Unused Dialogue

This is a sub-page of Day of the Tentacle.

This game has a surprising amount of unused dialogue. It ranges from dialogue of characters doing things with objects they can never possess which can easily be triggered in debug mode, to dialogue that doesn't even exist in the scripts anymore with no clear use at all. Some more unused dialogue is listed on the main page and the Unused Scripts page, where appropriate.

This page is split into several categories to hopefully make it a bit easier to digest.

All offsets are relative to the file monster.sou. The subtitle of each piece of dialogue is taken from the games files, with the notable exception of the Unused Dialogue with no subtitles section.

Unused Object Dialogue#

Dialogue intended to play while doing specific interactions with specific inventory objects in the game.

Brush#

All three playable characters have dialogue for using the Brush with the Bucket. However, there is no way for Bernard or Laverne to get the Bucket.

Disappearing Ink#

All three playable characters have dialogue for using the Disappearing Ink with the Hamster. However, there is no way for Hoagie to get the Hamster.

Crowbar#

All three playable characters have dialogue for using the Crowbar with any other object. However, there is no way for Hoagie or Laverne to get the Crowbar.

Unused Room Dialogue#

Lots of dialogue intended to play while doing specific interactions in specific rooms of the game.

Field#

Ben Franklin has more dialogue chastising Hoagie for failing to push the Kite at the correct time, but it never plays. Pushing the kite early triggers the cutscene of Ben trying to teach Hoagie how the experiment works again.

Dialogue for interacting with the Kite or Kite Pocket. These objects are only seen during the Kite pushing sequence, which overrides almost any interaction except pushing the Kite with a short cutscene of Hoagie failing to push the Kite.

Congress#

Dialogue for interacting with the Fire. The Fire object is set to the wrong state, so trying to do anything but look at the Fire will result in Hoagie looking to the right and saying "I can't reach it." This can be fixed in ScummVM by running the command 'object 91 state 1' after Thomas Jefferson builds the fire.

Dialogue that should play when using the Disappearing Ink on George Washington, but immediately gets interrupted by Hoagie saying "Excuse me."

Dialogue for using the Cigar on George Washington after he's already smoked a Cigar. This impossible as the Cigar object is removed from your inventory as soon as he smokes the first one, and there's no way to obtain another.

George Washington's Room#

There is some dialogue set up on the Maid intended for using the Disappearing Ink on her but it isn't set up to trigger correctly, resulting in a default response.

Ned and Jed's Room#

Hoagie has some unused dialogue for interacting with Ned or Jed Edison. This dialogue appears to be fully set-up in the script, but no object or verb seems to trigger it. The second bit of dialogue would depend on who is currently working on the statue.

Attic (past)#

Dialogue for interacting with the Squeaky Mattress after Hoagie has already moved it from Ned's Bed over to Jed's Bed. This line is actually set up to be triggered on an item called Ned's Squeaky Mattress, which is hidden as soon as the mattress-moving cutscene is over.

Lobby (present)#

Dialogue for looking at the Dark Passage inside the Grandfather Clock that leads to the Secret Lab before Bernard knows what's in there. A script forces Bernard to go through the passage into the Secret Lab as soon as it's opened, which replaces the dialogue with "Something tells me it leads to the lab."

Office#

Dialogue for trying to pick up the Contract when the Safe is closed, while Dr. Fred is opening and closing the safe. The timing involved makes this an impossible task.

Dialogue for looking at the Safe when it's open. However, this line never plays because there are actually 2 copies of the Safe object. The Safe object that can actually be opened by the player uses the lines "It's empty." and "There's a contract in it." instead.

There is some dialogue set up on Dr. Fred intended for using the Shrunken Sweater on him, but it isn't set up to trigger correctly, resulting in a default response.

Convention Hall#

Dialogue intended to be triggered when looking at the Vat of Teeth while the chattering teeth are still in it. This is impossible as getting anywhere near the Vat of Teeth causes the Chattering Teeth to escape before the line can be spoken.

Parking Lot#

Dialogue for using the Keys on the Car which is interrupted by another script which makes Bernard say "It's not my car."

