My favourite line was "Polly wants a cracker". This was especially funny in the german version: "Polly will nen keks". I'm still laughing today when pronouncing this sentence.
Honestly it's between "Skuuuullll Isalnd....duck" and in MI2 the Easy version you have to ask wally if he has any "bright ideas" how to escape and put out the candle on the machine...and later wally comments, "I told him I needed to go to the bathroom." There are just too many to choose from though...it's all greatness.
My favourite line was "Polly wants a cracker". This was especially funny in the german version: "Polly will nen keks". I'm still laughing today when pronouncing this sentence.
"Snugglecakes" Van Helgen: "Haggis! Lend a hand!"
Haggis: "I'm barely holdin' on meself, mates!" (is revealed to be holding down his kilt during a ferocious storm) "By God, this wind! She's the devil's own!"
The voodoo doll in Monkey 2 Its so cool. And the "If this is 5 what is this" puzzle. The wanted poster, the ending. Its hard to go 5 min without at least having a big smile in Monkey 2. But I guess thats just how all Monkey games are unless you are stuck.
I really should begin going through them all again, especially now that I can play them on ScummVM on my Wii
In Revenge when you are in Elaine's room and Guybrush says "You know, I've heard some people talking about Marley's bust..." when you look at the stone bust.
That one had me in stitches.
In Revenge when you are in Elaine's room and Guybrush says "You know, I've heard some people talking about Marley's bust..." when you look at the stone bust.
That one had me in stitches.
Edit:
For those who may not have seen it
I prefer the chest in the other corner. "It's impolite to stare at a woman's chest!"
A short list of my favourite Monkey Island gags that haven't been mentioned:
- Repeatedly trying to 'pick up' Kate Capsize
- "I think we're having a real moment here" before the ship's mast snaps in half.
- "Okay dog, you're coming with me"
- Jojo The Monkey-Wrench
- "What kind of weird duck are you?"
- Combining all the Prosthetics together and creating a monster. "It's.... alliiiive!"
- "I will hide your keys beneath your upholstered furniture! And never more will you be able to find socks that match!"
- MurrayBall
- "I choose the banjo!"
I've been replaying CMI for the first time in a long time again (I never finished it before), and I had never seen the final smuggler scene before. I must say that is one of the funniest, most brilliant scenes I've seen in a Monkey Island game ever. The lighting in the smuggler's cave after the lights went out, provided by lightning flashes, was very cool, serious, and atmospheric.
And the ending where he throws that elevator guy off of the cliff as revenge was HILARIOUS. And people say Guybrush stopped being a jerk after MI2. Not so at all.
I am a big fan of the references to other adventure games, from the Lucas Arts game references to the deaths from MI1.
Someone mentioned the men of low moral fiber, and having to get to the end of the conversation tree to finally get the item. This taught me the same thing... but Herman Toothrot in MI2, taught me that sometimes, while it may take forever to get to the end of... there really isn't anything important there. "If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, what color is it?"
Guybrush: You say you're nasty pirates...
Guybrush: ...scheming, thieving, bad bushwhackers?
Guybrush: From what I've seen I tell you...
Guybrush: ...you're not pirates! You're just slackers!
I am a big fan of the references to other adventure games, from the Lucas Arts game references to the deaths from MI1.
Someone mentioned the men of low moral fiber, and having to get to the end of the conversation tree to finally get the item. This taught me the same thing... but Herman Toothrot in MI2, taught me that sometimes, while it may take forever to get to the end of... there really isn't anything important there. "If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, what color is it?"
Not important!? ...well, if you didn't go to the end of it, you would never know that it's ALL colors! Would you now?
I'd say either Edward Van Helgen: "What! You shot my banjo!" Guybrush:"You can't be sure of that. That shot may have come from the grassy knoll."
or
Murray: "I'm a powerful demonic force! I'm the harbinger of your doom! And the forces of darkness will applaud me as I STRIDE through the gates of hell carrying your head on a pike!" Guybrush: "Stride?" Guybrush: "Alright then, roll! ROLL through the gates of hell. Must you take the fun out of everything?"
EDIT:
just thought of another..
Guybrush: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" Carpenter: "A woodchuck would chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can’t chuck wood." Guybrush: "But if a woodchuck could chuck and would chuck some amount of wood, what amount of wood would a woodchuck chuck?" Carpenter: "Even if a woodchuck could chuck wood and even if a woodchuck would chuck wood, should a woodchuck chuck wood?" Guybrush: "A woodchuck should chuck wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood, as long as a woodchuck would chuck wood." Carpenter: "Oh shut up"
"I see the guilt of stealing my chicken grows. You may have it."
"Why don't you want it? Is it jinxed with some mystical voodoo curse?"
"No. The pulley squeeks."
In LeChuck's fortress
Guybrush: "How's it hanging?"
Or
Guybrush: "Wally. I love you man."
Or in CMI
Guybrush: "If you've been locked in that coffin, how were you able to have business cards made?"
Stan: "Now's not the time to worry about the technicalities, son"
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2. Hooooooooock!
