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This game marks [[Lucas Arts]]' final use of the SCUMM engine <ref> [[Humongous Entertainment]] kept using it for nearly five years after</ref>. This game also marks the first appearance of Murray, the franchise's [[Ensemble Darkhorse]].
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* [[Action Girl]]: Elaine Marley is definitely one, if her [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]] moment below is anything to go by.
* [[And Starring]]: The first credit after the main title of this game says, "STARRING: Dominic Armato as Guybrush Threepwood".
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** In Part II, even though it's always daytime in Puerto Pollo, the clock tower at the Long John Silver Center for the Performing Arts is a real-time system clock that is built in for your computer, telling you at what time you played the game and keeping track of your current, local civil time. At each hour, the clock chimes in a bit of LeChuck's Theme followed by the chime of the hour number, and about 30 minutes after each hour, the same bit of LeChuck's theme plays, but without the chime of the hour number. Even interesting is that when Guybrush examines the clock tower, he will say what current time will be in the Caribbean Standard Time in hours, minutes and seconds, whether in morning, afternoon and night, [[Mad Libs Dialogue|acting like a speaking clock on the phone at the time of day service]]. Complete with "[[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|Beep]]."
** Also, when Guybrush speaks with Palido Domingo and asks him how long he's been lying in Brimstone Beach trying to get a tan, Palido will tell him he's been there since seven months prior to the current month and date on your computer clock. If you asked him in August, for example, he'll say, "Since January." Ask him in ''January'', however, and he'll not only say, "Since June," but [[New Year Has Come|he will also wish Guybrush a Happy New Year]]! Weird!
** "It just occurred to me that mixing medicine and alcohol is a really stupid and possibly lethal thing to do. If I were a real person instead of a lovable, [[Self
** "I didn't think you could die in LucasArts adventure games. The developers must be trying something different"
* [[Brick Joke]]: Early on in the story, Elaine is about to punch Guybrush when she suddenly [[Taken for Granite|turns to gold]]. Guess what happens the instant she's returned to normal.
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* [[Ear Worm]]: The main theme is this in-universe. It even drove most of the crew of the Obsessive-Compulsivo [[Driven to Suicide|to suicide]].
* [[Easier Than Easy]]: Like in the previous game, the game has a lite mode with many puzzles dummied out. [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels|Megamonkey is the normal mode]].
* [[
* [[Exact Words]]: The hangover cure must contain "the hair of the dog that bit you". In this case they mean actual hair from a dog. And it must bite you.
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: In the introduction, a sea-stranded Guybrush mentions several things he could really do with right now, and exactly everything he mentions floats by a few feet away. Moments later, he looks up from writing in his diary to find he's floated into the center of an ''enormous battle''.
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** Examining the crack in the Goodsoup crypt causes Guybrush to pop-up from the inaccessable stump of [[The Secret of Monkey Island]] in Melee Island (the one with the often misunderstood joke ''Insert Disk #absurd_number''). The original -now crude by 1997- EGA graphics and SMI-music are used and Guybrush mentions that he feels like he’s been here before, maybe in a dream. Luckily he can't exit to the other side, because he isn't aware that [[Ass Pull|a killing horde is in his way]].
** Interacting ad-nauseam with the beach with the sharks will eventually transport Guybrush to the underwater idol [[Easter Egg]] from ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]'' in time to watch his own [[Have a Nice Death]] unique [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw_U0XjdlHg moment].
* [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]]: Guybrush can introduce himself to King André this way, either under his own name or other aliases; but no matter which other aliases he chooses, André will know Guybrush's name anyway by calling him "Mister Threepwood".
* [[The Napoleon]]: Wally tries to be one of these but isn't quite successful.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The cursed ring Guybrush gives to Elaine. Guybrush spends four acts to undo his own action.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Guybrush reveals he has a fear of [[Faux Horrific|porcelain]] (which is something of a running gag throughout the rest of the game) and never explains why other than that it's "a long story".
** Fans speculated that it was because he had a porcelain vase smashed over his head during the off-screen fight with Shinetop in the first game. Sadly, [[Lucas Arts]] shot down that theory.
