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6	[[caption-width-right:350:Bond, eat your heart out.]]
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8	->"''Meet Larry. He's just turned 40, and he's still single. If you can get past the glow of his Grecian formula, you can see his hairline beginning to make a hasty retreat from his forehead. Larry's leisure suit is of the highest quality (100% manmade material, permanent press, too!) He wears at least 11 gold chains and his freshly-capped teeth could blind you in a bright light! Down at the singles bar he tells the chicks, "Sure, I'm single... I got in a fight with my ol' lady and she threw me out." He doesn't tell them the "ol' lady" was his mom, or that he was 38 at the time!''"
9	-->-- '''Official product description''', ''Leisure Suit Larry in The Land of the Lounge Lizards''
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11	In the early [[TheEighties Eighties]], an up-and-coming programmer named Chuck Benton decided to test his programming skills by churning out a small, [[InteractiveFiction text-based]] AdventureGame for the Platform/AppleII by the title of ''VideoGame/SoftpornAdventure''. After the title received runaway success, its publisher Creator/{{Sierra}} decided that since the game was the only text-based game they'd published, it was due for a graphical upgrade. So they decided to delegate the task to in-house Creator/{{Disney}} game developer Creator/AlLowe who, after taking a look at the game, figured the game was so outdated it might as well be wearing a leisure suit.
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13	From thereon sprung Al Lowe's idea to take ''Softporn Adventure'' and remake it from the ground up, rewriting its script completely into something much funnier, and replacing its [[FeaturelessProtagonist formerly anonymous protagonist]] with Larry Laffer, a computer programmer in his early 40s who decides to get a life and go woo some women and lose his virginity by the end of his nocturnal visit to [[UsefulNotes/LasVegas Lost Wages]]. Being a big fan of TheSeventies, he loves disco and wears a leisure suit (which he and only he thinks is cool) from which the newly reborn ''Leisure Suit Larry'' took its name.
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15	At its time of release, the game became widely known for its raunchy content and [[DevelopersForesight surprisingly varied level of world interactivity]] (thanks to being the first Sierra game to be publicly tested). The game was followed up by two sequels before [[UnInstallment the famed fourth game in the franchise failed to ship]] and Al Lowe decided to skip straight to the fifth game and keep going until the seventh. After Lowe was laid off from Sierra in 1999, the franchise was then left to Sierra's hands to pass around to different developers.
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17	The focus of the series strayed from Larry Laffer to his similarly dorky nephew, Larry Lovage. The results are considered lackluster, and differed greatly in gameplay, leaving out the adventure-gaming and consisting mostly of either mini-games or a VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto-like interface.
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19	The series currently counts the following titles:
20	[[index]]
21	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'' (1987) got a VGA point-and-click remake in 1991; a second remake subtitled ''Reloaded'' was released on June 27, 2013.
22	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry2LookingForLoveInSeveralWrongPlaces'' (1988)
23	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry3PassionatePattiInPursuitOfThePulsatingPectorals'' (1989)
24	[[/index]]
25	* ''Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies'' ([[UnInstallment Never created or released]], as part of a RunningGag. Al Lowe had promised he wouldn't make ''Leisure Suit Larry 4'', so [[ExactWords the only way to keep the promise]] was to skip to...)
26	[[index]]
27	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry5PassionatePattiDoesALittleUndercoverWork'' (1991)
28	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry6ShapeUpOrSlipOut'' (1993) Received an upgraded version with SVGA graphics and speech in 1994.
29	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry7LoveForSail'' (1996) Last main game developed by Al Lowe.
30	* ''Leisure Suit Larry's Casino'' (1998) Last game developed by Al Lowe.
31	* ''Leisure Suit Larry 8: Lust in Space (Leisure Suit Larry Explores [[UranusIsShowing Uranus]])'' (1998-99, unreleased).
