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[[File:day_of_the_Tentacle.jpg|frame|Our heroes, fleeing in terror at the first sign of danger.]]
 
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The immaculate voice acting, brilliant one-liners, clever puzzles, and memorable characters all conspired to make this one of the most popular of the [[Lucas Arts]] adventure games of all time, and probably better known than its predecessor.
 
[[Lucas Arts]] has suggested they'll be making an [[Enhanced Remake]], a la the Special Editions of ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Secret of Monkey Island]]'' and ''[[Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge (Video Game)|Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]''.
 
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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Laverne revives the frozen hamster in a microwave oven, then turns to the camera and tells the player that this only works in the future, and kids who try it in the present are taken away and put up for adoption. Bernard also [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this after "ruining" Weird Ed's stamps, commenting that he sometimes does things without knowing why, as if his body is "being controlled by some demented, sadistic puppet-master".
* [[Brick Joke]]: Laverne needs a tentacle costume to pass in the future, so Hoagie swaps the plans for the American flag with a picture of a tentacle. In the future, the Stars and Stripes changes to a tentacle outfit. In the end, {{spoiler|the characters comment on everything being back to normal... and then a tentacle-shaped flag is run up a flagpole.}}
* [[Can't Take Anything Withwith You]]: Since the Chron-O-Johns can only transport "small, inanimate objects" between them, some puzzles involve getting around this.
* [[Chaos Architecture]]: Hilariously, the layout of the Edisons' home is much more consistent in the five centuries covered in this game alone than between this game and [[Maniac Mansion|its predecessor]], set only a couple of years apart.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: The tentacle guard at the Pound, who is ultimately loyal to his wife even though he flirts outrageously with Tentacle-Laverne.
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* [[Efficient Displacement]]: Bernard falls off the roof (for a second time) and leaves a Bernard-shaped hole in the ground.
{{quote| '''Bernard''': It's a hole. Shaped like me. I'm not proud of it, but there it is.}}
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Cows]]: In the introduction, the protagonists run into a barn with their car and get a cow inside their vehicle. They crash again and the cow turns to the camera and raises its hoof in a "blow this" gesture. There is also Purple Tentacle's first appearance in the newspapers about turning upside down cows.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: The Chron-o-John is a time-traveling outhouse.
* [[Explosive Cigar]]: You solve a puzzle to get one, and you use it in a second one.
* [[Expy]]: Bernard has an expy in the form of Jackson in the amateur adventure game ''No-Action Jackson''.
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* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: The sleeping conventioner.
* [[Hidden Eyes]]: You will never see Hoagie's eyes.
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|The future Purple Tentacle is hit by his own shrink ray and squished by the heroes.}}
* [[Human Popsicle]]: Or rather, a {{spoiler|''hamster''}} popsicle.
* [[Humans Are Ugly]]: The tentacles from the future find humans ugly... Laverne gets it especially bad from a tentacle who instantly describes how he finds her repulsive (then again, she ''does'' look weird). Conversely, after she dons her stars-and-stripes disguise, every tentacle around finds her drop-dead gorgeous.
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* [[Mad Eye]]: Laverne has one of these. Thanks to [[Ambidextrous Sprite|sprite mirroring]], it's always facing the player.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Fred Edison, obviously.
* [[Meanwhile in Thethe Future]]: Numerous events are shown as events in the past change elements of the future. Once you paint the kumquats on the tree to look like cherries (in Revolutionary times), you can get [[George Washington]] to [[Never Live It Down|chop it down]]. Four hundred years later, the huge tree that Laverne is hanging from suddenly vanishes.
* [[Mirror World]]: The game takes place in the same mansion, though spread out over three different time periods.
* [[Mirrors Reflect Everything]]: Instrumental in {{spoiler|defeating Purple Tentacle}}.
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*** "Help us, Dr. Edison. You're our only hope!"
*** What appears to be a star shaped model hanging up in Bernard's dorm room is really a space mine from ''[[X Wing vs. Tie Fighter]]''.
** ''[[Monkey Island]]'', where Hoagie talks about a live-action ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Secret of Monkey Island]]'' movie and the "three-headed monkey" distraction.
** ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'', where a portrait of Max appears in a hallway in the past. Bernard from this game even makes an appearance in ''[[Sam and Max Hit The Road]]''.
** "Wait! You can't all go in the same stall! ''DIDN'T YOU SEE [[The Fly|THE FLY]]?''"
* [[Skunk Stripe]]: Laverne uses white correcting fluid to make a black cat get a white stripe so that it'll pass as a skunk.
{{quote| '''Laverne''': Who says you can't learn anything from cartoons, eh kitty?}}
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* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: The Moustached Tentacle doesn't seem the least bit impressed by a huge cherry tree ''vanishing right in front of him''. And he never mentions it again.
** Of course he isn't bothered. [[Timey-Wimey Ball|It was never there to begin with.]]
* [[Unwinnable Byby Design]]: Averted, as with the majority of [[Lucas Arts]]' adventure games.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Laverne will sometimes [[Laughing Mad|giggle psychotically]] mid-sentence.
* [[Visual Pun]]: The IRS ties up Dr. Fred in red tape. Literally.
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[Loud BANG! - the diamond crumbles]<br />
'''Dr. Fred:''' [[Oh Crap|Uh-oh]]... }}
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Green Tentacle is last seen [[Bound and Gagged|tied up]] and at the mercy of an army of Purple Tentacles.
* [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?]]: Dr. Fred tells Laverne and Hoagie that he tied up Purple Tentacle in the basement. Lucky no-one's stupid enough to let him go..... (See [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]].)
* [[With Friends Like These...]]: Bernard considers Cousin Ted as his friend, despite Ted being an inanimate mummy. If the player tries to make Bernard harm Ted, he'll refuse by saying this is not the way to treat friends. Yet, {{spoiler|this doesn't prevent him from painting him red, throwing him brutally inside an attic with a rope, and using him like a dummy to pose as Dr. Fred}}.
** You know what they say: it is the mark of true friendship to aid in your friend's wacky schemes to save the world. Ted simply can't refuse to help out, you know?
* [[Worrying for Thethe Wrong Reason]]: Just before Bernard and his friends are sent to the past by Doctor Fred:
{{quote| '''Bernard''': Have any people been hurt in this?<br />
'''Dr. Fred''': Of ''course'' not! [''trio look relieved''] This is the first time I've ever tried it on ''people''! [''trio panic''] }}
* [[You and What Army?]]: At the end of the game, the heroes face down an entire ''army'' of Purple Tentacles that the future Purple Tentacle pulled from other parts of the timeline.
{{quote| '''Bernard''': You and what army?<br />
'''Purple Tentacle''': Why, ''this'' army, of course!<br />
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