History VideoGame / SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse

* AscendedFanon: One of the most popular theories about the Narrator's origins was that he was a guardian angel looking out for the Freelance Police. When Sam encounters the Narrator, should Sam choose the "You're lying" prompt, the Narrator admits that he's really an angel looking out for Sam and Max...[[spoiler:before reiterating that no, he's actually the manifestation of Max's superego before snarkily stating "Sometimes the best answers are the simplest ones."]]

* * AnimatedActors: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QplgWcQs2a4 The entire cast is this for]] the HilariousOuttakes.

** At the end of Season 3 [[spoiler:after Max Dies, Sam encounters Past Max from "Chariots of Dogs", who ironicaly just came back from a mirror adventure of what just happened, except with Past Sam dying instead of him, after talking they decide to team up.]]

''Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse'' is the third and final season of Creator/TelltaleGames' ''Franchise/SamAndMax'' adventure game series, starting on April 2, 2010, and concluding on August 30, 2010. In here, the Freelance Police are embroiled in a plot to collect "Toys of Power" that grant those with the ability to wield them (including Max, conveniently enough) awesome psychic powers. Said plot involves [[KillerSpaceMonkey evil gorillas from space]], [[EldritchAbomination eldritch horrors]] and mole-men. The game was also produced as the Main/GrandFinale to the franchise, severing as the conclusion of 23 years with the duo.

Following up the remasters of the first two seasons, a group of former Telltale Games developers, who banded together as Skunkape Games and acquired the rights to Telltale's ''Sam & Max'' games following the studio's closure, are set to release a remastered version of ''The Devil's Playhouse'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPuWAQvRyw sometime in 2023]], with further details still to come.

* VoicesAreMental: Averted in "The City That Dares Not Sleep" [[spoiler:with Grandpa Stinky and one of Skun-ka'pe's minions]]. Played straight in "They Stole Max's Brain!" with the disembodied brains of Max and Sammun-Mak.

* CompanyCrossReferences: A billboard visible behind the pawn shop in "The Penal Zone" is an ad for Scoggin's Erasers from fellow Telltale series, ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent''.

-->'''Agent Superball''': Statistical analysis stated that Max becoming [[spoiler:a gargantuan hell-beast]] was the second most likely outcome.
-->'''Sam''': What was the most likely outcome?
-->'''Agent Superball''': Imagine a scenario that involves the worst aspects of the [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse Legends of Ragnarok,]] [[Literature/TheBible The Book of Revelation,]] and ''Film/WeekendAtBernies''.

--->'''Sam:''' Max is all short term memory; I occasionally have to bring him back up to speed.\\

--> '''Sam''': ''I wonder if we'll ever find out what Momma Bosco's "Dimensional Destabilizer" does.''\\

->''"[[EpisodicGame Over the next five chapters]], you will witness things that [[MindScrew baffle you]], [[NightmareFuel horrify you]], even [[NauseaFuel disgust you]]''. But you must not look away! ''Pay close attention to everything you see and hear! Because when our story reaches its bowel tingling climax, only'' you, ''my friends, will possess the ability to save the entire universe"''.

* CerebusSyndrome: The episodes get progressively darker and grittier, until you finally reach the [[TearJerker strangely emotional finale.]]

''Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse'' is the third season of Creator/TelltaleGames' ''Franchise/SamAndMax'' adventure game series, starting on April 2, 2010, and concluding on August 30, 2010. In here, the Freelance Police are embroiled in a plot to collect "Toys of Power" that grant those with the ability to wield them (including Max, conveniently enough) awesome psychic powers. Said plot involves [[KillerSpaceMonkey evil gorillas from space]], [[EldritchAbomination eldritch horrors]] and mole-men.

* FreezeFrameIntroduction: Sybil gets a freeze frame intro, listing [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands all her previous job titles]]. The list runs so long it goes past the borders of the screen.

-->--'''TheNarrator'''

* HowWeGotHere: Subverted in "The Penal Zone", when [[spoiler:Max uses the future-vision goggles to figure out how
he and Sam are going to defeat Skun'ka-pe. Skun'ka-pe discovers the goggles and uses them to realize their plan and promptly throw a spanner in the works.]]

Check the recap page [[Recap/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse here]], now under construction.

This season and the [[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice previous two]] have a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/BestEpisode/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Best Episode Crowner]].

* HowWeGotHere: Subverted in "The Penal Zone", when [[spoiler:Max uses the future-vision goggles to figure out how he and Sam are going to defeat Skun'ka-pe. Skun'ka-pe discovers the goggles and uses them to realize their plan and promptly throw a spanner in the works.]]

* DisabilitySuperpower: Played With. According to Mr. Papierwaite, the only ones capable of using the Toys of Power (besides an EldritchAbomination, at least) are "the insane, the simple and the defective." In other words, the Toys granted Max and Sammun-Mak psychic powers because they were mental unstable. However, none of said psychic powers actually do anything to counteract their mental issues, and in the case of Sammun-Mak, just end up enabling the user's issues.

-->'''Bob''': [[LargeHam Sam, audiences everywhere agree; you're a monster!]]

* DisabilitySuperpower: Played With. According to Mr. Papierwaite, the only ones capable of using the Toys of Power (besides EldritchAbominations, at least) are "the insane, the simple and the defective." In other words, the Toys granted Max and Sammun-Mak psychic powers because they were mental unstable. However, none of said psychic powers actually do anything to counteract their mental issues, and in the case of Sammun-Mak, just end up enabling the user's issues.