My favorite obscure tidbit comes from a letter your mom sends you in Animal Crossing GameCube. She says something about being confused why you went to go live with animals, ending the letter with, "don't they smell?" Are the animals in Animal Crossing segregated from humans? There's a lot to think about.

my favourite one is from a smug villager in happy home designer. if you talk to him while he's reading he might say something along the lines of:
"I was okay with the localisation of this manga until they started talking about donuts. Yeah right, as if Captain Raisubooru would be caught dead eating donuts!"
Raisubooru = rice ball. This is literally a reference to that infamous moment in Pokemon!

It's ten years later and I still really want to know what happened to the person who was actually supposed to become mayor in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Someone has vanished, your character is the only one who knows about it, and eventually the town will find out.

Please talk about the “night clowns” that villagers will talk about its scary. 😂

My favorite AC lore deep cut in ACNH is actually the bottom photo at the Roost of Blathers and Brewster in the park. It's based on a dialogue with Blathers in Wild World. He'll tell you about the time he couldn't get anywhere with his dissertation and he drifted from café to café until he ended up in on "in a park surrounded by skyscrapers" where he met Brewster who told him that "nothing is sadder than a rushed cup of coffee" which gave Blathers the patience to let the writing flow naturally. They have been friends ever since and that photo is taken in that park. You can see the skyscrapers in the back. :) (also, Lyle tried to sell an insurance to Brewster in Wild World and Blathers threw Lyle out of the museum bc Brewster isn't good at spotting grifters.)

as someone who does pottery, “pottery throwing” is actually just when you put clay onto a potters wheel!

Something I just noticed but in retrospect is pretty obvious is that most of the TV channels you can watch in AC star humans. This combined with Mabel's mention of specifically porcupine starring shows makes me wonder if there are certain channels, and places (what with Resettii's mole spa place and the player's mom in the original AC thinking it's weird that you live with animals) specific to certain animals, and if places like your town and the city in City Folk are considered weird for having a variety of species.

My favorite piece of lore is Goldie having a crush on the Labrador from the Nintendogs box. I think she mentions it in Wild World or it's the inscription on the back of her photo or something.

The Pokemon Pikachu thing was an actual product irl, was a tamagachi sort of thing. That means to me personally that Pokemon exists as a game series in the Animal Crossing universe lol

Not a lore per se, but a 4th-wall break, is when Hopkins (so I assume also other lazy villagers) in ACNH told me once that he thought he lived in a simulation, and started questioning stuff like "why do trees have 3 different kinds of wood?" and how Tom Nook´s business works oddly etc. xD I was really shocked when I got that dialogue tbh. Then he just shrugged it off xD

There’s no question that CJ is a streamer online—as embarrassing as it is to admit, I read all the dialogue every time out of debilitating compulsion and he doesn’t just make stream ‘puns’.

Every time you give him more fish he praises you for “keeping his viewers happy,” his first dialogue of the day mentions “coming at you live from…uh, right in front of you!”, he’s been “trending in a HUGE way” and I distinctly remember him using the words ‘livestream’ and ‘followers’ (and even referencing E-sports, confirming internet??) the first time I met him. Plus he constantly has his phone out lol, if he was just obsessed with a literal stream he would have no reason to take a hundred photos of himself and us when we’re not even near a stream or holding our fish 😅



edit: I found a video of someone’s first time meeting CJ and I was remembering right, his introductory dialogue includes:

>  “I’m tourin’ the islands looking for fresh faces and fresher fish to show off on my livestream […]
>  Fishing is reelin’ in ALL KINDS of streaming numbers right now. Ever heard of esports? Well this is SEAsports!
>  Anywave, I need new fish if I wanna keep my followers followin’. […]”

It’s the only dialogue I don’t have memorized bc you obviously only see it once but yep, it’s confirmed it isn’t just puns :) 🎣

I have a headcanon that the city that's referenced a lot in the older animal crossing games is actually the same place where the Farway Museum from GCN is located, and that the city itself is called Farway.

I want an Animal Crossing game with Moppina. For the unaware, Moppina is a character mentioned in Wild World and maybe City Folk, usually in a conversation between a normal and peppy villager. I believe there's a few variations of this conversation, but in short: Moppina is a mop that the normal villagers are "friends" with, getting offended when Peppies call her an 'it', as Moppina is a she. Moppina lets the normal villagers try out different hairstyles on her and talk to her... which is kinda depressing, honestly, but the Peppy villagers then change their tune and say that Moppina seems nice.
I just want an Animal Crossing game where this sentient mop can be a villager. I'd like that.

one bit of lore i love and think a lot about is about reese and cyrus and how they met. in happy home designer, they have dialogue over how they met and i was shocked the first time i saw it because it was so unexpected of them (well... reese especially.) both were delinquents (or "wild" as reese puts it), having met when reese was hanging out near where cyrus and his bike gang were. turns out that they both caught each other's eyes. cyrus, being distracted by reese, then drove and hit into something and she ended up taking him to the hospital and they started dating. which is so wild to me that the most domestic couple used to be a bad boy and bad girl duo.

There was a reference to Reese & Cyrus before the update where they got added to Harv's Island. I cannot remember which character said it and in what context but there was a line of dialogue that went "Hm alpacas?! I always thought they were pink and blue..."

I wanna know why I can’t see my parents again

I always thought definitely yes there are places actually called Anytown and Anyisle. I always imagine they’re towns and islands using all the default type styles in mostly basic intended ways, and of course the villagers will rant and rave about how wonderful “Door Template” and “Clothing Pattern” are.

10:43 I like how you can tell that he said “far away” and just edited out the middle syllable 😂

9:15 throwing pottery is actually a common turn of phrase! it's what you do with clay when it's on the wheel iirc. but it could be a reference to loz!

In the game Fragile Dreams for the Wii, there's a bunch of letters left behind by people who went through an apocalypse. I remember one was someone who didn't care enough about the main character of an RPG they were playing, so they just named them "AAAAAA", and they talk about now that they're facing their own mortality they feel bad about abandoning AAAAA in the middle of the game and never saving the world (or something like that, it's been a while since I've played the game).

Anyway, i guess it's a common joke or trope that when a Japanese person is being lazy and have to name something in a game they just type a bunch of As?