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[[caption-width-right:250:The dog's Sam and the [[InsistentTerminology lagomorph's]] Max. TheyFightCrime]]

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* EveryoneHasStandards: In "Hit the Road", a bunch of office workers-turned-pirates kidnap manatees in the hopes of making them the pirates' [[BestialityIsDepraved "mermaid wives"]]. Even Sam and Max are creeped out and horrified by this.
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* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: Level 6. People are killed, shot, beaten to death, stabbed, tossed through windows, burned to death, and had their entire body sucked through a hole in an airplane window - but the lack of blood and zany, cartoony tone mitigate much of it.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler: Max]]'s death in "Bad Day on the Moon."
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* GagSeries: In "Bad Day on the Moon", Max is [[spoiler: briefly killed]] in a scene that is played seriously and dramatically. Hope you enjoyed it, because that one, solitary page is about the only time the comic takes itself even ''remotely'' seriously. Everything else (including how Max [[spoiler: actually gets revived]]) is a constant stream of non-stop silliness, BlackComedy, absurd rambling dialogue, RandomEventsPlot, and delibrately nonsensical [[AssPull asspulls]] and DeusExMachina that only stops whenever Steve Purcell runs out of jokes for the issue. %%invoked
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* MohsLevelOfViolenceHardness: Level 6. People are killed, shot, beaten to death, stabbed, tossed through windows, burned to death, and had their entire body sucked through a hole in an airplane window - but the lack of blood and zany, cartoony tone mitigate much of it.

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* MohsLevelOfViolenceHardness: MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: Level 6. People are killed, shot, beaten to death, stabbed, tossed through windows, burned to death, and had their entire body sucked through a hole in an airplane window - but the lack of blood and zany, cartoony tone mitigate much of it.
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* MohsLevelOfViolenceHardness: Level 6. People are killed, shot, beaten to death, stabbed, tossed through windows, burned to death, and had their entire body sucked through a hole in an airplane window - but the lack of blood and zany, cartoony tone mitigate much of it.

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* DrinkOrder: When the duo hit up a bar before travelling to ancient Egypt, Sam orders a root beer and an Orange Julius; Max demands dish water in a dirty glass.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler: Max]]'s death in "Bad Day on the Moon."
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* BadassGrandma: Sam's grandma used to run Alcatraz, but still has a lot of influence and power there.
** She's such a badass that a bunch of hardened criminals react to her return like... well... children when grandma comes to visit.
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[[caption-width-right:250:The dog's Sam and the rabbit's Max. TheyFightCrime.]]

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TheyFightCrime]]
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* PaintingTheMedium: In one panel, Sam delivers an {{Infodump}} so lengthy that the speech bubble partly overlaps Max's face for want of room. Max complains that he's having trouble seeing because the speech bubble is in the way.
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* CouchGag: Each of the longer comics carries a title gag in the form of "[[InspiredBy Based on]] the [Media Type], [Silly Title]", such as Based on the famed [[Creator/TheBeatGeneration Beat-generation]] novel, "Sam and Max Drive Around in a Car" by Bucky Kerouac.

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* CouchGag: Each of the longer comics carries a title gag in the form of "[[InspiredBy Based on]] the [Media Type], [Silly Title]", such as Based on the famed [[Creator/TheBeatGeneration Beat-generation]] novel, "Sam and Max Drive Around in a Car" by Bucky Kerouac. This tradition carried over to seasons 2 and 3 of the [[{{VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice}} videogame]].
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* FunnyOctopus: Sam & Max get rescued from pirates in "Hit the Road" by "Ratso" and his "howling band of cephalopods." Sam comments on how their floppy heads look gross on land.
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[[caption-width-right:250:The dog's named Sam and the bunny's Max. TheyFightCrime.]]

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'''''Sam & Max''''' started in [[TheEighties 1987]] as a comic by Steve Purcell. It covered the surreal and satirical adventures of two [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animal]] [[PrivateDetective private investigators]]: Sam, a six-foot tall "canine shamus" dressed like a stereotypical ''FilmNoir'' private eye, and Max, a deranged, trigger-happy white rabbit (sometimes described as a "lagomorph" or a "[[BuffySpeak hyperkinetic rabbity-thing]]"). Sam was always the more laid-back of the two, and usually the voice of reason keeping Max from unnecessary violence, though Sam's definition of "unnecessary violence" could be a bit flimsy at times. In most of their adventures, the two would receive orders from the faceless Commissioner to defuse some bizarre situation, doing so with a combination of violence, gunplay, and their wits.

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'''''Sam & Max''''' started in [[TheEighties 1987]] as a In 1987, the ''Franchise/SamAndMax'' franchise had begun with the comic books by Steve Purcell. It covered the surreal and satirical adventures of two [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animal]] [[PrivateDetective private investigators]]: Sam, a six-foot tall "canine shamus" dressed like a stereotypical ''FilmNoir'' private eye, and Max, a deranged, trigger-happy white rabbit (sometimes described as a "lagomorph" or a "[[BuffySpeak hyperkinetic rabbity-thing]]"). Sam was always the more laid-back of the two, and usually the voice of reason keeping Max from unnecessary violence, though Sam's definition of "unnecessary violence" could be a bit flimsy at times. In most of their adventures, the two would receive orders from the faceless Commissioner to defuse some bizarre situation, doing so with a combination of violence, gunplay, and their wits.
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