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* SmashingWatermelons: One of the shows at Rosie Pearl's Luau involves a turtle smashing a watermelon with a mallet, Gallagher style.
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* AnAesop: The game ends with Freddi telling the culprit that stealing is wrong, no matter what reason they had for doing so.

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* PlotCoupon: Freddi and Luther need to collect all three of the golden pipes that fell out of the Conch before Old Soggy can track their scent.



* TempleOfDoom: The final area is an ancient, sunken temple, containing statues, gemstones, and at least one trap (a cage triggered by removing a jewel from its place.)

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* TempleOfDoom: The final area is an ancient, sunken temple, containing statues, gemstones, and at least one trap (a cage triggered by removing a handful of traps. Freddi and Luther get trapped inside after Luther tries to swipe a jewel from its place.)a pedestal, and Freddi needs to find a way to get him out of the cage he gets stuck inside so they can put the jewel back and chase after the thief.
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* {{Scandalgate}}: If Nadine is the culprit, the ending refers to the incident as the Narwhalgate coverup.
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* ClearTheirName: Part of Freddi and Luther's goal is to prove Uncle Blenny's innocence of stealing the Golden Conch.

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* ClearTheirName: Part of Freddi and Luther's goal is to prove Uncle Blenny's innocence of stealing Blenny is innocent and didn't steal the Golden Great Conch.



* MultipleEndings: Any of the six suspects can be the culprit, and the ending changes slightly depending on which of them did it. The biggest changes comes from their various motivations and the differing punishments they receive.

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* MultipleEndings: Any of the six suspects can be the culprit, and the ending changes is slightly altered depending on which of them did it. The biggest changes comes from their various motivations and the differing punishments they receive.
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* BlackoutBasement: A cave in the back of the carnival is completely shrouded in the dark. A Golden Pipe can spawn here, but Freddi and Luther need to obtain a flashlight to be able to search the cave for it.

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* BlackoutBasement: A cave in the back of the carnival is completely shrouded in the dark. A Golden Pipe can spawn here, but Freddi and Luther need to obtain a flashlight to be able to search the cave for it.



* GuiltyUntilSomeoneElseIsGuilty: Uncle Blenny was thrown into jail because he was marginally more likely than the other suspects to have stolen the Golden Conch despite a lack of evidence. He isn't let out until Freddi and Luther find the real culprit.

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* GuiltyUntilSomeoneElseIsGuilty: Uncle Blenny was thrown into jail because he was marginally more likely than the other suspects to have stolen the Golden Great Conch despite a lack of evidence. He isn't let out until Freddi and Luther find the real culprit.
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* ItsUpToYou: Freddi and Luther are the only ones trying to find the missing Conch Shell and its three Golden Pipes, despite the fact that the Founder's Day Festival cannot go on without them.
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* ClearTheirName: Part of Freddi and Luther's goal is to prove Uncle Blenny's innocence of stealing the Golden Conch.


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* GuiltyUntilSomeoneElseIsGuilty: Uncle Blenny was thrown into jail because he was marginally more likely than the other suspects to have stolen the Golden Conch despite a lack of evidence. He isn't let out until Freddi and Luther find the real culprit.
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* AnAesop: The game ends with Freddi telling the culprit that stealing is wrong, no matter what reason they had for doing so.

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* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Horst the tourist doesn't speak English and has to use a translation book to talk with other fish. However, it's a ''very'' spotty book, so his responses are typically word salads.



* ReddingHerring: If you talk to any of the potential suspects enough times, Freddi will ask if they know who took the Golden Conch and they will blame someone. This has absolutely no bearing on how the game decides who the culprit is, as the clue to their identity is only given at the very end.

