Funny / PaRappa the Rapper

Rap or crap (your pants).

PaRappa The Rapper 1

• Freestyle enough to enter Cool Mode and you are given free rein to rap as you will. Naturally, you can sentence-mix to create something really silly.
  Put CRACK CRACK CRACK X X into the bowl!^note Funnier if you've watched Brass Eye and their attempt to pass a Fantastic Drug they made up called Cake as a real concern
  • If you enter Cool Mode on Stage 2, Mooselini will say she doesn't have anything to teach PaRappa anymore and the roof will levitate, but because her antlers are stuck to it, she will rise to the sky as well while screaming. If you stay on Cool Mode throughout the level, she will still be up there, the part where she normally closes the door will have her scream instead, and she'll congratulate PaRappa from the sky if you finish on Cool Mode.
  • Enter Cool Mode on Stage 5 and Parappa enters an Acid-Trip Dimension, chasing after the toilet that's pulling away from him on rails, all while still rapping.
  • This video shows how broken the game's COOL freestyle system really is.
• In the intro, due to PaRappa being smitten with Sunny Funny, when he goes to order food, he only orders water.
• P.J.'s description of Joe Chin's limo's maximum speed devolving into incoherence due to his mouth being full.
• In the car rap:
  Mooselini: Do you know why we stopped the car?
  PaRappa: DO I KNOW WHY WE STOPPED THE CAR?
  Mooselini: I forgot to close the door.
  Parappa: YOU FORGOT TO CLOSE THE DOOR.
• Instructor Mooselini. You know, like the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
• Flubbing one of the turn lines during the car rap will result in Papappa spinning the car out through the intersection.
• Parappa's dad is understandably concerned when Parappa borrows the family car. And sure enough, his concerns become real when PaRappa DOES trash said car.
  Parappa! Hey Parappa! Where are you going with my car!? YOU'VE ONLY HAD THAT LICENSE TEN MIINUUUUUTES...!!
• Katy chewing out Parappa in his daydream:
  Katy: What do you expect to do without a cake? A birthday party without a cake is like a dance floor without me!
• During Cheap Cheap's rap:
  Cheap Cheap: Here, I've got a little sample.
  Parappa: Here, I don't have a sample.
  Cheap Cheap: 'Cause ample time's just what we don't have!
  Parappa: 'Cause money and time's just what we don't have!
• At the end of Cheap Cheap's rap, the two are inexplicably shown to be in the same room.
  Cheap Cheap: Okay, okay, that wasn't so hard, was it?
  Parappa: No problem! But how'd you get out of the TV?
  • If you do badly during the rap, Cheap Cheap will angrily march off her set to instruct Parappa herself.
  • Likewise, if you maintain a Cool until the end of the stage, Cheap Cheap will comment on Parappa’s excellent performance before making a suggestion:
    Cheap Cheap: Hey, seafood cake is okay, but you should try my new Cheap Cheap Cherry Cake for only 19.95!
    Parappa: Ah, yeah, I’ll think about it.
• The entire bathroom rap, where Parappa rap-battles his way to get through a queue to a toilet. It's so hilarious that you could forgive the developers for making it That One Level.
  • Or when you fail, in which the Potty Failure is depicted as a rocket taking off inside PaRappa, as a way of indicating that he pooped his pants.
  • There is something hilariously and beautifully cathartic about Joe Chin dropping his entire 42-story cake in the forest (unbeknownst to the others), especially since he's the sole reason why PaRappa had to go on Cheap Cheap's cooking show in the first place, and likewise, put many players through hell trying to clear the damn rap.
  • Two verses that stand out:
    Chop Chop Master Onion: I need to go/just as bad as you/What I had this morning I don't even want to say to you/Kick, punch, turn, and chop the door!
    Prince Fleaswallow: Ribet ribet/I can't hold it/Last toilet that I had/I already sold it.
  • Even during the cutscene before the rap, there are some funny moments, including PaRappa imagining birds as toilets, Sunny Funny thinking he looks manly while he's trying not to poop himself, and PaRappa's inner monologue about gas:
    PaRappa: Ugh, my car's tank is empty, but mine is full. I mean, I'm full of gas and not the car. Huh? NO! The car needs gas but I don't!
• If you listen very closely during the ending of the last rap in PaRappa 1, you can hear...
  Joe Chin: I really appreciate this fabulous party you all had just for me!