32	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryMagnaCumLaude'' (2004) First appearance of Larry Lovage. Developed by Creator/HighVoltageSoftware.
33	* ''Leisure Suit Larry: Pocket Party'' (2005, unreleased).
34	* ''Leisure Suit Larry: Cocoa Butter'' (2005, unreleased).
35	* ''Leisure Suit Larry: Love For Sail Mobile'' (2007) An all original story set during the [=LSL4=] era (while Larry Laffer works for Sierra), and self referential about the making of [=LSL4=].
36	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryBoxOfficeBust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[note]]Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''VideoGame/AlienBreed''[[/note]]
37	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryWetDreamsDontDry'' (2018) Developed by Crazy Bunch.
38	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryWetDreamsDryTwice'' (2020)
39	* ''Leisure Suit Larry: The Laffer Utilities'', a simple gag application.
40	[[/index]]
41
42	Al Lowe and fellow Sierra On-Line adventure game alumnus Paul Trowe have [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/14913/leisure-suit-larry-games-being-remade-in-hd announced]] that the first few ''LSL'' games will be remade with new artwork and HD graphics, and created a Website/{{Kickstarter}} [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again campaign]] to fund it. The remake of the first game, ''Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded'', has since been released. However, after Al Lowe decided not to renew his contract with Trowe, the certainty of remakes of the rest of the series is currently up in the air.
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44	The series has effectively been rebooted with ''Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry'', which was released in late 2018 and set to bring Larry's brand of... [[SettingUpdate well, everything... to the 21st century]]. Due to the announcement of ''Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice'' which continues the story, the series may have a future.
45	----
46	!!The series provides examples of:
47	* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: The point of Barbara Jo from LSL 8.
48	* AlliterativeName:
49	** Larry Laffer and his nephew Larry Lovage.
50	** Passionate Patti, from Petaluma, grew up in Mora, Minnesota.
51	** Passionate Patti's EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Polyester Patty.
52	* AndYourRewardIsClothes: LSL 8 made the player gather and wear various outfits in order to enter different areas of the game.
53	* AnimatedActors: One of the chat scenes between Larry Lovage and band geek Harriet in LSL 8 has Larry break character to harangue his agent for most of the scene about [[WhoWritesThisCrap how lousy this storyline is]]; if you lose the minigame, Harriet storms off to her trailer at the end.
54	* ArtEvolution: If not mentioning the obvious technological improvements, Larry was "realistic-looking" in LSL 2 and 3 but became shorter and much more cartoonish starting from LSL 5, while the women became more and more realistically drawn. All characters became more cartoony starting in ''Larry 7''.
55	** Larry looked more like an 8-bit ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''-era Creator/JohnTravolta in the first three games and didn't take on his more [[http://larrylaffer.net/images/evolutionoflarry.png distinctive cartoony look]] until the ''Larry 1'' VGA remake, shortly followed by ''Larry 5''.
56	* TheBaroness: Would-be ''Film/JamesBond'' villainess Tilly from LSL 8.
57	* BeatEmUp: One of the minigames in LSL 9.
58	* BrawnHilda: Zanna from LSL 8 (on the border with AmazonianBeauty).
59	* BrickJoke: In LSL 1, Larry finds a diamond ring in Lefty's sink. When Larry searches the sink in his hotel bathroom in LSL 6, four games later in the series, he finds nothing, and the narrator asks him whether he expected a diamond ring.
60	** The same joke is used in LSL 5. When attempting to search any trash can (e.g. at an airport), the narrator will ask whether Larry is expecting to find a disco club membership card - like he did in LSL 1. And also LSL 3, finding a discarded postcard (that he puts back), referring to Larry finding his own passport in the garbage at Eve's house after he's thrown out in LSL 2.
61	* ButtMonkey: Larry. Being Larry's DistaffCounterpart, Patti also has her moments of this.
62	* CampGay: Gary the towel attendant in LSL 6 and Purser Peter in LSL 7. Half of the population of the Spartacus club in LSL 8.
