The ingredients for grog, listed under Gargle Blaster below (actually more like: Squick, squick, squick, pepperoni).

Buffy Speak: '.and the Trial of, err, Treasure Hunter-y.'.

Boring Return Journey: Getting to Monkey Island takes up an entire chapter (and that's after you've obtained the ship and the crew) getting back again is over in a single line of narration.

Book-ends: The conversation in the outro cinematic is similar to the one that begins the game.

If you spend too long wandering through The Maze, looking at every random horror, Guybrush starts to think they're 'Neat!' and 'Gnarly!' He never gets used to the mushrooms, though. Crosses over with Fire and Brimstone Hell, due to the rivers of magma.

Bloody Bowels of Hell: The catacombs (implied to be part of the capital 'H' Hell) have eyes, noses, whole faces, and even hearts growing out of the walls and floors.

The Grog machine is a Coca-Cola vending machine, red with a white stripe, just with 'Grog' in place of 'Coke'.

The 'Grog-O-Mint' mints Guybrush buys to give to Otis are this of Lifesavers Pep-O-Mints, or Polo mints to UK players.

Guybrush takes a mug of grog, transferring it between mugs when one is rendered nearly useless, and uses it to dissolve the lock on Otis' prison cell.

Bizarre Beverage Use: The grog served at the Scumm Bar is so corrosive it eats through the mugs.

Bilingual Bonus: If you understand French, you might more easily guess the purpose of the 'caniche endormi' (literally, 'sleeping poodle') flowers.

Barefoot Sage: The Voodoo Lady's long dress doesn't cover her bare feet.

Audience? What Audience?: Herman Toothrot keeps turning to the screen and talking to 'the people watching, of course.' Guybrush asks him who he's talking to (even though he's constantly doing the same thing himself).

Aside Glance: Guybrush frequently turns to the player when voicing his descriptions out loud, but seems confused when other characters do the same.

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 fan-made patch restores the good old ways.

The original EGA release had the close-ups in a style somewhat more consistent with the rest of the game's graphics - compare Elaine's EGA close-up with its VGA counterpart - and Ron Gilbert objected strongly to the more detailed style that was added in the later VGA release, but was overruled by the higher-ups at Lucasarts. It is this realism that clashes with the visual style of every other game.

Most conversations between Guybrush and another character will feature a close-up shot of that character in a highly detailed and realistic portrait.

Anti Poopsocking: These parting words: 'Turn off your computer and go to sleep.'.

'I beat the Sword Master and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.'.

'I found the Legendary Lost Treasure of Mêlée Island and all I got was this stupid T-shirt!'.

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