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** Played for laughs. In SamAndMaxHitTheRoad, while fighting for the phone, Sam flings Max out the window, then talks to the commissioner. While he's talking Max comes in through the door, and nonchalantly and asks Sam what the mission was. Being tossed out a third story window is humorously never brought up.
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** Played for laughs. In SamAndMaxHitTheRoad, ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'', while fighting for the phone, Sam flings Max out the window, then talks to the commissioner. While he's talking Max comes in through the door, and nonchalantly and asks Sam what the mission was. Being tossed out a third story window is humorously never brought up.
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** Similar to the above, there's a brief moment in the beginning of ''The Friend for Life''. After the Mad Thespian nearly smashes Max with a large weight, Sam [[LetsGetDangerous immediately drops his comical demeanor]] and, after easily overpowering him, decides to give the Mad Thespian a DisneyVillainDeath. Sure, the police were at the bottom, and caught the villain, but it's still chilling to see what Sam is like if his little buddy is threatened.
-->'''Sam:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner Nice play, Shakespeare, but you're taking the fall!]]
-->'''Sam:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner Nice play, Shakespeare, but you're taking the fall!]]
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* PortingDisaster: The frame-rates of the Season 1 and Season 2 ports to the Wii will suddenly drop down to the teens, or single digits, on the drop of a hat. Certain sequences are almost literal slide-shows. Additionally, the controls where not adjusted to compensate for the fact that you're using a Wiimote, not a mouse. Mix in poor Wiimote detection, the frame-rate and you've got yourself a point-and-click adventure which is both difficult and a literal pain to play.
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* PortingDisaster: The frame-rates of the Season 1 and Season 2 ports If you have any other option available to you, don't play the Wii ports of seasons 1 and 2. The frame-rate will suddenly drop down to the teens, or single digits, on the drop of a hat. Certain sequences are almost literal slide-shows. Additionally, the controls where were not adjusted to compensate for the fact that you're using a Wiimote, not a mouse. Mix in poor Wiimote detection, the frame-rate many instances of lines that didn't fully load in time for their cue (or may be outright missing), visual and auditory glitches aplenty, and many, many painfully downscaled textures, and you've got yourself a point-and-click adventure which is both difficult and a literal pain to play.
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** Also Sal. Over the course of three episodes he is fired from his job [[spoiler:at Stinky’s kitchen]], gets repeatedly beaten by space gorillas and clones of Sam, [[spoiler: swallowed whole by Giant Max, and then finally killed by radiation poisoning during the GrandFinale.]] Please note that [[{{DesignatedHero}} Sam and Max]] are the ones responsible for most of the aforementioned events happening to him.
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** Sal might also count, if only because he's so gosh-darn lovable despite being a six-foot tall cockroach.
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** Disney, where series creator Steve Purcell currently works, now owns both LucasArts and Marvel.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The animated series, Santa Claus appears in his typical, jolly role, but when he was included in the games, he was ''very'' noticeably less jolly.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The animated series, Santa Claus SantaClaus appears in his typical, jolly role, but when he was included in the games, he was ''very'' noticeably less jolly.
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** The events of 305 do quite a number on Sam too. All he wanted to do was save Max...[[spoiler: and he ''failed''.]] You can tell by the end just how physically and emotionally defeated he is. When you get right down to it [[spoiler: this is someone who has just watched his best friend sacrifice himself to save everyone else.]]
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: The consequences of psychic power use was [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] clearly throughout ''The Devil's Playhouse'', but who would've believed that there wouldn't be a last-minute save or sudden wacky solution or DeusExMachina? You get a grim 10-minute closing sequence to ruminate on ''that''.
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** The music for the final battle with Hugh Bliss at the very end of Season 1.
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* TheScrappy: The Soda Poppers. [[spoiler: [[TakeThatScrappy Recognized in canon]] as the Scrappies when they turn out to be not only a central part of Sam's personal hell, but the very final bosses who, it turns out, had been controlling Satan and been the secret rulers of hell all along.]] Ironically, it was recently revealed that Telltale [[BlatantLies actually thought that]] [[spoiler: [[BlatantLies the Soda Poppers were popular and, by making them the Big Bad Duumvirate, they were making the game]] DarkerAndEdgier.]]
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* TheScrappy: The Soda Poppers. [[spoiler: [[TakeThatScrappy Recognized in canon]] as the Scrappies when they turn out to be not only a central part of Sam's personal hell, but the very final bosses who, it turns out, had been controlling Satan and been the secret rulers of hell all along.]] Ironically, it was recently revealed that Telltale [[BlatantLies actually thought that]] [[spoiler: [[BlatantLies the Soda Poppers were popular and, by making them the Big Bad Duumvirate, Triumvirate, they were making the game]] DarkerAndEdgier.]]
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** In the first episode of the cartoon, Sam and Max encounter a locked door, in which the person on the other side says "What's the password? And if you say Swordfish, I'll lose it!!" in the Talltale game episode "The Mole, The Mob and the Meatball" Sam can attempt to answer Swordfish as a password.
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** In the first episode of the cartoon, Sam and Max encounter a locked door, in which the person on the other side says "What's the password? And if you say Swordfish, I'll lose it!!" in the Talltale Telltale game episode "The Mole, The Mob and the Meatball" Sam can attempt to answer Swordfish as a password.
