History VideoGame / SamAndMaxFreelancePolice

* CargoShip: A strange case where the cargo is sentient. [[spoiler: Sybil]] ends up marrying [[spoiler: ''the disembodied head of the Lincoln memorial.'']]

** In "The Tomb of Sammun-Mak," the player has to try and get Charlie Ho-Tep from Nefertiti; but she's unwilling to give him up, because she claims to [[CargoShip be in love with him.]] [[spoiler: Then, two episodes later, we learn that Charlie's actually sentient, making the concept of a romance between them a hell of a lot less creepy and pathetic, though still kind of improbable.]]

* CrossOver: Sam's revolver and a combo of Max's Luger and supposed head severed at the upper jaw (used as the obligatory hat of the set) were given as gifts to players of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' who bought ''The Devil's Playhouse'' season the first 2 weeks, or pre-ordered. In exchange, a Blue Engineer Dispenser appears in "Beyond the Alley of the Dolls" and the RED Heavy Weapons Guy is one of the opponents in ''PokerNightAtTheInventory'' (which features Max).

* ChekovsSkill: Many might not realize it for awhile, but something you commonly do throughout all 3 seasons comes in handy at the tail-end of 304. Sam's skill for [[spoiler:knocking Max into the air when he gets in your way]] allows Max to [[spoiler:reach the corrupted tablet of the Statue o' Liberty, to climb up and attempt to rescue Sam]].

** Also in Season 1, some of the items Sam can ask Bosco for include "vegetables shaped like famous naturalists," and "souvenir snowglobes from the Mystery Vortex," which are two of the four items needed to solve ''Hit the Road's'' final puzzle.

* NiceGuy: Sal, to the point that Max can't actually bring himself to make fun of the giant cockroach.

* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Another {{trope namer}}, this one from "The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball". [[spoiler:Sybil is worried that the Toy Mafia are planning to assassinate her, and she knows Sam and Max are the only two she can trust... problem is, ''they're'' the ones the Mafia sent to off her.]]

* CrossOver: Sam's revolver and a combo of Max's Luger and supposed head severed at the upper jaw (used as the obligatory hat of the set) were given as gifts to players of ''TeamFortress2'' who bought ''The Devil's Playhouse'' season the first 2 weeks, or pre-ordered. In exchange, a Blue Engineer Dispenser appears in "Beyond the Alley of the Dolls" and the RED Heavy Weapons Guy is one of the opponents in ''PokerNightAtTheInventory'' (which features Max).

*** Also in 304, when you explore the cloning facility, you find a mysterious [[TeamFortress2 Dispenser]], containing "health, ammo, cupcakes, clues, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[InvertedTrope enlightenment]]" (except it's empty). If you examine it twice, Sam will pull a wrench from no-where and whack it. If you examine it repeatedly until Sam has whacked it eight times[[hottip:*:the minimum number of wrench-hits required to upgrade a Dispenser in Team Fortress 2]], it opens and dispenses a bottle of [[RunningGag Banang]]. Max unplugs the thing to keep the [[BerserkButton Banang]] from Sam.

* ChurchOfHappyology: The Church of Prismatology in Season 1.

-->'''Skun'ka'pe:''' [[FlashGordon Gordon's alive?!]]

* Human Outside Inhuman inside: Inverted, Dr. Norrington said that The Great Old Ones are identical to humans, and by extension animal life on the inside. "We save the weird stuff for the outside".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiPISwKoovE trailer]] and assorted leaked clips for the canceled sequel are floating around on YouTube. Prior to that, a different splinter studio of ex LucasArts people, Infinite Machine, were working on concepts for a game titled ''[[http://www.samandmax.net/wiki/Sam_%26_Max_Plunge_Through_Space Sam And Max Plunge Through Space'']], but they went bankrupt before it went into production.

* [[{{ptitlei9fyz80ocg6y}} You Can't Get Ye Flask]]: LampShaded at the end of the "Reality 2.0" episode with the golden idol.

* RoyGBiv: Prismatology in general, but Hugh Bliss especially.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The mariachi scenes in "Ice Station Santa", "Moai Better Blues", and "Night of the Raving Dead" (though an explanation for these events is offered in a later episode).
** Just to elaborate a bit: If you count the individual episodes separately, the scenes are a BigLippedAlligatorMoment. If you count the whole Season, they aren't.
** And the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L2Gve7oh_4 War Song]] from "Abe Lincoln Must Die!"
--->'''Sam:''' Well...
--->'''Max:''' [[LampshadeHanging Let's not do that again.]]
** Also...[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvbtcCpWf-w Banang!]]
*** Which reappears twice [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nGhCuzcu6A in "Beyond the Alley of the Dolls".]]

--> '''[[TheUnfunny Agent Superball]]''': ''It's a device used to coerce a transient resonant integration of the subquantum harmonic vibrational frequencies between this and adjoining dimensional membranes.''