Sort of a recursive meme, since the Grog XD joke was based of of The Long List of ingredients found in Grog in The Secret of Monkey Island. Grindstump in Club 41 is most likely a parody of the 1636 painting Danaƫ by Rembrandt.
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It is revealed in Chapter 3 that Morgan can talk to monkeys too, though she speaks "a little monkey".Jacques the Monkey can understand human language, especially when the Marquis De Singe and Guybrush talk to him, which is evident in Chapters 1 and 4.And Your Little Dog, Too: Parodied in Chapter 1, when the Marquis De Singe is defeated by Guybrush and leaves, promising to have revenge on him, "and little hand, too!".Before that, in Chapter 1, Guybrush raises his Cutlass of Kaflu and says, "This is for the monkeys, LeChuck!" before his Pox-infected hand goes out of control, making him unable to kill the human LeChuck.
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Ahem: Done a few times throughout the game.The Ace: Santino, being so handsome that even the decidedly heterosexual Coronado De Cava took the time to write at length about how gorgeous he was, in addition to being super-talented at everything you care to name.