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*** RuleOfFunny doesn't fly in ItJustBugsMe.

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*** RuleOfFunny doesn't fly in ItJustBugsMe.Headscratchers.



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** Actually, an optional conversation reveals [[spoiler: that it ''did'' happen, Sam just can't remember how it ended because of the rewrite.]]
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** [[spoiler:Sammun-Mak was retroactively '''already''' the God-King Of The World, and everyone else's personal histories and memories changed to match. Sam never removed his jacket and hat in the first place because, in the new reality, Max had never had his brain stolen (or, as it were, been kidnapped) in the first place.]]

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** [[spoiler:Sammun-Mak was retroactively '''already''' the God-King Of The World, and everyone else's personal histories and memories changed to match. Sam never removed his jacket and hat in the first place because, in the new reality, Max had never had his brain stolen (or, stolen... or, as it were, been kidnapped) in the first place.kidnapped.]]
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** [[spoiler:Sammun-Mak was retroactively '''already''' the God-King Of The World, and everyone else's personal histories and memories changed to match. Sam never removed his jacket and hat in the first place because, in the new reality, Max had never had his brain stolen (or, as it were, been kidnapped) in the first place.]]
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* After [[spoiler: Sammun-Mak rewrites reality]], Sam is back in his normal attire, instead of his Noir Sam attire. [[spoiler: Sammun-Mak]] had just met Sam in his Noir attire, so how would he be able to recreate Sam's normal attire?

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* After [[spoiler: Sammun-Mak rewrites reality]], Sam is back in his normal attire, instead of his Noir Sam attire. [[spoiler: Sammun-Mak]] had just met Sam in his Noir attire, outfit, so how would he be able to recreate Sam's normal attire?
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* After [[spoiler: Sammun-Mak rewrites reality]], Sam is back in his normal attire, instead of his Noir Sam attire. [[spoiler: Sammun-Mak]] had just met Sam in his Noir attire, so how would he be able to recreate Sam's normal attire?

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**** Plus, there's ANOTHER comic in which Sam''bites'' a criminal holding up a 7-Eleven-esque convenience store. So, I see them as good and in favor in justice, but in a ChaoticGood and not very ACLU-friendly sort of way.

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**** Plus, there's ANOTHER comic in which Sam''bites'' Sam ''bites'' a criminal holding up a 7-Eleven-esque convenience store. So, I see them as good and in favor in justice, but in a ChaoticGood and not very ACLU-friendly sort of way.



***** I guess Sam also has proyection with Sameth, but, since he doesn't have powers of his own, he has to be near of Max for use it. Which make sense, because, in the last reel, they aren't using any knowledge Max couldn't remember.

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***** I guess Sam also has proyection projection with Sameth, but, since he doesn't have powers of his own, he has to be near of Max for use it. Which make sense, because, in the last reel, they aren't using any knowledge Max couldn't remember.



**** In a moment of FridgeBrilliance, this also explains how Skun-ka're was able to sneak up on Max: Max wasn't merely distracted by the movie, his consciousness was ''actually not in his body'' at the time.

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**** In a moment of FridgeBrilliance, this also explains how Skun-ka're Skun-ka'pe was able to sneak up on Max: Max wasn't merely distracted by the movie, his consciousness was ''actually not in his body'' at the time.



**** Maybe it's just subconscieous. Sam and Max didn't know the full details about the Astral Projector, and assumed they were just movies. They knew the characters as Sameth and Maximus, so that's how they addressed eachother.

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**** Maybe it's just subconscieous.subconscious. Sam and Max didn't know the full details about the Astral Projector, and assumed they were just movies. They knew the characters as Sameth and Maximus, so that's how they addressed eachother.
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*** "Only ''you'' can manipulate the outcome, my friends..." The Superego clearly (and, as he says, lamentably) has very little impact on Max's brain. Maybe the only way to control things in his favor was to manipulate the person who could manipulate Sam, the only guy Max listens to. Sam and Max do occassionally comment on the mainstays of point-and-click adventure games, after all, so Max may subconciously have some awareness of the fourth wall.

