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{{quote|''"Three small trials and you're a pirate like us." Fair enough. If only I could stomach the foul brew these scurvy seadogs swilled, the rest would be easy. How could I have known I'd meet a powerful and beautiful woman with a jealous suitor too stupid to realize he'd been dead for years? And how can I crawl through this great stone monkey to find a man who walks three inches above the ground and sets fire to his beard every morning?''|Excerpted from ''The Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood: The [[Monkey Island (Video Gameseries)|Monkey Island]] Years''}}

The first game in the ''[[Monkey Island (Video Gameseries)|Monkey Island]]'' series, ''The Secret of Monkey Island'', was released in 1990. The game begins as our hero, Guybrush Threepwood, finds himself on Mêlée Island™, with one clear objective on his mind: Becomingbecoming a Mighty Pirate™. To become one, he must first pass "The Three Trials", and while doing so, he learns of Elaine Marley, the local governor, and her story with the notorious ghost pirate, LeChuck, who now terrorizes the waters around Mêlée Island™ together with his undead crew. After passing the trials, Guybrush finds out Elaine have been kidnapped by LeChuck, and he must now set sail for LeChuck's lair which lies on the titular Monkey Island in order to save her.

Way later in 2009, [[Lucas ArtsLucasArts]] got back in the [[Adventure Game]] business (finally redeeming themselves in the eyes of adventure fans) by remaking the game, complete with voice acting by the cast of ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]''.

** "I found the Legendary Lost Treasure of Mêlée Island™ and all I got was this stupid T-shirt!"

** "I beat the Sword Master and all I got was this stupid T-shirt."

* [[Art Shift]]: The redrawn artwork in the remake - the shift is so drastic that there is actually a petition to have Guybrush's hair changed back to how it used to be and a [https://web.archive.org/web/20140212204458/http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=208599 fan-made patch] restores the good old-ways.

** After receiving sword-fighting lessons from Captain Smirk, Guybrush says, "I can’t help but feel like I’ve been ripped off,", then turns towards the screen and continues, "I’m sure you're feeling something similar."

** The hermit on Monkey Island occasionally addresses comments to the fourth wall. At one point, Guybrush asks who he's talking to, and he replies, "The people watching, of course!" --... to which Guybrush reacts as if he's crazy, even though Guybrush himself occasionally does the same thing.

* [[Cannot Talk to Women]]: When Guybrush first meets Elaine, he is unable to do anything except utter random syllables. In their second meeting, he acquits himself better, but the conversation quickly turns to increasingly saccharine pet names, which in a way is worse. He relapses into gibberish in later games whenever a woman is upset with him, indicating Guybrush just cannot take a woman's scorn.

* [[Comedy Asas a Weapon]]: The results of sword fights are based entirely on insults and puns.

* [[Conveniently -Placed Sharp Thing]]: Parodied in the underwater sequence.

* [[Creator Cameo]]: The [[Troll Bridge]] that demands a troll toll is actually {{spoiler|George Lucas in a troll costume}}. (Thisthis is made much clearer in the special edition, where you can even see {{spoiler|a red plaid flannel shirt sticking out when the suit is unzipped}}.).

* [[Crying Wolf]]: After Guybrush overuses his "[[Look Behind You!]] a three headed monkey" phrase, the cannibals of Monkey Island™ don't fall for it when a three headed monkey actually shows up.

* [[Deserted Island]]: The titular island, Castaway / Treasure Island varieties.

** Other [[Shout -Out|shout-outs]] to the Stump Joke can be found in ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', where you get to see the other side of the stump, as well as ''[[Grim Fandango]]'' and ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]'', where the respective player characters both discover "a tunnel that leads into a system of catacombs"."

* [[Fission Mailed]]: See [[Have a Nice Death]] below.

* [[Gargle Blaster]]: Grog, which contains one or more of the following: kerosene, propylene glycerole, artificial sweeteners, sulphuric acid, rum, acetone, red dye #2, scumm, axle grease, battery acid, and/or pepperoni. It's so vile that it [[Ate the Spoon|dissolves the mugs used to contain them]], which leads into a puzzle where you have to carry a mug of grog from one location to another.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "You can swab my decks any time." Also, "Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"

* [[Have a Nice Death]]:

** Parodied where Guybrush can fall from a cliff and a Sierra adventure-game death screen appears for a moment before Guybrush reappears thanks to a "rubber tree.".

* [[Impersonating an Officer]]: {{spoiler|1=In this case, Sheriff Fester Shinetop, impersonated and disguised so well by LeChuck himself.}}.

* [[It Belongs in Aa Museum]]: Guybrush can claim that the Idol of Many Hands "belongs in a museum" when Sheriff Fester Shinetop catches him trying to steal it. Note that in neither case Guybrush actually means it, and it's just one of the optional lines of dialog to try to get the item for himself. However, the owner of the idol does agree with that statement.