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** Hell, ''all'' of the mole people are settled into this trope, particularly the ones in "The Tomb of Sammun-Mak." There's a family full of unlikable, obnoxious mole people guarding the tomb and the old mole woman [[spoiler: [[DisproportionateRetribution turns Sameth and Maximus (Sam and Max's great-grandfathers) into skeletons]] after they go through hell in Egypt with Kringle and Papierwaite.]]
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** Hell, ''all'' of the mole people are settled into this trope, particularly the ones in "The Tomb of Sammun-Mak." There's a family full of unlikable, obnoxious mole people guarding the tomb and the old mole woman Nefertiti [[spoiler: [[DisproportionateRetribution turns Sameth and Maximus (Sam and Max's great-grandfathers) into skeletons]] skeletons after they go through hell in Egypt with Kringle and Papierwaite.narrowly escape Papierwaite because she botches a protection spell. They don't even turn them back to normal and simply move onto another apartment.]]
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** Hell, ''all'' of the mole people are settled into this trope, particularly the ones in "The Tomb of Sammun-Mak." There's a family full of unlikable, obnoxious mole people guarding the tomb and the old mole woman [[spoiler: [[DisproportionateRetribution turns Sameth and Maximus (Sam and Max's great-grandfathers) into skeletons]] after they go through hell in Egypt with Kringle and Papierwaite.]]
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* TheScrappy: The Soda Poppers. [[spoiler: [[TakeThatScrappy Recognized in canon]] as the Scrappies when they turn out to be not only a central part of Sam's personal hell, but the very final bosses who, it turns out, had been controlling Satan and been the secret rulers of hell all along.]]
** Ironically, it was recently revealed that Telltale [[BlatantLies actually thought that]] [[spoiler: [[BlatantLies the Soda Poppers were popular and, by making them the Big Bad Duumvirate, they were making the game]] DarkerAndEdgier.]]
** Ironically, it was recently revealed that Telltale [[BlatantLies actually thought that]] [[spoiler: [[BlatantLies the Soda Poppers were popular and, by making them the Big Bad Duumvirate, they were making the game]] DarkerAndEdgier.]]
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* TheScrappy: The Soda Poppers. [[spoiler: [[TakeThatScrappy Recognized in canon]] as the Scrappies when they turn out to be not only a central part of Sam's personal hell, but the very final bosses who, it turns out, had been controlling Satan and been the secret rulers of hell all along.]]
**]] Ironically, it was recently revealed that Telltale [[BlatantLies actually thought that]] [[spoiler: [[BlatantLies the Soda Poppers were popular and, by making them the Big Bad Duumvirate, they were making the game]] DarkerAndEdgier.]]
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* TheWoobie: I dare you to tell me that you didn't feel horribly guilty for everything that's happened to Max by the end of 305.
** [[spoiler: First of all, he's forced to electrocute himself by his own best friend - you can actually hear him ''screaming in pain'' while it's happening. Second, the electrocution leaves him with severe brain damage, which means he loses most of his memory and is made even more simple than before - so he's left doing nothing but happily grinning and mumbling for the rest of the episode, even as Sam struggles to restore it. Third...and this is the real TearJerker...at the very end, his head really ''does'' catch fire, and when the last Maimtron hits, you realize he's actually on the verge of genuinely exploding, [[FunnyAneurysmMoment just as he's been warned about from the very beginning.]] Again, you can hear him crying out in pain; the absolutely heartbreaking expression on his face makes it clear that he's suddenly realized what's happening. The very last you see of him is a small wave goodbye to Sam before he teleports off to spare the city.]]
** [[spoiler: First of all, he's forced to electrocute himself by his own best friend - you can actually hear him ''screaming in pain'' while it's happening. Second, the electrocution leaves him with severe brain damage, which means he loses most of his memory and is made even more simple than before - so he's left doing nothing but happily grinning and mumbling for the rest of the episode, even as Sam struggles to restore it. Third...and this is the real TearJerker...at the very end, his head really ''does'' catch fire, and when the last Maimtron hits, you realize he's actually on the verge of genuinely exploding, [[FunnyAneurysmMoment just as he's been warned about from the very beginning.]] Again, you can hear him crying out in pain; the absolutely heartbreaking expression on his face makes it clear that he's suddenly realized what's happening. The very last you see of him is a small wave goodbye to Sam before he teleports off to spare the city.]]
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* TheWoobie: I dare you to tell me that you didn't feel horribly guilty for everything Everything that's happened to Max by the end of 305.
**305. [[spoiler: First of all, he's forced to electrocute himself by his own best friend - you can actually hear him ''screaming in pain'' while it's happening. Second, the electrocution leaves him with severe brain damage, which means he loses most of his memory and is made even more simple than before - so he's left doing nothing but happily grinning and mumbling for the rest of the episode, even as Sam struggles to restore it. Third...and this is the real TearJerker...at the very end, his head really ''does'' catch fire, and when the last Maimtron hits, you realize he's actually on the verge of genuinely exploding, [[FunnyAneurysmMoment just as he's been warned about from the very beginning.]] Again, you can hear him crying out in pain; the absolutely heartbreaking expression on his face makes it clear that he's suddenly realized what's happening. The very last you see of him is a small wave goodbye to Sam before he teleports off to spare the city.]]
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** Not to everyone; remember the final puzzle in the game was [[spoiler: attempting to clone Max. That wouldn't have brought him back either, just a very similar clone. Sam isn't that picky]].
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** In one episode, there's an evil dummy from an old TV Show, granted it's the evil ''half'', but, [[spoiler: in ''The Devils Playhouse'': ''Beyond the Alley of the Dolls', the main antagonist of the episode is an evil Ventriloquist's dummy called Charlie Ho-Tep]].
