Tales of Monkey Island: Difference between revisions

* [[Creator Cameo]]: Chapter Four features portraits of caricatures of Telltale's chief officers Dan Connors and Kevin Bruner. The series also mentions a "Nor Treblig".

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: In Chapter 2:

'''Elaine:''' ''[under the influence of the Pox]'' What do you mean by that, you worthless piece of *cough cough cough* ooh, excuse me. }}

* [[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:

** Another example is in Chapter 3, when Morgan refuses to help Guybrush prove to De Cava that he's married:

** And in Chapter 4, any threats that Judge Grindstump utters whenever Guybrush gets him angry turn into Funny Moments, like, for example:

* [[Cute Ghost Girl]]: {{spoiler|1=Morgan LeFlay in Chapter 5.}}

* [[Dance of Romance]]: Elaine does it with Guybrush in Chapter 4, {{spoiler|although it is parodied as a "Freaky Waltz of Attempted Rape"}}.

* [[Darkest Hour]]: {{spoiler|1=In Chapter 4, Guybrush watches Morgan die from a stab wound (which had been inflicted by LeChuck). As if that wasn't enough, he and Elaine get caught in clamshell traps set up by De Singe just as the former is finishing the Feast for the Senses for [[MacGuffin|La Esponja Grande]]; and after he destroys De Singe and cures everyone of the Pox of LeChuck, the villain himself breaks free, creates a bit of a [[Hope Spot]] for Guybrush and Elaine by temporarily freeing them, and then erases it by [[Hero-Killer|killing the former]] and capturing both the latter and the sponge. While Guybrush is thinking up some means of escape in the Crossroads of the afterlife, LeChuck knocks Winslow off the Screaming Narwhal and sets it adrift at sea, damages Flotsam Island by destroying many of its inhabitants, destroys Spinner Cay and its many Vaycaylians, damages the entire Gulf of Melange and makes it his own [[Villain World]]. Right after Guybrush creates another [[Hope Spot]] and opens the rips in the Crossroads, the villain gets his chance to erase it again by tossing the sponge into the rip and drawing voodoo power from the Crossroads. And to make matters worse, Elaine agrees to be turned into his demon bride who then sprays Guybrush with voodoo root beer, zapping him back to the Crossroads! A truly dark hour indeed!}}

* [[Dead Artists Are Better]]: Both discussed and parodied in Chapter 4:

'''Guybrush:''' Yeah, well, [[Screw Destiny|I don't]] [[Prophecy Twist|plan on]] [[Foreshadowing|dying today]]. }}

* [[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 This Remind You of Anything?]]: In Chapter 4, after Guybrush gives D'Oro the glass eye, the latter gives him his own map as evidence. Guybrush asks how the map got here, to which D'Oro replies that he smuggled it in his mouth. This map smuggling in the mouth could be a reference to something drug-related, but rather in the lines of "[[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]]".

* [[Don't Touch It, You Idiot!]]: If you snoop around the Voodoo Lady's hut enough in Chapter 1...

''{{spoiler|The closet then renames itself "The Scariest Closet in the World".}}'' }}

* [[Dying Alone]]: Defied twice in Chapter 4: {{spoiler|1=once when LeChuck fatally stabs Morgan in De Singe's laboratory and leaves her alone to die, [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now|yet she lives long enough]] for De Singe to discover the incident before he leaves, and for Guybrush to discover and [[Hold Me|hold her in her final moments]] as Jacques the Monkey sadly watches; and once at the end of the chapter, when it appears that LeChuck would leave Guybrush alone to die after stabbing him, with only Elaine right by his side, but then the villain returns as a transformed Demon Pirate at the last second to [[I Wished You Were Dead|taunt him]] and watch him [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|die in the arms of his grieving wife]].}}

* [[Equivalent Exchange]]

* [[Especially Zoidberg]]: When Guybrush talks to {{spoiler|1=LeChuck}} in jail in Chapter 4 and asks if {{spoiler|the Voodoo Lady}} was behind the events in the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series:

'''{{spoiler|1=LeChuck}}:''' ESPECIALLY that. }}

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Stan has had a go at just about every kind of shady business under the sun, but even he's never been and never will be a pirate.

