Easter Eggs, Trivia, and Secrets
The Broken Luggage
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| “The joke here is a reference to an old series of commercials by American Tourister, a luggage company. The durability of their product was advertised by depicting a suitcase thrown into a cage with an angry gorilla, which attempts to destroy it to no avail. It was an oft-parodied pop culture image.” —Udvarnoky |
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Chuckie Really Is LeChuck
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| So to speak—Chuckie’s cut-off jacket has the same crossbones emblem as the back of LeChuck’s coat. |
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Inaccessible Alley
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| Early promo shots showed that the Mêlée alley would not initially be accessible in ReMI. This, of course, was changed in the final game. |
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The Origins of “XYZZY”
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| While a seemingly random set of characters, the “XYZZY” harkens back to the 1976 adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure. Typing in the key combination would allow the user to fast travel between two distant points. Wikipedia has more. |
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EGA vs. Slow EGA
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| Slower EGA machines would remove animations (and music) so that the PC could run the game. Witness the subdued Scumm Bar. |
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Guybrush the Feminist
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Two deleted lines from when you try to pick up the Buzzsaw Girl poster in the woodshop. In the final game, the line reads: I can’t. He’s lacquered it onto the wall. |
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“Muenster Monster! Go get help!”
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| While in the proper game, you pick up the rat before sawing off Frank’s pegleg, you can hack the game to allow you to saw the leg off before picking up the rat. Do so, and you get some extra dialogue from Fin, calling for Muenster Monster to get help, Lassie-style. |
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Woody’s Woodshop with Fish and Ladder Re-Inserted
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| In the rolling demo, you can see both a ladder and a fish in Woody’s shop. Press “Escape” to make the demo interactive, and you can enter the shack and interact with the ladder for extra dialogue. The fish lines have been manually re-inserted here from the dialogue file. Why were the objects removed? Presumably, they could confuse the players thinking they could use them to solve the angling puzzle. |
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The Lookout Looking in a Different Direction
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A magazine clipping showing an alternate angle for the Mêlée lookout point. Artist Mark Ferrari explains: Oh, there were some nifty BGs left lying on the cutting room floor – as always - before it was over, including one scene looking straight down over a cliff edge down a long zig zag wooden cliff face staircase at the pirate village at the cliff's base. Alas, we illustrators are born to kill half our children for 'de man'. |
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Return to a Different Logo
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| For a hot minute, Return to Monkey Island had a logo similar to the Tales-era version, at least sort of. While the classic logo was used in marketing, the website’s OG image (the preview image you see on links from Mastodon or Bluesky or whatever) was of a more tattered variety. It was quickly changed after a breaking story from Mojo. Source: Jack Rodford. |
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Lord Jack AKA Largo LaGrande
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For a long time during development, Largo went by a different name: Lord Jack. He is even referred to as such in the source code. While the origins of Largo are unknown, Ron confirmed in the Special Edition commentary that LaGrande is named after his hometown of La Grande, Oregon. |
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Vast Amounts of Unobtainable Wealth
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| In the LeChuck’s Revenge hint book, one of the illustrations shows a treasure chamber in the Dinky Island tunnels. Had Guybrush fallen two feet back, he would have gone straight into it. Presumably, this room is a joke intended just for the hint book. |
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CMI vs. THX: The Monkeys vs. The Audience
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| The “CMI: The Monkeys Are Listening” opening in The Curse of Monkey Island is a play on the “THX: The Audience Is Listening” title card placed in front of THX-certified movies. Read more about THX over at Creative Bloq. |
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The Yak Butter Fellow
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The mounted marlin is a promotional item gifted to the Cod’s Wollop by a yak butter fellow. It was established by the Scumm Bar cook earlier in the game that Marlon Marlin is the only yak butter peddler on Mêlée Island. |
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Arby’s Rips Us Off
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| Arby’s, have you no shame? And, how do we know they ripped off The SCUMM Bar? Simple: See how Stan seemingly is smoking a cigar? Well, an early SCUMM Bar staff member created an animation of Stan—check it out—by painstakingly taking screenshots of each of the used ship salesman’s frame, cropped him out, and assembled the pieces into a GIF animation. The one problem: He thought Stan was smoking a cigar when what he saw was actually part of the background. Hey, at least Arby’s made their own version. |
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