Easter Egg Listing (most of them, anyway) for Barn Runner: Wreck The Halls (C) Tacky World Interactive Games, 2007 by Scott LeGere _________________ ================= EASTER EGGS ================= * Wait a minute, Mr. Postman! --------------- When you first arrive in the parking lot, open the mail box and take the mail. Don't go inside the church yet! Go to the well and a newly escaped robot will wander by, following the signal. Talk to the bot, exhausting all the dialogue options. You'll save her life (otherwise, the MurderBot will trap her in the cutscene instead of the ChefBot), get a pair of Robot Revolution disks, and learn a bit about Dr. Noriko's broken heart (more on that in the trivia section). Once the bot is gone, go inside the outhouse and you'll find a nudie mag that won't be there after the service is over! * Fun with preachers. --------------- Give the preacher the nudie mag you found in the outhouse. He'll keep it. Talk to him and ask him to return it to you. He won't. But this will allow you to steal it back later. Once he's left and you've fed the skunk the candy, pick the sleeping skunk up from the bed. Search the bed and you'll find your nudie mag along with a second nudie mag! (NOTE: You must follow this sequence EXACTLY to complete this egg). * Blessed Toast --------------- Once the preacher is gone, when you stop to pick up the yule log, take the loaf of bread too. Inside his room, use the bread on the toaster to get a slice of toast. Do this seven times, and the Virgin Mary will make an appearance on the last slice. This piece of miracle toast will grant you an extra life in the shootout at the end of the game. (NOTE: To get rid of all the other toast, you can stuff all the slices into the blue computer down in the robot's secret lair in the well). * Blessed Firepower --------------- While searching the pastor's bookshelf, be sure to take "A heavy brown book." This is the NRA Bible. Use the Multi Tool on it to get a fully loaded, antique .45. This second gun will make the shootout a little easier. The .45 does half as much damage as the spatha, but hold seven shots. However, there are no reloads for it. * Reading Material --------------- In addition to the two nudie magazines detailed above, you can find more books in a the same vein on the bookshelf. Choose "A small, worn black book" and "A small, old yellow book" for more fun. * Quality time --------------- Continuing the long Barn Runner tradition of bathroom usage, if you use the matches on the frozen water in the outhouse, then USE the water, Prick will take a little time out of his busy day for a bathroom break. * 100% Pure Filler --------------- Several things in the game have mulitiple responses when you look at them. Some fill in the immediate story. Other fill in the backstory for the world of Barn Runner. Items of interest by location to LOOK at are: Parking Lot: The 18 wheeler. The monster truck. The Mail box. Pastor's Room: The stained glass window. The three rugs. The bookshelf. Upstairs: Each of the paintings. Items in your inventory with multiple responses to look at are: Appointment book, Newspaper, * Mystery Solved! --------------- In the Monk's Room, search the robe to find a brown ski mask. This mask is identical to the unexplained mask you could find as an Easter Egg in part two of the Armageddon Eclair. In that game, finding the mask would unlock dialog options regarding a mysterious death cult, but no definitive answers were forthcoming. Now you have, at last, unravelled the mystery of the mask and the destroyed house (revealed if you talked to Pastor Love about Brother Theo), and the stench coming from the outhouse in The Armageddon Eclair part two. * Binary Translations --------------- The binary phrases Prick translated actually read as follows (from top to bottom) "This Station Is Off The Air": 01101100011100001110010 ("l8r") "Run For Your Lives, Robots!": 011100100111010101101110 ("run") "This Is An Automated Signal": 011000010110011001101011 ("afk") "Santa Knows If You've Been Bad": 0111011101110100001100110 ("wtf") "You're Under Arrest": 0111000001110111011011100110010101100100 ("pwned") ================= TRIVIA ================= * First game to use the detailed rating screen at start up, letting you know just what's in store for you. * If you use the radio without the binary tranlations and talk to the trucker, you learn that the Road Kill Barn and Grill (from Armageddon Eclair 2) is still without a decent cook since you scrapped the murderous ChefBot. * This game marks another non-speaking cameo by Dr. Noriko (not seen since The Ejection Rejection, unless you count a similarly silent guest appearance in the closing credits of Cyclone Alley). * Dr. Noriko's broken heart that the HangarBot speaks of has been caused by the end of her relationship with The Chief. (This start of this affair was revealed at the end of The Ejection Rejection, depending on how high your score was). Some of the things The Chief says in her office also hint at the recent break up. If you follow the series closely, the approximate timespan between The Ejection Rejection and Wreck the Halls is two years, which would make for quite a love affair. No wonder she's heart broken! * This game marks the first appearance of Prick's hidden hideaway in the Janitor's closet. * The female officer in the lobby is Sgt. Debbie Sauer, last seen in Don't Jerk The Trigger of Love. (If you installed the Director's Cut patch, the exclusive spa membership she spoke of will be detailed in The Cop Who Copped a Feel). * This is also the first appearance of Old Roy (the old man in the window in the police station), a police officer forever on the edge of retirement. * This is the second mention of the Mayor (first mentioned in The Ejection Rejection). She will finally be seen (sort of) in The Forever Friday. * When the preacher tells Prick he ought to be on the ten buck bill, this is a reference to the money seen in The Prick Who Came In From The Cold. Specifically, the ten buck bill is called the "Sweet Mullet" which indicates Prick's hair is exceptionally awesome. * The yokel who makes an appearance in every BGCZ installment make two cameos here. The first is Otis who, resplendent in his red long johns, relates the events that occured if the player unlocked the secret level in The Ejection Rejection. The other, almost identical yokel drives the truck in the finale movie. This is the same yokel who appeared in The Prick Who Came in From The cold. It's practically a family reunion! Likewise, C-3PO makes two appearances. One as a severed head in the MurderBot's part's pile and the other as the Precinct's JanitorBot. Also, in case you were wondering, the squat green robot giving the orders during the closing movie is the same one seen outside Prick's window in The Armageddon Eclair 2.