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* CharacterNameAlias: There are at least two points in the game where you need to give a pseudonym, and every option is a celebrity from the 1980's, which is simply accepted.
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* ImMrFuturePopCultureReference: Played with. While no actual time travel happens, there are several allusion to future events. There are also at least two points in the game where you need to give a pseudonym, and every option is a celebrity from the 1980's, which is simply accepted.
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* BlandNameProduct: "The non-copyright infringing can of Poopsi".
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* BetterThanABareBulb: Lots of characters will discuss adventure game tropes and how it relates to the events going on in the game, even those who shouldn't have ties to adventure games. They'll even talk about the body "pixelating" instead of decomposing.
* BlandNameProduct: "The non-copyright infringing can of Poopsi".
* BlandNameProduct: "The non-copyright infringing can of Poopsi".
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* BrutalHonesty: Madame Morena admits the only reason she's not really into the occult. She just had a lot of stuff about it, and figured people would pay her for it. Also, with the things used for rituals, she can high all the time.
* BrutalHonesty: Madame Morena admits the only reason she's not really into the occult. She just had a lot of stuff about it, and figured people would pay her for it. Also, with the things used for rituals, she can high all the time.
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** Only Ransome can climb the radio tower, since the others fear they'll fall. Also, he's the only one who can meet the conspiracy nuts, as Ray and Reyes are feds, and Delores is distrusted because she's Chuck's niece.
* TheCameo: The diner is run by [[VideoGame/ManiacMansion Sandy and Dave. Dr. Fred, Edna and a Tentacle]] can be spotted in the crowd watching Ransome's show, as are [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Guybrush Threepwood]], [[VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders Zak, Annie, a Caponian]] and [[CreatorCameo David Fox]].
* TheCameo: The diner is run by [[VideoGame/ManiacMansion Sandy and Dave. Dr. Fred, Edna and a Tentacle]] can be spotted in the crowd watching Ransome's show, as are [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Guybrush Threepwood]], [[VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders Zak, Annie, a Caponian]] and [[CreatorCameo David Fox]].
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** Only Ransome can climb the radio tower, since the others fear they'll fall. Also, he's the only one who can meet the conspiracy nuts, as Ray and Reyes are feds, and Delores is distrusted because she's Chuck's niece.niece whose programs brainwash people.
* TheCameo: The diner is run by [[VideoGame/ManiacMansion Sandy and Dave. Dr. Fred, Edna and a Tentacle]] can be spotted in the crowd watching Ransome's show, as are [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Guybrush Threepwood]], [[VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders Zak, Annie, a Caponian]] and [[CreatorCameo David Fox]]. [[spoiler:Edna can also be found in the wireframe kitchen version of the Mansion mansion.]]
* TheCameo: The diner is run by [[VideoGame/ManiacMansion Sandy and Dave. Dr. Fred, Edna and a Tentacle]] can be spotted in the crowd watching Ransome's show, as are [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Guybrush Threepwood]], [[VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders Zak, Annie, a Caponian]] and [[CreatorCameo David Fox]]. [[spoiler:Edna can also be found in the wireframe kitchen version of the Mansion mansion.]]
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* ConspiracyTheorist: The guy dressed in the pizza costume.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the female characters, like Ray and Sandy, are. Some of the men are as well.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the female characters, like Ray and Sandy, are. Some of the men are as well.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: The Chet, the guy dressed in the pizza costume.costume. Also, the radio host, who will periodically interrupt her broadcast to exclaim one of her theories.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the female characters, like Agent Ray and Sandy, are. Some of the men are as well.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the female characters, like Agent Ray and Sandy, are. Some of the men are as well.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire game (except Boris's murder, which happens one day earlier) takes place in a single night.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire game (except Boris's murder, which happens one day earlier) earlier, and the various flashbacks) takes place in a single night.
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* IntroOnlyPointOfView: You control [[WeHardlyKnewYe Boris Schultz]] for the first minute of the game, after which he's killed. Then the playable perspective changes to Agents Ray and Reyes, who solve his murder.
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* ImMrFuturePopCultureReference: Played with. While no actual time travel happens, there are several allusion to future events. There are also at least two points in the game where you need to give a pseudonym, and every option is a celebrity from the 1980's, which is simply accepted.
