History VideoGame / PokerNightAtTheInventory

* ThemeTuneCameo: The Office music from Sam & Max, the main theme from the ''The Devil's Playhouse'', the theme to ''Dangeresque'', Trogdor's theme, the ''Team Fortress 2'' Main Theme, and More Gun can be heard playing at the Inventory, each with a heavy country swagger to them.

'''Strong Bad:''' Hand it over.

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* EskimosArentReal: Strong Bad tries to lord Homestar Runner's popularity over Penny Arcade's, while Tycho responds that PA gets millions of hits. Strong Bad doesn't buy it, thinking that "millions" is Tycho making numbers up.

** Tycho plays like excessively cautiously early on to make sure he outlasts at least some of his opponents before playing highly aggressively, and often recklessly trying to bluff as more and more players are knocked out of the game.

->'''RED Heavy''': There's blood everywhere!

* NiceHat: Pre-ordering the game nets the Heavy a poker visor for use in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''.

-->'''Tycho:''' I'll put this next to [[VideoGame/GearsOfWar my chainsaw lancer replica]].

* SoreLoser: Strong Bad does not take losing well and often complains about losing and calls the other players cheaters sometimes after being eliminated. He's also a sore winner.

** When Strong Bad asks Heavy about his favorite video game, Tycho interrupts his answer with ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', and the Heavy responds, "Ehh, it is not popular yet." This TakeThat was possibly made because how Creator/{{Blizzard}} got angry with Creator/{{Valve|Software}} due to them trademarking ''Defense of the Ancients'', which was orignally a ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' map.

* GoKartingWithBowser:
** While the Heavy isn't really a ''villain'', playing poker is a lot more casual than [[ProfessionalKiller his day job]].
** Really, all of the characters aside from Strong Bad have committed murder, and [[http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Crimes_Committed_by_Strong_Bad#Attempted_Murder even he attempted murder]]. Unsuccessfully, but still.

* StealthInsult: Strong Bad implies that the Heavy is very weak (weaker than he looks, at least), in this conversation:
--> '''Heavy''': He (enemy Engineer) tries to kill me with turret and mini-turret, but I '''crush''' his little toys like they are made of paper.
--> '''Strong Bad''': Sounds like some crappy toys if you ask me.

** The Heavy has multiple lines asking the characters about their respective educations. Tycho plays it off with a lame D&D joke, Max admits he never went to college, and Tiny Heavy... well. Not only that, but he also chats with Tycho about his favorite book (Tsar Hunger by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Andreyev Leonid Andreyev]]), because get this - he has a [[HolyShitQuotient Ph.D. in Russian Literature. That's Dr. Heavy Weapons Guy to you]]!

* WhatWouldXDo: Tycho sometimes asks himself this while pondering his next move. He then decides it better to keep the pants on.

** Trixie Trotter from the new ''VideoGame/BackToTheFuture'' game by Telltale is seen entering a secret room just as Winslow appears.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Trixie Trotter appears in the intro cutscene, roughly three months before her appearance in VideoGame/BackToTheFuture The Game, episode 2.

** Strong Bad: "Your hair looks like a [[SonicTheHedgehog greasy hedgehog]] -- [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial unassociated with any video game license]] -- that walked into a barber shop and said 'A little off the suck, please.'"

The Inventory: a former speakeasy founded against the possibility of an early draft of the 18th Amendment even more stringent than the one we know, now re-purposed as a highly exclusive club. Gaming's greatest characters settle in here during their "down-time," when their games are powered down. It's poker night, and four of gaming's greatest characters walk in to play some poker, about to bet everything they own for the sake of winning.

!!The game provide examples of:

* AnachronismStew: Heavy is updated from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s 50s-60s stylized setting, but only updated to about the mid-80s (he listens to Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews and believes Film/PurpleRain is recent), while Strong Bad and Tycho talk over computer setups and internet sites.
** Even then, Strong Bad thinks that [[PacmanFever Videlectrix]] is recent, while Tycho refers to them as the 'classics.' Of course, Strong Bad's idea of state-of-the art technology is infamously backwards (Strong Bad thought his first computer was state-of-the-art because it had "two contrast knobs.")

* WhatTheHellPlayer: This happens ''a lot'' - and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilariously]].

** The Iron Curtain is an all-new weapon for ''Team Fortress 2''!... but is statistically identical to the default minigun, and therefore purely cosmetic. The reason for this is that a while back, game tie-in items were exclusive to whoever bought the game, so to keep the game balanced, all crossover tie-in items were essentially reskins. Now, most, if not all game pre-order tie-in items become random drops in ''Team Fortress 2'' a month or so later, so they've started to have unique stats and abilities. Pre-ordering a certain game only nets you early access to the weapons, plus the aesthetic title "Genuine".

* ArtisticLicense: One of Winslow's possible introductions is an inflation gag: he claims that a $76 bet from 1910 would be equivalent to $10000 in 2010. In real life, it's only worth $1687.12.

** The Heavy is much more conservative with his money, folding when he doesn't have what he thinks is a good hand and bets when he does; his bets are cautious in attempt to lure his opponents into adding more to the pot.

* AnachronismStew: Heavy is updated from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s 50s-60s stylized setting, but only updated to about the mid-80s (he listens to Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews and believes PurpleRain is recent), while Strong Bad and Tycho talk over computer setups and internet sites.

-->'''Tycho:''' I'll put this next to [[GearsOfWar my chainsaw lancer replica]].

** Tycho plays like excessively cautiously early on to make sure he outlasts atleast some of his opponents before playing highly aggressively, and often recklessly trying to bluff as more and more players are knocked out of the game.

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