History VideoGame / FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist

''Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist'' is a 90's [[PointAndClickGame Point-and-Click]] {{adventure game}}. Considered one of {{Creator/Sierra}}'s best, and possibly even one of the best adventure games of the 2D VGA era. Strangely, despite being very successful, it did not receive a sequel.

-->''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn6leKTncPo The Ballad of the Demo of Freddy Pharkas]]''

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The first act of the game is prepping medicine for townsfolk, then using your mad medicine skills to save the town from various disasters, but after that Freddy returns to his gunslinger roots and all puzzles are solved with gunnery.

* CaughtWithHisPantsDown: After Zircon shows up, it's possible to catch him in the outhouse with a dirty magazine.

* AdvertisedExtra: [[https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Файл:FPFP_box.jpg The box art]] says "Meet the great-grear-grandpappy of Leisure Suit Larry". Nope, that's not Freddy, who couldn't differ from Larry more even if he tried. The advertised ancestor is plot-irrelevant Zircon Laffer, who appears in 1 scene with 1 line.

* IdenticalGrandson: Leisure Suit Larry's great-grandfather shows up; Zircon Laffer. His voice actor, Jan Rabson, would eventually voice Larry himself from ''Larry 6'' onward.

* AlliterativeName: Frederick "Freddy" Pharkas, Penelope Primm, Whittlin' Willy/

Set in the WildWest, this game follows the exploits of a gunslinger named Freddy Pharkas (Hungarian roots unexplored). Freddy, having been proclaimed the best gunslinger in the mid-west, meets his match at the hands of the ominously-named outlaw Kenny the Kid. Kenny shoots Freddy's ear off in a duel, prompting Freddy to forsake gunslinging and vow never to pick up a pistol again. Instead, Freddy picks up his ''other'' hobby: pharmacology. He moves to the town of Coarsegold, CA (a few miles away from Sierra's headquarters in Oakhurst), and never reveals his past to any of the townsfolk.

* ClarkKenting / HiddenInPlainSight: To hide his true identity, Freddy [[spoiler: makes a false ear for himself (his real ear having been shot off in the prologue)]]. No one seems to recognize him until [[spoiler:Penelope removes his ear and is shocked to discover that it's Freddy]]!

* FollowTheBouncingBall: Used in the game's prologue, the Ballad of Freddy Pharkas. Also an EarWorm.

* HaveANiceDeath: Take any medications meant for someone else, open the bag of horse farts, let the town be overrun by snails...
** {{The Many Deaths of You}}: ...Get shot by an outlaw, take too long during certain events (such as when Coarsegold's water supply is poisoned), walk onto a swamp then sink...

* {{Identical Grand|son}}father: Leisure Suit Larry's great-grandfather shows up; Zircon Laffer. His voice actor, Jan Rabson, would eventually voice Larry himself from ''Larry 6'' onward.

* PottyEmergency: Freddy has one of these after [[spoiler: the town's water supply is poisoned with a nasty substance]]. It's so bad he actually [[{{Squick}} shares an outhouse with someone else]]. TruthInTelevision, some outhouses were ''three-holers''... Except this one's barely large enough to fit one guy. And Freddy has to tell that guy to "''scooch over a bit''". Yuck.

* RapePillageAndBurn: An army of mooks get this [[ComicallyMissingThePoint slightly wrong]].

** No doubt a reference to ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', in which an army of mooks also stampedes women and rapes cattle.

* ScenicTourLevel: The prologue of the game has Freddy walking through Coarsegold to open his pharmacy for the day -- and it's completely interactive. The game makes fun of itself by awarding half of the [[LastLousyPoint available 1000 points in the game]] to the player for (finally) opening the pharmacy door. "You're halfway through the game!"

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*** A few pieces of paper in the general store are full of these, including [[VideoGame/KingsQuest a letter from King Graham]], [[VideoGame/LauraBow a message from Dr. Miklos, who lost her pet ferret Daisy]], and a wanted poster Al Lowe himself, complete with a reference to one his first games, ''Bop-A-Bet''.

*** A few pieces of paper in the general store are full of these, including [[VideoGame/KingsQuest a letter from King Graham]], [[VideoGame/LauraBow a message from Dr. Miklos, who lost her pet ferret Daisy]], and a message directly from Al Lowe himself.

* {{Identical Grand|son}}father: Leisure Suit Larry's great-grandfather shows up: Zircon Laffer.

* CardSharp: The first baddie to show up in the last act.

* FastestGunInTheWest: Freddy was trying for this title, until his defeat at the hands of Kenny the Kid (which cost him his ear) made him give up gunfighting in favor of pharmacology.

* NiceJobBreakingItVillain: [[spoiler: After managing to shoot Freddy, Kenny the Kid, assuming Freddy will die, reveals he's working for Penelope. This leads to the downfall of both him and Penelope, as Freddy survives, stops Penelope's plan, and then kills Kenny once he shows up.]]

* RoadApples: A cow patty is an inventory item. Also, horse farts. It's a Creator/{{Sierra}} game by AlLowe, what did you expect?

Set in the WildWest, this game follows the exploits of a gunslinger named Freddy Pharkas (Hungarian roots unexplored). Freddy, having been proclaimed the best gunslinger in the mid-west, meets his match at the hands of the ominously-named outlaw Kenny the Kid. Kenny shoots Freddy's ear off in a duel, prompting Freddy to forsake gunslinging and vow never to pick up a pistol again. Instead, Freddy picks up his ''other'' hobby: pharmacology. He moves to the town of Coarsegold, CA (a few miles away from {{Sierra}}'s headquarters in Oakhurst), and never reveals his past to any of the townsfolk.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Deliberately [[InvokedTrope|invoked]] by the manual, which takes the form of a 19th-century medical handbook. Nearly every single entry in the book contains some old-timey misconception about medicine - and it is all TruthInTelevision.

* ToiletHumor: One puzzle involves collecting horse farts.

** {{The Many Deaths of You}}: Get shot by an outlaw, take too long during certain events (such as when Coarsegold's water supply is poisoned), walk onto a lake then sink...