63	* CanonDiscontinuity: Al Lowe [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/MCL.htm does not consider]] ''Magna Cum Laude'' and ''Box Office Bust'' as part of the series.
64	* {{Catchphrase}}: "I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard that!" after some sexually ambiguous remark.
65	** Also "A feeling not wholly unfamiliar to you..." which has an appearance in most games, but is primarily used in LSL 3.
66	* ChainedToABed: Twice. More than that if you count death scenes in LSL 2.
67	* CharacterTitle: The hero is Leisure Suit Larry, and the series bears his name.
68	* ChildHater: Patti. Going from a warning you get before what looks like a baby in a flotation device pops up on screen during the log ride sequence:
69	--> '''Narrator:''' Lookout, Patti! It's your worst nightmare! Children!
70	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Passionate Patti disappears without reason from continuity after her last appearance in LSL 5, according to Official Book of LSL he still lives with her, but they haven't yet married at least up to LSL 7. Larry is now an actor, who works for Sierra, and films "[=LSL6=]/[=LSL7=]" while she remains at home waiting for him at the end of the day. Al Lowe claims the reason why she isn't in the games is they couldn't afford to hire her, to take part in the games. However, in the non-Al Lowe games he's fully broken up with her by the time of Magna Cum Laude, and pining away for her.
71	* CompletionMeter: The earlier games had a counter with your current score and the total number of points available (e.g. 5/20). Your score was based on how many puzzles you had solved.
72	* CopyProtection: Some of the Sierra games required information from the manual and {{Feelies}}. More memorably, the first and third games required players to answer trivia questions to "prove" that they were old enough to play, while the second game was relatively family-friendly. LSL 3 even adjusted the level of {{fanservice}} depending on your score. A generation of horny teenage gamers was driven to research old Seventies pop cultural references for the sake of 8-bit nudity.
73	** There is also the simple Ctrl + X + C to skip the questions.
74	** The CDROM version of LSL 6 averted this trope completely, [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil since nobody would bother with the expense and difficulty of making]] their own [=CDs=] of the game.
75	** As a CallBack to the old days and the fact that it was released unrated, ''Reloaded'' has the "proof of age" quiz, but with the questions more in line with more modern pop culture.
76	* CreatorCameo: Al Lowe inserted lookalikes of himself and many other Sierra staff members in the games:
77	** The disco in the first game is full of Sierra employees.
78	** Ken Williams makes an appearance in every game. Larry even calls him out on it in LSL 7. In ''Lounge Lizards: Reloaded'', he gets an additional cameo:
79	--->'''Narrator:''' He looks like someone from your distant past, but you just can't put your finger on him!\
80	'''Ken Williams:''' Good thing, too!
81	** {{Lampshaded}} in LSL 3 where Larry can find Al Lowe and Ken Williams hanging out in a club, say any short phrase to the two, and then hear the two of them talk about putting themselves in the game, having Larry say whichever phrase the player just typed, and concluding that it was a lame idea and then vanishing out of existence.
82	** The third game ends with Larry and Patti [[spoiler: falling into a dimensional rift and landing in front of Sierra's main office in Oakhurst, which acts more like a movie studio than a game company, with Roberta Williams "directing" the infamous whale scene from ''King's Quest IV''.]]
83	* DeadpanSnarker: The narrator, ''especially'' in the games with voice acting.
84	** Pretty much everyone you show your penis to in ''Reloaded'' will snark on its size.
85	** Call the concierge in LSL 6.
86	* DeanBitterman: Assistant Dean Abrahamson, the BigBad of LSL 8.
87	* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Unlike the original, where dying forced you to restart or load a saved game, the "Reloaded" version of ''Lounge Lizards'' resets the scene with no consequences. Since several of the death scenes are funny and/or earn an achievement on Steam, this makes it worth trying to get Larry killed.
