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{{quote|''I've sailed the seven seas in search of archaic charms and curiosities; I've raided the sunken smelters of Popgowatu for the finest of tools; and I've worked by candlelight in the yawing quarters of my ship to forge together the raw materials into the finest of blades, all to finally put a bloody end to my undead rival and stealer of spouse. It is now that this sword is more than just a sword; it is a covenant! I'm not exactly sure what that word means, but it sounds right. The seas will sleep soundly tonight, for LeChuck's time is up!''|Excerpted from ''The Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood: The [[Monkey Island (Video Game)|Monkey Island]] Years''}}

''Tales of Monkey Island'' is a 2009 video game, developed by [[Telltale Games]]. It is a five-part episodic game and the fifth in the ''[[Monkey Island (Video Game)|Monkey Island]]'' series. The game begins at the conclusion of Guybrush's latest, [[Noodle Incident|unseen]] adventure - the player guides him as he once again defeats LeChuck with an improvised piece of voodoo weaponry, only to turn the villain human again, release his concentrated evil as "The Pox of LeChuck" (which infects Guybrush's own hand) and maroon himself on Flotsam Island. All in the first chapter!

* [[Armed With Canon]]: In ''Tales'', follow the career of the Pyrite Parrot of Petaluma, particularly from the end of Chapter 2 to the start of Chapter 3. Sean Vanaman (the writer of Chapter 3) [http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=229926#post229926 admits] there was some [[Take That|friendly infighting]] on the team.

* [[Art Imitates Art]]: In Chapter 1, there is a Desingeograph of the "Vitruvian Pirate", which Guybrush calls "Pirate Da Vinci", on the Illuminopictoscreen; this "Vitruvian Pirate" is definitely a spoof of ''Vitruvian Man'' by [[Leonardo Da Vinci]].

* [[Ascended Meme]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP5bR1o-elg Grog XD] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66lfr5VzOo&feature=related appears in the fifth part]. Sort of a recursive meme, since the Grog XD joke was based of of [[The Long List]] of ingredients found in Grog in ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Secret of Monkey Island]]''.

* [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating|Avoid the Dreaded E Rating]]: ''Tales'' is the second ''Monkey Island'' game to receive a rating higher than an "Everyone" that only ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]'' received (the first was ''[[Escape From Monkey Island (Video Game)|Escape From Monkey Island]]''), and the first game to receive an E10+ rating because of frequent alcohol references and uses, a few uses of mild language, a few scenes of [[Bloodless Carnage]] and [[Family-Unfriendly Death|Family Unfriendly Deaths]], and more frequent uses of adult jokes and [[Double Entendre|Double Entendres]], and the aforementioned [[Ass Shove]] (see above).

* [[Battle in The Rain]]: Chapter 1 starts out like this on [[It Was a Dark And Stormy Night|a dark and stormy night]] as Guybrush tries to finish the ingredients for the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu in order to destroy LeChuck, {{spoiler|but due to the botched up moves and the last-minute substitutions, it ends with Guybrush [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|ending up turning LeChuck into a human and getting infected along with all the others by an outbreak of the voodoo pox]].}}

* [[Big No]]: {{spoiler|1=McGillicutty in Chapter 2, when [[Hoist By His Own Petard|his own cannonball blasts off the Screaming Narwhal's rubber tree mast and ends up sinking his own ship]].}}

* [[Big Sleep]]: Almost averted at the end of Chapter 4, {{spoiler|when the mortally wounded Guybrush's eyes open wide in a blank stare at a saddened Elaine (almost in a [[Dies Wide Open]] position), but then gently close as he collapses and "falls asleep" with his mouth open.}} (Possibly [[Foreshadowing|foreshadowed]] in a way previously in Chapter 1, {{spoiler|when Guybrush looks at the quarters door of either Elaine's ship or the Screaming Narwhal and says, "[[Warren Zevon (Music)|I'll sleep when I'm dead.]] Or later tonight."}})