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** In one episode, there's an evil dummy from an old TV Show, granted it's the evil ''half'', but, [[spoiler: in ''The Devils Devil's Playhouse'': ''Beyond the Alley of the Dolls', the main antagonist of the episode is an evil Ventriloquist's dummy called Charlie Ho-Tep]].
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: The consequences of psychic power use was [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] clearly throughout ''The Devils Devil's Playhouse'', but who would've believed that there wouldn't be a last-minute save or sudden wacky solution or DeusExMachina? You get a grim 10-minute closing sequence to ruminate on ''that''.
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* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler: Hugh Bliss, seeing as his entire operation is based on forcing the spread of unending joy and happiness]] Max is the closest character to representing a ChosenOne to defeat him. Turns out not only did the villain know this in advance, but was waiting for the two to show so he could dispose of Max as fast as he could.
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** A glitch in the ending credits to Season 1 [[note]] This only seems to happen on certain computers, and even then most likely only with the GOG version [[/note]] has several NPCs growing really tall and skinny and their fingers becoming massively long. It is outright terrifying.
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** A glitch in the ending credits to Season 1 [[note]] This only seems to happen on certain computers, and even then most likely only with the GOG version [[/note]] has several NPCs [=NPCs=] growing really tall and skinny and their fingers becoming massively long. It is outright terrifying.
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* CriticalDissonance: "Moai Better Blues" is one of the best reviewed episodes in the ''Freelance Police'' series. Fans, however, tend to be more divided. With some complaining about the limited locales and rather obscure puzzles once you [[spoiler: reach the "Secret Underground Cave."]]
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* GeniusBonus/ ViewersAreGeniuses: The opening for episode 305 is an obvious homage to "Space 1999." Well, if you've seen it before...and the majority of the Sam & Max target audience probably hasn't.
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** The opening for episode 305 is an obvious homage to "Space 1999." Well, if you've seen it before...and the majority of the Sam & Max target audience probablyhasn't.hasn't.
** A less egregious example would be the line [[Series/TheHoneymooners "To the moon, Alice!"]] in 106.
** The opening for episode 305 is an obvious homage to "Space 1999." Well, if you've seen it before...and the majority of the Sam & Max target audience probably
** A less egregious example would be the line [[Series/TheHoneymooners "To the moon, Alice!"]] in 106.
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** In ''Videogame/DayOfTheTentacle'' On one of the walls in the Colonial Edison mansion along the wall of historial presidential figures is Max in colonial clothing. [[note]] at the time Lucasarts had a running gag of inserting Max cameos in as many games as they could [[/note]] Here he is yet again associated with Presidents.
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** In ''Videogame/DayOfTheTentacle'' On in one hallway of the walls in the Colonial Edison mansion along the wall of historial presidential figures is Max in colonial clothing. [[note]] at the time Lucasarts had a running gag of inserting Max cameos in as many games as they could [[/note]] Here he is yet again associated with Presidents.
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** In the first episode of the cartoon, Sam and Max encounter a locked door, in which the person on the other side says "What's the password? And if you say Swordfish, I'll lose it!!" in the Talltale game episode "The Mole, The Mob and the Meatball" Sam can attempt to answer Swordfish as a password/
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** In ''Videogame/DayOfTheTentacle'' On one of the walls in the Colonial Edison mansion along the wall of historial presidential figures is Max in colonial clothing. [[note]] at the time Lucasarts had a running gag of inserting Max cameos in as many games as they could [[/note]] Here he is yet again associated with Presidents.
** In ''Videogame/DayOfTheTentacle'' On one of the walls in the Colonial Edison mansion along the wall of historial presidential figures is Max in colonial clothing. [[note]] at the time Lucasarts had a running gag of inserting Max cameos in as many games as they could [[/note]] Here he is yet again associated with Presidents.
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** Also [[spoiler: Max's gluttonous side]] devouring you. *Cue close up of his mouth opening and filling the screen, and Sam and Max inside his stomach in the next scene* of course you can [[ResetButton escape each time]] but when you realize that he is an [[spoiler: aspect of Max]] this seems to imply that [[spoiler: Max can eat things much much larger than himself whole if he wanted, the only reason he doesn't is because he normally has restrain, something this pure aspect of hunger lacks]]
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** A glitch in the ending credits to Season 1 [[note]] This only seems to happen on certain computers, and even then most likely only with the GOG version [[/note]] has several NPCs growing really tall and skinny and their fingers becoming massively long. It is outright terrifying.
** A glitch in the ending credits to Season 1 [[note]] This only seems to happen on certain computers, and even then most likely only with the GOG version [[/note]] has several NPCs growing really tall and skinny and their fingers becoming massively long. It is outright terrifying.
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* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler: Hugh Bliss, seeing as his entire operation is based on forcing the spread of unending joy and happiness]] Max is the closest character to representing a ChosenOne to defeat him. Turns out not only did the villain know this in advance, but was waiting for the two to show up to dispose of Max as fast as he could.
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* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler: Hugh Bliss, seeing as his entire operation is based on forcing the spread of unending joy and happiness]] Max is the closest character to representing a ChosenOne to defeat him. Turns out not only did the villain know this in advance, but was waiting for the two to show up to so he could dispose of Max as fast as he could.