Secret Lab (present)#

Dialogue for using Coffee or Decaf Coffee on the Mug which Dr. Fred drops and smashes after filling it with Decaf Coffee. This is impossible as the Mug object is hidden after you first pour Decaf Coffee into it.

Dialogue that would play if you attempt to pour Coffee into the funnel in Dr. Fred's mouth after you've already poured Coffee into the Funnel in his mouth. This is impossible as the Funnel object is hidden after you first pour Coffee into it.

Dialogue that would play if you ask Dr. Fred “How much could it possibly cost?” about the Diamond a second time. This is impossible as the dialogue option is removed permanently after the first time you select it.

Copy Protection#

Bernard and Dr. Fred have some lines about how the Battery Plans need to be corrected. These lines are part of the copy protection script used in the original floppy disk version of the game. Which is kinda funny because that version of the game doesn't even use recorded dialogue past the very beginning of the game, so these are never used anywhere. You can force the copy protection script to run in ScummVM by running Script 203 while looking at the Battery Plans (Room 65).

Laundry Room (present)#

There is some dialogue set up on the Dryer intended for using the Shrunken Sweater on it, but it isn't set up to trigger correctly, resulting in a default response.

Honeymoon Suite#

There is some dialogue set up on the Sleeping Conventioneer (while he's on the floor) intended for using the Disappearing Ink on him, but it isn't set up to trigger correctly, resulting in no dialogue playing.

Green Tentacle's Room#

The three-headed creature you play as during the finale has some dialogue for pushing the Speaker over when revisiting Green Tentacle's Room, but it seems to be overridden by the line "No time for that now."

Weird Ed's Room#

All three playable characters have dialogue for using the Maniac Mansion Computer. Unfortunately, there is no way for Hoagie or Laverne to get to the computer.

Attic (present)#

Dialogue for using the Rope on Dr. Fred while it's not in the player's inventory. This is impossible as the Dr. Fred object only becomes unhidden once the rope has been picked up.

Dialogue for trying to swap Dr. Fred with Ted once the puzzle in the attic is already solved. This is impossible as the moveable Dr. Fred/Ted objects are all hidden once the puzzle is solved.

Laundry Room (future)#

Dialogue for using the Sweater (while it's not shrunken) in the Dryer (in the future) on the Cold Wet Hamster as Bernard. There is no way for Bernard to interact with either of these objects in these states.

Kitchen (future)#

Dialogue for trying to use the Hub Cap in the Recyclatron when it's not in the player's inventory.

Seventies Room#

There is some dialogue set up on Ted (the Mummy) intended for using the Shrunken Sweater on him, but it isn't set up to trigger correctly, resulting in a default response.

Roof (future)#

Dialogue for interacting with the crank and/or crankbox, which doesn't seem to trigger when using any object or verb with either of them.

Dialogue for doing an unknown interaction with the crank once it's "stuck". The first line would play if you're wearing the Tentacle Costume, otherwise the second line would play. These both seem to be overridden by the "It's stuck." line.

Human Show#

Dialogue that would play if you attempt to use the Fork on the Mummy's Head after you've already styled his hair. This is impossible as the Mummy's Head object is hidden after you first use the Fork on it.

Secret Lab (future)#

Dialogue for using the Hamster on the Generator while the Hamster is in its default state. This is impossible as the only way to get it to Laverne is to freeze it. Then put it in a Microwave. Then give it a teeny tiny Sweater.

Dialogue for interacting with the Hamster while it's running on the Generator. This is impossible as the Hamster object becomes hidden as soon as the Generator starts up.

Dialogue for using some object on the Junk In Boxes. No object or verb triggers this response anymore. Clues in the game scripts reveal it was some kind of metal object (using it with the microwave would trigger the line "It's bad to put metal in a microwave." It's possible this "entry point" was intended for the Trophy, which has no default Use script at all.

Generic Unused Dialogue#

Dialogue intended to play while doing interactions with various generic objects in the game, such as the Chron-O-John.

Chron-O-John#

All three playable characters have dialogue that seems to be intended to play when putting an object in the Chron-O-John Toilet when it's already got an object in it. Attempting to do this in the game simply results in the character taking out the current object and then putting the new object in there, without playing the dialogue.