** In Chapter 3, {{spoiler|after extracting the formula from Guybrush's Poxed hand,}} De Singe becomes joyous, then mutters to himself in French, "La mort est tuée..." (albeit without the "é") which, when translated, means "Death is killed." {{spoiler|This becomes a key plot point for De Singe in Chapter 4, and later for Guybrush in Chapter 5 when he repossesses his decaying corpse and [[Blessed With Suck|keeps himself "alive" with the Spirit Gum]].}}

* [[Black Comedy Rape]]/[[Double Standard Rape (Female On Male)]]: Attempted, actually: In Chapter 4, {{spoiler|just when Guybrush is about to answer to his criminal charge, a Poxed Elaine barges into the Flotsam Courthouse, threatening to pillage and plunder for "spoils, swags, booty and boodle", then sees him and calls him a "bonnie lass" before adding, "Step into me captain's quarters and let me ravish you silly!" and doing a [[Dance of Romance|freaky waltz with him]]. But then she sniffs his jacket and, thinking that he had an apparent affair with Morgan, triggers a [[Berserk Button]] as Elaine charges after her in an attempt to kill her.}}

* [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]]: {{spoiler|1=Happens in Chapter 5, as a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', when Elaine, as LeChuck's [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|demon bride]], raises her demonic power-infused Cutlass of Kaflu to kill her [[Inhuman Human|undead husband Guybrush]], and Winslow shoots the Cutlass off of her hand and onto the rail of LeChuck's ship.}}

* [[Brick Joke]]: A possibly accidental one: The [[The Secret of Monkey Island (Video Game)|first game]] has Guybrush state "half the people I know are called Guybrush." The brick comes crashing down in Chapter 4 when he explains to Bosun Krebbs {{spoiler|that she had attempted to carry out revenge on the ''wrong'' Guybrush Threepwood.}} Apparently he even gets his mail.

* [[Cardboard Prison]]: Prisons in ''[[Monkey Island]]'' games are never renowned for their security, but the prize must go to the Flotsam Island Jail in Chapter 4: to get out, Guybrush simply tells Hardtack he wants to see his lawyer -- which happens to be [[A Fool for A Client|Guybrush himself]].

* [[Catchphrase Interruptus]]: Guybrush tries to say, "[[You Fight Like a Cow]]!", but then gets interrupted throughout the game. The first time is at the beginning of Chapter 1, when he gets interrupted by Elaine; the second is at the beginning of Chapter 2, when Morgan [[Talk to The Fist|cuts off his hand before he can finish]]; and the third is in Chapter 4, when both Guybrush and the human LeChuck start saying the catchphrase at the same time, but both stop themselves before they can finish, then look at each other and laugh.

* [[Character As Himself]]: In a [[Shout-Out]] to the original ''[[Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge (Video Game)|Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]'', the end credits of Chapter 5 finishes the "Cast" section with "and Franklin as himself."

* [[Cut His Heart Out With a Spoon]]: Almost every pirate that has been infected by the [[Hate Plague|Pox of LeChuck]] will make these pointless death threats almost all the time whenever Guybrush ticks them off. There are a few times whenever Guybrush himself gets ticked off, like in Chapter 2, for example, when LeChuck is too busy looking at one [[Summoning Artifact]] he has gotten:

* [[Dead Guy On Display]]: {{spoiler|Guybrush in Chapter 5. His entire corpse is standing on display wearing a [[Nice Hat|party hat]] and [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|holding a dartboard]] during a wake in Club 41 when Bugeye and W.P. Grindstump are considering [[Due to The Dead|burning the corpse in effigy]]; Guybrush eventually [[Inhuman Human|repossesses his own decaying corpse]], though.}}

* [[Does He Have a Brother|Does He Have a Cousin?]]: Said by Anemone in Chapter 2 when talking about Winslow after repairing the mast of the Screaming Narwhal. This indicates the start of Anemone's relationship with Winslow, which later blossoms in Chapter 5.