* [[Multiple Endings]]: Did you sink your own ship with the catapult? Your crew won't take it well... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxlTnrhtBXk Watch]. ''[[Escape Fromfrom Monkey Island]]'' makes it the canonical ending; the crew resents Guybrush for abandoning them.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:

** It shows up late, but no Monkey Island could be exempt of this. Guybrush in the final act is a [[Spanner in Thethe Works]] to Elaine's plan.

** There is a literal example early on when Guybrush sinks his own ship on Monkey Island™ with a catapult hit but it has no gameplay consequences and only provides a minor [[Multiple Endings|different ending]] . [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxlTnrhtBXk Watch] .

* [[Non Sequitur Thud]]: [[Loom (Videovideo Gamegame)|I am Bobbin,]], [[Mythology Gag|are you my mother?]]

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]:

** The two sequences in which Guybrush tries to steal the idol in the first place. Much of the action takes place automatically in a room that you can't see; all you can see is dialogue and the actions that Guybrush is doing, many of which you can't normally do in the game. The highlight is perhaps "Hypnotize quarrelsome rhinoceros" . The fight between Guybrush and the Sheriff in the Governor's Mansion starts out pretty funny and then keeps getting more and more insane.

** Elaine escapes from an undead pirate, carries out a plan to kill said pirate... offscreen. Then comes [[Spanner in Thethe Works|Guybrush and]]...

{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' Why are you guys talking in Pig Latin?<br />

'''Red Skull:''' ''[to the other Cannibals]'' I see he is baffled by our native dialect. Good. }}

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: While almost every single detail of the original is preserved in the [[Special Edition]] (and every detail is intact if you use the "original version" button), to sidestep the outrageous amount of Voicevoice Actingacting it would require, rather than stating the exact number of Pieces Of Eight that he has after getting paid by the Fettuccini Brothers, Guybrush's description for his money becomes "I have enough money to buy whatever I need."

* [[Protagonist Without a Past]]: Guybrush's background prior to washing up on that beach in the first game is never elaborated on at all. Due to the serious plot contradictions, though, that became one of the fans' least concerns.

* [[Purple Eyes]]: In the 256-color edition, the final portrait of Guybrush and Elaine watching the fireworks reveals they both have purple eyes. (Inin the Special Edition, his are blue and hers are green.).

* [[Red Herring]]: Subverted;: the ''literal'' red herring you pick up in the game has an important use.

* [[Scooby -Dooby Doors]]: Most of the doors on Melee Island take you to a random other door in the town.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Two of the final long quests are practically rendered moot; : {{spoiler|Elaine escapes the villain's clutches on her own, and you bungle her attempt to destroy the villain. The potion which can destroy ghosts is actually root beer, which can be found in the vending machine on the very island where the story begun}}.

* [[Shout -Out]]:

** Many to other LucasArts games, including ''[[Loom (Videovideo Gamegame)|Loom]]'', the ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' series, and (in the Special Edition artwork) ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'' and ''[[Grim Fandango]]''.

** When you are about to crash the wedding between LeChuck and Elaine, you have a choice of dialogue for Guybrush, one of which being just shouting "[[Say My Name|Elaine!]]" In fact, that's actually a shout out to ''[[The Graduate]]''. [[Word of God]] says that's where Elaine's name came from.

** At one point, Guybrush can be made to walk off a cliff. The player is then shown a parody of [[Sierra]]'s [[Have a Nice Death]] menus, before Guybrush bounces back into view and explains, "Rubber tree.".

* [[Spy Speak]]: "Excuse me, do you have a cousin named Sven?" "No, but I once had a barber named Dominique." "Close enough." Guybrush wasn't making Dominique up, as the pirate barbers in ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]'' mention that he used to be the fourth member of their quartet.

* [[Stalking Mission]]: Guybrush chases the storekeeper to learn the location of the Sword Master. That puzzle can be bypassed with a walkthrough, however.

* [[Title Drop]]: Shown in the Captain's log, complete with the ''TM'' suffix.

* [[Tragic Villain]] / [[Stages of Monster Grief]]: LeChuck's crew were press ganged and made ghosts by force, as his first officer bitterly recalls with irony.

* [[Troll Bridge]]: Although the scary bridgekeeping troll really is {{spoiler|[[George Lucas]] in a suit.}}.

* [[Updated Rerelease]]: ''The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition'', which doesn't just recreate the game -... it ''is'' the game, with a new interface, graphics and voice acting built on top of the original SCUMM code.

* [[Walk, Don't Swim]]: Guybrush, when tied to the idol and thrown into the sea.

* [[Weird Moon]]: The Special Edition has an ''enormous'' moon hanging about in some of the backdrops. (Avertedaverted in the original version, where it's a much more reasonable size.).

* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: The extended swordfighting subquest is the [[Trope Namer]]. The insults were written by [[Orson Scott Card (Creator)|Orson Scott Card]].

{{quote| '''Alfredo:''' Your mother wears combat slippers!<br />

'''Bill:''' Leave our mother out of it! Get in the cannon! }}

** "So's your mother" is one of the options in [[Insult SwordfightingSword Fighting]] that won't win, although it only appears during the training scene with Captain Smirk.

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