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PaRappa The Rapper 2

• When the cast gets notices that everything is turning into noodles, we get this gem:
  PJ: Huh? Noodles into Noodles? At the Chinese restaurant?
• During the Hairdresser Octopus' rap, the game has a "Kids, don't try this at home!" warning as the hairdresser and PaRappa are dancing with scissors.
• PaRappa getting a little too into Romantic Karate with PJ.
  • When Chop Chop Master Onion instructs the viewers to pull out a rose, PaRappa does so, but PJ pulls out a plate with steak instead.
  • Chop Chop Master Onion suddenly rapping about taxes and lawyers towards the end.
• At the very end of the intro cutscene in "Noodles Are the Flow, Noodles Are the Groove," there's yet another "I know! I gotta believe!" scene. The kicker? Instead of PaRappa saying it, it's Colonel Noodle.
• Guru Ant, after growing bigger than the Earth with PaRappa, is obviously scared. When the two of them shrink back down, he says "You'll never see me scared," and "I wasn't scared, you must've been dreamin'." PaRappa just goes with it.
  • In Two-player Battle Rap, if the player controlling Guru Ant presses an unused button, he will shout "Scared!" as he is attacked by a cockroach or a meteor.
• Burger Beard Master's improvised lines in "Toasty Buns". After "Toast the buns", he says "My buns are very toasty", and after "Melt the cheese", he lets out a small "Ow!" which cracks PaRappa's voice actor up.
• The montage of Ma-san inadvertently shrinking the people entering PaRappa's house by pressing the button on the remote, ranging from delivery people and aliens to random people just passing by.
• The Danger Tick show, as seen in one of PaRappa's Imagine Spots. It solely consists of a tick walking around for a short time before dropping dead, and everyone watching it except for PaRappa finds it hilarious.
• In another imagine spot, PaRappa imagines Sunny Funny with an afro. It's not a huge afro like the others, however - it's her petals with the texture of an afro◊.
• The Cool and Unusual Punishment for losing the Food Court game: only being able to eat noodles for the rest of your life.
• The fate of Colonel Noodle's mother, which is initially set up to be darker until:
  Colonel Noodle: She ate so many burgers that...
  PaRappa: Did she pass away?
  Colonel Noodle: No, she turned into one.
• In Instructor Moosesha's rap, there are a few parallels to certain moments in her sister's rap:
  • Just like Mooselini, she will fly into the sky while screaming if you enter Cool Mode, only this time it's due to her parachute accidentally opening.
  • The equivalent to "I/you forgot to close the door":
    Moosesha: Phew! I'm tired! Let's take a break!
    PaRappa: Phew! You're tired! Please take a break!

Meta

• Parappa's resurgence in popularity thanks to "Chinese" is quite literally a Noodle Incident.
• SiIvaGunner's version of the car rap is even funnier than the original version.
• In general, given the relative freedom that a player is provided with when rapping (especially during Cool mode and 2-player versus games), it's very much possible to use the word clips available at disposal in such a way that Hilarity Ensues.
  • Depending on the available words, a player can easily rearrange them to form something new, such as turning "What's your/my name, fool?" into "What's your/my full name?", creating "I've got a TV" or "Put my show back on TV" from "Put me back son, you know I gotta go/I'm gonna miss my favorite TV show", and making Colonel Noodle say "N-O N-O N-O N-O" during the "N-Double O-D-L-E-S" part (all three being examples from Parappa The Rapper 2 done in "Chinese"). It's also possible to form less appropriate words/sentences this way.
  • Within context, each and every word available to the player is completely clean. However, due to the pronunciation of a few words in some cases (namely "for" and "five" in Parappa The Rapper 2), a player can easily change the way they listen to these words, leading to them appearing to sound vulgar. The most notable example is the "Thanks brother" part in Parappa the Rapper 2 where mashing the L button makes Parappa/Colonel say "For you/me", which can also sound like they're saying "fuck" instead of "for".
  • The first level of 2 has the line "Cut the lettuce, don't forget the cheese" which can be morphed into "Cut the cheese". It is also possible for the line to be randomly generated by Beard Burger Master himself while playing the level.
  • Alternatively, the player can also press or mash random buttons to produce lyrics that make little sense, lyrics that make NO sense, stuttering, and spaz attacks. To add even more fun to the mix, there are also default commands for buttons that don't have any action mapped to them (a.k.a. Parappa saying "Oops!" or "Uh-oh!" when an unused button is pressed) and instead make the player character suffer some sort of hindrance (such as slipping and nearly falling, having a bug jump out of the carpet and a stove next to them combusting), and the best part is that NPCs have this as well when playing a 2-player versus game (see, again in "Chinese", the screaming fits of Beard Burger Master).
  • And on the topic of spaz attacks and stuttering, there's a video called "CARAMBA" that showcases this in Cool mode. It also showcases a replay bug caused by having too many rap commands in a single replay, causing Parappa to stop rapping after a certain point - which in turn leads to him entering Cool mode despite being completely silent and unresponsive.
    • And during Cool Mode? Watch as Lammy looks so horrified as Parappa spazes out and does whatever he wants to her hair. Or during the Good Bad Bug, watch them simply groove on while the Octopus Hairdresser is cleaning up (non-existent) hairs.
• PaRappa gets to have a 90's rap icon as his driving instructor for the day. It isn't as fulfilling as expected, given the rap icon's unrestrained misogyny and homophobia.
  • PaRappa ends up dying when the car is stuck on the train tracks and goes to Heaven, where he has to engage in a rap with God. Much to PaRappa's shock, Heaven apparently forbids admittance towards gay people and people of color.
• During an optional conversation in God of War Ragnarök that references PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Mimir notes that he heard that Kratos did battle with, amongst others, "history's greatest musician". There is only one viable candidate. Makes one wonder how on Earth that PaRappa managed to attain that particular title.

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