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The Darkside Detective (Video Game)

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The Darkside Detective is a retraux point-and-click Adventure Game published in 2017 by Spooky Doorway.Francis McQueen is a detective in the Twin Lakes police department tasked with handling cases involving the occult and other spooky nonsense, accompanied by the loyal but dimwitted Officer Patrick Dooley. Several of his cases involve the Darkside, the Dark World that presents a distorted reflection of reality.The game features blocky pixel art reminiscent of games from the 1980s heyday of point-and-click adventures like Police Quest. Each case is a self-contained chapter that takes place at a single location, though plot points and characters recur.The second game in the series, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, was released in April 2021, with seven new cases to solve. In September 2021, a trailer promising three new cases was released.
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Headphones Equal Isolation
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Headphones Equal Isolation: One of the passengers on a subway train that's suffered a detour into another dimension is a young man wearing headphones, who doesn't respond when McQueen attempts to question him. McQueen speculates that he might not even have noticed the situation the train is in.
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Visible Silence
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Visible Silence: "..." is McQueen's response when he's rendered speechless by one of Dooley's leaps of illogic. Also what Dooley says if you try to initiate a conversation with him while he's unconscious.
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Photo-Booth Montage
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Photo-Booth Montage: McQueen and Dooley do one in the photo booth at the mall, although the blank-face pixel art means you have to imagine the faces they're presumably pulling.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: One of the city's notorious former inhabitants was the mobster Al Caphoney, who got away with many years of organized crime only for tacks evasionnote (he swerved in the road to avoid a sharp object, and was arrested for dangerous driving) to be his downfall. McQueen pauses in the middle of explaining all this to claim that any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
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Arbitrary Skepticism
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Arbitrary Skepticism: McQueen has no trouble accepting the existence of ghosts, gremlins, alternate universes, werewolves, lake monsters, etc., but he doesn't believe in Bigfoot, an inconsistency he immediately lampshades.
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Officer O'Hara
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Officer O'Hara: Officer Ghouley has an Irish Funetik Aksent and wears an old-fashioned uniform of the time period when this trope was common.
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Totem Pole Trench
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Totem Pole Trench: Used by three kids as part of a monster disguise to fake a Bigfoot sighting. (Played with a bit, in that they discover that they can't move around without falling over.)
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: A case where things actually turn out better than expected. If the player attempts to buy a subway ticket using the occult coin from the Darkside, McQueen says that there's no way in Hell it will work and he's going to do it just to prove the point. Not only does it work, the machine dispenses a valid ticket for the Darkside subway, removing an obstacle.
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Religion of Evil
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Religion of Evil: One of McQueen's unseen cases involved busting up the Brotherhood of the World's End, which worshiped a being called Gruel the End-Timer and sought to bring about the end of the world.
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Ignoring by Singing
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Ignoring by Singing: Agent McScream, after he decides he's had enough and isn't going to help McQueen any more.
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The Man in the Mirror Talks Back
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The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: During an excursion to the Darkside, McQueen looks in a mirror and remarks, "Looking good, Frankie!" His reflection tells him that actually, he's been letting himself go lately.
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Deadly Game
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Deadly Game: The missing people turn out to have been abducted to the Darkside where they're forced to compete in a deadly gameshow that mostly involves trying not to get eaten by various horrible monsters.
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Alice Allusion
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Alice Allusion: The case revolves around a little girl called Alice who has gone missing after going through a magical portal and getting trapped in another world.
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I Owe You My Life
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I Owe You My Life: Played for laughs with the Mysterious Stranger who rescues McQueen in the Darkside. He reveals that he owes Dooley an enormous life-changing debt of gratitude... for what the ensuing dramatic flashback reveals to have been a very minor kindness.
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: The occupant of one of the police holding cells is a rat. McQueen explains that he's in protective custody for informing on his criminal colleagues.note (i.e. ratting them out)
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Commercialized Christmas
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Commercialized Christmas: A TV in the electronics store window is showing an ad in which Santa exhorts children to make their parents prove how much they care by buying expensive presents.
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Can't Take Anything with You
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Can't Take Anything with You: The mystery involves people disappearing into thin air, leaving Empty Piles of Clothing behind. McQueen's investigation establishes that they're being abducted by teleporter, which apparently doesn't take clothes — and sets up the audience to expect that when McQueen himself is teleported, he's going to arrive naked. In the event, he arrives wearing the same uniform all the other abductees are already wearing — apparently, the teleporter is capable of teleporting a person out of one pair of clothes and into another. But then, when they're all teleported home, the uniforms stay behind, and McQueen arrives home naked.
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Mistaken Identity
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Mistaken Identity: When McQueen and Dooley visit the harbourmaster's office, where it's very dark because the power's out, she mistakes them for locals, thinking Dooley in his police uniform is one of the local postal workers. The misidentification persists even after McQueen gets the lights working again.
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Mall Santa
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Mall Santa: The Santa at Twin Lakes Mall is abducted and replaced by The Krampus, who proceeds to spread chaos. This being Twin Lakes, it turns out he's the actual, real Santa, not just an old guy in a costume.
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Identical Twin Mistake
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Identical Twin Mistake: At the beginning, McQueen meets up at the match to find what looks like Dooley in wrestling gear and face paint. Little does he know that the wrestler is not Dooley but rather El Doolio, who has a Mexican accent and meets up with El Dectivo. Even with all that evidence, however, McQueen remains unconvinced. It is not until the end of the episode when the real Dooley shows up for the match, albeit a little too late, to find him with the wrestler who has been mistaken for him this whole time.
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The Freakshow
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The Freakshow: According to a poster, the carnival has one, which features a beardless lady, a man descended from apes, and a half-man-half-the-other-half-of-the-same-man.
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Haunted Castle
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Haunted Castle: Castle Dooley is initially presented as one, complete with omnipresent rain storm and a local warning the protagonists not to go any closer. However, if pressed for more information, he admits he's just putting on a show because the tourists appreciate it, and it turns out the inhabitants of the castle are all perfectly nice.
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Mythology Gag
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Mythology Gag: A vacant shop in the black market has a "To Let" sign over the name of the former tenant, but enough is visible to make out that the former shop was named 'Spooky Doorway', which is also the name of the game's developer.
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Hurricane of Puns
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Hurricane of Puns: The bookshelf in the carnival proprietor's office, which contains books such as Predicting the Future by Claire Voyant.
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Dark World
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Dark World: The Darkside, a dark and distorted version of the real world that lies beyond certain magical portals.
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Limited Wardrobe
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Limited Wardrobe: Dooley starts out the adventure in the same police uniform he always wears, even though he's on holiday in a foreign country; there's even a lampshade hanging of the fact that he's wearing his gun holster (and it appears to have his gun in it) in a country where that wouldn't be allowed. Subverted later when he changes into a robe for his coming-of-age ceremony.
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Yet Another Baby Panda
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Yet Another Baby Panda: When McQueen goes on television to appeal to the public for information about Dooley's disappearance, his segment is immediately followed by a fluff piece about a squirrel that can do arithmetic.
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Grave Humor
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Grave Humor: The inscriptions on the headstones in the graveyard are punning homages to the game's lead programmers and designers.
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Beard of Evil
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Beard of Evil: McScream and Ghoulie, McQueen and Dooley's Evil Doppelgangers, have a goatee (in classic Evil Twin tradition à la Mirror Spock) and a handlebar moustache respectively. McScream is also balding.
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Empty Piles of Clothing
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Empty Piles of Clothing: The case involves people disappearing into thin air, leaving empty piles of clothing behind.
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Perp Sweating
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Perp Sweating: McQueen has to improvise an interrogation room at the mall because he can't leave to take the suspect back to the precinct house. Fortunately, the electronics store sells a desk lamp perfect for shining in a perp's face.
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Eskimos Aren't Real
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Eskimos Aren't Real: Dooley believes in alien visitations and government conspiracies, but thinks germs are a made-up thing that only happens in movies.
