History Trivia / SamAndMax

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Almost every incarnation went through this at least once. However by 2020, most of them have have been rereleased, compiled, or made readily available, with only the animated series (whose DVD collection is still fairly easy to obtain) not receiving any attention since 2008.

** In the remastered version of Save the World, Joey Camen is replaced as Bosco by Creator/OgieBanks.

* Trivia/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad
* Trivia/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Around the early 90's or so, Steve Purcell received an offer from Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} to produce ''Sam & Max'' comic strips for them. He declined, opting instead for Creator/LucasArts and ''Hit The Road''. Who knows what might have happened if he had taken them up on their offer? In an odd twist of fate, Purcell now works for [[Creator/{{Pixar}} a subsidiary]] of [[Creator/{{Disney}} the company]] that owns both Marvel and [=LucasArts=].

* TheWikiRule: [[http://samandmax.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The Sam & Max Wiki]].

* NamesTheSame: Though they're both short, cute white rabbits, confusing Max for [[Literature/MaxAndRuby the OTHER lagomorph Max]] could be [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids potentially disastrous.]]
** We also have [[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} Sam Burke and Max "Twitch" Williams]] who are also New York police officers.

* TheOtherDarrin: Andrew Chaikin plays Max in Episode 101, but (apparently due to health reasons) was replaced by William Kasten. As of Season 3, Chaikin is back, but instead of playing Max, he plays The Narrator. [[spoiler:Which is kind of playing Max anyway -- the Narrator is actually Max's long-dormant superego.]] As of ''VideoGame/PokerNight2'', Max's voice actor changed once more to Creator/DaveBoat.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Almost every incarnation went through this at least once.

* According to Steve Purcell's blog, [[http://samandmaxblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-kind-of-dog-is-that.html Sam is an Irish Wolfhound]].

* HeAlsoDid: Yep, this is the same Steve Purcell who co-directed WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Around the early 90's or so, Steve Purcell received an offer from Marvel to produce Sam & Max comic strips for them. He declined, opting instead for Creator/LucasArts and Hit The Road. Who knows what might have happened if he had taken them up on their offer? In an odd twist of fate, Purcell now works for the company that owns both Marvel and Lucasfilm.

* TheOtherDarrin: Andrew Chaikin plays Max in Episode 101, but (apparently due to health reasons) was replaced by William Kasten. As of Season 3, Chaikin is back, but instead of playing Max, he plays The Narrator. [[spoiler:Which is kind of playing Max anyway -- the Narrator is actually Max's long-dormant superego.]] As of ''VideoGame/PokerNight2'', Max's voice actor changed once again. This time to Creator/DaveBoat.

* NamesTheSame: Though they're both short, cute white rabbits, confusing Max for [[:iterature/MaxAndRuby the OTHER lagomorph Max]] could be [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids potentially disastrous.]]

* NamesTheSame: Though they're both short, cute white rabbits, confusing Max for [[MaxAndRuby the OTHER lagomorph Max]] could be [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids potentially disastrous.]]

* HeAlsoDid: Yep, this is the same Steve Purcell who co-directed {{Brave}}.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiPISwKoovE trailer]] and assorted leaked clips for the canceled sequel are floating around on Website/YouTube. Prior to that, a different splinter studio of ex Creator/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.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Around the early 90's or so, Steve Purcell received an offer from Marvel to produce Sam & Max comic strips for them. He declined, opting instead for LucasArts and Hit The Road. Who knows what might have happened if he had taken them up on their offer? In an odd twist of fate, Purcell now works for the company that owns both Marvel and Lucasfilm.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiPISwKoovE trailer]] and assorted leaked clips for the canceled sequel are floating around on Website/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.

* TheOtherDarrin: Andrew Chaikin plays Max in Episode 101, but (apparently due to health reasons) was replaced by William Kasten. As of Season 3, Chaikin is back, but instead of playing Max, he plays The Narrator. [[spoiler:Which is kind of playing Max anyway -- the Narrator is actually Max's long-dormant superego.]]
** As of PokerNight2, Max's voice actor changed once again. This time to DaveBoat.

** We also have [[ComicBook/Spawn Sam Burke and Max "Twitch" Williams]] who are also New York police officers.

* HeyItsThatVoice: More details below, but every entry that ever had voice acting will have at least a few recognizable voices.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Around the early 90's or so, Steve Purcell received an offer from Marvel to produce Sam & Max comic strips for them. He declined, opting instead for LucasArts and Hit The Road. Who knows what might have happened if he had taken them up on their offer?

* ActorAllusion: Not the first time Roger L. Jackson has voiced [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls a villainous primate.]]
* FanNickname: After his DirtyHarry style makeover, Sam became [[http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-630 Noir Sam.]] It's starting to verge on MemeticMutation.
** With a bit of Subversion: the nickname comes from the name of the file of the design when was first presented in the Private Forum by Telltale: ''sam_noir2 copy.jpg''
** [[spoiler:Maxthulu or Stitch Max]] for Max's [[spoiler:Transformation into an EldritchAbomination]] at the end of Episode 304.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Sam in "Hit the Road" is {{Goofy}} [[ClassicDisneyShorts and Pluto]].
** Probably it's no surprise to hear ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' voice actors in the Telltale Games Series and vice-versa, but, Majus, the voice of Guybrush in the ''I wonder what will happen in VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' series of Flash Videos, animated by himself, voices an in game character in "They Stole Max's Brain!", who happens to be an European Tourist.
** Andrew Chaikin (A.K.A. Kid Beyond), the first person to give ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'''s Tycho Brahe a voice, voiced Max in episode 101 (he was later replaced by William Kasten due to health problems), and later returned in Season 3 as the voice of [[spoiler:Superego]] (the narrator), Papierwaite, and one of the molemen.
** Max in the German dub of "Hit the Road" is [[TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]].
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Hit The Road'' has yet to see a rerelease in this day and age.