Line #13 YMMV/ParappaTheRapper


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2	* AccidentalInnuendo:
3	** Some of Colonel Noodle's lyrics from "Noodles Can't be Beat!" from ''[=PaRappa=] 2'' are talking about noodles, but can sound like he's talking about... something else.
4	--->''Yeah, that little slippery thing tastes so good all the time.\
5	Slurp it, suck it, I know you/we all like it.''
6	** Everything about "Big" from ''[=PaRappa=] 2,'' if all the lyrics about one's size aren't already a DoubleEntendre.
7	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Sunny Funny. She's presented as [=PaRappa's=] sweet love interest, and while some people see her as such, others see her as an insensitive, UngratefulBastard that never acknowledges the hard work her boyfriend puts in for her. The fact that [=PaRappa=] has recurring intrusive thoughts of her breaking up with him over the smallest of things might say a lot about the state of their relationship: [=PaRappa=] constantly feels on edge around her and is scared that she'll take just about any excuse to leave him. Given [=PaRappa's=] {{Determinator}} status, it's hard to pin this all on his own anxiety—her lack of communication with him (exacerbated by her few lines of dialogue with him in both games) also seems to be a factor. The developers must have caught onto this, because she apologizes to him at the end of the game.
8	* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: Boxy Boy's tutorials in ''[=PaRappa=] 2'', which interrupt cutscenes. They can be skipped once they begin with the start button, or prevented from starting entirely with a cheat code. But neither are mentioned anywhere.
9	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[AwesomeMusic/PaRappaTheRapper Has its own page.]]
10	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Level 7 of ''[=PaRappa=] 2'' has DJPJ's booth crashing through the wall and causing a power surge. The level then continues as if nothing happened.
11	* BreatherLevel: The last stage of each game is always easier than the ones directly preceding it. This is especially noticeable in the first game and ''Lammy'', where the preceding levels are both ThatOneLevel (the Bathroom Rap and Taste of Teriyaki, respectively). Since it's always a celebratory DancePartyEnding, it's a way for the player to cool down and show off what they've learned.
12	* CommonKnowledge: For some reason, various online sources claim Parappa is a rat terrier. No official source gives Parappa a breed.
13	* ContestedSequel: While ''[=PaRappa=] 2'' [[DownplayedTrope is still loved by fans]], whether it lives up to the first game and ''Lammy'' is a point of debate. Some consider it weaker than the first game for being [[ItsEasySoItSucks easier]] than the other games, [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks heavily retreading the first game]], and [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper Boxy Boy's unnecessary tutorials]]. Other fans find ''[=PaRappa=] 2'' to be the superior game for experimenting more with its music styles, having a more interesting story, the songs and levels being just as memorable as the first game's, and all-around better humor. Even the SequelDifficultyDrop is considered a blessing in disguise by fans who were put off by the strictness of the previous game's inputs.
14	* CriticalDissonance: The second game received mostly mixed reviews from critics, but fan response is much more positive.
15	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
16	** Chop Chop Master Onion, [=PaRappa's=] karate sensei. He's the only one of the rap masters to show up with a song in all the games in the series, and if ''[=PaRappa=]'' characters show up outside of the games, he will always be one of the showcase characters.
17	** Hairdresser Octopus ([[DubNameChange Takoyama-san]] in Japan), particularly for his [[AlwaysCamp hilariously flamboyant]] and {{Keet}} [[SplitPersonality alter-ego]], and [[NonStandardCharacterDesign weird design even for PaRappa standards.]] Oh and as a plus, how darn catchy his song "Hair Scare" is.
18	* FanNickname: In a slight variant, most English-speaking fans prefer calling Hairdresser Octopus by his Japanese name Takoyama-san, or just Takoyama.
19	* FanPreferredCouple: [=PaRappa=] and [[VideoGame/UmJammerLammy Lammy]], despite the fact that both ''[=PaRappa=]'' games focused on [=PaRappa=]'s love of Sunny. Some fans {{lampshade\|Hanging}} this by showing that Sunny is [[LoveTriangle not amused]]. There are also a number of people who ship [=PaRappa=] and PJ thanks to the Stage 2 "Romantic Karate" level.
20	* FriendlyFandoms:
21	** With ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'', another call-and-response RhythmGame featuring a rapper getting into various music battles to prove his love for his lady. Many ''[=PaRappa=]'' fans consider ''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' a successor to this series, and the creators of the latter cited ''[=PaRappa=]'' as one of their inspirations.
22	** ''VideoGame/ScratchinMelodii'', like ''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'', is a call-and response rhythm game that takes more direct inspiration from ''[=PaRappa=]'' in its gameplay and UI; its protagonist even spends the game encountering people all over town to help complete their HumbleGoal. Because of the similarities between the three, fans cross its protagonists over under the trio name BPM.[[note]]Standing for '''B'''oyfriend, '''P'''aRappa, and '''M'''elodii[[/note]]
23	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: [[Funny/ParappaTheRapper Has its own page]].