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Number of the Beast
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Number of the Beast: The chapter selection screen is in the form of a screen on McQueen's computer, running V 6.66 of its operating system.
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: After the Krampus has been defeated and Santa rescued, the "Case Closed" caption appears and the usual outro music plays — and then there's a shout for help from offscreen, and there turns out to be one more puzzle to solve.
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Recursive Reality
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Recursive Reality: At one point, McQueen is in the Darkside and finds a photograph, which he describes as showing you, the player, playing a video game in which a man in a trenchcoat is looking at a photograph.
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Genie in a Bottle
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Genie in a Bottle: McQueen encounters a genie whose lamp has been found by a tourist staying at the motel.
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Conspiracy Theorist
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Conspiracy Theorist: Dooley has tendencies in this direction, and runs his own conspiracy blog. Being Dooley, his conspiracy theories are things like "the moon is fake" (not the moon landings, mind you — the moon itself), "Columbus faked the America landings" (he says there's no evidence America actually exists, and Twin Lakes is actually in a secret location in the Alps), "the government is pumping dihydrogen monoxide into our homes", and "the government is a mass hallucination caused by chemicals put in the water by the government".
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Namesake Gag
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Namesake Gag: Dooley claims that a portrait in the town library depicts Theodore Library, inventor of the library.
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 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3adca595
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3adca595
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3caeadf3
type
See-Thru Specs
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3caeadf3
comment
See-Thru Specs: With the addition of the appropriate occult symbols, a View-Master toy becomes an artifact that lets the possessor see and hear ghosts.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3caeadf3
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3caeadf3
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3caeadf3
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3e682843
type
Lampshaded the Obscure Reference
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3e682843
comment
Lampshaded the Obscure Reference: After an incident involving a nightstand with a woman's screaming face in one of the drawer knobs, which comes out of nowhere and contributes nothing to the plot, Dooley remarks that anybody in the audience who doesn't know what it's a reference tonote the Twin Peaks episode "The Condemned Woman" is going to be very confused.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3e682843
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3e682843
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3e682843
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3eb0f889
type
Pun-Based Title
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3eb0f889
comment
Pun-Based Title: Each chapter has one, playing on either a famous film name or a police-related phrase.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3eb0f889
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3eb0f889
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3eb0f889
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3ece9e25
type
Konami Code
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3ece9e25
comment
Konami Code: A newspaper has the headline "Computer Stock Goes Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start". McQueen adds that he regrets having read it out loud, because it feels like a magical incantation to him and now he's going to worry about what it did.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3ece9e25
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3ece9e25
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3ece9e25
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3f0e0236
type
Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue...
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3f0e0236
comment
Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue...: The trash can in the librarian's office contains a draft of a notice saying:
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3f0e0236
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3f0e0236
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_3f0e0236
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_413f7922
type
Vampires Hate Garlic
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_413f7922
comment
Vampires Hate Garlic: Played with; garlic is a reverse-vampire's favorite food.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_413f7922
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_413f7922
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_413f7922
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_41411451
type
One-Word Vocabulary
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_41411451
comment
One-Word Vocabulary: The zombies can only say "Brains!" with a variety of inflections, but are able to convey meaning to anyone who knows the language.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_41411451
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_41411451
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_41411451
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_420081bf
type
Alien Sky
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_420081bf
comment
Alien Sky: On the Darkside, the sky is full of sinister purple energies and Giant Flyers.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_420081bf
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_420081bf
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_420081bf
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_437511de
type
Crappy Carnival
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_437511de
comment
Crappy Carnival: The carnival is rundown, the skill games are rigged (although the operator insists that's only to make the puzzles more interesting), many of the mechanisms are broken down (and the operator of the ferris wheel is pretty casual about the fact it's got people trapped in the upper cabins), the freak show consists entirely of non-freakish people like a beardless lady and a half-man-half-the-other-half-of-the-same-man, and the refreshment stand only sells "vegan hotdogs" (a bun with nothing in it).
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_437511de
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_437511de
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_437511de
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_45bc787c
type
Mundane Wish
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_45bc787c
comment
Mundane Wish: At the black market, a woman ponders what wish she'll ask for from a wish-granting automaton — wealth? world peace? — before deciding that what she most wants is a really big trifle.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_45bc787c
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_45bc787c
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_45bc787c
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_46d7e20a
type
Sustained Misunderstanding
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_46d7e20a
comment
Sustained Misunderstanding: Dooley sees a greenhouse and asks what kind of perverted exhibitionist would live in a house where anybody could look in at any time. McQueen's attempt to explain that it's a house for plants just results in Dooley becoming convinced that plants are perverted exhibitionists.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_46d7e20a
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_46d7e20a
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_46d7e20a
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_47fa30cf
type
Emotion Eater
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_47fa30cf
comment
Emotion Eater: There is a variety of vampire that drains emotions from people (and a corresponding reverse-vampire that projects its own emotions onto people around it).
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_47fa30cf
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_47fa30cf
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_47fa30cf
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4864031b
type
Informed Attractiveness
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4864031b
comment
Informed Attractiveness: Dooley thinks the villain is very attractive. She has exactly the same featureless pixel art face as every other character.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4864031b
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4864031b
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4864031b
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_48b9731f
type
Paper-Thin Disguise
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_48b9731f
comment
Paper-Thin Disguise: An enormous, green, non-humanoid monster apparently successfully disguises itself as a human with nothing but a wig. (Then again, the only person it needs to fool is Dooley, who is not noted for his keen observational skills.)
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_48b9731f
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_48b9731f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_48b9731f
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_48d9e12d
type
Funetik Aksent
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_48d9e12d
comment
Funetik Aksent: Officer Ghouley's Irish accent. Members of the Plinkman family have an Oop North accent, rendered phonetically.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_48d9e12d
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_48d9e12d
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_48d9e12d
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_492d19c
type
Playing Games at Work
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_492d19c
comment
Playing Games at Work: Examining Officer Murakami's workstation at the precinct house results in McQueen remarking that Murakami has achieved a new high score in "whatever he's playing" (and Dooley complaining that he's never going to catch up when McQueen keeps making him work during work hours).
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_492d19c
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_492d19c
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_492d19c
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4af55b78
type
Credits Gag
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4af55b78
comment
Credits Gag: The credits roll begins with credits for Francis McQueen as Detective Francis McQueen, Patrick Dooley as Officer Patrick Dooley, and "Vivian Moonman, very real actor" as "The Rest of the Cast". There's a credit for Gozer the Gozerian as "On-Set Extraplanar Entity". The credit for Best Boy is followed by one for "Boy Who Was Just Okay" and another for "Best Cats". There are also parodies of the standard legal disclaimers.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4af55b78
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4af55b78
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4af55b78
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4c083756
type
Signed Up for the Dental
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4c083756
comment
Signed Up for the Dental: McQueen asks a monster what brings him to Twin Lakes, and he claims it's because the city has great dental — even though, as McQueen immediately points out, he doesn't have any teeth.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4c083756
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4c083756
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4c083756
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4e6fe81
type
Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4e6fe81
comment
Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal: When Dooley is trapped in a crypt with a group of zombies, they seem strangely uninterested in eating him. When McQueen asks one of the zombies why, she replies, "Brains!" (Which isn't that helpful, since she has a One-Word Vocabulary, but in this case the obvious interpretation might be the correct one.)
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4e6fe81
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4e6fe81
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4e6fe81
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4f99072c
type
Merit Badges for Everything
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4f99072c
comment
Merit Badges for Everything: It's a running gag about the Bloodwolves, Twin Lakes' scouting organization, that whenever Dooley's Bloodwolf pack are in a potentially dangerous or frightening situation (such as "lurking outside a dark, spooky cave" or "abandoned in the snow on Christmas Eve") one of them will note that there's a merit badge for that.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4f99072c
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4f99072c
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4f99072c
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4fff0dfe
type
Sarcasm-Blind
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4fff0dfe
comment
Sarcasm-Blind: Dooley. His response to McQueen's sarcastic "Uncle of the year, here" is "Where? Do you think he could give me pointers?"