* IntroOnlyPointOfView: You control [[WeHardlyKnewYe Boris Schultz]] for the firstminute short act of the game, after which he's killed. Then the playable perspective changes to Agents Ray and Reyes, who solve his murder.
* IntroOnlyPointOfView: You control [[WeHardlyKnewYe Boris Schultz]] for the first
** Ransome the Insult Clown's entire persona revolves around him being a giant jerkass to everyone.
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* LethalChef: The S&D Diner reportedly had a number of botulism cases a while back. No one gets that, but eating the hot dogs makes the eater throw up.
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* LethalChef: The S&D Diner reportedly had a number of botulism cases a while back. No one gets that, but eating the hot dogs food makes the eater throw up.
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** In a more literal case, the strange device Ray gets. She remarks when she looks at it that she'll need it at a very specific point in the game. [[spoiler: It opens up the AI storage unit.]]
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** In a more literal case, the strange device Ray gets. She remarks when she looks at it that she'll need it at a very specific point in the game. [[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It opens up the AI storage unit.]]
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* MrFanservice: Reyes is considered very sexy among the women of Thimbleweed Park. When Delores mentions she was speaking to the feds, her sister Lenore angrily declares "The cute one is mine!" Keep in mind that Lenore is married.
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* MrFanservice: Reyes is considered very sexy among the women of Thimbleweed Park. When Delores mentions she was speaking to the feds, her sister Lenore angrily declares "The cute one is mine!" Keep in mind that Lenore is married.married with a kid.
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* NiceGirl: Ricki, the owner of the vacuum tube store. In stark contrast with the rest of the townspeople, she's very helpful and nice to the player.
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* NiceGirl: Ricki, the owner of the vacuum tube store. In stark contrast with the rest of the townspeople, she's very helpful and nice to the player. Even Ransome.
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* StuffBlowingUp: The only way to get a NonStandardGameOver in this game is to push the red button on the device in Uncle Chuck's lab. It will blow up the mansion.
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* StuffBlowingUp: The only way to get a NonStandardGameOver Game Over in this game is to push the red button BigRedButton on the device in Uncle Chuck's lab. It will blow up the mansion.
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* TakeThat: At one point Delores can mention that she would be dead if she were in a [[{{Sierra}} Sierra On-Line]] adventure game.
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* TakeThat: At one point point, Delores can mention that she would be dead if she were in a [[{{Sierra}} Sierra On-Line]] adventure game.game for handling broken glass.
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* Trope2000: The machines all over Thimbleweed County are named [Whatever][[NameTron Tron]] 3000.
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* Trope2000: The machines all over Thimbleweed County are named [Whatever][[NameTron Tron]] 3000.3000(TM).
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* ClearMyName: Reyes's secret plot. [[spoiler:Not him, but his late father]].
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* ClearMyName: Reyes's secret plot. [[spoiler:Not him, but his ClearTheirName: Reyes is actually in Thimbleweed Park to prove [[spoiler:his late father]].father]]'s innocence. He was framed for [[spoiler:the arson of the pillow factory where he died by Chuck Edmund, his employer, because the arsonists were Chuck's dear robots and he didn't want the police to investigate]].
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* NiceGirl: Ricki, the owner of the vaccum tube store. In stark contrast with the rest of the townspeople, she's very helpful and nice to the player.
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* PixelHunt:
** Parodied with the 70 tiny specks of dust scattered throughout the game which the characters can hunt for and collect.
** Played straight with the books in the Mansion mansion library. Every pixel is a different book, so it can be very difficult to find yours among the hundreds and hundreds of them.
** Parodied with the 70 tiny specks of dust scattered throughout the game which the characters can hunt for and collect.
** Played straight with the books in the Mansion mansion library. Every pixel is a different book, so it can be very difficult to find yours among the hundreds and hundreds of them.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:The AI that Chuck made in his factory gained power and forced him to set the building on fire (killing Reyes's father in the process), then secretly rebuild it, and then join them in the [=PillowTron=] 3000.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:The AI that Chuck made in his factory gained power and forced him to set the building on fire (killing Reyes's father in the process), then forced Chuck to secretly rebuild it, and then demanded him to join them in the [=PillowTron=] 3000.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the coroner's machines can tell you about the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]]: a robot won't harm a human or let it come to harm, a robot will serve humans, and a robot will protect its own existence. [[spoiler:You then find out that Chuck's AI rebelled against him, and forced him to burn the factory with Reyes's father in it.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the coroner's machines can tell you about the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]]: a robot won't harm a human or let it come to harm, a robot will serve humans, and a robot will protect its own existence. [[spoiler:You then find out that Chuck's AI rebelled against him, and forced him to burn burning the factory with and killing Reyes's father in it.the process.]]
