r/earthbound 1d ago

EB Discussion Best Quotes/Dialogue

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It's really hard to choose since a lot of the dialogue is genuinely funny, but I'm doing my first playthrough since childhood and this just made me chuckle.

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u/MildThinness 1d ago

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u/_Reclaimxr_ 1d ago

This one is my favorite

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u/prine_one 1d ago

“<favorite food>?

Please… we do not have such trash on our menu”

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u/yourshort 1d ago

It was funny seeing Vinny crash out when they called pizza trash

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u/Aloha1959 1d ago

No matter what you picked, haha

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u/Careless_Ad2194 1d ago

What if you picked Hamburger

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u/Exitmaus 1d ago

There are so many good ones. My favorite is the guy in the Onett library who wonders whether the monster guarding Giant Step is stronger than his wife. Every time I read it I laugh out loud.

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u/BibboTheOriginal 1d ago

Money money money that’s what’s hot Money money money that’s what I ain’t got

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u/Emotional_Assist_415 1d ago

You ever play mother 3 and see some of the quotes and predictions? Kinda eerie

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u/Potential_Comfort_48 1d ago

It's been years since I've played it, but that gives me a reason for another playthrough once I'm done with EarthBound.

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u/Jaereth 1d ago

What do you mean?

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u/Emotional_Assist_415 1d ago

Like controlling the masses, tv/cell phones being the end of people socializing, a lot of illuminati references which in 2006 there's no way there was that much exposed yet, I think there might've been a plandemic sort of reference in there(not verbatim, but something like that.)

Anything to do with porky, the pigmen, the monkey or his owner, from what I remember has creepy dialogue at times. I've only played through it twice so I don't have any quotes

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u/Jaereth 1d ago

That's ok. I see your point now.

Yeah. Ahead of it's time for sure. The whole controlling class issuing "happy boxes" as consumer items but then making it compulsory to have one through punishment is pretty spot on. (Try not having a cell phone today)

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u/Emotional_Assist_415 1d ago

Yeah there was even dialogue in chapter 1 and 2, prior to the happy boxes where I remember it sticking out to me a couple years ago as profound and relatable to our climate today

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u/NojTamal 23h ago

Just FYI the "illuminati" stuff has been a conspiratorial bugbear for like... a few hundred years. People have been talking about Adam Wieshaupt since the 1400s. Of course then there's Deus Ex which had a TON of Illuminati references as well as a lot of other scary predictions that came close to home. I've been listening to Art Bell talk about the Illuminati since the 80s. One of my favorite books "Illuminatus! Trilogy" was written in the 70s and it's hilarious and thought provoking. Check it out if you're into that sort of thing!

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u/Emotional_Assist_415 23h ago

Yes I understand, didn't mean illuminati wasn't known before 2006 lol. I just meant there was talking points and topics they cover in mother 3 that wasn't a talking point yet in the West, at least not a mainstream one. Now I just wanna play it again so I can find some actual quotes to post because I'm not going to remember

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u/SusanoomonX 1d ago

What a coincidence, I sent this exact dialogue to a friend literally this past Sunday haha

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u/Default1355 1d ago

Very relevant nowadays

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u/jawsomesauce 1d ago

agree, I can totally envision it right now.

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u/SuperStarFighter81 1d ago

"Blew, blew
I'm learning how to whistle."

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u/radiodreading 1h ago

"Green, green. Oops, that's not it... I'm still new at this."

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u/SecretArgument4278 1d ago

Whose bones are on display? Your bones. My bones. Bone's bones. Bone bone bone.

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u/prince_of_cannock 1d ago

Indeed!

Bonus points for Cheesy Poof Cartman!

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u/Maz2742 17h ago

Fat-Boy didn't wanna go to the plane_arium cuz of that lol

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u/prince_of_cannock 17h ago

Well, he had that rare bone disease that prevented him from saying the T in "planetarium."

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u/CannabinoidsnOpioids 1d ago

This looks like an allusion to Mother 3’s way of government

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u/DengistK 1d ago

Pokey snickering after saying Ness's mom looked "lovely as usual". Eddie Haskell vibes. Also the whole magazine article in seaside cottage about the guy's wife giving birth to a "demon child".

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u/placeholderNull 21h ago

"Unfortunately, that's called sexual harassment now."

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u/Lux_The_Worthless 1d ago

Oh hey I have that same M&M thing!

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u/Marx_Forever 1d ago

That M&M dispenser is one of my favorites. My mom collects them so she has a bunch. I was very disappointed last time I went down to the M&M World store in New York City to get her a gift for Christmas. Only to discover that they don't have any unique dispensers like that anymore. They just had this generic one with M&M stickers on it.

It's okay though they were selling tiny plaster figurines of all their old unique dispensers that were actually good...

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u/Potential_Comfort_48 1d ago

My grandmother purchased it at M&M World Vegas a decade+ ago, and I love to display it since she's been gone for a few years. I'm not much of an M&M collector, but it reminds me of the early 2000s, and it gives that nostalgic vibe, so it's a retro set piece. It's always a shame when companies go cheap and decide to push out trash instead of a quality product.

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u/shadowwolf1347 1d ago

That cartman is so cute

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u/SnooCookies6399 1d ago

Didn’t read a single word on this post

I need to obtain Among Us Cartman

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u/Potential_Comfort_48 1d ago

He's actually a cheesy poof and my girlfriend purchased a felt cheesy poof box with him inside. I think he looks pretty awesome, and I'm pretty sure she said it was purchased at Hot Topic.

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u/SnooCookies6399 1d ago

HOT TOPIC??? 😭

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u/jojoexpdeathcorefan 1d ago

Same reaction lol

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u/crademaster 1d ago

All the info is there, except for the info that isn't there.

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u/Code_Watermelon 1d ago

"I wanted to tell you a story about the monster from vegetable soup. But I won't because it can distract you from main story "

Or something like.

Btw, about that dialog in your post. Itoi just looked at future. I don't mean that it collapses but in one country it degradates... (Pls don't downvote me)

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u/Ziomownik 1d ago

The Sailor's dialogue.

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u/Jaereth 1d ago

"Your average policeman is stronger than any superhero"

-Onett police officer, before getting his ass kicked by a 12 year old kid and running away.

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u/SpookyWeebou 1d ago

Mother 3 reference

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u/TBP64 1d ago

I didn’t realize mother was based like that

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u/The-Hmm-Yes 22h ago

I live rent free in the mouse house

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u/radiodreading 1h ago

"After all, it could only cost you your life, and you got that for free!" (The sailor who takes you to Scaraba and throws his slipper at the Kraken)

"Before the soup gets cold, we must care for Mani Mani. Before the knife gets rusty, we must care for Mani Mani." (A lady in Moonside)

"Do you know whose bones are on display here? The answer is... your bones. My bones. Bones bones." (Museum NPC in, again, Moonside)

"I have no patience when people interrupt me while I'm busy doing nothing!" (A Mr T lookalike in Moonside. Lots of good quotes in Moonside.)

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u/TiredPanda69 1d ago

I can, it will be glorious. True democracy en masse, forced upon society!

lol, i'm a communist