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  • Moral Event Horizon: Miss Peaches crosses this very easily. As soon as the player finds out that she is making cat food from kidnapped dogs, nothing can redeem her. Even worse is that to do so, she has a massive machine complete with circular saws, furnaces and crushers over and over BEFORE the dogs are sent into the machine that makes the cat food!
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • Most of the game is upbeat and fun, but then there is the Dog Pound - Complete with a blood red sky, eerie music and a ominous red mist.
    • In the last mission to rescue Daisy if you don't turn off the furnaces, circular saws, crushers, and throw the 3 spanners into the machine before Daisy reaches any of them, she's turned into cat food.
    • And then it actually does happen to Miss Peaches after she gets knocked into one of her own murder machines. Terrible person or not, the implications of a human being brutally killed, dismembered and reduced to food for animals aren't nice to think about. The game even lampshades it by first having Miss Peaches launched out of the machine still very much alive — albeit in a much larger can with her arms and legs sticking out — for slapstick. The machine then realizes that it forgot to do any pulverizing, so she's then dragged back into the machine screaming while the machine describes just what horrors are going on in there, as several smaller cans (filled with her remains) start emerging from it, just to confirm their grisly fate.
  • Quicksand Box: Most levels are small enough to be overseeable, but a few are rather sprawling and confusing, most notably the ski slope. Also, there is not much direction other than collect all the scents and bones. Thankfully, collecting is basically the core gameplay anyway.
  • Signature Scene: The infamous ending, where the antagonist is ground into cat food.
  • Squick: You can fart and poop with Jake. You can even make him pick up his own feces, bark with it in your mouth, and toss it at people. Not that they'll react at all to your poop, however.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: A number of songs in the game bear a resemblance to classic rock songs. In particular, Kurt's song sounds an awful lot the like opening riff of "Sweet Home Alabama".
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: This game got a 3+ — the equivalent of an E for Everyone — rating, in Europe. This same game has you pretty much able to pee and crap with impunity, among other disgusting things, and the final level is a bleak, hellish factory where you end up mulching the Big Bad into cat food. You know, for everyone!

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