The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar: Easter Eggs, Trivia, and Secrets

(And Otis does, too.) The Cook will have many thoughts about the IOUs that do not benefit him.

A common misconception is that the Phatt Island jail’s dog, Walt, is named after Walt Disney. Rather, he’s named after Steve Purcell’s dog. (Who at one point bit Dave Grossman. The dog did. Not Steve Purcell.)

Strangely, voices were recorded for the deleted LeChuck/Largo scene in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge Special Edition. The scene doesn’t appear in that version of the game, either, but through the magic of reconstruction, here’s what it would have sounded like. (Video taken from VGHF’s fireside chat video.)

Another (very) early piece of The Secret of Monkey Island concept art, courtesy of Gary Winnick. Source: Heritage Auctions.

While never mentioned (or visited) in Monkey Island 2, the top-right island off Booty is called “The Mysterious Island of Cleptomaniac Parrots.” Source: The Mojo Forums.

At some point, Booty Island featured a nighttime setting and was known as Crooked Island. Source: Various pieces of concept art.

When Guybrush chooses to go by “Captain Loogie” in the Booty spitting contest, it is not just another random name. Going by the Phatt Library, Captain Loogie is already a published spitting champ. “Great Expectorations” isn’t a random title, either. Other than the obvious “Great Expectations” reference, “expectorations” means “to spit,” and when Guybrush examines the book, he’ll describe it as ”thick.” Much like how he describes the green drink from The Bloody Lip that thickens his spit. Also, the book is green—another hint.

Guybrush famously tells us you should never pay more than $20 for a computer game. Earlier in the game, though, the suggested limit is $60.

Within Return to Monkey Island’s resource files, you can find unused voice assets, including some alternate takes from Murray. Here’ what they sound like.

As revealed by Ron on Mastodon, the secret internal code name for Return to Monkey Island was WeirdCogs. That goes hand-in-hand with Cogg Island which incidentally only showed up as an easter egg.

The former Pirate Leaders go with the classic mouth-to-mouth method. Guybrush, meanwhile, chooses mouth-to... well...

In both “The Secret of Monkey Island” and “Return to Monkey Island,” you can press the Escape or skip key to get an alternate “Loom” sales pitch from Cobb.

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Hand Madison her book—“Ship-to-Ship Combat Strategies”—from Carla’s collection, and she’ll sign a personalized inscription for Guybrush.

The carved heart reveals a disturbing romantic profession. Luckily, you can stab it. Sort of.

Chester, the less-than-friendly helpline technician in the Dinky forest, was modeled after Khris Brown who got her nickname from Tim Schafer. According to the Special Edition commentary, the in-game character’s to-the-point attitude was based on Tabitha Tosti, who Tim sat next to at LucasArts.

Chester was replaced by a male technician in the Special Edition.

The Secret of Monkey Island demo is very different from what you see in the final game. Here is a full playthrough—no commentary—showing off the many differences.

You can rootbeer Bob by making the threat followed by “I think I’ll sap you anyway.” Additionally, this changes up your subsequent dialogue with Herman.

The EGA version of the first Monkey Island game differs from the other versions in one major way—color palette aside: At the beginning of the game, you can see the sunset from the Mêlée docks. Later in the game, the sun will have set.

In The Secret of Monkey Island you can board LeChuck’s ship without wearing the voodoo necklace and get a set of dialogue options with Bob. Also, the “lido deck” is a cruise ship’s pool area.

In Episode IV: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood, portraits of Telltale co-founders Dan Connors and Kevin Bruner can be seen in the courtroom.

Or, Mutiny on Monkey Island even? In this early concept sketch from Gary Winnick we see who likely is Guybrush on the left and Governor Fat on the right. In the middle? Who knows—maybe an early, goofy LeChuck? Or, more likely, just a random pirate. Source: Heritage Auctions. Update! As posted by Sushi, the characters are indeed from Mutiny on Monkey Island: Captain Smear West, the lookout on Mêlée and Governor L. Fat.

Oh, it’s just a figure of speech! For those who haven’t played “Casual” mode: It’s easy to get Locke’s key, and Guybrush is willing to trade a lot for it. Here’s a supercut. Credit: LGH.