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** In episode 106 when Max's [[spoiler: psychotic trigger happy side becomes it's own being]] you have to decapitate it's hand, to restore [[spoiler: it back to Max]] anyway, once you do, right before he disappears in a puff of smoke, he has a [[OhCrap look of complete horror on it's face]] the look of one just realizing he only has seconds to live.
** Also [[spoiler: Max's gluttonous side]] devouring you. *Cue close up of his mouth opening and filling the screen, and Sam and Max inside his stomach in the next scene* of course you can [[ResetButton escape each time]] but when you realize that he is an [[spoiler: aspect of Max]] this seems to imply that [[spoiler: Max can eat things much much larger than himself whole if he wanted, the only reason he doesn't is because he normally has restrain, something this pure aspect of hunger lacks]]
** Also [[spoiler: Max's gluttonous side]] devouring you. *Cue close up of his mouth opening and filling the screen, and Sam and Max inside his stomach in the next scene* of course you can [[ResetButton escape each time]] but when you realize that he is an [[spoiler: aspect of Max]] this seems to imply that [[spoiler: Max can eat things much much larger than himself whole if he wanted, the only reason he doesn't is because he normally has restrain, something this pure aspect of hunger lacks]]
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** Played for laughs. In SamAndMaxHitTheRoad, while fighting for the phone, Sam flings Max out the window, then talks to the commissioner. While he's talking Max comes in through the door, and nonchalantly and asks Sam what the mission was. Being tossed out a third story window is humorously never brought up.
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* UnfortunateImplications: In "Bright Side of the Moon," Harry Moleman explains that Prismatology has helped him learn that "Size doesn't matter. Color does!"
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The relatively child-friendly games and cartoons are much better known than the original (darker) comics.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Since the violence was toned down in the cartoon, Max ended up becoming more of a good-natured CloudCuckooLander than the [[HeroicComedicSociopath violence-crazed private eye]] that we know and love.
** That said, he's still pretty detached from what we traditionally consider "reality", even when he's allowed to be violent. And, conversely, just because the violence was "toned down" doesn't mean he's a fluffy ball of cuddles, either.
*** To quote Max in the cartoon: "The simulated 3D carnage makes me tingle like a prom queen!".
*** And he still sneaks in lines like this:
--> '''Max''': What, no concealable weaponry, road flares, or black capsules? What if we get captured!?
--> '''Sam''': Ha ha! You kill me, little buddy!
--> '''Max''': ''(quietly)'' Only if we're taken alive, Sam.
* 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). If you count the individual episodes separately, the scenes are a BigLippedAlligatorMoment. If you count the whole Season, [[BrickJoke 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]] [[LetUsNeverSpeakofThisAgain again.]]
*** This being Sam & Max, it was done on purpose. The first game, ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'' had a similar song-out-of-nowhere.
** 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".]]
**** Then later in both ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/PokerNight2''.
* BrokenBase: The voices, since each series has a different set.
* ClicheStorm: The videogame made by the COPS, which is just tic-tac-toe.
-->'''Bob:''' [[ExtyYearsFromNow The year is 2048]]. In a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] galaxy run by [[MegaCorp giant corporations]], you are a [[{{Cyberpunk}} cybernetically]] enhanced {{space marine}} with [[AmnesiacHero no memory of his past]]. Are you {{the chosen one}} foretold by [[TheProphecy prophecy]]? Do you have the strength to survive[[DramaticPause ...]]
-->'''Bluster Blaster:''' Tic[[DramaticPause ...]] Tac[[DramaticPause ...]] '''DOOM!'''
* CrossesTheLineTwice: A whole lot of the jokes, but think about this: Sam and Max have an entire wing of hell dedicated to them, and filled with all the people they've sent there, intentionally or accidentally.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: How about a song and dance on how war is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L2Gve7oh_4 Good For You]]?
* DesignatedHero: They fight genuine villains and tackle critical situations but they're still a violent, sociopathic rabbity-thing and a more laid-back, slightly less sociopathic dog in a suit.
* EarWorm: N-O-M-A-F-I-A OH BABY!
** "Thats..... Why...... I'm...... Happy to be King of the Creatures..."
** The [[ShowWithinAShow Midtown Cowboys]] theme. Just ''try'' to get it out of your head after hearing it!
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Fans on the Telltale forums love Papierwaite, and Jurgen is also quite popular. Also Sal, who is rather friendly and lovable for a giant cockroach.
** Also the C.O.P.S
* EsotericHappyEnding: Season 3. Maybe timing is everything, but it comes 10 minutes too late for a GainaxEnding and 1 minute too soon for a complete DownerEnding.
** Not to everyone; remember the final puzzle in the game was [[spoiler: attempting to clone Max. That wouldn't have brought him back either, just a very similar clone. Sam isn't that picky]].
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the comic book, when Max wonders what it's like to die, Sam murders Max, played for comedy. Then come Season 3, [[spoiler: Max is killed, not played for comedy]].
** In Episode 204, Chariots For the Dogs, Sam mentions that Max has hung up his halo...
** Episode 305 creates just creates a ''lot'' of these in general.
** The parallels between "Fools Die On Friday" of the animated series and the 9/11 attacks are so eerie that when Gametap streamed the series, this was the only episode that wasn't made available.
* GeniusBonus/ ViewersAreGeniuses: The opening for episode 305 is an obvious homage to "Space 1999." Well, if you've seen it before...and the majority of the Sam & Max target audience probably hasn't.