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Voodoo Lady, as usual, but ''Tales'' hangs a few lampshades on it.

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

* [[Everything Is an Instrument]]: In Chapter 3, Noogie plays the manatee bile sacs like bongos, and playing them wildly can cause the bile to rise up.

* [[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]].

* [[Evil All Along]]: {{spoiler|1=LeChuck. From the moment that Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently [[Humanity Ensues|turns him into a human]] who acts like a [[Harmless Villain]] and helps out on Guybrush and Elaine from Chapter 2 up to Chapter 4 (all the while wearing his [[Glamour|charming]] [[Instant Allegiance Artifact|belt buckle]]), then kills Guybrush in a clever ambush as soon as our hero cures everyone of the [[Hate Plague|Pox of LeChuck]]; Elaine sees that "with or without all that voodoo, [LeChuck is] still nothing but an evil sack of scumm".}}

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: {{spoiler|1=LeChuck in his human form. Subverted/inverted at first in Chapters 2-4, when he acts like a good guy, but then doubly subverted at the very end of Chapter 4, when he kills Guybrush before regaining his voodoo powers.}}

* [[Exact Words]] (with just hints of [[Foreshadowing]] and [[Arc Words]]): In Chapter 1, at one time when Guybrush talks to LeChuck {{spoiler|before finishing the recipe for the Cutlass of Kaflu}} on Elaine's ship, a few things come to mind. One is:

'''LeChuck:''' YOUR wife? Nay, Elaine is destined to be MY bride! }}

** Another is:

'''LeChuck:''' Ye be starting to get on me nerves, Geekwood. Elaine?<br />

'''Elaine:''' ''[impatient]'' Oh, for pity's sake. [[Kill Him Already|Just run him through with the cutlass]] so we can all go home.<br />

'''Guybrush:''' I'm pretty sure she was talking to me. }}

** And yet here's another:

'''LeChuck:''' [[Arc Words|Till death do you part]], eh? We'll have to do something about that. }}

** All of these bits of dialogue are foreshadowing what happens in Chapters 4 and 5, {{spoiler|1=when LeChuck brutally murders Guybrush by running him through with the Cutlass of Kaflu and then gains his voodoo powers from La Esponja Grande, which he then uses to turn a willing Elaine into his demon bride. And when Guybrush returns as a zombie later on, LeChuck tells him that he only wanted him "alive to see me marry Elaine."}}

{{spoiler|1='''LeChuck:''' "Till DEATH do you part," Threepwood! And that part has already been taken care of!}} }}

** {{spoiler|1=However, all of these are finally subverted when Guybrush returns Elaine to normal, destroys LeChuck with help from her and Morgan LeFlay, and eventually returns to life at the end of Chapter 5.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[Here We Go Again]]: In Chapter 2, this is lampshaded by the MerLeader when McGillicutty [[Poke the Poodle|repeatedly attempts to drown him/her as "torture"]]:

'''McGillicutty:''' I'll deal with you later, [[My Name Is Not Durwood|Stinkwood]]! I think old fin-face here wants another dip in the drink! [[Evil Laugh|HA ha ha ha harr!]]<br />

'''Chieftain Beluga:''' Here we go again. ''[s/he is lowered into the water]'' }}

* [[I Can Explain]]: Repeated in Chapter 3, once when the Brotherhood gets angry at Guybrush for betrayal, and once when he talks to De Cava during the ship battle {{spoiler|for La Esponja Grande}}.