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* ReddingHerring: RedHerring: If you talk to any of the potential suspects enough times, Freddi will ask if they know who took the Golden Conch and they will blame someone. This has absolutely no bearing on how the game decides who the culprit is, as the clue to their identity is only given at the very end.
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* ReddingHerring: If you talk to any of the potential suspects enough times, Freddi will ask if they know who took the Golden Conch and they will blame someone. This has absolutely no bearing on how the game decides who the culprit is, as the clue to their identity is only given at the very end.
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* MisplacedWildlife: Nadine is a narwhal in tropical waters, when narwhals are supposed to live in the Arctic Circle. Unlike Horst, who is a tourist, Nadine is also implied to be a native.
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* BlackoutBasement: A cave in the back of the carnival is completely shrouded in the dark. A Golden Pipe can spawn here, but Freddi and Luther need to obtain a flashlight to be able to search the cave for it.
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* UselessItem: The plunger you get at the beginning of the game can end up completely useless depending on where the Golden Pipes spawn.

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* UselessItem: The plunger drain plug you get can pick up at the beginning of the game will always be available, but can end up completely useless depending on where the unless a Golden Pipes spawn.Pipe spawns in the banana tree. The plug is used to fix Magenta's boat, a puzzle that is tied to that specific Golden Pipe location.
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* UselessItem: The plunger you get at the beginning of the game can end up completely useless depending on where the Golden Pipes spawn.
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''Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell'', also released on [=iOS=] as ''Freddi Fish and the Stolen Shell'', is a PC AdventureGame by Creator/HumongousEntertainment released in 1998. It's the third main game in the ''VideoGame/FreddiFish'' series.

Freddi and Luther have traveled away from home for more tropical waters to visit Luther's Uncle Blenny, who has invited them to partake at the local Founder's Day Festival. However, Blenny has been arrested under suspicion of stealing the festival's Great Conch Shell and its three golden pipes, as his position as Grand Exalted Keeper of the Conch makes him the prime suspect. Pleading innocence, Blenny hands Freddi and Luther a list of six possible suspects and asks the duo to find the missing Conch and clear his name.

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''Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell'', also released known on [=iOS=] as ''Freddi Fish and the Stolen Shell'', is a PC AdventureGame by Creator/HumongousEntertainment released in 1998. It's the third main game in the ''VideoGame/FreddiFish'' series.

Freddi and Luther have traveled away from home for more tropical waters to visit Luther's Uncle Blenny, who has invited them to partake at the local Founder's Day Festival. However, Blenny has been arrested under suspicion of stealing the festival's Great Conch Shell and its three golden pipes, as his position as Grand Exalted Keeper of the Conch makes him the prime suspect. Pleading innocence, Blenny hands Freddi and Luther a list of six possible suspects and asks the duo to find the missing Conch and clear his name.



* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: [[FunnyForeigner Horst Fedders]]' native language is Foreign-Sounding Gibberish.

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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Horst Fedders, the [[FunnyForeigner Horst Fedders]]' native odd foreign tourist]], speaks in a language is that can best be described as Foreign-Sounding Gibberish.
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In addition to the randomized PlotCoupon locations that are standard to many Humongous titles, ''The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell'' also randomizes the culprit; any one of the six characters Blenny mentions at the beginning of the game may have stolen the Conch. While this doesn't change much from a gameplay perspective since the clue to their identity is only given at the end of the game right before you have to accuse them, it still provides MultipleEndings that assist the replay value.

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In addition to the randomized PlotCoupon locations that are standard to many Humongous titles, ''The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell'' also randomizes the culprit; any one of the six characters Blenny mentions at the beginning of the game may have stolen the Conch. While this doesn't change much from a gameplay perspective since the clue to their identity is only given at the end of the game right before you have to accuse them, game, it still provides MultipleEndings that assist the replay value.
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''Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell'', also released on [=iOS=] as ''Freddi Fish and the Stolen Shell'', is a PC AdventureGame by Creator/HumongousEntertainment released in 1998. It's the third main game in the ''VideoGame/FreddiFish'' series.

