My Greatest Physics Adventure

Greetings, adventure fans. It is I, Bernard Bernouli, physics major and part-time world saver here to relate another one of my amazing adventures. With the aid of the Nurse Edna Memorial Video библиотека and re-creations by my faithful staff (Hoagie and Laverne), we are presenting a hair-raising adventure tonight that I like to call день of the Tentacle, or, It's Never to Early to Stop Pollution: Let's Start Yesterday.

It all started at maniac Mansion, Главная of the crazy Edison Family. You'd think Dr. Фред would have learned his lesson about responsible scientific experimentation...

Ben says "Charge it!", or, Hoagie learns that AC/DC isn't just a band name

Now Hoagie was ready to rock and roll. He took the battery ingredients down to the lab to Red and Red made the battery, leaving it on a convenient shelf for Hoagie to steal.

But there was still the Вопрос of how to charge the battery. Since Red was unavailable ("Hey, dude, how do I get the сок to this bogus battery I ripped from you?" seemed unlikely even to Hoagie), it finally occurred to Hoagie to check with the only other eighteenth century scientist he knew – Ben Franklin.

Hoagie realized that the воздушный змей, кайт was the...

Hoagie's not looking for a hero, he's looking for a sandwich

I was convinced that Hoagie could help me solve the riddle of the colonial statue, and, in his own Neolithic way, he did. Eventually.

First, though, he had to wander over to the right of the outhouses and bother Benjamin Franklin, whom Hoagie so colorfully referred to as "the weird fat dude with the kite." Had Hoagie remember anything about history (other than "it was the class before lunch"), he would have realized that Franklin would be exactly the person who could connect him (figuratively speaking) to a Источник of electricity. Fortunately,...

Bernard to the rescue, or, Dr. Fred's in trouble now

With a different statue, I felt confident in pushing Nurse Edna out of the room. Unfortunately, I made a rare trigonometric error of calculation, and she rolled all the way down the stairs with disastrous results. Physics isn't always pretty.

At least this gave me the opportunity , by observing Dr. Фред opening the safe, to do some good for the Edisons. Except – he was still too fast with that dial. Then I noticed there were two speed settings on the VCR. I inserted my videotape, and proceeded to tape Dr. Фред – with unexpected results....

It's not his birthday; why does Bernard get the present?

It's true that Hoagie thought it was up to him to save the world,, but (in his own caveman-like way), he suffers from delusions of grandeur, and it seems only logical to begin the Далее part of this narrative in the present, since my component was the most central and necessary to the whole project.

I decided that I might learn еще about the mess we found ourselves in by exploring the mansion and collecting evidence. Knowing Dr. Fred, I thought it possible he might even have mislaid enough cash to buy the diamond, или might have some more...

The future looks sushi; или Laverne unleashed

Laverne's great skill (other than free-lance surgery) has always been her ability to chatter on until all other arguments disappear. Using this dubious ability, she was able to convince the guard she needed to see the doctor (I've known this for years). The doctor had never encountered a human like Laverne – who has? – and unwisely left her alone. She grabbed the tentacle chart (she's always been a sucker for a good chart) and took full advantage of her freedom to run away through the double doors and down to the end of the hall and... back into...

False alarm, or, Hoagie's Золото rush

I thought it best to remind Hoagie of what he was looking for, and also that Laverne was still stuck in that tree. Hoagie asked if it was a кумкват tree. When I сказал(-а) I thought so, he asked me to return the red paint. He also asked how vinegar was made, and when I told him, he began to chuckle. Hoagie is not a well person.

At any rate, he headed back down the chimney and walked straight over to Jefferson to give him the wine. When he told me Jefferson put it in the time capsule, I began to see what Hoagie was up to. He then walked outside and painted the tree....

Togetherness pays off, or, Roommates that get out of a hole together, bowl together

The tentacle invasion of earth has been so thoroughly covered in the media that I need only sketch in the details: The spoiling of our joyous reunion by the intervention of Purple Tentacle, our dash to the past, the horror of finding ourselves in one misshapen body, the threat of the growing tentacle army, Old Purple Tentacle and his infernal shrinking луч, рэй – I'm sure you've seen al of this on CNN или nightly network news until you're sick of it.

Suffice to say we found ourselves hiding out in the Honeymoon Suite....

Laverne says, "Don't calamari me, I'll calamari you"

Laverne exited the colonial display and went on to room R, where she found a 1970's display and Disco Ted (Hoagie always сказал(-а) disco was dead, but I didn't know it was mummified). Laverne's shrewd knowledge of anatomy allowed her to instantly recognize that Ted was – или had once been – a human being, and she decided to enter him in the contest. She slapped the entry badge on his chest, equipped him with roller skates for better nobility, and gave him the old Nurse Edna push down the hall.

She then tiptoed past the Head Tentacle's room and...

Here is the секунда batch of Вопросы to the DOTT:SE team. Interviewed this time are Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, James Spafford, and Matt Hansen. First published by Cheeseness on 5th August 2015.

[An] old LucasArts interview [mentions] that the original DOTT team got a quote from Chuck Jones himself about the game [...] Could Ты use the quote in the DOTT:SE marketing? - daffy

Tim: We gave the great Chuck Jones a demo of the game HOPING he would say something that we could use as a blurb, but he never сказал(-а) anything that we could use. We should have just come out and asked him for one. Still,...

This is the first batch of answered Вопросы from the DOTT:SE team. Matt Hansen and James Spafford were both interviewed, and this was first published by DF Admin Cheeseness on 10th April 2015:

What are each team member’s favourite characters или puzzles from день of the Tentacle? - Cheeseness

Matt: Definitely the Dead Ted beauty pageant - cuts it’s %£@ing hilarious. It’s funny, and it just keeps getting funnier as Ты just have to keep solving the different aspects of it…of which the smile is my Избранное one, ‘cus it shows this zoomed in,…. like Ты see dead ted at the end with the...

1. The one with the really bad driving

2. The one with the time travelling toilets

3. The one where the salesman and the clown were having a party

4. The one with the vibrating Honeymoon Suite

5. The one with the really loud music

6. The one with the sleepwalking

7. The one with all the quarters

8. The one with the left-handed hammer

9. The one with Thomas Jefferson's log

10. The one where Hoagie messes up George Washington's bed

11. The one with the talking horse

12. The one where Nurse Edna falls down the stairs

13. The one where Dr. Фред gets arrested

14. The one with the Bernard-shaped hole

15. The one...

Polecat panic and radiated rodents

While in the Seventies display, Laverne displayed amazing good judgment in picking up the extension cord attached to the lamp for use with the Chron-o-John.™ She сказал(-а) she was feeling a little Остаться в живых (so what else is new?) after the excitement of the contest, so she decided to visit (of all places) the human kennel. The guard seemed especially interested in taking her out to dinner, and since Laverne thought whatever tentacles might eat would be especially yuchhy (her term, not mine), she gave him the ужин certificate she had won. This left her alone in the...