Lila’s dramatic spell at the Monkey Island alter translates to: “Who cares for the pain itself, because it is pain. Unless some of it is useful. Unless they are blinded by lust, they will not come out.” This according to Google Translate. Conversely, the lines are very similar to “lorem ipsum,” the text commonly used as placeholder text in publishing.

You can either leave with your crew or—if you sink the Sea Monkey—Herman Toothrot. Bob tags along, too, provided you don't root beer him first.

After successfully getting his Monkey Island vote through, Guybrush has an arsenal of other topics to put up for consideration.

The pirate swinging from the chandelier in The Secret of Monkey Island has met their untimely demise if the body outline in Return is anything to go by. Also, note the “welcome” mat—“avast” means “stop.” In other words, anything but welcoming.

Have Boybrush read the sign above the sewer runoff in the Big Whoop outhouse and repeatedly interact with the water to make Chuckie do something rather gross.

Run through the streets of Puerto Pollo before you talk to the Voodoo Lady, and you’ll find the town closed—though many of its denizens have opinions about curses.

If you keep double-ringing the LeShip bell, LeChuck will give a number of inspirational speeches. Enjoy them all here!

“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

So to speak—Chuckie’s cut-off jacket has the same crossbones emblem as the back of LeChuck’s coat.

Early promo shots showed that the Mêlée alley would not initially be accessible in ReMI. This, of course, was changed in the final game.

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.

Slower EGA machines would remove animations (and music) so that the PC could run the game. Witness the subdued Scumm Bar.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Disneyland, parents can inquire about their lost children at the town hall. The sign in front of the building says, Lost Parents, Inquire Here for Children. Sources: Jack Rodford. Photo courtesy of Undercover Tourist.

While doing one of his weekly dives into the Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition resource files, Grim Fandango Network’s CEO stumbled upon an alternate Mêlée dock. Note how it feels slightly more like the original game—left is what shipped, right is what’s in the resource files.

The voices of the skulls—Murray aside—are provided by Clint Bajakian, Michael Land, and Peter McConnell, the game’s musicians. Source: GDC Vault.

“Youch,” or, if you investigate the informative plaque in The Curse of Monkey Island, “pappapisshu!” The exclamation makes its comeback in Return to Monkey Island. (It also appears in Tales: here is a screenshot.)

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A song called Plank of Love was intended to be recorded for The Curse of Monkey Island’s ending. It was left out because of time constraints. You can read what was supposed to be on our Lyrics page.

Keep hovering over the “Pair of dimes?” option, and Lemonhead will give you different responses.

Barbery Coast was originally supposed to be located on Skull Island, then, later, Blood Island. This piece of concept art shows what it could have looked like.

In the Passport to Adventure EGA demo, you find that the status is actually gone-but-not-forgotten bodybuilder Charles Atlas. That reference was removed after a cease and desist letter. Additionally, you can transform into Indy.

Two spots that are unreachable in the final game can be experienced in the EGA Passport to Adventure demo. True EGA aficionados will also notice the tiny sprite is the original red sash from an early version of the game.

LeChuck’s ship was called the Death Starfish in The Curse of Monkey Island. This was, however, never mentioned in the game, just the script.

In the monkey1.info file on the Amiga, you can read the following: Secret of Monkey Icon by Aaron Muszalski....G; with no help from anybody ever! (Especially not Ron Gilbert.) except: Bret Barrett (Hair,logo tweaks)....*; Ben Emmerich (Drapes... and my dishes!)....'; Thanks all! Enjoy the game. Peace......;.....; P.S. I love you Annabelle! This is based on an LEC in-joke started by Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman taking credit for work without including Gilbert. In disc01.lec you can also read Tried to complete trial twice. THIS IS BAD! Tried to complete invalid trial: THIS IS BAD!

Go wandering underneath the Monkey Head, and Guybrush can interact with many of the oddities below. After a while, he even changes his mind about some of them.

When you kill LeChuck in episode five and the screen fades to white, you can hear the sounds of a theme park bleed through in the soundscape.

In episode three, you can solve the cochlea puzzle by collecting the proper number of ear grubs—100,000. DeCava makes a comment halfway through, too: Only 50,000 more to go. Credit: Kraentz’s YouTube channel.

Guybrush can try to remove LeChuck’s (nonexistent) mask, just like in LeChuck’s Revenge.