Other#

All three playable characters have dialogue for trying to use objects that aren't in their inventory, but none of the objects in the Future meet this criteria.

All three playable characters have dialogue for attempting to open locked doors, but none of the doors in the Future are locked. Technically, neither are any of the doors in the Past, but the line is also used for the Outhouses.

Unused Dialogue With No Subtitles#

Dialogue with no scripts or subtitles remaining in the games files. It's pretty obvious what most of them are intended for, whilst some of them are a bit more mysterious.

Intro Cutscene#

Unused dialogue stored amongst Green and Purple Tentacle's initial conversation at the start of the game. Maybe Green would have said this in response to Purple's "Mmmm... I'm thirsty!" line.

Kitchen (past)#

Unused dialogue describing the Water Pump. Most likely dropped for being duller than Hoagie's default fallback line.

Attic (past)#

Unused dialogue stored amongst the Mattress dialogue which seems most likely to have been intended for interacting with the Squeaky Mattress after Hoagie has already moved it from Ned's Bed over to Jed's Bed.

Lobby (present)#

Unused dialogue stored amongst the Lobby dialogue. It seems to have been replaced with the line "Hoagie's got that part of the house.", perhaps because it was too similar to the used "Laverne's covering that territory." line.

Convention Hall#

A sound of a man laughing stored amongst the Cigar Salesman dialogue which seems most likely to have been intended for when the Cigar Salesman laughs at Bernard. This is actually a stock sound effect from the Cartoon Trax Volume 1 sound effects library, and can be heard in numerous animated films such as The Jungle Book and Song of the South.

Secret Lab (present)#

Unused dialogue stored amongst the Secret Lab dialogue which seems most likely to have been intended for telling the player they got the Copy Protection segment wrong.

Time Vortex#

Purple Tentacle has some unused dialogue placed right between his used dialogue of "Hahahahahaha..." and "DIE! HAHAHA! DIE!...", possibly suggesting it was originally meant to play during the same cutscene.

Laundry Room (present)#

Unused dialogue stored amongst the Laundry Room dialogue which seems most likely to have originally been for the Shrunken Sweater. The Shrunken Sweater curiously has no dialogue associated with it when looking at it as Bernard or Hoagie, despite being a valid object they can receive.

Another piece of dialogue from the Laundry Room. This one seems to be for attempting to push the Dryer. Interestingly, the clip's sample rate is set to 22222 Hz, even though the audio itself appears to have been encoded at 176400 Hz. The version uploaded here has been speed-corrected in audio-editing software to match the playback rate of the game's other dialogue.

Lobby (future)#

A rather long bit of dialogue of the Grandfather Clock Guard responding to the question "Has anybody ever escaped from this place?". It's stored right next to, and is exactly the same as the used dialogue, except it's just one sound file instead of being split into two. It's also the only piece of dialogue in the entire game without an associated VCTL (lip sync data) file.

Seventies Room#

This dialogue is near text relating to Ted (the Mummy). Laverne does say "Oh well." during this conversation, but it appears to be a different take. Interestingly, the clip's sample rate is set to 22222 Hz, even though the audio itself appears to have been encoded at 176400 Hz. The version uploaded here has been speed-corrected in audio-editing software to match the playback rate of the game's other dialogue.

Kennel#

Dialogue that may have been intended for using the Disappearing Ink on the Kennel Guard while not wearing the Tentacle Costume. It's impossible to reach the Kennel Guard in that state, but if you do so with debug commands nothing happens at all rather than the default "Not funny enough." response.

Partially Unused Dialogue#

A few pieces of used dialogue in this game are set to cut off before they play out in full, rendering them partially unused.

Attic (past)#

Hoagie's short grunts uttered while he moves the Mattress are actually a bit longer. Only about half of each of these files is played before being interrupted by the next one.

War Room#

Old Purple Tentacle keeps interrupting his Lieutenant, so we hear only roughly the first syllable of each of these.

Time Vortex#

Purple laughs for a longer time than is actually heard in-game. Only about half of this file is played before being interrupted by the next bit of dialogue.