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* DisposableLoveInterest: The final girl from the previous game usually left ''Larry'', but this applies.
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* DisposableLoveInterest: The final girl from the previous game usually left ''Larry'', Larry, but this applies.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin': If you have sex with the prostitute in LSL 1 without putting a condom on first, ''you will die of VD in the next minute''.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin': CantGetAwayWithNuthin: If you have sex with the prostitute in LSL 1 without putting a condom on first, ''you will die of VD in the next minute''.
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* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[note]]Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''VideoGame/AlienBreed''[[/note]]
* ''Leisure Suit Larry : The Laffer Utilities'', a simple gag application.
* ''Leisure Suit Larry : The Laffer Utilities'', a simple gag application.
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* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Larry: Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[note]]Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''VideoGame/AlienBreed''[[/note]]
* ''Leisure SuitLarry : Larry: The Laffer Utilities'', a simple gag application.
* ''Leisure Suit
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From thereon sprung Al Lowe's idea to take ''Softporn Adventure'' and remake it from the ground up, rewriting its script completely into something much funnier, and replacing its [[{{AFGNCAAP}} formerly anonymous protagonist]] with Larry Laffer, a computer programmer in his early 40's who decides to get a life and go woo some women and [[AManIsNotAVirgin lose his virginity by the end of his nocturnal visit to]] [[VivaLasVegas Lost Wages]]. Being a big fan of TheSeventies, he loves disco and wears a leisure suit (which [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome he and only he thinks is cool)]] from which the newly reborn ''Leisure Suit Larry'' took its name.
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From thereon sprung Al Lowe's idea to take ''Softporn Adventure'' and remake it from the ground up, rewriting its script completely into something much funnier, and replacing its [[{{AFGNCAAP}} formerly anonymous protagonist]] with Larry Laffer, a computer programmer in his early 40's who decides to get a life and go woo some women and [[AManIsNotAVirgin lose his virginity by the end of his nocturnal visit to]] [[VivaLasVegas Lost Wages]]. Being a big fan of TheSeventies, he loves disco and wears a leisure suit (which [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome he and only he thinks is cool)]] cool) from which the newly reborn ''Leisure Suit Larry'' took its name.
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* ShoutOut: Many. Most of these to other Sierra adventure games. For example, Princess Rosella from the ''KingsQuest'' series as a hairdresser in LSL 2.
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* ShoutOut: Many. Most of these to other Sierra adventure games. For example, Princess Rosella from the ''KingsQuest'' ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' series as a hairdresser in LSL 2.
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** There's also the bamboo forest in ''[=LSL3=]''. Similar to the desert in ''KingsQuest 5'', it's a large area to explore, in which Patti will die of dehydration after so many screens. It's also a lengthy maze, so if you don't know the layout, be ready to redo this segment many, many times until you've mapped out the exact path you have to take.
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** There's also the bamboo forest in ''[=LSL3=]''. Similar to the desert in ''KingsQuest 5'', ''VideoGame/KingsQuestV'', it's a large area to explore, in which Patti will die of dehydration after so many screens. It's also a lengthy maze, so if you don't know the layout, be ready to redo this segment many, many times until you've mapped out the exact path you have to take.
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In the early [[TheEighties Eighties]], an up-and-coming programmer named Chuck Benton decided to test his programming skills by churning out a small, [[InteractiveFiction text-based]] {{adventure game}} for the AppleII by the title of ''Softporn Adventure''. After the title received runaway success, its publisher SierraOnline decided that since the game was the only text-based game they'd published, the game was due for an upgrade, so they decided to delegate the task to in-house {{Disney}} game developer Al Lowe who, after taking a look at the game, figured the game was so outdated it might as well be wearing a leisure suit.
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In the early [[TheEighties Eighties]], an up-and-coming programmer named Chuck Benton decided to test his programming skills by churning out a small, [[InteractiveFiction text-based]] {{adventure game}} AdventureGame for the AppleII by the title of ''Softporn Adventure''. After the title received runaway success, its publisher SierraOnline decided that since the game was the only text-based game they'd published, the game was due for an upgrade, so they decided to delegate the task to in-house {{Disney}} game developer Al Lowe who, after taking a look at the game, figured the game was so outdated it might as well be wearing a leisure suit.
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The focus of the series strayed from Larry Laffer to his similarly dorky nephew, Larry Lovage. The results are considered lackluster, and differed greatly in gameplay, leaving out the adventure-gaming and consisting mostly of either mini-games or a GrandTheftAuto-like interface.
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The focus of the series strayed from Larry Laffer to his similarly dorky nephew, Larry Lovage. The results are considered lackluster, and differed greatly in gameplay, leaving out the adventure-gaming and consisting mostly of either mini-games or a GrandTheftAuto-like VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto-like interface.
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* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Magna Cum Laude'' (2004); First appearance of Larry Lovage. Developed by High Voltage Software.[[hottip:*:Developers of ''TheConduit'', the ''HunterTheReckoning'' videogame and a truckload of {{Licensed Game}}s.]]
* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[hottip:*:Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''VideoGame/AlienBreed'']]
* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[hottip:*:Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''VideoGame/AlienBreed'']]
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* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Magna Cum Laude'' (2004); First appearance of Larry Lovage. Developed by High Voltage Software.[[hottip:*:Developers [[note]]Developers of ''TheConduit'', the ''HunterTheReckoning'' videogame and a truckload of {{Licensed Game}}s.]]
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* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[hottip:*:Developers [[note]]Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''VideoGame/AlienBreed'']]''VideoGame/AlienBreed''[[/note]]
* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.
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* [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin Can't Get Away With Nuthin']]: If you have sex with the prostitute in LSL 1 without putting a condom on first, ''you will die of VD in the next minute''.
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* [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin Can't Get Away With Nuthin']]: CantGetAwayWithNuthin': If you have sex with the prostitute in LSL 1 without putting a condom on first, ''you will die of VD in the next minute''.
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** The CDROM version of LSL 6 averted this trope completley, since [[TechnologyMarchesOn nobody would bother with the expense and difficulty of making their own CDs of the game.]]
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* DisneyThemeParks: When Larry is venturing through the city in game 2, he will at one moment see a theme park far away. If you look at the scenery, you get the message:
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*** ...eating a plate of food at the resort restaurant, probably because the maitre d' there is '''EVIL'''...
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*** ...eating a plate of food at the resort restaurant, probably because the maitre d' there is '''EVIL'''...
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** Notably [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in Larry 5, in which it was impossible to die, despite at least one scene [[spoiler: involving a plane on the verge of crashing]] where it sure ''looked'' like you could die if you didn't do something. Larry 6 moved on to purely jocular death scenes which can be undone with one click, and Larry 7 had none.
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** Notably [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in Larry 5, in which it was impossible to die, despite at least one scene [[spoiler: involving a plane on the verge of crashing]] where it sure ''looked'' like you could die if you didn't do something. Larry 6 moved on to purely jocular death scenes which can be undone with one click, and Larry 7 had none.
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* IdenticalGrandfather: "Zircon Jim" Laffer makes a ContinuityCameo in Lowe's ''[[FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist]]''.
* [[ImGoingToDisneyWorld I'm Going To Disney World]]: At the beginning of ''Love For Sail!'', when Larry ends up on a cactus:
* [[ImGoingToDisneyWorld I'm Going To Disney World]]: At the beginning of ''Love For Sail!'', when Larry ends up on a cactus:
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* IdenticalGrandfather: "Zircon Jim" Laffer makes a ContinuityCameo in Lowe's ''[[FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist]]''.
''FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist''.
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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: In the end of LSL 3, Larry is employed by Sierra to design adventure games based on his own adventures...
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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: In the end of LSL 3, Larry is employed by Sierra to design adventure games based on his own adventures...
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* LastGirlWins: Pretty much in all the games.
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* MotherDaughterThreesome: In ''Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!'', Larry seduces mother-daughter country duet Juggs.
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* MotherDaughterThreesome: In ''Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!'', Larry seduces mother-daughter country duet Juggs.
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* OverlyLongGag: To name a few (both from LSL 2, the scene where Larry finds himself lost in a jungle ([[GetOnWithIt you go through this every time you come there]])[[hottip:*: Thankfully, there's a way to skip it. Just type "leave", and Larry will find a shortcut.]], and the seating scene:
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* OverlyLongGag: To name a few (both from LSL 2, the scene where Larry finds himself lost in a jungle ([[GetOnWithIt you go through this every time you come there]])[[hottip:*: there]])[[note]] Thankfully, there's a way to skip it. Just type "leave", and Larry will find a shortcut.]], [[/note]], and the seating scene:
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* SoftGlass: Subverted in LSL 7: Larry has to crush through a glass window-door to escape from a fire and he gets a lot of bleeding cuts in the way. And it ''hurts''. Not to mention the "paper cuts"...
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* SoftGlass: Subverted in LSL 7: Larry has to crush through a glass window-door to escape from a fire and he gets a lot of bleeding cuts in the way. And it ''hurts''. Not to mention the "paper cuts"...
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* TimedMission: In the first game you have two real-life hours to make Larry lose his virginity before he is DrivenToSuicide. You can either do this the hard way by advancing trough the story, or go for the easy option by buying a condom and hiring the prostitute who is available from the beginning of the game. Doing the latter removes the two hour limit, but as Larry questions the validity of losing his virginity to a prostitute, the game continues, although you are now allowed to TakeYourTime.