88	* DevelopersForesight: As stated above, this was the first Sierra game to be tested by the general public, so most dirty things you can think of have already been thought of.
89	** Once, when Hollywood became interested in doing a Larry movie, Al Lowe showed the first game to a roomfull of Hollywood managers. Here is what happened.
90	---> '''Al Lowe:''' To get them involved, I asked them to call out what they wanted me to type. We were in Lefty’s bathroom when some smart-ass yelled, "masturbate." I had no idea if I handled that input or not, but I dutifully typed it in. They started applauding when the answer popped up on screen: "The whole idea was to stop doing that, Larry!"
91	* DiscoDan: Larry. The original concept of the series came from Al Lowe remarking that remaking ''VideoGame/SoftpornAdventure'' would be difficult as it had aged so badly it might as well be wearing a ''leisure suit''. From there, the game was retooled to be about the hopelessly out-of-touch Larry Laffer and his misadventures as he [[strike:tries to get laid]] searches for true love.
92	* DisposableLoveInterest: The final girl from the previous game usually left Larry, but this applies.
93	* DistaffCounterpart: Passionate Patti is basically Larry's female counterpart.
94	* DoubleEntendre: Just about anything Patti does in the games can be, and usually '''is''', interpreted as such by the narrator:
95	--> '''Narrator''': You mount a big piece of wood ([[LampshadedDoubleEntendre an experience not wholly unfamiliar to you]]).
96	* DungeonMaintenance: The Sierra studios labor behind the scenes, building the backgrounds, repairing characters.
97	* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Par for the course, considering it's a Sierra franchise:
98	** In ''Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards'', you can die by...
99	*** ...walking across the street and getting run over by a car instantly...
100	*** ...wandering into a dark alley and getting beat up by a mugger...
101	*** ...not having enough money to pay your taxi fare and getting murdered and ''your carcass run over'' by the cabbie...
102	*** ...asking the taxi driver to take you home, implying that the closest thing to home a Sierra character has is the Sierra recycling center...
103	*** ...shoplifting and getting shot by the shopkeeper...
104	*** ...flushing a toilet and drowning as the room is filled with water...
105	*** ...forgetting to wear a condom and contracting an STD that makes your testicles explode...
106	*** ...forgetting to zip up post-coitus and getting arrested by a policeman for indecency...
107	*** ...running out of money...
108	*** ...giving your wallet to any character (and not getting it back)...
109	*** ...trying to have oral sex with a prostitute and [[GroinAttack having your penis bitten off]]...
110	*** ...entering a taxi with wine -- the cabbie drinks it and crashes...
111	*** ...having sex in honeymoon suite [[GuideDangIt without a knife]]...
112	*** ...eating Spanish Fly pills and being arrested for sex with a dog...
113	*** ...not tying the rope or improperly tying it or [[TooDumbToLive untying]] it or cutting it while hanging from a certain balcony...
114	*** ...and probably some other ways.
115	** And in the sequel, ''Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places)'', you can die by...
116	*** ...failing to catch your cruise ship in time...
117	*** ...lounging around the ship until nightfall and getting [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raped by your cabinmate]]...
118	*** ...forgetting to apply sunscreen while sunbathing and burning to cinders...
119	*** ...failing to resist the temptations of several voluptuous women, who turn out to be Dr. Nonookie's henchwomen...
120	*** ...not having enough provisions to last you through a month at sea on your lifeboat (including a gigantic amount of soda, a wig to protect your balding scalp and a makeshift fishing rod)...
121	*** ...taking the spinach dip (which earns you points) and forgetting to throw it overboard when you reach the lifeboat, lest you automatically eat it and die of salmonella...
122	*** ...not having a ''perfect'' disguise at the beach to fool the KGB (including both parts of a bikini, blonde hair, removal of body hair, and some, um, "padding") -- and even then, ItOnlyWorksOnce...