The designers toyed with the idea of letting Guybrush replacing his hook with various inventory items.

Originally, Adam Harrington voiced evil LeChuck. Earl Boen came on board during episode four to voice the character, and later re-recorded the earlier non-human LeChuck parts.

In episode one: Make a wish to become the greatest pirate of all time and Guybrush will turn into LeChuck.

Guybrush asks if he can call D’Oro “D’Oro the Explorer,” a reference to the Nickelodeon cartoon, Dora the Explorer.

The plant on Elaine’s ship is Chuck the Plant—it first appeared in Maniac Mansion and various other old LEC games.

In episode one, a puzzle inside Club 41 was dropped. This because of WiiWare's 40 megabyte download restrictions. The location subsequently was named Club 41 as the club puzzle would have pushed the size to 41 megabytes.

Marquis de Singe is a pun on Marquis de Sade. In addition “singe” is French for “monkey.”

In The Secret of Monkey Island, it’s fairly apparent that there is a picture of the Pillsbury Doughboy in the Scumm Bar kitchen. In Return to Monkey Island, you can steal the painting—of a rather bad boy-looking Doughboy—after you give the Chef the cookbook. Later, the Chef will tell you the picture is of his father. Which puts forth the question: Is the Chef actually Pillsbury Doughboy’s son?

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After visiting Monkey Island, you can offer up some material for the Mêlée Island museum curator’s newsletter. Of interest: One line of dialogue shows in the game’s resource files that does not appear in the game regarding LeChuck’s diary: But I've been thinking about adding a room with stuff for kids to play with, it would go great in there.

Additionally, if you mention a manatee in your Chums story, Conrad will respond: Hm. I'm not sure about the manatee. Not very piratey.

Wander the Mêlée Forest—seemingly in Casual Mode only—and you’ll meet a bespectacled creature hiding out. In code, it’s referenced as pineapple_person. Was it responsible for the death of the explorer found in The Secret of Monkey Island? We may never know.

Many remember seeing the in-game close-up of Spiffy in the Scumm Bar. In reality, that close-up was not in the game but was rather shown on the back of some boxes (e.g. The White Label version). In the Special Edition, a newly drawn close-up did appear.

Not just a random advertisement scheme. Cobb was a character in Loom, sans disguise.

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“ELAINE! Stop the wedding!” is an homage to “The Graduate”—too, Elaine was named after the female protagonist in that film.

The Secret of Monkey Island sprung from an earlier game concept, Mutiny on Monkey Island. You can read the pitch here:

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An early version of Elaine Marley. Credit: Video Game History Foundation—go there for the full animation and the backstory.

Early in conceptualizing the game, there were talks of fighting drunk swordfighter and Fester Shinetop himself. Credit: Video Game History Foundation—go there for the full animation and the backstory.

In an early version of The Secret of Monkey Island, Mêlée Island was governered by one Governor Fat. This did, of course, change, and the character instead appeared as Governor Phatt in LeChuck’s Revenge. Credit: Video Game History Foundation—go there for the full animation and the backstory.

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If you wander around Mêlée Forest, you’ll find remnants of both unlucky campers and exotic vegetation. Here is a supercut.

This is a Tim Schafer line about a fancy ship at Stan’s used shipyard. But it references an actual elevator in the 'main house' at Skywalker Ranch which we occasionally got to ride in when we worked up there. It did smell vaguely like wine. Source: Dave Grossman.

The Scumm Bar chef has a long list of improvements for his establishment, some more achievable than others.

The only digital sound effect in Monkey Island 2 (until the FM-Towns version) was Largo’s yelp. According to Clint Bajakian, the voice was provided by Peter McConnell. McConnell, meanwhile, claims Bajakian voiced it. Subjectively, it does sound more like Clint.

You don’t have to pay for much in Return, but you can settle your accounts if you so choose.

Carla’s election poster is switched out after the mop tree is chopped down.

The Secret… Secrets… of Monkey Island are revealed in the SCUMM Bar by two different patrons.

You can find a photo booth in the final location of the game. Click the right spot, and you’ll get a picture. Drag that onto the frame, and you can see it in a close-up.

After Guybrush becomes Brrr Muda’s new queen, things change through town.

An electrical plug can be spotted—if you look really closely-above one of the monkey statues. Very foreshadowing.

