History VideoGame / PickUpThePhoneBoothAndAisle

* AWinnerIsYou: The "winning" endings, such as [[spoiler:"pick up the phone booth and aisle" and "push booth"]].

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Type "look southwest".

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--> "Looks like another cold night coming. Your best bet seems to be the phone booth. Huddled inside, you catch some winks as best as you can before the cops move you on. The half bottle of cooking sherry you stole seems to help. Next day, the struggle begins again."
--> [[spoiler:'''*** You were the CEO of pets.com ***''']]

--> "You send in your vote of affirmation... but it doesn't get counted."
--> '''*** New England? [[UsefulNotes/AlGore I meant Florida]] ***'''

** If you try to perform an action with a direction, you get creative bug responses. "Waltz (direction)", for example, gets you the response, "Your new name is Waltzes with Bugs."

* NonIndicativeName: "Sit on floor" doesn't actually result in sitting on the floor, instead leading to a ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado'' reference.

You are standing in the middle of a pretty town square in the center of a nondescript England town. Like most any other nondescript New England town, there's not much to see or do here, but maybe you'll find something amusing and enjoyable to do.\\

* GainaxEnding: "Eat booth" results in a mishmash of references to ''VideoGame/{{Aisle}}'' and ''So Far'' (bizarre enough that even the parser feels obliged to comment); "Kick Booth" seems like a utter non-sequitur unless you've played ''VideoGame/LosingYourGrip''.

* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:"Deactivate pants"]] results in a time-travel situation where William [=McKinley=] survived his presidential term, Hitler slipped in the bathtub and knocked some sense into himself, Cracker Jacks were invented but don't come with a prize, and your parents married different people, abandoning you and leaving you with a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte. Despite this, you're still around, [[spoiler:but your pants still explode and kill you]].

!!PUTBAA uses the following tropes:

It has also been [[http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Game:Pick_Up_the_Phone_Booth_and_Aisle "ported"]] to Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}}.

PUTPBAA is a spinoff of the minimalist InteractiveFiction "VideoGame/PickUpThePhoneBoothAndDie" and the differently minimalist "VideoGame/{{Aisle}}". Just as in the latter, you can only make one move, and then the game ends. You have a host of other commands to choose from, and each one leads to hundreds of possible endings, each one sillier than the last.

* AllJustADream: Mocked with [[spoiler:"wake"]].
* {{Anticlimax}}: [[spoiler:"Yay. You jumped."]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues
* AWinnerIsYou
* BecomingTheGenie: [[spoiler: Try to "Bunk In" the phone booth and see what happens.]]

* CataclysmClimax: Well let's see... among the "Game Overs" include death by meteor, death by the wrath of god, death by "ICE STOOOOOOORM", death by CosmicHorror...
* CuttingTheKnot: [[spoiler:>WIN "Okay." ***YOU WIN***]] Or so it seems.
* DevelopersForesight: Granted, while there are over 200 endings to the game, the [[http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/solutions/putpbaa.sol ending archive]] fails to list the word 'set' as a possible verb.
** Remember how typing "Inventory" [[spoiler:causes your pants to explode?]] Try typing Disarm [[spoiler:Pants]], Disleg [[spoiler:Pants]], Throw [[spoiler:Pants]], Remove [[spoiler:Pants]], Eat [[spoiler:Pants]], and then Deactivate [[spoiler:Pants]].
** If you try to perform an action with a direction, you get creative bug responses. Waltz <direction>, for example, gets you the response, 'Your new name is Waltzes with Bugs'.
*** If you try to Waltz to one of the four main cardinal directions, the text parser itself gets ''offended'' to think the player wouldn't try to elaborate past the two-word entries.
* DieChairDie: "Fight", "smash", "destroy", and other similar words cause the protagonist to try to destroy the booth. It ends badly for him, unsurprisingly.

* DiabolusExMachina: "Cook Booth" ends with a safe falling on the protagonist.
** "Burn Booth" ends with God smiting you with lightning.
* EverybodyLives: Many of the "Happy" endings are like this.