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* TimedMission: In the first game you have two real-life hours to make Larry lose his virginity before he is DrivenToSuicide. You can either do this the hard way by advancing trough the story, or go for the easy option by buying a condom and hiring the prostitute who is available from the beginning of the game. Doing the latter removes the two hour limit, but as Larry questions the validity of losing his virginity to a prostitute, the game continues, although you are now allowed to TakeYourTime.
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** In LSL Magna Cum Laude (aka, LSL 8), [[spoiler: Koko the troubled mime is a crossdressing boy.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Arguably the point of the optional "Ione(L[[hottip:*:esbian]])" storyline. (That or seeing Ione make out with Luba. Your call.)
* [[YouCantGetYeFlask You Can't Get Ye Flask]]: One of the most infamous cases is in LSL 2. You're supposed to make a bomb out of a hair lotion bottle and an airsick bag as the wick. You can't just type "bag", you have to refer it as ''"airsick bag"''. See more details on the trope page.
* ZipMode: In at least some of the games, double-clicking on an exit will make Larry walk at hyperspeed.
* [[YouCantGetYeFlask You Can't Get Ye Flask]]: One of the most infamous cases is in LSL 2. You're supposed to make a bomb out of a hair lotion bottle and an airsick bag as the wick. You can't just type "bag", you have to refer it as ''"airsick bag"''. See more details on the trope page.
* ZipMode: In at least some of the games, double-clicking on an exit will make Larry walk at hyperspeed.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Arguably the point of the optional "Ione(L[[hottip:*:esbian]])" "Ione(L[[note]]esbian[[/note]])" storyline. (That or seeing Ione make out with Luba. Your call.)
*[[YouCantGetYeFlask You Can't Get Ye Flask]]: YouCantGetYeFlask: One of the most infamous cases is in LSL 2. You're supposed to make a bomb out of a hair lotion bottle and an airsick bag as the wick. You can't just type "bag", you have to refer it as ''"airsick bag"''. See more details on the trope page.
* ZipMode: In at least some of the games, double-clicking on an exit will make Larry walk at hyperspeed.
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* ZipMode: In at least some of the games, double-clicking on an exit will make Larry walk at hyperspeed.
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* LoungeLizard: The subtitle of the very first game is "in the Land of the Lounge Lizards". Larry dresses like one, but (thankfully) doesn't actually sing.
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* BrawnHilda: Zanna from LSL 8 (on the border with HotAmazon).
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* BrawnHilda: Zanna from LSL 8 (on the border with HotAmazon).AmazonianBeauty).
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* SoftGlass: Subverted hard in LSL 7: Larry has to crush through a glass window-door to escape from a fire and he gets a lot of bleeding cuts in the way. And it ''hurts''. Not to mention the "paper cuts"...
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* SoftGlass: Subverted hard in LSL 7: Larry has to crush through a glass window-door to escape from a fire and he gets a lot of bleeding cuts in the way. And it ''hurts''. Not to mention the "paper cuts"...
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* ClothingDamage: Once Patti begins her search for Larry in LSL 3, by the time she finds him, her dress has been reduced to rags from all her adventuring. What's left of her dress is barely enough to cover up what's necessary, conveniently enough.
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* DecoyProtagonist: You play as Larry for the first half of LSL 3. After that, Patti becomes the player character to the end, even going as far as to change the game's title bar to "Passionate Patti".
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* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: After losing his virginity to a prostitute in the first game, Larry realizes that he wants something more meaningful. In fact, this trope's name is also part of the title of game 2: ''Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places)''.
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* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: After losing his virginity to a prostitute in the first game, Larry realizes that he wants something more meaningful. In fact, this trope's name is also part of the title of game 2: ''Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places)''. Places)''.
* LovableSexManiac: Larry and all his relatives. As well as Patti.
* LovableSexManiac: Larry and all his relatives. As well as Patti.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: In LSL 3, Patti can suffer just as much as Larry in [[HaveANiceDeath true Sierra fashion]]. Averted in LSL 5, where you can't die.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Happens in LSL 6 and LSL 8.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Happens twice in the series, so far.
** In LSL6 and 6: Shape Up or Slip Out, [[spoiler: the dark-skinned makeup artist Shablee turns out to be a transvestite/male-to-female transexual, still sporting a sizable phallus. It's implied she/he rapes Larry if the player does go on a date with her/him, but this is a neccessary part to get through the game.]]
** In LSL8.Magna Cum Laude (aka, LSL 8), [[spoiler: Koko the troubled mime is a crossdressing boy.]]
** In LSL
** In LSL
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*** ...lounging around the ship until nightfall and getting [[RapeIsOKWhenItISFemaleOnMale raped by your cabinmate]]...
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* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Larry wears a speedo with an elephant's head on it. When he talks to Drew and she is describing erotically about how she is stuck naked at the nudist pool, the elephant's trunk rises up.
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* SomethingElseAlsoRises: At the nude pool in LSL 7, Larry wears a speedo codpiece with an elephant's head on it. When The first time he talks to sees Drew there, the trunk [[UpToEleven comes to life and makes a trumpeting noise]]. Then it does so again when she is describing erotically about how she is describes what it feels like to be stuck naked at the nudist pool, the elephant's trunk rises up.there without any clothes.
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* TheGlassesGottaGo: Larry attempts to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this as part of Ione's makeover. Then he [[SubvertedTrope puts them right back on]]. Apparently her squinting really is rather bad.
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* The Police officer from LSL 8 as well.
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* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[hottip:*:Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''AlienBreed'']]
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* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[hottip:*:Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''AlienBreed'']]''VideoGame/AlienBreed'']]
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** The CDROM version of LSL 6 averted this trope completley, since [[TechnologyMarchesOn nobody would bother with the expense and difficulty of making their own CDs of the game.]]
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Al Lowe and fellow Sierra On-Line adventure game alumnus Paul Trow have [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/14913/leisure-suit-larry-games-being-remade-in-hd announced]] that the first few ''LSL'' games will be remade with new artwork and HD graphics, and now they've started a [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again Kickstarter campaign]] to fund it.
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Al Lowe and fellow Sierra On-Line adventure game alumnus Paul Trow have [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/14913/leisure-suit-larry-games-being-remade-in-hd announced]] that the first few ''LSL'' games will be remade with new artwork and HD graphics, and now they've started created a {{Kickstarter}} [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again Kickstarter campaign]] to fund it.
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* {{Hammerspace}}: Lampshaded in LSL 2 with the GiganticGulp drink, which Larry muses for a moment as to how he's going to carry it, before shrugging and stuffing it into his pants.
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* ''Leisure Suit Larry : The Laffer Utilities'', a useless simple gag application.
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* ''Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies'' (Never created or released, as part of a RunningGag. Al Lowe had promised he wouldn't make Leisure Suit Larry 4, so [[ExactWords the only way to keep the promise]] was to skip to...)
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* SexComedy: The first game fits the definition pretty directly.
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*** The "Nontoonyt Tonight" magazine/manual that comes with the game ''does'' give you directions through the maze, but it's done in a way that is very easy to overlook. One of the many things in the book is a jingle advertising Nontoonyt Nectarines. If one were to look at it closely, they might notice that every word in the song begins with either N, S, W or E. So it tells you whether to go north, east, south or west and in what order, but lots of players will just dismiss it as a mildly amusing song at first glance and then forget about it.
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graphics, and now they've started a [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again Kickstarter campaign]] to fund it.
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** There's also the bamboo forest in ''[=LSL3=]''. Similar to the desert in ''KingsQuest 5'', it's a large area to explore, in which Patti will die of dehydration after so many screens. It's also a lengthy maze, so if you don't know the layout, be ready to redo this segment many, many times until you've mapped out the exact path you have to take.
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!!!For the trope previously known as The Leisure Suit Larry, please see CasanovaWannabe.
->"''Meet Larry. He's just turned 40, and he's still single. If you can get past the glow of his Grecian formula, you can see his hairline beginning to make a hasty retreat from his forehead. Larry's leisure suit is of the highest quality (100% manmade material, permanent press, too!) He wears at least 11 gold chains and his freshly-capped teeth could blind you in a bright light! Down at the singles bar he tells the chicks, "Sure, I'm single... I got in a fight with my ol' lady and she threw me out." He doesn't tell them the "ol' lady" was his mom, or that he was 38 at the time!''"
-->--'''Official product description''', ''Leisure Suit Larry in The Land of the Lounge Lizards''
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[[caption-width:409:Bond, eat your heart out.]]
In the early [[TheEighties Eighties]], an up-and-coming programmer named Chuck Benton decided to test his programming skills by churning out a small, [[InteractiveFiction text-based]] {{adventure game}} for the AppleII by the title of ''Softporn Adventure''. After the title received runaway success, its publisher SierraOnline decided that since the game was the only text-based game they'd published, the game was due for an upgrade, so they decided to delegate the task to in-house {{Disney}} game developer Al Lowe who, after taking a look at the game, figured the game was so outdated it might as well be wearing a leisure suit.
