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     Episode 1 - "Awake" 
  • Much to the fandom's relief, Chloe retains her signature cheek:
    Chloe: (looking at a dartboard in the "Firewalk" concert) Reminds me of how I make important life choices.
  • As Chloe tries to find a way to watch the Firewalk concert at the mill, she can strike up a conversation with Frank and it will immediately lead into Snark-to-Snark Combat.
    Chloe: Where do those stairs go?
    Frank: Uh, up?
    Chloe: Real helpful, Frank.
  • If you have Chloe open a certain drawer in her mom's bedroom, later, she will think:
    Chloe: And you never saw the condoms, Chloe. You never. Saw. The condoms.
  • Chloe's commentary on the newspaper report on the Blackwell tuition fee hike:
    Chloe: "This is Principal Ray Wells. Let me be emphatic. I have an enormous stick inserted into my butt. Thank you. Also, Chloe, you're poor and in trouble."
  • In David's garage, Chloe has the option to put graffiti on his toolbox. One of the options is to write 'Box of Dicks' on the lid, which David doesn't seem to notice.
  • At the end of a long social media thread about the picture of Rachel and Chloe at the Firewalk concert, Alyssa pipes up to comment on what an intelligent conversation it is.
  • While it's sad that David makes Chloe so miserable, their tense relationship does generate some quality snark on her part.
    • When Chloe first steps out of the house and sees David working on the car:
      Chloe: (inner monologue) What a piece of crap. The car too.
    • Immediately followed by:
      David: Why do you women always take forever to get ready?
      Chloe: We're hoping you men'll leave without us.
    • Followed up with:
      David: (wordlessly beckons Chloe over with an obnoxiously imperious gesture)
      Chloe: (inner monologue) "No, Mom, I swear he beat himself to death with a tire iron. Repeatedly."
    • David's car is listed on the interface as "Muscle Car." If you choose to make Chloe look at it:
    • Talking to David after he asks Chloe to bring the socket wrench set:
      Chloe: Where's the socket wrench set again? All I see in the garage are family stuff. You know. Not your stuff?
  • During Chloe's backtalk challenge with David, there's dialogue which can go:
    David: Watch your — I can crap bigger than you, got it?
    Chloe: Then I hope you're a better plumber than you are a mechanic.
    • Also:
      David: Your mother... you're breaking her heart!
      Chloe: At least she has a heart. All you have is... what's it called when you've got one pornstache and zero game?
    • And if you win the challenge:
      David: If you were a man, I'd...
      Chloe: It's cool. If YOU were a man I wouldn't go so easy on you either.
  • In the courtyard at Blackwell, Chloe can approach Evan, who will immediately go off on one about Wildfires. Optional dialogue can go:
    Chloe: Who says we should prevent fire? Fire is awesome.
    Evan: While I realize you're being purposefully obstructive, you raise a good point. Many parts of our local ecosystem benefit from fire. Knobcone pine cones, for example, which require temperatures above 350 degrees to open.
    Chloe: Say knobcone again.
  • Steph asks about Chloe and Rachel's relationship. Chloe can ask Steph what her interest in that came from, which prompts Mikey sing-songing, "Steph has a crush!" causing Steph to glare daggers at him. She then asks if Chloe wants to join their game.
  • If the player has Chloe play the tabletop game with Steph and Mikey, and has her get super into it, a backtalk sequence occurs where Chloe intimidates a prison guard so viciously that the prison guard dies of fear and the prisoners flee from Chloe's character once freed. Steph's looks of absolute horror are a delight to see.
    • In the same segment, Chloe has multiple opportunities for her character to go for a Groin Attack.
      Chloe: I wanna punch that stupid man-cow in the DICK!
      Steph: [concerned] Like, right in the dick?
      Chloe: [completely serious] Right. In. The dick!
    • If she did this before trying it on the campaign's boss, her fellow player points it out.
      Mikey: Chloe, you punch a lot of dicks.
      Chloe: So?
    • When Mikey and Chloe face off against the final boss Durgaron, having Chloe use Annihilation Strike on him will end up with her rolling a "1" which will result in her character tripping on a rock and slicing off Mikey's character's feet instead. Afterwards, she can either apologize to him or remark about how awesome the game is, with the latter response causing Mikey to lament about his dismembered feet.
  • If Chloe agrees to sign Evan's petition on wildfire awareness/prevention, she can choose to sign as her real name or between two joke names which are "Evanis Anne Assclown" and "Smokeweed D. Bear". Even funnier is that after Chloe signs it, you can see that two other people already signed it with the names "Principal Dicks" and "Big McHuge Balls".
  • Chloe writes in her diary that Max "loves photography more than life itself and definitely more than me."
  • In the Drama Club, there are several notes around the room that reference an ongoing conflict about Steph's missing pencils. As revealed by lead writer Zak Garriss during a playthrough with Eurogamer, if you head to the back of the room and look up at the ceiling in a specific spot, you can see that all of the pencils are actually stuck in the roof panels. According to Garriss, this was Hayden's way of pranking Steph.
  • If Chloe gave Rachel's belt to her while Rachel was changing and chooses the "Nice weather" prompt when on the train after they ditch school together:
  • Sabotaging Victoria's chemistry homework leads to this amusing text exchange later on:
    Victoria: CHLOE PRICE! Fluorine uranium carbon potassium uranium??? Think I don't that spells FUCKU on the periodic table? I got in trouble for that you carbon uranium nitrogen tin
    Victoria: Huh?
    Chloe: Tin is Sn
    Chloe: You're*
  • The scene where Chloe and Rachel are trying to steal the bottle of wine. Specifically:
    Chloe: This woman needs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, stat.
    Rachel: (quietly) Nnnnnnnooooo.
    Chloe: (smirking) Yup, definitely needs mouth-to-mouth.

     Episode 2 - "Brave New World" 
  • Chloe letting off steam after getting expelled or suspended by graffiting the entirety of the girls bathroom to make fun of everyone in her life. The expression on Victoria's face when she enters the bathroom makes it even better.
  • While the dream sequence itself counts as Nightmare Fuel, the text messages are what it lands it here or more specifically, the contacts on Chloe's phone. There's a message from Max, which is as creepy as usual, one from a raven, which simply says 'Caw' and a few from Shakespeare of all people.
  • When you get to Frank's trailer, it makes multiple reference to the infamous "Beans" scene; he has a cupboard full of them, there's a plate that's been dropped on the floor, if you successfully backtalk him, Chloe bribes him with an offer of beans at the diner and his icon in the backtalk challenge is even an open can of beans!
  • Also, in Frank's RV, you get to meet his dog as a puppy. In his search history on his laptop, there are questions asking when dogs could eat steak. If you look at his fridge, it's stocked to the top with steak (which appears to have been bought in bulk after going out of date, if the labels are anything to go by).
  • Chloe getting past Skip by claiming to be having girl trouble - and then switching to Gratuitous Spanish to describe it.
    Chloe: Seriously, my uterus is on fire, dude.
    Skip: W-what?
    Chloe: Is that, uh... descriptive enough?
    Chloe: En fuego utero, Skip! En fuego utero!!!
  • When you catch Victoria Chase trying to drug Rachel, you have the option of confronting her directly. When she denies it? Ask her to drink the drugged tea herself to prove her innocence. Her expression alone sells it.
  • Any time you interact with Mr Keaton, or even any time he's on the screen, he acts incredibly over the top and melodramatically and it. is. awesome.
  • If you do force or trick Victoria into drinking her own drugged tea, she'll faint exactly when the drama teacher melodramatically laments about what else could go wrong.
    Mr Keaton [after watching Victoria faint] Touche fate, touche.
    • If you chose to secretly switch the cups, Victoria has some incredibly amusing lines in her drugged-out-state.
      Victoria: Mr. Kreaton...I have revelations, to reveal. (...) I mean look at her, her face is so blurry, and pretty! Ugh, she's clearly been drugged. I mean, drugged herself. You just love drugs, don't you? (faints)
  • Rachel sidles up to Chloe and volunteers her to take over Juliet's place until she gets to the play. Mr. Keaton asks how Chloe felt if she knew the entire play rested on her "slender shoulders".
    Chloe: (glances at a passed out Victoria) I'd say you're super fucked.
  • Rachel then begs Chloe to do it for her, causing a Gilligan Cut with a grumpy Chloe decked out in her crow costume. Even better, it's the very costume she had earlier described as looking like "Big Bird's fugly cousin".
  • On the inside of the boat there's a post-it note reading, "Chloe, stand here" with a heart. No doubt written by Rachel.
  • In the middle of the emotional Tempest scene, which can be seen as Rachel and Chloe using Shakespeare to confess their feelings for each other, Chloe pauses after Rachel asks her to run away with her and a student yells at her to say yes.
  • When you enter Rachel's house to sneak some clothes out of her room her mom is cooking in the kitchen, Rachel gives Chloe some vague hand gestures. Chloe's response can be best summed up as sarcastic finger guns.
  • While in the Amber family's home, Chloe's uncomfortable and unaccustomed attitude towards the luxury around her is humorous. A particularly hilarious line is delivered if you interact with a painting near the dining table.
    Chloe: (GASP) Oh, I think that's an original whogivesashit!
  • The entire final scene of the episode consists of Chloe passive aggressively mocking Mr. Amber for his extra marital affair (culminating in a backtalk challenge where she's overt enough to make him defensive).