* [[Does This Make Me Look Fat]]: One of the silver trophies in the PS3 version of the game is labeled: {{spoiler|"Does This Corpse Make Me Look Fat?"}}

{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' How about [[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|the mountain of ice on the rollercoaster of the damned]]? {{spoiler|She}} was behind THAT?<br />

'''Voodoo Lady:''' [[Sure Let's Go With That|Er, sure. Why not?]] }}

* [[Everything's Better With Bob]]: In Chapter 1, if the player has Guybrush place a Porcelain Power Pirate Action Figurine on the altar of Flotsam Jungle:

* [[Everything's Better With Monkeys]]: Especially Jacques the Electromagnetic Monkey and the Monkeys of Montevideo, the latter of which are good for laughs in one Chapter 3 [[Cutscene]].

* [[Fauxshadow]]: Guybrush’s [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough]] moment suggests he’ll lose the other wedding ring, but he doesn’t. {{spoiler|True, his soul separates from his body for a while, but does that really count as losing the ring?}}

* [[The Ferry Man]]: In Chapter 5, {{spoiler|when Guybrush arrives at the Crossroads Gateway as a [[Ghost Pirate]],}} he encounters a skeletal Ferryman with a gold tooth who keeps his boat clean and bears a slight resemblance to [[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|the Lost Welshman]]; except that this Ferryman needs to be paid with "the golden eyes of everlasting sleep", i.e., two gold coins that are placed on the eyes of the dead, so that he can ferry arriving souls to the Center of the Crossroads (just like in Greek mythology), after which he'll no longer appear once his journey is complete.

* [[A Fool for A Client]]: Guybrush does this in the fourth chapter, all requisite gags included.

* [[Hell On Earth]]/[[Villain World]]: {{spoiler|1=More like "Hell on the Caribbean" in Chapter 5, since LeChuck has regained his voodoo powers after killing Guybrush (see [[Hero-Killer]] below) and has captured Elaine. And since Guybrush isn't around to stop him, the villain not only pillages and plunders the islands in the Gulf of Melange, but he also destroys Spinner Cay, damages Flotsam (where Guybrush has fallen, though his decaying body survives intact in Club 41), slaughters many people and some Vaycaylians (and a few animal species), and sets fire to many islands, creating his own villain world that is right between [[Apocalypse How|Class 0 and Class 1]]. ([[It Got Worse|It gets a bit worse]] when [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|the Crossroads are opened]], and he becomes a [[A God Am I|Demon Pirate God]].) Thankfully, [[No Ontological Inertia|the entire Gulf of Melange starts getting better]] once Guybrush comes [[Back From the Dead]] and destroys him once and for all.}}

* [[Hijacked By Ganon|Hijacked by LeChuck]]

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: The Marquis De Singe, {{spoiler|ground into a fine powder by his own modifications to the Vaycaylian wind control device}} in Chapter 4.

*** "It's a beautiful rendering of the classic '<ref> Leonardo</ref> [[Leonardo Da Vinci|Da Vinci]].'"

*** "[[Talk to The Hand]], sicko, 'cause the <ref> face</ref> ain't listenin'!"

*** Two of the books in the Vaycaylian Library are "[[A Tale of Two Cities]] <ref> Tale</ref> [[A Tale of Two Cities|of Two]] <ref> Cities</ref>" and "[[The Old Man and The Sea (Literature)|The Old Man and The Sea]] <ref> Sea</ref>".

*** "[[Faster Pussycat Kill Kill|Faster,]] <ref> Pussycat!</ref> [[Faster Pussycat Kill Kill|Kill! Kill!]]"

*** Hardtack and D'Oro have an auction called <ref> [[E Bay]]</ref>.

*** "Do you swear on <ref> [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]]</ref> to tell the <ref> truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?</ref>"

*** "[[Black Eyed Peas (Music)|Whatcha gonna do with all that]] <ref> junk?</ref> ... [[Black Eyed Peas (Music)|All that]] <ref> junk</ref> [[Black Eyed Peas (Music)|inside your]] <ref> trunk</ref>--"

* [[Hot Chick With a Sword|Hot Chicks With Swords]]: Morgan LeFlay and Elaine.

* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her]]: Discussed and parodied with Guybrush and a human LeChuck in Chapter 2:

* [[I Love the Smell of X In The Morning]]: From the Treasure Hunt in Chapter 1:

* [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]: Guybrush does this to LeChuck in a botched attempt to destroy him. {{spoiler|1=LeChuck later does it to both Morgan and Guybrush.}}

* [[Its the Only Way]]: {{spoiler|1=Spoken by Zombie Guybrush to a surprised Morgan near the end of Chapter 5, when he takes out [[Chekhov's Gun|his last shred of life]] and tosses it into the rip to close up the Crossroads, trapping the Pirate God LeChuck and allowing her and Elaine to use the [[Coup De Grace]] on him simultaneously.}}

* [[It Was a Dark And Stormy Night]]: Though not narrated by voice or words, the game's opening ''does'' take place on a dark and stormy night in the Rock of Gelato.

* [[Jaccuse]]: Spoken by Guybrush {{spoiler|while showing Jacques the Monkey to the court during Hemlock's case}} in Chapter 4.

* [[Musical Nod]]: Blink and you'll miss it, but the diving music in Chapter 3 (also used in the pulling of the lion's paw from the Jungle Beast in Chapter 4) is a quieter version of the "Captain Kate's Boat Dive" music from ''[[Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge (Video Game)|Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]''.

** The Cursed Cutlass Of Kaflu requires five items for the spell to be complete. The ingredients include: 37 oz. of bloodstained silver, [[The Secret of Monkey Island (Video Game)|Ghost-destroying Voodoo Root Beer (fizzy)]], [[Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge (Video Game)|a Voodoo Doll]], [[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|the Midas Diamond]], and [[Escape From Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Ultimate Insult]]. Of those last four ingredients, only the Diamond ''wasn't'' used to defeat LeChuck in the past. And that's probably because [[Pepper Sneeze|black pepper]] would've been a really lame voodoo ingredient.

** In Chapter 2, when Guybrush moves the fish barrel over to the other side of the mainmast of the Screaming Narwhal and then scares the seagull, it files up and picks up a (literal) [[Red Herring]], which is reminiscent of the seagull playing with the red herring outside the Scumm Bar's kitchen in ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Secret of Monkey Island]]''. Also, Guybrush can use the fish eggs with his hook hand and catch another red herring at the fishing well in Spoon Isle.

** When Guybrush reaches for the {{spoiler|Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu as a zombie}} during the Chapter 5 cutscene, he says "[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|Pappapisshu]]" instead of "Youch".

** Hardtack the Pirate / Bailiff mentions weird slaw cravings whilst under the influence of the Pox {{spoiler|and Elaine mentions her mouth tasting like it after she snaps out of the curse}}; this is a reference to a Funny Moment [[Cutscene]] from ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]''

* [[Off With His Head]]: Parodied twice in Chapter 3: {{spoiler|once when Guybrush does this using Morgan's Blade of Dragotta to replace Santino's head with Murray while Moose is distracted; and once when Guybrush, in an attempt to extract information from the Brotherhood about the [[Translator Collar|Tongue of the Manatee]], uses the blade again to slice off "Santino's head", making Murray fly off the skeleton and into the water below.}}

* [[Or Are You Just Happy to See Me]]: In the [[PS 3]] version, one of the bronze trophies obtained in Chapter 1 (when Guybrush sees the effects of the Pox of LeChuck on the inhabitants) is labeled, "Is That a Pox on Your Face, or Are You Just Angry to See Me?"

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: This is parodied in the game from Chapters 1-4 when pirates are so infected by the Pox of LeChuck they go into Poxed rages and even [[Cut His Heart Out With a Spoon|shout out silly death threats]].

* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]/[[Wanton Cruelty to The Common Comma]]: The game's subtitles often do these with typos in them throughout its chapters, especially with its improper use of hyphens or with the letters or words or punctuation marks or hyphens missing. The biggest subtitle blunder is evident in Chapter 2, [[The Big List of Booboos and Blunders|where the subtitles are riddled with So. Many. Typos]]! It's even hard to make out the words that are often misspelled (either with an extra letter or with one or both letters missing), have a LOT of mispunctuation and miscapitalization, and don't match what the characters' voices are saying, like (for example) "<ref> Marquis De Singe</ref>", "<ref> bury</ref>", "<ref> sniveling</ref>", "<ref> mitts</ref>", "<ref> treasure</ref>", "<ref> previous</ref>", and a LOT of misspellings of "merfolk", "mermaid", "merman", "merperson" and "merpeople". Also, the biggest blunders are many words in the subtitles that don't match what the person's voice says, like, for example, Trenchfoot's subtitles repeatedly saying "I have" when his voice clearly says "I've got".