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

'''Guybrush:''' ''[smiles]'' Actually, that kinda sounds like our honeymoon! }}

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Averted when {{spoiler|a weakened De Singe chases and corners Guybrush's Poxed hand at the Vaycaylian Wind Control Device and says, "Aha! I have you now, my pretty!" before the hand pushes him into the device with a [[Stock Scream|Wilhelm Scream]] in Chapter 4.}}

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

* [[I Meant to Do That]]: Guybrush says this in Chapter 1 after he has caught the Desingeograph of his Poxed hand with his feet and flips it onto the picture bucket near the Illuminopictoscreen. Even though he says that as if he were doing it by accident, it is all a part to escape from the operating table in De Singe's laboratory.

* [[Immortal Life Is Cheap]]/[[Immortality Hurts]]: {{spoiler|1=Near the end of Chapter 5, LeChuck gives zombie Guybrush [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|a terrible beating and maiming]] that [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now|would have killed an ordinary human being]], often [[Evil Gloating|gloating about many ways to kill our hero]] and [[Trash Talk|trash-talking him]], yet unaware that Guybrush can't die, thanks to the effects of the Spirit Gum inside him. And while Guybrush is continuously beaten, he feels so exhausted and in so much pain that he can't even ''quip'', indicating that immortality ''does'' indeed hurt. He eventually finds a way to get back to the rip in the Crossroads and destroy LeChuck with help from Elaine and Morgan in the end, just to end our hero's [[Fate Worse Than Death|continual suffering]].}}

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Given the series, these are unavoidable, but of note is Guybrush's "[[Dora the Explorer|D'Oro the Explorer]]" in Chapter One. His left hand actually slaps him for it.

** Amazingly, he manages to top himself in the very next episode, ''The Siege of Spinner Cay'', after receiving a book of 101 Fish Jokes from the Vaycaylian Tetra (many of which also qualify):

'''Tetra:''' I hate you now. }}

* [[Informal Eulogy]]: {{spoiler|1=At the very end of Chapter 4, when Guybrush dies from his mortal wounds and Elaine becomes enraged and points her sword at LeChuck:}}

{{spoiler|'''Elaine:''' How appropriate... [[You Fight Like a Cow|you fight like a Pox-infected undead cow.]]''*sword clash*''}} }}

* [[Inherently Funny Words]]: Apparently, someone on the Telltale staff likes the word "manatee".

** And of those who pronounce the word "Caribbean" as "''CA-ri-BEE-an''", only Morgan pronounces it as "''cuh-RIH-bee-an''".

** Also, ''Rise of the Pirate God'' lampshades the pronunciation of Guybrush's name as a [[My Name Is Not Durwood|way of showing disrespect for him]].

'''Guybrush:''' Oh, come on, that doesn't even sound like "Threepwood." }}

* [[It's a Long Story]]: Near the end of Chapter 4, Guybrush says this to Elaine {{spoiler|1=after curing her and everyone else of the Pox of LeChuck, and she doesn't remember how she got here or why her mouth tastes like coleslaw. He also says that he'll explain once they figure how to get out of the clamshell traps. LeChuck's arrival unfortunately turns it into "[[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]!"}}

* [[Men Don't Cry]]: Narrowly averted in Chapter 4, {{spoiler|1=when Guybrush feels so deeply grieved at the death of Morgan LeFlay that it's almost like he is [[Tear Jerker|silently weeping]], though his [[Manly Tears]] may be invisible.}}

* [[Mistaken for An Imposter]]: In Chapter 2, when Guybrush thinks the human LeChuck is an impostor:

'''LeChuck:''' Be that as it may, we still must work together to retrieve this [[Summoning Artifact]]! }}

