I just remembered Blood Island has that LaFoot guy, making this potentially a bizarre musical reference in a game that doesn’t use the classic SCUMM Bar or other Melee and Monkey Island themes.
Bloody hell, it really is.
Granted, it is not quite the same situation as the title theme, where that was literally reused as is, while this is a different rendition of the same tune.
I noticed during my recent CMI expedition that there’s quite a lot of that in the game. Guybrush varies from a bit odd to downright demented-looking during his ‘special case’ in-game animations — grabbing Murray with the hook, stuff like that.
Stuff you likely wouldn’t have much noticed on the 5cm large screens of the day.