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*** "Only ''you'' can manipulate the outcome, my friends..." The Superego clearly (and, as he says, lamentably) has very little impact on Max's brain. Maybe the only way to control things in his favor was to manipulate the person who could manipulate Sam, the only guy Max listens to. Sam and Max do occassionally occasionally comment on the mainstays of point-and-click adventure games, after all, so Max may subconciously subconsciously have some awareness of the fourth wall.



** Time travel itself wasn't used, but it's possible that when [[spoiler: Skun-ka'pe used the Eyes of Yog-Soggoth to see the future and alter it, it functions the same as time travel. Essentially the same thing happened: Sam and Max went to the future and brought back some information and items they needed to solve a puzzle in the past, and Skun-ka'pe looked into the future for information he needed to solve a puzzle in the present, thus changing the timeline in both instances. Different means, same effect.]]



* In 305 Sam takes control of Max's arms and legs, so aside from the spores that fed off nightmares he was pretty mush harmless. Why pray tell was that not reason enough to call off or at least delay the assault on Max, after showing that they were making progress? This was the half of the reason that Sam had to leave, and thus they were not able to keep max from dieing.

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* In 305 Sam takes control of Max's arms and legs, so aside from the spores that fed off nightmares he was pretty mush harmless. Why pray tell was that not reason enough to call off or at least delay the assault on Max, after showing that they were making progress? This was the half of the reason that Sam had to leave, and thus they were not able to keep max from dieing.dying.



** Nefertiti was only a moderately good hexer in 302, most likely because she was young and still learning. The cow form would only stick around for a minute, hardly enough time to make it a particularly harsh curse. It's possible that when the family arrived in America, Nefertiti decided she wanted to embrace the new culture and assimilate to fit in better, and she put hexing aside. It's not unusual for immigrant children to put aside customs from the old world faster than their parents do. Thus, she wouldn't have improved, and even now that she's older and seems to take her heritage more seriously, that might have been enough to ensure she'd never be a master of mole curses.



** It shows him disappearing, one of the powers of the Devil's Toybox is teleportation. He could have just been blasted to any random corner of the globe [[spoiler:with Yog-Saggoth stuck in his chest]].

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** It shows him disappearing, one of the powers of the Devil's Toybox is teleportation. He could have just been blasted to any random corner of the globe [[spoiler:with Yog-Saggoth Yog-Soggoth stuck in his chest]].
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**If you ask Jurgen twice about Midtown Cowboys, Sam will ask him if they've just been watching the same repeat of Midtown Cowboys over and over. Jurgen replies that yes, they indeed are. When you go to the TV studio, the director says they've been waiting for Sam and Max to stop by so they can film a new episode, implying that the main show itself hasn't been in production since it was cancelled after episode 102. The most likely reason for it's cancellation despite it's popularity in Germany is that Germans didn't discover the show until after it was cancelled.

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**** Maybe it's just subconscieous. Sam and Max didn't know the full details about the Astral Projector, and assumed they were just movies. They knew the characters as Sameth and Maximus, so that's how they addressed eachother.


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** It shows him disappearing, one of the powers of the Devil's Toybox is teleportation. He could have just been blasted to any random corner of the globe [[spoiler:with Yog-Saggoth stuck in his chest]].
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**If President Superball gave the order as he said he would, Abe would have had no choice but to comply.
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* The ending of 302 seems to imply Papierwaite was sucked into the Devil's Toybox. So...how did he get free? Did the Toybox acting as a power source to the Penal Zone weaken its power or something?
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*** But if Sameth and Maximus were being controlled by Sam and Max, why did they keep calling each other Sameth and Maximus?
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** It sounds proper, it sounds formal, and it sounds vaguely British. I assumed it was meant to seem like the Narrator's pseudonym, thus making who it actually belonged to come even ''more'' out of left field.