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*** Making it a Poodle Incident?
* [[Not Even Bothering With the Accent]]: The Lost Welshman.
* [[Oh God, With the Verbing!]]: If the player doesn't have Guybrush saw off the plank the first time he boards the Sea Cucumber, and then gets walked off the plank, he will climb on board the ship after sawing off the plank and get this exchange after monkeys surround him again:
{{quote| '''Mr. Fossey:''' ''[irritated]'' AGAIN with the sneaking on board the ship! I don't know how or why you came back on board... but the next time you walk the plank will be your last!}}
* [[Parasol Parachute]]: Landing in the cave. Else he'd fall, [[Amusing Injuries|crash with the rocks and the bottom and splash on the water]] ...just to surface at the shore seconds later to try again.
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** When Guybrush uses his [[Ventriloquism]] skills with Captain LeChimp he does a [[Star Trek|Captain Kirk]] / [[William Shatner]] impersonation, hams, random speech rhythm etc. LeChimp's (a gorilla) golden and purple attire deliberately resembles a Starfleet uniform.
** When Guybrush tells the [[Flying Dutchman|Lost Welshman]] ''I'm not afraid'', he replies ''You will be... you will be''. The dialogue is lifted from Luke and Yoda from ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''.
** Guybrush introduces himself to King André in the [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond|surname-firstname-surname style of James Bond]] with a [[Sean Connery]]-like accent.
** A later conversation choice references a famous line from the Bond film [[Goldfinger]], with Guybrush asking ''Do you expect me to talk?'' and André replying [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine|''No Mr. Threepwood, I expect you to buy.'']]
** Mort has a book titled ''[[Zombies Ate My Neighbors]]''
** Playing with the lights in the theatre enough will result in a [[Sam and Max]] illumination on the stage
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* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: One of the most important puzzles in the game hinges on the player knowing that alcohol and medicine should '''not''' be mixed under any circumstances. While for most people this is a no-brainer, younger players are a lot less likely to know that this is a bad idea since, you know, ''they don't drink alcohol''.
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]. "Violation of Common Sense, Part III": As expected. Guybrush's lines about mixing medicine and alcohol provide the quote for the trope, right below Voltaire.
* [[Walk, Don't Swim]]: Guybrush does this in one of the [[Easter Egg]] rooms.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Wally's fate. This trope MAY have been invoked intentionally, since Guybrush makes a point of saying that he needs to save Wally and all of the monkey slaves (but then the theme park explodes). It's hard to say though, because other stuff clearly WAS cut out due to [[Executive Meddling]].
* [[Wheel of Pain]]: Turned by monkeys.
* [[With This Ring]]... Guybrush invokes [[
* [[A Winner Is You]]: {{spoiler|1=After defeating LeChuck, the game instantly cuts away to a 30 second scene without any dialogue, that consists of Guybrush and Elaine [[Riding Into the Sunset|heading off to their honeymoon]], while their friends are waving goodbye. The developers had planned to include more gameplay, but had to cancel after the game threatened to [[Schedule Slip]], so this could be the explanation}}.
* [[The X of Y]]
* [[You and What Army|You And What Navy?]]: Guybrush can say this as one of his [[Dialogue Tree|options]] to Wally to talk him into defeat when he threatens to shoot our hero.
* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: As you'd expect from the franchise that [[Trope Namers|named the trope]], the Insult Swordfighting minigame returns...but with a twist: Because the fights take place at sea, the comebacks have to rhyme with the insults.
* [[You're Insane!]]: There is a scene when smuggler King André believes that the Goodsoup Family Diamond and its energy flowing though it is the key to his power, and you can choose this:
{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' You're a madman! <br />
'''André:''' Am I mad? Am I? [[Laughing Mad|HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!]] Is it madness to sit in a cave at the top of a deserted island, accumulating vast amounts of gold and jewels and stuffed animals, stockpiling plunder from across the Caribbean and passing the savings on to you? Is that madness? Or GENIUS?!?<br />
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