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* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: [[spoiler:Chuck's AI set the factory on fire]], and [[spoiler:Chuck]] decided to frame the victim of the arson ([[spoiler:Reyes's father]]) for it so [[spoiler:the police wouldn't investigate the AI]].
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* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: [[spoiler:Chuck's AI AI]] set the factory on fire]], fire, and [[spoiler:Chuck]] decided to frame the victim of the arson ([[spoiler:Reyes's father]]) for it so [[spoiler:the police wouldn't investigate the AI]].
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:The AI that Chuck made in his factory gained power and forced him to set the building on fire (killing Reyes's father in the process), then secretly rebuild it, and then join them in the [=PillowTron=] 3000.]]
* {{Bookends}}: The first puzzle of the game leads to Boris's death, and the last puzzle involves doing something with his corpse.
* ChekhovsGag: There are 3000 phone numbers, but only 80 people live in the county. The rest are [[BreakingTheFourthWall the backers of the Kickstarter project to fund the game]]. [[spoiler:In the endgame, the characters realize that they're in a videogame, subject to the choices and wishes of those in the "upper world", and a mission to disconnect themselves from us begins.]]
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: [[spoiler:Chuck's AI set the factory on fire]], and [[spoiler:Chuck]] decided to frame the victim of the arson ([[spoiler:Reyes's father]]) for it so [[spoiler:the police wouldn't investigate the AI]].
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire game (except Boris's murder, which happens one day earlier) takes place in a single night.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the coroner's machines can tell you about the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]]: a robot won't harm a human or let it come to harm, a robot will serve humans, and a robot will protect its own existence. [[spoiler:You then find out that Chuck's AI rebelled against him, and forced him to burn the factory with Reyes's father in it.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the coroner's machines can tell you about the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]]: a robot won't harm a human or let it come to harm, a robot will serve humans, and a robot will protect its own existence. [[spoiler:You then find out that Chuck's AI rebelled against him, and forced him to burn the factory with Reyes's father in it.]]
* IntroOnlyPointOfView: You control [[WeHardlyKnewYe Boris Schultz]] for the first minute of the game, after which he's killed. Then the playable perspective changes to Agents Ray and Reyes, who solve his murder.
* NiceGirl: Ricki, the owner of the vaccum tube store. In stark contrast with the rest of the townspeople, she's very helpful and nice to the player.
* NoSell: Wrapping Delores's pirate hat in aluminum foil makes her invulnerable to laser rays. [[spoiler:Chuck, as the AI who set up the lasers,]] calls her a cheater.
* NoSell: Wrapping Delores's pirate hat in aluminum foil makes her invulnerable to laser rays. [[spoiler:Chuck, as the AI who set up the lasers,]] calls her a cheater.
* SirSwearsALot: Ransome the clown swears so often that it's weird to see a sentence of him ''not'' containing swearing. Expect to see lots of censoring beeps.
* TheStoic: Angela Ray, federal agent and professional DeadpanSnarker. The only things that get her to express strong emotion are an awful hot dog that makes her throw up and [[spoiler:the laser rays set up by AI Chuck in the factory]]. She even shrugs off a ghost's attempt to scare her, and taunts him for it.
* TheStoic: Angela Ray, federal agent and professional DeadpanSnarker. The only things that get her to express strong emotion are an awful hot dog that makes her throw up and [[spoiler:the laser rays set up by AI Chuck in the factory]]. She even shrugs off a ghost's attempt to scare her, and taunts him for it.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Boris Schultz doesn't get any development as he's murdered one or two minutes into the story.
