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If you squint and turn your head they look like ghost bunnies.

I would like to take my joke prediction from last month, and change it into a real prediction for this month. Many of you might be guessing the same thing... Here is my joke prediction from last month: https://forums.mixnmojo.com/topic/200524-i-wonder-what-happens-in-return-to-monkey-island-%E2%80%93-wrongish-wild-and-wonderful-answers-only/?do=findComment&comment=2795068 My current prediction is:

It’s possible, but Secret is no slouch. Here we have six chickens: A further three here: And the chicken shop could conceivably contain an infinite number of chickens but I think we’ve established previously that sort of thing isn’t an acceptable data point: So a total of nine chickens. Sadly I don’t have time to look at the other games just now.

Damn looks like someone leaked the Tales Season Two design document.

I can't believe I'll be living in a world with a Ron Gilbert approved continuation of MI2.... NEXT MONDAY! 🤯 I'm going in with measured expectations (and I've stopped reading or watching anything related to the game) but! my world will literally be different after its release: A mystery I've sat with since I was 12 will finally have (if not an outright conclusion) then certainly more pieces to the puzzle to spend the next 20 years mulling over and debating on forums.

Nice; I'm still watching it gradually. But the picky Grackle all of you love to hate is a TAD disappointed that he highlighted the thievery trial last. We miss out on the sappy romance scene between Guybrush and Elaine - which is sort of the main indication Secret gives us that Elaine's even attracted to Guybrush. The future games' use of pet names (e.g. Plunder bunny) are callbacks to that scene, and... your Honor... I daresay they cement the canonical story variant much in the same way that Escape indicates Guybrush sank his ship, or Return suggests Guybrush spared Bob. In conclusion, the Grackle-recommended order of the Three Trials is treasure huntery, then thievery, then swordfighting, both so as to give Guybrush and Elaine this scene while also foreshadowing the quests in Revenge (treasure hunting Big Whoop), Curse (thieving the Lost Ring of Blood Island from other thieves while furthering relationship with Elaine), and Escape (insult fighting dissected and explored). This also encourages the variant of Guybrush buying a sword (at the same time he buys the shovel), then surrendering it to Fester during the thievery trial because he hasn't learned to fight with it yet, and then getting a free identical replacement underwater, which he uses to actually learn swordfighting and complete said trial... which all plays into the MI1 themes of red herrings, substitutions, and positive nihilism.

The mine cart ride was pretty cool, I will say.

Whoa, Return to Monkey Island isn't even out yet but they already made Monkey Island 7!

Those are already released. We’re only counting visible living game launches.

And Meathook’s lovely, luscious, bald cannonball for a head.

The more I see familiar faces from Mêlée, the more I hope we’ll see Captain Smirk again - even if only to open another argument about his smoking habits.

Which Monkey Island has the smallest number of Mondays until it’s released?

Monkey Island Monday bullet point thoughts * I imagine it occured to many of us that Guybrush was never able to finish his trials, as in the last Monkey Island Monday. I suppose it adds to that theme of unfinished business they've been going on about. * It's a pretty good gag for him to mistake them for the Men of Low Moral Fiber, which makes me wonder if they're showing up at all. Also, how does he know their names? * Come to think of it where did the Pirate Leaders GO after the trials. They were in the bar because they were hiding out from LeChuck and I always assumed they scattered because LeChuck attacked

Well, everyone who pointed out that Guybrush never officially got dubbed a pirate - the three old guys remember.

Bah. Indeed you are right. I just have this particular honking sound effect in my mind, that makes me think of ducks or geese. I guess I should try and replay the first two before... holy shit-- NEXT MONDAY!!!! 😮😮😮

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EXCEPT in the opening scene of Escape where elaine calls Guybrush “Snugglecakes”!!! Why is she calling him the nickname of one of the pirate barbers of Puerto Pollo? An innocent slip of the tongue, or something far more damning??

Are we ready for the chicken debate?

Okay, guys 'n girls! In one week we'll all be playing ReMI! Who here can't wait either?

I recently rewatched them and discovered that… unpopular opinion coming… Temple of Doom is my favourite! There, I said it! Now rip my heart out and throw me in the lava pit!

I've always wondered how much you can mix the name "Monkey Island" and pirates before Disney lawyers start pouring gasoline on you while lighting their cigars with $100 bills.