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** It sounds proper, it sounds formal, and it sounds vaguely British. I assumed it was meant to seem like the Narrator's pseudonym, thus making who it actually belonged to come even ''more'' out of left field. [[spoiler:Plus, it gave them the ability to use the 'two heads and three names' gag.]]

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*** "Only ''you'' can manipulate the outcome, my friends..." The Superego clearly (and, as he says, lamentably) has very little impact on Max's brain. Maybe the only way to control things in his favor was to manipulate the person who could manipulate Sam, the only guy Max listens to. Sam and Max do occassionally comment on the mainstays of point-and-click adventure games, after all, so Max may subconciously have some awareness of the fourth wall.



** It sounds proper, it sounds formal, and it sounds vaguely British. I assumed it was meant to seem like the Narrator's pseudonym, thus making who it actually belonged to come even ''more'' out of left field.



** RuleofFunny

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** Despair may have clouded his mind, but that doesn't explain why Sam & Max didn't just let him jump and catch him. (Or it's possible he was counting on the boxing glove to weigh him down more, so that his fall would be harder.)


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** The curses may just be very difficult to master -- Nefertiti spent her entire childhood in the tomb of Sammun-Mak, and by the time she's a teenager she ''still'' can't maintain it for a long time. Jebediah and Obediah seem pretty old, so it may be too late to learn. Another explanation is that when we see Natasha the mole woman in Little Arctic Circle, she's got a scroll with a bat on, and seems to be using that to curse Slushie. Cursing may take additional resources, which could have been lost or destroyed.
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* In Episode 303, when Max asks Jebediah about curses, Jebediah says that the old ways have been lost, and nobody knows how to perform curses anymore. Fair enough, I know from my own family that second or third generation immigrants like Jebediah and Obediah WILL have forgotten a lot of cultural knowledge. Except... isn't Nefertiti, first generation immigrant and master of the Holstein Hex, standing ''right there''?
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* In 305, [[spoiler: if Abe was in charge of the Maimtron army, and presumably was the one who would give them the order to attack, why did a Maimtron attack Max when Sybil - Abe's pregnant wife - was in there? Abe knew she was inside and still apparently ordered the attack on Max, who at this point has been mostly subdued. Why would he do that? This is pretty important; it lead to the death of an eponymous character.]]

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* In 305, [[spoiler: if Abe was in charge of the Maimtron army, and presumably was the one who would give them the order to attack, why did a Maimtron attack Max when Sybil - Abe's pregnant wife - was in there? Abe knew she was inside and still apparently ordered the attack on Max, who at this point has been mostly subdued. Why would he do that? This is pretty important; it lead led to the death of an eponymous character.]]
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* In 305, [[spoiler: if Abe was in charge of the Maimtron army, and presumably was the one who would give them the order to attack, why did a Maimtron attack Max when Sybil - Abe's pregnant wife - was in there? Abe she was inside and still apparently ordered the attack on Max, who at this point has been mostly subdued. Why would he do that? This is pretty important; it lead to the death of an eponymous character.]]

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* In 305, [[spoiler: if Abe was in charge of the Maimtron army, and presumably was the one who would give them the order to attack, why did a Maimtron attack Max when Sybil - Abe's pregnant wife - was in there? Abe knew she was inside and still apparently ordered the attack on Max, who at this point has been mostly subdued. Why would he do that? This is pretty important; it lead to the death of an eponymous character.]]
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* In 305, [[spoilers: if Abe was in charge of the Maimtron army, and presumably was the one who would give them the order to attack, why did a Maimtron attack Max when Sybil - Abe's pregnant wife - was in there? Abe she was inside and still apparently ordered the attack on Max, who at this point has been mostly subdued. Why would he do that? This is pretty important; it lead to the death of an eponymous character.]]

