History TabletopGame / ClueVCRMysteryGame

* TokenGoodTeammate: In the second Game, M. Brunette is trying their best to be legit, and tries to convince the other Characters that their lives would all be much better off if they all went legit, too.

* {{Troll}}: Didit is this in the first game, acting as though he's just been murdered, as well as cutting the lights just when Mister Boddy is about to revel who murdered him during a seance. He claims he does this as a joke to give everyone the push to get started.

* TokenGoodTeammate: In the second Game, M. Brunette is trying their best to be legit, and tres to convince the other Characters that their lives would all be much better off if they all went legit, too.

* TokenGoodTeammate: In the second Game, M. Brunette is trying their best to be legit, and tries to convince the other Characters that their lives would all be much better off if they all wet legit, too.

* TokenGoodTeammate: In the second Game, M. Brunette is trying their bst to be legit, and tries to convince the othr Characters that their lives would all be much better off if they all wet legit, too.

* SkewedPriorities: In the second game, when Mister Green checks the case where he has stord the money, he finds there is a bmb insde it, insted. He's more bothrd by the money being mssing, rather than the fact he has a tcking bmb sitting in front of him, which he just casuall tsses to the sde.

The second installment, ''Clue II: Murder in Disguise'' goes international, with the suspects now pursued by the game's new host - Inspector Pry, of Interpol, through Paris, Tangiers, and Rangoon. The gameplay is improved with the removal of the action deck for a standard menu of actions that can be used on any turn, and the clues are sorted and indicated so that a player can ask specifically for a hint about a Murderer, Victim, Weapon, or Room.

* BlackWidow: Mrs. Peacock is implied to be one [[spoiler: and later confirmed.]]

** Rose ends up complaining again about the diary voice-over, except this time it's Mustard listening about a mission from a [[Series/MissionImpossible self-destructing tape.]]

* PoisonRing:
* PrettyInMink: Miss Peach (an expanded character in some versions), wears a white fox wrap in the video.

* ShoutOut: Madame Rose states that Mrs. White came recommended from a [[Creator/ParkerBrothers a pair of brothers in Massachusetts, The Parkers.]]
* SouthernBelle: Miss Peach (an expanded character in some versions) is portrayed as a rich woman from the American southeast in this game. It overlaps with MeaningfulName, since Georgia (the state, not the country) is famous for its peaches.

* RaceLift: The earliest version of the board game has a European woman for Miss Scarlet. For this game, however, a woman with strong Asian features was cast instead.

Your host is [[TheButlerDidIt the butler,]] [[PunnyName Didit]], and each player takes on the role of one of the suspects. Unlike the original board game, players must solve at least two murders, possibly as many as five to win the game. Players are each given a collection of cards to help them keep track of clues and suspects, as well as investigate to gain more clues.

** ** When Peach asks Brunette where they are early in Chapter 1, Brunette points to the title on the screen indicating they're in Paris.

First published in 1985, Creator/ParkerBrothers designed a new medium of gaming; combining videos played on the {{UsefulNotes/VCR}} with board games. A sequel game was published in 1987, with all-new mysteries.

Your host is the butler, [[PunnyName Mr Didit]], and each player takes on the role of one of the suspects. Unlike the original board game, players must solve at least two murders, possibly as many as five to win the game. Players are each given a collection of cards to help them keep track of clues and suspects, as well as investigate to gain more clues.

* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** The {{Sequel}}, starting in pointing to the title screen to know their location.

** In Rangoon, Miss Peach writes a diary and narrates her writings in voiceover. At one point, someone else hears the voiceover and tells her to stop.

** Mr Didit, the butler, is a pun on TheButlerDidIt.

** Miss Scarlet being a spy is more of a CaptainObviousReveal. On the other hand, Colonel Mustard [[spoiler: is a former spy forced to retire after getting a steal plate implanted in his head. A ''magnetic'' steal plate.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Sergeant Grey helps Miss White make dinner, neither of them can tell a green pepper apart from a red one, revealing they're both color-blind.
* GameBetweenHeirs: The third will is a contest for who can reveal the most secrets about the others. Miss White claims that the contest was geared towards her since she has been cataloging secrets about the others in her diary.

** Sergeant Grey [[spoiler: is not a real police officer, but actually a homicidal maniac who escaped from an asylum and stole a police uniform. He's also the long lost love child of Mr. Boddy and Miss White.]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The {{Sequel}}, starting in pointing to the title screen to know their location.

* PunnyName: Mr Didit, the butler, is a pun on TheButlerDidIt.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The sequel for the VCR game, starting in pointing to the title screen to know their location.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: All the characters in the VCR Mystery Game, ranging from the crime they committed prior to the events of the game, using [[spoiler: Madame Rose as a battering ram to escape from a time bomb, to surviving 14 days from Tangiers to Burma in poverty.]]
* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: During the dinner scene in the ''Clue VCR Mystery Game''.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The VCR Mystery Game includes a dinner scene in Boddy mansion where almost all of the guests end up poisoning something that is served at dinner.