That would be https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmdrfalcon/sierra-collectors-quest and it's shipping soon. Plus there were "feelies" made for putting with your game collections.

If you have an hour to spare, this does a pretty good job of summing everything up

There are the official Memoirs/walkthroughs of Guybrush Threepwood for the first four games, I believe all written by the same employee at LucasFilm/Arts, Jo 'Captain Tripps' Ashburn. I had tried to reach out to him at one time to see if, as a fan, he would be interested in continuing the work for Tales but he didn't seem to notice my request. From the hint guides, (Can't find yet; need to get to sleep) Start on page 52 on: https://archive.org/details/Monkey_Island2_HintBook/page/n57/mode/2up Page 126 on: https://archive.org/details/Curse_of_Monkey_Island_The_Prima/page/n125/mode/2up (Can't find yet; need to get to sleep) Seems someone has made audiobooks of (some of?) these as well, but I haven't listened to them yet. https://archive.org/details/memoirs1 https://archive.org/details/memoirs2

@BaronGrackle are you saying you don't appreciate Temple of Doom's repeated frying-pan-on-head subtle mentions of "fortune and glory," Willie's non-stop hysterics, and the "foreign people eat bugs and brains!" dinner scene? ¬ ¬ I'm with you. Crystal Skull has grown on me over the years, I think I was mostly bitter with it because (for obvious reasons) there was no Marcus or Henry Jones, Snr. Having rewatched it, it's a lot of fun -- I just don't like how they handled Marion, with her casual "LOL HRU Indy?" at what should be a terrifying Russian base camp in the middle of the jungle and her subsequent LOLZ in the final act that make it all seem like a big joke. I really hope they don't kill her off in a one-sentence mention and picture in Indy 5, let the guy enjoy marriage...

We harassed that title, but really the oddity was Last Crusade in terms of shortness. The others tend to use "NOUN OF THE OTHER NOUN" format. (Raiders cheats because it doesn't use Indy's name at the front.) I was unkind to Crystal when it released, but I'm kinder to it now. EDIT: I maintain that TEMPLE OF DOOM IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST.

Here lies smirk with a wit that could cut but he wouldn’t quit smoking so now he’s kaput.

I get this point, but I read that book as a kid and it was more like a weird creative writing challenge than at attempt at building out a cohesive lore. The stories were written by a bunch of different authors, and they each took their stories in wildly different directions in terms of tone and genre, and it didn't tie into anything else. It's not a classic by any means, but I can recall more details from the stories than I do from many of the main EU novels. I found it disconcertingly avant garde, and it didn't seem like anyone was monitoring the brand very closely. The wobbly continuity of Star Wars in the 90s had a charm to it that I don't associate with the brand any more. I had a book called 'The Essential Guide to Characters', which re-read a lot because it had a bunch of characters that came from outside the EU I was familiar with. There was stuff like the Ewoks cartoon series, the Marvel comic books, and a middle-grade chapter book series where the Emperor had a long-lost kid called ... Triclops. Just piles of stuff from a whole range of licencees who obviously never talked to each other. This book purported to reconcile all of it, but really just drew attention to the depth of imagination required in order to piece together how ramshackle and incongruent it all was. Here's the cover: Like, I love that Vader and Leia are just kind of buried in the background behind random aliens, and that C-3PO is from a comic book adaptation of the Droids cartoon series. Who's that lady in the front? I couldn't tell you, and I spent many afternoons sprawled on the floor reading this book. This was a thick black and white paperback with lots of drawings of the characters, and I think it had some things in common with a role-playing source book. To me, it made it feel like Star Wars was a weird world where anyone could add a character or a time period and mess around however they wanted to.

I compiled the chicken sound effects (that I could be bothered to check):

Let me ask Gunther von Hagens about this. * ring ring * "Hello, Gunther? Vee hav an interesting der kwestshun for you [...] " Well, good news. Gunther says that plastination is possible with chicken as well. He's just not too certain about the sound effects.

Yeah the sounds are weird. I had a listen... It is a cluck or weird spring sort of noise in most versions, but the Amiga specifically has more of a duck honking sound (not really a quack). I’m also informed that the audio effect refers to a duck sound but is mapped to a cluck event. It’s possible that akin to how the Special Edition developers pulled out and recorded all dialogue lines, they simply pulled out the sound effect names for the Amiga port and put what they expected they should sound like in. I also noticed a weird anomaly with the CD versions. On Sega it uses a proper-sounding cluck effect, but on PC the same sound is weirdly slowed down and sounds unnatural. Perhaps to enhance the ghost effect. 🤷‍♂️

Maybe the new movie will be an adaptation of the long delayed Fountain of Youth fangame. If we see a de-aged Ford it will be canon!