From thereon sprung Al Lowe's idea to take ''Softporn Adventure'' and remake it from the ground up, rewriting its script completely into something much funnier, and replacing its [[{{AFGNCAAP}} formerly anonymous protagonist]] with Larry Laffer, a computer programmer in his early 40's who decides to get a life and go woo some women and [[AManIsNotAVirgin lose his virginity by the end of his nocturnal visit to]] [[VivaLasVegas Lost Wages]]. Being a big fan of TheSeventies, he loves disco and wears a leisure suit (which [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome he and only he thinks is cool)]] from which the newly reborn ''Leisure Suit Larry'' took its name.
At its time of release, the game became widely known for its raunchy content and [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything surprisingly varied level of world interactivity]] (thanks to being the first Sierra game to be publicly tested). The game was followed up by two sequels before [[MissingEpisode the famed fourth game in the franchise failed to ship]] and Al Lowe decided to skip straight to the fifth game and keep going until the seventh. The franchise was then left to Sierra's hands to pass around to different developers.
The focus of the series strayed from Larry Laffer to his similarly dorky nephew, Larry Lovage. The results are considered lackluster, and differed greatly in gameplay, leaving out the adventure-gaming and consisting mostly of either mini-games or a GrandTheftAuto-like interface.
The series currently counts the following titles:
* ''Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards'' (1987); got a "enhanced" point-and-click remake in 1991; another high definition remake is coming in 2012.
* ''LeisureSuitLarryGoesLookingForLoveInSeveralWrongPlaces'' (1988)
* ''Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals'' (1989)
* ''Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies'' (Never created or released, as part of a RunningGag. Al Lowe had promised he wouldn't make Leisure Suit Larry 4, so [[ExactWords the only way to keep the promise]] was to skip to...)
* ''Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work'' (1991)
* ''Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!'' (1993); got a "talkie version" in 1994.
* ''Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!'' (1996). Last game developed by Al Lowe.
* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Magna Cum Laude'' (2004); First appearance of Larry Lovage. Developed by High Voltage Software.[[hottip:*:Developers of ''TheConduit'', the ''HunterTheReckoning'' videogame and a truckload of {{Licensed Game}}s.]]
* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[hottip:*:Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''AlienBreed'']]
* ''Leisure Suit Larry : The Laffer Utilities'', a useless gag application.
Al Lowe and fellow Sierra On-Line adventure game alumnus Paul Trow have [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/14913/leisure-suit-larry-games-being-remade-in-hd announced]] that the first few ''LSL'' games will be remade with new artwork and HD graphics.
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!!This series has examples of tropes such as:
* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Nailmi Jugg from ''Love For Sail''.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: If the player tries to make Larry masturbate:
--> '''Narrator''': Larry, the whole idea was to stop doing that!
** You can also "use" the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmmQ0mzCy-w&t=248 inflatable doll in the penthouse closet]] in the first game, although [[InteractiveNarrator he doesn't like that much]], either.
--> '''player''': use doll
--> '''Narrator''': Geez, Larry. Do we have to?
--> '''player''': use doll
--> '''Narrator''': All right, you asked for it. In fact, you've asked for it twice! Here we go...
** ''Magna Cum Laude'' contains a masturbation minigame where success boosts Larry's confidence, allowing him to interact with certain female characters in the game.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: The [[FetishFuel point]] of Barbara Jo from LSL 8.
* AlliterativeName: Larry Laffer.
** And, later, his nephew Larry Lovage.
* AllMenArePerverts: To get past the pimp in the first game, you have to change the channel on his TV to a porn station. But then again, he ''is'' a pimp...
* AluminumChristmasTrees: As funny as they sound, all the locations in the Aerodork pamphlet in LSL 5 are real.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: The goal of the first game. And just to make sure you actually do the deed, if Larry is still a virgin by sunrise (which takes a few hours of game-time), Larry will commit suicide.
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: LSL 8 made the player gather and wear various outfits in order to enter different areas of the game.
* AnimatedActors: One of the chat scenes between Larry Lovage and band geek Harriet in LSL 8 has Larry break character to harangue his agent for most of the scene about [[WhoWritesThisCrap how lousy this storyline is]]; if you lose the minigame, Harriet storms off to her trailer at the end.
* ApatheticCitizens: ''Everyone'' in ''Leisure Suit Larry 2''. They don't give a bleep if you are drugged, choking to death, drowning, or dying of bad food. In fact, they ALL WANT YOU TO DIE! Except for the hairstylists, that is. (Also see EverythingTryingToKillYou, below.)
** Taken UpToEleven during the airport segment of the game. You find a suitcase with a ticking bomb in it and you decide to get it out of there before it kills everybody. You shout that you have a bomb and that everybody should get to safety, and they all ignore you. Even the guard seen in the way out (a local who knows just basic English) is informed of the bomb and replies "Have a nice day"
* ArtEvolution: If not mentioning the obvious technological improvements, Larry was "realistic-looking" in LSL 2 and 3 but became shorter and much more cartoonish starting from LSL 5, while the women became more and more realistically drawn. All characters became more cartoony starting in ''Larry 7''.
* ArtifactOfDoom: The onklunk from the second game, arguably. Once you get it, everyone wants you dead. Seriously.
* AttractiveBentGender: Larry just needs to remove his body hair, have long blonde hair and wear a bikini with a stuffed top to pass as an attractive woman near KGB agents. But he is not so lucky at the airport...
** Oddly enough, one of the things you can stuff your top with is [[spoiler: a handful of bars of hotel soap]]. [[FridgeLogic One would think that would make for]] [[NightmareFuel a distinctly misshapen bosom...]]
* AuthorAvatar: Al Lowe inserted lookalikes of himself and many other Sierra staff members in the games: for example, the disco in the first game is full of Sierra employees.
** Not to mention Ken Williams who makes an appearance in every game (I don't know about the ones with Larry Lovage). Larry even calls him out on that in LSL 7.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in LSL 3 where Larry can find Al Lowe and Ken Williams hanging out in a club, say any short phrase to the two, and then hear the two of them talk about putting themselves in the game, having Larry say whichever phrase the player just typed, and concluding that it was a lame idea and then vanishing out of existence.
** The third game ends with Larry and Patti [[spoiler: falling into a dimensional rift and appearing at Roberta Williams' place.]]
* TheBaroness: Would-be JamesBond villainess Tilly from LSL 8.
* BeatEmUp: One of the minigames in LSL 9.
* BetweenMyLegs: In the image pictured above.
* BillClinton: In LSL 7, there is a robotic stand-up comedian called Willy who looks like Bill Clinton and makes classic jokes where the characters are people related to the Clinton administration. You get points for sitting through the whole damn thing.
* BondJamesBond: Larry usually introduces himself as "Larry; Larry Laffer". When the games get voiced, he does a short chuckle for the semicolon.
* BoringButPractical: In LSL 3, Larry has to do exercises such as push-ups in order to buff him up. Problem is, he has to do it like a hundred times for each exercise and that means ''the player too has to command each move in real time''. Maybe the developers wanted to convey the feeling of body exercises: it's boring, repetitive but it works out in the end? Not so much for gameplay...
** Even worse is the fact that the number of repeats you have to do in this section is determined by your CPU speed. Playing on anything faster than a 486? Have fun!
** Yes, originally it wasn't that bad. When the game first came out and you played it on the average machine from that era, you only had to do 25 of each exercise...
* BrawnHilda: Zanna from LSL 8 (on the border with HotAmazon).
* BrotherChuck: Passionate Patti disappears without reason from continuity after her last appearance in LSL 5.
* ButLiquorIsQuicker
* ButtMonkey: Larry.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Al Lowe [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/MCL.htm does not consider]] ''Magna Cum Laude'' and ''Box Office Bust'' as part of the series.
* CampGay: Gary the towel attendant in LSL 6 and Purser Peter in LSL 7. Half of the population of the Spartacus club in LSL 8.
* [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin Can't Get Away With Nuthin']]: If you have sex with the prostitute in LSL 1 without putting a condom on first, ''you will die of VD in the next minute''.
** And if you forget to zip up and remove your condom when you step outside, you're arrested instantly for indecency.
*** So Larry apparently forgot to put his underpants back on...
* {{Catchphrase}}: "I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard that!" after some sexually ambiguous remark.
** Also "A feeling not wholly unfamiliar to you..." which has an appearance in most games, but is primarily used in LSL 3.
* ChainedToABed: Twice. More than that if you count death scenes in [=LSL2=].
* CollectionSidequest: ''Love For Sail'' has the 'Where's Dildo?' sidequest, which involves finding all the red-and-white-striped dildos scattered around the ship.
* CopyProtection: Some of the Sierra games required information from the manual and {{Feelies}}. More memorably, the first and third games required players to answer trivia questions to "prove" that they were old enough to play, while the second game was relatively family-friendly. LSL 3 even adjusted the level of {{fanservice}} depending on your score. A generation of horny teenage gamers was driven to research old Seventies pop cultural references for the sake of 8-bit nudity.
** There is also the simple Ctrl + X + C to skip the questions.
* DancePartyEnding: LSL 8.
* DiscoDan: Larry. Who else?
* DisneyThemeParks: When Larry is venturing through the city in game 2, he will at one moment see a theme park far away. If you look at the scenery, you get the message:
--> '''Narrator''': "Hey! Is that Disneyland? Nah, not in an Al Lowe game!" (which is ironic as Al Lowe used to work for Disney).
* DisposableLoveInterest: The final girl from the previous game usually left ''Larry'', but this applies.
* DistaffCounterpart: Passionate Patti.
