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Eeeeuuughhh. Porcelain?!

TofuHeadTofuHead
edited July 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
As soon as I heard the words porcelain, I was struck by the lack of recoil from Guybrush. What's the deal, telltalegames???

Comments

  • ShaleShale
    edited July 2009
    Wait until he has to actually touch one.
  • HoppyDragonHoppyDragon
    edited July 2009
    Maybe he had porcelain therapy between EfMI and ToMI. ;)
  • TofuHeadTofuHead
    edited July 2009
    :S He would never have even touched one in the past.
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited July 2009
    He's grown up a bit. Maybe.
  • onlyamonkeyonlyamonkey
    edited July 2009
    porc elaine.
  • IronJawboneIronJawbone
    edited July 2009
    ^That was on his honeymoon (Oh snap!)

    Any ways, it seems his fear of porcelain has diminished this game, but at least he still fears it. Maybe because of indoor plumbing getting popular enough that he's been desensitized to it?
  • ark4869ark4869
    edited July 2009
    I've got a question: I remember Guybrush hating porcelain in MI4, but in no MI before. Did I miss it or did he just start to hate it in MI4?
    I remember the Ming-Vase in MI1 which Guybrush could take, and this was also porcelain, wasn't it?
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited July 2009
    It started in Monkey 3 and who knows why?
  • ark4869ark4869
    edited July 2009
    Where in MI3?
  • MatakuMataku
    edited July 2009
    ^ anywhere that had porcelain.
  • thesporkmanthesporkman
    edited July 2009
    ark4869 wrote: »
    Where in MI3?

    I think the first pieces of porcelain you encounter in CMI are in the captain's cabin of the ship in Danjer Cove.
  • laryslarys
    edited July 2009
    its funny that we never know why guybrush hate porcelain that much other than that it was a long story. i hope someday we will
  • ThespisThespis
    edited July 2009
    larys wrote: »
    i hope someday we will

    He does say: "I'll tell you later." (Or, something to that effect.)
  • laryslarys
    edited July 2009
    Thespis wrote: »
    He does say: "I'll tell you later." (Or, something to that effect.)

    later? :) yeah right
  • ThespisThespis
    edited July 2009
    larys wrote: »
    later? :) yeah right

    I do believe that is part of the joke. :D
  • ark4869ark4869
    edited July 2009
    Thanks, just started the game again and checked. Hilarious, thanks a lot =D
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited July 2009
    TofuHead wrote: »
    :S He would never have even touched one in the past.

    Yeah, but didn't Indiana Jones had to touch a snake at one point in his adventures?
  • SurplusGamerSurplusGamer
    edited July 2009
    Haha, people are funny.

    There was a joke in CMI about his fear of porcelain, but who's to say he can't touch it at all? He seemed appropriately scared when he had to pick it up! It's just a throwaway gag anyway.
  • FearMonkeyFearMonkey
    edited July 2009
    Jake wrote: »
    It started in Monkey 3 and who knows why?

    It's because he gets his head stuck in a porcelain vase during Secret of Monkey Island.
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited July 2009
    Perhaps he hated porcelain in CoMI because Ron Gilbert wasn't involved in that one.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited July 2009
    FearMonkey wrote: »
    It's because he gets his head stuck in a porcelain vase during Secret of Monkey Island.

    I thought that was LeChuck in his Sherif desguise
  • FearMonkeyFearMonkey
    edited July 2009
    Sailorcuteness wrote: »
    I thought that was LeChuck in his Sherif desguise

    Hmmmm...been a while. Perhaps. :confused:
  • fwed1fwed1
    edited July 2009
    The sherrif wasn't LeChuck in disguise however Guybrush used the vase on the sherrif in the mansion so it wasn't that that caused it.
  • laryslarys
    edited July 2009
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    Perhaps he hated porcelain in CoMI because Ron Gilbert wasn't involved in that one.

    i can't understand the logic behind that?
  • AmaterasuAmaterasu
    edited July 2009
    Actually, there is porcelain in every game. The "trauma" begins with the first Monkey Island... or was it the second? There's a porcelain vase in one of them that breaks on Guybrush, and since then he's scared of porcelain.
  • thesporkmanthesporkman
    edited July 2009
    There is at least one porcelain vase in MI2 -- in Elaine's room, I think? -- and Guybrush doesn't have any particularly negative reaction to it.
  • smashingsmashing
    edited July 2009
    Somehow black removes Guybrush's phobia of porcelain. Look at how comfortable Guybrush is when he gotten Dark Ninja Dave.

    Hmm... is there a medical term for the fear of porcelain? porcephobia?
  • Iron CurtainIron Curtain
    edited July 2009
    smashing wrote: »
    Hmm... is there a medical term for the fear of porcelain? porcephobia?

    The greek word for porcelain is "πορσελάνη," (in Roman characters: "Porseláni") so I guess it should be "Porcellanophobia," because the word comes from Italian "Porcellana."
  • laryslarys
    edited July 2009
    Iron Curtain wrote: »
    The greek word for porcelain is "πορσελάνη," (in Roman characters: "Porseláni") so I guess it should be "Porcellanophobia," because the word comes from Italian "Porcellana."

    Mallon afu oles i iatrikes leksis ine sta ellinika mallon etsi 8a ine.
  • Iron CurtainIron Curtain
    edited July 2009
    larys wrote: »
    Mallon afu oles i iatrikes leksis ine sta ellinika mallon etsi 8a ine.

    I don't speak Greek. I actually got that from translate.reference.com. Oh, and you can use Greek characters here, in addition to Roman characters. Greek in the Roman Alphabet is just silly.
  • laryslarys
    edited July 2009
    Iron Curtain wrote: »
    I don't speak Greek. I actually got that from translate.reference.com. Oh, and you can use Greek characters here, in addition to Roman characters. Greek in the Roman Alphabet is just silly.

    Ok sorry. i said that almost all medical words are named by greeks so you are almost right
  • JexxerJexxer
    edited July 2009
    He didn't have as much trouble with it this time because he went to his special Happy Place.
  • MightierToasterMightierToaster
    edited July 2009
    This makes me sad. Especially during MI3 I always wanted to find the answer. And for it to almost be removed from his traits, is anticlimactic.
  • ShiversulShiversul
    edited July 2009
    The Porcelain jokes were my favourite jokes in the whole series :P
  • Austin PAustin P
    edited July 2009
    If you pick up the vase before going in the back of the mansion, Guybrush will put it back outside.
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