Guybrush's rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle is treated as a dead chicken in the demo, and referred to as a dead chicken by Guybrush when speaking on at least one occasion. Could this chicken be both rubber and dead? Was it ever rubber and alive? Was it first alive and fleshy, but then transformed into dead and rubber?

Your honor, I'd like to introduce a new piece of evidence: Mike the Headless Chicken Who, unlike every chicken shown in Secret, was both headless and alive for a sustained period.

OBJECTION A chicken can run for three to five seconds in "head off" mode, but only if the escape command was previously executed in "head on" mode.

... if we're counting live chicken heads displayed on screen, the count for TSoMI is zero.

Something something the map seller on Mêlée is also voiced by Danny Delk cOiNcIdEnCe hmmm????

I remember 1 from Secret (fish puzzle). I remember 1 from Revenge (map puzzle). I don't remember any in Curse? I'm having trouble remembering Escape, but I feel like there were some? I remember at least 3 from Tales (Ch2 Morgan fight, Ch4 outside courthouse, Ch5 dead).

One final Monkey Island Monday!! I’m predicting we’ll see the Scrapbook retelling of the previous games. …or since I’ll only have one last time to place a foolish guess, they’ll release the game a week early 🤣

Thank you, ideal background listening between now and the 19th, and combined with the links @Scummbuddyposted this should help to plug the gaps in my Swiss cheese memory (hey @Remi that's a Quantum Leap reference, you can't shame me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1)

I will always have the nightmares of the bridge scene and crocodiles. Thanks Indiana

That's unfortunate, there's actually a big fan community for point and click games. There were people trying (and failing hard at it) to make some kind of Monkey Island 5 before Tales was announced. I remembered I felt very disappointed at the time, when Sam and Max wasn't dubbed I thought "well, it's not that famous, I guess it makes sense..." but I was expecting an italian dub for Tales. It surprised me even more that the Back to The Future and Jurassic Park games weren't dubbed, and that's a big gigantic franchise. It kind of still burns that Return is not dubbed in other languages other than english. I mean, Disney does have the money to do so... Broken Sword 5 was dubbed, and that was way smaller budget, I think...

The worst Indiana Jones was the tv series. I hated that Crystal Skull referenced it (riding with Pancho Villa) and made it canon.

They're close, huh? My prescription probably just needs adjustment.

Looks like IGN is doing a Monkey Island week it seems

As much as I’d love to go back to Scabb, I’m also kind of glad that it’s never been touched again. It’s my favorite one. Woodtick is so perfectly done with its art, cast of characters, and incredible music, Scabb’s locations are all lonely and a touch creepy, the map music is unique in its lonely backwater mood, and though the island seems small, it’s revealed to be full of little secret spots the more you play. I like to imagine that place is continuing on exactly how it is, maybe a little shabbier and a little more sunk into the swamp but otherwise unchanged by time. Scabb Island Romantic signing off.

Oh my goodness. That's what hat monkey is for. Don't you get it? Don't you see? Hat monkey is there for Monkey Kombat training at Smirk's gym. Hat monkey is a Monkey Kombat expert that makes The Machine more than a match for the giant monkey from Escape.

"Most pirates call it Hell." The Secret of Monkey Island is that you need at least one Jojo to access the hellgate. Jojos are the true key to the hellgate. Jojos scattered at key points to tear the fabric itself. Jojos to unlock, channel, and animate the living hell-golem of metal and steam. A horde of Jojo slaves operating the hellgate as itcturns living souls to undead skeletons, some Jojos periodically visible in the upper right window (only a tail is in this image). Jojos to open the gateway to crossroads, connecting the planes of reality and making possible the shattering of that barrier with fantasy. Jojos. Are. The. Key. To. Hell. Now. Can we just get confirmation that, apart from Murray, these other skulls are from monkeys named Jojo?

Not if you trust the back of the Escape From Monkey Island box. Though for whatever reason, the promise of "more monkeys than the three previous Monkey games combined!" was toned down for the PlayStation 2 version.