* DoubleEntendre: Just about anything Patti does in the games can be, and usually '''is''', interpreted as such by the narrator:
--> '''Narrator''': You mount a big piece of wood (an experience not wholly unfamiliar to you).
** Another in Larry 2, in which you must pick the ''padlock'' holding an airplane door shut ([[ItMakesSenseInContext don't ask]]) and the narrator states that "You feel yourself being sucked." The next line? [[spoiler: "Out, unfortunately!"]]
* DungeonMaintenance: The Sierra studios labor behind the scenes, building the backgrounds, repairing characters.
* [[EasilyAngeredShopkeeper Easily Angered]] [[AsianStoreOwner Asian Shopkeeper]]: Shoplifters will be ''shot''.
* EasterEgg: In LSL 7, when some specific non-compulsive actions are accomplished (such as "Milk the beaver"), the flashing image of an Easter Egg will appear on the corner of the screen and Larry will access some "sexy" extra scenes.
* EroticEating: Eve, with an apple, at the end of LSL 1.
-->She's really turning you on! You had no idea fruit could be so exciting.
** Michelle Milkem eating a banana split in LSL 5.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Par for the course, considering it's a Sierra franchise:
** In ''LeisureSuitLarry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards'', you can die by...
*** ...walking on the street and getting run over by a car instantly...
*** ...wandering into a dark alley and getting beat up by a mugger...
*** ...not having enough money to pay your taxi fare and getting murdered and ''your carcass run over'' by the cabbie...
*** ...asking the taxi driver to take you home, with no real explanation given...
*** ...shoplifting and getting shot by the shopkeeper...
*** ...flushing a toilet and drowning as the room is filled with water...
*** ...forgetting to wear a condom and contracting an STD that makes your testicles explode...
*** ...and forgetting to zip up post-coitus and getting arrested by a policeman for indecency, plus countless other ways.
** And in the sequel, ''LeisureSuitLarry goes Looking For Love (In Several Wrong Places)'', you can die by...
*** ...failing to catch your cruise ship in time...
*** ...lounging around the ship until nightfall and getting [[RapeIsOKWhenItISFemaleOnMale raped by your cabinmate]]...
*** ...forgetting to apply sunscreen while sunbathing and burning to cinders...
*** ...failing to resist the temptations of several voluptuous women, who turn out to be Dr. Nonookie's henchwomen...
*** ...not having enough provisions to last you through a month at sea on your lifeboat (including a gigantic amount of soda, a wig to protect your balding scalp and a makeshift fishing rod)...
*** ...taking the spinach dip (which earns you points) and forgetting to throw it overboard when you reach the lifeboat, lest you automatically eat it and die of salmonella...
*** ...not having a ''perfect'' disguise at the beach to fool the KGB (including both parts of a bikini, blonde hair, removal of body hair, and some, um, "padding") -- and even then, ItOnlyWorksOnce...
*** ...eating a plate of food at the resort restaurant, probably because the maitre d' there is '''EVIL'''...
*** ...eating a plate of food at an airport with a pin hidden in it, with no clue that the pin is even there in the first place...
*** ...getting caught by KGB agents in countless other ways, and so on and so on.
** Amusingly (or not, as many fans of the original were quick to point out), Larry's usual MO of trying to get laid works against him in Larry 2. In addition to the above deaths via KGB, one notable death involves talking a maid into bedding down with you... only to [[spoiler: get shot by her overprotective brother.]] On the other hand, if you gotta go...
** Notably [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in Larry 5, in which it was impossible to die, despite at least one scene [[spoiler: involving a plane on the verge of crashing]] where it sure ''looked'' like you could die if you didn't do something. Larry 6 moved on to purely jocular death scenes which can be undone with one click, and Larry 7 had none.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The [[spoiler:''magic marker'']] in LSL 3.
* EvilRedhead: Tilly from LSL 8.
* FlushingToiletScreamingShower: Necessary to get Drew out of your shower in LSL 7 (and [[ItMakesSenseInContext harvest the mushrooms needed for a quiche recipe]]).
* FranchiseZombie: LSL 8 and 9, which were created without Al Lowe being involved.
** Or Sierra, for that matter, since it's been little more than an imprint of Vivendi for years now.
* FreakyFridayFlip: From the player's perspective, [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent changing protagonists between Larry and Patti]] in Larry 3 and 5 - in fact, Larry 3 was advertised as the first computer game that comes with a free sex change operation.
* FrenchJerk: Jacques the croupier in LSL 7.
--> '''Jacques''' (thinking): "Hm, American asshole!"
* FunWithAcronyms: Conservatives Against Nearly Everything in LSL 5.
* GainaxEnding: In LSL 3.
* GiganticGulp: One puzzle in the second game involves a 32-''gallon'' drink.
* GoingCommando: In Patti's section of LSL 3, several puzzles require removing articles of clothing. Her panties are the first to go.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Larry has polka-dot boxers when he gets [[ChainedToABed tied to the bed]] in the VGA version of LSL 1.
* GranolaGirl, SoapboxSadie: Charlotte from LSL 8.
* GuideDangIt: This can be (is?) a problem with LSL 2 and 3. ''Especially'' if you want to get the maximum of points.
* HaveANiceDeath: Well, this is a Sierra adventure game after all.
* HideYourChildren: Because of the adult overtones of the games, there are no children seen. It is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Ken in LSL 7:
--> '''Ken''': "I am the handsome sailor who entertains the kids on this ship!
--> '''Larry''': "But I didn't see a kid anywhere!"
--> '''Interviewer''': "That is because this game is too dirty for kids!"
** Ironically, there ''is'' a child in LSL 7 that catches Larry in one of his many attempts to sneak into his cabin naked.
* HotScientist: Beatrice from LSL 8.
* IdenticalGrandfather: "Zircon Jim" Laffer makes a ContinuityCameo in Lowe's ''[[FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist]]''.
* [[ImGoingToDisneyWorld I'm Going To Disney World]]: At the beginning of ''Love For Sail!'', when Larry ends up on a cactus:
--> '''Interviewer''': "Leisure Suit Larry! You've just leapt from the 40th floor of a burning building! What are you going to do next?"
--> '''Larry''': "I think I'm going to... take a cruise!"
* InNameOnly: The games starring Larry Lovage. Even Al Lowe [[CreatorBacklash dismissed]] the Lovage games as Larry Laffer being in a corporate prison.
* InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou: Larry is pursued by KGB agents in LSL 2. He has to pass some of them disguised as a woman. He needs to not only have long blonde hair, but also be wearing a bikini, have stuffed his bikini top and have had his body hair removed. If not, they will catch him and say that ''"only in Russia do women wear leisure suits/have such flat breasts/are so hairy"''.
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: One of the puzzles in LSL 5 involves Patti breaking out of a room that has its door blocked by an apparently immovable, insurmountable, ''microphone stand''.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: In the end of LSL 3, Larry is employed by Sierra to design adventure games based on his own adventures...
* JoeSentMe: The pimp in the first game won't let you into his room until you give him the password: "Ken sent me." The name is, of course, that of Ken Williams, and "[[AlLowe Al]] sent me" is also accepted.
* LastGirlWins: Pretty much in all the games.
* LegacyCharacter: Larry Lovage in LSL 8 and 9.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: After losing his virginity to a prostitute in the first game, Larry realizes that he wants something more meaningful. In fact, this trope's name is also part of the title of game 2: ''Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places)''.
* MafiaPrincess: Analisa from LSL 8.
* MaleGaze: This is played with in LSL 7, when Larry slowly tries to look down (twice) on Drew's breasts while they are talking but he fails as she tells him to look at her straight in the eyes.
** Humorously, there's an EasterEgg way to get your money's worth here. Larry simply has to plug his ears, and he won't hear her.
** One of the obstacles in LSL 8's conversation minigame causes this (which counts against your KarmaMeter).
* TheMaze: Actually ''subverted'' in LSL 2. About halfway through, Larry has to cross a long, narrow, winding path above a tall cliff to reach the airport. In a game where practically everything else will kill you, it's literally impossible to fall off in this scene; instead, Larry narrowly avoids falling off, and you actually ''gain'' points. You lose the extra points once you finish crossing, though.
* MercyMode: In LSL 8.
* MiniGame: Comprises about 70% of LSL 8 by weight.
* MolotovCocktail
* MotherDaughterThreesome: In ''Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!'', Larry seduces mother-daughter country duet Juggs.
* MultipleEndings: LSL 8 let the player choose one of three "final girls" at the end.
* MushroomSamba: Happens at least twice: First as a NonStandardGameOver in LSL 3, where Patti can pick up some marijuana leaves and smoke up (and fall to her death), and in LSL 7, where one of the girls slips a hallucinogenic drug into Larry's drink.
* MyGirlIsASlut: Luba from LSL 8 -- at least that's what Lovage thinks about her being the campus bicycle. [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth At first]].
* MythologyGag: For what it's worth, LSL 8 is filled with these, in manners blatant and subtle.
** Most obviously, "Uncle Larry"'s references to his past exploits.
** Lefty's Too, a duplicate of the bar from the remake of LSL 1.
** The sorority house has a plaque with EGA portraits of women from the old games.
* NerdsAreSexy: Ione, Harriet, and Morgan (to various degrees) from LSL 8.
* NobodyPoops: Subverted. You can make Larry do it in LSL 1, 6 and 7. And ''earn points'' from it. Just, whatever you do, ''[[EverythingTryingToKillYou don't flush]]'' in 1.
