All-Time Favorite Adventure Game Jokes
What are your all-time favorite adventure game jokes?
My list would have to include...
MANIAC MANSION DEATH GAGS
+ Getting Razor to microwave and give the dead hamster to Weird Ed is probably the most twisted and demented gag of all, but in a warm and cuddly kind of way.
+ Drowning your buddy in the nuclear reactor cooling pool.
+ Microwaving the pool water. I like how the character runs around the kitchen like a chicken with it's head cut off yelling "Ahhhhh! Radioactive steam!"
+ Showing the Green Tentacle your record contract.
+ Playing the tentacle mating call record for the Green Tentacle. I like this joke because it's romantic.
+ The various ways of blowing up the house, and the awesome music that follows.
They're all brilliant!
SPACE QUEST 3
+ Sneaking into Scumsoft, and facing Elmo Pug. The whole Scumsoft thing was the perfect parody of Microsoft's reaction to software pirating. I wonder if software managers still have bull whips at software companies.
+ Thermal weave underwear for extreme heat. Classic.
The list could go on and on...
My list would have to include...
MANIAC MANSION DEATH GAGS
+ Getting Razor to microwave and give the dead hamster to Weird Ed is probably the most twisted and demented gag of all, but in a warm and cuddly kind of way.
+ Drowning your buddy in the nuclear reactor cooling pool.
+ Microwaving the pool water. I like how the character runs around the kitchen like a chicken with it's head cut off yelling "Ahhhhh! Radioactive steam!"
+ Showing the Green Tentacle your record contract.
+ Playing the tentacle mating call record for the Green Tentacle. I like this joke because it's romantic.
+ The various ways of blowing up the house, and the awesome music that follows.
They're all brilliant!
SPACE QUEST 3
+ Sneaking into Scumsoft, and facing Elmo Pug. The whole Scumsoft thing was the perfect parody of Microsoft's reaction to software pirating. I wonder if software managers still have bull whips at software companies.
+ Thermal weave underwear for extreme heat. Classic.
The list could go on and on...
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Go south one room from the start screen.
TAKE METAL.
That is all.
And as far as Monkey Island goes, you can't go wrong with the spitting contest.
Those were the best. You could stick your hand in the pool of acid too. It would freeze and the two guys from Andromeda would pop up and would be like, "Let's take a look and see where he went wrong." then it would slo mo of you putting your hand in the acid and it would stop and they were like, "Right here was the first mistake." They also had awesome commentary when you walked under the drips of acid and died too. Space Quest was the best. Long live Roger Wilco.
On another note, not really a specific joke, just funny: the AI in Sam and Max 204 was friggin' hilarious. I'm guessing that was a tribute to Douglas Adams' "Marvin". :cool:
I'm the guy that said a manic-depressive setting would have been cool!
Did anyone notice the possible Douglas Adams reference in the title of Dave Grossman's book of poetry "Ode to the Stuff in the Sink: A Book of Guy Poetry". I might be an obsessive Douglas Adams fan, but the first thing I thought of was the universe's second worst poem of all time: "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning". And on that note, I cast my vote that the next Telltale series is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
Use...confetti...on crazy clown
WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Also the point where you escape from both a snake's stomach and quicksand in MI3 were great.
Sam: "I wish I knew what max was thinking"
Above Max's head ., .., ...., ........, !
Sam: "Well that was a waste of money"
The "The End" screen well joke was funny too.
The snake gag was pretty funny. I liked how you could clearly see Guybrush standing in the snake... like "ehh, no big deal..." I wonder if any of the Telltale guys pull pranks around the office with ipecac in the coffee.
Sam: "Well, Well, Well"
Plus, the Edutainment gag (Who's John Muir?)
And...:
Snukey's Guy: Here's the key.
Sam: "That's a big rasp!"
Max: "Out of toilet paper?"
HA!
"Bet you can't fit that thing into your pants."
Shoop.
"Guess I was wrong; it does fit. There must be plenty of spare room in there."
Sam & Max: Hit The Road
Take Jesse James severed hand.
Attach it to broken golf ball retriever.
Have it hold fish shaped magnet.
Jam it into the worlds largest ball of twine.
Magnet attracts psychic mood ring.
Return psychic mood ring to hippie moleman living in the Mystery Spot.
He tells you to go to frog rock.
(Also, when searching for Frog Rock, I found the amazing argyle forest... I literally fell out of my chair at that one...)
Murray: I will stride through the gates of Hell, carrying your head on a pike!
Guybrush: 'Stride'?
Murray: Alright then! Roll! Roll through the gates of Hell carrying your head on a pike!
Also, a lot of the things April Ryan says in The Longest Journey are unintentionally funny.
Sam and Max htr - "if it wasn't for the carefree innocence of this carnival, i'd be breaking his kneecaps", the entire opening sequence, Max's rant after you save him from the booth at gater golf, "gratuitous acts of senseless violence are MY forte!" and of course, Max's complaints about Frog rock "I want my money back!"
I also rather liked the fisherman who was allergic to fish "holy mackerel!" "i'm a trout stupid"
DOTT: The entire hamster microwave thing "Kids who put hamsters in microwaves in MY time are taken away from their parents and put up for adoption"
"in order to save the world you gotta push a few old ladies down the stairs" and of course, the flushing of random things down the chronojohn.
Zak Mckracken: The two headed hamster, the aliens, shredding sushi and of course, what happens if you input the wrong visa (security anti piracy code) three times. Ahhh...
And while Torment is actually an rpg not an adventure game, it's worth a mention for the codex of the inconceivable and "hey Grace, how'd you like to put me in your inventory?"
In the pawnbroker's shop, clicking the shelves behind the shop owner will give you descriptions of several items that would have been useful in previous games. My favorite was the item to help you climb stairs. Man, were stairs a pain in the ass. I can't count how many times I've died falling off stairs. On a side note, I really liked where the art was going in VI and was disappointed in the Disney cartoon look in The Princeless Bride.