123	*** ...eating a plate of food at the resort restaurant, probably because the maitre d' there is '''EVIL'''...
124	*** ...eating a plate of food at an airport with a pin hidden in it, with no clue that the pin is even there in the first place...
125	*** ...getting caught by KGB agents in countless other ways, and so on and so on.
126	** Amusingly (or not, as many fans of the original were quick to point out), Larry's usual MO of trying to get laid works against him in ''Larry 2''. In addition to the above deaths via KGB, one notable death involves talking a maid into bedding down with you... only to [[spoiler: get shot by her overprotective brother.]] On the other hand, if you gotta go...
127	** Notably {{subverted\|Trope}} in Larry 5, in which it was impossible to die, despite at least one scene [[spoiler: involving a plane on the verge of crashing]] where it sure ''looked'' like you could die if you didn't do something. Larry 6 moved on to purely jocular death scenes which can be undone with one click, and ''Larry 7'' had none.
128	* EvilRedhead: Tilly from LSL 8, who turns out to be a ''Film/JamesBond''-esque evil mastermind.
129	* {{Expy}}: Larry shares a lot of characteristics (other than actual dating prowess) with the similarly-named character from ''Series/ThreesCompany''.
130	* {{Fanservice}}: Shows up in many of the games, but most blatantly in LSL 7, 8, and Reloaded
131	* FreakyFridayFlip: From the player's perspective, [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent changing protagonists between Larry and Patti]] in Larry 3 and 5 - in fact, Larry 3 was advertised as the first computer game that comes with a free sex change operation.
132	* FreudianExcuse: Larry tries to invoke it in ''Magna Cum Laude''; when the newly-lesbian Ione starts [[WhatTheHellHero chewing him out]] for the behavior that turned her away from men, he tries to claim that he's gay and was trying to see if he could "[[CureYourGays get better]]".
133	* {{Gasshole}}: When you manage to talk Luba Licious, the bisexual, slutty, HardDrinkingPartyGirl, out of the bar in ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryMagnaCumLaude'', after you complete the minigame to get her out of the bar, she lets out a long, deep, loud, brassy belch before leaving, as a result of chugging three shots of tequila.
134	* TheGlassesGottaGo: Larry attempts to {{invoke\|dTrope}} this as part of Ione's makeover. Then he [[SubvertedTrope puts them right back on]]. Apparently her squinting really is rather bad.
135	* GoKartingWithBowser: The opponents in ''Casino'', who make up most of LSL 7's cast and Cavarrichi from LSL 6. Despite what Larry did to them or vice-versa, they still come to his casino. They don't play with Larry directly, as he plays the role of the dealer.
136	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Larry has worn multiple examples:
137	** Polka-dot boxers in the first remake of LSL 1.
138	** Heart boxers in the same scene in LSL Reloaded.
139	** Leopard-print briefs in LSL 7.
140	* GranolaGirl, SoapboxSadie: Charlotte from LSL 8.
141	* GuideDangIt: This can be (is?) a problem with LSL 2 and 3. ''Especially'' if you want to get the maximum amount of points.
142	** Trying to find all of the dildos as part of the "Where's Dildo?" sidequest in LSL 7. Some dildos are hidden in rooms that can become unreachable after certain events (the ballroom for example) and if you didn't get them all, you're locked out of maximum completion. Then there's the one hidden in the game's dev team photo, where most people would not expect one to be hidden.
143	* HappyEndingOverride: At the end of each game, Larry has finally found and scored with the ideal girl. When the next game begins, he has been rejected and abandoned by that girl, and must keep looking for love in several wrong places. The only exception is from 5 to 6: the ending of 5 is simply ignored, and 6 has a generic begin.
144	* HaveANiceDeath: Well, this is a Sierra adventure game after all.