** In LSL 8, it's a key game mechanic that you can urinate to reduce your level of drunkenness. Anywhere. Although doing it in public hurts your KarmaMeter.
* NoFourthWall
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In-universe example. Wang in LSL 7 is very obviously Chinese, but since he grew up in Ireland, he has an Irish accent, which gets him strange looks... so he resorts to using YouNoTakeCandle, but unsuccessfully enough that Larry sees through it.
* OptionalSexualEncounter: Having sex with the prostitute in LSL 1 is completely optional, but necessary if you want to [[HundredPercentCompletion get the maximum score]] - and just ''getting'' to the hooker's room is mandatory to get some of the items.
* OverlyLongGag: To name a few (both from LSL 2, the scene where Larry finds himself lost in a jungle ([[GetOnWithIt you go through this every time you come there]])[[hottip:*: Thankfully, there's a way to skip it. Just type "leave", and Larry will find a shortcut.]], and the seating scene:
-->"Why, Mr. and Mrs. Rich/Famous/Gates/Leach/Williams," says the Maitre d'. "What a pleasure to see you again. Of course I have a table for you!"\\
"Please, walk this way."\\
Well, that was certainly rude! You were here before them. You feel yourself becoming perturbed/annoyed/indignant/incensed/enraged!\\
"I hope you find this satisfactory, Sir," grovels the Maitre d' with his palm extended.
* PaperThinDisguise: Flat-out subverted in ''Leisure Suit Larry 2''. You need a perfect disguise at the beach to fool the KGB there. If not, they will mock you as they capture you ("Only in Russia do women wear leisure suits to the beach!", etc.). And even then, it doesn't work once you reach the airport -- [[spoiler: the guards there think you are a cross-dresser and let's just say that YOU ARE DEAD.]]
* ThePeepingTom: Done several times, including through binoculars at the beginning of LSL 3, a hole in the shower wall and a security camera aimed through the shower's air vent in LSL 6, and another hole in the sorority house shower wall in LSL 8.
* PlayingToTheFetishes: Shows up in many of the games, but most blatantly in LSL 7 and 8.
* PressXToDie: Typing "give onklunk" any time you have the onklunk in LSL 2. You traitor!
* PunnyName: Lots of them! Several from LSL 7 include nudist Drew Barringmore, (initially) prudish librarian Victorian Principles, and mother and daughter country music duo Wydoncha and Nailmi Jugg.
* RecycledINSPACE: LSL 8 was at first supposed to be set in space, and called ''Lust In Space''. It is even announced by characters in LSL 7.
* RaceLift: In the 1991 remake of LSL 1, the prostitute and final girl Eve, who were originally White, have become Black. The shopkeeper, originally an Indian Sikh, became an Arab.
* RatedMForMoney
* RhythmGame: Half of the mini-games in LSL 8 boiled down to this.
* RunningGag: Among others: "Don't all barber shops look alike?" and "But then, you find any kind of woman attractive" in LSL 2.
** A whole slew of double entrendes in LSL 3 followed up by 'a feeling not wholly unfamiliar to you!'.
* ShoutOut: Many. Most of these to other Sierra adventure games. For example, Princess Rosella from the ''KingsQuest'' series as a hairdresser in LSL 2.
** The reason that there is no LSL4 is that according to SQ4, that game contains a virus written by Vohaul (Though they could have made that game open with '''WILCO MUST DIE!''' instead).
* SoftGlass: Subverted hard in LSL 7: Larry has to crush through a glass window-door to escape from a fire and he gets a lot of bleeding cuts in the way. And it ''hurts''. Not to mention the "paper cuts"...
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Larry wears a speedo with an elephant's head on it. When he talks to Drew and she is describing erotically about how she is stuck naked at the nudist pool, the elephant's trunk rises up.
* SpySpeak: Larry's MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels Spanish pickup lines accidentally complete the sign-countersign for a KGB agent to give him a [[MacGuffin microfilm]] in LSL 2.
* SquirrelsInMyPants: In LSL 3, Larry has sex with a woman called Tawni on a beach, but after a moment, he stands up and shivers because he has some crabs that have climbed in his pants. Larry announces "[[IncrediblyLamePun I've got crabs]]!", and Tawni calls it quits.
* StealthPun: There are some cases, like when you make Larry talk to a bush in LSL 5, he will say:
--> '''Larry''': "Hi, is by any chance your name George?"
* StripPoker: A variant of this is used in LSL 7, with Strip ''Dice''.
** Strip versions of most of the minigames in LSL 8 are also available.
* SuddenlySexuality: Ione from LSL 8 actually reappears later in the game -- and she's turned into an out-of-the-closet lesbian from the trauma your first courtship of her caused.
** You have to orchestrate one case in LSL 7. Replace the straightlaced librarian's book with a steamy sex novel, and she'll have a ''drastic'' change of personality and interests.
* SubliminalSeduction: In ''5'', des Rever Records is suspected of planting subliminal messages in their records to get customers to buy porn. This is confirmed when you listen to the golden record backwards.
* {{Tapper}}: One of the basic minigame types in LSL 8 is a ''Tapper'' clone.
* ThemeNaming: All of the women in LSL 3 have names ending in "i" (Tawni, Cherri, Suzi, Bambi, Patti . . . and even Bobbi, the woman Kalalau leaves Larry for at the beginning).
** All of the women in LSL 6 are named after varieties of wine.
* TimedMission: In the first game you have two real-life hours to make Larry lose his virginity before he is DrivenToSuicide. You can either do this the hard way by advancing trough the story, or go for the easy option by buying a condom and hiring the prostitute who is available from the beginning of the game. Doing the latter removes the two hour limit, but as Larry questions the validity of losing his virginity to a prostitute, the game continues, although you are now allowed to TakeYourTime.
* ToiletHumour: Going to the bathroom almost always leads to HilarityEnsues. See also NobodyPoops.
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: In LSL 7, Larry can lick an ice statue and get his tongue stuck for a moment.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Larrys 2, 3 and 7 all begin with the woman Larry got together with at the end of the previous game deciding she doesn't like him any more and treating him quite badly. Justified with Eve, since Larry showed up at her house and moved in without her permission, which would probably freak out anybody in real life. But Kalalau first cheated on him [[LesYay with another woman]], then locked him out of their house and divorced him, all just because she wasn't satisfied with his performance in the bedroom. She never told him that she was unhappy before she did these things, and never tried to work things out. At the beginning of Larry 7, Shamara decides that the new age lifestyle isn't for her after all and what she really cares about is money. So she [[ChainedToABed ties Larry up]] and steals his wallet before walking out on him.
* TotemPoleTrench: LSL 1. Larry can meet a trenchcoat flasher on the sidewalk by the hotel. When you look at the flasher, the narrator comments that it's really a little person standing on the shoulders of another. They're both still flashers, though.
* TrialAndErrorGameplay: LSL 2. Whole sections of the game are designed around the premise that the player is SaveScumming.
* TrilogyCreep: Played with: Al Lowe wanted to end the series with Larry 3, hence the whole rigamarole with Larry 4.
* {{Trope2000}}: The Cybersniff 2000 in LSL 7.
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Appears in the cheerleader character's ending in ''Magna Cum Laude'', where her twin comes in from nowhere simply for this trope.
* {{UnInstallment}}: LSL 4
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Happens in LSL 6 and LSL 8.
* UnusualUserInterface: LSL 8 has the DialogueTree as a minigame where the player has to navigate around obstacles to reach the "right" conversation choice while the conversation goes on in the background.
* UnwinnableByDesign: Can happen in the first three games, though it is especially terrible in LSL 2.
* VideoGameRemake: The original game is a double-example, first remade from ''Softporn'' to ''Leisure Suit Larry'', and again with upgraded graphics and a [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] interface a few years later.
* VivaLasVegas: "Lost Wages", the setting of the original, complete with a quickie wedding chapel.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: The point of the setting of LSL 8.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: [[spoiler: To win the first game, you give Eve an apple to seduce her. Subtle.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Arguably the point of the optional "Ione(L[[hottip:*:esbian]])" storyline. (That or seeing Ione make out with Luba. Your call.)
* [[YouCantGetYeFlask You Can't Get Ye Flask]]: One of the most infamous cases is in LSL 2. You're supposed to make a bomb out of a hair lotion bottle and an airsick bag as the wick. You can't just type "bag", you have to refer it as ''"airsick bag"''. See more details on the trope page.
* ZipMode: In at least some of the games, double-clicking on an exit will make Larry walk at hyperspeed.
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->"''Meet Larry. He's just turned 40, and he's still single. If you can get past the glow of his Grecian formula, you can see his hairline beginning to make a hasty retreat from his forehead. Larry's leisure suit is of the highest quality (100% manmade material, permanent press, too!) He wears at least 11 gold chains and his freshly-capped teeth could blind you in a bright light! Down at the singles bar he tells the chicks, "Sure, I'm single... I got in a fight with my ol' lady and she threw me out." He doesn't tell them the "ol' lady" was his mom, or that he was 38 at the time!''"
-->--'''Official product description''', ''Leisure Suit Larry in The Land of the Lounge Lizards''
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[[caption-width:409:Bond, eat your heart out.]]