* [[Mistaken for Murderer]]: In Chapter 4, {{spoiler|1=as Guybrush starts his "Feast for the Senses" quest, he sees De Singe exit his "laboratorium" in distress, indicating that something is going on in the lab. On entering, he finds the lab in a total mess, and Morgan lying on the floor, stabbed by her own Blade of Dragotta. Before she dies, she whispers her [[Dying Clue|last words as a warning]], unheard by the player and misheard by Guybrush, leading him to believe that De Singe killed her. When he later confronts De Singe before tossing [[MacGuffin|La Esponja Grande]] into the Wind Control Device while testing it, Guybrush can blame him for the atrocious act of murder, to which De Singe can imply that he didn't kill her by spouting out clues that can be helpful to the player but not to Guybrush ("Of course I ran out of my lab! There was [[Bloodless Carnage|blood all over the floor]] instead of being packed neatly in vials where it belongs!" and "Ooh, the Mighty Pirate™ thinks I murdered his friend! However will I live with the shame?"). It is not until both De Singe and Guybrush are killed (the former by the latter, the latter by LeChuck) or until Guybrush meets up with Morgan in the Crossroads that he realizes that the LeChuck who killed him is the same [[Big Bad]] who killed her during Guybrush's "criminal charge" trial as well. Oops.}}

* [[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: LeChuck's Revenge]]''.

* [[My Grandma Can Do Better Than You]]: Guybrush has a rather ingenious one near the end of Chapter 2, only "grandma" is replaced with "possibly dead mother":

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Anemone. Also [[Formally-Named Pet|Miss Prettywhiskers]] and the Marquis De Singe.

* [[Mysterious Backer]]: The Voodoo Lady, naturally.

** In Chapter 5, Guybrush puts on a pot as a helmet before {{spoiler|getting fired out of a cannon}}.

** 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]]''

* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Noogie wears them in Chapter 3.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In Chapter 1, LeChuck botches up Guybrush's voodoo spell for the Cutlass of Kaflu, leaving our hero scrambling for substitutions and trying to perfect the Cutlass to destroy LeChuck; only, instead of destroying him, it causes LeChuck to spread his [[Hate Plague|voodoo pox]] across the Gulf of Melange and turns him into a {{spoiler|seemingly}} [[Harmless Villain]] [[Humanity Ensues]]. Nice job!

* [[Public Execution]]: Discussed in the courthouse bulletin in Chapter 4, {{spoiler|1=and almost attempted when Judge Grindstump is imposing a death sentence on Guybrush... until [[Big Damn Heroes|LeChuck arrives at the courthouse to clear our hero's name]]}}.

* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: In Chapter 4, {{spoiler|1=when Guybrush tells the Poxed Elaine about getting LeChuck out of jail once everyone is cured of the Pox}}:

** At the beginning of Chapter 1, when Guybrush talks to Elaine and asks, "Are you hungry?":

'''Elaine:''' ''[screams in annoyance]'' No! Finish! The! Recipe! }}

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: In Chapter 4, Guybrush gives one of these speeches to Morgan LeFlay, and makes her feel visibly terrible for the acts that caused it.

* [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]]: This game has examples of this in Chapter 2 (Guybrush: ''[as he fires a cannon]'' "KABOOM! Ah, I never get tired of that!") and in Chapter 5 ("Sigh.").

* [[Say My Name]]: In Chapter 1, {{spoiler|when a blunder with the Cutlass of Kaflu ends with the fuse being unintentionally lit in Elaine's ship}}:

'''Guybrush:''' LaFlay!!! }}

** And at the end of Chapter 4 {{spoiler|1=when ELAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaine runs Guybrush through.}}

'''LeChuck''': LECHUCK! ''*laughs*'' Arr, this name-shouting is jolly good fun! }}

* [[Scrolling Text]]: This is the first time we actually see scrolling subtitle text that accompanies the voices in a ''Monkey Island'' game, be it fast or slow. Sometimes words in the subtitle text start appearing ''before'' a character says them almost at the exact same time the subtitle finishes, which is apparent in some scenes in Chapter 4.