* HarsherInHindsight: In the animated series episode ''They Came From Down There'', Mack Salmon tries to take Max's brain to make him a slave, it fails. Fast forward to ''The Devil's Playhouse'' episode 3, ''They Stole Max's Brain!'', and we see the [[NightmareFuel frightening effect]] of what could have happened if Mack had succeeded.
** In one episode, Sam and Max take in a little boy with uncontrolled psychic powers, who was being used by the military as a superweapon, and HilarityEnsues. His powers are disturbingly similar to the more seriously handled ones gained by Max in ''The Devil's Playhouse'', and it's not helped by the fact that the duo use him while crimefighting as a psychic weapon.
** In ''The Final Episode'', Sam and Max try to recall how they met The Geek. Max [[CrazyMemory recalls being a Pharaoh]]. In ''The Devil's Playhouse'', Max's body gets possessed by the Pharaoh Sammun-Mak who dresses almost exactly the same way Max remembered being dressed as the flashback - and the season establishes that Max is a multidimensional HiveMind, adding in a great recipe for FanWank.
** The loading screen animation is basically Max's head, on fire. This becomes much less funny after the climax of "The City That Dares Not Sleep", in which [[spoiler:Max's head catches fire from psychic overexertion shortly before he explodes. It's unclear though if that was the Maimtrons or Max]].
** The following lines of the ''World Of Max'' song from the end credits of Season 1 are either this or HilariousInHindsight [[spoiler:depending on whether or not you sympathize with The Narrator]]:
--> ''A conscience is a curiously useless abnormality''
--> ''A useless abnormality, a useless abnormality''
--> ''A growth, of sorts. A growth of sorts.''
* HilariousInHindsight: The animated series, Santa Claus appears in his typical, jolly role, but when he was included in the games, he was ''very'' noticeably less jolly.
** In one episode, there's an evil dummy from an old TV Show, granted it's the evil ''half'', but, [[spoiler: in ''The Devils Playhouse'': ''Beyond the Alley of the Dolls', the main antagonist of the episode is an evil Ventriloquist's dummy called Charlie Ho-Tep]].
** Max: "Glad to know my skull is threaded for easy access!" [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 So that explains Max's Severed Head...]]
** Disney, where series creator Steve Purcell currently works, now owns both LucasArts and Marvel.
* MemeticMutation: BANANG!!!
* MoralEventHorizon: From Season 2's finale:
-->'''Max:''' Well if ''that'' doesn't get us into hell, ''nothing'' will.
** Since it's about destroying a building with several people in it, including a dying child (whom Sam and Max will make sure gets to Hell), in order to raise a killer robot... That also counts as CrossingTheLineTwice.
*** The "people" in that building were rats. [[FunnyAnimal Sentient ones]], but [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman most people wouldn't care]].
** At first, it was pretty hard to take [[spoiler: Hugh Bliss]] seriously as a villain... at least until he [[spoiler: separated Max's bliss by severing his hand, tearing out his stomach, and ripping off his tail.]]
*** Particularly when [[spoiler: he finally really snaps and screams "DIE, BUNNY" before attacking Max, who'd been [[PsychoSupporter one of his biggest fans]] until right then. This is one of the only times in the games where Sam doesn't hesitate to shoot a villain.]]
** Damning [[spoiler: Santa Claus's]] soul to Hell, although they did bring him back.
*** The episode where they bring him back actually reveals that there's a whole wing of Hell devoted to people who Sam & Max have, either directly or indirectly, had a hand in the death of; even relatively blameless victims get sent here, so Sam & Max's involvement is the only relevant factor.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: The consequences of psychic power use was [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] clearly throughout ''The Devils Playhouse'', but who would've believed that there wouldn't be a last-minute save or sudden wacky solution or DeusExMachina? You get a grim 10-minute closing sequence to ruminate on ''that''.
* NightmareFuel:
** "Sleep... SLEEP..." Er, no thank you, I think I'll stay awake all night... for the next four months...
** Max's last Future Vision that can be used on Sam in Beyond the Alley of the Dolls.
** Towards the end of season 3, [[spoiler:Max transforms from a cute little bunny, to a Franchise/{{Godzilla}} sized Cthulhu bunny]].
** When Max develops psychic powers and uses them to teleport in Season 3, everyone gets to see [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T27uOQU-GII just a taste of what goes on in his mind.]]
-->'''Sam:''' Note to self: When traveling through Max's brain, keep your eyes shut.
*** "Enjoying the ride, Sam? AH-HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
** Demon Peepers. Just about all the Personal Hells have a small element of NightmareFuel in it, if just in the demons.
** The entire finale of 106.
--> '''[[spoiler: Hugh Bliss:]]''' Saw us, Sam! WE DARE YOU.
** Considering how Sam [[StraightMan normally acts]], him completely [[BewareTheNiceOnes blowing his top]] at the beginning of "They Stole Max's Brain!" can be a little jarring. Think about it...one minute, you're just minding your own business, the next minute, there's a six-foot [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge pissed-off anthropomorphic dog]] literally [[BewareOfViciousDog snarling]] at anyone he sees, snapping at you, [[JerkAss hitting you]], and perhaps even ''pointing his'' ''[[HandCannon extra-large gun]]'' ''[[OhCrap right in your face]]''.
--> '''Sam:''' You want a lawyer?! Here's an attorney from Smith and Wesson!!
** Sam and Max's gruesome deaths at the end of the episode "The Invaders" [[spoiler: though it turns out it's actually a VR program and the "aliens" are the real Sam and Max playing.]] Lampshaded by Sam when he hopes most kids won't be traumatized by the scene of them dying a few seconds ago.
