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** A few actions, such as "hug" or "set", don't result in an ending but instead a snarky comment.
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** A few actions, such as "hug" or "hug", "set", or "switch" don't result in an ending but instead a snarky comment.
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It has also been [[https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/UnGames:Pick_Up_the_Phone_Booth_and_Aisle "ported"]] to Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}}.
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It has also been [[https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/UnGames:Pick_Up_the_Phone_Booth_and_Aisle "ported"]] to Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}}.
Website/{{Uncyclopedia}}.
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Elaborating on a bunch of examples
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* AllJustADream: Mocked with "wake me" and "wake booth".
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* AllJustADream: Mocked with "wake me" and "wake booth".booth", which both result in the target of the action waking up to realise that the game was all a dream.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:"Unlock booth".]]
* BecomingTheGenie: [[spoiler: Try to "bunk in" the phone booth and see what happens.]]
* BecomingTheGenie: [[spoiler: Try to "bunk in" the phone booth and see what happens.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:"Unlock booth".booth" results in the player finding a half-dressed superhero inside, with the ending text mentioning that "you, the villain, have won".]]
* BecomingTheGenie: [[spoiler:Try to If you "bunk in" the phone booth and see what happens.booth, it will envelop you during the night, turning you into the phone booth.]]
* BecomingTheGenie: [[spoiler:
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Try "wave".
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Try "wave".Typing "wave" results in the player character waving at the player through the fourth wall.
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* CreatorCameo: Type "credits".
* CryIntoChest: "Squeeze booth".
* CryIntoChest: "Squeeze booth".
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* CreatorCameo: Type "credits".
Typing "credits" has the game list a "group of hooligans", all of whom contributed to the game.
* CryIntoChest: "Squeezebooth".booth", as part of the player character reassuring the booth that [[CargoShip they really do love it]].
* CryIntoChest: "Squeeze
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** Remember how typing "inventory" [[spoiler:causes your pants to explode?]] Try typing "disarm [[spoiler:pants]]", "disleg [[spoiler:pants]]", "throw [[spoiler:pants]]", "remove [[spoiler:pants]]", "eat [[spoiler:pants]]", "wave [[spoiler:pants]]", and then "deactivate [[spoiler:pants]]".
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** Remember how typing "inventory" [[spoiler:causes your pants to explode?]] Try typing "disarm [[spoiler:pants]]", [[spoiler:pants" (Pants don't have arms, they have legs)]], "disleg [[spoiler:pants]]", [[spoiler:pants" (You take off the legs, but they're still exploding)]], "throw [[spoiler:pants]]", "remove [[spoiler:pants]]", "eat [[spoiler:pants]]", both of which result in [[spoiler:the game chastising you for using information from a previous playthrough]], "remove [[spoiler:pants" (The pants explode inside the phone booth and the you're killed by the debris)]], "wave [[spoiler:pants]]", [[spoiler:pants" (You're killed by a random tsunami)]], and then "deactivate [[spoiler:pants]]".[[spoiler:pants" (The game goes into detail about the alternate timeline created by the time machine you used to know to do this, and your pants explode during the exposition)]].
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* DiggingToChina: "Dig".
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* DiggingToChina: "Dig". [[spoiler:This is your intention, but instead you starve to death while digging the tunnel.]]
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* ExactWords: Some of the endings like to misinterpret commands such as "tie booth". This can be confusing to those who try synonyms like "fix booth".
* GainaxEnding: "Eat booth" results in a mishmash of references to ''VideoGame/{{Aisle}}'' and ''So Far'' (bizarre enough that even the parser feels obliged to comment); "kick booth" seems like a utter non-sequitur unless you've played ''VideoGame/LosingYourGrip''.
* GrandFinale: Parodied with "close".
* GainaxEnding: "Eat booth" results in a mishmash of references to ''VideoGame/{{Aisle}}'' and ''So Far'' (bizarre enough that even the parser feels obliged to comment); "kick booth" seems like a utter non-sequitur unless you've played ''VideoGame/LosingYourGrip''.
* GrandFinale: Parodied with "close".
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* ExactWords: Some of the endings like to misinterpret commands such as "tie booth".booth", which it reads in the sense of ending a competition in a draw. This can be confusing to those who try synonyms like "fix booth".
* GainaxEnding: "Eat booth" results in a mishmash of references to ''VideoGame/{{Aisle}}'' and''So Far'' ''VideoGame/SoFar'' (bizarre enough that even the parser feels obliged to comment); "kick booth" seems like a utter non-sequitur unless you've played ''VideoGame/LosingYourGrip''.
* GrandFinale: Parodied with"close"."close", which describes the player character closing their business in the style of a grand finale to a long-running TV series, with plenty of [[CelebrityCameo Celebrity Cameos]], side characters and former main characters coming BackForTheFinale, and every character's arc concluding in a satisfactory way.
* GainaxEnding: "Eat booth" results in a mishmash of references to ''VideoGame/{{Aisle}}'' and
* GrandFinale: Parodied with
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* HaveANiceDeath: Each ending, regardless of whether you die or not, has a unique parser message that ends the game.
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* HaveANiceDeath: Each Almost every ending, regardless of whether you die or not, has a unique parser message that ends the game.