** [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Even there are a few names that everyone is confused about: the names "DeCava" ("MerLeader", "Merleader" "Mer Leader", etc.), "Vaycaylian" ("Vacaylian", "Vaycalian", "Vacalian"), "De Singe" ("Mer-Leader"), "De Cava" ("DeSinge"), Morgan DeCava ("Le Flay" in Chapter 1, "LeFlay" in Chapter 2), and "Esponja" in "La Esponja Grande" ("Esponge", "Esponga").

** In Chapter 2, when Guybrush has Hardtack and Trenchfoot try to guess a number, the two numbers that both of them guess wrongly are a reference to the [[Arc Number|Arc Numbers]], with Hardtack's guessing number 27 a reference to the curse for musicians who have died at the age of 27 (Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and, most recently, [[Amy Winehouse (Music)|Amy Winehouse]]); and Trenchfoot's guessing number [[Orphaned/WMG/The Ultimate Question of Life the Universe And Everything|42]] a reference to the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything in the 1979 novel ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (Literature)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''.

** Also in Episode 5, the Voodoo Lady manifests {{spoiler|in the Crossroads}} as a scuttle of crabs. This is very likely a reference to ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'', where Tia Dalma does the same thing {{spoiler|after she has her powers as Calypso restored}}. What makes this especially interesting is that ''Pirates Of The Caribbean'' was inspired by the earlier ''[[Monkey Island (Video Game)|Monkey Island]]'' games, and Tia Dalma is a reference to the Voodoo Lady. Which means she references the person who was inspired by ''her''.

** And LeChuck's speech to Elaine {{spoiler|up to the point when Morgan stabs him}} in the end of Chapter 5 is a parody of Old Man Waterfall's [[Sedgwick Speech]] in an episode of ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]''.

** Chapter 5, {{spoiler|traveling between the material world and the afterlife through rips in space, which connect the afterlife to previously visited locations}}? Didn't ''[[Loom (Video Game)|Loom]]'' end the same way?

*** At the beginning of the intro to Chapter 2, the Voodoo Lady quotes England's deposed king Edward IV's words to Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (a.k.a. just Warwick), before the former is taken captive in ''[[Henry VI Part 3 (Theatre)|Henry VI Part 3]]'': "What fates impose, that men must needs abide; / It boots not to resist both wind and tide" (IV.iii). Only her subtitle got it right ("needs"), while her voice got it wrong ("need").

*** In Chapter 4, if the player has Guybrush use one of the severed legs on the altar without dipping it in sugar water, he will quote a few lines in a spoof of "Alas, poor Yorick" from ''[[Hamlet (Theatre)|Hamlet]]'' (V.i) (this is done in the [[PS 3]] version in order to net the player a "Guybrush Goes Classy" silver trophy).

*** Speaking of [[PS 3]] trophies, there are a few trophies that are shout-outs too ("What's in a Name?" from the balcony scene of ''[[Romeo and Juliet (Theatre)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' (II.ii), and "Adieu, Adieu..." which is a reference to Hamlet's father's written line, "Adieu, adieu, remember me," from ''Hamlet'' (I.v)).

*** In Chapter 5, {{spoiler|Morgan}} stabs {{spoiler|1=LeChuck}} and calls {{spoiler|him}} a "bunch-backed toad", which is taken from the line from ''[[Richard III (Theatre)|Richard III]]'', in which Queen Margaret, widow of King Henry VI, curses Queen Elizabeth (wife of King Edward IV) with: "The day will come that thou shalt wish for me / To help thee curse that poisonous bunch-backed toad" (I.iii).

* [[Showdown At High Noon]]: Parodied in Chapter 1: After Guybrush has rearranged the mysterious wind idol near the Vaycaylian Wind Control Device, De Singe arrives with a rifle and demands that Guybrush surrender his Poxed hand. A brief period of staring silence follows, complete with close-ups of both Guybrush's and De Singe's faces in a style parody of ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Film)|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' before the former breaks the silence with "Make me!", and the latter pulls out the rifle and shoots him sky-high. Of course, Guybrush is still alive when he lands on the ground and gets up.

