Mercer Mayer's Little Monster Private Eye in "The Smelly Mystery" (full playthrough!)
233My 500th (public) video upload!
This may very well be the longest video I ever uploaded: a complete playthrough of "The Smelly Mystery: Starring Little Monster Private Eye!" And yes, the secret identity of the Evil Smell Switcher in this is different from my "Let's Play" video and my YouTube Poop of this game (that's the beautiful part of the game!)
Watch as I help Sam Monster and his faithful Sean Connery-esque Kerploppus crack the case on who's been messing up the smells across Monsterville!
I apologize for the cursor being visible in the center during cutscenes; something was a bit screwed up with Parallels Desktop and my ScreenFlow capture software.
Here are all the parodies I could identify in this game, in order of appearance...
Pee-Wee Herman
The Batusi dance
Frankenstein
"Super Freak" by Rick James
"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
"Grease Lightning" (from the "Grease" motion picture)
Ed McMahon and the Publisher's Clearing House
The Wicked Witch of the West from "The Wizard of Oz"
Transformers
Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx
"Legs" by ZZ Top
Star Wars (probably "A New Hope")
"The X-Files"
"The Maltese Falcon" (complete with Peter Lorre caricature)
Diana Ross and the Supremes
"All in the Family"
"Dragnet"
Dracula
The theme song to "Laverne and Shirley"
The Beach Boys
The Bat-Signal from "Batman"
"The Candy Man" by Sammy Davis Jr.
"Anchors Aweigh (My Boy)"
"One Last Kiss" from "Bye Bye Birdie"
"You Don't Bring Me Flowers" by Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond
The Beatles
"Magnum P.I."
"Miami Vice"
"ABC" by the Jackson 5
"It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones
"Be Our Guest" from "Beauty and the Beast"
"I Feel Good" by James Brown
"Islands in the Stream" by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
"Close to You" by the Carpenters
"Walking in a Winter Wonderland"
"Reservoir Dogs" (I thought it was supposed to be "Pulp Fiction!")
"Every Breath You Take" by the Police
"Land Down Under" by Men At Work
"The Godfather"
"Rear Window"
The 1960s "Batman" TV series (and Sammy Davis Jr.)
Tarzan
"Star Trek" (1966 TV series)
Spider-Man (with parody of the 1960s theme!)
The Macarena
"New York, New York" by Frank Sinatra
"Mission: Impossible" (1966 TV series)
Superman (complete with parody of the 1978 movie theme!)
The Three Stooges
"Fire" by Jimi Hendrix
"For Your Eyes Only" by Sheena Easton
(Thanks to Jaheartsjonas and RetroToledo for identifying some of the parodies for me!)
There are also a ton of those old Hanna-Barbera sound effects throughout the game (think "The Flintstones," "Yogi Bear" or "Scooby-Doo.")
I then play the credits and the "Mugs" game featuring a Zipperump-a-Zoo!
"The Smelly Mystery" (C) 1997 Mercer Mayer, Big Tuna New Media and GT Software; FAIR USE!