Jambalaya Island
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Jambalaya Island is the second new island visited in Escape from Monkey Island and supposedly the location of the pieces of an evil Voodoo talisman called The Ultimate Insult. However, when Guybrush and his crew arrive, they find that the island has been completely overrun by tourists. Guybrush himself comments, "Ozzie must have been real busy here".
Jambalaya's town holds three businesses Planet Threepwood (a theme restaurant parodying the Planet Hollywood chain that tributes Guybrush, with waitresses who, despite being dressed as Elaine, never recognize the real Guybrush), Starbuccaneer's (a parody of Starbucks), and a micro-groggery which also has a mechanical manatee ride. Stan has also started a new business on the island, which is home to (in the period of the game) the biggest artificial plank-dive in the world.
All the real pirates have been driven off the island to the neighboring Knuttin Atoll (an obvious pun on "nothing at all"). In great contrast to the lush and sunny island of Jambalaya, Knuttin is a dark and decaying place where pirates are afraid to amass in great numbers (or at least groups of three) for fear that Admiral Ricardo Luigi Pierre M'Benga Chang Nehru O'Hara Casaba the Third, the paranoid overseer of Knuttin, might suspect a conspiracy and fire a cannonball at them. Knuttin also houses a school which is supposed to train pirates into productive members of society.
[edit] Trivia
- The sign on one of the scenes on Jambalaya that has the island's name printed on it is an actual physical sign, which Guybrush can look at by traveling to the other end of the beach.
- The player must use a rowboat to reach Knuttin Atol. This is the third time in the series where the player gets to use a rowboat.
- Marco de Pollo, the world's plank-diving champion, is named after the great explorer Marco Polo and also makes reference to the pool game in which one person, blind, must attempt to tag other players, yells "marco" and the others answer by yelling "polo" to give up their position (de Pollo even mentions that children used to torment him by playing the game with him when he was younger; to pay them back, he bomb-dove into the pool, thus beginning his career).
- The school on Knuttin Atoll holds several in-jokes. For instance, there is a magazine whose cover is a reproduction of the box cover of The Curse of Monkey Island, a boat on wheels (from Hot Keels) which is in reference to Hot Wheels, and a collecting card (showing LeChuck as "LeChukichu") made in the style of Pokémon.
| Games: | The Secret of Monkey Island | LeChuck's Revenge | The Curse of Monkey Island | Escape from Monkey Island |
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| Characters: | Guybrush Threepwood | Elaine Marley | LeChuck | Ozzie Mandrill | Herman Toothrot | Voodoo Lady | Stan | Minor Characters |
| Islands: | Blood | Booty | Dinky | Jambalaya | Lucre | Mêlée | Monkey | Phatt | Plunder | Scabb | Skull |
| Various: | SCUMM | GrimE | iMuse | Insult swordfighting | List of Monkey Island topics |
