History VideoGame / EdnaAndHarveyTheBreakout

** Edna repeatedly says to closed doors: ''[[AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves "Open Sesame!"]]'' Not that it helps, though.

** Edna can write onto the clinicum's wall: ''"Die Mauer muss weg!"'', which is German for ''"The Wall has to go!"'' and was 1989 a pretty common chant in the Peaceful Revolution that lead to the Fall of the BerlinWall.

* Foreshadowing: In an optional object reaction, Edna can talk to a portrait of Sigmund Freud, recall a dream of hers and mention "kids falling from the stairs". [[spoiler: In the game's climax she finds out that, at the age of eight, she pushed her childhood friend Alfred off the stairs.]]

** When you try to combine "fork" with "lamp", Edna will try to think of a pun. As she realizes she can't find one, she turns to the player, saying he can call Poki if he finds a fitting joke.

** With a pen found in the asylum, Edna can write onto every wall; while mostly she writes just her name or ''"Edna was here"'' she can indeed write onto the wall of her cell ''[[LeisureSuitLarry "Ken sent me"]]''.

** She can also comment a cross on the church's altar with ''[[MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian "One cross each!"]]''

* PantyShot: When she's crawling through the vent, climbing a ladder, or simply walking away from the screen it's pretty hard to miss Edna's panties.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: During the entire game, excepting flashbacks, Edna wears only a hospital gown and a very tight-fitting pair of panties.

** In an item reaction with the river, Edna says: ''"No time for fishing; after all we're not in [[WorldOfWarcraft Azeroth]]."''

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Unfortunately, this game suffers quite a bit from this.
** Most infamously, a kite is called a “dragon.” This is because the German words for these things a similar (“Drache” and “Drachen,” respectively.) Why the translator thought the game features a dragon is anyone’s guess.
*** This error has been fixed for the special edition.
** Similarly, a bench is labled as “bank.” (Both are called “Bank” in German.) Once again, there is no bank in the game.
*** This one is also the subject of an [[LostInTranslation untranslatable pun]] in the original: if you tell Edna to "talk to" the bench, she says "I must speak with my bank!"

* DigitalDistribution: Apart from being sold in stores, the game can also be downloaded [[http://www.mamba-games.co.uk/edna-harvey-breakout-p-69.html here]].

** As a book leads Edna to state that one day she wants to write an autobiography about her adventures, she suggests the title could be ''[[OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest "Air Raid on the Cuckoo's Nest"]]''.

* CerebrusSyndrome: Oh boy, and ''how''. Starting out with an eccentric girl who's trying to break out the asylum with the help of her plush rabbit, meeting a lot of weirdos and making a thousand puns and jokes about every object she comes across, [[spoiler: as the game progresses, it becomes clear that due to Edna's psychotic tendencies she killed her childhood friend Alfred. Her father took the blame and got executed for it while Edna from the early age of eight was held captive in the asylum, constantly exposed to Dr. Marcel's attempts to delete her personality.]]

* VitriolicBestBuds: Despite Edna and Alfred having been fighting basically all the time when they were kids, Edna remembers him fondly, speaking about him in a friendly voice even when she calls him an idiot or "frog-face". And with all the pranks she played on him, ouletting her destructive tendencies by playing some borderline cruel games, Alfred never seems to have considered to look for another friend.
** Depending on how you interpret their relationship, might double as PuppyLove - after all, they have quite some shiptease as [[spoiler: Alfred clearly is mad about the fact that Edna mentions him in her diary only in a derogatory manner while she seems to have a much better-working friendship with Harvey.]] Even Mattis sees this, as he points out to Dr. Marcel that the two kids would make for a pretty couple and could have a future together.

** Edna repeatedly says to closed doors: ''"[[AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves Open Sesame!]]"'' Not that it helps, though.
** With a pen found in the asylum, Edna can write onto every wall; while most of the time she writes her name or "Edna was here" she can indeed write onto the wall of her cell ''"[[LeisureSuitLarry Ken sent me]]"''.

** A room full of bent spoons reminds Edna of Uri Geller (an Israeli entertainer best known for his SpoonBending performance).

** In an item reaction with the river, Edna says: ''"No time for fishing; we're not in [[WorldOfWarcraft Azeroth]] after all."''

** Edna repeatedly says to closed doors: ''"[[AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves Open Sesame!]]"''

** Edna quotes from ''Creator/MontyPython'' and ''LordOfTheRings''.
** [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] makes an appearance
** Aluman gives one to [[Film/TheKarateKid Mr. Miyagi]]
** [[Creator/TerryPratchett Terry Pratchett]] apparently signed the foot of the man in the bee costume
** A room full of bent spoons reminds Edna of Uri Geller (an Israeli entertainer best known for his SpoonBending performance)
** A bird bath gives rise to a shout out to [[RomeoAndJuliet Romeo And Juliet]]

* Foreshadowing: In an optional object reaction, Edna can talk to a portrait of Sigmund Freud, talk about a dream of hers and mention "kids falling from the stairs". [[spoiler: In the game's climax she finds out that, at the age of eight, she pushed her childhood friend Alfred off the stairs.]]

* [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody: Edna, in the Harvey ending.
** Justified in that the [[EdnaAndHarveyHarveysNewEyes sequel]] showed Edna being alive and well after she chose this ending and escaped the asylum.]]

* [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody: Edna, in the Harvey ending.]]

** Except for one specific reaction you can elicit from him only if you bring him the right object.
--> Drogglejug: "This object exceeds my comprehension."
--> Edna: "What did you say?!"
--> Drogglejug: "Drogglejug!"

** [[spoiler:Except for one specific reaction you can elicit from him only if you bring him the right object.

--> Drogglejug: "Drogglejug!"]]

** [[spoiler: Except for one specific reaction you can elicit from him only if you bring him the right object.

* InformedAttribute: Again, PlayedForLaughs. Drogglejug is described as a well-read intellectual who is witty in conversation and seems rough on the outside, but is actually sensitive on the inside, when he is just some weird-looking guy who [[PokemonSpeak can only say his own name]].

* PantyShot: When she's crawling through the vent, it's pretty hard to miss Edna's panties.

** At least three ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''StarTrek'' references respectively.