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Clairvoyance, now with 100% more bacon.
Like the previous games, Psychonauts knows how to deliver the laughs.Pre-release
- The absurdly specific situation that necessitates the Psychonauts to be called in in the reveal trailer:Soldier: General, we've located the base where they're holding the hostages, sir!
General: Excellent. Mobilize the ground troops we have on standby.
Soldier: Sir, the base is on an island thirty miles offshore!
General: Then you'd better get the admiral on the phone.
Soldier: The surrounding waters are heavily mined for miles, sir!
General: Then send in the Air Force!
Soldier: Sir, the airspace around the island is patrolled by dirty bomb drones which are telepathically controlled by a comatose young girl who believes she is herding a flock of sheep, sir! - The first official trailer
features Ford in voice-over, jokingly expressing regret for making Raz into a Psychonaut.Ford: He was a big pain in the neck! But somebody messed up... and let him into the Psychonauts.
Raz: Uhh... that was you, Agent Cruller!- The trailer also includes Raz making sure Ford doesn't forget his having a canoeing badge alongside his immense acrobatic talent and powerful psychic abilities.
- On a meta-level, the crowdfunding backers were promised they'd get a free copy on the release date of August 25th. The game hit Steam late on August 24th... around eight o'clock CST. It's also pretty big, so it took roughly four to five hours to download. So the early backers technically did get their game on the 25th.
Post-release
- Anytime Raz gives his "WTF" face, a hilarious combination of nervousness and Squick.
- Crossing over between this and Heartwarming Moments, at multiple times in the game there are options for Raz to attempt to address the potentially romantic relationship between himself and Lili. For other dialogue options, Raz says the sentence exactly as written. These specific dialogue options, however, show that he's Emotionally Tongue-Tied, either pulling a Last-Second Word Swap or descending into Gibberish of Love. Luckily, Lili seems to somewhat understand what he's trying to say and always seems amused.
- Some of the first dialogue shown for the game via a production update has Raz continuing to misunderstand Sasha's points.Raz: Hey, look Sasha. I'm really sorry about what happened on the casino mission.
Sasha: We all make mistakes, Razputin. I just hope you've learned something from it.
Raz: Yes! That the odds always favor the house. Especially if the roulette wheel is a double-zero. - The first memory vault found in Loboto's mind depicts his time spent in the Rhombus of Ruin's undersea base. One slide shows him arriving, soaking wet and bags in hand, implying he swam to get there.
- Loboto's second memory vault containing what he personally remembers about the Rhombus of Ruin: The Psychonauts are dressed like a punk biker gang and comically wreck everything.
- And as a capstone to the whole twisted memory, it ends not with Loboto safely inside their plane like he was in reality, but literally tied with rope on the outside of the plane on one of the wings, like a deer carcass from a successful hunting trip while he's screaming for his life!
- During the Lady Luctopus heist, all the interns chip in utilizing their special talents to help Raz reach the penthouse. As for Sam, who Speaks Fluent Animal...
- While trying to get in, Raz encounters a Heavy Censor and asks it politely if it would mind letting him past. Naturally, it says "no." Raz asks if that's a no to his question or a no to his existence.
- Raz sits in on Sasha Nein's interrogation of Dr. Loboto, who is deflecting all questions as to who hired him. Raz asks if maybe Loboto really just hatched the scheme on his own. Sasha points out that it is not very possible:Sasha: He doesn't have any motivation.
Loboto: (sarcastically) Oh, hello, dad! - Sam should not be allowed around animals. Case in point, her constantly knocking on the fish tank because she thinks it helps keep up the fish's heartbeats!
- When Raz gets his first new power of the game, mental connection. Like before, Raz does the famous Item Get! pose when he gets a new merit badge. Only his fellow interns are wondering what he's doing on top of his desk.Lizzie: Uh, what are you doing, weirdo?!
- Raz first using mental connection on Agent Forsythe's thought bubbles about cilantro.
- At the end of Hollis' Classroom, you're supposed to connect the thought bubbles for "Risk" and "Money"... but before you do this, you can mess around with some others, including hearing Hollis' various thoughts on "Socks with Sandals". (Connect it to money, and she thinks it's rich people's way of showing off their expensive socks.)
- The casino is a full house of laughs!
