History VideoGame / Duolingo

* PlaneAwfulFlight: The French course asks you to translate "''J'espère que le pilote ne dormira pas pendant le vol.''"---"I hope that the pilot won't sleep during the flight."

* IronicEcho: In the story "Look at the Whales", Eddy and another mother, Sarah, discuss the frustration of seeing their kids focused on their phones while on a boat trip to see the whales, with Eddy noting that "kids these days are never interested in the most important things!"... only for two large whales to show up right before them, which Junior and Sarah's daughter actually ''have noticed'', but failed to get their parents' attention. Junior then remarks "adults these days are never interested in the most important things!"

* IronicEcho: In the story "Look at the Whales", Eddy and another mother, Sarah, discuss the frustration of seeing their kids focused on their phones while on a boat trip to see the whales, with Eddy noting that "kids these days are never interested in the most important things!"... only for two large whales to show up right before them, which Junior and Sarah's daughter actually have noticed, but failed to get their parents' attention. Junior then remarks "adults these days are never interested in the most important things!"

* YouWatchTooMuchX: In the story "A Scream on the Night Train", Lin and her grandmother Lucy hear a scream from a neighboring cabin. Lucy wants to go and see if the neighbor needs help, but Lin tells her not to open their cabin door in case there's an AxCrazy murderer on the loose. Lucy tells Lin, "You watch too many horror movies."

* WhatAreRecords: In the story "The Videotape", Junior expresses eagerness to watch his father performing in a school play as a child, which was recorded on videotape. Then he wonders what a videocassette actually is, which the succeeding multiple-choice question prompts the player to answer for him.

* MistakenForExhibit: In the story "That is Art" in the Spanish course or "The Work of Art" in the German course, during an art museum visit, Oscar (an art teacher) puts down a picture of dogs as being too "boring" to be art, and points to a sandwich on a chair as being ''true'' art, which Eddy doesn't understand. Then a museum guard comes around and eats the sandwich, as it wasn't on display--it was just his lunch.

* MistakenForExhibit: In the story "That is Art" in the Spanish course or "The Work of Art" in the German course, Oscar (an art teacher) puts down a picture of dogs as being too "boring" to be art, and points to a sandwich on a chair as being ''true'' art, which Eddy doesn't understand. Then a museum guard comes around and eats the sandwich, as it wasn't on display--it was just his lunch.

** Oscar also showed this trait in the story "That is Art"/"The Work of Art" (see MistakenForExhibit above).

* MistakenForExhibit: In the story "That is Art" in the Spanish course or "The Work of Art" in the German course, Oscar (an art teacher) puts down a picture of dogs as being too "boring" to be art, and points to a sandwich on a chair as being ''true'' art, which Eddy doesn't understand. Then a museum attendant comes around and eats the sandwich, as it wasn't on display--it was just his lunch.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In the French course "The Art Homework", Lily doesn't want to show Oscar her art homework, because she says it's bad. When Oscar takes a look, he declares it to be masterful and that Lily did an excellent job. But when Zari looks at it, Lily's homework is just a blank white canvas. Turns out Lily had forgotten to do her homework, but Oscar is such an art snob that he still thought it was genius.

* WhatAreRecords: In the story "The Videotape", Junior expresses eagerness to watch his father performing in a school play as a child, which was recorded on videotape. Then he wonders what a videocassette actually is. The succeeding multiple-choice question prompts the player to answer for Junior.

* WhatAreRecords: In the story "The Videotape", Junior expresses eagerness to watch his father performing in a school play as a child, which was recorded on videotape. Then he wonders what a videocassette actually is.
** The succeeding multiple-choice question prompts the player to answer for Junior.

* FiveTokenBand: Some of the language courses have an animated character to pronounce the sentence, and react positively or negatively depending on whether you get it right. Those characters include Lily (white goth girl), Zari (veiled Muslim girl), Lucy (fat middle-aged Asian lady), Lin (light-skinned girl with a half-shaved head, who is Lucy's adult granddaughter), Eddy and Junior (blond sporty white man and his equally white son), Bea (black girl with dreadlocks), Oscar (an AmbiguouslyBrown short, chubby, moustached man), Vikram (Sikh man)... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and a bear named Falstaff]].

* BodiesInABreadbox: Hungarian: "There is a person in the fridge."

* AbsurdPhobia: In Japanese's Cooking 2 lesson, "My cat is afraid of cucumbers."

** The meme phrase "Spanish or Vanish" is the name of a minigame in the official {{VideoGame/Roblox}} game made for the app's anniversary.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In Japanese's Cooking 2 lesson, "My cat is afraid of cucumbers."

** In "Checking In", Bea is catching a flight to Hawaii. She arrives at the checking counter '''15 minutes''' before the flight, so it is still possible for her to depart, but too late to check in her luggage. She gets around it by opening the suitcase and put on ''all of the clothing inside.'''