24	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Due to Rodney Greenblat's popularity in Japan, he was chosen to design the game's characters and environment.
25	* GoodBadBugs: Being an early, rap-based RhythmGame, the COOL freestyle system is far from perfect and can be easily broken... [[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm10450253 to hilarious results]].
26	* HarsherInHindsight: In stage 3 of the first game, Prince Fleaswallow tells [=PaRappa=] that "Money money money is all you need". Over a decade later, it seems [=PaRappa=], or at least his voice actor Dred Foxx, [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=781553 took Prince Fleaswallow's lesson to heart]]: he scammed someone out of 100$ when given the money to voice lines for a [=PaRappa=] fan animation.
27	* HilariousInHindsight: In episode 8 of the original anime, a rumor is spread around that [=PaRappa=] and friends are working on a new gymnastics move called [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 "Rocket Jumping."]]
28	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
29	** Although it takes playing Cool Mode to hear the full conversation, [=PaRappa=]'s LoveConfession to Sunny at the end of Stage 6 in the first game is nothing short of adorable.
30	--->'''[=PaRappa=]:''' Alright, alright! Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Thank you so much! This was all made possible 'cause I never gave up, and I always believed in my lovely Sunny Funny! Yeah! Thank you!\
31	'''Sunny:''' ''[[LaughOfLove (chuckles endearingly)]]''
32	** [=PaRappa=] being congratulated by his father after you beat Stage 6 of the second game.
33	* HoYay: [=PaRappa=] and PJ doing the moves from "Romantic Karate" on each other. Doesn't help that the show they're imitating is billed as being for adults only.
34	* ItsEasySoItSucks: While the first game had some [[NintendoHard very unforgiving]] levels, the sequel is generally seen as swinging the difficulty too far to the other side due to the game making it ''harder'' to fail, along with it being much easier to achieve a Cool rank.
35	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: The [=PS4=] "remastered" version was treated by fans as such, noting that it was the same as the PSP version, only with graphical filters to smooth out the visuals for high-resolution displays. Hackers would later discover that the remaster was ''literally'' the PSP version, as it was run on a PSP emulator with upscaled textures.
36	* MemeticMutation:
37	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGlCGMm8Qag chinese]]", a video of ''[=PaRappa=] 2''[='=]s multiplayer mode, has seen some exposure. It's known for being a showcase of some of the crazy things people can do in said mode, such as spam lyrics or make up new ones. This led to Colonel Noodle becoming something of a meme himself, with his "CHINESE" and other lines being incorporated into many image macros and remixes.
38	** You [X]in' awful! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Snowclone based on the "AWFUL" part of the game's U Rappin' meter, used to demonstrate that someone is doing something poorly.[[/labelnote]]
39	** A video syncing up an infamous rant about "cringe culture" to the Hair Scare stage from ''[=PaRappa=] 2'' made the rounds in 2020. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VEmni_QzYk "Cringe! Is that all you shitposting fucks keep saying?!"]]
40	** A meme that went around in 2021 is having a [=PaRappa=] style call and response with inappropriate things. It started by mocking the impromptu rap battle in ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck saying "I [[GroinAttack thlammed my penith in the car door]]". The next example takes the "This is where I watched my parents die, Raphael" scene from the [[ComicBook/BatmanTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Batman/TMNT crossover comic]]. It [[https://youtu.be/9ywnLQywz74 even has]] [[https://youtu.be/DoIrmLrpdo0 animations]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMYKIHMsLY0 Another popular example]] is the "pick up the can" sequence from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', except [=PaRappa=] can't say "can" so he ends up coming off as being a smartass to the metro cop, who proceeds to beat him to death.
41	* {{Moe}}: [=PaRappa=] is literally a rapping, beanie-wearing ''puppy''. What about that description doesn't sound like the most adorable thing in the world? On top of that, his voice in the anime is Creator/MiyuIrino doing the cutest voice he can.
42	* NightmareFuel:
43	** [[TentacledTerror Hairdresser Octopus]] from the second game. Mainly his [[RunsWithScissors scissors]]-flailing [[BrainwashedAndCrazy crazy side]].
44	** In Stage 3 of the first game, [=PaRappa=] and his friends collide head on with a ''semi-truck''! Fortunately, none of them appear to be hurt after that (but the same can't be said for the poor car they were in).
45	** There's something about the sunset scene in the first game's Stage 5 cutscene that's very spooky and unsettling... The color error and animation could be suspect.
46	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: Newer gamers would probably look at the first game and wonder what the big deal is. It only has six stages, no customization, and can be beaten in under an hour. But when it first hit shelves back in 1997, nothing like it had ever existed before; not only did it pretty much [[TropeMakers invent]] the RhythmGame genre but its distinct art style hadn't been done in any video game either. It also defied the stereotypes about rap music at the time, due to its clean lyrics.
47	* ParentalBonus: UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini --> [[PunnyName Instructor Mooselini]].