     Episode 3 - "Hell Is Empty" 
  • Right after the nightmare-inducing scene that is an onstage recreation of William getting run over by a truck, turning into Ludicrous Gibs, Victoria (who is in the audience) actually boos.
  • While in her room, Chloe can choose to "water" her plant. Choosing to do so results in her emptying the remainder of a soda can in the plant pot. In the choices-made summary post-episode, you'll be noted to have chosen to "kill the plant with soda". If you didn't interact with the plant whatsoever, it just dies of neglect instead.
  • The tabletop game returns, and Mikey's brother Drew gets drafted into it as an "arrogant gnome bard". The game gives you multiple chances to throw Drew's character under the bus. To protect Mikey's character from a barrage of spears, one option Chloe has is to "start swinging around the gnome's body, catching all the spears. He lets out a perfect F sharp with every impact."
    Mikey: That. Was sick!
    Drew: You're a monster!
    • Even better (in a clever bit of meta humor, since there's no way of knowing about the bard if you only go this route), if Durgaron survived the first episode's session, Drew will play him instead, and will be defeated by exploiting an injury which he suffered throwing said gnomish bard into the sea. Which is itself implied to be an in-universe Reality Subtext referencing an incident where Drew pushed a band kid into the swimming pool.

     Bonus Episode - "Farewell" 
  • Fittingly, the first thing Max does after picking up William's camera is to accidentally take a selfie.
  • Chloe and Max's outrageous pirate accents, at age 13/14 and especially at age 8 on the cassette tape. William's own as "Bloody Bill" is just the cherry on top.
  • Max gets smug about pushing all the furniture around in the attic, then hits her head. Ouch.
  • Chloe misinterprets Max's instructions to find the hidden treasure no matter what option the player chooses, because she either takes a step towards Max's 'left' or Chloe's 'right', prompting a frustrated Max to literally point it out to her.

Meta

  • Since Chloe lacks Max's time rewind ability, the game has no such mechanic. However, there's nothing stopping the players from simply pausing the game and pressing the "reload last checkpoint" button if they want to "rewind". It's even unintentionally encouraged due to the lack of loading when the last checkpoint is reloaded!

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