History YMMV / SamAndMax

** The voices, since each series has a different set.

** Disney, where series creator Steve Purcell currently works, now owns both Creator/LucasArts and Marvel.

*** On a related note, that Creator/BillFarmer voices Sam in ''HitTheRoad''. It's almost impossible to hear Farmer's Sam say Max's name without [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop thinking of]] [[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie Goofy]].

** After Donald Trump's tumultuous and controversial term as President of the United States (which included him being the first president to be impeached ''twice''), many fans found it harder to laugh at the jokes about the chaos Max causes after being elected president in "Abe Lincoln Must Die!", which leads to ''multiple'' attempts to impeach him.

** 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]].

** For that matter, the games themselves as well. Most of them were rated T, and include quite a bit of swearing and innuendos. Not too extreme, but some might still not want younger kids to be playing them. At most, the Cartoon show is the only property in the franchise that was made with children in mind, but even then it’s still filled with tons of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

* BrokenBase: The voices, since each series has a different set.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Some fans' reactions to the announcement that the upcoming Season 3 will replace the Point-and-Click interface with a controller/touch friendly one, similar to ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit''.
** 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)

* MemeticMutation: BANANG!!!

* 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''.

* HoYay: Sam and Max' relationship is practically oozing this a lot of times. Max is repeatedly stated to "not even like girls", which he always confirms and in every incarnation of the series he's shown to be very interested in a lot of the male characters, Sam included. Then there's the fact that he often jumps Sam, claiming it to be how he shows his affection and that he flat-out calls him "delicious" at one point. Sam meanwhile is shown to care a whole lot for Max, to the point where him getting hurt, captured or put in any kind of danger is one of his [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]].

* 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!

* 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 Triumvirate, they were making the game]] DarkerAndEdgier.]]

** Bosco is also well-loved for being absolutely hilarious.

--->'''Sam:''' Well...
--->'''Max:''' [[LampshadeHanging Let's not do that]] [[LetUsNeverSpeakofThisAgain again.]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: How about a song and dance on how war is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L2Gve7oh_4 Good For You]]?
** The music for the final battle with Hugh Bliss at the very end of Season 1.

* 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 ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit''. Never mind that this is for the console games only.

** The depiction of hell in 205, What's New Beelzebub was based on [[Creator/TelltaleGames Tell Tale Games's]] own office made some nice Self Depreciation. Jump to September 2018, in wake of [[Creator/TelltaleGames Telltale Games's]] closure and how the workers were treated however made into what the conditions were like working there.

* 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.

--> '''Max''': What, no concealable weaponry, road flares, or black capsules? What if we get captured!?
--> '''Sam''': Ha ha! You kill me, little buddy!

* 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.