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** The Pigeon Brothers, who are actually women.[[note]]Their father thought he was having boys, and after the girls were born, was too cheap to repaint the van he had bought for them.[[/note]]
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** The Pigeon Brothers, Brothers plumbers, who are actually women.[[note]]Their father thought he was having boys, and after the girls were born, was too cheap to repaint the van he had bought for them.[[/note]]
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** Franklin the ghost can't exit the hotel through the front door.
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** Franklin the The ghost can't exit the hotel through the front door.
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* TheCameo: The diner is run by [[VideoGame/ManiacMansion Sandy and Dave. Dr. Fred, Edna and a Tentacle]] can be spotted in the crowd watching Ransome's show, as are [[VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders Zak, Annie, a Caponian]] and [[CreatorCameo David Fox]].
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* TheCameo: The diner is run by [[VideoGame/ManiacMansion Sandy and Dave. Dr. Fred, Edna and a Tentacle]] can be spotted in the crowd watching Ransome's show, as are [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Guybrush Threepwood]], [[VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders Zak, Annie, a Caponian]] and [[CreatorCameo David Fox]].
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Oh so much. So often.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Ray can be pretty blunt and bitchy. Boris is quick to proclaim the superiority of European welfare programs in a very insulting manner.
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* {{Jerkass}}: {{Jerkass}}:
** Ray can be pretty blunt andbitchy. bitchy.
** Boris is quick to proclaim the superiority of European welfare programs in a very insulting manner.
** Ray can be pretty blunt and
** Boris is quick to proclaim the superiority of European welfare programs in a very insulting manner.
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* NameTron: ''Everything'', thanks to GadgeteerGenius Chuck. Usually combined with Trope2000.
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* NameTron: ''Everything'', thanks to There is a ''lot'' of automation machines across Thimbleweed that serve different purposes, and all of them end in "Tron": [=BloodTron, FingerTron, FaceTron, PrintTron...=] To top it off, they have the [[Trope2000 3000 suffix after "Tron"]]. GadgeteerGenius Chuck. Usually combined with Trope2000.Chuck made all of them.
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* Trope2000: 3000, usually.
* UngratefulBastard: Chuck doesn't leave anything in his will to Franklin or Lenore, and only leaves Delores a t-shirt. Lenore herself is also really nasty to her sister, and won't allow Delores to even talk to her brother-in-law or nephew.
* UngratefulBastard: Chuck doesn't leave anything in his will to Franklin or Lenore, and only leaves Delores a t-shirt. Lenore herself is also really nasty to her sister, and won't allow Delores to even talk to her brother-in-law or nephew.
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* Trope2000: 3000, usually.
The machines all over Thimbleweed County are named [Whatever][[NameTron Tron]] 3000.
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** Chuck doesn't leave anything in his will to Franklin or Lenore, and only leaves Delores at-shirt. t-shirt.
** Lenoreherself is also really nasty to her sister, and won't allow Delores to even talk to her brother-in-law or nephew.
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** Chuck doesn't leave anything in his will to Franklin or Lenore, and only leaves Delores a
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* WrenchWench: The Pigeon Brothers, who are actually women[[note]]Their father thought he was having boys, and after the girls were born, was too cheap to repaint the van he had bought for them[[/note]] Delores is also mechanically inclined, as she was raised to run the factory before she wanted to go into game design. Ricki can also make any vacuum tube she has a schematic for.
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* WrenchWench: WrenchWench:
** The Pigeon Brothers, who are actuallywomen[[note]]Their women.[[note]]Their father thought he was having boys, and after the girls were born, was too cheap to repaint the van he had bought for them[[/note]] them.[[/note]]
** Delores isalso mechanically inclined, as she was raised to run the factory before she wanted to go into game design. Ricki can also make any vacuum tube she has a schematic for.
** The Pigeon Brothers, who are actually
** Delores is
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* TheCameo: The diner is run by [[VideoGame/ManiacMansion Sandy and Dave. Dr. Fred, Edna and a Tentacle]] can be spotted in the crowd watching Ransome's show, as are [[VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders Zak, Annie, a Caponian]] and [[CreatorCameo David Fox]].
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* PlotHole: The fourth wall breaking makes much less sense when [[spoiler:the endgame relies heavily upon the characters realizing they and the world they inhabit are all fictional]].
