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* [[Dance Party Ending]]: LSL 8.
* [[Disco Dan]]: Larry. Who else?
* [[Disney Theme Parks]]: When Larry is venturing through the city in game 2, he will at one moment see a theme park far away. If you look at the scenery, you get the message:
{{quote|'''Narrator''': "Hey! Is that Disneyland? Nah, not in an Al Lowe game!" (which is ironic as Al Lowe used to work for Disney).}}
* [[Disposable Love Interest]]: The final girl from the previous game usually left ''Larry'', but this applies.
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*** ...taking the spinach dip (which earns you points) and forgetting to throw it overboard when you reach the lifeboat, lest you automatically eat it and die of salmonella...
*** ...not having a ''perfect'' disguise at the beach to fool the KGB (including both parts of a bikini, blonde hair, removal of body hair, and some, um, "padding") -- and even then, [[It Only Works Once]]...
*** ...eating a plate of food at the resort restaurant, probably because the maitre d' there is '''EVIL'''...
*** ...eating a plate of food at an airport with a pin hidden in it, with no clue that the pin is even there in the first place...
*** ...getting caught by KGB agents in countless other ways, and so on and so on.
** Amusingly (or not, as many fans of the original were quick to point out), Larry's usual MO of trying to get laid works against him in Larry 2. In addition to the above deaths via KGB, one notable death involves talking a maid into bedding down with you... only to {{spoiler|get shot by her overprotective brother.}} On the other hand, if you gotta go...
** Notably [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] in Larry 5, in which it was impossible to die, despite at least one scene {{spoiler|involving a plane on the verge of crashing}} where it sure ''looked'' like you could die if you didn't do something. Larry 6 moved on to purely jocular death scenes which can be undone with one click, and Larry 7 had none.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: The {{spoiler|''magic marker''}} in LSL 3.
* [[Evil Redhead]]: Tilly from LSL 8.
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* [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You]]: Larry is pursued by KGB agents in LSL 2. He has to pass some of them disguised as a woman. He needs to not only have long blonde hair, but also be wearing a bikini, have stuffed his bikini top and have had his body hair removed. If not, they will catch him and say that ''"only in Russia do women wear leisure suits/have such flat breasts/are so hairy"''.
* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]: One of the puzzles in LSL 5 involves Patti breaking out of a room that has its door blocked by an apparently immovable, insurmountable, ''microphone stand''.
* [[I Should Write a Book About This]]: In the end of LSL 3, Larry is employed by Sierra to design adventure games based on his own adventures...
* [[Joe Sent Me]]: The pimp in the first game won't let you into his room until you give him the password: "Ken sent me." The name is, of course, that of Ken Williams, and "[[Al Lowe|Al]] sent me" is also accepted.
* [[Last Girl Wins]]: Pretty much in all the games.
* [[Legacy Character]]: Larry Lovage in LSL 8 and 9.
* [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]]: After losing his virginity to a prostitute in the first game, Larry realizes that he wants something more meaningful. In fact, this trope's name is also part of the title of game 2: ''Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places)''.
* [[Mafia Princess]]: Analisa from LSL 8.
* [[Male Gaze]]: This is played with in LSL 7, when Larry slowly tries to look down (twice) on Drew's breasts while they are talking but he fails as she tells him to look at her straight in the eyes.
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* [[Mini Game]]: Comprises about 70% of LSL 8 by weight.
* [[Molotov Cocktail]]
* [[Mother-Daughter Threesome]]: In ''Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!'', Larry seduces mother-daughter country duet Juggs.
* [[Multiple Endings]]: LSL 8 let the player choose one of three "final girls" at the end.
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: Happens at least twice: First as a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] in LSL 3, where Patti can pick up some marijuana leaves and smoke up (and fall to her death), and in LSL 7, where one of the girls slips a hallucinogenic drug into Larry's drink.
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* [[No Fourth Wall]]
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: In-universe example. Wang in LSL 7 is very obviously Chinese, but since he grew up in Ireland, he has an Irish accent, which gets him strange looks... so he resorts to using [[You No Take Candle]], but unsuccessfully enough that Larry sees through it.
* [[Optional Sexual Encounter]]: Having sex with the prostitute in LSL 1 is completely optional, but necessary if you want to [[
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: To name a few (both from LSL 2, the scene where Larry finds himself lost in a jungle ([[Get On With It|you go through this every time you come there]])<ref> Thankfully, there's a way to skip it. Just type "leave", and Larry will find a shortcut.</ref>, and the seating scene:
{{quote|"Why, Mr. and Mrs. Rich/Famous/Gates/Leach/Williams," says the Maitre d'. "What a pleasure to see you again. Of course I have a table for you!"
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Many. Most of these to other Sierra adventure games. For example, Princess Rosella from the ''[[King's Quest]]'' series as a hairdresser in LSL 2.
** The reason that there is no [[LSL 4]] is that according to [[SQ 4]], that game contains a virus written by Vohaul (Though they could have made that game open with '''WILCO MUST DIE!''' instead).
* [[Soft Glass]]: Subverted hard in LSL 7: Larry has to crush through a glass window-door to escape from a fire and he gets a lot of bleeding cuts in the way. And it ''hurts''. Not to mention the "paper cuts"...
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: At the nude pool in LSL 7, Larry wears a codpiece with an elephant's head on it. The first time he sees Drew there, the trunk [[Up to Eleven|comes to life and makes a trumpeting noise]]. Then it does so again when she describes what it feels like to be stuck there without any clothes.
* [[Spy Speak]]: Larry's [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]] Spanish pickup lines accidentally complete the sign-countersign for a KGB agent to give him a [[MacGuffin|microfilm]] in LSL 2.
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* [[Theme Naming]]: All of the women in LSL 3 have names ending in "i" (Tawni, Cherri, Suzi, Bambi, Patti . . . and even Bobbi, the woman Kalalau leaves Larry for at the beginning).
** All of the women in LSL 6 are named after varieties of wine.
* [[Timed Mission]]: In the first game you have two real-life hours to make Larry lose his virginity before he is [[Driven to Suicide]]. You can either do this the hard way by advancing trough the story, or go for the easy option by buying a condom and hiring the prostitute who is available from the beginning of the game. Doing the latter removes the two hour limit, but as Larry questions the validity of losing his virginity to a prostitute, the game continues, although you are now allowed to [[Take Your Time]].
* [[Toilet Humour]]: Going to the bathroom almost always leads to [[Hilarity Ensues]]. See also [[Nobody Poops]].
* [[Tongue on the Flagpole]]: In LSL 7, Larry can lick an ice statue and get his tongue stuck for a moment.
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