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4fff0dfe
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4fff0dfe
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_4fff0dfe
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5009999d
type
Painting the Medium
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5009999d
comment
Painting the Medium: When the Arch-Druid explains that her staff is a shillelagh, McQueen's attempt to repeat the word is spelled phonetically to show that he's mispronouncing it — and specifically mispronouncing it in the way somebody might from reading it in the Arch-Druid's dialog box, rather than pronouncing it as if he'd heard it in conversation. The Arch-Druid then helpfully sounds out the correct pronunciation.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5009999d
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5009999d
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5009999d
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_504e271f
type
But Thou Must!
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_504e271f
comment
But Thou Must!: The game's settings screen includes a setting for "Police Corruption", which is "On" by default. Clicking on it changes it to "Still On".
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_504e271f
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_504e271f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_504e271f
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e
type
Donut Mess with a Cop
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e
comment
Donut Mess with a Cop: The whiteboard in the briefing room of the precinct house is covered in writing that proves on closer inspection to be the donut and coffee rota.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_510e5a9
type
Sassy Black Woman
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_510e5a9
comment
The Sassy Black Woman who runs the diner commenting that she'd be shrugging dismissively if the programmers had given her a shrug animation.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_510e5a9
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_510e5a9
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_510e5a9
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_525478f9
type
Consulting Mister Puppet
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_525478f9
comment
Consulting Mister Puppet: The cashier in the toy store has become delirious from long hours under the mall's artificial lights, and believes the giant teddy bear near the counter is holding him captive.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_525478f9
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_525478f9
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_525478f9
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5401e7ac
type
Daywalking Vampire
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5401e7ac
comment
Daywalking Vampire: It is said that reverse-vampires actually prefer to be out and about during the day, although it happens that the one reverse-vampire to have appeared in the series so far has only appeared in night scenes. (This may say more about the hours McQueen keeps than about the reverse-vampire, however.)
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5401e7ac
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5401e7ac
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5401e7ac
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5521ed05
type
No Animals Were Harmed
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5521ed05
comment
No Animals Were Harmed: The end credits report that no pixels were harmed in the making of the game, but some of the programmers did get carpal tunnel.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5521ed05
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5521ed05
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5521ed05
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_558f5da6
type
Cryptic Conversation
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_558f5da6
comment
Cryptic Conversation: Nearly everything Agent McScream says is this, and usually ominous as well as cryptic.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_558f5da6
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_558f5da6
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_558f5da6
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_55d40fce
type
Three Wishes
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_55d40fce
comment
Three Wishes: McQueen and Dooley encounter a genie who has to grant three wishes before it can return to its own realm.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_55d40fce
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_55d40fce
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_55d40fce
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5798bfbf
type
Reassigned to Antarctica
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5798bfbf
comment
Reassigned to Antarctica: Dooley was assigned to the under-resourced and disrespected occult division because his flakiness got on too many nerves in the regular force.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5798bfbf
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5798bfbf
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5798bfbf
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_57bde9be
type
Smart Cop, Dumb Cop
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_57bde9be
comment
Smart Cop, Dumb Cop: McQueen is intelligent and focused, while Dooley is a ditz who often seems only vaguely aware that he's a police officer, let alone what they're investigating.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_57bde9be
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_57bde9be
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_57bde9be
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5889ca1d
type
Mineral MacGuffin
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5889ca1d
comment
Mineral MacGuffin: The Sunstone.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5889ca1d
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5889ca1d
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5889ca1d
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_58970413
type
Coincidental Broadcast
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_58970413
comment
Coincidental Broadcast: One of the things that can happen if you turn on the radio is a breaking news bulletin about the events McQueen is investigating.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_58970413
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_58970413
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_58970413
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_58e117b4
type
Pirate Parrot
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_58e117b4
comment
Pirate Parrot: One of the Dooley ancestors took to sea as a pirate, but she didn't have a parrot so she improvised by painting a pigeon red and green.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_58e117b4
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_58e117b4
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_58e117b4
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5b19cc1b
type
Air-Vent Passageway
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5b19cc1b
comment
Air-Vent Passageway: McQueen gets to do some actual duct-crawling as part of a shout-out to Die Hard.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5b19cc1b
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5b19cc1b
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5b19cc1b
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5b2e1e5e
type
Fake-Out Fade-Out
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5b2e1e5e
comment
Fake-Out Fade-Out: After the Krampus has been defeated and Santa rescued, the "Case Closed" caption appears and the usual outro music plays — and then there's a shout for help from offscreen, and there turns out to be one more puzzle to solve.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5b2e1e5e
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5b2e1e5e
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5b2e1e5e
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5d0dd7b3
type
Wasteful Wishing
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5d0dd7b3
comment
Wasteful Wishing: McQueen encounters a genie who enlists him to ... encourage ... the genie's current master to wish for trivial things, because the genie is trapped on this plane until all three wishes have been used up.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5d0dd7b3
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5d0dd7b3
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5d0dd7b3
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5d7cfc66
type
The Jeeves
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5d7cfc66
comment
The Jeeves: The butler at Castle Dooley is a very proper English butler (named Butler), who is devoted to the family he serves.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5d7cfc66
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5d7cfc66
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5d7cfc66
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7
type
Kleptomaniac Hero
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7
comment
Kleptomaniac Hero: McQueen has a pragmatic attitude toward making off with other people's stuff that might be useful later. (However, he disapproves of Dooley's suggestions on the subject of making off with stuff that might be worth some money.)
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1
type
Time Skip
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1
comment
Time Skip: A year has passed since the end of "Baits Motel". Dooley is still missing, and the Darkside Division has been shut down.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_60414102
type
Zombie Apocalypse
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_60414102
comment
Zombie Apocalypse: The city's dead are reanimated as a side-effect of a sinister ritual.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_60414102
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_60414102
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_60414102
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6056f853
type
Homoerotic Subtext
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6056f853
comment
Homoerotic Subtext: Dooley describes McQueen as "a Dooley by common law", which could be interpreted as meaning that the two of them are in a committed relationship (or at least that Dooley thinks they are).
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6056f853
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6056f853
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6056f853
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_613fa807
type
Identical Twin ID Tag
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_613fa807
comment
Identical Twin ID Tag: Barry and Larry look identical except for the colors of their shirts and one of them has slightly more hair.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_613fa807
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_613fa807
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_613fa807
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6293c185
type
Sequel Hook
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6293c185
comment
Sequel Hook: At the end of the case, Dooley is trapped in the Darkside, and a caption appears saying "To be continued..."
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6293c185
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6293c185
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6293c185
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6459cc02
type
I See Dead People
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6459cc02
comment
I See Dead People: One chapter features a boy who can see and hear ghosts. McQueen temporarily acquires the ability as well (and it becomes a running gag that he has to keep stopping to explain what's going on to Dooley, who has no idea why he's suddenly holding conversations with thin air).
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6459cc02
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6459cc02
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6459cc02
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_646407bd
type
We Named the Monkey "Jack"
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_646407bd
comment
We Named the Monkey "Jack": McQueen has a new pet cat named "P.D.", which he initially claims is short for "Police Department" but finally admits is actually short for "Placeholder Dooley".