* ExactWords: Some of the endings like to misinterpret commands like "[[spoiler:tie booth]]". This can be confusing to those who try synonyms like "[[spoiler:fix booth]]".
* GainaxEnding: "Eat Booth" results in a mishmash of references to ''VideoGame/{{Aisle}}'' and ''So Far'' (bizarre enough that even the parser feels obliged to comment); "Kick Booth" seems like a utter non-sequitur unless you've played ''{{Losing Your Grip}}''.
* HappilyEverAfter: Occasionally.
* HaveANiceDeath
* InterfaceScrew: After using undo as a verb, [[spoiler:no matter what keys you press the game will type out, one letter per keypress, "drive" and execute that command]], to much confusion if it was an accident.
** Even ''more'' confusing since [[spoiler:"drive" is not one of the recognized commands in the game proper]].
** This is a shout-out to Creator/AdamCadre's ''Shrapnel'', which pulls the same trick.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: If you try to 'waylay booth', you get a flashback to your 15 years of training in the Terran Galactic Defense Force, where you were apparently motivated by constant threats of kitten-pulverization.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure
* TheHeroDies: A LOT

* LoveHurts: Choosing to "Love Booth" causes the phone booth to give you a big hug. [[spoiler: Did I say big hug? I mean it falls on you and crushes you.]]

** Typing 'eat' will end with something so nonsensical the game itself will say "What the hell was that about?"
** Also try waltz with me.

* NowWhat

* ShoutOut: To lots of other {{Text Adventure}}s. And pop culture. And all sorts of other stuff.
** Many endings describe the plot of movies or books.
* SchrodingersGun: Depending on the ending, you may end up being a MIT student, [[Series/GetSmart Maxwell Smart]], or even Franchise/{{Superman}}.
* SexyDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:'Touch booth'.]]
* SitcomArchNemesis: In [[spoiler:'Examine booth']], [[Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic David Morgan-Mar]] appears to be this for the player character.

* StuffBlowingUp: Type "blow up booth" and [[LudicrousGibs "blow up self"]].
* TakeThat: Sort of. Typing "sleep" prompts this response:

--> [[spoiler:AC:*** You were the CEO of pets.com ***]]

* TwistEnding: Type "Wait"

* WeddingsForEveryone: Yes, one of the endings involves a wedding. In it, you marry [[spoiler: the phone booth.]]
* YouCantGetYeFlask: Some verbs ([[spoiler:love, undo]]) resolve differently depending on whether you specify the phone booth as the target or not.

** [[spoiler:"Love Me",]] however, is a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].

PUTPBAA is a spinoff of the minimalist InteractiveFiction "VideoGame/PickUpThePhoneBoothAndDie" and the differently minimalist "VideoGame/{{Aisle}}". Just as in the latter, you can only make one move, and then the game ends. You have a host of other commands to choose from, and each one leads to hundreds of {{Alternate Ending}}s, each one sillier than the last.

** Also, [[spoiler: look southeast.]] Could possibly be a reference to the IF game ''Shade''.

PUTPBAA is a spinoff of the minimalist InteractiveFiction "[[http://wurb.com/if/game/176 Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die]]" and the differently minimalist "VideoGame/{{Aisle}}". Just as in the latter, you can only make one move, and then the game ends. You have a host of other commands to choose from, and each one leads to hundreds of {{Alternate Ending}}s, each one sillier than the last.

PUTPBAA is a spinoff of the minimalist InteractiveFiction "[[http://wurb.com/if/game/176 Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die]]" and the differently minimalist "[[http://wurb.com/if/game/431 Aisle]]". Just as in the latter, you can only make one move, and then the game ends. You have a host of other commands to choose from, and each one leads to hundreds of {{Alternate Ending}}s, each one sillier than the last.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Granted, while there are over 200 endings to the game, the [[http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/solutions/putpbaa.sol ending archive]] fails to list the word 'set' as a possible verb.

* ICantUseTheseThingsTogether: Lampshaded; if you try to perform an action with a direction, you get creative bug responses. Waltz <direction>, for example, gets you the response, 'Your new name is Waltzes with Bugs'.

The game can be downloaded [[http://www.wurb.com/if/game/1380 here]], or played online [[http://www.spatch.net/games/play.cgi?game=ddyte here.]]

* WaferThinMint: Watch what happens when you type "fill self".

--> [[spoiler:AC:*** You were the CEO of pets.com ***]]]]

* TurbineBlender: If you try to "fly", in a paragraph-long reference to [[spoiler:''{{Photopia}}''.]]

* SchrodingersGun: Depending on the ending, you may end up being a MIT student, [[Series/GetSmart Maxwell Smart]], or even {{Superman}}.

* SoOnceAgainTheDayIsSaved: Two endings cast you as {{Superman}} of all people!

** [[spoiler:"Love Me",]] however, is a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.