History VideoGame / AnimalCrossingNewHorizons

** Blathers describes ''Deinonychus'' as seven feet tall, when it was actually four feet tall. This is likely a conflation of ''Utahraptor'' with ''Deinonychus''. At least he made the distinction that ''Velociraptor'' was a much smaller, 2 foot tall creature compared to its pop culture image, also due to ''Jurassic Park''.[[note]]Michael Crichton stated that he incorrectly thought that ''Velociraptor'' was synonymous with ''Dromaeosaur'', rather than a specific turkey-sized genus.[[/note]]

** Blathers describes ''Deinonychus'' as seven feet tall, when it was actually four feet tall. This is likely a conflation of ''Utahraptor'' with ''Deinonychus'', which was the same mistake made in ''Literature/JurassicPark''. At least he made the distinction that ''Velociraptor'' was a much smaller, 2 foot tall creature compared to its pop culture image, also due to ''Jurassic Park''.[[note]]Michael Crichton stated that he incorrectly thought that ''Velociraptor'' was synonymous with ''Dromaeosaur'', rather than a specific turkey-sized genus.[[/note]]

** In his description for ''Deinonychus'', Blathers points out the major difference between it and ''Velociraptor'' is that ''Velociraptor'' is only two feet high in real life (the large raptors from ''Film/JurassicPark'' are actually based on ''Utahraptor'', which was mistaken for ''Deinonychus'' by both the film makers and the original author). He also states that both are believed to have had feathers.

* BareYourMidriff: Wearing a workout top or a tube top (or gifting one to a villager) has the character's lower stomach showing.

-->--'''Nook Inc.'''

* CreepyChangingPainting: Some of the fake art pieces in the game have the little extra bonus of being ''haunted'', and three of them are portraits that change periodically. The fake ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'' closes her eyes, the fake ''Beauty Looking Back'' will turn her head to face the other direction, and the fake ''Otani Oniji'' portrait will change from a frown to a smile.

* SpookyPainting: Some of the artwork that Redd sells you is not only fake, but also apparently ''haunted'', and can change appearance depending on the time of day. For example, one version of the ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'' painting will actually [[CreepyChangingPainting open and close her eyes]].

* TemporaryOnlineContent: Although this is more of an offline thing, the [[https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Nature_Day#Animal_Crossing:_New_Horizons Nature Day]] event was previously an event that was added in version 1.2.0 that allowed the player to earn extra Nook Miles by participating in garden-related activities. As a similar Nook Shopping event has taken the spot of the Nature Day event, as of version 1.9.0, the standard Nature Day evnet is no longer accessible.

** The ancestral trail in the fossil exhibit has theropods being close to ornithischians rather than sauropods, alluding to the revived dinosaur clade Ornithoscelida. It also has ''Dimetrodon'' close to mammals, and birds close to ''Archaeopteryx'' and ''Deinonychus''.

** When you first meet Zipper, the patron saint of Bunny Day, he makes sure to let you know he is ''not'' a person wearing a rabbit costume. [[MeaningfulName He has a zipper on his back,]] and will act noticeably irritated if you try talking to him from behind. When he finds out you've been making up your own DIY recipes for the eggs, he'll slip and grumble that maybe next year ''you'' should be in the bunny costume.[[note]]Could be a ContinuityNod to ''Pocket Camp'', where it ''is'' possible to get a Zipper costume that the player can wear[[/note]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Those fruit-themed electronics may seem really stretched out, [[https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/File:Apple_Tv.jpg especially]] the (juicy-)apple TV, which looks like it's just a [[{{Pun}} bad jab]] at the [[https://www.apple.com/my/shop/buy-tv/apple-tv-hd Apple TV]]. Except not only has that TV has been in the ''Animal Crossing'' series since the first game, which came out over five years before Apple's product, those [=TVs=] [[https://www.hannspree.eu/download/hannsapple-55-tv-st55fmmr/ are real]] and are being made by a Chinese company called Hannspree for over a decade now, and they also predate Apple's media box by several years.

** Played straight with some other things, like the hamster cage and bird cage--both contain a live animal, and can be gifted to hamster or bird villagers. A section in the museum implies that there's some evolutionary source for these HalfHumanHybrids.

* DubInducedPlotHole: The birds Robin and Twiggy have their default house interior layout mirroring each other, with dark color scheme for the former and light color scheme for the latter. These animals do not resemble each other aside from the fact they are both birds. This is a case of the western dub names biting back at the localizers, as their names are nearly similar in the eastern versions (Pachiku and Pichiku[[note]]Patik and Pintik in Korean which are based on the Japanese names, Chacha and Jiji in Chinese which are based on bird sounds.[[/note]] respectively).

''Animal Crossing: New Horizons'' (''Atsumare Dōbutsu no Mori'') is the fifth installment of Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series, released on March 20, 2020. After skipping over the UsefulNotes/WiiU[[note]]owing to a combination of the system's commercial failure and the fact that the dev team had been busy working on ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}''; the series's presence on the system was relegated to the short-lived ''Animal Crossing Plaza'' app and the party game spin-off ''amiibo Festival''[[/note]], this installment for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch returns the mainline ''Animal Crossing'' games to home consoles.

** During the week leading up to the Fishing Tourney and Bug Off and on the events proper, villagers of certain personalities will make boastful comments on how they're going to win or not lose the event. This would fit... had ''New Horizons'' kept the format from previous games, where it was a direct competition. Here, you earn prizes based on how many individual specimens you've caught.

** The ''Dimetrodon'' skeleton has a wire that represents how much the sail would be covered in skin; the tips of the sail is exposed, which corresponds with current theories about the pelycosaur.

** The ''Dimetrodon'' skeleton has a wire that represents how much the sail would be covered in skin; the tips of the sail is exposed, according to current theories abou the pelycosaur.

** The ''Dimetrodon'' skeleton has a wire that represents how for the sail would be covered in skin; the tips of the sail is exposed, according to current theories abou the pelycosaur.

* RenovatingThePlayerHeadquarters: Brought UpToEleven compared to previous games, with the player able to build up and customize an entire island.

** The protocol of Dodo Airlines for Mystery Tours (an activity where the player visits a randomly generated island to gather resources, collect specimens, and potentially meet a villager, but at the caveat of leaving anything not pocketed behind) is to never speak of any island visited by said tour ever again, to give an in-world reasoning for its randomness.

* StopPokingMe: Villagers acknowledge when you’ve interacted with them multiple times, with some being more passive aggressive about the constant interactions than others. They also have unique dialogue for visiting them multiple times in their houses within a certain timespan. As well, talking to a villager 5 or more times in a row can cause them to become burnt out and not want to talk to you for a while until the scrambled thought bubble goes away.

** The K.K. Slider song "K.K. Robot Synth", "K.K. Loid" in the Japanese version, is a shout-out to Music/{{Vocaloid}}. His appearance on the cover of the record evokes the looks of Music/HatsuneMiku and KAITO. As well, he holds a microphone that is commonly associated with the first Japanese Vocaloid, MEIKO.

* LastSecondWordSwap: During Bug Offs, when Flick asks if you want to sell the bugs in the bug cage, he proceeds to comment that "I'm happy to liberate-" before backing up with "-BUY them all from you" midway through "liberate".