ToeJam Earl has been called a surreal comic satire and a daringly misanthropic commentary on Earthly life The game s protagonists ToeJam and Earl have been described as a three legged red alien and fat orange alien respectively ToeJam wears a large gold medallion and a backwards baseball cap while Earl is marked by high tops and oversized sunglasses both outfits are over the top appropriations of 1990s urban culture Their speech features California slang The game is set to a soundtrack which has been described both as jazz funk and as hip hop For the game s unique sound composer John Baker was inspired by Herbie Hancock and The Headhunters In the game s opening sequence ToeJam explains that Earl s erratic piloting abilities have resulted in a crash landing on Earth He says that they must find the pieces of their spacecraft s wreckage to return to their home planet Funkotron The player guides the characters as they avoid Earth s antagonistic inhabitants and search for the debris Should the player succeed the final sequence depicts ToeJam and Earl escaping the planet in their reconstructed spacecraft Under the player s control the characters proceed across a purple landscape that represents Funkotron and are greeted by their friends and family