- The sheer absurdity of how the various hospital rooms are transformed into casino attractions and how they work is sure to be a good prescription for humor!
- The maternity ward being the roulette room? Silly. The fact that a rich couple is literally playing roulette so they can have a baby? Darkly humorous. The fact that the wealthy couple wanted a baby for things like a tax write-off in its name or a pair of donatable kidneys just in case? Absolutely hilarious! Raz's reaction only sweetens it!
- The syringe-headed clerk for the Pillinko game.
- Afterwards, when Raz asks to play again, he pauses before he can say 'shot', and says 'chance', instead.
- The clerk for the Cardiology department has a urine sample cup for a head. After winning the gazillion-dollar grand prize, Raz looks suitably disgusted when she reaches into her own head to give him the token.
- When Raz faces the Lady Luctopus, he tries to re-enact Sasha against the Mega-Censor. The results may be different, but the outcome's the same.Raz: You are my own creation! I command you to stop!
(The Luctopus just laughs)
Raz: (aside) That sounded so much cooler when Sasha said it... - If you play the Pillinko game enough times, Hollis will comment on how taking this many pills can't be too good for you.
- The return of the Clairvoyance power also brings the return of the Clairvoyance gags from the first game. Examples include:
- One of the employees at the Motherlobe has "Baconmania", with his view obscured by strips of bacon. Combine that with every unnamed character seeing Raz as a kid running around after playing in the mud, and it looks like Raz is going bonkers for bacon as well.
- Unlike the other animals, who see Raz as a potential threat, Harold the Rat sees Raz as a fellow animal... which manifests as Raz wearing a goofy rat costume.
- Two of the bossy agents at the Motherlobe, Kim and Lori, see Raz as a cigarette vending machine and a coffee pot, respectively.
- After Raz gets hazed by having his clothes stolen, the other interns initially see Raz as an awkward kid running around in his long underwear.
- Milla no longer sees Raz as a baby, but instead as a capable fellow agent... but since she's stuck in the 60s/70s she sees him dressed like Austin Powers.
- Dion, who still nurses a grudge against Raz for running away, sees him as a literal punching bag.
- The nurses running the games in "Hollis' Hot Streak" see Raz as a lollipop, brilliantly referencing both lollipops offered to children at the doctor and him being a "sucker" to get gambling money from.
- PSI King/Helmut Fullbear sees Raz as Eddie Riggs.
- Cassie O'Pia (and consequently her Writer Archetype) sees Raz as a fan of her book Mindswarm, eagerly asking for an autograph.
- In the post-game, Truman has apparently picked up quickly on Raz's crush on Lili, as he sees Raz an awkwardly-grinning prom date wearing a baby-blue tuxedo.
- Apparently the Aquato family originally hails from another country, called Grulovia.
- Hollis Forsythe does really NOT like to be called the Lesser Head of the Psychonauts despite that being her official title. It goes so far that she has crossed out that part on her ID card and replaced it with "Second!" Yes, she wrote it with an exclamation mark.
- With the way Hollis Forsythe says it, you would expect her being sarcastic when she says "You'll love Nick. Everybody does." about Nick Johnsmith, the non-psychic mailman Raz will have to be the intern for. Later on it turns out that both Hollis and Coach Oleander are utterly shocked and appalled to find Nick de-brained. She was completely honest.
- The introduction of Raz's family is incredibly endearing with most members of the family making a very impressive human pyramid while Nona (the grandmother) is just politely standing at the sidelines and clapping with clear pride and joy.
- Raz's siblings briefly test his acrobatic skills, commenting on how he's less limber and has had some muscle loss... despite only being gone for a few days at most, and keeping up with the spontaneous act without missing a beat. The funniest part is at the end, where his two younger siblings grab him and stretch him out... so that his grandma can use him as a jump rope.
- Did we mention yet that Raz's mom has an embarrassing nickname for him? Poor guy has to live with his fellow interns hearing his mom call him "my little Pootie".
- Not just her, but his Grandma does it too! Poor Raz would probably die of embarrassment if he could, given that said demonstration happened right in front of the other interns and Hollis Forsythe, and the poor kid is reduced to crawling away on his hands and knees to surreptitiously escape the area.
- Worse, Raz's siblings call him "Pooter"... which Lizzie, one of the interns, picks up on, since she starts calling him that as well.
