History YMMV / PlumbersDontWearTies

* MemeticMutation: "TAKE YOUR DAMN CLOTHES OFF!" has been thrown around a bit here and there.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The game was originally released on PC, but due to its obscurity, most people are familiar with the more widely-released 3DO port, to the point where the 2024 remaster bases its UI and branding on that version rather than the PC version.

* WTHCostumingDepartment: Harry Armis' incredibly tacky purple suit and random hats in every shot definitely fall under this. The chicken mask however is easily the most infamous instance of it in-game.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The game was originally released on PC, but due to its obscurity, most people are familiar with the more widely-released 3DO port, to the point where the 2023 remaster bases its UI and branding on that version rather than the PC version.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The game was originally released on PC, but due to its obscurity (as it wasn't discovered until 2017), more people are familiar with the more widely-released 3DO port, to the point where the 2023 remaster bases its UI and branding on that version rather than the PC version.

** The PC version inserts many random, bizarre drawings related to computers at various points (as well as the clown portrait in the United Pixtures logo). Those are all removed in the 3DO version.

%%* HollywoodHomely: Amy.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Some noteworthy ones are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eaw_m3H76o the title screen music]], "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-UCkntJGg Wild Heart]]" [[note]]the 3DO version's chase scene music[[/note]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtzUFXGmvdc 3DO version's credits]] music, the latter of which wouldn't sound out of place on a late-80s melodrama.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The game was originally released on PC, but due to its obscurity (to the point where it wasn't discovered until 2017), more people are familiar with the more widely-released 3DO port, to the point where the 2023 remaster bases its UI and branding on that version rather than the PC version.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The game was originally released on PC, but due to its obscurity (to the point where it wasn't discovered until 2017), more people are familiar with the more widely-released 3DO port.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The image of John's mother that appears at the end of his dream, and Amy's color-inverted picture.

** If that still isn't enough, Jane in an S&M outfit who's trying to "satisfy" her boss.

* BileFascination: Most who have actually heard of it usually tune in to see just how unwatchable it really is. So much so that the game is getting rereleased on modern platforms.

** Needless to say, you would not be able to get away with a premise that involves a woman being coerced into performing sexual acts by her superior being played for laughs in a post-[=#MeToo=] world.

** [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs The whole game.]] But specifically, ''the narrators''. Even more specifically, '''their battle'''.

** The infamous photo of the narrator in the chicken mask while he chastises you. Might we add, a photo that is '''upside-down''' -- as if the developers didn't think the ''chicken mask'' was already a random enough detail. The fact that the viewer was already exposed to random pictures of race cars and pandas at the beginning of the game and yet the picture ''still'' managed to be bizarre anyways is really saying something.

** The narrator is far from the only video game character to [[VideoGame/HotlineMiami wear a chicken mask]].

* WTHCostumingDepartment: The narrator's incredibly tacky purple suit and random hats in every shot definitely fall under this. The chicken mask however is easily the most infamous instance of it in-game.

* NightmareFuel: The image of John's mother that appears at the end of his dream, and Amy's color-inverted picture.

* NarmCharm: John says "I don't want you for a night. I want you for a lifetime.", a clichéd but nevertheless somewhat heartwarming line. Subverted when he then says "I've been searching for me... for you...", and not only does the blatantly obvious flubbing of the line make it in, but so do the actors laughing about it.

* ValuesDissonance: John's mother expressing fear when inquiring if John is gay and then expressing relief when he replies in the negative probably wouldn't stand in today's society.

* QuirkyWork: Possibly the only thing that could have justified the creation of something ''this'' unwatchable is that the developers were on drugs while making it.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Possibly the only thing that could have justified the creation of something ''this'' unwatchable is that the developers were on drugs while making it.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Possibly the only thing that could have justified the creation of something ''this'' unwatchable.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Some noteworthy ones are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eaw_m3H76o the title screen music]], "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-UCkntJGg Wild Heart]]" [[note]]the 3DO versions chase scene music[[/note]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtzUFXGmvdc 3DO version's credits]] music, the latter of which wouldn't sound out of place on a late-80s melodrama.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Some noteworthy ones are "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-UCkntJGg Wild Heart]]" [[note]]the chase scene music[[/note]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtzUFXGmvdc 3DO version's credits]] music, the latter of which wouldn't sound out of place on a late-80s melodrama.

** Needless to say, you would not be able to get away with a premise that involves a woman being coerced into performing sexual acts by her superior being played for laughs in a post-MeToo world.