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"Friends?! Friends?! We've only gone out together three times, and already you're telling me you just want to be friends?!"

The game opens on a shot of a mad scientist in his dark, dingy lab, clearly pissed off and with a Death Ray aimed a tied-up Damsel in Distress. Even though the woman protests that she's only breaking up with him because he's too nice and predictable of a guy, the scientist is ready to incinerate her.

Cue the titular duo themselves, Sam & Max, making their appearance by crashing their DeSoto through the wall of the scientist's laboratory.

Sam: Hello?
Max: This doesn't look like the Lincoln Tunnel, Sam.
Sam: Looks to me like a marginally volatile hostage situation, Max.
Max: Ooh, does this mean we get to kick some puffy, white, mad scientist butt?
Sam: Can't think of a reason not to!

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!"

Sam & Max bail out of there immediately, the bomb in toe and forgetting to actually untie the woman in the process.

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.

Sam: Max, where should I put this so that it doesn't hurt anyone we know or care about?
Max: Out the window, Sam! There's nothing but strangers out there.
(Sam proceeds to do exactly that. The bomb explodes.)
Sam: I hope there was nobody on that bus.
Max: Nobody we know, at least.

Anyway, none of that will ever be relevant ever again.

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.

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.

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.

Inside the tent, they talk to the Kushman Brothers, a set of Conjoined Twins 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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