- And of course, players of the original get to hear the triumphant return of the Meat Circus in the soundtrack, albeit with less, well, meat.
- Augustus can be found later in the forest practicing Pyrokinesis with Norma, of all people. Raz tells him to focus on the hottest thing he can think of, to which Augustus replies that he's thinking of Raz's mother.
- Augustus also asks about Lili—and Raz tries to shush him, while Norma gains a delighted, evil grin.Augustus: Just tell her how you feel, son.
Norma, all too sweetly: Tell us all how you feel. - Raz brings up Frazie, says it rhymes with lazy—and then freezes, looking around for a pine cone to come flying from nowhere. It doesn't... until after Augustus and Raz agree they should wait for Frazie to be ready to talk about being psychic herself.Razputin: ...yeah, I had that one coming.
- Augustus also asks about Lili—and Raz tries to shush him, while Norma gains a delighted, evil grin.
- Speaking of Frazie, she is the embodiment of good-hearted Sibling Rivalry with Raz. She's still angry with him for running away, but her conversations with her brother are a bundle of laughs.
- When he's first approaching the Questionable Area?, this happens:(Raz is hit in the head with a pine cone)
Frazie: Whoops! Sorry, little brother! I thought you were a rabid squirrel!
Raz: Knock it off, Frazie.
(Frazie laughs)
Raz: I'm going to tell Mom you hit me with a rock.
Frazie: It was a pine cone, you baby. (hits him with a rock)
Raz: Ow!
Frazie: That was a rock. - You can find Frazie atop the hill that the Funiculars go to, as well as Queepie later. Apparently Raz isn't the only one to like Funiculars.
- Raz can ask how Sugarcube (the pony he rode to Whispering Rock in the first game) is doing. Frazie very seriously informs him that she is recovering in an undisclosed location and does not want to talk to Raz.
- Every character has a post-conversation sign-off, depending on the situation. Frazie's is a cheerful wave and a very bright "Later, Traitor!"
- When he's first approaching the Questionable Area?, this happens:
- Raz has a lot of Deadpan Snarker commentary on the various "attractions?" of the Questionable Area, especially the cave of the Sassclops and the blatant misunderstandings of Psitanium. He isn't surprised the place went out of business.
- Enter one side of the restrooms in the Questionable Area?, and Raz will comment on how disgusting they are. Enter the other side afterwards, and Raz will remark that it's even worse.
- Otto introduces Raz to the "Brain-Frame":Otto: One day my brain will live here! ...And yours too.
Raz: What?!
Otto: (in a sing-song voice) Should have read that NDA more careful-ly~!note - Gristol's (in Truman's body) WTF reaction when Raz informs him that he needs bacon to get Ford.
- The first time Raz goes to meet Agent Boole, he encounters the desk clerk for the Psychoisolation area, Terryl. Except it's preeeetty clear that, being nearly just as isolated as Agent Boole, she's definitely a bit on the... quirky side. Most of her dialogue conversations straddle the line between awkward and funny by just how borderline out of it she is, with Raz' facial expressions only selling it further. It's strongly hinted she's assigned to the isolation chamber because she's a Talkative Loon.
- The first time Raz enters the diner and finds Sam in the kitchen. What follows has to be seen to be believed! Sam has a multitude of animals around her and a squirrel dubbed Fur Lancelot delivers acorns except Sam expected crushed acorns. So she berates Fur Lancelot in an over-the-top manner while the other cute woodland critters cower in fear! And finally, Sam sends the squirrel away before casually apologizing Raz for that little display. And Raz frozen with an utterly gobsmacked look ties it all together in a nice freaked-out bow!
- Then there's this gem in the Diner.Raz: (nervously) Where'd you get the milk?
Sam: (stares at him)
Raz: From the goats?
Sam: ...Oh. Yeah. That would've been easier.
Blue Jay: (angry tweeting)
Sam: Hey, it brought us closer, Fran! - And this.Raz: Where'd you learn how to make pancakes?
Sam: (promptly; while giving Raz a wide-eyed stare) Prison.
Raz: (looks shocked)
Sam: ...Wait, what did I say? I meant from my mother. - Sam gets...for lack of a better word, creative in her choice of ingredients. Even for the eggs, she uses some bird eggs she found in the woods, complete with the nest! (And it's implied she uses snake eggs too!)
