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2A 1996 AdventureGame for [=DOS=] [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]], developed by Haiku studios.
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4The story is about the Blubs, a diminituve alien family who is going on a holiday trip throughout space. Unfortunately, they are being attacked by SpacePirates. After a chaotic chase, both of them crash on planet Earth, in a large wasteland near New York City.
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6Now marooned far away from home with their ship wrecked to pieces, the Blubs are forced to spend some time here. First thing to do: find back missing parts of the ship so they can build it again to go back home. In the meantime, they need to thwart the plans of the pirates...
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9!!This work provides examples of:
10* BiggerOnTheInside: The Blub's washing-liquid-bottle home and the Bum's hair on his head.
11* BumblingDad: Although he does prove to be more than that in "The Abominable Robin Blub".
12%%* DownInTheDumps: Duh.
13* {{Expy}}: The Blubs are basically expies of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
14* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler:Nope, that "part" that Sonny Blub has found is just an old trashcan and the bum's earring is useless since the ship has already been built]].
15* InnocentBystander: The introduction shows a worker who is repairing a part of the Art/StatueOfLiberty. As the alien ships fly by, they distract him enough for him to fall down, presumably to his ''death''.
16* JustLikeRobinHood: The third chapter is a retelling of the Myth/RobinHood story, with frogs and toads as the characters, except with the father from the Blub family as Robin.
17* MadScientist: Spike creates a machine that can twist people's minds, so he uses them on Papa Blub and Grandma Blub - respectively turning them into a neurasthenic slob and a savage berserker.
18* NoNameGiven: The family is called Blub, but none of the members are given an individual name. They are just referred to as their family status.
19* SwallowedWhole: Papa Blub is swallowed by a fish when going fishing at a pond, and he finds King Richard inside.
20* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: Let's hope you didn't lose the electrocuting hand. Because you'll need it to defeat the bad guy inside the bum's head.
21* YouDirtyRat: The first villain that you have to defeat in the game is a sunglasses-wearing rat who steals a part of the ship.
22* YourSizeMayVary: ''All the time''. This is especially JustForFun/{{egregious}} in the "Bum" chapter, where the Blub kids are about the size of a third of the bum's shoes but get suddenly small enough to walk inside his hair, being the same size as the lice.
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