* [[See You in Hell]]: Parodied in Chapter 5, {{spoiler|1=sometime during LeChuck's [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] with [[Immortal Life Is Cheap]] [[Inhuman Human|zombie Guybrush]]}}:

'''LeChuck''': ''[turns to Elaine]'' That sultry sea-minx had it for Threepwood! Her corsair sailed for only him! ''[turns back to Guybrush, smiling]'' A pity I had to kill her! But now they can kindle their love ''[turns angry]'' in hell! ''[punches Guybrush]'']] }}

* [[Sentient Cosmic Force]]: Voodoo is implied to be this.

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Near the end of Chapter 4, when Guybrush asks De Singe what he's doing with the Vaycaylian Wind Control Device ({{spoiler|before attempting to toss [[MacGuffin|La Esponja Grande]] into the device}}), De Singe replies, "You see, using my handbuilt Harpsichronitron, in conjunction with my Oscimoligrophiscope to seek out a resonant frequency with the Vaycaylian Climatiphone, I hope to anatomize living tissue on a macroscopic basis!" Guybrush, however, becomes clueless and can ask De Singe to repeat with the purposes of all this machinery, and De Singe can translate that he's using the piano device ("this machine") to make the Wind Control Device ("that machine") "smash people into a fine powder," which, of course, causes Guybrush to say, "[[And That's Terrible|Hey, that's not very nice]]!"

** Also, in "Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay", Guybrush has another meaning to "[[This Loser Is You|You Suck]]!":

* [[Shout-Out]]: Clicking on some stone pillars will prompt Guybrush to point out that he doesn't have the [[Indiana Jones|jacket or fedora]] required to decode the symbols engraved on it.

** When you inexplicably have to roll some cheese against a rock Guybrush does a [[Wallace and Gromit]] impression (Telltale also released an episodic adventure series based on [[Wallace and Gromit]]).

* [[Stock Scream]]: {{spoiler|The Marquis De Singe's final squeal before his molecular dissection is a Wilhelm scream cut off halfway through.}}

* [[Stop Saying That]]: In Chapter 3, Guybrush uses the Tongue of the Manatee to help the Giant Manatee find love, and when they arrive at the manatee cave to meet the female in the manatee language:

'''Giant Manatee:''' ''[annoyed]'' (Stop saying that.) }}

* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: In Chapter 1, Guybrush Threepwood gets strapped to an operating table by the Marquis De Singe, {{spoiler|who attempts to cut off Guybrush's Poxed hand,}} and our hero must use his limited movement ability (and the Marquis' helper monkey Jacques) to escape.

* [[The Teaser|The Teasers]]: This is the first ''Monkey Island'' game to have playable cold openings in five chapters... sort of. Chapter 1, for example, has a playable intro that can be accomplished with help from instructions before the main title starts. Chapter 3 has a VERY long playable cold opening consisting of a few tasks and an "Answer the question" minigame before the chapter's title starts. Chapter 4, on the other hand, only has the shortest playable cold opening, where you only have to select a topic before the chapter's title starts.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: In the climax of Chapter 5, when Elaine is trying to kill {{spoiler|1=MerLeader}} by using the Cutlass of Kaflu, we get this exchange as he steps through the rip in the Crossroads:

* [[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".

* [[Time Master]]: {{spoiler|1=LeChuck near the end of Chapter 5. When he sees the Vaycaylian warriors throwing their [[Prongs of Poseidon|javelins]] at him at Winslow's order, the villain uses his voodoo power to make [[Time Stands Still|Time Stand Still]] for those outside of LeChuck's ship, making the entirety of the ship seem more like a parody of [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]. Strangely enough, the Crossroads (and Morgan LeChuck for that matter) don't seem to be affected by the voodoo time freeze.}}

* [[Traveling Pipe Bulge]]: In Chapter 3, though it's a bile tube, not a pipe.

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

 

 

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Despite the rarity of {{spoiler|ghosts in the land of the living}}, no one seems surprised or alarmed when {{spoiler|Guybrush appears as one}}.

* [[Verb This]]: In Chapter 1:

'''Guybrush:''' Yeah, I know, but he didn't give me much to work with... }}

** And in Chapter 4:

{{spoiler|1='''LeChuck:''' [[Ironic Echo|Unholy THIS!]] ''*stabs Guybrush with the Cutlass of Kaflu*''}} }}

* [[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]].