* PortingDisaster: The frame-rates of the Season 1 and Season 2 ports to the Wii will suddenly drop down to the teens, or single digits, on the drop of a hat. Certain sequences are almost literal slide-shows. Additionally, the controls where not adjusted to compensate for the fact that you're using a Wiimote, not a mouse. Mix in poor Wiimote detection, the frame-rate and you've got yourself a point-and-click adventure which is both difficult and a literal pain to play.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Max's presumed death at the end of Season 3. Even if he didn't die, it would still be impossible for him to return to Sam. Luckily, his alternate reality self is still there to fill the gap of his present self. He even waves goodbye to Sam before teleporting away for the last time.]]
** When Papierwaite tells Sam that [[spoiler: Max's tumor became infected with dark matter and they won't be able to operate normally]], instead of stepping back from the problem and trying to think of a solution like he normally would, he weakly, almost childishly, asks if Papierwaite can "make it better." This being Sam & Max, he obviously immediately follows with another hilarious quip; but he sounds so defeated when he says this, it cranks Sam's [[TheWoobie woobie]] factor UpToEleven.
* TheScrappy: The Soda Poppers. [[spoiler: [[TakeThatScrappy Recognized in canon]] as the Scrappies when they turn out to be not only a central part of Sam's personal hell, but the very final bosses who, it turns out, had been controlling Satan and been the secret rulers of hell all along.]]
** Ironically, it was recently revealed that Telltale [[BlatantLies actually thought that]] [[spoiler: [[BlatantLies the Soda Poppers were popular and, by making them the Big Bad Duumvirate, they were making the game]] DarkerAndEdgier.]]
** Harry Moleman is becoming a scrappy of his own right. Also, in Episode 303, [[spoiler: Sammun-Mak]] became a ReplacementScrappy.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Some fans' reactions to the announcement that the upcoming Season 3 will replace the Point-and-Click interface with a controller-friendly one, similar to ''WallaceAndGromit''. Never mind that this is for the console games only.
** Also, the complaint that Max's Future Vision makes the puzzles too easy.
*** Not to mention the complaints about Bill Farmer and Nick Jameson not voicing Sam and Max. (Telltale tried to get them to voice said characters, but they couldn't)
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The comic books. Colorful and cheerily illustrated funny animals on the cover, squeaky clean enough to pass the most stringent MoralGuardians...but openly incites any minors that will no doubt get their hands on it.
* TheWoobie: I dare you to tell me that you didn't feel horribly guilty for everything that's happened to Max by the end of 305.
** [[spoiler: First of all, he's forced to electrocute himself by his own best friend - you can actually hear him ''screaming in pain'' while it's happening. Second, the electrocution leaves him with severe brain damage, which means he loses most of his memory and is made even more simple than before - so he's left doing nothing but happily grinning and mumbling for the rest of the episode, even as Sam struggles to restore it. Third...and this is the real TearJerker...at the very end, his head really ''does'' catch fire, and when the last Maimtron hits, you realize he's actually on the verge of genuinely exploding, [[FunnyAneurysmMoment just as he's been warned about from the very beginning.]] Again, you can hear him crying out in pain; the absolutely heartbreaking expression on his face makes it clear that he's suddenly realized what's happening. The very last you see of him is a small wave goodbye to Sam before he teleports off to spare the city.]]
* UglyCute: Sam Jr. in 305.
* UnfortunateImplications: In "Bright Side of the Moon," Harry Moleman explains that Prismatology has helped him learn that "Size doesn't matter. Color does!"
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Since the violence was toned down in the cartoon, Max ended up becoming more of a good-natured CloudCuckooLander than the [[HeroicComedicSociopath violence-crazed private eye]] that we know and love.
** That said, he's still pretty detached from what we traditionally consider "reality", even when he's allowed to be violent. And, conversely, just because the violence was "toned down" doesn't mean he's a fluffy ball of cuddles, either.
*** To quote Max in the cartoon: "The simulated 3D carnage makes me tingle like a prom queen!".
*** And he still sneaks in lines like this:
--> '''Max''': What, no concealable weaponry, road flares, or black capsules? What if we get captured!?
--> '''Sam''': Ha ha! You kill me, little buddy!
--> '''Max''': ''(quietly)'' Only if we're taken alive, Sam.
* 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). If you count the individual episodes separately, the scenes are a BigLippedAlligatorMoment. If you count the whole Season, [[BrickJoke 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]] [[LetUsNeverSpeakofThisAgain again.]]
*** This being Sam & Max, it was done on purpose. The first game, ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'' had a similar song-out-of-nowhere.
** 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".]]
**** Then later in both ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/PokerNight2''.
* BrokenBase: The voices, since each series has a different set.
* ClicheStorm: The videogame made by the COPS, which is just tic-tac-toe.
-->'''Bob:''' [[ExtyYearsFromNow The year is 2048]]. In a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] galaxy run by [[MegaCorp giant corporations]], you are a [[{{Cyberpunk}} cybernetically]] enhanced {{space marine}} with [[AmnesiacHero no memory of his past]]. Are you {{the chosen one}} foretold by [[TheProphecy prophecy]]? Do you have the strength to survive[[DramaticPause ...]]
-->'''Bluster Blaster:''' Tic[[DramaticPause ...]] Tac[[DramaticPause ...]] '''DOOM!'''