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_646407bd
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_646407bd
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_646407bd
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_64b42bc4
type
Christmas Creep
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_64b42bc4
comment
Christmas Creep: McQueen complains that Dooley has been playing Christmas music in the squad car since Halloween, and Dooley says that he got a late start this year.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_64b42bc4
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_64b42bc4
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_64b42bc4
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_66755d29
type
Author Avatar
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_66755d29
comment
Author Avatar: When McQueen attempts a technological seance to find Dooley, one of the wrong numbers he gets is the game's lead programmer, who refuses to give him any hints about what to do next.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_66755d29
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_66755d29
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_66755d29
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_67677940
type
Giant Flyer
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_67677940
comment
Giant Flyer: One can be seen swooping through the Alien Sky of the Darkside.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_67677940
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_67677940
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_67677940
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_67c3e83b
type
Tinfoil Hat
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_67c3e83b
comment
Tinfoil Hat: One of Dooley's conspiracy theorist colleagues believes that wearing a tinfoil hat will help keep the Man from tracking him down.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_67c3e83b
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_67c3e83b
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_67c3e83b
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6a94f84f
type
Romance Cover Scene
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6a94f84f
comment
Romance Cover Scene: At one point McQueen comes across a trashy romance novel with a standard heroine-and-shirtless-hero cover, except the heroine is Doris the elderly librarian and the shirtless hero is Dooley. An embarassed Dooley explains that Doris made him pose for it as payment for overdue library books.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6a94f84f
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6a94f84f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6a94f84f
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30
type
Meaningful Name
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: When you encounter someone named "McPhiend" it's a safe bet she's got something to hide, even before you see how suspiciously she's acting.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6d7026fa
type
Punny Name
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6d7026fa
comment
Punny Name: The inscriptions on the headstones in the graveyard are punning homages to the game's lead programmers and designers.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6d7026fa
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6d7026fa
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6d7026fa
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6ef9d3fe
type
Christmas Episode
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6ef9d3fe
comment
Christmas Episode: In December 2017, an update added a new chapter, "Buy Hard", in which McQueen and Dooley go last-minute Christmas shopping and end up having to save Santa Claus from The Krampus (and having his reindeer clamped by McKing).
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6ef9d3fe
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6ef9d3fe
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6ef9d3fe
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6fba77ef
type
Moon-Landing Hoax
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6fba77ef
comment
Moon-Landing Hoax: Dooley believes that not only was the moon landing faked, so was the moon. When McQueen asks him who would do that, he explains that it was the inhabitants of the real moon, which is hidden behind the fake one.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6fba77ef
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6fba77ef
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_6fba77ef
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_78270847
type
Curse Cut Short
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_78270847
comment
Curse Cut Short: After McQueen checks the station's first aid box and finds that there's nothing in it but laxatives, Officer Banks begins to suggest it's someone's way of saying Twin Lakes' police are "full of sh—" but has to stop in mid-word to answer a phone call.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_78270847
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_78270847
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_78270847
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_78d103c3
type
Exposition of Immortality
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_78d103c3
comment
Exposition of Immortality: The caretaker seems to be an ordinary human, albeit with some funny habits, but the graduation photo in his bedroom is dated 1809.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_78d103c3
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_78d103c3
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_78d103c3
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7d32da92
type
Lost in Transmission
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7d32da92
comment
Lost in Transmission: McQueen manages to contact Dooley with a technological seance device, but the connection starts breaking up and then cuts out entirely right when Dooley starts explaining how to find him.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7d32da92
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7d32da92
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7d32da92
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7f67e11
type
The Night That Never Ends
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7f67e11
comment
The Night That Never Ends: The Dooley family are traditional custodians of a Mineral MacGuffin that supposedly ensures that the sun will continue to rise. McQueen is skeptical about this, but then the villain of the week steals the Sunstone and the sun immediately goes out, and stays out until McQueen and Dooley restore the Sunstone.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7f67e11
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7f67e11
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7f67e11
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7f6a54f2
type
Miranda Rights
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7f6a54f2
comment
Miranda Rights: When McQueen remarks that an enormous glowing portal they've just discovered is the number one suspect in the recent weird events, Dooley attempts to read the portal its rights, only desisting when McQueen asks him where he's going to attach the handcuffs.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7f6a54f2
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7f6a54f2
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_7f6a54f2
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb
type
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb
comment
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The ghost of Enid Blyton disapproves of the other authorial ghosts haunting the library, saying that they're all terrible people like occultists, horror writers, and DIY fanatics.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_82518cf7
type
Motor Mouth
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_82518cf7
comment
Motor Mouth: Devon the Bloodwolf speaks in long run-on sentences with no internal punctuation, suggesting that it's all coming out in a rush.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_82518cf7
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_82518cf7
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_82518cf7
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_82982bcb
type
Evil Doppelgänger
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_82982bcb
comment
Evil Doppelgänger: Inverted with McKing's Darkside counterpart. Normal McKing is a charismatic jerk jock who picks on McQueen whenever they meet; Darkside McKing is a socially awkward nerd who gets picked on by everybody, is friendly and helpful to McQueen, and idolizes Dooley.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_82982bcb
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_82982bcb
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_82982bcb
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_863fac26
type
Jerk Jock
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_863fac26
comment
Jerk Jock: Detective McKing, a handsome fellow who's never without an admiring female entourage and gets the lion's share of the police department's resources, but seems to spend all his time either bigging himself up (the filing cabinet in his office contains nothing but photographs of himself) or putting other people (especially McQueen) down. In the Christmas Episode, he takes glee in issuing a parking infringement to Santa Claus. It's suggested that his career success owes more to his connections (aka his marriage to the mayor) than to any actual ability on his part.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_863fac26
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_863fac26
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_863fac26
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8797239c
type
Bait-and-Switch
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8797239c
comment
Bait-and-Switch: McQueen discovers a "dirty magazine" — a worn and grubby copy of a magazine about household cleaning supplies.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8797239c
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8797239c
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8797239c
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_884e513b
type
Medium Awareness
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_884e513b
comment
Medium Awareness: The Sassy Black Woman who runs the diner commenting that she'd be shrugging dismissively if the programmers had given her a shrug animation. Another character remarking that it's a nice night to be standing around in case he's needed for a puzzle solution later.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_884e513b
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_884e513b
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_884e513b
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8a8afdce
type
Mini-Game
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8a8afdce
comment
Mini-Game: Each chapter has a minigame in it somewhere representing a task such as rewiring a junction box, fixing broken plumbing, or picking a lock.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8a8afdce
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8a8afdce
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8a8afdce
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8bfd8321
type
Informing the Fourth Wall
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8bfd8321
comment
Informing the Fourth Wall: As usual for the genre, McQueen has a collection of phrases for when the player tries to use an object in a way that won't progress the story. Some of them are police themed, such as "Not on my watch!" and "That would be a rookie mistake." Each episode has its own variants, such as "That's no way to spend Christmas Eve!" and "Nobody's buying that as a solution!" in the Christmas Episode. At one point, he also addresses the player directly for a Recursive Reality moment. In the "Police Farce" chapter, after examining what turns out to be an entirely unremarkable mug, he remarks that he doesn't know where he picked up the habit of commenting on every item in a room.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8bfd8321
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8bfd8321
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8bfd8321
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c30ad0
type
The Television Talks Back
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c30ad0
comment
The Television Talks Back: A television in the window of the electronics store is showing Dick Brickman presenting a retrospective of the year's news.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c30ad0
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c30ad0
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c30ad0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c4bafff
type
Holy Burns Evil
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c4bafff
comment
Holy Burns Evil: Played with; one of the signs that a suspicious character is a reverse vampire is that he owns a collection of holy objects from several religions (which he keeps next to his stash of garlic).
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c4bafff
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c4bafff
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c4bafff
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c681acc
type
Third-Person Person
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c681acc
comment
Third-Person Person: Old Tam the subway worker.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c681acc
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c681acc
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_8c681acc
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9014df71
type
Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9014df71
comment
Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: The Zombie Butler in the mansion morns "Snarl", "Snap", and "Zombie noises". Upon hearing the last one, McQueen that they'll "need to audition better extras."
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9014df71
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9014df71
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9014df71
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_90dd217f
type
Little Known Facts
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_90dd217f
comment
Little Known Facts: All the placards in the natural history museum; for instance, a skeleton has a placard explaining that it's a plastic skeleton thought to be the inspiration for the more recent bone skeletons used by most modern humans.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_90dd217f
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_90dd217f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_90dd217f
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_92dfffae
type
Retraux
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_92dfffae
comment
Retraux: The game homages the style of 1980s point-and-click games like Police Quest and Maniac Mansion, complete with blocky pixel art. (The game's options menu includes, as all modern games' options menus must, a setting for video resolution. It starts at "High Def" and goes up from there — and every setting results in the same blocky pixel art.)