While there undoubtedly was a lot of crossover, we can, thanks to the OST and various interviews, deduct which composer wrote what:

• Michael Land: Big Whoop (prologue and end), Mêlée, Monkey, Scurvy Ship, theme/menus/scrapbook.
• Peter McConnell: Terror, Brrr Muda, LeAnchor, Diving Theme, below Monkey.
• Clint Bajakian: LeShip, Voodoo Shop, Scurvy, Barebones.

Quoting standards in Monkey Island games is not a new thing, but for the Brrr Muda town hall, Peter McConnell fully reinterpreted the Norwegian folk song, “Per Spelmann.” Here is a comparison of the two.

In the VGA-CD version Guybrush tells us he is saved by a “Rubber tree!” In the VGA-floppy version it’s a “Rubber tree.” (That’s right, this is the level we’ve reached.)

An oldie but a goldie! Walk out on the cliff’s edge, and Guybrush will fall to his death… This refers to the frequent deaths in Sierra adventure games, down to the identical save dialogue box.

Keep sending the Shopkeeper away while you carry the stolen sword and shovel in your inventory, and you’ll get multiple different dialogues.

If you choose to ignore Fester Shinetop’s "pssssssst" and go see Otis, the dialogue will change fairly significantly.

Guybrush can fully drown—run the clock out four times underwater, and you’ll get a less-than-cheerful ending.

“Where’s Waldo” is known as “Where’s Wally” in many parts of the world.

From the “what does it all mean?!” file—the map to the secret either says it’s seven-ish o’clock, or the minute hand is missing and we see the second hand instead. Related to the Cogg Island puzzles?

Lon Chaney—also known as The Man of a Thousand Faces—was the master of makeup and a man of many faces in 1920s movies. Jon Laney shared many similarities.

Pick up the skulls before rebuilding the Sea Monkey on Monkey Island, and they’ll come with you as ship decoration. Additionally, bringing Murray is optional.

A common question we get is if this scene was cut from the game. It was not, but you need to enable Writers’ Cut in the game’s preference to see it.

Wally’s doormat is a map of the map shop.

Sort of! Bonus: “Lemonhead” is a classic 'merican candy.

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Every time you enter the Cod’s Wallop the lumpsucker will crawl closer to the exit. After 31 tries, it’ll exit.

According to his own diary, LeChuck’s birthday is on December 1st.

Joy of Hex is a reference to Joy of Sex, a 1972 illustrated sex manual. That book is again a reference to Joy of Cooking, one of the most popular cookbooks in the US. Find all the books from LeChuck’s Revenge in our library section.

Buzzsaw Girl was a character in Steve Purcell’s comic book series, Defenders of Dynatron City. The series was later adapted into an animated TV pilot and a Nintendo game.

Guybrush tells Captain Dread he has natty dreads. This is a reference to the Bob Marley and the Wailers album, Natty Dread. Dreadlocks is also Dread’s hair style.

Guybrush’s made-up addresses:

• 221B Baker Street: Home of Sherlock Holmes.
• 10 Downing Street: The Prime Minister of the UK’s residence.
• 1060 West Addison: Wrigley Field baseball stadium in Chicago. (Dominic Armato is, coincidentally, a Cubs fan.)
• 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: The White House.

Tim Schafer wanted Guybrush to be named Hank Plank. Source: Tim’s Tweets.

Kewpie is a brand of dolls and figurines that were conceived as comic strip characters by cartoonist Rose O’Neill. The tie-in dolls became popular in 1912—and served as the inspiration for the LeChuck doll. Source: Wikipedia.

The Seckrit sign on Monkey Island is not a random typo, but a reference to Maniac Mansion.

Those who pre-ordered the game got one extra inventory item: the completely pointless Horse Armor. You can actually use it, just not in a meaningful fashion.

The underwater Cogg Island was cut from the final game but you CAN explore it. In Part 4, find the trivia card that asks Where is Cogg Island located? Click the answer that contains a coordinate—it’s random—sail to it, and dive down to see what was cut. Make sure to save first, as there is no way to return to the surface. Don’t want to go looking for yourself? Our save-game section includes a file and instructions on how to use it to get straight to the island.

This seminal scene—colliqually known as The Bone Dance—is inspired by the Disney Silly Symphony, The Skeleton Dance. The track used in Monkey Island 2 is called Dem Bones, a religious song written by James Weldon Johnson.

