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== P-T ==
* [[Paper Tiger]]: Bugeye is a bald, tattooed pirate who disrespects the main character and generally talks tough. But once you need to get information out of him, you find that the slightest bit of pressure will make him squeal.
* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: {{spoiler|1=Elaine gets one when she willingly becomes LeChuck's demon bride in Chapter 5, and she wears it through the remainder of the chapter, even when she reverts to her normal, no longer demonic form. Her [[Little Black Dress|black bridal dress]] comes with a [[Stripperific|revealing]] [[Gem-Encrusted]] [[Impossibly Low Neckline|black bustier/corset]] worn under a see-though sheer black fabric sleeveless blouse with a black sash belt, a dark gray broomstick skirt and black dress boots, along with gem encrusted black [[Opera Gloves]], and an [[Hypno Trinket|eerie-glowing black]] [[Requisite Royal Regalia|tiara]].}}.
* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: This is ''finally'' averted in "The Siege of Spinner Cay": McGillicutty and his crew are pirates incarnate, who pillage, fire cannons, bury treasure, lay siege to innocent ports, drown people, threaten Guybrush repeatedly, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|cook]].
** One must remember that they do this under the influence of [[The Corruption]]...
*** Although it's stated that unlike a lot of the characters, McGillicutty's crew openly ''welcomed'' the Pox, even going as far as to try and destroy its cure. The Pox may have made them more piratey, but they're still pirates anyway.
* [[Poke the Poodle]]: In "The Siege of Spinner Cay", Captain McGillicutty captures the Merfolk Ruler and threatens to drown him/her if he/she refuses to reveal the secret ritual words to summon the sea creatures that leads to La Esponja Grande. It works about as well as you would expect.
** It's kind of hinted at that the Pox completely addled McGillicutty's mind. But it's still hilarious hearing the Merfolk ruler insisting that it wouldn't work.
* [[Portal Network]]: The various rips in the Crossroads that appear on LeChuck's ship, Club 41, a raft atop the Manatee Mating Grounds in the ocean, and a secluded island somewhere in the Gulf of Melange.
* [[The Power of Love]]: At the end of the game, {{spoiler|the very last puzzle.}}.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: {{spoiler|"You... bastard!" from Elaine}} in EpisodeChapter 5.
* [[Prolonged Prologue]]: Somewhat long in Chapters 1 and 3.
* [[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]]}}.
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** At the beginning of Chapter 1, when Guybrush talks to Elaine and asks, "Are you hungry?":
{{quote|'''Guybrush:''' Want me to get anything from the hold? I've brought some pot stickers!
'''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.
* [[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]].
* [[Released to Elsewhere]]: Poor, poor Noogie...
* [[Resurrected Romance]]: {{spoiler|Guybrush himself, at the end of the game}}.
* [[Riding Into the Sunset]]: {{spoiler|Near the end of the game, Guybrush, Elaine and Winslow ride the Screaming Narwhal off into the beautiful sunrise.}}.
* [[Rise from Your Grave]]: {{spoiler|Parodied at the beginning of Chapter 5, when Guybrush wakes up as a [[Ghost Pirate]] in his own grave at the Crossroads' Gateway and believes he is "[[Buried Alive]]... again!"}}.
* [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Parodied in Chapter 5, when Reginald Van Winslow has been working on a game he calls "Rock, Paper, Fountain Pen", and describes to Guybrush how the game is played: "Well, paper beats rock. And then the player must shame the paper into defeat by filling it full of lewd phrases using the pen." Of course, this is little less of a game to this troper.
* [[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".
** Also, Roe Island seems to be suffering a case of [[All Lowercase Letters]] instead of capital letters when examined items change their names (Exampleexample: "Photographphotograph" becomes "almost kinda sweet photo of DeSinge ''[sic]'' and the Voodoo Lady", "Journals" become "poems no one wants to read", "Sketch" becomes "disturbing sketch of a young Voodoo Lady", "Cot" becomes "disgusting cot", etc.).
** [[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").
* [[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}}:
{{quote|'''Guybrush:''' Elaine!
'''Elaine:''' Guybrush? ''[monkey does a [[Face Palm]] before {{spoiler|the fuse hits the gunpowder barrel and blows them all sky-high}}]''
'''Guybrush:''' LaFlay!!! }}
** And at the end of Chapter 4 , {{spoiler|1=when ELAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaine runs Guybrush through.}}.
{{quote|'''Elaine''': Guybrush!
'''Guybrush''': Elaine?
'''Elaine''': GUYBRUSH!!!
'''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]]}}:
{{quote|[[spoiler:'''LeChuck''': Does Elaine know about Morgan, Guybrush?
