In the Japanese version of the game, there is a telltale stream of urine between this man's legs.
Considering that the Mortal Kombat controversy and the ESRB rating system arose a couple of years after J.J. and Jeff was originally published, you might think it's insane that parents and politicians never made a stink over the game's scat jokes. Part of that is because the TurboGrafx didn't quite have the popularity of other consoles from the era. The other reason is that a good number of people who actually played J.J. and Jeff shut the system off out of frustration within a couple minutes and, as a consequence, didn't realize the extent of the game's toilet humor. Momentum causes the characters to keep sliding when you try to stop or change direction, which makes it almost impossible to survive the brutal jump sequences that are commonplace throughout the game. On top of that, the collision detection varies so much that you'll frequently fall through the edge of a platform or take damage from an enemy that you clearly weren't touching. Fighting with the controls and losing lives for no good reason sure takes the piss out of the game's bathroom humor.
J.J. and Jeff is probably the only console-based video game to incorporate dodging animal droppings as a gameplay feature. While that's neat from an antiestablishment perspective, the presence of poo doesn't make up for the game's sloppy programming.
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