- In case you're wondering, Sam is making pancakes because Oleander told her to get him some. And she thinks it is all some complex lesson! Uh-huh, sure it is...Sam: I think it's supposed to teach me something about the many layers of the mind. Maybe. I know the butter stands for lateral thinking. I know that much.
- Turns out he actually wants them as reentry plating for his death robot.
- In case you're wondering, Sam is making pancakes because Oleander told her to get him some. And she thinks it is all some complex lesson! Uh-huh, sure it is...
- This exchange:Raz: I'm a friend of your brother's!
Sam: Hmm...Your head looks remarkably unexploded. Must be the helmet.
Raz: Has your brother Dogen really made someone's head explode?
Sam: No! Never! Wait, you mean someone who didn't deserve it?
Raz: No! like, anybody!
Sam: Look, pobody's nerfect. Amiright?
- Then there's this gem in the Diner.
- Like in the first game, the various NPCs have their own arcs in the background, relocating after every level and getting new and hilarious dialogue. For instance, there's a moment where you can encounter two agents in the lobby, who want a conversation away from prying eyes... to discuss the surprise party they're throwing for Sherri's husband. He deserves the best surprise party, after all, he was so understanding about their affair...
- Whenever you finish one of Ford's split personalities sections, something funny usually happens like the person getting their hair done now having an odd hair colour or Raz materializing on top of a innocent bowler complete with bowling pin sound effect when she's knocked over.
- Raz's summary of one of the chain of quests to get into the bowling alley.I'm off to the Forgetful Forest to get a bee for Agent Boole. This is a serious mission, no matter how adorable it sounds.
- During the last section of the Vision shrine in the PSI-King’s mind, you’re able to shine the spotlights into the eye of the Vision statue. Vision isn’t too pleased with it.Vision: Yes, yes. Very bright. Unlike you.
- Going to the campgrounds in the PSI-King's mind to look for Dr. Touch and Audie has him tell Raz they used to get high there. Raz assumes that means they liked climbing the mountain. Turns out, that's exactly what he meant.PSI-King: The view up there is amazing!
- Talking to Dr. Touch in the PSI-King's Sensorium after returning him, but not the other senses, leads to this conversation:Raz: Are you worried that the name "Dr. Touch" sounds... creepy?
Dr. Touch: Do you think I should go back to "Organ Master"?
Raz: No.
Dr. Touch: Finger Fiend?
Raz: No.
Dr. Touch: Flesh Friend?
Raz: Stop. - There's a bit of meta-humour in the PSI-King's song after he regains his senses. It was shown during trailers, and most assumed it was a metaphor for his recovery from his comatose state. Once you actually play the level, you'll realize every lyric in the song is 100% literal. He really was lost at the bottom of a frozen lake, the senses in the song are actual characters, and they literally unlock his last memory vault.
- "Compton's Cook-Off". Just the fact that there's a level that is basically a cheesy cooking show, complete with ad-breaks. Not only that, Raz has to gather the ingredients by using the audience members who are living food! And they want it to happen!
- For added dark hilarity, the chopping machine is a pig named Pork Chopper, and you do end up having to bring a pig to be chopped as an ingredient, even as Pork Chopper voices growing unease with this. And then it turns out the pig he has to chop up is his grandson, who's absolutely thrilled to be turned into food by his famous grandfather. The cherry on top? Pork Chopper was perfectly okay with it afterwards!
- After the Gluttonous Goats (who represents Compton's harsh inner critics) devour each dish, Faun Cruller provides some vaguely complementary response like "Slightly better than a mouthful of nails," and "Moderately pleasant."
- Strike City is another Black Comedy gem, with a city of germs in a bowling shoe gleefully awaiting the apocalypse in the form of a can of disinfectant spray. For added hilarity, you'll occasionally see sandwich board-wearing germs handing out conspiracy propaganda... who believe the world isn't going to end.
- A new power, "Mental Projection", has Raz summoning a "Raz Archetype", who is basically a paper version of himself that's a bit of a Manchild Cloudcuckoolander.Raz: S'up, clone.
Raz Archetype: Aw, that's cute! My clone thinks he's real.- It becomes much funnier when you realize the Archetype is voiced by Rikki Simons and has the same voice and personality as the last time he played the sidekick to a character voiced by Richard Horvitz. Tim Schafer and the Double Fine crew admitted they deliberately hired Simons as a wink to Invader Zim fans.
