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How many times to you laugh when playing Monkey Island?

OzzieMonkeyOzzieMonkey
edited March 2010 in Tales of Monkey Island
Just a thought. How many times do you laugh on average when you play the series? I would have to say I laugh at least 10 times in each scene of every game, except maybe in EMI, but I still laughed quite a bit at that, but not as hard.

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  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited March 2010
    There is no Accounts Payable for amusement, so I've never actually done an inventory of laughter or other expressions of enjoyment.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited March 2010
    Out loud? I rarely laugh out loud when I'm doing something along. I think it's a fair bet that when I played ToMI I laughed a total of zero times.
    If I was playing with someone else that would be different though. Don't ask me why.
    I'm the same when reading. Maybe once a year or so, something read (book, comic...) makes me laugh.

    But that doesn't mean I don't find it funny. It's just, laughing is a way to show other people you find something funny, if you're alone, why do it?
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited March 2010
    I laughed eleventy-sixteen times.
  • MermaidMermaid
    edited March 2010
    OzzieMonkey wrote: »
    I would have to say I laugh at least 10 times in each scene of every game.

    10 times in each scene of every game??
    Whoever lives with you must have a hard time. :D

    Anyhow, avistew kind of describes my case quite well. I think I grin a lot while playing, though.
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited March 2010
    Things rarely make me laugh out loud when I'm on my own, so even though I think all the monkey island games are funny, I don't laugh that much while playing them. Having said that, though, out of all the games I've played, Monkey Island ones make me laugh the most.
  • ScrawfflerScrawffler
    edited March 2010
    I grin and chuckle quietly quite often when playing Monkey Island games.

    If there is someone else in the room watching though, sometimes we will both laugh out loud. :)
  • Captain MickeyCaptain Mickey
    edited March 2010
    I don't laugh out loud to everything...although I had a tendency to chuckle, but with ToMI, I think I actually did laugh out loud. Concerned one of my roommates but once I showed her the scene she giggled out loud as well.
  • DadelDadel
    edited March 2010
    I don't need any peer pressure to laugh out loud.
    Some of the most memorable laughs:

    The Cannibals in SoMI: "Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just glad to see us?"

    When you show Murray his glued arm in CoMI the conversation goes something like:

    Murray: What have you done to my arm!?
    Guybrush: I've put glue on it.
    Murray: You're a sick man...

    ToMI E2 and 3 Guybrush: "That's the mast!"

    ToMI E5 Guybrush: "Not that I'm afraid of Murray or anything... Murray is a punk!"

    And all the sexuall undertones in The Siege of Spinner Cay.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited March 2010
    Dadel wrote: »
    ToMI E2 and 3 Guybrush: "That's the mast!"

    I still don't know what's funny about that.
  • doodinthemooddoodinthemood
    edited March 2010
    Generally none, which is odd. I really do enjoy them and find them funny. in TMI, I did actually laugh once, but it wasn't at any of the really funny bits. It was about santino, when one of the pirates said that santino had done yet another thing, and guybrush replies "talk about putting all your eggs into one basket". I dunno why, just really tickled me the idea of this superman pirate who had died and the others were left in their incompetence.
  • DadelDadel
    edited March 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    I still don't know what's funny about that.
    "That's the mast!"

    Seriously though. I like it becouse it shows another characters reaction when Guybrush is talking to the gamer.
  • OzzieMonkeyOzzieMonkey
    edited March 2010
    Mermaid wrote: »
    10 times in each scene of every game??
    Whoever lives with you must have a hard time. :D

    Anyhow, avistew kind of describes my case quite well. I think I grin a lot while playing, though.

    haha. Sometimes it goes like a chain-reaction where I just laugh at everything after laughing at something else. I would have to say that the first scene of gameplay in Curse was the funniest, especially the interaction with the door, and Wally crying all the time.
  • ScrawfflerScrawffler
    edited March 2010
    ^Chain reactions are the best.

    That reminds me actually, when I started playing Curse for my first time, my brother was watching, and we both laughed at Wally crying. We just thought his voice actor was... funny at crying? I dunno.

    I guess we were both feeling cruel... and in need of a hobby!
  • OzzieMonkeyOzzieMonkey
    edited March 2010
    Scrawffler wrote: »
    ^Chain reactions are the best.

    That reminds me actually, when I started playing Curse for my first time, my brother was watching, and we both laughed at Wally crying. We just thought his voice actor was... funny at crying? I dunno.

    I guess we were both feeling cruel... and in need of a hobby!

    hehe, indeed. Wally's crying just sounds really funny, and because it just happens after you've probably just gotten over laughing at another joke, it makes it more funny. Just like when you look at the grate and Guybrush just says 'great'. Good times.
  • elzbenzelzbenz
    edited March 2010
    I literally burst into uncontrollable laughter constantly while playing through The curse of monkey island.

    I occasionally burst into uncontrollable laughter in the secret of monkey island.

    I only really had a laughter fit once in tales... the part where guybrush chops Santino's head off and all of the people in the Democratically United Brotherhood of the Manatee Interior are completely freaking out as they struggle to look around the mast to see what happened to Santino... :D that was HILARIOUS!
  • DideroDidero
    edited March 2010
    The Monkey Island theme usually brings a smile to my face, but other than that I have very few actual laugh-out-loud moments.
    The games are still funny though, but like others here I don't express my amusement audibly.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited March 2010
    I played 4 out of 5 of the episodes alone, and only grinned or laughed a little. But for Lair of the Leviathan, I had a friend with me watching the whole time (he too is a Monkey Island fan) and we laughed more times than you usually would throughout a feature-length comedy film. It does make a difference having another person with you.
  • MermaidMermaid
    edited March 2010
    Dadel wrote: »

    ToMI E5 Guybrush: "Not that I'm afraid of Murray or anything... Murray is a punk!".

    Oh, THAT one I definitively laughed out loud to! The scream was hilarious! :D
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