History Recap / SamAndMaxFreelancePoliceEpisode105Reality20

* AnnoyingPopUpAds: Weaponized. The pop-up ads take the form of a large, impenetrable cube originating from a small jack-in-the-box. When Sam gets his hands on one such ad, he can use it as a shield against attacks from Auntie Biotic.

* SeekingTheIntangible: After Sam and Max shut down ''Reality 2.0'' with a virus, the Internet announces it's lost all respect for living things. In the subsequent ''Reality 1.5'' sequence, Sam and Max have to find the Internet's Respect For All Living Things and give it back to her to escape virtual reality once and for all.

People are being hypnotized by the new internet craze Reality 2.0, causing systems around the world to go haywire. Sam and Max must find a way to enter the virtual world and track down the heart of the Internet herself to pull the plug on her shenanigans and then get her respect all living things again.

People are being hypnotized by the new internet craze Reality 2.0, causing systems around the world to go haywire. Sam and Max must find a way to enter the virtual world and track down the heart of the Internet herself to pull the plug on her shenanigans.

* ItemGet: After Sam purchases the Wooden Sword, he holds it aloft, a la [[Franchise/LegendOfZelda Link]], much to the confusion of Bosco.

* YourMindMakesItReal: The Internet Wizard warns Sam and Max that getting injured in Reality 2.0 may affect their physical bodies. One puzzle exploits this, as you have to free Bosco from the hypnotic effect of the VR goggles by knocking out his in-game avatar, Elboscodril.

* IntangibleTheft: After Sam and Max shut down ''Reality 2.0'' with a virus, the Internet loses its respect for all living things. In the subsequent ''Reality 1.5'' sequence, Sam and Max have to find the Internet's Respect For All Living Things and give it back to her to escape virtual reality once and for all.

* ShoutOut: The Internet's design is similar to that of [[VideoGame/SystemShock S.H.O.D.A.N.]]

* CelebrityResemblance: Justified In-Universe by the fact that the internet modelled several [=NPCs=] in ''Reality 2.0'' after celebrities from Sam and Max's real world. In particular, Auntie Biotic, the anti-virus software who guards ''Reality 2.0'''s email server, is modeled after Myra Stump, and the Internet Wizard is modeled after Hugh Bliss.
* {{Cyberspace}}: ''Reality 2.0'', natch.

* DigitalAvatar: The player characters in ''Reality 2.0'' have these. Most of them look exactly like their real-world counterparts, but "Elboscodril" goes the extra mile to look like a half-elf. (Or should that be the extra ''half''-mile?)

* FunWithSubtitles: After ''Reality 2.0'' glitches out, Sam and Max are trapped in ''Reality 1.0'', an InteractiveFiction game. The audio briefly cuts out, forcing the two to speak in subtitles for a few seconds before the sound comes back on.

* YouCantGetYeFlask: Parodied and inverted in the final puzzle where the graphics fail and the world is rendered as a text based adventure. Sam is somehow able to pick up objects much larger than he should and interact with abstract concepts.

* BilingualBonus: Bosco's new bank account is hosted on [=BancoLavadero=].com. "Banco Lavadero", translated from Spanish, would be [[spoiler: Laundry Bank. As in, Money Laundering.]]
* CelebrityResemblance: Justified In-Universe by the fact that the internet modelled several [=NPCs=] in ''Reality 2.0'' after celebrities from Sam and Max's real world. In particular, Auntie Biotic, the anti-virus software who guards ''Reality 2.0'''s email server, is modeled after Myra Stump, and the Internet Wizard is modelled after Hugh Bliss.

* FunWithSubtitles: [[spoiler: After ''Reality 2.0'' glitches out, Sam and Max are trapped in ''Reality 1.0'', an InteractiveFiction game. The audio briefly cuts out, forcing the two to speak in subtitles for a few seconds before the sound comes back on.]]
* HomemadeInventions: A virulent biological weapon, [[spoiler: AKA a handkerchief which Bosco has sneezed into.]]

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: It turns out that Bosco's super secret bank password is [[spoiler: Bosco.]]

* YouCantGetYeFlask: [[spoiler: Parodied and inverted in the final puzzle where the graphics fail and the world is rendered as a text based adventure. Sam is somehow able to pick up objects much larger than he should and interact with abstract concepts.]]

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Deliberately invoked with the C.O.P.S., which consists of four sentient electronic devices which have long since been considered outdated technology: a landline numpad telephone, an old microcomputer modeled after the Osborne 1, an old video game console modeled after the [[VideoGame/{{Pong}} Pong home console]], and an arcade cabinet.

* Technobabble: Double Subverted. After breaking Sybil's VR goggles, Max remarks that the Rear-Slot Downstream Signal Frammistat Regurgitator Chip is broken. Sybil and Sam naturally dismiss this as being complete nonsense, but the C.O.P.S. confirm that this is indeed the problem with the goggles and give you a new chip in order to fix them.

* BilingualBonus: Bosco's new bank account is hosted on BancoLavadero.com. "Banco Lavadero", translated from Spanish, would be [[spoiler: Laundry Bank. As in, Money Laundering.]]
* CelebrityResemblance: Justified In-Universe by the fact that the internet modeled several NPCs in ''Reality 2.0'' after celebrities from Sam and Max's real world. In particular, Auntie Biotic, the anti-virus software who guards ''Reality 2.0'''s email server, is modeled after Myra Stump, and the Internet Wizard is modeled after Hugh Bliss.
* Cyberspace: ''Reality 2.0'', natch.

* MMORPG: ''Reality 2.0''.

People are being hypnotized by the Internet craze, causing systems around the world to go haywire. Sam and Max must find a way to enter the virtual world and track down the heart of the Internet herself to pull the plug on her shenanigans.

* TheThreeTrials:

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