Freddi and Luther have traveled away from home for more tropical waters to visit Luther's Uncle Blenny, who has invited them to partake at the local Founder's Day Festival. However, Blenny has been arrested under suspicion of stealing the festival's Great Conch Shell and its three golden pipes, as his position as Grand Exalted Keeper of the Conch makes him the prime suspect. Pleading innocence, Blenny hands Freddi and Luther a list of six possible suspects and asks the duo to find the missing Conch and clear his name.

In addition to the randomized PlotCoupon locations that are standard to many Humongous titles, ''The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell'' also randomizes the culprit; any one of the six characters Blenny mentions at the beginning of the game may have stolen the Conch. While this doesn't change much from a gameplay perspective since the clue to their identity is only given at the end of the game right before you have to accuse them, it still provides MultipleEndings that assist the replay value.

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* AchievementsInIgnorance: When Freddi and Luther find one of the golden pipes at the top of a tree on an island, Luther will try to get it down using telekinesis. While he fails to move the golden pipe, he does manage to lift a plane out of the water behind him, though neither of them notice this.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Bananas are shown growing on palm trees on an island. In real life, bananas grow on stalks.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: [[FunnyForeigner Horst Fedders]]' native language is Foreign-Sounding Gibberish.
* CaveBehindTheFalls: The waterfall on one of the tropical islands has a fairly sizeable cave behind it. It's big enough to host a fish club.
* ClamTrap: One of the pipes can end up inside a clam, and when Luther goes to retrieve it, the clam threatens to snap him up. The two must get the Shim-Sham-Jimmety-Jam-Flapper-Gapper from Horst Feathers so it will [[PalatePropping prop the clam's shells open]] while Luther gets the pipe, although the clam nearly snaps him up at the last second and ends up eating the device.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: All of the culprits get weird punishments for getting caught. Nothing too serious since this is still a lighthearted kids' game.
** Gill Barker is sentenced to silently work in a library for 4,672 hours for violating penal code 214 for excessive greediness.
** Claw is sentenced to attend ballet for bullies and has to wear a tutu and little pink dance slippers for the rest of the school year for violating penal code 119 for having a really bad attitude.
** Nadine is sentenced to teach how to brush and floss for many long hours for violating penal code 121 for the narwhal gate coverup.
** Rosie Pearl is sentenced to teach humor-impaired fish how to be funny for 4,231 hours for violating penal code 682 for wrongful conch-napping.
** Pierre is sentenced to sew hand puppets for underprivileged humpback whales for 4,284 hours for violating penal code 919 for thinking only of himself.
** Horst Feathers is sentenced to write a new foreign phrase book that isn't as silly as the one he brought on his trip for violating penal code 525 for granny larceny.
* DemotedToExtra: Spongehead and Boss, the [[BigBad Big Bads]] of the first two games, are reduced to a background joke here (which is a VacationEpisode), and don't show up again after that.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When the suspect says Freddi and Luther got nothing on them upon being accused, Soggy the dogfish bites their tail until they confess.
* MultipleEndings: Any of the six suspects can be the culprit, and the ending changes slightly depending on which of them did it. The biggest changes comes from their various motivations and the differing punishments they receive.
* PeerPressuredBully: In the ending where Claw turns out to be the thief, he admits that he only stole the conch shell because the other bullies in his "Bullies Club" pressured him to do it. Though we don't get to see these other bullies, Claw claims that [[AlwaysABiggerFish they're even bigger bullies than he is]].
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: In the temple area, Luther removes a jewel from its place and accidentally activates a trap that locks him in a cage as punishment for his greed. To save Luther, Freddi must solve a puzzle using one of three other jewels in the temple. Freddi only needs one of the gemstones to solve the puzzle, yet the player can take all three with no consequences. Both Freddi and Luther can take jewels they don't need, but only Luther gets punished for it! Granted, the jewels Freddi takes are replaceable unlike the one Luther takes.
* TempleOfDoom: The final area is an ancient, sunken temple, containing statues, gemstones, and at least one trap (a cage triggered by removing a jewel from its place.)
* TheyHaveTheScent: Old Soggy needs to smell all three Golden Pipes in order to track the scent of the Great Conch Shell.
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