History VideoGame / ToeJamAndEarl

* OxygenMeter: Your life bar drains while you're underwater, but it replenishes to what it was when you climb out (or refills when you die and respawn in the water). Use an Inner Tube to avoid having to hold your breath. In ''Back in the Groove'', a Dolphin will replenish your oxygen meter.

** There are a few child enemy types in ''Panic on Funkotron'', who attack with tomatoes, spitballs and kicking the player in the shins. The shin-kicking child enemies return in ''Mission to Earth''. ''Back in the Groove'' features little girls who perform silly flying kicks... [[ThatOneAttack that will take off more health]] than anything else in the game.

** In ''Panic on Funkotron,'' you can drive your neighbors to distraction by continually ringing their doorbell, but unlike stealing presents it serves no practical purpose.

** Some presents were also changed up to be less damaging. For instance "Tomato Rain" hurt all characters originally. Now it doesn't hurt players at all (although it does also hurt friendly Earthlings).

The sequels include ''[=ToeJam=] & Earl in Panic on Funkotron'', an extremely different two-dimensional PlatformGame released on the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1993, where the duo has made it back home, only to find that several Earthlings have stowed onboard, and are now causing [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Panic on Funkotron]]. ''[=ToeJam=] & Earl III: Mission to Earth'' was a three-dimensional platformer released on Microsoft's UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} in 2002 (the game had been intended for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast, but after Sega went third-party, it was ported over to the Xbox as part of Sega's quasi-alliance with them at the time). [=ToeJam=] and Earl were also featured in ''Ready, Aim, Tomatoes!'', a pack-in game with the Genesis's Menacer light-gun peripheral. A beta of the third game from when it was intended for the Dreamcast [[http://www.geek.com/games/dreamcast-just-got-a-new-game-and-its-toejam-earl-3-1580775/ was discovered and released]], bearing many more similarities to the first game than the finished product.

* FriendlyFireproof: In the original game, Tomato Rain hurt both Earthlings and players, but in "Back in the Groove" it only hurts Earthings.

The sequels include ''[=ToeJam=] & Earl in Panic on Funkotron'', an extremely different two-dimensional PlatformGame released on the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1993, where the duo has made it back home, only to find that several Earthlings have stowed onboard, and are now causing [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Panic on Funkotron]]. ''[=ToeJam=] & Earl III: Mission to Earth'' was a three-dimensional platformer released on Microsoft's UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} in 2002 (after Sega went third-party). [=ToeJam=] and Earl were also featured in ''Ready, Aim, Tomatoes!'', a pack-in game with the Genesis's Menacer light-gun peripheral. A beta of the third game [[http://www.geek.com/games/dreamcast-just-got-a-new-game-and-its-toejam-earl-3-1580775/ was discovered and released]], bearing many more similarities to the first game than the finished product.

The sequels include ''[=ToeJam=] & Earl in Panic on Funkotron'', an extremely different two-dimensional PlatformGame released on the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1993, where the duo has made it back home, only to find that several Earthlings have stowed onboard, and are now causing [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Panic on Funkotron]]. ''[=ToeJam=] & Earl III: Mission to Earth'' was a three-dimensional platformer released on the Microsoft Xbox in 2002. [=ToeJam=] and Earl were also featured in ''Ready, Aim, Tomatoes!'', a pack-in game with the Genesis's Menacer light-gun peripheral. A beta of the third game [[http://www.geek.com/games/dreamcast-just-got-a-new-game-and-its-toejam-earl-3-1580775/ was discovered and released]], bearing many more similarities to the first game than the finished product.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Some levels are covered in snow, which acts similarly to sand and covers all land besides lakes, which are frozen and slippery. Only floating earthlings can go over the frozen lakes, making them mostly safe to slide around on.

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Toejam's "Youch!" in the first game. Toejam and Earl will also yell "Ow!" this way when kicked by a girl in ''Panic on Funkotron''.

** There are a few child enemy types in ''Panic on Funkotron'', who attack with tomatoes, spitballs and kicking the player in the shins. The shin-kicking child enemies return in ''Mission to Earth''.

** ''Back in the Groove'' adds a number, including Gandhi, who makes you immune to damage when you're near him, a mysterious stranger who will offer to trade presents, and a mechanic who will fix your broken presents for a fee, an Egyptian vizier who will reveal hidden passages, and a dolphin who will replenish your OxygenMeter.

* BlahBlahBlah: If you jump into the hot tub with the two Wahinis on Level 0, your character will talk with them, exclusively depicted with random utterances of "chat", "giggle" and "titter".

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Earl's shorts occasionally fall and he has to stop to pull them up. A rare example of this trope as a gameplay mechanic. (Incidentally, his underwear is almost identical to his pants.)

** The Hula Dancer enemy can distract Toejam and Earl by making them dance compulsively, but is otherwise harmless.

* EasterEgg: [[spoiler:Hovering over [=ToeJam=] and Earl in the credits makes the 1991 promo rap play]].

* {{NPC}}: Helpful Earthlings include the Wizard, who will fully heal you for a buck; the Wise Carrot, who will tell you the contents of a given present in your inventory for two bucks; the Opera Singer, who will kill all enemies on the screen [[DreadfulMusician with her voice]] for three; and Santa Claus, who will drop presents from his sack if you can sneak up on him.

* OxygenMeter: Your life bar drains while you're underwater, but it replenishes to what it was when you climb out (or refills when you die and respawn in the water). Use an Inner Tube to avoid having to hold your breath.
** The sequel provides an actual OxygenMeter, which can be replenished either by surfacing or finding certain fish to kiss and steal air from.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Despite some Earthlings having no such compunctions, any direct attacks Toejam & Earl have are non-lethal (except maybe exploiting a bit of VideoGameCrueltyPotential) with tomato-throwing in the first game, trapping humans in jars and shipping them back to Earth in the second and "funkafying" them in the third.

** Invoked in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxxP1CS1NcM the commercial]] for the second game, where they subtitled a guy talking about the game's selling points in ridiculously over the top "street"-speak.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can steal presents from Santa in the first game.

* {{Fartillery}}: The Gassy Tummy effect gives you gas, which makes Earthlings stay away from you every time it's...deployed.