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* PlotHole: The [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth wall breaking breaking]] makes much less sense when [[spoiler:the endgame relies heavily upon the characters realizing they and the world they inhabit are all fictional]].
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* PlotHole: The fourth wall breaking makes much less sense when [[spoiler:the endgame relies heavily upon the characters realizing they and the world they inhabit are all fictional]].
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Franklin,[[spoiler: as a ghost]], plays very differently from the other characters, as his verb menu commands are completely different.
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* BlandProductName: BlandNameProduct: "The non-copyright infringing can of Poopsi".
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* LethalChef: The S&D Diner reportedly had a number of botulism cases a while back. Anyone who eats their hot dogs, however, throws up.
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* LethalChef: The S&D Diner reportedly had a number of botulism cases a while back. Anyone who eats their No one gets that, but eating the hot dogs, however, throws dogs makes the eater throw up.
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* MoonLogicPuzzle: Most of the game's puzzles avert this. However, in the very end, Delores gets a balloon animal. At least [[spoiler:AI Chuck]] gives her the hint to [[spoiler:look at the Kickstarter video, which involves using the balloon animal on Boris's corpse.]]
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* MoonLogicPuzzle: Most of the game's puzzles avert this. However, there are a few exceptions.
** There is a puzzle to find out a path people take to get through a forest. [[spoiler:To solve it, you need to dump glowing toxic waste into a puddle the people walk through. This can be really difficult to figure out, as the only thing that can tell you Delores's pewter trophy can hold the waste is that it's a ShoutOut to an earlier game.]]
** Late in thevery end, game, Delores gets is given a balloon animal.animal, with no idea on what to do with it. At least [[spoiler:AI Chuck]] gives her the hint to [[spoiler:look at the Kickstarter video, which involves using the balloon animal on Boris's corpse.]]
** There is a puzzle to find out a path people take to get through a forest. [[spoiler:To solve it, you need to dump glowing toxic waste into a puddle the people walk through. This can be really difficult to figure out, as the only thing that can tell you Delores's pewter trophy can hold the waste is that it's a ShoutOut to an earlier game.]]
** Late in the
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* SupremeChef: Ricki used to be the town's best baker. [[spoiler:She'll make you the pie you need if you give her some berries.]]
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* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: The sheriff-a-reno. He'll stop the feds from exploring town if they have no map (which he stole from the drug store).
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* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: The sheriff-a-reno. He'll stop the feds from exploring town if they have no map (which he stole from the drug store).convenience store).
* BlandProductName: "The non-copyright infringing can of Poopsi".
* BlandProductName: "The non-copyright infringing can of Poopsi".
* BrutalHonesty: Madame Morena admits the only reason she's not really into the occult. She just had a lot of stuff about it, and figured people would pay her for it. Also, with the things used for rituals, she can high all the time.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Quite literally, everyone in the game. Special mention goes to the Pigeon Brothers (who dress like actual pigeons), and the guy in the tinfoil-covered pizza costume.
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* EruditeStoner: Subverted. Madame Morena states she can go into a trance and look for Boris's killer if you bring her some magic mushrooms. But she just trips out. If you say you'll arrest her for those drugs, she remarks that the agent, who gave them to her willingly, would go down too.
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* GloryHound: The reporter at the Nickel News. She's just looking to get her Pulitzer Prize. [[spoiler:Reyes can give her Chuck's confession to clear his father's name.]]
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Ray smokes whereas the other characters don't, and she's definitely more amoral than they are.
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* GloryHound: The reporter at the Nickel News. She's just looking to get her Pulitzer Prize. [[spoiler:Reyes can give her Chuck's confession to clear his father's name.]]
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Ray smokes whereas the other characters don't, and she's definitely more amoral than they are.
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* UngratefulBastard: Chuck doesn't leave anything in his will to Franklin or Lenore, and only leaves Delores a t-shirt. Lenore herself is also really nasty to her sister, and won't allow Delores to even talk to her brother-in-law or nephew.
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* WrenchWench: The Pigeon Brothers, who are actually women[[note]]Their father thought he was having boys, and after the girls were born, was too cheap to repaint the van he had bought for them[[/note]] Delores is also mechanically inclined, as she was raised to run the factory before she wanted to go into game design. Ricki can also make any vacuum tube she has a schematic for.