* [[Walk, Don't Swim]]: Sort of downplayed in Chapter 3, when Guybrush moves his legs around as he slowly walks in the Manatee Mating Grounds at the bottom of the ocean, but when the player tries making him run, he swims with a dog paddle. {{spoiler|Later justified in Chapter 5, when he can not only walk as a ghost, but he can run instead of swimming like he could while he was alive.}}

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: {{spoiler|1=LeChuck does this to Elaine after fatally stabbing Guybrush and telling her about his playful acts of "kindness":}}

'''Elaine:''' Go to hell, LeChuck.<br />

'''LeChuck:''' Well, you can't say I didn't try... Looks like we'll be doing this with all that voodoo...]] }}

** {{spoiler|1=She finally accepts that offer in Chapter 5... but only when she needs to hold the untouchable (for humans) Cutlass of Kaflu in order to destroy LeChuck once she is returned to normal.}}

* [[We Have Ways of Making You Talk]]LeChuck[[Tickle Torture]]: Though not spoken by Guybrush, the player can choose the line "I have ways of making you talk!" to frighten Bugeye in Chapter 3. The result is:

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

* [[Wham! Episode]]: ''The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood'': {{spoiler|1=[[Bounty Hunter|/ dies]], [[The Chessmaster|The Voodoo Lady may or may not have been responsible for everything that happened in the series]] and LeFlay reveals his [[Heel Face Turn]] to be a ruse, reabsorbs his voodoo powers and ''[[Our Hero Is Dead|kills Guybrush]]''! Oh, and after he returns to his demon form, he's [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|voiced by Earl Boen!]]}}

* [[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|Geppetto]]?"

** And in Chapter 4, when Guybrush tries breaking up a fight between Morgan and {{spoiler|a Poxed}} Elaine:

'''Guybrush:''' ''[embarrassed]'' Oh boy. }}

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

'''[[Chekhov's Boomerang|Pyrite Parrot]]:''' *Squawk* It's me, Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate!<br />

'''Guybrush:''' Shut up, you! }}

* [[The X of Y]]: This game not only has this themed title (''Tales of Monkey Island''), but all of its five chapters have the same themed titles as well, though Chapter 4's title is more like "The X and X of Y".

* [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]: In Chapter 3:

'''Guybrush:''' ''[disturbed]'' I don't want to know what that is. }}

** And in Chapter 4:

'''Judge Grindstump:''' ''[interrupts]'' After the [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|summary executions by keelhauling, hanging, boiling, and, eh, em... scaphism]]. ''[the crowd laughs]''<br />

'''Guybrush:''' ''[confused]'' [[Squick|Scaphism?]]<br />

* [[You're Cute When You're Angry]]: In the LeChuck version of Chapter 2, when Guybrush gets Morgan PS3 angry by repeatedly checking out the mast while battling her on the Screaming Narwhal, one of the bronze trophies that the player is awarded is "She's Cute When She's Angry".

* [[You're Insane!]]: One of the topics in Chapter 2 has this {{spoiler|when [[Complete Monster|McGillicutty]] plans to destroy La Esponja Grande in order for him to remain Poxed along with his crew forever}}:

* [[Your Mom]]: Guybrush has a rather ingenious one near the end of episode 2:

** And the variant [[I Banged Your Mom]] as one of episode 4's [[Courtroom Antic|Courtroom Antics]]:

'''Guybrush (as witness):''' I was on a date - with your wife! ''(cue Guybrush beating himself up)'' }}

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Chapter 4 seems to wrap everything up...until you realize there's a fifth chapter. It involves {{spoiler|getting killed and wandering around the afterlife which includes several rehashed elements disguised as portals. Naturally, you have to enter the real world, return to your body and face the [[Big Bad]] again at the end.}}