Creep TV (or Courage in Creep TV) is a 2001 Courage the Cowardly Dog-themed game that runs on Shockwave, formerly hosted on Cartoon Network's official website.
Eustace and Muriel are in trouble, again. They've been abducted by poltergeists and are trapped in the TV, and it's up to Courage to save them. Guide him around the house finding items to fix the TV and the remote so he can get into the TV and save his owners!
The game is no longer available to play on Cartoon Network's website, but has been archived by BlueMaxima's Flashpoint
, a Web Game preservation project.
Tropes:
- Achilles' Power Cord: Courage defeats the poltergeists running The Ghostly Quiz Show by simply cutting the wire to their filming camera.
- Antenna Adjusting: When the TV stops working, Courage has to fix the antenna on the roof of the house with a wire hanger from the laundry bin.
- Badass Adorable: Once again, Courage defeats a supernatural threat and rescues his owners all by himself.
- Broken Bridge: The first time Courage goes into the bathroom, he's too scared to enter because there is a poltergeist in there, flushing the toilet. After he goes into the furnace room and turns the water off, the toilet doesn't flush anymore, and the poltergeist gets bored and leaves, allowing Courage to enter.
- But Thou Must!: It's impossible to fail The Ghostly Quiz Show on Channel 13. Even if you answer wrong, the host will keep asking questions until you get them all right.
- The Cameo: Le Quack appears on Le Chef Cooking Show, which Courage accidentally phases into. He tells Courage to get out of his kitchen.
- Desperate Plea for Home: The third question the host of The Ghostly Quiz Show asks you is, "Do you want to go home now?" and the correct answer is "yes."
- Fetch Quest: Courage has to walk around the house finding items to help him fix the TV, so he can save Muriel and Eustace.
- Freak Out: Courage has one if he touches a poltergeist, though it doesn't affect the gameplay.
- Fun with Flushing: A poltergeist is in the bathroom flushing the toilet, and Courage is too scared of it to go in the bathroom, until he goes to the furnace room and turns the water off.
- Get Out!: Le Quack when he catches Courage on the set of Le Chef Cooking Show.Next, we chop the carrots into...wait, who stole my cutting knife? Who let you in here? Nobody disturbs my kitchen! Get out, you filthy mutt!
- Growling Gut: If the player chooses to do the introductory tutorial, a grumbling sound is heard and the narrator supposes Courage must be hungry, prompting the to get him some dog food. However, the grumbling continues even after Courage eats the food, and it turns out the sound was actually coming from the TV in which Eustace and Muriel are trapped in.
- Improbable Weapon User: Once Courage puts batteries in the remote, he can use it to shoot bullets of light at the poltergeists, which makes them disappear.
- Justified Tutorial: The tutorial is about controlling Courage to prepare some dog food in the kitchen, so he can stop the grumbling he heard from his belly.
- Parents in Distress: Or more like "Owners In Distress", but Muriel and Eustace have been kidnapped by poltergeists and are trapped in the TV, and Courage has to save them.
- Poltergeist: They're haunting the Bagges' house, and Courage has to get rid of them.
- Retraux: The game uses a slightly pixelated style, the same one used for fellow Cartoon Network game The Envelopes, Please!
- Sadistic Game Show: When Courage finally gets the TV working again, he gets sucked into the game show on Channel 13 that Muriel and Eustace are being forced to participate in.
- 13 Is Unlucky: The poltergeists' TV show, The Ghostly Quiz Show, is on Channel 13.
- Trapped in TV Land: Muriel and Eustace are trapped inside the TV by poltergeists, and Courage has to rescue them.
- What Does This Button Do?: When Courage enters the furnace room and sees a large dial, he wonders what it does. When he turns it, it turns off the water in the bathroom, which bores the poltergeist who was flushing the toilet and makes it go away.
