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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 over-run by tourists. Guybrush himself comments by saying: "Ozzie must have been real busy here".

Jambalaya's town hold's three businesses Planet Threepwood (a theme restaurant, parodying the Planet Hollywood chain), Starbuccaneer's, (parody of Starbucks) and a micro-groggery which also has a mechanical manatee ride. Stan has also started a new business on the island and it 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 decayed place where pirates are afraid to amass in great numbers (or at least groups of three) in the fears that Admiral Ricardo Luigi Pierre M’Benga Chang Nehru O’Hara Casaba the Third, the paranoid over-seer of Knuttin, might suspect them of conspiracy and fire a cannon-ball at them. Knuttin also houses a school which is supposed to train pirates into productive members of society.

Trivia

Also it is worth noting that 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.
This is the third time in the series where a player gets to use a rowboat.
Marco de Pollo, the world's plank-diving champion, is simultaneously named after the great explorer Marco Polo and also his name is a reference to the series of yells in which one person yells "marco" and the others answer by yelling "polo" (de Pollo even mentions children used to torment him by playing these tricks on him when he was younger).
The school on Knuttin Atol holds several in-jokes. For instance there is a magazine the cover of which is taken straight from the box-cover of The Curse of Monkey Island, a boat on wheels which is a reference to Micromachines and a collecting-card (showing LeChuck
as "LeChukichu
") made in the style of Pokémon
.

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