48	* PortingDisaster: The [=PS4=] remastered edition has some very noticeable input lag. Bad enough for most games, but for a rhythm game, it makes it essentially unplayable. The remastered version also has several visual glitches, such as a red bar appearing on Cheap Cheap's head in Stage 4 when your rank is Bad (which is supposed to be a part of the visual filter for the Awful rank where her whole head turns red), the rain only appearing in the corners of the screen for the Bad and Awful ranks of Stage 5, and the fade to black transition at the end of Stage 6's song not occurring.
49	* RetroactiveRecognition: Younger players are likely to know [=PaRappa=]'s voice actor, Dred Foxx, as being the gruff vocals for [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Knuckles the Echidna]]'s theme song, "Unknown From M.E.", from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''.
50	* SequelDifficultyDrop: ''[=PaRappa=] 2'' is significantly easier than the first game by having the timing window for button presses be more forgiving, getting a Cool rank is easier to obtain, and dropping down to Bad or Awful will have the master repeat the last set of lyrics to give you a chance to redo your mistakes without running into a possible {{Unwinnable}} game. Rising back to the rank of Good from this state will put you back to where you were originally before the rank drop so that you don't have to redo parts of the lyrics yet again and possibly screw up the same parts.
51	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
52	** In ''[=PaRappa=] 1'', "[=PaRappa=]'s Live Rap With MC King Kong Mushi" sounds a little like the rap version of "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December,_1963_%28Oh,_What_a_Night%29 December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)]]" by Music/FrankieValliAndTheFourSeasons.
53	** The cinema before the fourth level includes a short ditty that sounds remarkably like the song "Tijuana Taxi".
54	** The piano accompaniment from the driving lesson song is blatantly sampled from "Turtles Have Short Legs" by Music/{{Can}}.
55	** The piano accompaniment from the Prince Fleaswallow song sounds similar to the Music/JoeCocker version of "Feelin' Alright".
56	** The music playing during Boxy Boy's tutorials in ''[=PaRappa=] the Rapper 2'' has a lot of similarities to "Intermission" by Music/{{Blur}}.
57	** Awful mode "Romantic Love" in ''[=PaRappa=] the Rapper 2'' sounds very similar to the Special World map music from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''.
58	* ThatOneBoss: Potentially, ''any'' of the bosses, but [[MeaningfulName Cheap Cheap]] the Cooking Chicken is consistently hard for a lot of people not just due to the button timings, but the detection of said timings: even if you time the buttons perfectly your rank may still drop.
59	* ThatOneLevel: The bathroom rap level is considered to be extremely frustrating due to how many buttons the player has to play back with near-perfect timing in order to succeed. This was probably one of the reasons why the sequel has a more forgiving mechanic for button pressing in its levels.
60	* ViewerGenderConfusion: Despite being a girl, Instructor Mooselini is often confused as a boy, mostly owing to her androgynous voice and not having any noticeably feminine features aside from her easy-to-miss skirt. Possibly aware of this fact, [=NanaOn=]-Sha opted to make her sister, Instructor Moosesha, [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics more obviously feminine]], including giving her breasts, a tutu, and a BeehiveHairdo.
61	* VindicatedByHistory: ''[=PaRappa=] the Rapper 2'' has become more well-liked in later years thanks to it having a far more playable [=PS4=] port compared to ''[=PaRappa=] the Rapper Remastered'', as well as MemeticMutation giving it some more exposure.
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63	!! Anime-only examples:
64	* CreatorsPet: A awful lot of the episodes center on anime-only character Paula. Thankfully this is a less frustrating example considering Paula herself is a fun character.
65	%%* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The Christmas Special is considered to be the most touching episode, if not the best episode overall, of the series by fans.
66	* MagnificentBastard:
67	** "Droopy": [[AlluringFlowers Domonjo]] is a sapient flower who forms a bond with [[AllLovingHero Sunny Funny]] after the latter saves his life. Wanting to help Sunny, Domonjo informs her of a plot by Gaster and Groober to plant bronze statues of themselves in [=PaRappa=] Town, and subsequently releases a pollen on the male characters that makes them blindly loyal to Sunny. When this inadvertently leads to Gaster's truck becoming a runaway, Domonjo stops it by having it crash into him, [[HeroicSacrifice taking a fatal blow in the process]]. Realizing at last how much Sunny cares about Dorothy's wilted flowers, Domonjo revives them with the last of his strength, and even in death leaves behind his seeds so Sunny can see him again someday.
68	** "It's PJ and His Friends!": [[CorruptCorporateExecutive MC King Kong Mushi]] is the [[LargeHam bombastic]] president of Building Records who has PJ Berri sign a contract to become a worldwide sensation. Mushi abides strictly by his contract, apathetically leaves PJ's friends in the dust and PJ himself without motivation, and outwits the gang with things such as [[CrazyPrepared a giant blimp and spare circuits]] when they try to get him back. It is only when PJ's annoying footsteps become known that Mushi fires him, citing the contract once again.
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70	''Did you check the tabs on the right? \
71	Did you check the tabs on the left?''

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