Peak comedy? Absolutely. But this series can be surprisingly dark and scary at times.
- Max's last Future Vision that can be used on Sam in Beyond the Alley of the Dolls.
- Towards the end of season 3, Max transforms from a cute little bunny, to a Godzilla sized Cthulhu bunny.
- When Max develops psychic powers and uses them to teleport in Season 3, everyone gets to see just a taste of what goes on in his mind,
pictured above.Sam: Note to self: When traveling through Max's brain, keep your eyes shut. - Demon Peepers. Just about all the Personal Hells have a small element of Nightmare Fuel in it, if just in the demons.
- The entire finale of 106.Hugh Bliss: Saw us, Sam! WE DARE YOU.
- Considering how Sam normally acts, him completely 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 pissed-off anthropomorphic dog literally snarling at anyone he sees, snapping at you, hitting you, and perhaps even pointing his extra-large gun right in your face.Sam: You want a lawyer?! Here's an attorney from Smith and Wesson!!
- 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 immediately drops his comical demeanor and, after easily overpowering him, decides to give the Mad Thespian a Disney Villain Death. 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.
- Owing to the two entries above, Sam in general is rather frightening in hindsight when you consider that Max is his morality chain, not the other way around. Big Friendly Dog he is not, without Max to keep him in check.
- Sam and Max's gruesome deaths at the end of the episode "The Invaders" 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.
- Also 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 escape each time but when you realize that he is an aspect of Max this seems to imply that 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.
- A glitch in the ending credits to Season 1 note has several NPCs growing really tall and skinny and their fingers becoming massively long. It is outright terrifying.