3. Chwwwwwwwwwwww!
4. Ptooie!
"CRACK"
This one literally made me fall out of my chair way back then... Took me completely by surprise!
Also, getting Stan to "leave" his coffin shop in MI2
Guybrush: "Stride?"
Murray: "Alright then, ROLL! ROLL through the gates of hell..."
Murray: "I am standing as a testament..."
Guybrush: "Standing?"
Murray: "Alright, hanging as testament..."
Guybrush: " And how did you get all the way up there?"
Murray: "By mere force of will!"
Guybrush: Huh huh
OR
Guybrush(throwing his voice at Mr. Fossey):"Uhh, testing, one, two ,thee"
Mr. Fossey:"Uhoh, I'm hearing the voices Again."
OR
Guybrush(throwing his voice at LeChimp):" Look at me, the crew, We're all... Monkeys"
Mr. Fossey:"You mean, like in the Darwinnian sense, sir ?"
Guybrush(throwing his voice at LeChimp, annoyed):" No, I mean in the quite litteral sense."
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np: Deadbeat - A Joyful Noise (Part II) (Something Borrowed, Something Blue)
This one had me rolling. And they say there's no dark humor in CMI.
Haggis: "I'm barely holdin' on meself, mates!" (is revealed to be holding down his kilt during a ferocious storm) "By God, this wind! She's the devil's own!"
I really should begin going through them all again, especially now that I can play them on ScummVM on my Wii
Btw:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG7WYCt4SRo&feature=related
Curse: Papapishu.
Escape: "It's a rather unspectacular duck..."
I dunno about my favorite in Revenge, I'll have to think about it.
Lol like that when Guybrush looks at the Elaine waitress at Planet Threepwood
*click off screen*
I could go over there... but I reaally dont want too... yeaaa.
That one had me in stitches.
Edit:
For those who may not have seen it
ES EL POLLO DIABLO !!
Prabably not my favourite, but i just love this line:D
I prefer the chest in the other corner. "It's impolite to stare at a woman's chest!"
A short list of my favourite Monkey Island gags that haven't been mentioned:
- Repeatedly trying to 'pick up' Kate Capsize
- "I think we're having a real moment here" before the ship's mast snaps in half.
- "Okay dog, you're coming with me"
- Jojo The Monkey-Wrench
- "What kind of weird duck are you?"
- Combining all the Prosthetics together and creating a monster. "It's.... alliiiive!"
- "I will hide your keys beneath your upholstered furniture! And never more will you be able to find socks that match!"
- MurrayBall
- "I choose the banjo!"
"I Accept!"
"You Do?"
And the ending where he throws that elevator guy off of the cliff as revenge was HILARIOUS. And people say Guybrush stopped being a jerk after MI2. Not so at all.
Someone mentioned the men of low moral fiber, and having to get to the end of the conversation tree to finally get the item. This taught me the same thing... but Herman Toothrot in MI2, taught me that sometimes, while it may take forever to get to the end of... there really isn't anything important there. "If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, what color is it?"
Guybrush: ...scheming, thieving, bad bushwhackers?
Guybrush: From what I've seen I tell you...
Guybrush: ...you're not pirates! You're just slackers!
A pirate I was mean't to be...
Not important!? ...well, if you didn't go to the end of it, you would never know that it's ALL colors! Would you now?
I LOVE insult swordfighting
Ignatious Cheese: Aye...
Guybrush: Cheese...
Ignatious Cheese: Aye.
Edward Van Helgen: "What! You shot my banjo!"
Guybrush:"You can't be sure of that. That shot may have come from the grassy knoll."
or
Murray: "I'm a powerful demonic force! I'm the harbinger of your doom! And the forces of darkness will applaud me as I STRIDE through the gates of hell carrying your head on a pike!"
Guybrush: "Stride?"
Guybrush: "Alright then, roll! ROLL through the gates of hell. Must you take the fun out of everything?"
EDIT:
just thought of another..
Guybrush: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
Carpenter: "A woodchuck would chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can’t chuck wood."
Guybrush: "But if a woodchuck could chuck and would chuck some amount of wood, what amount of wood would a woodchuck chuck?"
Carpenter: "Even if a woodchuck could chuck wood and even if a woodchuck would chuck wood, should a woodchuck chuck wood?"
Guybrush: "A woodchuck should chuck wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood, as long as a woodchuck would chuck wood."
Carpenter: "Oh shut up"
"I pasted it!"
"You are a sad, strange man..."
"I see the guilt of stealing my chicken grows. You may have it."
"Why don't you want it? Is it jinxed with some mystical voodoo curse?"
"No. The pulley squeeks."
Guybrush: "How's it hanging?"
Or
Guybrush: "Wally. I love you man."
Or in CMI
Guybrush: "If you've been locked in that coffin, how were you able to have business cards made?"
Stan: "Now's not the time to worry about the technicalities, son"
MI2: Guybrush stuffing a live dog down his pants.
MI3: Every scene Murray was in. That guy was a nut. Guybrush singing the "hits" to impress the Barber-Shop Pirates.