History VideoGame / SheepDogNWolf

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There are two Sam's; Sam Sheepdog and Yosemite Sam.

* BeserkButton: For Yosemite Sam, it's getting near his ship.

** Level 14 has a reappearance of the sheep disguise. The disguise allows you to cause a sheep to follow you by bleating near them. Since this is the last level and Sam is left with just a single sheep, attempting to do the same will immediately cause him to see through your disguise and kick you right on the spot. So what can you actually use it for? Turns out, you can bleat while being close to Sam to make HIM follow you. Absolutely nothing previously established in the game suggests that this will happen.

* PuzzlePan: Each level starts with the camera panning over the area before coming back to Ralph; for some levels, the camera shows that way a reverse order of how you're supposed to walk through them.

* PirahnaProblem: Some levels have water infested with piranhas that will [[SwallowedWhole swallow the player in one gulp]] the instant they fall in.

* TheCameo: Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd only appear for a single level and only play a small part in it. [[spoiler:K-9 appears for a very brief moment during the cutscene with Marvin the Martian and does not appear later in the game]]. Also, the audience in the HubLevel consists entirely out of cardboard cut-outs of various ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters.

* GravityScrew: During the last level, there are some very specific areas where gravity is basically making you float away from the ground.

* FissionMailed: Go ahead, cross that line at the start of the training level. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6kJfj83joI&t=7m9s What could possibly go wrong?]]

* TheArtifact: As noted in GravityIsAHarshMistress, if you run off a cliff, you can keep running and you won't fall if you reach stable ground in time. This feature isn't put to any practical use anywhere outside the tutorial.
* TheCameo: Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd only appear for a single level and only play a small part in it. [[spoiler:K-9 appears for a very brief moment during the cutscene with Marvin the Martian and does not appear later in the game]]. Also, the audience in the HubLevel consists entirely out of cardboard cut-outs of various ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters.
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:Marvin the Martian's Planet X.]]
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: You can troll the hell out of Sam by using the rocket to fly over him, causing him to chase you in circles with no hope of catching you.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The cartoons this game is based on are among the lesser-known Looney Tunes, and the fact that ''Ralph'' gets the starring role over Sam is definitely a surprise.

* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Ralph becomes this whenever he puts on a sheep disguise.
* AxCrazy: Get any close to Yosemite Sam and you're dead.

* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Just when both you and Ralph think he won and finally got himself a sheep, not only did it turn out that it was actually Sam disguised as a sheep, preparing to punch Ralph once more, but it also all turns out to be just a dream, and he has to return to the routine of unsuccessfully trying to steal sheep from Sam. He's visibly unhappy about it.]]

* GravityIsAHarshMistress: In a typical ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' fashion, you can keep running after running off a cliff - no points for guessing what happens if you stay in air for too long. However, you can avoid this if you manage to reach stable ground in time.

** There's a good chance that if you got bored at some point during the earlier levels, you might have tried blowing up Daffy Duck with explosives or mines. The reaction is pretty much exactly what you would expect from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': his body [[AshFace turning black]], and him being none too happy, proceeding to give us a lecture about the act. Therefore, by the time you are halfway through the game, you are probably completely certain that using explosives on Daffy only results in a brief moment of hilarity that has no bearing on the level. Cue Level 9, where you actually have to use the explosives on him to advance through the level, and he actually gets knocked out from the explosion for the rest of the level. ''Absolutely nothing in the game informs you that this will happen.'' Since Daffy foils your plan to use a rabbit disguise each and every time you try it by turning the Duck Season into Rabbit Season and thus causing Elmer Fudd to shoot you, the game pretty much expects that you will eventually get fed up with Daffy and try to blow him up out of vengeance.

* HumanCannonBall: During Level 13, you have to shoot a sheep with a big cannon.

* InterfaceScrew: During the last level, you can use special pods to shrink yourself. If while being tiny you'll try to get anything from your inventory, the object will crush Ralph.

* PunchClockHero / PunchClockVillain: Literally, as shown in the intro. Sam is about to punch Ralph, but a clock signals the end of their shift, at which point Sam lets Ralph go, and then they punch out the clock, shake their hands, and go home. It stays true to the [[WesternAnimation/RalphWolfAndSamSheepdog original cartoon]].

