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3 | "''[[JustFriends Friends?! Friends?! We've only gone out together three times, and already you're telling me you just want to be friends?!]]''" |
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5 | The game opens on a shot of a mad scientist in his dark, dingy lab, clearly pissed off and with a DeathRay aimed a tied-up DamselInDistress. Even though the woman protests that she's only breaking up with him [[BlatantLies because he's too nice and predictable of a guy]], the scientist is ready to incinerate her. |
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7 | Cue the titular duo themselves, Sam & Max, making their appearance by [[EstablishingCharacterMoment crashing their DeSoto through the wall of the scientist's laboratory.]] |
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9 | ->'''Sam''': Hello?\ |
10 | '''Max''': This doesn't look like the Lincoln Tunnel, Sam.\ |
11 | '''Sam''': Looks to me like a marginally volatile hostage situation, Max.\ |
12 | '''Max''': Ooh, does this mean we get to kick some puffy, white, mad scientist butt?\ |
13 | '''Sam''': Can't think of a reason not to! |
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15 | In spite of the mad scientist's gloating, Max happily brutalises the scientist, where upon it's discovered that he's not a real person, and that his head is actually just "one damned ugly time bomb!" |
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17 | Sam & Max bail out of there immediately, the bomb in toe and forgetting to actually untie the woman in the process. |
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19 | One "pleasantly understated credits sequence" later, and Sam & Max are back in their office. "Sam, either termites are burrowing through my skull, or one of us is ticking." Sam then pulls the bomb out of his jacket. |
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21 | ->'''Sam''': Max, where should I put this so that it doesn't hurt anyone we know or care about?\ |
22 | '''Max''': [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Out the window, Sam! There's nothing but strangers out there.]]\ |
23 | ''(Sam proceeds to do exactly that. The bomb explodes.)''\ |
24 | '''Sam''': I hope there was nobody on that bus.\ |
25 | '''Max''': [[ComedicSociopathy Nobody we know, at least.]] |
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27 | [[BatmanColdOpen Anyway, none of that will ever be relevant ever again.]] |
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29 | The duo then get a call from the commissioner, who tells them to meet a city courier out on the street. The courier, who happens to be a talking cat, explains that he had swallowed their orders for safe keeping, but can't seem to cough them up. |
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31 | Max quickly solves that problem by grabbing it from his throat - and the duo learn that there's something strange going on in the carnival - besides the usual, of course. Not having anything better to do, they head over. |
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33 | Immediately after arriving, they run into {{Jerkass}} country singer Conroy Bumpus and his lackey, Lee-Harvey, who appear to be looking for something and rather pissed off about not finding it. Sam & Max are blocked from entering the carnival tent by Flambé, a fire-breathing guard. After handing the commissioner's orders to him (and accidentally burning them), Flambé allows the duo in. |
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35 | Inside the tent, they talk to the Kushman Brothers, a set of ConjoinedTwins with green skin. They explain that their star attraction, a real-life bigfoot named Bruno, had managed to escape and kidnapped Trixie, a giraffe-necked girl. The brothers give Sam & Max all-day passes for the carnival to allow them to look for clues, and the two leave the tent. |
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