145	* HideYourChildren: Because of the adult overtones of the games, there are no children seen. It is {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d by Ken in LSL 7:
146	-->'''Ken''': "I am the handsome sailor who entertains the kids on this ship!\
147	'''Larry''': "But I didn't see a kid anywhere!"\
148	'''Narrator''': "That is because this game is too dirty for kids!"
149	** Ironically, there ''is'' a child in LSL 7 that catches Larry in one of his many attempts to sneak into his cabin naked.
150	** What looks to be a baby in a flotation device appears as a hazard in LSL 3's log ride sequence.
151	* IdenticalGrandfather: "Zircon Jim" Laffer makes a ContinuityCameo in Lowe's ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist''.
152	* IfIHadANickel: Larry's CatchPhrase, often uttered when something sexually suggestive is said. In LSL 7, sometimes the narrator also joins the fun.
153	-->'''Narrator:''' [on examining a fire hose] Your hose is long and thick.\
154	'''Larry:''' I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard that!\
155	'''Narrator:''' You'd still be broke!
156	* InNameOnly: The games starring Larry Lovage. Even Al Lowe dismissed the Lovage games as Larry Laffer being in a corporate prison.
157	* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: ''Magna '''Cum''' Laude''.
158	* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Larry's CatchPhrase in LSL 6 is a usually [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] "I wish I had a dollar for every time I've said/heard that!"
159	* LastGirlWins: Pretty much in all the games.
160	* LastHetRomance: In ''Magna Cum Laude'', Larry's attempts to nail Ione results in her becoming lesbian, at least if you follow up on her in an optional storyline.
161	* LegacyCharacter: Larry Lovage, protagonist of LSL 8 and 9, is the original Larry's [[UncannyFamilyResemblance inexplicably]] [[GenerationXerox similar]] nephew.
162	* LemonyNarrator
163	-->Larry burns his hand trying to open a glass door\
164	'''Larry's InternalMonologue''': "Our night of passionate lovemaking must have overheated the frame!"\
165	'''Narrator''': "[[DeadpanSnarker Yeah]], [[SarcasmMode riiiiight...]]"
166	* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: After losing his virginity to a prostitute in the first game, Larry realizes that he wants something more meaningful. In fact, this trope's name is also part of the title of game 2: ''Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places)''.
167	* LoungeLizard: Larry is one of these all the way. The first game even has this as part of the title.
168	* LovableSexManiac: Larry and all his relatives. As well as Patti.
169	* MaleGaze: One of the obstacles in the conversation minigame in ''Larry 8'' causes Larry's gaze to dip, reducing the player's chance at succeeding with the seduction.
170	* MercyMode: ''Magna Cum Laude'' will let you opt out of a minigame if you fail it enough times; however, doing so costs some the secret tokens you need if you want to purchase extras like concept art and Nude Mode.
171	* MiniGame:
172	** The remake of the first game has video poker, video blackjack, and a slot machine.
173	** Comprises about 70% of LSL 8 by weight.
174	* MultipleEndings: LSL 8 let the player choose one of three "final girls" at the end.
175	* MushroomSamba: Happens at least twice: First as a NonstandardGameOver in LSL 3, where Patti can pick up some marijuana leaves and smoke up (and fall to her death), and in LSL 7, where one of the girls slips a hallucinogenic drug into Larry's drink.
176	* MyGirlIsASlut: Luba from LSL 8 -- at least that's what Lovage thinks about her being the campus bicycle. [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth At first]].
177	* MythologyGag: For what it's worth, ''Magna Cum Laude'' is filled with these, in manners blatant and subtle.
178	** Most obviously, "Uncle Larry"'s references to his past exploits.
179	** Lefty's Too, a duplicate of the bar from the remake of LSL 1.
180	** The sorority house has a plaque with EGA portraits of women from the old games.
181	** ''Wet Dreams Don't Dry'' has a bunch to [=LSL1=] as well, seeing as it's a SoftReboot/Requel to the original. It's sequel, ''Wet Dreams Dry Twice'', has several to [=LSL2=], including the crazy former Russian mad scientist Dr. No No being alluded to be the James Bond pastiche Dr. No Nookie from [=LSL2=].