- Even better, there's a pin that muffles the Archetype. Not mutes, muffles, so it sounds like Raz got so annoyed with the Archetype's constant chatter he shoved an entire pillow into its mouth.
- It becomes much funnier when you realize the Archetype is voiced by Rikki Simons and has the same voice and personality as the last time he played the sidekick to a character voiced by Richard Horvitz. Tim Schafer and the Double Fine crew admitted they deliberately hired Simons as a wink to Invader Zim fans.
- The paper characters you can interact with inside Cassie's mind are actually quite funny to talk too, and includes: a knightly paladin and a dragon stuck in a eternal argument, someone who asks Raz to guess his name in order for him to release a child or possibly spin some golden straw, a conversation with a skeleton diagram, a dinosaur who is glum his book has become outdated and has been moved into the fiction section, and more.
- One of Raz's attempts to defuse the situation between the knight and the dragon is to get them to focus on things they have in common, like a shared love of pizza. The knight likes pepperoni on his pie, while the dragon is partial to half ham and pineapple... and half maidens and cheese; you can probably guess which half causes the knight to affirm that the dragon is a heartless evil monster after all. note
- On returning to Cassie's mind later on, the knight is nowhere to be seen. There is, however, a small pile of ash and bits of helmet where he used to be standing. The dragon denies the obvious.Raz: Is that the knight?
Dragon: Does it look like a knight? - In one area, there is a diagram of a sphere. If you talk to it, it will excitedly point out that it has a segment missing, prompting Raz to solve for the missing amount. The 10 year old Raz, without even a beat, delivers a flat no.
- There's a representation of Lili in Bob Zanotto's head. Raz is at first confused, because Lili's never met her great uncle, but the representation explains that Truman wrote letters and sent a lot of pictures.Raz: I'm guessing he's never heard your voice though.
Lili: (in a voice more suited to an adult woman) No. How'd you know?
Raz: Just a hunch.- There's also something hilarious and tearjerking about how Bob remembers Truman.
- Well, it's not the only thing he remembers.Truman: Firing people makes me feel like a big man.
- When Nona reunites with the rest of the Psychic Six, she ends up casually admitting to everyone how she and Cruller used to fool around on the bean bags. Cue Cruller looking around nervously in embarrassment.
- Ford and Raz enter Nona's mind... to find a flea circus. A literal flea circus, where all the fleas are wearing masks of Raz's family. The squeaky-voiced fleas provide a lot of comedy, from Raz accidentally squishing his counterpart and having to take his place, to Flea-Augustus dismissing Flea-Frazie's worries about accidentally cutting off his leg by insisting it grew back.
- The quilted area of Nona's mindscape is mostly heartwarming... but Nona insists on showing Ford around by picking him up and jumping for great distances. The poor man screams and flails every time it happens... and Nona enjoys every second of it.Raz: Guess you learn a thing or two when you live with fleas.
- Raz learns that it was Nona who gave him the brochure for Whispering Rock Summer Camp. Nona elaborates:Nona: Well, it was either you or Frazie, but you were such a nerd with those comic books...
- As Ford and Raz prepare for what seems like the final battle, Ford states his failure was because he "was young, scared, and alone", but now, he's "only one of those things." You can physically see Raz trying to figure out the statement.
- Right after Raz is ejected from Nona's mind, we get a cutscene of Sasha, Milla, and Hollis having a "Eureka!" Moment. Hollis exclaims "Jackpot!" before shaking her head and instead exclaiming "Bullseye!". It's a minor one but it's worth a chuckle.
- When Hollis, Zanotto, Norma and Lilli interrupt the seeming final battle with Maligula Norma sarcastically calls Nona Raz's girlfriend, at which point Lilli objects that she's Raz's girlfriend, causing Raz to become weak-kneed for a second.
- Gristol's mind. You'd expect an Overlord Jr. with ambitions to Take Over the World would have an utter nightmare of a mind, but instead, he quickly shows himself to be one of the most shallow people Raz has ever met; his Mental World, "Fatherland Follies", is a terribly cheesy Grulovia amusement attraction, complete with cardboard propaganda cutouts and an incessantly annoying theme song. There's even an Achievement/Trophy for finding and destroying all 3 speakers blaring the annoying music throughout the level! (And Raz gives out the biggest sigh of relief ever when smashing them.)