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_92dfffae
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_92dfffae
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_92dfffae
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_94332264
type
Busman's Holiday
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_94332264
comment
Busman's Holiday: McQueen and Dooley weren't even on a case when they came to the haunted library, they'd just dropped by so Dooley could return his library books.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_94332264
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_94332264
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_94332264
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_94eb5311
type
Geometric Magic
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_94eb5311
comment
Geometric Magic: Geometric figures with mystic runes around the edges are a recurring way of achieving magical effects.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_94eb5311
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_94eb5311
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_94eb5311
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_95428daa
type
Rite of Passage
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_95428daa
comment
Rite of Passage: Dooley has been invited to the ancestral Dooley estate in Ireland to participate in a traditional coming-of-age ceremony marking the transition to adulthood. He's doing it a bit late, being already in his thirties, because his branch of the family fell out of touch with their traditions after they emigrated to America and the invitation got lost in the post.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_95428daa
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_95428daa
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_95428daa
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_961c6c22
type
Cutaway Gag
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_961c6c22
comment
Cutaway Gag: Dooley is surprised when someone mentions that the camp ground closes over Christmas. Cut away to his Bloodwolf pack, sitting outside a tent in the snow and wondering if Dooley is going to show up.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_961c6c22
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_961c6c22
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_961c6c22
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_978937d6
type
Brand X
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_978937d6
comment
Brand X: One puzzle involves a "JoyChild" portable gaming device, which resembles a Gameboy.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_978937d6
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_978937d6
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_978937d6
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_97a82530
type
Sewer Gator
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_97a82530
comment
Sewer Gator: Twin Lakes is rumored to have them, although McQueen meets a tourist guide who claims to have invented the rumor because he suspected tourists were getting bored with the city's real monsters. Dooley later meets a real one.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_97a82530
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_97a82530
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_97a82530
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_986bd638
type
This Is a Work of Fiction
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_986bd638
comment
This Is a Work of Fiction: McQueen pauses in the middle of telling the life story of the mobster Al Caphoney to claim that any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_986bd638
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_986bd638
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_986bd638
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_98c4ea5f
type
Falling Chandelier of Doom
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_98c4ea5f
comment
Falling Chandelier of Doom: While exploring the Don's mansion, McQueen and Dooley see a chandelier and immediately note that it would do a lot of damage if it fell on someone. Sure enough, the main puzzle in the mansion involves a monster standing directly underneath the chandelier.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_98c4ea5f
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_98c4ea5f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_98c4ea5f
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_99b2613a
type
Oop North
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_99b2613a
comment
Members of the Plinkman family have an Oop North accent, rendered phonetically.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_99b2613a
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_99b2613a
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_99b2613a
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a50173f
type
Follow the Bouncing Ball
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a50173f
comment
Follow the Bouncing Ball: With a "bouncing baseball" being a Visual Pun when Dooley sings along to "Turn Back the Clocks".
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a50173f
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a50173f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a50173f
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a692ae9
type
13 Is Unlucky
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a692ae9
comment
13 Is Unlucky: A black market for dangerous magical artifacts is located at Pier 13.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a692ae9
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a692ae9
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a692ae9
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a7d4472
type
Stock Ness Monster
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a7d4472
comment
Stock Ness Monster: There is, of course, one living in one of the Twin Lakes.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a7d4472
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a7d4472
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9a7d4472
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9c464123
type
Saving Christmas
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9c464123
comment
Saving Christmas: Santa is kidnapped and replaced by a malicious impostor, and after that's all sorted out, Santa discovers his sleigh has been clamped by a traffic cop with no Christmas spirit, and McQueen has to help him solve that problem too.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9c464123
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9c464123
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9c464123
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137
type
Hyperspace Arsenal
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137
comment
Hyperspace Arsenal: McQueen can carry any number of useful objects in his pockets. Lampshaded by Dooley after McQueen puts an entire car hood in his pocket without apparent difficulty.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9cfb804f
type
The Krampus
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9cfb804f
comment
The Krampus: The villain of the episode, depicted as an anti-Santa who hates children and can be defeated with cookies and milk.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9cfb804f
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9cfb804f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9cfb804f
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1
type
Foreshadowing
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1
comment
Foreshadowing: During the performance on the pitcher's mound, Dooley sings that "we need to turn back the clocks", a lyric that foreshadows what he and McQueen need to do when things take a turn for the worse.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9d3b4703
type
This Is Reality
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9d3b4703
comment
This Is Reality: When trying to obtain access to a shut down subway station, McQueen and Dooley consider leaping the ticket barrier, but decide their insurance won't cover it and they'd better crawl underneath instead; McQueen complains that police work doesn't include the fun stuff that happens in movies.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9d3b4703
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9d3b4703
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9d3b4703
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e
type
Continuity Nod
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e
comment
Continuity Nod: The Mysterious Stranger who McQueen meets in the Darkside recalls having met Dooley while he was trapped in the Darkside at the beginning of the game.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9ee065ab
type
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9ee065ab
comment
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: A calendar shows that it's October, presumably around Halloween time.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9ee065ab
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9ee065ab
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9ee065ab
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9f63d4f1
type
Our Vampires Are Different
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9f63d4f1
comment
Our Vampires Are Different: There are vampires that feed on blood, and vampires that feed on emotions — and reverse versions of both of those, which don't have any of the traditional weaknesses. A reverse emotional vampire projects their own emotions onto the people around them; the details of how a reverse blood-sucking vampire operates are hurriedly passed over.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9f63d4f1
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9f63d4f1
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9f63d4f1
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9f8a12d7
type
Who's on First?
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9f8a12d7
comment
Who's on First?: McQueen finds an abandoned Magic 8-Ball. Dooley asks what it says. "'Ask again later.'" "Aww, but I wanna know now!"
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9f8a12d7
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9f8a12d7
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_9f8a12d7
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a0390164
type
It's for a Book
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a0390164
comment
It's for a Book: When McQueen has to make a new clay urn from scratch at a pottery wheel, he turns out to be surprisingly good at it. Dooley ask him how he learned to do that, to which he replies has watched the movie Ghost a lot, and then quickly adds that it was as "research" for professional reasons.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a0390164
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a0390164
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a0390164
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a220d528
type
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a220d528
comment
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: McQueen wonders if it's safe to leave Dooley's nephew unattended in the queue to Santa's Grotto, and Dooley remarks, "It's Christmas Eve in Twin Lakes, what could possibly go wrong?" before acknowledging that that was a foolish question. Magical mischief ensues soon after, with the Grotto at ground zero.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a220d528
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a220d528
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a220d528
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a3509d95
type
The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a3509d95
comment
The Password Is Always "Swordfish": The password to the computer rig Dooley uses to scan for alien signals is "password". On learning this, McQueen says it's "as secure as it is surprising".
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a3509d95
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a3509d95
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a3509d95
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a3597c29
type
Magic Countdown
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a3597c29
comment
Magic Countdown: At the climax of the episode, McQueen and Dooley have to fix a problem before a mechanical countdown reaches zero. The countdown is implemented in a way where each time they move to a new location the countdown voice announces the next number, no matter how long they actually spend in that location. The geography of the castle is set up so that the number of locations between where they are when the problem is discovered (in a basement) and where they need to be to fix it (up on the roof) uses up the whole ten-second countdown, with the countdown voice announcing "One" as they arrive on the roof, so if the player does the obvious thing and heads directly for the roof as quickly as possible the countdown will play out in a fairly natural manner. Except that then they will almost certainly discover that they're missing at least one of the objects required to actually solve the problem and will have to climb back down off the roof and go fetch it. No matter how long that takes, when they return to the roof the countdown voice will announce that there is, "inexplicably", still one second remaining.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a3597c29
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a3597c29
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a3597c29
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a4e9a09e
type
Dude, Where's My Reward?