There are a total of eleven possible endings/codas. This is a compilation of them all.

For ten Mondays—#monkeyislandmonday—Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman posted short promotional video snippets leading up to Return’s release. This is a super-cut of them.

After the quake, things have changed on Monkey Island—this is a supercut of what to see and do.

The rules change after the Monkey Island quake, if only ever so slightly!

Remember the “Pirates of the Caribbean” scene that was suspiciously similar to “Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge?” It was then referenced in “Return to Monkey Island” — all a coincidence? Maybe...

There is an oft-forgotten optional scene in “The Secret of Monkey Island,” which ties in with a discovery in “Return to Monkey Island.”

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You can save Wally, it just takes some ingenuity.

Return to Monkey Island had lines recorded using Guybrush and LeChuck’s voices as opposed to Boybrush and Chuckie’s. This is what it would have sounded like.

The goldfish from Zak—Sushi—makes a cameo in Return to Monkey Island.

If you Look At Spiffy in the SCUMM Bar, Guybrush will comment that the portrait in the Governor’s mansion shows him. Otherwise, he’ll comment on the man’s hat.

The yellow flowers are known as Caniche Endormi—French for Sleeping Poodle. A good hint on how to deal with the Governor’s piranha poodles.

Interact with Wally to find that he is not just a dummy.

Visit Domingo in January and he will wish you a happy new year. (Note you can change your system date/time to January and this will still work.)

An early ad-copy draft. Credit: Ron’s Mastodon.

Press Shift+J during ship combat to hear lightsaber sounds during insult sword fighting.

Enter and exit Stan’s crypt 35 times to witness the spider from The Dig eat Maggie.

That is an often-heard line from the 1970s cop show Police Woman.

The Secret of Monkey Island stump joke returns in The Curse of Monkey Island.

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Keep exiting the Goodsoup bar and the grog ad will change five times.

Cannibalism! Almost! Guybrush can tempt Lemonhead with Domingo's crispy flesh.

Try to pick up the sea water on Blood Island in The Curse of Monkey Island 25 times, and Guybrush will finally wander into the ocean, finding his former self.

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Back in early 1997, we posted the possibility of a 3D acceleration mode in The Curse of Monkey Island. That turned out to be false, of course, but LucasArts put in a nod to the rumor on the options screen.

Type LAPOSTAL during the cannon fight to get unlimited cannon balls. This in-joke is a reference to a cheat from Dark Forces.

Press Shift+W to win the game.

The Dainty Lady may or may not be a reference to the pink submarine in Operation Petticoat. Good movie!

Hidden outside of view in the SCUMM Bar assets you find this little message. Some have suggested Randy was Randy Breen, VP of production at LucasArts. Worth remembering, though, is that he was not the only Randy at LEC.

Press Ctrl+Shift+W to win the game.

This cover hit the web to less than an enthusiastic response from the fans. Luckily it was just a placeholder.

A flurry of unused cover art made it to the public in ads and Amazon pre-order pages. Credit: Retromags.

You CAN access the harbor in Escape from Monkey Island—it just requires you to download the demo. (Or watch this informative video!) You even get a couple of lines of extra dialogue. Note, too, the placeholder music from The Curse of Monkey Island. You can download the demo from Mojo and play it in DREAMM.

This version of Stan's Used Coffins only appeared in the demo of LeChuck's Revenge. Booty Island was, evidently, supposed to be set at night.

Did you know the Dinky Island name could sorta, kinda, but not really be found by looking at Wally's shack-door?

Zonker Harris is a character in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. In the Special Edition, the reference was switched to Jedi Knight's Kyle Katarn.

Early on in the design, Monkey Island 2's antagonist was supposed to be LeChuck's hellbent brother, El Carlo. Ultimately, the story was rewritten, and LeChuck was brought back.

Guybrush can escape multiple times from the Monkey Island cannibals -- this despite their many attempts to strengthen the locks.

In the disk version of MI1 you could look the stump, and Guybrush would try to squeeze in there. A message would come up asking for an absurd amount of disks, all of which didn't exist. Word has it that the LEC hintline was swamped with queries about this.

The original closeup of Elaine Marley was supposedly based on Avril Harrison, an artist who was working for LucasFilm Games at the time.

