Ok, I found this:
I didn’t read the whole thread, but after some quick reading I understand you can actually put into the pot on the Sea Monkey all your paper stuff, except the map of the forest on Melee Island. So this should be the designed object in order to avoid the stall.
BUT…
Since IT IS possible to get to the treasure without map, it could be possible to get on the ship without it.
Wow. How can you give your money to Otis? When he is in jail?
Correct. I think they may have fixed it in the Special Edition so that you can only give him one piece of eight though.
There is obviously holding your breath for 11 minutes
Ah yes, you’re right. But you can go up to the sign and pull it (or turn on in EGA) to extend the log bridge to the sword master’s. Something that is pretty unlikely to happen on a first playthrough.
Ah, this is interesting. Last night I tried putting a second piece o’ eight in the Grog machine and Guybrush told me he didn’t want to. I’m playing the Ultimate talkie.
So last night is the only chance I’ve had to play so far. I got through the first two acts and up to the early stages of act three on monkey island. I accidentally destroyed my ship with the catapult. Whoops!
Anyway, what I wanted to post about was that I managed to do this without ever getting stuck for very long and not having to look anything up, which is good for me because I am both an idiot and someone who has a bad memory for these things, so the fact that I re-played only a few years ago only helps minimally.
Okay, now the part where I admit that last bit was a slight fib. I had to cheat once. And once I did it I remembered it was a part I’ve had to cheat at every time I’ve played. It is that to get the item inside of the cereal box you have to choose the verb “open.” For the vast majority of items in your inventory, simply choosing to “look at it” will reveal some deeper thing within it or about it. But not this one! You have to open it. Such a doofy thing to get stuck over.
It’s buried deep into the cereals. You don’t spot it by just looking at it.
The the part that follows, looking does do it, though, and is even required by the Ultimate Talkie Edition. I found it somewhat illogical that you could use the surprise without unwrapping it first, which is what the icon indicates. The vast majority of players did this anyway, so hardly anyone noticed a difference here.
I find the last part (LeChuck’s ship) to be a bit bland in terms of design. It’s very self contained with only one simple chain of taking X and using it on Y. I get this is the end, but IIRC the ending in MI2 is way more intricate.
There was - and I got into it personally years ago - but it has been fixed in newer versions. In fact, the CD version I played with the daughters had a completely different item that I didn’t remember. In my old playthrough, with text inventory, I burned my recipe for the Monkey Island soup and that was the thing I had to give to the cannibals in order to make a new navigator. But in the CD version, I didn’t have the recipe anymore, yet I had a pamphlet called “how to succeed in navigation” or something similar.
I admit I remember only two puzzles, but they were great ones. The magnetic compass and the feather. I have no memory of the rest…
How to get ahead in navigation. (Get it?)
There’s also How to get a leg up in treasure hunting
Ok, I made it to Monkey Island.
It is remarkable what Mark Ferrari could do with a standard EGA palette.
I noticed, back then, that the GUI turns red when you go down under the Monkey Head.
I was sure it was for techical reasons, to allow for a special palette choosing more red hues. But it doesn’t seem the case.
I checked, this seems to me a standard EGA palette. I wonder why the GUI turns red, then. It seems just a style choice.
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This pun about ShishKeBob wasn’t translated in italian:
Ok for ShishKeBob, but who the hell are ShisKeLarry and ShisKeJoe?
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I might be wrong, but I think only in this version you can spot Sam & Max among the idols.
The Sam & Max idol also appears in the VGA version of the game. It was however replaced with a Purple Tentacle idol in the Special Edition release, as the developer no longer held the rights to Steve Purcell’s dog and rabbit characters (Telltale Games were making their episodic Sam & Max games at that point).
The same thing happened with the Special Edition of Monkey Island 2…
(although if you look closely, you can still see Sam peeking from behind Purple Tentacle. You’ll also notice that the Huckleberry Hound mask had his iconic hat changed to a crown and Popeye had his cap altered to a chef’s hat and his pipe removed, no doubt in the interests of avoiding a legal infringement upon other companies’ characters)
I’m about to start the second chapter and I’ll solve the recipe puzzle in the same way I did ages ago: I’ll just throw everything I have in the cooking pot.
That puzzle is quite infamous. Most of the people I know didn’t like it or solved like you did.
I liked to try to understand which were supposed to be the ingredients. I had an epiphany when I realized after many wanderings on the deck that there was a room on the crow’s nest! I got up there and immediately realized what a pressed human skull was supposed to be!
Too bad that when I put the ingredient in the pot, nothing happened. I didn’t realize that the list of nocive chemicals was contained in the cereals…
Fred Flintstone’s feet are quite recognizable, though.
True, but I suspect that a pair of feet and a bit of cloth are likely less legally risky to portray than a famous character’s face/head. Having said that, if you look very closely at Fred Flintstone’s cloth in the Special Edition, you’ll notice that they changed the polka dots into hearts, so clearly they were still cognisant of avoiding a trademark infringement.
It was in the CD version. The first guy is SpieDino. Then SpieAlberto and I forget the third name.
No, also the CD version has them.
I tried to solve it properly with my daughters and I was delighted to find out they got most of the ingredients by themselves.
However after we were sure we found everything… the last ingredient didn’t work. Then we resorted to your strategy 
it turns out we were missing the cereals. The recipe says “yellow coloring n.8” and my daughter thought “one of the pieces of eight” which was in my opinion a better solution, but Guybrush didn’t want to put them in (despite the fact that you don’t need money anymore from part 2 on).
I don’t understand a detail: how did the captain of the Sea Monkey and Toothrot manage to sail the ship if it needs a crew of at least four people? 
Well, now that I think about it, the ship doesn’t actually need a crew of four, because Guybrush is able to handle it all by himself. But Stan tells Guybrush that he needs three other people.
I guess, they wanted to avoid the colorful contrast of the interface glaring against the hellish theme. It is that way in every version with the original interface, not only EGA.
Only in the remastered HD graphics, though. The classic mode graphics weren’t touched at all.
I never understood why piece of eight are represented as golden coins in fiction, while in reality those are silver coins. Doubloons are the golden ones.
Well, he’s in error then. Yet, he makes sure Guybrush recruit all of them.
Luckily, the recipe can serve four people as well.
Or maybe he thought of the journey back? Obviously, Herman wasn’t able to sail the ship back all by himself.
