000 BC, you see a Minoan guy walking out of a privy with toilet paper attached to his foot.
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* CulturalTranslation: The Swedish and Finnish versions remove some of the more U.S.-centric elements. For instance, both have SantaClaus becoming an orangutan instead of the President of the United States becoming an orangutan.
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* DubNameChange: In the Swedish version, Botley and Polly Spark are known as "Roybot" and "Klara Blixt" respectively. "Blixt" is the Swedish word for lightning and a real Swedish last name, so it's actually a very appropriate translation of "spark."
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The game was released as ''Flygande Start 3:e Klass'' ("Flying Start 3rd Class") in Sweden and as ''Alkupolku Kolmas Luokka - Vaarojen Vuori'' ("Starting Path Third Class - Mountain of Dangers") in Finland. These appear to be the only releases it received outside of North America.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Click on enough wrong constellations in the observatory, and Botley will assist you to the point of giving away the correct answer.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Click on enough wrong constellations in the observatory, and Botley will assist you to the point of giving give away the correct answer.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Click on enough wrong answers in the observatory, and Botley will assist you to the point of giving out the correct ones.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Click on enough wrong answers constellations in the observatory, and Botley will assist you to the point of giving out away the correct ones.answer.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Click on enough wrong answers in the observatory, and Botley will assist you to the point of giving out the correct ones.
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** Polly turns the quiz segment into a quiz show called "''[[Series/TheHollywoodSquares Pollywood Squares]]''"
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** Polly turns the quiz segment into a quiz show called "''[[Series/TheHollywoodSquares Pollywood Squares]]''"Squares]]''".
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* ShoutOut: A front door that can only be opened by playing ''Simon''? Do you think VideoGame/DrBrain is at that convention Dr. Spark is attending?
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** A front door that can only be opened by playing ''Simon''? Do you think VideoGame/DrBrain is at that convention Dr. Spark is attending?
** A front door that can only be opened by playing ''Simon''? Do you think VideoGame/DrBrain is at that convention Dr. Spark is attending?
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** Polly turns the quiz segment into a quiz show called "''[[Series/TheHollywoodSquares Pollywood Squares]]''"
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** However, the player would sometimes have to play an extra game to get the 1000 invention points needed to open the time machine. However, Botley would still tell the player that there was no mission clue there, even though they had acquired all the mission clues and he would have told them to get more points on whichever floor they were on.
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* BrokenBridge: This game goes out of its way to discuss why doors are inexplicably locked. The front door being opened by door chimes might be thought of as silly, but apparently Professor Spark doesn't want unauthorized personnel unrestricted access to his time machine, he put a lock on his kitchen months ago because his robots are not only [[EatingMachine eating machines]] but are gluttonous, and the door to the music hall is guarded by a constantly reset password so less musical robots don't pound too hard on the piano. Botley lampshades this and rhetorically asks why the no one keeps the doors unlocked.
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* BrokenBridge: This game goes out of its way to discuss why doors are inexplicably locked. The front door being opened by door chimes might be thought of as silly, but apparently Professor Spark doesn't want unauthorized personnel unrestricted access to his time machine, he put a lock on his kitchen months ago because his robots are not only [[EatingMachine eating machines]] but are gluttonous, and the door to the music hall is guarded by a constantly reset password so less musical robots don't pound too hard on the piano. Botley lampshades this and rhetorically asks why the no one keeps the doors unlocked.
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--> '''Botley''': That's not quite true, Polly, I remember just two weeks ago...
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--> '''Botley''': That's Well, that's not quite true, Polly, Polly. I remember just two weeks ago...
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some of Ms. Winkle's responses when they are fixed shows her chuckling at the CoolButStupid answers, [[RealityEnsues but she still marks Polly incorrect.]]
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*** Henri Becquerel was also not acknowledged despite sharing the 1903 award with the Curies. However, this [[ShownTheirWork actually has some controversy as to whether or not he deserved share that particular award]] - Becquerel is more known for observing the effect of radiation from Uranium.
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* BrickJoke: As easy to miss as it is, you can witness this if you return to the front door. The rocket Botley had inside him will reappear and still be flying.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Averted - Polly gets the questions wrong on purpose and makes up such ridiculous answers that she wanted Ms. Winkle to laugh. Ms. Winkle [[ActuallyPrettyFunny chuckles at a few]], but [[RealityEnsues tells Polly not to be so silly and marks her incorrect]].