182	* NakedFirstImpression: A number of girls are naked or half naked when Larry first meets them, namely Eve, Kalalau, Shamara and Drew.
183	* NerdsAreSexy: Ione, Harriet, and Morgan (to various degrees) from LSL 8.
184	* NobodyPoops: Subverted. You can make Larry do it in LSL 1, 6 and 7. And ''earn points'' from it. Just, whatever you do, ''[[EverythingTryingToKillYou don't flush]]'' in 1.
185	** In LSL 8, it's a key game mechanic that you can urinate to reduce your level of drunkenness. Anywhere. Although doing it in public hurts your KarmaMeter.
186	* NoFourthWall
187	* ThePeepingTom: Done several times, including through binoculars at the beginning of LSL 3, a hole in the shower wall and a security camera aimed through the shower's air vent in LSL 6, and another hole in the sorority house shower wall in LSL 8.
188	* PresentDayPast: ''Reloaded'' obviously takes place in the late 80s or early 90s (like the original game) due to the various pop-culture references from the era as well as various lines including one where Larry will "be an old man" by the year 2000 and that payphones "aren't going away anytime soon", but there's also an arcade machine in the convenience store that plays a blatant ''Angry Birds'' parody that makes fun of modern-day feminism.
189	** Averted with ''Wet Dreams Don't Dry'', which WordOfGod says takes place in the modern era.
190	* PressXToDie:
191	** If you flush the toilet in the restroom of Lefty's Bar in ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'', it overflows and causes you to drown. Other easy ways to die are shoplifting, neglecting to pay the taxi driver, or wandering into a dark alley.
192	** ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry2LookingForLoveInSeveralWrongPlaces'': Typing "give onklunk" any time you have the onklunk, which means that the precious onklunk containing the secret info either ends in the hands of Doctor Nonookee or in those of KGB. You traitor!
193	** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry6ShapeUpOrSlipOut'', you could attempt to open an underwater door from the inside. Larry does not survive the following increase in air humidity.
194	* RhythmGame: Half of the mini-games in LSL 8 boiled down to this.
195	* RecycledINSPACE: LSL 8 was at first supposed to be set in space, and called ''Lust In Space''. It is even announced by characters in LSL 7.
196	* ResetButton: No matter how the previous game ended up in the next one Larry will return to being a LoserProtagonist who's on a QuestForSex. Uusually the GirlOfTheWeek will dump him because he was a [[LousyLoversAreLosers lousy lay]] or a JerkAss, or because the girls themselves TookALevelInJerkass.
197	* RuderAndCruder: Compared to ''VideoGame/SoftpornAdventure,'' it merrily writes rude jokes on it with a sharpie and flies it from the flagpole.
198	* SeriesFauxnale: Al Lowe wanted to end the series with ''Larry 3'', joking that he would never do ''Larry 4''. When the third game came out and he decided to do another game anyway, he skipped directly to ''Larry 5'' to keep his word.
199	* SexChangesEverything: Deflowering GranolaGirl Shamara at the end of LSL 6 causes her to develop a totally different personality by the start of LSL 7... a few hours later. Apparently sleeping with Larry was [[LousyLoversAreLosers so awful]] it changed her entire worldview.
200	* SexComedy: The first game fits the definition pretty directly.
201	* ShopliftAndDie: Shoplift and Die by an AsianStoreOwner. Shoplifters will be ''shot''.
202	* {{Slapstick}}: In LSL 3, Patti can suffer just as much as Larry in [[HaveANiceDeath true Sierra fashion]]. Averted in LSL 5, where you can't die.
203	* SuperDeformed: Larry's appearance in just about ''all'' of the games is very cartoon-ish. It's not very noticeable in the 1987 original, but as the graphics became more advanced, he became almost a head shorter than ''everyone''. He's supposedly 5'10".