From Ronzo's blog: During the early days of Monkey Island I didn't have a name for Guybrush. We just called him the 'guy'. When Steve Purcell was doing concepts for 'the guy' he was doing them in dpaint. In dpaint you could select a section of the screen called a 'brush' and save it out. It was these files I got from Steve. I saw the file names so many times that the name 'guybrush' stuck. (Incidentally, Tim Schafer wanted to name the character Hank Plank. Source: Tim's tweets.)

Threepwood was decided in a company contest. The name comes from the book The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood (US title). Threepwood is also rumoured to be the name of Dave Grossman's character in RPGs.

This room inside of LeChuck's Fortress was cut from the game before the final background art was created, but a skeleton version using a pencil sketch survives in the source code. While there is no functional code for this, analysis of the SCUMM script suggests that a puzzle here involved making recipes by spelling out words using the first letters of the ingredients on the shelves. Code restored by Marius Winter, gameplay video by Jake Rodkin, MT-32 audio recording by Roger Holten. Courtesy of The Video Game History Foundation.

Restored from the game's original source files (thanks Marius Winter!), here are all five unused close-up cutscenes from the game. The first of these was never used at all, while the remaining four are technically in the game - just without the closeup art and animations! Courtesy of The Video Game History Foundation.

The puzzle during this portion of Monkey Island 2 is pretty infamous, but a look through the game's source code reveals that it used to be different - and probably a lot easier! This "deleted scene," with an abundance of unique dialogue, was restored using the game's original source code by Marius Winter. Courtesy of The Video Game History Foundation.

Press Alt+W anywhere in Monkey Island 2 to win the game. You will be sent straight to a custom credit screen!

The classic mode in the Special Edition is very different.

Yes, you can kill Guybrush in Monkey Island 2—sort of. Hang over the acid pit for five minutes, and Guybrush and Wally will drop into it. You will, of course, be revived straight away.

Keep trying to Pick Up Kate to get a bunch of different responses.

Code still exists in the SCUMM files to have random pirates coming in and out of the SCUMM bar, and walk to and from the entrance to Low Street. Here this code has been restored. Courtesy of The Video Game History Foundation.

An unused fireplace animation from the title screen of The Secret of Monkey Island, restored using the game's original development tools, SCUMM and BYLE. The timing is a best guess, as is the cloud placement - it had to be moved down a few pixels to avoid a clipping error with the animation. Additionally, the music timing may be inaccurate, as it is a recording inserted into the video. Courtesy of The Video Game History Foundation.

This unused and never-finished cutscene would have showed the player how to use the cotton swab key to gain entrance to the Monkey Head. The cannibals - who are uniquely colored here - were meant to have unique animations, including the actual use of the key. These animations were likely not created before this scene was cut from the game. Courtesy of The Video Game History Foundation.

This is an entire room that was cut from The Secret of Monkey Island! The art and code survived in the game's source code repository, and was re-assembled and placed back into the game by us, using the original development tools. Courtesy of The Video Game History Foundation.

Hang out for a minute underwater, and you'll overhear a dubious conversation. And after ten minutes? Time to order a hint book.

In The Secret of Monkey Island, Guybrush can use grog for more than just saving Otis. As the Hollywood screenwriting book says: Save the Rat!

Press Ctrl+W anywhere in The Secret of Monkey Island to win the game. You will be sent straight to a custom credit screen!

Guybrush can see all manners of things when spying on Monkey Island.

The Sierra-mocking easter egg in The Secret of Monkey Island is referred to in Return to Monkey Island. Witness the change.

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Did you know Stan's theme and the SCUMM Bar theme in the Monkey Island games are based on pre-existing compositions? Witness Go Tell Aunt Rhody and O Good Ale Thou Art My Darling. One or more tune has appeared in every game.

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• Return to Monkey Island

Have you ever wondered why Guybrush has a red pixel on him on The Secret of Monkey Island map? The original design of the character wore a red sash, and the tiny character on the map never got updated!

They may not have appeared IN the game, but the three pirates from Steve Purcell's The Secret of Monkey Island cover show up in Return to Monkey Island. Props to Rex Crowle and team for even including the semi-hidden Purcell signature.

• The Secret of Monkey Island
• Return to Monkey Island