Stay Tooned! (video game)

Stay Tooned is a 1996 video game by Funnybone Interactive and published by Sierra Entertainment, featuring various cartoon characters that have escaped the TV World thanks to a magical remote. It is the player's goal to collect the keys to send them back using said remote, but unfortunately it has been hidden deep inside the apartment complex the character resides in.

It is notable for being a particularly random video game, with many, many cutscenes.

Tropes used in Stay Tooned! (video game) include:

• Author Avatar: The game's computer programmer appears in the game and even gives you some advice at the beginning of the game while you're channel surfing.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animals
• Deuteragonist: Chisel.
• Dronejam: There are several characters (that are chosen at random) that will block you from reaching the fifth floor and entering Mrs. Findley's room respectively until you do something for them.
• Expy: Some of the characters resemble those in Animaniacs.
  • Chisel resembles Yakko Warner.
  • Schmooze resembles Wakko Warner
  • Pixel resembles Dot Warner.
  • Scoops resembles Skippy Squirrel.
  • Fiddle resembles Slappy Squirrel.
  • Frank resembles Officer Ralph.
  • Katrina resembles Hello Nurse.
• Everything Trying to Kill You: Not trying to kill you per se, but there are several toons that enjoy causing mischief with you as the intended target.
• First-Person Shooter: Zapping the toons near the end of the game.
• Five-Bad Band:
  • Big Bad: Pixel.
  • The Dragon: Chisel.
  • The Brute: Fiddle.
  • The Evil Genius: Schmooze.
  • The Dark Chick: Scoops.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: In Pixel and Chisel's theme song.
• Loads and Loads of Characters
• Mad Libs Dialogue: Used in the Mortal Kombat parody Kartoon Kombat.

Announcer: Tai Chi Chisel! Versus! Kung Fu Frank! *evil laugh*

• Plot Device: The remote is the only thing that can get the toons back into the television set. Naturally, it's hidden well, although there are quite a few hints that can help the player find it.
• The Protagonist: Pixel.
• Shout-Out: Several, such as Kartoon Kombat, Whinefeld, and Schleopardy.
• Unrequited Love: Schmooze can never get Pixel to like him even though he's smitten with her.
• What Happened to the Mouse??: It's never explained what happens to the toons that are not required for the player to zap back inside the television set, although it's possible that that they were zapped into the television set as well offscreen.