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* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: The sheriff-a-reno. He'll stop the feds from exploring town if they have no map (which he stole from the drug store).
* BrokenBridge: Some characters are restricted from certain places:
** Ray and Reyes aren't allowed in the circus, as it's Ransome's private property and they have no warrant.
** Delores can't get into the sewers, since she's claustrophobic.
** Franklin the ghost can't exit the hotel through the front door.
** Only Ransome can climb the radio tower, since the others fear they'll fall. Also, he's the only one who can meet the conspiracy nuts, as Ray and Reyes are feds, and Delores is distrusted because she's Chuck's niece.
* ClearMyName: Reyes's secret plot. [[spoiler:Not him, but his late father]].
* ConspiracyTheorist: The guy dressed in the pizza costume.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the female characters, like Ray and Sandy, are. Some of the men are as well.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Considering that Ransome swears so much he bleeps, it's a little weird that Reyes refuses to swear at all, saying "Bullpuckey" if he catches someone lying to him.
** Ray and Reyes aren't allowed in the circus, as it's Ransome's private property and they have no warrant.
** Delores can't get into the sewers, since she's claustrophobic.
** Franklin the ghost can't exit the hotel through the front door.
** Only Ransome can climb the radio tower, since the others fear they'll fall. Also, he's the only one who can meet the conspiracy nuts, as Ray and Reyes are feds, and Delores is distrusted because she's Chuck's niece.
* ClearMyName: Reyes's secret plot. [[spoiler:Not him, but his late father]].
* ConspiracyTheorist: The guy dressed in the pizza costume.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the female characters, like Ray and Sandy, are. Some of the men are as well.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Considering that Ransome swears so much he bleeps, it's a little weird that Reyes refuses to swear at all, saying "Bullpuckey" if he catches someone lying to him.
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* {{Macguffin}}: Reyes's pocket watch.
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* {{Macguffin}}: {{Macguffin}}:
** Reyes's pocketwatch.watch.
** In a more literal case, the strange device Ray gets. She remarks when she looks at it that she'll need it at a very specific point in the game. [[spoiler: It opens up the AI storage unit.]]
* MoonLogicPuzzle: Most of the game's puzzles avert this. However, in the very end, Delores gets a balloon animal. At least [[spoiler:AI Chuck]] gives her the hint to [[spoiler:look at the Kickstarter video, which involves using the balloon animal on Boris's corpse.]]
* MrFanservice: Reyes is considered very sexy among the women of Thimbleweed Park. When Delores mentions she was speaking to the feds, her sister Lenore angrily declares "The cute one is mine!" Keep in mind that Lenore is married.
** Reyes's pocket
** In a more literal case, the strange device Ray gets. She remarks when she looks at it that she'll need it at a very specific point in the game. [[spoiler: It opens up the AI storage unit.]]
* MoonLogicPuzzle: Most of the game's puzzles avert this. However, in the very end, Delores gets a balloon animal. At least [[spoiler:AI Chuck]] gives her the hint to [[spoiler:look at the Kickstarter video, which involves using the balloon animal on Boris's corpse.]]
* MrFanservice: Reyes is considered very sexy among the women of Thimbleweed Park. When Delores mentions she was speaking to the feds, her sister Lenore angrily declares "The cute one is mine!" Keep in mind that Lenore is married.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Ray is in the town only to [[spoiler:steal the AI and get a ton of money]].
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* UselessItem: The specks of dust. Except for getting an achievement. There is also a Betamax tape that is useless: It was originally going to be part of a puzzle, but it wasn't included for time constraints.
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* UselessItem: The specks of dust. Except for getting an achievement. There is also a Betamax tape that is useless: It was originally going to be part of a puzzle, but it wasn't included for time constraints. Also, a few items on the road leading up to town: an Atari cartridge, a can of tuna, and a six-pack cartilage. [[spoiler:The empty bottle, however, is useful.]]
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Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie former success.
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Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie his former success.
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* Omniglot: Drinking the tea in the Occult Shop will allow the character who drank it to speak a random line in a different language.
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* Omniglot: {{Omniglot}}: Drinking the tea in the Occult Shop will allow the character who drank it to speak a random line in a different language.