In the early [[TheEighties Eighties]], an up-and-coming programmer named Chuck Benton decided to test his programming skills by churning out a small, [[InteractiveFiction text-based]] {{adventure game}} for the AppleII by the title of ''Softporn Adventure''. After the title received runaway success, its publisher SierraOnline decided that since the game was the only text-based game they'd published, the game was due for an upgrade, so they decided to delegate the task to in-house {{Disney}} game developer Al Lowe who, after taking a look at the game, figured the game was so outdated it might as well be wearing a leisure suit.
From thereon sprung Al Lowe's idea to take ''Softporn Adventure'' and remake it from the ground up, rewriting its script completely into something much funnier, and replacing its [[{{AFGNCAAP}} formerly anonymous protagonist]] with Larry Laffer, a computer programmer in his early 40's who decides to get a life and go woo some women and [[AManIsNotAVirgin lose his virginity by the end of his nocturnal visit to]] [[VivaLasVegas Lost Wages]]. Being a big fan of TheSeventies, he loves disco and wears a leisure suit (which [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome he and only he thinks is cool)]] from which the newly reborn ''Leisure Suit Larry'' took its name.
At its time of release, the game became widely known for its raunchy content and [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything surprisingly varied level of world interactivity]] (thanks to being the first Sierra game to be publicly tested). The game was followed up by two sequels before [[MissingEpisode the famed fourth game in the franchise failed to ship]] and Al Lowe decided to skip straight to the fifth game and keep going until the seventh. The franchise was then left to Sierra's hands to pass around to different developers.
The focus of the series strayed from Larry Laffer to his similarly dorky nephew, Larry Lovage. The results are considered lackluster, and differed greatly in gameplay, leaving out the adventure-gaming and consisting mostly of either mini-games or a GrandTheftAuto-like interface.
The series currently counts the following titles:
* ''Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards'' (1987); got a "enhanced" point-and-click remake in 1991; another high definition remake is coming in 2012.
* ''LeisureSuitLarryGoesLookingForLoveInSeveralWrongPlaces'' (1988)
* ''Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals'' (1989)
* ''Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies'' (Never created or released, as part of a RunningGag. Al Lowe had promised he wouldn't make Leisure Suit Larry 4, so [[ExactWords the only way to keep the promise]] was to skip to...)
* ''Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work'' (1991)
* ''Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!'' (1993); got a "talkie version" in 1994.
* ''Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!'' (1996). Last game developed by Al Lowe.
* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Magna Cum Laude'' (2004); First appearance of Larry Lovage. Developed by High Voltage Software.[[hottip:*:Developers of ''TheConduit'', the ''HunterTheReckoning'' videogame and a truckload of {{Licensed Game}}s.]]
* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[hottip:*:Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''AlienBreed'']]
* ''Leisure Suit Larry : The Laffer Utilities'', a useless gag application.
Al Lowe and fellow Sierra On-Line adventure game alumnus Paul Trow have [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/14913/leisure-suit-larry-games-being-remade-in-hd announced]] that the first few ''LSL'' games will be remade with new artwork and HD graphics.
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!!This series has examples of tropes such as:
* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Nailmi Jugg from ''Love For Sail''.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: If the player tries to make Larry masturbate:
--> '''Narrator''': Larry, the whole idea was to stop doing that!
** You can also "use" the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmmQ0mzCy-w&t=248 inflatable doll in the penthouse closet]] in the first game, although [[InteractiveNarrator he doesn't like that much]], either.
--> '''player''': use doll
--> '''Narrator''': Geez, Larry. Do we have to?
--> '''player''': use doll
--> '''Narrator''': All right, you asked for it. In fact, you've asked for it twice! Here we go...
** ''Magna Cum Laude'' contains a masturbation minigame where success boosts Larry's confidence, allowing him to interact with certain female characters in the game.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: The [[FetishFuel point]] of Barbara Jo from LSL 8.
* AlliterativeName: Larry Laffer.
** And, later, his nephew Larry Lovage.
* AllMenArePerverts: To get past the pimp in the first game, you have to change the channel on his TV to a porn station. But then again, he ''is'' a pimp...
* AluminumChristmasTrees: As funny as they sound, all the locations in the Aerodork pamphlet in LSL 5 are real.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: The goal of the first game. And just to make sure you actually do the deed, if Larry is still a virgin by sunrise (which takes a few hours of game-time), Larry will commit suicide.
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: LSL 8 made the player gather and wear various outfits in order to enter different areas of the game.
* AnimatedActors: One of the chat scenes between Larry Lovage and band geek Harriet in LSL 8 has Larry break character to harangue his agent for most of the scene about [[WhoWritesThisCrap how lousy this storyline is]]; if you lose the minigame, Harriet storms off to her trailer at the end.
* ApatheticCitizens: ''Everyone'' in ''Leisure Suit Larry 2''. They don't give a bleep if you are drugged, choking to death, drowning, or dying of bad food. In fact, they ALL WANT YOU TO DIE! Except for the hairstylists, that is. (Also see EverythingTryingToKillYou, below.)
** Taken UpToEleven during the airport segment of the game. You find a suitcase with a ticking bomb in it and you decide to get it out of there before it kills everybody. You shout that you have a bomb and that everybody should get to safety, and they all ignore you. Even the guard seen in the way out (a local who knows just basic English) is informed of the bomb and replies "Have a nice day"
* ArtEvolution: If not mentioning the obvious technological improvements, Larry was "realistic-looking" in LSL 2 and 3 but became shorter and much more cartoonish starting from LSL 5, while the women became more and more realistically drawn. All characters became more cartoony starting in ''Larry 7''.
* ArtifactOfDoom: The onklunk from the second game, arguably. Once you get it, everyone wants you dead. Seriously.
* AttractiveBentGender: Larry just needs to remove his body hair, have long blonde hair and wear a bikini with a stuffed top to pass as an attractive woman near KGB agents. But he is not so lucky at the airport...
** Oddly enough, one of the things you can stuff your top with is [[spoiler: a handful of bars of hotel soap]]. [[FridgeLogic One would think that would make for]] [[NightmareFuel a distinctly misshapen bosom...]]
* AuthorAvatar: Al Lowe inserted lookalikes of himself and many other Sierra staff members in the games: for example, the disco in the first game is full of Sierra employees.
** Not to mention Ken Williams who makes an appearance in every game (I don't know about the ones with Larry Lovage). Larry even calls him out on that in LSL 7.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in LSL 3 where Larry can find Al Lowe and Ken Williams hanging out in a club, say any short phrase to the two, and then hear the two of them talk about putting themselves in the game, having Larry say whichever phrase the player just typed, and concluding that it was a lame idea and then vanishing out of existence.
** The third game ends with Larry and Patti [[spoiler: falling into a dimensional rift and appearing at Roberta Williams' place.]]
* TheBaroness: Would-be JamesBond villainess Tilly from LSL 8.
* BeatEmUp: One of the minigames in LSL 9.
* BetweenMyLegs: In the image pictured above.
* BillClinton: In LSL 7, there is a robotic stand-up comedian called Willy who looks like Bill Clinton and makes classic jokes where the characters are people related to the Clinton administration. You get points for sitting through the whole damn thing.
* BondJamesBond: Larry usually introduces himself as "Larry; Larry Laffer". When the games get voiced, he does a short chuckle for the semicolon.
* BoringButPractical: In LSL 3, Larry has to do exercises such as push-ups in order to buff him up. Problem is, he has to do it like a hundred times for each exercise and that means ''the player too has to command each move in real time''. Maybe the developers wanted to convey the feeling of body exercises: it's boring, repetitive but it works out in the end? Not so much for gameplay...
** Even worse is the fact that the number of repeats you have to do in this section is determined by your CPU speed. Playing on anything faster than a 486? Have fun!
** Yes, originally it wasn't that bad. When the game first came out and you played it on the average machine from that era, you only had to do 25 of each exercise...
* BrawnHilda: Zanna from LSL 8 (on the border with HotAmazon).
* BrotherChuck: Passionate Patti disappears without reason from continuity after her last appearance in LSL 5.
* ButLiquorIsQuicker
* ButtMonkey: Larry.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Al Lowe [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/MCL.htm does not consider]] ''Magna Cum Laude'' and ''Box Office Bust'' as part of the series.
* CampGay: Gary the towel attendant in LSL 6 and Purser Peter in LSL 7. Half of the population of the Spartacus club in LSL 8.
* [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin Can't Get Away With Nuthin']]: If you have sex with the prostitute in LSL 1 without putting a condom on first, ''you will die of VD in the next minute''.
** And if you forget to zip up and remove your condom when you step outside, you're arrested instantly for indecency.
*** So Larry apparently forgot to put his underpants back on...
* {{Catchphrase}}: "I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard that!" after some sexually ambiguous remark.
** Also "A feeling not wholly unfamiliar to you..." which has an appearance in most games, but is primarily used in LSL 3.
* ChainedToABed: Twice. More than that if you count death scenes in [=LSL2=].
* CollectionSidequest: ''Love For Sail'' has the 'Where's Dildo?' sidequest, which involves finding all the red-and-white-striped dildos scattered around the ship.
* CopyProtection: Some of the Sierra games required information from the manual and {{Feelies}}. More memorably, the first and third games required players to answer trivia questions to "prove" that they were old enough to play, while the second game was relatively family-friendly. LSL 3 even adjusted the level of {{fanservice}} depending on your score. A generation of horny teenage gamers was driven to research old Seventies pop cultural references for the sake of 8-bit nudity.
