History VideoGame / TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland

After being hard to find for a long time, the game was finally made available digitally on [[Website/GOGDotCom GOG.com]] and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in 2018.

* GraveHumour: Several puzzles are based on faking the death and crypts, so...

* HollywoodDensity: Nobody seems to have much trouble moving around a solid gold, life-size statue of an adult woman, which would weigh about a metric tonne[[note]]using a little back-of-the-treasure-map math: humans are roughly the same weight per litre as water, gold is about twenty times as heavy as water, assume Elaine is a petite 50 kilograms and thus has a volume of 50 litres.[[/note]].

* PunnyName Tons of them: The Goodsoups, the [=VanSalads=]...

* LeastRhymableWord: The only way for Guybrush to stop the musical number in Act 2 is to feed his singing crew the line "We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an ''orange''."

* IncongruouslyDressedZombie: Dinghy Dog and Wharf Rat are RevenantZombie henchmen of LeChuck, but they are wearing [[GoofySuit Goofy suits]]. Justified, as LeChuck is attempting to disguise his ThemeParkOfDoom as a normal theme park.

** Wally's fate. This trope ''may'' have been invoked intentionally, since Guybrush makes a point of saying that he needs to save Wally and all of the monkey slaves, but then the theme park explodes. It's hard to say though, because other stuff was clearly cut due to ExecutiveMeddling. Guess [=LucasArts=] didn't as feel guilty about killing him off this time around. It took over ''twenty five years'' in teral time and three more games to find out that Wally actually survived.

** Another minor case is the single ipecac flower, which you can show to Kenny, the Cabana Boy, Murray and all three of the barber pirates. Each has a different reaction but refuses in some way.

* VagueAge: King Andr&eacute and Cruff look middle aged, but they are implied to have been smugglers back when the Minnie Goodsoup, the great aunt of the middle aged Griswold, was young.

* HandInTheHole: Specifically a parody of a HandInTheHole scene in ''VideoGame/TheDig'', which played the trope straight and actually did require the solution Guybrush jokingly exclaims in [[BriefAccentImitation a cheesy Austrian accent]], a la Dr. Ludger Brink: "My hand! The circulation is cut off! You'll have to cut it off!"

** Exiting and entering the crypt an absurd amount of times in a row rewards you with an unsettling EasterEgg; a protagonist from ''VideoGame/TheDig'' being devoured by a spider.

** Examining the giant web in the top-left of the screen in the Mutual of Stan and re-entering the crypt an absurd amount of times will result in a tiny woman attempting to escape from the web, and a spider chasing after her, mirroring a similar scene in ''VideoGame/TheDig'', another Creator/LucasArts adventure game.

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* DeathByDespair: Minnie 'Stronie' Goodsoup died of a broken heart after her fiancée left her at the altar. She haunts the Goodsoup crypt as a ghost.

* DevelopersForesight: If you talk to Slappy Cromwell before his performance, he will explain his connection to Blood Island and give you the name of his agent. If you do not talk to him before the performance, he will leave a note on the door with the information you need.
** The hair comb in the Barbery Coast barber shop cannot be picked up no matter what, because Haggis stops Guybrush from picking it up. However, the game has unique lines of dialogue from Van Helgen to stop Guybrush from taking the comb if Haggis has left the barber shop, and unique lines of dialogue from Cutthroat Bill if both Haggis and Van Helgen have left. Even if the player triggers events that cause Haggis and Van Helgen to leave the barber shop and pushes the jawbreaker down Cutthroat Bill's throat and then tries to take the comb, Cutthroat Bill will motion angrily towards Guybrush and Guybrush will say something along the lines of "I think he doesn't want me to take the comb."

* AWinnerIsYou: [[spoiler:There isn't any real denouement to the plot after defeating [=LeChuck=]. As soon as Guybrush springs the final trap on him, the game instantly cuts away to a thirty second scene without any dialogue, that consists of Guybrush and Elaine [[RidingIntoTheSunset heading off to their honeymoon]], while their friends are waving goodbye. The developers had planned to include more gameplay, but had to cancel after the game threatened to ScheduleSlip, so this could be the explanation]].

* AccentAdaptation: In the Italian dub of the game, Haggis (while still being referred to as Scottish) speaks in a noticeable Neapolitan accent, unique since everyone else either speaks normal Italian or uses foreign accents (Rottingham and Domingo). Furthermore, all instances of "Aye" have been translated with "Ayò!", a typical sardinian exclamation.