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The following is a list of famous items and things related to LucasArts' series of Monkey Island adventure games.

Rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle

This famous inventory item was first featured in The Secret of Monkey Island. It was used as a means of transport between Mêlée Island and Hook Island, which were connected by a cable. This item was later turned into a running gag in the games' fan community; the item also appears in Escape from Monkey Island.

The Sea Monkey

The Sea Monkey is the boat in which Herman Toothrot and his friend journeyed to Monkey Island. After Herman's friend accidentally hanged himself while setting up a swing, Herman trained a crew of monkeys to sail back to Mêlée island to get help. However, the monkeys sold the ship to Stan. In The Secret of Monkey Island, the player buys the ship and may also sink it to get an alternative ending to the game (which, in light of the fourth game, is now considered canon).

Big Whoop

Big Whoop was supposedly the greatest of pirate treasures. In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge Guybrush Threepwood sets off to find the missing map pieces that will lead him to Big Whoop. Exactly what Big Whoop is and where exactly it is located are never decisively explained. In The Curse of Monkey Island, LeChuck explains that Big Whoop is a gateway to Hell located on Monkey Island; when LeChuck passed through it, he became a ghost. Big Whoop is also the name of the Carnival of the Damned where Guybrush was trapped between MI2 and Curse of Monkey Island.

The name of the carnival itself is likely a reference to the fact that, although legends speak of it as the greatest of all pirate treasures, the secret of Big Whoop proves to be... hellishly disappointing.

However, as the later Monkey Island games, Curse of Monkey Island and Escape From Monkey Island, were not created by Ron Gilbert, the original writer, and he was not contacted about making the new games, many do not consider the events of the third and fourth games canon. In this sense, what Big Whoop truly is is yet to be explained.

The Ultimate Insult

The Ultimate Insult is a Voodoo Talisman that can dissolve the egos of even the mightiest pirates turning them in to cowards. The Talisman flings insults spoken in ancient forgotten language (the root-language or Monkey Jabber), insults which are so vile that they are capable of breaking the very soul of the victim. The Ultimate Insult is formed from three parts of which one looks like a golden man, the second like a silver monkey-head and the third like a bronze hat. In Escape from Monkey Island, Ozzie Mandrill is seeking the Insult in an attempt to gentrify the pirate-infested Caribbean.

Insult Games

Various contests incorporating insults are common in the Monkey Island games. In general, the players engage in some duel such as swordfighting or armwrestling, and fling insults at each other. In order to win, the player must respond to opponents' jabs with the correct counter-insult. (Insult swordfighting in SMI is the origin of the recurring quote "How appropriate, you fight like a cow." It is the counter-insult to the less famous "You fight like a dairy farmer.") In both SMI and CMI, the player has to learn the correct responses to a number of insults, but later must learn to match these counter-insults to a new set of insults. In CMI, swordfighting while at sea involves rhyming insults.

Monkey Kombat

An ancient sport simulating combat once practiced by the monkey tribes of Monkey Island, featured in Escape from Monkey Island. The combat works with similar principles of rock-paper-scissors where combatant move from one battle stance to another in order to beat each other. To move from one stance to another combatants must use the correct combinations of the four basic monkey-words: eep, oop, ack and chee. Repeating the same word thrice allows the combatant to remain in his current pose. In the game, which insults correspond to which stances and the order of stance precedence is randomized in every game.

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