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a4e9a09e
comment
Dude, Where's My Reward?: McQueen saves the city from a Zombie Apocalypse, but his achievement is brushed over because the authorities can't or won't accept the supernatural nature of the threat, and instead McKing is given a medal for saving the city even though he's blatantly unable to explain just what he did. Still, at least Dooley thinks McQueen is a hero.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a4e9a09e
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a4e9a09e
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a4e9a09e
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a54534a0
type
Parental Neglect
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a54534a0
comment
Parental Neglect: Alice's father is rich but neglectful, leaving her in the hands of her nanny and initially completely failing to notice that she's disappeared.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a54534a0
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a54534a0
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a54534a0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a6123b72
type
Enfant Terrible
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a6123b72
comment
Enfant Terrible: Emily, a sweet little girl who enjoys playing with fire and knives.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a6123b72
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a6123b72
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a6123b72
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a62e50b8
type
Scandalgate
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a62e50b8
comment
Scandalgate: Dooley decides there's something suspicious about a gate, and declares he's going to investigate until he discovers what secrets it's hiding. It's going to be Gategate.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a62e50b8
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a62e50b8
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a62e50b8
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a8abe9d1
type
Separated by a Common Language
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a8abe9d1
comment
Separated by a Common Language: Discussed. Examining a jar of jelly in the diner's kitchen will cause McQueen and Dooley to talk about the American and international meanings of "jelly".
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a8abe9d1
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a8abe9d1
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a8abe9d1
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a8cbf649
type
I Should Write a Book About This
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a8cbf649
comment
I Should Write a Book About This: Among the personal items various police officers have stashed in the precinct house's evidence room for safe keeping are McQueen's notes for a comedic video game about a pair of police officers who solve spooky mysteries.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a8cbf649
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a8cbf649
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_a8cbf649
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_aabb956
type
Mirror Monster
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_aabb956
comment
Mirror Monster: One of McQueen's unseen cases involved "a woman appearing in mirrors to other women who look exactly like her".
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_aabb956
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_aabb956
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_aabb956
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
comment
Weirdness Censor: The incipient zombie apocalypse gets passed off as non-supernatural rioting by everyone except McQueen and Pastor Farrelly.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ac540254
type
Sherlock Can Read
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ac540254
comment
Sherlock Can Read: McQueen and Dooley discover a mysterious blueprint. Dooley says it appears to be for the teleporter they're investigating, McQueen says they shouldn't jump to conclusions without further investigation, and Dooley points out that it has "Teleporter" written at the top.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ac540254
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ac540254
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ac540254
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ad4578de
type
Hollow World
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ad4578de
comment
Hollow World: Dooley believes in several different Hollow Earth conspiracy theories simultaneously.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ad4578de
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ad4578de
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ad4578de
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b09c818
type
"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b09c818
comment
"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: When McQueen accuses Nigel of kidnapping Dooley, Nigel replies that that's a harsh word for luring someone to a remote place under false pretences, trapping them inside a lair, and refusing to let them leave.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b09c818
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b09c818
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b09c818
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b33d17a0
type
Sickly Green Glow
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b33d17a0
comment
Sickly Green Glow: Denizens of the Darkside are translucent and glow an eerie green.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b33d17a0
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b33d17a0
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b33d17a0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b3860333
type
Droste Image
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b3860333
comment
Droste Image: In the dining room of Castle Dooley is a painting of the dining room of Castle Dooley, complete with a smaller version of the same painting (itself containing a smaller version of the same painting, and so on).
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b3860333
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b3860333
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b3860333
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b39b84ee
type
Fiery Coverup
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b39b84ee
comment
Fiery Cover-Up: One of the stallholders in the black market is Mr Wang, whose shady magic shop McQueen investigated in "Don of the Dead". When McQueen asks what happened to the shop, Mr Wang explains that it mysteriously burned down just before the police evidence team arrived to investigate McQueen's allegations against it.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b39b84ee
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b39b84ee
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b39b84ee
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b53077b3
type
Take That!
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b53077b3
comment
Take That!: McQueen and Dooley meet the ghost of Nikola Tesla, who makes a very thinly-veiled and heavily lampshaded comment about his legacy being tarnished by having his name associated with Elon Musk.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b53077b3
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b53077b3
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b53077b3
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b5496c0c
type
Inflating Body Gag
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b5496c0c
comment
Inflating Body Gag: The monster of the week is defeated by inciting an allergic reaction that causes it to swell up and float away like a balloon.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b5496c0c
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b5496c0c
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b5496c0c
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b6738eed
type
Hint Dropping
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b6738eed
comment
Hint Dropping: Dooley sees something he likes in a shop window and tries to hint to McQueen that it would make a good gift. When McQueen is unreceptive to his first, relatively subtle, hint, he starts getting more blatant; his last attempt is a straight-up statement of what he wants that only qualifies as a hint because he says "Hint, hint" at the end.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b6738eed
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b6738eed
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b6738eed
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b9918c48
type
Nobody Here but Us Statues
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b9918c48
comment
Nobody Here but Us Statues: The villain of the episode turns out to be hiding from pursuit in the hall with the statues of Dooley ancestors.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b9918c48
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b9918c48
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b9918c48
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b99f51b2
type
An Odd Place to Sleep
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b99f51b2
comment
An Odd Place to Sleep: A character who turns out to be a kind of vampire has no bed in his bedroom, only a rack that he apparently hangs from to sleep upside down.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b99f51b2
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b99f51b2
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b99f51b2
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b9d11ad6
type
Self-Insert Fic
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b9d11ad6
comment
Self-Insert Fic: Guylight fan Doris is said to write fanfic in her spare time; what kind isn't explicitly stated, but might be hinted at by her Guylight poster showing the heroine swooning in the hero's arms — with Doris's face pasted over the heroine's.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b9d11ad6
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b9d11ad6
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_b9d11ad6
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_baee5ffa
type
Circular Reasoning
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_baee5ffa
comment
Circular Reasoning: One of Dooley's conspiracy theories claims that the government is a mass hallucination caused by chemicals in the water. Who puts the chemicals in the water? The government, of course!
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_baee5ffa
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_baee5ffa
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_baee5ffa
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bc5dbc0e
type
Mirror World
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bc5dbc0e
comment
Mirror World: Whenever McQueen enters a portal to the Darkside, the Darkside location is flipped left-to-right from its Brightside equivalent (among other, sometimes more obvious, changes).
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bc5dbc0e
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bc5dbc0e
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bc5dbc0e
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bd3b726e
type
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bd3b726e
comment
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: A feature of the Darkside. At one point, a denizen of the Darkside visiting the normal world tells McQueen that she's scared out of her wits because there are no Giant Flyers swooping through the skies, nobody is being pursued by shadow-men, and "nothing, and I mean nothing is on fire!"
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bd3b726e
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bd3b726e
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bd3b726e
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bedecc55
type
Scout-Out
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bedecc55
comment
Scout-Out: Dooley is involved with a local scouting organization called the Bloodwolves. He mentions that they were originally affiliated with the Boy Scouts until "the mayor failed to pay the dyb-dyb-dyb tax".
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bedecc55
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bedecc55
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bedecc55
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bf609406
type
New Meat
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bf609406
comment
New Meat: Officer Fresche Fish, who arrives for her first day on the same day as the city is caught in the grip of a Zombie Apocalypse. Two more experienced officers make a side bet about whether she'll live to the end of the day. (She survives.)
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bf609406
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bf609406
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_bf609406
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c16b3149
type
Going by the Matchbook
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c16b3149
comment
Going by the Matchbook: One of the people McQueen interviews hands over a matchbook from the club he was partying at on the night in question. The club itself is irrelevant — except in that the nature of the club gives an insight in the the nature of the person—but McQueen later uses the matches themselves to throw light on the matter when the case takes a dark turn.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c16b3149
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c16b3149
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c16b3149
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c19bdbe1
type
Good Cop/Bad Cop
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c19bdbe1
comment
Good Cop/Bad Cop: In a rare moment of self-awareness, Dooley describes McQueen and himself as "good-cop, how-is-this-guy-still-a-cop".