** There is also the simple Ctrl + X + C to skip the questions.
* DancePartyEnding: LSL 8.
* DiscoDan: Larry. Who else?
* DisneyThemeParks: When Larry is venturing through the city in game 2, he will at one moment see a theme park far away. If you look at the scenery, you get the message:
--> '''Narrator''': "Hey! Is that Disneyland? Nah, not in an Al Lowe game!" (which is ironic as Al Lowe used to work for Disney).
* DisposableLoveInterest: The final girl from the previous game usually left ''Larry'', but this applies.
* DistaffCounterpart: Passionate Patti.
* DoubleEntendre: Just about anything Patti does in the games can be, and usually '''is''', interpreted as such by the narrator:
--> '''Narrator''': You mount a big piece of wood (an experience not wholly unfamiliar to you).
** Another in Larry 2, in which you must pick the ''padlock'' holding an airplane door shut ([[ItMakesSenseInContext don't ask]]) and the narrator states that "You feel yourself being sucked." The next line? [[spoiler: "Out, unfortunately!"]]
* DungeonMaintenance: The Sierra studios labor behind the scenes, building the backgrounds, repairing characters.
* [[EasilyAngeredShopkeeper Easily Angered]] [[AsianStoreOwner Asian Shopkeeper]]: Shoplifters will be ''shot''.
* EasterEgg: In LSL 7, when some specific non-compulsive actions are accomplished (such as "Milk the beaver"), the flashing image of an Easter Egg will appear on the corner of the screen and Larry will access some "sexy" extra scenes.
* EroticEating: Eve, with an apple, at the end of LSL 1.
-->She's really turning you on! You had no idea fruit could be so exciting.
** Michelle Milkem eating a banana split in LSL 5.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Par for the course, considering it's a Sierra franchise:
** In ''LeisureSuitLarry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards'', you can die by...
*** ...walking on the street and getting run over by a car instantly...
*** ...wandering into a dark alley and getting beat up by a mugger...
*** ...not having enough money to pay your taxi fare and getting murdered and ''your carcass run over'' by the cabbie...
*** ...asking the taxi driver to take you home, with no real explanation given...
*** ...shoplifting and getting shot by the shopkeeper...
*** ...flushing a toilet and drowning as the room is filled with water...
*** ...forgetting to wear a condom and contracting an STD that makes your testicles explode...
*** ...and forgetting to zip up post-coitus and getting arrested by a policeman for indecency, plus countless other ways.
** And in the sequel, ''LeisureSuitLarry goes Looking For Love (In Several Wrong Places)'', you can die by...
*** ...failing to catch your cruise ship in time...
*** ...lounging around the ship until nightfall and getting [[RapeIsOKWhenItISFemaleOnMale raped by your cabinmate]]...
*** ...forgetting to apply sunscreen while sunbathing and burning to cinders...
*** ...failing to resist the temptations of several voluptuous women, who turn out to be Dr. Nonookie's henchwomen...
*** ...not having enough provisions to last you through a month at sea on your lifeboat (including a gigantic amount of soda, a wig to protect your balding scalp and a makeshift fishing rod)...
*** ...taking the spinach dip (which earns you points) and forgetting to throw it overboard when you reach the lifeboat, lest you automatically eat it and die of salmonella...
*** ...not having a ''perfect'' disguise at the beach to fool the KGB (including both parts of a bikini, blonde hair, removal of body hair, and some, um, "padding") -- and even then, ItOnlyWorksOnce...
*** ...eating a plate of food at the resort restaurant, probably because the maitre d' there is '''EVIL'''...
*** ...eating a plate of food at an airport with a pin hidden in it, with no clue that the pin is even there in the first place...
*** ...getting caught by KGB agents in countless other ways, and so on and so on.
** Amusingly (or not, as many fans of the original were quick to point out), Larry's usual MO of trying to get laid works against him in Larry 2. In addition to the above deaths via KGB, one notable death involves talking a maid into bedding down with you... only to [[spoiler: get shot by her overprotective brother.]] On the other hand, if you gotta go...
** Notably [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in Larry 5, in which it was impossible to die, despite at least one scene [[spoiler: involving a plane on the verge of crashing]] where it sure ''looked'' like you could die if you didn't do something. Larry 6 moved on to purely jocular death scenes which can be undone with one click, and Larry 7 had none.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The [[spoiler:''magic marker'']] in LSL 3.
* EvilRedhead: Tilly from LSL 8.
* FlushingToiletScreamingShower: Necessary to get Drew out of your shower in LSL 7 (and [[ItMakesSenseInContext harvest the mushrooms needed for a quiche recipe]]).
* FranchiseZombie: LSL 8 and 9, which were created without Al Lowe being involved.
** Or Sierra, for that matter, since it's been little more than an imprint of Vivendi for years now.
* FreakyFridayFlip: From the player's perspective, [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent changing protagonists between Larry and Patti]] in Larry 3 and 5 - in fact, Larry 3 was advertised as the first computer game that comes with a free sex change operation.
* FrenchJerk: Jacques the croupier in LSL 7.
--> '''Jacques''' (thinking): "Hm, American asshole!"
* FunWithAcronyms: Conservatives Against Nearly Everything in LSL 5.
* GainaxEnding: In LSL 3.
* GiganticGulp: One puzzle in the second game involves a 32-''gallon'' drink.
* GoingCommando: In Patti's section of LSL 3, several puzzles require removing articles of clothing. Her panties are the first to go.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Larry has polka-dot boxers when he gets [[ChainedToABed tied to the bed]] in the VGA version of LSL 1.
* GranolaGirl, SoapboxSadie: Charlotte from LSL 8.
* GuideDangIt: This can be (is?) a problem with LSL 2 and 3. ''Especially'' if you want to get the maximum of points.
* HaveANiceDeath: Well, this is a Sierra adventure game after all.
* HideYourChildren: Because of the adult overtones of the games, there are no children seen. It is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Ken in LSL 7:
--> '''Ken''': "I am the handsome sailor who entertains the kids on this ship!
--> '''Larry''': "But I didn't see a kid anywhere!"
--> '''Interviewer''': "That is because this game is too dirty for kids!"
** Ironically, there ''is'' a child in LSL 7 that catches Larry in one of his many attempts to sneak into his cabin naked.
* HotScientist: Beatrice from LSL 8.
* IdenticalGrandfather: "Zircon Jim" Laffer makes a ContinuityCameo in Lowe's ''[[FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist]]''.
* [[ImGoingToDisneyWorld I'm Going To Disney World]]: At the beginning of ''Love For Sail!'', when Larry ends up on a cactus:
--> '''Interviewer''': "Leisure Suit Larry! You've just leapt from the 40th floor of a burning building! What are you going to do next?"
--> '''Larry''': "I think I'm going to... take a cruise!"
* InNameOnly: The games starring Larry Lovage. Even Al Lowe [[CreatorBacklash dismissed]] the Lovage games as Larry Laffer being in a corporate prison.
* InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou: Larry is pursued by KGB agents in LSL 2. He has to pass some of them disguised as a woman. He needs to not only have long blonde hair, but also be wearing a bikini, have stuffed his bikini top and have had his body hair removed. If not, they will catch him and say that ''"only in Russia do women wear leisure suits/have such flat breasts/are so hairy"''.
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: One of the puzzles in LSL 5 involves Patti breaking out of a room that has its door blocked by an apparently immovable, insurmountable, ''microphone stand''.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: In the end of LSL 3, Larry is employed by Sierra to design adventure games based on his own adventures...
* JoeSentMe: The pimp in the first game won't let you into his room until you give him the password: "Ken sent me." The name is, of course, that of Ken Williams, and "[[AlLowe Al]] sent me" is also accepted.
* LastGirlWins: Pretty much in all the games.
* LegacyCharacter: Larry Lovage in LSL 8 and 9.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: After losing his virginity to a prostitute in the first game, Larry realizes that he wants something more meaningful. In fact, this trope's name is also part of the title of game 2: ''Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places)''.
* MafiaPrincess: Analisa from LSL 8.
* MaleGaze: This is played with in LSL 7, when Larry slowly tries to look down (twice) on Drew's breasts while they are talking but he fails as she tells him to look at her straight in the eyes.
** Humorously, there's an EasterEgg way to get your money's worth here. Larry simply has to plug his ears, and he won't hear her.
** One of the obstacles in LSL 8's conversation minigame causes this (which counts against your KarmaMeter).
* TheMaze: Actually ''subverted'' in LSL 2. About halfway through, Larry has to cross a long, narrow, winding path above a tall cliff to reach the airport. In a game where practically everything else will kill you, it's literally impossible to fall off in this scene; instead, Larry narrowly avoids falling off, and you actually ''gain'' points. You lose the extra points once you finish crossing, though.
* MercyMode: In LSL 8.
* MiniGame: Comprises about 70% of LSL 8 by weight.
* MolotovCocktail
* MotherDaughterThreesome: In ''Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!'', Larry seduces mother-daughter country duet Juggs.
* MultipleEndings: LSL 8 let the player choose one of three "final girls" at the end.
* MushroomSamba: Happens at least twice: First as a NonStandardGameOver in LSL 3, where Patti can pick up some marijuana leaves and smoke up (and fall to her death), and in LSL 7, where one of the girls slips a hallucinogenic drug into Larry's drink.
