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The game worked like this: Every stage would have one character who would rap a song and ask you to perform certain tasks, like kicking, punching, turning, signaling, flowing, selling, etc. in time with the music. You would hit a button at the right moment as indicated on a bar at the top of the screen. Effectively, it was a video game version of Simon. Do well and you could make it through the song; do too badly and you would have to try again.

* [[Call Back]]: Each of the games starts with the characters watching a movie (usually involving "[[Show Within a Show|Jet Baby]]") with the same weird monster. Then, before the first level starts, they go to "Chunky Burger." In UJL, they even take the exact same dialogue for the bully characters who come in as when they did in the first game.

* [[Creator Cameo]]: Rodney Greenblat, the character designer of the series, has off-and-on cameo appearances throughout the games, most noticeably as a television reporter in ''PaRappa 2'', but also as the basis for the name of "Rodney State" where the characters live, and the singer of the "Jet Baby" song at the beginning of PaRappa 1. Also, in a bonus scene from Um Jammer Lammy, Ma-San is typing a letter to "Mr. Matsuura" (Masaya Matsuura is one of the game's creators).

* [[Egopolis]]: Parappa Town is inexplicably named after... take a guess.

** In what can be considered an inversion of [[One Steve Limit]], [[Word of God]] states that the city is named after '''another''' PaRappa. It's actually a pretty popular name in the [[The Verse|PaRappa Universe]].