* CrossesTheLineTwice: A whole lot of the jokes, but think about this: Sam and Max have an entire wing of hell dedicated to them, and filled with all the people they've sent there, intentionally or accidentally.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: How about a song and dance on how war is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L2Gve7oh_4 Good For You]]?
* DesignatedHero: They fight genuine villains and tackle critical situations but they're still a violent, sociopathic rabbity-thing and a more laid-back, slightly less sociopathic dog in a suit.
* EarWorm: N-O-M-A-F-I-A OH BABY!
** "Thats..... Why...... I'm...... Happy to be King of the Creatures..."
** The [[ShowWithinAShow Midtown Cowboys]] theme. Just ''try'' to get it out of your head after hearing it!
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Fans on the Telltale forums love Papierwaite, and Jurgen is also quite popular. Also Sal, who is rather friendly and lovable for a giant cockroach.
** Also the C.O.P.S
* EsotericHappyEnding: Season 3. Maybe timing is everything, but it comes 10 minutes too late for a GainaxEnding and 1 minute too soon for a complete DownerEnding.
** Not to everyone; remember the final puzzle in the game was [[spoiler: attempting to clone Max. That wouldn't have brought him back either, just a very similar clone. Sam isn't that picky]].
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the comic book, when Max wonders what it's like to die, Sam murders Max, played for comedy. Then come Season 3, [[spoiler: Max is killed, not played for comedy]].
** In Episode 204, Chariots For the Dogs, Sam mentions that Max has hung up his halo...
** Episode 305 creates just creates a ''lot'' of these in general.
** The parallels between "Fools Die On Friday" of the animated series and the 9/11 attacks are so eerie that when Gametap streamed the series, this was the only episode that wasn't made available.
* GeniusBonus/ ViewersAreGeniuses: The opening for episode 305 is an obvious homage to "Space 1999." Well, if you've seen it before...and the majority of the Sam & Max target audience probably hasn't.
* HarsherInHindsight: In the animated series episode ''They Came From Down There'', Mack Salmon tries to take Max's brain to make him a slave, it fails. Fast forward to ''The Devil's Playhouse'' episode 3, ''They Stole Max's Brain!'', and we see the [[NightmareFuel frightening effect]] of what could have happened if Mack had succeeded.
** In one episode, Sam and Max take in a little boy with uncontrolled psychic powers, who was being used by the military as a superweapon, and HilarityEnsues. His powers are disturbingly similar to the more seriously handled ones gained by Max in ''The Devil's Playhouse'', and it's not helped by the fact that the duo use him while crimefighting as a psychic weapon.
** In ''The Final Episode'', Sam and Max try to recall how they met The Geek. Max [[CrazyMemory recalls being a Pharaoh]]. In ''The Devil's Playhouse'', Max's body gets possessed by the Pharaoh Sammun-Mak who dresses almost exactly the same way Max remembered being dressed as the flashback - and the season establishes that Max is a multidimensional HiveMind, adding in a great recipe for FanWank.
** The loading screen animation is basically Max's head, on fire. This becomes much less funny after the climax of "The City That Dares Not Sleep", in which [[spoiler:Max's head catches fire from psychic overexertion shortly before he explodes. It's unclear though if that was the Maimtrons or Max]].
** The following lines of the ''World Of Max'' song from the end credits of Season 1 are either this or HilariousInHindsight [[spoiler:depending on whether or not you sympathize with The Narrator]]:
--> ''A conscience is a curiously useless abnormality''
--> ''A useless abnormality, a useless abnormality''
--> ''A growth, of sorts. A growth of sorts.''
* HilariousInHindsight: The animated series, Santa Claus appears in his typical, jolly role, but when he was included in the games, he was ''very'' noticeably less jolly.
** In one episode, there's an evil dummy from an old TV Show, granted it's the evil ''half'', but, [[spoiler: in ''The Devils Playhouse'': ''Beyond the Alley of the Dolls', the main antagonist of the episode is an evil Ventriloquist's dummy called Charlie Ho-Tep]].
** Max: "Glad to know my skull is threaded for easy access!" [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 So that explains Max's Severed Head...]]
** Disney, where series creator Steve Purcell currently works, now owns both LucasArts and Marvel.
* MemeticMutation: BANANG!!!
* MoralEventHorizon: From Season 2's finale:
-->'''Max:''' Well if ''that'' doesn't get us into hell, ''nothing'' will.
** Since it's about destroying a building with several people in it, including a dying child (whom Sam and Max will make sure gets to Hell), in order to raise a killer robot... That also counts as CrossingTheLineTwice.
*** The "people" in that building were rats. [[FunnyAnimal Sentient ones]], but [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman most people wouldn't care]].
** At first, it was pretty hard to take [[spoiler: Hugh Bliss]] seriously as a villain... at least until he [[spoiler: separated Max's bliss by severing his hand, tearing out his stomach, and ripping off his tail.]]
*** Particularly when [[spoiler: he finally really snaps and screams "DIE, BUNNY" before attacking Max, who'd been [[PsychoSupporter one of his biggest fans]] until right then. This is one of the only times in the games where Sam doesn't hesitate to shoot a villain.]]
** Damning [[spoiler: Santa Claus's]] soul to Hell, although they did bring him back.
*** The episode where they bring him back actually reveals that there's a whole wing of Hell devoted to people who Sam & Max have, either directly or indirectly, had a hand in the death of; even relatively blameless victims get sent here, so Sam & Max's involvement is the only relevant factor.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: The consequences of psychic power use was [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] clearly throughout ''The Devils Playhouse'', but who would've believed that there wouldn't be a last-minute save or sudden wacky solution or DeusExMachina? You get a grim 10-minute closing sequence to ruminate on ''that''.
