History VideoGame / TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland

* YouGotSpunk:
-->[=LeChuck=]: Ooh! The lass has spirit!

* CueTheFlyingPigs: The intro is laced with these as Guybrush laments in his journal how he's dehydrated and starving while floating across the ocean in a bumper car with nothing but a half-eaten corn dog for nourishment, all while the items he describes float passed him as he mentions them, capped off with him sarcastically wishing for Chicken and Grog, only for a keg of grog to float by with a chicken sitting on top, clucking away.

** At one point, you have the opportunity to read a poster left by the Plunder Island Naturalist Society [[note]] It's on the screen where Guybrush is stuck in quicksand. [[/note]] that teaches you the word "pappapisshu" (native Plunder Islander for "yowch"). If you do this, Guybrush (and ''everyone'') will use the word instead of "yowch" for the rest of the game. Don't read it, and they'll continue to say "yowch" instead.

* HollywoodDensity: Nobody seems to have much trouble moving around a solid gold, life-size statue of an adult woman, which would weight 1 metric ton.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Caber tossing is the real Scottish sport of heaving tree trunks. Unlike in the game, the objective is not to hurl it as far as one 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.

* DontTryThisAtHome: Parodied. Before downing a spiked drink, Guybrush breaks the fourth wall long enough to remind players that mixing medicine and alcohol is a stupid and potentially lethal thing to do. He goes on to down a mixed-medication concoction multiple times, putting himself into a deathlike stupor as the solution to a series of puzzles.

* DontTryThisAtHome: Before downing a spiked drink, Guybrush breaks the fourth wall long enough to remind players that mixing medicine and alcohol is a stupid and potentially lethal thing to do. Overlaps with DoNotDoThisCoolThing:

** "It just occurred to me that mixing medicine and alcohol [[DontTryThisAtHome is a really stupid and possibly lethal thing to do]]. If I were a real person instead of a [[SelfDeprecation lovably inept cartoon character]] with the potential for a few more sequels... I wouldn't even consider it. Skoal!"

* DontTryThisAtHome: Before downing a spiked drink, Guybrush breaks the fourth wall long enough to remind players that mixing medicine and alcohol is a stupid and potentially lethal thing to do.

** If you try to use Murray the skull while he's in your inventory, Guybrush will say, "[[AlasPoorYorick Alas]], I can't use Murray with that."

-->'''Guybrush:''' This makes the drink oh so much more appealing.

-->'''Guybrush: '''It just occurred to me that mixing medicine and alcohol is a really stupid and possibly lethal thing to do. [[BreakingTheFourthWall If I were a real person instead of a lovably inept cartoon character with the potential for a few more sequels]]... [[DontTryThisAtHome I wouldn't even consider it]]. Skoal!

* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Tar + feathers = El Pollo Diablo.

* DramaticLandfallShot: Played with in the intro movie, where Guybrush is too absorbed in his journaling to notice he's floated into sight of Plunder Island and the middle of an ongoing ship battle

* CannibalClan: Subverted -- they've gone vegetarian. The [[HollywoodNatives Monkey Island cannibals]] from ''Secret'' return, now living on Blood Island, where they worship a lactose-intolerant volcano god and [[AppeaseTheVolcanoGod make sacrifices of tofu]]. Lemonhead is now their leader (or their leader has taken Lemonhead's mask for himself -- the Special Edition of ''Secret'' gives them the same voice actor), and Red Skull and Sharptooth have replaced their giant [[ExpressiveMask animated masks]] with a banana and a pineapple.

* FeudingFamilies: The Goodsoups and the [=VanSalads=], rival hoteliers until the Goodsoups came out on top and the two families intermarried. Didn't really work out for either of them, however, with the Blood Island hotel being the last of the Goodsoup's holdings on a remote island no one's ever heard of since their one attraction, the volcano, stopped erupting.

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

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

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

---> '''Wally:''' All the key phrases are in there. "Blow the man down!" "Shiver me timbers!" "Who's a pretty bird?"

---> '''Guybrush:''' Now ''there's'' an odd sensation...

** When playing Mega Monkey Mode and trying to find Elaine using the "treasure map" [[spoiler: from [=LeChimp's=] ship]], hitting the buttons in the sequence SE, NW, W, S, E, NE will result in [[Franchise/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Max's head]] appearing in the lights on the back wall of the theater.

--> '''Guybrush:''' No one could be THAT desperate!

* IslandBase: Skull Island. [[spoiler: Even though it looks like a duck.]]

** There's a special scene after the credits, in which [[spoiler: they spoof the classic UrbanLegend about Walt Disney being kept frozen and buried under his theme park, as [=LeChuck=] actually ''is'' buried frozen under his theme park, though a father tells the story to his son as a real father would tell Disney's story in real life.]]

* SomedayThisWillComeInHandy: Guybrush reads in an encyclopedia that "a compass is a magnetized pin floating in a solution." He comments on how useless and random said piece of trivia is. [[spoiler: Later, on Blood Island, he has to make a compass for the Lost Welshman.]]

* StrippedToTheBone: In a puzzle, you have to do this to a nigh-unedible, greasy chicken to recover an item you need to proceed. Also, what happens to those dunked into the lava of the Carnival of the Damned.

--> [=LeChuck=]: Ooh! The lass has spirit!

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

** 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.

This game marks [=LucasArts=]' final use of the SCUMM engine [[note]]Creator/HumongousEntertainment kept using it for nearly five years after[[/note]]. This game is also the first voiced of the series and marks the first appearance of Murray, the franchise's EnsembleDarkhorse.

This game marks [=LucasArts=]' final use of the SCUMM engine [[note]]Creator/HumongousEntertainment kept using it for nearly five years after[[/note]]. This game also marks the first appearance of Murray, the franchise's EnsembleDarkhorse.

* HollywoodDensity: Nobody seems to have much trouble moving around a solid gold, life-size statue of an adult woman.

* 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.

** The Spanish (or any other foreign language) version of the game doesn't have the pirate song segment. It skips directly to sea navigation.

* BrickJoke: Early on in the story, Elaine is about to punch Guybrush when she suddenly [[TakenForGranite turns to gold]]. Guess what happens the instant she's returned to normal.

* UnPaused: Elaine is gearing up to punch Guybrush right before [[spoiler:she turns into a statue. She resumes the punch when unfrozen, before staring in confusion at her surroundings.]]