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* LampshadedHanging: Pretty much everywhere. [[spoiler:Justified given that the people live in an actual computer game]].
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* LampshadedHanging: LampshadeHanging: Pretty much everywhere. [[spoiler:Justified given that the people live in an actual computer game]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: Ray can be pretty blunt and bitchy. Boris is quick to proclaim the superiority of European welfare programs in a very insulting manner.
* LampshadedHanging: Pretty much everywhere. [[spoiler:Justified given that the people live in an actual computer game]].
* LethalChef: The S&D Diner reportedly had a number of botulism cases a while back. Anyone who eats their hot dogs, however, throws up.
* {{Macguffin}}: Reyes's pocket watch.
* LampshadedHanging: Pretty much everywhere. [[spoiler:Justified given that the people live in an actual computer game]].
* LethalChef: The S&D Diner reportedly had a number of botulism cases a while back. Anyone who eats their hot dogs, however, throws up.
* {{Macguffin}}: Reyes's pocket watch.
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* ReusedCharacterDesign: The Sheriff, the Coroner and the Hotel Manager may be this. Then again, maybe not.
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* OcularGushers: Using the eyedrops from the Occult shop makes this happen. It's needed for an achievement.
* Omniglot: Drinking the tea in the Occult Shop will allow the character who drank it to speak a random line in a different language.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: The Sheriff, the Coroner and the Hotel Manager may be this. Then again, maybe not. As with so many other tropes in the game, this is lampshaded.
* StuffBlowingUp: The only way to get a NonStandardGameOver in this game is to push the red button on the device in Uncle Chuck's lab. It will blow up the mansion.
* Omniglot: Drinking the tea in the Occult Shop will allow the character who drank it to speak a random line in a different language.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: The Sheriff, the Coroner and the Hotel Manager may be this. Then again, maybe not. As with so many other tropes in the game, this is lampshaded.
* StuffBlowingUp: The only way to get a NonStandardGameOver in this game is to push the red button on the device in Uncle Chuck's lab. It will blow up the mansion.
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* UselessItem: The specks of dust. Except for getting an achievement.
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* UselessItem: The specks of dust. Except for getting an achievement. There is also a Betamax tape that is useless: It was originally going to be part of a puzzle, but it wasn't included for time constraints.
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* NameTron: 'Everything', thanks to GadgeteerGenius Chuck. Usually combined with Trope2000.
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* NameTron: 'Everything', ''Everything'', thanks to GadgeteerGenius Chuck. Usually combined with Trope2000.
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* NameTron: *Everything*, thanks to GadgeteerGenius Chuck. Usually combined with Trope2000.
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* NameTron: *Everything*, 'Everything', thanks to GadgeteerGenius Chuck. Usually combined with Trope2000.
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* NameTron: *Everything*, thanks to GadgeteerGenius Chuck. Usually combined with Trope2000.
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* Trope2000: 3000, usually.
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* TakeThat: At one point Delores can mention that she would be dead if she were in a [[Sierra Sierra On-Line]] adventure game.
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* TakeThat: At one point Delores can mention that she would be dead if she were in a [[Sierra [[{{Sierra}} Sierra On-Line]] adventure game.
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* TakeThat: At one point Delores can mention that she would be dead if she were in a [[Sierra Sierra On-Line]] adventure game.
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Agents Ray and Reyes have been called to investigate the corpse lying face down and beginning to pixelate by Trestle Trail, right off the highway near the tiny town of Thimbleweed Park. This is not what this game is about.
Delores Edmund wants to be a game developer, but if she becomes one, she'll go against her entire family's wishes. This is not what this game is about.
After an untimely death, a phantom needs to put his last affairs in order so that he might move on to the afterlife. This is not what this game is about.
Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie former success. This is not what this game is about.
Delores Edmund wants to be a game developer, but if she becomes one, she'll go against her entire family's wishes. This is not what this game is about.
After an untimely death, a phantom needs to put his last affairs in order so that he might move on to the afterlife. This is not what this game is about.
Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie former success. This is not what this game is about.
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Agents Ray and Reyes have been called to investigate the corpse lying face down and beginning to pixelate by Trestle Trail, right off the highway near the tiny town of Thimbleweed Park. Park.
This is not what this game is about.
Delores Edmund wants to be a game developer, but if she becomes one, she'll go against her entire family'swishes. wishes.
This is not what this game is about.
After an untimely death, a phantom needs to put his last affairs in order so that he might move on to theafterlife. afterlife.
This is not what this game is about.
Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie formersuccess. success.
This is not what this game is about.
This is not what this game is about.
Delores Edmund wants to be a game developer, but if she becomes one, she'll go against her entire family's
This is not what this game is about.
After an untimely death, a phantom needs to put his last affairs in order so that he might move on to the
This is not what this game is about.
Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie former
This is not what this game is about.
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Agents Ray and Reyes have been called to investigate the corpse lying face down and beginning to pixelate by Trestle Trail, right off the highway near the tiny town of Thimbleweed Park.
This is not what this game is about.
Delores Edmund wants to be a game developer, but if she becomes one, she'll go against her entire family's wishes.
This is not what this game is about.
After an untimely death, a phantom needs to put his last affairs in order so that he might move on to the afterlife.
This is not what this game is about.
Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie former success.
This is not what this game is about.
This is not what this game is about.
Delores Edmund wants to be a game developer, but if she becomes one, she'll go against her entire family's wishes.
This is not what this game is about.
After an untimely death, a phantom needs to put his last affairs in order so that he might move on to the afterlife.
This is not what this game is about.
Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie former success.
This is not what this game is about.
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Agents Ray and Reyes have been called to investigate the corpse lying face down and beginning to pixelate by Trestle Trail, right off the highway near the tiny town of Thimbleweed Park.
Park. This is not what this game is about.
Delores Edmund wants to be a game developer, but if she becomes one, she'll go against her entire family'swishes.
wishes. This is not what this game is about.
After an untimely death, a phantom needs to put his last affairs in order so that he might move on to theafterlife.
afterlife. This is not what this game is about.
Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie formersuccess.
success. This is not what this game is about.
Delores Edmund wants to be a game developer, but if she becomes one, she'll go against her entire family's
After an untimely death, a phantom needs to put his last affairs in order so that he might move on to the
Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie former
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''"In a town like Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems."''
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* UselessItem: The specks of dust. Except for getting an achievement.
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* UselessItem: The specks of dust. Except for getting an achievement.achievement.
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''"In a town like Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems."''
Agents Ray and Reyes have been called to investigate the corpse lying face down and beginning to pixelate by Trestle Trail, right off the highway near the tiny town of Thimbleweed Park.
This is not what this game is about.
Delores Edmund wants to be a game developer, but if she becomes one, she'll go against her entire family's wishes.
This is not what this game is about.
After an untimely death, a phantom needs to put his last affairs in order so that he might move on to the afterlife.
This is not what this game is about.
Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie former success.
This is not what this game is about.
Thimbleweed Park is a PointAndClickGame by RonGilbert, explicitely built to retro TheEighties standards. It follows the stories of five characters as they try to discover the mysteries that lie under a sleepy village well in its way to ghost town.
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!!This game has examples of tropes such as:
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Oh so much. So often.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: The Sheriff, the Coroner and the Hotel Manager may be this. Then again, maybe not.
* UselessItem: The specks of dust. Except for getting an achievement.
Agents Ray and Reyes have been called to investigate the corpse lying face down and beginning to pixelate by Trestle Trail, right off the highway near the tiny town of Thimbleweed Park.
This is not what this game is about.
Delores Edmund wants to be a game developer, but if she becomes one, she'll go against her entire family's wishes.
This is not what this game is about.
After an untimely death, a phantom needs to put his last affairs in order so that he might move on to the afterlife.
This is not what this game is about.
Ransome the *bleep* Insult Clown, greatest artist of a generation, has pissed off the wrong person, and now needs to recover mere tatters of hie former success.
This is not what this game is about.
Thimbleweed Park is a PointAndClickGame by RonGilbert, explicitely built to retro TheEighties standards. It follows the stories of five characters as they try to discover the mysteries that lie under a sleepy village well in its way to ghost town.
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!!This game has examples of tropes such as:
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Oh so much. So often.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: The Sheriff, the Coroner and the Hotel Manager may be this. Then again, maybe not.
* UselessItem: The specks of dust. Except for getting an achievement.