* NightmareFuel:
** "Sleep... SLEEP..." Er, no thank you, I think I'll stay awake all night... for the next four months...
** Max's last Future Vision that can be used on Sam in Beyond the Alley of the Dolls.
** Towards the end of season 3, [[spoiler:Max transforms from a cute little bunny, to a Franchise/{{Godzilla}} sized Cthulhu bunny]].
** When Max develops psychic powers and uses them to teleport in Season 3, everyone gets to see [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T27uOQU-GII just a taste of what goes on in his mind.]]
-->'''Sam:''' Note to self: When traveling through Max's brain, keep your eyes shut.
*** "Enjoying the ride, Sam? AH-HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
** Demon Peepers. Just about all the Personal Hells have a small element of NightmareFuel in it, if just in the demons.
** The entire finale of 106.
--> '''[[spoiler: Hugh Bliss:]]''' Saw us, Sam! WE DARE YOU.
** Considering how Sam [[StraightMan normally acts]], him completely [[BewareTheNiceOnes blowing his top]] at the beginning of "They Stole Max's Brain!" can be a little jarring. Think about it...one minute, you're just minding your own business, the next minute, there's a six-foot [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge pissed-off anthropomorphic dog]] literally [[BewareOfViciousDog snarling]] at anyone he sees, snapping at you, [[JerkAss hitting you]], and perhaps even ''pointing his'' ''[[HandCannon extra-large gun]]'' ''[[OhCrap right in your face]]''.
--> '''Sam:''' You want a lawyer?! Here's an attorney from Smith and Wesson!!
** Sam and Max's gruesome deaths at the end of the episode "The Invaders" [[spoiler: though it turns out it's actually a VR program and the "aliens" are the real Sam and Max playing.]] Lampshaded by Sam when he hopes most kids won't be traumatized by the scene of them dying a few seconds ago.
* PortingDisaster: The frame-rates of the Season 1 and Season 2 ports to the Wii will suddenly drop down to the teens, or single digits, on the drop of a hat. Certain sequences are almost literal slide-shows. Additionally, the controls where not adjusted to compensate for the fact that you're using a Wiimote, not a mouse. Mix in poor Wiimote detection, the frame-rate and you've got yourself a point-and-click adventure which is both difficult and a literal pain to play.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Max's presumed death at the end of Season 3. Even if he didn't die, it would still be impossible for him to return to Sam. Luckily, his alternate reality self is still there to fill the gap of his present self. He even waves goodbye to Sam before teleporting away for the last time.]]
** When Papierwaite tells Sam that [[spoiler: Max's tumor became infected with dark matter and they won't be able to operate normally]], instead of stepping back from the problem and trying to think of a solution like he normally would, he weakly, almost childishly, asks if Papierwaite can "make it better." This being Sam & Max, he obviously immediately follows with another hilarious quip; but he sounds so defeated when he says this, it cranks Sam's [[TheWoobie woobie]] factor UpToEleven.
* TheScrappy: The Soda Poppers. [[spoiler: [[TakeThatScrappy Recognized in canon]] as the Scrappies when they turn out to be not only a central part of Sam's personal hell, but the very final bosses who, it turns out, had been controlling Satan and been the secret rulers of hell all along.]]
** Ironically, it was recently revealed that Telltale [[BlatantLies actually thought that]] [[spoiler: [[BlatantLies the Soda Poppers were popular and, by making them the Big Bad Duumvirate, they were making the game]] DarkerAndEdgier.]]
** Harry Moleman is becoming a scrappy of his own right. Also, in Episode 303, [[spoiler: Sammun-Mak]] became a ReplacementScrappy.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Some fans' reactions to the announcement that the upcoming Season 3 will replace the Point-and-Click interface with a controller-friendly one, similar to ''WallaceAndGromit''. Never mind that this is for the console games only.
** Also, the complaint that Max's Future Vision makes the puzzles too easy.
*** Not to mention the complaints about Bill Farmer and Nick Jameson not voicing Sam and Max. (Telltale tried to get them to voice said characters, but they couldn't)
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The comic books. Colorful and cheerily illustrated funny animals on the cover, squeaky clean enough to pass the most stringent MoralGuardians...but openly incites any minors that will no doubt get their hands on it.
* TheWoobie: I dare you to tell me that you didn't feel horribly guilty for everything that's happened to Max by the end of 305.
** [[spoiler: First of all, he's forced to electrocute himself by his own best friend - you can actually hear him ''screaming in pain'' while it's happening. Second, the electrocution leaves him with severe brain damage, which means he loses most of his memory and is made even more simple than before - so he's left doing nothing but happily grinning and mumbling for the rest of the episode, even as Sam struggles to restore it. Third...and this is the real TearJerker...at the very end, his head really ''does'' catch fire, and when the last Maimtron hits, you realize he's actually on the verge of genuinely exploding, [[FunnyAneurysmMoment just as he's been warned about from the very beginning.]] Again, you can hear him crying out in pain; the absolutely heartbreaking expression on his face makes it clear that he's suddenly realized what's happening. The very last you see of him is a small wave goodbye to Sam before he teleports off to spare the city.]]
* UglyCute: Sam Jr. in 305.
* UnfortunateImplications: In "Bright Side of the Moon," Harry Moleman explains that Prismatology has helped him learn that "Size doesn't matter. Color does!"
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