The funny thing is that the punchline happened completely by accident. Because of how small the sprite is, the "jump" needed a lot fewer commands than I initially thought it did, so when I playtested it to make sure he landed on the "ground" he sailed straight past it. And when it became clear I didn't have enough time left to make the actual game I'd planned, the joke was right in front of me. :D

One of the reasons I only had time to do what I did was that the sequence is more complex than it appears: it starts as pictures so that I can control the zoom, but then they're replaced with a parallax layer so that the Harold character graphic can be shown above. It took a while to get the positioning and transition just right. Glad you liked it!

Glad you enjoyed it! In the director's cut version, he'll land safely and climb up the games list, at which point you can choose which RPG Maker to launch to rescue one of the protagonists.