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- The guy whose computer screen you can see at the start is looking up “what to do if a dog has rabies”

- The unbroken wall of hydroflasks in front of the teacher’s podium

- Good Mythical Morning poster

- Inexplicable “NO TALKING DURING RAZOR LOVE” sign

- The guy next to the videographer just has the letters “WBOEOADRS” in giant font on his computer screen

- The teacher knowing to pause for booing after he mentione Ashe County Middle School

- The kid that yells “I hate them!” enthusiastically

- A sign that says “NO FREAKING” with a picture of two stick figures having sex

- Hand-painted “educasion is overated” poster

- The fact that the class knows to say “standing by” when he tells them to stand by

- The woman literally waiting outside the door to hand over the dog

- The tenderness with which he handles the dog before he announces its imminent demise

In the mid-80s, there were truckloads of Pac-Man clones determined to cash in on the super-popular phenomenon. One of them was “Oh Shit!” for the MSX, released in 1985 by Dutch company Aackosoft. Despite the name, it’s actually a very well-made clone.

Here in the UK the initial art remained the same, but the title was changed to the far less sweary “Oh No!” instead, as the folks importing it were far less interested in deliberately causing controversy:

At some point it was re-released using this crudely drawn artwork, reframing the cry of obsenity as one on the player’s behalf then the faux-Pac-Man:

And then there’s the Japanese release, which alters the title to an eloquent, simple, nice and direct “Shit”, rendered in some prime Aesthetical Font:

If the art looks vaguely familiar to you, then that’s because it is blatantly stolen (and it’s colours altered) from this promotional artwork created for The Howling III. I have absolutely no idea WHY, mind you, but it was: