Guybrush Threefoot
I know most of you won't care, but I thought this was kind of funny and wanted to share....
With all the Monkey Island going around our house lately, our 5 year old daughter has been humming the song, which I think is kind of cute. But what's funny is every now and then she'll mention the game or ask a question about it but when she does, she calls him "Guybrush Threefoot", despite us constantly trying to correct her. I just find it funny because the series has always had the running joke of other characters mispronouncing his name.
Any of you others with small children experience a similar thing?
With all the Monkey Island going around our house lately, our 5 year old daughter has been humming the song, which I think is kind of cute. But what's funny is every now and then she'll mention the game or ask a question about it but when she does, she calls him "Guybrush Threefoot", despite us constantly trying to correct her. I just find it funny because the series has always had the running joke of other characters mispronouncing his name.
Any of you others with small children experience a similar thing?
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Nope, no smaller children, although my mom once called him "Streepford" or something like that.
my friend does that to annoy me and one called him guybrush dickwood and thought they where cleaver
Somebody doesn't know their Monkey Trivia™. Guybrush's first name comes from the naming convention used by DPaint which gave files the extension of ".brush". The character was as yet unnamed so the original sprites were just saved as "guy". Put together this gives us "guy.brush".
His last name was just left down to a vote, so I doubt it came as a great surprise to any of them.
Oh, and very funny about your daughter. I don't have any children (yet, I'm only 21!!), and haven't really introduced the games to many people, definitely nobody that young.
Mostly true, but Wikipedia actually gets the details slightly wrong. For the obsessively detail-oriented among you: The DPaint extension for brush files was .bbm (remember that file extensions could only be three letters in those days). The file was named guybrush.bbm, but the "brush" was included by Steve Purcell, who did the drawing, rather than by DPaint itself.
I can die happy. :cool:
Oh, and you can consider Wikipedia officially correctified! ^_^
Sounds like you are going to need new friends
awesome scene
He didn't say where the name came from, but where he thinks the joke came from.
Well, if you don't use the amiga, you'll get that problem with file names..
The point is that "the team" was in on it from the beginning. "They" never "told the team who the main char is" as it were. The surname "Threepwood" was derived from the company contest...and/or Dave's RPG character. :cool:
It is possible that after the votes were tallied that people were still mispronouncing and/or forgetting the name of Threepwood, but it didn't come as some huge surprise to everyone.
The only reason I included the bit about his first name was because it was related to the discussion of where his name came from (which I was discussing in relation to the surname). And clearly that has been clarified/rectified by Dave.
thanks
My mind has been blown. Down is up. Black is white.
I need a lie down.
na its kool
Wait, are you serious? And here I could've sworn that down is white and up is black!! :eek:
Well he does already have 3 wet legs in his pants.
We jokingly agreed to call our first child Guybrush Threep Wood, or Guy Brush Threep Wood given that we were both huge fans of the games, and his surname was Wood.
Hate to correct you there Dave, but your memory is faulty... The Amiga never had any such extension limitations, that was DOS. The file extension for brush files in Deluxe Paint was actually .brush, not .bbm.
:P
If Dave says your name is Susan, then we will all call you Susie from now on and you will LIKE it!
You will be proud to tell people: "My name is Susan because Dave Grossman ****ing said so!"
Seriously though, it really doesn't matter if that tidbit is correct or not, because .brush is a Xerox Doodle extension, which I highly doubt they used in the development.
Also, it has sort of been taken as read that it was developed on an Amiga, since everything else at the time was, but I have never seen anything that explicitly stated it.