- One of the first things you see is a chalkboard that initially appears to be a Madness Mantra and crazed String Theory... and then it turns out to be acting tips, since he was pretending to be Truman Zanotto, and he was trying to train himself to not say his actual name or forget who Zanotto's daughter was when using the man as a Meat Puppet.
- This makes the ending of Rhombus of Ruin hilarious on a deeper level. "Truman" didn't flip out over Lili calling Raz her boyfriend because he's her dad and protective. That was Gristol freaking out because he hadn't figured Lili having a psychic boyfriend into his plans.
- Gristol's mind is such a torturous bore that even the local ride operators hate working in there. The beginning involving a You Must Be This Tall to Ride sequence features this gem:Lili: We're VIPs.
Ride Operator: Oh, does that stand for Vertically Impaired Preteens? - Followed by:Ride Operator: Come back when you're older.
Raz: How about now?
Ride Operator: When I said come back when you're older, I meant more than a minute older. - Then, after Raz manages to sabotage the size-measuring sign:Raz: Okay, we're older! Check us now!
Ride Operator: Oh, man! How long have I had this job? I gotta get outta here.- Keep in mind, Raz sabotages the sign right in front of the operator!
- After the events of the game, revisiting will have the ride operator just bored out of his skull because "the boss" isn't around anymore.
- Gristol, for all of his skills at manipulation and surprisingly capacity for planning, is shown to be nothing but a childish self-important manchild posturing as a powerful strong leader. Something that is almost immediately shattered when Lili beats him up using a doll of her father inside his own head. Yep, not joking. He lost his fight to a little girl beating him up with a doll (granted the doll had a metal case). So much for strength, eh Gristol?note
- The fact that the final confrontation against Gristol happens in a gift shop of dubious quality.Lili: (regarding her father's doll) Grr. Twenty. Five. Dollars? For this piece of crap?
- Even better is the fact that Raz, after getting captured by Gristol, threatens to get back at him by blasting all of his shop's stuff.
- The fact that the final confrontation against Gristol happens in a gift shop of dubious quality.
- One of the first things you see is a chalkboard that initially appears to be a Madness Mantra and crazed String Theory... and then it turns out to be acting tips, since he was pretending to be Truman Zanotto, and he was trying to train himself to not say his actual name or forget who Zanotto's daughter was when using the man as a Meat Puppet.
- While revisiting the maternity ward in Forsythe's mind, throwing a pen at the ward on the neon sign plays an animatic for an alternate opening where Raz has to give birth to a baby Dr. Loboto. This thing was done by none other than Pendleton Ward himself.Raz: (during the dream) Why don't I remember any of this?
Ford: (in clown makeup, carrying piglets) You wanna remember this?
Raz: No.- Even better is that Raz's reaction after it indicates that he's seen something like that in a dream and he's disgusted to have to witness it again.
- When Raz and the interns are upgraded to Junior Agents, Norma is upset about being a Junior Agent. Raz? "I'LL TAKE IT!".
- Hell, before that, during Hollis's speech, Raz looks at Sam (who didn't seem like she was all there ) taking his eyes off her but he performed a Double Take and when he did he saw her with a derpy smile.
- When revisiting PSI King's Sensorium, the Hand of Galochio now makes it seem like Raz is crowd surfing when he falls into the refreshments queue.
- Under the funiculars, this graffiti can be seen (which are "intern shenanigans", according to Tim Schafer). It seems that one of the interns had a bit of an issue with Sasha.
- A conversation with Coach Oleander establishes that aside from using them for peacekeeping rather than world domination and hopefully not using children's brains as parts, everything Coach did in the first game was actually completely in character for him. Building psychic weapons of mass destruction without government supervision is just something he does. Also, they moved his office to a janitor closet as punishment for the scheme. Raz feels this is too harsh.Raz: He hasn't tried to take over the world in days!
- Some of the post-game conversations are pretty hilarious:
- Lili will talk to you in nonsense to try to make her dad think he has brain damage.Truman: That's only going to be funny for a few more years. Enjoy it while you can.