204	** Averted in the games ''[=LSL2=]'' and ''[=LSL3=]'' proper where he has a character design relatively similar to any other SCI games of the era, and where full portraits show him as somewhat realistic. Played straight for covers though. Also averted for ''Wet Dreams Don't Dry'', which uses the more realistic ''1-3'' era proportions for Larry.
205	* SureLetsGoWithThat: Shamara somehow comes to the conclusion that Larry is a guru seeking to bring her to enlightenment, rather than just a lecherous middle-aged loser trying to get into her transparent harem pants. As part of this, she also thinks that all the gifts he brings her are intended to teach her some form of philosophical insight.
206	* ToiletHumour: Going to the bathroom almost always leads to HilarityEnsues. See also NobodyPoops.
207	* TookALevelInJerkass: LSL 2, 3 and 7 all begin with the woman Larry got together with at the end of the previous game deciding she doesn't like him any more and treating him quite badly. Justified with Eve, since Larry showed up at her house and moved in without her permission, which would probably freak out anybody in real life. But Kalalau first cheated on him with another woman, then locked him out of their house and divorced him, all just because she [[LousyLoversAreLosers wasn't satisfied with his performance in the bedroom]]. She never told him that she was unhappy before she did these things, and never tried to work things out. At the beginning of LSL 7, Shamara decides that the new age lifestyle isn't for her after all and what she really cares about is money. So she [[ChainedToABed ties Larry up]] and steals his wallet before walking out on him.
208	* TropicalIslandAdventure:
209	** LSL 2 and 3 are set on Nontoonyt Island, a tropical island in the South Pacific ruled by the evil Dr. Nonookee.
210	** Just as ''Wet Dreams Don't Dry'' was a quasi-direct sequel (/requel) to the first game, ''Land of the Lounge Lizards'', ''Wet Dreams Dry Twice'' is a SpiritualSuccessor of being a sequel to its first game, and also takes places on a (collection of) tropical islands.
211	* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Appears in the cheerleader character's ending in ''Magna Cum Laude'', where her twin comes in from nowhere simply for this trope.
212	* UngratefulBastard: Some women in series are this, like Fawn in the first game and Gammie in the sixth. Fawn is a GoldDigger who dumps Larry after getting a lot of gifts from him, and in this case "dumps" means "leaves him tied up in their hotel room after stealing all of his money". Gammie tells Larry she'll go to bed with him if he repairs the liposuction machine so she can lose weight. When he finally does so and gives her the perfect body she's wanted for so long, she wants nothing more to do with him and walks away without so much as a "thank you".
213	** [[TheRival Russell]] in LSL 8 after his makeover.
214	* UnInstallment: ''Leisure Suit Larry 4'' does not exist, although this fact is a plot point in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers''.
215	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: In LSL Magna Cum Laude (aka, LSL 8), [[spoiler:Koko the troubled mime is a crossdressing boy.]]
216	** This also happens with Shablee in LSL 6.
217	* UnusualUserInterface: LSL 8 has the DialogueTree as a minigame where the player has to navigate around obstacles to reach the "right" conversation choice while the conversation goes on in the background.
218	* UnwinnableByDesign: As with most Creator/{{Sierra}} games of the era, it is entirely possible to paint yourself into a corner in the first three games. ''Leisure Suit Larry 2'' is particularly infamous, with numerous dead ends that are easy to play into.
219	* WackyFratboyHijinx: The point of the setting of LSL 8.
220	* WhatTheHellHero: The optional "Ione(L[[note]]esbian[[/note]])" storyline in ''Magna Cum Laude'' centers on Larry's behavior having "turned" Ione gay by putting her off of men; when you first meet her after this, she and her girlfriend immediately start berating Larry.
221	* ZipMode: In at least some of the games, double-clicking on an exit will make Larry walk at hyperspeed.

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