'''Elaine''': ''[looks at LeChuck]'' What?
'''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.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: Plenty! The game intentionally leaves a few loose ends hanging around, and brings up a few at the very end. {{spoiler|1=Ghost Pirate-Hunter Morgan LeChuck}}, {{spoiler|1=what the Voodoo Lady plans to do with the remains of LeFlay}}, and the Voodoo Lady's true motivations come to mind. There's plenty of material to cook up another sequel... or at least fuel a metric ton of fanfic.
* [[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]]!":
{{quote|'''Guybrush:''' My assessment of your cannon-operating skills, not to mention your personal appearance, odor and intelligence, is that you are unmistakably inferior in each of those criteria.}}
* [[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]]'').
** Also in EpisodeChapter 1, you meet a pirate who has become a glassblower. In ''[[Ultima|Ultima V]]'', in Buccaneer's Den, there's a pirate named Sven, who used to be a glassblower.
*** Speaking of him, he gives you an "unbreakable" glass tube shaped like a "U". A [[YouTube|U-Tube]], if you will. He and Guybrush can both be made to muse about how nobody seems interested in their U-Tube offerings.
*** And when he asks you if you want the U, he phrases it, [[Wheel of Fortune|"You'd like to buy a vowel, eh?"]].
*** Also, in Chapter 4, he has a prototype of the Swashbuckling Suzy Long-Lasting [[A Christmas Story|Leg Lamp]], which can be useful for Guybrush.
** "Can I call you '[[Dora the Explorer|D'Oro The Explorer]]?'" ''(immediately gets [[Dope Slap|punched]] by his own left hand)''
** 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]]);, and Trenchfoot's guessing number [[Wild Mass Guessing/Other/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 (novel)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''.
** In EpisodeChapter 5, [[Sam and Max Freelance Police|Banang]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2vrd7g1AK8 makes a brief comeback.]
** Also in EpisodeChapter 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 (series)|Monkey Island]]'' games, and Tia Dalma is a reference to the Voodoo Lady. Which means she references the person who was inspired by ''her''.
*** Similarly, Morgan having read about Guybrush's exploits and learning that the real person is quite different indeed, like Elizabeth and Jack Sparrow in the first movie.
*** Also, in Chapter 2, Elaine shouts out, "Hoist yer colors, ya mangy sea dogs!". This quote is a reference to the song, "Hoist the Colours", the main theme of ''Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'';, and it's derived from the phrase "hoist the colors high", referring to the custom of raising the flag on a ship.
** Also, in Chapter 3, {{spoiler|Guybrush demanding a vote from Bugeye and getting into a Poxed rage}} gives a nod to when Bruce Banner would get angry so much that he would transform into the [[Incredible Hulk]] in his self-titled comic book series.
** 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]]''.
** 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?
** [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare|To Shakespeare]]: ''Tales'' has a few of the shout-outs to [[William Shakespeare]]:
*** 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]]'': "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]]'' (V.i) (this is done in the [[Play Station 3]] version in order to net the player a "Guybrush Goes Classy" silver trophy).
*** Speaking of [[Play Station 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]]'' (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]]'', 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: Afterafter 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|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.
* [[Show Some Leg]]: In Chapter 4, Bosun Kathryn Krebbs testifies against Guybrush and, in the midst of her testimony, pulls her legs to the top of the witness stand, distracting the [[Wolf Whistle|Wolf Whistling]] crowd with the "nacho sauce burn" on her Poxed leg ({{spoiler|which turns out to be a mixture of hot fluids that she concocted up in order to take revenge on the ''wrong'' Guybrush Threepwood}}).
* [[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.}}.
* [[Spikes of Villainy]]: LeChuck final incarnation in ''Tales''.
* [[Spoiler Title]]: {{spoiler|The [[Wham! Episode]], #Chapter 4, is "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood". This doesn't really make it any less of a [[Wham! Episode]].}}.
** Of course, some fans may not have [[Like You Would Really Do It|believed that that was really going to happen]] and so didn't regard the title as a spoiler. There's also the fact that it's technically a subversion, since {{spoiler|the use of the phrase 'Trial and Execution' would suggest the multiple death penalties Guybrush faces for his court charges, which he is cleared of. Of course, that makes it a double subversion when he's killed later.}}.
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: In episodeChapter 4, you have to help a plant that literally has a lion's paw stuck in its thorn.
* [[Staring Contest]]: In Chapter 2, Guybrush places Hardtack and Trenchfoot into a staring contest, into which our hero can distract the pirate duo into looking behind them so he can place the [[Chekhov's Boomerang|Pyrite Parrot]] into the treasure chest, in hopes that he can find where they'll bury it along with one of the [[Summoning Artifact|Summoning Artifacts]] later.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: At least in regards to the Threepwoods.
