

Half the time, he seems only vaguely aware that he's a police officer, and even when he can remember that he doesn't seem to notice anything weird about the stuff they deal with. At one point, he comments that he's never understood the point of fire alarms, since surely alarming a fire would only make it more dangerous. As a man, his ability to put a coherent thought together hasn't improved much.


When he was a boy he wanted to be an astronaut until he realized astronauts have to go into space. "Dick Brickman here, reporting from here - the place I am - to you - wherever you are."."This is Twin Lakes FM featuring me, Dick Brickman, bringing you 'Dick Brickman Presents The Weather' with me, Dick Brickman.".Department of Redundancy Department: News anchor Dick Brickman's default mode of speech.Dark World: The Darkside, a dark and distorted version of the real world that lies beyond certain magical portals.Cryptic Conversation: Nearly everything Agent McScream says is this, and usually ominous as well as cryptic.There are also parodies of the standard legal disclaimers. The credit for Best Boy is followed by one for "Boy Who Was Just Okay" and another for "Best Cats". There's a credit for Gozer the Gozerian as "On-Set Extraplanar Entity". Credits Gag: The credits roll begins with credits for Francis McQueen as Detective Francis McQueen, Patrick Dooley as Officer Patrick Dooley, and "Vivian Moonman, very real actor" as "The Rest of the Cast".Being Dooley, his conspiracy theories are things like "the moon is fake" (not the moon landings, mind you - the moon itself), "Columbus faked the America landings" (he says there's no evidence America actually exists, and Twin Lakes is actually in a secret location in the Alps), "the government is pumping dihydrogen monoxide into our homes", and "the government is a mass hallucination caused by chemicals put in the water by the government". Conspiracy Theorist: Dooley has tendencies in this direction, and runs his own conspiracy blog.Comically Missing the Point: Several cases begin with Dooley calling McQueen to the scene of an occult event for trivial reasons, having completely failed to register the significance of, for instance, the fact that an eerie glowing green train just pulled in at the station.But Thou Must!: The game's settings screen includes a setting for "Police Corruption", which is "On" by default.Beard of Evil: As is traditional, the protagonist's Darkside counterpart has a goatee beard.At one point, a denizen of the Darkside visiting the normal world tells McQueen that she's scared out of her wits because there are no Giant Flyers swooping through the skies, nobody is being pursued by shadow-men, and "nothing, and I mean nothing is on fire!" Bad is Good and Good is Bad: A feature of the Darkside.
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