History Recap / SamAndMaxFreelancePoliceEpisode106BrightSideOfTheMoon

* CanadaEh: Sybil has been crowned the new Queen of the country. Since this is a comedy series, this trope is naturally in full effect.
--> '''Sybil:''' You're already helping out enough by not making any of the obvious Canada jokes.\\
'''Max:''' Who would make obvious jokes, eh?\\
'''Sam:''' Yeah, Sybil! That's just not what we're aboot.

* TheEeyore: Slothful Max ends up lying around outside the Blister of Tranquility and moping.

* MisereGame: The episode has a puzzle where the player needs to help the COPS develop the AI for their game ''Tic Tac Doom'' (a ripoff of [[TabletopGame/TicTacToe tic-tac-toe]]). The problem is that Sam plays the game against Bluster Blaster, who's a terrible tic-tac-toe player. The way to complete the puzzle is to intentionally lose the game against him.

* ShoutOut: When Sybil announces "[[RoyalWe We]] have become the queen of Canada," Max replies "I thought Music/{{Rush}} was the Music/{{Queen}} of Canada."

* TabletopGame/TicTacToe: The C.O.P.S. are trying to develop the most advanced video game AI ever created. The result of this is ''Tic Tac Doom'', a standard noughts and crosses game with an AI so incompetent that you have to actively try to lose.

* VillainBall: Hugh Bliss is so confident that Sam can do nothing to stop him because he's a sentient bacteria colony that can't be killed by conventional methods, he does nothing to take the talisman that swaps places with the user and him and even fakes suffering in the torture devices just to taunt the Freelance Police. This proves to be his downfall when Sam creatively combines the assembled death traps to boil Hugh Bliss alive.

Realizing the secret identity of the mastermind behind the MassHypnosis Sam and Max must go to the moon in order to save the entire world from hypnotic enslavement.

* {{Hypocrite}} Hugh Bliss is also guilty of the sins linked to the parts of Max that he doesn't like

* ShipperOnDeck: Sam and Max help the head of Abraham Lincoln from Episode 4 ask Sybil out on a date.

** Played with for the talismans as there are only two required to enter the inner sanctum but another is needed to get one of them as Max swallowed it to smuggle it past security.
** Played straight for Max's vices with Sam having to contend with physical representations of Max's violence, gluttony and sloth.

* SevenDeadlySins: When Hugh Bliss decides to "separate [Max's] bliss", he creates clones of Max that represent the sins of Wrath (from Max's violent hand), Gluttony (from Max's stomach), and Sloth (from Max's tail).

'''Sam:''' [[DidntSeeThatComing A sentence I was not expecting to hear today.]]

'''Bosco:''' Look, all I know is I keep coming up with the most ridiculous price I can think of, and you two keep payin' it! So I ask you, ''who's'' the "foo'"? [[note]]Last part of this line was changed to "who's the crazy one?" in the remastered version.[[/note]]
* ArtificialStupidity: In-Universe, ''Tic Tac Doom''. The Computer opponent is so incompetent that you have to actively try to lose.

* HomemadeInventions: Bosco's "Earthquake Maker". AKA the remote control for his Anti-ICBM satellite. Only one of the buttons still works, and pressing the button will cause the satellite to crash.

* MonsterOfTheWeek: Hugh Bliss.

'''Sam:''' A sentence I was not expecting to hear today.
* SawAWomanInHalf: Except it's not a trick. And the woman is Sam. Fortunately, you can swap out with Hugh Bliss and turn the tables on him. Unfortunately, since Hugh is a bacterial hive mind, it doesn't have any effect.

* CantYouReadTheSign: The downfall of Violent Max. You defeat him by sending him through a rollercoaster with a bent spork in the path that lops his shooting hand off at the wrist. Naturally, there is a sign above the rollercoaster that warns riders to keep their hands inside the ride at all time under threat of grievous bodily harm. Which Violent Max doesn't read until it's too late.

-->'''Hugh Bliss:'' Hi! We're Hugh Bliss, we're a sentient colony of spacefaring bacteria!\\

'''Bosco:''' Look, all I know is I keep coming up with the most ridiculous price I can think of, and you two keep payin' it! So I ask you, ''who's'' the "foo'"? [[labelnote:*]]Last part of this line was changed to "who's the crazy one?" in the remastered version.[[/labelnote]]

* CantYouReadTheSign: [[spoiler:The downfall of Violent!Max. You defeat him by sending him through a rollercoaster with a bent spork in the path that lops his shooting hand off at the wrist. Naturally, there is a sign above the rollercoaster that warns riders to keep their hands inside the ride at all time under threat of grievous bodily harm. Which Violent!Max doesn't read until it's too late.]]
* ChurchOfHappyology: Prismatology, with Hugh Bliss acting as its de facto cult leader. [[spoiler:Turns out to be a ScamReligion created by a hive mind of space bacteria to feed on the happiness of a brainwashed global population.]]
* DrowningPit: [[spoiler: The "Cleansing Bath of Annihilation" that Hugh traps Sam in. Fortunately, Sam can swap out with Hugh. Bacteria can't drown, but they CAN be pasteurized...]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: Hugh Bliss. He seems nice enough in previous episodes, but that all goes out the window after he separates Max's bliss. [[spoiler: Meaning he forcefully removes the "sinful" parts of Max's anatomy, leaving the latter a creepily tranquil shell of his former self. After restoring Max and accidentally hypnotising the world to be like Max, Hugh puts on a deadly magic act with Sam as the victim and Max as the audience, all while still talking like a typical showman.]]
* HiveMind: [[spoiler:Hugh Bliss turns out to be a spacefaring colony of sentient bacteria that feeds off of the happiness of sentient life.]]
* HomemadeInventions: Bosco's "Earthquake Maker". [[spoiler: AKA the remote control for his Anti-ICBM satellite. Only one of the buttons still works, and pressing the button will cause the satellite to crash.]]