* [[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. (Funnyfunny 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]].)}}.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: In Chapter 1, "Launch of the ''Screaming Narwhal''", one Gaffer Crimpdigit makes glass unicorns. But, he wishes he could make something "that really speaks to" seafaring pirates. Did we mention the episodechapter is called "Launch of the ''Screaming Narwhal''"?
** Jacques the Monkey? [[Peter Gabriel]] says hello...
* [[Sticky Situation]]: Near the end of Chapter 1, {{spoiler|when Guybrush's [[Evil Hand|demonic hand]] acts up and prevents him from telling Winslow what to do,}}, Guybrush cleverly devises a way to stop the situation by opening up the tar barrel and trapping his hand in sticky tar (he even says, "That's what I call a sticky situation!" while looking at the tar puddle again).
* [[Stiff Upper Lip]]: Winslow doesn't make much of a fuss about paying to repair the mast repeatedly {{spoiler|(probably because it means he gets to see Anemone)}}, having to put up with the Pox, getting shipwrecked, and so forth. All he asks is that you please use the map....
* [[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:
{{quote|'''Giant Manatee:''' (Um... hi.) ''[no response, then turns to Guybrush]'' (This is a bad idea.)
'''Guybrush:''' ''[repeats]'' (This is satisfactory.)
'''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 Strength of Ten Men]]: The human LeChuck exhibits this strength to pull out the Wise Turtle [[Summoning Artifact]] in Chapter 2. He even lampshades this when he tells Guybrush, "Elaine seems to think I have the strength of ten men!".
* [[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.}}.
** {{spoiler|1=If Guybrush tries returning to LeChuck's ship as a ghost, Elaine will repeatedly spray root beer at our hero and force him back into the Crossroads, making it pure [[Nightmare Fuel]].}}.
* [[Summoning Artifact]]: There are three of them in Chapter 2, all of which can be combined into one Summoning Ball Artifact used to summon the Sea Creatures to help Guybrush find the alleged resting place of [[MacGuffin|La Esponja Grande]]. {{spoiler|1=And it's no wonder that LeChuck and his crew want the artifacts so they can stay with being Poxed that way once they destroy the magical voodoo sponge.}}.
** [[Summoning Ritual]]: This one consists of the ritual words that only the McGillicutty knows in order to summon the Sea Creatures with the Summoning Artifacts. {{spoiler|When recited, it sounds more like the words of a dog's game of "[[Go Fetch]]".}}.
* [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]: Guybrush can hold his breath for ten minutes. Of course, {{spoiler|he’s in even less danger when he's a ghost or undead}}.
* [[Surfer Dude|Surfer Pirate Dude]]: Moose in Chapter 3. [[American Accents|And this dude talks in Surfer Slang, bra.]]
* [[Swallowed Whole]]: Most of Chapter 3 takes place inside [[Womb Level|the belly of a giant manatee]]. Some of the residents are actually quite content there.
* [[Take Up My Sword]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|At the end of Chapter 4, it seemed like Elaine would take up the plot from where Guybrush left off. Instead, chapterChapter 5 deals with Guybrush trying to escape the afterlife.}}.
* [[Talking in Your Sleep]]: In Chapter 3, while Guybrush is performing first aid on Morgan to wake her up, we hear her mumble, while she's unconscious: "[[And This Is For|THIS is for JUGBENDER!]]" and "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Gomez... not on the carpet!]]"
* [[Tarot Troubles]]: At the start of most chapters, when the Voodoo Lady does a recap this way.
* [[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:
{{quote|''' {{spoiler|1=LeChuck}}''': Ha ha ha! You see!? You can temporarily destroy my body, Elaine, but you cannot damage me spirit! ''*a ghostly {{spoiler|Morgan}} promptly stabs him with a ghost sword*'' [[Gilligan Cut|OW, my spirit!]]}}
* [[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.}}.
** A possible explanation for that is found in Chapter 1;: the Voodoo Lady mentions that the Crossroads are the source of all voodoo power (or something like that), and as such are probably immune to voodoo being used as a weapon against them.
* [[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".
* [[To Be Continued]]: Appears at the end of Chapters 1-4, with each one describing the title of the next chapter.
* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]: Parodied in Chapter 4, {{spoiler|1=when Hemlock LeFlay and the angry mob approach Guybrush and De Singe with torches and pitchforks to summon Guybrush to court. [[The Cake Is a Lie|And he has thought there would be ice cream cake, too.]]}}.
* [[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:
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