* MyGirlIsASlut: Luba from LSL 8 -- at least that's what Lovage thinks about her being the campus bicycle. [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth At first]].
* MythologyGag: For what it's worth, LSL 8 is filled with these, in manners blatant and subtle.
** Most obviously, "Uncle Larry"'s references to his past exploits.
** Lefty's Too, a duplicate of the bar from the remake of LSL 1.
** The sorority house has a plaque with EGA portraits of women from the old games.
* NerdsAreSexy: Ione, Harriet, and Morgan (to various degrees) from LSL 8.
* NobodyPoops: Subverted. You can make Larry do it in LSL 1, 6 and 7. And ''earn points'' from it. Just, whatever you do, ''[[EverythingTryingToKillYou don't flush]]'' in 1.
** In LSL 8, it's a key game mechanic that you can urinate to reduce your level of drunkenness. Anywhere. Although doing it in public hurts your KarmaMeter.
* NoFourthWall
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In-universe example. Wang in LSL 7 is very obviously Chinese, but since he grew up in Ireland, he has an Irish accent, which gets him strange looks... so he resorts to using YouNoTakeCandle, but unsuccessfully enough that Larry sees through it.
* OptionalSexualEncounter: Having sex with the prostitute in LSL 1 is completely optional, but necessary if you want to [[HundredPercentCompletion get the maximum score]] - and just ''getting'' to the hooker's room is mandatory to get some of the items.
* OverlyLongGag: To name a few (both from LSL 2, the scene where Larry finds himself lost in a jungle ([[GetOnWithIt you go through this every time you come there]])[[hottip:*: Thankfully, there's a way to skip it. Just type "leave", and Larry will find a shortcut.]], and the seating scene:
-->"Why, Mr. and Mrs. Rich/Famous/Gates/Leach/Williams," says the Maitre d'. "What a pleasure to see you again. Of course I have a table for you!"\\
"Please, walk this way."\\
Well, that was certainly rude! You were here before them. You feel yourself becoming perturbed/annoyed/indignant/incensed/enraged!\\
"I hope you find this satisfactory, Sir," grovels the Maitre d' with his palm extended.
* PaperThinDisguise: Flat-out subverted in ''Leisure Suit Larry 2''. You need a perfect disguise at the beach to fool the KGB there. If not, they will mock you as they capture you ("Only in Russia do women wear leisure suits to the beach!", etc.). And even then, it doesn't work once you reach the airport -- [[spoiler: the guards there think you are a cross-dresser and let's just say that YOU ARE DEAD.]]
* ThePeepingTom: Done several times, including through binoculars at the beginning of LSL 3, a hole in the shower wall and a security camera aimed through the shower's air vent in LSL 6, and another hole in the sorority house shower wall in LSL 8.
* PlayingToTheFetishes: Shows up in many of the games, but most blatantly in LSL 7 and 8.
* PressXToDie: Typing "give onklunk" any time you have the onklunk in LSL 2. You traitor!
* PunnyName: Lots of them! Several from LSL 7 include nudist Drew Barringmore, (initially) prudish librarian Victorian Principles, and mother and daughter country music duo Wydoncha and Nailmi Jugg.
* RecycledINSPACE: LSL 8 was at first supposed to be set in space, and called ''Lust In Space''. It is even announced by characters in LSL 7.
* RaceLift: In the 1991 remake of LSL 1, the prostitute and final girl Eve, who were originally White, have become Black. The shopkeeper, originally an Indian Sikh, became an Arab.
* RatedMForMoney
* RhythmGame: Half of the mini-games in LSL 8 boiled down to this.
* RunningGag: Among others: "Don't all barber shops look alike?" and "But then, you find any kind of woman attractive" in LSL 2.
** A whole slew of double entrendes in LSL 3 followed up by 'a feeling not wholly unfamiliar to you!'.
* ShoutOut: Many. Most of these to other Sierra adventure games. For example, Princess Rosella from the ''KingsQuest'' series as a hairdresser in LSL 2.
** The reason that there is no LSL4 is that according to SQ4, that game contains a virus written by Vohaul (Though they could have made that game open with '''WILCO MUST DIE!''' instead).
* SoftGlass: Subverted hard in LSL 7: Larry has to crush through a glass window-door to escape from a fire and he gets a lot of bleeding cuts in the way. And it ''hurts''. Not to mention the "paper cuts"...
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Larry wears a speedo with an elephant's head on it. When he talks to Drew and she is describing erotically about how she is stuck naked at the nudist pool, the elephant's trunk rises up.
* SpySpeak: Larry's MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels Spanish pickup lines accidentally complete the sign-countersign for a KGB agent to give him a [[MacGuffin microfilm]] in LSL 2.
* SquirrelsInMyPants: In LSL 3, Larry has sex with a woman called Tawni on a beach, but after a moment, he stands up and shivers because he has some crabs that have climbed in his pants. Larry announces "[[IncrediblyLamePun I've got crabs]]!", and Tawni calls it quits.
* StealthPun: There are some cases, like when you make Larry talk to a bush in LSL 5, he will say:
--> '''Larry''': "Hi, is by any chance your name George?"
* StripPoker: A variant of this is used in LSL 7, with Strip ''Dice''.
** Strip versions of most of the minigames in LSL 8 are also available.
* SuddenlySexuality: Ione from LSL 8 actually reappears later in the game -- and she's turned into an out-of-the-closet lesbian from the trauma your first courtship of her caused.
** You have to orchestrate one case in LSL 7. Replace the straightlaced librarian's book with a steamy sex novel, and she'll have a ''drastic'' change of personality and interests.
* SubliminalSeduction: In ''5'', des Rever Records is suspected of planting subliminal messages in their records to get customers to buy porn. This is confirmed when you listen to the golden record backwards.
* {{Tapper}}: One of the basic minigame types in LSL 8 is a ''Tapper'' clone.
* ThemeNaming: All of the women in LSL 3 have names ending in "i" (Tawni, Cherri, Suzi, Bambi, Patti . . . and even Bobbi, the woman Kalalau leaves Larry for at the beginning).
** All of the women in LSL 6 are named after varieties of wine.
* TimedMission: In the first game you have two real-life hours to make Larry lose his virginity before he is DrivenToSuicide. You can either do this the hard way by advancing trough the story, or go for the easy option by buying a condom and hiring the prostitute who is available from the beginning of the game. Doing the latter removes the two hour limit, but as Larry questions the validity of losing his virginity to a prostitute, the game continues, although you are now allowed to TakeYourTime.
* ToiletHumour: Going to the bathroom almost always leads to HilarityEnsues. See also NobodyPoops.
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: In LSL 7, Larry can lick an ice statue and get his tongue stuck for a moment.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Larrys 2, 3 and 7 all begin with the woman Larry got together with at the end of the previous game deciding she doesn't like him any more and treating him quite badly. Justified with Eve, since Larry showed up at her house and moved in without her permission, which would probably freak out anybody in real life. But Kalalau first cheated on him [[LesYay with another woman]], then locked him out of their house and divorced him, all just because she wasn't satisfied with his performance in the bedroom. She never told him that she was unhappy before she did these things, and never tried to work things out. At the beginning of Larry 7, Shamara decides that the new age lifestyle isn't for her after all and what she really cares about is money. So she [[ChainedToABed ties Larry up]] and steals his wallet before walking out on him.
* TotemPoleTrench: LSL 1. Larry can meet a trenchcoat flasher on the sidewalk by the hotel. When you look at the flasher, the narrator comments that it's really a little person standing on the shoulders of another. They're both still flashers, though.
* TrialAndErrorGameplay: LSL 2. Whole sections of the game are designed around the premise that the player is SaveScumming.
* TrilogyCreep: Played with: Al Lowe wanted to end the series with Larry 3, hence the whole rigamarole with Larry 4.
* {{Trope2000}}: The Cybersniff 2000 in LSL 7.
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Appears in the cheerleader character's ending in ''Magna Cum Laude'', where her twin comes in from nowhere simply for this trope.
* {{UnInstallment}}: LSL 4
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Happens in LSL 6 and LSL 8.
* UnusualUserInterface: LSL 8 has the DialogueTree as a minigame where the player has to navigate around obstacles to reach the "right" conversation choice while the conversation goes on in the background.
* UnwinnableByDesign: Can happen in the first three games, though it is especially terrible in LSL 2.
* VideoGameRemake: The original game is a double-example, first remade from ''Softporn'' to ''Leisure Suit Larry'', and again with upgraded graphics and a [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] interface a few years later.
* VivaLasVegas: "Lost Wages", the setting of the original, complete with a quickie wedding chapel.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: The point of the setting of LSL 8.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: [[spoiler: To win the first game, you give Eve an apple to seduce her. Subtle.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Arguably the point of the optional "Ione(L[[hottip:*:esbian]])" storyline. (That or seeing Ione make out with Luba. Your call.)
* [[YouCantGetYeFlask You Can't Get Ye Flask]]: One of the most infamous cases is in LSL 2. You're supposed to make a bomb out of a hair lotion bottle and an airsick bag as the wick. You can't just type "bag", you have to refer it as ''"airsick bag"''. See more details on the trope page.
* ZipMode: In at least some of the games, double-clicking on an exit will make Larry walk at hyperspeed.
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