** Gluttony: [[spoiler:His ultimate scheme was to set Earth to permeant forced bliss to gorge on their endorphins forever.]]
** Wrath: [[spoiler:When his plan is foiled by Max taking his place in the Hypnobeam, Hugh sets about torturing Sam with the intent of making Max suffer while he watches helpless.]]
** Sloth: [[spoiler:His ultimate scheme was to use hypnosis to force people happy rather than doing the work to make people happy. Also, so sure of his invulnerability, Hugh makes no effort to stop Sam tampering with his torture devices.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Hugh Bliss is defeated this way: he's bacteria and bacteria is killed off with an excessive amounts of heat through a rocket's engines boiling the water he's floating in.]]
* KnifeThrowingAct: [[spoiler: Hugh Bliss' "Wheel of Death" is this minus the throwing knives [[WithFriendsLikeThese in spite of Max's requests]]. Still an unpleasant experience for poor Sam.]]
* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:Due to Hugh Bliss being a sentient colony of bacteria, Sam has the option to saw his head off, rather than sawing him in half with the magic box.]]

** [[spoiler: Max seems to be no worse for wear despite the forced removal of his right hand, stomach and tail.]]
** Justified for [[spoiler: Hugh Bliss as he turns out to be a sentient bacteria colony and is thus unable to be harmed by such things as bullets, decapitation and drowning.]]
** Played straight for [[spoiler: Hugh Bliss's death as he's boiled alive. After screams that sound more like he's being tickled, he ends with a weak "Owie."]]

* PullARabbitOutOfMyHat: Philo Pennyworth is attempting to do this trick. Except in this case it's done with a rat. Specifically Jimmy Two-Teeth. [[spoiler: Sam later uses this trick to get Max's stomach back from Gluttonous!Max By feeding him Jimmy Two-Teeth and then pulling Jimmy back out of the hat.]]
* SawAWomanInHalf: Except it's not a trick. And the woman is Sam. [[spoiler: Fortunately, you can swap out with Hugh Bliss and turn the tables on him. Unfortunately, since Hugh is a bacterial hive mind, it doesn't have any effect.]]

** Played with for the talismans as there are only two required to enter the inner sanctum but another is needed to get the one of them as Max swallowed it to smuggle it past security.

* VillainBall: Hugh Bliss is so confident that Sam can do nothing to stop him [[spoiler:because he's a sentient bacteria colony that can't be killed by conventional methods he does nothing to take the talisman that swaps places with the user and him and even fakes suffering in the torture devices just to taunt the Freelance Police.]] This proves to be his downfall when [[spoiler: Sam creatively combines the assembled death traps to boil Hugh Bliss alive.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler: Because bullets can't hurt a hive mind of bacteria.]]

* CanadaEh: Sybil has been crowned the new Queen of the country. Since this is a comedy series. this trope is naturally in full effect.

* SubvertedRunningGag: The "Do You Have Any...?" back and forth with Bosco gets an interesting variation in this episode, where it turns out Bosco has a number of oddly specific items behind the counter which would have been useful in earlier episodes, much to the shock and frustration of Sam and Max (especially Max). He does not, however, have Hugh Bliss tied up behind the counter.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Hugh Bliss. He seems nice enough in previous episodes, but that all goes out the window after he separates Max's bliss. [[spoiler: Meaning he forcefully removes the "sinful" parts of Max's anatomy, leaving the latter a creepily tranquil shell of his former self.]]

* KnifeThrowingAct: [[spoiler: Hugh Bliss' "Wheel of Death" is this minus the throwing knives. Still an unpleasant experience for poor Sam.]]

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler: Max seems to be no worse for wear despite the forced removal of his right hand, stomach and tail.]]

'''Bosco:''' Look, all I know is I keep coming up with the most ridiculous price I can think of, and you two keep payin' it! So I ask you, ''who's'' the "foo'"?[[note=*]]Changed to "who's the crazy one?" in the remastered version.[[/note]]

* {{Unicorn}}: Sam is given a porcelain unicorn and must rub its horn to a red color in order to enter Hugh Bliss's lair. Or, if you know that it's essentially like a mood ring, you can always microwave it at Bosco's to simulate it. Using it on other characters will have Sam ask then [[DoubleEntendre "Wanna rub my unicorn?"]] for funny reactions.

* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:Due to Hugh Bliss a bacteria, Sam has the option to saw his head off, rather than sawing him in half with the magic box.]]

** Played straight for Max's vices with Sam having to content with physical representations of Max's violence, gluttony and sloth.
* {{Unicorn}}: Sam is given a porcelain unicorn and must rub its horn to a red color in order to enter Hugh Bliss's lair. Or, if you know that it's essentially like a mood ring, you can always microwave it at Bosco's to simulate it.

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Due to Hugh Bliss a bacteria, Sam has the option to saw his head off, rather than sawing him in half with the magic box.]]

* TheThreeTrials:

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Neither Sam nor Max have any apparatus to let them breathe -- not even their "penny conscious moon gear" from the "Bad Day On the Moon" comic/cartoon episode -- yet it doesn't seem to bother them.

* TheThreeTrials:

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