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* In 305, [[spoilers: [[spoiler: if Abe was in charge of the Maimtron army, and presumably was the one who would give them the order to attack, why did a Maimtron attack Max when Sybil - Abe's pregnant wife - was in there? Abe she was inside and still apparently ordered the attack on Max, who at this point has been mostly subdued. Why would he do that? This is pretty important; it lead to the death of an eponymous character.]]
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* In 305, [[spoilers: if Abe was in charge of the Maimtron army, and presumably was the one who would give them the order to attack, why did a Maimtron attack Max when Sybil - Abe's pregnant wife - was in there? Abe she was inside and still apparently ordered the attack on Max, who at this point has been mostly subdued. Why would he do that? This is pretty important; it lead to the death of an eponymous character.]]
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** Actually [[spoiler: in the altered timeline, Girl Stinky rose to power by creating a spray that repels zombie hands. The future can be be changed, yes, but this only seems possible using time travel, and no time travel was used to change this as far as we know.]]
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** RuleofFunny
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** RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment in mind, unless one takes the stance that the Bible is ''literal'' there's no conflict between science and faith anyway. The creation story is just a metaphor for the Big Bang and evolution, explained in a way comprehensible to primitive desert tribesmen. Thus the natural progression from single-celled organisms to primitive sea life to tool-using apes to technological humans to colorful floating balls of light trapped inside cheap dioramas.
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*** If the President of the United States can declare it to be any date he wants (as in 204) then surely the rulers of Hell can make it their birthday if they feel like it -- say, if they've just been presented with a cake. Besides, if it's always Monday at 4:59 PM in Hell, the exact date is pretty hard to figure out.
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* In episode 201, why did Jimmy think he could commit suicide by jumping off Sam and Max's office building, when he was able to survive being dropped out of their office window in 101?
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** Like much of the equipment they've picked up over the years, they lost it, or they broke it, or they lost it in a card game, or the US Marshalls confiscated it, or Max sent it to Sam's mother, or anything you think might be funny. Or maybe it's still in Max's inventory, that place is a mess.
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**I always figured that because Sybil was the queen, she kept Max as the president as a "thank-you" for an old friend.
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* Okay, I understand that Dr. Norrington was just a pseodonym, and I understand WHY [[spoiler: Yog-Soggoth]] chose to use a fake name in the first place, but where the HELL did he get the name "Dr. Norrington" from in the first place? It seems like a really random choice, and he's [[CompletelyMissingThePoint not even a real doctor!]] Is it supposed to be some kind of obscure movie reference or something?

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* Okay, I understand that Dr. Norrington was just a pseodonym, and I understand WHY [[spoiler: Yog-Soggoth]] chose to use a fake name in the first place, but where the HELL did he get the name "Dr. Norrington" from in the first place? It seems like a really random choice, and he's [[CompletelyMissingThePoint [[ComicallyMissingThePoint not even a real doctor!]] Is it supposed to be some kind of obscure movie reference or something?
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********* The question then becomes this: how is Max able to get Sameth to do the various things he needs to do in the final reel, in order to solve the final confrontation? Sam was in the bathroom at the time. I suppose we can assume that it was just Sameth himself, acting with no assistance (other than his memory of [[spoiler:the Sphunx Challenge]]), but then how is it possible to ''fail'' at Sameth's part? It's assumed that all of the various death scenes are the result of Sam and Max messing up their directing their ancestors, but it's possible to die in Reel 4 by way of Sameth not acting fast enough.
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* I'm no expert on politics, let alone Sam & Max politics, but it's hard to wrap my head around the idea that Max can sell the deed for the entirety of the US to Canada in 106 and still be its president in 201.
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* What the heck ever happened to the "Tear Gas Grenade Launcher"? In the first two episodes it was there, but in the third episode it's gone! Wouldn't that have made it much easier to, say, make the elf cry in episode 201?

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