History VideoGame / LeisureSuitLarry

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: [[spoiler: To win the first game, you give Eve an apple to seduce her. Subtle.]]

* 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...
** Use the lotion bottle together with the resort pamphlet in the bathroom in Larry 6 to make Larry do this. It results in Larry literally dying of embarrassment, as the entire cast of the game then marches up to catch him in the act
** ''Magna Cum Laude'' contains a masturbation minigame where success boosts Larry's confidence, allowing him to interact with certain female characters in the game.

* 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.

** [[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.

* BondJamesBond: Larry usually introduces himself as "Larry; Larry Laffer". When the games get voiced, he does a short chuckle for the semicolon.

* [[EasilyAngeredShopkeeper Easily Angered]] [[AsianStoreOwner Asian Shopkeeper]]: Shoplifters will be ''shot''.

** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards'', you can die by...

** And in the sequel, ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry goes Looking For Love (In Several Wrong Places)'', you can die by...

** 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.

* 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.

* HideYourChildren: Because of the adult overtones of the games, there are no children seen. It is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Ken in LSL 7:

* 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.

* PlayingToTheFetishes: Shows up in many of the games, but most blatantly in LSL 7 and 8.

* 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.

* 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.

** There's also the bamboo forest in ''[=LSL3=]''. Similar to the desert in ''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.

* {{Trope2000}}: The Cybersniff 2000 in LSL 7.

* UnInstallment: ''Leisure Suit Larry 4'' does not exist. Although, this fact is a plot point in ''[[SpaceQuest Space Quest IV]]''.

-->'''Larry''': OK, we all saw AmericanPie, haha. [[WhoWritesThisCrap Let's get some fresh material.]]]

!!!For the trope previously known as The Leisure Suit Larry, please see CasanovaWannabe.

* [[TheRival Russell]] in LSL 8 after his makeover.

* ''Leisure Suit Larry : Magna Cum Laude'' (2004); First appearance of Larry Lovage. Developed by High Voltage Software.[[note]]Developers of ''TheConduit'', the ''HunterTheReckoning'' videogame and a truckload of {{Licensed Game}}s.[[/note]]

** Use the lotion bottle together with the resort pamphlet in the bathroom in Larry 6 [[easteregg to make Larry do this.]] It results in Larry literally dying of embarrassment, as the entire cast of the game then marches up to catch him in the act

* UngratefulBastard: Some women in series are this, like Fawn in the first game and Gammie in the sixth. Fawn is a golddigger who dumps Larry after getting a lot of gifts from him, and in this case "dumps" means "leaves him tied up in their hotel room after stealing all of his money". Gammie tells Larry she'll go to bed with him if he repairs the liposuction machine so she can lose weight. When he finally does so and gives her the perfect body she's wanted for so long, she wants nothing more to do with him and walks away without so much as a "thank you".

* ''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.

'''Larry's InternalMonologue''': "Our night of passionate lovemaking must've overheated the frame!"\\
'''Narrator''': [[DeadpanSnarker Yeeeah...]] [[SarcasmMode Riiiiight.]]

* UngratefulBastard: Some women in series are this, like Fawn in the first game and Gammie in the sixth. Fawn is a golddigger who dumps Larry after getting a lot of gifts from him, and in this case "dumps" means "leaves him tied up in their hotel room after stealing all of his money". Gammie tells Larry she'll go to bed with him if he repairs the liposuction machine so she can lose weight. When he finally does so and gives her the perfect body she's wanted for so long, she wants nothing to do with you and walks away without so much as a "thank you".

* UngratefulBastard: Some women in series is this, like Fawn in the first game and Gammie sixth. Fawn is a golddigger who dumps Larry after leeching him and Gammie leaves him after he cured her cellulose condition she have suffered with for years.
* UnInstallment: LSL 4

** In ''LeisureSuitLarry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards'', you can die by...

** And in the sequel, ''LeisureSuitLarry goes Looking For Love (In Several Wrong Places)'', you can die by...

* GuideDangIt: This can be (is?) a problem with LSL 2 and 3. ''Especially'' if you want to get the maximum of points.