- You can greet Lizzie warmly, and you can also... greet Norma. Raz is clearly still not happy with her meddling.Norma: Look, call me a snitch—
Raz and Lizzie: (simultaneously) Snitch. - Hollis casually comments about giving Gristol Malik to Sasha for experiments. when Raz acts appalled, she claims she just said "therapy" and denies anything to the contrary.
- You can return to Sasha's lab to find Loboto escaping. Loboto casually remarks that he needs to get back to Whispering Rock summer camp because he left his kid there, immediately disappearing into the fast travel tunnel network while Raz is still reeling from that information. Doubly funny as a Fandom Nod to the theory that Bobby Zilch is Loboto's son.Loboto: The green man told me to wait in the Brain Bumbler.
Raz: That's not the Brain Tumbler.
Loboto: Oh. I guess I'm escaping then. Bye! Please don't tell. You know I'm a reformed man. You were there! You saw me!
Raz: (skeptical) Hmmm.
Loboto: Plus, I need to get back to camp. I left my kid there!
Raz: Wait, WHAT? - Helmut makes an appearance as a brain in a ball—he's easily identified by a tiny version of his viking hat, perched comically (not on top of the ball) on top of the brain itself.
- Helmut and Bob are mounting an expedition to Grulovia to rescue Helmut's body.Helmut: And after that we're gonna buy a treadmill and rescue Bobby's body!
- Even Bob gets a chuckle out of that one.
- Helmut and Bob are mounting an expedition to Grulovia to rescue Helmut's body.
- Ford wants to take Nona to see Whispering Rock.Nona: He thinks if he gets me on a canoe at sunset that I won't be able to resist his advances.
Raz: Okay, that's enough!
Nona: He's right.
Raz: Okay! - You can find Gristol Malik imprisoned in the psychoisolation chamber, and he hasn't learned a thing.Gristol: Being gzar means never having to say you're gzorry.
- Lili will talk to you in nonsense to try to make her dad think he has brain damage.
- Raz's talk with debrained Nick after he finds Postman Ford in the mail room:Raz: Hey, Nick. You're senior staff, right?
Nick: Pony?
Raz: Can you help me get into the backroom? I need to talk to Agent Cruller.
Nick: Flat rate!
Raz: Look, Nick. I have a wild idea. Bear with me. If I get you a loaner brain, of equal or greater value to your own, then you help me get into the backroom. Plus, I'll bet the loaner brain will keep you safe from all this machinery.
Nick: First class!
Raz: I'm gonna take that as a yes! - In Cruller's Corespondence, there's a giant typewriter that you can type on. If, for some reason, you try to type curse words in it, it censors them with hashtags. The real kicker is that, somehow, AMONGUS is considered a curse worthy of censoring. Don't ask why someone would type that in to find it out in the first place.
- When Raz first meets Compton Boole down in the Psychoisolation Chamber, he's playing chess with Harold - and if his nickname of "Hairy Kasparov" is anything to go by, Harold's winning.
- If Raz asks Compton if he can help find the mole in the Psychonauts, he thinks that Raz is talking about the animal, and admits that their noses "give [him] the heebie-jeebies".
- Another person who gets confused by this is Loboto at the beginning of the game, when the Psychonauts discuss the subject.Loboto: (while looking at the squirrel in his lap) If you think this is a mole, then you're dumber than you look!
- Another person who gets confused by this is Loboto at the beginning of the game, when the Psychonauts discuss the subject.
- If Raz asks Compton if he can help find the mole in the Psychonauts, he thinks that Raz is talking about the animal, and admits that their noses "give [him] the heebie-jeebies".
- This line from Nurse Cherry after Raz enters the hospital in Hollis's psyche:Nurse Cherry: Oh my God, look at the size of that kid's head! Get him to radiology, stat!
- Sure enough, the next segment involves x-ray pictures of Raz - and he doesn't look too happy about being x-rayed...
- When Bowling Alley!Ford vanishes during the "Tomb of the Sharkogaphus" level, he still manages to get a perfect strike, complete with "You're a winner!" fanfare.
- After the game, Raz and Lili will lay out the events of 1, but Truman will dismiss the story about killer tanks piloted by camper brains, and say he's more concerned about the kissing that goes on at camp, correctly guessing Raz and Lili had a First Kiss there.Lili: Ew, Dad, gross!