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* TheLastStraw: Watch what happens when you type "fill self".
* LaymansTerms: Type "brief", then "superbrief".
* LogicBomb: Type in "enter self".
* LaymansTerms: Type "brief", then "superbrief".
* LogicBomb: Type in "enter self".
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* TheLastStraw: Watch what happens when If you type "fill self".
self", you will eat at a buffet until you're full, then be convinced by the phone booth to eat [[Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife one wafer-thin mint, causing you to explode]].
* LaymansTerms:Type "brief", then "superbrief".
The result for "brief" combines this with MotorMouth. "Superbrief" simplifies things even further. %%If there's a more appropriate trope than Motor Mouth for typing words without spaces, I can't find it.
* LogicBomb: Type in "enterself".self", and the parser will briefly explain why the game engine makes it impossible for something to be inside itself, then try to do it anyway, with predictable results.
* LaymansTerms:
* LogicBomb: Type in "enter
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* MindScrew: Kick the phone booth.
** Also, [[spoiler: look southeast.]] Could possibly be a reference to the IF game ''VideoGame/{{Shade}}''.
** Try to undo without performing an action first.
** Typing "eat" will end with something so nonsensical the game itself will say "What the hell was that about?"
** Also try "waltz with me".
** Also, [[spoiler: look southeast.]] Could possibly be a reference to the IF game ''VideoGame/{{Shade}}''.
** Try to undo without performing an action first.
** Typing "eat" will end with something so nonsensical the game itself will say "What the hell was that about?"
** Also try "waltz with me".
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* MindScrew: Kick the phone booth.
booth, and it will beg you not do, and then shatter and sink into the mud, in a scene almost word-for-word from an early scene in the surreal 1998 IF game ''VideoGames/LosingYourGrip''.
** Also, [[spoiler: looksoutheast.southeast, and the booths will multiply until seemingly everything is phone booths.]] Could possibly be a reference to the IF game ''VideoGame/{{Shade}}''.
** Try to undo without performing an actionfirst.
first, as described under InterfaceScrew.
** Typing "eat" will be interpreted as eating the phone booth, and will end with something so nonsensical the game itself will say "What the hell was that about?"
** Also try "waltz withme".me", in which the player character flies the "rocketbooth" to the centre of the universe, in order to dance with their counter-self.
** Also, [[spoiler: look
** Try to undo without performing an action
** Typing "eat" will be interpreted as eating the phone booth, and will end with something so nonsensical the game itself will say "What the hell was that about?"
** Also try "waltz with
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* OhGodWithTheVerbing: Type "open booth".
* OverlyLongGag: "Look in pants" and "hold".
* OverlyLongGag: "Look in pants" and "hold".
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* OhGodWithTheVerbing: Type Typing "open booth".
booth" results in nonsense written in a particularly ''[[Film/TheNuttyProfessor1963 Nutty Professor]]''-esque format.
* OverlyLongGag: "Look inpants" pants", which results in the parser claiming there's nothing of interest in there and "hold".spending several more messages laughing at its own joke, and "hold", which results in a [[RidiculouslyLongPhoneHold series of hold messages]] until the player character shoves the phone they're using into their brain.
* OverlyLongGag: "Look in
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Type "verbose".
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Type "verbose"."verbose", and the game will describe your specific location in the universe in much more detail.
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* SexyDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:"Touch booth".]]
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* SexyDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:"Touch booth".booth", which appears to be the lead-up to a sex scene (with the booth), before it cuts away.]]
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* StuffBlowingUp: Type "blow up booth", "esplode booth", [[LudicrousGibs "blow up self"]], or [[PopGoesTheHuman "esplode self"]].
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* StuffBlowingUp: Type "blow up booth", "esplode booth", [[LudicrousGibs "blow up self"]], or [[PopGoesTheHuman "esplode self"]]. Esploding things results in a [[ToonPhysics more cartoonish explosion]].
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** "Wait".
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** "Wait". The player character is unable to bring herself to call her love interest, who is away fighting in a war. He returns safe years later, and there's a romantic scene where he tells her that he loves her, and that he's about to tell her something that will make her just as happy as he is: [[spoiler:He's figured out that he's gay.]]
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* WallOfText: You get one by typing "about".
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* WallOfText: You get one by typing "about"."about", in which the game rambles on about a perfect night you once had.
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* GainaxEnding: "Eat booth" results in a mishmash of references to ''VideoGame/{{Aisle}}'' and ''So Far'' (bizarre enough that even the parser feels obliged to comment); "kick booth" seems like a utter non-sequitur unless you've played ''Losing Your Grip''.
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* GainaxEnding: "Eat booth" results in a mishmash of references to ''VideoGame/{{Aisle}}'' and ''So Far'' (bizarre enough that even the parser feels obliged to comment); "kick booth" seems like a utter non-sequitur unless you've played ''Losing Your Grip''.''VideoGame/LosingYourGrip''.
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* DiabolusExMachina: "Cook booth" ends with a safe falling on the protagonist. "Burn booth" ends with God smiting you with lightning.
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* DiabolusExMachina: "Cook booth" ends with a safe falling on the protagonist. "Burn booth" ends with [[BoltOfDivineRetribution God smiting you with lightning.lightning]].