* ConvectionSchmonvection: There are a few levels with lava in it. The characters don't seem to be fazed. It IS ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', though...

* ButThouMust: In the tutorial level, you'll be asked [[AskAStupidQuestion "Do you want to play this game?"]]. Try to choose "No" and see what happens. The best part is that you can do this ''as many times as you want''.

* ConspicuouslySelectivePerception: Sam has loads of it. Most notable examples include not noticing when sheep wander away, when one is obviously missing, when a jar of honey lands right in front of him, or when Ralph should obviously be visible to him, but somehow isn't. On the flip side, Sam will not notice you when you're hiding inside a bush or pressed against some very specific rocks, but will have no trouble seeing you ''through walls''. He'll also not see anything suspicious about a bush changing its position each time he looks away, but that's just a case of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''' flavor of RuleOfFunny.

* CelShading: The PC version, although mostly just for the characters and some of the objects.
** This is actually a gameplay feature: only characters and objects that you can interact with are cel shaded. It is also a reference to the original cartoons: [[ConspicuouslyLightPatch only objects that would be moving would have outlines]]; the rest would be background elements and thus have no outlines.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The icon showing Sam's status. Green: you're not in his area, so he won't see you. Orange: you '''are''' in his area, so keep quiet and don't let him see you. Red: he's about to punch you in the face!

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Ralph can stay underwater for as long as he wants. Unless the water is filled with piranhas, of course.
** However, the sheep seem to fit the bill for SuperDrowningSkills, because they go down as soon as they fall into water.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The events of the game were AllJustADream, and Ralph has to return to his old routine.]]

* ButThouMust: In the tutorial level, you'll be asked [[AskAStupidQuestion "Do you want to play this game?"]]. Try to choose "No" and see what happens. The best part is that you can do this ''indefinitely''. As many times as you want.

** There are a number of strategies Sam attempts to use to prevent you from stealing sheep, and which are never used again once you manage to steal a sheep anyway. For instance, on level 9, Sam sets up an alarm and a trap to a patch of lettuce, so that anyone who tries to take any gets caught and Sam immediately arrives to beat them up. Patches of lettuce reappear at least once in subsequent levels, but the trap itself does not make a reappearance. The same goes for Sam's strategy from Level 6 to immediately take any sheep he sees moving back to the flock.

* ItOnlyWorksOnce: On level 4, you get a magic flute. This flute allows you to hypnotize Sam, lure him under a falling rock, and steal a sheep before he can react. On level 5, you also get a magic flute. However, when you try to use it on Sam again, you discover that Sam learned from the previous incident and got himself some earplugs. Cue you getting beaten up. After that, the flute does not appear anymore in the game.
** On another note, there are a number of strategies Sam attempts to use to prevent you from stealing sheep, and which are never used again once you manage to steal a sheep anyway. For instance, on level 9, Sam sets up an alarm and a trap to a patch of lettuce, so that anyone who tries to take any gets caught and Sam immediately arrives to beat them up. Patches of lettuce reappear at least once in subsequent levels, but the trap itself does not make a reappearance. Same goes for Sam's strategy from Level 6 to immediately take back to the flock any sheep he sees moving away.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: There are a few levels with lava in it. The characters don't seem to be phased. It IS ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', though...

** This is actually a gameplay feature: only characters and objects that you can interact with are cel shaded. It is also a reference to the original cartoons: only objects that would be moving would have outlines; the rest would be background elements and thus have no outlines.

* ButThouMust: In the tutorial level, you'll be asked [[AskAStupidQuestion "Do you want to play this game?"]]. Try to choose "No" and see what happens. The best part is that you can do this ''repeatedly''. As many times as you want.

* ButThouMust: In the tutorial level, you'll be asked [[AskAStupidQuestion "Do you want to play this game?"]]. Try to choose "No" and see what happens. You can do this ''indefinitely''.

* ButThouMust: In the tutorial level, you'll be asked [[AskAStupidQuestion "Do you want to play this game?"]]. Try to choose "No" and see what happens. You can do this ''multiple times''.