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c19bdbe1
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c19bdbe1
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c19bdbe1
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c25c7890
type
Fun with Acronyms
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c25c7890
comment
Fun with Acronyms: The wrestling promoter is the Entertaining World of Wonderful Wrestling!, or EWWW! for short. Lampshaded by the woman running the merchandise stand, who notes that people are understandably reluctant to buy drink holders with "EWWW!" written on them.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c25c7890
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c25c7890
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c25c7890
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c28f97b8
type
Indian Burial Ground
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c28f97b8
comment
Indian Burial Ground: The gate attendant at the camp ground claims it was built on the site of a massacre, and is haunted by the unquiet spririts of the Indians who died there.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c28f97b8
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c28f97b8
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c28f97b8
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c505d6ec
type
Missing Reflection
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c505d6ec
comment
Missing Reflection: A vampire's graduation photo shows a group of apparently-empty graduation gowns and caps standing in a row with nobody visible wearing them. (Apart from one reverse-vampire, who is fully visible.)
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c505d6ec
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c505d6ec
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c505d6ec
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c8a8c595
type
Retirony
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c8a8c595
comment
Retirony: Parodied. There's a retirement party for an officer who's retiring in three days. When he asks why they're not having the party on his last day, another officer explains that they didn't want to risk missing out on a party if he got killed two days before retirement.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c8a8c595
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c8a8c595
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c8a8c595
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c9597a03
type
Self-Deprecation
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c9597a03
comment
Self-Deprecation: After the below mentioned "jelly" discussion, McQueen states he'd "hate to be a non-American trying to capture even a loose glimpse" of American culture, which is Spooky Doorway (an Irish company) poking fun at the obviously non-American spellings and terminology in a game set in America.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c9597a03
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c9597a03
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_c9597a03
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_cca8c07b
type
"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_cca8c07b
comment
"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: Bloodwolf Emily claims that Danger is her middle name. One of the other Bloodwolves retorts that it isn't, it's just what people always write on her paperwork.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_cca8c07b
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_cca8c07b
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_cca8c07b
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d0d8df59
type
Lightbulb Joke
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d0d8df59
comment
Lightbulb Joke: McQueen attempts to tell Dooley a joke about how many police officers it takes to change a lightbulb, but is defeated by Dooley's literal-mindedness.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d0d8df59
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d0d8df59
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d0d8df59
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d34cbda2
type
Implausible Deniability
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d34cbda2
comment
Implausible Deniability: Dooley finds a gnome in the garden, and asks if it's a real gnome or just a decorative garden statue. It tells him that it's just a decorative garden statue.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d34cbda2
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d34cbda2
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d34cbda2
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d38a4a3
type
Identically Named Group
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d38a4a3
comment
Identically Named Group: Candopher Candyman, on introducing himself, says 'Candopher' is an "old family name", then goes on to reveal that this means everyone in his family, male and female, is named Candopher.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d38a4a3
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d38a4a3
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d38a4a3
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d8cad890
type
*Cough* Snark *Cough*
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d8cad890
comment
*Cough* Snark *Cough*: When McQueen mentions that he's not been on the subway much because he prefers to take a cab, Dooley's reaction is a cough that sounds a lot like "snob".
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d8cad890
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d8cad890
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d8cad890
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d99a228f
type
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d99a228f
comment
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: By the time he winds up having a conversation with an enormous green lake monster, McQueen has become so blasé about supernatural events that he doesn't even comment on the fact, leading to the monster actually pausing the conversation to check that he's noticed that it's a talking lake monster.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d99a228f
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d99a228f
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_d99a228f
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_dc3d72e6
type
Something We Forgot
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_dc3d72e6
comment
Something We Forgot: The episode ends with McQueen and Dooley remarking that they feel like they've forgotten something, and a cut to Dooley's nephew, who they tied to a chair when he was under the villain's mind control and is still tied up because they got sidetracked before they got around to untying him.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_dc3d72e6
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_dc3d72e6
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_dc3d72e6
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_dc579c91
type
Contrived Coincidence
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_dc579c91
comment
Contrived Coincidence: McQueen and Dooley are pulled off supernatural duty and sent to deal with a series of minor break-ins and disturbances because the rest of the force is busy dealing with a citywide riot. The minor incidents all turn out to be part of a pattern that leads to McQueen discovering the supernatural cause of the rioting. Lampshaded by Dooley. Also inverted. A solution to one puzzle is very blatantly requires the cutting of a rope, but upon rummaging through the nearby kitchen, McQueen notices that he somehow cannot find a single knife, pair of sissors, or any other sharp object for that matter in any of the cupboards and drawers, and calls it "convenient inconvenience".
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_dc579c91
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_dc579c91
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_dc579c91
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e2d457
type
The Ditz
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e2d457
comment
The Ditz: Officer Dooley. When he was a boy he wanted to be an astronaut until he realized astronauts have to go into space. As a man, his ability to put a coherent thought together hasn't improved much. At one point, he comments that he's never understood the point of fire alarms, since surely alarming a fire would only make it more dangerous. Half the time, he seems only vaguely aware that he's a police officer, and even when he can remember that he doesn't seem to notice anything weird about the stuff they deal with.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e2d457
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e2d457
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e2d457
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e491684a
type
Odd Job Gods
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e491684a
comment
Odd Job Gods: When Dooley is trapped in a crypt with a gang of mafiosi, examining the statue in the crypt will produce the information that it depicts the patron saint of being trapped in a crypt with a gang of villains.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e491684a
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e491684a
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e491684a
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e5ac364f
type
Fauxtivational Poster
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e5ac364f
comment
Fauxtivational Poster: In an office in the Darkside, McQueen encounters a version of the classic "Hang In There!" poster where the kitten has been reduced to a skeleton.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e5ac364f
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e5ac364f
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e5ac364f
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e5d8460d
type
Unexplained Recovery
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e5d8460d
comment
Unexplained Recovery: Discussed. One of the residents at the retirement home used to play a Red Shirt in SpaceHop, getting killed every episode and then showing up again alive and well without explanation at the beginning of the next episode.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e5d8460d
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e5d8460d
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e5d8460d
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8
type
Suspiciously Specific Denial
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8
comment
Suspiciously Specific Denial: A motel guest calls room service for a meal and is informed that the kitchen is closed "but not because of rats or anything like that". (It is in fact because of rats.) The guest remarks on the specificity of the denial.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e6cca0
type
The Mall
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e6cca0
comment
The Mall: The setting of the episode.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e6cca0
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e6cca0
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e6cca0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e7a2c0c4
type
Masked Luchador
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e7a2c0c4
comment
Masked Luchador: El Doolio has a luchador style outfit, in contrast to the other wrestlers, who are mostly parodies of WWF stars.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e7a2c0c4
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e7a2c0c4
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_e7a2c0c4
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ea0d06f0
type
Bookcase Passage
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ea0d06f0
comment
Bookcase Passage: There's one in the Horror section of the town library, leading to a secret room containing the librarian's collection of contraband occult texts.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ea0d06f0
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ea0d06f0
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ea0d06f0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_eaa10414
type
Misspelling Out Loud
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_eaa10414
comment
Misspelling Out Loud: Dooley announces that his guard is up — "U. P. P., up."
