Trivia / Tales of Monkey Island

• Acting for Two: There are a few actors who have voiced so many characters throughout the game.
  • Dominic Armato does both Guybrush (all five chapters) and the Pyrite Parrot of Petaluma (Chapters 1, 2, 4 and 5)
  • Kid Beyond (Andrew Chaikin) does Coronado De Cava (Chapter 3) and Bugeye (Chapters 3 and 5; as well as Joaquin D'Oro (Chapter 4), Murkel Trenchfoot (Chapters 2 and 4), McGillicutty (Chapter 2) and two of his crew members of the Spoon Isle Trio)
  • Brian Sommer does Killick Hardtack (Chapters 2 and 4) and Judge Grindstump (Chapters 4 and 5; as well as Marshall (Chapter 1), Rockrib (Chapters 1, 4 and 5), one unnamed Club 41 member (Chapter 1), and two members of McGillicutty's crew).
  • Adam Harrington does LeChuck (PC download version of Chapter 1) and Moose (Chapter 3)
  • Tim Talbot does Davey Nipperkin (Chapter 1) and Gaffer Crimpdigit (Chapters 1 and 4)
  • Roger Jackson does Winslow (Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5), the Club 41 bartender prior to Grindstump (Chapter 1), Hemlock McGee (Chapters 1 and 4), and Galeb (Chapter 5)
  • Alison Ewing does Bosun Krebbs (Chapters 1 and 4) and the Voodoo Lady (all five chapters)
  • Jared Emerson-Johnson does the Marquis De Singe (Chapters 1-4) and one member of McGillicutty's Spoon Isle Trio.
• Contest Winner Cameo: Lizink's Wig of Foppery, which Bailiff Killick Hardtack is compelled to wear after losing his case against Guybrush in Chapter 4, is named after the screen name of Liz Johnston, a native of British Columbia, Canada, and Telltale Games' winner of the "How Has Guybrush Wronged You Competition" in the "Game Designer for a Day" contest (which started on July 14, 2009, a week after the release of Chapter 1); her winning line, "He dug up my perfectly good X!", appears in Hardtack's accusation against Guybrush. Not only that, but her name also appears on the list of "Designer for a Day Finalists" in the end credits of Chapter 4.
• Development Gag: According to the commentary, episode 1's bar fight had to get trimmed down to an offscreen cutscene in order to fit the episode in the Wii's 40 MB size limit. As a result, the bar was named Club 41 as in the 41st MB of content.
• The Original Darrin: After being replaced in Escape, Alexandra Boyd is back as Elaine.
• The Other Darrin:
  • LeChuck. In episode 4, LeChuck's original voice actor Earl Boen returns as Demon LeChuck, while his new voice actor, Kevin Blackton, plays LeChuck in human form. It's a full-circle effect, sort of like what happened with Elaine: Demon LeChuck in episode 1 was originally played by actor Adam Harrington (who was replaced in later episodes), but Telltale rerecorded LeChuck's episode 1 dialogue with Boen for the DVD release.
  • Also, the voices for the Spoon Isle Trio (Pirates Bill, Ted, and Kevin) in Chapter 2 seem to have been rearranged in Chapter 5 somehow. For example, Pirate Bill (Swordfighter) seems a bit tough and rough-voiced in Chapter 2, while in Chapter 5 he sounds like a moderately low-pitched guy with pirate-speak. Also, Pirate Ted (Treasure Hunter) sounds like a bit of a Trenchfoot sound-alike in Chapter 2, but he now sounds like an Irish-accented dude in Chapter 5; and Pirate Kevin's (Thief) like a very tough dude with a British accent in Chapter 2, while in Chapter 5 he speaks like a redneck in a low-voiced Southern drawl. Different voice actors, perhaps?
  • And Joaquin D'Oro is voiced by David Boyll in Chapter 1, but in Chapter 4, he has a different voice actor: Andrew Chaikin (a.k.a. Kid Beyond).
  • Stan is played by Gavin Hammon, rather than Pat Pinney (Curse of Monkey Island) or Pat Fraley (Escape From Monkey Island).
• The Other Marty: LeChuck. Adam Harrington played his undead form in episode 1 of Tales, then Earl Boen (who had already been brought back for episodes 4 and 5) re-recorded over Harrington's lines in the DVD release of the game.
• Sequel Gap: Released 9 years after the previous installment and the first one not produced by LucasArts.
• What Could Have Been:
  • At one time there was going to be an extended backstory on Fisheyes Alabaster in Chapter 3—his life as a pirate, what happened to his eyesight, his later life afterward—according to the interview by Sean Vanaman, but Joe Pinney and the folks at Telltale Games didn't want to make it a bit gruesome, so they shortened out the backstory due to time constraints.
  • Before that, in Chapter 1, there was going to be a puzzle that would take place in Club 41 entirely in the dark for both the PC and Wiiware versions; but unfortunately, the latter version could only hold 40 megabytes, which the game already was (no wonder the place was called "Club 41" after the 41st megabyte).
  • Also, there was going to be a different ending to Chapter 4 in which Guybrush would absorb the Pox of LeChuck after curing everyone and become "Demonbrush Threepwood" according to the DVD concept art, but Telltale didn't want to do a good job in making him too epic-looking; otherwise, Chapter 4 wouldn't have been called "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood".
  • According to Telltale Games' Mark Darin, the Spoon Isle Trio from Chapter 2 were nondescript pirates who weren't intended to return in Chapter 5, but he needed more characters in the Crossroads "than our modeling budget allowed", so the trio was brought back, albeit with different voices than in Chapter 2.

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