History YMMV / SamAndMax

* UglyCute: Sam Jr. in 305.
** Sal might also count, if only because he's so gosh-darn lovable despite being a six-foot tall cockroach.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** One of the questionable ingredients in Cooking without Looking is MSG, the health concerns of which have since been shown to be the result of poor testing.
** "Abe Lincoln Must Die" was released in 2007, and it thus has a ''very 2007'' portrayal of the President Of The United States: He's portrayed as having a thick southern accent and somewhat passive demeanor, clearly spoofing how then-president UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and his [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton two]] [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush predecessors]] were Southerners with not-so-subtle accents. This trend was broken two years later, when the Hawaii-born UsefulNotes/BarackObama took office.

** Similarly, all the jokes about Max's self-loathing in Seasons 1 and 2 become less funny [[spoiler: when it turns out The Narrator, his Superego. legitimately hates him and wants him dead.]]

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L2Gve7oh_4 War Song]] from "Abe Lincoln Must Die!"

* 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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L2Gve7oh_4 War Song]] from "Abe Lincoln Must Die!"

*** This being Sam & Max, it was done on purpose. The first game, ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'' had a similar song-out-of-nowhere.

* 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 BigBadTriumvirate, 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.
** 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 Nefertiti [[spoiler: turns Sameth and Maximus into skeletons after they go through hell in Egypt and narrowly escape Papierwaite because she botches a protection spell. They don't even turn them back to normal and simply move onto another apartment.]]

** That being said, the entire second half of Season 1 feels much harsher in hindsight after Donald Trump's presidency. The main antagonist of "Abe Lincoln Must Die!", a White House Secret Service agent called Chuckles who attempted to use the puppet President of the United States to hypnotize the entire country, appears very similar to figures like Michael Flynn and Stephen Bannon who used their position as Trump's associates to push far-right ideology, and were involved in numerous shady schemes. In "Reality 2.0", people are now being hypnotized through the Internet, which is eerily reminiscent of the infamous online cult known as [=QAnon=] (Flynn was also involved with it). Finally, "Bright Side of the Moon" reveals that a New Agey esoteric guru was the mastermind behind it all, which ties into the New Agey overtones of [=QAnon=], as well as Bannon's fascination with far-right occultists like Julius Evola and Aleksandr Dugin.

** That being said, the entire second half of Season 1 feels much harsher in hindsight after Donald Trump's presidency. The main antagonist of "Abe Lincoln Must Die!", a White House Secret Service agent called Chuckles who attempted to use the puppet President of the United States to hypnotize the entire country, feels very similar to figures like Michael Flynn and Stephen Bannon who used their position as Trump's associates to push far-right ideology, and were involved in numerous shady schemes. In "Reality 2.0", people are now being hypnotized through the Internet, which is eerily reminiscent of the infamous online cult known as [=QAnon=] (Flynn was also involved with it). Finally, "Bright Side of the Moon" reveals that a New Agey esoteric guru was the mastermind behind it all, which ties into the New Agey overtones of [=QAnon=], as well as Bannon's fascination with far-right occultists like Julius Evola and Aleksandr Dugin.

** That being said, the entire second half of Season 1 feels much harsher in hindsight after Donald Trump's presidency. The main antagonist of "Abe Lincoln Must Die!", a White House Secret Service agent called Chuckles who attempted to use the puppet President of the United States to hypnotize the entire country, feels very similar to figures like Michael Flynn and Stephen Bannon who used their position as Trump's associates to push far-right ideology, and were involved in numerous shady schemes. In "Reality 2.0", it turns out that the said conspiracy also involves people being hypnotized through the Internet, which is eerily reminiscent of the infamous online cult known as QAnon (Flynn was also involved with it). Finally, "Bright Side of the Moon" reveals that a New Agey esoteric guru was the mastermind behind it all, which ties into the New Agey overtones of QAnon, as well as Bannon's fascination with far-right occultists like Julius Evola and Aleksandr Dugin.

* ClicheStorm: The videogame made by the COPS, which is just tic-tac-toe.