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_eaa10414
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_eaa10414
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_eaa10414
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ecf4f7ce
type
Constantly Curious
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ecf4f7ce
comment
Constantly Curious: One of the Dooley family ancestors was abducted by The Fair Folk as a child, but they let her go unharmed after she drove them mad by asking "Why?" about everything.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ecf4f7ce
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ecf4f7ce
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_ecf4f7ce
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f05444a4
type
Once per Episode
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f05444a4
comment
Once per Episode: Some kind of puzzle minigame. McQueen and Dooley arriving at the entrance to somewhere dark and probably dangerous, and Dooley making some excuse to wait outside while McQueen goes on alone.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f05444a4
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f05444a4
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
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The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f05444a4
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f1f29b07
type
Hugh Mann
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f1f29b07
comment
Hugh Mann: Norm Bearson, who runs a stall on Pier 13, appears to be a bear dressed in human clothes, but is in fact — he asserts every other sentence — a perfectly ordinary human like yourself.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f1f29b07
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f1f29b07
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
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The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f1f29b07
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f2bd0945
type
Closet Geek
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f2bd0945
comment
Closet Geek: McKing is revealed to be an AV tech student.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f2bd0945
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f2bd0945
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
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The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f2bd0945
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f57372a1
type
Bizarro Universe
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f57372a1
comment
Bizarro Universe: The Darkside World have elements of this. It an exact mirror of the Brightside World, there is a "Brightside Division" to deal with non-supernatural phenomena intruding upon Darkside, and you're supposed to perform songs for buskers when you encounter them.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f57372a1
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f57372a1
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
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The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f57372a1
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f591365a
type
Surfer Dude
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f591365a
comment
Surfer Dude: Pastor Farrelly.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f591365a
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f591365a
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
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The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f591365a
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f5b7b990
type
Verbal Backspace
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f5b7b990
comment
Verbal Backspace: When a witness mentions having visited a strip club called Belle's, Dooley remarks that he has happy memories of the place, then clocks McQueen's disapproving reaction and backtracks, claiming he has no idea what the witness is talking about. Something about bells?
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f5b7b990
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f5b7b990
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f5b7b990
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f8b3fa5d
type
Our Werewolves Are Different
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f8b3fa5d
comment
Our Werewolves Are Different: One of McQueen's unseen cases involved a "lycan-toupee", a wig made out of werewolf hair that turned anyone who wore it into a werewolf.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f8b3fa5d
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f8b3fa5d
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f8b3fa5d
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f9c17447
type
The Remnant
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f9c17447
comment
The Remnant: The gravedigger in the cemetery took the job after crashing his plane there during the War. He doesn't get out much, and is apparently unaware that the War is over.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f9c17447
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f9c17447
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_f9c17447
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fabef10f
type
Don't Explain the Joke
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fabef10f
comment
Don't Explain the Joke: While visiting the Bloodwolves camp, McQueen makes a joke about the situation being "two tents", then attempts to explain it when he doesn't get a laugh. His audience is even less impressed with the explanation than with the joke.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fabef10f
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fabef10f
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fabef10f
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fb17af62
type
Rhymes on a Dime
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fb17af62
comment
Rhymes on a Dime: The Krampus.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fb17af62
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fb17af62
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fb17af62
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fbd285b7
type
Comically Missing the Point
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fbd285b7
comment
Comically Missing the Point: There's a sequence where Dooley is traveling by himself, without McQueen, and meets several sinister and/or supernatural creatures without noticing anything amiss, before encountering an innocent group of maintenance workers and jumping to the conclusion that they're agents of a sinister conspiracy.
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fbd285b7
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fbd285b7
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
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The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fbd285b7
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fc151e9d
type
Department of Redundancy Department
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fc151e9d
comment
Department of Redundancy Department: News anchor Dick Brickman's default mode of speech. "This is Twin Lakes FM featuring me, Dick Brickman, bringing you 'Dick Brickman Presents The Weather' with me, Dick Brickman." "Dick Brickman here, reporting from here — the place I am — to you — wherever you are."
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fc151e9d
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fc151e9d
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1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
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The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fc151e9d
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_fe0330fb
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Brick Joke
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Brick Joke: The monster of the week is defeated by sending it floating away into the sky. Some time later (there are still a few problems to sort out even after that), the episode ends with a shot of Santa's sleigh flying through the air, and the monster floating past in the background.
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Selkies and Wereseals
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Selkies and Wereseals: There's a seal at the harbor which sings in English. This falls so far below the protagonists' weirdness threshold that they don't even question it, but given the myth-infused Irish setting one possible explanation is that it's a selkie.
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Literal Genie
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Literal Genie: At the end of the chapter, Dooley remarks that he's having fun on his vacation and wishes he never has to go back to work. He's overheard by a well-meaning genie who attempts to grant his wish by trapping him in the Darkside.
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15 Puzzle
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15 Puzzle: A variation of the puzzle appears as a rewiring minigame.
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You Put the "X" in "XY"
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You Put the "X" in "XY": McQueen is not much of a fan of modern gadgetry; he says of himself, "I put the 'no' in technology."
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Alien Sky / int_e05ef82a
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Author Avatar / int_e05ef82a
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Beard of Evil / int_e05ef82a
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"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word / int_e05ef82a
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Bookcase Passage / int_e05ef82a
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Brand X / int_e05ef82a
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Busman's Holiday / int_e05ef82a
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Christmas Episode / int_e05ef82a
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Constantly Curious / int_e05ef82a
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*Cough* Snark *Cough* / int_e05ef82a
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Crappy Carnival / int_e05ef82a
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Credits Gag / int_e05ef82a
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Dark World / int_e05ef82a
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Dude, Where's My Reward? / int_e05ef82a
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Empty Piles of Clothing / int_e05ef82a
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Eskimos Aren't Real / int_e05ef82a
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Exposition of Immortality / int_e05ef82a
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Falling Chandelier of Doom / int_e05ef82a
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Genie in a Bottle / int_e05ef82a
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Geometric Magic / int_e05ef82a
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Good Cop/Bad Cop / int_e05ef82a
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Grave Humor / int_e05ef82a
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Haunted Castle / int_e05ef82a
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Hollow World / int_e05ef82a
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Hugh Mann / int_e05ef82a
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I Owe You My Life / int_e05ef82a
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I Should Write a Book About This / int_e05ef82a
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Identical Twin ID Tag / int_e05ef82a
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Identically Named Group / int_e05ef82a
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Ignoring by Singing / int_e05ef82a
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Indian Burial Ground / int_e05ef82a
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It's for a Book / int_e05ef82a
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Kleptomaniac Hero / int_e05ef82a
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Konami Code / int_e05ef82a
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Little Known Facts / int_e05ef82a
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Lost in Transmission / int_e05ef82a
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Magic Countdown / int_e05ef82a
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Merit Badges for Everything / int_e05ef82a
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Motor Mouth / int_e05ef82a
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Mundane Wish / int_e05ef82a
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Namesake Gag / int_e05ef82a
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New Meat / int_e05ef82a
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No Animals Were Harmed / int_e05ef82a
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Nobody Here but Us Statues / int_e05ef82a
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Number of the Beast / int_e05ef82a
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Odd Job Gods / int_e05ef82a
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Officer O'Hara / int_e05ef82a
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Once per Episode / int_e05ef82a
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Parental Neglect / int_e05ef82a
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Photo-Booth Montage / int_e05ef82a
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Pirate Parrot / int_e05ef82a
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Playing Games at Work / int_e05ef82a
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Point-and-Click Game / int_e05ef82a
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Recursive Reality / int_e05ef82a
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Religion of Evil / int_e05ef82a
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Retirony / int_e05ef82a
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Rite of Passage / int_e05ef82a
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Romance Cover Scene / int_e05ef82a
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Scandalgate / int_e05ef82a
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Scout-Out / int_e05ef82a
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See-Thru Specs / int_e05ef82a
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Selkies and Wereseals / int_e05ef82a
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Sewer Gator / int_e05ef82a
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Sickly Green Glow / int_e05ef82a
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Signed Up for the Dental / int_e05ef82a
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Smart Cop, Dumb Cop / int_e05ef82a
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Stock Ness Monster / int_e05ef82a
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The Ditz / int_e05ef82a
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The Freakshow / int_e05ef82a
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The Night That Never Ends / int_e05ef82a
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The Television Talks Back / int_e05ef82a
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13 Is Unlucky / int_e05ef82a
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This Is a Work of Fiction / int_e05ef82a
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This Is Reality / int_e05ef82a
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Three Wishes / int_e05ef82a
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Tinfoil Hat / int_e05ef82a
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Video Games of 2015–2019 / int_e05ef82a
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? / int_e05ef82a
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Who's on First? / int_e05ef82a
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Yet Another Baby Panda / int_e05ef82a
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You Put the "X" in "XY" / int_e05ef82a
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Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal / int_e05ef82a
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I See Dead People / int_e05ef82a