O.K so you have to complete the sentance "You know when you've played too much Grim Fandango when...blah" Lets see how many reasons we can get.
1) You Know you've played too much Grim Fandango when you finish every sentance with: "viva la revalucion!"
2) when you make a Tim Schafer shrine in your back yard!
3) when you create "how do you know when you've played too much GF?" threads!
When you shoot people and expect them to sprout flowers
it only happened once
...you think a severed head can survive.
...you wait at the airport during Dia de los Muerto for your lost family members.
When the game first came out you were in high school Spanish and you had to pick Spanish names and you picked Manny for all four years that you took Espanol.
8) when your boyfriend/girlfriend gives you a bouquet of flowers, causing you to let out a shriek of terror, run to your bedroom and hide under the covers.
9)You start carrying a scythe around with you and try to use it on everything
10) When you refuse to call bread anything else but "pan de muertos"
11) When you are in a crowded elevator and burst out into a raucous chorus of "this little light of mine"
...the living creep you out.
When you construct a life size model of Manny out of lego...
...when you post in this thread. Badum zing!
...someone gives you flowers for Valentine's Day and you vomit.
...when no one gets that Rusty Anchor joke you keep on making.
...after a hangover your "home remedy" is a drive in a really fast car.
...you get jealous when your friend has a nun in his car and you don't.
..you're looking for new travel agents at funerals.
...you get upset when you can't actually find a walking stick with a compass in the handle (and you still aren't allowed to have a sword cane).
...you make a specific request to have your coffin packed with foam.
When you start cramming seemingly useless items into your pockets, and feel that you can only take out one at a time
When you think rides on trains are cooler than cruises and sports cars.
When you ignore travel agents unless they are dressed in death robes and carry a scyth
When you get pretty upset when you find out that plans for a movie based on the game was just an elaborate hoax by one guy.
26) When you create an elabourate hoax to fool innocent and good looking GF fans into thinking that a movie is gonna be made!
When you meet cynnical balloon animal makers on the street.
...when you get into your 1995 Ford Escort and yell "VROOOM, VROOOOM" all the way home
When you start referring to your car as your "Bone Wagon"
When you're asked what your favorite song is you sing Glottis's Bone Wagon song.
When each time you look at a person, in your mind you picture what they might look like if they were dead
When you see flowers and freak out.
When you insist that you are buried with alot of money so you can opt for a better travel package
34) When you refuse to use any other methord of communication other than dead carrier pidgeons.
When you give cats amusing names, then race them
When you realize its 2:00 am in the morning and you're posting on the Grim Fandango forums.
when you buy a scythe and a dark cloak and start a travel agency buisness with that as the primary uniform
when you randomly go into a deep spanish accent and say "Love? Love is for the living Sal"
When you substitute some words for there spanish translation
"Not In Mi Casa"
When you go into a three month period of mourning over the death of Sanspoof!
When your friends can finish your sentances (.. just like in Grim, when...)
When you see something you don't want you say 'Not picking that up'
When everything you do seems strange, yet symbolically compelling
When you write down Grim Fandango in fancy letters on your sheets during a boring lecture
When you name your two pets Manny & Meche
When your "Just a few minutes" of playing Becomes "Just a few hours". Thus making you late for class.
When you name your two pets Manny & Meche
Im so gonna do that when i get my lemmings!!
When you never leave the house without a Deck of cards, Just in Case
When you never leave the house without a Deck of cards, Just in Case
Man, I actually do that. I think Grim Fandango may have influenced it a little bit, but mostly I blame it on me thinking that Gambit is the coolest of the X-men.
After shooting someone, you say, "Huh. For some reason I was expecting tulips."
when you wished you majored in computer animation in college so that you could make a fan made Grim Fandango game
When you ask for a special pistol that shoots flowers instead of bullets and saying that old fraise when someone asks "We may have years, we may have flowers. But sooner or later we will be pushing up, Flowers"
When watching the end of The Fountain and nudging your friend when wolverine bursts into a bunch of flowers.
When something, like computer, for example, gets too slow or stuck, you say 'This ... is slow', and hum the 'This Elevator Is Slow' melody.
When you call your burrito at the Mexican restaurant 'a bunch of burros' ('for eternity').
When you are *still* not ready to abandon the dream to get a GF2 or a re-release after ten years of nothing.
...after a hangover your "home remedy" is a drive in a really fast car.
Dont try that at home kids!
When you jump for joy that it is still in PC Gamer's Top 3 Adventure Games!
When you do a very important essay on it.