12th Feb: A new policy is being put in place for TRS threads: Make your case that the name/page is broken in the Opening Post, or the thread will be nuked immediately. See Everything You Wanted To Know About Changing Names for what "Make your case" means.
5th Feb: Echo Chamber Season 1 blooper reel on Youtube here
Abhorrent Admirer: Amy, the woman John's mother tries to force on him.
Abusive Parents: Of the verbal variety; both John's mother and Jane's father have no qualms with shouting and swearing to their offspring over the phone.
Banana Peel: The boss slips on one during the chase scene.
Battle of the Still Frames: More like "Chase Of The Still Frames", but occasionally stretches into an entire game. Even in non-chase sequences.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: While pressuring her into having kids, Jane's father acknowledges the previous scene where John's mother did the same thing to John.
But Thou Must: There's only two times you can make a choice that doesn't end the game instantly, and that's when you choose who makes the first move, and when John can choose to chase Jane or not. The narrator chews you out over all of the choices, as if you were writing the script...
Camp Gay: If you end up with the gay option, the boss suddenly becomes this.
Censor Box: Censor Giant Nose, even. There's a code that removes them...
Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: During the scene where Jane is being chased by the guy doing the interview, she's wearing nothing but a bra and a skirt. When the chase goes outside, though, she's suddenly fully clothed. Then, later in the same scene, her shirt comes off again.
Depraved Bisexual: If the gay ending is anything to go by, the boss is definitely this, as he's kinda aggressive when he flirts with John.
Freudian Slip: The boss. "It's these people that get head... get ahead." Turns into a Freudian Slippery Slope if you pick the option where he represses himself.
Good Morning, Crono: Twice, near the beginning. First, John is woken up by a call from his mother. After that conversation ends, Jane is woken by a call from her father!
Hilarious Outtakes: Inverted every way from Sunday. The actor playing John botches his line, and he and the crew laugh about the lame mistake - but they kept it in the game, not as an outtake. They just kept rolling! GAAAAAH!
This may have been an intentional Breaking the Fourth Wall joke, but that still certainly doesn't make it funny.
Hostile Show Takeover: Another narrator randomly shows up, and beats up the first. He then comes back later with an Uzi.
I Want Grand Kids: John's mom pressures him into marrying because she wants grandchildren. Jane's dad does the same thing.
It's A Wonderful Failure: Most videos lead to this. As well as the "Hollywood ending", you can get the asexual ending, the hired ending, the fired ending, the S&M ending, the gay ending, the indecent proposal ending, the celibate ending... there's far more bad endings than good.
The 18-rated scene? Nothing in there to have it deserve that rating. It's not the least bit pornographic. THE GAME LIES TO US!!!!!
Love at First Sight: Deciding you want to marry a woman you've never talked to that you just bumped into in a car park is not generally a recipe for fun.
Mind Screw: Seriously, what the fuck? Is... is that man in a chicken mask yelling at me? And why is he hanging upside down? Pandas? Driving race cars? Over a guy's bed? In negative colours? This couldn't be weirder if David Lynch wrote it. (Note: It was supposed to be John's dream.)
The Nineties: The hideous fashions and dreadful attempts at early Photoshopping let this game be dated very, very accurately to the early '90s. Plus, the horribly pixelated pictures and compressed sound will easily remind people of the time when "CD quality" picture and sound was actually a pejorative term.
"That bitch of a mother from the last scene just told her son to get married!"
The game even keeps in an audio outtake of the actor flubbing his lines, and the cast and crew commenting on it. audio
Old Shame: The actress who 'played' Jane, Jeanne Basone, posted on GameFAQs, mentioning she only did the part as a favour for her friend. While she didn't remember too much about it, she did understand how bad it was upon watching it herself.
"yes I am aware and I have been getting several emails, it was so long ago, kinda funny and lame at the same time, I have to laugh at all of us, helping our friend Michael out at the time. never thought it would ever see daylight, if you know what I mean..."
Padding: WHY YES, WE DO WANT TO WATCH OUR HEROES GO ABOUT THEIR DAILY LIVES IN ONE LONG, OVER-PHOTOSHOPPED SLIDESHOW. Also, the actors apparently got distracted easily. The chase scene quickly turns into a slideshow of the actors having fun around Los Angeles tourist traps. The fact that Jane is wearing only a bra and skirt is the only indication that this has anything to do with the plot at all.
Throw It In: In the 'moving' climax, the actor flubs his line, and the crew falls about laughing(Which is in itself sad; it wasn't even funny). They don't bother editing this out at all.
Violation of Common Sense: You have to go through the choice of the boss forcing Jane to take her clothes off, which gives you a negative score.
Sometimes he will say that even if you pick a different route.
You Bastard: After Railroading you into "the hairball takes advantage of the situation" option and serving up a healthy dose of Moral Event Horizon and Mood Whiplash the game has the naked chutzpah to call you a "perverted monster". And it happens elsewhere, too.
If you choose any the other options the game calls you a loser for doing such a lousy script, including the boss acting very generously and give Jane an extremely well paying job with many bonuses.
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