* [[Shrine to The Fallen]]: In Chapter 5, {{spoiler|1=Club 41 becomes a shrine to Guybrush, whose [[Martyrdom Culture]] is due to his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] (or rather [[Stupid Sacrifice]]) Sacrifice for saving the entire Gulf of Melange from the [[Hate Plague|Pox of LeChuck]]. The Club even has barrels of Grog, [[Sam and Max Freelance Police|Banang]], and root beer, along with votive candles, Guybrush's commemorative photo, and a wreath to be used as kindling next to [[Dead Guy On Display|Guybrush's corpse]] [[Due to The Dead|for cremation]]... unless his [[Ghost Pirate|spirit]] can repossess his body in time, that is.}}

* [[Stay With Me Until I Die]]: In Chapter 4, {{spoiler|1=after Guybrush is stabbed in the chest by LeChuck's's Cutlass of Kaflu, Elaine becomes distressed and runs to Guybrush's side, [[Hold Me|cradles him]] and stays with him until [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|he breathes his last]] (ensuring that he at least doesn't [[Dying Alone|die alone]]), even going so far as to reject LeChuck's advances and watch him regain his voodoo powers from La Esponja Grande and become the demon pirate once again. (Funny thing is that Guybrush never asks her to stay with him until the end, though she tries reviving him and he barely regains consciousness as he mumbles [[Non Sequitur Thud|"Is that you, mother? I washed my hands..."]] and later asks her in his final words to destroy LeChuck for him, [[Tear Jerker|a vow she tearfully accepts]].)}}

** Jacques the Monkey? [[Peter Gabriel (Music)|Peter Gabriel]] says hello...

* [[Stripped to The Bone]]: {{spoiler|1=Parodied in Chapter 5, when, [[Intangible Man|after Guybrush fails to take the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu]], LeChuck shows him what it feels to be a ghost with a vulnerability to [[Hollywood Acid|root beer]]; and Elaine, under the villain's influence as his [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|demon bride]], sprays root beer on Guybrush, making him scream and dissolving his transparent form, [[Nightmare Fuel|revealing a skeleton underneath that crumbles into nothingness]]. Thankfully, he rematerializes back at the Crossroads Center.}}

* [[Timber|Timmmm-Boing?]]: Shouted out by Guybrush in ''Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay'', when he manages to push the rubber tree down to the ground with help from Trenchfoot's digging for "treasure".

* [[Two Words Obvious Trope]]: If Guybrush asks Hemlock McGee what happened to his legs in Chapter 1:

* [[Villain Opening Scene]]: This game starts out with LeChuck and his captive Elaine near the Rock of Gelato at the very beginning of Chapter 1, all on [[It Was a Dark And Stormy Night|a dark and stormy night]].

* [[Well See About That]]: Spoken by De Singe, both in Chapters 1 and 4.

* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: {{spoiler|1=It's never revealed who moved/stole Morgan's body in Episode 4 (The Voodoo Lady and LeChuck were both in prison at the time) or why they did it. Presumably, this was intentional as the ending of Episode 5 left obvious sequel hints.}}

* [[Who Are You Calling Names]]: In Chapter 3, when Bugeye's voice says, "What say you, digested SCUMM™?", one of the topics the player can choose as a response is, "Hey, who you calling SCUMM™, [[The Adventures of Pinocchio (Literature)|Geppetto]]?"

* [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough]]: Lampshaded and parodied when Elaine gives Guybrush her [[Chekhov's Gun|wedding ring]] in Chapter 2:

* [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry]]LeFlay[[Hulking Out]]: Try to reason with those infected with the Pox of / who can't get their way, and they will turn green and [[Cut His Heart Out With a Spoon|make silly death threats against you to scare you]]. {{spoiler|This is what happens to Guybrush when he can't get his way, with one example being in Chapter 3, when he only wants a vote from Bugeye, and the scene that follows turns into a [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]]!}}