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. DummiedOut content from the game [[https://tcrf.net/Proto:The_Curse_of_Monkey_Island is available on]] [[https://tcrf.net/The_Curse_of_Monkey_Island The Cutting Room Floor wiki]].

* ZipMode: If you double-click on an exit the game will skip the animation of Guybrush having to physically walk there, which saves a lot of boredom.[[note]]A feature sadly missing in Lucasart's 3D non-SCUMM-based keyboard controlled followups ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' and ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland''.[[/note]]

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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Blood Island, Skull Island, Carnival of the Damned.

** In the CMI Strategy Guide, [[WordOfGod Bill Tiller revealed]] that El Pollo Diablo was actually real. An abandoned storyline involved a labyrinth underneath Plunder Island, filled with traps and clucks of chickens demanding vengeance on the chicken-eating world. Guybrush would have been captured and tortured there, eventually swearing off white meat for the rest of his life, after which he would have been trained in the sacred Way of Chicken, becoming an elite warrior of the Pollo Knights of the Sith.

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.

* MythologyGag: Standard for Creator/{{Lucasarts}} at the time, many {{Easter Egg}}s and a number of [[ShoutOut shout-outs]] are references to ''Franchise/StarWars'', made by their parent company Lucas''film'', as well as their previous games.

** The rollercoaster puzzle at the end of the game is very similar to the Tunnel of Love puzzle in VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: 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.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Caber tossing, heaving a tree trunk is a real Scottish sport. Unlike in the game, is not about hurling it as far as you can, but about launching it so the tree rotates and reverses itself in the air and lands on its opposite end, with points awarded based on the achieved perpendicularity to the ground and landing direction.

-->'''Guybrush:''' So what do I do now?
-->'''Mr. Fossey:''' Hmm... I don't know. We've never done this before. Aren't you humiliated?
-->'''Guybrush:''' I guess so, but no more than usual.
-->'''Mr. Fossey:''' Well, just get lost then.

** Wally is so tough, he can stuff Davy Jones in his locker, survive a flogging with a cat-o-nine-tails for thirty minutes, (Or three cats-of-five-tails for eighteen) and drink milk straight from the carton.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Subverted. Apparently, Slappy Cromwell's given name Rex Fortune, Adventure Seeker didn't have star quality.

* BlatantLies[=/=]SchmuckBait: The 3D acceleration setting in the options menu. It's toggleable but as expected does absolutely nothing.

** In Part II, even though it's always daytime in Puerto Pollo, the clocktower above the Long John Silver Center for the Performing Arts is a real-time system clock that is built in for your computer, telling you at what time you played the game and keeping track of your current, local civil time. At each hour, the clock chimes in a bit of [=LeChuck=]'s Theme followed by the chime of the hour number, and about 30 minutes after each hour, the same bit of [=LeChuck=]'s theme plays, but without the chime of the hour number. Even interesting is that when Guybrush examines the clock tower, he will say what current time will be in the Caribbean Standard Time in hours, minutes and seconds, whether in morning, afternoon and night, [[MadLibsDialogue acting like a speaking clock on the phone at the time of day service]]. Complete with "[[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Beep]]."

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Caber tossing, heaving a tree trunk as far as one can, is a real Scottish sport. Although it is a common misconception that you have to hurl it as far as you can.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Caber tossing, heaving a tree trunk as far as one can, is a real Scottish sport.

** Murray. "I will hide your keys beneath the cushions of your upholstered furniture, and ''nevermore'' will you be able to find socks that match!"

** Guybrush asks Murray if he can call him Bob. It could be because it's just a funny name, but Bob was also [=LeChuck=]'s first mate in ''Secret'', a ghostly, skeletal pirate who likewise had a [[LosingYourHead loose grip on his skull]], missing the WeddingFinale after dropping it in the bay of lava under Monkey Island.

** The hangover cure must contain "the hair of the dog that bit you". In this case they mean actual hair from a [[spoiler:not necessarily]] actual dog. And it must bite you.

* HairOfTheDog: "Hair of the dog that bit you" is one of the ingredients in a hangover cure. Though it has to be [[LiteralMetaphor actual hair from a dog that bit Guybrush]].

* BoundAndGagged: Elaine and a Wally mannequin are both tied up with gags in their mouths at the Carnival of the Damned during the endgame.

* BoundAndGagged: Wally and Elaine are both tied up with gags in their mouths at the Carnival of the Damned during the endgame.

** Elaine [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands blasts LeChuck's sword out of his hands]] from a good few hundred yards out to sea. With what appears to be a blunderbuss ([[GunsDoNotWorkThatWay notoriously inaccurate, intended for short range]]), to boot.

** Elaine [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands blasts [=LeChuck's=] sword out of his hands a good few hundred yards out to sea. With a ([[GunsDoNotWorkThatWay notoriously inaccurate]]) musket, to boot.

* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: Guybrush Threepwood has his destiny told: he will die at Blood island. The fortune teller on the island gives him the death card five times in a row. He ends up faking it to enter crypts and becomes legally dead. The cards end up being useful, too!

* FauxDeath: Guybrush [[FakingTheDead fakes his death]] with a combination of alcohol and a homemade hangover cure. Twice. At least. InsuranceFraud ensues.

* GloveSlap: You have to beat Edward Van Helgen in a duel to get him to join Guybrush's crew, and to challenge him you have to find a glove and slap him in the face with it.

* TheGunslinger: Elaine, Edward Van Helgen, and even timid little Wally are very quick on the draw.

** Haggis mentions the importance of hand lotion to avoid chafing while repairing ships. Guybrush turns to face the camera: